小鼠卵激活过程中胞质游离Ca^2＋的变化及孤雌发育研究

乙醇和电刺激均可使小鼠ＭⅡ期卵母细胞激活并在体外孤雌发育至囊胚。小鼠卵对乙醇十分敏感。用７％－８％乙醇处理５ｍｉｎ后９５％以上的卵母细胞（卵龄为ＨＣＧ注射后１８－１９ｈ）内形成原核。３－４次电刺激后卵的激活率为６３．６３％。乙醇刺激可诱导卵内游离Ｃａ＾２＋浓度出现多次升高;单一电刺激仅能诱导卵内游离Ｃａ＾２＋浓度出现１次升高;多次电刺激可诱导卵内游离Ｃａ＾２＋浓度多次升高,而且电刺激次数与Ｃａ＾２     

小鼠卵受精和人工激活过程中胞质游离Ca^2＋变化及其在卵激活中的作用

休止于第二次成熟分裂中期（ＭＩ）的小鼠卵母细胞分别乙醇,钙离子载体Ａ２３１８７、电刺激或精子激活并用Ｃａ＾２＋特异荧光探针－Ｆｕｒａ２／ＡＭ测定细胞内游离Ｃａ＾２＋的变化。结果表明,受精诱导ＭⅡ卵内游离Ｃａ＾２＋浓度多次跃升（ｏｓｃｉｌｌａｔｉｏｎ）乙醇,钙离子载体及１次电刺激仅诱导胞内Ｃａ＾２＋１次升高,人工诱导激活的卵可象正常受精卵一样卵裂并发育至囊胚,用ＥＧＴＡ阻止受精和人工激活过程中卵内游     

线粒体Ca^2＋转运与细胞代谢调节

线粒体具有一套完整的Ｃａ＾２＋转运系统,包括两条摄取途径和三条释放途径。生理条件下,它们在细胞胞质与线粒体钙稳态维持以及细胞能量代谢中起重要作用,线粒体从胞质摄取的Ｃａ＾２＋可激活某些Ｃａ＾２＋敏感的呼吸酶和代谢过程。病理条件下,线粒体Ｃａ＾２＋转运发生紊乱,通过线粒体通透性转换导致细胞坏死或凋亡。     

光周期对光敏胞质不育小麦花药发育过程中Ca^2＋分布的影响

运用焦锑酸钾沉淀法,研究了不同光照条件下光敏胞质不育小麦（Ｔｒｉｔｉｃｕｍ ａｅｓｔｉｖｕｍ Ｌ．）花药发育过程中Ｃａ＾２＋的分布。短日照条件下,小孢子形成和花粉发育过程中胞内Ｃａ＾２＋在数量、分布上有变化;小孢子表面逐渐积累Ｃａ＾２＋,至成熟花粉表面覆盖一层Ｃａ＾２＋,胞质Ｃａ＾２＋较少;药隔和药壁组织通过抽外体或共质体途径运输Ｃａ＾２＋供给花粉的发育;长日照条件下,花粉败育发生在不同时期,早期     

大熊猫精子获能和顶体反应过程中钙分布变化规律的研究

应用焦锑酸钾原位定位法对大熊猫精子获能和顶体反应过程中进行钙定位研究,发现未获能精子的 Ｃａ２＋主要结合于顶体前区和赤道段质膜外侧和顶体内膜内侧（核膜侧）;随着获能的进行,Ｃａ２＋进入精子内部并主要结合于顶体区质膜内侧和顶体外膜外侧;顶体反应的精子,Ｃａ２＋结合于顶体内膜外侧、顶体后区质膜外侧和分散存在于释放的顶体内容物中,有些顶体反应精子的顶体内膜外侧结合的Ｃａ２＋特别丰富。精子尾部的Ｃａ２＋主要分布于中段线粒体内,且其内所含Ｃａ２＋含量随着获能和顶体反应而增加。另外尾部致密纤维和轴丝处也有少量Ｃａ２＋分布。     

