• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.287-297
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• 2006

한우에서 도축 전 혈청 호르몬 및 혈액 성분의 농도 변화가 거세우와 비거세우에서 공통적으로 나타난 현상은 도축 2개월 전에서 수송 직전 사이에 cortisol과 creatinine이 증가하였고 calcium은 감소하였다. 수송 직전에 비해 수송 직후에는 IGF-1 농도가 감소하였으나 수송 직전에 비해 도축 시에는 IP농도가 감소했다. 혈청 호르몬 및 대사 물질들에서 도축 2개월 전, 수송 직전, 수송 직후 및 도축시 혈청들 간의 상관 관계는 도축 2개월 전 농도와 수송 직전 농도간에 정의 상관 관계를 보인 혈청은 거세우에서는 IGF-1, TP, albumin, creatinine, HDLC 및 globulin이며 비거세우에서는 creatinine과 globulin이었고, 도축 2개월 전 혈청과 도축시 혈청 간에 정의 상관관계를 보인 혈청 성분은 거세우에서는 IGF-1, BUN, IP 및 HDLC이었고, 비거세우에서는 creatinine이었다. 그리고 수송 직전 혈청과 도축시 혈청 간에 정의 상관 관계가 있는 혈청 성분은 거세우에서는 testosterone, IGF-1, creatinine, triglyceride, HDLC 및 globulin이었고, 비거세우에서는 TP, creatinine, HDLC 및 globulin으로 나타났다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1544-1548
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 QRDRs의 유전자 돌연변이와 목시플로사신의 농도와의 관계를 알아보기 위하여 목시플로사신의 농도를 단계적으로 높여가며 Mycoplasma hominis (M. hominis)에 작용시켜 목시플로사신에 내성을 갖는 균주 6주(M1, M4, M8, M16, M32, M64)를 만들었고, 이 돌연변이주들의 MIC는 각각 0.5, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ${\mu}g$/ml이었다. 이 균들의 염기서열을 분석하였더니 모든 돌연변이주들에서 Arg163Thr (GyrA), Pro445Gln (ParE) 아미노산 치환이 관찰 되었고, 목시플로사신의 농도가 높아질수록 Ser153Lys (GyrA, ${\geq}4{\mu}g$/ml), Ser91Ile (ParC, ${\geq}16{\mu}g/ml$), Val450Phe (GyrB, ${\geq}64{\mu}g/ml$) 등과 같은 아미노산의 치환이 추가로 관찰되었다. 이러한 아미노산의 치환이 목시플로사신의 내성과 연관이 있는 것으로 생각되며, 특히 GyrB 단백질의 아미노산 치환은 목시플로사신의 고도 내성과 연관이 있는 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to establish proper shipping weight and backfat thickness by applying the growth model to backfat thickness, measured by means of not only body weight, but also ultrasonography, and predicting the changes by age. Three breeds, i.e. Duroc, Landrace, and Yorkshie, were analyzed, and the Gompertz, logistic, and Von Bertalanffy model were used for inference with the parameter of the growth model being sex. As a result, both body weight and backfat thickness showed different growth curve parameters and characteristics at inflection points depending on model selection and sex. As for backfat thickness, in estimating the inflection point, unlike the case of body weight, the inflection ages of the boars of the Duroc breed was earlier than that of sows, whereas the inflection ages of the sows of the Landrace and Yorkshire breeds was earlier than that of boars. More than anything else, in the analysis of the changes in backfat thickness according to body weight, as the body weight reached 145kg, the backfat thickness showed much variation as great as 1.7-3.2 cm in each breed and sex. In addition, unlike the other breeds, the boars of the Landrace breed showed an exponential type of relationship between body weight and backfat thickness. As they grow to become 100 kg or heavier, abrupt change in back fat thickness was confirmed. If the growth of body weight and backfat thickness is understood and the genetic relationship is taken advantage of like this, it would be possible to set desired body weight and backfat thickness, and thus help effectively set the shipping time. If not only the phenotype, but also genetic parameters about growth characteristics are estimated and analyzed additionally, more effective data can be generated.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.261-266
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• 2010

