• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.262-266
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• 1995

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most potent inducers of various cytokines nad other proinflammatory mediators in macrophages. Although pathophysiological consequences of LPS-induced responses are well established, the mechanisms through which LPS-generated singals are transduced remain unclear. In the present study, we attempted to determine early intracellular events after LPS binding which transduced the signal for the induction of arachidonic acid metabolism in rat alveolar macrophages. While H-7, a protein kinase C(PKC) inhibitor, did not affect LPS-stimulated prostaglandin synthesis, staurosporine enhanced archidonic acid etabolism in macropahages treated with LPS. Phorbol-12-myristate-13 acetate snesitive to LPS compare with control group. PMA and H-7 did not alter the effect of flucose. Pertussis toxin did not show nay effect, thus pertussis toxin snesitive G-protein pathway appears not to play a role in this experimental system. Genistein and tyrphostin 25, protein tyrosine kinase 9PTK) inhibitors, markedly inhibited prostaglandin synthesis in macrophages nal transduction events leading to icnreased macrophage arachidonic acid metabolism.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2002

Fifteen herbs used in oral medicine were extracted in ethanol and screened for tooth whitening effect, radical scavenging activity, inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase activity and anti-bacterial activity on Streptoccocus mutans. The results are as followed: 1. The tooth whitening effect of toothpaste containing 1 $\%$ ethanol extracts of 15 herbs was tested in brushing method using artificially stained HAT tablet and bovine tooth specimens. Toothpaste containing 1$\%$ of Vucia unijuga, Illicium verum, Angelica dahurica and Piper longum extracts showed tooth whitening effects on both HAT tablet and bovine tooth specimens. But the others did not show a considerable activity. 2. The antioxidant activity of ethanol extracts of 15 herbs was tested using the method of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) reactivity. Two ethanol extracts of Cimicifuga heracleifolia and Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis were found to be the most effective on radical scavenging activity. C. heracleifolia and P. nigra var. henonis extracts removed 86$\%$ and 81 $\%$ of DPPH radical at 0.01$\%$, compared with butylated hydroxy toluene as positive control. 3. The inhibition activity of ethanol extracts on nitrate production In RAW264.7 cell stimulated by lipopolysacchride was tested using the Griess reagent. But all extracts did not inhibit nitrate production. 4. The antibacterial activity on Streptoccocus mutans was tested by paper disk method. But no one extract showed any anti - bacterial activity.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.337-349
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• 1997

세균 내독소에 의하여 발생하는 패혈성 쇼크와 혈관 반응성 감소의 원인을 관찰하였다. 혈관 절편이 고정된 실험조에 세균 내독소 0.2 mg 투여한 경우 $36{\pm}3.65$ nM NO가 발생되었고, NO 발생에 의한 혈관 이완 효과를 억제하기 위해 전처치한 L-MAME, methylene blue는 혈관 절편의 phenylephrine (PE) 유발 수축 반응을 증가시켰으며 methylene blue에 의해 더 강한 수축 반응의 증가가 관찰되었다. 이때 혈관 내피세포가 존재할 경우에 PE에 대한 혈관 반응성이 증가되는 경향을 나타내었다. 세균 내독소 투여에 의해 acetylcholine 유발 혈관 이완은 증가되는 경향을 나타내었고, 전처치한 L-NAME, methylene blue에 의해 혈관 절편의 acetylcholine (ACh) 유발 이완은 억제되었으며 methylene blue에 의해 현저히 억제되었다. 그러나 세균 내독소를 투여하지 않은 군의 ACh 유발 혈관 이완 반응은 methylene blue에 의해서만 억제되었다. 결론적으로 세균 내독소에 의한 혈관 반응성 감소와 혈관 이완 반응은 NO가 발생되어 guanylyl cyclase를 활성화하여 유발된다고 생각되며, 세균 내독소에 의한 효과는 L-arginine NO pathway 보다는 cyclic GMP 신호전달계를 경유한 경로에서 더 많은 영향을 받는것으로 사료된다.