• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.636-642
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• 2007

Background: CpG DNA plays an important role in immune cell function. This study examined whether the temporal control of toll-like receptor (TLR)9 by CpG DNA can regulate the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9(MMP-9). Methods and materials: Macrophages were cultured in the presence of 10% FBS. For the various MMP genes analysis, RT-PCR and real-time PCR were performed. In addition, zymography assay performed for the MMP activity. The phosphorylation assay did for the ERK1/2 and NF${\kappa}B$ activation, and luciferase promoter assay was for the NF${\kappa}B$ activity. Results: CpG DNA induced the mRNA expression of MMP-2, MMP-9, and MMP-13, but not of MMP-7, MMP-8, and MMP-12, in a time-dependent manner. Especially, the mRNA expression of MMP-9 was strongly induced by CpG DNA using real-time RT-PCR. The TLR9 inhibitor, chloroquine, suppressed CpG DNA-induced MMP-9 expression and its activity. Moreover, CpG DNA induced the phosphorylation of ERK and the inhibition of ERK by U0126 suppressed CpG DNA-induced MMP-9 expression and its activity. CpG DNA stimulated $I{\kappa}B-{\alpha}$ degradation and luciferase activity. In addition, pretreatment of SN-50, the inhibitor of NF${\kappa}B$, strongly blocked the CpG DNA-induced MMP-9 expression and activity. Conclusion: These observations suggest that CpG DNA may play important roles in the activation of macrophages by regulating the production of MMP-9 via the sequential TLR9-ERK-NF${\kappa}B$ signaling pathway.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.280-290
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• 2003

RAPD 연관지도를 RFLP 연관지도와 합병을 하는 것은 각각의 유전 marker들의 단점을 서로 보완하여 세밀화된 유전자 지도작성을 용이하게 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 Essex와 PI 437654의 $F_2$ 및 $F_3$ 후대계통들을 재료로 하여 작성된 RAPD 연관지도를 콩의 RFLP 연관지도와 합병을 함에 있어서 나타난 몇가지 특징들을 기술하고자 함을 목적으로 하는 바 그 특징들은 아래와 같이 요약된다. 1. RAPD 연관지도상에서의 RFLP probe들의 위치가 RFLP 연관지도상에서의 위치와 부분적으로 변동된 현상이 나타났다. RAPD 연관그룹 L.G.C-3을 RFLP 연관그룹 a1 및 a2와 합병하는 과정에서 pSAC3와 pA136, 그리고 pA170/EcoRV와 pB170/HindIII이 서로 반대방향으로 위치하였다. pK400은 RFLP 연관지도상에서는 pA96-1과 pB172의 사이에 위치한 반면 RAPD 연관지도상에서는 i locus와 pA85 사이에 위치하였다. 2. RAPD 연관지도상에서의 두 marker들간의 간격이 RFLP 연관지도상에서의 간격보다 멀어진 현상이 두드러지게 나타났다. pA890과 pK493간의 간격은 RAPD 연관그룹 L.G.C-1에서는 48.6 cM이었던 반면 RFLP 연관 그룹상에서는 단지 13.3 cM으로 나타났다. 또한 pB32-2와 pA670, pA670과 pA668사이의 간격은 RAPD 연관그룹 L.G.C-2에서는 50.9 cM과 31.7 cM이었던 반면, RFLP 연관지도상에서의 간격은 각각 35.9 cM과 13.5 cM으로 나타났다. 3. 하나의 RFLP probe로부터 두개 이상의 다형화 현상을 나타낸 marker들이 동일한 연관그룹이나 다른 연관그룹에 위치하는 현상이 나타났다. 제한효소 HindIII로 절단된 probe pK418은 세개의 marker를 나타내었는데, 그 중 하나는 L.G.C-20에 위치하였으며, 다른 두개는 L.G.C-4에 위치하였다. 위에 나타난 특징들은 RAPD 연관지도는 intraspecific cross의 후대계통들을 재료로 하여 작성된 반면 RFLP 연관지도는 interspecific cross의 후대계통들을 재료로 하여 작성된 결과에선 비롯된 차이점 때문인 것으로 추측된다.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 1998

