• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2005

The effects of different concentrations of estrogen supplementation to mature female rats or estrogen supplementation to ovariectomized rats on cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression, PGE$_2$ production and mapkinases expression were investigated in experimentally induced atherogenic rats with feeding a high fat. high cholesterol diet. In the first experiment using 48-week old mature rats, the supplementation of three different levels of estrogen was compared to the basal diet. The high concentration of estrogen supplementation induced the marked up-regulation of COX-2 protein and the increase in plasma PGE$_2$ production and this seems to be followed by the up-regulation of p38 among mapkinases. The regulation of bax showed in a reverse trend of COX-2 in heart tissues of mature female rats. In the second ex-perimental system, female Sprague-Dawley rats were bilaterally ovariectomized; sham-operated animals were used as controls. Three weeks later, the animals were supplied with basal diet to sham-operated control group and ovariectomized control group, and estrogen supplemented diet to ovariectomized group for an eight-week experimental period. In a group supplemented with a medium dose of estrogen, COX-2 expression was up-regulated. This up-regulation was accompanied by the elevated expression of pERK1/2. Bax was increased in estrogen-fed animals indicating bax might be involved in estrogen feeding state in ovariectomized rats. Further investigations on the relationship between COX-2 and biological activities such as vasodilation by estrogen are required in in vivo system of female rats at the various physiological states.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.167-176
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• 2008

Supplementation of serum and estrogen in in vitro maturation(IVM) medium was shown to improve embryo development and quality in several species. This study investigates the effect of ovarian estrus stage on canine oocyte quality and supplementation of medium with canine serum or estrogen on IVM of canine oocytes. As results, in experimental 1, IVM oocytes collected from follicular stage ovaries to MII stages($10.2{\pm}1.5%$) was higher (p<0.05) with 10% canine estrus stage serum than control($1.3{\pm}1.6%$), anoestrus stage serum($4.0{\pm}1.6%$), luteal stage serum($2.7{\pm}1.7%$) and 10% FBS($1.3{\pm}1.6$). In experimental 2, 10% canine estrus stage serum supplementation has highest maturation rate to MII stages($10.0{\pm}1.8%$) and there were significant differences(P<0.05) with another treatment in follicular stages group. In order to investigate the synergic effect of estrous serum and estrogen supplementation, different estrous stage groups of oocytes were cultured with 2 ug/ml estrogen plus various concentrations of different reproductive stage serum and FBS(experimental 3). As results, the rate of maturation to metaphase II(MII) stage was significantly higher(p<0.05) in oocytes from the follicular stage supplemented with estrogen and 10% canine estrus stage serum(11.5%) compared to the other groups(6.0 - 8.8%). The present study was demonstrated that canine serum and the estrus cycle of the bitch affect the meiotic competence of oocytes. Hormonal influences within the follicle may be one of the factors responsible for the greater proportion of maturation of oocyte to MII from bitches at the follicular phase.

• 운동과학
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.243-254
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• 2012

본 연구는 폐경에 따른 에스트로겐 대사의 부정적인 영향의 방지 및 처치를 위한 효율적인 대체요법으로서 운동과 콩 단백질 추출물 섭취 프로그램의 활용가능성을 제시하고자 한다. 이에 난소 절제하여 폐경과 동일한 상태를 유도한 흰쥐를 대상으로 8주 동안 트레드밀을 이용한 지구성 운동과 콩 단백질 추출물 섭취의 복합적인 처치가 신체구성 및 골밀도, 혈중 에스트라디올농도, 간 조직에서의 에스트로겐 수용체의 유전자 발현양상, 혈중 글루코스, 중성지방, 인슐린 및 CRP 농도 등의 변화에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 난소절제그룹은 체중 및 체지방률이 증가하고, 혈중 에스트라디올농도 및 간 조직에서의 에스트로겐 수용체의 유전자 발현이 감소하였으며, 혈중 중성지방농도는 증가하였다. 8주간의 운동 및 콩 단백질 섭취에 의한 처치 후 에스트라디올농도, 에스트로겐 수용체 및 혈중 변인 등에 긍정적인 효과를 나타냈으나 골밀도에는 영향을 미치지 못한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 난소절제 흰쥐의 8주간 운동 및 콩 단백질 추출물 처치가 에스트로겐 및 지방대사에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있는 가능성은 확인 되었으나, 운동강도 및 시간, 콩 단백질의 섭취량을 포함한 처치기간 등에 대한 계속적인 검토가 요구된다고 생각된다.

• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.160-166
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• 2003

To examine the evidence that wheat bran is protective against breast cancer development and that its main mechanism of action is by modulating estrogen metabolism. This review explores the role of different experimental factors on the anticancer effects of wheat bran and the relationship of changes to estrogen metabolism by wheat bran on breast cancer risk The timing of the experimental diets in relation to carcinogen administration, the length of feeding of the experimental diets, and the level of dietary fat had an impact on the effectiveness of different doses of wheat bran in reducing breast carcinogenesis. Wheat bran supplementation resulted in significant reductions in human plasma estrogen levels but not in that of animals tested. The change in excretory metabolism of estrogen by wheat bran feeding in animals was not related to any of the tumor indices measured. The protective effect of wheat bran in breast carcinogenesis is greatest at the promotional phase and when supplemented in a high fat diet. Doses of wheat bran in the 9-12% range in diet have been consistently protective. The inconsistency observed with higher doses of wheat bran may be dependent on the animal model used. Although wheat bran's inhibitory effects on tumor growth may involve changes to estrogen metabolism, the fiber and phytochemical components of wheat bran may also act through estrogen-independent mechanisms. For a better understanding of the effect of wheat bran on breast carcinogenesis, studies comparing the effects of different wheat bran components both alone and in combination need to be performed.

• 한국가금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가금학회 2005년도 제22차 정기총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.31-43
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• 2005

Isoflavones are naturally occurring plant chemicals belonging to the 'phytoestrogen' class. The isoflavones are strikingly similar in chemical structure to natural estrogens. The phenolic ring is a key structural element of most compounds that bind to estrogen receptors. Dietary components that recently have received attention for their action as phytoestrogens are soy isoflavones. Soy products are the most significant dietary sources of isoflavones. Recently It is concerned clinical nutrition of isoflavone that is driven by reason of alternative sources of exogenous estrogen are constantly being needed. Estrogen therapy after the menopause offers protection from cardiovascular disease, reduces the extent of osteoporosis and relieves menopausal symptoms. Exogenous estrogen treatment is a fear of possible increased risk of developing breast cancer and because of side effects. Daily intake of soybean or soy food can affirmative effect to disease occurrence, that is based on mechanical investigation, experimental results of animals and human. Research into isoflavone is going on various field to relieve hormone - dependent disease such as cancer, menopausal symptom, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Isoflavone is plenty in soybean meal, soy by-product, but only limited information is available on isoflavone efficacy into animal husbandry. Thus we conducted three experiments to investigate the effects of dietary isoflavone on productivities, antioxidative responses and bone metabolism in poultry. Dietary supplementation of isoflavone resulted in preventing the lipid oxidation of plasma and egg yolk. Dietary isoflavone improved bone development in egg-type growing chicks and broilers in terms of tibial strength. It was suggested that the proper use of feed additives such as isoflavone might provide means of improving antioxidative effect, skeletal strength, egg and eggshell quality.

• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2003

The effects of soy-isoflavones, which are phytoestrogens derived from plants with a flavonoid structure, on cyclooxygenase -2 (COX-2) expression, PGE2 production, and mapkinases expression, were investigated in experimentally-induced atherogenic rats by feeding a high fat-high cholesterol diet. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were bilaterally ovariectomized; sham-operated animals were used as controls. Three weeks later, the animals were randomized to the following treatments for an eight-week experimental period: 17$\beta$-estradiol (200$\mu$ g/kg diet), low concentration of isoflavones (0.8g/kg diet), and high concentration of isoflavones (4.0g/kg diet). In the group supplemented with a high dose of isoflavones, COX-2 expression was down-regulated. This down-regulation was accompanied by a reduced expression of pERK1/2. In the second experiment using 48-week old female Sprague-Dawly rats, the effects of isoflavones and estrogen were compared in the basal estrogen-supplementation at the level of 600$\mu$ g/kg diet. Isoflavones induced the marked down-regulation of COX-2 protein and the decrease in $PGE_2$ production in estrogen supplemented states and this was followed by the down-regulation of p38 among mapkinases. The two different mapkinases are involved in the down-regulation of COX-2 depending on estrogen-deficient and estrogen supplemented states. This kind of COX-2 down-regulation by isoflavones was not observed in the different tissue, mammary glands. Further investigations on the relationship between COX-2 and biological activities such as vasodilation by isoflavonesin the absence or the presence of estrogen ave required in vivo system of female rats.

