• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2000

Objective: To verify the effect of Matrigel, a ECM complex from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) mouse sarcoma on the preimplantation development and apoptosis of mouse fertilized eggs. Method: Late pronucleus stage eggs were cultured through the blastocyst stage in the presence of Matrigel (0.5%, v/v). Characteristics of apoptosis and cell number assesed by Hoecst staining and TUNEL labeling at the blastocyst stage, respectively. Results: Morphological development, number of cells per embryo was significantly increased but rate and number of TUNEL positive nuclei of the embryo were decreased in the presence of Matrigel. Conclusion: This result suggested that at low concentration of Matrigel improves both viability and morphological development in the preimplantation mouse embryos.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

Quality of seed in the mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori (L.) is determined by many important factors, wherein unfertilized eggs play an important role. Unfertilization of eggs are caused by several reasons such as, abnormality in the sexual organs of the male and female, abnormal development of the micropylar end of the egg, unfavorable environmental conditions during spinning, cocoon preservation, imperfect handling of moths, mating, ovipostion, cold storing of pupae / moths and indiscriminate use of male moths etc. Though the presence of unfertilized eggs would in no way affect the fertilized ones and their quality directly, the frequency of their occurrence underrates the quality and brings down the hatching percentage. Lower the occurrence of unfertilized eggs, higher is the rating of seed quality. Of the various intrinsic and extrinsic factors and events involved in egg deposition of an adult silk moth, mating is an instinct and a biological obligation for the ultimate perpetuation of the species and a must to provide stimulus for oogenesis and bring about biochemical changes in the spermatophore of the silkworm in order to ensure the presence of sufficient number of normal sperms and testicular fluid in the female reproductive organ, activating ovulation and accelerating oviposition behavior and egg deposition. An attempt has been made in this article to briefly elucidate the characteristics of unfertilized eggs, causes of their occurrence and its impact as well as the significance in silkworm seed production.

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표대회 발표논문초록집
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• pp.58-58
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• 2002

Currently, the technique of pronuclear microinjection is the most successful and most widely-used method for producing transgenic animals. Among this technique, surperovulation and embryo transfer are the crucial steps for obtaining a large number of fertilized eggs and birth as much as potential founders from the transferred embryos. (omitted)

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2014

This study was investigated spawning behavior, structure of egg masses and egg development in Aplysia kurodai inhabiting the coastal waters of Jeju Island, Korea. The mating and courtship behavior of A. kurodai occurred in the form of unilateral copulating with chain formation. In chain copulation, only the first animal acted as a female; the second and succeeding animals acted as males (sperm donors) to the animals in front and as females to the animals behind. The fertilized eggs were packaged in capsules that are embedded in jelly to form a cylindrical string called an egg masses. The number of capsule per cm of the egg masses was 55 to 60 capsules and each capsule within the egg masses held 15 to 25 eggs. After spawning, the egg masses were bright yellow or orange in color. This egg masses color not changed until embryos developed into trochophore stage. Thereafter, as embryo developed from trochophore stage to veliger stage the egg masses color became brownish. The fertilized eggs were spherical, with a diameter of approximately $80{\pm}1{\mu}m$ at spawning. At 5 to 6 days after spawning, the embryo developed into trochophore stage and began to rotate within the egg capsule. In the trochophore stage, the precursor of the velum, called the prototroch or prevelum, developed. At 10 days after spawning, the prevelum is transformed into the velum, and the trochophore developed into veliger stage. Between 10 to 15 days after spawning, the veligers broke out of the egg capsule, and hatched as free-swimming larvae.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2013

