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Han BS, Kim KS, Kim YJ, Van Minh N, Jung HY, Sohn MJ, Kim Won G. Nurr1-Activating Daphnane Diterpenes from Daphne genkwa and its Neuroprotective Effect in an Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease. Am J Transl Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1608460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- BS Han
- Functional Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Superbacteria Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Superbacteria Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Functional Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Superbacteria Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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- Superbacteria Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
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Kang WG, Pyo SH, Alkhuraiji TS, Han BS, Kang CM. Radiation shielding analysis of a special linear accelerator for electron beam and X-ray. J Xray Sci Technol 2017; 25:505-514. [PMID: 28157115 DOI: 10.3233/xst-16196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The King AbdulAziz City for Science & Technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plans to build a 10 MeV, 15 kW linear accelerator (LINAC) for electron beam and X-ray. The accelerator will be supplied by EB Tech, Republic of Korea, and the design and construction of the accelerator building will be conducted in the cooperation with EB Tech. This report presents the shielding analysis of the accelerator building using the Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP). In order to improve the accuracy in estimating deep radiation penetration and to reduce computation time, various variance reduction techniques, including the weight window (WW) method, the deterministic transport (DXTRAN) spheres were considered. Radiation levels were estimated at selected locations in the shielding facility running MCNP6 for particle histories up to 1.0×10+8. The final results indicated that the calculated doses at all selected detector locations met the dose requirement of 50 mSv/yr, which is the United State Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S. NRC) requirement.
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- W G Kang
- EB Tech Co., Ltd., 170-9, Techno 2-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- EB Tech Co., Ltd., 170-9, Techno 2-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- King AbdulAziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- EB Tech Co., Ltd., 170-9, Techno 2-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- EB Tech Co., Ltd., 170-9, Techno 2-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Yoon YJ, Jung YJ, Han BS, Kang JW. Performance of electron beam irradiation for treatment of groundwater contaminated with acetone. Water Sci Technol 2009; 59:2475-2483. [PMID: 19542654 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The purposes of this study were to evaluate the efficiency of acetone removal by electron beam irradiation in groundwater and the effect of various conditions. According to the results, the removal kinetics of acetone were pseudo first-order, and the removal efficiencies were expressed to the (%) removal and G-values. By adding sulfite, it was confirmed that acetone was mainly degraded by the reaction with the hydrated electrons. The presence of nitrate caused the removal of acetone to decrease. But there was no significant effect of alkalinity on the removal of acetone. The effect of the initial pH values (pH 5 to 9) on the acetone removal efficiency was negligible, but the pH value decreases due to the formation of acidic compounds after irradiation. Consequently, the radiation-induced removal reactions of acetone followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic model; in addition to the initial concentration of acetone, nitrate and the absorbed dose were important factors in removing acetone from an aqueous solution using electron beam irradiation. The effects of general pH and alkalinity on the degrading acetone were negligible.
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- Y J Yoon
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Gangwon-do 220-710, Republic of Korea
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The traditional paradigm has regarded essential tremor (ET) as a benign disorder. However, recent clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathologic studies suggest that ET may be a progressive neurologic disorder. Based on clinicopathologic findings that cerebellum and its outflow are the key structures in ET and degeneration of gray matter in cerebellum is followed by consequent wallerian degeneration of white matter (WM) fibers, the aim of the present study was to investigate changes in anisotropy in patients with ET. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fractional anisotropy (FA) images were generated from DTI data acquired at 1.5T in 10 patients with ET compared with 8 control subjects by using statistical parametric mapping to make voxel-by-voxel comparisons. RESULTS Compared with the control subjects, the patients with ET exhibited significantly reduced FA (P(uncorrected) < .005) in the anterolateral portion of the right pons and decreased FA in the bilateral cerebellum, left retrorubral area of the midbrain, and bilateral deep WM, including the orbitofrontal, lateral frontal, parietal, and temporal WM. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates that structural changes in the WM are extensive in patients with ET, supporting the findings of previous functional neuroimaging and pathologic studies.
