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Effect of Gamiondam-tang (GMODT), a Polyherbal Formula on the Pharmacokinetics Profiles of Tamoxifen in Male SD Rats

  • Ryu, Eun-A;Kang, Su-Jin;Song, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Bong-Hyo;Choi, Seong-Hun;Han, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Young-Joon;Ku, Sae-Kwang
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.61-72
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    • 2017
  • Objectives: The effects of Gamiondam-tang (GMODT) co-administration within 5min on the pharmacokinetics (PK) of tamoxifen were observed as a process of the comprehensive and integrative medicine, combination therapy of tamoxifen with GMODT to achieve synergic pharmacodynamics and reduce toxicity on the breast cancer. Methods: After 50mg/kg of tamoxifen treatment, GMODT 100mg/kg was administered within 5min. The plasma were collected at 30 min before administration, 30 min, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 24 hrs after end of GMODT treatment, and plasma concentrations of tamoxifen were analyzed using LC-MS/MS methods. PK parameters of tamoxifen (Tmax, Cmax, AUC, $t_{1/2}$ and $MRT_{inf}$) were analysis as compared with tamoxifen single administered rats using noncompartmental pharmacokinetics data analyzer programs. Results: Co-administration with GMODT induced increased trends of plasma tamoxifen concentrations to 1hr after end of administration, and then showed decreased trends of plasma tamoxifen concentrations, and especially significant (p<0.05) increases of plasma tamoxifen concentrations were demonstrated at 0.5hr after end of co-administration with GMODT and also related significant (p<0.05) decreases of $AUC_{0-inf}$ and $MRT_{inf}$ as compared with tamoxifen single formula treated rats, at dosage levels of tamoxifen 10 mg/kg and GMODT 100 mg/kg within 5 min, in this experiment. Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it is considered that single co-administration GMODT within 5min significantly inhibited the oral bioavailability of tamoxifen through variable influences on the absorption and excretion of tamoxifen, can be influenced on the toxicity or pharmacodynamic of tamoxifen.

The Effect of the Bojungikgi-tang in a Mouse Model of Allergic Rhinitis (포중익기탕(補中益氣湯)이 알레르기 비염(鼻炎) 유발 마우스에 미치는 효과(效果))

  • Kim, Sun-Min;Sim, Sung-Youn;Byun, Hak-Sung;Kim, Kyung-Jun
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.26-36
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    • 2005
  • Objectives: Maier symptoms of allergic rhinitis are nasal obstructions, sneezing and watery rhinorrhea. When exposed to certain allergens, the IgE covered mast cells degranulate and release inflammatory mediators and cytokines which result in a local inflammatory reaction. In many recent studies, molecular biological methods have been used to investigate the role of cytokines in pathogenesis and new therapeutic targets of allergic rhinitis. This experimental study was done to reveal the effects of the Bojungikgi-tang on the allergic rhinitis. We have studied effect of mice on OVA-induced production of IL-4, IL-5, $INF-{\gamma}$ by murine splenocytes and effect of OVA-induced Total IgE and OVA-specific IgE Meterial and Metheds: 21 BALB/c rats were divided into three groups: normal group, control group, experimental group. To induce the allergic rhinitis in control group and experimental group, rats were sentitized intraperitioneally with 0.1% ovalbumin solution 3 times at intervals of 2 weeks. Then intranasal sensitization was performed by diffusing 0.1% ovalbumin solution 3 times at intervals of 2 days for a week. After that time, rats in experimental group were oral administration treated by the Bojuogikgi-tang fer 28 days. We observed changes of IL-4, IL-5, $INF-{\gamma}$, Total IgE and OVA-specific IgE. We used independent-test statistically. Results: 1. In IL-4 study, Bojungikgi-tang treated group didn't show significant differences. 2. In IL-5 study, Bojungikgi-tang treated group shows significant differences. 3. In $INF-{\gamma}$ study, Bojungikgi-tang treated group shows significant differences. 4. In Total IgE, Bojungikgi-tang treated group shows significant differences. 5. In OVA-specific IgE, Bojungikgi-tang treated group didn't show significant differences. According to this result, Bojungikgi-tang was concluded to be effective on lowering the total IgE. Through this. Bojungikgi tang seems to reduce the symptoms of allergic rhinitis. More studies are required to know exact mechanism of Bojungikgi tang to show the anti allergenic effect.

