Synergistic Renoprotective Effect of Melatonin and Zileuton by Inhibition of Ferroptosis via the AKT/mTOR/NRF2 Signaling in Kidney Injury and Fibrosis

Jung Kyung Hee,Kim Sang Eun,Go Han Gyeol,Lee Yun Ji,Park Min Seok,Ko Soyeon,Han Beom Seok,Yoon Young-Chan,Cho Ye Jin,Lee Pureunchowon,Lee Sang-Ho,Kim Kipyo,Hong Soon-Sun 한국응용약물학회 2023 Biomolecules & Therapeutics(구 응용약물학회지) Vol.31 No.6

According to recent evidence, ferroptosis is a major cell death mechanism in the pathogenesis of kidney injury and fibrosis. Despite the renoprotective effects of classical ferroptosis inhibitors, therapeutic approaches targeting kidney ferroptosis remain limited. In this study, we assessed the renoprotective effects of melatonin and zileuton as a novel therapeutic strategy against ferroptosis-mediated kidney injury and fibrosis. First, we identified RSL3-induced ferroptosis in renal tubular epithelial HK-2 and HKC-8 cells. Lipid peroxidation and cell death induced by RSL3 were synergistically mitigated by the combination of melatonin and zileuton. Combination treatment significantly downregulated the expression of ferroptosis-associated proteins, 4-HNE and HO-1, and upregulated the expression of GPX4. The expression levels of p-AKT and p-mTOR also increased, in addition to that of NRF2 in renal tubular epithelial cells. When melatonin (20 mg/kg) and zileuton (20 mg/kg) were administered to a unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) mouse model, the combination significantly reduced tubular injury and fibrosis by decreasing the expression of profibrotic markers, such as α-SMA and fibronectin. More importantly, the combination ameliorated the increase in 4-HNE levels and decreased GPX4 expression in UUO mice. Overall, the combination of melatonin and zileuton was found to effectively ameliorate ferroptosis-related kidney injury by upregulating the AKT/mTOR/ NRF2 signaling pathway, suggesting a promising therapeutic strategy for protection against ferroptosis-mediated kidney injury and fibrosis.

시각장애인을 위한 RFID 기반 실내 내비게이션 알고리즘

고훈,윤석중,권호열 강원대학교 정보통신연구소 2008 정보통신논문지 Vol.12 No.-

In this paper, we propose an RFID based indoor navigation system for visually impaired person using RFID tags, a RFID reader and a compass sensor. In our system, the RFE tags regularly installed like a grid pattern on the floor in a building and they provide directions to reach the destination. The navigation system recognizes the RFID tags by an RFID) reader, calculates the next direction using RFID data and a compass sensor, and finally guides user to the destination. We presented the proposed system with its performance evaluations.

동종 조혈모세포이식 후 발생한 크립토콕쿠스 척추염 1예

고윤호,임동준,이성수,조유경,이동건,최정현,김유진,민창기,김동욱,박정미,김춘추,신완식 대한감염학회 2001 감염 Vol.33 No.4

Skeletal cryptococcosis is an uncommon infection. Cryptococcus is a common cause of meningitis and infects 7∼10% of patients with AIDS. As well as AIDS, the infection may be seen in association with leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis and diabetes, also in patients on steroid medication. But there is no case report of skeletal cryptococcosis following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. A 40-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of low back pain. She had chronic myelogenous leukemia for 2 years and underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 8 months ago. She have been treated with steroid and cyclosporine orally because of chronic graft versus host disease. On examination she was afebrile and had posterior lower lumbar tenderness. But, she had no reduced strength of low extremities. Open biopsy was underwent. Histology demonstrated budding, round-to-oval, refractile yeast-like organisms within debris. The results of a lumbar puncture were unremarkable and cerebrospinal fluid culture failed to grow bacteria and yeast. The patient was treated with amphotericin B (1 gram) and AmBisome□ (2.8 gram) over 6 weeks. Three months after cessation of therapy, the patient was doing well.(Korean J Infect Dis 33:298∼301, 2001)

