• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2000

1995년(4월과 5월), 1997년(5월과 7월) 및 1999년(1월)에 경부 .호남 고속도로 및 중부 . 영동 고속도로의 20개 ,휴게소의 김밥, 햄버거, 호도과자 및 자장면에 대한 계절별 위생 실태와 조리 형태에 의한 미생물적 안전성 시험을 실시한 결과 식중독균은 검출되지 않았으나 대장균과 많은 수의 대장균군 세균이 검출되어, 고속도로 휴게소에서 판매되고 있는 식품의 위생 실태가 매우 불량함을 알수 있었다. '95년 김밥 시료에서는 전 제품에서 대장균군(8.8$\times$10 4~6.6$\times$10 5 cells/g)과 대장균이 검출되었고,'95년 햄버거 또한 전 제품에서 대장균군(1.8$\times$10 2~4.7$\times$10 4 cells/g)이 검출되었다. '97년 시료에서는 김밥은 22곳 제품 중 16곳 제품에서 대장균이 양성이었고, 대장균군은 21곳 제품에서 검출되었다. '97년 햄버거는 14곳 제품 중 7곳 제품에서 1.7$\times$10 2~1.9$\times$10 7 cells/g의 대장균군이, 2곳 제품에서 대장균이 양성으로 나타나서 김밥과 햄버거의 위생 상태는 매우 불량하였다. 호도과자는 조사 대상 6곳 제품 중 대장균군과 대장균이 모두 검출되지 않아 위생 상태가 양호하였다. 반면 자장면은 6곳 제품 중 3곳 제품에서 7.1$\times$10 2~2.0$\times$10 3 cells/g수준의 대장균군이 검출되고 대장균은 검출되지 않았다. '95년과 '97년 김밥 시험 결과와 '99년 결과를 비교할 때 기온이 높은 계절의 위생 관리에 더욱 주의해야 함을 알 수 있었다. 김밥과 기타 식품의 세균학적 품질을 비교한 결과, 김밥 >햄버거 >자장면 >호도과자의 순으로 나타나 김밥과 햄버거와 같은 복합재료를 사용하는 식품의 경우에 더 많은 오염이 일어날 수 있으므로 조리 .가공 및 유통 과정의 엄격한 미생물절-안전성 관리가 요구된다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.370-378
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• 2009

N-myc downstream-regulated gene 2 (NDRG2) has recently been found to be a tumor suppressor gene. Although it has been reported that NDRG2 expression in breast cancer cells decreases cell proliferation by inhibiting STAT3 activation via SOCS1 induction, the molecular mechanism of chemotherapeutic agent-induced apoptosis is not well known. To elucidate the effect of NDRG2 on the apoptotic pathway induced by doxorubicin, we established stable cell lines expressing NDRG2 and investigated the effect of NDRG2 expression on the doxorubicin-induced apoptosis. While STAT3 activation was remarkably inhibited by NDRG2 overexpression, the expression level of p21 was increased by NDRG2 expression. We confirmed that NDRG2-expressing cells treated with doxorubicin suppressed STAT3 activation and upregulated p21 expression. NDRG2 expression considerably enhanced TUNEL positive apoptotic cells, poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) cleavage, release of cytochrome c to cytosol, and caspase-3 activity in doxorubicin-induced apoptosis. Bid expression in a resting state and after treatment with doxorubicin increased in MDA-MB-231-NDRG2 cells compared to MDA-MB-231-mock cells. Meanwhile, Bcl-$x_L$ expression decreased in MDA-MB-231-NDRG2 cells compared to MDA-MB-231-mock cells in a resting state and in doxorubicin-treated cells. Collectively, these data suggest that suppression of STAT3 activation by NDRG2 influences the sensitivity to doxorubicin-induced apoptosis of breast cancer cells and this may provide a potential therapeutic benefit to overcome the resistance against doxorubicin in breast cancer.

• 대한방사성의약품학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.116-130
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• 2020

The aging society is globally one of biggest issue because it is related with various degenerative brain disease such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and cerebrovascular disease. These diseases are characterized by misfolded-protein aggregation; another pathological trait is "neuroinflammation". In physiological state, the resting microglia cells are activated and it removes abnormal synapses and cell membrane debris to maintain the homeostasis. In pathological state, however, microglia undergo morphological change form 'resting' to 'activated amoeboid phenotype' and the microglia cells are accumulated by neuronal damage, the inflammatory reactions induced nerve metamorphosis with a variety of neurotoxic factors including cytokines, chemokines, and reactive oxygen species. Thus, the activated microglia cell with various receptors (TSPO, COX, CR, P2XR, etc.) was perceived as important biomarkers for imaging the inflammatory progression. In this review, we would like to introduce the current status of the development of radiotracers that can image activated microglia.