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- D H Shin
- Department of Neurology, Ajou University College of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea
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Uum YR, Han BS, Lee HM, Hong SM, Kim GM, Rhee CK. Magnetic and photocatalytic effect of Fe-doped nano-rod ZnO synthesized by the hydrolysis of metal powders. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200777208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Han BS, Uhm YR, Kim GM, Rhee CK. Novel synthesis of nanorod ZnO and Fe-doped ZnO by the hydrolysis of metal powders. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2007; 7:4158-4160. [PMID: 18047141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Fe-doped ZnO nanorods have been synthesized by a novel process employing a hydrolysis of metal powders. Zn and Fe nano-powders were used as starting materials and incorporated into distilled water. The solution was refluxed at 60 degrees C for 24 h to obtain the precipitates from the hydrolysis of Zn and Fe. X-ray diffraction patterns for all the samples showed a pure wurtzite single phase, without any segregation of the Fe into the particulates within the instrumental resolution limit. The TEM results for ZnO with and without an Fe-doping showed that the produced powders had a rod-like shape. The rod shape was attributable to the zinc oxide from the hydrolysis of Zn. With an increasing Fe content, the UV-vis spectra were shifted to a long wave length and this result indicates that the band gap was changed by an Fe-doping.
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- B S Han
- Nuclear Nanomaterials Development Lab, Korea Atomic Energy Reseach Institute(KAERI), Daejeon 305-600, Korea
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Yin L, Chen CQ, Peng CH, Chen GM, Zhou HJ, Han BS, Li HW. Primary small-bowel non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a study of clinical features, pathology, management and prognosis. J Int Med Res 2007; 35:406-15. [PMID: 17593870 DOI: 10.1177/147323000703500316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The records of 34 patients diagnosed with primary small bowel non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during a 10-year period between January 1996 and December 2005, including 27 cases for which complete follow-up records were available, were studied. Abdominal pain (70.6% of patients) was the main presenting symptom, followed by intestinal obstruction (38.2%). The most common primary site was the ileum (58.8%), followed by the jejunum (26.5%) and duodenum (17.6%); one case had tumours at two sites in the small bowel. Twenty-seven patients had small bowel B-cell lymphoma (24 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; three mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue B-cell lymphoma) and seven patients had small bowel T-cell lymphoma. Cumulative survival in patients with small bowel B-cell lymphoma was higher than that in patients with small bowel T-cell lymphoma. Data on 16 male and eight female patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma showed that 62.5% of these patients presented with disease stages I or II and 37.5% with stages III or IV. Cumulative survival in patients at stages IE or IIE was significantly higher than that of patients at stages IIIE or IVE. Four of five patients who died from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had abnormal levels of lactate dehydrogenase and serum albumin.
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- L Yin
- Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Wang G, Zhao DQ, Bai HY, Pan MX, Xia AL, Han BS, Xi XK, Wu Y, Wang WH. Nanoscale periodic morphologies on the fracture surface of brittle metallic glasses. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:235501. [PMID: 17677915 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.235501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Out-of-plane, nanoscale periodic corrugations are observed in the dynamic fracture surface of brittle bulk metallic glasses with fracture toughness approaching that of silica glasses. A model based on the meniscus instability and plastic zone theory is used to explain such dynamic crack instability. The results indicate that the local softening mechanism in the fracture is an essential ingredient for controlling the formation of the unique corrugations, and might provide a new insight into the origin of fracture surface roughening in brittle materials.
