• 전기화학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.148-154
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• 2004

Nonactin을 이온 운반물질(ionophore)로, poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) 또는 polyurethane (PU)을 지지체로, 그리고 bis(2-ethylhexyl)adipate을 가소제로 사용하여 제작한 암모늄이온 선택성전극의 성능을 비교한다. PU-전극의 검출한계를 PVC전극에 비해 더 낮게 제작할 수 있는 것을 제외하고는 PVC전극이 PU전극에 비하여 그 성능이 우수하였으며 이를 설명하기 위하여 AFM 형상과 임피던스 측정 등을 하였다. PU-전극이 PVC에 비하여 이온 이동에 대한 저항이 더 큰 것으로 보아 더 단단한 막을 형성하여 더 낮은 검출 한계를 가지며 수명이 긴 전극으로 발전시킬 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2012

Coccidiosis control programs such as vaccines or in-feed anticoccidials are commonly practiced in the poultry industry to improve growth performance and health of commercial broiler chickens. In this study, we assessed the effects of various coccidiosis control programs (e.g., in ovo vaccination, synthetic chemicals, and antibiotic ionophores) on immune status of broiler chickens vaccinated against infectious bronchitis virus and Newcastle disease virus (ND) and raised on an Eimeria-contaminated used litter. In general, the levels of ${\alpha}$-1-acid glycoprotein, an acute phase protein, were altered by the treatments when measured at 34 days of age. Splenocyte subpopulations and serum antibody titers against ND were altered by various coccidiosis control programs. In-ovo-vaccinated chickens exhibited highest mitogenic response when their spleen cells were stimulated with concanavalin A (Con A) at 7 days of age. It is clear from this study that the type of coccidiosis control program influenced various aspects of innate and adaptive immune parameters of broiler chickens. Further studies will be necessary to delineate the underlying relationship between the type of coccidiosis control program and host immune system and to understand the role of other external environmental factors such as gut microbiota on host-pathogen interaction in various disease control programs.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2020

We previously identified a new heparinase inhibitor fungal metabolite, named CRM646-A, which showed inhibition of heparinase and telomerase activities in an in vitro enzyme assay and antimetastatic activity in a cell-based assay. In this study, we elucidated the mechanism by which CRM646-A rapidly induced nucleus condensation, plasma membrane disruption and morphological changes by increasing intracellular Ca²⁺ levels. Furthermore, PD98059, a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MEK) inhibitor, inhibited CRM646-A-induced nucleus condensation through ERK1/2 activation in rat 3Y1 fibroblast cells. We identified CRM646-A as a Ca²⁺ ionophore-like agent with a distinctly different chemical structure from that of previously reported Ca²⁺ ionophores. These results indicate that CRM646-A has the potential to be used as a new and effective antimetastatic drug.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.949-956
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• 2002

There are several physiological and pharmacological evidences indicating that opening of voltage dependent $Ca^{2+}$ channels play a critical role in induction of acrosome reaction in mammalian sperm. We determined the intracellular free $Ca^{2+}$ concentration in ejaculated goat sperm using a fluorescent, $Ca^{2+}$-specific probe, Fura2/AM, after the suspension of sperm in KRB medium, capable of sustaining capacitation and the acrosome reaction. We used nifedipine, D-600 and diltiazem, the $Ca^{2+}$ channel antagonists belonging to the classes of dihydropyridines, phenylalkylamines and benzothiazepines, to investigate the possibility that L-type voltage gated $Ca^{2+}$ channels play a role in the progesterone-stimulated exocytotic response. Progesterone promoted a rise in intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ in goat sperm and addition of nifedipine (100 nM) just prior to progesterone induction, significantly inhibited both intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ rise and exocytosis suggesting that $Ca^{2+}$ channels are involved in the process. However, the intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ increase during the process of capacitation was not affected with the addition of nifedipine suggesting a role of focal channel for $Ca^{2+}$ during capacitation. Studies using monensin and nigericin, two monovalent cation ionophores showed that an influx of $Na^+$ also may play a role in the opening of $Ca^{2+}$ channels. These results strongly suggests that the entry of $Ca^{2+}$ channels with characteristics similar to those of L-type, voltage-sensitive $Ca^{2+}$ channels found in cardiac and skeletal muscle, is a crucial step in the sequence of events leading to progesterone induced acrosome reaction in goat sperm.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.2303-2308
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• 2009

