• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2887-2889
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• 2012

Malignant tumors have a capacity to degrade the extracellular matrix by controlled proteolysis. One system involved in these processes is the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) system. uPAR levels are elevated in tumors from several types of cancer. Our study was planned to investigate serum and urine levels of uPAR in breast cancer patients (n=180) and healthy controls (n=60) by ELISA. Serum (p<0.001) and urine (p<0.001) uPAR values in the patients were both significantly elevated. High serum and urine levels of uPAR can be used as diagnostic tools in lymph node positive patients.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.973-976
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• 2005

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of Scutellariae Radix(SR) extract on cytokines in ovalbumin (OVA)-induced asthmatic mice. In vivo, C57BL/6 mice were sensitized and handicapped by OVA for 12 weeks. During this experiment, the one group was then treated with SR extract for the later 8 weeks (3 times per week) and analyzed by ELISA. There were significant decreases in IL-4(p<0.05), IL-5(p<0.05), IL-13(p<0.01), histamine(p<0.05) in serum of SR group. IgE also decreased, but was not significant compared with that of control group. The results of this study support a role for SR as an effective treatment for asthma in its experimental success in significantly decreasing inflammation and asthma reactions.

• 한국해양바이오학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2024

Various antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from microalgae have shown antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anticancer, and antioxidant effects, and play crucial roles in medical applications, aquaculture-related disease management, and the food industry. Magainin 2 (MAG2), an AMP, exhibits high antibacterial and antitumor activity, necessitating an efficient recombinant expression system for low-cost, large-scale production. To enhance MAG2 secretion efficiency in Chlorella, we constructed the SS:MAG2:His vector using the known Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CA1 signal sequence (SS) and obtained a stable transformant via an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method and RT-qPCR. ELISA results revealed that the MAG2 content secreted into the medium by the SS:MAG2:His transformants increased proportionally with mRNA expression. These findings offer a strategy for high MAG2 secretion in the Chlorella vulgaris platform, potentially minimizing downstream processing costs.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.717-729
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• 2019

This study defines critical fashion designs and investigate its critical messages on fashion itself. The critical messages on fashion are categorized into two major issues of a fashion industry system and fashion consumer culture. This study contributes to the understanding of meaning and value for critical fashion messages that match critical art. As the research method, this study combines a literature review and case studies and the research scope focuses on cases that have appeared in fashion media since the 2000s when social critical messages in fashion began to emerge. The results of the study are as follows. Critical designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Elisa van Joolen, Issey Miyake, and Mary Ping have delivered messages challenging the nature of fashion industry system that criticize the cycle and limitation of a fashion system and pursues changes in perception of sustainability. The critical message on fashion consumer culture articulated by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Hussein Chalayan, and Ricarda Bigolin & Nella Themelios insist on the formation of community while delivering a critical message on social, political, and cultural problems that raise the mechanism of social awareness through fashion design.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.151-161
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• 1986

In order to develop sensitive and sepcific assay methods for E. coli heat labile enterotoxin(LT) hybridoma cell lines secreting LT specific monoclonal antibody were obtained. LT was purified from cell lysate of E. coli O15H11. The steps included disruption of bacteria by French pressure, DEAE Sephacel ion exchange chromatography, Sephadex G200 gel filtration, and second DEAE Sephacel ion exchange chromatography, successively. Spleen cells from Balb/c mice immunized with the purified LT and $HGPRT^{(-)}$ plasmacytomas, $P3{\times}63Ag8.V653$ were mixed and fused by 50% (w/v) PEG. Hybrid cells were grown in 308 wells out of 360 wells, and 13 wells out of them secreted antibodies reacting to LT. Among these hybridoma cell 1G8-1D1 cell line was selected since it had produced high-titered monoclonal antibody continuously. By using culture supernatant and ascites from 1G8-1D1 cells the monoclonal antibody was characterized, and an assay system for detecting enterotoxigenic E. coli was established by double sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The following results were obtained. 1. Antibody titers of culture supernatant and ascites from 1G8-1D1 hybridoma cells were 512, and 102, 400, respectively by GM1-ELISA and its immunoglobulin class was IgM. 2. The maximum absorption ratio of 1G8-1D1 cell culture supernatant to LT was 90% at $300\;{\mu}g/ml$ of LT concentration. LT concentration shown at 50% absorption ratio was $103.45{\mu}g$ and the absorption ratio was decreased with tile reduction of LT concentration. This result suggests that monoclonal antibody from 1G8-1D1 hybridoma cell bound with LT specifically. 3. The reactivities of 1G8-1D1 cell culture supernatant to LT and V. cholerae enterotoxin(CT) were 0.886 and 0.142(O.D. at 492nm) measured by the GM1-ELISA, indicating 1G8-1D1 monoclonal antibody reacted specifically with LT but not with CT. 4. The addition of 0.1ml of ascites to 0.6mg and 0.12mg of LT decreased the vascular permeability factor to 41% and 44% respectively, but it did not completely neutralize LT. 5. By double sandwich ELISA using monoclonal antibody, as little as 75ng of the purified LT per ml could be detected. 6. The results by assay of detecting LT in culture supernatants of 14 wild strains E. coli isolated from diarrhea patients by the double sandwich ELISA were almost the same level as those by reverse passive latex agglutination.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 1996

