维尔康对家蝇(Musca domestica)寿命和飞翔肌线粒体年龄变化的影响

本文观察了中药复方维尔康对雄蝇寿命、飞翔肌线粒体能量转换ATP酶(以下简称ATP(?))活性及线粒体超微结构衰老变化的影响。实验表明维尔康可使(?)的群体平均寿命和5％存活时的日龄分别增加11.4％和13.7％,用losrank检验比较对黑组和维尔序组家蝇的生存数据,结果差异极(?)著,P<0.001。对照组家蝇孵化后6日龄ATP酶水解活性最高,随即开始下降。维尔康组家蝇的要(?)活性则一直维持到15日龄以后才开始下降,但其ATP酶活性的年龄交化规律仍与对照组家蝇类似。维尔康组家蝇飞翔肌线粒体超微结构的退化也有较对照组家蝇推迟的趋向。这些现象提示维尔康似可延缓家蝇的衰老过程。     

Histological and cytological studies on the fat body of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea during the first reproductive cycle

Summary The central fat body of the ovoviviparous cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea was studied during the first reproductive cycle of the female by means of light microscopy, autoradiography and electron microscopy. Comparative studies in larval stages were also undertaken. The fat body of Nauphoeta contains a large amount of lipid droplets and the remaining cytoplasm is very scarce. The cytological cyclicity of the fat body is consistent with the known biochemical rhythms of vitellogenin production. The proteosynthetic apparatus appears about 3 days after imaginal ecdysis, along with vitellogenin. The ribosomal endoplasmic reticulum (RER) shows a tremendous increase by the 7th day of the first cycle. The most active period of vitellogenin production lasts from day 7 to day 12. The proteosynthetic apparatus then returns to an inactive stage and disappears. This inactive condition lasts to the end of the gestation period. The autoradiographic results are consistent with the cytological features.Work carried out under the scientific direction of Prof. M. Lüscher of the University of Bern and supported in part by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (No 3. 633.71).     

荨麻蛱蝶核型多角体病毒在病虫脂肪体中的形态发生

本文叙述了一种在高山草原地区较低温度下感染荨麻蛱蝶(Vanessa urticae)的核型多角体病毒的形态发生过程。荨麻蛱蝶幼虫经其病毒多角体感染5日后出现明显变化:细胞核膨大,核仁消失,核内出现清晰区及病毒发生基质。在病毒发生基质的周围,核衣壳大量产生。核衣壳是从这些病毒发生基质四周的模样结构碎片上获得套膜,装配成病毒粒子。随后病毒粒子逐渐进入多角体蛋白中,形成了成熟的单粒包埋型的多角体。观察结果表明,在较低温度下生长的荨麻蛱蝶NPV与在常温下生长的其它NPV有着类似的形态发生过程。     

荒漠沙蜥冬眠前与冬眠中期肝脏、胰腺、脂肪体超微结构的比较

对荒漠沙蜥（Phrynocephalus przewalskii）冬眠前及冬眠中期的肝脏、胰腺和脂肪体的超微结构进行了比较观察。结果表明,荒漠沙蜥肝脏、胰腺和脂肪体中的糖原颗粒、脂滴、内质网、线粒体等细胞结构有明显变化。冬眠中期胰腺腺泡细胞线粒体中出现致密颗粒,核周间隙增宽,核中出现无定形体。文中对上述结果的生理意义进行了讨论。     

Ultrastructural changes in the fat body of adult female Aedes aegypti in relationship to vitellogenin synthesis

Summary The ultrastructure of the fat body of Aedes aegypti was followed from emergence through a blood meal. Changes in the volume of protein granules and lipid droplets were also examined. The relationship of these events to the known endocrinology of vitellogenin synthesis in mosquitoes is discussed.Massachusetts Experiment Station Paper No. 2130. Supported by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Project n° 356, and by NIH grant n° AI-11909     

Kinetic characteristics of native gamma-glutamylcysteine ligase in the aging housefly, Musca domestica L

The catalytic activity of gamma-glutamylcysteine ligase (gamma-GCL; EC 6.3.2.2) was compared between relatively young (4-day-old) and old (19-day-old) houseflies (Musca domestica) in order to understand the mechanism of putative deterioration of glutathione homeostasis during the aging process. Hanes-Woolf analyses ([S]/v vs [S]) indicated that gamma-GCL had significantly higher affinities for its substrates in the young than in the old flies. The K(m) values in the young and old flies were, respectively, for glutamate 0.6 and 5.5 mM; for cysteine 0.3 and 4.6 mM; and for ATP 1.2 and 2.9 mM. Furthermore, young but not old flies exhibited substrate-dependent inhibition of gamma-GCL activity at >5 mM cysteine indicating a loss of metabolic regulation during aging. The age-associated differences in the affinity of native gamma-GCL towards its substrates suggest that de novo synthesis of glutathione would be relatively less efficient in the old houseflies.     

