• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.325-335
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• 2013

The study was set for one year to measure the effects of concentrate supplementation on reproductive performances and semen quality in indigenous rams. The study was conducted at the Department of Surgery and Obstetrics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh during the period from May 2011 to April 2012. Forteen ram lambs (4~5 months) were randomly divided into two equal groups (n=7); supplemented vs control. The animals of control group were maintained on natural grazing. Along with natural grazing the supplemented group was on supplemented feeding. The concentrate supplementation (Wheat bran, Crushed maize, Soy bean meal, Fish meal, DCP powder, Vitamin mineral premix, Salt) was provided @ 300 g/head /day to the supplemented group. Body weight, scrotal circumference, BCS and libido index were measured weekly. Age, body weight and scrotal circumference at puberty were recorded. Semen was collected once in a weak using artificial vagina and chilled at $5^{\circ}C$ for 48h for evaluation. Concentrate supplementation did not influence (p>0.05) body condition score, age, weight, scrotal circumference at puberty and libido index. Final body weight (kg), growth rate (g/d), scrotal circumference (cm) and scrotal growth rate (mm/15d) were significantly (p<0.05) higher in supplemented group of rams compared to control. Volume, concentration, motility and membrane potentiality of spermatozoa were varied significantly (p<0.05) in supplemented and control groups. However, density, mass motility, viability and sperm with normal acrosome, midpiece and tail were not differed insignificantly (p>0.05) in different observation times. It was concluded that concentrate supplementation with free grazing improved weight and scrotal circumference gain and semen production with increased quality in indigenous ram.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1690-1694
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• 2002

Genetic parameters were estimated for birth weight and weaning weight from three year (1991-1993) data totalling 1100 records of 25 rams to 205 ewes of Indigenous Sabi flock maintained at Grasslands Research Station in Zimbabwe. AIREML procedures were used fitting an Animal Model. The statistical model included the fixed effects of year of lambing, sex of lamb, birth type and the random effect of ewe. Weight of ewe when first joined with ram was included as a covariate. Direct heritability estimates of 0.27 and 0.38, and maternal heritability estimates of 0.24 and 0.09, were obtained for birth weight and weaning weight, respectively. The total heritability estimates were 0.69 and 0.77 for birth weight and weaning weight, respectively. Direct-aternal genetic correlations were high and positive. The corresponding genetic covariance estimates between direct and maternal effects were positive and low, 0.25 and 0.18 for birth weight and weaning weight, respectively. Responses to selection were 0.8 kg and 0.14 kg for birth weight and weaning weight, respectively. The estimated expected correlated response to selection for birth weight by directly selecting for weaning weight was 0.26. Direct heritabilities were moderate; as a result selection for any of these traits should be successful. Maternal heritabilities were low for weaning weight and should have less effect on selection response. Indirect selection can give lower response than direct selection.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.212-219
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• 2021

The aims of this study were to measure the ultrasonographic biometry of genitalia of the indigenous rams and observe the relationship of biometry on semen parameters. The epididymal volume was significantly reduced (p < 0.01) after semen collection compared with before collection for both left and right part in all rams. The cumulative results showed that although there was no significant difference in length, width and volume of epididymis between before and after semen collection, however the values were lower after collection. The epididymal length was significantly correlated with epididymal volume (p < 0.01), semen motility (p < 0.05) and semen morphology (p < 0.01). Epididymal width was only significantly correlated with epididymal volume (p < 0.01) not with the semen parameters. Epididymal volume had a significant correlation only with semen morphology (p < 0.01).The scrotal circumference had the significant correlation with semen density, mass activity, concentration and motility (p < 0.01). The epididymis had the similar or slightly increased echogenicity as compared to the normal testis. During whole study, some white spots were found on testis which did not affect the semen quantity and quality. Significant variation was observed only for semen concentration and motility among the rams (p < 0.05). The overall normal morphology was 90.5 ± 4.6% with highest percentage of coiled tail abnormalities.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.14.1-14.12
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• 2018

