• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.971-978
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• 2016

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of replacing corn grain for sugar cane molasses (MO) or glucose syrup (GS) in the starter concentrate on performance and metabolism of dairy calves. Thirty-six individually housed Holstein male calves were blocked according to weight and date of birth and assigned to one of the starter feed treatments, during an 8 week study: i) starter containing 65% corn with no MO or GS (0MO); ii) starter containing 60% corn and 5% MO (5MO); iii) starter containing 55% corn and 10% MO (10MO); and iv) starter containing 60% corn and 5% GS (5GS). Animals received 4 L of milk replacer daily (20 crude protein, 16 ether extract, 12.5% solids), divided in two meals (0700 and 1700 h). Starter and water were provided ad libitum. Starter intake and fecal score were monitored daily until animals were eight weeks old. Body weight and measurements (withers height, hip width and heart girth) were measured weekly before the morning feeding. From the second week of age, blood samples were collected weekly, 2 h after the morning feeding, for glucose, ${\beta}$-hydroxybutyrate and lactate determination. Ruminal fluid was collected at 4, 6, and 8 weeks of age using an oro-ruminal probe and a suction pump for determination of pH and short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). At the end of the eighth week, animals were harvested to evaluate development of the proximal digestive tract. The composition of the starter did not affect (p>0.05) concentrate intake, weight gain, fecal score, blood parameters, and rumen development. However, treatment 5MO showed higher (p<0.05) total concentration of SCFAs, acetate and propionate than 0MO, and these treatments did not differ from 10MO and 5GS (p>0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that the replacement of corn by 5% or 10% sugar cane molasses or 5% GS on starter concentrate did not impact performance, however it has some positive effects on rumen fermentation which may be beneficial for calves with a developing rumen.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.392-399
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• 2017

Objective: The objectives were to assess the effects of purified lignin from wheat straw (sodium hydroxide dehydrated lignin; SHDL) on in vitro ruminal fermentation and on the growth performance of feedlot cattle. Methods: In vitro experiments were conducted by incubating a timothy-alfalfa (50:50) forage mixture (48 h) and barley grain (24 h) with 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg/mL of rumen fluid (equivalent to 0, 2, 4, 8, and 16 g SHDL/kg diet). Productions of $CH_4$ and total gas, volatile fatty acids, ammonia, dry matter (DM) disappearance (DMD) and digestion of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) or starch were measured. Sixty Hereford-Angus cross weaned steer calves were individually fed a typical barley silage-barley grain based total mixed ration and supplemented with SHDL at 0, 4, 8, and 16 g/kg DM for 70 (growing), 28 (transition), and 121 d (finishing) period. Cattle were slaughtered at the end of the experiment and carcass traits were assessed. Results: With forage, SHDL linearly (p<0.001) reduced 48-h in vitro DMD from 54.9% to 39.2%, NDF disappearance from 34.1% to 18.6% and the acetate: propionate ratio from 2.56 to 2.41, but linearly (p<0.001) increased $CH_4$ production from 9.5 to 12.4 mL/100 mg DMD. With barley grain, SHDL linearly increased (p<0.001) 24-h DMD from74.6% to 84.5%, but linearly (p<0.001) reduced $CH_4$ production from 5.6 to 4.2 mL/100 mg DMD and $NH_3$ accumulation from 9.15 to $4.49{\mu}mol/mL$. Supplementation of SHDL did not affect growth, but tended (p = 0.10) to linearly reduce feed intake, and quadratically increased (p = 0.059) feed efficiency during the finishing period. Addition of SHDL also tended (p = 0.098) to linearly increase the saleable meat yield of the carcass from 52.5% to 55.7%. Conclusion: Purified lignin used as feed additive has potential to improve feed efficiency for finishing feedlot cattle and carcass quality.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.1633-1642
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• 2017

