• Experimental and Molecular Medicine
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.5.1-5.15
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• 2018

Targeting hair follicle regeneration has been investigated for the treatment of hair loss, and fundamental studies investigating stem cells and their niche have been described. However, knowledge of stem cell metabolism and the specific regulation of bioenergetics during the hair regeneration process is currently insufficient. Here, we report the hair regrowth-promoting effect of a newly synthesized novel small molecule, IM176OUT05 (IM), which activates stem cell metabolism. IM facilitated stemness induction and maintenance during an induced pluripotent stem cell generation process. IM treatment mildly inhibited mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and concurrently increased glycolysis, which accelerated stemness induction during the early phase of reprogramming. More importantly, the topical application of IM accelerated hair follicle regeneration by stimulating the progression of the hair follicle cycle to the anagen phase and increased the hair follicle number in mice. Furthermore, the stem cell population with a glycolytic metabotype appeared slightly earlier in the IM-treated mice. Stem cell and niche signaling involved in the hair regeneration process was also activated by the IM treatment during the early phase of hair follicle regeneration. Overall, these results show that the novel small molecule IM promotes tissue regeneration, specifically in hair regrowth, by restructuring the metabolic configuration of stem cells.

• BMB Reports
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.2-9
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• 2023

Hair follicles in the skin undergo cyclic rounds of regeneration, degeneration, and rest throughout life. Stem cells residing in hair follicles play a pivotal role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and hair growth cycles. Research on hair follicle aging and age-related hair loss has demonstrated that a decline in hair follicle stem cell (HFSC) activity with aging can decrease the regeneration capacity of hair follicles. This review summarizes our understanding of how age-associated HFSC intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms can induce HFSC aging and hair loss. In addition, we discuss approaches developed to attenuate ageassociated changes in HFSCs and their niches, thereby promoting hair regrowth.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.100010.1-100010.12
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• 2024

Recently, the incidence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is increasing due to the high prevalence of metabolic conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Steatotic liver is a hotspot for cancer metastasis in MASLD. Altered lipid metabolism, a hallmark of MASLD, remodels the tissue microenvironment, making it conducive to the growth of metastatic liver cancer. Tumors exacerbate the dysregulation of hepatic metabolism by releasing extracellular vesicles and particles into the liver. Altered lipid metabolism influences the proliferation, differentiation, and functions of immune cells, contributing to the formation of an immunosuppressive and metastasis-prone liver microenvironment in MASLD. This review discusses the mechanisms by which the steatotic liver promotes liver metastasis progression, focusing on its role in fostering an immunosuppressive microenvironment in MASLD. Furthermore, this review highlights lipid metabolism manipulation strategies for the therapeutic management of metastatic liver cancer.

• BMB Reports
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2020

Life expectancy has dramatically increased around the world over the last few decades, and staying healthier longer, without chronic disease, has become an important issue. Although understanding aging is a grand challenge, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the degeneration of cell and tissue functions with age and its contribution to chronic disease has greatly advanced during the past decade. As our immune system alters with aging, abnormal activation of immune cells leads to imbalance of innate and adaptive immunity and develops a persistent and mild systemic inflammation, inflammaging. With their unique therapeutic properties, such as immunomodulation and tissue regeneration, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been considered to be a promising source for treating autoimmune disease or as anti-aging therapy. Although direct evidence of the role of MSCs in inflammaging has not been thoroughly studied, features reported in senescent MSCs or the aging process of MSCs are associated with inflammaging; MSC niche-driven skewing of hematopoiesis toward the myeloid lineage or oncogenesis, production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and weakening their modulative property on macrophage polarization, which plays a central role on inflammaging development. This review explores the role of senescent MSCs as an important regulator for onset and progression of inflammaging and as an effective target for anti-aging strategies.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.202-212
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• 2017

Background: To reveal establishment strategy of Sparganium erectum, we tried to find realized niche of adults through field survey and effects of water level on the establishment process through mesocosm experiments. Results: In the field survey, the height and coverage of community living in deeper water were greater than those of community living in shallow water. There was no statistically significant difference (p > 0.05) in the means of water and soil properties between the two communities. In mesocosm experiments, we found no correlation between water levels and germination rates, but S. erectum seedlings have characteristics of post germination seedling buoyancy when S. erectum seeds germinated in inundation conditions. Shoot height, total leaf length, and survival rates of sinking seedlings in shallow water levels at -5, 0, and 5 cm were higher than those in deeper water levels at 10 and 20 cm. Floating seedlings established in water levels of 3 and 6 cm only. The seedlings could live up to 6 weeks in floating state but died if they were unable to establish. Conclusions: The water level around adult S. erectum communities in the field were different from the water level at which S. erectum seedlings can survive in the mesocosm experiments. The findings provided not only understanding of S. erectum habitat characteristics but also evidence to connect historical links between the early seedlings stage and adult habitat conditions. We suggested the logical establishment strategy of S. erectum based on the data.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제31권9호
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• pp.856-861
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• 2021

