• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.34-45
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• 2006

Chemical toxicants are metabolically converted to numerous metabolites in the body. Toxicokinetic characteristics of metabolites could be therefore used as biomarker of exposure for human risk assessment. Biologically based dose response (BBDR) model was proposed for future direction of risk assessment. However, this area has not been developed well enough for human application. Benzo(a)pyrene (BP), for example, is a well-known environmental carcinogen and may produce more than 100 metabolites and BPDE-DNA adduct, a covalently bound form of DNA with benzo(a)pyrene diolepoxides (BPDES), has been applied to qualitatively or quantitaively estimate human exposure to BP. In addition, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), a widely used plasticize. in the polymer industry, is one of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and has been monitored in humans using urinary or serum concentrations of DEHP or its monomer MEHP for exposure and risk assessment. However, it is difficult to estimate the actual level of toxicants using these biomarkers in humans using. This presentation will discuss a methodology of exposure and risk assessment by application of metabolic profiling kinetics.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.513-517
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• 2000

Enterohepatic recycling of estrogen after oral administration of 1 mg non-radioactive estriol was studied in fourteen women selected as the control subjects and ten infertile women in whom the infertility was appearing to be of endocrine origin. The extent of enterohepatic recycling of estriol ($E_3$) during the early follicular phase of menstrual cycle was assessed by monitoring during 48 h the urinary excretion of its two major metabolites i.e; estriol 16 $\alpha$-glucuronide ($E_3-16$$\alpha-G$) and estriol-3 glucuronide ($E_3$-3-G). The change in urinary level of $E_3$-3-G with respect to ($E_3-16$$\alpha-G$G was considered to reflect the extent of enterohepatic recycling of estriol. Lower values of urinary output of both metabolites in the infertile women as compared with the control subjects and the urinary excretion profile of both metabolites during 48 h after estriol ingestion reveal that the reduced extent of enterohepatic recycling could possibly be one of the factors which contribute towards the incidence of infertility in women.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.545-552
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• 2005

The major protocol features of the rodent uterotrophic assay have been evaluated using a range of reference chemicals. The protocol variables considered include the selection of the test species and route of chemical administration, the age of the test animals, the maintenance diet used, and the specificity of the assay for estrogens. The rodents were ovariectomized under general anesthesia via bilateral flank incisions and randomly assigned to groups of 5 animals. Chemicals were DEHP, DBP, BPA and NP, were injected sc once daily with combinations of chemicals treatments for 3 days. In the results, the reported estrogenic chemicals DEHP and DBP were both negative in the single dose treatments. But, in the combinations of chemicals treatments, DEHP and DBP increased in bud number of mammary gland. Treatment of ovariectomized mice with combinations of other chemicals resulted in uterine and vaginal hyperplasia. The additive estrogenic effects were seen with the combinations of $17{\beta}$-Bestradiol and DBP treatment. the competitive estrogenic effects were seen with the combinations of $17{\beta}$-Bestradiol and nonylphenol, $17{\beta}$-Bestradiol and bisphenol-A treatments. These results offers a sysmatic and mechanistically informative approach to assessing estrogenicity. it provides a useful profile of activity using a reasonable amount of resources and is compatible with the study of individual chemicals as well as the investigation of interactions among combinations of chemicals. The results described illustrate the intrinsic complexity of evaluating chemicals for estrogenic activities and conform the need for rigorous attention to experimental design and criteria for assessing estrogenic activity.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.168-177
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• 2013

