• 약학회지
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.452-458
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• 2002

Dehydroevodiamine-HCl (DHED), which is a component separated from Evodia rutaecarpa Bentham, has novel anticholinesterase and antiamnesic activities in a scopolamine-induced amnesia model. Several studies suggest that DHED might be an effective drug for Alzheimer's disease and a vascular type of dementia. DHED was at dose levels of 0, 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg/day administered intraperitoneally to Sprague-Dawley male rats for 60 days before mating and to females from 14 days before mating to 7 days after mating. Effects of the DHED on general symptom and reproductive performance of parent animals and embryonic development were examined. In male parents, whereas no death was observed, reduction in the increase rate of body weight was found at 200 mg/kg. In female parents, both of the mating performance and the fertility of parent animals were decreased at 200 mg/kg, but not significantly. In 200 mg/kg treated group, the fetal death rate was increased but total fetuses showed no changes compared to the control group. There were no malformed F1 fetuses in all groups.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권11호
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• pp.318-327
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• 2017

Background: A typical sewage treatment plant is designed for organic and nutrient removal from municipal sewage water and not targeted to eliminate micropollutants such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and nano-sized metals which become a big concern for sustainable human and ecological system and are mainly discharged from sewage treatment plant. Therefore, despite contaminant removal by wastewater treatment processes, there are still remaining environmental risks by untreated pollutants in STP (sewage treatment plant) effluents. This study performed aquatic toxicity tests of raw wastewater and treated effluents in two sewage treatment plants to evaluate toxicity reduction by wastewater treatment process and analyze concentration of contaminants to reveal potential toxic factors in STP effluents. Methods: Water samples were collected from each treatment steps of two STPs, and acute and chronic toxicity tests were conducted following USEPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) and OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) guidelines. Endpoints were immobility for mortality and reproduction effect for estrogenicity. Results: Acute $EC_{50}s$ (median effective concentration) of influents for Seungki (SK) and Jungnang (JN) STPs are $54.13{\pm}32.64%$ and $30.38{\pm}24.96%$, respectively, and reduced to $96.49{\pm}7.84%$ and 100%. Acute toxicity reduction was clearly correlated with SS (suspended solids) concentration because of filter feeding characteristics of test organisms. Chronic toxicity tests revealed that lethal effect was reduced and low concentration of influents showed higher number of neonates. However, toxicity reduction was not related to nutrient removal. Fecundity effect positively increased in treated wastewater compared to that in raw wastewater, and no significant differences were observed compared to the control group in JN final effluent implying potential effects of estrogenic compounds in the STP effluents. Conclusions: Conventional wastewater treatment process reduced some organics and nutritional compounds from wastewater, and it results in toxicity reduction in lethal effect and positive reproductive effect but not showing correlation. Unknown estrogenic compounds could be a reason causing the increase of brood size. This study suggests that pharmaceutical residues and nanoparticles in STP effluents are one of the major micropollutants and underline as one of estrogenic effect factors.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2020

Phthalates and those metabolites have long history in industry and suspected to have deficient effects in development and reproduction. These are well-known anti-androgenic chemicals and many studies have examined the effects of these compounds on male reproduction as toxins and endocrine disruptors. Uterus is a key organ for proper embryo development, successful reproduction, and health of eutherian mammals including women. To understand the effects of the phthalate, the horizontal approach with a whole group of phthalate is best but the known phthalates are huge and all is not uncovered. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is the most common product of plasticizers in polymer products and studied many groups. Although, there is limited studies on the effects of phthalates on the female, a few studies have proved the endocrine disrupting characters of DEHP or phthalate mixture in female. An acute and high dose of DEHP has adverse effects on uterine histological characters. Recently, it has been revealed that a chronical low-dose exposing of DEHP works as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC). DEHP can induce various cellular responses including the expression regulation of steroid hormone receptors, transcription factors, and paracrine factors. Interestingly, the response of uterus to DEHP is not monotonous and the exposed female has various phenotypes in fertility. These suggest that the exposing of DEHP may causes of histological modification in uterus and of disease in female such as endometriosis, hyperplasia, and myoma in addition to developmental and reproductive toxicity.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.144-154
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• 2007

