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Antibacterial Effect of Eucalyptus Oil, Tea Tree Oil, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Potassium Sorbate, and Lactic Acid for the development of Feminine Cleansers

  • Yuk, Young Sam
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.82-92
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: It has been reported that the diversity and abundance of microbes in the vagina decrease due to the use of antimicrobial agents, and the high recurrence rate of female vaginitis due to this suggests that a new treatment is needed. Methods: In the experiment, we detected that 10% potassium sorbate solution, 1% eucalyptus oil solution, 1% tea tree oil solution, 400 µL/10 mL grapefruit seed extract solution, 100% lactic acid, 10% acetic acid solution, and 10% lactic acid solution were prepared and used. After adjusting the pH to 4, 5, and 6 with lactic acid and acetic acid in the mixed culture medium, each bacterium was inoculated into the medium and incubated for 72 h at 35℃. Incubate and 0 h each. 24 h. 48 h. The number of bacteria was measured after 72 h. Results: In the mixed culture test between lactic acid bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms, lactic acid bacteria showed good results at pH 5-5.5. Potassium sorbate, which has varying antibacterial activity based on the pH, killed pathogenic bacteria and allowed lactic acid bacteria to survive at pH 5.5. Conclusion: The formulation ratio obtained through this study could be used for the development of a feminine cleanser that can be used as a substitute for antibacterial agents. Further, the findings of this study may be able to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the future.

The Clinical Comparison between Monomicrobial and Polymicrobial Urinary Infection in Febrile Pediatric Acute Pyelonephritis (발열성 소아 신우 신염에서 단일 세균 감염과 혼합 세균 감염의 임상적 비교)

  • Lee, In Hak;Nam, Seong Woo;Seo, Hyeon Seok;Yim, Hyung Eun;Yoo, Kee Hwan;Hong, Young Sook;Lee, Joo Won
    • Childhood Kidney Diseases
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: We investigated the clinical presentation of febrile pediatric patients with acute pyelonephritis (APN) with a mixed urine culture from an aseptic urine sample, and compared with that of those with a single culture. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical charts of 95 patients diagnosed as APN with fever between January 2008 and October 2010 at Korea University Medical Center. We classified the patients with APN into two groups with a positive single culture (S group) and a positive mixed culture (M group) from an aseptic urine sample of suprapubic bladder aspiration or urethral catheterization and compared the fever duration, laboratory markers such as serum white blood cell (WBC) counts and C-reactive protein (CRP) values in peripheral blood, and the presence of hydronephrosis, renal scar and vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) between the two groups (If presence of hydronephrosis, scar and VUR=1 and no=0). Results: Total pediatric patients with febrile APN were 95 patients, a positive S group was 89 patients and a positive M group was 6 patients. Fever duration (S vs. M, $4.7{\pm}3.1$ vs. $6{\pm}5.7$ days), serum WBC (S vs. M, $18,630{\pm}6,483$ vs. $20,153{\pm}7,660/{\mu}L$) and CRP (S vs. M, $100.6{\pm}2.46$ vs. $81.1{\pm}0.09\;mg/L$) values, and the presence of hydronephrosis, renal scar and VUR were not different between the two groups. Conclusion: Our data shows that there were no specific differences of clinical manifestation between a positive single urine culture and a positive mixed urine culture in pediatric APN. A mixed urine culture from an aseptic urine sample should be interpreted cautiously.

Development of Dress Design using Infra-Syndrome - Focusing on Design Concept of Lingeries - (인프라 현상을 활용한 드레스 디자인 개발 - 화운데이션 모티브를 중심으로 -)

  • 최은희;송미령
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.549-561
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    • 2001
  • Modern fashion can be expressed as 'pursuit of cocktail effect', which means not unformed, not bounded by a rule, and mixed with various styles. Among them, the most outstanding trend of style is the'infra-syndrome'which designs underclothes like a ordinary wear, which has outstood since early 1980s. In 1990s, this syndrome made active progress and now facing 21th century, it becomes one of the big trends in fashion. Clothes of infra syndrome are one of attempts for freedom expressed by progressive designers who pursuit new and surrealistic design. The purpose of this study is to maximize the aesthetic beauty of'infra-syndrome'apparel centering on dresses of which designs are notable derived from underclothes. With the sewing techniques using the special facilities of the lingerie-manufacturing industry and making use of new material which can be used far lingerie wear, this research strives to expand new ideas in the lingerie industry as well as to contribute to promoting the dress culture by developing novel lines from a new form of dress and lingerie-foundations of dress suitable for human body.