RF-magnetron 스퍼터링에 의해 제조된 HAp와 HAp-Ag 복합재료의 미세구조와 In-vitro 연구

송호연,이희정,고광균 순천향대학교 교수학습개발센터 2004 Journal of Soonchunhyang Medical Science Vol.10 No.3

Microstructure and in-vistro study of RF-magnetron sputtered HAp and HAp-Ag composite films on the ZrO_(2) substrate were investigated using XPS, SEM, AFM and HR-TEM techniques. The homogenous and dense films about 0.8 ㎛ in thickness were successfully obtained and they were comprised with nano-crystalline grains about 30 nm in diameter. Micro cracks were not found at the interfaces between HAp and ZrO_(2) substrate and also on theire films. Without the dependency of Ag addition the fracure mode of HAp-Ag films showed a transgranular type. Due to the excellent bioaffinity, osteoblast MG-63 cells wre grown well on the HAp and HAp-Ag films with dense and healthly morphology, although the growth rate of cells on the HAp-Ag film was slower than that of the HAp film.

남자 고등학교 세팍타크로 경기의 공격기술에 관한 분석 연구

김영호,고문석,제임스전,이영익,차정훈,현종건,김범수,임종만,이석인 한국스포츠리서치 2004 한국 스포츠 리서치 Vol.15 No.6

This research aims at analysis of attack technique in sepaktakraw games. For this purpose, 3 high school coaches observed and recorded each game Five times in videos of high school male players' thirty games in 2003. The conclusion from the analysis of the recorded data are as follows. 1. Scissors spike was the most popular (favorite) attack technique. Rolling spike, tapping spike and heading spike was popular in order. 2. Heading spike showed the highest success rate (73.5%) in attack technique. And tapping spike (69.5%), scissors spike (57.8%) and rolling spike (67.11) showed a lower success rate in order. In failure rate, heading spike (5.5%), tapping spike (36.5%), scissors spike (32.2%) and rolling spike (32.9%) had a higher percentage in order. 3. When receive was stable, the success rate in attach technique was 47.1%, the failure rate was 20.1%. On the other hand, when receive was unstable, the success rate in attach technique was 16.5%, the failure rate was 14.3%.

청각 이미지와 의복 이미지의 관련성에 대한 탐색 :성격, 성별,의복관심의 영향을 중심으로

배수정;고진아;박소현;이규혜;추호정 한양대학교 2007 韓國 生活 科學 硏究 Vol.27 No.1

This study exploratory examined the relationship between auditory images and clothing style images of young consumers by their personality types, sex and clothing interest. A questionnaire was developed to measure auditory images, clothing style images, personality types, clothing interest and demographic variables. Scale items were adopted from prior studies on clothing self images and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) known to measure psychological types. 120 undergraduate students with diverse majors were the respondents of the empirical study. MBTI categorized respondents into one of 3 personality types, IFT (Introversion and Thinking or Feeling, n=23), EF (Extroversion and Feeling, n=73) and ET (Extroversion and Thinking, n=24). ANOVA results indicated that, among 13 auditory images measured in the study, rational, self-confident and social images were significantly different across three personality type groups. Overall, ET group showed higher level of the the auditory images. Among clothing style images, social images were significantly different. IET group showed significantly lower level of social images. In addition, respodents' age and level of clothing interest influenced auditory and clothing style images. Correlation coefficients indicated that there were significant relationships between most auditory and clothing style images included in the study except for the self-confident image.

驅動部 動特性을 高慮한 可變構造 制御 알고리듬

강익호,김정욱,신휘범,이정훈,고상호 慶尙大學校生産技術硏究所 1997 生産技術硏究所論文集 Vol.13 No.-

In this paper, the dynamics of actuators for generating the input of plants is considered in a design of the variable structure systems. While the input for plants is usually implemented by means of a certain actuator, the actuator dynamics is not incorporated in most of the VSS researches until now. The control algorithm of a VSS incorporating actuator dynamics is presented. and the simulation is given the usefulness of the algorithms.