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- G Wang
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China
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Kim JE, Han BS, Choi WS, Eom DS, Lee EH, Oh TH, Markelonis GJ, Saido TC, Lee GE, Chung IK, Oh YJ. Temporospatial sequence of cellular events associated with etoposide-induced neuronal cell death: role of antiapoptotic protein Bcl-X(L). J Neurosci Res 2001; 66:1074-82. [PMID: 11746439 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Etoposide-induced death comprises such nuclear events as the formation of topoisomerase II-DNA cleavable complex and cytosolic events including caspase activation. By first establishing the temporospatial death sequence triggered by etoposide in a neuronal cell line, MN9D overexpressing Bcl-X(L) (MN9D/Bcl-X(L)) or control vector (MN9D/Neo), we examined whether formation of this complex is primarily responsible for cell death and at which strategic points and how Bcl-X(L) blocks etoposide-induced neuronal death. Etoposide induced death that was dependent on caspase, cycloheximide, and calpain in MN9D/Neo cells. Etoposide also induced death in enucleated MN9D/Neo cells, although this was less severe. The level of topoisomerase II-DNA cleavable complex reached at a maximum of 2 hr after etoposide treatment was identical in MN9D/Neo and MN9D/Bcl-X(L) cells. In MN9D/Neo cells, cytochrome c release into the cytosol and caspase activation occurred as early as 2 hr and 3-6 hr after etoposide treatment, respectively. Etoposide-induced DNA laddering potentially via caspase appeared as early as 12 hr after drug treatment, followed by nuclear swelling in MN9D/Neo cells (>18-20 hr). Subsequently, nuclear condensation started by 24-28 hr and became apparent thereafter. All of these events except for nuclear swelling were substantially blocked in MN9D/Bcl-X(L). At the later stage of cell death (<32-36 hr), a specific cleavage of Bax and fodrin appeared that was completely blocked by calpain inhibitor or by Bcl-X(L). Taken together, our data suggest that Bcl-X(L) prevents etoposide-induced neuronal death by exerting its anticaspase and anticalpain effect on cellular events after the formation of topoisomerase II-DNA cleavable complex that may not be a major contributor to cell death.
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- J E Kim
- Department of Biology, Yonsei University College of Science, 134 Shinchondong Seodaemoonku, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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Jang SH, Byun WM, Chang Y, Han BS, Ahn SH. Combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation evidence of ipsilateral motor pathway with congenital brain disorder: a case report. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001; 82:1733-6. [PMID: 11733891 DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2001.25101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We present the case of 28-year-old man with schizencephaly who had mild left hemiparesis with mirror movement. Brain mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for both hand muscles was done to evaluate his neurologic state. Motor evoked potential (MEP) from both abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscles was obtained simultaneously. fMRI showed that the left primary sensorimotor cortex became active when the right fingers performed the flexion-extension exercise. The left primary sensorimotor cortex, left prefrontal area, and both supplementary motor areas were activated with flexion-extension exercise of the left hand. Brain mapping for both APB muscles using TMS showed that no MEP was evoked in the right hemisphere, but a APB total of 5 sites were evoked in the left hemisphere simultaneously. The optimal scalp site for both APB muscles was present at the same site. The MEPs of both muscles which were evoked by stimulation of the optimal scalp site, showed similar latencies, amplitudes, and figures of potential. The similarities in both MEPs and the same optimal scalp site support the assumption that MEPs of both APB muscles are produced by the corticospinal tract originating from the same motor cortex. Our results showed that the ipsilateral motor pathway extended from the unaffected left hemisphere to both hand muscles. This finding may reflect functional reorganization of motor area in a patient with congenital brain disorder.
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- S H Jang
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Yeungnam School of Medicine, Taegu, South Korea
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Toriyama-Baba H, Iigo M, Asamoto M, Iwahori Y, Park CB, Han BS, Takasuka N, Kakizoe T, Ishikawa C, Yazawa K, Araki E, Tsuda H. Organotropic chemopreventive effects of n-3 unsaturated fatty acids in a rat multi-organ carcinogenesis model. Jpn J Cancer Res 2001; 92:1175-83. [PMID: 11714441 PMCID: PMC5926667 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2001.tb02137.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Organotropic chemopreventive effects of n-3 unsaturated fatty acids were studied using a multi-organ carcinogenesis model in male rats. Rats were treated with diethylnitrosamine (DEN), N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU), N-butyl-N-4-hydroxybutylnitrosamine (BBN), 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) and dihydroxy-di-n-propylnitrosamine (DHPN) during the first 7 weeks, and then given unsaturated fatty acid (UFAs), docosahexaenoic acid (n-3, C(22:6)) (DHA), eicosapentaenoic acid (n-3, C(20:5)) (EPA), linoleic acid (n-6, C(18:2)) (LA) or oleic acid (n-9, C(18:1)) (OA) at a dose of 1.0 ml/rat, 3 times a week by gavage for the consecutive 30 weeks. All rats were fed a low LA basal diet throughout the experiment and a calorie-restricted basal diet during the period of UFAs feeding administration. DHA significantly reduced tumor size and numbers in the large intestine as compared to OA treatment. Furthermore, DHA showed a tendency to inhibit carcinogenesis in the small intestine and lung. EPA also showed a tendency to inhibit intestinal carcinogenesis. On the other hand, LA showed a tendency to inhibit lung carcinogenesis, but to promote large intestinal carcinogenesis. However these UFAs did not influence preneoplastic and neoplastic lesion development in the liver, kidney, and urinary bladder. Levels of the administered fatty acids were clearly increased in the serum and organs. In contrast, arachidonic acid (AA) levels in the large and small intestines and liver were markedly decreased by treatment with DHA and EPA. Decreased levels of AA in the large intestine correlated well with tumor incidence, although the number of glutathione S-transferase-positive (GST-P(+)) foci showed an inverse correlation with AA levels. The data thus provide evidence that an organotropism exists with regard to the influence of UFAs on carcinogenesis, which correlates with reduction of tissue AA levels in the target organs.
