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Evaluation of Various PCR Assays for Detection of Emetic-Toxin-Producing Bacillus cereus

  • Kim, Jung-Beom;Kim, Jae-Myung;Park, Yong-Bae;Han, Jeong-A;Lee, Soon-Ho;Kwak, Hyo-Sun;Hwang, In-Gyun;Yoon, Mi-Hye;Lee, Jong-Bok;Oh, Deog-Hwan
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제20권7호
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    • pp.1107-1113
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    • 2010
  • Because conventional methods for detecting emetic-toxin-producing B. cereus are laborious and costly, various PCR assays, which are easy and cheap, have recently been reported. Therefore, this study estimated and compared the ability of various PCR assays to detect emetic-toxin-producing B. cereus strains isolated in Korea. The PCR assays were performed on 160 B. cereus strains, including 40 emetic-toxin-producing strains. Although the species-specific PCR assays were all shown to be highly specific, the sensitivities varied greatly. The accuracies of the primers were 97.5% (CER), 95.6% (EM1), 96.3% (RE234), 89.4% (CES), and 83.1% (Ces3R/CESR2). Moreover, the CER primer had a higher sensitivity (100%) than all the other primers tested, and a specificity of 96.7%. Thus, the CER primer was shown to be the most effective for screening the emetic-toxin-producing B. cereus strains tested in this study. However, the ability of these PCR assays to identify emetic-toxin-producing B. cereus should also be confirmed using other methods.

경옥고를 이용한 식초의 개발 (Processing of Vinegar Using Gyoungok-go)

  • 박성민;이원욱;조미정;이종록;정대화;박은영;변성희;김상찬
    • 대한한의학방제학회지
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2009
  • Gyoungok-go (GOG; Qiongyu-gao in Chinese) has been used in traditional oriental medicine for the improvement of various physiological vitality functions. The aim of present work is to investigate a processing possibility of vinegar using GOG. GOG vinegar was prepared by two stage fermentations of alcohol and vinegar. The method of GOG fermentation with polished rice as a fermentation substrate is not yet established. The result of alcohol fermentation rate of GOG with some strains, strain No. 1 produced the highest alcohol contents among 7 strains. The strain No. 1 identified Saccharomyces paradoxus by 18S rDNA classification. S. paradoxus was produced over 20% alcohol in the 1$\sim$11% GOG with polished rice. A. aceti was produced 8.52% acetic acid from 6.5% alcohol containing 11% GOG, after incubation for 11 days.

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Contrasting rice sub-populations to tocols ratio associated with seed longevity

  • Lee, Jae-Sung;Kwak, Jieun;Yoon, Mi-Ra;Lee, Jeom-Sig;Hay, Fiona R.
    • 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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    • pp.31-31
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    • 2017
  • Understanding the mechanism(s) to overcome or prevent seed ageing deterioration during storage is of fundamental interest to seed physiologists. Vitamin E (tocols) is known as a key metabolite to efficiently scavenge lipid peroxy radicals which cause membrane breakdown resulting in seed ageing. However, in rice research this hypothesis has been tested for very few lines only without considering intraspecific variation in genomic structure. Here, we present a correlation study between tocols and seed longevity using a diverse rice panel. Seeds of 20 rice accessions held in the International Rice Genebank at the International Rice Research Institute, representing aus, indica, temperate japonica and tropical japonica subpopulations, were used for tocols analysis (quantification of ${\alpha}$-, ${\beta}$-, ${\gamma}$-, ${\delta}$-tocopherol/tocotrienol by ultra performance liquid chromatography) and storage experiments at $45^{\circ}C$ and 10.9% seed moisture content (sample taken for germination testing every 3 days up to 60 days). To examine interactions between DNA sequences and phenotype, the 700k high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism marker data-set was utilized. Both seed longevity (time for viability to fall to 50%; $p_{50}$) and tocols content varied across subpopulations due to heterogeneity in the genetic architecture. Among eight types of tocol homologues, ${\alpha}$-tocopherol and ${\gamma}$-tocotrienol were significantly correlated with $p_{50}$ (negatively and positively, respectively). While temperate japonica varieties were most abundant in ${\alpha}$-tocopherol, indica varieties recorded 1.3 to 1.7-fold higher ${\gamma}$-tocotrienol than those of other subpopulations. It was highlighted that specific ratio of tocol homologues rather than total tocols content plays an important role in the seed longevity mechanism.