CD82/KAI1은 분자촉진제로서 암 전이억제자로 역할이 잘 알려져 있으나, 최근 줄기 전구 세포와 혈관 신생, 근육에서 다양한 역할들이 밝혀지고 있다. 이에 본 연구진은 최근에 보고된 CD82의 다양한 기능과 역할에 관하여 총설 하고자 한다. CD82는 4개의 막 통과 도메인을 가진 테트라스파닌의 한 종류로 암의 전이 과정에 관여하는 세포접착분자들과의 상호작용을 통하여 암세포의 이동 능력을 저해한다. 암 전이 억제자로의 기능 외에도 줄기세포 니쉬에서도 그 역할이 밝혀졌다. 골수에서 분화재생능력이 뛰어난 최상위 조혈모세포(LT-HSC)에서 CD82가 발현되며, DARC와의 상호결합으로 줄기세포의 휴면을 유도한다. 줄기세포의 휴면 조절 외에도, CD82는 Rac1 활성 조절을 통해 조혈모세포의 골수로의 귀환 및 생착에도 역할을 한다. 또한, CD82는 근육 줄기 세포의 분화능을 유지시키며, 혈관 내피세포에서 세포 접착 분자와 IL-6, VEGF와 같은 사이토카인의 발현을 저해하여 혈관 신생을 억제한다. CD82는 다양한 조직 및 줄기-전구 세포에서 계급을 구별할 수 있는 핵심 세포막 표면 단백질이며, 세포 자원의 증폭 및 검증에 있어 중요하다. 다양한 기관과 세포에서 CD82의 역할과 추가적인 연구들이 줄기세포치료의 임상적 적용에 있어 큰 도움이 되기를 기대한다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제85권1호
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• pp.34-43
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• 1996

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 지리산(智異山)의 아고산대(亞高山帶)에 분포(分布)하고 있는 구상나무 임분(林分)에 대한 식생구조(植生構造)와 상층(上層)의 피도(被度)에 따른 유묘(幼苗)와 치수(稚樹)의 발생(發生)과 생육동태(生育動態)를 조사(調査)하였다. 구상나무 임분(林分)의 밀도(密度)는 상층(上層)보다 중층(中層)에서 높게 나타났으나, 평균면속(平均面續), 개체간(個體間)의 거리(距離)에서는 상층(上層)이 높았으며, 그리고 상층(上層)은 규칙분포(規則分布)를 하고 있었다. 상층(上層)의 피도(被度)에 따른 유묘(幼苗)와 치수(稚樹)의 발생밀도(發生密度)는 25% 내외(內外)의 약도(弱度)에서 가장 높았고, 다음은 50% 내외(內外)의 중용도(中庸度), 임분(林分)의 측방순(側方順)이였으며, 75% 내외의 강도(强度) 임분(林分)에서는 가장 낮았다. 그리고 치수(稚樹)의 연년생장량(連年生長量)과 최근 5년간(年間)의 생장량(生長量)은 측방(側方)의 임분(林分)에서 가장 양호(良好)하였으며, 상층(上層)의 울폐도(鬱閉度)가 높아질수록 점차 저하(低下)되였다. 상층(上層)의 피도(被度)가 낮은 임분(林分)에서는 10-20년생(年生)의 치수(稚樹)가 많았고, 상층(上層)의 피도(被度)가 높은 임분(林分)에서는 20-30년생(年生) 치수(稚樹)가 많았다. 상층임분(上層林分)의 측방(側方)에서 정상적으로 생장(生長)하는 A형(型)은 임내(林內)의 울폐도(鬱閉度)가 증가(增加)할수록 극히 감소(減少)하였고, 반면 피압(被壓)에 의한 생장(生長)이 억제(抑制)되거나 중지(中止)된 D, E형(型)의 출현율(出現率)은 급격히 높아졌다. 이상의 결과(結果)에서 상층목(上層木)의 측방(側方) 또는 gap에서는 정상적으로 자라 원추형(圓錐型)의 수형(樹形)을 나타내고 있었으나, 상층목(上層木)의 피도(被度)가 높아질수록 치수(稚樹)는 피압(被壓)되어 가지의 간격이 좁고 정단부(頂端部)의 생장(生長)이 억제(抑制)된 산형(傘型)의 치수(稚樹)가 증가(增加)되고 있었다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.96-109
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• 2024

