본 연구에서는 열처리가 야콘의 항산화 활성에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 열처리 온도(100 및 121℃)와 시간 (15, 30 및 60분)에 따른 항산화 성분 및 항산화 활성 변화를 조사하였다. 열처리 후 야콘의 갈변도, 유리형 및 결합형 폴리페놀 함량, 유리형 및 결합형 플라보노이드 함량, DPPH radical 소거 활성 및 ABTS radical 소거 활성을 측정하였 다. 열처리 후 야콘의 갈변도, 유리형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량과 항산화 활성은 열처리 온도와 시간에 따라 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가하였고, 결합형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량은 감소하였다. 야콘의 유리형 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량은 121℃, 60분 열처리 시 생야콘에 비해 각각 1.2배 및 1.1배로 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가하였다. 또한, 야콘의 DPPH radical 소거 활성 및 ABTS Radical 소거 활성도 121℃, 60분 열처리 시 생야콘에 비해 각각 1.7배 및 2.0배로 유의적(p<0.05)으로 증가였다. 야콘의 갈변도, 폴리페놀 및 플라보노이드 함량과 DPPH radical 및 ABTS radical 소거 활성 간의 상관관계를 분석한 결과, 높은 상관관계(p<0.01)가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과, 열처리 방법을 통해 야콘의 항산화 성분과 항산화 활성을 강화시킬 수 있으며, 이를 활용한 기능성 식품 소재 개발이 가능할 것으로 생각된다.

The study was set for one year to measure the effects of concentrate supplementation on reproductive performances and semen quality in indigenous rams. The study was conducted at the Department of Surgery and Obstetrics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh during the period from May 2011 to April 2012. Forteen ram lambs (4∼5 months) were randomly divided into two equal groups (n=7); supplemented vs control. The animals of control group were maintained on natural grazing. Along with natural grazing the supplemented group was on supplemented feeding. The concentrate supplementation (Wheat bran, Crushed maize, Soy bean meal, Fish meal, DCP powder, Vitamin mineral premix, Salt) was provided @ 300 g/head /day to the supplemented group. Body weight, scrotal circumference, BCS and libido index were measured weekly. Age, body weight and scrotal circumference at puberty were recorded. Semen was collected once in a weak using artificial vagina and chilled at 5℃ for 48h for evaluation. Concentrate supplementation did not influence (p>0.05) body condition score, age, weight, scrotal circumference at puberty and libido index. Final body weight (kg), growth rate (g/d), scrotal circumference (cm) and scrotal growth rate (mm/15d) were significantly (p<0.05) higher in supplemented group of rams compared to control. Volume, concentration, motility and membrane potentiality of spermatozoa were varied significantly (p<0.05) in supplemented and control groups. However, density, mass motility, viability and sperm with normal acrosome, midpiece and tail were not differed insignificantly (p>0.05) in different observation times. It was concluded that concentrate supplementation with free grazing improved weight and scrotal circumference gain and semen production with increased quality in indigenous ram.

Muscle satellite cell (SC) is responsible for postnatal muscle growth, repair, and regeneration. Satellite cell is an im-portant source of multi-potent stem cell process and differentiation into adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblastogenic. The objective of this study was to identify alter of transcriptome during differentiation in porcine satellite cell and to elevated transcriptome at different stages of postnatal development to gain insight into the differences in differ-entiated PSC. We used RNA-seq technique to investigate the transcriptomes during differentiation in pig muscle. Sequence reads were obtained from Illumina HiSeq2000. Differentially expressed genes (DEG) were detected by EdgeR. Gene ontology (GO) terms are powerful tool for unification among representation genes or products. In study of GO biological terms, functional annotation clustering involved in cell cycle, apoptosis, extracellular matrix, phosphoryla- tion, proteolysis, and cell signaling in differences stage. Taken together, these results would be contributed to a better understanding of muscle biology and processes underlying differentiation. Our results suggest that the source of DEGs could be better understanding of the mechanism of muscle differentiation and transdifferentiation.

