Background: Brassica oleracea var. italica (broccoli), a rich source of antioxidants, can prevent various diseases and improve human health. In this study, we investigated the antioxidative effects of broccoli sprout extract on oxidative stress induced by lipopolysaccharide and cisplatin in cell and organ tissue models. Methods: Antioxidative effect of BSE was evaluated using DPPH and ABTS in RAW 364.7 cells, and effects of BSE on testes were investigated using Cisplatin-induced testicular damage model with an in vitro organ culture system. Results: The DPPH assay showed that the antioxidant activity of the alcoholic broccoli sprout extract was higher than that of the water extract. Additionally, the expression levels of antioxidation-related genes, Nrf2 , Gsr , HO-1, and catalase , were significantly increased in broccoli sprout extract-treated RAW 264.7 cells, and the extract suppressed lipopolysaccharide-induced mitochondrial dysfunction. Based on the results in the RAW 264.7 cell culture, the antioxidative effects of the extracts were investigated in a mouse testis fragment culture. The expression of Nrf2 , HO-1 , and Ddx4 was clearly decreased in cisplatin-treated mouse testis fragments and not in both broccoli sprout extract- and cisplatin-treated mouse testis fragments. In addition, the oxidative marker O-HdG was strongly detected in cisplatin-treated mouse testis fragments, and these signals were reduced by broccoli sprout extract treatment. Conclusions: The results of this study show that broccoli sprout extracts could serve as potential nutraceutical agents as they possess antioxidant effects in the testes.

South Korea has a temperate climate with four distinct seasons. However, summers are extremely hot and humid, which negatively affects industrial animal production. Hanwoo are native cattle that have traditionally been raised in the natural environment of Korea. The present study investigated the effects of birth and lactation season on the birth and weaning weights of Hanwoo calves. Data were collected from 100 local breeding farms between 2016 and 2021. A total of 56,970 (males, 29,530; females, 27,440) Hanwoo calves were classified according to sex or birth and weaning season (March–May, spring; June–August, summer; September– November, fall; and December–February, winter). The birth weight of Hanwoo calves differed according to the birth season. As such, birth weight of the summer-born calves was the lowest. Additionally, the 90-day weaning weight was positively correlated with birth weight. Interestingly, however, the 90-day weaning weight was not related to the birth season but was related to the 2-month seasonal effect during the lactation period. Furthermore, the 90-day weaning weight was the lowest during the summer lactation period. In the beef cattle industry, daily weight gain is an important economic characteristic related to feed efficiency and growth. Our findings will contribute the management of Hanwoo cattle and analysis of changes in economic characteristics due to high temperatures.

Bovine mammary epithelial (MAC-T) cells are commonly used to study mammary gland development and mastitis. Lipopolysaccharide is a major bacterial cell membrane component that can induce inflammation. Autophagy is an important regulatory mechanism participating in the elimination of invading pathogens. In this study, we evaluated the mechanism underlying bacterial mastitis and mammary cell death following lipopolysaccharide treatment. After 24 h of 50 μg/mL lipopolysaccharide treatment, a significant decrease in the proliferation rate of MAC-T cells was observed. However, no changes were observed upon treatment of MAC-T cells with 10 μg/mL of lipopolysaccharide for up to 48 h. Thus, upon lipopolysaccharide treatment, MAC-T cells exhibit dose-dependent effects of growth inhibition at 10 μg/mL and death at 50 μg/mL. Treatment of MAC-T cells with 50 μg/mL lipopolysaccharide also induced the expression of autophagy-related genes ATG3, ATG5, ATG10, ATG12, MAP1LC3B, GABARAP-L2, and BECN1. The autophagy-related LC3A/B protein was also expressed in a dose-dependent manner upon lipopolysaccharide treatment. Based on these results, we suggest that a high dose of bacterial infection induces mammary epithelial cell death related to autophagy signals.

