• Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.83-89
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• 2002

The single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay is one of the useful tools for the study of genetic damage in humans exposed to environmental mutagens and carcinogens. This study was undertaken to evaluate the status of DNA damage in peripheral lymphocytes depending on their sex, age, smoking habits, and other factors in normal healthy Korean population. The 99 volunteers included in the study and out of these, 36 volunteers were smoker and 63 volunteers were non-smoker aged between 20-59 years. All individual answered a questionnaire that assessed their general information including smoking habits and the extent of the environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure, and blood samples were obtained. There was a statistically significant difference in the extent of DNA damage between smoker and non-smoker (p<0.001). A significant difference was also observed between male and female (p<0.001) and amongst the different group of age (p<0.005), however, correlation analysis showed that only smoking habit was a significant factor for DNA damage. No significant effect of smoking duration, number of cigarettes smoking a day, SPY (smoke pack years) in smokers and environmental tobacco smoke exposure in non-smokers on the status of DNA damage was observed.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.374-380
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• 2006

With the aim of inducing mutation in fern Cyrtomium caryoptideum var. coreanum, rhizome segments of In vitro-grown cultures were treated with chemical mutagens such as EMS, NMU and colchicine. Based on regeneration ratios, sensitivities for each treatments were assessed and also optimum treatment condition of each mutagens was explored. Optimum concentration for EMS treatment was considered to be 20 to 50mM and for NMU 5 to 10mM. NMU was found to be more effective in inducing chlorophyll and morphological variations than EMS. The RAPD were performed to check the genetic modification of phenotypical variants. As a result, polymorphic DNA band patterns between wild type and variants were observed by two 10-mer primers.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.350-358
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• 1998

The antimutagenic and anticancer activities of glycoprotein(GP) and chondroitin sulfate(CS) from sea cucumbers were studied using Ames mutagenicity test and human cancer cells culture test. The GP's inhibitory effect toward aflatoxin B1(AFB1) and 3, 2'-dimethyl-4-amino-biphenyl(DMAB) increased with the higher added concentrations up to 5% level(w/w) regardless fractionation methods. The GP from sea cucumbers through DEAE-cellulose column chromatography showed an inhibitory effect ranged from 84 to 98%, and the maximum antimutagenicities resulted in red sea cucumber with 98% (AFB1) and 95% (DMAB). But 5% level of CS from various sea cucumbers had an inhibitory effect toward those both indirect mutagens ranged from 79% to 85%. However, in case of direct mutagens(N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, MNNG and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide, 4-NQO), the GP's inhibitory effect was 55∼78% and the CS had a low inhibitory effect(58∼70%) at the added level of 5%. The GP from sea cucumbers exhibited the strong inhibitory effects with 89∼95% and 82∼92% on the growth of HT-29 human crcinoma cells and AZ-521 human gastric cancer cells (at 5% level).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.246-252
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• 1993

Melanoidins, as brown colored polymers, are formed through the diversified reaction systems of Maillard type and other reactions. Melanoidins are important components in relation to food quality and also are known to have antioxidative, mutagenic and antimutagenic activities. Since these aspects have been extensively reviwed elsewhere, only the recent studies regarding to their antioxidative and antimutagenic activities are discussed in this review. Even though their mechanisms are not clearly identified, melanoidins or specific fractions isolated from their mixtures have shown varied antioxidative activities depending on the reaction systems and reaction conditions. Those activities presumely are derived from the complex functional properties of hydrogen / electron donors and metal chelating power, which are originated from their reductone structure and others. It is considered that pyrolysate and other mutagens are formed by the given conditions in some cases during browning reaction, whereas melanoidins and their fractions have antimutagenic effects on chemical and other mutagens. There are positive correlationship among the color intensity, antioxidative activity and antimutagenicity of melanoidins or their fractions. These suggest that the antimutagenicity of melanoidins could be attributed to their antioxidative properties, however, it might also be due to other factors, because the relevant responses for antimutagenicity are very complicate and not clear. Accordingly, further studies are required to determine the actual acitivities and mechanisms involved in antioxidation and (anti)mutagenicity of melanoidins by reaction systems / conditions and by the isolated fractions. And also, additional studies are needed to evaluate the applications of melanoidins and their relevant effects to food and human health.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.439-445
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• 1998

