The objective of this study was to determine the effect of various roughage sources on nutrient digestibility and enteric methane (CH4), and carbon dioxide (CO2) production in goats. Four castrated black goats (48.5 ± 0.6 kg) were individually housed in environmentally controlled respiration-metabolism chambers. The experiment design was a 4 × 4 balanced Latin square design with 4 roughage types and 4 periods. Alfalfa, tall fescue, rice straw, and corn silage was used as representative of legume, grass, straw, and silage, respectively. Dry matter digestibility was higher (p < 0.001) in corn silage than in alfalfa hay. Dry matter digestibility of alfalfa hay was higher than those of tall fescue or rice straw (p < 0.001). Neutral detergent fiber digestibility of tall fescue was lower (p < 0.001) than those of alfalfa, rice straw, or corn silage. Daily enteric CH4 production and the daily enteric CH4 production per kilogram of BW0.75, dry matter intake (DMI), organic matter intake (OMI), digested DMI, and digested OMI of rice straw did not differ from those of tall fescue but were higher (p < 0.001) than those of alfalfa or corn silage. Roughage type had no effect on enteric CO2 emission in goats. Straw appeared to generate more enteric CH4 production than legume or silage, but similar to grass.

Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen) is perennial plant and commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat numerous diseases like cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke and some viral diseases. Nevertheless, no study has been conducted on the antiviral properties of crude extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza against Influenza virus. In an attempt to identify new potential anti-influenza virus agents, 200 natural oriental herbal medicines were screened and we found that Salvia miltiorrhiza has a potential anti-influenza effect. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the protective effect of aqueous extract from Salvia miltiorrhiza against divergent influenza A subtypes using murine model of influenza A infection. Effective dose of aqueous extracts of Salvia miltiorrhiza in BALB/c mice displayed higher survival rate and lower lung viral titers when challenged with lethal doses of influenza A subtypes ({A/Aquatic bird/Korea/ W81/2005(H5N2)}, {A/PR/8/34(H1N1)}, {A/Aquatic bird/Korea/W44/2005(H7N3)} and {A/Chicken/ Korea/116/2004(H9N2)}). In vivo results exhibited that Salvia miltiorrhiza induced prophylactic effect in BALB/c mice against Influenza virus by disrupting viral replication or preventing viral infection by creating an antiviral state in the lungs. Taken together, the use of aqueous extracts of Salvia miltiorrhiza as an orally active antiviral agent, will be potential candidates for prophylactic treatments against Influenza A virus for humans and animals.

목적: 50세 이상에 해당하는 연구대상에서 성별에 따른 나이관련 황반변성의 초기와 후기 유병률과 위험 요인을 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 제5기 국민건강영양조사(2010-2012) 원시자료의 총 조사대상자 25,534명 중 건강설문조사와 검진 조사를 모두 받은 50세 이상 남녀에서 결측치가 있는 대상을 제외한 7,599명(남자 3,263, 여자 4,336)을 연 구대상으로 하였다. 성별에 따른 초기 및 후기 나이관련 황반변성의 위험요인을 알아보기 위해 나이를 통제 한 상태에서 인구학적 특성, 전신질환, 검진조사에 관한 변수에 대해 로지스틱 회귀분석을 수행하였고 이 결 과에서 유의한 변수들만으로 다변량 로지스틱 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 결과: 나이관련 황반변성 초기의 유병률은 남자 8.8%, 여자 10.3%였으며 후기의 유병률은 남자 1.4%, 여자 0.7%였다. 초기 나이관련 황반변성에 대한 교차비는 남자에서 나이가 1세 증가할 때 1.043배, HDL (high-density lipoprotein)이 1mg/dL 증가할 때 1.010배, AST(aspartate aminotransferase)가 1IU/L 증 가할 때 1.011배, 비타민 D가 1ng/mL 증가할 때 1.020배 높아졌으며 Creatinine이 1mg/dL 증가할 때 0.446배 낮아졌고 여자에서는 나이가 1세 증가할 때 1.080배, B형간염표면항원 양성인 대상에서 1.960배 높아졌고 혈소판이 1Thous/uL 증가할 때 0.997배 낮아졌다. 후기 나이관련 황반변성에 대한 교차비는 남자 에서 나이가 1세 증가할 때 1.083배 높아졌고 B형간염표면항원 양성인 대상에서 3.436배 높아졌으며 여자 에서는 나이가 1세 증가할 때 1.126배 높아졌고 교육수준에서 저학력자보다 고학력자에서 2.480배 높았으며 혈소판이 1Thous/uL 증가할 때 0.991배 낮아졌다. 결론: 나이를 제외한 성별에 따른 초기 및 후기 나이관련 황반변성의 위험요인은 남자에서 초기는 AST와 HDL, 비타민 D였고 Creatinine의 증가는 교차비를 감소시켰고 후기는 B형간염표면항원 양성자에서 교차비 가 높게 나타났다. 여자에서 초기의 위험요인은 B형간염표면항원 양성이었고 후기는 교육수준이었으며 초기 와 후기 모두에서 혈소판 수치가 높아지면 교차비가 낮아지는 것으로 나타났다.

