• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.389-402
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• 1990

The physiological characteristics of the neurons receiving the ventral root afferent inputs were investigated in the cat. A total of 70 cells were identified in the lumbosacral spinal cord. All these cells responded only to the C-strength stimulation of the distal stump of cut ventral root and the estimated conduction velocities of the VRA fibers were not faster than 4 m/sec. The majority of them were silent in resting state. For 49 cells, their peripheral receptive fields were characterized. Among them, 25 cells were exclusively excited by VRA inputs, 8 were inhibited and the remaining cells recevied both excitatory and inhibitory VRA inputs. According to the response pattern to the mechanical stimuli applied to their receptive fields, only a fourth of them were typical high threshold cell, a sixth, wide dynamic range cells, while remainings were a rather complex cells. Most of the cells receiving VRA inputs, received only the A ${\delta}-peripheral$ nerve inputs. Intravenous injection of morphine decreased the response of spinal cells to the VRA activation. The responses were abolished completely by counter irritation to the common peroneal nerve with C-strength-low frequency stimuli. These physiological properties of the spinal neurons receiving the VRA inputs are differ in some aspect from the spinal neurons receiving nociceptive inputs from the periphery, but still were consistent with the contention that VRA system might carry nociceptive informations arising from the spinal cord and/or neraby surrounding tissues.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.715-723
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• 1999

Bee venom (BV) has been traditionally applied to relieve pain and to cure inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and neuritis. While several investigators have evaluated the anti-inflammatory effect of BV treatment, the anti-nociceptive effect of BV treatment on inflammatory pain is not reported. Therefore, we decided to evaluate the analgesic effect of BV treatment using Freund's adjuvant induced chronic arthritis model. Freund's adjuvant-induced arthritis has been used as an experimental animal model for RA in humans to assess the efficacy of the anti-inflammatory/analgesic drugs. In this study, subcutaneous BV treatment (1mg/kg/day) produced significantly reductions of symptoms related to arthritic pain (i.e. mechanical hyperalgesia and thermal hyperalgesia). The anti-nociceptive effect of BV was observed from at least 12 days after BV treatment. Furthermore, BV treatment significantly suppressed adjuvant induced Fos expression in lumbar spinal cord. We also found that local injection of BV into near the inflammatory site (especially Zusanli-acupoint) showed more potent analgesic effect on arthritic pain rather than distant injection of BV from inflammatory site (arbitrary side of back). The present study demonstrates that BV treatment has anti-nociceptive effect on arthritis induced inflammatory pain. The analgesic effect of BV on RA is probably mediated by the effect of BV itself or possible other mechanism such as counter-irritation. Furthermore, it is possible that BV acupuncture is one of the promising candidates for long-term therapy of RA.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2018

목적: 미백젤의 효과 증대 및 치은 자극의 최소화를 위해 wrap을 사용하는 자가 도포 치아 미백제의 임상적 효능과 안전성을 평가하는 것이다. 연구 재료 및 방법: 90명의 피험자를 대조군과 2.8%, 3.0%의 과산화수소가 포함된 미백젤을 사용하는 두 개의 실험군으로 각각 30명씩 무작위 배정하였다. 그들은 상악 4전치 부위에 하루 1번 30분씩 2주간 미백젤과 wrap을 사용하였다. VITA shade guide와 ShadeEye $NCC^{(R)}$를 이용하여 치아 색조 측정을 하였고, 부작용은 인터뷰와 구내 검사로 조사하였다. 효능과 안전성 평가를 위해 통계 처리 하였다. 결과: 비타 색조 기준표에 의한 평가에서는 미백 성분이 들어있는 실험군에서 대조군과 비교시 유의한 미백 효과를 보였다. 측색기를 이용한 평가에서는 3.0% 실험군이 대조군과 2.8% 실험군에 비해 유의한 미백 효과를 보였다(P < 0.05). 경미한 부작용의 호소가 일부 있었으나 모든 군에서 치은 자극에 대한 이상증상을 보이지 않았다. 결론: Wrap을 사용한 자가 도포 미백젤은 과산화수소의 농도가 2.8%에서 3.0%로 높아질수록 그 효과가 증가되며 유의하게 심각한 부작용이 관찰되지 않아 유용한 자가 미백 치료제로 활용될 수 있다.