• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.367-378
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• 2024

In this study we sought to elucidate the therapeutic effects of fenchone on constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) and the underlying mechanisms. An IBS-C model was established in rats by administration of ice water by gavage for 14 days. Fenchone increased the reduced body weight, number of fecal pellets, fecal moisture, and intestinal transit rate, and decreased the enhanced visceral hypersensitivity in the rat model of IBS-C. In addition, fenchone increased the serum content of excitatory neurotransmitters and decreased the serum content of inhibitory neurotransmitters in the IBS-C rat model. Meanwhile, western blot and immunofluorescence experiments indicated that fenchone increased the expressions of SCF and c-Kit. Furthermore, compared with the IBS-C model group, fenchone increased the relative abundance of Lactobacillus, Blautia, Allobaculum, Subdoligranulum, and Ruminococcaceae_UCG-008, and reduced the relative abundance of Bacteroides, Enterococcus, Alistipes, and Escherichia-Shigella on the genus level. Overall, fenchone ameliorates IBS-C via modulation of the SCF/c-Kit pathway and gut microbiota, and could therefore serve as a novel drug candidate against IBS-C.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.280-287
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• 2008

뽕잎분말을 식이에 각각 0%(무첨가), 5%(저농도) 및 10%(고농도)로 33일간 흰쥐에게 급여하고, 실험 29-33일 사이에 5일간 1일 2회 loperamide(1.5 mg/kg/day, s.c.)를 피하투여하여 변비를 유도한 뒤 뽕잎분말의 변비 개선효과를 측정하였다. 체중증가량은 loperamide 투여 전에는 뽕잎분말을 급여한 MPL5군과 MPL10군이 뽕잎분말을 첨가하지 않고 정상식이를 급여한 NOR군과 MPL0군에 비하여 감소하였으며, 뽕잎분말 고용량을 급여한 MPL10군에서만 유의차를 보였다. 변비 유발 기간중에는 처리군 간의 유의차가 없었다. 식이섭취량은 변비유발 기간 중 loperamide만을 단독 투여한 MPL0군이 NOR군에 비하여 유의하게 저하되었다. 대장관내 변의 개수는 loperamide 단독 처리군(MPL0)에 비하여 뽕잎분말 병용 처리군(MPL5와 MPL10)이 용량 의존적으로 감소하였으며, 뽕잎분말 고용량을 처리한 MPL10군은 NOR군과 유사하였다. 장 통과시간과 통과속도는 loperamide 단독 처리군(MPL0)에 비하여 뽕잎분말을 병용 처리한 모든 군(MPL5와 MPL10)에서 감소되었다. 장의 길이는 뽕잎분말 처리군(MPL5와 MPL10)들이 정상대조군(NOR)이나 loperamide 단독 처리군(MPL0)에 비하여 유의하게 길었으며, 뽕잎분말의 첨가 수준이 증가할수록 장의 길이가 길었다. Loperamide 만을 단독으로 처리한 군(MPL0)은 변의 개수, 변의 중량 및 변의 수분 함량이 모두 유의적으로 저하되었다. Loperamide와 뽕잎분말을 병용 처리한 군(MPL5와 MPL10)들은 loperamide 단독 처리군 (MPL0)에 비하여 변의 개수, 변의 중량 및 변의 수분 함량이 유의하게 증가하였으며, 정상대조군(NOR)과 비슷한 수치를 보였다. 또한 뽕잎분말을 급여한 군(MPL5와 MPL10)들은 혈청 중 총콜레스테롤 및 LDL-콜레스테롤 함량이 정상식이를 급여한 군(NOR와 MPL0)들에 비하여 낮은 경향이었으며, HDL-콜레스테롤 함량은 높은 경향이었다. Loperamide 투여는 혈청 지질 농도 변화에는 영향을 미치지 않았다. 이상의 결과 뽕잎분말은 실험동물에서 loperamide 처치에 의해서 감소되어진 변의 개수, 변의 중량 및 변의 수분 함량을 증가시키며, 장내 변의 개수, 장 통과속도와 통과시간을 감소시켜 변비증상을 개선하는 효과를 보였다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.113-121
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• 1999

Glauconite grains are widely distributed in the outer shelf surficial sandy sediments of the Korean continental shelves. Morphologically, these grains are characterized by ovoidal-shaped pellets with bulbous exterior, greenish color and moderately well polished surface. In thin sections, the glauconite grains are massive and contain numerous impurities composed mainly of quartz, feldspar and mica. The morphologies and microscopic examinations indicate mainly fecal pellet as a parent matierials for glauconite. SEM examination shows that glauconitic smectite crystals grow in pores and along fractures of the host grains, commonly as a boxwork arrangement or rosette clusters of blades. Bulbous external shape, high potassium content and rosette-shaped smectite structure, reflect the evolved stage (more than 10$^4$ years in age) of glauconite authigenesis. Moreover, the association of the glauconite grains with the relict sandy sediments on the outer shelf, impliesthat the glauconite grains are geologically old, or at least have formed under the environmental conditions different from the present shelf. The widespread occurrence of the glauconite grains, therefore, might be primarily related with redeposition of sediments transported from the outer shelf during Holocene transgression.

