• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.1156-1164
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• 2010

Structured lipids (SLs) were synthesized by enzymatic interesterification with evening primrose oil (EPO) and rice bran oil (RBO) in a batch-type reactor. The interesterification was performed using a water shaker for 24 hr at $55^{\circ}C$. Mixing speed was set at 200 rpm and Lipozyme RM IM (immobilized lipase from Rhizomucor miehei, 10% by weight of total substrates) was used as a biocatalyst. Rice bran oil and evening primrose oil were interesterified with various molar ratios (RBO : EPO, 1:3, 1:4, and 1:5 mol/mol). Reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography connected with evaporative light-scattering detector was performed to separate the triacylglycerol (TAG) species of SLs. In the fatty acid analysis, $\gamma$-linolenic acid (7.9 mol%), linoleic acid (67.3 mol%) and oleic acid (13.2 mol%) were the most abundant fatty acids in the SLs. During 24 hr reaction, most of the reaction occurred within 3 hr. TAG compositions, tocopherols and phytosterols were also analyzed. In the TAG species analysis, LLL (ECN=42, L=linoleic acid) dramatically decreased when the reaction time increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.1071-1076
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• 2005

Gamma irradiation treatment brings about biochemical changes that could affect nutritional Quality of food. This study was conducted to examine the content of $\beta-Carotene$ in Jeju orange, vitamin $D_3$ in anchovy and $\alpha-Tocopherol$ in beef. $\beta-Carotene$ content of Jeju orange was not affected by irradiation of 5 and 10kGy. In anchovy, vitamin $D_3$ content was dose-dependently increased to $109.30\%\;and\;125.25\%$ of original content by irradiation of 5 and 10kGy, respectively. $\alpha-Tocopherol$ content in beef with high fat was progressively reduced by $17\%$ of original value with irradiation of 1kGy and by $84\%$ with 10kGy. It could be concluded that $\alpha-tocopherol$ might be most vulnerable to irradiation, while vitamin $D_3$ is very stable against irradiation within 10kGy of gamma irradiation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1289-1292
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• 2005

The objective of this study was to characterize and determine contents of vitamin E isomers (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-tocopherols and tocotrienols) in different steamed rice dishes, with or without other grains. Five different rice dishes were evaluated for the vitamin E nutritional value as major Korean staple foods. They were plain steamed rice (SR) and steamed rice mixed with barley (SRBa), red bean (SRRB), black bean (SRBB), or multi-grains (SRMG) containing a mixture of black rice, barley, red beans, and black beans. Vitamin E isomers were extracted from five grams of freeze-dried samples with hexane after saponification. An analytical method, using a normal-phase HPLC with a UV detector, was developed and used to determine the amount of each vitamin E component. The results showed that SR contained three vitamin E isomers (alpha-tocopherol, alpha-tocotrienol, and gamma-tocotrienol). Alpha-tocopherol and gamma-tocotrienol were de-tected from all samples while only SRBB contained beta-tocopherol and beta-tocotrienol. SRMG showed the highest (3.9$\mu$g/g dry wt) and SRRB showed the lowest alpha-tocopherol (1.3$\mu$g/g dry wt) contents. SRBB contained about 5 to 16 times more gamma-tocopherol (19.7$\mu$g/g dry wt) than othe.5. These results suggested that adding black bean or multi-grains can dramatically improve the vitamin E nutritional values compared to the plain steamed rice (SR). Information obtained from this study can be directly related to the amount of vitamin E intake and can be used to balance the diet for Koreans.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Postharvest Science and Technology of Agricultural Products Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.104.1-104
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• 2003