PC12 cells were differentiated into the cells of chromaffin phenotype by butyrate treatment. Cells were aggregated and formed tight cell adhesion. To investigate the molecular change in this differentiation, we examined expression levels of cell adhesion proteins and extracellular proteins during butyrate induced-differentiation of PC12 cells. Integrin ${\beta}1$, integrin ${\alpha}7$, E cadherin, VCAM, collagen-I, fibronectin, desmoglein and connexin were increased during differentiation. The levels of clusterin and secreted clusterin were also increased. These increased levels of cell adhesion proteins and extracellular proteins appear to induce cell aggregation and tight cell adhesion. The levels of p21, p27 and p16 were increased probably because of differentiation-related growth arrest during differentiation. Prolonged incubation of butyrate up to 1 day was required for differentiation. Signal transduction pathways for this differentiatiom could not be identified since various inhibitors had no effect. The results showed that butyrateinduced differentiation of PC12 cells to chromaffin cells involves tight cell adhesion and induction of extracellular proteins and cell adhesion proteins.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.133-160
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• 2006

Objectives : Scolopendrae Corpus has a broad array of clinical applications in Korean medicine, including treatment of inflammatory conditions such as arthritis. To explore the global gene expression profiles in human Raw cell lines treated with Scolopendrae Corpus herbal-acupuncture solution (SCHAS), cDNA microarray analysis was performed. Methods : The Raw 264.7 cells were treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), SCHAS, or both. The primary data was normalized by the total spots of intensity between two groups, and then normalized by the intensity ratio of reference genes such as housekeeping genes in both groups. The expression ratio was converted to log2 ratio. Normalized spot intensities were calculated into gene expression ratios between the control and treatment groups. Greater than 2 fold changes between two groups were considered to be of significance. Results : Of the 8 K genes profiled in this study, with a cut-off level of two-fold change in the expression, 20 genes (BCL2-related protein A1, MARCKS-like 1, etc.) were upregulated and 5 genes (activated RNA polymerase II transcription cofactor 4, calcium binding atopy-related autoantigen 1, etc.) downregulated following LPS treatment. 139 genes (kell blood group precursor (McLeod phenotype), ribosomal protein S7, etc.) were upregulated and 42 genes (anterior gradient 2 homolog (xenopus laevis), phosphodiesterase 8B, etc.) were downregulated following SCHAS treatment. And 10 genes (yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae intergeneic sequence 4-1, mitogen-activated protein kinase 1, etc.) were upregulated and 8 genes (spermatid perinuclear RNA binding protein, nuclear receptor binding protein 2, etc.) were downregulated following co-stimulation of SCHAS and LPS. Discussions : It is thought that microarrays will play an ever-growing role in the advance of our understanding of the pharmacological actions of SCHAS in the treatment of arthritis. But further studies are required to concretely prove the effectiveness of SCHAS.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2010

Genetic instability of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae has been suggested as a major factor underlying the rapid breakdown of host resistance in the field. However, little information is available on the mechanism of genetic instability. In this study, we assessed the stability of repetitive DNA elements and several key phenotypic traits important for pathogenesis after serially transferring two isolates though rice plants and an artificial medium. Using isolate 70-15, we obtained a total of 176 single-spore isolates from 10 successive rounds of culturing on artificial medium. Another 20 isolates were obtained from germ tubes formed at the basal and apical cells of 10 three-celled conidia. Additionally, 60 isolates were obtained from isolate KJ201 after serial transfers through rice plants and an artificial medium. No apparent differences in phenotypes, including mycelial growth, conidial morphologies, conidiation, conidial germination, appressorium formation, and virulence, or in DNA fingerprints using MGR586, MAGGY, Pot2, LINE, MG-SINE and PWL2 as probes were observed among isolates from the same parent isolate. Southern hybridization and sequence analysis of two avirulence genes, AVR-Pita1 and AVR-Pikm, showed that both genes were also maintained stably during 10 successive generations on medium and plants. However, one reversible loss of restriction fragments was found in the telomere-linked helicase gene (TLH1) family, suggesting some telomere regions may be more unstable than the rest of the genome. Taken together, our results suggest that phenotype and genotype of M. oryzae isolates do not noticeably change, at least up to 10 successive generations on a cultural medium and in host plants.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.295-301
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• 2011

