• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 2012

Calcium ions play an important role in the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, but molecular and cellular regulatory mechanisms of calcium ion action in the uterine endometrium are not fully understood in pigs. Previously, we have shown that calcium regulatory molecules, transient receptor potential vanilloid type 5 (TRPV6) and calbindin-D9k (S100G), are expressed in the uterine endometrium during the estrous cycle and pregnancy in a pregnancy status- and stage-specific manner, and that estrogen of conceptus origin increases endometrial TRPV6 expression. However, regulation of S100G expression in the uterine endometrium and conceptus expression of S100G has been not determined during early pregnancy. Thus, we investigated regulation of S100G expression by estrogen and interleukin-$1{\beta}$ (IL1B) in the uterine endometrium and conceptus expression of S100G during early pregnancy in pigs. We obtained uterine endometrial tissues from day (D) 12 of the estrous cycle and treated with combinations of steroid hormones, estradiol-$17{\beta}$ ($E_2$) and progesterone ($P_4$), and increasing doses of IL1B. Real-time RT-PCR analysis showed that $E_2$ and IL1B increased S100G mRNA levels in the uterine endometrium, and conceptuses expressed S100G mRNA during early pregnancy, as determined by RT-PCR analysis. To determine if endometrial expression of S100G mRNA during the implantation period was affected by the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) procedure, we compared S100G mRNA levels in the uterine endometrium from gilts with SCNT-derived conceptuses with those from gilts with conceptuses derived from natural mating on D12 of pregnancy. Real-time RT-PCR analysis showed that levels of S100G mRNA in the uterine endometrium from gilts carrying SCNT-derived conceptuses was significantly lower than those from gilts carrying conceptuses derived from natural mating. These results showed that S100G expression in the uterine endometrium was regulated by estrogen and IL1B of conceptus origin, and affected by the SCNT procedure during early pregnancy. These suggest that conceptus signals regulate S100G, an intracellular calcium transport protein, for the establishment of pregnancy in pigs.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 1998년도 제14회 학술발표회 논문개요집
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• pp.152-153
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• 1998

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 1992

Maltosy-$\beta$-cyclodextrin는 $\beta$-cyclodextrin에 maltose가 $\Alpha$-1,6 glycosidic bond로 결합된 분지환상결합체로서 pullulanase의 역반응(축합반응)을 이용하여 $\beta$-cyclodextrin과 maltose로부터 합성된다. Maltosyl-$\beta$-cycloextrin의 합성수율을 증가시키기 위하여 각종 water activity depressor인 각종 polyol, sugar 그리고 polyethylene glycol(PEG)등의 첨가의 영향을 검토하였다. 가장 적절한 water activity depressor는 PEG 6000로서, 첨가량 10%(w/w)의 경우 maltosyl-$\beta$-cyclodextrin 생성량과 합성수율은 크게 증가하여 3.02g/100ml 와 55.9%(w/w)로서, 첨가하지 않았을 경우보다 약 1.3배 증가하였다. Water activity는 PEG 6000을 20%(w/w) 첨가할 때 원래의 0.966에서 0.914로 감소하였으며, maltosyl-$\beta$-cyclodextrin 합성수율은 water activity에 반비례하여 증가하였다. Pullulanase의 역반응을 이용한 maltosyl-$\beta$-cyclodextrin 합성반응의 각종 열역학적 상수를 평가하였으며, $\Delta$H는 36.788kJ/mol, $\Delta$S는 0.067kJ/moleK, 그리고 $\Delta$G는 14.433kJ/mole이였다. PEG 6000의 분리회수에 적절한 ultrafiltration membrane의 pore size는 3K dalton이었으며, 여과액과 농축액의 적정 분획비는 1.0 : 9.0였다. Maltosyl-$\beta$-cyclodextrin 합성수율의 증가는 첨가한 PEG가 water activity를 감소시켜 합성된 maltosyl-$\beta$-cyclodextrin이 재분해되는 pullulanase이 정반응인 hydrolysis reaction을 억제하여 equilbrium state에 변화를 주기 때문인 것으로 유추된다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.213-218
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• 1981

순수분리정제된 $\beta$-galactosidase의 분자량은 Sephadex G-200 gel filtration법에서 130,000이며 SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis에서 130,000외에 70,000이 확인되어 이 효소는 70,000인 2개의 subunit로 구성되어 있다고 판단되었다. 효소의 안정pH는 4.5~7.0이며 효소활성의 최적 pH는 4.7 최적온도는 5$0^{\circ}C$였다. 효소활성 및 안정제로 1가, 2가 금속ion을 필요로 하지않았으며 C $u^{++}$ 1mM에서 59%, galactose 100mM에서 48% 저해되었다. 5% lactose용액, 시유 및 10% skim milk 용액에 이 정제된 $\beta$-galactosidase 10units/$m\ell$를 사용하여 5$0^{\circ}C$에서 4시간 동안 반응시켰을 때 lactose가 각각 69.5%. 88.7% 및 72.6%가 glucose와galactose로 전환된 결과를 얻었다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.180-184
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• 2009