To investigate the fidelity of transgene transmission and expression, we produced transgenic mice carrying bovine $\beta$-casein/bovine grwoth hormone(bGH) fusion gene and examined transmission efficiency and expression level of the transgene in the founders and their progeny. The transgene was composed of 1.8 kb bovine $\beta$-casein promoter and 2.1 kb bGH gene. Ten transgenic mice were produced. Milk and mammary gland were collected from eight transgenic lines at 10-day lactation and a, pp.ied to Western and Northern blot analyses. The bGH expression was detected in four of them. The concentrations of bGH in milk were highly variable from 4$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml to 600$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml depending on the lines. The bGH mRNA level in mammary gland was closely correlated with the bGH concentration in milk in each transgenic line. These results indicated that bGH transgene expression was a, pp.opriately regulated in the mammary gland and secreted into milk in transgenic mice. By using two transgenic lines(#2, #7) secreting a considerable amoung of bGH into their milk, the inferitance and maintenance of transgenic phenotype were assessed in successive four generations. The mean transmission frequencies of transgene in lines #2 and #7 were 34% and 40%, respectively. The bGH concentration in milk were 80, 240, 120, 60$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml in each G0(generation 0), G2, G3, G4 generation of line #2 and 600, 1600, 860, 900$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml in each G1. G2, G3, G4 generation of line #7. These results demonstrated that bovine $\beta$-casein/bGH gene was stably transmitted from generation to generation in a Menelian fashion in trasgenic mice and consistenly expressed in their milk throughout the generations, although there was a little variation in the transmission frequency and expression level of the transgene between generations.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.905-915
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• 1994

Let $M_g$ be the moduli space of isomorphism classes of genus g smooth curves. It is a quasi-projective variety of dimension 3g - 3, when $g > 2$. It is known that a complete subvariety of $M_g$ has dimension $< g-1 [D]$. In general it is not known whether this bound is rigid. For example, it is not known whether $M_4$ has a complete surface in it. But one knows that there is a complete curve through any given finite points [H]. Recently, an explicit example of a complete curve in moduli space is given in [G-H]. In [G-H] they constructed a complete curve of $M_3$ as an intersection of five hypersurfaces of the Satake compactification of $M_3$. One way to get a complete curve of $M_3$ is to find a complete one dimensional family $p : X \to B$ of plane quartics which gives a nontrivial morphism from the base space B to the moduli space $M_3$. This is because every non-hyperelliptic smooth curve of genus three can be realized as a nonsingular plane quartic and vice versa. This paper has come out from the effort to find such a complete family of plane quartics. Since nonsingular quartics form an affine space some fibers of p must be singular ones. In this paper, due to the semistable reduction theorem [M], we search singular plane quartics which can occur as singular fibers of the family above. We first list all distinct plane quartics in terms of singularities.

• 대한본초학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2014

Objectives : Gamisoyo-san complex prescription were made with Angelicae Gigantis Radix, Paeoniae Radix, Atractylodes rhizome white, Hoelen, Bupleuri Radix, Moutan Cortex Radicis, Gardeniae Fructus, Zingiberis Rhizoma Crudus, Menthae Herba. The purpose of this study was to research the whitening effect of the extract from Gamisoyo-san, which is one of the used herbal complex prescription. Methods : This study investigated inhibitory effect of Gamisoyo-san in tyrosinase activity. Cell viability were performed using the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Then, Gamisoyo-san measured reversed-transcription-PCR for mRNA expression using B16F10 mouse melanoma cells. Results : For whitening effects, the tyrosinase inhibition effect of extract was shown to 52.4% at $5,000{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ concentration. The cell viability on B16F10 melanoma cells of Gamisoyo-san extract showed higher than 75% at $1,000{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ concentration. In this study, an experiment was performed by setting the non-toxic concentration range of 50, 150, $250{\mu}g/m{\ell}$. The Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was used as a positive control. The microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF), tyrosinase related protein-1 (TRP-1), tyrosinase related protein-2 (TRP-2), tyrosinase mRNA expression inhibitory by reverse transcription-PCR of Gamisoyo-san extract were decreased by 95.3%, 98.8%, 96.3% and 49.5% at $250{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ which the highest concentration. Conclusions : All these findings could verify that whitening effects of Gamisoyo-san extract by tyrosinase inhibitory activity and mRNA expression. The Gamisoyo-san could be used as material for functional cosmetics, such as skin whitening products.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.454-462
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• 2019

