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Relationships between Carcass Characteristics of Commercial Pork Breeds

  • Hwang, I.H.;Park, B.Y.;Kim, J.H.;Cho, S.H.;Kim, D.H.;Lee, J.M.;Lee, C.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Food Science of Animal Resources Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.196-199
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    • 2006
  • The current study was conducted to identify relationship between myosin heavy chain I to objective color dimensions. Myosin heavy chain I isoform showed coefficients of determinant($r^2$) of 0.54 and 0.40 for Hunter a* and b* values. For he current dataset, Hunter a* value at day 1 had higher relationships with that at both day 7 and 14, emphasizing the importance of initial meat color which is largely affected by animal management prior to slaughter.

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Nutritional Role of Dietary Fiber-Recent Knowledge on Dietary fiber (식이섬유의 주요기능)

  • Tsuji, Keisuke
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.173-176
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    • 1992
  • Non-absorbable substances in foods, for instance dietary fiber had been previously known as a non-nutritive part of foods. Recently , such a category has been gradually changed to as one of nutrients, As a main reason, dietary fibers includes many poly-or oligo-saccharides, which as resistant to alimentary hydrolyzing enzyme, However, parts of them are fermented by intestinal micro-organism to produce short chain fatty acids and so on. They are absorbed and utilized by human being. Now, it may be naturally accepted that dietary fiber is a kind of nutrients. Dietary fiber exerts many useful functions on body. They are classified into three large function , physicochemical function, physiological function and biological function. The last function of dietary fiber will be presented in the symphosium. Dietary fiber has several kinds of nutritional properties. One is energy source. Short chain fatty acids(SCFA) are oxidized and produced energy in body. Dietary fiber has not high energy, but not zero kilocalories. Another one is to be a constitutional component of higher animals' tissue. Last but most important one is physiological functions of dietary fiber.

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Dietary Fiber의 면역조절기능과 Short Chain Acid에 관한 연구

  • Im, Byeong-U;Jo, Yeo-Won
    • Bulletin of Food Technology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.84-91
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    • 2002
  • 식이 섬유질에는 여러 종류가 있고 그 종류에 따라 short chain fatty acid(SCFA)의 생산 등 생리작용도 크게 다르다. 식이 섬유질 중 수용성은 장내세균의 발효를 받아 butyrate, acetate, propionate 등의 SCFA를 생산한다. 수용성 식이 섬유질을 섭취함으로서 SCFA의 생산을 증가시키고 대장점막증식, 물.전해질 흡수 촉진, 혈류량을 증가시키는 작용 외에 면역조절 작용을 가지고 있다. 식이 섬유는 장관계 질환 중의 하나인 염증성 장질환 특히 궤양성 대장염의 치료법으로서 기대되고 있으며, 암세포 연구에서는 butyrate 가 apoptosis 유도작용과 발암유전자의 억제효과가 확인되고 있으나 역학 연구에서는 식이 섬유질에 의한 대장암 예방효과는 아직 불확실하다. 모든 유형의 식이 섬유질은 건강 식품으로서 사용되고 있으며, prebiotic으로서도 주목받고 있다. 또한 경장 영양제에도 각종의 식이 섬유질이 첨가되어 있다. 그러나 충분한 양의 비타민과 무기질을 함유한 고섬유질식과, 건강 식품으로서의 식이 섬유질을 같은 의미로 해석하기에는 여러 가지 문제가 남아 있다.

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Synthesis of Alcohol-Oxidase in Candida boidinii (Candida boidinii에 의한 Alcohol-Oxidase의 생성)