肝纤维化大鼠贮脂细胞的超微结构和免疫组织化学研究

探讨贮脂细胞在免疫性肝损伤时的形态学变化及意义。应用猪血清注射法造成大鼠肝纤维化 ,取肝脏做免疫组织化学染色和透射电镜观察。结果显示贮脂细胞数目增多 (P<0 .0 5 ) ,α-平滑肌肌动蛋白 (α- SMA)阳性 ,胞质内脂滴减少 ,粗面内质网和线粒体增多。结果表明贮脂细胞在肝纤维化过程中 ,细胞形态、数目和功能有明显改变     

Tea polyphenols ameliorate fat storage induced by high-fat diet in Drosophila melanogaster

BackgroundPolyphenols in tea are considered beneficial to human health. However, many such claims of their bioactivity still require in vitro and in vivo evidence.ResultsUsing Drosophila melanogaster as a model multicellular organism, we assess the fat accumulation-suppressing effects of theaflavin (TF), a tea polyphenol; epitheaflagallin (ETG), which has an unknown function; and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg), a prominent component of green tea. Dietary TF reduced the malondialdehyde accumulation related to a high-fat diet in adult flies. Other physiological and genetic responses induced by the high-fat diet, such as lipid accumulation in the fat body and expression of lipid metabolism-related genes, were ameliorated by the addition of TF, ETG, and EGCg, in some cases approaching respective levels without high-fat diet exposure. Continuous ingestion of the three polyphenols resulted in a shortened lifespan.ConclusionWe provide evidence in Drosophila that tea polyphenols have a fat accumulation-suppressing effect that has received recent attention. We also suggest that tea polyphenols can provide different desirable biological activities depending on their composition and the presence or absence of other chemical components.     

The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) glorund functions in the Drosophila fat body to regulate lipid storage and transport

The availability of excess nutrients in Western diets has led to the overaccumulation of these nutrients as triglycerides, a condition known as obesity. The full complement of genes important for regulating triglyceride storage is not completely understood. Genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila cells have identified genes involved in mRNA splicing as important lipid storage regulators. Our lab has shown that a group of splicing factors called heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) regulate lipid metabolism in the fly fat body; however, the identities of all the hnRNPs that function to control triglyceride storage are not known. Here, we used the GAL4/UAS system to induce RNAi to the hnRNP glorund (glo) in the Drosophila fat body to assess whether this hnRNP has any metabolic functions. Decreasing glo levels resulted in less triglycerides being stored throughout the fly. Interestingly, decreasing fat body glo expression resulted in increased triglyceride storage in the fat body, but blunted triglyceride storage in non-fat body tissues, suggesting a defect in lipid transport. Consistent with this hypothesis, the expression of apolipophorin (apolpp), microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (mtp), and apolipoprotein lipid transfer particle (apoltp), apolipoprotein genes important for lipid transport through the fly hemolymph, was decreased in glo-RNAi flies, suggesting that glo regulates the transport of lipids from the fly fat body to surrounding tissues. Together, these results indicate that glorund plays a role in controlling lipid transport and storage and provide additional evidence of the link between gene expression and the regulation of lipid metabolism.     

Movement of neurosecretory product through the anatomical compartments of the neural lobe of the pituitary gland

Summary Electron microscopic studies of the carotid body of the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) have shown Type I and Type II cells combined with axons into compact groups. The many Type I cells in the depths of the organ had a body, containing the nucleus, and an elongated, flared process. Some of the Type I cells in the superficial regions tended to be spindle-shaped. Type I cells were characterised by membrane-bound, dense-cored vesicles about 120 nm in diameter. Type II cells invested the Type I cells and had axons embedded in them as in Schwann cells.The fine structure of the carotid body in the domestic fowl resembles that of the Lovebird (Uroloncha domestica) and of various amphibia and mammals. The possibility is discussed that the Type I cells may have a chemoreceptor or a general secretory function, or even both pathway for functions together. The main role of the Type II cells seems to be to provide a of these axons leading to or from Type I cells.The authors are grateful to Mr. R. P. Gould of the Department of Anatomy, Middlesex Hospital Medical School for permission to use some of his and Dr. Hodges' original material in the illustrations. Dr. Hodges also wishes to thank the A.R.C. and the University of London Central Research Fund for financial assistance. We are also most appreciative of the photographic assistance of J. Geary.     