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- H Toriyama-Baba
- Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo
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Han BS, Park CB, Takasuka N, Naito A, Sekine K, Nomura E, Taniguchi H, Tsuno T, Tsuda H. A ferulic acid derivative, ethyl 3-(4'-geranyloxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-propenoate, as a new candidate chemopreventive agent for colon carcinogenesis in the rat. Jpn J Cancer Res 2001; 92:404-9. [PMID: 11346462 PMCID: PMC5926721 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2001.tb01109.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The inhibitory influence of ferulic acid (FA), a rice germ component, and its geranylated derivative 3-(4'-geranyloxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-propenoate (EGMP) on the post-initiation stage of azoxymethane (AOM)-induced colon carcinogenesis was studied in male F344 rats given two s.c. injections of AOM (15 mg / kg body weight) during week 1. Diets containing EGMP or FA at doses of 0.1 or 0.2% were then fed for 3 weeks from week 2 to 5, when the animals were sacrificed. The numbers of aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and aberrant crypts (AC) per rat in the group given 0.2% FA were significantly decreased (P < 0.001) as compared to the AOM alone group. Furthermore, the numbers of ACF and AC per rat fed the 0.2% and 0.1% EGMP were significantly reduced (P < 0.001 and P < 0.01, respectively). Colonic epithelial cells in S-phase, as measured by bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) labeling, in rats fed EGMP were significantly decreased in the 0.2 and 0.1% EGMP groups as compared to the AOM alone group (P < 0.05). BrdU labeling indices in rats fed FA and EGMP assessed by a test using a coefficient for linear contrast were also significantly decreased as compared to the AOM alone value (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, respectively). The results indicate that FA and EGMP have inhibitory effects on ACF and AC development, EGMP being more potent, possibly due to stronger suppressive effects on cell proliferation. No toxic effects were observed in rats given either compound in terms of body and organ weights, and liver or kidney histology. The findings thus suggest that EGMP and FA, especially the former, might have potential as chemopreventive agents against colon tumor development.
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- B S Han
- Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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Shen W, Jiang B, Han BS, Xie S. Investigation of the radial compression of carbon nanotubes with a scanning probe microscope. Phys Rev Lett 2000; 84:3634-3637. [PMID: 11019164 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.3634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Efforts have been made to characterize the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes. Previous work has concentrated on the tubes' longitudinal properties, and studies of their radial properties have lagged behind. We have used a scanning probe microscope with an indentation/scratch function to investigate the radial compression of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under an asymmetric stress. In particular, we have determined the radial compressive elastic modulus at different compression levels and have estimated the compressive strength to be well beyond 5.3 GPa.
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- W Shen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, USA
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Milk and dairy products constitute an important part of the western style diet. A large number of epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine effects of consumption on cancer development but the data are largely equivocal, presumably reflecting the different included components. It has been proposed that whereas fats in general could promote tumor development, individual milk fats like conjugated linoleic acid could exert inhibitory effects. There is also considerable evidence that calcium in milk products protects against colon cancer, while promoting in the prostate through suppression of circulating levels of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Whey protein may also be beneficial, as shown by both animal and human studies, and experimental data have demonstrated that the major component bovine lactoferrin (bLF), inhibits colon carcinogenesis in the post-initiation stage in male F344 rats treated with azoxymethane (AOM) without any overt toxicity. The incidence of adenocarcinomas in the groups receiving 2% and 0.2% bLF were thus 15% and 25%, respectively, in contrast to the 57.5% control value (P<0.01 and P<0.05, respectively). Results in other animal models have provided further indications that bLF might find application as a natural ingredient of milk with potential for chemoprevention of colon and other cancers.