Background: Sheep production is a major component of the livestock sector in Ethiopia. The country owing to the large population of 30.70 million estimated numbers of sheep in the country and out of which about 72.14% are females, and 27.86% are males with diverse genetic resources. The real value of indigenous breeds was often under-estimated mostly due to their poor appearance and relatively low productivity. Developing countries in most cases opt for exotic breeds to increase animal productivity through crossbreeding or breed substitution without properly investigating the production potential of the indigenous breeds. The main objective of the research was to identify sheep flock composition and structure, farmers' traits of interest and breeding objective of Wollo highland sheep, and their $F_1$ crossbreed progenies. Results: Smallholder farmers' flock synthesized from breeding ewes, breeding rams, pre-weaned ewe lambs, pre-weaned ram lambs, unproductive ewes, castrated and fattened rams, with the percentage coverage of 29.2, 13.3, 15.5, 16.5, 12.4, and 12.5%, respectively. The maximum number of flock size was 289.0 sheep per flock and higher in the third stratum. The off-take rate percentage of the three strata presented as 21.9% in 1st stratum, 12% in the 2nd stratum, and 16.4% in the 3rd stratum and higher off-take rate recorded in the first stratum. Sheep producer's traits of interest ranked by growth rate (first), body size (second) and marketing value was third rank. Communal breeding (random mating), village based controlled breeding, mixed type and private ram controlled breeding practice were comprised of 39.7, 61.7, 52 and 71.3%, respectively. The percentages of ewes per flock composition were presented as 36.5, 27.1 and 25.5%, respectively in the 3rd stratum, 2nd stratum and 3rd stratum in the order of their importance's. Conclusion: Genetic improvement practices at smallholder sheep producers situation was showing promising outcome with indigenous Washera $F_1$ crossbred lambs and which designated for weaning rate, body size, marketing age, age at first lambing, good temperament and large litter size in the order of their rank. The contemporary breeding practice tendency indicated that, reduced flock size to improve flock productivity via crossbreeding practices.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1282-1288
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• 2013

A comparative slaughter trial was conducted to estimate the phosphorus (P) requirement for maintenance and growth of crossbred lambs of Dorper with a Chinese indigenous sheep breed, thin-tailed Han sheep. Thirty-five Dorper${\times}$thin-tailed Han crossbred, noncastrated ram lambs ($20.3{\pm}0.22kg$ of shrunk body weight (SBW)) were used. Seven lambs were randomly chosen and slaughtered at 20 kg SBW as the baseline group for measuring initial body composition. Another seven lambs were also randomly chosen and offered a pelleted mixed diet for ad libitum intake and slaughtered at 28 kg SBW. The remaining 21 sheep were randomly divided into 3 groups with 7 sheep each and subject to the same diet of either 70 or 40% of ad libitum intake. The 3 groups were slaughtered when the sheep fed ad libitum reached 35 kg of SBW. Body P contents were determined after slaughter. The results showed that the net P requirement for maintenance was 30.0 mg/kg of empty body weight (EBW) or 23.4 mg/kg body weight (BW), and the P requirement for growth decreased from 5.3 to 5.0 g/kg of EBW gain as the lamb grew from 20 to 35 kg. The net P requirement for growth of Dorper${\times}$thin-tailed Han crossbred ram lambs was lower than that of sheep adopted by the American nutritional system.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

