• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.781-785
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• 2002

A series of pyrazoloxyphenyl benzoyl urea derivatives was designed and synthesized for cytotoxic evaluation as potential antitumor agents. The synthetic compounds were evaluated for in vitro cytotoxicity against five human tumor cell lines, including A-549, SKOV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF-498 and HCT-15. Among others, compound 11 exhibited 50∼100 times greater antitumor activities than the commercial product, Cisplatin.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.465-473
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• 2020

Background and objective: Aronia melanocarpa, called black chokeberry, is a natural product belonging to the family rosaceae, and is known to contain polyphenolic antioxidants including cyanidin-3-galactoside, cyanidin-3-arabinoside, cyanidin-3-xyloside, and cyanidin-3-glucoside Because of the abundance of anthocyanins, Aronia has been studied to be used in various industries. Methods: Aronia melanocarpa extract was treated 24 hours a day to RAW 264.7 cells with inflammations induced by LPS. After extracting total RNA, the amount of inflammatory cytokine expression was measured using RT-PCR. After processing the Aronia liposome using Aronia extract and the layer-by-layer electrostatic deposition method in keratinocyte cells at the same time, we checked the synthesis of Hyaluronic acid enhanced through the formation of Aronia liposome using ELISA. Results: The treatment of Aronia extract in inflammation-induced RAW 264.7 cells conducted to check the anti-inflammatory efficacy of Aronia extract inhibited inflammatory cytokines including TLR4, TNF-α, IL-1β, COX-2, and iNOS and increased the mRNA expression of HAS2 genes related to moisturizing. Based on the anti-inflammatory and moisturizing effect of Aronia extract, the Aronia liposome technology was introduced to Aronia extract to produce Aronia liposome. Conclusion: The liposome formation of Aronia extract is expected to be used as a functional material in treating various inflammatory skin diseases by controlling the moisture content of the corneocytes by increasing the expression rate of genes associated with the synthesis of hyaluronic acid, while retaining the efficacy of its components.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2010

In order to develop a new skin whitening agent, approximately 100 plant extracts were evaluated for their inhibitory activities against melanin biosynthesis in cultured mouse melanocyte melan-a cells. As a result, seven extracts exhibited over 50% inhibition of melanin synthesis compared to control at a concentration of $20\;{\mu}g/ml$. In particular, Aster ageratoides Turcz. var. ageratoides (branch, root, aerial, flower; $IC_{50}$ = 17.3, 6.1, 13.6, $12.9\;{\mu}g/ml$, respectively) and Physalis alkekengi var. francheti (leaf, unripen fructus, aerial; $IC_{50}$ = 6.5, 28.3, $23.9\;{\mu}g/ml$) markedly inhibited melanin synthesis. In addition, tyrosinase activity was monitored by the measurement of dopachrome formation from the oxidation of L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine. Extracts of A. ageratoides Turcz. var. ageratoides (flower) and P. alkekengi var. francheti (leaf) showed the most potent tyrosinase inhibitory activity. These plants might be the potential candidate sources in the development of novel skin-whitening products.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.461-469
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 흑모 성장과 관련 있는 천연물을 개발하기 위하여 흑미, 흑임자, 현미, 서목태 및 적하수오의 에탄올 추출혼합물의 melanin 합성에 대한 효능을 조사한 것이다. 흑모가 백모로 변화되는 원인으로 $H_2O_2$가 모낭 주위에 축적되어 melanin 합성이 저하되어 백모가 유발되는 것으로 보고된 바 있다. MIXEE는 DPPH radical에 대한 소거능력과 활성산소에 대한 환원력이 있는 것으로 관찰되었다. 뿐만 아니라 세포내 $H_2O_2$ 수준을 감소시켰는데, 이러한 결과는 MIXEE는 산화를 억제하여 $H_2O_2$에 의하여 감소된 melanin 합성을 촉진 시킬수 있다는 것을 나타내었다. 한편 in vitro에서 MIXEE는 tyrosinase 활성에는 영향을 주지 않았지만 L-dopa에서 melanin 합성을 촉진하였다. 더욱이, B16F1세포에서 MIXEE는 melanin 생성을 세포수준에서 촉진하였다. Western blot을 이용한 단백질 발현 분석에서 MIXEE는 SOD-2 및 SOD-3. 특히 DOPA에서 melanin 이 생성되는 과정에 관여하는 효소인 TRP-2 발현에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 입증되었다. 이상의 결과는 MIXEE가 백발화과정을 가역화시키는 과정에서 주요한 역할을 하는 melanin 생성을 촉진하는 하나의 약학 소재로 응용될 수 있다는 것을 시사하고 있다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.149-158
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• 2016