Satellite cells were derived from muscular tissue in postnatal pig. Satellite cell is an important to growth and development in animal tissues or organs. However, the progress underlying induced differentiation is not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the morphologic and the transcriptome changes in porcine satellite cell (PSC) treated with insulin, rosiglitazone, or dexamethasone respectively. PSC was obtained from postnatal muscle tissue. In study 1, for study the effect of insulin and FBS on the differentiated satellite cells, cells were cultured at absence or presence of insulin treated with FBS. Total RNA was extracted for determining the expression levels of myo-genic PAX3, PAX7, Myf5, MyoD, and myogenin genes by real-time PCR. Myogenic genes decreased expression levels of mRNA in treated with insulin. In study 2, in order to clarify the relationship between rosiglitazone and lipid in differentiated satellite cells, we further examined the effect of FBS on lipid accumulation in the presence or absence of the rosiglitazone and lipid. Significant differences were observed between rosiglitazone and lipid by FBS. The mRNA of FABP4 and PPARγ increased in rosiglitazone treatment. In study 3, we examined the effect of dexame-thasone on osteogenic differentiation in PSC. The mRNA was increased osteoblasotgenic ALP and ON genes treated with dexamethasone in 2% FBS. Dexamethasone induces osteoblastogenesis in differentiated PSC. Taken together, in differentiated PSCs, FABP4 and PPARγ increased to rosiglitazone. Whereas, no differences to FBS and lipid. These results were not comparable with previous reports. Our results suggest that adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblasto-genic could be isolated from porcine skeletal muscle, and identify culture conditions which optimize proliferation and differentiation formation of PSC.

Muscular satellite cell (SC), which is stem cell of postnatal pig, is an important for study of differentiation into adipogenesis, myogenesis, and osteoblastogenesis. In this study, we isolated and examined from pig muscle tissue to determine capacity in proliferate, differentiate, and expression of various genes. Porcine satellite cells (PSC) were isolated from semimembranosus (SM) muscles of 90∼100 days old pigs according to standard conditions. The cell proliferation increased in multi-potent cell by Masson’s, oil red O, and Alizarin red staining respectively. We per-formed the expression levels of differentiation related genes using real-time PCR. We found that the differentiation into adipocyte increased expression levels of both fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) and peroxisome proliferator- acti-vated receptor gamma (PPARγ) genes (p<0.01). Myocyte increased the expression levels of the myosin heavy chain (MHC), myogenic factor 5 (Myf5), myogenic regulatory factor (MyoD), and Myogenic factor 4 (myogenin) (p<0.01). Osteo-blast increased the expression levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (p<0.01). Finally, porcine satellite cells were indu-ced to differentiate towards adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblastogenic lineages. Our results suggest that muscle satellite cell in porcine may influence cell fate. Understanding the progression of PSC may lead to improved strat-egies for augmenting meat quality.

The toxicity of bay leaf (Pimenta racemosa) and palmorasa (Cymbopogon martini) essential oils, and its constituents, and structurally related compounds to adult American house dust mites, Dermatophagoides farinae was examined. Both bay leaf (24 h LC50, 131.95 μg/cm2) and palmorosa (24 h LC50, 116.10 μg/cm2) essential oils were toxic to mites. The most active principles were determined to be citral, methyleugenol, eugenol, and geranyl acetate from both bay leaf and palmorosa oils. Citral (24 h LC50, 1.13 μg/cm2), methyl eugenol (5.78 μg/cm2), eugenol (24 h LC50, 12.52 μg/cm2) and geranyl acetate (24 h LC50, 18.79 μg/cm2) were the most toxic. The toxicity of these compounds was more toxic than that of commercially available acaricides such as, benzylbenzoate (LC50,8.41μg/cm2) and deet (37.67 μg/cm2). Potent toxicity was also observed with nerol, linalool and geraniol (LC50, 21.44–54.61 μg/cm2). These compounds were consistently more toxic in closed versus open containers, indicating that their mode of delivery was largely a result of vapour action. Both bay leaf and palmorosa oil, and their constituents shown their potentials as effective alternatives for harmful synthetic acaricides for the control of Dermatophagoides populations as fumigants in contact and therefore illustrated the need for further study of these essential oils.