The apoptotic effect of bacteria-derived $\beta$-glucan was investigated in human colon cancer cells SNU-C4 using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) expressions of Bcl-2, Bax, and Caspase-3 genes, and assay of caspase-3 enzyme activity. $\beta$-Glucan of 10, 50, and $100{\mu}g$/mL decreased cell viability in a dose-dependent manner with typical apoptotic characteristics, such as morphological changes of chromatin condensation and apoptotic body formation from TUNEL assay. In addition, $\beta$-glucan ($100{\mu}g$/mL) decreased the expression of Bc1-2 by 0.6 times, whereas the expression of Bax and Caspase-3 were increased by 3.1 and 2.3 times, respectively, compared to untreated control group. Furthermore, the caspase-3 activity in the $\beta$-glucan-treated group was significantly increased compared to those in control group (P < 0.05). Bacterial derived $\beta$-glucan could be used as an effective compound inducing apoptosis in human colon cancer.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.873-877
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• 2004

This study was designed to determine the optimum conditions of three different factors (mixing time, mixing temperature, and tube size) in reduction of cholesterol in milk using immobilized $\beta$-CD beads. Immobilized $\beta$-CD glass beads were prepared at different conditions of silaniza-tion and $\beta$-CD immobilization reactions. In result, the glass beads (diameter 1 mm) at 20 mM 3-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane and 30 mM $\beta$-CD without base showed the highest choles-terol removal rate as 41%. Using above immobilized $\beta$-CD glass beads, the cholesterol removal rate was 40.2% with 6 h of mixing time in 7 mm diameter tube at $10^{\circ}C$. After choles-terol removal from milk, the glass beads were washed for cholesterol dissociation and reused. In recycling study, the cholesterol removal rate was 41%, which was mostly same as that using new glass beads. These results indicated that cholesterol removal rate was about 40% with $\beta$-CD immobilized glass beads, however, the recycling efficiency was almost 100%.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2003

The antimicrobial effect of ${\beta}$-lactam antibiotics, which had ${\beta}$-lactamase inhibitor activity, on Staphylococcus aureus isolated from mastitis was investigated in this study. Out of 166 isolates, 99 isolates (59.6%) produced ${\beta}$-lactamase, and 98 isolates of 99 were ${\beta}$-lactamase positive in above $12.5{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ MIC of penicillin. In the providence distribution, ${\beta}$-lactamase production rate of 4 providence, Gangwon, Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, and Jeolla was 100%, 65.7%, 58.8%, and 50.0%, respectively. Antibiotic activities of ${\beta}$-lactam antibiotics against lactamase positive isolates also were investigated. Antimicrobial effects of ampicillin/sulbactam or amoxicillin/clavulanic acid treated group were better than ampicillin or amoxicillin treated group. In antimicrobial effects on intracellular S aureus, there was no difference 1 hour and 4 hour treatment in control, ampicillin, and amoxicillin group, but in 18 hours treatment, ampicillin/sulbactam or amoxicillin/clavulanic acid had a better effect than ampicillin or amoxicillin (p<0.05).

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.548-552
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• 2001

This study was designed to find optimum conditions of four different factors (ratio of solvent to cholesterol-$\beta$-cyclodextrin complex, mixing speed, mixing temperature, and mixing time) for cholesterol dissociation in cream. Using the ratio of 6 to 1 (solvent to the complex) showed the highest cholesterol dissociation rate (82.50%) when mixed at 100 rpm at $50^{\circ}C$ for 1 h. Mixing speed did not significantly affect the cholesterol dissociation. Also, mixing time appeared to be insignificant. The optimum mixing temperature was $50^{\circ}C$ and mixing at $40^{\circ}C$ resulted in a significantly lower rate, compared with that at $50^{\circ}C$. In a subsequent experiment, using recycled $\beta$-cyclodextrin only showed 75.07% of cholesterol removal in cream, while the mixture of recycled to unused $\beta$-CD with the ratio of 6 to 4 increased cholesterol removal to 95.59%, which is highly close to that of 100% unused $\beta$-CD.

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 1996

범가자미 난모세포의 최종성숙(GVBD=germinal vesicle breakdown) 유도를 위한 HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin)와 스테로이드 호르몬들의 효능 비교실험이 in vitro에서 이루어졌다. 실험에 사용한 스테로이드 호르몬, progestogens (progesterone, $17\alpha$-hydroxyprogesterone, $17\alpha$-hydroxy, $20\beta$-dihydroprogesterone)중에서는 $17\alpha$-hydroxy, $20\beta$-dihydroprogesterone ($17\alpha20{\beta}OHP$)이 매우 효과적으로 나타났으며, $17\alpha20{\beta}OHP$와 HCG와의 비교실험에서는 이들 모두 GVBD 유도에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다. 특히 $17\alpha20{\beta}OHP$는 저농도($10\~50$ ng/ml)에서도 효과적이며, HCG는 사용한 농도(50, 100, 500 IU/ml)사이에 유의한차를 보이지 않았다.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.217-220
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• 2006

The effects of $(1R,9S)-\beta-hydrastine$ hydrochloride (BHSH) on $Ca^{2+}$ transport in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells were investigated. In the presence of external $Ca^{2+}$, BHSH at $100{\mu}M$ inhibited $K^+$ (56mM)-induced dopamine release, and $K^+-induced$ $Ca^{2+}$ influx and a sustained rise of $[Ca^{2+}]_i$. In addition, BHSH at 100 f.!M reduced the sustained rise of $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ elicited by 20 mM caffeine, but not by $1{\mu}M$ thapsigargin, in presence of external $Ca^{2+}$. These results suggest that BHSH inhibited $K^+-induced$ dopamine release and $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ influx, and store-operated $Ca^{2+}$ channels activated by caffeine, but not by thapsigargin, in PC12 cells.