A thiocyanate poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membrane electrode based on [1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]dihalopalladium( II), [(dppe)$PdX_2$, X = Cl ($L^1$), X = I ($L^2$)] as active sensor has been developed. The diiodopalladium complex, [(dppe)$PdI_2](L^2$) displays an anti-Hofmeister selectivity sequence: $SCN^-\;>\;I^-\;>\;{ClO_4}^-\;>\;Sal^-\;>\;Br^-\;>\;{NO_2}^-\;>\;{HPO_4}^-\;>\;AcO^-\;>\;{NO_3}^-\;>\;{H_2PO_4}^-\;>\;{CO_3}^{2-}$. The electrode exhibits a Nernstian response (-59.8 mV/decade) over a wide linear concentration range of thiocyanate ($(1.0\;{\times}\;10^{-1}\;to\;5.0\;{\times}\;10^{-6}$ M), low detection limit ($(1.1\;{\times}\;10^{-6}$ M), fast response $(t_{90%}$ = 24 s), and applicability over a wide pH range (3.5∼11). Addition of anionic sites, potassium tetrakis[p-chlorophenyl] borate (KTpClPB) is shown to improve potentiometric anion selectivity, suggesting that the palladium complex may operate as a partially charged carrier-type ionophore within the polymer membrane phase. The reaction mechanism is discussed with respect to UV-Vis and IR spectroscopy. Application of the electrode to the potentiometric titration of thiocyanate ion with silver nitrate is reported.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2021

The suppressive effect of monensin as an ionophore-feed additive on enteric methane (CH4) emission and renewable methanogenesis were evaluated. To clarify the suppressive effect of monensin a respiratory trial with head cage was performed using Holstein-Friesian steers. Steers were offered high concentrate diets (80% concentrate and 20% hay) ad libitum with or without monensin, galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) or L-cysteine. Steers that received monensin containing diet had significantly (p < 0.01) lower enteric CH4 emissions as well as those that received GOS containing diet (p < 0.05) compared to steers fed control diets. Thermophilic digesters at 55℃ that received manure from steers fed on monensin diets had a delay in the initial CH4 production. Monensin is a strong inhibitor of enteric methanogenesis, but has a negative impact on biogas energy production at short retention times. Effects of the activity of coprophagous insects on CH4 and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from cattle dung pats were assessed in anaerobic in vitro continuous gas quantification system modified to aerobic quantification device. The CH4 emission from dungs with adults of Caccobius jessoensis Harold (dung beetle) and the larvae of the fly Neomyia cornicina (Fabricius) were compared with that from control dung without insect. The cumulative CH4 emission rate from dung with dung insects decreased at 42.2% in dung beetles and 77.8% in fly larvae compared to that from control dung without insects. However, the cumulative N2O emission rate increased 23.4% in dung beetles even though it reduced 88.6% in fly larvae compared to dung without coprophagous insects. It was suggested that the antibacterial efficacy of ionophores supplemented as a growth promoter still continued even in the digested slurry, consequently, possible environmental contamination with the antibiotics might be active to put the negative impact to land ecosystem involved in greenhouse gas mitigation when the digested slurry was applied to the fields as liquid manure.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.273-281
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• 2010

본 연구는 강원도 원주 지역의 계분 퇴비화 시설 인근의 농경지 토양, 지표수 및 저질토에 대한 TCs계열 3종(TC, CTC 및 OTC), SAs 계열 3종(SMX, STZ 및 SMT), IPs 계열 3종(LSL, MNS 및 SLM) 및 MLs 계열 1종(TYL) 등 총 4개 계열 10종의 항생물질을 선정하여 영농시기 별 잔류특성을 조사하였다. 토양 시료의 경우 TCs가 다른 계열 항생물질과 비교하여 가장 높은 농도로 검출되었으며 이는 TCs 내 케톤기와 토양 내 2가 양이온이 복합체를 형성, 표토에 강하게 흡착되어 심토까지 이동하지 않고 축적된 것으로 추측된다. 반면 TCs와 비교해 토양 내 SAs 잔류량이 낮은 이유는 적은 사용량과 낮은 흡착계수에서 기인된 것으로 판단되었다. 수질시료의 TCs는 집중강우로 인한 토양유실 및 이후 유량 감소로 인해 6월보다 9월에 높은 농도를 보였다. 저질토 내 TCs 농도 증가 이유가 양이온간의 복합체 형성, 이온교환 및 부식산의 수소결합으로 인해 지표수로 유입된 TCs가 저질토로 흡착, 축적되었기 때문으로 판단된다. 본 연구를 통해 계분퇴비 시용시 주변환경으로 높은 농도의 항생물질이 유입될 가능성이 있으며, 이로 인해 토양 내 내성 박테리아 생성 및 생태계 교란뿐만 아니라 직 간접적으로 인간에게 피해가 우려되는 바 지속적인 모니터링을 통한 관리방안 마련이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.285-294
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• 2011

