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Factors associated with Self-Rated Health in Metabolic Syndrome and Relationship between Sleep Duration and Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors (대사증후군집단의 주관적 건강상태에 영향을 미치는 요인 및 수면시간과 대사증후군 위험요인과의 관계)

  • Lee, Bo Gyeong;Lee, Jae Yeon;Kim, Sun Ah;Son, Dong Min;Ham, Ok Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.420-428
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: Purpose was to explore associations between sleep duration and metabolic syndrome (MS) risks, and to determine factors associated with self-rated health (SRH) of adults with MS compared to other adults. Methods: This is a secondary data analysis based on the Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey KNHANES V (N=12662). Study instruments included sleep duration, MS risk factors, SRH and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Results: Mean age of participants was $43.68{\pm}12.26years$. Fifty-eight percent were women, and 18.3% were identified as having MS. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and SRH were significantly different according to sleep duration (p <.05) among all participants. In the non MS group, male gender, younger age (19~30 and 41~50 age brackets) upper income level, sufficient sleep duration, and high density lipoprotein (HDL) were positively associated with SRH, whereas, lower education levels (${\leq}$ middle school), glucose level, and waist circumference were negatively associated with SRH (p <.05). In the MS group, lower income, lower education levels (${\leq}$ middle school), glucose level, and waist circumference were negatively associated with SRH, whereas, having an occupation was positively associated with SRH (p <.05). Conclusion: Results suggest that tailored approaches are required for prevention and control of MS and sleep duration of each individual should be considered rather than applying standardized guidelines. However, as sleep quality was not included in the analysis, further investigations regarding influence of sleep quality on MS and SRH and controlling for other lifestyle and health behavior factors are required.

Determination of Oxycarboxin Residues in Agricultural Commodities Using HPLC-UVD/MS (HPLC-UVD/MS를 이용한 농산물 중 Oxycarboxin의 분석)

  • Choung, Myoung-Gun
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2018
  • BACKGROUND: Oxycarboxin(5,6-dihydro-2-methyl-N-phenyl-1,4-oxathiin-3-carboxamide-4,4-dioxide) as oxanthiin is a systemic fungicide commonly used for control of various pathogens in agronomic and horticultural crops. In an effort to develop an analytical method to trace the fungicide, a method using HPLC equipped with UVD/MS was studied. METHODS AND RESULTS: Oxycarboxin was extracted with acetone from hulled rice, soybean, Kimchi cabbage, green pepper, and apple samples. The extract was diluted with saline water, followed by liquid-liquid extraction with methylene chloride. Florisil column chromatography was employed for the purification of the extracts. Oxycarboxin was determined on a Zorbax SB-AQ $C_{18}$ column by HPLC with UVD. Accuracy of the proposed method was validated by the recovery tests from crop samples fortified with oxycarboxin at 3 levels per crop. CONCLUSION: Mean recoveries ranged from 78.3% to 96.1% in five representative agricultural commodities. The coefficients of variation were less than 10%, and limit of quantitation of oxycarboxin was 0.04 mg/kg. A confirmatory technique using LC/MS with selected-ion monitoring was also provided to clearly identify the suspected residue. The method was reproducible and sensitive to determine the residue of oxycarboxin in agricultural commodities.

Evaluation of Glucosinolate Content and Composition Contained in Korean Leaf Mustard (Brassica juncea var. integrifolia) Germplasm Using Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry(LC-ESI-MS/MS)

  • Kim, Jung-Bong;Kim, Heon-Woong;Ko, Ho-Cheol;Kim, So-Young;Kim, Se-Na;Jin, Yong-Xie;Kim, Jae-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.18-18
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    • 2010
  • Glucosinolates(GSLs) are major secondary products($\beta$-thioglucoside N-hydroxysulfates) containing sulfates that are found mainly in Cruciferae family such as cabbage, broccoli, radish, turnip, kale, mustard and rapeseed as the important crops in agronomic and economic aspects. Especially, isothiocyanates(ITCs) have been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis with regulation cancer cell development followed by regulating target enzymes, inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis against various human cancer cell lines. Total desulfo(DS)-GSLs of nine type in 210 Korean leaf mustard accessions were isolated and confirmed using electrospray ionization mass spectrometric(ESI-MS/MS) method and DS-GSLs powerful library maked from several reference data. The isolated individual DS-GSLs were identified by removed $\beta$-D-glucopyranose residue ($C_6H_{11}O_5$, MW 163) from MS/MS data. Among them sinigrin(41.7%), glucoiberverin(21.7%) and gluconasturtiin(12.6%) were major components, Especially, despite gluconapin was minor component, accession K046197-1 and K046197-2 showed higher content of 4.11 and 3.31 mg/g(DW), respectively. The total GSLs contents in 210 accessions were ranged from 5.3 to 23.2 mg/g(DW) with a mean value of 13.0 mg/g(DW). As a result of principal component analysis(PCA), the individual GSLs loading plots were composed of three groups and components belonged to each group showed correlationship in quantitative pattern.

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Tetramine Analysis using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Ion Chromatography (LC-MS/MS와 Ion Chromatography를 이용한 테트라민 분석)

  • Song, Ki-Cheol;Lee, Ka-Jeong;Kim, Ji-Hoe;Yoon, Ho-Dong;Yu, Hong-Sik;Mok, Jong-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2011
  • As a first step toward identifying a new method for testing sea snail tissue for toxins, and thus prevent food poisoning due to the ingestion of contaminated snails, we measured the tetramine [$(CH_3)_4N^+$] contents of sea snails from the Korean coast using both liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and ion chromatography. For tetramine tested, good linearity ($r^2$ = 0.9996) was observed between the amounts in the injected samples and the peak areas of standard toxins, which ranged from 0.1 to 100 ng. The recovery (%) of tetramine from spiked tissue and mid-gut gland samples ranged from 84.0 to 95.3%. The quantitative results for tetramine using this method were in good agreement with the theoretical values. LC-MS/MS has both high sensitivity and selectivity, which makes it possible to measure trace quantities of tetramine in samples.