비뇨기계 병원성 대장균의 중요한 병원성 인자 중의 하나로 인정되고 있는p-fimbriae의 subtype의 분포를 확인하기 위하여 요로감염증으로 확진된 환자의 혈청을 이용하여 immunoblotting 을 실시하였고, 이와 동시에 효소면역 측정법을 실시하여 p-fimbriae특이 항체 보유를 확인하였다. Immunoblotting 결과 우리나라 요로감염증환자에서 높은 빈도로 확인되는 p-fimbriae subtype의 분포는 $F7_1$34(56.7%), $F7_2$28(46.7%), F13 30(50%)등이 높게 나타났으며, 이와 같은 결과는 효소면역측정법에서도 동일하게 나타났다. 그러나 P-pili를 순수분리하지 않고 whole cell을 이용한 효소면역 측정법은 교차반응 때문에 비뇨기 감염증의 혈청학적인 진단에 적합하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 또 우리 나라의 요로감염 환자에서 항체 양성율이 높은 $F7_1$, $F7_2$, F13만을 혼합하여 항원으로 이용한 효소면역측정법의 특이도와 민감도가 각각 92.6%, 90%로 나타나, 이와 같은 방법을 임상진단에 응용할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.633-642
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• 2002

1. ETEC F41 균주로부터 분리한 섬모항원의 분자량은 29.5 kDa으로 나타났으며, western blot을 통하여 섬모항원임을 확인하였다. 2. 분리한 섬모항원의 농도를 50 ${\mu}g$/$m\ell$, 200 ${\mu}g$/$m\ell$, 600 ${\mu}g$/$m\ell$로 조정 후 산란계에 접종하였다. 이 후 ELISA법을 이용하여 난황의 항체역가를 측정한 결과 최고치가 320,000(antigen 50${\mu}g$/$m\ell$), 450,000(antigen 200${\mu}g$/$m\ell$), 320,000(anti- gen 600${\mu}g$/$m\ell$)으로 나타났다. 3. F41난황항체와 K88, K99, 987P 섬모항원과의 교차반응을 ELISA법을 이용하여 조사해본 결과 난황항체를 30,000배 희석 시 교차반응이 없었다. 4. 실험실조건하에서 난황항체의 항원결합능력을 조사한 결과, 동결건조한 WSF을 2${\sim}$4 mg/$m\ell$ 첨가 시 균체의 농도가 $10^9$ CFU/$m\ell$에서 $10^5$ CFU/$m\ell$로 급격하게 감소하였다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.315-327
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• 1995

Diverse neurotoxic insults result in proliferation and hypertrophy of astrocytes, a subtype of glia in central nervous system. The hallmark of this response, often terms "reactive gliosis", is the enhanced expression of the major intermediate filament protein of castrocytes, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). These changes in the astrocytes suggest that GFAP may be a useful biochemical indicator of neurotoxicity. To investigate this possibility, we administered intra-peritoneally prototype nerotoxicants, metharnphetamine (MAP, 5 mg/kg), cocaine (30 mg/kg), N-buthyl benzenesulfonamide (NBBS, 300 mg/kg) and trimethytin (TMT, 8 mg/kg) to Wistar Rats and then assessed the effects of these agents on content of GFAP, which were determined by Sandwish ELISA and evaluated with neurotoxic symptoms, and quantitative changes of imrnunoreactivity of GFAP by light microscopic image analysis in specific regions. We found that assay of GFAP revealed time- and region-dependant patterns of neurotoxicity. The GFAP immunoreactivity of rat brain was increased in substantia nigra and hippocampus by MAP, NBBS and TMT; in roedial septal nucleus and nucleus accurnbens, it was also increased by RrBBS. Sandwich ELISA showed that GFAP levels of cerebrum in all groups on days 3 and 7 and that of brainstem(including cerebellum) in MAP, NBBS groups on day 1 and 3 were increased. A review of the background, design and results of these experiments are presented in this paper. Our findings indicate that GFAP is a sensitive and specific biomarker of neurotoxicity.otoxicity.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.223-228
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• 1984