멸종위기어류 흰수마자의 난발생 및 초기생활사 연구는 생물학적 특성 및 복원을 위한 기초자료를 확보하기 위해 실시하였다. 성숙난은 암컷에 Ovaprim을 주사(0.5 mL/kg)하여 얻었으며 건식법으로 인공수정시켰다. 성숙란은 회색의 분리 침성난이었으며, 산란수는 $1,015{\pm}199$개, 난경은 $0.74{\pm}0.08mm$였다. 수정난은 수온 $23^{\circ}C$에서 수정 후 9시간 30분 동안 $2.94{\pm}0.10mm$까지 지속적으로 커졌고, 26시간 후에 부화하였으며, 부화직후 전기자어는 전장 $3.4{\pm}0.07mm$였다. 부화 후 3일에는 전장 $4.4{\pm}0.1mm$로 난황을 모두 흡수하였으며 먹이를 섭식하기 시작하였고, 부화 후 13일째에는 전장 $6.8{\pm}0.50mm$로 모든 지느러미 기조가 정수가 되어 치어기로 이행하였다. 부화 후 80일에는 전장 $27.7{\pm}2.32mm$로 체형과 체측반문이 비교적 성어와 유사하였다.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2022

대륙종개의 난발생 및 초기생활사 연구를 위해 2020년 4월 26일 북한강 지류인 상천천에서 대륙종개를 채집하였다. 성숙한 암컷과 수컷의 복강에 HCG 10 IU/g를 주사하였고 15시간 후에 건식법으로 인공수정하였다. 대륙종개 암컷 전장 70.64~79.24 mm (n=3)의 포란수는 1,308±293개였고, 성숙란은 황회색의 침성점착란이었다. 수정란의 난경은 1.13±0.01 mm (n=10)였고 수정 후 104시간 만에 부화하였다. 난발생 시 수온 15℃ 그룹의 부화율은 평균 80.1±1.2%로 나타났고, 수온 20℃ 그룹은 61.5±6.8%로 나타나 발생 수온은 15℃에서 적합하였다 (p<0.05). 부화 직후의 자어는 전장 3.12±0.06 mm (n=10)였으며 몸은 투명하였다. 부화 후 4일에는 전장 4.89±0.09 mm (n=10)로 입과 항문이 열리면서 먹이활동을 시작하였고 난황이 모두 흡수되면서 전기자어기로 이행하였다. 부화 후 14일에는 전장 8.66±0.14 mm (n=10)로 척색말단이 위로 휘어지기 시작해 중기자어기로 이행하였고 부화 후 21일에는 전장 10.98±0.40 mm (n=10)로 척색말단이 45°로 완전히 휘어졌다. 부화 후 26일에는 전장 13.47±0.37 mm (n=10)로 모든 지느러미 기조가 정수가 되어 치어기로 이행하였다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the early life history of the Rhodeus fish, Rhodeus uyekii and R. ocellatus, in the Nakdong River to use as the preliminary data for the systematic study. The embryos used in the study were fertilized eggs (embryo) and larvae after artificial fertilization. The long diameter of the eggs of the R. uyekii was 3.39-3.97 mm (average $3.68{\pm}0.41mm$, n=30) and the short diameter was 1.36-1.55 mm (average $1.45{\pm}0.13mm$, n=30). The long diameter of the eggs of the R. ocellatus was 2.53-2.71 mm (average $2.62{\pm}0.12mm$, n=30) and the short diameter was 1.47-1.60 mm (average $1.53{\pm}0.09mm$, n=30). Hatching time was 48 hours for the R. uyekii and 50 hours for the R. ocellatus given that the average water temperature was $21.5^{\circ}C$. The hatched larvae were 4.95-5.00 mm (average $4.98{\pm}0.04mm$, n=5) for the R. uyekii and the total length was 3.66-3.69 mm (average $3.67{\pm}0.02mm$, n=5) for the R. ocellatus. R. uyekii was found to be 15.5-15.8 mm at total length (average $15.6{\pm}0.21mm$, n=5) on the 56 days after hatching with the number of dorsal fins being ⅲ-9, anal fins ⅲ-10, ventral fins ⅲ-5. The R. ocellatus was found to be 15.8-16.0 mm (average $15.9{\pm}0.14mm$, n=5) at total length on the 58 days with the number of dorsal fins being ⅲ-11, anal fins ⅲ-12 and ventral fins ⅲ-5 where the number of all fin stalks reached maximum.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.285-297
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• 1995