The insecticidal activity of 120 plant essential oils and control efficacy of six experimental spray formulations (SF) containing the oils (SF-0.25, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5 and 10% sprays) against both nymph and adult of citrus flatid planthopper, Metcalfa pruinosa, was examined using a direct contact application. Reponses varied according to dose (1000 mg litre-1 and 500 mg litre-1). Based on 24 h exposure in leaf dipping assay at 1000 mg litre-1 strong mortality was observed in more than 19 essential oils among 130 was screened. At 500 mg litre-1 very strong mortality (100%) was observed in cinnamon technical, cinnamon green leaf, cinnamon #500, cassia tree, citronella java and penny royal followed by origanum, thyme white, grape fruit, savory, fennel sweet, aniseed and cinnamon bark (93.3- 80%) showed considerable moratality against nymphs of M. pruinosa. The moderate mortality was found in thyme red, tagette, calamus, lemoneucalptus and geranium (73.3-60%). The other oil has low or very low mortality against M. pruinosa. The oil applied as SF-10% sprays provided 100% mortality against adult M. pruinosa. In particular cinnamon technical showed very strong (>SF-0.5= 100%) effect followed by cinnamon #500 (>SF-2.5=100%), cinnamon green leaf (>SF-2.5=100%) and penny royal (>SF-2.5=100%) respectively. Global efforts to reduce the level of highly toxic synthetic insecticides in the agricultural environment justify further studies on the active essential oils as potential larvicides for the control of M. pruinosa populations as direct spray with contact action.

The study focuses on the quality assessment of Black Bengal buck semen preserved at chilled condition. In this in vitro trial, collected semen from Black Bengal bucks was preserved at chilling temperature (4▲5줛) in tris-glucosecitrate yolk medium of 1:5 ratios for four days. Artificial Vagina (AV) method was utilized to collect semen from buck. General evaluation of semen includes the color, mass activity and density were measured by direct visual examination. However, computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) and phase contrast microscopy were used to figure out the motility (%), hyper-activated (HYP) motility (%) and number of abnormal spermatozoa (%) initially, and at every 24 h intervals. The result revealed that spermatozoa preserved at chilling temperature showed significantly (P<0.05) lower motility and HYP motility with the progression of preservation. The number of phenotypically abnormal spermatozoa significantly (P<0.05) increased following preservation. Although significant positive correlation (r=0.945; P<0.05) was existed between % motile and % HYP motile spermatozoa however, the % of morphologically abnormal spermatozoa was negatively correlated with % motile (r=긏0.997; P<0.05) and % HYP motile spermatozoa (r=긏0.946; P<0.01). Therefore, we concluded that the quality of chilled semen progressively losses its viability and doesn…t remain useable after certain period of preservation with respect to its motility and morphology.

In the current research, the insect pathogenic fungus, Is aria fumosorosea was assessed for its pathogenecity against adults of different aphid species of wheat and Brassica crop i.e. Schizaphis graminum, Rhopalosiphum padi, Brevicoryne brassicae and Lipaphis erysimi. I. fumosorosea (IF-01) was found effective at all concentrations i.e. 1x106, 1x107 and 1x108 spores/ml on all aphid species, but the uppermost concentration (lx108 spores/ml) provided maximum control within short period of time (P < 0.05). The results showed that the effect of I. fumosorosea on different aphid species was dose and time dependent. I. fumosorosea with LC50 value of 9.02 x 105 proved to be lethal to L. erysimi after 3rd day. Mortality of B. brassicae was observed maximum on highest concentration of 1x108 spores/ml with LC50 value of 1.64 x 107 , while the LT50 values were in range of 1.78-4.53 days for different aphid species treated at various concentrations. By checking the field efficacy of I. fumosorosea against aphid species, this entomopathogenic fungus can be used as possible biological control agent for suppressing aphids.

We present the IRC images of M51, a pair of interacting galaxies. Given the high angular resolution (7.4") and the wide field of view (~ 10') covering almost the entire M51 system, we investigate dust properties and their connection to the spiral arm structure. We have applied image-filtering processes including the wavelet analysis to the N3 image, which traces the total stellar mass best among the IRC bands. From this filtered image, the center, arm, and interarm regions are defined. A color, or flux ratio among the MIR bands, has been measured at each pixel (3.7" in size). We find a wide variety of S7/S11 with a difference between arm and interarm regions. We also find that at some positions S11 seems to be higher than predicted by MW dust models. Estimated contributions from the stellar continuum and gas emission lines to the band are not enough to explain this discrepancy. From these results, we deduce that the PAH ionization condition and its fraction to the total dust mass in M51 are different from those in MW.

