• 대한수의학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.93-99
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• 1993

This study was conducted to investigate the cause of a new duck disease occured in southern part of Korea. A meat type duck farm located in Kangjin, Chonnam Province had experienced outbreaks of septicemic disease at around 20 days of age in nearly every batch of ducklings from early spring to early summer in 1989. Main symptoms of the birds were eye and nasal discharge, depression, inappetence, diarrhea and nervous signs such as tremor and ataxia. Some birds died suddenly without any signs. Mortality reached from 20% to 80% in severe cases. The autopsy findings of the affected ducklings revealed consistantly severe airsacculitis, fibropericarditis, perihepatitis and occasionaly enteritis and distended ureter with urate deposit. A rod shaped gram-negative bacterium was isolated purely from brain and liver of the diseased ducks by culturing the specimens on blood agar for 48 hours in candle jar. The isolate neither produced hemolysis nor grew on MacConKey Agar. It formed colony relatively slowly being recognizable at least 36 hours after culturing, reaching colony size of about 1mm in diameter at 48 hours culture. The colony looked iridescent under oblique light and had muddy odor. The isolate did not ferment carbohydrates tested but produced gelatinase, hippuricase and oxidase which were considered as characteristics of P anatipestifer. The isolate induced similar signs and lesions when infected experimentally into ducks of 3 to 38 days age via intraperitoneum or intratrachea. However it did not produce any clinical signs wen inoculated via intranasal route. It produced only mild signs in chicken just injected with a very large dose. The bacteria did not produce any signas or lesions in mice. It was concluded through biochemical and physiological tests and animal inoculation tests that the new disease was caused by P anatipestifer.

• 식물병연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2019

Fire blight disease caused by the bacterium, Erwinia amylovora, was observed in apple and pear orchards in Korea in 2015. Since then, it has spread, sometimes over long distances to other orchards. Therefore, we examined the ability of E. amylovora to survive in soils and on the surfaces of common materials such as T-shirts, wrist bands, pruning shears, and rubber boots by both conventional PCR (cPCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR) methods. E. amylovora was detected in all materials tested in this study and survived for sufficiently long periods to cause fire blight disease in new sites. Thus, based on the results of this study, sanitation protocols must be applied to equipment during orchard work.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.115-119
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• 2020

Fowl cholera is an infectious disease caused by Pasteurella multocida that contributes to high economic loss in the commercial chicken industry. Three Pasteurella multocida strains were isolated from outbreaks of acute fowl cholera in the Korean layer farms from 2018 to 2019. One strain was identified and serotyped using capsular PCR typing. This strain was also genotyped by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) PCR typing as A: L3, whereas other strains were non-typable. The multilocus sequence typing (MLST) result showed that the A: L3 strain is sequence type (ST) 134; the non-typable strains were recorded as the following new STs: ST 366 and ST 374. Using phylogenetic tree analysis based on MLST sequences, we determined that ST 366 and ST 374 are closely related to the reference strains that were previously isolated from duck and chicken in Korea, and they were highly prevalent within the Korean cluster. In conclusion, Pasteurella multocida strains were identified and isolated in this study. Furthermore, this is the first report of using MLST to determine the prevalence of fowl cholera in Korea.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2021

Polyglutamine extension in the coding sequence of mutant huntingtin causes neuronal degeneration associated with the formation of insoluble polyglutamine aggregates in Huntington's disease (HD). Mutant huntingtin can form aggregates within the nucleus and processes of neurons possibly due to misfolding of the proteins. To better understand the mechanism by which an elongated polyglutamine causes aggregates, we have developed an in vitro binding assay system of polyglutamine tract from truncated huntingtin. We made GST-HD exon1 fusion proteins which have expanded polyglutamine epitopes (e.g., 17, 23, 32, 46, 60, 78, 81, and 94 CAG repeats). In the present emergence of new study adjusted nanotechnology on protein chip such as surface plasmon resonance strategy which used to determine the substance which protein binds in drug discovery platform is worth to understand better neurodegenerative diseases (i.e., Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease and Huntington disease) and its pathogenesis along with development of therapeutic measures. Hence, we used strengths of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology which is enabled to examine binding specificity and explore targeted molecular epitope using its electron charged wave pattern in HD pathogenesis utilize conjugated mutant epitope of HD protein and its interaction whether wild type GST-HD interacts with mutant GST-HD with maximum binding affinity at pH 6.85. We found that the maximum binding affinity of GST-HD17 with GST-HD81 was higher than the binding affinities of GST-HD17 with other mutant GST-HD constructs. Furthermore, our finding illustrated that the mutant form of GST-HD60 showed a stronger binding to GST-HD23 or GST-HD17 than GST-HD60 or GST-HD81. These results indicate that the binding affinity of mutant huntingtin does not correlate with the length of polyglutamine. It suggests that the aggregation of an expanded polyglutamine might have easily occurred in the presence of wild type form of huntingtin.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제64권6호
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• pp.1199-1214
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• 2022