Objective: Evaluation of exercise effects in racehorses is important in horseracing industry and animal health care. In this study, we compared metabolic patterns between before and after exercise to screen metabolic biomarkers for exercise effects in thoroughbreds. Methods: The concentration of metabolites in muscle, plasma, and urine was measured by $^1H$ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy analysis and the relative metabolite levels in the three samples were compared between before and after exercise. Subsequently, multivariate data analysis based on the metabolic profiles was performed using orthogonal partial least square discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) and variable important plots and t-test was used for basic statistical analysis. Results: From $^1H$ NMR spectroscopy analysis, 35, 25, and 34 metabolites were detected in the muscle, plasma, and urine. Aspartate, betaine, choline, cysteine, ethanol, and threonine were increased over 2-fold in the muscle; propionate and trimethylamine were increased over 2-fold in the plasma; and alanine, glycerol, inosine, lactate, and pyruvate were increased over 2-fold whereas acetoacetate, arginine, citrulline, creatine, glutamine, glutarate, hippurate, lysine, methionine, phenylacetylglycine, taurine, trigonelline, trimethylamine, and trimethylamine N-oxide were decreased below 0.5-fold in the urine. The OPLS-DA showed clear separation of the metabolic patterns before and after exercise in the muscle, plasma, and urine. Statistical analysis showed that after exercise, acetoacetate, arginine, glutamine, hippurate, phenylacetylglycine trimethylamine, trimethylamine N-oxide, and trigonelline were significantly decreased and alanine, glycerol, inosine, lactate, and pyruvate were significantly increased in the urine (p<0.05). Conclusion: In conclusion, we analyzed integrated metabolic patterns in the muscle, plasma, and urine before and after exercise in racehorses. We found changed patterns of metabolites in the muscle, plasma, and urine of racehorses before and after exercise.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제26권4호통권87호
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• pp.551-561
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• 1998

S.B, P.S, C.P를 각각 처리한 배지에 배양된 진균류(Aspergillus phoenicis, Rhizopus acidus, Candida albicans)에서 원형질막을 분리하였다. 원형질막 단백질의 함량과 특성을 대조구와 비교하였다. A. phoenicis의 생장은 S.B 처리구에서 평균 64.0%가 감소하였다. R. acidus의 생장은 P.S 처리구에서 평균 69.0%가 감소하였다. 또한 C. albicans의 생장도 S.B 처리구에서 평균 59.5%의 감소를 나타내었다. 여러 진균세포 원형질막에 함유된 단백질의 함량은 S.B 처리구에서 평균 41.0%, 41.7%, 59.5%가 각각 억제되었다. A. phoenicis의 원형질막 단백질의 변화 양상은 처리구에서는 배양 1일째, 2일째는 대조구와 비슷한 경향을 나타내었다. 그러나 배양 1일째 $116\;KD{\sim}97\;KD$ 밴드는 거의 사라졌고 $45\;KD{\sim}29\;KD$ 밴드는 희미하게 관찰되었다. R. acidus는 S.B 처리구에서 배양 중간기부터 $116\;KD{\sim}97\;KD$ 밴드가 소실되었으며, P.S 처리구와 C.P 처리구는 배양초에 소실되기 시작하여 배양 36시간에는 완전히 소실되었다. C. albicans에서는 $116\;KD{\sim}97\;KD$ 밴드가 대조구와 비교하여 배양초에 소실되기 시작하였고 $66\;KD{\sim}45\;KD$밴드는 배양 96시간에 희미하게 나타났다. 특히 C.P 처리구에서는 배양 96시간에 완전히 소실되었다.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.221-230
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• 2012

Rumen fermentative characteristic is useful indicators of the quality of ruminant feed stuffs and diets. An in vitro rumen fermentation experiment was therefore carried out to compare fermentation patterns among three forage sources. These were whole crop barley (WCBS), Italian ryegrass silage (IRGS) and rice straw silages (RSS). Rice straw (RS) was the control, making the treatments 4 in total. Forages were randomly allocated to serum bottles. The incubation times were arranged 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24, 48 and 72h at $39^{\circ}C$, respectively. Each forage source was replicated 3 times per incubation time. At each sampling time, total gas and pH were measured, whilst individual volatile fatty acids (VFAs), total volatile fatty acids (TVFAs) and ammonia nitrogen ($NH_3$-N) were determined later after storing samples at $-20^{\circ}C$. Acetate: Propionate ratio (A/P) was then calculated. Forage source had a significant effect (P<0.001) on pH and $NH_3$-N. RSS maintained higher pH values than the rest of the forage sources. A decreasing pH trend with increased time of incubation, in agreement with literature, was observed for all forage sources. WCBS recorded $NH_3$-N values higher than all the other treatments. Total gas, individual and total VFA and A/P ratio were not affected by forage source. However, there was a significant difference in all parameters (p<0.05) among forage sources at sampling periods at 3 to 72h. Therefore, the present results indicating that WCBS, IRGS, RS and RSS maintained in vitro rumen pH above the critical value. Also, WCBS produced the highest NH3-N and on this merit could be of better nutritive value, in vivo, in the ruminant.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.193-201
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• 2014

