• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2008

포배의 분화는 배아의 착상에 있어 핵심적인 단계로 배아 자체 또는 생식수관에서 유래하는 조절요인의 조절을 받는다. 이들 조절요인과 포배와의 순차적인 신호의 주고 받음은 분화의 중요한 단계로 인식되고 있다. 한편, 포배기 때 자유 칼슘을 통한 신호전달경로가 포배의 분화에 중요한 축의 하나로 제안되어 왔다. Concanavalin A(Con A)가 포배의 자유 칼슘 농도 증감을 유도한다는 것을 밝혀졌으나, 포배 내 자유 칼슘 농도를 변형시켜 부화와 그 이후의 발생을 촉진하는 것으로 알려진 heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor(HB-EGF)와는 달리 팽창 이후의 부화를 억제하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 착상과정에서 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 알려진 prostaglandin $E_2(PGE_2)$가 포배의 분화에 관여하는지를 Con A와 연계하여 알아보았다. Con A는 그 처리 시간에 관계없이 1시간 처리군 그리고 계속처리군에서 팽창은 촉진하고 부화는 유의하게 억제하였다. 특히 계속처리군에서 부화율이 1시간 처리군에 비하여 유의하게 감소하였다. 또한, $PGE_2$도 포배 내 자율 칼슘 농도를 증가시켰으나 팽창과 부화를 촉진하지 않았다. 또한, $10{\mu}m\;PGE_2$ 농도에서는 부화가 억제되는 경향을 보였다. 그러나 흥미롭게도 $PGE_2$는 Con A가 처리된 포배의 부화를 촉진하였다. Con A를 전처리한 포배에 $PGE_2$를 처리할 경우 포배 내 자유 칼슘의 농도 증감이 진행됨을 공촛점현미경을 이용하여 분석할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 신호물질에 의해 유도된 자유 칼슘 농도의 증감이 신호물질에 따른 각기 다른 칼슘 매개로 활성화되는 신호경로를 조절하는 것을 추정할 수 있다. 또한, 순차적 신호물질 조절에 의한 자유 칼슘의 농도 증감이 포배의 분화에 있어 중요함을 제안한다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2017

Intracellular calcium ($Ca^{2+}$) oscillation is an initial event in digestive enzyme secretion of pancreatic acinar cells. Reactive oxygen species are known to be associated with a variety of oxidative stress-induced cellular disorders including pancreatitis. In this study, we investigated the effect of hydrogen peroxide ($H_2O_2$) on intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ accumulation in mouse pancreatic acinar cells. Perfusion of $H_2O_2$ at $300{\mu}M$ resulted in additional elevation of intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ levels and termination of oscillatory $Ca^{2+}$ signals induced by carbamylcholine (CCh) in the presence of normal extracellular $Ca^{2+}$. Antioxidants, catalase or DTT, completely prevented $H_2O_2$-induced additional $Ca^{2+}$ increase and termination of $Ca^{2+}$ oscillation. In $Ca^{2+}$-free medium, $H_2O_2$ still enhanced CCh-induced intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ levels and thapsigargin (TG) mimicked $H_2O_2$-induced cytosolic $Ca^{2+}$ increase. Furthermore, $H_2O_2$-induced elevation of intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ levels was abolished under sarco/endoplasmic reticulum $Ca^{2+}$ ATPase-inactivated condition by TG pretreatment with CCh. $H_2O_2$ at $300{\mu}M$ failed to affect store-operated $Ca^{2+}$ entry or $Ca^{2+}$ extrusion through plasma membrane. Additionally, ruthenium red, a mitochondrial $Ca^{2+}$ uniporter blocker, failed to attenuate $H_2O_2$-induced intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ elevation. These results provide evidence that excessive generation of $H_2O_2$ in pathological conditions could accumulate intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ by attenuating refilling of internal $Ca^{2+}$ stores rather than by inhibiting $Ca^{2+}$ extrusion to extracellular fluid or enhancing $Ca^{2+}$ mobilization from extracellular medium in mouse pancreatic acinar cells.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2002

