正常和癌变胃粘膜组织的共焦拉曼光谱初探

目的:分析研究胃正常和癌变粘膜组织的拉曼光谱特征,为拉曼光谱应用于胃癌的临床检测诊断奠定基础。方法:收集胃镜检查中活检的19例正常和12例癌变胃粘膜组织标本,采用785 nm激发光拉曼光谱仪进行拉曼光谱采集。比较分析胃正常和癌变粘膜组织的拉曼光谱特征差异并研究其区分正常和癌变组织的价值。结果:1)特征峰1 098 cm-1、1 444 cm-1、1 555 cm-1、1 660 cm-1等在胃癌组织中发生了移位,平均位移(2.57±1.28)cm-1,以红移为主;2)癌变组织中相对峰强比I1087 cm-1/I1207 cm-1≥1.87,其区别胃癌和正常胃粘膜组织的准确率、灵敏度和特异度分别为87.1%、83.3%、89.5%;3)癌组织中增加了表征蛋白质的特征峰1 262 cm-1、1 586 cm-1,但同时减少了表征蛋白质和脂质特征峰1 172 cm-1。结论:拉曼光谱不仅可以准确区分正常和癌变,而且可以探索癌变相关的分子生化改变。拉曼光谱在胃癌的跟踪发现和检测诊断中具有良好前景。     

体外联合使用指纹区及高波数区拉曼光谱诊断胃癌

目的:研究正常胃粘膜和胃癌组织在拉曼光谱指纹区(800-1 800 cm-1)和高波数区(2 800-3 000 cm-1)的光谱特征,并将其联合使用建立胃癌诊断模型。方法:收集38例正常胃粘膜和37例胃癌组织活检标本,采用785 nm激发光拉曼光谱仪进行拉曼光谱采集。比较正常胃粘膜和胃癌组织在指纹区和高波数区的拉曼光谱异同,使用偏最小二乘判别分析(PLS-DA)结合留一法交叉验证建立诊断模型。结果:1)胃癌组织在853 cm~(-1),879cm~(-1),1 003 cm~(-1),1 047 cm~(-1),1 173 cm-1,1 304 cm~(-1),1 319 cm~(-1),1 338 cm~(-1),1 374 cm-1、2 932 cm-1谱峰处与正常胃粘膜的拉曼峰强度差异有统计学意义(P0.05)2)将拉曼光谱指纹区和高波数区联合,利用PLS-DA建立胃癌诊断模型的敏感性为94.59%(35/37),特异性为86.84(33/38),正确率为90.6%(68/75)。结论:正常胃粘膜和胃癌组织在拉曼光谱指纹区和高波数区均有显著差异,将上述两区联合使用建立模型诊断胃癌能取得良好的诊断效果。     

拉曼光谱在皮肤领域的研究进展

拉曼光谱是一种新型的光学检测技术,常用于材料鉴定。近年来,随着无创检测需求的增加,拉曼光谱逐渐应用于疾病诊断、物质鉴别等生物领域。综述了拉曼光谱在皮肤领域的研究进展,及其对皮肤组织成分鉴别和皮肤疾病诊断的价值,以期推动拉曼光谱广泛应用于皮肤病学的机理研究和临床诊断。     

激光拉曼光谱在蛋白质构象研究中的应用和进展

激光拉曼光谱法被公认为是研究生物大分子的结构、动力学和功能的有效方法。近年来拉曼光谱在蛋白质构象研究中的最新进展,涉及到拉曼光谱在非折叠蛋白质、蛋白质装配的特征描述,拉曼晶体学在实时监控蛋白质单晶中化学变化等方面的应用。另外,介绍了蛋白质拉曼光谱分析在生物技术中的应用现状。并对拉曼光谱技术在蛋白质等生物大分子领域中的研究前景做了进一步的展望。     