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- H Tsuda
- Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tsukiji 5-1-1, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Ahn B, Han BS, Kim DJ, Ohshima H. Immunohistochemical localization of inducible nitric oxide synthase and 3-nitrotyrosine in rat liver tumors induced by N-nitrosodiethylamine. Carcinogenesis 1999; 20:1337-44. [PMID: 10383909 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.7.1337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Human liver cancers have been associated mainly with chronic inflammations such as viral hepatitis B or C. This suggests that prolonged cell damage by chronic inflammation is critical in cancer development. Overproduction of nitric oxide (NO.) and its derivative (NOx, peroxynitrite) has been implicated as a cause of tissue damage by inflammation, thus contributing to tumor promotion. We have demonstrated the expression of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and 3-nitrotyrosine, a marker of peroxynitrite formation, by immunohistochemistry in preneoplastic and neoplastic rat liver tissues induced by continuous infusion of N-nitrosodiethylamine with mini-pumps. The preneoplastic lesions were characterized by proliferation of phenotypically altered hepatic foci (PAHF), dysplastic hepatocytes and oval cells. Histologically, the tumors were hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) of trabecular, (pseudo)glandular and solid types with or without cholangiocellular involvement. iNOS was located mainly in oval cells, capillary endothelial and muscular cells, epithelia of cholangiomas and glandular HCCs. 3-Nitrotyrosine was observed in the cytoplasms of PAHF and dysplastic hepatocytes in preneoplasias and in the cytoplasms of some living or apoptotic HCC cells, connective tissues, proteinaceous fluids, sinusoidal endothelia of tumorous hepatocytes and cholangiomas in tumors. From these observations, we suggest that: (i) chronic tissue damage by chemical carcinogens may act to induce iNOS and peroxynitrite formation; (ii) oval cells play a key role in development and/or growth of tumor tissues by producing NO. via iNOS, which may also cause tissue damage by peroxynitrite; (iii) iNOS can be considered as a phenotypic marker in cells of oval cell lineage and neovascularized capillaries in tumor tissues.
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- B Ahn
- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Toxicology Research, Korea Food and Drug Administration, 5 Nokbun-Dong, Eunpyung-Ku, Seoul 122-704, Korea
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Han ES, Oh HY, Ha KW, Han BS, Hong SM, Han JW, Hong S, Noh SH, Lee HW. Farnesylcysteine methyltransferase activity and Ras protein expression in human stomach tumor tissue. Arch Pharm Res 1998; 21:378-84. [PMID: 9875463 DOI: 10.1007/bf02974630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The processing pathway of G-proteins and Ras family proteins includes the isoprenylation of the cysteine residue, followed by proteolysis of three terminal residues and alpha-carboxyl methyl esterification of the cysteine residue. Farnesylcysteine methyltransferase (FCMT) activity is responsible for the methylation reaction which play a role in the membrane attachment of a variety of cellular proteins. Four kinds of Ras protein (c-Ha-ras, c-N-Ras, c-Ki-Ras, pan-Ras) expression were detected in adenocarcinoma of human tissue by immunohistochemical method, and hematoxylin and eosin staining. The level of Ras protein in human stomach tumor tissues was much higher than in normal and peritumoral regions of the same biopsy samples. The FCMT activities of each cellular fractions were high in mitochondrial fraction followed by microsomal fraction, whole homogenate and cytosolic fraction. The inhibitory effect on FCMT activity on stomach tumor tissue was determined after treatment with 0.25 microM of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine. S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine inhibited FCMT activity from 11.2% to 30.5%. These results suggested that FCMT might be involved in Ras proteins activity.
