• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.411-416
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• 2005

Vitamin U(S-methylmethionin) levels were affected by cultivars, portion and storage times in Kimchi made from Korean Chinese cabbages. From this study, the outward parts contained high levels of vitamin U in two cultivars of Winter Pride and 55 days. Vitamin U levels in Kimchi during storage were increased during fermentation at $4^{\circ}C$. Leaf parts were 1.1-5.2 times higher in vitamin U levels than midribs in both cultivars. The levels of vitamin U were shown highest in outward leaf parts of 55 days cultivars. Like vitamin U, free amino acid also showed much higher levels in leaves. Levels of amino acids showed similarly changing patterns at different parts and cultivars of Korean Chinese cabbages in Kimchi. Threonine, alanine and proline appeared relatively abundant amino acids in most parts of sample. Moreover, methionine as a precursor of vitamin U has been reported that leaf parts contained the higher levels than midrib parts. But methionine was shown most core leaf parts. Methionine as a precursor of vitamin U, may not play a role in an increase of vitamin U of Korean Chinese cabbages in Kimchi.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.589-595
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• 2006

Vitamin U (5-methylmethionine) levels of Chinese cabbages at $4^{\circ}C$ were investigated to establish its physiological characteristics and also amino acids and sugars levels to find out their relationship with vitamin U were determined The levels of vitamin U showed different from parts of Chinese cabbages. The highest value was shown in outward leaf in Wineter Pride (12.70 mg/100 g fresh wt.) and core leaf in 55 Days cultivars (18.60 mg/100 g fresh wt.). leaf pare were 1.7-9.0 times higher in vitamin U levels than those in midribs in both cultivars. levels of vitamin U in stored Chinese cabbages increased with storage time. Moreover, two cultivars used far this experiment showed different pattern during storage. In Winter Pride, vitamin U levels sharply increased in leaf and midrib of cote part during storage. This value reached about 2.5 times for leaf and 4 times for midrib compared to the levels of initial storage time in core part In 55 Days cultivars, outward leaf showed an increased level of vitamin U of 1.8 times compared to that of 1 month storage time. Methionine known as a precursor of vitamin U synthesis did not showed clear relationship with vitamin U levels. Methionine was either not detected or at negligibly low levels in Chinese cabbages during storage. Methionine may not play a role in an increase of vitamin U during storage of Chinese cabbages at $4^{\circ}C$. No clear relationship of free amino acids and soluble sugars for vitamin U accumulation during storage of Chinese cabbages was shown in this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.224-231
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• 2004

Vitamin U levels in 26 kinds of food plants are well known to healthy vegetables in Asian or Western countries were determined. Spinach showed the highest level of 452.04 mg/kg and in order Pack-choi (343.18 mg/kg) > Kale (234.18 mg/kg) > Somssukbujaengi (197.66 mg/kg) > leaf mustard (196.21 mg/kg) > aralia bud (192.50 mg/kg)> broccoli (189.03 mg/kg) >Asparagus (187.35 mg/kg). Among Korean wild medicinal plants, Sumssukbujaengi showed the highest value followed by Sanmanul (a kind of wild garlic) level of 143.46 mg/kg. For Chinese cabbages and cabbages, vitamin U showed different levels according to the parts of plant such as core, middle, outward leaves. In both samples, middle parts of leaves including midribs contained the highest level of vitamin U. The level of vitamin U was dependent on the part of the plant sample and cultivars. Leaf parts of turnip and white radish showed higher value of 84.82 mg/kg and 124.62 mg/kg than those of roots which were in order of middle (112.39 mg/kg), top (84.84 mg/kg) and bottom (84.61 mg/kg) portions in the white radish. In the analysis of amino acids, we didn't find either distinctive relationship between methionine and vitamin U synthesis or significant connection various free amino acids and vitamin U level in food plants.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.243-250
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• 2003

S-methylmethionine, vitamin U levels were affected by cultivars, parts fo Korean Chinese cabbages, and drying methods. Among drying conditions, freeze drying method appeared the best condition to maintain bitamin U content compared to oven and air drying methods. In the case of KOrean Chinese cabbages, outward leaves have high levels of chlorphyll and fiber. From this study, the outward parts contained high levels of vitamin U in two cultivars. Leaf parts were 1.1-21.2 times higher in vitamin U levels than midribs in both cultivars. This difference was shown most distinctively in freeze dried outward parts of Winter Pride cultivar. Like vitmnin U, fee amino acids also showed much higher levels in leaves. Levels of amino acids showed irregulatoy changing patterns at different parts and cultivar of Korean Chinese cabbages with various drying methods, Alanine and threonie appeared relatively aboundant amino acids in most parts of samples. Since no distinctive trends were observed in this rsult, it seems no relationship exists between amon oacids and bitamin U levels. Levels of methionine in differnent parts and cultivars of Korean Chinese cabbages dried with various methods did no show clear relationship with tlevel of vitamin U. Moreover, emthionine was not detected in freeze dired outward leaf parts which were the hithest parts of vitamin U levels in Winter Pride and 55 days cultivar. There were simila levels of methionine between overn and freeze drying. Samples prepared by air drying showed significatly lower levels than those by oven and freeze dryting. Methionine as aprecursor of vitamin U, may play a role in an increase of vitamin U during drying of KOrean Chinese cabbages.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 1993

