• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.629-640
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• 2023

토종보리수 열매 추출물의 비알콜성 지방간 질환 개선효과를 규명하기 위해 흰쥐에게 65% 고과당 식이와 함께 토종보리수 열매 에탄올 추출물을 식이의 0.5%, 1.0% 수준으로 10주간 제공하였다. 고과당군은 대조군에 비해 공복 혈당과 혈청 인슐린, HOMA-IR값이 유의적으로 증가하였고, 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물군의 공복혈당은 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 저농도 보리수 열매 추출물군 및 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물군의 혈청 인슐린과 HOMA-IR값은 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 혈청 중성지방 및 총 콜레스테롤 농도는 고과당군이 대조군에 비해 유의적으로 증가하였으며, 저농도 보리수 열매 추출물군 및 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물군은 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 간조직 중성지방 함량은 고과당군이 대조군에 비해 유의적으로 증가하였으며, 저농도 및 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물의 섭취는 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 혈청 ALT 및 AST 활성은 고과당군이 대조군에 비해 유의적으로 증가하였고, 저농도 및 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물군의 ALT 활성은 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 고농도 보리수 열매 추출군의 AST 활성은 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다. 간조직의 SREBP-1c 및 ChREBP 단백질 발현도는 고과당군이 대조군에 비해 유의적으로 증가하였다. 저농도 및 고농도 보리수 열매 추출물군의 SREBP-1c 및 ChREBP 단백질 발현도는 고과당군에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였고, 대조군과 유의적인 차이가 없었다. 따라서, 고과당을 섭취한 흰쥐에서 토종보리수 열매 추출물의 섭취는 고혈당과 인슐린 저항성 상태를 개선하였고, 혈청 지질과 간조직 중성지방 함량을 감소시켰으며, 간조직의 SREBP-1c 및 ChREBP 단백질 발현을 감소시켜, 비알코올성 지방간질환 개선 효과를 나타내는 것으로 사료된다.

• 한방비만학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

Objectives: The prevalence of obesity continues rise and obesity and metabolic syndrome is a major problem in global health care. Animal models are used in the drug discovery of novel treatment for obesity. One of common models of obesity is a high fat diet induced obesity in a C5BL/6 mouse, and the development of obesity and glucose tolerance in mouse model is different according to period of diet. Therefore, this study was performed to observe the development of obesity and glucose tolerance during a high fat diet (HFD). Methods: Male C57BL/6 mice, 5 weeks of age, were fed on a standard chow diet as a normal diet (18 kcal% fat) or a HFD (60 kcal% fat) for up to 16 weeks. The various factors related with obesity and insulin resistance were measured at 8, 12, and 16 weeks. Results: The weights of body and epididymal fat were gradually increased for 8~16 weeks, however the change of hyperglycaemia and glucose tolerance have shown different with that of body weight. Blood glucose, oral glucose tolerance and insulin tolerance were increased more clearly at week 12 and 16 than week 8. Lipid accumulation of liver and body temperature were also significantly increased at week 16, compared with normal group. Conclusions: The developments of obesity and related factors were different by a HFD period in a C57BL/6 obese mice. This result suggests that the development of obesity with glucose tolerance and liver lipid may induce clearly by a HFD for 16 weeks.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2017

This study was conducted to examine infectivity (penetration and gall and egg-mass formations) of the root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne incognita and M. hapla, on carrots grown in soil conditions of 5 different soil textures consisting of bed-soil (b) and sand (s) mixtures (b-s mixtures) at the ratios of 10:0, 7:3, 5:5, 3:7, and 0:10. For M. incognita, the nematode penetration rates in b-s of 0:10 (100% sand) were significantly higher than in the other b-s mixtures, more greatly at 2 and 5 days after inoculation than at 10 DAI, while no significant differences in the penetration rates were mostly shown for M. hapla at the above DAI. However, for both nematodes, gall and egg-mass formations were remarkably increased in the b-s mixture of 0:10, compared to the other b-s mixtures, which is coincided with the general aspects of severe nematode infestations in sandy soils. This suggests the increased gall and egg-mass formations of M. incognita should be derived from the increased penetration rates in the sandy soil conditions, which provide a sufficient aeration due to coarse soil nature for the nematodes, leading to their mobility increased for the enhanced root penetration. For M. hapla, it is suggested that the sandy soil conditions affect positively on the healthy plant growth with little accumulation of the inhibitory materials and sufficient aeration, enhancing the nematode growth and feeding activities. All of these aspects provide information reliable for the development screening techniques efficient for the evaluation of the nematode resistance in the breeding programs.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2017

