Iron deficiency is known to be a common nutritional disorder in many countries, especially among children, women of childbearing age and pregnant women. SUNACTIVE Fe-P80 is a new type of iron supplement that applies nanotechnlateology for the purpose of overcoming the disadvantages of food supplements. This study was conducted to investigate the potential adverse effects of a 28-day repeated oral dose of SUNACTIVE Fe-P80 in rats. SUNACTIVE Fe-P80 was administered once daily by gavage to Sprague-Dawley rats for 28 days at doses of 0, 500, 1,000, and 2,000 mg/kg/day. Additional recovery groups from the control and highdose groups were observed for a 14-day recovery period. At the scheduled termination, the animals were sacrificed, their organs weighed, and blood samples collected. There were no treatment-related effects in the context of clinical signs, body weight, food intake, ophthalmoscopy, urinalysis, necropsy findings, organ weights, and hematologic, serum biochemical and histopathological parameters at any dose tested. Under the present experimental conditions, the no-observed-adverse-effect level of SUNACTIVE Fe-P80 was ≥ 2,000 mg/kg/day in both the sexes, and no target organs were identified. Thus, the results suggest that SUNACTIVE Fe-P80 is relatively safe, as no treatment-related adverse effects were observed following a 28-day repeated oral dose experiment.

본 연구는 마산만 하구에 위치한 모래갯벌인 봉암갯벌에 서식하는 대형저서동물의 하계 군집구조 변동양상을 파악하기 위해 2012년부터 2017년까지 하계에 연 2회씩 총 11회에 걸쳐 현장조사가 수행되었다. 봉암갯벌은 모래 함량이 70% 이상인 모래 갯벌로 알려져 있으나, 실제 조사결과 갯벌의 상부지역을 중심으로 니질 함량이 증가하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. TOC 함량도 2000년대 초반에 비해 증가한 것으로 나타났으나, 최대 TOC 함량이 1% 수준으로 심각한 수준의 유기물 증가가 나타나지는 않았다. 봉암갯벌의 대형저서동물 군집구조는 2000년대 초반에 비해 출현종수 및 서식밀도가 크게 증가하였다. 또한 2000년대 초반에 비해 오염지시종의 출현종수 및 서식밀도는 감소하였고, 종다양도지수를 비롯한 군집지수는 크게 증가하는 등 환경 개선의 결과가 일부 나타나고 있다. 마산만의 입구에 위치한 봉암갯벌은 마산만의 영향을 크게 받는다. 마산만 특별관리해역 지정 및 오염총량제 실시로 인해 오염물질의 농도가 감소하였고, 그로 인해 봉암갯벌로 유입되는 오염물질의 농도 역시 감소되었을 것으로 판단된다. 그러나 환경자료의 부제 및 조사 시기의 차이 등으로 인해 본 연구 결과만으로 환경이 개선되었다고 단정 지을 수 없다. 추후 환경 및 대형저서동물의 개체군, 군집에 대한 추가 조사를 통한 환경개선 유무에 대한 평가가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

The ozonation process has been widely used for drinking water disinfection around the world. Recently, the pressurized ozone contactor, in which the side stream typed ozone injection method is installed, has been applied to water treatment system. In this study, numerical calculations were conducted to compare prototype and screw-type ozone contactors based on hydraulic effectiveness in more details. The prototype ozone contactor was already installed and operated in domestic water treatment plant, and the screw-type is the suggested one for improving ozone contact efficiency installing the screw plate to the prototype. Screw turn numbers of screw plate were changed as 3, 5, 7 and 9, respectively for numerical simulation. The CT(concentration of disinfectant in mg/L times time in minutes) value was considered as one of the options for evaluating disinfection ability. From the results, it could be concluded that the performance of the screw-type is higher than that of the protype contactor by controlling the variable T as the tracer time. Also, Morill index of the screw-type(turn numbers = 5 ) appeared to be lower than the other.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are considered to be attractive approaching in gene or drug delivery for cancer therapeutic strategies. In this study, the ability and feasibility of human bone marrow derived MSCs expressing the cytosine deaminase (CD)/5-Fluorocytosin (5-FC) prodrug was evaluated to target human osteosarcoma cell line Cal-72. At first, the fibroblast-like cells were successfully obtained from human bone marrow and demonstrated that they contained full of stem characteristics by the ability of differentiation into adipocyte/osteocyte and expression of typical mesenchymal markers CD90, CD44, while negative for CD34 and CD133 markers. We established the stable CD-expressing MSCs cell line (CD-MSCs) by transfection of pEGFP-C3 containing cytosine deaminase::uracil phos-phoribosyltransferase (CD::UPRT) gene into MSCs, and confirmed that the manipulated MSCs still remained full characteristics of multipotent cells and shown migration toward human osteosarcoma cancer cells Cal-72 as high as origin MSCs. Based on bystander effect, the therapeutic CD-MSCs significantly augmented the cytotoxicity on cancer cell Cal72 in either direct co-culture or conditioned medium in the presence of 5-FC. Moreover, in osteosarcoma cancer- bearing mice, the therapeutic CD/5-FC MSCs showed the inhibition of tumor growth compared with control mice which was s.c injected with only Cal72. Our findings suggest that these therapeutic CD-MSCs may be suitable and viable cellular vehicles for targeting human osteosarcoma cancer.