• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.117-121
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• 2016

Although piglets have been delivered by embryo transfer (ET) with in vitro produced (IVP) embryos and blastocysts, a success rate has still remained lower level. Unlike mouse, human, and bovine, it is difficult to a production of piglets by in vitro fertilization (IVF) because of an inappropriate in vitro culture (IVC) system in pig. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate whether minimized exposure time in IVC can improve the pregnancy and delivery rates of piglets. Immediately after IVM, the oocytes were denuded and co-incubated with freshly ejaculated boar semen for 3.5 to 4 hours at $38.5^{\circ}C$ under 5% $CO_2$ in air. To avoid long-term exposure to in vitro state, we emitted IVC step after IVF. After that the presumptive zygotes were transferred into both oviducts of the surrogate on the same day or 1 day after the onset of estrus. Pregnancy was diagnosed on day 28 after ET and then was checked regularly every month by ultrasound examination. The 3 out of 4 surrogates were determined as pregnant (75%) and a total of 5 piglets (2 females and 3 males) were delivered at $118.3{\pm}2.5$ days of pregnancy period. In conclusion, a short-term exposure time may be an important factor in the production of IVP-derived piglets. It can be apply to the in vitro production system of transgenic pig by IVF, cloning, and pronuclear microinjection methods.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2014

Despite many researches related with in-vitro culture of porcine spematogonial stem cells (SSCs), adherent culture system widely used has shown a limitation in the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal. Therefore, in order to overcome this obstacle, suspension culture, which is known to have numerous advantage over adherent culture, was applied to the culture of porcine SSCs. Porcine SSCs retrieved from neonatal testes were suspension-cultured for 5 days or 20 days, and characteristics of suspension-cultured porcine SSCs including proliferation, alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity, and self-renewal-specific gene expression were investigated and compared with those of adherent-cultured porcine SSCs. As the results, the suspension-cultured porcine SSCs showed entirely non-proliferative and significantly higher rate of AP-positive cells and expression of self-renewal-specific genes than the adherent-cultured porcine SSCs. In addition, long-term culture of porcine SSCs in suspension condition induced significant decrease in the yield of AP staining-positive cells on post-day 10 of culture. These results showed that suspension culture was inappropriate to culture porcine SSCs, because the culture of porcine SSCs in suspension condition didn't stimulate proliferation and maintain AP activity of porcine SSCs, regardless of culture periods.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.591-598
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• 2011

본 연구는 국내에서 소비되는 약용작물 중 경제적 가치가 높은 백출의 조직배양체계 확립을 위해 수행되었다. 공시재료로는 중국백출(A. macrocephala)과 한국자생백출(A. japonica)의 교잡종인 '다출' 품종의 뿌리와 액아를 이용하였다. 뿌리배양을 위해 BAP, 2-iP, IBA, NAA를 혼용 처리한 결과, 캘러스 유도율은 BAP 처리군에서 다소 높았으나, 캘러스 증식 및 뿌리의 유도에는 2-iP 처리가 효과적이었다. 뿌리조직은 낮은 싸이토키닌의 농도와 높은 옥신의 농도에서 캘러스 유도 및 증식이 원활하였으나 식물체 재분화에는 적합하지 않았다. 백출의 액아배양 시 BAP와 NAA의 혼용처리가 2-iP와 NAA 혹은 IBA 처리보다 재분화식물체 생산에 효과적이었다. 1.0 mg/L BAP와 1.0 mg/L NAA 조건에서 액아 당 신초 출현 수가 3.8개로 가장 많았고, 경직경이 5.0 mm 이상으로 양호하였다. 그러나 BAP를 2-iP로 대치하는 경우 재분화 식물체의 초장은 큰 경향을 보이나 액아 당 재분화 식물체의 수가 적은 것으로 조사되었다. 또한 Sucrose 농도를 70 g/L로 하는 경우 액아로부터 재분화한 식물체의 뿌리 비대에 효과적이었다. 본 실험 결과, 백출의 기내 대량증식을 위한 조직으로는 뿌리보다 액아조직이 효율적이며, 식물의 재분화에는 1.0 mg/L BAP와 1.0 mg/L NAA 적합하고, 고농도의 sucrose가 뿌리 비대에 유용한 것으로 사료된다.