Fungicide-resistant Alternaria alternata impede the practical control of the Alternaria diseases in crop fields. This study aimed to investigate cytological fungicide resistance mechanisms of A. alternata against dicarboximide fungicide iprodione. A. alternata isolated from cactus brown spot was cultured on potato-dextrose agar (PDA) with or without iprodione, and the fungal cultures with different growth characteristics from no, initial and full growth were observed by light and electron microscopy. Mycelia began to grow from one day after incubation (DAI) and continued to be in full growth (control-growth, Con-G) on PDA without fungicide, while on PDA with iprodione, no fungal growth (iprodione-no growth, Ipr-N) occurred for the first 3 DAI, but once the initial growth (iprodione-initial growth, Ipr-I) began at 4-5 DAI, the colonies grew and expanded continuously to be in full growth (iprodione-growth, Ipr-G), suggesting Ipr-I may be a turning moment of the morphogenetic changes resisting fungicidal toxicity. Con-G formed multicellular conidia with cell walls and septa and intact dense cytoplasm. In Ipr-N, fungal sporulation was inhibited by forming mostly undeveloped unicellular conidia with degraded and necrotic cytoplasm. However, in Ipr-I, conspicuous cellular changes occurred during sporulation by forming multicellular conidia with double layered (thickened) cell walls and accumulation of proliferated lipid bodies in the conidial cytoplasm, which may inhibit the penetration of the fungicide into conidial cells, reducing fungicide-associated toxicity, and may be utilized as energy and nutritional sources, respectively, for the further fungal growth to form mature colonies as in Ipr-G that formed multicellular conidia with cell walls and intact cytoplasm with lipid bodies as in Con-G.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.255-265
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• 2013

This study was conducted to determine the extent of drought resistance based on physiological responses of Calystegia soldanella under water deficit. In order to investigate the changes of plant growth, stomatal density, photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence, the contents of chlorophyll and carotenoid, osmolality, total ion contents, the contents of carbohydrate and proline, C. soldanella was grown under well watered and drought stressed conditions for 12 days. In this study, water-deficit resulted in remarkable growth inhibition of C. soldanella. The effect of water-deficit on plant growth was associated with low osmotic potential of soil. On day 12 after drought treatment, dry weight, relative water contents, number and area of leaves and stem length were lower than those of control. The stomatal conductance and net photosynthetic rate were significantly reduced in water stressed plant to regulate inner water contents and $CO_2$ exchange through the stomatal pore. Chlorophyll fluorescence and chlorophyll contents were not different in comparison with the control, indicating that the efficiency of photosystem II was not affected by drought stress. This results could be explained that water-deficit in C. soldanella limits the photosynthetic rate and reduces the plant's ability to convert energy to biomass. A significant increase in total ion contents and osmolality was observed on day 7 and day 12. Accumulation of proline in leaves is associated with the osmotic adjustment in C. soldanella to soil water-deficit. Consequently, this increase in osmolality in water stressed plant can be a result in the increase of ion contents and proline.

• 한국의사학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2011

Rhinitis, inflammation of the nasal cavity caused by the disease in our country that a recent trend is the rapidly increasing number of patients. It causes multiple complications and interfere with daily life and social life in case of being viewed as a mild cold. The rhinitis treatment for symptomatic therapy in modern medicine is staying because the situation is exposing the limitations. so traditional medicine is trying to find a solution but that is not easy. In modern medicine, rhinitis is defined as a set of histological lesions and clinical symptoms, but traditional medicine has developed in dealing with each symptoms in disease. The treatment that doesn't distinguish any treatment in growing numbers of patients does not seem to validate, because doctors treat without considering the difference of recognition. Looking at the symptoms for each, I found that each symptoms and causes are varied according to doctors and era. In spite of considering all of that in treatment, it was ignored or underestimated in modern medicine. Furthermore, in traditional medicine, they just conjugated certain period theory and only had limited treatment by a lack of integrated awareness about definition and mechanism. In addition, in case of mentioning about the causes of prescription in each medical books, there were not enough explain about pathological states. Therefore, these causes should be made to further the research about the validity, pathogenesis and treatment. We can see that theory could be established and modified by the accumulation of clinical experience, observations through classification by each of the causes, prescription and treatment. In traditional medicine simply does not pay attention only to nasal inflammation, such as the impact of Meridian and organs considered to have focused on the fundamental treatment. This increased immune resistance to the modern rhinitis patients may offer new therapeutic approaches. I hope this paper would be helpful to find the treatment with uncovered theory in modern medicine.

