• Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 2002

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.489-492
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• 2000

The eventual goal of this study is to elucidate roles of plant terpenoids (e.g., cymene, limonene and others) as natural substrates in the cometabolic biodegradation of PCBs and to develop an effective PCB bioremediation technology. The aim of this study was to examine how plant terpenoids, as natural substrates or inducers would affect the biodegradation of PCB congeners. Various PCB degraders that could grow on biphenyl and several terpenoids were tested for their PCB degradation capabilities. The PCB congener degradation activities were first monitored through resting cell assay technique that could detect degradation products of the substrate. The congener removal was also confirmed by concommitant GC analysis. The PCB degraders, Pseudononas sp. P166 and Caynebacterium sp. T104 were found to grow on both biphenyl and terpenoids ((S)-(-) limonene, p-cymene and ${\alpha}-terpinene$) whereas Arthrobacter B1B could not grow on the terpenoids as a sole carbon source. The strain B1B grown on biphenyl showed a good degradation activity for 4,4'-dichlorobiphenyl (DCBp) while strains P166 and T104 gave about 25% of B1B activity. Induction of degradation by cymene, limonene and terpine was hardly detected by the resting cell assay technique. This appeared to be due to relatively lower induction effect of these terpenoids compared with biphenyl. However, a subsequent GC analysis showed that the congener could be removed up to 30% by the resting cells of T104 grown on the terpenoids. This indicates that terpenoids, widely distributed in nature, could be utilized as both growth and/or inducer substrate for PCB biodegradation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.99-107
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• 1998

전 세계에서 다양한 환경 매체를 통해 광범위하게 검출되고 있는 대표적 환경오염물질 (environmental pollutants)인 polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs)의 국내 4대강 주요 하천 저니토양과 모공단 하천수 및 저니토중 오염도를 각 congener별로 또는 총량으로서 GC/MS 를 사용하여 정량하였다. 그 결과 4대강의 주요 지천중 낙동강의 사상공단근처의 저니토에서 총 PCBs가 가장 높은 290.87$\mu\textrm{g}$/kg이었고 한강의 왕숙천도 비교적 높은 221.l1$\mu\textrm{g}$/kg이었다. 모공단 하천수 및 저니토 중 PCBs를 분석한 결과 전 시료에서 검출되었으며 하천수 및저니토에서의 총 PCBs 농도(mean$\pm$S.D.)는 0.1069$\pm$0.0179$\mu\textrm{g}$/L 및 908.80$\pm$462.30$\mu\textrm{g}$/kg였으며, 이때 저니토에서의 농축계수는 0.85$\times$$10^4$였다. 저니토중 총 유기물함량과 저니토중 PCBs 잔류량의 조사에서 서로간 상관관계 (상관계수=0.7084)가 있음을 알 수 있었으나 PCBs 배출원에 의한 영향이 커서 정확한 상관관계를 얻기가 어려웠다. Congener-specific analysis에 의해 하천수 및 저니토 시료에서 공통적으로 검출된 대표적 congener는 52, 95, 101, 99,87, 110, 118, 149, 153, 138, 180 였다. 본 연구결과 하천수에서는 triCBs와 tetraCBs 가 비교적 높은 농도로 검출되었던 반면 저니토에서는 hexaCBs 및 heptaCBs가 다른 poylCBs에 비해 비교적 높은 농도로 검출되었다. 이상의 연구결과를 통해 모공단 하천수 및 저니토가 PCBs에 의해 심하게 오염되어 있음을 알 수 있고 국내의 주요 하천의 경우도 계속적인 모니터링이 필요함을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.96.1-96.1
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.94.2-94.2
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.102-102
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• 2008

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.251-259
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• 2009

