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Oxidative DNA Damages and Its Repair Enzyme Acitivities in the SD rats by Repeated Inhalation Exposure to the Hexavalent Chromium

  • Seung-Hee Maeng;Il-Je Yu;Hyun-Young Kim;Cheol-Hong Lim;Jong-Yoon Lee;Kwon-seob Lee;Yong-Mook Lee;Ho-Keun Chung;Hai-Won Chung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.151-151
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    • 2001
  • According to the epidemiological studies in chromium workers, hexavalent chromium is associated with the risk of lung cancer. Reactive oxygen species produced by hexavalent chromium exposure may play an important role in the carcinogenesis process. We measured one kind of oxidative DNA damages, 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and its repair activities as an indicators of cellular oxidative stress in rat lungs by the repeated inhalation exposure to sodium chromate.(omitted)

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Achievements, Problems, and Future Direction of the Quality Control Program for Special Periodic Health Examination Agencies in Republic of Korea

  • Won, Yong Lim;Ko, Kyung Sun;Park, Jae Oh;Choi, Yoon jung;Lee, Hyeji;Sung, Jung-min;Lee, Mi-young
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.125-129
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    • 2019
  • The ultimate goal of the quality control program for special periodic health examination agencies is to diagnose the health condition of a worker correctly, based on accurate examination and analysis skills, leading to protect the worker's health. The quality control program on three areas, chemical analysis for biological monitoring since 1995, and pneumoconiosis, audiometric testing since 1996, has contributed to improve the reliability of occupational health screenings by improving the issues including standardization of testing methods, tools, diagnostic opinions, and reliability of analysis for biological monitoring. It has contributed to improving the reliability of occupational health monitoring by rectifying the following issues associated with previous monitoring: absence of standardized testing methods, testing tools that are not upgraded, mismatching diagnostic opinions, and unreliable results of biological specimen analysis. Nevertheless, there are issues in need of further improvement such as lack of expertise or the use of inappropriate method for health examination, and passive and unwilling participation in the quality control. We suggested solutions to these problems for each area of quality control program. Above all, it is essential to provide active support for health examiners to develop their expertise, while encouraging all the health screening agencies, employers, and workers to develop the desire to improve the system and to maintain the relevance.

IN VITRO AND IN VIVO EVALUATION OF THE GENOTOXIC EFFECT OF 2-BROMOPROPANE BY THE ALKALINE SINGLE-CELL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS(COMET) ASSAY

  • Kim, Soo-Jin;Yu, Il-Je;Lee, Yong-Mook;Chung, Ho-Keun;Maeng, Seung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2002.11b
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    • pp.146-146
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    • 2002
  • The alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay was used to clarify in vitro and in vivo genotoxicity of 2-bromopropane (2-BP). For in vitro studies, fresh medium containing 2-BP (2.50, 1.00, 0.50, 0.25, 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 mM, and vehicle control) were added in human lymphocytes.(omitted)

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Subchronic Inhalation Toxicity Study of n-pentane in Rats

  • Kim, Jong-Kyu;Cho, Hae-Won;Han, Jeong-Hee;Lee, Sung-Bae;Chung, Yong-Hyun;Rim, Kyung-Taek;Yang, Jeong-Sun
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.224-234
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: This study was conducted in order to obtain information concerning the health hazards that may result from a 13 week inhalation exposure of n-pentane in Sprague-Dawley rats. Methods: This study was conducted in accordance with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines for the testing of chemicals No. 413 'Subchronic inhalation toxicity: 90-day study (as revised in 2009)'. The rats were divided into 4 groups (10 male and 10 female rats in each group), and were exposed to 0, 340, 1,530, and 6,885 ppm n-pentane in each exposure chamber for 6 hour/day, 5 days/week, for 13 weeks. All of the rats were sacrificed at the end of the treatment period. During the test period, clinical signs, mortality, body weights, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy, locomotion activity, urinalysis, hematology, serum biochemistry, gross findings, organ weights, and histopathology were assessed. Results: During the period of testing, there were no treatment related effects on the clinical findings, body weight, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy, urinalysis, hematology, serum biochemistry, gross findings, relative organ weight, and histopathological findings. Conclusion: The no-observable-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) of n-pentane is evaluated as being more than 6,885 ppm (20.3 mg/L) in both male and female rats. n-pentane was not a classified specific target organ toxicity in the globally harmonized classification system (GHS).

Inhalation Toxicity of 1-Bromoprpane (1-BP)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Yeong;Lee, Jun-Yeon;Lim, Cheol-Hong;Chung, Yong-Hyun;Han, Jung-Hee;Jeong, Jae-Hwang;Lee, Sung-Bae;Jhoon, Yoon-Sook;Lee, Yong-Muk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.126-126
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute(4 hrs) and repeated-dose(6 hrs a day, 5 days a week, 8 weeks) toxic effects of 1-bromopropane(1-BP) on Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats which were treated by inhalation. The results were as follows ;(omitted)

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