• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.273-279
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• 2012

목적: 상악 정중과잉치의 영상진단 시 시행되는 콘빔 전산화단층촬영술에 대한 환자의 방사선 피폭을 유효선량으로 평가하고, 치근단 및 파노라마방사선촬영술의 방사선피폭과 비교하고자 하였다. 재료 및 방법: 선량 측정용 두경부 마네킨의 23부위에 열형광선량계 소자를 위치시키고 해당 방사선촬영술을 시행하였다. 열형광선량계 판독기로 흡수선량를 측정하고 방사선 조사된 조직의 비율을 곱하여 방사선 가중선량을 구한 후, 국제방사선방호위원회에서 2007년에 공지한 조직 가중계수를 이용하여 유효선량을 구하였다. 결과: 조직 및 기관의 흡수선량은 콘빔 전산화단층촬영술, 치근단방사선촬영술 그리고 파노라마방사선촬영술에서 뺨, 하악체, 이하선에서 가장 높았다. 유효선량은 콘빔 전산화단층촬영에서는 48 ${\mu}Sv$, 치근단방사선촬영술에서는 2 ${\mu}Sv$ 그리고 파노라마방사선촬영술에서는 18 ${\mu}Sv$였다. 결론: 상악 정중과잉치 진단 시, 추가적인 진단학적 정보를 제공하지만, 콘빔 전산화단층촬영술은 일반 치근단 및 파노라마 방사선촬영술보다 방사선피폭이 크다.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.198-201
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• 2004

천연발효물질인 프로폴리스를 이용하여 숙취 해소 음료를 개발하고 그에 따른 알콜 대사에 미치는 효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 프로폴리스 농축액과 다양한 약용식물의 농축액을 사용하여 숙취 해소 음료를 개발하였다. 배합원료 각각의 알콜 분해 능력을 검토한 결과, 프로폴리스와 가시오가피 추출액이 가장 큰 분해 능력을 보였다. 타 회사 제품과의 알콜 분해 능력을 비교한 경우 급성 주정 중독량 (kg당 4g)을 경구 투여하였을 때 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았다. 그러나 주정중독량 지표보다 약 1/3을 감소시킨 kg당 1.8 L의 술을 경구 투여한 경우, 프로폴리스 음료는 270분이 경과했을 때 0.026%, 360분이 경과했을 때에는 0.000%의 혈중알콜농도를 나타내었다. 이것으로 보아 프로폴리스 음료는 섭취알콜의 양이 많을 경우에는 큰 차이가 없었지만, 일정량의 알콜을 섭취할 경우에는 매우 뛰어난 알콜 분해 효능이 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2013

Objectives : During several thousand years, Peucedanum Japonicum Thunberg has been considered as a vegetable side dish in Korea. There is folk knowledge that Peucedanum Japonicum Thunberg prevents vascular disease such as stroke. To identify the effects Peucedanum Japonicum Thunberg, we made up its extract and named it as KH020. Then, we employed common carotid artery ligation (CCAl) surgery for vascular dementia model (VDM), and two types doses of per os (per oral: p.o) treatment. Methods : To confirm prevention and recovery effects for vascular dementia, we treated two doses (100, 400 mg/kg) KH020 in male C57BL/6 mouse during 7 days. After treatment, animals were CCAl operated, and given time to recover. Then, animal were tested in a Y-maze and passive avoidance test. Results : Y-maze results demonstrated that cognition and memory performance were decreased in the VDM group, compared to the sham group. KH020 treatment abolished these effects significantly. The results from the passive avoidance test showed the same phenomenon, but it was not statically significant. Conclusions : Therefore, KH020 prevents the onset of vascular dementia. In future studies, we will evaluate KH020 in regard to alzheimer dementia.