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Production of IFN-γ by TNF-α in Macrophages from Tumor Micro Environment; Significance in Angiogenic Switch Control (종양 미세 환경 내 대식세포에서 혈관 신생 조절 인자로서의 TNF-α에 의한 IFN-γ의 분비 조절)

  • Pyo, Suhk-Neung;Baek, Soyoung;Kwak, Jang-Dong;Park, Dae-Sub;Joe, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyun Ah
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2003
  • Background: The role of macrophages in tumor angiogenesis is known to be the production of angiogenic cytokines and growth factors including TNF-${\alpha}$. Recently, macrophage also can produce the INF-${\gamma}$ that is being studied to be involved in angiogenic inhibition. Thus, the importance of macrophages in tumor angiogenesis is might being an angiogenic switch. Thus, the hypothesis tested here is that TNF-${\alpha}$ can modulate the INF-${\gamma}$ production in the macrophages from tumor environment as a part of tumor angiogenic switch. Methods: Macrophages in tumor environment were obtained from the peritoneal cavity of C57BL/6 mice injected with B16F10 melanoma cell line for 6 or 11 days. $Mac1^+$-macrophages were purified using magnetic bead ($MACs^{TM}$; Milteny Biotech, Germany) and cultured with various concentrations of TNF-${\alpha}$ for various time points at $37^{\circ}C$. The supernatants were analyzed for IFN-${\gamma}$ or VEGF by ELISA kit (Endogen, Woburn, MA). Results: Residential macrophages from the peritoneal cavity did not respond to LPS or TNF-${\alpha}$ to produce INF-${\gamma}$. However, the cells from tumor environment produced IFN-${\gamma}$ as well as VEGF and upregulated by the addition of LPS or TNF-${\alpha}$. RT-PCR analysis revealed the external TNF-${\alpha}$-induced IFN-${\gamma}$ gene expression in the macrophages from tumor environment. Conclusion: The overall data suggest that the macrophages in tumor environment might have an important role not only in angiogenic signal but also in anti-angiogenic signal by producing related cytokines. And TNF-${\alpha}$ might be a key cytokine in tumor angiogenic switch.

Inhibitory Effects of Licochalcone A and Isoliquiritigenin on Monocyte Adhesion to TNF-$\alpha$-activated Endothelium

  • Kwon Hyang-Mi;Lim Soon Sung;Choi Yean-Jung;Jeong Yu-Jin;Kang Sang-Wook;Bae Ji-Young;Kang Young-Hee
    • Nutritional Sciences
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 2005
  • Numerous natural herbal compounds have been reported to inhibit adhesion and migration of leukocytes to the site of inflammation Licorice extracts, which have been widely used in traditional Chinese medicinal preparation, possess various pharmacological effects. Isoliquiritigenin, a biogenetic precursor of flavonoids with various pharmacological effects, is a natural pigment present in licorice. We attempted to explore whether licorice extracts and isoliquiritigenin mitigate monocyte adhesion to tumor necrosis factor-$\alpha$ (TNF-$\alpha$)-activated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). In addition, it was tested whether the inhibition of monocyte adhesion to the activated HUVEC accompanied a reduction in vascular cell adhesion molecule-l expression(VCAM-l). Dry-roasted licorice extracts in methylene chloride but not in ethanol markedly interfered with THP-l monocyte adhesion to INF-$\alpha$-activated endothelial cells. licochalcone A compound isolated from licorice extract in methylene chloride appeared to modestly inhibit the interaction of THP-l monocytes and activated endothelium. In addition, isoliquiritigenin abolished the monocyte adhesion with attenuating VCAM-l protein expression on HUVEC induced by INF-$\alpha$. These results demonstrated that non-polar components from dry-roasted licorice extracts containing licochalcone A as well as isoliquiritigenin were active in blocking monocyte adhesion to cytokine-activated endothelimn, which appeared to be mediated most likely through the inhibition of VCAM-l expression on HUVEC. Therefore, licorice may hamper initial inflammatory events on the vascular endothelium involving induction of endothelial cell adhesion molecules.