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- E S Han
- Department of Pharmacy, National Institute of Toxicological Research, Korea Food and Drug Administration, Seoul, Korea
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Kim DJ, Han BS, Ahn B, Hasegawa R, Shirai T, Ito N, Tsuda H. Enhancement by indole-3-carbinol of liver and thyroid gland neoplastic development in a rat medium-term multiorgan carcinogenesis model. Carcinogenesis 1997; 18:377-81. [PMID: 9054632 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.2.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The modification potential of indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a naturally occurring compound found in cruciferous vegetables, on neoplastic development was assessed using a rat medium-term multiorgan carcinogenesis model. One-hundred male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into three groups and sequentially treated with diethylnitrosamine (DEN; 100 mg/kg b.w., a single i.p.), N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU; 20 mg/kg b.w., four times i.p., at days 5, 8, 11 and 14), and dihydroxy-di-N-propyl-nitrosamine (DHPN; 0.1% in the drinking water during weeks 1 and 3) (DMD treatment; groups 1 and 2) or the vehicles alone (group 3) in the first 3-week initiation period. Animals of groups 1 and 3 were then given diet containing 0.25% I3C from week 4 until week 24, followed by a return to basal diet for 28 weeks, and subgroups were killed at weeks 24 and 52. I3C caused significant increases in both number (no./cm2) and area (mm2/cm2) of glutathione S-transferase placental form (GST-P)-positive liver cell foci assessed at week 24 of the experiment (P<0.01, 0.001). The incidence of hepatocellular adenomas in the DMD and I3C group at week 52 showed a tendency for elevation as compared to the DMD alone group, but this was not statistically significant. The thyroid gland tumour incidences in the DMD and I3C groups were significantly increased compared with the DMD alone group values at week 52 (P<0.01). In conclusion, I3C enhanced liver and thyroid gland neoplastic development when given during the promotion stage in the present rat medium-term multiorgan carcinogenesis model.
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- D J Kim
- Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Centre Research Institute, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Kim DJ, Ahn B, Han BS, Tsuda H. Potential preventive effects of Chelidonium majis L. (Papaveraceae) herb extract on glandular stomach tumor development in rats treated with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and hypertonic sodium chloride. Cancer Lett 1997; 112:203-8. [PMID: 9066729 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(96)04571-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The modifying effects of Chelidonium majis L. (Papaveraceae) herb extract (CH), an analgesic traditionally prescribed for gastric and duodenal ulcer patients, on gastric tumor development were studied in rats given N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). Sixty-four male 6-week-old Wistar rats were used. Group 1 rats were initially given MNNG (200 mg/kg b.w.) by gavage at days 0 and 14 as well as saturated sodium chloride solution (S-NaCl, 1 ml per rat) every 3 days during weeks 0-3 (six times), and then placed on basal diet containing 0.1 or 0.2% CH for 16 weeks from week 4. Rats of Group 2 and 3 were treated with MNNG together with S-NaCl or saline (0.9% NaCl, 1 ml per rat), respectively, timed as in Group 1 but without further treatment. All surviving animals were killed at week 20 and histopathologically investigated. In the glandular stomach, the number of preneoplastic pepsinogen 1 altered pyloric glands (PAPGs) in the MNNG + S-NaCl-->CH (0.1%) group (Group 1) was significantly smaller than in the MNNG + S-NaCl group (Group 2) (P < 0.02). The incidences of forestomach neoplastic lesions (papillomas and squamous cell carcinomas) also showed a tendency to decrease with the CH treatment. The results thus indicate that CH exerts inhibitory effects on glandular stomach carcinogenesis in the rat, so that it may have potential as a chemopreventive agent for stomach cancer in man.