  • 이명숙;김미은;고병호;김상현
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.792-796
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    • 1993
  • The synthesis alcohol-oxidase[EC 1.1.3.13] was investigated in the yeasts, Candida boidinii CBS 8106 and C. boidinii CBS 2428, during growth on different carbon sources. Alcohol-oxidase was undetectable in all strains submitted to the test in the mineral salts medium containing 1.0% glucose, but its production was rapidly increased when the carbon source was changed glucose to 1.0% methanol after 24hrs of incubation. When cells were grown on the various carbon sources (glucose, xylose, lactose, glycerol, galactose, saccharose, sorbose, lactic acid or acetic acid), the alcohol-oxidase activity was undetected. These carbon sources together with methanol yielded far better synthesis of alcohol-oxidase than in the case of carbon sources alone. Alcohol-oxidase was active towards alcohol of shorter alkyl-chain length than C5 and unsaturated alcohols. Its affinity for these alcohols decreased with the increasing length of the alkyl-chain. The apparent Km values for the methanol of Candida boidinii CBS 8106 and C. boidinii CBS 2428 were 1.96 and 1.21, respestively.

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Improved Coexpression and Multiassembly Properties of Recombinant Human Ferritin Subunits in Escherichia coli

  • Lee, Jung-Lim;Levin, Robert E.;Kim, Hae-Yeong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.926-932
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    • 2008
  • Human heavy chain (H-) and light chain (L-) ferritins were amplified from a human cDNA library. Each ferritin gene was inserted downstream of the T7 promoter of bacterial expression vectors, and two types of coexpression vectors were constructed. The expression levels of recombinant ferritins ranged about 26-36% of whole-cell protein. H-ferritin exhibited a lower expression ratio compared with L-ferritin, by a coexpression system. However, the coexpression of HL-ferritins was significantly increased above the expression ratio of H-ferritin by cultivation without IPTG induction overnight. Purified recombinant H-, L-, HL-, and LH-ferritins were shown to be homo- and heteropolymeric high molecular complexes and it was indicated that their assembled subunits would be able to work functionally in the cell. Thus, these results indicate an improvement in the expression strategy of H-ferritin for heteropolymeric production and studies of ferritin assembly in Escherichia coli.

Evaluation of Nutrient Density for Fast Foods Selected by Middle and High School Students in Seoul (Fast Foods의 이용실태조사 및 영양밀도 평가에 관한 연구 - 서울시내 남여 중고등학생을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Cho-Young;Nam, Soon-Ran;Kwak, Tong-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.361-369
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    • 1990
  • The objective of the study was to evaluate nutritional balance for fast foods selected by middle and high school students using INQ (Index of Nutritional Quality). A thousan students that is 0.09% of the population (middle and high school students in Seoul) were surveyed from January 21 to February 10 in 1989. A total of 835 subjects excluding incomplete answer were analyzed. All statistical data analyses were conducted using the SPSS. Fifty kinds of fast foods were analyzed for nutrient values calculation. INQ and % of std. values of selected fast food combination were calculated, and % of std. were charted with each first letter of menu items by using GW-BASIC program. Satiety of fast foods was low in hamburger and pizza chain, high in noodle chain. 66.3% of the subjects ate fast foods snack, 29.2% for meals and 6% for beverages. Protein content of hamburger sold in Korea by American brand name was insufficient compared to the data published in the U.S. for the same brand's menu item. As a result of INQ evaluation, the desirable case of both 'nutritious' and 'fitness for a meal' was only appeared in selecting several menu items at once. A total of 59% of combined fast foods surveyed were revealed as 'nutritious'. Both 'nutritious' and 'fitness for a meal' was 10.4% and 'nutritious' was 48.6%, 'Unfitness for a meal' but 'nutritious' was 48.6% and 'undernutritious' was 37%. Thus a total of 85.6% was 'unfitness for a meal'. 'Undernutritious' but 'fitness for a meal' was 3.5%

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The Study on Antibacterial Activity of Adipic Acid and Medium Chain Monoglycerides (저급지방산 모노글리세라이드와 아디핀산의 항균작용에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Jae-Kweon;Shin, Woong-Kyu;Lee, Sang-Ho;Han, En-Sang;Lee, Young-Chun
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.1038-1044
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    • 1997
  • The mode of the combined effect of adipic acid and medium chain monoglycerides was investigated by using nine strain. Though monoglycerides alone had little antibacterial activity against gram negative strains, the combined use with adipic acid showed much higher activity against others of gram positive strains as well as gram negative strains. But exceptionally, it seemed difficult practically to prevent the growth of lactic acid bacteria completely by the combined use of adipic acid and monoglyceride. For yeast and mold, monoglycerides alone had a high activity but adipic acid had a little activity. In antibacterial mechanism, we thought that adipic acid acted on the cell envelope and then monoglyceride acted on the altered cell.