The mammalian oviduct is a place where ontogeny of an animal begins. Nowadays, however, it is possilbe to manipulate a part of physiological events occurring in the oviduct so that fertilization of gametes and early embryonic development of zygotes could proceed outside oviductal environment. Rabbit zygotes readily develop to blastocysts in a conventional culture condition. Most of the mouse fertilized eggs do so when cultured under a specific environment, e.g., in a medium containing ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid. Similarly, a significant number of zygotes from rat, sheep, pig or cattle can develop to blastocysts if they are cultured in the presence of particular component which appear to be somewhat species-specific. Instead of changing the components of medium, somatic cells including oviductal epithelial cells, have widely been used to improve mammalian embryonic development in vitro. Many investigators have reported that mammalian zygotes, whether fertilized in vivo or in vitro, could develop to blastocysts when they were cultured on a monolayer of various kinds of somatic cells or even in a somatic cell-conditioned medium. While little is known about the nature of embryotrophic factor(s) produced in vitro by somatic cells, the existence fo oviduct-specific protein(s) has consistently been demonstrated in many laboratories. Some of these proteins are reported to be associated with oviductal eggs. However, the physiological role of these proteins has still to be determined. Recently we observed that the perivitelline space of mouse oocytes was fluorescently stained with various fluorochrome-protein conjugates following ovulation into the oviducts or upon their expossure to oviductal extracts. Furthermore, it was also found that cattle or pig oviductal fluid gave similar results when examined using mouse ghost ZP. These observations lead to suggest that mammalian oviduct induces changes of biochemical properties of oocytes. Further studies are needed to clarify the nature of oviductal factor(s) and the physiological meaning of the reaction.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.43-58
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• 1978

양서류 수정란을 제 1 난할전에 중금속으로 처리하였던바 개구리의 시원생식세포수의 양전변화를 가져 왔다. 중금속의 일정량의 처리는 양서류 초기발생중에 시원생식세포 형성을 저하시켰다. 납 70ppm과 카드뮴 4ppm 이상에서 배양하면 9내지 12mm배에서 시원생식세포의 수적감소를 가져 왔으나 그후의 발생에서는 거의 정상군과같은 증가율을 보였다. 한편 수은 0.8ppm이상의 처리군에서는 생식 세포형성에 보다 심한 저하를 가져 왔으며 그후의 증가율도 대체로 낮았다. 위의 사실들은 자외선 조사 실험에서 얻은 결과와는 달리 양서류란에 있어서 중금속 처리는 조직에 심한 손상을 주는 다량투여에도 시원생식세포의 완전 배제에는 효과가 적다는 것을 암시한다.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

중국으로부터 유입되어 일본의 이바라키현에서 정착한 큰납지리 Acheilognathus macropterus의 난발생과 자치어의 특성에 대해 관찰하였다. 담황색 수정란의 장타원형으로 난경은 장경이 2.68~2.86 mm (평균 $2.78{\pm}0.12mm$, n=40), 단경이 1.42~1.49mm(평균 $1.44{\pm}0.04mm$, n=40)였다. 암컷의 개체 당 채란된 알의 수는 124~180개 (평균 151개)였다. 수정란은 수온 $20{\pm}1.0^{\circ}C$에서 수정 후 78시간 만에 부화하였다. 부화 직후 자어의 크기는 3.8mm이고, 3일째부터는 S자 모양의 빠른 움직임을 보였다. 부화 후 25일 경에 소화기관이 완성되어 먹이를 먹기 시작하고 부출기에 이르렀다. 한국산 큰납지리와 외부형태나 미토콘드리아 cytochrome oxidase I (COI) 유전자의 차이는 크지 않았으나 수정란의 형태가 두 집단 간 뚜렷이 구별되어 분류학적인 논의가 필요하다.