• 한국영양학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국영양학회 2001년도 춘계연합학술대회 초록
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• pp.142.2-142
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• 2001

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.247-254
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• 1992

1주령 병아리에 무콜린 식이를 급여하거나 무콜린 식이에 butanolamine을 첨가 급여하여 콜린 결핍을 심화시켜, 콜린 결핍이 지질대사에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 그 결과 콜린 결핍은 간장중량, 혈장 지질 및 지단백 수준에 유의적인 영향을 나타내지 않았다. 또한 간세포의 소포체에서 $^{14}$ C-oleic acid의 지질 혼입율에도 유의적인 영향을 끼치지 않았다. 한편 estrogen을 투여하여 고지혈증을 야기 시킨 경우 콜린 결핍군의 VLDL상승 정도가 낮은 경향을 나타내었고 비간장 무게와 간장의 지질함량은 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. 한편 콜린 결핍은 병아리의 성장을 저해하였다 성장에 필요한 콜린을 충분히 합성하지 못하는 어린 병아리에 콜린 결핍을 야기 시켜 얻어진 이러한 결과는 간세포에서의 VLDL방출에 콜린이 크게 작용하지 않음을 시사하여 주었다. 그러나 고지혈증이 유발된 상황에서 극심한 콜린 결핍은 VIDL방출에 약간의 영향을 끼칠 수도 있음을 나타내었다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.912-921
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• 2008

This study was performed to examine if the effects of collagen supplementation from pork skin could improve the sex steroid hormone, serum lipid and skin crack in Korean middle-aged women. Middle-aged women (40-55 years) who were not diagnosed with any type of disease were included in this study and thirty subjects were randomly assigned to a control group (n = 15) or a collagen supplemented group (n = 15). The collagen supplemented group ingested collagen flour 2 g, 3 times a day for 12 weeks. We measured serum collagen, estrogen, estradiol, estriol, progesterone, total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol concentration. The collagen supplementation group had significantly increased serum collagen (p < 0.05) compared with the control group. In addition, skin crack was improved. But, there were no differences for sex steroid hormone and lipid profile in control and collagen supplemented groups. The result of the present study demonstrated that supplementation of 6 g collagen per day for 12 weeks can give beneficial effects on skin crack reduction and serum collagen concentration.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1022-1027
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• 2005

폐경을 앞둔 여성에게는 폐경을 전후하여 지속되는 골 손실 가속화 등의 문제점을 가지고 있다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 인위적 폐경을 유발시킬 수 있는 난소 절제 쥐에서의 골 손실의 유무를 결합조직 중의 collagen함량 변화를 통하여 그 효과를 검토하였다. 그 결과 생화학적 골 대사 지표인 혈 중 ALP활성은 난소 절제로(OVX-control)로 인하여 증가하는 반면, 난소 절제 후 오디 추출물 투여(OVX-EE, OVX-EA)로 혈 중 ALP활성은 감소하는 경향을 보여 골 흡수를 저하시킬 수 있는 가능성을 나타내었다. 한편 난소 절제 후 오디 추출물 투여에 의해 폐 조직과 골 $\cdot$ 연골 조직에서 collagen 함량이 증가하는 경향을 보였고, 그 중 연골 조직에서는 collagen 함량의 저하가 정상적으로 회복되었다. 한편 피부 조직에서도 난소 절제 후 오디 추출물 투여군 모두에서 collagen 합성량이 유의적으로 증가하였다. 오디 추출물이 estrogen감소로 인한 collagen 합성저하를 회복시킨 본 실험 결과로 미루어 보아 오디 중의 phytoestrogen이 estrogen유사효과를 나타냄을 알 수 있었고, 국내산 오디뿐만 아니라 중국산 오디에서도 갱년기 유도에 의한 collagen 함량 저하를 회복하는 결과가 나타났으므로 외인성 estrogen 투여로 인한 부작용을 줄여 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 이상과 같이 폐경기 여성에게 오디의 섭취는 폐경으로 인한 장애를 감소시키기 위하여 estrogen의 장기간 복용에 의한 부작용을 오디중의 phytoestrogen이 estrogen대체 작용을 함으로써 그 부작용을 감소시켜 줄 것으로 사료되며, 이들의 구조 및 기전에 대해서는 앞으로 연구가 더 필요한 것으로 생각된다.