The antimutagenic activity of the water extract of Rehmannia glutinosa Liboschitz (RG) on the mutagenicity induced by 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4-NQO), N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), mitomycin C (MMC), $aflatoxin\;B_1\;(AFB_1)$ and benzo(a)pyrene [B(a)P] were studied using the SOS Chromotest with Escherichia coli PQ37. The water extract of RG was separated into methanol soluble and methanol insoluble parts. The methanol soluble part exhibited higher inhibition effects than the methanol insoluble part against the mutagenic activities of five mutagens. Step-wise fractionation of methanol soluble part was done using methanol, ethyl acetate and water. Among these fractions, water fraction had the strongest inhibitory effects against the mutagenenicity of five model mutagens, showing $4.5{\sim}29.5%$ inhibition, but the $AFB_1$ mutagenic potency was increased slightly by ethyl acetate fraction. The water fraction was further partitioned by sephadex LH-20 column chromtography, and 9 subfractions were obtained. The fraction III showed the strongest inhibitory effects with dose response against the mutagenic activities induced by all the tested chemical mutagens. The inhibition rates of fraction III at concentration of $400\;{\mu}g/assay$ were 29%, 35%, 38%, 25% and 24% against 4-NQO, MNNG, MMC, AFBl and B(a)P, respectively. The fraction III also exhibited a strong bio-an-timutagenicity against 4-NQO and $AFB_1$ by showing more than 40% inhibition.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.127-135
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• 1986

Each molecular weight (Mw) fraction of melanoidins prepared from a D-glucose and glycine system, i. e., Mw below 1,000, Mw between 1,000 to 5,000 and Mw above 5,000 and nondialyzable and ozone-treated melanoidins were reacted with heat-induced mutagens such as Trp-P-1, Trp-P-2, Glu-P-1, Glu-P-2 and IQ at $37^{\circ}C$ for 30 min. The inhibitory effects of the melanoidins on the mutagens increased with increasing molecular weight. The reducing ability ana antioxidative activity of melanoidins also increased in proportion to the increase in molecular weight, whereas the mutagenic inhibitory effect decreased on reduction of the melanoidins with sodium borohydride. It was also observed that a part of Trp-P-1 was adsorbed to melanoidin molecules. On modification of amino groups of these mutagens with carbonyl compounds derived through the Maillard reaction such as diacetyl and glyceraldehyde, their mutagenic activities were remarkably suppressed. Accordingly, it is speculated that the mutagenic inhibitory action of melanoidins is due to their reducing ability and antioxidative activity, and electrostatic binding and carbonyl groups of the melanoidin molecules.

• Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.118-133
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• 1991

신생랫드를 이용한 다장기 발암모델의 전암단계 병변에서 간장의 GST-P 활성도와 발암 과정에 영향을 미치는 phenobarbital (PB)의 발암촉진효과 및 병리조직학적 소견을 관찰하였다. 신생랫드를 150마리 3군으로 나누어 diethylnitrosamine (DEN : 100mg/kg,i,p.), N-me-thyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU : 20mg/kg,i,p.), N-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)nirtosamine(DHPN : 0.1% D. W)을 각각 0, 3, 6 주에 투여하였다. 또한 PB (0.5% in basal diet)를 7주부터 계속 투여하여 8, 12, 20주에 경시적인 부검을 실시하였다.

• Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.134-140
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• 1991

B형 간염바이러스의 표면항원, 파상풍, 디프테리아균의 toxoid, 백일해의 혼합백신인 PDT-Hepa의 효능을 실험하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 시험물질을 기니픽에 접종하였을 때 B형 간염 바이러스의 표면 항원과 파상풍 및 디프테리아균의 toxoid에 대한 항체형성이 뚜렷이 관찰되었으며, 항체형성의 정도는 접종용량에 비례하였다. 백일해의 경우는 시험물질을 마우스에 접종시킨 후 마우스에 감수성이 있는 Bordetella pertussis 18323주로 직접 공격 접종하여 이 균에 대한 방어력이 형성되어 있음을 관찰하였으며, 이러한 방어정도는 투여 용량에 비레함을 알 수 있었다.

• Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.141-147
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• 1991

기니픽과 New Zealand White Rabbit에서 PDT-Hepa에 대한 항원성 시험을 실시하였다. 1) Active Systemic Anaphylaxis (ASA), 2) Passive Systemic Anaphylaxis (PSA), 3) Passive Custaneous Anaphylaxis (PCA) 시험을 실시한 결과 ASA, PSA 실험에서 anaphylaxis와 관련된 어떠한 특이적인 임상증상도 나타나지 않아 PDT-Hepa는 기니픽과 토끼에서 항원성이 없는 것으로 보인다. 또한 PCA 실험에서 청색반점이 관찰되지 않은 것으로 보아 PDT-Hepa specific IgE는 생성되지 않는 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Environmental Mutagen Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.153-153
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• 2003