Busulfan is the most commonly used drug for preconditioning during the transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells and male germ cells. Here, we describe side effects of high doses of busulfan in male mongrel dogs. Busulfan was intravenously administered to three groups of dogs at doses of 10, 15, and 17.5 mg/kg body weight. The total white blood cell, neutrophil, eosinophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, and platelet counts steadily reduced in a dose-dependent manner following busulfan treatment. The white blood cell, neutrophil, and monocyte counts recovered after 6 weeks of busulfan treatment, however, the eosinophil, lymphocyte, and platelet counts remained unaltered. Additionally, there was one fatality in the each of the groups that were administered 15 and 17.5 mg/kg busulfan. The gross lesions included severe hemorrhage in the stomach, intestinal tracts, mesentery and urinary bladder. Microscopic investigation revealed severe pulmonary edema and hemorrhage in the lungs, and severe multifocal to coalescing transmural hemorrhage in the intestines and urinary bladder. These results indicated that treatment with busulfan at doses higher than 15 mg/kg initiates severe bleeding in the internal organs and can have fatal results.

본 연구는 운전자 연령대와 뇌손상 여부에 따라 다양한 반응시간 과제에서의 반응시간과 반응정확성에서 어떠한 차별성이 있는지 살펴볼 목적으로 수행되었다. 이를 위해 30-50대의 중년운전자, 65세 고령운전자, 그리고 65세 이상의 뇌졸중 고령운전자들을 대상으로 단순반응, 2-선택반응, 자극 이심률을 달리한 4-선택반응, 탐색반응 및 동적자극 탐지 과제에 대한 수행을 비교하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 전반적으로 중년, 고령 및 뇌졸중 고령운전자 순으로 느린 반응시간을 보였으나 자극 이심률이 작은 조건(5o)에 비해 큰 조건(10o)에서 뇌졸중 고령운전자의 반응시간이 다른 집단에 비해 더 두드러지게 지연되었다. 둘째, 전체 반응시간에서 단순 반응시간을 감산한 반응시간 을 분석한 결과, 2-선택반응 과제와 동적자극 탐지과제에서의 집단간 반응시간 차이는 유의하지 않았는데, 이것은 이러한 과제들에서의 반응시간 차이가 단순 반응시간에 의해 주로 결정된다는 것을 시사한다. 셋째, 일시적 기억을 요구하는 탐색과제에서는 두 고령운전자 집단이 중년운전자 집단에 비해 유의하게 느리고 부정확한 수행을 보였다. 넷째, 집단간 반응정확성에서의 차이는 선택 대안이 많은 과제와 기억을 요구하는 과제에서 두드러졌다. 이러한 결과는 기억 요구를 수반하는 탐색과제는 중년과 고령운전자 사이의 수행을, 반면 자극이심률 조건은 뇌졸중 여부에 따른 고령운전자 집단에서의 수행 차이를 민감하게 반영할 수 있음을 시사한다.

본 연구에서는 꽁치를 냉풍건조방법으로 생산한 과메기 의 성분 변화와 세척수 처리에 따른 미생물 제어효과를 조사하였다. 건조를 하기 전 시료의 수분 함량은 56.62% 였으나 초기 수분 함량이 급격히 감소하다가 시간이 지날 수록 완만해지는 결과를 보였다. 건조 처리 전의 과메기의 색도차는 42.40이었으나 온도와 건조시간이 증가함에 따라 색도차의 값이 감소하였다. 건조를 하지 않은 대조 구의 TBA 값은 0.219였고, 모든 온도 조건에서 건조가 진행될수록 산패도가 증가하였다. 과메기의 구성아미노산을 분석한 결과, 25℃에서 36시간을 건조시킨 처리구에서 총 아미노산 함량이 가장 높았으며 40℃에서 12시간을 건조 시킨 처리구가 총 아미노산 함량이 가장 낮았다. 건조온도와 시간에 따른 과메기의 지방산 분석 결과, 주요 지방 산은 14:0, 16:0, 18:1 등이 각각 18.15~20.96%, 28.06~ 32.51%, 17.06~19.81%로 분포하였다. Chlorine dioxide 100 ppm에서 60초 동안 세척한 구에서 미생물제어 효과가 가장 우수하였으며 과메기의 위해미생물 동정한 결과, Pseudomonas sp.와 Pseudomonas putida 로 두 균주가 조사되었다.