Nocardia orientalis 변이주에 의한 고농도 혼합당을 이용한 반코마이신 생산

김창호,고영환,고중환 한국미생물생명공학회 ( 구 한국산업미생물학회 ) 1996 한국미생물·생명공학회지 Vol.24 No.4

반코마이신 생성에 미치는 탄소원의 영향을 조사하였다. 조사한 탄소원중 포도당, 말토스, 과당이 반코마이신의 생성에 양호하였으나 포도당 7.5% 이상의 농도에서는 반코마이신의 생성이 억제되었다. 그러나 말토스는 20%까지 반코마이신의 생성을 억제하지 않았다. 말토스와 포도당을 혼합하여 배양한 결과 3 : 1 내지 4 : 1 비율로 하였을 때 가장 양호한 결과를 나타내었다. 포도당 농도를 3%로 고정후 말토스를 첨가하여 발효조에 의한 배양을 실시한 결과 당농도가 16%까지 catabolite repression 현상을 보이지 않고 반코마이신 생성이 용이하였다. 상업적으로 가격이 싼 탄소원을 이용하기 위하여 포도당, 말토스 및 다당류(말토트리오스아 말토테트로스)를 함유하고 이는 가수분해 전분을 이용하여 반코마이신 발효를 실시하였다. 배지내 초기 포도당 농도를 3.0%로 맞춘 후 배양중 말토스 이상의 다당류들이 균체에 의하여 이용되는 과정을 알아보기 위하여 발효액 상등액을 HPLC를 이용하여 시간에 따른 각 당들의 농도 변화를 살펴보았다. 배양 시작 후 38시간동안 포도당이 단독으로 소모되면서 균체의 성장이 빠르게 일어났다. 균체의 성장이 멈춘 후 말토트리오스 및 말토테트로스가 분해되면서 말토스와 포도당의 농도가 증가되었고 이때 포도당의 농도는 증가하여 3.0% 이내로 유지되면서 반코마이신의 생성이 계속되었다. The effects of carbon sources on vancomycin production were investigated using Nocardia orientalis CSVC 3300. Among carbon sources tested, glucose, maltose and fructose were effective for the production of vancomycin. Glucose was favored for growth, but decrease the production of vancomycin at the concentration above 7.5%. In comparison, maltose did not decrease the production of vancomycin up to the concentration of 20%. When the mixture of glucose and maltose was used in the ratio 1:3 to 1:4, the highest production of vancomycin was achieved. When glucose concentration was set at 3.0%, catabolite repression could not be observed up to total sugar concentration of 16.0%. Fermentation was carried out using commercial hydrolyzed starch composed of glucose, maltose, maltotriose and maltotetraose. The initial glucose concentration was set at 3.0% and subsequent oligosaccharide consumption was monitored by checking their supernatant with HPLC. During initial cultivation for 38 hour, glucose was the sole carbon source leading to rapid growth. After cell growth stopped, the maltose and glucose concentrations increased due to degradation of maltotriose and maltotetraose, but glucose level was maintained at around 3.0%. After 70 hour fermentation, maltose slowly converted to glucose, and vancomycin production continued during the period.