내분비계장애추정농약의 밭토양 중 용탈특성을 구명하기 위하여 토양칼럼(내경 5 cm, 높이 35 cm)을 이용하여 alachlor 등 13종 농약의 용탈시험을 수행하였다. 토양 A를 충전한 칼럼에 2001년부터 청주지역의 6-8월까지 10년간 평균 일일강수량인 12.6 mL를 매일 용탈시켜 3일 간격으로 모으는 방법으로 3주간 용탈시켰을 때 용탈수에서 metribuzin이 극미량 검출된 것을 제외하고 모든 시험농약은 용탈되지 않았다. 그러나 토양 A와 B를 충전한 칼럼에 2 L의 증류수를 연속 5회 용탈시키는 방법으로 시험하였을 때 수용해도가 낮고 토양 흡착성이 큰 cypermethrin, endosulfan, fenvalerate, parathion, trifluralin은 토양 종류에 관계없이 용탈수에서 검출되지 않았고 주로 토층 0-5 cm 부위에 분포하여 시험농약의 물에 대한 용해도와 토양에 대한 흡착특성의 영향 때문인 것으로 나타났다. Carbaryl과 methomyl이 다른 농약에 비해 용탈율이 높았으나 토층이 자연상태의 농경지와 다른 토양 충전 칼럼에서는 처리 농약의 대부분이 용탈된 반면 실제포장과 유사한 조건의 lysimeter 실험에서는 극미량의 농약이 용탈되었다는 선행연구의 연구결과 등을 고려하면 지하수 오염 가능성은 낮을 것으로 판단되었다.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.67-77
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• 1996

한국재래산양의 췌장내분비세포에 대해 몇종의 항혈청을 이용하여 면역전자현미경적으로 관찰하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 췌도에서는 glucagon (A), insulin (B), somatostatin (D) 및 pancreatic polypeptides (PP-I과 PP-II) 등 5종의 세포를 동정하였다. 이 중 A, B 및 D세포의 정태학적 특징은 다른포유동물의 그것과 유사하였고 D세포는 serotonin 면역성이 인정되었다. PP세포는 과립의 형태학적 특징으로 보아 두가지 형태가 인정되었으며, 제I형은 원형인 동질성의 과립 ($220{\sim}440nm$)을 가지며, 과립내용물과 한계막 사이에는 얇은 halo를 보였으나 제II형은 과립이 다형태성을 보이며 ($240{\sim}440nm$ major axis, $150{\sim}200nm$ minor axis) 과립내용물과 한계막 사이는 거의 밀착되어 있었다. 이상의 결과로 한국재래산양의 췌도에는 A, B, D, PP-I 및 PP-II 등 5형의 세포로 구성되어 있으며, 이 중 PP-I세포는 다른 포유류의 PP세포에, PP-II세포는 enterochromaffin cell에 상당할 것으로 생각되었다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제36권9호
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• pp.924-932
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• 2003

In middle-aged men, abdominal obesity has been an important risk factor of coronary artery disease (CAD) as well as a predictor of hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. Particularly, risks from abdominal obesity increase when adipose tissue accumulates in visceral compartment. Many studies showed that weight reduction by caloric restriction improves abdominal obesity and reduces lots of cardiovascular risk factors. Testosterone treatment also results in a significant decrease in visceral fat area and normalizes endocrine metabolism. However there is no study that compare the effect of caloric restriction with that of testosterone treatment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of caloric restriction and that of testosterone treatment on body fat distribution, serum lipids and glucose metabolism in male patients with CAD. Forty five middle-aged overweight-obese men with CAD participated in 12 weeks' program. They were matched with age, body weight, body mass index (BMI) and divided into three groups : control group (n = 15) , caloric restriction group (-300 kcal/day, n = 15) and testosterone treatment group (testosterone undecanoate tablets, n = 15) . After 12 weeks, control group did not have any changes in anthropometries, lipid profile, body fat distribution, glucose metabolism and hormonal status. Expectedly, caloric restriction group showed decreases in body weight, BMI, waist to hip ratio, ％ body fat. Ten percentage of total cholesterol and 23% of triglyceride in serum were also decreased. In body fat distribution, total fat areas at both L1 and L4 levels were significantly reduced in this group without reduction in muscle of thigh and calf. However, testosterone treatment group did not have any significant changes in body weight, ％ body fat, serum lipid profile and abdominal fat distribution. In conclusion, weight reduction by caloric restriction is more beneficial in body fat distribution and serum lipid level than testosterone treatment in overweight male patients with CAD. This result suggests that modest weight reduction is possible to help decrease risk factors of CAD.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.242-250
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• 2004

