猫疱疹病毒Ⅰ型环介导等温扩增检测方法的建立

建立一种环介导等温扩增(LAMP)检测方法,实现对猫疱疹病毒Ⅰ型(FHV-1)的快速、准确、简便检测。根据Gen Bank中FHV-1的TK基因设计引物,优化反应条件,通过琼脂糖凝胶电泳和SYBR GreenⅠ染色观察分析扩增效果。该方法特异性好,敏感性检测实验表明该检测方法最低能够检测到的模版是101copies/μL,是PCR检测方法灵敏度的10倍。金属浴、烘箱、恒温水浴锅与PCR仪四种不同的扩增反应仪器均可达到LAMP的要求,扩增出梯形条带。建立了针对FHV-1的LAMP检测方法,该种检测方法具有高特异性的扩增引物,对检测的仪器、反应条件及检测人员技术要求比较宽松,从扩增开始到通过SYBR GreenⅠ实现的结果可视化解读所用时间不到1 h,实现了快速、准确、简便检测FHV-1的目的。     

土壤中棉花黄萎病菌SYBR Green Ⅰ荧光RT-PCR定量检测技术研究

为实现田间土壤棉花黄萎病菌的早期检测,建立了土壤中棉花黄萎病菌的SYBR GreenⅠ荧光定量PCR检测方法.以含342bp PCR扩增产物的阳性质粒为参考,构建了标准曲线,并对该曲线的特异性、敏感性、可重复性进行了评价.结果表明,该方法具有快速、特异性强、敏感度高等特点.检测范围在3.8×103-3.8×108cop...     

鸭冠状病毒实时荧光定量PCR检测方法的建立及应用

为建立一种鸭冠状病毒（Duck coronaviruses,DuCoV）的临床快速诊断方法，根据鸭冠状病毒1b基因保守区域设计特异性引物，成功建立了用于检测鸭冠状病毒的特异性SYBR GreenⅠ荧光定量PCR方法。该方法特异性强、敏感性高、重复性好，对鸭冠状病毒有特异性扩增，最低检测限为8.04×100拷贝/μL，比普通PCR方法敏感10倍，批内变异系数与批间变异系数分别为0.28%～0.34%、0.25%～0.36%，均小于1%。对临床可疑鸭泄殖腔拭子进行检测，本方法与常规PCR方法的检测结果阳性符合率为100%，阴性符合率为96.43%，样本总符合率为97.62%。本研究建立的鸭冠状病毒SYBR GreenⅠ实时荧光定量PCR方法，可用于鸭冠状病毒的临床快速诊断及流行病学监测。     

鸭瘟病毒LAMP可视化检测方法的建立

目的:建立一种快速、简便、特异性高的鸭瘟病毒(DPV)环介导等温扩增(LAMP)检测方法。方法:根据Gen Bank中DPVUI6基因的保守序列设计一套特异性引物,并对反应条件进行优化,建立DPV的LAMP可视化检测方法。结果:建立的LAMP方法对其他鸭常见病原体无扩增反应;可通过肉眼观察颜色直接判定结果;敏感性可达0.1fg,是常规PCR方法的100倍;扩增反应只须在常规水浴锅中进行,可在1 h内完成。结论:建立的DPV LAMP方法简便、快速、灵敏、特异,可用于DPV感染的快速检测。     

LAMP快速检测对虾IHHNV的方法与应用

建立了一种检测对虾传染性皮下及造血组织坏死病毒(Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis vi-rus,I HHNV)快速、灵敏的环介导等温扩增(Loop-mediated isothermal amplification,LAMP)方法。针对I HHNV非结构蛋白基因NS1序列的6个保守区域,利用Pri mer Explorer v4.0软件设计4条引物,建立了I HHNV环介导等温扩增快速检测方法,对反应温度和反应时间等参数进行了优化,并将建立的LAMP检测方法与常规PCR检测进行了比较分析。结果表明,LAMP最适反应在65℃恒温条件60min内完成,凝胶电泳呈现特征性梯型条带;反应体系中添加SYBR Green I荧光染料后,绿色的阳性结果很明显区别于橙色阴性结果。LAMP方法的最低检出限为100拷贝/μL,灵敏度较常规PCR高1000倍。用建立的LAMP方法对临床发病南美白对虾样品进行了检测,结果表明建立的LAMP方法适合于对虾I HHNV的现场快速检测。     