Volatile organic compounds(VOCs) detected frequently in the indoor air of child-care centers causes neurological disorders, lung, eyes, and bronchial irritation, and acute and chronic toxicity. In this study, the distributions of carcinogenic VOCs detected in child-care centers were characterized and a health risk assessment of the VOCs was performed, which can provide the necessary information for drawing up safety plans with respect to the concerned materials. The sampling of sites in day-care centers was undertaken two times: in the morning (10:00~12:00), and afternoon(16:00~20:00)-at 23 daycare centers located in Seoul, Korea from April, 2012 to July, 2012. The overall average concentrations of individual VOCs were benzene(1.61 μg/m3) > carbon tetrachloride (0.78 μg/m3) > chloroform(0.67 μg/m3) in order. Indoor/outdoor(I/O) ratios of benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform were 1.33, 1.09, 1.72, respectively. Benzene and carbon tetrachloride are thought to be more strongly associated with outdoor sources as compared to chloroform. Spearman correlation of benzene, carbon tetrachloride between indoor and outdoor concentration showed statistically significant levels(p < 0.05). The linear correlations for benzene, styrene, and carbon tetrachloride were tested. A significant correlation was observed only for carbon tetrachloride, accounting for 83 % of the variance. The risk assessment of the carcinogenic VOCs for teachers, infants, and children showed that none of the targeted VOCs posed a serious risk.

Spermatogonial stem cells (SSC) undergo self-renewal division and generate spermatogenesis to produce mature spermatozoa. Very recently in some species, include rodent and farm animals, SSC has been isolated and cultured in vitro. In this study, we analysed SSC marker of both 5 days old and pubertal pig testis by histological method. In 5day pig testis, prior to set of spermatogenic differentiation, the seminiferous tubules contain a relatively large number of SSCs than in pubertal pig testis. Then putative pig SSCs were successfully isolated from 5 day pig testis, and cultured long term using CD34 positive cell culture media contained GDNF, bFGF, LIF and EGF. The SSC colonies were appeared at 3 days after cells were seed. The SSC colonies were alkaline phosphatase positive and strongly expressed PGP 9.5, PLZF and DBA, but not expressed GATA4 and LH receptors. The SSC colonies were stably proliferated in GDNF, bFGF, LIF and EGF contained CD34 positive cell culture media up to 60 days. This study will be facilitated to study of in vitro and ex vivo spermatogenesis and of production of transgenic pigs using sperm vector.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the most cause of death around the world and fields of interest for cardiac stem cells. Also, current use of terminally differentiated adult cardiomyocytes for CVDs has limited regenerative capacity therefore any significant cell loss may result in the development of progressive heart failure. Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) derived from blastocyst‐stage embryos spontaneously have ability to differentiate via embryo‐like aggregates (endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm) in vitro into various cell types including cardiomyocyte. However, most effective molecule or optimized condition which can induce cardiac differentiation of hESCs is rarely studied. In this study, we developed both spontaneous and inductive cardiomyocyte‐like cells differentiation from hESCs by treatment of induced‐factors, 5‐azacytidine, BMP‐4 and cardiogenol C. On the one hand, spontaneous and inductive cardiomyocyte‐like cells showed that cardiac markers are expressed for further analysis by RT‐PCR and immunocytochemistry. Interestingly, BMP‐4 greatly improved mogeneous population of the cardiomyocyte‐like cells from hESCs CHA15 and H09. In conclusion, we verified that spontaneously differentiated cells showed cardiac specific markers which characterize cardiac cells, treated extrinsic factors can manage cellular signals and found that hESCs can undergo differentiation into cardiomyocytes better than spontaneous group. This finding offers an insight into the inductive factor of differentiated cardiomyocytes and provides some helpful information that may offer the potential of cardiomyocytes derived from hESCs using extrinsic factors.