Plants have evolved a vast chemical cornucopia to support their sessile lifestyles. Man has exploited this natural resource since Neolithic times and currently plant-derived chemicals are exploited for a myriad of applications. However, plant sources of most high-value natural products (NPs) are not domesticated and therefore their production cannot be undertaken on an agricultural scale. Further, these plant species are often slow growing, their populations limiting, the concentration of the target molecule highly variable and routinely present at extremely low concentrations. Plant cell and organ culture constitutes a sustainable, controllable and environmentally friendly tool for the industrial production of plant NPs. Further, advances in cell line selection, biotransformation, product secretion, cell permeabilisation, extraction and scale-up, among others, are driving increases in plant NP yields. However, there remain significant obstacles to the commercial synthesis of high-value chemicals from these sources. The relatively recent isolation, culturing and characterisation of cambial meristematic cells (CMCs), provides an emerging platform to circumvent many of these potential difficulties.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.312-319
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• 2017

국내 부존 청광 규조토의 고부가가치 활용을 위해 물리적인 불순물 정제 및 정제 규조토 중의 SiO2 성분을 규소원으로 한 탄화규소 분말합성에 대해 연구하였다. 청광 규조토를 hammer mill을 이용해서 분쇄한 후 체가름을 통한 입도 분리에 의해서 약 30% 정도의 철분 ($Fe_2O_3$) 정제 효과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 325 mesh 이하 입도 분말의 철분 함량은 약 2% 이었다. 습식 및 건식 자력선별의 경우 모두 철분 함량의 분리 및 정제 효과가 일부 있었지만 회수되는 비자성 부산물 중의 철분 함량이 약 2%로 잔존양이 많음을 알 수 있었다. 청광 원광의 물 침출은 철분 제거에 효과적이었으며, 물 침출 결과 약 40% 정도의 철분이 제거되었다. 또한 정제 규조토 중의 $SiO_2$ 성분을 탄소 (흑연, 카본블랙)로 환원 탄화 반응시켜 ${\beta}$-SiC를 합성하였고, 합성 분말의 산처리를 통한 철분 정제 및 비표면적 변화 등에 대해 연구하였다. 환원제로 흑연보다는 카본블랙을 사용함이 보다 효과적이었고, 산처리공정에 의해 Fe, Ca 등의 불순물들이 거의 제거되었고, 비표면적은 $52.5m^2/g$ 까지 증가하였다.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.295-300
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• 1996

The physiological effects of oligogalacturonic acid (OGA:D. P. 6-7), a product of acid hydrolysis of polygalacturonic acid (PGA), on ethylene biosynthesis in mung bean (Vigna radiata W.) hypocotyl segments was studied. Among PGA, OGA and monogalacturomic acid (MGA), only OGA stimulated ethylene production in mung bean hypocotyl segments, and the most effective concentraton of OGA was 50$\mu\textrm{g}$/mL. Time course data indicated that this stimulatiion effect of OGA appeared after 90 min incubation period and continued until 24 h. When indol-3-acetic acid (IAA) and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) were treated with OGA to investigate the mechanism of OGA on ethylene production, they did not show synergistic effects on ethylene production. The stimulation of ethylene production by OGA was due to the increase of in vivo ACC synthase activity, but OGA treatment had no effect of in vivo ACC oxidase activity. The effect of aminoethoxy vinyl glycine (AVG) and Co2+, the inhibitor of ethylene synthesis, was siminished a little by the OGA, but the treatment of Ca2+, known to increase ACC, with OGA did not increase the ethylene production, this effect seems to be specific for Ca2+ because other divalent cation, Mg2+, did not show the inhibition of OGA-indyuced ethylene production. It is possible that the OGA adopts a different signal transduction pathway to the ethylene bioxynthesis.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.2771-2775
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• 2010

