• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2002

Aster scaber $T_{HUNB}$ (AST ; Charm-chui), a potent herbal medicinal plant, has a long tradition of use, being harvested as a wild plant, is said to stimulate appetite, and may act as a diuretic, antifebrile agent and painkiller. This study was conducted to investigate the immunomodulative effects of AST In mice, using in vitro and in vivo experiments. The immunomodulative effects were studied in vitro by measuring the proliferation of mice splenocytes and the production of three kinds of cytokines (IL-$\beta$, IL-6, and TNF-$\alpha$) by mice peritoneal macrophages which were cultured with sequential fractions of AST methanol extract (methanol, hexane, chlo-roform, ethylacetate, butanol and water). In an in vivo experiment using mice, different concentrations of AST water extract were orally administrated every other day for two weeks. The production of cytokines (IL-1$\beta$, IL-6, and TNF-$\alpha$) secreted by activated macrophages, and the proliferation of mice splenocytes, were used as indices for immunocompetence. In vitro supplementation using six fractions of AST in the range of 1 to 100$\mu$ g/ml enhanced splenocyte proliferation by 10.5% to 53% compared to the control. IL-1$\beta$production was significantly increased with the supplementation of butanol and water extracts of AST. Higher levels of IL-6 and TNF-$\alpha$production were detected with supplementation of methanol, ethylacetate, butanol or water extracts at the concentration of 100$\mu$ g/ml. In the in vivo study, the highest proliferation of splenocytes was seen in the mice orally administrated with the AST water extract at the concentration of 500mg/kg body weight. In the case of cytokine production, there were no significant differences in the production of IL-1$\beta$and IL-6 among the treated groups and the control. However, TNF-$\alpha$released by activated peritoneal macrophages were augmented by the oral administration of AST water extract. These results indicate that AST may enhance the immune functions by regulating splenocyte proliferation and cytokine production capacity in mice.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.364-369
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• 2005

The present study was conducted to evaluate effect of Sauropus androgynus extract (SAE) on egg production and lipid metabolism in layer chickens. Forty-eight layers aged 42 weeks (strain RIR) were distributed to 6 treatment groups as follows. One group was fed diet without SAE as the control ($P_0$), and other five groups were fed diet plus hot water-extracted SAE at level of 9 g/kg diet ($W_9$), diet plus ethanol extracted SAE at level of 0.9 g/kg diet ($E_{0.9}$), diet plus ethanol extracted SAE at level of 1.8 g/kg ($E_{1.8}$), diet plus methanol extracted SAE at level of 0.9 g/kg ($M_{0.9}$), and diet plus methanol extracted SAE at level of 1.8 g/kg ($M_{1.8}$). It was shown that SAE inclusion significantly increased egg production (p<0.05). Methanol-extracted SAE groups had lower egg production than ethanol-extracted SAE group (p<0.05). SAE supplemented groups had better feed conversion efficiency than the unsupplemented group (p<0.05). It was shown that ethanol extracted SAE resulted in the lowest feed conversion efficiency among the SAE supplemented groups (p<0.05). SAE supplementation significantly reduced abdominal fat, gizzard surrounded fat, liver fat (p<0.05), serum triglyceride, total cholesterol, VLDL+LDL-c (p<0.01), atherogenic index (p<0.05), egg cholesterol and triglyceride (p<0.05), but it had no effect on mesenteric fat, sartorial fat and fatty liver score. In conclusion, SAE supplementation could increase egg production but reduced egg cholesterol.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.482-489
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• 1999

As host for the production of eucaryotic heterologous proteins, methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris and Hansenula polymorpha are the most highly developed of a small group of alternative yeast species chosen for their perceived advantages. This paper describes the method to enhance the recombinant protein productivity with P. pastoris and H. Plymorpha. In these experiments, the effects of methanol induction timing, induction method, pH, culture temperature and kinds of nitrogen sources on foreign protein production were tested with P. pastoris and compared with H. polymorpha.. In addition, optimum methanol concentration as inducer and the effects of carbon sources on AOX1 or MOX promoter repression and secretion efficiency were also studied in both cases.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.375-380
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• 2015

Recently, methane has attracted much attention as an alternative carbon feedstock since it is the major component of abundant shale and natural gas. In this work, we produced methanol from methane using whole cells of Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b as the biocatalyst. M. trichosporium OB3b was cultured on NMS medium with a supply of 7:3 air/methane ratio at 30℃. The optimal concentrations of various methanol dehydrogenase inhibitors such as potassium phosphate and EDTA were determined to be 100 and 0.5 mM, respectively, for an efficient production of methanol. Sodium formate (40 mM) as a reducing power source was added to enhance the conversion efficiency. A productivity of 49.0 mg/l·h, titer of 0.393 g methanol/l, and conversion of 73.8% (mol methanol/mol methane) were obtained under the optimized batch condition.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.163-173
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• 1981

