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Effects of Houttuynia cordata Thunb Powder and Juice on Lipid Composition of Liver, Brain and Kidney in Dietary Hypercholesterolemic Rats (어성초 분말 및 즙의 급이가 고콜레스테롤혈증 흰쥐의 간장, 뇌 및 신장의 지질성분에 미치는 영향)

  • 성낙주;이수정;신정혜;정미자;임상선
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.1230-1235
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    • 1998
  • For the investigation to the effects of H. cordata on prevention of hypercholesteromia, dietary hypercholesteromic rats were fed for 4 weeks with basial diet containing 5, 10, 15, 20% H. cordata powder, 5, 10 and 15% H. cordata juice. Total cholesterol and triglyceride contents of livers were significantly lower in experimental groups than in control group. Phospholipid contents in livers were not significant difference between control and experimental groups. Contents of free cholesterol in livers were ranged from 0.4$\pm$0.2 to 0.7$\pm$0.5mg/kg and cholesteryl ester contents were lower in H. cordata juice added groups than H. cordata powder added groups. Total cholesterol content in brains were not significant difference between cholesterol not added, H. cordata powder added at 15, 20% and its juice added group at 15%. The more powder and juice of H. cordata were added to basial diets, the lower contents of triglyceride and phospholipid were detected in brains. Contents of free cholesterol and cholesteryl ester in brains were not significance in all experimental groups. In kidneys, total cholesterol contents were not significant in control group and H. cordata powder of 5% was added group. Triglyceride, phospholipid and cholesteryl ester contents in kidney were not significant in all groups. Contents of free cholesterol in kidney were equally significant between cholesterol free and 15% H. cordata juice treated group.

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No Late Effect of Ionizing Radiation on the Aging-Related Oxidative Changes in the Mouse Brain

  • Jang, Beom-Su;Kim, Seolwha;Jung, Uhee;Jo, Sung-Kee
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.203-207
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    • 2010
  • Radiation-induced late injury to normal tissue is a primary area of radiation biology research. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether the late effect of the ionizing radiation appears as an age-related oxidative status in the brain. Three groups of 4-month old C57BL/6 mice that were exposed to $^{137}Cs$ ${\gamma}-rays$ at a single dose (5 Gy) or fractionated doses ($1Gy{\times}5times$, or $0.2Gy{\times}25times$) at 2 months old were investigated for the oxidative status of their brains with both young (2-month) and old (24-month) mice. A significant (p<0.05) decrease in superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was observed in old mice brains compared with that of the young mice. malondialdehyde (MDA) content was significantly (p<0.05) increased in the old mice brain. However, any significant difference in SOD activity and MDA contents of the irradiated brain was not observed compared to age-matched control group mice. SOD activity and MDA content were observed within good parameters of brain aging and there were no late effects on the age-related oxidative level in the ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiated mice brains.

Policy Model for Securing and Utilizing Foreign Brains - focusing on the Higher Education - (외국인 인재 유치 및 활용을 위한 정책 모형 연구 - 고등교육기관을 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Jun-Woo;Kwon, Jang-Woo;Lee, Jung-Mann
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.423-435
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    • 2010
  • The number of professionals in the science and engineering fields decreases all over the world. Especially in Korea, the declining rate of both the laborable and economically active population, aging of the population at the fastest level, and the declining birth rate make it tougher to secure the core brains of the future. After speculation of all programs above, some common factors have been derived and every program appeared to have the support for each level of inducing, caring, and utilizing. And the means of support could be categorized into the financial, legal, and social aspects. Lastly, a logical tool called Systems Thinking has been applied to the FLS Conditions and the Brain Internalization Process to assure the efficacy and applicability of the models. This is to minimize any de facto side effects by analyzing all 'feedback loops' stemming from the models. And the 'causal loop diagrams' have been utilized to come with the complementary measures. Such series of verification could convince the virtue of the models. Governments and universities can make use of the FLS Conditions and the Brain Internalization Process so the policies or plans about the foreign brains can be built in a uniformized and consistent framework. I hope, as a result, the international competency of Korea to induce and utilize the foreign brains be raised with the constant and standardized formality.

