• Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.47-55
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• 1989

Quantitative analyses were made of pepsinogen 1 (Pg 1) decreased pyloric glands after treating male Wistar rats with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and NaCl and then with various test chemicals. Animals received MNNG in drinking water (100ng/ml) and 10% NaCl in diet for 8 weeks (group1), followed by basal diet containing 0.01% capsaicin, 0.5% allyl sulfide, 0.5% indole-3-carbinol and 0.05% germanium until 20 weeks (groups 2-5).

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.566-570
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• 2006

Exposure to ultraviolet B(UVB) radiation causes skin inflammation such as pigmentation and the induction of cyclooxygenase-2(COX-2) gene expression. In this study, we investigated the effect of natural extracts from Tea, EGb 761 and Korean red ginseng(KRG), on the pigmentation and expression of COX-1 and COX-2 mRNA in UVB-irradiated C57BL/6 mice. Before UVB irradiation, the skin color was significantly showed the lightening effect by topical application of natural compounds (p<.05). In the case of UVB irradiated mice, we observed a decrease in pigmentation by compounds (p<.05). In irradiated skin, COX-1 mRNA expression is not changed following UVB irradiation, but COX-2 gene increases. Also, natural compounds lowered mRNA levels of COX-2. Therefore, these results suggest that COX-2 mRNA increases by UVB irradiation. Also, Tea, EGb 761 and KRG as a topical application may inhibit skin pigmentation and modulate COX-2 mRNA level.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.235-240
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• 2004

본 연구는 비만세포의 일종인 RBL-2H3 세포주에 대한 hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA)의 세포독성 유도 기전이 telomerase의 활성과 관계가 있다는 것에 대한 보고이다. RBL-2H3 세포주에 5mM HMBA를 처리시 그 세포주의 세포성장이 억제 되었다. 기전연구로서 HMBA는 telomerase활성을 억제 하였으며 RT-PCR에 의한 결과 telomerase mRNA발현의 억제에 의한 것이었다. Madl은 telomerase의 발현을 억제하는 억제인자로 잘 알려져 왔으며 이를 확인해본 결과 Madl은 발현은 유의성있게 증가 되었다. 이를 종합해보면, HMBA에 의한 RBL-2H3 세포주에 대한 세포독성은 Madl 발현의 증가에 따른 telomerase발현의 억제에 기인하는 것으로 밝혀졌다.

• Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.311-317
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• 2008

Zebrafish were exposed to commercial silver nanoparticles (${\sim}$10-20 nm) at 0.4 and 4 ppm during cadual fin regeneration. The silver was in the $Ag^+$ ionic form. Fin regeneration was slow in the group exposed to the lower concentration. The cadual fin, gill, and muscle were assayed after 48 hours and subjected to histological analysis. In all tissues sampled, fish exposed to nanoparticles exhibited infiltration, large mitochondria with empty matrices, and accumulation of nano-sized silver in blood vessels. The results suggested mitochondrial damage and induction of inflammation. Microarray analysis of RNA from young zebrafish (52 hours post-fertilization) that were exposed to nanometer-sized silver particles, showed alteration in expression of the p53 gene pathway related to apoptosis. Gene expression changes in the nanoparticle-treated zebrafish led to phenotypic changes, reflecting increased apoptosis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.1 s.149
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• pp.167-175
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to clarify the expansion of functions of clothes by analyzing the characteristics of transformation, and to forecast future trends in fashion through systematization of the aforementioned analyses. Analysis of 20th century Modernism and Post-Modernism in a sociocultural sense confirms that transformation in clothes was formed by environmental, functional, deconstructive, and expressive factors. In this sense, the formative factors mentioned above conceptually include nomadic characteristics, usefulness, irregularity, and expressiveness. The nomadic characteristics found in clothes transformation signify the change of clothes into environmental nomadic everyday implements, used as tools for the body. Usefulness of clothes means that it is worn for variability, multipurpose multi-functionality, and combined multiple use. Irregularity means the clothes can change indefinitely, according to random manipulation on the wearer's part. Last of all, expressiveness conveys the designer's internal sensitivity and imagination onto an external object through the induction of various expressive factors.

• Proceedings of the Korea Environmental Mutagen Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.138-138
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• 2003

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.420-424
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• 1996

Effects of exogenous veratryl alcohol addition on the growth of basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium ME-446 and the induction of lignin peroxidase activity were investigated in this study. The organism was grown in ligninolytic (low-nitrogen) culture conditions in which extracellular enzymes are produced. Analyses showed that a statistically significant decrease of cell growth was associated with the veratryl alcohol addition. The effect of veratryl alcohol addition on LiP activity was nearly instantaneous and this effect diminished with culture aging. The extent of this effect was different depending on the time of addition, which led to a speculation that there might be some other effector species which played a role in regulation of lignin peroxidase activity.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2001

A common used endpoint in bioassays testing the estrogenicity of chemicals including endocrine disruptors is the induction of egg yolk Precursor vitellogenin in male fish. Two marine fishes (Sebastes schlegeli and Paralichthys olivaceus) were exposed to the 17$\beta$-estradiol(E2) to determine the vitellogenin production. Vitellogenin was measured in fish blood using SDS-PAGE and Densimetry. Results showed that exposure to E2 caused vitellogenin in male fish. Especially, vitellogenin levels in young fish were about 4 times higher than in adult fish, which means young fish are more sensitive to E2 exposure. And plasma vitellogenin in fish increased related to E2 concentration and exposure duration.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.12 no.3_4
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• pp.15-22
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• 1997

This experiment was performed to examine the immuno-reactive characteristics of fish metal-binding protein, metallothionein (MT), and gain the practical understandings for the proposed use of fish MT as a biomarker. Liver MT induced by Cd in the silver carp was seperated and purified by gel filtration chromatography and ion exchange chromatography. The immuno-reactivity of fish MT was examined with 3 rabbit antisera. Fish MT showed little reactivity with rabbit anti-rat MT antiserum and a weak reactivity with anti-MT peptide antiserum while showed a strong reactivity with rabbit anti-fish MT antiserum. The time-course change of liver MT in the silver carp, after waterborne exposure to 1 ppm of Cd, was checked by Cd-hem method and established competitive ELISA. In both cases, the induction of liver MT showed a good increasing relationship with the exposure days. The results indicate that the fish MT can be developed as a useful biomonitoring means in the toxicological study and for the evaluation of water pollution.

• Proceedings of the Korea Environmental Mutagen Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.141-142
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• 2001