The paper’s proposition is that Mexican public universities potentiate social oriented activity for gsed purposes while agents in Knowledge and Innovation Networking. But they must comply with the structural restrictions of communicative action. The aim is to present communication principles for Knowledge and Innovation Networking (KIN) that promotes Green Sustainable Economic Development (gsed) in Latin American societies, characterized by heterogeneous cultural traits and varied levels of economic and political development, within countries themselves and between them. Prime gsed issues are the preservation of natural resources considering their use and enjoyment by the coming generations, the right to material progress of developing countries as well as the obligation of developed economies to reduce their energy consumption (raw energy and processed commodities). However, the validity of any gsed model is questionable unless it is coherent in terms of what gsed is considered both locally and globally, thus the relevance of networking for knowledge and innovation (see Hidalgo 2011), integrated with regional, national and international innovation systems. How can Knowledge and Innovation Networking (kin) increase university participation in the promotion of gsed? This is a question that this paper aims to answer and provide some strategies to increase participation and contribution to gsed. Knowledge and innovation networks are environments for participation of key social groups where concurrence protocols ease both lawfulness and transparency regarding market issues (global, regional and local) and sustainable development. On-line kin interactions implementation are insufficient for gsed, but will provide participants (state, business, universities and individuals) favorable environments for coordinated actions that represent added value to each and all participants with a reduced hierarchical control because the overall purpose is redefinition of gsed principles that meaningful taking into consideration each participant’s condition.

CoSi2 was formed through annealing of atomic layer deposition Co thin films. Co ALD was carried out using bis(N,N'-diisopropylacetamidinato) cobalt (Co(iPr-AMD)2) as a precursor and NH3 as a reactant; this reaction produced a highly conformal Co film with low resistivity (50 μΩcm). To prevent oxygen contamination, ex-situ sputtered Ti and in-situ ALD Ru were used as capping layers, and the silicide formation prepared by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) was used for comparison. Ru ALD was carried out with (Dimethylcyclopendienyl)(Ethylcyclopentadienyl) Ruthenium ((DMPD)(EtCp)Ru) and O2 as a precursor and reactant, respectively; the resulting material has good conformality of as much as 90% in structure of high aspect ratio. X-ray diffraction showed that CoSi2 was in a poly-crystalline state and formed at over 800˚C of annealing temperature for both cases. To investigate the as-deposited and annealed sample with each capping layer, high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) was employed with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). After annealing, in the case of the Ti capping layer, CoSi2 about 40 nm thick was formed while the SiOx interlayer, which is the native oxide, became thinner due to oxygen scavenging property of Ti. Although Si diffusion toward the outside occurred in the Ru capping layer case, and the Ru layer was not as good as the sputtered Ti layer, in terms of the lack of scavenging oxygen, the Ru layer prepared by the ALD process, with high conformality, acted as a capping layer, resulting in the prevention of oxidation and the formation of CoSi2.

국화과(Compositae)는 현화식물 중 세계에서 가장 넓게 분포하고, 쌍자엽식물 중 가장 진화된 식물분류군이며, 우리나라에는 약 300여종이 존재하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 구절초, 감국, 쑥, 쑥갓, 개미취, 참취, 곰취 등 국화과 식물들은 예로부터 민간에서 약용 및 식용 소재로써 다양하게 사용되어왔다. 본 연구는 국화 및 국화근연종 유용유전자원 선발을 통하여 육종 소재를 확대하고, 중간모본 및 신품종 육성기반을 구축하고자 DNA 마커시스템의 개발을 위해 수행되었다. 1. 화단국인 Smileball(Dendranthema grandiflorum) 품종을 사용하여 SSR-enriched library를 작성하였고, GS FLX 분석을 통해 18.83Mbp의 염기서열 결과를 얻었으며, read의 평균 길이는 280.06bp로 나타났다. 2. 단순반복염기서열(SSR) 부위를 포함하는 26,780개 clones 중 di-nucleotide motifs가 16,375개(61.5%)로 우세하였고, trinucleotide motifs(6,616개, 24.8%), tetra-nucleotide motifs(1,674개, 6.3%), penta-nucleotide motifs(1,283개, 4.8%), hexa-nucleotide motifs(693개, 2.6%) 순으로 나타났다. 3. 얻어진 di-nucleotide motifs들 중에서는, AC/CA class가 93.5%로 대부분이었고, tri-nucleotide motifs에서는 AAC class가 50.5%, tetra-nucleotide motifs는 ACGT class가 43.6%이고, pentanucleotide motif에서는 AACGT class 27.2%이며, hexa-nucleotide motif에서는 ACGATG class 21.8%였다. 4. 얻어진 염기서열 결과를 토대로 다양한 motif를 갖는 100개의 SSR 마커를 제작하였고, 차후 이를 활용하여 국화 유전자원의 다형성 및 유전자형 분석을 통해 분자유전학적 다양성 및 집단의 구조분석이 가능하고, 국화의 분자육종기반 구축을 위한 유용한 도구가 될 것 이다.