The acute and chronic toxicity of ambient and effluent water discharged to Lake Shihwa were investigated by using Vibrio fischeri, Daphnia magna and Oryzias latipes. Physicochemical characteristics including biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and nine heavy metals in a total of 15 water samples were evaluated and were satisfied with relevant Korean Water Quality Standards (KWQS) except for Hg in one sample. Acute toxicity was observed in five samples collected from three sampling locations. When impacts on reproduction and growth after chronic exposure were evaluated with D. magna, all the samples showed significant chronic effects. Reproduction appeared relatively more sensitive endpoint. In 21 days chronic tests on O. latipes, survival, mean egg number per female per day, hatching success rate and time to hatch were affected by increasing sample concentration. The organ-level changes such as gonadosomatic index (GSI), and hepatosomatic index (HSI), and molecular biomarker of vitellogenin (Vtg) induction that evaluated with O. latipes increased as exposure concentrations increased. It is noteworthy that the samples that did not exceed the KWQS resulted in acute and chronic toxicities. The results suggested that numeric criteria based on physicochemical parameters may not be protective of aquatic ecosystem. Acute and chronic toxicity tests with organisms representing different trophic groups should be supplemented in order to provide adequate level of environmental protection.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2022

Protein and peptide candidates are screened to apply therapeutic application as a drug. Ensuring that these candidates are delivered and maximized effectiveness is still challenging and a variety of studies are ongoing. As drug delivery system vehicles, cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) can deliver various kinds of cargo into the cell cytosol. In a previous study, we developed Ara27 CPP, which are a zinc knuckle family protein of Arabidopsis, and confirmed internalization in human dermal fibroblasts and human dental pulp stem cells at low concentration with short time treatment condition without any toxicity. Ara27, an amphipathic CPP, could be modified and utilized in the biomedical field excluding the risk of toxicity. Therefore, we would like to confirm the non-toxic induced penetrating ability of Ara27 in various cell lines. The purpose of this study was to screen the cell internalization ability of Ara27 in various cell lines and to confirm Ara27 as a promising core CPP structure. First, Ara27 was screened to confirm non-toxicity concentration. Then, fluorescence-labeled Ara27 was treated on human normal cell lines, cancer cell lines and animal cell lines to identify the cellular internalization of Ara27. Ara27 was well intracellular localized in all cell lines and the intensity of fluorescence was remarkably increased in time pass manner. These results indicate that Ara27 has the potential as a core structure for applications in various drug delivery systems.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.246-253
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• 2007

국내서식 물벼룩종을 이용한 표준생태독성시험법 개발을 위한 기초연구로서 실내사육이 용이하며 번식력도 우수한 국내산 물벼룩 M. macrocopa와 Daphnia sp.를 대상으로 카바메이트계인 carbofuran, 유기인계인 diazinon, 피레스로이드계인 fenpropathrin과 트리아졸계인 myclobutanil 등 4종의 농약이 이들 물벼룩의 번식에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 시험기간은 M. macrocopa는 짧은 번식주기와 수명을 고려하여 10일간 노출시켰으며 Daphnia sp.는 Daphnia magna와 동일한 21일간 농약을 노출시켰다. 가장 독성이 강하게 나타난 것은 피레스로이드계 살충제인 fenpropathrin으로 번식독성의 무영향농도(NOEC)는 Moina macrocopa 가 $0.17\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$이었고 Daphnia sp.는 $0.06\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$로 조사되었다. 다음으로는 diazinon, carbofuran, myclobutanil의 순으로 독성이 강하게 나타났다. 또한 myclobutanil을 제외하면 3종 농약에서 Daphnia sp.가 M. macrocopa보다 더 민감한 것으로 조사되었고 따라서 국내환경에서 농약이 수서무척추동물에 미치는 번식영향을 평가할 때는 농약에 민감하게 반응하는 Daphnia sp.가 더 적합할 것으로 생각된다. 하지만 M. macrocopa는 우리나라 농업환경 특히 논에서의 우점도, 광범위한 국내서식 분포 등의 생태학적 중요도가 매우 큰 종이며, 10일간 시험으로도 번식에 미치는 영향을 평가하기에 적합하므로 시험기간 단축으로 인한 경제적 효과를 고려할 때 우리나라에서 사용할 표준생태독성시험의 후보종으로서 매우 의미있는 종이라 판단된다.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2008