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Optimization of Food Waste Fermentation for Probiotic Feed Production with Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus

  • Lee, Ki-Young;Yu, Sung-Jin;Yu, Seung-Yeng
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling Conference
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    • 2001.05b
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2001
  • For the probiotic feed production, aerobic liquid fermentation of pulverized food wastes was attempted with a yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus. After grinding finely, optimal fermentation conditions of the substrate was investigated by shaking culture. The most active growth of the yeast was shown at solid content of 10%. The proper addition of urea(0.5g/l), o-phosphate(0.4g/l), molasses(4g/l), and yeast extract (1g/1) increased cell growth rate and viable cell count. For optimizing, the nutrients were all added to substrate and fermentation was carried in 2 litre jar fermenter. For the stimulation of hydrolyzing enzyme excretion, mixed culture with Aspersillus oryzae was also conducted. In 12 hours of fermentation, viable cell count of the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus amounted to the number of 1.4 $\times$10$^{10}$ /1 in the culture medium.

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Studies on the Biological Treatment of Dye Waste Water and Degration of Polyvinyl Alcohol (염색공장 폐수중 PVA 분해세균의 분리 및 생물학적 처리효과)

  • 강선태;서승교;권오억
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 1990
  • As a research for treatment of waste water by biological method, we investigated general characteristics of waste water and isolated some useful bacteria which effectively treated waste water. Compositions of waste water were analyzed to give COD 2060 ppm, PVA 560 ppm, T-N 50 ppm, T-P 3.3 ppm and PH 12. Also, we inverstigated optimum nutrients requirement and growth conditions by mixed culture as well as the effect of coagulants. The COD removal rate reached maximum state for 48 hrs culture at pH 7.0 and 30$^{\circ}$C. Alum as the coagulated was the most effective. The COD removal rate was also increased by supplementing 10 ppm phosphorous sources as additional nutrients. The COD of waste water was reduced to 10% of its initial value by the continuous culture. As a result of overall experiments the COD of effluents became about 100 ppm and final pH 7.

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A Study on Rock'n'roll Fashion (로큰롤 패션 (Rock'n'roll Fashion)에 관한 연구)

  • 장미선;조규화
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.323-335
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this treatise is to study the effect which rock'n'roll had on fashion through the fashion of rock'n'roll stars and contemporary youngsters. The United states of America in the 1950's when rock'n'roll came into existence was an opulent and luxurious period. People's spare time increased and teenagers who grew up in oppulence after World War II emlerged. It was rock'n'roll that comprised the background of their culture. Rock'n'roll music, which was in the mixed form of Negro's rhythm and blues, and country -and-western of Southern hillbilly Rock'n'roll was expressed as a 'culture', characterized by both the luxurious and oppulent culture and the'anti-establishment' defying it. This cultural characteristic emerged as at once the conservative fashion following the contemporary fashion and the anti-establishment fashion in the rock'n'roll fashion. Therefore, the rock'n'roll fashion influenced by popular music became one momentum of including popular music among factors affecting the twentieth-century modern fashion.

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Biological Application of Two Protozoan Species, Euplotes sp. and Vorticella sp., for the Stable Culture of the Rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis in Laboratory Experiments of Inter- and Tripartite-Specific Relations

  • Jung, Min-Min
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.209-213
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    • 2012
  • Members of the ciliate group of protozoans are often observed in mass cultures of rotifers. In particular, Euplotes and Vorticella are common contaminating species. In this study, I examined the effect of the ciliates Euplotes sp. and Vorticella sp. on the growth of the rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis by conducting inter-specific and tripartite-specific mixed-culture experiments. The growth of rotifers was suppressed in co-existence with Euplotes sp. compared with monocultures of rotifers. However, Vorticella sp. promoted rotifer growth. Moreover, Vorticella sp. improved the growth of rotifers suppressed by Euplotes sp. contaminants. In 5-L semi-mass cultures of rotifers, growth of the contaminating protozoan Euplotes sp. was heavily suppressed by Vorticella sp. The stable maintenance of the rotifer culture ecosystem can be achieved by manipulating the types of contaminating protozoan species.