Porcine spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) prefer three-dimensional (3D) culture systems to 2D ones for the maintenance of self-renewal. Of the many 3D culture systems, agar-based hydrogels are candidates for supporting porcine SSC self-renewal, and there are various types of agar powder that can be used. In this study, we sought to identify an agar-based 3D hydrogel system that exhibited strong efficacy in the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal. First, 3D hydrogels with different mechanics were prepared with various concentrations of Bacto agar, lysogeny broth (LB) agar, and agarose powder, and the 3D hydrogel with the strongest alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity and greatest increase in colony size was identified for the different types of agar powder. Second, among the porcine SSCs cultured in the different 3D hydrogels, we analyzed the colony formation, morphology, and size; AP activity; and transcription and translation of porcine SSC-related genes, and these were compared to determine the optimal 3D hydrogel system for the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal. We found that 0.6% (w/v) Bacto agar-, 1% (w/v) LB agar-, and 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogels showed the strongest maintenance of AP activity and the most pronounced increase in colony size in the culture of porcine SSCs. Moreover, among these hydrogels, the strongest transcription and translation of porcine SSC-related genes and largest colony size were detected in porcine SSCs cultured in the 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogel, whereas there were no significant differences in colony formation and morphology. These results demonstrate that the 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogel can be effectively used for the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal.

Miniature pig (minipig) has been considered as an important laboratory animal in the developmental biotechnology researches with respect to xenotransplantation, stem cell, somatic cell nuclear transfer and embryo transfer. Given that the laboratory minipigs are normally housed at an indoor facility, they pass the time with lying or sleeping unless it is feeding time. Therefore, it is necessary to provide environmental enrichments to satisfy their innate needs and to lessen atypical behaviors caused by stress, on the purpose of welfare. We quantitatively investigated the type of preferable enrichment for the laboratory minipigs as well as its effect on their daily life. They presented a great interest to the pliable pail but a rapid loss of attraction to non-preferable enrichments. When the daily life of the single housed minipigs was quantified based on duration of playing or resting, they were more actively engaged in lively activities in the presence of enrichments. In addition, the provision of enrichments could effectively alleviate the conflicts during group housing when new pen mate was introduced, resulting in reduction of wound cases. We believe the considerations of animal welfare are essential to the conduct of better research because animals in the non-stressful environment will be more physiologically stable and provide more reliable results in the animal experiments.

In the production of zirconium cladding tube, a pickling acid solution is used to remove surface contaminants, which generates tons of pickling acid waste. The waste pickling solution is a valuable resource of Hf-free Zr. Many studies have investigated separating the Hf-free Zr source from the waste pickling acid. The results showed that Ba2ZrF8 precipitates prepared from the waste pickling acid were useful as an electrolyte for the electrorefining of Zr in molten salt. In the present work, electrorefining was performed in a Ba2ZrF8-LiF binary electrolyte to recover Zr from a Hf-free CuZr ingot anode prepared by electroreduction. Before electrorefining, two pretreatments are performed. First, electrolyte melting was carried out to determine the eutectic temperature, and second, the electrolyte was treated to eliminate impurities, mainly hydride. After electrorefining, the cathode deposits were analyzed by O2 gas analyzer and SEM-EDX to explore the possibility of recovering nuclear-grade Zr metal. Moreover, the anode was analyzed by SEM-EDX to determine the Zr dissolution depth.

Physicochemical properties of cherry tomato dried using the conventional hot air (HA) and superheated steam (SHS) combined with either HA or far-infrared (FIR) were measured to evaluate the effects of combined drying process on the product quality. Conventional HA drying caused the greater extent of water removal than that of SHS combined with HA or FIR due to comparatively its longer drying time, resulting the lower water activity. Total acidity of cherry tomato produced by combined drying processes was slightly lower than that of conventional HA drying. Application of SHS combined with FIR resulted in higher retention of vitamin C and lycopene content with faster rehydration capacity than those of both conventional HA and SHS with HA drying. These results suggested that SHS combined with FIR would replace the conventional HA drying process successfully in production of dried cherry tomato with appropriate quality characteristics

The physical and sensorial properties of frankfurter with the addition of different sized defatted rice bran (DRB) were investigated. Coarse DRB (DRB-150; D50 = 267 μm), fine DRB (DRB-63; D50 = 115 μm), and super-fine DRB (DRB-JM; D50 = 5.0 μm) were prepared via conventional sifting followed by jet-milling with the milling pressure of 7 bars. Frankfurter was made with the addition of coarse DRB (FDRB-63), fine DRB (FDRB-150), superfine DRB (FDRB-JM), and without DRB (FC) with the DRB concentration of 0.5 and 1.0%. Frankfurter with larger DRB (FDRB-63 and FDRB-150) showed less smoother texture, while frankfurter with superfine DRB (FDRB-JM) resulted in little changes in physical and organoleptic qualities, which were verified by quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), texture profile analysis (TPA), and color measurements.

The effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) treatments on tenderization of beef were investigated. The beef was prepared by using the eye of round. PEF treatment of beef was performed using a newly manufactured movable batch chamber. The PEF treatment was conducted with electric field strength of 0.5~2.0 kV/cm using a fixed pulse width of 30 μs and frequency of 20 Hz. There was no significant change in appearance of PEF treated beef. The cutting force [N] of the sample was greatly reduced as the field strength of the PEF was stronger. The cutting force of beef treated with PEF at 2.0 kV / cm was 41.18 ± 3.28 N and the control was 57.25 ± 4.16 N. In the texture profile analysis, hardness and chewiness weakened as the field strength increased (p <0.05). There was no difference in springiness, cohesiveness, resilience before and after PEF treatment (p <0.05).