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Biological Resources Potential and the Recent State of International Cooperation in Indonesia

  • Park, Chang-Ho;Junaedi, Ahmad;Lee, Mi-Ra;Lee, Yeon-Hee
    • Interdisciplinary Bio Central
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    • 제2권4호
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    • pp.11.1-11.8
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    • 2010
  • Indonesia is a mega-biodiversity country having at least one trillion US Dollars value of biological resources per year over the next 20 years. Indonesia is home to 11 percent of the world's flowering plant species and 12 percent of all mammals. Many of Indonesia's species and more than half of the archipelago's endemic plant species are found nowhere else on the Earth. This information is just a small portion of all higher plants and animals being found in Indonesia. Former studies described that total number of species in Indonesia is estimated more than 1,000,000 and most of them remain unknown scientifically. Most of lower plants and animals have not been studied yet, so that greatest portion of Indonesia's biological resources has never been assessed with respect to its economic value or conservation status. Many developed countries are building cooperation with Indonesia on resources, mainly in the fields of grant aid, socio-economic services, R & D, researcher exchange, technology transfer, infrastructure, education/training, finance, etc. Indonesia will obtain greater benefits and management of its biological richness via increasing its international capacity to add value and information to its biological diversity. These goals can be achieved by close international collaboration on search of important biological resources and other bioactive products that have potential economic values. Development of biological resource-based technology stands as the industry of the $21^{st}$ century and, therefore, Indonesia has a unique opportunity to lead the process in the world.

구연산과 구아검 첨가 냉면의 품질특성 (Quality Characteristics of Naengmyeon Noodle Containing Citric Acid and Guar Gum)

  • 박재희;류복미;김창순
    • 한국식품조리과학회지
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.426-432
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The consumption of noodles has increased domestically. However, noodles with high carbohydrate content can cause an increase in blood glucose compared with other foods. Therefore, in this study, Naengmyeon with high resistant starch was prepared for decreasing blood glucose by the addition of 0.5% citric acid (CN), 1% guar gum (GN) or 0.5% citric acid and 1% guar gum (CGN), and then it was incubated in a refrigerator for 3 days, and stored in a freezer for 1 month. Methods: The quality characteristics of these Naengmyeon noodles was evaluated based on total starch, resistant starch, water absorption, cooking loss, turbidity, in vitro starch hydrolysis, and in vivo glucose response. Results: There was no significant difference in the total starch, cooking loss, and turbidity. The resistant starch of GN (1.70%) and CGN (1.84%) was significantly increased when compared with that in Naengmyeon with no additives (N) and CN. In terms of water absorption, CN (86.01%) was the lowest in samples, followed by GN (92.17%), N (94.20%), and CGN (99.16%). CGN with high resistant starch was the lowest in in vitro starch hydrolysis in samples. However, it had no effect on the in vivo glucose response. In vitro starch hydrolysis exhibited a significant positive correlation (r=0.533; p<0.01) with in vivo glucose response. Conclusion: Therefore, future studies are needed to establish the standard for resistant starch contents in processed carbohydrate foods for delaying the increase in blood glucose. If this standard is established, it might help to develop processed foods for diabetic patients.

소아기 우울증 - 소아기 우울증의 개관과 발달학적 측면 - (DEPRESSION IN CHILDREN - AN OVERVIEW AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN IN DEPRESSION -)

  • 강경미
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 1994
  • 소아기 우울증은 1980년 DSM-III에서 이를 공식적으로 인정하기까지 많은 임상보고에도 불구하고 논란의 대상이 되어 왔었다. 이는 과거 정신분석학적 영향으로 인한 것이기도 하지만 다른 한편으로는 소아와 발달학적 측면을 고려하지 못한 결과이기도 하였다. 즉 소아는 시간과 정도(time & degree)에 대한 감각이 다르고 자신의 감정을 언어로 표현하는데 한계가 있으며, 정상적으로 정서가 얕고 불안하다. 뿐만 아니라 학령기전 까지는 현실판단력이 부족하고 자기중심적이어서 논리적 사고과정을 통해서는 심리적 고통으로부터 벗어날 수 없기 때문에 부인(denial)을 주된 방어기전으로 사용하여 우울증상은 대체로 일시적이기가 쉽다. 그러나 점차 나이가 들어 후기 아동기가 되면 내적 경험에 대하여 숙고하는 능력이 생기고 정서조절면에서도 상호작용에 의한 의존상태에서 벗어나서 개인 내적인 조절단계로 이행하므로 성인의 우울증과 비슷함 임상양상을 보이게 된다. 지금까지, 소아기 우울증의 원인이 밝혀지지 않았고, 이것이 성인기 우울증과 상관관계가 있는지의 여부, 그리고 이것이 성격형성에는 어떤 영향을 주는지에 대해서는 여전히 논쟁점으로 남아 있으나, 소아기 우울증이 상당히 오랜 기간후에도 지속되었다는 일부 보고를 고려한다면 이에 대한 조기 인식은 예방이라는 차원에서 큰 의미가 있을 것으로 생각된다. 본고에서는 소아기 우울증의 개관과 발달적 관점에서 소아기의 우울증상을 살펴 봄으로써 이에 대한 이해를 높이고자 하였다.