• 생약학회지
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.275-281
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• 2014

After harvesting the medicinal parts of Curcuma longa, the remaining underground parts were discarded. From the remaining underground parts of Curcuma longa quercetin-3-O-${\beta}$-D-glucopyranoside-7-O-${\alpha}$-L-rhamnopyranoside (Q37) was isolated. The antioxidant activities in vitro and lifespan-extension effect of Q37 were elucidated using the Caenorhabditis elegans. The 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging effect of Q37 showed similar potent activities in comparison with vitamin C. Q37 also showed potent superoxide quenching activities as measured by the riboflavin- and xanthine-originated superoxide quenching activity tests. Q37 prolonged lifespan of worms under normal culture condition. In terms of protective effect of Q37 on the stress conditions such as thermal and oxidative stresses, Q37-treated worms exhibited enhanced survival rate, as compared to control worms. To know the possible mechanism of Q37-mediated increased lifespan and stress resistance of worms, we examined the activities of Q37on superoxide dismutase (SOD), and invested intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. The results revealed that Q37 was able to elevate SOD activity of worms and reduce intracellular ROS accumulation in a dose-dependent manner.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.568-575
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• 2018

In order to discover lifespan-extending compounds made from natural resources, activity-guided fractionation of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae) ethanol extract was performed using the Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) model system. The compound 6-gingerol was isolated from the most active ethyl acetate soluble fraction, and showed potent longevity-promoting activity. It also elevated the survival rate of worms against stressful environment including thermal, osmotic, and oxidative conditions. Additionally, 6-gingerol elevated the antioxidant enzyme activities of C. elegans, and showed a dose-depend reduction of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation in worms. Further studies demonstrated that the increased stress tolerance of 6-gingerol-mediated worms could result from the promotion of stress resistance proteins such as heat shock protein (HSP-16.2) and superoxide dismutase (SOD-3). The lipofuscin levels in 6-gingerol treated intestinal worms were decreased in comparison to the control group. No significant 6-gingerol-related changes, including growth, food intake, reproduction, and movement were noted. These results suggest that 6-gingerol exerted longevity-promoting activities independently of these factors and could extend the human lifespan.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제45권8호
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• pp.767-782
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• 2012

일반적으로 관거 및 맨홀 등의 도시 배수 시스템에서의 유사 및 유송잡물의 퇴적은 유수 흐름의 저항, 합류식 하수도의 조기 운영 및 도시 침수 및 주수로에서의 필연적인 오염 발생 등의 하수도 시설에 심각한 영향을 미친다. 그러므로 배수관과 연결된 합류맨홀에서 유사의 거동 특성 및 퇴적 양상을 분석할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 문헌조사 및 현장조사를 실시하여 실험장치를 제작하고 실험조건을 선정하였다. 선정된 실험조건인 맨홀 형상 조건(사각형, 원형), 유사 유입 조건, 유입 유사량 및 유사 유입 관거를 변화시키면서 실시하였다. 맨홀 내부에 경사형 benching을 설치한 개선형 합류맨홀은 맨홀의 형상에 관계없이 합류맨홀 내 유사퇴적을 저감시키는 데에 상당한 효과를 나타내고 있으므로 도시 배수 시스템에서 개선형 합류맨홀은 관거 시설의 배수능력을 증대시킬 것으로 판단된다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2002

'황금배' 동녹발생이 해에 따라 큰 차이를 보이는 것은 강우가 크게 관여하기 때문인 바 본 연구에서는 강우와 동녹발생과의 관계를 구명하기 위하여 인위적으로 가습처리를 하여 높은 상대습도와의 관계를 구명하였다. 높은 상대습도는 기공저항을 적게 하였다. 따라서 순수동화산물의 축적이 과실의 비대를 촉진하여 가습처리에서 평균 과중이 크게 나타났다 광합성속도에는 처리간의 차이가 없었다. 동녹 발생시기는 과중과 과실표면적의 신장속도가 가장 빠른 시기인 7월 25일 전후이며, 높은 상대습도가 과실의 신장을 촉진하였으므로 가습처리에서 동녹발생이 많았다. 7월 하순은 과실의 칼슘농도변화가 큰 시기로서 세포벽 구성에 주요한 물질인 칼슘량의 저하가 동녹발생과 상관이 있을 것으로 생각된다. 강우에 의한 높은 상대습도가 동녹발생에 미치는 영향은 높은 상대습도에 의해 순수광합성물질의 많아지고 이에 따라 과실신장이 빨라지나 과실세포의 신장을 위해 전류되는 동화산물량과 이동되는 수분 포함한 무기성분량의 일시적 불균형이 큰 이유 중의 하나라고 생각된다.