In general, the skeletal class III has the characteristics of mandibular overgrowth with a normal maxillary growth or maxillary undergrowth with a normal mandibular growth And clinical and radiographic evaluations of the patient are needed. However, the treatment plan is not dependent on these evaluations alone, because patient's general condition and hope for aesthetics varies. The aim of this report is to consider the treatment of a medically compromised patient with an anterior open bite and skeletal class III, which showed a severe mandibular overgrowth. In 2003, a 17-year-old boy with epilepsy, mental retardation presented at our clinic complaining of concave profile. A clinical examination showed severe mandibular prognathism with an anterior open bite. The radiographic examination revealed a short cranial base, a moderate maxillary overgrowth, severe mandibular overgrowth and skeletal open bite tendency. In 2004, he was verified to have no potential of growth by hand-and-wrist radiographs and an endocrine examination. He completed the preoperative orthodontic treatment and orthognathic surgery (sagittal split ramus osteotomy, genioplasty). He was evaluated on the first visit, the preoperative period and the postoperative period with a clinical and radiographic examination. At the first visit, the patient showed moderate overgrowth of the maxilla, severe overgrowth of the mandible, and a subsequential skeletal open bite. After the preoperative orthodontic treatment (preoperative period), the patient showed the same skeletal problem as before and a decompensated dentition for orthognathic surgery. After orthognathic surgery, his profile had improved, but he had still a skeletal openbite tendency because the maxillary orthognathic surgery was not performed. Severe mandibular prognathism with a maxillary overgrowth and anterior open bite should be treated by bimaxillary orthognathic surgery. However, one-jaw orthognathic surgery on the remaining the skeletal open bite tendency was performed for his medical problem and facial esthetics. This subsequential open bite should be resolved with a postoperative orthodontic treatment.

• 한국가금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가금학회 2003년도 제20차 정기총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.99-100
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• 2003

육성기 제한급이가 산란생산성과 사료효율, 계란품질 및 호르몬 농도변화에 미치는 영향을 규명하고자 1일령 갈색 산란계 1,080수를 공시하여 70주령까지 사양시험을 실시하였다. 제한시기는 6주령부터 (T1)와 12주령부터(T2) 실시하였는데 18주령 이후 자유채식을 실시하였다. 산란생산성과 사료효율은 T1이 가장 개선되는 것으로 나타났으며 계란품질은 처리간 차이가 없었다. 호르몬 농도변화는 체중 및 산란 개시시기와 밀접한 관계가 있었으며, 산란시기에 따른 차이는 없었다.

• Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.283-290
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• 2009

Differential gene expression profiling was performed in the hepatic tissue of marine medaka fish (Oryzias javanicus) after exposure to benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), by heterologous hybridization using a medaka cDNA microarray. Thirty-eight differentially expressed candidate genes, of which 23 were induced and 15 repressed (P<0.01), were identified and found to be associated with cell cycle, development, endocrine/reproduction, immune, metabolism, nucleic acid/protein binding, signal transduction, or non-categorized. The presumptive physiological changes induced by BaP exposure were identified after considering the biological function of each gene candidate. The results obtained in this study will allow future studies to assess the molecular mechanisms of BaP toxicity and the development of a systems biology approach to the stress biology of organic chemicals.

• Advances in Traditional Medicine
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.86-95
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• 2006

The ethanol extract of the Crotalaria juncea seeds, which showed promising antispermatogenic and antiandrogenic activities in albino mice, was taken up further for the isolation of the active fractions present in it. Two fractions that were obtained from thin layer chromatography were subjected for testing to know their antispermatogenic and antiandrogenic activities. After preliminary trials the fraction I showed maximum antifertility activity at the dose level of 200 mg/kg body weight when administered orally to the rats for 50 days. The fraction I was found to affect spermatogenesis as well as the endocrine functions of the testis as indicated by gravimetric, histopathological and biochemical changes. Further this fraction has caused degenerative changes in the seminiferous tubules and Leydig cells of the testis. The accessory reproductive organs like epididymis, seminal vesicles, vas deferens, prostrate, Cowper's gland and Levator Ani muscle showed significant malfunction. Cauda epididymal sperm count and sperm motility were reduced significantly. The treatment has also resulted in increase in the cholesterol level and alkaline phosphatase activity, and decrease in protein, glycogen, sialic acid contents and acid phosphatase activity in testis. It is noteworthy that RIA studies have shown significant reduction in serum FSH, LH and testosterone. Scanning electron microscopic observations revealed abnormalities in sperm structure.