• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.701-710
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• 2019

Objective: This study investigated the effect of different acute heat stress (HS) levels on chicken meat quality and ultra-structure. Methods: Chickens were randomly divided into 7 groups to receive different HS treatments: i) $36^{\circ}C$ for 1 h, ii) $36^{\circ}C$ for 2 h, iii) $38^{\circ}C$ for 1 h, iv) $38^{\circ}C$ for 2 h, v) $40^{\circ}C$ for 1 h, vi) $40^{\circ}C$ for 2 h, and vii) un-stressed control group ($25^{\circ}C$). Blood cortisol level, breasts initial temperature, color, pH, water holding capacity (WHC), protein solubility and ultra-structure were analyzed. Results: HS temperatures had significant effects on breast meat temperature, lightness ($L^*$), redness ($a^*$), cooking loss and protein solubility (p<0.05). The HS at $36^{\circ}C$ increased $L^*{_{24h}}$ value (p<0.01) and increased the cooking loss (p<0.05), but decreased $a^*{_{24h}}$ value (p<0.05). However, as the temperature increased to $38^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$, all the values of $L^*{_{24h}}$, cooking loss and protein denaturation level decreased, and the differences disappeared compared to control group (p>0.05). Only the ultimate $pH_{24h}$ at $40^{\circ}C$ decreased compared to the control group (p<0.01). The pH in $36^{\circ}C$ group declined greater than other heat-stressed group in the first hour postmortem, which contributed breast muscle protein degeneration combining with high body temperature, and these variations reflected on poor meat quality parameters. The muscle fiber integrity level in group $40^{\circ}C$ was much better than those in $36^{\circ}C$ with the denatured position mainly focused on the interval of muscle fibers which probably contributes WHC and light reflection. Conclusion: HS at higher temperature (above $38^{\circ}C$) before slaughter did not always lead to more pale and lower WHC breast meat. Breast meat quality parameters had a regression trend as HS temperature raised from $36^{\circ}C$. The interval of muscle fibers at 24 h postmortem and greater pH decline rate with high body temperature in early postmortem period could be a reasonable explanation for the variation of meat quality parameters.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2001

The pathophysiology of Hirschsprung's disease (HD) is not fully understood, but recent studies have disclosed that neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) play important roles in the formation of aganglionic bowel of Hirschsprung's disease. To evaluate the roles of NCAM and GDNF in HD, immunohistochemical analysis was performed using formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue sections. On the basis of the results, we tried to evaluate them as diagnostic markers. The specimens were obtained from 7 patients with HD who underwent modified Duhamel operation. The diagnosis was based on the clinical findings and the absence of ganglion cells in the nerve plexuses by routine microscopy. NCAM immunoreactivity was found in the nerve plexuses and scattered nerve fibers in the smooth muscle layers of ganglionic segments. In aganglionic segments, the number of NCAM positive nerve fibers in the smooth muscle layers was significantly reduced compared with ganglionic segments. In two cases the nerve plexuses in aganglionic segments, NCAM was negligible. The smooth muscle cells showed diffuse immunoreactivity for GDNF and the staining intensity was not different in the aganglionic and ganglionic segments. However, higher expression of GDNF in the nerve plexus of the ganglionic segments was noted comparing to aganglionic segments. These data suggest that both NCAM and GDNF may play important roles in pathogenesis of Hirschsprung's disease and immunohistochemical staining for NCAM can be used as an ancillary diagnostic tool for HD.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.629-636
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• 1991