Background: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government initiated the Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project including regeneration and afforestation approaches. An effort was made to assess the distribution characteristics of afforested species under present and future climatic scenarios using ecological niche modelling. For sustainable forest management, landscape ecology can play a significant role. A significant change in the potential distribution of tree species is expected globally with changing climate. Ecological niche modeling provides the valuable information about the current and future distribution of species that can play crucial role in deciding the potential sites for afforestation which can be used by government institutes for afforestation programs. In this context, the potential distribution of 8 tree species, Cedrus deodara, Dalbergia sissoo, Juglans regia, Pinus wallichiana, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Senegalia modesta, Populus ciliata, and Vachellia nilotica was modeled. Results: Maxent species distribution model was used to predict current and future distribution of tree species using bioclimatic variables along with soil type and elevation. Future climate scenarios, shared socio-economic pathways (SSP)2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 were considered for the years 2041-2060 and 2081-2100. The model predicted high risk of decreasing potential distribution under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 climate change scenarios for years 2041-2060 and 2081-2100, respectively. Recent afforestation conservation sites of these 8 tree species do not fall within their predicted potential habitat for SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 climate scenarios. Conclusions: Each tree species responded independently in terms of its potential habitat to future climatic conditions. Cedrus deodara and P. ciliata are predicted to migrate to higher altitude towards north in present and future climate scenarios. Habitat of D. sissoo, P. wallichiana, J. regia, and V. nilotica is practiced to be declined in future climate scenarios. Eucalyptus camaldulensis is expected to be expanded its suitability area in future with eastward shift. Senegalia modesta habitat increased in the middle of the century but decreased afterwards in later half of the century. The changing and shifting forests create challenges for sustainable landscapes. Therefore, the study is an attempt to provide management tools for monitoring the climate change-driven shifting of forest landscapes.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.291-307
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• 2016

전 세계적인 그리고 국가적인 규모에서 멸종위기야생식물의 멸종위험 평가와 더불어 지역적인 규모에서의 멸종위험평가는 직접적인 보전활동의 계획과 실행에 있어 대단히 중요하다. 우리나라 중동부지역에는 34종의 멸종위기야생식물이 분포하였다. 각각의 종에 대해 분포지, 분포면적, 개체수 및 개체군의 소멸에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 요인을 조사하였다. 조사결과에 따라 각각의 종이 소유하고 있는 생활사 특성을 포함한 10가지 평가항목을 바탕으로 위험요인을 평가하였다. 34종에 대한 위험요인 평가결과 첫째, 다수의 위험요인이 존재하고 심각한 훼손압력에 노출되어 있어 적극적이고 시급한 생육지 보전활동이 필요한 12종, 둘째, 소수의 직접적인 위험요인을 제거하는 것으로 개체군의 지속이 가능한 16종, 셋째, 비교적 넓은 분포지와 많은 개체수에 따라 소극적인 관리를 통해서도 개체군의 지속이 가능한 6종으로 구분되었다. 멸종위기야생식물에 있어 가장 큰 위험요인은 인구의 증가, 개발, 채취에 따른 생육지와 개체군의 소멸이었다. 또한 식생환경의 변화로 인한 적합한 생육지의 감소와 재정착의 기작이 정상적으로 작동하지 않는 생태계 건강성의 상실이 또 다른 원인이 될 수 있다. 본 조사가 이루어진 지역에서 멸종위기야생식물의 분포지와 출현 빈도 및 중요도를 바탕으로 5개 권역별을 제시하였다. 그리고 각 권역의 특성에 따른 보전 전략을 제시하였다. 우리는 멸종위기야생식물의 멸종위험에 대한 평가는 분포현황정보 뿐만 아니라 종의 생활사 특성을 포함하는 평가방법이 필요함을 제안한다. 뿐만 아니라 개체군동태와 생태적 지위에 대한 이해가 필요함을 제안한다.