The effect of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) on three human monocyte cell lines at different stages of differentiation was investigated. While the viability of HL-60 cells or U-937 cells was not significantly affected by HCMV infection, the viability of THP-1 cells was reduced. Acridine orange/ethidiurn bromide staining revealed that the reduction of THP-1 cell viability was due to increased apoptotic death following HCMV infection. Apoptosis in HL-60 cells was not affected by HCMV infection, and induction of apoptosis of U-937 cells by HCMV was intermediate between HL-60 and THP-1 cells. Since HL-60 cells are the least differentiated and THP-1 cells are the most differentiated, the induction of apoptosis of human monocytes appears to be related to the degree of cell differentiation. Flow cytometric and confocal microscopic studies using fluorescent calcium indicator Fluo-3 suggested a significant increase in intracellular free calcium concentration (［Ca$\^$2+/］i) in THP-1 cells undergoing apoptosis by HCMV infection. Again ［Ca$\^$2+/］i in HCMV-infected HL-60 cells was not critically altered, and that in HCMV-infected U-937 cells was intermediate between THP-1 cells and HL-60 cells. Calcium influx blockers such as verapamil and nifedipine partially reversed HCMV-induced apoptosis in THP-1 cells.

• 대한약리학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 1996

고양이 담낭근에서 효소학적으로 분리한 평활근 세포는 cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8), acetylcholine (ACh) 및 KCl에 의하여 용량에 의존하여 수축하였다. 이들 효현제 (CCK-5, ACh 및 KCl)에 의한 평활근 세포의 최대수축은 각각$10^{-9}M$, $10^{-5}M$ 및 20mM 농도에서 야기되었다. CCK-8에 의하여 야기되는 이들 평활근 세포의 수축은 HEPES 완충액에 $Ca^{2+}$을 제거시킴에 의하여 영향을 받지 아니하였으나, $Ca^{2+}$ 대신에 strontium을 첨가시켰을때 수축반응이 완전하게 억제되었다 (p<0.001). 이와는 반대로 KCl에 의한 수축반응은 strontium 치환에 의하여 영향을 받지 아니하고 HEPES 완충액에 $Ca^{2+}$을 제거시킴에 의하여 억제되었다 (p<0.01). ACh에 의하여 야기되는 수축반응은 세포 외액의 $Ca^{2+}$을 제거시킴에 의하여 중등도의 억제반응이 야기되었으나 (p<0.05) strontium에 의하여 영향을 받지 아니하였다. Saponin으로 세포 투과성 변동을 야기시킨 근세포에서 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate $(IP_3)$와 CCK-8은 수축반응을 일으켰고, 이러한 수축반응은 calmodulin 길항제인 CGS 9343B에 의하여 차단되었으며 (p<0.001), heparin은 CCK-8 및 $IP_3$의 작용을 완전하게 봉쇄하였다 (p<0.001). 그러나 이러한 수축반응에 있어서 protein kinase C 길항제인 H7은 아무런 작용을 나타내지 못하였다. 이러한 결과로 볼 때 CCK-8에 의하여 야기된 고양이 담낭근 세포의 수축반응은 $IP_3$에 의하여 세포내 저장소로부터 유리된 $Ca^{2+}$과 calmodulin에 의존적인 과정에 의하여 매개되어 지는 것으로 생각된다. 또한 ACh는 세포외액의 $Ca^{2+}$ 뿐만 아니라 세포내 저장소의 $Ca^{2+}$ 모두를 이용하며, KCl은 전적으로 세포외액의 $Ca^{2+}$에 의존적인 형태로 calmodulin과는 무관하게 고양이 담낭근 세포의 수축반응을 야기시키는 것으로 사료된다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.13-29
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• 1988

