• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.269-276
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• 2020

Objective: We investigated the impact of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (imatinib or dasatinib) coadministration with cyclophosphamide (Cp) on preantral follicle development in an in vitro mouse model. Methods: Seventy-three female BDF1 mice were allocated into four experimental groups: group A, saline; group B, Cp (25 mg/kg); group C, Cp (25 mg/kg) and imatinib (7.5 mg/kg); and group D, Cp (25 mg/kg) and dasatinib (7.5 mg/kg). Preantral follicles were isolated and cultured in vitro up to 12 days. Final oocyte acquisition and spindle integrity of metaphase II (MII) oocytes were assessed. Levels of 17β-estradiol and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) in the final spent media were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, and the mRNA levels of Star, Sod1, Mapk3, and Casp3 in the final follicular cells were quantified by real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results: The percentage of MII oocytes per initiated follicle, the proportion of MII oocytes with normal spindles, and the 17β-estradiol level were similar in all four groups. The median AMH level in group B (7.74 ng/mL) was significantly lower than that in group A (10.84 ng/mL). However, the median AMH levels in group C (9.96 ng/mL) and group D (9.71 ng/mL) were similar to that in group A. The mRNA expression levels of Star, Sod1, Mapk3, and Casp3 were similar in all four groups. Conclusion: Coadministration of imatinib or dasatinib with Cp could preserve AMH production capacity in this in vitro mice preantral follicle culture model, and it did not affect MII oocyte acquisition.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.50-63
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• 2023

Objectives : This study used a network pharmacology approach to explore the active compounds and therapeutic mechanisms of Yijin-tang on Meniere's disease. Methods : The active compounds of Yijin-tang were screened via the TCMSP database and their target proteins were screened via the STITCH database. The GeneCard was used to establish the Meniere's disease-related genes. The intersection targets were obtained through Venny 2.1.0. The related protein interaction network was constructed with the STRING database, and topology analysis was performed through CytoNCA. GO biological function analysis and KEGG enrichment analysis for core targets were performed through the ClueGO. Results : Network analysis identified 126 compounds in five herbal medicines of Yijin-tang. Among them, 15 compounds(naringenin, beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol, baicalein, baicalin, calycosin, dihydrocapsaicin, formononetin, glabridin, isorhamnetin, kaempferol, mairin, quercetin, sitosterol, nobiletin) were the key chemicals. The target proteins were 119, and 7 proteins(TNF, CASP9, PARP1, CCL2, CFTR, NOS2, NOS1) were linked to Meniere's disease-related genes. Core genes in this network were TNF, CASP9, and NOS2. GO/KEGG pathway analysis results indicate that these targets are primarily involved in regulating biological processes, such as excitotoxicity, oxidative stress, and apoptosis. Conclusion : Pharmacological network analysis can help to explain the applicability of Yijin-tang on Meniere's disease.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.319-325
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• 2006

칡을 첨가하여 배양한 아가리쿠스버섯(Agaricus blaxei Murill)으로 부터 열수추출, gel filtration chromatography, DEAE ion exchange chromatography를 통하여 아가리쿠스 $\beta$-glucan (AG)을 추출하였다. 추출한 아가리쿠스 $\beta$-glucan에 Bacillus megaterium 유래의 endo-$\beta$-(1$\rightarrow$6)-glucanase를 처리하여 올리고당류(AO)를 얻었다. 이렇게 얻은 AG와 AO를 이용하여 HT-29 인체 대장암 세포에 대한 항암 활성을 조사한 결과, 암세포의 성장 억제 효과는 시료의 처리 농도에 의존적으로 증가하였으며, apoptosis assay에서 암세포의 apoptosis 유발이 농도에 의존적으로 증가되었다. 또한, 암세포의 세포 주기를 분석한 결과, apoptosis 발생을 뜻하는 G0 (sub-G1)기와 G1기의 비율이 증가한 반면 S기와 G2/M기는 대조군에 비해 감소되었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 암세포의 apoptosis 증가에 대한 AO의 작용이 어떤 유전자와 연관이 있는지를 알아보기 위하여 cDNA microarray를 통해 유전자의 발현율을 검색한 결과, apoptosis의 내부 외부 경로에 영향을 주는 유전자(TNESE9, TNFRSF9, FADD, CASP8, BAD, CRADD, CASP9 등)의 발현이 증가되었고 세포 분열 주기의 진행과 관련된 유전자(CCND2와 CDK2)의 발현이 감소되었으며, 세포 분열 주기를 지체시키는 유전자 (CDKN2A)의 발현은 증가되었다. 또한, 사이토카인을 암호하는 유전자 (IL6, IL18, IL6R 등)와 tumor suppressor와 관련된 유전자 (CEACAM1, TP53BP2, IRF1및 PHB)의 발현이 2배 이상 증가된 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 HT-29 인체 대장암세포에 대한 AO의 성장 억제 작용은 G0/Gl기를 지체시켜 암세포 증식을 억제하고 apoptosis에 의해 암세포를 사멸시키는 항암 활성을 나타내는 것으로 확인되었으며, 특허 AO가 AG보다 현저한 활성을 보였다. 더 나아가 아가리쿠스 $\beta$-glucan (AG)과 올리고당류 (AO)는 항암 활성을 가진 대체 의약 소재로 개발될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제58권3호
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• pp.84-88
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• 2015