• 생태와환경
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.94-103
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• 2023

휴면포자와 같은 남조류의 휴면세포는 남조류의 초기발생 및 대발생의 중요한 씨앗세포이다. 이러한 중요성으로 인해 퇴적층에 존재하는 휴면세포를 분리하기 위해서 다양한 방법들이 시도되었다. Ludox는 해양퇴적물의 세포분리에 주로 활용되는 용액이지만 담수에서는 정확한 사용법을 찾기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 가장 많이 사용되는 두 가지 Ludox방법(퇴적물 직접처리, 퇴적물 증류수 현탁처리)을 비교하고, 담수 퇴적물에서 남조류 휴면세포의 분리 및 유전자 증폭 효율이 높은 방법을 제안하였다. 퇴적물에서 발견된 휴면세포는 대부분 염주말목의 휴면포자로써 Dolichospermum, Cylindrospermum, Aphanizomenon의 휴면포자 형태와 유사하였다. 퇴적물을 증류수에 현탁하여 처리한 시료보다 퇴적물 그대로 사용한 시료에서 20배 더 많은 휴면포자가 발견되었으며 증류수로 현탁된 퇴적물에서는 분리되지 않은 세포가 대부분 pellet 퇴적물 표층에서 발견되었다. Ludox를 통해 층 분리된 휴면포자는 수층의 특정 깊이에서 밀집하기보다는 주로 상층과 하층에 넓게 퍼져있었다. 퇴적물을 그대로 사용한 시료에서 mibC, Geo, 16S rDNA 유전자 모두 증폭산물이 확인되었으나 퇴적물을 증류수로 현탁한 시료에서는 모든 유전자의 증폭산물이 발견되지 않았다. 따라서 담수 퇴적물에서 남조류의 휴면세포를 분리하는 경우에는 5~10 g의 퇴적물을 전처리 없이 그대로 사용하며, 퇴적물량 4배 부피의 Ludox를 첨가할 때 세포 분리 및 유전자 증폭 효율이 높았다. 본 연구에서 제시하는 Ludox 처리방법은 담수퇴적층에 존재하는 남조류 휴면세포를 분리하기 위한 방법으로써 다른 생물군에서는 동일한 효율이 나타나지 않을 수 있다. 따라서 다른 생물군의 분리에 Ludox를 적용하기 위해서는 퇴적물 전처리 방법 및 대상생물이 존재하는 수층을 파악하는 사전실험이 반드시 필요하다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.263-273
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of electrical stimulation on vestibular compensation following ULX in rats. Electrical stimulation (ES) with square pulse ($100{\sim}300uA$, 1.0 ms, 100 Hz) was applied to ampullary portion bilaterally for 6 and 24 hours in rats receiving ULX. After ES, animals that showed the recovery of vestibular symptoms by counting and comparing the number of spontaneous nystagmus were selected for recording resting activity of type I, II neurons in the medial vestibular nuclei (MVN) of the lesioned side. And then the dynamic neuronal activities were recorded during sinusoidal rotation at a frequency of 0.1 Hz and 0.2 Hz. The number of spontaneous nystagmus was significantly different 24 hours (p<0.01, n=10), but not 6 hours after ULX+ES. As reported by others, the great reduction of resting activity only in the type I neurons ipsilateral to lesioned side was observed 6, 24 hours after ULX compared to that of intact labyrinthine animal. However, the significant elevation (p<0.01) of type I and reduction (p<0.01) of type II neuronal activity were seen 24 hours after ULX+ES. Interestingly, gain, expressed as maximum neuronal activity(spikes/sec)/maximum rotational velocity(deg/sec), was increased in type I cells and decreased in type II cells 24 hours after ULX+ES in response to sinusoidal rotation at frequencies of both 0.1 Hz and 0.2 Hz. This result suggests that accompanying the behavioral recovery, the electrical stimulation after ULX has beneficial effects on vestibular compensation, especially static symptoms (spontaneous nystagmus), by enhancing resting activity of type I neurons and reducing that of type II neurons.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.69-72
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• 2005

In this study, effects of IHPs with various resting times to cell adhesion were investigated through the measurements of cell adhesive force, number and area of focal contacts (stained vinculin spots), and projected cell area, perimeter and circularity. In addition correlation tests and curve estimations using the experimental results were performed fur the finding an essential factor for increment of cell adhesive force. Tn the results, immediately after mechanical stimuli (150 minutes after seeding) and one hour later (210 minutes after seeding), the average adhesive force of experimental group 5 (resting time: 15min) compared with that of control group at same culture time was increased significantly (p<0.05). Average projected area and perimeter of cells at Group 5 were increased significantly (p<0.05), while average circularity of cells at Group 5 incubated fur 210 minutes was decreased significantly (p<0.05). In the digital image analysis of focal contacts containing vinculins, area and numbers of focal contacts per cell at Group 5 were higher than those of the other groups. This study indicated that IHP with appropriate resting time could contribute in improving cell adhesive force, cell spreading, development of cytoskeleton and formation of focal contacts. And cell adhesive force was correlated to the morphological aspects of cell and development of focal contacts. Particularly, area of focal contacts was closely related to cell adhesive force.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.218-221
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• 2013