본 연구는 코끼리 흑마늘의 분말화를 위해 추출액과 말토덱스트린을 비율 별로 첨가한 후 분말을 제조하였으며, 제조 및 저장 조건 별로 품질 특성을 비교 분석하는데 목적을 두었다. 분말의 용해도는 90.87-96.93%으로 5:5 처리구에서 가장 높은 값을 보였으며 색깔의 경우 말토덱스트린 함량이 증가할수록 명도는 감소하였으나 적색도와 황색도는 증가하였다. 입도는 7:3 처리구를 제외하고 말토덱스트린 함량에 비례하여 증가하는 추세를 보였으며, 분산성은 0.54-0.63 범위에서 나타났다. 포화 염용액으로 다른 상대습도를 조성하여 25, 35℃에서 분말을 각각 저장했을 때 평형 수분함량은 4:6에서 가장 낮게 나타났다. 그리고 단분자층 수분함량을 산출하기 위해 GAB 식과 BET 식을 이용하였으며 모든 조건에서 0.943-0.997로 높은 R2값을 보였다. 여러 처리구 중 4:6 처리구가 단분자층 수분함량이 가장 낮았으며 다른 처리구들은 온도나 적용 식에 따라 다른 추세를 보였다. 또한 등온 흡습 모델의 적합성을 확인하기 위해 Caurie, Halsey, Kuhn, Oswin, Mizrahi 식을 사용하였는데, 그 중 Halsey, Kuhn 식이 높은 R2 값과 낮은 편차를 보여 적합성을 나타내었다.

본 연구는 새싹보리를 이용하여 제품 개발에 적용할 수 있도록, 생리활성물질의 최적 추출구간을 설정하는 데에 목적이 있다. 에탄올 농도(0-100%), 마이크로웨이브 전력 (60-300 W), 추출시간(4-20분)을 종속 변수로 설정한 후, 빠르고 추출 수율이 좋은 마이크로웨이브추출법을 이용하여 16구의 다른 추출 조건을 중심합성계획법에 따라 설정 하여 새싹보리를 추출하였다. 이 후, 추출물의 총 폴리페놀 함량, 총 플라보노이드 함량, DPPH 라디칼 소거능 활성을 측정하였다. 모든 회귀식의 R2는 0.9 이상으로 5% 수준 이내에서 유의성이 인정되었다. 총 폴리페놀의 최적 추출 조건은 에탄올 농도 58.94%, 마이크로웨이브 전력 209.04 W, 추출시간은 18.17분으로 나타났으며, 총 플라보노이드 의 최적 추출 조건은 에탄올 농도 52.7%, 마이크로웨이브 전력 73.03 W, 추출시간은 5분으로 나타났다. DPPH 라디칼 소거능 활성의 경우, 에탄올 농도 75.84%, 마이크로웨이브 전력 210.79 W, 추출시간 은 6.5분으로 나타났다. 조건에 따른 TPC, TFC 그리고 DPPH 라디칼 소거능 활성의 예측값 은 각각 3.84 mg GAE/g, 3.00 mg RE/g 그리고 35.43%의 수치를 나타냈다. 최적 범위 내 임의의 점, 즉 에탄올 농도 40%, 마이크로웨이브 전력 120 W, 추출시간은 18분에서 실험값은 3.38 mg GAE/g, 2.64 mg RE/g, 그리고 37.94%를 나타냈으며 예측값과 실제 실험값은 유사한 값을 보였다.

The purpose of this study was to determine the optimum re-extraction conditions of ethanol from catechin in Korean green tea (Camellia sinensis L.) using response surface methodology (RSM). The experiments were carried out according to a five level and two variable central composite design (CCD). The two independent variables were solvent ratio to sample content (1, 4, 7, 10, 13 mL/g) and extraction temperature (-20, -10, 0, 10, 20℃) on the dependent variables including yield, epigallocatechin (EGC), epicathchin (EC), epigallocatechingallate (EGCG), epicatechingallate (ECG), total catechin and caffeine. ANOVA results showed that Coefficients of determination (R2) of estimated models for dependent variables were ranged from 0.9054~0.9778, while R2 of caffeine were estimated 0.8770. The optimum ranges for the maximized extraction including yield, EGC, EC, EGCG, ECG, caffeine and total catechin were 4.5~7.5 mL/g in ratio of ethanol to sample and -8~8℃ in extraction temperature. The actual values of yield, EGC, EC, EGCG, ECG, caffeine and total catechin, respectively, at the optimized conditions were 35.02%, 13.31%, 3.978%, 19.11%, 4.29%, 5.30% and 40.68%