Contents of vitamin $D_3$ and 25-OH-vitamin $D_3$ in marine animal products(20 species) were determined by HPLC. The isomers of vitamin D, $D_2$ and $D_3$, were not clearly separated on a reversed phase, ${\mu}$ Bonda Pak, with 20% methanol-acetonitrile, and on a normal phase, Zorbax SIL. with 0.4% isopropanol-hexane, but 25-OH-vitamin $D_2$ and-$D_3$ were separated on either ${\mu}$ Bonda Pak with 10% methanol-acetonitrile, or on Zorbax SIL with 2.2% isopropanol-hexane, respectively. Although levels of vitamin $D_3$ and 25-OH-vitamin $D_3$ varied remarkably according to species, their average value(fish : $l,l87{sim}36,007$ I.U/sample 100g, mussel : $58{\sim}1,706$ I.U/sample 100g, pickle: $1,208{\sim}79,358$ I.U/sample 100g) was greatly higher than that of meat($80{\sim}100$ I.U/sample 100g) and dairy products($400{\sim}800$ I.U/sample 100g). Fatty tissues of fish and pickled fish intestines contained high level of vitamin $D_3$ and 25-OH-vitamin $D_3$, while the clam and mussel known to have various kinds of sterol including ${\Delta}^7$-sterol showed very low levels of vitamin $D_3$ and its derivative.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.139-143
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• 2019

The aim of this study was to assess the association of vitamin D and urine microalbumin/creatinine (uACR) and obesity. The study subjects were Korean adults 20 years or older (n = 4,948) who participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2012. Analysis of covariance test adjusted for covariates were performed for uACR levels in relation to vitamin D status [vitamin D deficient, 25(OH)D < 10 ng/dL; vitamin D insufficient, 25(OH)D ≥ 10, < 20 ng/dL; vitamin D sufficient, 25(OH)D ≥ 20 ng/dL]. The key study results were as follows: First, in the populations without obesity (BMI < 25 kg/m²), uACR levels were decreased with the increasing of vitamin D status (p < 0.001) after adjusting for relevant variables. Second, in the populations with obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²), the association between uACR levels and vitamin D status was not significant (p = 0.659). In conclusion, urine microalbumin/creatinine levels were inversely associated with vitamin D status in Korean adults without obesity, but not in Korean adults with obesity.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of supplemental vitamin D on the physiological indices, muscle mass, and physical functions of aged women. Methods: A non-equivalent pretest-posttest design was used. The participants were 65 elderly women with low serum vitamin D levels. This study was conducted for 12 weeks. The experimental group (n=34) received vitamin D and regular exercise whereas the control group (n=31) received only regular exercise. The data were analyzed by the IBM PASW Statistics (SPSS) 19.0 program. Results: Serum vitamin D (U=0.00, p<.001), parathyroid hormone (U=99.50, p<.001) and calcium (U=250.50, p<.001) levels were significantly increased in the experimental group after the intervention. The experimental group showed significantly increased scores of muscle mass, strength, physical balance, and gait compared to those of the control group. Conclusion: Vitamin D supplementation improved physiological indices, muscle mass, and physical functions. In addition, this program may help to prevent disorders of the musculoskeletal system in aged women.

• Food Science of Animal Resources
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.150-154
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• 2003

Mare milk has a unique composition compared to other animal milks. This study was to determine the content of vitamin A in mare milk using HPLC and compared with cow milk The RT(retention time) of vitamin A by HPLC was about 4.4 min in mare and cow milk The results showed that vitamin A content of cow milk was higher than that of mare milk in each gram of milk sample. And the vitamin A content of mare cream was lower than that of cow cream in each gram of lipid. Consequently, vitamin A content of cow milk was higher than that of mare milk.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.189-198
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• 1991

This study was performed to examine the effect of excess vitamin A feeding on lipid profile and vitamin A content of rats. 12 male Sprague-Dawley rats. weighing 114.1$\pm$0.9g, were divided into control and excess vitamin A group, and fed experimental diet for 6 weeks. In the excess vitamin A group, the level of vitamin A was 400, 000 1.U./kg diet(100 times of standard level). It was observed that vitamin A excess group had higher levels of plasma total lipid, total cholesterol, and trighlyceride and lower HDL ratio, indicating a high risk to coronary heart disease. In the liver, total CHOL and TG content were also high, and fatty liver was produced by excess Vitamin A. Vitamin A contents of organs were higher when excess vitamin A was given. These results suggested that excess vitamin A could be a dietary factor increasing the lipid contents of plasma and liver. Therefore, it could be said that vitamin A megadose can be one of the risk factors to coronary heart disease.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.151-167
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• 2003

Melanin biosynthesis is a human defense mechanism to protect skin from UV irradiation and also determines colors of hair and skin. However, as a interest on skin-whitening increases, researches to prevent pigmentation and hypersynthesis of melanin in skin are being actively in progress. Active components used as a whitening agent in cosmeceuticals are kojic acid, arbutin, vitamin C and hydroquinone. However, until now, because comparison researches among them in the aspect of both melanin formation and cellular toxicity have not been performed, we can't exactly estimate merits and defects of them as a whitening agent. To this end, we performed experiments to compare their effects on cell viability and melanin formation. As a first step, in vitro tyrosinase inhibition assay was done. While kojic acid and hydroquinone showed strong inhibition activities(their IC$\_$50/s are all < 100uM), arbutin and vitamin C showed weak activities. IC$\_$50/s of arbutin and vitamin C are 100uM and 400∼500uM, respectively. In B16BL6 melanoma cells, like in vitro tyrosinase inhibition assay, arbutin and kojic acid showed more strong inhibition effect on melanin synthesis than vitamin C. And unlike arbutin, vitamin C and kojic acid induced cell death at high concentration. Although arbutin showed no cytotoxicity, it has side effect to induce morphological change at high concentration.. In this paper, we suggest both kojic acid and arbutin have stronger ability to inhibit melanogenesis than vitamin C. And they also have side effect, that is, kojic acid induces cell death like vitamin C and arbutin changes cell morphology respectively.