锌7—金属硫蛋白与镉7—金属硫蛋白抗羟自由基保护线粒 …

制备了Ｚｎ７－与Ｃｄ７－金属硫蛋白。分离出大鼠心肌线粒体。用电子自旋共振自旋标记方法测定线粒体膜脂流动性及膜蛋白构象,运动性,分析了线粒体Ｃａ＾２＋－Ｍｇ６２＋－ＭＡＴＰ酶活性及＾４５Ｃａ摄入。羟自由基损伤使线粒体膜脂流动性下降,膜蛋白构象改变及运动性降低,线粒体Ｃａ＾２＋－Ｍｇ＾２＋ＡＴＰ酶活性降低及＾４５Ｃａ的摄入活性下降。     

水霉（Saprolegnia ferax）生长菌丝顶端细胞内游离Ca^2＋和膜结合…

本文比较和研究了水霉（Ｓａｐｒｏｌｅｇｎｉａ ｆｅｒａｘ）生长菌丝顶端胞内Ｆｌｕｏ－３游离Ｃａ＾２＋和ＣＴＣ－膜结合Ｃａ＾２＋的荧光分布影像。激光共焦扫描显微镜下观察可见：Ｆｌｕｏ－３荧光有房室化现象,Ｆｌｕｏ－３荧光反映的是细胞质游离Ｃａ＾２＋与细胞器游离Ｃａ＾２＋总的分布状况,Ｆｌｕｏ－３游离Ｃａ＾２＋的最大荧光强度出现在菌丝顶端２－１０ｕｍ区域,１０ｕｍ以后荧光强度逐渐下降,约４０ｕｍ以后荧     

新疆呼图壁种牛场地区13种优势植物水溶性盐分的含量特点及数量分析

通过对新疆呼图壁种牛场地区１３种耐盐植物水溶性盐分含量的分析,结果阐述了盐分分布和积累的特点：１）大部分植物在盐分含量水平上是：Ｎａ＾＋〉Ｋ＾＋〉Ｍｇ＾２＋〉Ｃａ＾２＋,Ｃｌ＾－〉ＳＯ４＾２－〉ＨＣＯ３＾－〉ＣＯ３＾２－,Ｎａ＾＋超过２００００μｇ／ｇ,Ｃａ＾２＋不足８００μｇ／ｇ;Ｃｌ＾－达４．１６％,ＣＯ３＾２－仅为０．１１％。全盐量平均为２５．８１％;２）ＣＯ３＾２－、ＨＣＯ３＾－和Ｃａ＾２     

水分胁迫及复水过程中小麦幼苗叶片内Ca^2＋的定位

展现了冬小麦幼苗在干旱胁迫及干旱后复水过程中叶肉细胞内Ｃａ＾２＋的动态分布：在正常水分条件下生长的小麦幼苗,其细胞中的Ｃａ＾２＋主要位于液泡内,同时,细胞间隙中有大量的Ｃａ＾２＋分布。在水分胁迫下,随着胁迫时间的加长,液泡和细胞间隙的Ｃａ＾２＋逐渐进入细胞质,导致细胞质中自由Ｃａ＾２＋浓度过高,并对细胞造成伤害。复水后,细胞质中高浓度Ｃａ＾２＋迅速排入液泡和细胞间隙,细胞质中Ｃａ＾２＋浓度又基本恢     

牛磺酸对血管紧张素Ⅱ改变培养心肌细胞内游离Ca^2＋深度作？…

目的和方法：用Ｆｕｒａ－２／ＡＭ荧光显示测定细胞内游离Ｃａ＾２＋浓度（〖Ｃａ＾２＋〗ｉ）的方法,我们研究了牛磺酸（Ｔａｕ）对血管紧张素Ⅱ（ＡｎｇⅡ）引起的培养心肌细胞（〖Ｃａ＾２＋〗ｉ）变化的影响。结果：在有Ｃａ＾２＋和无Ｃａ＾２＋的缓冲液中,ＡｎｇⅡ（１,１０,１００,１０００ｎｍｏｌ／Ｌ）引起的〖Ｃａ＾２＋）ｉ和蔼同。在含Ｃａ＾２＋的缓冲液中,Ｔａｕ（１０,２０ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）可隽浓度地抑制Ａｎｇ     