The distribution of methanol-assimilating yeasts on three different sources (elm bark, soil and fresh-water mud) and the growth conditions of a new strain of Candidaboidinii (SIO) wereexamines. From 150 samples, 91 methanol yeasts were isolated through enrichment culture ; they were identified as 77 strains of Candida boidinii including four new strains, 5 isolates of Torulopsis pinus, 3 strains of Hansenula polymorpha and one sstrain of Pichia pastoris respectively. The comparison of these yeasts with three sources indicated that decaying bark of elm tree other two, and that Gandida boidinii was most frequently distributed in all three sources. Four new strains of Candida boidinii were freshly isolated and their taxonomical properties were discussed. Of them, SIO strain was selected and characterized for its growth on methanol. This yeast could grow well on less than 1%(v/v) methanol. However, its growth was inhibited at 10% methanol. The cell yield was 3.1g (dry weight) per 1000ml of mineral mediurr, containing 1%(v/v) methanol as well as 01.% yeast extract as additive. The concentration of 0.1% yeast extract appears to be effective for the biomass production. Optimum conditions for growth on methanol was found to be : $28^{\circ}C,\;NH_4^+$ as nitrogen sources, thiamine as vitamin, and pH 4.5 to 6.0. The cell composition was as follows : crude protein and nucleic acids were 54% and 7% respectively. The amino acids were also described.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.329-339
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• 2006

원유가 급등으로 메탄올에서 저급 올레핀을 제조하는 공정에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 제올라이트와 SAPO 분자체 촉매에서 메탄올의 탄화수소로 전환 반응을 저급 올레핀 생성 단계에 중점을 두고 고찰하였다. 구조가 명확한 중간체를 근거로 하는 직접(direct) 반응기구와 구조가 애매한 탄화수소 뭉치를 활성점으로 보는 탄화수소 활성체(hydrocarbonpool) 반응기구의 합리성을, 메탄올 전환 반응의 유도기간, 생성물의 선택성, 활성 저하 등과 연계지어 비교하였다. 탄화수소 활성체의 구조 규명과 메탄올 전환 반응에서 촉매 활성점으로서 기능에 대한 1999년 이후 연구 결과를 검토하였으며, 메탄올에서 저급 올레핀을 생산하는 공정에 대한 전망도 기술하였다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2014

In Dimethyl Ether (DME) indirect production processes, DME have a reforming process to separate Methanol. DME has a high cetane number and Methanol has a high octane number. Each fuel has a different combustion characteristics and reactivity. So, this paper was investigated on the combustion characterisitics of DME and Methanol. Basically, Methanol has a effect of retarding ignition. However, Within 10% of total carbon mole number in DME, Methanol slightly changed the onset timing of Low Temperature Reaction (LTR) with increasing thermal-ignition preparation range. It means that controlling combustion phasing of DME can be possible without eliminated LTR. In case of IMEP, the ranges.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권9호
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• pp.2813-2817
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• 2014

A new magnetic semiconductor material was synthesized to enable separation after a liquid-type photocatalysis process. Core@shell-structured $CuFeS_2@TiO_2$ magnetic nanoparticles were prepared by a combination of solvothermal and wet-impregnation methods for photocatalysis applications. The materials obtained were characterized using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, ultraviolet-visible, photoluminescence spectroscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area measurements, and cyclic voltammetry. This study confirmed that the light absorption of $CuFeS_2$ was shifted significantly to the visible wavelength compared to pure $TiO_2$. Moreover, the resulting hydrogen production from the photo-splitting methanol/water solution after 10 hours was more than 4 times on the core@shell structured $CuFeS_2@TiO_2$ nanocatalyst than on either pure $TiO_2$ or $CuFeS_2$.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.95-105
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• 1998

This research was investigated which denitrification of wastewater containing nitrate, using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket process. The upflow anaerobic sludge blanket process is also used for both artifical and industrial wastewater. Main ingredients investigated in the artifical and industrial wastewater experiment were the determination of optimum organism/nitrate ratios, nitrate removal efficiency by various hydrogen donor addition and characteristics of granular sludge and gas production in case of various hydrogen donor addition. From the experimental results the following conclusions were made: In case of adding methanol, ethanol and sodium acetate as hydrogen donor granular sludge was formed 50 days after seeding. Average diameter of granular sludge was 4.0 mm and settling velocity was 37 cm/min. Production rate of gas 3.3 L/d in case of adding methanol as hydrogen donor in wastewater containing 150mg/L nitrate. However adding ethanol and sodium acetate as hydrogen donor, gas production rate were 2.2-2.7L/d respectively. In case of adding methanol as hydrogen donor treatability of artifical wastewater contained 150mg/L as nitrate was about 93%. But in addition of sodium acetate in wastewater contained 40mg.L as nitrate, nitrate removal efficiency was 80%.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가스학회 2005년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.141-145
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• 2005

DME (Di-Methyl Ether) is a new clean fuel and an environmental-friendly energy resource, also is recently increasing with an alternative interest because of the industrial use. DME has been shown to have excellent properties as a diesel fuel giving emission level better than ULEV standard. So it has been attracting considerable as an alternative diesel fuel. In this study, we carried out simulation of separation and purification process of demo plant for 101on per day DME production, which cause the effect that is important in productivity, from operation results of pilot plant for 50kg per day DME production. The liquefied stream, which was separated by gas-liquid separator after DME reactor, includes $CO_2$, DME, Methanol and $H_2O$. We established three distillation columns for separation and purification of the stream. $CO_2$ was extracted from the stream by first distillation column, DME was extracted by second column and Methanol was extracted by third column. We investigated and analyzed the effect which the actual operation variables cause in efficiency of process and optimized process, finally we got the DME of purity $100\%$.