Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory disease associated with a cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction to an allergen. Although the incidence of AD is increasing these days, therapeutics has yet to be developed for its treatment. The aim of this study was conducted in order to compare and investigate the characteristic between the Castanea crenata inner shell extract (CS) and the Castanea crenata inner shell extract fermented by Lactobacillus bifermentans (FCS) for an anti-atopic medication. The total polyphenol and flavonoid contents were similar to CS and FCS. In the DPPH and superoxide anion radical scavenging, the CS and FCS had the potential for antioxidant activities. Both of them did not exhibit cytotoxicity to HS68 cells. The evaluation of the anti-inflammatory activity in Raw264.7 cells demonstrated that the FCS has inhibited the LPS-induced production of nitric oxide as compared to the CS. The anti-atopic dermatitis test was done through the induction of DNCB in AD hairless mice. The FCS has inhibited the development of the atopic dermatitis-like skin lesion by transdermal water loss, melanin and erythema of the skin as compared to the CS. Moreover, the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β and TNF-α production in hairless mice were inhibited by the FCS treatment. It indicates that the fermentation of the Castanea crenata inner shell has the potential for the treatment of atopic dermatitis.

This study was performed to investigate the four-week repeated-dose toxicity of the crude antifungal compounds produced by Lactobacillus plantarum AF1 (Lb. plantarum AF1), a lactic acid bacterium isolated from kimchi, in male and female rats. Sprague-Dawley male and female rats were divided into four groups, with 10 animals in each group. The test article was administered once daily by gavage to rats at dosage levels of 0, 500, 1,000, and 2,000 mg/kg/day for four weeks. There were no test-article-related deaths or abnormal clinical signs in both the male and female rats during the observation period. Furthermore, no differences in the body weight changes, food intake and water consumption levels of the control and treatment groups were found. The hematological parameters, serum biochemical analysis results, histopathological examination results and all other findings also showed no significant or dose-dependent changes. There were also no changes in the organ weights upon the administration of the crude antifungal compounds produced by Lb. plantarum AF1. These results suggest that the oral administration of the crude antifungal compounds produced by Lb. plantarum AF1 had no adverse effects up to a dosage level of 2,000 mg/kg in both male and female rats.

The in vivo single-dose acute toxicity of Lactobacillus plantarum AF1, a lactic acid bacterium isolated from kimchi, in ICR male and female mice was investigated. The test article was intraperitoneally or orally administered once to both sexes of mice. The motalites, clinical findings, autopsy findings, and body weight changes were monitored daily for 14 days. In the oral acute toxicity test, the male and female mice were gavaged with four doses (5.0, 2.5, 1.25 and 0.625 g/kg) of Lb. plantarum AF1. The oral LD50 of the Lb. plantarum AF1 was considered higher than 5.0 g/kg. In the intraperitoneal acute toxicity test, mice were injected intraperitoneally with dosages of 0.7, 0.9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.3 and 2.5 g/kg. The intraperitoneal 50% lethal dose (LD50) of the Lb. plantarum AF1 was >2.5 g/kg in the male and female mice. No significant changes in the general conditions, body weights, clinical signs, and gross lesions were observed in both sexes of mice to which Lb. plantarum AF1 was administered intraperitoneally or orally. The results suggest that the no-adverse-effect level of Lb. plantarum AF1 is estimated to be more than 5.0 g/kg in the oral route and 2.5 g/kg in the intraperitoneal route.

Recently, the use of antibiotics to improve animal productivity in livestock industry was strictly restricted. For these reason, probiotics have been regarded as one of promising materials for an antibiotic alternative. In this study, we investigated how the probiotics influences on the performance of broiler chicken via meta-analysis. Eighteen researches from 1997 to 2010 were used for meta-analysis. The standard summary effects were calculated via fixed effect model and random effect model (Borenstein et al., 2009). Heterogeneity was calculated by using the Cochran’s Q statistics (Kook et al., 2009) and publication bias was calculated via Egger’s regression (Lee et al., 2011). In fixed model average daily gain, body weight serum protein content and cecal LAB showed positive effect significantly. Feed intake, feed/gain and serum cholesterol showed significant negative effect. In serum triglyceride, negative effect was found but significance was not shown. In random model, average daily gain body weight and cecal LAB showed positive effects with significance and feed/gain and serum cholesterol represented significant negative effects. Publication bias was found only in feed/gain.

