• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.31-35
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• 2005

양파의 재분화 체계 확립을 위해 성숙된 양파의 종자로부터 성숙배를 적출한 후 2,4-D와 BA의 다양한 농도를 이용하여 체세포배발생 캘러스의 형성율을 조사하였다. 체세포 배발생 캘러스는 쉽게 부서지는 특성을 가지고 있었으며 비체세포배발생 캘러스는 물기를 많이 포함하고 있어 쉽게 구분이 가능하였다. 체세포배발생 캘러스는 picloram $2.5\;\cal{mg/L}$ 또는 $5\;\cal{mg/L}$가 단독으로 포함된 MS배지를 이용하여 $25^{\circ}C$ 암배양 4주 후 가장 높은 유도율을 나타내었다. 그러나 유도된 캘러스를 shoot로 재분화 시킨 결과 2,4-D와 BA $1\;\cal{mg/L}$가 혼합된 처리구에서 가장 높은 shoot 유기율을 나타내었다. 따라서 다른 처리에서 유도된 캘러스를 2,4-D와 BA $1\;\cal{mg/L}$가 포함된 액체배지에 현탁배양을 시도하였다. 현탁배양은 캘러스의 증가뿐만 아니라 캘러스의 cell cycle을 synchronized 함으로서 이후 형질전환이 용이할 것으로 판단되었다. 현탁 배양된 캘러스는 Kinetin $1\;\cal{mg/L}$가 포함된 1/2 MS 배지에서 60일간 광배양 하여 shoot 유기하였으며 유도된 shoot는 NAA $0.5\;\cal{mg/L}$가 포함된 발근배지에서 발근 후 순화하여 완전한 식물체로 재생할 수 있었다.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2012

Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) has a many function involved proliferation, differentiation and survival of many cells. In this study, to investigate whether S1P improve the developmental competence of porcine embryos, 50 nM of S1P were supplemented during in vitro maturation (with EGF or without EGF) medium and/or in vitro culture (IVC) medium. Addition of S1P was significantly increased the rate of oocytes reaching metaphase II (MII) compared to the control (83.5 vs. 64.1%) in without EGF medium, but not with EGF medium (89.5 vs. 84.6%). When treated with $1{\mu}M$ of N1N-dimethylsphingosine (DMS), a sphingosine kinase inhibitor which is blocked endogenous generation of S1P, the meiotic progression rates to MII stage (without EGF: 45.2 and with EGF: 66.7%) were significantly decreased and degeneration rates (without EGF: 51.2 and with EGF: 30.1%) were increased in both medium compared to control group during IVM periods. Also, the rates of blastocyst formation was significantly increased in the S1P treated group compared to control group (29.0 vs. 19.2%) of EGF supplemented medium, whereas there were no effect in the EGF free medium (9.0 vs. 10.5%). After 12 h IVM, the phosphorylation of ERK1 and ERK2, which is major signaling pathway of MAP kinase, were increased in the S1P group than that of control or DMS group. When supplemented of S1P during IVC, the rates of blastocyst formation and total cell number (30.2% and 40.6) were significantly increased in S1P-treated group compared with control (20.1% and 32.5), DMS (12.3% and 25.1), and S1P plus DMS group (24.7% and 33.6). The percentage of apoptosis nuclei in the S1P group was significantly decreased than other groups. Also, the rates of blastocyst formation (26.7 vs. 14%) and total cell number (42.8 vs. 32.5) were significantly increased in the S1P group than those of control group when S1P added during the entire IVM and IVC periods. Taken together, our results indicate that S1P supplementation in IVM and/or IVC medium affects beneficial effect of meiotic maturation and subsequent developmental competence of porcine embryos.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2001

