• BMB Reports
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2008

Apoptosis (programmed cell death) is a cellular self-destruction mechanism that is essential for a variety of biological events, such as developmental sculpturing, tissue homeostasis, and the removal of unwanted cells. Mitochondria play a crucial role in regulating cell death. $Ca^{2+}$ has long been recognized as a participant in apoptotic pathways. Mitochondria are known to modulate and synchronize $Ca^{2+}$ signaling. Massive accumulation of $Ca^{2+}$ in the mitochondria leads to apoptosis. The $Ca^{2+}$ dynamics of ER and mitochondria appear to be modulated by the Bcl-2 family proteins, key factors involved in apoptosis. The number and morphology of mitochondria are precisely controlled through mitochondrial fusion and fission process by numerous mitochondria-shaping proteins. Mitochondrial fission accompanies apoptotic cell death and appears to be important for progression of the apoptotic pathway. Here, we highlight and discuss the role of mitochondrial calcium handling and mitochondrial fusion and fission machinery in apoptosis.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.173-178
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• 1996

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of AC field on the protoplast of plant cells. The results of investigation will be the basis for the development of etectric cell fusion device. For the experiment, we made the electrode and AC and DC pulse generator and observed the behavior of the protoplasts through the inverted microscope which is connected to the monitor and video recorder by the CCD camera. As a result, the numbers of rotating, moving and destructed protoplasts and viability of the protoplasts have close relation to the amplitude of AC field, while the rotation rate is closely related to the frequency of AC pulse.

• 폴리머
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2014

망막색소상피(retinal pigment epithelium, RPE)는 시기능을 유지하는데 중요한 역할을 하여 RPE의 퇴화는 여러 망막변성질병을 유발한다. 현재 이에 대한 효과적인 치료법이 부족하여 세포 이식에 적합한 지지체를 제작하기 위해, 생분해성 고분자인 PLGA와 항염증, 항산화 작용 등의 기능이 있는 헤스페리딘을 이용하여 하이브리드 필름을 제조하였다. ARPE-19를 파종한 후, MTT 분석법을 이용하여 세포 증식률을 확인하고, 세포의 부착 및 세포 형태를 SEM을 통하여 확인하였다. 또한 RPE 세포의 특이적 유전자 발현정도를 확인하기 위하여 RT-PCR을 수행하였고, RPE65의 발현을 확인하기 위해 AEC 면역화학적 염색을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 헤스페리딘/PLGA 필름은 PLGA보다 RPE 세포의 부착, 증식 및 표현형 유지가 우수함을 확인하였고, 이를 통해 헤스페리딘/PLGA 필름의 망막재생을 위한 조직공학적 담체로써 응용 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.189-200
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• 1981

12일간 배양한 계배에서 떼어낸 근모세포에 자외선을 조사하면 근육 분화에 심한 변화를 유발시킬수 있다. 본 연구에서는 자외선이 세포분열 및 근섬유로의 전환, 근모세포와 근섬유의 형태에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 자외선을 받은 세포들은 크기가 작아지고 또 적은 수의 세포들이 근섬유 형성에 참여하기 때문에 근섬유의 직경이 좁아지고 길이 또한 작아진다. 자외선이 세포분열과 세포의 융합에 미치는 영향은 배양을 시작한 후 이른 시기에 조사할수록 그 효과가 크다. 또한 자외선의 양을 증가시키면 그 효과가 커져 지나친 양을 조사하면 세포에 치사작용을 나타낸다. 따라서 자외선에 의한 세포 밀도의 감소가 근섬유 형성의 저하를 초래하는 것으로 사료되어 이에 본 연구와 타 실험실에서 얻은 정보를 바탕으로 세포 융합 능력 감소의 원인에 대하여 토의하였다.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.229-238
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• 1997

Chromosome condensation and swelling of the donor nucleus have been known as the early morphological indicators of chromatin remodelling after injection of a foreign nucleus into an enucleated recipient cytoplasm. The effects of non-preactivation and electrical preactivation of recipient cytoplasm, prior to fusing a donor nucleus, on the profile of nuclear remodelling in the nuclear transplant rabbit embryos were evaluated. The embryos of 16-cell stage were collected and synchronized to G1 phase of 32-cell stage. The recipient cytoplasms were obtained by removing the first polar body and chromosome mass by non-disruptive microsurgical procedure. The separated G1 phase blastomeres of 32-cell stage were injected into non-preactivated recipient cytoplasms. Otherwise, the enucleated recipient cytoplasms were preactivated by electrical stimulation and the separated G1 phase blastomeres of 32-cell stage were injected. After culture until 20h post-hCG injection, the nuclear transplant oocytes were electrofused by electrical stimulation. The nuclei of nuclear transplant embryos fused into non-preactivated and/or preactivated recipient cytoplasm were stained by Hoechst 33342 at 0, 1.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 hrs post-fusion and were observed under an fluorescence microscopy. Accurate measurements of nuclear diameter were revealed with an ocular micrometer at 200$\times$. Upon blastomere fusion into non-preactivated recipient cytoplasm, a prematurely chromosome condensation at 1.5 hrs post-fusion and nuclear swelling at 8 hrs post-fusion were occurred as 91.6% and 86.1%, respectively. But the nuclei of nuclear transplant embryos fused into preactivated recipient cytoplasm, as o, pp.sed to non-preactivated recipient cytoplasm, were not occurred chromosome condensation and extensive nuclear swelling. Nuclear diameter fused into non-preactivated and preactivated recipient cytoplasm at hrs post-fusion was 30.2$\pm$0.74 and 15.2$\pm$1.32${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, respectively. These results indicated that onset of unclear condensation and swelling which was associated with oocytes activation were critical steps in the process of chromatin swelling. Futhermore, complete reprogramming seemed only possible after remodelling of the donor nucleus by chromosome condensation and nuclear swelling.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2010