본 연구는 제주도에 도입된 외래 포유동물인 뉴트리아의 서식현황과 생물학적 특성을 밝히기 위하여 2013년 5월부터 2016년 8월까지 수행되었다. 연구를 통해 트랩으로 5개체가 포획되었고, 사체 2개체를 수집하였다. 이중 부패가 심해 생물학적 정보가 불분명한 1개체는 분석에서 제외했다. 조사한 암컷 4개체와 수컷 2개체는 모두 백색계통이었고, 눈동자는 적색이었다. 외부형태와 두개골형질 분석, 해부학적 관찰결과들은 포획된 암컷들이 성적으로 성숙한 상태였으나 번식활동은 이루어지지 않았음을 알 수 있었다. 수컷 성체의 신체크기는 내륙의 성체와 유사하였다. 2013년 7개체 수집 이후 2014년 5월, 무인카메라에 1개체가 촬영되었으나 포획되지는 않았다. 이후 연구지역에서 지속적으로 모니터링을 실시한 결과, 서식하는 개체가 더 이상 확인되지 않아 자연사했거나 이주한 것으로 판단된다. 한정된 공간에서 토착 동물들과 유입종이 공존하는 제주지역의 특성에 맞는 뉴트리아의 관리방안을 마련하기 위해서는 제주도의 환경적 특성이 고려되어야 할 것이다. 이 연구 결과는 뉴트리아의 생물학적 특성을 이해하고, 제주도의 자연생태계 보호 프로그램을 마련하는 데 유용한 정보로 활용될 것이라 판단된다.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.120-129
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• 2024

활성산소종은 미토콘드리아 대사활동을 통해 생성되는 반응성이 강한 산소 함유 분자로서 특히 간에서 복잡한 세포 분자와 반응하여 산화적 스트레스를 유발하는 물질이다(Choi et al., 2012). 에탄올 대사 과정에서는 ROS가 생성되어 산화스트레스를 유발하며, 과도한 에탄올은 ROS를 제거하는 항산화 시스템을 억제함으로써 지방, 단백질 또는 DNA와 같은 생체 분자에 산화 손상을 유발하여 세포를 손상시킨다(Albano, 2006; Koch et al., 2004). 본 연구에서는 오리나무 잎 추출물(AJL)에서 알코올(EtOH)로 유발된 산화적 스트레스에 대한 간세포 손상의 보호 효과를 평가하기 위해 HepG2/2E1 세포에서 EtOH와 AJL 및 대조군silymarin을 각각 처리한 후 세포생존율을 평가하고 세포독성이 없는 범위를 설정하여 활성산소종 생성량, 항산화 관련 지표(DPPH, ABTS, MDA, GSH) 및 간 손상 지표(AST 및 ALT)를 측정하였다. 알코올에 대한 간 보호 효과에서는 알코올만 처리한 군의 세포생존율이 53.8%로 감소하였으나 AJL을 함께 처리 군에서 세포생존율이 85.1%의 유의적인 증가로 간 보호효과를 확인하였다. 다음으로 AJL에서 세포 내 ROS 생성 억제능은 에탄올 처리군에서 정상군에 비해 유의적으로 ROS 생성이 증가하였으나 AJL 농도별 처리시 정상군 수준으로 ROS 생성을 현저하게 감소시켰다. MDA 함량은 에탄올 처리군에서 무처리군에 비해 유의적으로 증가하였으나 AJL 처리시 농도 의존적으로 에탄올 처리군에 비해 유의적인 차이를 보이며 MDA 함량을 감소시켰다. GSH 함량은 에탄올 처리군에서 정상군보다 유의적으로 함량이 감소하였으나 AJL 농도별 처리군 모두 에탄올 처리군에 비해 GSH 함량을 증가시켰다. 또한 간손상 지표로 활용되는 AST 및 ALT 활성 변화 확인 시, 에탄올 처리에 따른 간세포 손상군에 비하여 AJL 처리군에서는 농도 의존적으로 현저하게 감소시켰으며, 대조군silymarin과 비교하여 유사한 감소된 결과를 관찰하였다. 이상의 결과로부터 종합해 볼때AJL은 간손상에 대한 보호 및 간손상 억제 가능성을 기대할 수 있으며, 간기능 개선 효과에 대한 건강기능식품개발의 기초자료로서 활용될 수 있을 것이라 사료된다.