牛体外受精的程序及超微结构研究

牛体外成熟卵母细胞体外受精后３小时精子入卵,８小时原核形成,２４小时的核多到卵中央。精子发生顶体反应的部位主要在透明表面,方式是顶体外膜自身囊经,发生顶体反应的粗子可斜向或垂直穿过透明带。卵丘细胞可吞噬大量精子,在阻多精受精中发挥重要作用。高尔基得合体,线料体、环状片层和滑面内质网等在原核周围形成细胞器集团。牛体外受精卵的雌雄原结合比体内受精的要延迟,胞吐到卵周隙中的皮质颗粒内容物扩散不完全。     

Microtubule distribution during fertilization in the rabbit.

The distribution of microtubules was studied during fertilization of the rabbit oocyte by immunofluorescence microscopy after staining with an anti-alpha-tubulin antibody. In ovulated oocytes, microtubules were found exclusively in the meiotic spindle. At fertilization, the paternal centrosome generated sperm astral microtubules. During pronuclear development, the sperm aster increased in size, and microtubules extended from the male pronucleus to the egg center and towards the female pronucleus. These observations indicate that microtubules emanating from the sperm centrosome were involved in the movements leading to the union of the male and female pronuclei. At late pronuclear stage, microtubules surrounded the adjacent pronuclei. The mitotic spindle that emerged from the perinuclear microtubules contained broad anastral poles.     

Microtubules in ascidian eggs during meiosis, fertilization, and mitosis

The sequential changes in the distribution of microtubules during germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), fertilization, and mitosis were investigated with antitubulin indirect immunofluorescence microscopy in several species of ascidian eggs (Molgula occidentalis, Ciona savignyi, and Halocynthia roretzi). These alterations in microtubule patterns were also correlated with observed cytoplasmic movements. A cytoplasmic latticework of microtubules was observed throughout meiosis. The unfertilized egg of M. occidentalis had a small meiotic spindle with wide poles; the poles became focused after egg activation. The other two species had more typical meiotic spindles before fertilization. At fertilization, a sperm aster first appeared near the cortex close to the vegetal pole. It enlarged into an unusual asymmetric aster associated with the egg cortex. The sperm aster rapidly grew after the formation of the second polar body, and it was displaced as far as the equatorial region, corresponding to the site of the myoplasmic crescent, the posterior half of the egg. The female pronucleus migrated to the male pronucleus at the center of the sperm aster. The microtubule latticework and the sperm aster disappeared towards the end of first interphase with only a small bipolar structure remaining until first mitosis. At mitosis the asters enlarged tremendously, while the mitotic spindle remained remarkably small. The two daughter nuclei remained near the site of cleavage even after division was complete. These results document the changes in microtubule patterns during maturation in Ascidian oocytes, demonstrate that the sperm contributes the active centrosome at fertilization, and reveal the presence of a mitotic apparatus at first division which has an unusually small spindle and huge asters.     

Specific location of sperm mitochondria in mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis zygotes stained by MitoTracker

In Mytilidae, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the offspring is inherited from male and female parents. Sperm mitochondria are only incorporated into the testes. This phenomenon is called doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI). Sperm mitochondria should locate in the primordial germ cell during development to maintain DUI. However, the mechanism of sperm mitochondria localization is still unknown. To reveal the mechanism, we followed the location of sperm mitochondria in Mytilus galloprovincialis zygotes fertilized with sperm stained by MitoTracker. Just after fertilization, sperm mitochondria, which were found to enter eggs from various sites, remained at sperm entry point. Five sperm mitochondria located at the male pronucleus. After pronuclear expansion, sperm mitochondria migrated to the center of the egg together with the male pronucleus. At anaphase of cleavage-I, the distribution pattern of sperm mitochondria was divided into two patterns. In pattern A, sperm mitochondria located in the equatorial region of the eggs. In pattern B, sperm mitochondria migrated and divided into two groups with chromosomes. From observations of colchicine-treated eggs, we suggest that sperm mitochondria migration from fertilization to anaphase of cleavage-I depends on the microtubules. The difference between pattern A and pattern B may be caused by whether sperm mitochondria migrated or not by the microtubules at cleavage-I.     