방어를 공시어로 하여 빙장($0^{\circ}C$), PF저장($-3^{\circ}C$) 및 동결저장($-20^{\circ}C$)하면서 자장과정중 일어나는 근육 조직의 변화를 현미경적으로 관찰하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 빙장의 경우에는 저장 3일째에 glycogen이 소실되고 mitochondria 내막이 퇴행되었으며 근원섬유도 절단되었다. 근원섬유의 절단면은 동근 형태를 나타내었다. PF저장시에도 glycogen이 소실되고 mitochondria가 퇴행되었으나 그 정도는 빙장에 비하여 경미하였다. 저장 3일째에 빙결정이 생성되어 저장기간이 길어질수록 크기와 숫자가 증가되었으나 빙결정의 모양이 둥근 모습이었으며 주된 생성부위가 섬유속 사이로서 myofibril의 손상은 경미하였다. 동결저장시에는 저장 14일까지 glycogen입자가 관찰 되었고 mitochondria도 내막구조를 유지하였으나 저장 3일째부터 섬유속 내부에까지 빙결정이 생성되었으며 이로 인하여 myofibril이 손상되었다. 절단된 섬유속의 선단은 빙장의 경우와는 달리 불규칙한 모습이었다. 이상의 결과로부터 PF저장법이 단기간(약 2주)의 생선저장에는 빙장에 비하여 효소활성이 억제되고 동결저장에 비하여 빙결정에 의한 myofibril의 손상이 적은 효과적인 방법으로 판정되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.937-942
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• 2009

The aim of this study was to analyze the effects on growth and muscle development during the growing period of the sex-linked dwarf gene in the background of a Taiwan Country chicken strain, L2, selected for egg production. Eight crossbred males, heterozygous for the DW*DW mutation, were each backcrossed to six females of the L2 strain to produce two genotypes of BC females, either normal (DW*N+/-) or dwarf (DW*DW/-). The experiment included 251 normal and 207 dwarf pullets. The effect of the dwarf gene on body weight and shank length was highly significant from 2 weeks of age. The reduction of body weight by the dwarf gene reached 34.8% and 37.4% as compared to normal sibs at 16 and 20 weeks of age, respectively. Parameters of the growth curve were estimated: the age at inflection (TI) was higher in normal pullets (66.9 days) than in dwarf pullets (61.2 days). A significant effect of the dwarf gene on single muscle fiber cross-section area was found from 12 weeks of age onwards, whereas the dwarf gene had no effect on the total number of muscle fibers. Comparing the effect of the dwarf gene on shank length at different ages revealed an earlier effect on skeleton growth, observed from 2 weeks of age, than on muscle development, which was affected from 8 to 12 weeks of age.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.16-31
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• 2023

Cultured meat is a potential sustainable food generated by the in vitro myogenesis of muscle satellite (stem) cells (MSCs). The self-renewal and differentiation properties of MSCs are of primary interest for cultured meat production. MSC proliferation and differentiation are influenced by a variety of growth factors such as insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1 and IGF-2), transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), fibroblast growth factors (FGF-2 and FGF-21), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and by hormones like insulin, testosterone, glucocorticoids, and thyroid hormones. In this review, we investigated the roles of growth factors and hormones during cultured meat production because these factors provide signals for MSC growth and structural stability. The aim of this article is to provide the important idea about different growth factors such as FGF (enhance the cell proliferation and differentiation), IGF-1 (increase the number of myoblasts), PDGF (myoblast proliferation), TGF-β1 (muscle repair) and hormones such as insulin (cell survival and growth), testosterone (muscle fiber size), dexamethasone (myoblast proliferation and differentiation), and thyroid hormones (amount and diameter of muscle fibers and determine the usual pattern of fiber distributions) as media components during myogenesis for cultured meat production.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.406-414
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• 2021