아쿠아포린(aquaporin)은 MIP (Major Intrinsic Protein) 패밀리에 속하는 물 수송 채널(water transport channel) 단백질로 단세포 생물인 박테리아부터 다세포 고등생물인 인간에 이르기까지 다양한 기관계에서 잘 보존되어 있다. 아쿠아포린은 정통아쿠아포린(orthodox aquaporin)과 아쿠아글리세로포린(aquaglyceroporin)으로 구분되는데, 정통아쿠아포린은 주로 세포내의 물 유입 및 수송에 관여하며 아쿠아글리세로포린은 glycerol, polyol, urea를 비롯한 작은 비극성 분자의 수송에 관여하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 최근까지 효모에서 아쿠아포린 기능이 일부 밝혀졌지만 Aspergillus 속을 포함하는 사상성 진균에서는 거의 연구가 되어있지 않은 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 A. nidulans의 유전체 염기서열 정보를 분석하여 하나의 정통아쿠아포린(aqpA)과 네 개의 아쿠아글리세로포린(aqpB-E)을 발견하였다. 이를 바탕으로 aqpA 유전자 결실돌연변이들을 만들어 그 기능을 분석하였다. aqpA 결실돌연변이는 각종 삼투 스트레스(osmotic stress)에서는 표현형의 변화가 거의 관찰되지 않았으며 이는 이들 유전자가 삼투 스트레스에 반응하지 않거나 유전자의 중복성 때문으로 여겨진다. 그러나 항진균제인 fluconazol에 대해서 그 감수성이 적어지는 것이 관찰 되었다. 이는 aqpA 유전자가 삼투스트레스 반응보다 항진균제의 감지에 더 기능을 가지고 있을 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 환경생물
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.341-351
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• 2022

다양한 환경 스트레스 중 습해 스트레스의 경우 기타 가뭄이나 저온, 고염 등에 비하여 메커니즘과 생화학적 이해가 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 습해 스트레스 하에서의 밭작물의 효소활성에 대하여 조사하여 습해 스트레스에 대한 이해와 조기 진단을 위한 기초자료로 활용하고자 수행하였다. 국내의 주요 밭작물인 참깨, 들깨, 팥, 수수, 콩 등을 대상으로 침수 스트레스를 주었을 시 생육도와 식물 내부의 변화에 대하여 조사하였는데, 스트레스를 받을 경우 지하부는 물론 지상부에서도 생육의 저하가 일어나는 것을 확인하였다. 식물체 내에서는 침수 스트레스에 의하여 혐기적 발효가 일어나 대조군에 비하여 ADH의 활성이 높아지는 것을 확인하였으며 스트레스를 받을 시 발생하는 ROS에 의한 변화 또한 확인하였다. 습해를 받은 식물들 모두 POD 활성과 lipid peroxidation이 증가하였고 이를 시각화한 DAB 염색에서도 염색 강도가 대조군에 비하여 진하게 염색되었다. 지상부에서 표현형의 변화보다 식물 체내의 효소활성의 변화가 비교적 빠르게 나타나므로 추후 작물들의 습해 스트레스 조기진단을 위한 생체지표로써 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 운동영양학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2012