This study was conducted to examine the effects of defaunation (removal of live protozoa) on fermentation characteristics, degradation of ryegrass hay and $CH_4$ (methane) production by rumen microbes when incubated with plant oils (SO, sunflower oil and LO, linseed oil) in vitro. Sodium lauryl sulfate (0.000375 g/ml) as a defaunation reagent was added into the culture solution and incubated anaerobically up to 24 h at $39^{\circ}C$. pH from defaunation was increased for all treatments from 6 h incubation times (p<0.01-0.001) compared with those from fauantion. Concentration of ammonia-N from defaunation is higher than that from faunation at 3 h (p<0.001), 12 h (p<0.05) and 24 h (p<0.001) incubation times. Defaunation decreased (p<0.01-0.001) total volatile fatty acid concentration at all incubation times. Molar proportions of $C_2$ (acetate, p<0.05-0.001) and butyrate (p<0.01-0.001) were also decreased by defaunation at all incubation times. Molar proportion of $C_3$ (propionate), however, was increased by defaunation at all incubation times (p<0.001). Thus the rate of $C_2$ to $C_3$ was decreased by defaunation at all incubation times (p<0.001). Defaunation decreased ED (effective degradability) of dry matter (p<0.001) and ED of neutral detergent fiber (p<0.001) of ryegrass hay. Defaunation decreased total gas, $CH_4$ production, $CH_4$ % in total gas and $CH_4/CO_2$ at all incubation times (p<0.001). Oil supplementation decreased total gas (p<0.05-0.001), $CH_4$ production (p<0.001) and $CH_4$ % in total gas (p<0.001) compared with control at all incubation times. The result of this study showed that defaunation combined with oil supplementation may cause an alteration of microbial communities and further medicate the fermentation pattern, resulting in both reduction of degradation of ryegrass hay and $CH_4$ production. No difference, however, was observed in all the examinations between SO and LO.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.47-74
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• 1980

The present experiments were carried out to elucidate the effects of hypophysectomy and subsequent administration of sex hormone on thyroid, adrenal gland, gonads and blood plasma components in the rat. The jresults obtained were summarized as follows: The weight of the thyroid gland of both male and female hypophysectiomzed rats decreased markedly from 7 days up to 56 days after the hypophysectomy as compared to the control group. The administration of sex hormone (6 mg of testosterone propionate to male and 6 mg of hexestrol to female) to the hypophysectomized rat gave on effect on the change in the weight of the thyroid gland. The hopophysectomy decreased the uptake of radioactive iodine in the thyroid gland in both male and female rats with time. Subsequent administration of the sex hormone caused no effect. With regard to the histological changes of the thyroid gland, the hypophysectomy caused significant changes in the gland showing a remarkable degeneration. The function of the gland seemed to disa, pp.ar almost completely on 56th day after the hypophysectomy. Upon the administration of sex hormone after the hypophysectomy, however. the epithelia of the follicle which has changed to flat from has partly returned to its functional cubicfrom and nuclei recovered as nearly as normal. These recovery were more remarkable in the female than in the male. The hypophysectomy kept causing a significant decrease in the weight of the adrenal gland in male and female rats during the period of observation (up to 56 days) as in the case of thyroid gland. The administration of sex hormone has on effect in this respect either. The hypophysectomy also caused a marked morphological change in the gland: zona fasciculata and zona reticularis were dicreased in size quichly after the hypophysectomy. The administraton of the sex hormone to the hypophysectomized rat resulted in clear distinction among the three layers of the adrenal cortex which otherwise very diffused. In the male, this phenomenum was more remarkable than in the female and the pattern of the cell arrangements and the thickening of each layer became similar to those of normal rats. The gonads of both sexes have also kept decreasing in the weight and degenerated in morpohology after the hypophysectomy. However, the degenerate follicle became enlarged after the administration of hexestrol in the female. Furthermore, the vacuoles found in interstitial cells of hypophysectomized rat disa, pp.ared after the administration of testosterone in the male and the formation of spermatocytes seemed to be recovered. Hypophysectomy also caused a gradual increase in the contents of total protein, non-protein nitrogen, total lipid, cholesterol and calcium in the blood plasma with time. The concentrations of sodium, potassium and chloride in the blood did not change after the hypophysectomy. Sex hormone caused practically no change in above tendency.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제73권2호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2012

