• 대한약침학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.369-381
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• 2022

Objectives: Hyperlipidemia (HL) is a major cause of ischemic heart diseases. The size-limiting effect of ischemic preconditioning (IPC), a cardioprotective phenomenon, is reduced in HL, possibly because of the opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP). The objective of this study is to see what effect pretreatment with Inula racemose Hook root extract (IrA) had on IPC-mediated cardioprotection on HL Wistar rat hearts. An isolated rat heart was mounted on the Langendorff heart array, and then ischemia reperfusion (I/R) and IPC cycles were performed. Atractyloside (Atr) is an MPTP opener. Methods: The animals were divided into ten groups, each consisting of six rats (n = 6), to investigate the modulation of I. racemosa Hook extract on cardioprotection by IPC in HL hearts: Sham control, I/R Control, IPC control, I/R + HL, I/R + IrA + HL, IPC + HL, IPC + NS + HL, IPC + IrA+ HL, IPC + Atr + oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, integrity, and hemodynamic parameters are evaluated for each group. Results: The present experimental data show that pretreatment with IrA reduced the LDH, CK-MB, size of myocardial infarction, content of cardiac collagen, and ventricular fibrillation in all groups of HL rat hearts. This pretreatment also reduced the oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Inhibition of MPTP opening by Atr diminished the effect of IrA on IPC-mediated cardioprotection in HL rats. Conclusion: The study findings indicate that pretreatment with IrA e restores IPC-mediated cardioprotection in HL rats by inhibiting the MPTP opening.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.542-547
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 제2형 당뇨병를 가진 GK 흰쥐(Goto-Kakizaki) 간에서 추출한 cytosol과 심장에서 추출한 mitochondria를 이용한 모델계에서 당대사 관련 효소인 glucokinase glucokinase(GCK), pyruvate dehydrogenase(PDH), acetyl-CoA carboxylase(ACC) 및 glucosidase 활성에 대한 한약재의 물 추출물의 항당뇨 효과를 연구하였다. 그리고 역시 그들의 물 추출물의 free radical 소거활성을 DPPH 방법으로 알아보았다. Free radical 소거활성은 산수유(CF), 목단피(MDB), 천화분(CHB) 그리고 산약(SY)의 물 추출물이 강했고 반면에 백목령(BBR), 숙지황(SGH)과 택사(TS)는 낮은 소거작용을 나타내었다. 간 cytosol의 GCK 활성은 산수유(CF)와 천화분(CHB)에서 다른 추출물보다 더 강했다. 심장미토콘드리아의 PDH 활성은 택사(TS)를 제외하고 모든 추출물에서 대조군과 비교하여 높았다. 간 cytosol의 ACC 활성은 대조군보다 산수유(CF), 천화분(CHB), 숙지황(SGH), 택사(TS) 그리고 산약(SY) 추출물에서 높았다. 산수유(CF), 백복령(BBR) 및 목단피(MDB) 추출물은 ${\alpha}$-glucosidase 활성 감소를 유도했다. 따라서 모든 추출물은 혈당 상승을 억제할 수 있는 항당뇨 기능성식품이나 약품 개발을 위한 기능성 천연 소재로 이용될 수 있을 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.299-313
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• 2003

본 연구는 피부화상으로 유도된 심근손상에서 protein kinase C (PKC)의 역할을 알아보고자 하였다. 수컷 흰 쥐(SD계)에 15%의 피부전층화상을 유도한 뒤, PKC activator인 phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)와 PKC inhibitor인 bisindolylmaleimide (BIS)를 투여하여 5시간, 24시간 후에 심장을 적출하여 생화학적 미세구조적 입체해석학적 방법을 실시하였다. 혈청 AST와 creatinine 은 화상 후 5시간군과 화상 후 5시간+BIS 투여군에서 높게 나타났고, KC와 MPO 활성은 PMA 투여군이 BIS 투여군보다 낮게 나타났다. 미세구조적 관찰 결과 PMA 투여군에서는, 화상으로 인한 핵의 분열, 과수축대 형성, 사이원반의 분리 현상이 다소 완화된 형태로 관찰되었고, BIS 투여군에서는 화상 단독군에서 나타나는 형태적 변화 뿐만 아니라 비정상적인 형태의 사립체도 일부 관찰되었다. 전체적으로 5시간에서 24시간군으로 가면서 손상이 완화된 양상을 나타내었다. 입체해석학적 결과에서는 화상으로 인한 근원섬유의 체적밀도 감소가 PMA와 BIS 투여로 인해 증가되었고, 사립체의 체적밀도와 수밀도의 증가는 BIS군에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 결론적으로 PKC의 활성화는 화상으로 인해 손상된 심근에서 염증반응을 감소시켜 심근 손상을 보호한다고 사료된다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.642-653
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• 2021

