• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2019

Background: Han River estuary is a national wetland reserve near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between South Korea and North Korea. This trans-boundary estuary area has been well preserved and shows distinctive plant communities along the salinity gradient. To elucidate energy flows and nutrient cycling in this area, we studied trophic relations between the dominant sesarmid crab, Sesarma dehaani, and food sources in three wetlands with different environments along the estuarine gradients. Results: Stable isotope signatures (${\delta}^{13}C$ and ${\delta}^{15}N$) of the crabs were significantly different among the sites and body size classes. Seasonal changes in ${\delta}^{13}C$ of small crabs were distinct from those of large individuals at all the sites. The isotopic values and fatty acid profiles of the crabs were more different among the sites in September than in May. In May, large-sized crabs utilized more plant materials compared to other dietary sources in contrast to small-sized crabs as revealed by a stable isotope mixing modeling, whereas contributions to diets of crabs were not dominated by a specific diet for different body size in September except at site 1. Based on PCA loadings, fatty acid content of $18:3{\omega}3$, known as a biomarker of plant materials, was the main factor to separate size groups of crabs in May and September. The ${\delta}^{13}C$ value of sediment had high correlation with those of small-sized crabs at site 1 and 2 when 1-month time lag was applied to the value for crabs during the surveyed period. Conclusions: Based on the stable isotope and fatty acid results, the consumption habits of S. dehaani appear to be distinguished by sites and their size. In particular, smaller size of S. dehaani appears to be more dependent on fewer food sources and is influenced more by the diet sources from the sediments in Han River estuary.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.735-746
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• 2023

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Metabolic syndrome is closely associated with lifestyle factors, including diet and nutritional intake. Modern trends show a shift in food consumption from healthy home-cooked meals to processed and instant foods. Therefore, this study analyzed the association between ultra-processed food intake and the development of metabolic syndrome in Korean adults based on the data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2013-2018. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The subjects of this study were 17,414 adults aged 19-80 years who participated in the 6th-7th KNHANES. Processed food was classified into four categories, NOVA1 to NOVA4, using 24-h recall data. The higher the NOVA category, the more processed the food. Statistical analysis was conducted using logistic regression to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome according to the consumption of ultra-processed foods. RESULTS: Among the diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome, hypertension (odds ratio [OR], 0.72; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.62-0.85; Q4 vs. Q1, P-trend < 0.001) and high triglycerides (OR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.72-0.94; Q4 vs. Q1, P-trend < 0.001) showed a correlation with the percentages of energy consumed from ultra-processed foods. The OR for metabolic syndrome, according to the percentages of energy consumed from ultra-processed foods, is shown only for men. The OR showed that the percentages of energy consumed from ultra-processed foods were associated with increased metabolic syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that consumption of ultra-processed foods raises the risk of metabolic syndrome especially among men. To prevent metabolic syndrome, it is necessary to prepare appropriate dietary guidelines for Korean adults.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 1998

p53 돌연변이 여부에 따른 유방암의 위험 인자를 찾아내고, p53 유전자 돌연변이가 유방암 발생에 관여하는 기전을 알아보기 위하여, 1993년 1월부터 1994년 11월 사이에 서울중앙병원에서 유방암으로 진단 받고 수술을 받은 환자 81명과, 이들과 연령, 거주 지역,교육 수준, 그리고 폐경 상태 등에 따라 1:1 혹은 1:2로 짝지은 대조군 121명을 대상으로, 임신력과 중요 영양소 및 총 칼로리 섭취량, 그리고 기타 유방암 관련 요인, p53 유전자 돌연변이 여부, 돌연변이 유형 등을 확인하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 유방암 환자 81명중에 돌연변이가 관찰된 예는 25예(30.9%)였다. 이중에서 염기 치환이 20예(24.63%)로서 전이와 변위가 각각 10예(12.3%)였다. 전이 중에는 'C to T' 전이가 8예(9.9%), 'G to A'와 'A to G'는 각각 1예(1.2%)에 불과하였다. 변위는 'C to G'와 'G to T'가 각각 4예(4.9%)였고,'A to T'와 'T to A'가 각각 (1.2%)였다. 삽입과 탈락은 각각 4예(4.9%)와 1예(1.2%)였다. 전체 환자군과 전체 대조군 사이의 비교에서 분만횟수가 증가할수록 유방암의 대응비는 유의하게 감소하는 경향을 보였으며, 열량, 지방 및 단백질의 섭취량이 증가할수록 유방암의 위험도가 유의하게 증가하였다. p53 돌연변이 양성 환자군과 그 대조군 사이의 비교에서 지방과 단백질의 섭취량이 증가할수록 유방암의 위험도가 증가하였으나, 분만횟수증가는 유방암 위험도에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았다. p53의 돌연변이가 확인되지 않은 경우에도 분만횟수 증가는 유의하지 않았으며, 식이요인 중에는 단백질만이 의미 있는 위험인자로 나타났다. 식이요인에 의한 유방암의 위험도 증가는 p53돌연변이가 존재하는 경우에 특히 두드러지게 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 식이 요인이나 그와 관련된 내분비적 요인에 의하여 p53 변이가 유발되고 이 변이가 유방 세포 암발생의 첫 단계로 작용하거나, 혹은 p53의 변이가 다른 유전자의 변이에 뒤 이어서 발생하는 촉진인자(promoter)로 작용할 수 있음을 시사하는 소견이다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1559-1567
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• 2012

