• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.223-230
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• 2017

The purposes of this study were to produce polysaccharides from red pepper stems using different extraction methods and evaluate their chemical composition, in vitro biological capacities, and rheological properties. Two polysaccharides were extracted from red pepper stems using an autoclave and alkali treatments, and the extracts were named PAU and PAL, respectively. The contents of total phenolics and flavonoids were significantly higher in PAU than those in PAL. PAU exhibited greater scavenging activities on 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radicals, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt radicals, superoxide radicals, and nitrite compared to PAL, suggesting that PAU served as better antioxidants. Similarly, in vitro inhibitory abilities against carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes of PAU were higher than those of PAL. Steady shear rheological analysis demonstrated that PAU showed higher psuedoplastic shear-thinning behavior compared to PAL. Based on the results from dynamic shear rheological properties, it was found that both samples had predominantly viscous behavior rather than elastic behavior.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.421-427
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• 1995

상하수도 및 폐수처리에 많이 사용되고 있는 무기 및 유기합성 고분자응집제를 미생물 응집제로 대체 하기 위한 연구의 일환으로 토양으로부터 목적 미생물을 분리하여 형태학적, 생리학적 성질을 조사한 결과 Aspergillus sp. JS-42로 명 명 되 었다. 또한 Aspergillus sp. JS-42의 응집제 생산을 위한 최적배지 벚 최적 배양조건은 다음과 같이 설정하였다. 배지 조성은 3.0% glucose, 0.2% yeast ex ttract, 0.1 % $(NH_4)_2S0_4, 0.05% CaCI_2.2H_20$ 의 경우가 응집제 생산에 우수하였으며, lJ~양온도 및 초 기 pH는각각$25^{\circ}C$ 와pH 7.0의 경우가최적이였다. 이 배양조건 하에서 90시간 전후로 배양하였을 때 응집제 생산이 최대가 되었으며 이때는 screenmg시 의 기초배지에 비해 응집활성이 거의 8배 정도로 향 상되었다. 이 물질은 각종 기질에 대해 넓은 작용범 위와 강력한 응집능을 발휘하였으며 pH 및 열처리 에 대해 극히 안정한 물질이였다. 또한 이 물질은 점성이 강한 고분자성인 다당류의 일종인 것으로 판단 되였다.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.262-267
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• 2006

The term temporomandibular disorders is used to describe a group of conditions that involve the temporomandibular joint, masticatory muscles, and associated structures. Many modalities have been proposed for treating temporomandibular disorders, including medication, physical therapy, occlusal stabilization splints with or without manual repositioning, surgery, and arthrocentesis. Temporomandibular disorders are treated in a step-wise manner. Initially, conservative treatment is used. Depending on the response, more aggressive interventions may be necessary. This usually takes the form of arthrocentesis. Arthrocentesis is used in the treatment of not only acute, closed, and locked TMJs but also various other temporomandibular disorders. Recently, the intra-articular injection of sodium hyaluronate after arthrocentesis was shown to have long-term palliative effects on TMJ symptoms. Synovial fluid consists of plasma and glycosaminoglycan, including hyaluronic acid derived from synovial cells. Sodium hyaluronate, the sodium salt of hyaluronic acid, is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide and a major component of synovial fluid. This highly viscous substance has analgesic properties, lubricant effects, and anti-inflammatory actions; it causes cartilage formation and plays a role in the nutrition of avascular parts of the disc and condylar cartilage. We conclude that the intra-articular injection of sodium hyaluronate is effective for treating temporomandibular disorders.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.493-499
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• 1996

Lactan gum produced by Rahnella aquatilis is a high viscous, anionic polysaccharide and has shear thinning behaviour. Lactan gum yield and cencentration was greater on disaccharide such as lactose and sucrose than on monosaccharides such as glucose and galactose. When initial carbon source concentration was 45g/l of sucrose of lactose, the microorgnisms produced 28 g/l and 27 g/l of lactan, respectively with a yield more than 60%. $\beta$-Galactosidase, hydrolyzing lactose into galactose and glucose, was induced by lactose or galactose. When initial corbon source was 45 g/l of mixed carbon I (glucose:galactose=1:1), lactan gum concentaration was higher than that from 45 g/l of monosaccharide (glucose pf galactose) but was similar to the result from 45 g/l of lactose. Therefore, lactose hydrolysis reaction by $\beta$-galactosidase does not seem to be a rate determining step in lactan gum biosynthesis. When initial carbon source was 45 g/l of mixed carbon II (glucose:fructose=1:1). total carbon source consumption rate was slower than that from sucrose, but glucose consumption rate was faster than that from fructose.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.196-202
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• 1992