多樣한 黃芩藥鍼製劑의 安全性 및 效能에 關한 硏究

김호경,마진열,전원경,윤수영,강은정,주혜정,고병섭 한국한의학연구원 1997 한국한의학연구원논문집 Vol.3 No.1

In order to detect the safety and effect of various aqua-acupunctures from Scutellariae Radix, the modifications of boiling, filtration and dilution were employed for the manufacture of aqua-acupunctures. We injected 0.2cc of aqua-acupunctures into Joksamri(足三里) of rat, repeatedly. we compared subacute toxicity of them with saline group, distilled water(D.W.) group, acupuncture group and control group. The results were summarized as follows: 1. The groups were all healthy and alive, and there was no special abnormality in physical condition and autopsy. And there were not any toxic symptoms in repeating application of aqua-acupunctures to the rat, including changes of body weight, organ weight, haematological examination and serum biochemical test. 2. There was slight change of body weight in acupuncture group : We could see significance after 3 days (p<0.05) and after 7 days (p<0.001) in body weight loss. After 9 days, all tested groups were suppressed in body weight increment. 3. Result of organ weight: In Palking aqua-acupuncture(D-2 group), saline group and acupuncture group there were some statistical significance. Especially, acupuncture group revealed significant result in liver and spleen than aqua-acupunctures. From this result, we could suggest that the efficacy of acupuncture was preceded herbal medicine. 4. In serum biochemical test, we examined glucose(GLU), triglyceride(TG) and cholesterol(CHOL). In comparison with control group, the diluted 10 times of hwanggum aqua-acupuncture (× 10 group) was recognized significant decrease of glucose, but the diluted 100 times of Hwanggum aqua-acupuncture (× 100 group), D-2 group, saline group were confirmed significant increment. There was not any meaningful change of CHOL in all of tested group, excepting the acupuncture group was exhibited statistically significant decrease(p<0.05). In TG level all tested group except complex injection of standard compound (CPA group) and HG, there were significant value in statistically. The diluted solution was more significant decrease than Hwanggaum aqua-acupuncture(HG). The mutual relationship of components of aqua-acupuncture tended to decrease level of TG, regardless of its concentration. In acupuncture group, we gained some interesting result in meaningful decrease in TG. 5. Haematological examination showed significant increment of gramulocytes(GR) in all tested groups except Hwanggum aqua-acupuncture. And the diluted solutions of HG expressed very high increment of them(p<0.001). The GR and Mean Corpuscular Volume(MCV) of acupuncture group showed statistical significance.

동국대학경주병원에서 분리된 각종 병원성 세균 및 항생제 감수성 양상

하경임,고은하,전창호,정병욱,안우섭,김우택,배정수,어경윤 동국대학교 경주대학 1993 東國論集 Vol.12 No.-

We investigated characteristics of bacterial infection and antimicrobial suscerptibility patterns of clinical specimens in Dong Guk University Kyong Ju Hospital from october 1991 to december 1992. The types of clinical specimens requested for culture were as follows ; pus(34.2%), urine(29.6%), sputum(25.2%), blood(9.2%), etc. The most frequently isolated organisms were E. coli(17.6%), Pseudomonas(12.7%), S. aureus(12.2%), and CNS(11.2%), orderly. Predominant organisms from pus, urine and sputum were S.aureus, E. coli and Pseudomonas. Blood culture was requested 1,244 samples from 614 patients, 91 pathogeni organisms were isolated(14.8% from patient and 7.3% from requested clinical samples). E. coli was most frequently isolated(29.7%) and Salmonella typhi was noted 8.8% from the requested samples. The patterns of isolated organisms according to departments were as follows ; E.coli and Klebsiella were frequently isolated in internal medicine and general surgery, E.coli and Pseudomas in Neurosurgery, S. aureus and Pseudomonas in orthopedic surgery. In ICU, Pseudomonas was predominatly isolated and the rate of mixed infection was also high(16.4%). Most of gram-negative bacilli revealed relatively high susceptibility to Chlorampenicol, Amikacin, Tobramycin and Carbenicillin, but Acinetobacter were only susceptible to Carbenicillin and Tetrecyclin, and Serratia were to Carbenicillin and Amikacin while Salmonella were susceptible to all tested first drugs. The proportions of multi-drug resistant bacteria were 34.9% of Acinetobacter, 21.1% of Serratia, 20.0% of Pseudomonas and 15.4% of Citrobacter but Aztreonam was highly susceptible(84∼100%) except Acinetobacter. S. aureus and CNS were susceptible to Chlorampenicol, Oxacillin, Cephalothin and Vancomycin, especially, 100% susceptible to Vancomycin. But Methicillin reistant Staphylococcus aureus were very high(49%) inspite of new constructed hospital. Pneumococcus and Streptococcus species were relatively high susceptible to all tested drugs.