Multi-view Semi-supervised Learning-based 3D Human Pose Estimation (다시점 준지도 학습 기반 3차원 휴먼 자세 추정)

  • Kim, Do Yeop;Chang, Ju Yong
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.174-184
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    • 2022
  • 3D human pose estimation models can be classified into a multi-view model and a single-view model. In general, the multi-view model shows superior pose estimation performance compared to the single-view model. In the case of the single-view model, the improvement of the 3D pose estimation performance requires a large amount of training data. However, it is not easy to obtain annotations for training 3D pose estimation models. To address this problem, we propose a method to generate pseudo ground-truths of multi-view human pose data from a multi-view model and exploit the resultant pseudo ground-truths to train a single-view model. In addition, we propose a multi-view consistency loss function that considers the consistency of poses estimated from multi-view images, showing that the proposed loss helps the effective training of single-view models. Experiments using Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP datasets show that the proposed method is effective for training single-view 3D human pose estimation models.

ON A PROPERTY OF CONVOLUTION OPERATORS IN THE SPACES $D'_{L^{P'}} p{\geq}1 AND \delta'$

  • Park, D.H.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.91-95
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    • 1984
  • Let D$^{p}$ be the space of distributions of $L^{p}$-growth and S the space of tempered destributions in $R^{n}$: D$^{p}$, 1.leq.P.leq..inf., is the dual of the space $D^{p}$ which we discribe later. We denote by O$_{c}$(S:S') the space of convolution operators in S. In [8] S. Sznajder and Z. Zielezny proved the following necessary conditions for convolution operators in O$_{c}$(S:S) to be solvable in S.

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A Study on the development of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems through InfOlmation Super-Highway (초고속 정보통신망을 Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems의 연구)

  • 왕지남;정성호;박창목;구상엽;배재호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1996.04a
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    • pp.496-505
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    • 1996
  • 지역적으로 널리 분산되어있는 여러 생산지로 부터 원격으로 제조활동의 현황을 원격 및 실시간으로 감시하고 통제 및 관리하는 시스템을 초고속통신망을 이용해 구축하고 이에대한 시제품을 개발하는 것이 본 연구의 최종 목표이다. 본 논문에서는 원격감시 및 검사기술, 원격생산정보취합 및 추적기술, 원격 데이터베이스 설계 및 운영기술, 단말 및 망접속기술등에 대하여 설계하고 시제품 구현에 대한 방법을 소개한다.

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Nonparametric Estimators for Percentile Regression Functions

  • Jee, Eun-Sook
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 1991
  • We consider the .regression model H = h(x) + E, where h is an unknown smooth regression function ard E is the random error with unknown distribution F. in this context we present and eamine the asymptotic behavior of some nonparametric estimators for the percentile functions ζ$\_$p/(x)+ζ$\_$p/, where 0 < p < 1 and ζ$\_$p/ = inf {x : F{x} $\geq$ p}

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Robust H$\infty$ control of uncertain nonlinear systems (불확실한 비선형 시스템에 대한 H$\infty$ 강인제어)

  • 송성호;하인중
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.393-398
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we consider H.inf. control of nonlinear systems which have not only additive uncertainties but also input-multiplicative uncertainties. Using the relation between the L$_{2}$ gain of a nonlinear system and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs inequality, we define

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L$_\infty$-estimation based Algorithm for the Least Median of Squares Estimator

  • Bu Young Kim
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.299-307
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    • 1996
  • This article is concerned with the algorithms for the least median of squares estimator. An algorithm based on the $L{\infty}$ .inf.-estimation procedure is proposed in an attempt to improve the optimality of the estimate. And it is shown that the proposed algorithm yields more optimal estimate than the traditional resampling algorithms. The proposed algorithm employs a linear scaling transformation at each iteration of the$L{\infty}$-algorithm to deal with its computational inefficiency problem.

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