• 보존과학연구
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• 통권31호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2010

Wooden structures in Korea are usually damaged by some insects such as termites, wasps, cigarette beetles, powder-post beetles. Especially, the termites inhabiting in Korea are the subterranean termites, Reticulitermes speratus kyushuensis Morimoto, that make colonies in underground, therefore it is difficult to predict and control substantial infestations in advance. Accordingly, to enable inspectors to locate the termite infestations before the extensive damage occurs, the pest management industry has begun using several elaborate tools and making the various effect to inspect areas hard to access through a visual inspection. Recently detector dogs were adopted as one of those tools. Detector dogs are useful for locating subterranean termites because they use their acute olfaction rather than vision. We also have used detector dogs to locate termites and investigated 270 buildings from 31 sites since 2007. According to the results, while 144 buildings (53.4%) were in good condition with no damage by termites, 80 buildings (29.6%) were found out to be damaged by termites through visual inspection and detector dog. So it is expected to control termites according to the conservation status if detector dogs are well trained to discriminate live termites from fecal pellets by termites.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.323-334
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• 2011

Suspended and sinking particles were collected in austral summer during ODP Leg 119 to the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Field work was carried out at four sampling sites in Prydz Bay. Two of these sites were located in the Outer Bay, and two in the Inner Bay. At the four locations, a total of ten deployments of a sediment trap array were made. The concentrations of chlorophylls and their degradation products both in suspended and sinking particulate matter in Prydz Bay were analyzed using HPLC. Chlorophylls a and c were the dominant algal pigments both in suspended and sinking particles. Because of the abundance of fecal pellets at Site 740, the mean fluxes at 200 m averaged 6 fold greater than that at 50 m. This implies that a dense swarm of zooplankters, presumably large copepods and/or salps, may "feed and excrete" mainly in between 100-200 m depths at this site, closest to land in Prydz Bay. Interestingly, The flux of phaeophorbide a was generally similar in magnitude to that of chlorophyll a throughout the study areas. This is an evidence that materials escaping from near-surface regions in austral summer derive mainly from the gazing of zooplankters. "New production" from sediment-trapped CHL pigment fluxes in Prydz Bay was estimated using f-ratio of 0.15, ranging from 520 to $1,605\;{\mu}gC\;m^{-2}\;day^{-1}$.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.469-473
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• 1999

A 120 kg, 3-year-old, male ostrich (Struthio camelus) was submitted to the veterinary teaching hospital, Chonbuk national university, for chronic weight loss, anorexia, small hard fecal pellets, and lethargy. Illness was first noticed approximately 2 weeks before submission. Although the bird was able to stand, he was extremely weak and cachectic. Blood examination indicated that the bird was dehydration (PCV: 55%). Fluoroscopic and lateral abdominal radio-graphic view indicated impaction of distended proventriculus with bigger rocks than normal. Anesthesia was induced with ketamine (10 mg/kg, IV)-xylazine (1 mg/kg, IV) combination and maintained with ketamine (10 mg/kg, IV) at intervals of 8 to 15 minutes during the entire procedure. After induction of general anesthesia, the bird was positioned in dorsal recumbency. The skin was incised approximately 15cm caudal to the caudal margin of the sternum and extended 20 to 25 cm caudally. After the proventriculotomy was peformed, the impacted material that weighed 3kg contained rocks in 4 to 6cm diameter was removed. The incision of proventriculus was closed in 2 layers. Cephalothin sodium (30 mg/kg, IV, q12hrs) and dexamethazone (2 mg/kg, IM, q24hrs) was administered before and after 5 days of the operation. The bird was eating well and defecating normal feces after 3 weeks of the surgery

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.195-205
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• 1988

Distribution of organic materials In the surface sediments was investigated in September 1983 in Chinhae Bay System. Bottom waters containing less than 1ml/l of dissolved oxygen were found in Masan Bay, and in part of Kohyonsong Bay and Wonmunpo Bay. Organic carbon content in the surface sediments of Masan Bay was about 25mg/g and it decreased with increasing distance from the inner Masan Bay. Mean organic carbon contents in Wonmunpo Bay and Kohyonsong Bay were 25.48 and 31.39mg/g, respectively, which are higher values than those in Masan Bay where large amount of domestic and industrial wastewaters art discharged into the surface water and extensive phytoplankton occurs almost year round. Mean organic nitrogen and pheophyton contents were also the highest in Kohyonsong Bay amont eight subareas. In Masan Bay, settling of organic materials on the surface sediments seemed to be not significant because of active tidal mixing and relatively small size of particulate materials. In Kohyonsong Bay and Wonmunpo Bay large fecal pellets produced in shellfish farms could be easily settled down on the sediment because of weak current regime. DO content in the bottom waters were low in the organic material rich areas, and that suggests biodegradation of organic materials in the surface sediments could be an important oxygen consuming process during the study period of September 1983.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1357-1371
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• 2011