We present a rapid biogenic method for the production of nanoscale gold particles using pear extract. The formation and stability of pear-derived gold nanoparticles (Pear-AuNPs) were monitored by ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. Their morphology, elemental composition and crystalline phase were determined by transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and selected area electron diffraction. The average core size of crystalline Pear-AuNPs was in the range of $10{\pm}5\;nm$ and the observed morphology was spherical. The X-ray photoelectron spectrum showed a strong peak for the pure 'Au' phase. The circular dichroism spectrum indicated the natural capping ability of the pear extract, which generated peptide-gold nanoparticles. These nanoparticles were stable in aqueous solution for two months. A cell viability assay of Pear-AuNPs showed biocompatibility with human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Accordingly, this eco-friendly process for the bio-mimetic production of Pear-AuNPs is nontoxic in nature; consequently, it will find potential application in nano-biotechnology.

• 분석과학
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2023

As the use of e-liquid cigarettes is rapidly increasing worldwide, it multiplies the potential risk undisclosed to the health of non- and smokers. To reduce the hazard, each country has its own set of regulations for controlling e-liquids. In Korea, the narrow definition of tobacco makes it difficult and have been steadily occurring tax evasion exploiting the difference in natural and artificial nicotine. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish source of nicotine for their regulation. To find biochemical discriminant markers, this study established analysis methods based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) and high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple Quadrupole mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) for nicotine enantiomers and tobacco alkaloids targeted using the difference in pathways of nicotine biosynthesis and chemical synthesis. The method was validated by experimenting linearity (R² > 0.999), recovery (80.99-108.41 %), accuracy (94.11-109.73 %) and precision (0.04-8.27 %). Then, the results for discrimination of the nicotine obtained from analysis of 65 commercial e-liquid products available in Korean market was evaluated. The method successfully applied to the e-liquids and one sample labelled 'synthetic nicotine' for tax exemption was found to contain a natural nicotine product. This method can be used to determine whether an e-liquid product uses natural or artificial nicotine and monitor non-taxable e-liquid products. The method is more scientific than the existing one, which relies only on field evidence.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2004

20-30nm 크기를 갖는 나노 사이즈 ZnO 입자는 염료, 러버 첨가제, 가스 센서, 바리스터, 감광제와 광촉매로서 여러 산업분야에서 사용되고 있다. 반면에 화장품 산업에서는 나노 미터 크기의 ZnO 입자는 UV 차단물질과 자연스러운 메이크업 효과를 증진시키는 소재로서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 순수 ZnO 입자는 화장품에 적용했을 때 사용감 악화로 인해 그 사용량이 제한되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 사용감은 판상 분체의 특성을 갖으면서 ZnO 본연의 특성을 유지하는 분체를 합성하기 위해 화장품 산업에서 널리 사용되고 있는 세리사이트, 보론나이트라이드, 비스무스옥시클로라이드와 같은 판상분체에 나노 사이느 ZnO가 코팅된 고기능성 무기복합분체를 하였다. 본 논문에서는 열수침전법에 의해 무기복합분체를 합성하였다. Zn원으로서 ZnCl$_2$가 사용되었고 침전제로는 hexamethylenetetramine(HMT)과 urea를 사용하였다. 실험변수로서 출발물질의 농도, 침전제의 종류, 핵생성제의 농도, 반응온도와 반응시간을 변화시켜 실험하였다. 합성된 무기복합분체의 형태, 결정상 변화, 열특성, UV-차단효과를 관찰하기 위해 각각 FE-SEM, XRD, FT-IR, TGA-DTA, In vitro SPF 테스터 기기를 이용하여 확인하였다. 합성된 무기복합분체를 메이크업 제품에 적용시켜 사용감 테스트하였다. 본 실험 결과 판상분체의 종류에 상관없이 일정한 합성조건 범위에서 나노크기 ZnO 입자가 균일하게 코팅되었다. 코팅된 판상분체를 프레스트 파우더제품에 적용시켜 사용자 테스트한 결과 판상분체 특유의 광택은 현저히 감소되는 반면 자연스러운 화장 연출, 사용감 개선 및 부착력 향상 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.