This study was conducted to measure the concentration of PCBs in pine needles and soil in urban (Seoul, many artificial sources of PCBs), semi-rural (Anseong, small town located below Seoul in wind direction) and rural areas (Jincheon, rarely artificial sources of PCBs) in which the artificial production amount of PCBs are different. The total PCBs concentrations in pine needles, which did not show big difference in three sampling sites, were 107.5 pg/g (urban), 94.8 pg/g (semi-rural) and 78.8 pg/g (rural) respectively. The low chlorinated PCBs were major component in pine needles and the PCBs congener concentration profile of each sampling area were similar each other, and the octanol-air partitioning coefficient, Koa, highly correlated with the PCBs concentrations in pine needles. The total PCBs concentrations in soil which did show big difference in three sampling sites, were 830.0 pg/g (urban), 314.1 pg/g (semi-rural) and 136.5 pg/g (rural) respectively. The high chlorinated PCBs were major component in soil and the PCBs congener concentration profile of each sampling area were similar each other. There was no similarity between the PCBs concentration of pine needles and those of soil at each site, because of the different mechanism of deposition and volatilization processes of PCBs. The total PCBs concentrations of 2009 became 12.9 times lower than those of 2001. The reduce rate of PCB 28 was the greatest.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• v.10 no.S_3
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• pp.107-111
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• 2001

Surface seawater was sampled from 20 stations in Youngil Bay, Korea in November 2000. The samples were analyzed for eight chlorobenzenes(CBs) out of a total of 12 in the congener series using a gas chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer detector(GC/MSD). The total CB levels varied from 1.3 to 6.1 ng/L with a mean of 4.0 ng/L. Trichlorobenzene groups (sum of 1,3,5-, 1,2,4-, and 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene) were the predominant class among the four congener groups, while tetrachlorobenzenes(sum of 1,2,3,5-, 1,2,4,5-, and 1,2,3,4- tetrachlorobenzene) and pentachlorobenzene showed a low presence. The total CB levels exhibited similar patterns for all the stations. A significant positive correlation was observed between the individual CB compounds in the particulate samples, while the dissolved samples revealed a strong correlation between the heavier molecular weight CBs.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.529-534
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• 2005

We collected seven species of shellfish; all originating from the southern coastal areas of Korea, from a market every three months from Dec. 2001 to Sept. 2002, and determined the total polychlorinated biphenyl(PCB) levels by the sum of 26 individual congener levels. A GC-ECD system was applied for identification and quantification of these PCB congeners. Mussel showed the highest level in Sept. 2002 at 34.5 ng/g dry weight(d.w.). All species except mussel showed the lowest total PCB level in Dec. 2001 and their levels in tissue ranged from 0.6 to 5.5 ng/g d.w. The total PCB levels ranged from 0.8 to 17.3 ng/g in Mar. 2002, 2.2 to 9.5 ng/g in June 2002, and 1.8 to 34.5 ng/g d.w. in Sept. 2002. The principal congener group was penta-CBs, which accounted for 32% of the total PCBs, followed by hexa-CBs at 23%, and tetra-CBs at 21%.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 1958

A rat-fleas survey was carried out in Ducksonm and Kwangnaru areas of Seoul city from Janurary to December 1955 . In this survey, 1,204 redents were trapped alive and 740 of which being Rattus norvegicus, 457 Apodemus agrarius, 5 Eutamiias asiaticus and 2 shrewes ((crocidura rusila). On these rodents 270 fleas were collected and identified thus : Ceratopylidae : Monopsyllus anisus (Rothschild 1908) ···200 Leptosylla segnis(Schonherr, 1832)···1 Hystrichopsyllidae : Ctenophthalmus congener, Rothschild ···43 Neopsylla bidentiformis (Wagner, 1893)···11 Stenoponia sidimi Marikovsky, 1936···9 Pulcidae : Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild, 1903)···6 On the average 8.5% of the rodents were infestated with fleas. The infestation rate showed a marked varying degree in a year and three high incidence peaks in Spring (10.3%), Summer (11.4%-11.8%) and Winter (13.7%). The average number of fleas per rat (flea-index) was 0.22 for the whole year with a maximum of 0.41 in December and a minimum of 0.03 in February. Of all, the most prevalent species are Monopsyllus anisus (74.1%) and secondly Ctenophthalmus congener (15.9%). both species occupied 90% of all. Xenopsylla cheopis, a known vector of plague, was found very rare in our survey and only appeared in Winter. The striking lower incidence of flea-index compared with previous data (6.6 by Nagahana, 1931-1936) appears to be due to the nationwide application of DDT and BHC insecticides since 1945.