홍화유를 35$^{\circ}C$, 8$0^{\circ}C$ 추출조건 온도에서 각각 1, 3, 6시간 추출하여 HPLC 사용하여 $\alpha$,${\gamma}$,$\delta$-tocopherol 정량하였다. 정량결과 $\alpha$-tocopherol 함량이 ${\gamma}$-tocopherol 함량 보다 높게 나타났으며 $\delta$-tocopherol은 검출되지 않았다 총 tocopherol 함량은 35$^{\circ}C$ 추출조건에서 보다 8$0^{\circ}C$ 추출조건에서 높게 나타났으며 8$0^{\circ}C$ 6시간 추출조건에서 0.23%라는 함량을 나타났다. 또한 반응표면분석에 의하여 홍화유 추출조건에 따른 campesterol, stigmasterol, $\beta$-sitosterol 및 total sterol의 추출 최적화를 모니터링하였으며, 추출온도(35~75$^{\circ}C$, X$_1$), 추출시간(1~11시간, X$_2$), 시료의 전처리 가공 온도(60~10$0^{\circ}C$, X$_3$)를 변수로 한 중심합성계획으로 추출조건을 최적화하였다 추출온도, 추출시간 및 시료의 전처리 가공 온도가 각각 54.69$^{\circ}C$, 4.02시간, 98.37$^{\circ}C$ 이었을 때 campesterol은 0.3852% 추출율을 보였으나 stigmasterol, $\beta$-sitosterol 및 total sterol 반응표면분석 결과 유의차가 없었다. 한편, 추출된 홍화유와 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)를 1:3 ㏖ 비율로 혼합한 후 고정화효소인 IM60 lipased와 1, 2, 3, 6, 24시간 동안 합성하여 재구성지질을 생성하고 GC에 의해 지방산 조성을 분석한 결과, 총 CLA의 함량은 각각 2.134%, 6.524%, 8.606%, 21.590%, 31.791%로 증가됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.377-383
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• 2019

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Hyperglycemia-induced hepatic damage has been recognized as one of the major cause of complications in diabetes. Hepatic complications are associated with inflammation and oxidative stress in diabetes. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that gamma-tocopherol (GT) supplementation ameliorates NLRP3 inflammasome associated hepatic inflammation in diabetes. MATERIALS/METHODS: Diabetes was induced by the intraperitoneal injection of alloxan (150 mg/kg. BW) in ICR mice. All mice were fed with a control diet (AIN-76A). After diabetes was induced (fasting glucose level ${\geq}250mg/dL$), the mice were treated with tocopherol-stripped corn oil or GT-supplemented (35 mg/kg) corn oil, respectively, by gavage for 2 weeks. RESULTS: GT supplementation reduced fasting blood glucose levels in diabetic mice relative to non-treated diabetic mice. Moreover, GT supplementation ameliorated hyperglycemia-induced hepatic damage by regulation of NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3)-inflammasome associated inflammation represented by NLRP3, apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase-recruitment domain, caspase-1, nuclear $factor-{\kappa}B$ pathway as well as oxidative stress demonstrated by nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2, NAD(P)H dehydrogenase quinone 1, catalase and glutathione-dependent peroxidase in diabetic mice. CONCLUSION: The findings suggested that GT supplementation ameliorated hepatic damage by attenuating inflammation and oxidative stress in alloxan-induced diabetic mice. Taken together, GT could be a beneficial nutrient that can ameliorate inflammatory responses associated with NLRP3 inflammasome in hyperglycemia-induced hepatic damage.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.635-639
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• 1998

The thermal degradation pattern of $\alpha$-, ${\gamma}$-and $\delta$-tocopherols in glycerol was investigated during heating at 100~25$0^{\circ}C$ for 5-60 min in the absence of oxyge. The tocopherols and thermally decomposed products were separated by HPLC with a reversed phase $\mu$-Bondapak C18-column. The degradation pattern of $\alpha$-tocopherol during the heating in the absence of oxygen was different from those of ${\gamma}$-and $\delta$-tocopherols. But the degradation patterns of ${\gamma}$-and $\delta$-tocopherols were similar to each other. The residual content of $\alpha$-tocopherol during the heating in the absence of oxygen decreased to the range 12~65% and those of ${\gamma}$-and $\delta$-tocopherols decreased to the range 4~96%. The thermal degradation of tocopherols in the absence of oxygen was less than that in the presence of oxygen.