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- D J Kim
- Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Cheoun MK, Han BS, Yu BG, Cheon IT. Kaon photoproduction near threshold and their coupling constants. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1996; 54:1811-1824. [PMID: 9971529 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.54.1811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Kim DJ, Han BS, Ahn B, Lee KK, Kang JS, Tsuda H. Promotion potential of tamoxifen on hepatocarcinogenesis in female SD or F344 rats initiated with diethylnitrosamine. Cancer Lett 1996; 104:13-9. [PMID: 8640739 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04222-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The liver promotion potential of tamoxifen (TAM), which has been widely used in the treatment of hormone-dependent breast cancers, was investigated using female SD or F344 rat initiated with diethylnitrosamine (DEN). In Experiment 1, 45 newborn female SD rats were administered DEN (100 mg/kg, i.p.) (Groups 1 and 2) or saline (Group 3) 24 h after birth. After weaning at week 3, Groups 1 and 3 were subcutaneously injected with TAM citrate (1 mg/rat per day), suspended in corn oil, in the subscapular region, while Group 2 was given the vehicle alone (s.c.) daily for 9 weeks, and killed at week 12. In Experiment 2, 70 female F344 rats at 7 weeks of age were divided into five groups. All animals were initially given DEN (200 mg/kg i.p.) for initiation. Two weeks later Groups 1-4 were given diets containing 100, 250, 500 ppm TAM, or 500 ppm PB for 6 weeks, respectively, while Group 5 was administered basal diet as a control for the same period. The rats were subjected to two-thirds partial hepatectomy (PH) at week 3 and were killed at week 8. The enhanced development of glutathione S-transferase-placental form (GST-P)-positive liver cell foci after DEN exposure in both newborn SD and adult F344 rat medium-term liver bioassay models (Experiments 1 and 2). This suggests that TAM exerts promotion potential for hepatocarcinogenesis in female rats.
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- D J Kim
- Chemotherapy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Kim DJ, Lee KK, Han BS, Ahn B, Bae JH, Jang JJ. Biphasic modifying effect of indole-3-carbinol on diethylnitrosamine-induced preneoplastic glutathione S-transferase placental form-positive liver cell foci in Sprague-Dawley rats. Jpn J Cancer Res 1994; 85:578-83. [PMID: 8063610 PMCID: PMC5919519 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1994.tb02399.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The biphasic modifying effects of indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a naturally occurring constituent of edible cruciferous vegetables, on the development of glutathione S-transferase placental form (GST-P)-positive liver cell foci were investigated by using a medium-term liver bioassay system and a newborn rat hepatocarcinogenesis system. In Experiment 1, a total of 65 male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were divided into 5 groups. Animals were given a single intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of 200 mg/kg diethylnitrosamine (DEN) dissolved in saline for groups 1, 2, and 3 or a single i.p. injection of saline for groups 4 and 5. Group 1 was given the diet containing 0.25% I3C for 2 weeks prior to DEN initiation and then basal diet for 8 weeks. Group 2 was given basal diet for 4 weeks prior to and after DEN initiation and then the diet containing 0.25% I3C for 6 weeks. The rats of group 3 were placed on basal diet during the experiment. Animals of groups 4 and 5 were treated in the same manner as those of groups 1 and 2 except for injection with saline instead of DEN solution. All rats were subjected to two-thirds partial hepatectomy at week 3 and were killed at week 8 after DEN or saline injection. In Experiment 2, a total of 45 female SD rats were dosed with DEN (100 mg/kg, i.p.) or saline at 24 h after birth. After weaning at week 3, the rats were fed diet containing 0.25% I3C for 9 weeks and then were killed at week 12. In Experiment 1, preinitiation exposure to 0.25% I3C caused a significant decrease in numbers of GST-P-positive liver cell foci (P < 0.05), while postinitiation exposure to 0.25% I3C caused significant increases in both number (No./cm2) and area (mm2/cm2) of GST-P-positive liver cell foci (P < 0.05 or 0.01). In Experiment 2, the relative liver weight in the DEN + I3C group was significantly increased (P < 0.001). The numbers and areas of GST-P-positive liver cell foci in the DEN + I3C group were significantly increased as compared to the values of the DEN-alone group (P < 0.001). These results clearly demonstrated that I3C exerts a promoting effect on the postinitiation stage as well as an inhibitory effect on the preinitiation stage in the medium-term liver bioassay.
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- D J Kim
- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Safety Research, Seoul, Korea
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Han BS. [An analysis of 60 misdiagnosed cases of lung cancer admitted to a tuberculosis hospital]. Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Xi Ji Bing Za Zhi 1985; 8:202-4, 254. [PMID: 4075922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Han BS, Alberts ME. Congenital nephrotic syndrome: case with electron microscopic and family studies. J Iowa Med Soc 1970; 60:760-3 passim. [PMID: 5482404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Han BS, Caterine JM, Overton RW. Granular cell myoblastoma in the thyroid gland. Report of a case. J Iowa Med Soc 1969; 59:928-32. [PMID: 4310411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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