几种生物大分子的激光拉曼光谱

第一个生物大分子——溶菌酶的激光拉曼光谱发表于1968年。两年后R.C.Lord等用浓溶菌酶水溶液实验,对其大部分拉曼谱带作了指认。1970年Rimai等人发表了胡萝卜素、番茄红素、番茄组织和视网膜中视蛋白的共振拉曼光谱。随后十年,拉曼光谱在生物学领域中应用发展极其迅速,     

利用PCA-LDA和参数-CART方法对直肠癌血清拉曼光谱的分析

本文利用拉曼光谱技术检测由直肠癌的发生导致的血清成分的变化。比较了直肠癌患者和对照组之间血清拉曼光谱的差异,并对术后直肠癌患者血清拉曼光谱的变化也进行了比较,以监测术后治疗效果。结果表明在某些波数位置不同组的拉曼峰有统计学意义的变化,这些变化反应了血清中相应的生物物质的改变。之后,主成分分析(PCA)及峰强比参数这两种方法被用于原始拉曼光谱的特征变量的提取。将线性判别分析(LDA)和分类回归树(CART)两种判别分析法用于特征变量的判别分析。PCA-LDA和参数-CART方法的诊断准确率分别为87%和90%。     

拉曼光谱技术在肿瘤检测中的应用

癌症是威胁人类健康和生命的严重疾病之一,早期诊断与及时治疗是提高癌症患者生存率的最有效途径。激光拉曼光谱技术作为一种非侵入性的检测技术,可以无损伤地提供丰富的分子结构特征和物质成分信息,从分子水平上反映癌变组织与正常组织之间的结构差异,从而可用于癌症的早期诊断。综述了激光拉曼光谱技术在皮肤癌、鼻咽癌、肺癌、胃癌、结肠癌、乳腺癌及前列腺癌诊断中的研究进展,并对拉曼光谱技术在癌症诊断中的发展方向和应用前景作了进一步的展望,为癌症的早期检测和诊断技术的应用研究提供参考依据。     

CT对于肝脏良性占位性病变及肝癌的鉴别诊断价值分析

目的:探讨CT对于肝脏良性占位性病变及肝癌的鉴别诊断价值。方法:收取2013年3月至2016年3月我院收治的肝脏良性占位性病变及肝癌患者101例作为研究对象,按照病变类型将其分为A、B、C三组。其中A组包含原发性肝癌患者32例,B组包含肝转移癌患者28例,C组包含肝血管瘤患者41例。采用CT全肝灌注扫描模式对三组患者占位病灶组织、病灶周围组织及正常肝脏组织灌注参数进行比较。结果:三组占位病灶组织,B组患者肝动脉灌注量(HAP)最低,C组患者HAP最高;A组患者门静脉灌注量(PVP)最低,C组患者PVP最高,三组两两比较均有显著差异(P0.05)。C组总肝灌注量(TLP)明显高于A组和B组(P0.05),A、B组间无统计学差异(P0.05)。三组肝动脉灌注指数(HPI)无明显差异(P0.05);B组病灶周围组织HAP及HPI明显高于A、C组(P0.05),A、C组间无统计学差异(P0.05);三组PVP及TLP差异不显著(P0.05);三组正常肝脏组织CT灌注参数均无显著差异(P0.05)。结论:CT灌注成像对于原发性肝癌、肝转移癌及肝血管瘤具有一定的鉴别诊断价值,但明确诊断仍需结合其他检测方法进行。     