Fat patterning in Papua New Guineans: effects of age, sex and acculturation

For the renewed interest in fat patterning to be fruitful, more information on the biology of fat patterning, particularly normative data are required. Nine skinfold thicknesses were measured in 2312 coastal and highland Papua New Guineans of all ages undergoing acculturation. Principal component analysis of the skinfold data revealed components of fatness and fat patterning. First component scores were typical of the changes in fatness with age and the sex differences expected in these populations. Second component scores of limb-trunk fat patterning showed marked changes with age in both sexes but they stabilised in adulthood. This pattern seemed more affected by maturity although it is usually thought to be a sex-specific pattern. The third component, upper-lower body patterning, was more sexually dimorphic in adults. Marked differences were not observed between the two communities but over a 15-year period fatness levels increased slightly and subcutaneous fat tended to be deposited more centrally.     

大鼠中枢神经系统衰老的形态学研究:Ⅵ.大脑皮质胶质细胞的超微结构变化

对幼年、成年与老年Wistar大鼠大脑躯感皮质的胶质细胞的电镜研究表明:老年大鼠胶质细胞脂褐素增加和卫星化增多;在胶质与神经元胞体之间,神经元的胞质膜和胶质贴近处出现表面下复合器的情况也增多。星形胶质细胞还有胞质肥大和微丝增多的倾向。在个别老年动物中见到一种特殊的多层平行膜板状髓鞘样结构出现于胶质与神经元胞体之间。     

Proline can be utilized as an energy substrate during flight of Aedes aegypti females

In order to determine whether proline can be utilized as fuel during flight of Aedes aegypti, proline, alanine, and glutamine concentrations were monitored at 0, 30 and 60 min after flight using sugar-fed males and females, and blood meal-fed females. In sugar-fed and blood meal-fed females, flight lead to a significant decrease in proline and a significant increase in glutamine concentration in both hemolymph and thorax. Only during flight after a blood meal was a significant increase in the alanine concentration observed in hemolymph. After flight, the proline alanine and glutamine levels in the hemolymph and thorax from males did not change significantly. In addition, activities of enzymes related to amino acid metabolism were assayed in homogenates of cephalothorax and thorax from both sexes, and in fat body and midgut from females. In both sexes, the activities of all the enzymes studied were significantly higher in thorax than in cephalothorax. The levels of the enzymes involved in proline oxidation were higher in thorax than in fat body and midgut. These results suggest that proline can be used as an energy substrate for flight muscle of Ae. aegypti females. However, the elevation in glutamine levels observed in hemolymph and thorax after flight has not been reported in other insects that fuel flight using proline and may suggest an additional mechanism for shuttling ammonia between flight muscle and fat body is present in mosquitoes.     

大菜粉蝶颗粒体病毒的形态发生及细胞病理的超微结构观察

本文叙述感染大菜粉蝶颗粒体病毒后,病虫脂肪体细胞超微结构的改变,大菜粉蝶感染后24小时,病虫脂肪体细胞开始出现明显的病变,整个病程是,在开始时细胞核内出现清晰区并出现病毒发生基质,核膜多点成套增生,其后核膜断裂,大量膜样结构聚集在病毒发生基质的周围,核衣壳大量产生,有一部分核衣壳从这些病毒发生基质四周的膜样结构碎片上获得套膜,荚膜蛋白沉积形成成熟的病毒荚膜,或称包含体;另一部分则排列在胞浆内的空泡边缘上;其余的核衣壳则从细胞边缘“芽突”而获得套膜,另外还描述环孔片层及线粒体改变。     

Balancing crosstalk between 20-hydroxyecdysone-induced autophagy and caspase activity in the fat body during Drosophila larval-prepupal transition

In the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, autophagy and caspase activity function in parallel in the salivary gland during metamorphosis and in a common regulatory hierarchy during oogenesis. Both autophagy and caspase activity progressively increase in the remodeling fat body, and they are induced by a pulse of the molting hormone (20-hydroxyecdysone, 20E) during the larval-prepupal transition. Inhibition of autophagy and/or caspase activity in the remodeling fat body results in 25–40% pupal lethality, depending on the genotypes. Interestingly, a balancing crosstalk occurs between autophagy and caspase activity in this tissue: the inhibition of autophagy induces caspase activity and the inhibition of caspases induces autophagy. The Drosophila remodeling fat body provides an in vivo model for understanding the molecular mechanism of the balancing crosstalk between autophagy and caspase activity, which oppose with each other and are induced by the common stimulus 20E, and blockage of either path reinforces the other path.