Oxygen is the final acceptor of electron transport from fat and carbohydrate oxidation, which is the rate-limiting factor for cellular ATP production. Under altitude hypoxia condition, energy reliance on anaerobic glycolysis increases to compensate for the shortfall caused by reduced fatty acid oxidation [1]. Therefore, training at altitude is expected to strongly influence the human metabolic system, and has the potential to be designed as a non-pharmacological or recreational intervention regimen for correcting diabetes or related metabolic problems. However, most people cannot accommodate high altitude exposure above 4500 M due to acute mountain sickness (AMS) and insulin resistance corresponding to a increased levels of the stress hormones cortisol and catecholamine [2]. Thus, less stringent conditions were evaluated to determine whether glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity could be improved by moderate altitude exposure (below 4000 M). In 2003, we and another group in Austria reported that short-term moderate altitude exposure plus endurance-related physical activity significantly improves glucose tolerance (not fasting glucose) in humans [3,4], which is associated with the improvement in the whole-body insulin sensitivity [5]. With daily hiking at an altitude of approximately 4000 M, glucose tolerance can still be improved but fasting glucose was slightly elevated. Individuals vary widely in their response to altitude challenge. In particular, the improvement in glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity by prolonged altitude hiking activity is not apparent in those individuals with low baseline DHEA-S concentration [6]. In addition, hematopoietic adaptation against altitude hypoxia can also be impaired in individuals with low DHEA-S. In short-lived mammals like rodents, the DHEA-S level is barely detectable since their adrenal cortex does not appear to produce this steroid [7]. In this model, exercise training recovery under prolonged hypoxia exposure (14-15% oxygen, 8 h per day for 6 weeks) can still improve insulin sensitivity, secondary to an effective suppression of adiposity [8]. Genetically obese rats exhibit hyperinsulinemia (sign of insulin resistance) with up-regulated baseline levels of AMP-activated protein kinase and AS160 phosphorylation in skeletal muscle compared to lean rats. After prolonged hypoxia training, this abnormality can be reversed concomitant with an approximately 50% increase in GLUT4 protein expression. Additionally, prolonged moderate hypoxia training results in decreased diffusion distance of muscle fiber (reduced cross-sectional area) without affecting muscle weight. In humans, moderate hypoxia increases postprandial blood distribution towards skeletal muscle during a training recovery. This physiological response plays a role in the redistribution of fuel storage among important energy storage sites and may explain its potent effect on changing body composition. Conclusion: Prolonged moderate altitude hypoxia (rangingfrom 1700 to 2400 M), but not acute high attitude hypoxia (above 4000 M), can effectively improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance for humans and antagonizes the obese phenotype in animals with a genetic defect. In humans, the magnitude of the improvementvaries widely and correlates with baseline plasma DHEA-S levels. Compared to training at sea-level, training at altitude effectively decreases fat mass in parallel with increased muscle mass. This change may be associated with increased perfusion of insulin and fuel towards skeletal muscle that favors muscle competing postprandial fuel in circulation against adipose tissues.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2023

콩은 세계 5대 식량작물 중 하나로 식물성 단백질의 주요 공급원이다. 작물 특성상 기후변화에 따라 곡물 생산량에 큰 영향을 받기 때문에 국립농업과학원에서는 콩 품종별 생장 분석을 통해 작물표현형 연구를 진행중이다. 콩 품종별 생장 분석을 위한 생장 과정 사진 촬영은 자동화된 시스템으로 이루어지지만 생장 상태를 확인, 기록, 분석하는 과정은 수작업으로 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 과정을 자동화 할 수 있도록 콩 작물의 영상 데이터에서 콩잎 객체를 검출하는 YOLOv5s 모델과 검출된 콩잎의 전개 여부를 판단하는 합성곱 신경망(Convolution Neural Network; CNN) 모델을 설계, 학습하였다. 두 모델을 결합하고 검출된 콩잎의 좌표데이터로 층을 구분하는 알고리즘을 구현하여 콩 작물의 시계열 데이터를 입력하여 생장을 분석하는 프로그램을 개발하였고, 그 결과 콩 작물의 제2~3복엽까지 생장 시기를 판단할 수 있었다.