• 대한약침학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2016

Objectives: Lung cancer remains a deadly disease with unsatisfactory overall survival. Cisplatin, a standard platinum (Pt)-based chemotherapeutic agent, has the potential to inhibit the growth of lung cancer. Its use, however, is occasionally limited by severe organ toxicity. However, until now, no systematic study has been conducted to verify its efficacy with proper experimental support in vivo. Therefore, we examined whether biosynthesized Pt nanoparticles (NPs) inhibited human lung cancer in vitro and in vivo to validate their use in alternative and complementary medicine. Methods: We evaluated the in vitro and the in vivo anticancer efficiencies of biosynthesized Pt NPs in a subcutaneous xenograft model with A549 cells. Severe combined immune deficient mice (SCID) were divided into four groups: group 1 being the vehicle control group and groups 2, 3 and 4 being the experimental groups. Once the tumor volume had reached $70-75mm^3$, the progression profile of the tumor growth kinetics and the body weights of the mice were measured every week for 6 weeks after oral administration of Pt NPs. Doses of Pt NPs of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 mg/kg of body weight were administered to the experimental groups and a dose of honey was administered to the vehicle control group. The efficacy was quantified by using the delay in tumor growth following the administration of Pt NPs of A549 human-lung-cancer xenografts growing in SCID mice. Results: The in vitro cytotoxicity evaluation indicated that Pt NPs, in a dose-dependent manner, inhibited the growth of A549 cells, and the in vivo evaluation showed that Pt NPs at the mid and high doses effectively inhibited and delayed the growth of lung cancer in SCID mice. Conclusion: These findings confirm the antitumor properties of biosynthesized Pt NPs and suggest that they may be a cost-effective alternative for the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2009

The pathogenicity and acute toxicity of Lactobacillus (L.) pentosus PL11 from eel (Anguilla japonica) were investigated using male and female Sprague-Dawley rats. The pathogenicity of L. pentosus PL11 was examined after treating the rats with $10^{11}$ CFU/mL, $10^9$ CFU/mL or $10^7$ CFU/mL doses of L. pentosus PL11 culture or 0.85% NaCl (Control) intragastrically. For acute toxicity studies, rats were treated with dried culture broth of L. pentosus PL11 at doses of 5,000 mg/mL, 2,500 mg/mL, 1,250 mg/mL or 625 mg/mL or Lactobacilli MRS broth (Control), and clinical signs or mortalities were monitored for two weeks. The results of the present investigation revealed no mortalities or obvious clinical signs in rats administered with the live bacterial cultures or dried culture broth at any investigated dose level. Also, no significant differences were observed in net body weight gain, gross pathological findings, feed and water consumption and body temperature among the different treatment groups and between the treated and control rats. It can be concluded from the above findings that L. pentosus PL11 is a safe probiotic strain with potential as feed additive to increase the feed efficiency or health of fish.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.314-320
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• 2014

This study was investigated to know whether pachymic acid (PA), one of the predominant triterpenoids in Poria cocos (Hoelen) has the sedative-hypnotic effects, and underlying mechanisms are mediated via ${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic systems. Oral administration of PA markedly suppressed locomotion activity in mice. This compound also prolonged sleeping time, and reduced sleep latency showing synergic effects with muscimol (0.2 mg/kg) in shortening sleep onset and enhancing sleep time induced by pentobarbital, both at the hypnotic (40 mg/kg) and sub-hypnotic (28 mg/kg) doses. Additionally, PA elevated intracellular chloride levels in hypothalamic primary cultured neuronal cells of rats. Moreover, Western blotting quantitative results showed that PA increased the amount of protein level expression of $GAD_{65/67}$ over a broader range of doses. PA increased ${\alpha}$- and ${\beta}$-subunits protein levels, but decreased ${\gamma}$-subunit protein levels in $GABA_A$ receptors. The present experiment provides evidence for the hypnotic effects as PA enhanced pentobarbital-induced sleeping behaviors via $GABA_A$-ergic mechanisms in rodents. Taken together, it is proposed that PA may be useful for the treatment of sleep disturbed subjects with insomnia.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.108-122
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• 2000

Background: Models of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) that have proposed a hypodopaminergic state resulting in hypofunction of the prefrontal circuitry have assumed a unitary dopamine system, which largely ignores the distinct functional differences between mesocortical dopamine system and nigrostriatal dopamine system. Purpose: The author's goal was to develop a pathophysiological model for ADHD with greater explanotory power than dopaminergic hypofunction hypothesis in prefronal circuitry. Material and Methods: Published clinical findings on ADHD were integrated with data from genetic, pharmacological, neuroimaging studies in human and animals. Results: Molecular genetic studies suggest that three genes may increase the susceptibility to ADHD. The three candidate genes associated with ADHD are each involved in dopaminergic function, and this consistent with the neurobiologic studies implicating catecholamines in the etiology of ADHD. Pharmacological data also provide compelling support for dopamine and noradrenergic hypothesis of ADHD. Neuroimaging studies lend substantial support for the hypothesis that right-sided abnormalities of prefrontal-basal ganglia circuit would be found in ADHD. Conclusions: The present hypothesis takes advantage of the major differences between the two pertinent dopamine systems. Mesocortical dopamine system, which largely lacks inhibitory autoreceptors, is ideally positioned to regulate cortical inputs, thus improving the signal-to-noise ratio for biologically valued signals. In this circuit, therapeutic doses of stimulants are hypothesized to increase postsynaptic dopamine effects and enhance executive functions. By contrast, symptoms of hyperactivity/impulsivity in ADHD are hypothesized to be associated with relative overactivity of nigrostriatal circuit. This nigrostriatal circuit is tightly regulated by inhibitory autoreceptoors as well as by long distance feedback from the cortex, and slow diffusion of therapeutic doses of stimulant via oral administration is hypothesized to produce a net inhibition of dopaminergic neurotransmission and improves hyperactivity.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.430-440
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• 2001