CD1d expressing dendritic cells (DCs) are good glyco-lipid antigen presenting cells for NKT cells. However, resting B cells are very weak stimulators for NKT cells. Although ${\alpha}$-galactosylceramide (${\alpha}$-GalCer) loaded B cells can activate NKT cells, it is not well defined whether B cells interfere NKT cell stimulating activity of DCs. Unexpectedly, we found in this study that B cells can promote Th1-skewed NKT cell response, which means a increased level of IFN-${\gamma}$ by NKT cells, concomitant with a decreased level of IL-4, in the circumstance of co-culture of DCs and B Cells. Remarkably, the response promoted by B cells was dependent on CD1d expression of B cells.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.209-213
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• 2005

Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) are the pacemaker cells that generate slow waves in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. In the present study, we investigated the effect of mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium (mitoKATP) channel on pacemaking activity in cultured ICCs from murine small intestine by using whole-cell patch clamp techniques. Under current clamp mode, at 10μM glibenclamide, there was no change in pacemaking activity of ICCs. At $30{\mu}M$ glibenclamide, an inhibitor of the ATP sensitive $K^+$ channels, we could find two examples. If pacemaking activity of ICCs was irregulating, pacemaking activity of ICCs was changed into regulating and if in normal conditions, membrane potential amplitude was increased. At $50{\mu}M$ glibenclamide, the resting membrane potential was depolarized. At 3mM 5-HDA, an inhibitor of the mitoKATP channels, inhibited the pacemaking activity of ICCs. Both the amplitude and the frequency were decreased. At 5 mM 5-HDA, both the amplitude and the frequency were completely abolished. Diazoxide, an opener of the mitoKATP channels, was applied to examine its effect on pacemaking activity of ICCs. At $50{\mu}M$ concentration, the pacemaking activity of ICCs was inhibited. Both the amplitude and the frequency were decreased. At 1 mM concentration, both the amplitude and the frequency were completely abolished and the resting membrane potential was shaked.These results indicate that mitoKATP channel has an important role in pacemaking activity of ICCs.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.268-278
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• 2005

We investigated the effect of cytosolic and extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ on $Ca^{2+}$ signals in pancreatic acinar cells by measuring $Ca^{2+}$ concentration in the cytosol($[Ca^{2+}]_c$) and in the lumen of the ER($[Ca^{2+}]_{Lu}$). To control buffers and dye in the cytosol, a patch-clamp microelectrode was employed. Acetylcholine released $Ca^{2+}$ mainly from the basolateral ER-rich part of the cell. The rate of $Ca^{2+}$ release from the ER was highly sensitive to the buffering of $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ whereas ER $Ca^{2+}$ refilling was enhanced by supplying free $Ca^{2+}$ to the cytosol with $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ clamped at resting levels with a patch pipette containing 10 mM BAPTA and 2 mM $Ca^{2+}$. Elevation of extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ to 10 mM from 1 mM raised resting $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ slightly and often generated $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ oscillations in single or clustered cells. Although pancreatic acinar cells are reported to have extracellular $Ca^{2+}$-sensing receptors linked to phospholipase C that mobilize $Ca^{2+}$ from the ER, exposure of cells to 10 mM $Ca^{2+}$ did not decrease $[Ca^{2+}]_{Lu}$ but rather raised it. From these findings we conclude that 1) ER $Ca^{2+}$ release is strictly regulated by feedback inhibition of $[Ca^{2+}]_c$, 2) ER $Ca^{2+}$ refilling is determined by the rate of $Ca^{2+}$ influx and occurs mainly in the tiny subplasmalemmal spaces, 3) extracellular $Ca^{2+}$-induced $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ oscillations appear to be triggered not by activation of extracellular $Ca^{2+}$-sensing receptors but by the ER sensitised by elevated $[Ca^{2+}]_c$ and $[Ca^{2+}]_{Lu}$.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2014

In this study we aim to extensively investigate the anti-influenza virus immune responses in human pharyngeal epithelial cell line (Hep-2) and evaluate the protective role of Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands in seasonal influenza A H1N1 (sH1N1) infections in vitro. We first investigated the expression of the TLRs and cytokines genes in resting and sH1N1 infected Hep-2 cells. Clear expressions of TLR3, TLR9, interleukin (IL)-6, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-${\alpha}$ and interferon (IFN)-${\beta}$ were detected in resting Hep-2 cells. After sH1N1 infection, a ten-fold of TLR3 and TLR9 were elicited. Concomitant with the TLRs activation, transcriptional expression of IL-6, TNF-${\alpha}$ and IFN-${\beta}$ were significantly induced in sH1N1-infected cells. Pre-treatment of cells with poly I:C (an analog of viral double-stranded RNA) and CpG-ODN (a CpG-motif containing oligodeoxydinucleotide) resulted in a strong reduction of viral and cytokines mRNA expression. The results presented indicated the innate immune response activation in Hep-2 cells and affirm the antiviral role of Poly I:C and CpG-ODN in the protection against seasonal influenza A viruses.