Objective: The present study was performed to investigate the efficiency of partial laser assisted hatching (p-LAH; lased 1/2 ZP width from ZP edge) on hatching of mouse blastocysts. Methods: We used non-contact $1.48{\mu}m$ diode laser (MTM, Switzland) to create a precise hole on zona pellucida. 2-cell embryos were collected from the mouse (ICR) oviduct at 48 hours after hCG administration. Collected 2-cell embryos were cultured in the P-1 medium supplemented with 0.4% BSA. For experiments, embryos at 8-cell stage were used after $20{\sim}22$ hours in culture. After conventional (c-LAH) or partial laser assisted hatching, the embryos were further cultured in P-1 medium supplemented with 0.4% BSA for 3 days. To compare efficiency of complete and partial laser assisted hatching, hatching rate, hatching time and blastocyst diameter and zona pellucida thickness at hatching time were investigated. Embryos were examined every 12 hours. Blastocyst diameter and zona pellucida thickness at hatching time were measured with an ocular micrometer. Results: Hatching rates of p-LAH group (84.2%) was significantly higher than that of control group (39.3%), but there was no difference between the p-LAH (84.2%) and c-LAH (91.2%). p-LAH group was hatched 12 hours earlier than control group, but hatched 12 hours later than c-LAH group. The diameter of blastocyst at hatching time of p-LAH group ($113.1{\pm}6.4{\mu}m$) was smaller than that of control group ($122.2{\pm}5.0{\mu}m$), but larger than that of c-LAH group ($102.2{\pm}2.7{\mu}m$). Zona pellucida thickness at hatching time of p-LAH group ($6.4{\pm}0.9{\mu}m$) was thicker than that of control group ($4.5{\pm}1.5{\mu}m$), but thinner than that of c-LAH group ($10.0{\pm}0.8{\mu}m$). Conclusion: These results suggest that p-LAH may maintains the cell arrangement of early embryos to ensure successful development and prevent precocious hatching of blastocyst when compare to c-LAH and conventional (acidic tyrode) AH. Thus, p-LAH may provide a valuable and effective AH technique for human ART program.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.515-521
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• 2018

본 시험은 최근 소비트렌드의 변화에 따라 소비자들이 쉽고 편하게 먹을 수 있는 씨 없는 감 개발의 선결조건인 배수체(12x) 교배 모본을 선발하기 위해 수행되었다. 염색체가 배가된 배수체 개체를 얻기 위해 교배 종자의 배배양을 통해 얻은 유묘의 생장점에 콜히친을 처리하였다. 콜히친을 0.03, 0.05%, 0.1% 등 3수준으로 처리한 결과, 0.05%에서 염색체가 배가된 개체의 발생률이 가장 높았다. 콜히친 처리 후 우리는 신초와 뿌리의 발생을 유도하기 위한 배지 조건을 구명하는 시험을 수행하였다. 신초는 $10{\mu}M$, 30 zeatin이 각각 첨가된 1/2MS배지에서 생장이 잘 되었으며, 뿌리는 10 mM NAA+5% DMSO에 5초 동안 침지 후 1/2MS배지에 배양하였을 때 생장이 잘 되었다. 또한 콜히친 처리에 의해 염색체가 배가된 개체(12x)의 기공 특성을 조사한 결과 염색체가 배가된 개체(12x)는 염색체 배가가 되지 않은 개체(6x)와 교배친(6x) 보다 잎의 공변세포 밀도는 더 적고, 크기는 더 큰 경향이었다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2014

The avian embryos have been used as a good model to study embryonic development. Due to its unique development in the eggshell, avian embryos can be cultured and hatch in the surrogate eggshell system. In this study, we examined the viability, normal development and hatchability of Korean Oge (KO) chicken embryos in White Leghorn (WL) surrogate eggshells. Donor KO embryos at 3-day and 4-day-old were transferred into recipient WL eggshells, incubated for further 18 days at $37.5^{\circ}C$ with 70% of humidity until hatching. The viability of 3-day-old KO embryos at 7, 14 and 21 day in surrogate eggshell were 70.0%, 43.8% and 23.1%, respectively. In contrast, the viability of 4-day-old KO embryos at 7, 14 and 21 day in surrogate eggshells were 87.1%, 55.6% and 36.0%, respectively. The hatchability of KO embryos transferred into surrogate eggshells at 3-day-old was 23.1%, whereas embryos transferred at 4-day-old was 36.0%. Furthermore, the development of all viable embryos from 3-day group and 4-day group were normal. Our results suggested that culture of KO embryos in WL surrogate eggshells is highly possible, and transfer of donor embryos at 4-day-old may yield higher percentage of hatchability. This study may provide potential knowledge for the conservation of wild and endangered birds through surrogate system.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.239-256
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• 1997