The objective of this study was to investigate the yield and characteristics of collagen protein extracted from the muscle of four different species of mantis shrimp: Miyakella nepa, Harpiosquilla harpax, Erugosquilla woodmasoni, and Odontodactylus cultrifer. Mantis shrimp muscle was extracted by using a pepsin-solubilization technique, with 0.5 M acetic acid and 5% pepsin enzyme. The highest collagen yield was from M. nepa muscle (0.478 ± 0.06%), which was significantly greater (p < 0.05) than that from H. harpax, O. cultrifer, and E. woodmasoni (0.313 ± 0.03%, 0.123 ± 0.02%, and 0.015 ± 0.00%, respectively). The freeze-dried collagen appeared as thin fibers, and formed an opaque film. The pepsin-soluble collagen (PSC) from four mantis shrimp species was analyzed by gel electrophoresis. The results showed that all species of mantis shrimp contained type I collagen, consisting of β, α1, and α2 subunits with average molecular weights of 250, 145, and 118 kDa, respectively. The study of the solubility of collagen showed that, for NaCl, collagen had the highest relative solubility in 2% NaCl (80.20 ± 4.95%). In contrast, the solubility decreased at higher NaCl concentrations. However, in terms of pH, collagen had the highest relative solubility at pH 3 (91.32 ± 5.14%), and its solubility decreased at higher pH. FT-IR spectroscopy was used to compare the collagen with a model compound. Five wavenumbers in the spectrum for model collagen were identified: Amide A (3,406-3,421 cm^-1), amide B (2,916-2,940 cm^-1), amide I (1,639-1,640 cm^-1), amide II (1,539-1,570 cm^-1), and amide III (1,234-1,250 cm^-1).

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.685-695
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• 2011

Satellite cells are skeletal muscle progenitor/stem cells that reside between the basal lamina and plasma membranes of skeletal fibers in vivo. These cells can give rise to both myogenic and adipogenic cells. Given the possible role for differentiation of satellite cells into adipocytes in marbling and in some pathological disorders like sarcopenia, knowledge of the proteins involved in such process remains obscure. Using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry, we investigated the proteins that are differentially expressed during adipogenic differentiation of satellite cells from bovine longissimus muscle. Our proteome mapping strategy to identify the differentially expressed intracellular proteins during adipogenic differentiation revealed a total of 25 different proteins. The proteins up-regulated during adipogenic differentiation of satellite cells like Cathepsin H precursor, Retinal dehydrogenase 1, Enoyl-CoA hydratase, Ubiquinol-cytochrome-c reductase, T-complex protein 1 subunit beta and ATP synthase D chain were found to be associated with lipid metabolism. The down-regulated proteins like LIM protein, annexin proteins, cofilin-1, Rho GDP-dissociation inhibitor 1 and septin-2, identified in the present study were found to be associated with myogenesis. These results clearly demonstrate that the adipogenic conversion of muscle satellite cells is associated with the up-regulated and down-regulated proteins involved in adipogenesis and myogenesis respectively.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 1974

It has been generally understood that the intestinal tracts are under the control of the autonomic nerves; the parasympathetics are excitatory and the sympathetics inhibitory. However, it is recently reported that the actions of these autonomic nerves in the newborn animals are shown to be different from those in the adult animals in some species. In order to elucidate the role of sympathetic innervation to the intestinal tracts, the effects of periarterial nerve stimulation were studied in the periarterial sympathetics-jejunum preparations of the chick and the effects of some autonomic drugs on the isolated muscle strips were also studied. The results obtained were as follows: 1. The periarterial stimulation in the periarterial sympathetics-jejunum preparation elicited the responses of three patterns; 1) contrcation followed by relaxation 2) contraction only 3) relaxation only. The excitatory response was most effective in the stimulus frequencies of 40 cps, whereas the inhibitory response was maximal in the stimulus frequencies of 30 cycle per second. 2. The excitatory response to the periarterial stimulation was not affected by the pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine, dibenamine, propranolol and atropine, whereas the inhibitory response was completely blocked by the pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine and propranolol. 3. In the periarterial syrnpathetics-jejunum preparation treated with reserpine, the periarterial stimulation evoked only contraction, and the contraction was not affected by the pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine, propranolol and atropine. 4. The administration of norepinephrine evoked a relaxation in the isolated jejunum muscle strips and the effect was completely blocked by the pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine. 5. The administration of isoproterenol produced a relaxation in the isolated jejunum muscle strips and the effect was not affected by pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine, whereas the effect was completely blocked by the pretratment with propranolol. 6) The administration of acetylcholine produced a marked contraction in the isolated jejunum muscle strips and the effect was completely abolished by the pretreatment of atropine. These experimental evidences indicate that the inhibitory response to the periarterial stimulation is due to adrenergic fibers and the excitatory response is due to neither adrenergic nor cholinergic component.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제63권3호
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• pp.614-625
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• 2021