• Proceedings of the EASDL Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.13-30
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• 2004

There are two groups of significant functional constituents in sesame seeds on the whole; one is the vegetable oils and another is the anti-oxidative compounds. However, although high amounts of major fatty acids are synthesized in sesame seeds, their composition is unfavorable because the contents of alpha- and gamma-linolenic acid, the essential fatty acids, are very low or do not produced in sesame seeds. So, to increase these fatty acids in sesame seeds, one strategy is to overexpress their genes, ${\omega}$-3 fatty acid desaturase for alpha-linolenic acid and delta-6 fatty acid desaturase for gamma-linolenid acid, in them. Another molecular target is to enhance alpha-tocopherol, vitamin E, because its content is very low in sesame seeds. The enzyme, gamma-tocopherol methyltransferase, catalyzes the conversion of gamma-tocophero to alpha-tocopherol. Overexpression of this enzyme in sesame seeds could be also a good molecular breeding target. Reduction of phytic acid is also another molecular target in sesame seeds because phosphorus pollution may be caused by its high content in sesame seeds. Accordingly, to do so, one of target enzymes could be myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase which is a key regulatory enzyme in the pathway of phytic aicd biosyntheses. In this lecture, a molecular strategy for development of value-added sesame crop is described in association with some results of our experiments involved in the molecular characterizations of the genes mentioned above.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.251-255
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• 1991

The antioxidative effects of the six commercial lecithins, tocopherols, citric acid and ascorbyl palmitate on refined perilla oil were inverstigated by active oxygen method ($AOM,\;hrs\;at\;97.8^{\circ}C$) and oven test. Except for the lecithin I (aceton insoluble content 55%), the induction time on perilla oil treated with commercial lecithins at 5% level was longer than that of refined soybean oil. When the concentration of lecithin (0.5, 1, 2.5, 4 and 5%) in perilla oil was increased, enhanced the antioxidative effect at AOM and oven test. Lecithin also showed synergistic effect with the mixtures of tocopherol, citric acid and ascorbyl palmitate. The antioxidative effect of ${\gamma}-rich-tocopherol$ on perilla was higher than that of ${\dalta}-rich-tocopherol$ or mixed tocopherol.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.347-352
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• 2003

In order to compare quality characteristics and oxidative stabilities of rice germs prepared under different roasting conditions, sensory evaluation, color value, tocols (tocopherol+tocotrienol) contents, and peroxide value were investigated. Optimum roasting temperatures for the best acceptability were 20, 10, and 6 min at 170, 180 and 190, respectively. Hunter color a values of rice germ increased as roasting temperature and time increased, whereas L value decreased. Peroxide values of unroasted, and roasted rice germs at $170^{\circ}C$ for 20 min, $180^{\circ}C$ for 10 min, and $190^{\circ}C$ for 6 min were 2.0, and 145.6, 169.5, and 182.9 meq/kg, respectively, after 9 days storage at $60^{\circ}C$. Four tocopherol and three tocotrienol isomers were identified, whereas no ${\beta}$-tocotrienol was detected. The major tocopherol and tocotrienol isomers in rice germ were ${\alpha}$-tocopherol and ${\alpha}$-tocotrienol, respectively. ${\alpha}$-Tocopherol content in roasted rice germ decreased significantly during storage, whereas those of ${\beta}$- and ${\gamma}$-tocopherols slowly decreased. ${\delta}$-Tocopherol had the highest stability among tocopherol isomers in roasted rice germ. Similar trends were observed in tocotrienol isomers.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.135-140
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• 2008

Cigarette smoke (CS) induces oxidative and nitrosative stress to the respiratory tract (RT) via both oxidants contained in CS and by CS-induced activation of RT inflammatory-immune pro-oxidant processes. CS exposure has been associated with reduced levels of plasma micronutrient antioxidants, in part due to an increased utilization and turnover of alpha-tocopherol (AT). It has been suggested that gamma-tocopherol (GT) may have an expanded spectrum of antioxidant activation compared to alpha-tocopherol (AT). In order to investigate effects of high GT supplementation as compared to AT, C57 BL/6 mice were fed control AT (35 mg/kg diet) or high GT (1,000 mg/kg diet) diet for 8-10 weeks and then exposed to 60 $mg/m^3$ CS, 6 hr/day for 3 days. AT and GT levels and their metabolites were measured at endpoints. High GT supplementation significantly reduced AT levels in plasma, liver and lung compared to AT. CS increased levels of AT and GT in plasma and lung of control AT group but decreased GT levels in lung of high GT supplemented group. Moreover, CS significantly decreased GT metabolite, gamma-CEHC. The results suggest that high GT supplementation have selective modulation of concentrations of vitamin E and its metabolite in plasma and lung but not in liver against in vivo CS exposure.