The objective of this study was to evaluate ruminal degradability and intestinal digestibility of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA) in hempseed cake (HC) that were moist heat treated at different temperatures. Samples of cold-pressed HC were autoclaved for 30 min at 110, 120 or $130^{\circ}C$, and a sample of untreated HC was used as the control. Ruminal degradability of CP was estimated, using the in situ Dacron bag technique; intestinal CP digestibility was estimated for the 16 h in situ residue using a three-step in vitro procedure. AA content was determined for the HC samples (heat treated and untreated) of the intact feed, the 16 h in situ residue and the residue after the three-step procedure. There was a linear increase in RUP (p = 0.001) and intestinal digestibility of RUP (p = 0.003) with increasing temperature during heat treatment. The $130^{\circ}C$ treatment increased RUP from 259 to 629 g/kg CP, while intestinal digestibility increased from 176 to 730 g/kg RUP, compared to the control. Hence, the intestinal available dietary CP increased more than eight times. Increasing temperatures during heat treatment resulted in linear decreases in ruminal degradability of total AA (p = 0.006) and individual AA (p<0.05) and an increase in intestinal digestibility that could be explained both by a linear and a quadratic model for total AA and most individual AA (p<0.05). The $130^{\circ}C$ treatment decreased ruminal degradability of total AA from 837 to 471 g/kg, while intestinal digestibility increased from 267 to 813 g/kg of rumen undegradable AA, compared with the control. There were differences between ruminal AA degradability and between intestinal AA digestibility within all individual HC treatments (p<0.001). It is concluded that moist heat treatment at $130^{\circ}C$ did not overprotect the CP of HC and could be used to shift the site of CP and AA digestion from the rumen to the small intestine. This may increase the value of HC as a protein supplement for ruminants.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

Objectives: By the end of the 2000s, the economic situation in many European countries started to deteriorate, generating financial uncertainty, social insecurity and worse health status. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the recent financial crisis has affected the lifestyle health determinants and behaviours of older adults living in the Mediterranean islands. Methods: From 2005 to 2015, a population-based, multi-stage convenience sampling method was used to voluntarily enrol 2749 older adults (50% men) from 20 Mediterranean islands and the rural area of the Mani peninsula. Lifestyle status was evaluated as the cumulative score of four components (range, 0 to 6), that is, smoking habits, diet quality (MedDietScore), depression status (Geriatric Depression Scale) and physical activity. Results: Older Mediterranean people enrolled in the study from 2009 onwards showed social isolation and increased smoking, were more prone to depressive symptoms, and adopted less healthy dietary habits, as compared to their counterparts participating earlier in the study (p<0.05), irrespective of age, gender, several clinical characteristics, or socioeconomic status of the participants (an almost 50% adjusted increase in the lifestyle score from before 2009 to after 2009, p<0.001). Conclusions: A shift towards less healthy behaviours was noticeable after the economic crisis had commenced. Public health interventions should focus on older adults, particularly of lower socioeconomic levels, in order to effectively reduce the burden of cardiometabolic disease at the population level.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2019년도 학술발표회
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• pp.185-185
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• 2019