본 연구는 국내 식생활의 기본적인 구성식단으로 알려진 구이, 찜, 볶음, 조림에 존재하는 다양한 영양성분 중 수용성 비타민인 $B_1$ (thiamin), $B_2$ (riboflavin), 그리고 $B_3$ (niacin)의 함량을 확인하였다. 실험분석 타당성 검증을 통해서 높은 직선성($r^2$>0.997)을 확인하였고, 검출한계의 경우 $0.001-0.067{\mu}g/mL$ 그리고 정량한계의 경우 $0.002-0.203{\mu}g/mL$를 확인하였다. 또한 실험값에 대한 정밀도와 반복성에 대한 검증을 위해서 standard reference materials를 통해 실험값과 표준값과의 오차가 신뢰도 이내에 존재한다는 결과를 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 제시된 구이식품의 경우 thiamin은 0.039-1.057 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재하였고, riboflavin은 0.058-0.686 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재했으며, niacin의 경우 0.021-21.772 mg/100 g 의 범위로 나타났다. 찜 종류의 경우 thiamin은 0.049-1.066 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재하였고, riboflavin은 0.025-0.548 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재했으며, niacin의 경우 0.134-21.509 mg/100 g의 범위로 나타났다. 볶음의 경우 thiamin은 0.114-0.388 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재하였고, riboflavin은 0.014-1.258 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재했으며, niacin의 경우 0.015-2.319 mg/100 g의 범위로 나타났다. 조림의 경우 thiamin은 0.112-1.656 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재하였고, riboflavin은 0.024-0.298 mg/100 g의 범위에 존재했으며, niacin의 경우 0.322-2.157 mg/100 g의 범위로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 제시된 구이, 찜, 볶음, 그리고 조림 식품에 대한 수용성 비타민 함량에 대한 영양성분 데이터베이스 구축 연구가 국민 식생활의 중요한 기초자료로 이용될 것으로 확신한다.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2012

Background: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been extensively studied in recent years. However, functions of these molecules in murine B cell biology are largely unknown. A TLR4 stimulant, LPS is well known as a powerful polyclonal activator for murine B cells. Methods: In this study, we explored the effect of a murine TLR9 stimulant, M6-395 (a synthetic CpG ODNs) on B cell proliferation and Ig production. Results: First, M6-395 was much more potent than LPS in augmenting B cell proliferation. As for Ig expression, M6-395 facilitated the expression of both TGF-${\beta}1$-induced germ line transcript ${\alpha}$ ($GLT{\alpha}$) and IL-4-induced $GLT{\gamma}1$ as levels as those by LPS and Pam3CSK4 (TLR1/2 agonist) : a certain Ig GLT expression is regarded as an indicative of the corresponding isotype switching recombination. However, IgA and IgG1 secretion patterns were quite different--these Ig isotype secretions by M6-395 were much less than those by LPS and Pam3CSK4. Moreover, the increase of IgA and IgG1 production by LPS and Pam3CSK4 was virtually abrogated by M6-395. The same was true for the secretion of IgG3. We found that this unexpected phenomena provoked by M6-395 is attributed, at least in part, to its excessive mitogenic nature. Conclusion: Taken together, these results suggest that M6-395 can act as a murine polyclonal activator but its strong mitogenic activity is unfavorable to Ig isotype switching.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2013

실비늘치(6.70~5.32 cm TL)의 성장과 생산량에 대한 연구는 동대만 잘피밭에서 2006년도에 실시하였다. 실비늘치 시료는 소형 빔트롤에 의해서 총 888개체가 채집되었다. Bertalanffy 성장식을 이용하여 구한 전장의 성장식은 $L_t=24.8257(1-e^{-0.5583(t+0.4816)})$이었다. 실비늘치의 밀도, 생체량, 일일생산량, 연간생산량, 그리고 P/B ratio는 각각 $0.01{\pm}0.009/m^2$, $0.17{\pm}0.16g/m^2$, $0.00006{\pm}0.00006g$ AFDW/$m^2$/day, 0.02g AFDW/$m^2$/yr, 그리고 0.12이었다. 실비늘치 생산량의 월변화는 컸으며, 7월(0.000182g AFDW/$m^2$/day), 9월(0.000127g AFDW/$m^2$/day) 그리고 11월(0.000123g AFDW/$m^2$/day)에 높았으며, 4월과 5월(0.000003g AFDW/$m^2$/day)에 가장 낮았다. 실비늘치의 생산량의 월변화는 개체수와 생체량, 그리고 성장률과 양의 상관관계를 보였다.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2007