Effect of 18 Irradiation on Neurotransmitters in the Brains of Goldfish Carassius auratus (18 방사성동위원소 피폭에 의한 금붕어(Carassius auratus)뇌의 신경전달물질 변화)

  • Park, Nam-Gyu;Go, Hye-Jin;Kim, Gun-Do;Lee, Jong-Kyu;Kil, Sang-Hyeong;Lee, Byung-Woo
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.1046-1051
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    • 2012
  • In order to investigate the changes in bioactive materials induced in goldfish brains by $^{18}F$ irradiation, the variations in the neurotransmitter levels in the whole brain were studied. The distance between the goldfish and 580 mCi of $^{18}F$ was about 4 cm, and the exposure lasted for 4 hrs. The absorption level calculated based on the distance, exposure time, and half-life of $^{18}F$ was approximately 2 Gy. After sacrifice by $^{18}F$ irradiation or untreated conditions, ten brains were dissected or immediately frozen, respectively. The tissues were extracted in acetic acid. After lyophilization, the samples were dissolved in distilled water and were further purified on a reverse-phase HPLC column. There were no differences in the intensities of the bioactive materials between $^{18}F$-exposed goldfish and control goldfish, while the only peak corresponded to 13 min, which indicated a significant increase in the irradiated brains. Our analysis has found that this compound is tryptophan. This result suggests that $^{18}F$ leads to changes in a classical neurotransmitter, tryptophan, in both the brains of control goldfish and goldfish contaminated by irradiation.

Metamorphic Changes of the Neurosecretory Cells in the Brains of Wax Moth Gafferfa mellonella during Metamorphosis (꿀벌부채명나방 뇌신경분비세포의 변태에 따른 변화)

  • 이봉희;강성훈;김민영;김우갑
    • The Korean Journal of Zoology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.120-133
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    • 1989
  • The paraidehyde-fuchsin(PAE)-positive neurosecretory cells in the brains of wax moth Galleria mellonella have been morphologically examined at the six different metamorphic stages. During the metamorphosis, neurosecretory cells in the brain can be found in the five unclei of pars intercerebralis, lateral region of protocerebrum, optic lobe, deutocrebrum and tritocerebrum. The five nuelel include one to seven neurosecretory cells. On the bases of cell sizes and histochemical specificities of neurosercretion within cells, all the PAF-positive neurosercretory cells included in the six different metamorphic brains can be recognized as four species of neurosecretory cells as follows; (1) large (about 25 $\mu$m), neurosecretion-parcked cell (type I neurosecretory cell), (2) large, granule-dispersed cell (type II neurosecretury cell), (3) small (about 15 $\mu$m), neurosecretion-packed cell (type III neurosecretory cell), and (4) small, granule-dispersed cell (type IV neurose-cretory cell). The three tb seven medial neurosecretory cells are included in the pars intercerebralis of the six different metamorphic brains. With the increase of days from the late larva to the adult the type I cells of medial neurosecretory cells gradually decrease in number, but the respective three type II neurosecretory cells appear in the five different metamorphic brains except in pupa 2 day before the emeregnce of the adult which has only one type II. The one to five lateral neurosecretory cells are observed in the lateral region of protocerebrum from thepupa just after pupation to the adult. The type IV neurosecretory cells are the most in number of lateral neurosecretory cells. The one type Ineurosecretory cells are included near the optic lobe of only the 4-day-old pupa. the one deutocerebral neurosecretory cell, type II, appears only in the adult. The tritocerebrum includes both three neurosecretory cells in the late larva and one neuresecretory cell in the adult. In the late larva the two tritocerebral neurosecretory cells are type Ill neurosecretory cell and the one is type IV. The remaining one tritocerebral neurosecretory cell is type IV.