A hypothesis of ploidy elevation by formation of a female pronucleus in the androgenetic clam Corbicula fluminea in the Tone River estuary, Japan

We propose a hypothesis of ploidy elevation in the androgenetic clam Corbicula fluminea, based on an abnormal process of fertilization in clams collected at the Tone River, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Most eggs showed androgenesis, that is, extrusion of all maternal chromosomes as two polar bodies during the first meiotic division. Most eggs did not form a female pronucleus, but only a male pronucleus. However, some eggs proceeded to the second meiosis and formed both a female and a male pronucleus. The formation of the female pronucleus suggests the hypothesis that ploidy elevation in androgenetic clams may have occurred by aberrant meiosis due to an altered orientation of the meiotic spindle.     

体外受精和孤雌活化过程中小鼠胚胎细胞骨架的动态变化

为研究微管在体外受精与孤雌活化过程中的动态变化,本实验比较了体外受精胚胎、SrCl2激活的孤雌胚胎和体内受精的原核期胚胎在体外发育的情况,采用免疫荧光化学与激光共聚焦显微术检测卵母细胞孤雌活化过程中及体外受精后微管及核的动态变化,以分析微管在减数分裂过程中的作用及其对早期发育的影响.结果显示,体内受精胚胎的发育率显著高于体外受精和孤雌激活胚胎体外发育率(P<0.05),而体外受精与孤雌激活胚胎在各阶段发育率差异均不显著.在体外受精中,精子入卵,激活卵母细胞,减数分裂恢复,纺锤丝牵拉赤道板卜致密排列的母源染色体向纺锤体两侧迁移;后期将染色体拉向两极;末期时,微管分布于两组已去凝集的母源染色体之间,卵母细胞排出第二极体(the second polarbody,Pb2),解聚的母源染色体形成雌原核.同时,在受精后5～8 h精子染色质发生去浓缩与再浓缩,形成雄原核.在原核形成的同时,胞质星体在雌、雄原核的周围重组形成长的微管,负责雌、雄原核的迁移靠近.孤雌活化过程中,卵母细胞恢复减数分裂,姐妹染色单体分离,被拉向两极,经细胞松弛素B处理后,活化4～6 h,卵周隙中未见Pb2,而在胞质中出现两个混合的单倍体原核,之间由微管相连接,负责两个单倍体原核的迁移靠近.与体外受精相比较,孤雌活化时卵母细胞更容易被激活,减数分裂期间微管的发育早且更完善.     

PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION OF THE KARYOGAMY-BLOCKED SPERM PRONUCLEUS IN THE FERTILIZATION OF FUCUS DISTICHUS (FUCALES,PHAEOPHYCEAE)1

Mitosis of egg and sperm pronuclei of Fucus distichus subsp. evanescens (C. Agardh)Powell was examined by fluorescence and electron microscopy when migration of the sperm pronucleus and, as a result, karyogamy were blocked by colchicine treatment after plasmogamy. Chromosome condensation was obsewed in both pronuclei Microspectrophotometric studies after staining the nuclei with mithramycin A clearly showed that DNA synthesis ocurred in the egg pronucleus but not in the sperm pronucleus. This means that chromosomes condensed prematurely in the sperm pronucleus (premature chromosome condensation). In some cases, the egg chromosomes became arranged on a metaphase plate, whereas the sperm chromosomes lay scattered near the egg pronucleus. Immuno fluorescence microscopy using anti-β-tubulin antibody confirmed that a normal spindle was formed at the egg pronucleus. A pair of centrioles existed at the two poles of this spindle. The sperm nuclear membrane disappeared, and microtubules radiated to the sperm chromosomes from one pole of the egg spindle.     