외과적으로 충체를 적출하여 진단한 스파르가눔증 환자 7명으로부터 혈청을 수집하고 혈청내 스파르가눔 특이 IgG 항체가를 호소면역 측정 법으로 측정하였다. 스파르가눔 항원은 유혈목이에 자쳔 감염된 충체를 갈아 생리 식염수로 추출한 것으로 단백질 함량은 Smgyxnl이었다. 효소면역측정법은 McLaren 등(1978)의 방법에 따라 실시하였다. 스파르가눔중 환자 혈청이 폐흡충 항원 또는 유구낭미충 항원에 교차반응이 있는지 여부도 측정하였다. 또한 스파르가눔 항원에 대해서 정상인, 케흡충중 환자, 간홉충 감염자, 유구낭미충증 환자와 무구조충 감염자 등 모두 71명에 대해서도 교차반응을 나타내는지 를 관찰하고자 효소면역 측정 법을 실시하였다. 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 스파르가늠증 환자 7명중 석회화한 스파르가눔에 감염되어 있었고 수술후 1개월에 혈청을 수집한 1례를 제외하면 모두 홉광도 0.3 이상을 나타내었다. 양성판정기준을 흠광도 0.25로 하였을 때 효소면역 측정 법의 민감도(sensitivity)는 85.7이 었다. 2. 기타 기생충 감염자와 정상인 71명중에서 스파르가눔 항원에 대한 특이항체 양성자는 무구조충감염자 3명으로 특이도(specificity)는 97.5%이었다. 3. 스파르가눔중 환자 혈청은 폐흡충 항원 및 유구낭미충 항원에 대해서 항체가는 낮은 값을 보이고 있어 교차 반응은 발견할 수 없었다. 4. 중추신경계를 침범한 스파르가눔중 환자 2례에서 뇌척수액을 희석하지 않은 상태로 효소면역 측정 법을 실시하였던 바 1례는 폐흡충 및 유구낭미충 항원에 대해 교차반응 없이 스파르가눔항원에 대해 높은 항체가를 보인데 비해 다른 1례에서는 스파르가눔 항원 및 유구낭미충 항원에 대해 비슷한 항체가를 나타내고 있었다. 이상의 결과에서 효소면역 측정 법을 이용하여 스파르가눔중을 혈청학적으로 진단하는 경우 매우 특이하고 민감한 결과를 얻을 수 있을 것으로 생각하였다. 스파르가눔중의 수술전 진단이 실제로 어려운 것이 현실이므로 혈청학적 잖단은 역학적 유해조사나 형태학적으로 감별이 어려운 병리소견을 보인 경우 등에서 보조적인 진단법으로 이용할 수 있을 것으로 생각한다.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 우유 앨러지의 원인물질중의 하나인 casein단백질을 생체가 알르겐 물질로 인식할 수 없는 수준의 분자로까지 분해하여 항원성을 저감시키고 또한 풍미가 좋은casein분해물을 제조하기 위하여 분해특성이 다른 효소를 사용하여 만들어진 분해물의 특성과 항원성을 조사하였다. 박테리아 효소인 Neutrase, Alcalase, Protamex, Pescalase을 처리한 casein가수분해물의 평균분자량은 1,100~2,300 dalton이었고 곰팡이 효소인 MP, Flavourzyme, LP, Promod경우에는 거의 770 ~ 1,140 dalton범위였다. 항원성 저감정도를 측정하기 위하여 토끼항casein항혈청을 이용하여 ELISA억제시험을 실시한 결과 항체결합을 50%저해하는 미분해casein단백질의 농도는 $10^{3.6}$ng/ml였다. 박테리아 효소인 Neutrase, Alcalase, Protamex, Pescalase에 의한 Casein가수분해물의 값은 각각 $10^{4.8},\;10^{5.5},\;10^{5.9},\;10^{6.1}\;ng/ml$이었고, 곰팡이 효소인 MP, Flavourzyme, LP, Promod경우에는 각각 $10^{6.3},\;10^{6.3},\;10^{6.5},\;10^{6.8}\;ng/ml$로 나타났다. 박테리아와 곰팡이효소의 조합인 Fla+prota, Pro+prota처리구에서는 $10^{7.4},\;10^{7.3}ng/ml$로 나타났다. 따라서 미분해 casein의 항원성을 1로 하면, casein분해물의 항원성은 최고 1/8,000 이하로 저하되었다. 수신피부아나피랙시스반응(PCA)을 이용한 항원성시험에서 casein으로 피하 감작할 경우 푸른색 반점이 나타났으나 효소처리구에서는 이러한 반점이 나타나지 않아 충분히 항원성이 저감화 되었음을 확인하였다.