单管可视化环介导等温扩增技术快速检测恶性疟原虫

目的:建立一种基于环介导等温核酸扩增技术(Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification,LAMP)的恶性疟原虫高灵敏可视化闭管检测方法。方法:针对恶性疟原虫核糖体DNA的序列保守区设计LAMP引物,通过优化LAMP体系中的Mg2+、甜菜碱浓度和反应温度等因素,建立环介导等温扩增法;并结合蜡封反应管对产物进行检测,检测结果可直接通过肉眼观察SYBR Green I荧光显色进行判定。结果:本方法可检测到70个拷贝/管的恶性疟原虫核酸片段,并具有高特异性,可区分检测常见的血液病毒。该法具有如下优点:1、整个反应恒温进行,无需热循环仪;2、闭管检测,极大降低了扩增产物交叉污染的风险;3、检测速度快,整个检测过程只需30 min。结论:该法的建立为恶性疟原虫的现场快速筛检提供了一种简便、高灵敏、高特异的工具。     

腐皮镰刀菌SYBR Green实时荧光定量PCR快速检测方法的建立

目的建立一种能够快速、灵敏、特异的鉴定腐皮镰刀菌的SYBR Green实时荧光定量PCR。方法运用SYBR Green实时荧光定量PCR反应体系检测腐皮镰刀菌,并对此方法的特异性、灵敏度和稳定性进行评价。结果通过对45例样品的检测,结果显示SYBR Green实时荧光定量PCR特异性好,其检出率高于普通PCR;灵敏度高,对重组质粒标准品的检测灵敏度为1.0×10~2copies/μL;稳定性好,对质粒为1.0×10~7copies/μL、1.0×10~5copies/μL、1.0×10~3copies/μL的标准品重复检测10次,结果显示扩增反应Ct值的变异系数为0.96%~1.68%。结论SYBR Green实时荧光定量PCR检测腐皮镰刀菌,不仅特异性好,灵敏度高,稳定性好,而且简便、快速、易操作。     

SYBR Green实时荧光PCR高通量检测转基因大豆油

采用SYBR Green实时荧光PCR技术,建立了食用大豆油转基因成分的检测方法.根据转基因大豆中内源参照基因lectin和外源基因35S启动子、NoS终止子和ep4 epsps基因,设计特异性引物,在Roche荧光PCR仪上进行实时荧光PCR扩增.荧光曲线表明,SYBR Green实时荧光PCR可特异性地检测大豆油中的转基因成分,方法准确、快速,并运用熔解曲线进行产物分析,验证了试验结果的特异性和准确性,检测方法灵敏度高.     

荧光定量PCR与LAMP检测IHHNV的特异性和灵敏性比较

传染性皮下及造血器官坏死病毒(IHHNV)是世界各地养殖对虾的重要病毒性病原之一,给对虾养殖业造成严重经济损失.研究建立了检测IHHNV的荧光定量PCR和环介导等温核酸扩增(Loop-mediated isothermal amplification,LAMP)两种技术,并对它们的特异性和灵敏性进行了比较.结果显示,所建立的荧光定量PCR检测IHHNV的方法最低检测限度为6个DNA拷贝/反应,在待扩增DNA浓度为6.038×104-6.038×109cps/mL,范围时,模板浓度与循环阈值Ct之间的相关性良好,决定系数r2为0.99521;对5份白斑综合症病毒基因组DNA和10份健康对虾基因组DNA样品进行荧光定量PCR检测,结果都为阴性;这说明荧光定量PCR检测IHHNV方法具有灵敏度高、特异性高和精确性高等优点.同样,所建立的LAMP检测IHHNV的方法在60min反应时间内也可榆测到最低为6个拷贝的DNA模板,反应产物加入荧光染料SYBR Green Ⅰ后反应液呈现明显的亮绿色,且特异的检测IHHNV DNA模板;这说明所建立的LAMP检测IHHNV的方法具有荧光定量PCR方法相当的灵敏度、特异性和精确性.考虑到LAMP检测方法操作更为简单、方便,而且不需要昂贵的仪器,LAMP检测IHHNV的方法更适合于对虾养殖现场检测的推广使用.     

Income and body mass index in Europe

The problem of obesity is alarming public health authorities around the world. Therefore, it is important to study its determinants. In this paper, we explore the empirical relationship between household income and body mass index (BMI) in nine European Union countries. Our findings suggest that, in general, the association is negative for women and nonexistent for men. Moreover, once we decompose household income into “own labor earnings” and “other household income”, we find that the different relationship for men and women appears to be driven by the negative relationship between BMI and “own labor earnings” for women.     