본 연구는 인간 난관액 또는 자궁액 내에 존재하는 에너지원이 생쥐 2-세포기 배의 체외 발달에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 실시하였다. ICR 암 생쥐에 5 IU hCG 주사 후 $46{\sim}50$ 시간에 2-세포기 배를 회수하였다. 회수된 배는 3가지 배양 조건 [대조군: 0 mM Group A: glucose(G) 0.5 mM + pyruvate(P) 0.32 mM + lactate(L) 10.5 mM, Group B: G 3.15 mM + P 0.1 mM + L 5.83 mM]에서 72시간 배양하였다. 배양 24 시간에 상실배 출현율은 group A (72.3%)와 group B (56.6%)가 대조군(34.9%)보다 유의하게 높았다.(p<0.05). 그러나 48시간에 배반포기 배 출현율은 대조군(51.8%)이 group A (39.8%)와 group B (25.9%)보다 유의하게 (p<0.05) 높았다. 72시간에 투명대 부착 ($ZiB,\;41.0{\sim}51.8%$), 투명대 탈출 ($ZeB,\;18.1{\sim}32.5%$) 및 총 배반포기 배 출현율 ($68.7{\sim}73.5%$)은 실험군 간에 통계적인 차이가 없었다. 배반포기 배의 평균 세포수와 ICM 세포수는 group A (70.8, 13.4)와 group B (64.4, 11.8)가 대조군 (53.1, 5.7)보다 유의하게(p<0.05) 많았고, 통계적인 유의차는 없었으나 group A가 group B보다 많은 경향이었다. 총 세포수에 대한 ICM 비율은 group A(22.9%)와 group B(23.7%)가 대조군(14.2%)보다 유의하게(p<0.05) 높았다. 영양배엽(TE) 세포수($34.1{\sim}45.1$)는 실험군 간에 통계적인 차이가 없었다. ICM에 대한 TE 비율(ICM:TE ratio)은 대조군(1:6.0)이 group A(1:3.4)나 group B(1:3.4)보다 유의하게(p<0.05) 높았다. 생쥐 2-세포기 배를 배양하여 72시간까지의 배 발달율을 살펴보면 배양액에 에너지원을 첨가하는 것이 효과적이었으며, 자궁액 농도보다는 난관액 농도로 에너지원을 조절했을 때 배 발생 능력이 높은 경향을 보였다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1348-1358
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• 2017

To enhance the physiological activity of the Rhynchosia volubilis (RV), R. volubilis (RVHE-A) and R. volubilis-added herbal powder (RVHE-B) were fermented with a solid state culture of Hericium erinaceum mycelia (HE). The total isoflavone contents of the non-fermented RV-A ($489.9{\mu}g/g$) and RV-B ($571.1{\mu}g/g$) were remarkably increased in fermented RVHE-A ($1,836.4{\mu}g/g$) and RVHE-B ($1,276.7{\mu}g/g$). In particular, aglycone isoflavones such as daidzein and genistein were significantly higher in the RVHE-A than any other sample. When hot-water (HW) and EtOH extracts (E) were fractionated from the RV and RVHE, both extracts from the RVHE-A were higher than those from the RV-A in total polyphenol and flavonoid contents. However, the RVHE-B-HW showed a lower polyphenol and flavonoid content level than did RV-B-HW. RVHE-A-HW and -E also had more potent ABTS radical scavenging activity than any extract from the non-fermented RV and other ferments (RVHE-B). In the meanwhile, RVHE-A-HW potently stimulated the production of macrophage activation-related cytokines such as $TNF-{\alpha}$, IL-6 and IL-12 ($841.7{\pm}71.3pg/mL$, $3.9{\pm}0.1ng/mL$, $179.3{\pm}30.2pg/mL$) from peritoneal macrophage more than RV-A-HW ($92.5{\pm}1.5pg/mL$, $0.1{\pm}0.0ng/mL$, $37.4{\pm}5.4pg/mL$) as well as RVHE-B-HW ($557.0{\pm}21.3pg/mL$, $1.8{\pm}0.0ng/mL$, $90.0{\pm}10.0pg/mL$). However, all the EtOH extracts did not show significant activity. In addition, the RVHE-A-HW showed a significantly higher intestinal immune system modulating activity through Peyer's patch and GM-CSF production than did any other extract from RV and RVHE-B. In conclusion, these results suggest that the fermented R. volubilis with H. erinaceum mycelia possesses a possible use as an industrial application as functional food or material.