Background: Effective strategies are dramatically needed to prevent and improve the recovery from myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury. Direct interactions between the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during heart diseases have been recently investigated. This study was designed to explore the cardioprotective effects of gypenoside XVII (GP-17) against I/R injury. The roles of ER stress, mitochondrial injury, and their crosstalk within I/R injury and in GP-17einduced cardioprotection are also explored. Methods: Cardiac contractility function was recorded in Langendorff-perfused rat hearts. The effects of GP-17 on mitochondrial function including mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening, reactive oxygen species production, and respiratory function were determined using fluorescence detection kits on mitochondria isolated from the rat hearts. H9c2 cardiomyocytes were used to explore the effects of GP-17 on hypoxia/reoxygenation. Results: We found that GP-17 inhibits myocardial apoptosis, reduces cardiac dysfunction, and improves contractile recovery in rat hearts. Our results also demonstrate that apoptosis induced by I/R is predominantly mediated by ER stress and associated with mitochondrial injury. Moreover, the cardioprotective effects of GP-17 are controlled by the PI3K/AKT and P38 signaling pathways. Conclusion: GP-17 inhibits I/R-induced mitochondrial injury by delaying the onset of ER stress through the PI3K/AKT and P38 signaling pathways.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.644-647
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• 2010

Purpose: To evaluate myocardial conductivity to understand cardiac involvement in patients with mitochondrial disease. Methods: We performed retrospective study on fifty-seven nonspecific mitochondrial encephalopathy patients with no clinical cardiac manifestations. The patients were diagnosed with mitochondrial respiratory chain complex defects through biochemical enzyme assays of muscle tissue. We performed standard 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) on all patients. Results: ECG abnormalities were observed in 30 patients (52.6%). Prolongation of the QTc interval (>440 ms) was seen in 19 patients (33.3%), widening of the corrected QRS interval in 15 (26.3%), and bundle branch block in four (7.0%). Atrioventricular block, premature atrial contraction and premature ventricular contraction were seen in two patients each (3.5%) and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in one patient (1.8%). Conclusion: Given this finding, we recommend active screening with ECG in patients with mitochondrial disease even in patients without obvious cardiac manifestation.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.100-105
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• 2005

젖산탈수소효소(EC 1.1.1.27, lactate dehydrogenase, LDH) inhibitor는 햄스터와 소 골격근 미토콘드리아에서 분리하였다. 햄스터 골격근조직의 LDH inhibitor는 175 mM NaCl과 초음파로 분리하였다. 소 골격근조직의 미토콘드리아에서 분리된 inhibitor는 열에 강한 특성을 보였고, $A_4$ 동위효소에 대한 저해정도가 높았으며, 분자량은 22,000 kDa으로 나타났다. Inhibitor는 심장조직을 제외한 골격근, 신장 및 간 조직의 미토콘드리아에서 LDH 결합 시 중요하게 관여하고 있었다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1992

Pathological studies by light and electron microscope were carried out on the twenty piglets naturally affected by encephalomyocarditis virus infection. Gross findings included pale or yellow, small necrotic foci on myocardium, together with pulmonary edema and liver congestion in some cases. On light microscopy, nonsuppurative interstitial endocarcitis, epicarditis and myocarditis, myocardial infarction, and dystrophic calcification or fibtosis were observed in heart. Perivascular cuffings, gliosis and nonsuppurative meningitis were appeared in brain. Focal or diffuse necrosis with mononuclear cell infiltration in lacrimal gland and multifocal necrosis in liver were observed in some cases. Congestion and edema of lung, hyperemia, hemorrhage and deletion of lymphocytes of lymph nodes and spleen were recognized. On electron microscopy, severe swelling and vacuolization of mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum, large intracellular vacuolation and edema, separation and fragmentation of myofibrils were observed. Virus particles were seen in the sarcoplasm of degenerated cardiac muscle cell.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제43권8호
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• pp.671-685
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• 2020

The regulator of calcineurin (RCAN) was first reported as a novel gene called DSCR1, encoded in a region termed the Down syndrome critical region (DSCR) of human chromosome 21. Genome sequence comparisons across species using bioinformatics revealed three members of the RCAN gene family, RCAN1, RCAN2, and RCAN3, present in most jawed vertebrates, with one member observed in most invertebrates and fungi. RCAN is most highly expressed in brain and striated muscles, but expression has been reported in many other tissues, as well, including the heart and kidneys. Expression levels of RCAN homologs are responsive to external stressors such as reactive oxygen species, Ca²⁺, amyloid β, and hormonal changes and upregulated in pathological conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, cardiac hypertrophy, diabetes, and degenerative neuropathy. RCAN binding to calcineurin, a Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase, inhibits calcineurin activity, thereby regulating different physiological events via dephosphorylation of important substrates. Novel functions of RCANs have recently emerged, indicating involvement in mitochondria homeostasis, RNA binding, circadian rhythms, obesity, and thermogenesis, some of which are calcineurin-independent. These developments suggest that besides significant contributions to DS pathologies and calcineurin regulation, RCAN is an important participant across physiological systems, suggesting it as a favorable therapeutic target.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제50권
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• pp.9.1-9.8
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• 2020