We investigated the microtubule dynamics, including the inheritance of donor centrosomes and the mitotic spindle assembly occurring during the first mitosis of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos in pigs. SCNT embryos were fixed 15 min and 1 h after fusion in order to assess the inheritance pattern of the donor centrosome. The distribution and dynamic of the centrosome and microtubule during the first mitotic phase of SCNT embryos were also evaluated. The frequency of embryos evidencing $\gamma$-tubulin spots (centrosome) was 93.2% in the SCNT embryos 15 min after fusion. In the majority of the SCNT embryos (61.5%), however, no centrosome was observed 1 h after fusion. The frequency of the embryos with no or abnormal mitotic spindles 20 h after fusion was 19.6%. The $\gamma$-tubulin spots were detected near the nuclei of somatic cells regardless of cell cycle phase, whereas $\gamma$-tubulin spots in the SCNT embryos were observed only during the inter-anaphase transition. These results showed that the donor centrosome is inherited into the SCNT embryos, but failed to assemble the normal mitotic spindles during first mitotic phase in some SCNT embryos.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.399-403
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• 1998

This study was carried out to optimize the concentration of Ca2+ and pH of fusion medium which affected electrofusion frequency of protoplasts isolated from Nicotiana tabacum L. (cv. BY4) mesophyll cells and callus. The protoplasts were electrofused in the fusion media containing two different Ca2+ concentrations and three different pH regions. Fusion frequency was lower in the fusion medium containing only 13% mannitol as osmotic stabilizer. However, higher degree of fusion frequency (47.3%) was observed in the fusion medium containing 50mM CaCl2 at pH 10.5 than any other conditions. Cell viability was decreased by Ca2+ and high pH treatment in the fusion media, while fusion frequency was increased. It is concluded that Ca2+ is involved in electrofusion of protoplasts.

• 한국염색가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국염색가공학회 2009년도 학술발표대회
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• pp.187-188
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• 2009

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.287-298
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• 1987

The regenerative capacities of protoplasts isolated from potato (Solamum tuberosum L.) tubers and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) mesophyll tissues were examined, and then their intergeneric protoplast fusion was carried out. The potato tuber-derived protoplasts proliferated into the calli some of which showed rudimentary shoot-like structures, which had not been attempted before from tubers, while the tobacco protoplasts were regenerated into the whole plants. Intergeneric protoplast fusion between potato and tobacco was carried out and the heteroplasmic fusion products were formed. The first cell division of some of them was observed after 5 days of culture.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2002

소 체세포 핵이식 시 융합액 내 $Ca^{2+}$ 농도에 따른 융합율, 핵형의 변화, 배 발달율을 검토한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 융합액 내 $Ca^{2+}$ 농도를 0.05, 0.1, 0.5 및 1.0 mM로 각기 다르게 처리한 결과, 0.5와 1.0 mM의 CaC$_2$에서 융합율이 80.5 와 84.3%로 나타나 0.05 mM CaCL$_2$에서의 융합율 56.6%에 비하여 유의적(P＜0.01)으로 높았다. 2. 융합액 내 $Ca^{2+}$ 농도에 따른 재구축배의 핵형을 검토한 결과, CaCL$_2$농도 0.05와 0.1 mM 에서는 88.4와 84.0%의 난자가 PCC이후 염색질괴를 형성한 반면, 0.5와 1.0 mM 에서는 54.5와 59.3%가 PCC 형태를 거치지 않고 직접 전핵을 형성하여, $Ca^{2+}$ 농도가 증가함에 따라 PCC 형태를 거치지 않고 직접 전핵을 형성하는 난자의 비율이 증가하였다. 3. 핵이식란의 체외 발육율을 검토한 결과, 1.0 mM CaCl$_2$에서는 배반포 발육율이 30.6%로 나타난 반면, 0.1 mM CaCl$_2$에서 는 20.0%로 나타나 유의적(P＜0.05)인 차이를 나타냈다. 본 연구의 결과는 융합액 내 $Ca^{2+}$농도의 증가가 소 체세포 핵이식란의 융합율 및 배반포 발육율을 향상시킬 수 있음을 시사한다.