A rapid, inexpensive enzymatic method is proposed for indirect water quality testing in terms of heavy metal toxicity. The activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was applied for heavy metal toxicity test as an effective criterion in water quality. The toxicity of Pb (lead) and Cd (cadmium) for water flea, Moina macrocopa, were evaluated for $2{\sim}8\;days$ with variables of mobilization ability. And the reproduction impairment of Moina macrocopa were investigated as the parameter of chronic toxicity twst for Pb and Cd. As a result, the $EC_{50}$ for immobilization of Moina macrocopa were Pb and Cd were 1.6749 and 0.4683, respectively. The values of reproducive impairment to Moina macrocopa for Pb and Cd were 9.5938 and 8.3264 in $EC_{50}$. A significant alteration of G6PDH (Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) activity of Moina macrocopa was observed when Cd and Pb were treated in media. The results obtained indicate that G6PDH activity of Moina macrocopa can be used as an indicative parameter in aquatic toxicity tests for heavy metals.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.28-34
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• 2020

Imazosulfuron is globally considered as a relatively safe herbicide that controls plant growth by interfering with amino acid synthesis. It is stable, persists in the soil, and has low toxicity; however, studies about the toxic effects of imazosulfuron on non-targeted aquatic vertebrates are scarce. In this study, imazosulfuron was able to induce acute lethality on zebrafish embryos within 48 h. Imazosulfuron also had adverse effects on heartbeats and induced abnormal development with pericardial edema and scoliosis. Moreover, apoptosis and oxidative stress were increased by imazosulfuron in a dose-dependent manner. Thus, all our results showed that imazosulfuron has toxic effects on zebrafish embryogenesis.

• 환경생물
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2017

화학사고 발생 시 환경에 노출된 화학물질이 생태계에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위하여, 우리나라에서 서식하는 김어리톡토기(Paronychiurus kimi)를 이용하여 OECD guidelines 232 Collembola reproduction test in soil에 따라 사고대비물질 2종, 메틸에틸케톤과 메탄올에 대한 급성, 만성 생태독성평가를 진행하였다. 메틸에틸케톤과 메탄올을 농도별로 OECD 인공토양과 섞은 후, 성충 P. kimi 10마리를 접종하여 7일 후의 성충 사망률과, 28일 후의 성충 사망률 및 번식률을 확인하였다. 메틸에틸케톤과 메탄올에 대한 급성독성평가 결과, $LC_{50}$ 값은 각각 2378과 $762mg\;kg^{-1}$ soil이었으며, 만성독성평가 결과, $LC_{50}$ 값은 각각 1857과 $6063mg\;kg^{-1}$ soil이었다. 만성독성평가 시 P. kimi의 산란 수에 대한 $EC_{50}$ 값은 메틸에틸케톤에서 $570mg\;kg^{-1}$ soil, 메탄올이 $589mg\;kg^{-1}$ soil로 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과 P. kimi가 종래의 다른 토양 절지동물에 비해 메탄올에 대해 높은 민감도를 갖는 것으로 판단되었다. 현재까지 이들 사고대비물질에 대한 생태독성정보의 부재와 더불어 대부분의 사고대비물질들이 큰 휘발성을 가지고 있는 점을 감안할 때, 이러한 사고대비물질에 대한 정확한 평가를 위해서는 종래의 표준지침을 개선하거나 새로운 평가지침 마련을 통해 지속적인 생태독성정보구축을 위한 더 많은 연구가 필요하다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.97-106
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• 2001

Korean ginseng products have been fumigated with ethylene oxide (EO) for sterilization and prolongation of storage periods. However, there had been controversies indicating that the consumption of food treated with EO might cause harmful effects in human. Since, in Korea the use of EO gas for food treatment was banned in 1991. Since then, irradiation technique has been developed as an alternative. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of irradiated ginseng on fertility, and reproductive and developmental toxicity. Either EO gas fumigated or gamma-irradiated ginseng was administered to male rats by oral gavage for 63 days during the premating period. Female rats were administered from 14 days before mating to day 20 of gestation or to day 21 of lactation. The exposure amount of irradiation used was 5, 10 and 30 kGy, respectively. There were no treatment related changes of darns in clinical signs, and parturition. No treatment related changes in food consumption, body/organ weights, male/female reproductive and fertility performances were observed. F1 fetuses showed no external abnormality. Reflex/sensory junctions, physical/behavioral development, and reproductive performance of F1 rats were not adversary affected. The results of this study show that gamma-irradiated ginseng, up to 30 kGy, has no adverse effects on the fertility, reproduction and development in Wistar rats.