The fine structural characteristics of cardiac muscle cells and its myofibril organization in the orb web spider N. clavata were examined by transmission electron microscopy. Although myofibril striations are not remarkable as those of skeletal muscles, muscle fibers contain multiple myofibrils, abundant mitochondria, extensive sarcoplasmic reticulum and transverse tubules (T-tubules). Myofibrils are divided into distinct sarcomeres defined by Z-lines with average length of 2.0 ㎛, but the distinction between the A-band and the I-bands is not clear due to uniform striations over the length of the sarcomeres. Dyadic junction which consisted of a single T-tubule paired with a terminal cisterna of the sarcoplasmic reticulum is found mainly at the A-I level of sarcomere. Each cell is arranged to form multiple connections with neighboring cells through the intercalated discs. These specialized junctions include three types of intercellular junctions: gap junctions, fascia adherens and desmosomes for heart function. Our transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations clearly show that spider's cardiac muscle contraction is controlled by neurogenic rather than myogenic mechanism since each cardiac muscle fiber is innervated by a branch of motor neuron through neuromuscular junctions.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.166-178
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• 1991

식이 중에 첨가된 conzyme $Q_{10}$이 ADR을 투여한 횐쥐의 체내 지질과산화대사에 미치는 영향을 규명하기 위하여 두가지 실험을 실시하였다. 실험1에서는 basal diet로 적응시킨 후 바로 4주간 실험식이를 공급함과 동시에 ADR을 투여하였으나 실험2에서는 coenzyme $Q_{10}$이 미리 섭취된 상태하에서 지질과산화에 대한 영향을 관찰하고자 basal diet로 적응시킨 다음 4주간 실험식이만을 급여한 후 다시 4주간 실험1과 같은 방법으로 ADR투여와 실험식이 공급을 병행하였다. 실험군은 실험1과 2에서 모두 ADR 2수준 (1.Omg/kg B.W./week. 2.0mg/kg B.W./week)과 coenzyme $Q_{10}$ 3수준(무첨 가군, 0.1g/kg diet 및 0.5g/kg diet)에 의한 6개의 실험군과 basal diet만을 공급하는 대조군을 설정하였다. 본 실험에서 얻어진 결과를 요약하면 혈장과 심장 mitochondria내의 과산화지질 함량은 수준별 ADR 투여에 의해 유의적으로 증가되었고 coenzyme $Q_{10}$ 첨가에 의하여 이러한 경향은 조절되었다. 실험2에 있어서 심장 mitochondria의 과산화지질 함량은 coenzyme $Q_{10}$의 첨가에 의해 실험1에 비하여 그 감소효과가 더욱 증대되었다. 지질과산화 대사에 관여하는 효소 활성도의 변화를 조사하기 위하여 적혈구와 심장조직내에서의 glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), superoxide dismutase(SOD)와 catalase 활성도를 측정하였다. 실험1에서 GSH-Px 활성도는 적혈구 내에서는 차이가 없었고 고수준의 ADR을 투여 한 실험군의 심장조직에서만 coenzyme $Q_{10}$에 의해 유의적으로 증가되었으며, SOD 활성도 역시 적혈구에서는 별다른 변화가 관찰되지 않았고 심장조직 내에서 ADR투여로 증가되었으나 coenzyme $Q_{10}$의 급여로 그 활성도가 더욱 유도되었다. Catalase의 활성도는 심장조직 내에서는 변화가 없었고. 적혈구내에서 ADR투여로 그 활성도가 증가되었으나 coenzyme $Q_{10}$의 급여는 그 활성도의 유도효과를 나타내지 못하였다. 실험2의 적혈구내에서는 GSH-Px활성도가 고수준의 ADR의 투여에 의해 유의적으로 감소된 것을 제외하고는 별다른 변화를 나타내지 않았다. 심장조직의 효소활성도에 있어서는 GSH-Px의 경우, 고수준의 coenzyme $Q_{10}$의 급여에 의해 유의적으로 증가 되었으며 SOD활성도는 ADR 투여에 의해 증가되었으나 coenzyme $Q_{10}$의 공급에 의해 더욱 유도되었다. 그러나 catalase 활성도는 모든 처리군들 사이에서 차이를 나타내지 않았다. 이상의 결과로 미루어보아 ADR투여로 유발되는 심장의 손상은 생체내 지질과산화반응의 유도가 중요한 원인이 되고 이는 coenzyme $Q_{10}$ 급여에 의해 유의적인 억제효과를 나타낼 수 있음을 알 수 있다.