Galgeun-tang (GGT) is a traditional medicinal formula that is widely prescribed to treat cold, asthma, and hives in Korea. Fermented herbal medicines can be made more effective than normal herbal medicines by increasing the absorption and bioavailability of the active compounds. In this study, we fermented Galgeun-tang to produce bioconversion constituents using Lactobacillus plantarum (GGT144), and found that four peaks were decreased, three peaks were increased and two new peaks appeared in the HPLC-DAD chromatogram. After HPLC-DAD-guided fractionation of the newly-appearing compounds (1 and 5) and the increased (6, 7, and 9) compounds, the structure of the compounds was determined using NMR and MS. Using this approach the compounds were identified to be pyrogallol (1), daidzein (5), liquiritigenin (6), cinnamyl alcohol (7), and formononetin (9), respectively. In addition, the decreased compounds were identified to be daidzin (2), liquiritin (3), ononin (4), and cinnam aldehyde (8) using HPLC-DAD analysis with standard compounds. The high performance liquid chromatography method was used to quantify the nine constituents in GGT and GGT144. All calibration curves of the standard compounds displayed excellent linearity with a R2 〉 0.9968.

This study was to investigate the effect of fermentation extracts on the concentration of serotonin and melatonin in the serum of the ICR mice. The ICR mice were divided into water control group, lactobacillus fermentation solution including (Lactobacillus paracasei and Bifidobacterium longum B6) control group, positive control group (milk and doxylamine succinate), negative control group (caffein) and the groups treated with the extracts of Berberis koreana bark (WE: water extracts, FE-L.P: fermentation extracts of Lactobacillus paracasei, FE-B.L: fermentation extracts of Bifidobacterium longum B6). After ten-day feeding treatment, the mean concentration of serotonin for water control, WE, FE-L.P and FEB. L group was 134.72, 183.01, 232.09 and 223.78 ng/ml, respectively. The mean concentration for FE-L.P and FE-B.L group were approximately 66% larger than that for water control group. The mean concentration of melatonin for water control, WE, FE-L.P and FE-B.L group was 76.92, 106.66, 157.56 and 141.81pg/ml, respectively. The mean concentration of melatonin for FE-L.P and FE-B.L group were also larger than that for water control group. Our results indicated that the fermentation extracts of Berberis koreana bark have relatively greater potential to induce secretion of serotonin and melatonin. Therefore, the fermentation extracts have antidepressant effect.

상업적 복합균주와 효모를 sourdough starter로 사용하여V5가지의 시료를 다음과 같이 준비하였다. 제빵용 효모만을V사용한 control군, 상업용 복합균주를 사용한 LAB 1군, 상업용 복합균주와 효모로 각각 발효한 후 합친 LAB 2군, 상업용 복합균주와 효모를 함께 사용하여 발효한 LAB 3군, 상업용 복합균주와 효모를 사용하여 각각 발효하여 합친 후 다시 10시간 발효한 LAB 4군을 사용하여 제조한 발효식빵의 제빵특성은 다음과

복숭아를 원료로 하여 항돌연변이원성이 강한 것으로 알려진 L. plantaum KLAB21 균주에 의한 젖산발효 주스의 제조 가능성과 젖산발효 특성을 조사하였다. 젖산발효에 미치는 온도의 효과를 조사한 결과 에서 25, 30, 에서 보다 더욱 높은 생균수의 증가와 적정산도를 나타내었다. 살균하지 않은 복숭아 주스보다는 저온에서 살균한 주스가 젖산발효에 더욱 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 L. plantaum KLAB21 균주 단독발효의 경우가 L

동치미로부터 분리된 Latobacillus sp. FF-3의 Bacteriocin 생산에 대한 최적 배양조건과 배양 특성을 조사하였다. Bacteriocin 생산을 위한 최적 생산조건은 MRS(proteose peptone 1%, beef extract 1%, yeast extract 0.5%, glucose 2%, polysorbate 80 0.1%, ammonium citrate 0.2%, sodium acetate 0.5%, magnesiu

생균제로서 가능성 있는 유산균의 선별을 위해 발효식품인 동치미로부터 분리된 균주들의 내산성, 내담즙성, 내췌장 액성 및 유해균 억제능을 조사하였다. 특히 분리된 균종 중에서 FF-3가 인공위액과 담즙산에 대한 높은 내성을 나타내었을 뿐만 아니라, Salmonella sp. 과 Escherichia coli에 대하여 높은 항균 활성을 나타내었다. FF-3유래 박테리오신은 그람 양성 및 음성 세균에서 넓은 항균 범위를 나타내었다 본 연구에서 최종선별

김치로부터 분리 동정된 Lactobacillus plantarum KLAB21 균주에 있어서 항돌연변이 활성물질 생산을 위한 최적 조건을 조사하였다. 탄소원으로서 glucose 첨가시 가장 높은 항돌연변이 활성을 나타내었으며, 질소원으로서는 yeast extract와 bactopeptone 첨가시 활성이 우수하였다. 탄소원인 glucose의 농도는 2%에서, 질소원인 yeast extract와 bactopeptone의 농도는 1%에서 가장 우수한