Background: Local adverse events associated with inhaled corticosteroid use, including dysphonia, pharyngitis and oral candidiasis, can affect adherence for treatment. 'Mouth rinsing method' has been used for reducing local adverse events, but it cannot ensure complete prevention. The goal of this pilot study was to identify whether the 'immediate diet method' can reduce local adverse events in a limited number of patients. Methods: The study was conducted in a total of 98 patients, who had been prescribed a medium-dose fluticasone propionate for the first time, from January to October in 2010. One training nurse had performed the education on how to use the inhaler, including the mouth rinsing method. And with follow-ups at one month intervals, any patient who experienced such adverse events were educated on the immediate diet method, having a meal within 5 minutes after using an inhaler and they were checked on any incurrence of adverse events with one month intervals for 2 months. Results: The mean age of patients was 65.9 years old. The local adverse events had incurred from 18.4% of the study subjects. When performed the follow-up observation in 18 patients with local adverse events after education on the immediate diet method, 14 patients (77.8%) had shown symptomatic improvements. Three of 4 patients did not show any improvement, in spite of implementing the immediate diet method. The other 1 patient did not practice the immediate diet method properly. Conclusion: The immediate diet method may be useful in reducing the local adverse events, caused by the use of inhaled corticosteroid.

• 멤브레인
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.197-204
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• 2016

에스테르(ester)의 모델 수용액으로부터 에스테르 성분을 회수하기 위한 투과증발 공정에서, 공급액의 농도와 온도 변화에 따른 에스테르와 물의 플럭스를 측정하였다. 공급액의 에스테르 농도가 0.15 wt%에서 0.60 wt%로 증가함에 따라 에틸 아세테이트(EA), 프로필 아세테이트(PA), 에틸 프로피오네이트(EP), 부틸 아세테이트(BA), 그리고 에틸 부티레이트(EB)의 플럭스는 증가하였으며, 공급액의 온도가 $30^{\circ}C$에서 $50^{\circ}C$로 증가함에 따라 플럭스가 증가하였다. 에스테르 플럭스의 크기는 (EA) < (PA, EP) < (BA, EB) 순서이었으며, 이는 에스테르와 막 표면과의 친화도에 크게 의존하는 것을 보여준다. 즉, EA는 분자쇄 내에 소수성 기($-CH_2-$)를 1개, (PA, EP)는 2개를 포함하고 있으나, (BA, EB)는 3개를 가지고 있어 가장 소수성이 크기 때문이다. 이러한 에스테르 분자의 소수성이 에스테르 플럭스에 미치는 영향뿐 아니라 막 표면의 소수성이 에스테르 플럭스에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구가 더 필요할 것이다. 온도가 증가함에 따라, EA, PA, EP, BA, and EB 수용액의 물 플럭스는 증가하였으나, 농도 변화에 따른 물 플럭스는 거의 변화가 없었다. 본 투과증발에 대한 실험결과는 기존의 열을 이용하는 증발공정과 증류공정을 대체할 수 있는 공정으로서 향 성분의 회수공정을 개선하는 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.349-356
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• 1995

하수처리장의 활생오니를 분리원으로 하여 수십종의 PHA 생산균을 분리하였다. 일반적으로 hy­d droxyvalerate monomer unit의 전구물질로 알려져 있지않은 glucose로부터 비교적 많은 PHA를 생산 하는 균주를 공시균으로 선정하여 형태학척, 배양적, 생리학적 제 특성을 검토한 결과 Pseudomonas 속으 로 통정되었다. 균체 생육을 위한 최적 배양온도 벚 배양 pH는 각각 $37^{\circ}C$와 7.0이었으며, 최적 탄소원 으로셔 glucose 1 %, 최적 질소원으로서 $(NH_4)_2SO_4$ 0.2%, K1HPO. 0.3%, $KH_2PO_4$ 0.45% 였다. 최적 P PHA 생산조건을 조사하기 위하여 2단계 배양법을 이용하였다 PHA 생산은 배지성분중 $NH_4, O_4$, Mg가 결핍되 였을 때 향상되었고, 그중 $NH_4$, 의 결핍시 PHA 축적률과 HV monomer의 함량이 가장 높았다. C/N molar ratio 95.2에서 PHA 축적률이 가장 높았다. 공시균주 Pseudomonas sp. HJ는 alkane, alkanoic acid, alcohol을 탄소원으로 하여 P PHB/HV를 생산하였다. PHA의 생산량과 HV monomer의 함량은 이용된 기질에 따라 다양하였으며, 특히 hexadecane와 propiOnate를 탄소원으로 하였을 때 PHA중의 HV monomer의 함량이 49~74mol %로 매우 높았다. IH-NMR로셔 공시균으로 부터 분리정제된 PHA의 조성을 분석한 결과 PHB/ H HV copolymer임을 알 수 였였다