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유방암 수술환자의 수술 후 불편감, 상실감, 가족지지가 회복력에 미치는 영향 (The Influence of Post-operative Discomfort, Sense of Loss, and Family Support on Resilience in Patients after Breast Cancer Surgery)

  • 권안나;김태현;이윤미
    • 중환자간호학회지
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.34-44
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify post-operative discomfort, sense of loss, family support, and resilience in breast cancer surgery patients, and to investigate factors that affect resilience. Method: The sample of this study consisted of 108 patients who underwent surgery for breast cancer in two university hospitals located in B city. The collected data was analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and Scheffé test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results: The factors that significantly affected resilience were as follows: having a religion (${\beta}=-.20$, p=.006), having an occupation (${\beta}=.14$, p=.049), having a high school diploma (${\beta}=.31$ p=.001), making less than 2-3 million won (${\beta}=-.19$, p=.036) per month, experiencing a sense of loss (${\beta}=-.22$, p=.003) and family support (${\beta}=.44$, p<.001). The total explanatory power amounted to 53.8% (F=14.83, p<.001, $AdjR^2=.54$). Conclusion: Educational intervention programs for breast cancer surgery patients that improve resilience by reducing the sense of loss and increasing family support must be developed.

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$1-xBiNbO_4-xZnNb_2O_6$ 세라믹스의 저온소결 및 유전특성 (Low-temperature sintering and dielectric properties of the $1-xBiNbO_4-xZnNb_2O_6$ ceramics)

  • 김윤한;윤상옥;김관수;이주식;김경미;박종국
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.8
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    • pp.260-260
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    • 2007
  • Low-temperature sintering and dielectric properties of the $1-xBiNbO_4-xZnNb_2O_6$ ceramics (x=0.3, 0.5, and 0.7) with 10 wt% zinc borosilicate (ZBS) glass was investigated as a function of the substitution of $ZnNb_2O_6$ with a view to applying this system to LTCC technology. The all composition addition of 10 wt% ZBS glass ensured a successful sintering below $900^{\circ}C$. The the amount of $ZnNb_2O_6$ on $ZnNb_2O_6$ ceramics increased the $Q{\times}f$ values, but it decreased the sinterability and dielectric constant due to the higher $Q{\times}f$ value and sintering temperature of $ZnNb_2O_6$ than that of $ZnNb_2O_6$ ceramics. The increase of $ZnNb_2O_6$ content from 0.3 to 0.7 in the $1-xBiNbO_4-xZnNb_2O_6$ ceramics with 10 wt% ZBS glass sintered at $900^{\circ}C$ demonstrated 30~20 in the dielectric constant (${\varepsilon}_r$), 3,500~4,500 GHz in the $Q{\times}f$ value.

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제주 감귤식초 발효균주 선발 (Sensory Characteristics of Citrus Vinegar fermented by Gluconacetobacter hansenii CV1)

  • 김미림;최경호
    • 한국식품조리과학회지
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 2005
  • 제주산 감귤과즙을 이용하여 감귤식초를 제조할 목적으로 식초산 발효균 CV1과 CV2를 분리하고 식초산 생성능력을 산업적으로 이용되고 있는 균주와 비교 검정하고 165 rDNA 염기서열을 분석하고 동정하였다. 분리균은 8일간의 발효에 의하여 산도 $5.5\%$ 이상의 식초산을 생성하였으며, 감귤식초 발효에는 사과식초나 감식초 발효에 이용되고 있는 균주 보다 더욱 적합한 것으로 판정되었다. 분리한 균주는 Gluconacetobacter hanenii(CV2) 및 G. hanenii의 변이주(CV1)로 동정되었다.

알쏭이모자반 주정추출물의 항비만 효과 (Anti-obesity Effect of Sargassum confusum Ethanol Extract in Obese Rats)

  • 장여정;권상오;여경목;홍미정;김복남;한대석
    • 한국식품과학회지
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.189-194
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    • 2011
  • 항비만 소재 개발을 위해 알쏭이모자반 추출물이 고지방식이로 비만이 유도된 흰쥐의 증체량 감소 및 지질저하 효과에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 정상식이군(n=10)을 제외한 20마리의 Spraque-Dawley 계통의 수컷 흰쥐에게 총 칼로리의 42.5%가 지방인 고지방식이를 5주간 급여시킴으로써 비만을 유도하였다. 비만해진 흰쥐는 고지방식이군(HFD)과 알쏭이모자반 3%를 첨가한 고지방식이군(HFDSC)으로 군당 10마리씩 나누어서 실험하였다. 고지방식이를 급여시킨 HFD군의 증체량은 $2.96{\pm}0.31g/day$으로 ND군의 증체량 $2.19{\pm}0.17g/day$보다 유의적으로 높게 나타났으며 (p<0.05), 부고환지방, 신장지방, 내장지방 조직의 중량 역시 ND군보다 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 그러나 HFDSC군의 증체량은 $2.36{\pm}0.24g/day$으로 HFD군에 비해 21% 낮게 나타났으며, 부고환 및 신장지방 조직 중량 역시 HFD군보다 각각 15%, 16% 낮게 관찰되었다. 또한 HFDSC군의 혈중 중성지방 및 총콜레스테롤, 유리지방산 등 비만관련 인자의 농도도 HFD군보다 유의적으로 낮게 나타났다(p<0.05). 결론적으로 알쏭이모자반 추출물의 급여가 체중 및 지방조직의 증가를 억제하는 점으로 미루어 볼 때, 이는 항비만 효과를 지니는 유효한 소재로 판단된다.