Suspended and sinking particles were collected during ODP Leg 119 to the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Field work was carried out at four sampling sites in Prydz Bay. Two of these sites were located in the Outer Bay, and two in the Inner Bay. At the four locations, a total of ten deployments of a sediment trap array were made. The concentrations of carotenoids both in suspended and sinking particulate matter in Prydz Bay were analyzed using HPLC. Fucoxanthin was the dominant carotenoid pigments both in suspended and sinking particles. The present study also indicates that 19'-hexanoyoxyfucoxanthin-containing prymesiophytes (Phaeocystis spp.) was abundant in the study area. The flux rates of carotenoids were generally highest at 50 m, and approximately double the flux rates at deeper horizons, however, at Inner Bay sites, the mean flux rates of carotenoids were greatest at 200 m, and 3 times greater than that of 50 m. Such anomalous high fluxes at 200 m imply that grazers were locally abundant between 100 m and 200 m at these sites close to land, and this hypothesis is supported by visual evidence of lots of fecal pellets in the 200 m trap. Integrates standing stocks versus sinking pigments data support that particulate material in Prydz Bay was not recycled rapidly.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2003

A time-series sediment trap was deployed at a depth of 1034 m in the eastern Bransfield Strait from December 25, 1998 to December 24, 1999. Particle fluxes showed large seasonal variation; about 99% of the annual total mass flux (49 g m/sup -2/) was collected during the austral summer and fall (January-March). Settling particles consisted primarily of biogenic silica, organic carbon, calcium carbonate, and lithogenic material. Biogenic silica and lithogenic material predominated settling particles, comprising 36% and 30% of the total mass flux, respectively, followed by organic carbon, 11% and calcium carbonate, merely 0.6%. The annual organic carbon flux was 5.4 g C m/sup -2/ at 1000 m in the eastern Bransfield Strait, which is greater than the central Strait flux. The relatively lower flux of organic carbon in the central Bransfield Strait may be caused by a stronger surface current in this region. Organic carbon flux estimates in the eastern Bransfield Strait are the highest in the Southern Ocean, perhaps because of the fast sinking of fecal pellets, which leads to less decomposition of organic material in the water column. Approximately 5.8% of the organic carbon produced on the surface in the eastern Bransfield Strait is exported down to 1000 m; this percentage exceeds the maximum EF/sub 1000/ values observed in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The eastern Bransfield Strait appears to be the most important site of organic carbon export to the deep sea in the Southern Ocean.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.105-113
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• 1995

요각류 Calanu sinicu의 생물량과 산란의 계절성을 조사하였다. 조사해역인 아산만에서는, 성체는 봄철에 가장 많은 양이 출현하고, 다른 계절에는 소량 분포하는 연중 1회 peak를 보였지만, 산란에서는 봄철(4-5월)과 가을철 (9월)의 연중 2회 peak를 보였다 산란기의 개체군 평균 산란은 봄철에는 16.3 eggs/female/day, 가을철에는 7.6 eggs/female/day였으며, 1개체가 생산하는 최대 값은 39.0이었다. 타 해역에 비하여 비교적 풍부한 유기탄소량과 알 생산과의 상관관계가 유의적이지 않아 (r=0.43, p=0.3), 먹이 농도는 알 생산에 큰 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 판단되었다. 그러나 실험실에서 제공된 먹이를 충분히 섭취하면서도 처음 며칠이 지난 뒤에는 산란이 중지되는 것으로 보아, 먹이의 질과 과거의 섭식경력 (feeding history)이 산란과 밀접한 관계가 있을 것으로 유추되었다. 비록 통계적으로 유의적인 상관관계는 얻지 못하였으나, 상대적으로 높거나 낮은 수온에서는 산란하지 않아 대상해역의 수온 변화도 산란과 관계가 있을 것으로 유추되었다. 알 생산율 자료로부터 제한된 해역인 아산만에서는 연중 두 세대의 생활사가 진행되는 것으로 파악되었으며, 분포의 계절 변화와 생활사의 진행이 직접적으로 관련된 시기가 있는가 하면, 생활사 이외에 상위 영양단계의 포식압력 등에 의한 이주 등이 분포의 계절변화와 관련된 시기가 있는 것으로 추정되었다. 종전의 결과와 비교할 때, 계절에 따라 비교적 광범위한 해역을 이주하면서, 알 생산은 연중 간헐적으로 계속될 가능성도 배제할 수 없었다.