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Specific Detection of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods by a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR에 의한 식품으로부터 Listeria monocytogenes의 특이적 검출)

  • Shin, Soon-Young;Koo, Young-Jo;Kim, Wang-June
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.1628-1634
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    • 1999
  • The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the sensitive and specific detection of Listeria monocytogenes was employed by using LM 1 and LM 2 primers which were based on the listeriolysin O gene. The direct use of cell suspension as DNA template, without DNA extraction or lysis step, was suitable and specific enough to detect L. monocytogenes at the level of $10^2$ CFU or less per PCR for the pure culture and milk sample, however, the detection sensitivity became blunt for other food samples such as kimchi and chicken. The nested PCR, in which L-1 and L-2 (both designed from listeriolysin O gene) were employed as inner primers, was specific for detecting L. monocytogenes and enhanced the detection limit by 10 times. The PCR using LM 1 and LM 2 primers was very effective to detect L. monocytogenes from foods in terms of the specificity and time consumed, i. e. within $4{\sim}8\;hrs$ (nested PCR).

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Comparative Analyses of the Internal Radiation Exposures due to Food Chain Pathway Using FOOD III Code (FOOD III 코드를 이용한 섭식경로 내부피폭 비교해석)

  • Choi, Yong-Ho;Chung, Kyu-Hoi;Kim, Jin-Kyu;Lee, Jeong-Ho
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 1988
  • In order to develop a food-chain computer code suitable to the environmental conditions of Korea, the FOOD III code was partially modified. The excution results for Korean male-adult were compared to those from the Canadian version of FOOD III to deduce a more realistic approach in dose assessment. The amounts of Mn-54, Co-58, Co-60, I-131 and I-132 released from Kori unit 1 in1984 were used as the source terms for the sample calculation. The maximum atmospheric dispersion factor(X/Q) value on the site boundary was applied. Through the code modification, organ doses decreased by about $20{\sim}70%$ and the effective committed dose equivalent by about 40% to be $7.935{\times}10^{-6}Sv/y$ which is 0.16% of the ICRP limit, $5{\times}10^{-3}Sv/y$.

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The relationship between myofiber characteristics and meat quality of Chinese Qinchuan and Luxi cattle

  • Lu, Xiao;Yang, Yuying;Zhang, Yimin;Mao, Yanwei;Liang, Rongrong;Zhu, Lixian;Luo, Xin
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.743-750
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    • 2021
  • Objective: The objectives of this study were to explore the expression patterns of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) genes of different skeletal muscles from Chinese cattle, and to investigate the relationship between myofiber characteristics and meat quality of M. longissimus lumborum (LL), M. psoas major (PM), and M. semimembranosus (SM) from Chinese Luxi and Qinchuan cattle. Methods: Three major muscles including LL, PM, and SM from Chinese Luxi cattle and Chinese Qinchuan cattle were used in this study. The myofiber characteristics were measured by histochemical analysis. The MyHC isoforms expression was evaluated by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Quality traits including pH value, meat color, cooking loss, Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF) and sarcomere length were determined at day 5 postmortem. Results: PM muscle had higher pH value, a* value, sarcomere length and lower WBSF value compared to LL and SM muscles (p<0.05). Numbers of type I myofiber and the relative expression of MyHC I mRNA in PM muscle were higher than those of LL and SM muscles (p<0.05). Myofiber diameter of PM muscle was lower than that of LL and SM muscles, regardless of myofiber types (p<0.05). Conclusion: According to the stepwise linear regression analyses, tenderness was influenced by myofiber characteristics in all three examined muscles. Tenderness of beef muscles from Qinchuan and Luxi cattle could be improved by increasing numbers of type I myofiber.