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Effect of Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture on Sleep-related Hormones, Cognition in Psychosocial Stress-induced Rats (황칠(黃漆) 약침이 정신 스트레스를 받은 백서의 수면 관련 호르몬, 인지에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Yun-Song;Lee, Yu-Mi;Na, Chang-Su;Lim, Jung-Hwa;Kim, Bo-Kyung
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.341-355
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to check the therapeutic effect of the Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture for insomnia and cognition caused by psychosocial stress. Methods: We separated Wistar rats (older than age 10 weeks, 300 g) into normal, control, positive control (Zolpidem administered, PC), and Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture experimental groups (DPA). Psychosocial stress such as circadian rhythm change, clammy straw, predator stress, restraint stress, noise bursts, and flashing lights were applied to the control, PC, DPA groups. The Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture group was given 0.5×, 1× and 2× amount concentration of Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture, respectively. The levels of Melatonin, Serotonin, Corticosterone, GABA, BDNF and CREB were measured, and the Y-maze test, weight and blood test were performed. Results: In all of the DPA groups, the Melatonin level showed no noticeable difference. In the DPA-2x group, Serotonin increased significantly. In all the experimental groups, Corticosterone decreased significantly and GABA showed increasing tendency. The DPA-1x and DPA-2x groups showed remarkable increase in BDNF and DPA-0.5x and the DPA-2x groups showed significant increase in CREB. The DPA-2x group showed remarkable increase in the Alternation behavior category of the Y-maze test. In all of the experimental groups the weight change showed increasing tendency, whereas no noticeable differences were found among all experimental groups regarding AST, ALT, BUN, Creatinine and CBC. Conclusions: Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture increases levels of serotonin and GABA, decreases corticosterone, increases levels of BDNF and CREB, and increases the ratio of alternation behavior in the Y-maze test. Thus, I suggest that Dendropanax morbifera Pharmacopuncture has the effect of treating insomnia caused by psychosocial stress, activating the brain, and improving cognition.

Effects of Anticancer Drug Delivery based on Microbubble and Microbubble-Nanoparticle Complex using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound in Breast Cancer Animal Model (유방암 동물모델에서의 저강도 집속초음파를 이용한 마이크로버블 및 마이크로버블-나노물질 복합체 기반 항암제 전달 효율 검증)

  • Baek, Hee Gyu;Ha, Shin-Woo;Huh, Hyungkyu;Jung, Byeongjin;Han, Mun;Moon, Hyungwon;Kim, Sangkyun;Lee, Hak Jong;Park, Juyoung
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2019
  • Ultrasound sonication along with microbubble (MB) could enhance drug delivery to promote the absorption of anticancer drugs into cancers in a noninvasive and targeted manners. In this study, we verify the acute drug delivery enhancement (within an hour) of two representative focused ultrasound driven drug delivery enhancement methods (MB and Doxorubicin-coated Nanoparticle complex (MB-NP) based). Experiments were conducted using in vivo mouse model with MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line. Ultrasound generated by single-element 1 MHz focused ultrasound transducer was delivered in pulsed sonication consisted of 0.125 msec bursts at a pulse repetition frequency of 2 Hz for 20 seconds without a significant increase in local temperature (less than $0.1^{\circ}C$) or hemorrhage. Doxorubicin concentrations in tumors were improved by 1.97 times in the case of MB-NP, and 1.98 times by using Doxorubicin and MB separately. These results indicate anticancer drug delivery based on MB and MB-NP can significantly improve the effect of anticancer drugs delivered to tumors in a short time period by using low-intensity focused ultrasound.