Apolipoprotein H (APOH) primarily engages in fat metabolism and inflammatory disease response. This study aimed to investigate the effects of APOH on fat synthesis in duck myoblasts (CS2s) by APOH overexpression and knockdown. CS2s overexpressing APOH showed enhanced triglyceride (TG) and cholesterol (CHOL) contents and elevated the mRNA and protein expression of AKT serine/threonine kinase 1 (AKT1), ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6 (ELOVL6), and acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1) while reducing the expression of protein kinase AMP-activated catalytic subunit alpha 1 (AMPK), peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARG), acyl-CoA synthetase long chain family member 1 (ACSL1), and lipoprotein lipase (LPL). The results showed that knockdown of APOH in CS2s reduced the content of TG and CHOL, reduced the expression of ACC1, ELOVL6, and AKT1, and increased the gene and protein expression of PPARG, LPL, ACSL1, and AMPK. Our results showed that APOH affected lipid deposition in myoblasts by inhibiting fatty acid beta-oxidation and promoting fatty acid biosynthesis by regulating the expression of the AKT/AMPK pathway. This study provides the necessary basic information for the role of APOH in fat accumulation in duck myoblasts for the first time and enables researchers to study the genes related to fat deposition in meat ducks in a new direction.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.320-326
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm emulating the DNA characteristics for noise-tolerant pattern matching problem on digital system. The digital pattern matching becomes core technology in various fields, such as, robot vision, remote sensing, character recognition, and medical diagnosis in particular. As the properties of natural DNA strands allow hybridization with a certain portion of incompatible base pairs, DNA-inspired data structure and computation technique can be adopted to bio-signal pattern classification problems which often contain imprecise data patterns. The key feature of noise-tolerance of DNA computing comes from control of reaction temperature. Our hardware system mimics such property to diagnose cardiovascular disease and results superior classification performance over existing supervised learning pattern matching algorithms. The hardware design employing parallel architecture is also very efficient in time and area.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2015

최근 스마트폰 사용자들이 급격히 증가함에 따라 다양한 사회적 문제점들이 발생되고 있다. 대표적으로, 과도한 스마트폰의 사용과 잘못된 이용습관은 '스마트폰 중독(smartphone addiction)'과 '스마트폰 질병(smartphone disease)'과 같은 새로운 사회적 문제점들을 야기시키고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제들을 사전에 예방하기 위해 스마트폰 사용자의 패턴을 방향센서를 이용해서 수집하고 분석해서 스마트폰 중독 및 질병을 예방하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 사용자의 스마트폰 사용형태와 사용시간을 실시간으로 분석하여 위험수준에 도달하였을 경우, 사용자에게 이를 알려 줌으로써 사용자 자신이 사전에 위험을 인지할 수 있도록 하며, 자신의 의지로 스마트폰 사용을 절제하도록 하여 스마트폰 중독 및 질병을 사전에 예방할 수 있도록 제안한다.