본 연구에 사용된 Chloral hydrate는 바람직한 치과치료가 불가능한 소아환자의 진정 시 가장 흔히 사용되는 약물이다. 그러나 Chloral hydrate 단독투여 시 진정효과가 불안정하고 오심과 구토 등의 부작용이 나타나는 경우가 있다. 이 경우 약물의 추가투여는 과용량의 위험을 초래할 수 있기에 단독투여시의 부작용을 보완하고 상승효과를 기대하는 목적으로 Hydroxyzine과의 병용투여가 추천된다. 그러므로 각기 다른 용량의 Hydroxyzine을 병용 투여하여 각각의 진정효과를 평가하고자 하였다. 본 실험에서 Chloral hydrate와 Hydroxyzine의 병용 투여가 Chloral hydrate 단독투여 시보다 양호한 결과를 나타냈고, 이중 2mg/kg의 Hydroxyzine용량(III군)이 소아 환자를 위한 진정요법의 바람직한 용량으로 평가되었다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2013

This study was conducted to investigate the potential embryo-fetal toxicity and toxicokinetics of the antimalarial agent artesunate (ARTS) in Sprague-Dawley rats. Pregnant rats were administered ARTS daily from gestational day 6~15 via oral gavage, at test doses of 0, 2, 4, or 8 mg/kg (22 females per group). The fetuses were examined for external, visceral, and skeletal abnormalities on gestational day 20. With regard to the dams, there were no deaths, treatment-related clinical signs, changes in body weight, or food intake in any of the treatment groups. There were no treatment-related gross findings at necropsy in any treatment group. In the 8 mg/kg group, there was a decrease in gravid uterine weight and in the weight of female fetuses. There was also an increase in fetal deaths (primarily late resorptions) and an increase in post-implantation losses (37%) at 8 mg/kg. An increase in the incidence of visceral and skeletal variations at 4 and 8 mg/kg was observed. These defects included minor changes in the appearance of the kidney and thymus, as well as absent ribs or thoracic vertebrae. Toxicokinetics were assessed in a parallel study, using 4 mated females per group. Using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis, the concentration of ARTS and its metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) were quantified in plasma from rats on gestational days 5, 6, 10, and 15. Amniotic fluid was assayed for ARTS and DHA on gestational day 15. There was evidence of rapid conversion of ARTS to the metabolite DHA in maternal plasma, since ARTS could not be consistently detected in plasma at the three doses tested. ARTS and DHA were not detected in amniotic fluid at gestational day 15, indicating limited placental transfer of the two agents. The embryo-fetal no-observable-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) of the test item was considered to be 8 mg/kg/day for dams, and 2 mg/kg/day for embryo-fetal development.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.387-392
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• 2012

In this study, we examined the antinociceptive effect of Cyperi rhizoma (CR) and Corydalis tuber (CT) extracts using a chronic constriction injury-induced neuropathic pain rat model. After the ligation of sciatic nerve, neuropathic pain behavior such as mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia were rapidly induced and maintained for 1 month. Repeated treatment of CR or CT (per oral, 10 or 30 mg/kg, twice a day) was performed either in induction (day 0~5) or maintenance (day 14~19) period of neuropathic pain state. Treatment of CR or CT at doses of 30 mg/kg in the induction and maintenance periods significantly decreased the nerve injury-induced mechanical allodynia. In addition, CR and CT at doses of 10 or 30 mg/kg alleviated thermal heat hyperalgesia when they were treated in the maintenance period. Finally, CR or CT (30 mg/kg) treated during the induction period remarkably reduced the nerve injury-induced phosphorylation of NMDA receptor NR1 subunit (pNR1) in the spinal dorsal horn. Results of this study suggest that extracts from CR and CT may be useful to alleviate neuropathic pain.