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis that predominantly affects children, and can result in coronary artery lesions (CAL). A patient with KD who is resistant to treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has a higher risk of developing CAL. Incomplete KD has increased in prevalence in recent years, and is another risk factor for the development of CAL. Although the pathogenesis of KD remains unclear, there has been increasing evidence for the role of genetic susceptibility to the disease since it was discovered in 1967. We retrospectively reviewed previous genetic research for known susceptibility genes in the pathogenesis of KD, IVIG resistance, and the development of CAL. This review revealed numerous potential susceptibility genes including genetic polymorphisms of ITPKC, CASP3, the transforming growth factor-${\beta}$ signaling pathway, B lymphoid tyrosine kinase, FCGR2A, KCNN2, and other genes, an imbalance of Th17/Treg, and a range of suggested future treatment options. The results of genetic research may improve our understanding of the pathogenesis of KD, and aid in the discovery of new treatment modalities for high-risk patients with KD.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.225-234
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• 1995

Low back pain(LBP) is one of the most common ailment. There were two type of LBP in the clinic. One of them is low back pain with leg pain, the other one is low back pain without leg pain. Author explain the reasons, characters. mechanism, diagnosis, and reported 156 cases of LBP. There are various method to treatment of low back pain in recent. The first selection for treatment of LBP were intervertebral block added "+" type block(IVP "+" TB). according to author's experience, the rate of Excellent and good were account for 96.2%. Other method of LBPO therapy were also used in Pain clinic, such as psoas compartment block, caudal block, epidural steroid block, zygapophysial joint block, nerve root block, subarachnoid neural block, Lumbar sympathetic block, etc. Finally, author introduced Pain clinic in China. divided to three titles: (1) history, (2) CASP and scientific activity, (3) pain therapy in China.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to analyze whether FSH and LH hormone treatment directly or indirectly affect embryo development in embryonic development. To determine this, we compared the development of embryonic cells through the expression pattern of MMPs. As a result, 33.8% of blastocysts were formed in FSH added group, 20.8% in LH added group and 10% in FSH + LH added group. In addition, the activity of MMP-9 was highly detected in the FSH-added group, and the expression of Casp-3 was much lower than that of the other groups. These results suggest that the addition of FSH seems to increase the activity of MMP-9 in embryonic cells, and that LH, on the contrary, may activate MMP-2 activity. In addition, the expression level of MMP-2 in the FSH-added group was high in the Trophoblast cell group and in the LH-added group, the hormone ideal secretion might affect the development of the embryonic cell.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1274-1277
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• 2011