Preservation of sperm is essential for long-term storage of valuable animal genetic resources and for the conservation of threatened mammalian species undergoing progressive extinction. In this study, using pig as a model system, we evaluated the feasibility of germ-plasm preservation via sperm cell lyophilization. We show that, pig sperm can be successfully lyophilized and stored in a liquid nitrogen-free condition for at least 6 months. Intracytoplasmic injection of lyophilized sperm (ICSI), stored at 4℃ for four months, into in vitro matured pig oocytes could successfully develop up to blastocyst stage (13.0±3.0%). Lyophilized sperm could also be stored at room temperature for at least three weeks without further compromising their in vitro development up to the blastocyst stage (14.6±3.2 vs. 16.6±5.1%; p>0.05). Blastocysts produced from ICSI of lyophilized sperm stored at 4℃ or room temperature contained similar number of cells per blastocyst (44.9±3.2 vs. 44.0±4.3; p>0.05) but was significantly lower than those produced from non-lyophilized fresh sperm (52.1±5.8 p>0.05). Interestingly, use of a custom-designed HEPES-buffered, calcium-free, defined medium for the lyophilization resulted in normal post-ICSI embryonic development up to blastula stage (23.4±2.8 vs. 24.0±2.9%) and, the resultant blastocysts contained similar number of cells per blastocyst (47.9±4.3 vs. 50.6±7.0) compared to those generated from non-lyophilized fresh sperm (p>0.05). These lyophilized sperm could also be stored at room temperature for at least three weeks with slight reduction in post-ICSI embryonic development (19.6±1.4%). Therefore, these results suggest that, pig sperm could be successfully and efficiently lyophilized for their long-term storage at 4℃. Lyophilization of sperm could be a practical option for long-term storage of mammalian germ-plasm.

Autophagy, the process of bulk degradation and recycling of long-lived proteins, macromolecular aggregates, and damaged intracellular organelles, has recently been shown to be important for pre-implantation development and cavitation in mouse embryos. This study investigated the occurrence of autophagy and its importance in determining the in vitro development of pig embryos produced by in vitro fertilization (IVF) or parthenogenetic activation (PA). Western blot analysis for autophagy marker, microtubule associated protein light chain 3 (MAP-LC3), revealed the temporal pattern of LC3-conversion with intense changes during 10 20 h post-insemination and at morula-blastocyst transition in pig embryos. Specific inhibition of autophagy in 2 4 cell stage pig embryos, by treatment with 3-methyladenine (3MA), did not affect their embryonic development up to morula stage (p>0.05) but completely blocked their progression to the blastocyst stage (0.0±0.0 vs. 28.5±1.7% p<0.05). On the other hand, autophagy-inhibition in morula stage embryos significantly inhibited the formation of blastocoel (14.9±3.6 vs. 37.5±7.2%) and reduced the proportion of expanded blastocysts (5.6±2.6 vs. 29.6± 4.6% p<0.05). TUNEL assay revealed that autophagy-inhibited embryos had significantly increased indices of apoptosis (10.2±0.4 vs. 2.3±0.2) and DNA fragmentation (0.8± 0.1 vs. 0.3±0.1) than those of controls (p<0.05). Interestingly, while anti-oxidants reduced (p<0.05) the apoptosis and improved the blastocyst formation rate in pig embryos, it had no influence (p>0.05) on the expression of MAP-LC3. These data therefore, suggest that autophagy may have essential role during blastocyst formation in pig embryos.