Plants belonging to the category of 2n apomixis or agamospermy form embryos and seeds without the processes of normal meiosis and syngamy. Seeds produced in this way have identical genotype of their maternal parent. Three different types of agamospermy are recognized: diplospory, apospory, and adventitious (adventive) embryony. $F_1$ hybrid cultivars cannot be used as seed sources in the next ($F_2$) generation because this generation would be extremely variable as a result of genetic segregation. Hybrid vigor is also reduced in the $F_2$ generation. Therefore, parental stocks for hybrid seed production need to be maintained and cross must be continuously repeated. Agamospermic 2n apomixis would make it possible to fix the genotype of a superior variety so that clonal seeds faithfully representing that genotype could be continuously and cheaply produced independent of pollination. That is, $F_1$ hybrid seeds could be produced for many generations without loss of vigor or genotype alteration. Production of apomictic $F_1$ hybrid seed would be simplified because line isolation would not be necessary to produce seed or to maintain parental lines, and the use of male-sterile lines could be avoided. Overall, apomixis would enable a significant reduction in hybrid seed production costs. Additionally, the production of clonal seed is not only important for seed propagated crops, but also for the propagation of heterozygous fruit trees and timbers. Clonal seed would help avoid costly and time-consuming vegetative propagating methods that are currently used to ensure the large-scale production of these plants. Apomixis is scattered throughout the plant kingdom, but few important agricultural crops possess this trait Therefore, most research to date has centered on introgressing the trait of apomixis into agricultural crops such as wheat, maize, and some forage grasses from wild distant relatives by traditional cross breeding. The classical breeding approach, however is slow and often impeded by many breeding barriers. These problems could be surmounted by taking mutagenesis or molecular approach. Arabidopsis thaliana is a tiny sexually reproducing plant and is convenient in constructing and screening in molecular researches. Male-sterile mutants of Arabidopsis are particularly suitable genetic background for mutagenesis and screening for apomictic mutants. Molecular approaches towards isolating the genes controlling the apomictic process are feasible. Direct isolation of genes conferring apomixis development would greatly facilitate the transfer of this trait to wide variety of crops. Such studies are now in progress.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2015

The increasing uses of zinc oxide nanoparticles (nZnO) in industrial and personal care products raise possible danger of using nZnO in human. To determine whether ZnO induces size-dependent anomalies during embryonic organogenesis, mouse embryos on embryonic day 8.5 were cultured for 2 days under 50, 100, and $150{\mu}g$ of nZnO (< 100 nm) or micro-sized ZnO (mZnO; $80{\pm}25{\mu}m$), after which the morphological changes, cumulative quantity of Zn particles, and expressions of antioxidant and apoptotic genes were investigated. Although embryos exposed to $50{\mu}g$ of ZnO exhibited no defects on organogenesis, embryos exposed to over $100{\mu}g$ of ZnO showed increasing anomalies. Embryos treated with $150{\mu}g$ of nZnO revealed significant changes in Zn absorption level and morphological parameters including yolk sac diameter, head length, flexion, hindbrain, forebrain, branchial bars, maxillary process, mandibular process, forelimb, and total score compared to the same dose of mZnO-treated embryos. Furthermore, CuZn-superoxide dismutase, cytoplasmic glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and phospholipid hydroperoxidase GPx mRNA levels were significantly decreased, but caspase-3 mRNA level was greatly increased in nZnO-treated embryos as compared to normal control embryos. These findings indicate that nZnO has severer teratogenic effects than mZnO in developing embryos.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.487-495
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• 2007