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Phagocytic Roles of Glial Cells in Healthy and Diseased Brains

  • Jung, Yeon-Joo;Chung, Won-Suk
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.350-357
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    • 2018
  • Glial cells are receiving much attention since they have been recognized as important regulators of many aspects of brain function and disease. Recent evidence has revealed that two different glial cells, astrocytes and microglia, control synapse elimination under normal and pathological conditions via phagocytosis. Astrocytes use the MEGF10 and MERTK phagocytic pathways, and microglia use the classical complement pathway to recognize and eliminate unwanted synapses. Notably, glial phagocytosis also contributes to the clearance of disease-specific protein aggregates, such as ${\beta}$-amyloid, huntingtin, and ${\alpha}$-synuclein. Here we reivew recent findings showing that glial cells are active regulators in brain functions through phagocytosis and that changes in glial phagocytosis contribute to the pathogenesis of various neurodegenerative diseases. A better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of glial phagocytosis in healthy and diseased brains will greatly improve our current approach in treating these diseases.

Research on Perfusion CT in Rabbit Brain Tumor Model (토끼 뇌종양 모델에서의 관류 CT 영상에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, Bon-Chul;Kwak, Byung-Kook;Jung, Ji-Sung;Lim, Cheong-Hwan;Jung, Hong-Ryang
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2012
  • We investigated the vascular characteristics of tumors and normal tissue using perfusion CT in the rabbit brain tumor model. The VX2 carcinoma concentration of $1{\times}10^7$ cells/ml(0.1ml) was implanted in the brain of nine New Zealand white rabbits (weight: 2.4kg-3.0kg, mean: 2.6kg). The perfusion CT was scanned when the tumors were grown up to 5mm. The tumor volume and perfusion value were quantitatively analyzed by using commercial workstation (advantage windows workstation, AW, version 4.2, GE, USA). The mean volume of implanted tumors was $316{\pm}181mm^3$, and the biggest and smallest volumes of tumor were 497 $mm^3$ and 195 $mm^3$, respectively. All the implanted tumors in rabbits are single-nodular tumors, and intracranial metastasis was not observed. In the perfusion CT, cerebral blood volume (CBV) were $74.40{\pm}9.63$, $16.08{\pm}0.64$, $15.24{\pm}3.23$ ml/100g in the tumor core, ipsilateral normal brain, and contralateral normal brain, respectively ($p{\leqq}0.05$). In the cerebral blood flow (CBF), there were significant differences between the tumor core and both normal brains ($p{\leqq}0.05$), but no significant differences between ipsilateral and contralateral normal brains ($962.91{\pm}75.96$ vs. $357.82{\pm}12.82$ vs. $323.19{\pm}83.24$ ml/100g/min). In the mean transit time (MTT), there were significant differences between the tumor core and both normal brains ($p{\leqq}0.05$), but no significant differences between ipsilateral and contralateral normal brains ($4.37{\pm}0.19$ vs. $3.02{\pm}0.41$ vs. $2.86{\pm}0.22$ sec). In the permeability surface (PS), there were significant differences among the tumor core, ipsilateral and contralateral normal brains ($47.23{\pm}25.45$ vs. $14.54{\pm}1.60$ vs. $6.81{\pm}4.20$ ml/100g/min)($p{\leqq}0.05$). In the time to peak (TTP) were no significant differences among the tumor core, ipsilateral and contralateral normal brains. In the positive enhancement integral (PEI), there were significant differences among the tumor core, ipsilateral and contralateral brains ($61.56{\pm}16.07$ vs. $12.58{\pm}2.61$ vs. $8.26{\pm}5.55$ ml/100g). ($p{\leqq}0.05$). In the maximum slope of increase (MSI), there were significant differences between the tumor core and both normal brain($p{\leqq}0.05$), but no significant differences between ipsilateral and contralateral normal brains ($13.18{\pm}2.81$ vs. $6.99{\pm}1.73$ vs. $6.41{\pm}1.39$ HU/sec). Additionally, in the maximum slope of decrease (MSD), there were significant differences between the tumor core and contralateral normal brain($p{\leqq}0.05$), but no significant differences between the tumor core and ipsilateral normal brain($4.02{\pm}1.37$ vs. $4.66{\pm}0.83$ vs. $6.47{\pm}1.53$ HU/sec). In conclusion, the VX2 tumors were implanted in the rabbit brain successfully, and stereotactic inoculation method make single-nodular type of tumor that was no metastasis in intracranial, suitable for comparative study between tumors and normal tissues. Therefore, perfusion CT would be a useful diagnostic tool capable of reflecting the vascularity of the tumors.