The abatement of methane emission from ruminants is an important global issue due to its contribution to greenhouse gas with carbon dioxide. Methane is generated in the rumen by methanogens (archaea) that utilize metabolic hydrogen ($H_2$) to reduce carbon dioxide, and is a significant electron sink in the rumen ecosystem. Therefore, the competition for hydrogen used for methanogenesis with alternative reductions of rumen microbes should be an effective option to reduce rumen methanogenesis. Some methanogens parasitically survive on the surface of ciliate protozoa, so that defaunation or decrease in protozoa number might contribute to abate methanogenesis. The most important issue for mitigation of rumen methanogenesis with manipulators is to secure safety for animals and their products and the environment. In this respect, prophylactic effects of probiotics, prebiotics and miscellaneous compounds to mitigate rumen methanogenesis have been developed instead of antibiotics, ionophores such as monensin, and lasalocid in Japan. Nitrate suppresses rumen methanogenesis by its reducing reaction in the rumen. However, excess intake of nitrate causes intoxication due to nitrite accumulation, which induces methemoglobinemia. The nitrite accumulation is attributed to a relatively higher rate of nitrate reduction to nitrite than nitrite to ammonia via nitroxyl and hydroxylamine. The in vitro and in vivo trials have been conducted to clarify the prophylactic effects of L-cysteine, some strains of lactic acid bacteria and yeast and/or ${\beta}$1-4 galactooligosaccharide on nitrate-nitrite intoxication and methanogenesis. The administration of nitrate with ${\beta}$1-4 galacto-oligosaccharide, Candida kefyr, and Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis were suggested to possibly control rumen methanogenesis and prevent nitrite formation in the rumen. For prebiotics, nisin which is a bacteriocin produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis has been demonstrated to abate rumen methanogenesis in the same manner as monensin. A protein resistant anti-microbe (PRA) has been isolated from Lactobacillus plantarum as a manipulator to mitigate rumen methanogenesis. Recently, hydrogen peroxide was identified as a part of the manipulating effect of PRA on rumen methanogenesis. The suppressing effects of secondary metabolites from plants such as saponin and tannin on rumen methanogenesis have been examined. Especially, yucca schidigera extract, sarsaponin (steroidal glycosides), can suppress rumen methanogenesis thereby improving protein utilization efficiency. The cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL), or cashew shell oil, which is a natural resin found in the honeycomb structure of the cashew nutshell has been found to mitigate rumen methanogenesis. In an attempt to seek manipulators in the section on methane belching from ruminants, the arrangement of an inventory of mitigation technologies available for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) in the Kyoto mechanism has been advancing to target ruminant livestock in Asian and Pacific regions.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.698-704
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• 1995

33중량%의 PVC와 66중량%의 o-NPOE 가소제에 1중량%의 중성 전극물질인 4'-benzothiazolyl-benzo-15-crown-5를 사용하여 성형한 막전극은 다른 15-크라운-5난 18-크라운-6 유토체들에 비하여 나트륨에 대하여 보다 낮은 선택성을 갖는 칼륨선택성을 나타내었다. 이 막전극의 전기화학적 성질들(감응기울기, 선택성, 섬출한계 및 수명)을 잘 알려져 있는 칼륨선택성 전극물질인 발리노마이신, benzo-15-crown-5, 4'-aminobenzo-15-15-crown-5, benzo-18-crown-6, dibenzo-18-crown-6 및 bis[(benzo-15-crown-5)-4'-ylnethuyl]pimelate를 사용한 전극막들의 것과 동일한 실험 조건하에서 비교하였다. 이러한 비교연구를 통하여 벤조티아졸기가 치환된 벤조크라운에테르 화합물이 증가된 칼륨이온 선택성을 나타내게되는 이유를 치환기의 효과와 이온의 분배계수효과로 설명하였다.

• 분석과학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.466-473
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• 2000

용매고분자막 상에 칼륨과 다양한 나트륨이온 선택성 중성 운반체의 착물형성상수(${\beta}_{MLn}$)를 고분자막형 광센서(optode)와 이온선택성 전극(ISE)을 이용하여 결정하였다. 수소이온선택성 발색물질(chromoionophore : ETH 5294)에 가장 널리 쓰이는 나트륨 이온선택성 물질들(4-tert-butylcalix[4]arenetetraacetic acid tetraethyl ester, ETH 2120, bis[(12-crown-4)methyl] dodecyl-methylmalonate 및 monensin methyl ester)을 첨가한 막과 첨가하지 않은 막으로 두 가지 다른 조성의 PVC 막을 제작하여, 일정 pH(0.05 M Tris-HCl, pH7.2)에서 알칼리금속 양이온(나트륨과 칼륨)의 농도 변화에 따른 광학적 감응을 측정하고, 또 일정한 알칼리금속 양이온 농도(0.1M)에서 pH변화에 따른 광학적 감응을 측정하였다. 또한 유사한 조성의 막을 각각 재래식 전극체에 장착하고 일정한 알칼리금속 양이온의 농도(0.1M)에서 pH 변화에 따른 전위치를 측정하였다. 양이온/수소이온의 활동도 비($a_{M^+}/a_{H^+}$)와 상대흡광도로 도시한 광센서 감응곡선과 수소이온농도에 따른 전위차 감응곡선으로부터 나트륨 이온선택성 리간드들의 착물형성상수를 결정하였다. 목적이온과 방해이온에 대한 착물형성상수들의 비로부터 얻어진 값은 실험적으로 얻어진 이온선택성 전극의 선택계수와 근접함을 확인하였다.