Control of Powdery Mildew of Pepper Using Culture Solutions of Chitinolytic Bacteria, Chromobacterium sp. and Lysobacter enzymogenes (키틴분해세균 Chrobacterium sp.와 Lysobacter enzymogenes의 배양액을 이용한 고추 흰가루병의 방제)

  • Seo, Chong-Chan;Jung, Hyun-Chae;Park, Seur-Kee
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.40-44
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    • 2007
  • Powdery mildew of pepper is one of the most devastating diseases which is occurring all the year under greenhouse condition. In this study, control efficacy against powdery mildew was evaluated by mixed culture solutions of two chitinolytic bacteria, Lysobacter enzymogenenes strain C-3 and Chrornobacterium sp. strain C-61, cultivated in the chitin-supplemented medium. In all experiments, white powder on the reverse side of pepper leaves perfectly disappeared 3 days after application of mixed culture solutions. However, periods required for formation of new white powder on the same sites after application (control-lasting period) were largely differed according to environmental conditions. In particular, the control-lasting period was much longer when sprayed on 6 PM than 9 AM and especially, on rainy days than sunny days. This indicates that control efficacy of culture solution may be largely affected by environmental conditions after application. The undiluted culture solution resulted in a perfect control with control value more than 95% by application of 5-day-intervals under severely diseased field and 7-day-intervals under disease-started field. A ten-fold diluted product also showed control value more than 81% by application of the same method. These results suggest that this culture solution can be practically used to control powdery mildew disease in pepper plants.

Antagonistic inhibitory effects of probiotics against pathogenic microorganisms in vitro (Probiotics의 병원성미생물에 대한 길항적 억제효과)

  • Yuk, Young Sam;Lee, Young ki;Kim, Ga-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.110-116
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    • 2019
  • To investigate the antagonistic inhibitory effects in a mixed culture between probiotics and various pathogenic microorganisms, 140 probiotics were identified using a 16 rRNA sequencing phylogenetic analysis method, and various probiotics strains were isolated from Korean kimchi from January to December 2016. The antagonistic inhibition test of a mixed culture of four probiotics (Enterococcus faecalis, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, and Lactobacillus reuteri) with excellent antimicrobial activity and six pathogenic microorganisms (Candida albicans, Salmonella Enteritidis, E. coli O157:H7, Shigella flexneri, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa)showed that the growth of most probiotics strains increased normally after culture, but growth was inhibited almost completely in most pathogenic microorganisms, except for S. Enteritidis. This antagonistic inhibitory effect in vitro was attributed to the low pH of the lactic acid and organic acid produced during fermentation. As a result, four probiotics strains isolated from Korean Kimchi are very likely to be developed as therapeutic agents for female yeast infections and colon and skin care. In the future, these therapeutic agents will help improve public health related to probiotics.

Effect of Lactic Acid Bacteria on the Qualities of White Pan Bread (빵의 품질에 미치는 유산균의 영향)

  • 장준형;안재법
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.509-515
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    • 1996
  • The effects of sour liquid ferments with lactic acid bacteria on the baking properties and qualities of White Pan Bread were studied. The mixed culture of Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus plantarum had higher acid equivalents and lower pH-values than single or mixed culture of other lactic acid bacteria which had been used for traditional sour dough bread. Optimum conditions of the incubation of lactic acid bacteria, which are incubation temperature time and culture medium compositions for lactic fermentation, were also investigated to find out optimum activity for good bread making. The mixed culture of L. brevis and l. plantarum incubated for 24 hours at 3$0^{\circ}C$ had the most optimum activity for bread manufacturing process and the qualities of the products. The addition of sour liquid ferments to the sponge dough effected on fermentation activity of the sponge dough to lower the level of pH to 4.64 and to produce more total titratable acidity(TTA) of 0.545, whereas conventional sponge dough bread had 0.46% of TTA. On comparison with control bread, the bread made with sour liquid ferments was found to have better specific volume, taste, symmetry, especially, organoleptic characteristics due to lactic acid, acetic acid and amino acid produced by lactic acid bacteria. Sour dough bread with liquid ferment was considered to be more effective to the inhibition of staling during storage for 6 days at $25^{\circ}C$ and to have longer shelf-than control.

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