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Effect of Lactobacillus fermentum MG590 on Alcohol Metabolism and Liver Function in Rats

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Hyun-Jin;Son, Jeong-Hwa;Chun, Ho-Nam;Yang, Jin-Oh;Choi, Sung-Jin;Paek, Nam-Soo;Choi, Gyoung-Hoon;Kim, Sung-Koo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.919-925
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    • 2003
  • Alcohol consumption has numerous health consequences for the human body. For example, heavy drinking on a daily basis causes liver diseases, and certain products such as acetaldehyde produced from alcohol metabolism are more toxic than alcohol itself. Accordingly, the current study evaluated the role of Lactobacillus fermentum MG590 to enhance the removal of the toxic effect of alcohol in alcohol metabolism. The maximum activities of the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) by L. fermentum MG590 were observed after 6 h of culture. The production of ADH and ALDH by L. fermentum MG590 was also confirmed by SDS-PAGE. Six hours after the addition of alcohol to a culture broth of L. fermentum MG590, the alcohol concentration decreased from 7.5 to 2.7%. From an in vitro evaluation based on hepatocytes, the viability of hepatocytes in a medium containing alcohol and the cytosol of L. fermentum MG590 was higher than that in a medium containing only alcohol. From an in vivo test using SD rats fed a 22% alcoholic drink, the blood alcohol concentration (BAC), glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) in the rats fed a medium containing L. fermentum MG590 were lower than those in the rats fed a medium containing only the alcohol drink. These results demonstrate that the ADH and ALDH produced by L. fermentum MG590 play an important role in detoxicating alcohol in vivo. Therefore, a fermentation broth of L. fermentum MG590 could be used as an effective alcohol detoxification drink.

Antibacterial Activity of Rhus javanica against the Fish Pathogens Vibrio ichthyoenteri and Streptococcus iniae (오배자(Rhus javanica) 추출물의 어병세균 Vibrio ichthyoenteri와 Streptococcus iniae에 대한 항균활성)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Hoon;Kim, Ah Ra;Cho, Eun-Ji;Joo, Seong-Je;Park, Jong-Hoon;Moon, Ji-Young;Yum, Jong-Hwa;Kim, Tae Hoon;Kwon, Hyun-Ju;Lee, Hyun-Tai;Kim, Young-Man;Lee, Eun-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.18-22
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    • 2014
  • The antibacterial activities of methanol extracts of 19 commercial herbal medicines were measured against the fish pathogens Vibrio ichthyoenteri and Streptococcus iniae, which cause several fish diseases. Rhus javanica showed the strongest antibacterial activity against V. ichthyoenteri and S. iniae. The methanol extract of R. javanica was extracted further using several organic solvents with different polarities. The extract from the ethyl acetate fraction showed strong activity against both fish pathogens. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the R. javanica extract was $32{\mu}g/mL$ for V. ichthyoenteri and $128{\mu}g/mL$ for S. iniae. Further purification and isolation of the active compound (s) responsible for these activities and further study of the synergistic effect using combinations of antibiotics against pathogenic bacteria are needed.

Analysis of Social Network Activity and Firm Performance in the U.S Biotechnology Industry (외부 네트워크와 기업성과 : 미국 바이오산업을 중심으로)

  • Ro, Young-Jin;Kim, Jin-Woong;Lee, Sang-Kyu
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2010
  • Firm’s social network has been known as an important firm strategy because it could promote technological innovation and also minimize economic uncertainty. In this study, we identify four types of firm’s social network activities such as Collaboration, Manufacturing/Marketing/Distribution Agreements, Financing, and M&A, and analyze how these activities affect firm performance using U.S biotechnology firm data. We found that Manufacturing/Marketing/Distribution Agreements increased firm performance in short-run. Also, collaboration with pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms had a positive effect on firm performance, too. However, collaboration with public institutes or universities had a negative effect on firm performance in short run, which implies its collaboration would be mainly focused on research in pure science area. These empirical results provide two policy implications. First, social network strategy should be encouraged in the Korean biotechnology industry. Secondly, governments should consider developing polices that support collaboration of biotechnology with public institutes or universities, to promote technological innovation.

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Sensory Analysis of Milk and Milk Products (우유 및 유제품의 관능분석)

  • Kang, Shin-Ho
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.37-41
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    • 2009
  • Sensory analysis of milk and milk products is widely appreciated, and there is a demand for experts with these skills in the dairy industry. To this end, it is important to understand the basic principles of sensory analysis and impart training to facilitate the development of dairy food industry. This paper addresses the ISO 22935/IDF 99 guidelines on the methodology of sensory analysis of milk and milk products, training procedures and monitoring of selected assessors, and criteria for sampling and preparation of dairy samples and their assessment.