食道癌组织表面增强拉曼光谱研究

本研究采用以金纳米粒子为增强基底的表面增强拉曼光谱技术对31位食道癌患者的62例食道组织样本进行分析,其中包含31例肿瘤组织与31例正常组织.食道癌组织和正常组织表面增强拉曼光谱之间存在明显差异.利用主成分分析和线性判别分析算法对采集的组织表面增强拉曼光谱进行诊断研究.利用主成分分析-线性判别分析统计分析方法得到诊断灵敏度与特异性分别为90.3%与90.3%.为验证所构建的主成分分析-线性判别分析算法的有效性,利用受试样品的工作特征曲线方法,对所构建的算法的有效性进行评价.通过对组织表面增强拉曼光谱谱峰归属分析可知,癌组织中蛋白质结构可能发生变化,磷脂质的相对含量下降;而氨基化合物、组蛋白、苯基丙氨酸和酪氨酸的相对含量出现上升.研究表明,以金纳米粒子为增强基底的表面增强拉曼光谱技术结合主成分分析-线性判别分析统计分析方法能够准确区分食道癌患者肿瘤与正常组织.食道癌组织表面增强拉曼光谱技术有望成为一种食道癌的临床诊断与筛查工具.     

拉曼光谱检测微生物的研究方法和进展北大核心

快速准确地识别和鉴定微生物对于环境科、食品质量以及医学诊断等领域研究至关重要。拉曼光谱(Raman spectroscopy)已经被证明是一种能够实现微生物快速诊断的新技术,在提供微生物指纹图谱信息的同时,能够快速、非标记、无创、敏感地在固体和液体环境中实现微生物单细胞水平的检测。本文简单介绍了拉曼光谱的基本概念和原理,重点综述了拉曼光谱微生物检测应用中的样品处理方法及光谱数据处理方法。除此之外,本文概括了拉曼光谱在细菌、病毒和真菌中的应用,其中单独概括了拉曼在细菌快速鉴定和抗生素药敏检测中的应用。最后,本文阐述了拉曼光谱在微生物检测中的挑战和展望。     

Recent advances in the study of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus replication and pathogenesis

It has now been over twenty years since a novel herpesviral genome was identified in Kaposi's sarcoma biopsies. Since then, the cumulative research effort by molecular biologists, virologists, clinicians, and epidemiologists alike has led to the extensive characterization of this tumor virus, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus(KSHV; also known as human herpesvirus 8(HHV-8)), and its associated diseases. Here we review the current knowledge of KSHV biology and pathogenesis, with a particular emphasis on new and exciting advances in the field of epigenetics. We also discuss the development and practicality of various cell culture and animal model systems to study KSHV replication and pathogenesis.     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

The structure, reproduction and taxonomy of Vidalia and Osmundaria (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae)

Comprises species occurring mostly in subtidal habitats in tropical, subtropical and warm-temperate areas of the world. An analysis of the type species, V. spiralis (Sonder) Lamouroux ex J. Agardh, a species from Australia, establishes basic characters for distinguishing species in the genus. These characters are (1) branching patterns of thalli, (2) flat blades that may be spiralled on their axis, (3) width of the blade, (4) primary or secondary derivation of sterile and fertile branchlets and (5) position of sterile and fertile branchlets on the thalli. Application of the latter two characters provides an important basic method for separation of species into three major groups. Osmundaria , a genus known only in southern Australia, was studied in relation to Vidalia , and its separation from the Vidalia assemblage is not accepted. Species of Vidalia therefore are transferred to the older genus name, Osmundaria. Two new species, Osmundaria papenfussii and Osmundaria oliveae are described from Natal. Confusion in the usage of the epithet, Vidalia fimbriala Brown ex Turner has been clarified, and Vidalia gregaria Falkenberg, described as an epiphyte on Osmundaria pro/ifera Lamouroux, is revealed to be young branches of the host, Osmundaria prolifera.     

New or rare chromosome counts in Artemisia L. (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) and related genera from Kazakhstan

Fifteen chromosome counts of six Artemisia taxa and one species of each of the genera Brachanthemum, Hippolytia, Kaschgaria, Lepidolopsis and Turaniphytum are reported from Kazakhstan. Three of them are new reports, two are not consistent with previous counts and the remainder are confirmations of very scarce (one to four) earlier records. All the populations studied have the same basic chromosome number, x = 9, with ploidy levels ranging from 2x to 6x. Some correlations between ploidy level, morphological characters and distribution are noted.