Zooloea ramigera 115를 사용하여 생물응집제로서 사용되는 생물고분자생산 실험을 하였다. 생물고분자 생산을 높이기 위하여 회분식, 유가배양, 연속배양방법을 사용하였다. 탄소원으로는 포도당, 유당, 당밀, 유청을 사용하였다. 기질이 포도당의 경우에는 C/N배 98일 때 생물고분자 생산 효과가 좋았으며, 유당의 경우에는 C/N비 30, 당밀과 유청의 경우에는 C/N비 60일 때 생물고분자 생산이 가장 좋았다. 유가배양 방법이 회분식 배양방법 보다 최종 생물고분자 생산이 우수하였다. C/N비를 달리한 2단계 연속 배양방법으로 생산성을 향상시켰다. 당밀의 경우 0.048$hr^{-1}$의 희석속도에서, 유청의 경우 0.096$hr^{-1}$에서 생산성이 가장 좋았다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.849-862
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• 2017

With growing interests in using bacterial biopolymers in geotechnical practices, identifying mechanical properties of soft gel-like biopolymers is important in predicting their efficacy in soil modification and treatment. As one of the promising candidates, dextran was found to be produced by Leuconostoc mesenteroides. The model bacteria utilize sucrose as working material and synthesize both soluble and insoluble dextran which forms a complex and inhomogeneous polymer network. However, the traditional rheometer has a limitation to capture in situ properties of inherently porous and inhomogeneous biopolymers. Therefore, we used the particle tracking microrheology to characterize the material properties of the dextran polymer. TEM images revealed a range of pore size mostly less than $20{\mu}m$, showing large pores > $2{\mu}m$ and small pores within the solid matrix whose sizes are less than $1{\mu}m$. Microrheology data showed two distinct regimes in the bacterial dextran, purely viscous pore region of soluble dextran and viscoelastic region of the solid part of insoluble dextran matrix. Diffusive beads represented the soluble dextran dissolved in an aqueous phase, of which viscosity was three times higher than the growth medium viscosity. The local properties of the insoluble dextran were extracted from the results of the minimally moving beads embedded in the dextran matrix or trapped in small pores. At high frequency (${\omega}>0.2Hz$), the insoluble dextran showed the elastic behavior with the storage modulus of ~0.1 Pa. As frequency decreased, the insoluble dextran matrix exhibited the viscoelastic behavior with the decreasing storage modulus in the range of ${\sim}0.1-10^{-3}Pa$ and the increasing loss modulus in the range of ${\sim}10^{-4}-1\;Pa$. The obtained results provide a compilation of frequency-dependent rheological or viscoelastic properties of soft gel-like porous biopolymers at the particular conditions where soil bacteria produce bacterial biopolymers in subsurface.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2010

This study was to fabricate the porous poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microparticles with anthocyanin (as a model antioxidant) for pulmonary drug delivery. The highly porous PLGA microparticles were prepared by the waterin-oil-in-water ($W_1/O/W_2$) multi-emulsion method, followed by the decomposition of ammonium bicarbonate (AB) in $W_1$ phase to the base of ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor at $50^{\circ}C$, making a porous structure in PLGA microparticles. Herein, hyaluronate (HA), a viscous polysaccharide, was incorporated in the porous microparticles for sustained anthocyanin release. In in vitro release studies, the anthocyanin release from the porous microparticles with HA continued up to 24 hours, while the porous microparticles without HA released 80 wt.% of encapsulated anthocyanin within 2 hours. In addition, these microparticle are expected to be effectively deposited at a lung epithelium due to its high porosity (low density) and avoid alveolar macrophage's uptake in the lung due to its large particle size. We believe that this system has a great pharmaceutical potential as a long acting antioxidant for relieving the oxidative stress in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.352-358
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• 2009

Leuconostoc속의 균주와 당근 박을 이용하여 생산된 점 질성의 발효물의 물성을 조절하기 위해서 다양한 다당류의 첨가 및 열처리 전후에 물성변화를 점도계와 조직감 측정으로 평가하였다. 당근 박 첨가농도가 증가함에 따라서 점조도 값은 증가되었으며, 20% 수준으로 첨가하였을 때 점조도 지수는 대조군 18 $Pa{\cdot}s^n$에서 150 $Pa{\cdot}s^n$ 정도로 크게 증가 되었으며, 생균수는 $2.36{\times}10^9$ CFU/mL으로 나타났다. 점질성의 덱스트란 발효물에 다양한 다당류를 첨가한 경우, 대조군의 점조도 값보다 증가되었으며, glucomannan을 첨가했을 때 가장 높은 점조도 값을 나타내었다. 특히 gellan gum을 첨가하여 열처리한 경우에는 발효물의 견고성이 가장 크게 증가되고, 점조도 지수가 높았으며, 혼합발효물이 반고체 상태로 전환되면서 탄성 계수와 점성 계수가 가장 크게 증가 되었다. Carrageenan을 첨가하여 열처리한 경우에도 역시 높은 견고성 값, 점조도 지수 및 높은 탄성 계수를 나타내는 물성을 나타내었으며, xanthan gum과 glucomannan을 첨가한 시료는 비교적 낮은 점성과 탄성의 값을 나타내었다. 따라서 Leuconostoc속의 균주와 당근 박을 이용하여 생산된 점질성 덱스트란 발효물에 첨가되는 수용성 다당류의 종류 및 열처리에 따라서 발효물의 물성 조절이 가능하여 점증제로 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.