The objectives of the present study were to initiate cloning of Korean native goat by somatic cell nuclear transfer (NT) and to examine whether unovulated (follicular) oocytes can support the same developmental ability of NT embryos as ovulated (oviductal) oocytes after hCG injection in stimulated cycles of the goat. The in vivo-matured and immature oocytes were collected from the oviducts and follicles of superovulated does, respectively, and the immature oocytes were maturated in vitro. Ear skin fibroblasts derived from a 3-yr-old female Korean native goat were used as the donors of nuclei or karyoplasts. Following fusion, activation and in vitro culture to a 2- to 4-cell stage, 49 in vitro-derived and 105 in vivo-derived embryos were transferred to 6 and 17 recipient does, respectively. One doe and three does of the respective groups were identified as pregnant by ultrasonography on day 30 after embryo transfer. However, only one doe, which had received in vivo-derived embryos, delivered a normal female kid of 1.9 kg on d 149. The cloned kid gained more weight than her age-matched females as much as 87% during the first 4 mo after birth (17.7 vs. $9.4{\pm}0.8$ kg) and reached puberty at 6-mo age a few months earlier than normal female does. The telomere length of the kid, which was similar to that of the donor fibroblast at 2-mo age, decreased 8% between 2- and 7-mo ages. Moreover, at 7-mo age, she had 21% shorter telomere than her age-matched goats. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which a cloned animal born with a normal weight exhibited accelerated growth and development. The unusually rapid growth and development of the cloned goat may have resulted from SCNT-associated epigenetic reprogramming involving telomere shortening.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.255-259
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• 2006

생체 적합성이 우수한 히아루론산과 생분해성이 우수한 폴리락타이드의 이량체인 락타이드의 혼합 몰비, 가교제 EDC 농도, 가교 온도 등의 반응 조건을 변화시켜 생체적합성 고분자막을 제조하였다. 히아루론산에 대한 락타이드의 혼합 몰비가 증가할수록 수용액상에서의 분해속도는 감소하였다. 합성된 고분자막을 ethylene oxide gas로 멸균 한 후 세포배양배지를 첨가하여 $37^{\circ}C$에서 200 rpm으로 24 시간동안 교반하면서 침출물을 추출한 다음 NIH/3T3 섬유아세포에 대한 세포독성을 측정하였다. EDC 농도 10% 조건에서 히아루론산에 대한 락타이드의 혼합 몰비가 5 또는 10에서는 세포독성을 나타내지 않았지만 몰비 13에서는 11% 정도의 성장저해를 나타내었다. 혼합 몰비를 10으로 고정하고 가교 온도 $15^{\circ}C$에서 EDC의 농도를 5%, 10%, 20%로 변화시켜을 때, EDC 농도가 20%인 경우에서만 12% 정도의 성장저해를 나타내었다. 혼합 몰비 10, EDC 농도 10% 조건에서 가교 온도를 $15^{\circ}C,\;25^{\circ}C,\;28^{\circ}C$로 변화시켰을 때, 가교 온도에 따른 세포독성은 나타나지 않았다. 따라서 락타이드와 히아루론산의 몰비와 EDC의 농도를 조절함으로써 인체 내에서 분해 속도를 조절할 수 있는 새로운 생체적합성 고분자막을 제조할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2009

단분화성 정원줄기세포의 장기간 체외배양 중에 확립되는 다분화능 정원줄기세포는 배아줄기세포와 유사한 특성을 가져 3배엽성 세포로 체외분화가 가능하며 기형종을 형성할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 선행 연구를 통해 outbred 생쥐(ICR strain)로부터 확립된 다분화능 정원줄기세포의 형질전환 가능성을 확인하며, 배아 내로 주입하여 유전적 키메라를 형성하는 효율을 배아줄기세포와의 비교를 통하여 검증하고자 하였다. 다분화능 정원줄기세포를 넣은 배아로부터 태어난 산자는 총 47마리(4.8%)가 태어나, 67마리(11.7%)가 태어난 배아줄기세포군에 비해 그 효율이 낮았다(P<0.05). 그러나 산자들 중의 키메라 생쥐의 비율은 다분화능 정원줄기세포 군으로 부터 3마리(6.4%)가 태어나 배아줄기세포 군으로부터 태어난 5마리(7.5%)와 유사하였다(P>0.05). 태어난 유전자변형 생쥐의 장기를 확인한 결과, 췌장, 심장, 뇌, 근육, 위, 피부, 정소에 GFP가 발현되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 배아의 근육, 위, 뼈 등에서 anti-GFP 항체의 발현을 확인하였다. 이상의 결과를 종합하면 outbred 생쥐로부터 확립된 다분화능 정원줄기세포가 inbred 생쥐로부터 확립된 배아줄기세포와 마찬가지로 키메라 생쥐를 생산할 수 있는 전분화능을 가짐을 확인하였고, 새로운 유전자변형 동물의 생산을 위한 매개체로서의 가능성을 가진 것으로 여겨진다.