• Weed & Turfgrass Science
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.378-381
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• 2014

Zoysiagrass는 대표적인 난지형 잔디로 Curvularia leaf spot, Large patch, Rhizoctonia blight, Spring dead spot, 그리고 Dollar spot 등의 다양한 병에 직면해 있으며 최근에는 많은 병원균들의 복합 감염에 의한 잔디병 양상을 보이고 있다. 최근에 패취형태의 병반을 가진 zoysiagrass 엽조직으로 부터 Rhizoctonia 속과 유사한 곰팡이를 분리하였다. 리보소옴 DNA의 염기서열을 분석하여 Waitea circinata 균주들과 98% 이상의 상동성을 보였고, Koch's 법칙에 따라 zoysiagrass에서 병원성을 확인하여 이 병의 주 원인균은 Waitea circinata로 판명되었다. 따라서 본 병은 zoysiagrass에서 Waitea circinata에 의해 최초로 국내에서 발생한 병으로 사료되며, 기본 병명과 동일하게 Waitea ring patch로 사용하기를 제안하고자 한다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2023

Background: Breaking the chain of disease transmission from overseas is necessary to control new infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 effectively. In this study, we developed a mobile app called Self-Symptom Checker (SSC) to monitor the health of inbound travelers. Methods: SSC was developed for general users and administrators. The functions of SSC include non-repudiation using QR (quick response) codes, monitoring fever and respiratory symptoms, and requiring persons showing symptoms to undergo polymerase chain reaction tests at nearby screening stations following a review of reported symptoms by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, as well as making phone calls, via artificial intelligence or public health personnel, to individuals who have not entered symptoms to provide the necessary information. Results: From February 12 to March 27, 2020, 165,000 people who were subjected to the special entry procedure installed SSC. The expected number of public health officers and related resources needed per day would be 800 if only the phone was used to perform symptom monitoring during the above period. Conclusion: By applying SSC, more effective symptom monitoring was possible. The daily average number of health officers decreased to 100, or 13% of the initial estimate. SSC reduces the work burden on public healthcare personnel. SSC is an electronic solution conceived in response to health questionnaires completed by inbound travelers specified in the World Health Organization International Health Regulations as a requirement in the event of a pandemic.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2020

벼 직파재배나 육묘에서 종자소독, 병충해방제, 시비 등에 요구되는 생산비절감기술로 개발된 기존 규산코팅볍씨(규산/Zeolite)의 단점 보완으로 신규 규산코팅기술이 개발되었다. 신규 규산코팅볍씨의 제조 및 이용특성과 육묘상자에서 건묘육성 및 벼 키다리병 경감효과를 명확하게 하기 위하여 벼 키다리병 이병성 감염종자를 소독 없이 마른 상태로 코팅한 볍씨와 중도저항성 소독된 보급종자를 마른 상태로 코팅한 볍씨를 토경조건과 수경조건에서 시험이 수행되었다. 1. 신규 규산코팅볍씨는 종자 100 g에 코팅 바인더 점액성 수용성규산 18 ml을 충분히 묻히고 거기에 Dolomite 80 g/철 5 g의 혼합분말을 고루 뿌려서 코팅되었다. 2. 신규 규산코팅볍씨의 특성은 종자무게의 1.84배이었고 중량, 코팅강도와 코팅색택 등이 기존 규산코팅볍씨보다 훨씬 개선되었다. 3. 신규 규산코팅볍씨의 묘는 무코팅볍씨에서 자란 묘의 연한 엽색과 늘어지는 초형에 비하여 짙은 엽색(SPAD치)으로 직립되었고 엽신의 규질화가 현저히 높았으며 묘소질(w/cm)은 유의하게 증가되었다. 특히 생육량과 엽색도는 토경조건에서 보다 영양이 결제된 수경조건에서 뚜렷하였다. 4. 47일간 육묘 중 벼 키다리병 발생은 파종 후 38일에 peak를 보였고 무코팅볍씨 발병률 54.2%에 비하여 신규 규산코팅에서는 68.8~70.7%의 방제가를 나타내었다. 이상을 종합하여 보면 벼농사에서 가장 많이 요구되는 규산질 비료를 Dolomite와 철분으로 종피에 코팅시켜서 만든 신규 규산코팅볍씨로 종자소독, 건묘육성 및 벼 키다리병 경감 효과 등은 친환경 저비용과 안전 쌀 생산에 크게 기여되리라 본다. 또한 장기 영양결제에도 육묘 중 뿌리 활력이나 엽의 노화 없이 정상생육이 지속되어 육묘시비량 절감 가능성도 보였고 금후 묘의 노화경감을 위한 최소 영양공급 연구가 요구되었다.