This study investigates how visual appearance of pork cuts affects consumer preference. Images of pork belly, Boston butt, and loin were chosen on the basis of visible fattiness and used to analyze consumers' perception of the appearance of each pork cut. Meat color and visible fat proportion of images of pork cuts were analyzed by the researchers before conducting the survey. A total of 211 pork eaters evaluated the pork cuts based on appearance (lightness of color, redness, visible fat proportion, and fat distribution), preferability, and overall acceptability. Also, muscle pieces from different pork cuts were taken and the relative area composition of muscle fibers was measured. Based on survey results, correlation between visual traits and preferences of each pork cut was analyzed. The survey results showed that preferred pork appearance varied as per each individual's favorite pork cut. Also, the respondents evaluated visual characteristics and preference for each pork cut differently possibly due to the different visual characteristics of each cut. Correlation analysis between visual traits and preference indicated that overall acceptability of pork cuts was mainly influenced by fat preference, followed by color preference. Fat and color preferences for each pork cut were affected by various visual attributes including redness, lightness of color, visible fat proportion, and fat distribution, but their effects were considerably varied among different pork cuts. Thus, Korean consumers perceived and assessed pork appearance using various quality cues but the evaluation depended on which cut was being observed.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.569-586
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• 1994

성장기 백서에 있어서 상악 및 하악 절치의 제거와 soft diet 투여시에 있어서 하악과두의 후상부와 상부에서의 연골의 성장, 연골층의 두께 및 미세구조 그리고 교근의 천층 및 악이복근의 근섬유에 미치는 영향을 요약하면 다음과 같다. 과두연골의 후상부 및 상부에서, 섬유층과 증식층의 두께가 대조군에 비해 유의하게 감소하였으며(p<0.01), 후상부에서의 감소정도는 상부보다 컸었다. 그러나 성숙세포층, 비대세포층 및 연골 전체의 두께는 대조군에 비해 차이가 없었다. $^3H-thymidine$투여 후 시간경과에 따른 각 층의 세포표지율은 상부에서는 대조군에 비해 차이가 없었으나 후상부에서는 투여후 1일과 2일 경과군에서는 성숙세포층, 4일 경과군에서는 비대세포층의 표지율이 대조군에 비해 유의하게 감소하므로서 (p<0.01) 상악 및 하악 절치의 제거와 soft diet투여로 과두 후상부에 가해지는 기계적 부하의 감소로 인해 이 부위의 연골성장이 감소되는 것으로 나타났다. 대조군에 있어서, 하악과두는 상부에 비해 후 상부방향으로 더 빨리 성장하는 것으로 나타났다. 교근의 천층에서, type IIA 근섬유의 직경은 변화하지 않았으나 type IIB 근섬유의 직경은 대조군에 비해 유의하게 감소하였다 (P<0.01). 악이복근의 전복에서, type I 근섬유의 직경은 변화하지 않았으나 type IIA, type IIB 근섬유의 직경은 대조군에 비해 유의하게 감소하였다(P<0.01). 하악과두 연골의 미세구조에 있어서는 증식층, 성숙세포층 및 비대세포층은 모두 후상부와 상부에서 대조군에 비해 유의할 만한 변화가 없었다. 그러나 섬유층에서, 상부에서는 대조군에 비해 차이가 없었으나 후상부에서는 뚜렷한 차이가 있었다. 실험군 후상부의 섬유층에서는 대조군처럼 관절강에 인접한 세포와 증식층에 인접한 세포사이의 미세구조적 차이는 인지되지 않았으며, 흡수기능을 가진 세포에서 보이는 손가락 모양의 많은 세포돌기, 세포막을 따라 나타나는 수 많은 미음소포, 발달된 용해소체, 사립체 그리고 불규칙한 모양의 핵 등과 같은 대조군의 관절강에 인접한 세포에서 많이 나타나는 특징은 미약하였으며 전반적으로 세포간 기질을 개조하는 활동이 감소하는 양상을 보였다.