Trends in U.S. food prices, 1950-2007

The potential effect that food prices may have on the health of the U.S. population needs to be further explored, particularly in light of the rising food prices currently being observed. Declining food prices over time have been singled out as a main contributor, for example, to the rising trend in obesity. In this paper we use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the United States Department of Agriculture to analyze trends in various types of food prices, to create a food price index, and to estimate the price of a calorie. Results may be used by future researchers in estimating the health implications of these trends. We find that while the general trend in food prices has been declining, that of restaurant meal prices and prices of fruits and vegetables has risen over time. It is doubtful that the decline in food prices has been sufficiently large to account for the large increase in caloric intake that is said to have contributed to the obesity epidemic in the U.S.     

Requiem for nutrition as the cause of IQ gains: Raven's gains in Britain 1938-2008

The hypothesis that enhanced nutrition is mainly responsible for massive IQ gains over time borrows plausibility from the height gains of the 20th century. However, evidence shows that the two trends are largely independent. A detailed analysis of IQ trends on the Raven's Progressive Matrices tests in Britain dramatizes the poverty of the nutrition hypothesis. A multiple factor hypothesis that operates on three levels is offered as an alternative instrument of causal explanation.The Raven's data show that over the 65 years from circa 1942 to the present, taking ages 5-15 together, British school children have gained 14 IQ points for a rate of 0.216 points per year. However, since 1979, gains have declined with age and between the ages of 12-13 and 14-15, small gains turn into small losses. This is confirmed by Piagetian data and poses the possibility that the cognitive demands of teen-age subculture have been stagnant over perhaps the last 30 years.     

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: a multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994).

A growing body of literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood context and body mass index (BMI) or whether the association between neighborhood context and BMI differs by ethnicity. This paper investigates several neighborhood characteristics as potential explanatory factors for the variation of BMI across the United States; further, this paper explores to what extent segregation and the concentration of disadvantage across neighborhoods help explain ethnic disparities in BMI. Using data geo-coded at the census tract-level and linked with individual-level data from the Third National Health and Examination Survey in the United States (U.S.), we find significant variation in BMI across U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, neighborhood characteristics have a significant association with body mass and partially explain ethnic disparities in BMI, net of individual-level adjustments. These data also reveal evidence that ethnic enclaves are not in fact advantageous for the body mass index of Hispanics-a relationship counter to what has been documented for other health outcomes.     

Early childhood length-for-age is associated with the work status of Filipino young adults

Most studies on childhood health and human capital in developing countries examine how early childhood linear growth relates to later human productivity as reflected in schooling success. Work status is another important human capital outcome related to early child health. This study examines the relationship of linear growth restriction at 2 years of age to work status in young adults who have, for the most part completed their schooling and further explores whether this relationship differs by gender. The analysis sample of 1795 was drawn from participants in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, which followed individuals from birth to age 20-22 years. Work status in 2005 was represented by three categories: not working, working in an informal job, and working in a formal job. Formal work in the Philippines, as in most countries, is associated with regular hours, higher wages and benefits. Analyses were stratified by gender and current school enrolment, and adjusted for socioeconomic status and attained years of schooling. Among males no longer in school, higher length-for-age Z-score (LAZ) at age 2 was associated with a 40% increase in likelihood of formal work compared to not working. In females, each 1 unit increase in LAZ was associated with 0.2 higher likelihood of formal vs. informal work. No significant associations were observed in the small sample of young adults still in school. To improve job prospects of young adults, it is important to provide proper nutrition in early childhood and adequate educational opportunities during schooling years.     

A Taxonomic Revision of Illiberis Walker (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae: Procridinae) in Korea

The Korean species of Illiberis Walker are revised. A total of 10 species are recognized, including four species new to Korea: I. rotundata Jordan, I. psychina (OberthÜr), I. consimilis Leech, and I. hyalina (Staudinger). The identities of I. cybele Leech and I. assimilis Jordan, the two ambiguously defined Korean species, are reconfirmed with the examination of type specimens and additional materials. Photos of the adults and type materials are provided, and male and female genitalia of each species are illustrated. Biology and distribution for each species are briefly discussed with the larval host records from Korea.     

Four New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from China

In the paper four new species of the genus Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) are described from China. They are Impatiens fenghwaiana Y. L. Chen, I. wuyuanensis Y. L. Chen,I. jinggangensis Y. L. Ghen, and 1. hunanensis Y. L. Chen.     

国产青藤属3种植物的考订

对国产青藤属3种植物作了补充和修订．报道短蕊青藤在广西和广东的新分布,大花青藤在四川的新分布;将小果青藤和柔毛青藤归入大花青藤,将绣毛青藤归入红花青藤。     

中国八角科植物拾零

对５种国产八角科植物做了补充或修订。恢复了华中八角和匙叶八角;将川茴香作为华中八角的变种;将短柱八角归并至匙叶八角,滇南八角归并至小花八角;报道了一些省级分布新纪录。