본 연구는 돼지의 성별에 따른 거세와 난소 적출이 체성장과 사료 이용성, 혈중 호르몬 농도에 미치는 영향을 구명하기 위하여 축산기술연구소에서 계통 조성중인 35일령의 돼지 48두를 이용하여 실시하였으며, 얻어진 주요 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 체성장 및 사료 이용성 산육능력에 있어서 암퇘지 난소 적출구의 일당증체량은 898.6 g으로 대조구의 862.7 g보다 높게 나타났으나 유의차는 없었고, 수퇘지 거세구의 일당증체 량은 926.0 g으로 대조구의 945.5 g 보다 약간 낮았으며, 유의차는 없었으나, 수퇘지 대조구는 암퇘지군 보다 일당증체량이 높게 나타났다. 사료요구율은 수퇘지 대조구가 2.51로 가장 낮게 나타났으며 암퇘지군에 비해 유의하게 낮았으나 거세구와의 유의차는 없었으며, 난소 적출구와 대조구와는 차이가 없었다. 등지방 두께는 수퇘지 대조구가 1.65 cm로 가장 낮게 나타났고, 암퇘지군과 유의차는 없었으며, 각각의 대조구가 시험구에 비해 유의하게 낮게 나타났다. 2. 혈중 호르몬 변화 혈중호르몬 변화에 있어서 IGF-I 농도는 암퇘지군 대조구에서는 5주령의 45.1±0.72ng/m1에서 15주령의 356.3±3.05ng/ml까지 점차적으로 높은 경향을 나타내었으나, 그 이후부터 23주령까지 일정한 수준으로 유지되었다. 수퇘지 군에서도 혈중 IGF-I 농도 변화는 암퇘지와 비슷한 경향을 보였으나 전구간에서 암퇘지 군에 비해 수쾌지 군이 다소 높은 경향을 보였다. 한편, 거세 및 난소 적출구의 경우에는 각각의 대조구에 비해 다소 낮은 경 향치를 나타내었다. 혈중 스테로이드 호르몬 변화에 있어서 대조구 암퇘지의 혈중 estradiol-l7β 농도는 5주령에서는 극히 낮은 수준이었으나, 그 이후 11주령의 21.8±1.61pg/ml에서 23주령까지 점차 증가되었다. 또한 대조구의 혈중 progesterone 농도는 5주령에 비해 11주령 이후부터 다소 높은 농도를 나타내었다. 반면에 난소적출된 암퇘지에 있어서는 estradiol-17β와 progesterone 농도는 거의 검출한계 이하로 나타났다. 한편, 수퇘지의 testosterone 농도는 대조구의 5주령에서는 0.28±0.17ng/ml로 낮은 수준이었으나 11주령에서는 4.63±0.78ng/ml로 증가되었으며 그 후 23주령까지 유의적으로 증가되었다. 이에 반해 거세돼지의 경우에는 23주령까지 전혀 검출이 되지 않아 거세돼지의 경우 혈중 testosterone은 거의분비가 되지 않는 것으로 나타났다.

This study examined the consumers' awareness and information need toward the irradiated foods and environmental hormones. The data were collected from 350 adults living in Daegu and Busan by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequencies and chi-square tests were conducted by SPSS. The results of the survey were as follows: (1) consumers' awareness regarding the irradiated foods and environmental hormones were low, while consumers' concerns for them were high, (2) the orders of the information needs for the irradiated foods are safety of irradiated foods, dose permitted for food irradiation, benefits of irradiated foods, kinds of permitted irradiated foods, and legislations of food irradiation, and (3) the orders of the information needs for the environmental hormones are harmfulness of environmental hormones, standards for contamination by environmental hormones, materials releasing environmental hormones, methods to prevent environmental hormones, and kinds of environmental hormones.

Basically insect hormones include ecdysteroids (molting hormone), juvenile hormones, and neurohormones comprising neuropeptides and biogenic amines. This article reviewed their chemical structures and biological functions. The active molting hormone is 20-hydroxyecdysone in most insects but makisterone A in some other insects including the honey bee and several phytophagous hemipterans. Most insects use JH III, but lepidopterans JH I and II. Dipterans also use a different JH, so-called JH (JH III bisepoxide) and we still do not know the exact chemical structure of JH utilized in hemipterans. Some other insects use methyl farnesoate or hydroxylated JH III analogues as their juvenile hormone. Most diverse pictures can be found in neurohormones (NH), especially in neuropeptides, in terms of their number and structure. There are more than 200 neuropeptides (NP), classified into more than 30 families, which structures have been identified, and more of them are expected to be reported in the near future, partly due to rapid development in molecular biological techniques and in analytical techniques. More than half of them are involved in controlling activity of visceral muscles. But function (s) of many NPs are not clarified yet, even though their amino acid sequences have been identified. It is partly due to the fact that a single NP may have multiple functions. Another interesting point is their gene structure, having many number of independent, active peptides in one gene, apparently working for similar or totally different functions. NH also includes amines, such as octopamine, dopamine, serotonin, etc. From now on, investigation will be concentrated on identifying their function (s) and receptors, and on possibilities of their utilization as control agents against pest insects.

본 연구는 자연수중의 미생물을 식종원으로 하는 TOC-HANDAI법과 OECD 생분해법을 활용하여 자연수 환경내에서 환경호르몬물질인 비스페놀 A와 노닐페놀의 생분해성을 비교평가하였다. TOC-HANDAI법에 의한 BPA분해는 73-78% 이었고 OECD법은 이보다 다소 높은 77-81%를 나타내었다. 두 방법을 통한 BPA의 분해양상은 대체로 2단계를 거쳐 진행되었다. 즉 초기 1주일 이내에는 분해반응속도(k1)가 0.24-0.34day-1

This study was conducted to examine the effects of exogenous gonadotropins (PMSG+hCG) and an antioxidant (cysteine) on in vitro maturation of bovine follicular oocytes. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) aspirated from 2 to 5 mm ovarian follicles were cultured for 22 to 24 hours in a modified bovine embryo culture medium (mBECM) supplemented with 3 mg/mL bovine serum albumin, to which PMSG (10 IU/mL) + hCG (10 IU/mL) and/or cysteine (0.6 mM) were added. When examined the expansion of cumulus ce1ls at the end of maturation culture, greater (p<0.05) expansion was found after addition of PMSG+hCG (79 to 96%) to mBECM than after no addition (0%), regardless of the presence or absence of cysteine in the medium. The addition of cysteine did not stimulate cumulus expansion, but a high proportion (92%) of expansion was achieved when COCs were cultured after the addition of PMSG+hCG and cysteine to the medium. No difference in the proportion of oocytes underwent germinal vesicle breakdown (initiation of maturation) was found after the addition of PMSG+hCG and/or cysteine to mBECM. However, nuclear maturation (development to the metaphase-II stage) of oocytes was significantly stimulated by the combined addition of PMSG+hCG and cysteine, compared with no addition. In conclusion, both exogenous gonadotropins and an antioxidant are important for nuclear maturation of bovine immature oocytes and these factors have a cell-specific stimulatory action.