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Today and Tomorrow in Dairy Industry (유가공산업의 오늘과 내일)

  • Lee, Man-Jae
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 1997
  • Korea dairy industry is placed on the very critical situation with the progression of free trade marketing system internationally. The sterilized milk or pasteurized extended shelf life milk can be considered as the international trade dairy products. Now all dairy foods would be selling in international market. To keep and improve our dairy foods market, the Korea dairy system improvement committee was inaugurated in 1995. This committee has done so many works to improve or dairy system such as the settlement of raw milk supply and demand, centralization of raw milk collection, ideal raw milk price system and dairy foods marketing structure, etc.

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Discovery and Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) Marker Development with Korean Japonica Rice Varieties

  • Cheon, Kyeong-Seong;Baek, Jeongho;Cho, Young-il;Jeong, Young-Min;Lee, Youn-Young;Oh, Jun;Won, Yong Jae;Kang, Do-Yu;Oh, Hyoja;Kim, Song Lim;Choi, Inchan;Yoon, In Sun;Kim, Kyung-Hwan;Han, Jung-Heon;Ji, Hyeonso
    • Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.391-403
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    • 2018
  • Genome resequencing by next-generation sequencing technology can reveal numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within a closely-related cultivar group, which would enable the development of sufficient SNP markers for mapping and the identification of useful genes present in the cultivar group. We analyzed genome sequence data from 13 Korean japonica rice varieties and discovered 740,566 SNPs. The SNPs were distributed at 100-kbp intervals throughout the rice genome, although the SNP density was uneven among the chromosomes. Of the 740,566 SNPs, 1,014 SNP sites were selected on the basis of polymorphism information content (PIC) value higher than 0.4 per 200-kbp interval, and 506 of these SNPs were converted to Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) markers. The 506 KASP markers were tested for genotyping with the 13 sequenced Korean japonica rice varieties, and polymorphisms were detected in 400 KASP markers (79.1%) which would be suitable for genetic analysis and molecular breeding. Additionally, a genetic map comprising 205 KASP markers was successfully constructed with 188 $F_2$ progenies derived from a cross between the varieties, Junam and Nampyeong. In a phylogenetic analysis with 81 KASP markers, 13 Korean japonica varieties showed close genetic relationships and were divided into three groups. More KASP markers are being developed and these markers will be utilized in gene mapping, quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis, marker-assisted selection and other strategies relevant to crop improvement.

Synthesis of Substituted Imidazolidin-2-ones as Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthase Inhibitors

  • Eum, Hee-Sung;Lee, Yu-No;Kim, Song-Mi;Baek, A-Young;Son, Min-Ky;Lee, Keun-Woo;Ko, Seung-Whan;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Yun, Sae-Young;Lee, Won-Koo;Ha, Hyun-Joon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.611-614
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    • 2010
  • Substituted imidazolidin-2-ones deduced as potential inhibitors of IleRS by docking simulations were synthesized from an aziridine-2-carboxaldehyde. Reductive amination of an aziridine-2-carboxaldehyde with dipeptides for the substituents at N1 and followed by aziridine-ring expansion with triphosgene afforded 4-chloromethylimidazolidin-2-ones whose chloride were further manipulated towards phenylurea, pyrimidin-2-yl-urea or benzenesulfonamide at C4.

Development of Korean Dairy Industry - Cheese (한국 유가공업의 발전과 전망 - 치즈)

  • Chun, Ho-Nam
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2005
  • In 1967, cheese was first produced with small scale of mozzarella cheese in Korea. The processed cheese market was highly grown after putting on the market of sliced cheese in the late 1980's, and the various products that complied with well-being trends such as organic and high functional cheese have been produced in the 2000's. The natural cheese opens up a new domestic market after producing camembert and brie cheese in the end of 2004. At present. the cheese market is expanded with differentiated products such as high value added and high functional cheese. The size of domestic cheese market remains about 200 billion won, but it is expected to go over a trillion won on account of growing preference of natural cheese with well-being trends. To promote domestic cheese industry, differentiation policy of raw milk price for cheese, diversification of cheese products, financial support to farm-made cheese industry and automation and processing development to improve productivity should be taken into account in the future in Korea.

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