• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.175-184
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• 1997

A histochemical and ultrastructural study on the stomach epithelium of a land snail Nesiohelix samarangae was carried out during the period of June 1996 to May 1997. The stomach epithelium is simple columnar dpithelium and is consisted of three types of columnar cells, Type 1 cell which is majority in number has a brush border with microvilli on the free surface of the cell and contains numerous secretory granules supposed to be neutral mucopolysaccharide. Type 2 cell, elongated conical in shape. is rarely found in the dpithelium. This cell also has a brush border with microvilli on its free surface and contains well developed rough surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, and secretory granules in various electron densities. This cell seems to produce both of acid and neutral mucopolysaccharides. Type 3 cell, which is morphologically similar to the Type 1 cell, has microvili and cilia on the free surface and exists in group only in the limited regions of the stomach.

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.171-179
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• 2013

Arginine kinase (ArK) is known to play an important role in most invertebrates the level of ATP by phosphorylation of phosphagens in cell and immuninty in living organisms. ArK has been identified in many kinds of organisms ranging from invertebrate to vertebrate. However, no ArK gene has been cloned and investigated from N. samarangae. This leads us to identify ArK cDNA (NsArK) from the expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing of N. samarangae. Sequence analysis indicated that the coding region of 1,065 bp contains 355 amino acid residues. Molecular phylogenetic analysis shows that NsArK had very high similarities with mollusca and arthropoda. In an attempt to investigate a potential role of NsArK in the digestive gland of N. samarangae, expression patterns were analyzed. RT-PCR analsysis shows that NsArK mRNA is induced in the rane of 1.2 fold at 6 hr by laminarin when compared with the control. The immunnologial and physiological role of NsArK remains to be further investigated in N. samarangae.

• Proceedings of the Malacological Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.21-22
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.538-538
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• 2000

Histochemical, cytochemical, and immmunocytochemical investigations were conducted to find out the cellulase activities in the accessory glands of the digestive system in the oriental land snail Nesiohelix samarangae under the LM, SEM, and TEM. It was found that the Type 1 and Type 3 cells out of five types of the epithelial cells of the digestive gland were labeled with the immunogold(protein-A gold) particles. Otherwise, none of epithelial cells of the mucus gland and the salivary gland were not labeled with the immunogold particles.

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.131-147
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• 1998

A histochemical and ultrastructural study on the epithelia of some selected digestive tracks such as esophagus, crop, intestine of a land snail N. samarangae was carried out during the period of June 1997 to may 1998. The epithelium of digestive tract are simple columnar epithelium and consisted of five types of columnar cells. Type 1 cell which is majority in number has a brush border with microvilli on the free surface of the cell and contains numerous secretory granules supposed to be neutral mucopolysaccharide. Type 2 cell, elongated conical in shape, is rarely found in the epithelium. This cell also has a brush border with microvilli on its free surface and contains well developed rough surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, and secretory granules in various electron densities. This cell seems to produce both of acid and neutral mucopolysaccharides. Type 3 cell, which is morphologically similar to the Type 1 cell, has microvilli and cilia on the free surface and exists in group only in the limited regions of the intestine. Type 4 cell, typical goblet cell containing secretory granules in high electron density. Type 5 cell rarely found in the digestive tract. This cell contain inconspicuous materials.

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2004

An anatomical and ultrastructural study on the dart sac and the dart of a Korean snail Nesiohelix samarangae was conducted to understand their morphological characteristics with the help of the light microscope and electron microscopes, TEM and SEM. Nesiolelix samarangae had two darts which are pure white structures 6-8 mm in length, tapering from 0.6-0.8 mm to 0.15-0.3 mm. The dart sac had a long conic lumen subdivided into two by a septal wall, and the darts were centrally embedded in the thick muscular layers of the sac. The darts occupied each of the two luminal spaces one per each. The convexed surfaces of the darts had many crystal buds in the shape of the petals. Otherwise, the convexed surfaces of the darts had numerous crystal buds in the shape of candle or topaz. The luminal surface of the dart sac was covered with a single columnar epithelium. The epithelial cells possessed microvilli on their free surface.

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 1994

동양달팽이속(Nesiohelix)에 속하는 종으로 한국에서는 유일하게 서식하고 있는 종으로알려진 동양달팽이(Nesiohelix samarangae)성체의 눈에 대하여 해부학적 및 미세구조관찰을 실시한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻을 수 있었다. 동양달팽이의 눈은 각막, 무세포성의 수정체, 망막및 신경망 등으로 구성되어 있는 바 가장 복잡한 구조를 보이는 부분은 망막으로서 이의상피는 2종의 원주세포로 구성되어있다. 그 하나는 광수용세포로서 세포의 상부세포질이 원추형 또는 피라미드형의 돌기를 이루었고 그 유리표면에는 긴 감간(microvilli)이 무수히 많이 존재하고 있으며, 돌기를 이룬 세포질 내에는 용해소체의 활성이 높게 나타난다. 또한 광수용세포들의 상부세포질에는 이웃해 있는 색소세포들의 세포질 돌기들이 여러개 침입해 들어와 있다. 그리고 핵 주변의 세포질에는 수많은 photic vesicle들이 군집을 이루어 존재한다. 다른 한 종류의 세포는 색소세포들로서 광수용세포들과는 달리 세포의 상부에 원추형의 세포질 돌기가 없고 다만 그 유리표면을 따라 광수용세포의 것보다는 굵고 짧은 많은 감간이 존재하는데 두 종류의 세포들에서 뻗어나온 감간들은 서로 만나 때로 파상을 이루고 있다. 망막 상피세포층의 기저막 아래에는 신경망이 컵모양의 망막을 따라 존재한다.

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 1997.10b
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• pp.178.2-178
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• 1997

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• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.77-78
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• 1998

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.155-163
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• 2014

Serpins are a group of proteins involved in the regulation of serine and other type of proteases, and have been identified in many kinds of organisms from invertebrates to vertebrates. Serpins are known to regulate the proteolytic cascades of the innate immune pathways in addition to their roles in blood coagulation, angiogenesis, fibrinolysis, inflammation and tumor suppression. In this study, we have isolated two partial serpin gene fragments from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of Nesiohelix samarangae. Dotplot analysis indicates that they are of two different types, Ns-serpin type 1 and Ns-serpin type 2. Ns-serpin type 1 has 819 bp coding region (272 amino acids), whereas Ns-serpin type 2 has 555 bp coding region (185 amino acids). Molecular phylogenetic analysis shows that the identified serpins have high similarities to their counterparts in the California see slug, Aplysia californica. Yet, the precise biological and immunological roles of these Ns-serpins remain to be further investigated using RNA interference and other molecular techniques.