In order to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of intracellular calcium ion concentrations, contractions or contractures induced by $Na^{+}-removal$, calcium-application or ouabain-treatment as an index of $Na^+/Ca^{2+}$ exchange activity were studied in atrial muscle or vascular smooth muscle (aorta and renal artery) of the rabbit. The magnitude of low sodium contractures in atrial trabeculae increased with sigmoid shape when external sodium concentrations were reduced to sodium-free condition, whereas that of calcium contracture intensified in a parabolic pattern when external calcium concentrations were elevated to 8 mM. $Na^{+}-removal$ contractures were induced in a duration-dependent manner to $K^{+}-free$ exposure and same findings were observed with ouabain treatment. $Na^{+}-free$ contractures were not affected by verapamil treatment, but stimulated by $100{\mu}M\;Mn^{2+}$ and inhibited by high concentrations of $Mn^{2+}\;(2{\sim}8mM)$ in a dose-dependent manner. Ryanodine which is known to suppress the release of calcium from internal store abolished spontaneous twitch contractions induced by $K^{+}-free$ solution, but had no effect on the development $Na^{+}-free$ contractures. Na-free contractures were not always induced in vascular smooth muscle preparations. Contractures by $O\;mM\;Na^+$ were usually seen in aorta, but not often in renal artery.$50\;mM\;K^+$, noradrenaline (NA) and angiotensin II (AII) always evoked very large contraction in all preparations of vascular smooth muscle. Contractures developed by $O\;mM\;Na^+$ were not sensitive to verapamil treatment as in atrial trabeculae, but were abolished by $100{\mu}M\;Mn^{2+}$. In contrast to $Na^{+}-free$ contractures, $Mn^{2+}(100{\mu}M)$ had no effect on the contractures induced by NA or 50 mM$K^+$. Caffeine in the concentration of 10 mM evoked transient contracture in the distal renal artery. The rate of spontaneous relaxation in caffeine contracture was dependent upon the concentrations of external sodium, and had double component of relaxation when the rate of relaxation was plotted in the semilogarithmic scale of relative tension versus time. Especially late components of relaxation had more direct relation to $Na^+$ concentrations. It could be concluded that $Na^+/Ca^{2+}$ exchange mechanism in the heart has a large capacity, inhibited by $Mn^{2+}$ but not by verapamil and ryanodine, while $Na^+/Ca^{2+}$ exchange system in vascular smooth muscle has a very low capacity especially in small artery, inhibited by low concentration of $Mn^{2+}\;(100{\mu}M)$ but not affected by verapamil and ryanodine.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.55-67
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• 1991

The influence of caffeine on secretion of catecholamines (CA) was examined in the isolated perfused rat adrenal gland. Caffeine (0.3 mM) perfused into an adrenal vein of the gland produced a marked increase in secretion of CA. This secretory effect of CA evoked by perfusion of caffeine for one minute was considerably prolonged, lasting for more than 90 minutes. The tachyphylaxis to releasing effect of CA induced by caffeine was observed by repeated perfusion of this drug. The caffeine-evoked CA secretion was markedly inhibited by pretreatment with ouabain, trifluoperazine, TMB-8 and perfusion with calcium-free Krebs solution containing 5 mM EGTA, but was not affected by perfusion of calcium-free Krebs solution without other addition. CA secretion evoked by caffeine was not reduced significantly by pretreatment with chlorisondamine but after the first collection of perfusate for 3 min was clearly inhibited. Interestingly, the caffeine-evoked CA secretion was considerably potentiated by pretreatment with atropine or pirenzepine, but after the first collection for 3 min it was markedly decreased. These experimental results suggest that caffeine causes a marked increase in secretion of CA from the isolated perfused rat adrenal gland by an extracellular calcium-independent exocytotic mechanism. The secretory effect of caffeine may be mainly due to mobilization of calcium from an intracellular calcium pool in the rat chromaffin cells and partly due to stimulation of both muscarinic and nicotinic receptors.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.901-913
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• 1989

This study was investigated under the postulation that activation of intracellular calcium- calmodulin complex during ischemia-reperfusion leads to myocardial injury. The protective effects of calcium channel blocker, diltiazem and calmodulin inhibitors, trifluoperazine, flunarizine and calmidazolium from ischemic injury in rat hearts were observed by using Langendorff apparatus when the antagonists were infused for 3 min in the beginning of ischemia. Thereby, an increase in resting tension developed during 30-min ischemia was analyzed with regard to [1] the degree of cardiac functional recovery following 60-min reperfusion, [2] changes in biochemical variables evoked during 30-min ischemia. The results obtained were as follows: l. In the ischemic group, the resting tension was increased by 4.1*0.2 g at 30-min ischemia. However, the increase in resting tension was markedly reduced not only by pretreatment with diltiazem [3.3 p M] but also with calmodulin inhibitors, trifluoperazine [3.3 p M], flunarizine [0.5 p M] and calmidazolium [0.5 p M], respectively. 2. Recovery of myocardial contractility, +dF /dt and coronary flow were much reduced when evoked by reperfusion in the ischemic group. These variables were significantly improved either by pretreatment with diltiazem or with calmodulin inhibitors. 3. The resting tension increment evoked during ischemia was significantly inversely correlated with the degree of cardiac function recovered during reperfusion. 4. Following 30-min ischemia, the production of malondialdehyde and release of lysosomal enzyme were much increased in association with a decrease in creatine kinase activity. 5. The increases in malondialdehyde production and release of free lysosomal enzyme were suppressed by pretreatment with calmodulin inhibitors as well as diltiazem. Likewise, the decrease of creatine kinase activities was prevented by these calcium antagonists. With these results, it is indicated that a increase in resting tension observed during ischemia has an inverse relationship to the cardiac function recovered following reperfusion, and further, the later may be significantly dependent on the degree of biochemical alterations occurred during ischemia such as decrease in creatine kinase activity, increased production of malondialdehyde and increased release of free lysosomal enzyme. Thus it is concluded that calmodulin plays a pivotal role in the process of ischemic injury.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.525-530
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• 2014

Transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) was originally found in sensory neurons. Recently, it has been reported that TRPV1 is expressed in salivary gland epithelial cells (SGEC). However, the physiological role of TRPV1 in salivary secretion remains to be elucidated. We found that TRPV1 is expressed in mouse and human submandibular glands (SMG) and HSG cells, originated from human submandibular gland ducts at both mRNA and protein levels. However, capsaicin (CAP), TRPV1 agonist, had little effect on intracellular free calcium concentration ($[Ca^{2+}]_i$) in these cells, although carbachol consistently increased $[Ca^{2+}]_i$. Exposure of cells to high temperature (> $43^{\circ}C$) or acidic bath solution (pH5.4) did not increase $[Ca^{2+}]_i$, either. We further examined the role of TRPV1 in salivary secretion using TRPV1 knock-out mice. There was no significant difference in the pilocarpine (PILO)-induced salivary flow rate between wild-type and TRPV1 knock-out mice. Saliva flow rate also showed insignificant change in the mice treated with PILO plus CAP compared with that in mice treated with PILO alone. Taken together, our results suggest that although TRPV1 is expressed in SGEC, it appears not to play any direct roles in saliva secretion via transcellular pathway.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.187-191
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• 1999

Using fluorescent probe fura-2 acetoxymethyl ester, we studied effects of N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) on free intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ concentration ([$Ca^{2+}$]$_{i}$) and interaction of ethanol with NMDA-mediated response in freshly dissociated brain cells from newborn rats. Twenty five micromolar NMDA significantly increased ($Ca^{2+}$), and this increasing effect could be prevented or reversed by the NMDA antagonists $Mg^{2}$(1.0 mM) and 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (AP5, 100 ${\mu}$M). Ethanol at concentrations from 2.5 to 100 mM inhibited NMDA-mediated calcium current in a concentration-dependent manner. Maximal inhibition of NMDA-mediated calcium current by ethanol was 82% at 50 mM. The ethanol inhibition at 100 mM was not significantly different from the inhibition at 50 mM.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.3981-3986
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• 2014

Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides (GLP) extracted from Ganoderma lucidum have been shown to induce cell death in some kinds of cancer cells. This study investigated the cytotoxic and apoptotic effect of GLP on HCT-116 human colon cancer cells and the molecular mechanisms involved. Cell proliferation, cell migration, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and intracellular free calcium levels ($[Ca^{2+}]i$) were determined by MTT, wound-healing, LDH release and fluorescence assays, respectively. Cell apoptosis was observed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. For the mechanism studies, caspase-8 activation, and Fas and caspase-3 expression were evaluated. Treatment of HCT-116 cells with various concentrations of GLP (0.625-5 mg/mL) resulted in a significant decrease in cell viability (P< 0.01). This study showed that the antitumor activity of GLP was related to cell migration inhibition, cell morphology changes, intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ elevation and LDH release. Also, increase in the levels of caspase-8 activity was involved in GLP-induced apoptosis. Western blotting indicated that Fas and caspase-3 protein expression was up-regulated after exposure to GLP. This investigation demonstrated for the first time that GLP shows prominent anticancer activities against the HCT-116 human colon cancer cell line through triggering intracellular calcium release and the death receptor pathway.