단백질 1차 서열로부터 DISORDER와 ORDER지역을 예측하기 위해서 이 논문에서는 EP-tree에 기반한 출현패턴 발견 알고리즘을 제안하였다. EP-tree 알고리즘을 적용함으로서 기존의 단백질 특징 추출을 통한 방법과 달리 서열 자체에서 발견되는 출현패턴만을 이용하여 분류 모델을 생성하므로 기존의 신경망이나 SVM 보다 분류모델 생성 및 예측 속도가 빠르다. 또한 Disprot 4.9과 CASP7 테스트 데이터로 DISORDER/ORDER 지역을 예측한 결과, 73.4%의 높은 정확성을 보였다.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.63.1-63.14
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• 2021

Background: Recently, mesenchymal stem cells therapy has been performed in dogs, although the outcome is not always favorable. Objectives: To investigate the therapeutic efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) using dog leukocyte antigen (DLA) matching between the donor and recipient in vitro. Methods: Canine adipose-derived MSCs (cA-MSCs) isolated from the subcutaneous tissue of Dog 1 underwent characterization. For major DLA genotyping (DQA1, DQB1, and DRB1), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from two dogs (Dogs 1 and 2) were analyzed by direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products. The cA-MSCs were co-cultured at a 1:10 ratio with activated PBMCs (DLA matching or mismatching) for 3 days and analyzed for immunosuppressive (IDO, PTGS2, and PTGES), inflammatory (IL6 and IL10), and apoptotic genes (CASP8, BAX, TP53, and BCL2) by quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR. Results: cA-MSCs were expressed cell surface markers such as CD90⁺/44⁺/29⁺/45^- and differentiated into osteocytes, chondrocytes, and adipocytes in vitro. According to the Immuno Polymorphism Database, DLA genotyping comparisons of Dogs 1 and 2 revealed complete differences in genes DQA1, DQB1, and DRB1. In the co-culturing of cA-MSCs and PBMCs, DLA mismatch between the two cell types induced a significant increase in the expression of immunosuppressive (IDO/PTGS2) and apoptotic (CASP8/BAX) genes. Conclusions: The administration of cA-MSCs matching the recipient DLA type can alleviate the need to regulate excessive immunosuppressive responses associated with genes, such as IDO and PTGES. Furthermore, easy and reliable DLA genotyping technology is required because of the high degree of genetic polymorphisms of DQA1, DQB1, and DRB1 and the low readability of DLA 88.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2004년도 The 3rd Annual Conference for The Korean Society for Bioinformatics Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics 2004 Symposium
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• pp.250-261
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• 2004

A novel method for ab initio prediction of protein tertiary structures, PROFESY (PROFile Enumerating SYstem), is introduced. This method utilizes secondary structure prediction information and fragment assembly. The secondary structure prediction of proteins is performed with the PREDICT method which uses PSI-BLAST to generate profiles and a distance measure in the pattern space. In order to predict the tertiary structure of a protein sequence, we assemble fragments in the fragment library constructed as a byproduct of PREDICT. The tertiary structure is obtained by minimizing the potential energy using the conformational space annealing method which enables one to sample diverse low lying minima of the energy function. We apply PROFESY for prediction of some proteins with known structures, which shows good performances. We also participated in CASP5 and applied PROFESY to new fold targets for blind predictions. The results were quite promising, despite the fact that PROFESY was in its early stage of development. In particular, the PROFESY result is the best for the hardest target T0161.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2021

In this study, to analyze whether artificial regulation of apoptosis in the development of somatic cells can affect the stable growth and development of cells, 20 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20α-HSD) and rapamycin were treated to induce apoptosis and autophagy in the both skin and muscle cells. Respectively, and 3-methyladenine was supplemented to inhibit cell death. Our results show that stimulation with rapamycin activated autophagy in both types of cells, but increased apoptosis more than autophagy in the case of skin cells. These results indicate that there was a difference in the expression of survival factors and cell development depending on the type of cell. In particular, in the expression of autophagy-related gene (MAP1LC3A) was higher than that of Casp-3, an apoptosis factor. Furthermore, cell development was the highest in all cell groups cultured by artificially inducing autophagy, however the lowest in the apoptosis-inhibited group. Especially, the noteworthy result of this study was that when apoptosis was induced using 20α-HSD, it was possible to induce apoptosis in both skin and muscle cells. Therefore, the main point of this study is that apoptosis induced during cell culture plays a pivotal role in cell remodeling.