Sustaining future wheat production is challenged by anthropogenically forced climate warming and drying led by increased concentration of greenhouse gases all around the globe. Warming stresses, originating from the elevated $CO_2$ concentration, are continuously reported to have negative impacts on wheat growth and yield. Yet, elevated $CO_2$ concentration, despite being disparagingly blamed for promoting warming, is also associated with a phenomenon called $CO_2$ enrichment; in which wheat yield can improve due to the enhanced photosynthesis rates and less water loss through transpiration. The conflicting nature of climate warming and $CO_2$ enrichment and their interplay can have specific implications under different environments. It is established form the field and simulation studies that the two contrasting phenomena would act severely in their own respect under arid and semi-arid environments. Wheat is a dietary staple for masses in Pakistan. The country's wheat production system is under constant stress to produce more from irrigated agricultural lands, primarily lying under arid to semi-arid environments, to meet the rapidly growing domestic needs. This work comprehensively examines the warming impacts over wheat yield and water productivity (WP), with and without the inclusion of $CO_2$ enrichment, under semi-arid environment of Punjab which is the largest agricultural province of Pakistan. Future wheat yields and WPs were simulated by FAO developed AquaCrop model v 5.0. The model was run using the bias-correction climate change projections up to 2080 under two representative concentration pathways (RCP) scenarios: 4.5 and 8.5. Wheat yield and WPs decreased without considering the $CO_2$ enrichment effects owing to the elevated irrigation demands and accelerated evapotranspiration rates. The results suggested that $CO_2$ enrichment could help maintain the current yield and WPs levels during the 2030s (2021-2050); however, it might not withhold the negative climate warming impacts during the 2060s (2051-2080). Furthermore, 10 - 20 day backward shift in sowing dates could also help ease the constraints imposed by climate warming over wheat yields and WPs. Although, $CO_2$ enrichment showed promises to counteract the adverse climate warming impacts but the interactions between climate warming and $CO_2$ concentrations were quite uncertain and required further examination.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.172-178
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• 2022

눈볼대는 중, 대형 외끌이 어업을 비롯한 기선저인망어업에 어획되는 대표적인 어종으로 생산금액 증가와 어획량, 수산식품 선호도를 보았을 때, 상업적인 가치는 더욱 높아질 것으로 판단된다. 해양생태계가 변화하고 있지만, 눈볼대 섭식생태에 관한 선행연구는 2004년부터 2008년까지 채집된 개체들을 대상으로 수행이 되어 추가 연구수행이 필요하다. 남해에서 저층트롤어업으로 채집된 눈볼대 701개체의 전장범위는 3.3~33.1 cm로 나타났으며, 공복률은 78.3%였다. 눈볼대의 주먹이생물은 어류였으며, 어류 중에서도 멸치가 가장 우점하였다. 눈볼대는 성장함에 따라 단각류, 새우류와 같은 갑각류에서 어류로 먹이생물의 전환이 이루어지는 것으로 관찰되었다. 먹이 섭식 특성의 경우, 개체당 먹이생물의 평균 중량 (mW/ST)은 성장함에 따라 지속적으로 증가했고, 평균 먹이생물의 개체수(mN/ST)는 감소하다가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 영양단계의 범위는 3.31±0.52~3.79±0.70으로 나타났으며, 평균 영양단계는 3.62±0.64로 나타났다.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2023

이번 연구에 사용된 민달고기는 2021년 2월, 5월, 8월, 11월에 제주 근해를 포함한 남해 근해 20개 해구에서 저층 트롤을 이용하여 채집되었다. 전장범위는 10.1~50.2 cm로 나타났으며, 공복률은 45.8%였다. 민달고기의 주 먹이생물은 어류였고, 어류 중에서도 갈치, 전갱이, 깃비늘치 등을 섭식하였다. 어류 다음으로 중요한 먹이생물은 난바다곤쟁이류였다. 민달고기의 크기군별 먹이생물 조성 변화를 알아본 결과, <20.0 cm 크기군에서는 전갱이가 우점한 먹이생물이었다. 또한 20.0~25.0 cm 크기군에서는 갈치가, ≥25.0 cm 크기군에서는 깃비늘치가 우점한 먹이생물이었다. 민달고기의 크기군별 개체당 평균 먹이생물 습중량(mW/ST)은 증가하는 경향을 보였다.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2023

남해에서 선망, 정치망 어업과 루어낚시로 야간에 채집된 갈치는 375개체였으며, 항문장 범위는 3.4~49.0 cm로 나타났다. 갈치의 주 먹이생물은 어류 중에서도 멸치가 가장 우점하였다. 갈치는 성장과 계절에 따라 모두 어류를 주로 섭식하였지만, 성장함에 따라 멸치에서 갈치, 참조기, 멸치과 어류로 우점 먹이생물이 변화하였고, 계절에 따라 춘계와 하계에는 멸치, 추계에는 갈치와 참조기, 멸치과 어류, 동계에는 참조기와 멸치가 우점하였다. 섭식전략 분석에서는 갈치는 먹이생물 종류가 적어 좁은 섭식 폭을 가지는 섭식특화종으로 판단되었다. 이번 연구와 약 35년 전 남해에서 수행된 선행 연구 모두 주요 먹이생물은 여전히 멸치로 나타났다. 하지만 정어리 군집의 대량 출현과 같은 소형 부어류의 분포 변화는 새로운 먹이원으로의 이용 및 동일 먹이원을 이용하는 먹이경쟁 관계 발생 등 먹이망 구조에 영향을 줄 수 있기 때문에 다양한 요인을 고려한 갈치의 섭식생태 연구는 지속적으로 수행되어야 할 것이다.