Distributional Change of Membrane-associated Calcium in Sea Urchin Eggs during Fertilization

The "source and sink" for the intracellular calcium released during fertilization were examined in sea urchin eggs, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus , with chlortetracycline as a fluorescent chelate probe. In order to distinguish the differential distribution of membrane-associated calcium in various compartments in cytoplasm, eggs were stratified by centrifugation before or after fertilization. Only the layer containing mainly mitochondria exhibited the chlortetracycline-fluorescence in unfertilized eggs. After fertilization, a new fluorescent band emerged in the membrane-rich clear layer of stratified eggs. Chlortetracycline-fluorescence in the clear layer was gradually redistributed surrounding the prophase nucleus and then incorporated into the mitotic apparatus. From these observations, we postulate that the major source(s) of released free calcium ions at fertilization is in the mitochondira layer and membranes in the clear layer are newly activated as the calcium sequestering system after fertilization.     

In vitro fertilization in ctenophores: sperm entry, mitosis, and the establishment of bilateral symmetry in Beroe ovata.

We have found ways to control in vitro fertilization in a ctenophore (Beroe ovata) for the first time. This is based on the existence of a partial block to self-fertilization at the time of gamete release which can be overcome by removal of the egg envelope. It has allowed us to exploit the excellent optical properties of Beroe eggs to make detailed observations on all events from sperm penetration or penetrations in these physiologically polyspermic eggs to first cleavage, and to extend our initial observations (Carré and Sardet, 1984). Sperm entry is characterized by local modifications of the egg cortex in a 70-microns zone around the penetration site or sites. Upon sperm entry, the egg surface contracts and relaxes locally, then a fertilization cone forms and disappears. These events are accompanied by localized exocytosis, growth of a ring of microvilli, thickening of the egg cortex, and gathering of mitochondria around the sperm pronuclei. The female pronucleus then migrates beneath the egg surface toward one or successive sperm pronuclei. The fusion of pronuclei, sperm and egg chromatin intermixing, and mitosis were also observed with exceptional clarity. Furthermore, we have noticed that the direction of the last trajectory of the female pronucleus tends to define the orientation of the mitotic spindle, and as a consequence the position of first unipolar cleavage furrow. This in turn determines the future sagittal plane of the embryo and of the adult B. ovata.     

Source and sinks for the calcium released during fertilization of single sea urchin eggs

The source and sinks for the intracellular calcium released during fertilization were examined in single eggs from the sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata. Single eggs were microinjected with the calcium photoprotein, aequorin. The calcium-aequorin luminescence was measured with a microscope-photomultiplier or observed with a microscope-image intensifier-video system. In the normal egg a propagated release has been observed. The source of the calcium was investigated in the organelle-stratified centrifuged egg and by the use of mitochondrial uncouplers. In the organelle-stratified centrifuged egg, the calcium-aequorin luminescence was found to originate from the clear zone. The principal constituent of the clear zone is the endoplasmic reticulum. Other potential sources of calcium are the mitochondria. Their contribution to the calcium transient was investigated by exposure of aequorin-injected eggs to mitochondrial uncouplers either before or after fertilization. There was no calcium released from the mitochondria before fertilization. A very large calcium store was released from the mitochondria after fertilization. Interestingly, eggs fertilized in the presence of uncouplers showed no increase in the calcium-aequorin luminescence over untreated eggs. Apparently, in the absence of mitochondrial uptake, other sinks for calcium with affinity and capacity similar to the mitochondria exist, but their nature is unknown. We suggest that the endoplasmic reticulum is the source of the intracellular calcium released upon fertilization and that the mitochondria are the principal sink. The results are discussed with regard to the metabolic activation of the egg.