Purification, Partial Characterization, and Immunoassay of Vitellogenin from Marbled Sole (Limanda yokohamae)

  • Kim Dae-Jung;Jung Jee-Hyun;An Cheul-Min;Jee Young-Ju;Min Kwang-Sik;Kim Yoon;Han Chang-Hee
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.213-219
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    • 2005
  • Vitellogenin (VTG) was purified from the blood plasma of estradiol-17$\beta$ ($E_2$)-treated male marbled sole (Limanda yokohamae) using gel filtration and anion exchange chromatography. The purity of the marbled sole VTG (msVTG) was confirmed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and N-terminal amino acid sequencing. The purified msVTG was used to produce monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in mice and rabbits, respectively, and the specificity of the polyclonal antisera for msVTG was confirmed by Western blot analysis. The antibodies cross­reacted with a protein of molecular mass approximately 160 kDa in the plasma samples of mature female marbled sole. No cross-reactivity was observed with the plasma of male fish. A direct non-competitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed using the monoclonal anti-msVTG and polyclonal anti-msVTG antibodies, with purified msVTG as the standard protein. The values of the intra- and inter-assay variations were within the ranges of $8.l-9.8\%$ and $8.5-12.2\%$, respectively. The sensitivity was about 0.3 ng/mL. Serial dilutions of plasma from mature female sole reacted with the msVTG-antibodies in the sandwich ELISA, whereas the plasma from male fish did not. The results indicate that the maturation status of female marbled sole can be identified using a sandwich ELISA for msVTG.

Herbicide Resistant Cabbage (Brassica oleracea ssp. capitata) Plants by Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation

  • Lee, Yeon-Hee;Lee, Seung-Bum;Suh, Suk-Chul;Byun, Myung-Ok;Kim, Ho-Il
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2000
  • Transgenic cabbage (Brassica oleracea ssp. capitata) plants resistant to the commercial herbicide Bast $a^{R}$ were obtained by Agrobacterium tumefaciens - mediated transformation. Hypocotyl segments of in vitro grown plants were infected with Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA 4404 harboring plasmid pMOG6-Bar which contains hpt and bar genes. Explants were cultured on callus induction medium (MS basal medium + 1 mg/L NAA + 2 mg/L BA + 2 mg/L AgN $O_3$+ 100 mg/L carbenicillin + 250 mg/L cefotaxime) supplemented with 15 mg/L hygromycin. Hygromycin resistant calluses were transferred to shoot regeneration medium (MS basal medium + 0.1 mg/L NAA + 2 mg/L BA + 3% sucrose + 2 mg/L AgN $O_3$+ 15 mg/L hygromycin + 250 mg/L cefotaxime + 100 mg/L carbenicillin). In order to induce roots, elongated shoots were placed on the MS medium without plant growth regulators and hygromycin. Southern blot analysis of several putative transgenic plants indicated that one to five intact copies of Apt and bar genes were incorporated into the genome. Expression of bar gene was confirmed by Northern blot analysis and by herbicide resistant phenotype. Seed progeny from self-pollinated transformants expressed the herbicide resistance and showed Mendelian segregation of the introduced gene.e.

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Alternative Sample Preparation Techniques in Gas Chromatographic-Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Urinary Androgenic Steroids

  • Cho, Young-Dae;Choi, Man-Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1315-1322
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    • 2006
  • The following study describes the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) based screening and confirmation analysis of urinary androgenic steroids. Four commercially available solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges, Serdolit PAD-1, Sep-pak $C_{18}$, amino-propyl, and Oasis HLB, and three different extractive organic solvents, diethyl ether, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), and n-pentane, were tested for sample preparation. Overall, Oasis HLB combined with MTBE extraction provided the highest recoveries in 39 of 46 total androgenic steroids examined and it showed a good extraction yield (>82.1%) for polar steroids, such as metabolites of fluoxymesterone, oxandrolone, and stanozolol, which gave a poor recovery in both n-pentane (9.2-64.3%) and diethyl ether (22.2-73.6%) extractions. All SPE sorbents tested showed potential, because they were efficient in extraction for most or selective steroids. When applied to positive urine samples based on the results obtained, the present method allowed selective and sensitive analysis for detection of urinary androgenic steroids. The experiments showed that the high-resolution MS method is clearly more efficient than the low-resolution MS technique for the detection of many urinary steroids. However, comprehensive sample clean-up procedures also might be needed especially in confirmation analysis to increase detectability.

Effects of Virtual Reality Exercise Program on Balance in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

  • Lee, Geun-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study was conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of an 8-week virtual reality exercise program designed around the Nintendo Wii (Wii), in improving balance among patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Methods: The study included 16 patients with MS (10 female, 6 male) who were assigned randomly to experimental (n=8) or control group (n=8). Experimental group performed three 40-minute Wii balance-training sessions per week, for 8 weeks. The control group did not perform any of the training programs. A computerized dynamic posturography (Sensory Organizing Test, SOT) was used to evaluate all patients at baseline and at the end of the treatment protocol. Statistical significance was tested in between the patients before and after treatment by t-test. Results: After 24 training sessions, SOT showed significant difference on condition 5, 6, and vestibular ratios within the experimental group from baseline to post-intervention. By contrast, no significant difference was observed within the control groups. Conclusion: These findings demonstrated that the virtual reality training program could improve the outcomes in terms of balance in the MS population. Long term follow ups and the development of more efficient virtual reality training programs are needed.