音乐治疗效应的动物实验研究

近年来国内外关于音乐治疗效应的动物实验研究认为：音乐能影响动物的情绪;音乐还对动物的免疫功能、学习及记忆能力、以及动物的神经系统结构和功能等均有一定影响。该领域的研究有利于深入探索音乐疗法的作用机理。     

热带气旋对红树林的影响研究进展——基于文献计量分析

红树林在防风消浪、促淤保滩、固岸护堤等方面发挥重要的作用,是抵御台风、风暴潮、海岸侵蚀等自然灾害的重要天然屏障。热带气旋是红树林面临的最主要自然威胁之一,削弱了红树林对自然灾害的抵御及生物多性维持等功能发挥。然而,尽管热带气旋对红树林的影响日益受到全球的广泛关注,但缺乏对该领域研究进展的系统分析和总结。以Web of science核心集数据库为数据源,利用CiteSpace软件对1995—2021年间热带气旋对红树林影响研究进行文献计量分析和可视化图谱绘制,以厘清该领域研究的现状、趋势和热点,并揭示未来的发展方向。研究表明：（1）该领域研究年发文量随时间处于波动上升的趋势,尤其2013年后迅速增加,表明该领域的研究日益受到重视;（2）美国、澳大利亚和印度等国家在该领域的研究走在前列,美国的中介中心性最高,其次是德国,美国广泛地与德国、法国、日本等许多国家有密切合作;（3）美国佛罗里达、加勒比地区、澳大利亚北部和印度南部等是当前研究的热点区域;（4）研究热点随时间推移而不断发展,从红树林植被的干扰损害逐渐发展到固碳储碳、海岸防护等功能的影响。全球变化背景下热带气旋对红树林的影响、红树林对热带气旋干扰的弹性、基于遥感和大数据处理的模型模拟等日益受到关注,量化热带气旋对红树林功能的影响、探明热带气旋与海平面上升的关系及对红树林影响、构建完善的观测体系数据集等将是未来研究的重要方向。研究对长期关于热带气旋对红树林影响的研究进展进行定量和可视化分析,可为预测热带气旋对红树林的影响和风险、及减缓和应对其风险等研究提供借鉴参考。     

Time on task effects on safety

Reviewing the literature on time on task effects on safety shows contradictory evidence, especially with regard to 12 h shifts. It is argued that this might depend on methodological problems associated with the analysis of accident data, e.g. selectivity of samples, validity of data bases and study designs, especially for analyses at the company level. Analyses of aggregated data seem to indicate an exponential increase of accident risk with time on task beyond the normal working day. This is supported by some recent studies based on data from the Federal Republic of Germany.     

复杂疾病关联研究中的若干问题

关联研究广泛应用于阐述心血管疾病、2型糖尿病、原发性高血压和肥胖等人类复杂疾病的遗传学基础。文中就关联研究中混杂的识别与控制、候选基因的选择、中间表型的应用、单体型分析方法的应用,以及结果的判定等问题进行了讨论。人群分层是关联研究混杂的主要来源之一。选择患者亲属做对照、基因组对照和选择遗传背景较为一致的隔离人群都可以减少混杂。候选基因的选择可以基于与疾病间的生物学联系或是该基因与疾病某已知相关基因的同源性。适当的应用中间表型和单体型分析方法可以增加关联研究有意义发现的机会。本文认为,优化研究设计、足够的样本含量、正确选择对照,结合先进的数据分析方法,关联研究必将为困扰人类的常见疾病的易感性研究发挥更大的作用。     

Studies on the Enzymes Acting on Araban

Arabanase was purified by various procedures of gel filtrations and column chromatographies from the submerged culture filtrate of Aspergillus niger grown on the medium containing beet-araban as a carbon source, and the properties of the enzyme was examined. The purified enzyme was homogeneous protein in ultracentrifugal analysis, the optimum pH for enzymatic action was 4.0. The enzyme was thermostable at pH 6.0, namely, even after heating at 98°C for 10 minutes, 20.8 per cent of the initial activity still remained. The enzyme hydrolyzed beet-araban with producing l-arabinose.     

Perspectives on hair evolution based on some comparative studies on vertebrate cornification

Hair evolution contributed to the biological success of mammals. Hair origin from synapsid scales is speculative and requires extensive modifications of the morphogenetic process transforming lens-shaped dermis of scales into small dermal papillae in hair. Hair evolution from glands is hypothetical but is supported from studies on the signaling control of hair vs. glandular morphogenesis. Based on immunocytochemical and comparative studies, it is hypothesized that the onion-like organization of hair derived from glandular pegs which central part produced lipids and some keratin. In a following stage, involucrin, trichohyalin, and keratins were produced in the central cells of the gland and formed a solid medulla surrounded by keratinocytes of the inner root sheath. The origin of this protohair was possibly related to increased concentration of beta-catenin and other signaling molecules in epithelial cells following the evolution of a dermal papilla. The latter activated the keratogenic genes, already utilized in cells of the claws, in concentric layers of cells of the glandular peg. Lipidogenic genes were depressed. As new genes evolved in the genome of synapsids, new circular layers of keratinocytes containing specialized hard keratins and keratin-associated proteins were formed around medullary cells. The new keratinocytes probably originated the cortex separating medulla from the external cells that became the inner root sheath. The hypothesis indicates that in a following stage, the medulla was obliterated or replaced by cortical cells while the external part of the cortex formed a cuticular surface due to the different growth rate with inner root sheath cells.     

Studies on the effects of certain salts on germination,on growth of root,and on metabolism

Summary The effects of different concentrations of KCl, K₂SO₄, MgCl₂ and MgSO₄ on the growth in length of the first seminal root of wheat, and on the change in fresh and oven-dry weight of the seedling and its component parts have been studied. The effect of mannitol was also investigated for comparison and to study the osmotic action. The effect of salts on root growth was dependent on salt species; all effects were specific to ions and not due to osmotic activity of solution. The growth of wheat roots was suppressed by concentrations of salts much lower than those required to suppress germination. All solutions of KCl from 0.1 to 50 me/l checked the growth of the root; the retardation increased with increase of concentration. In K₂SO₄ there was a slight activation of root growth for one day in 0.1 and 0.5 me/l; then the growth was suppressed after that. In all other concentrations from 1 to 50 me/l the growth was retarded. In MgCl₂ or MgSO₄ there was some activation of root elongation in 0.05, 0.1 and 0.5 me/l; but higher concentrations retarded root growth.     

壳聚糖固定化木瓜蛋白酶的研究

以自制的壳聚糖作为载体,用戊二醛作交联剂,优化了固定化条件,研制成壳聚糖固定化木瓜蛋白酶。其活性回收率达到42—53％,操作半衰期达到一个月以上,对热、乙醇以及尿素的稳定性有很大的提高,Km值为0.67×10~2mg/mL,最适温度65—70℃,最适pH8.0,能使啤酒中的蛋白质浓度从56.5mg/L减少到2.7mg/L,可以消除啤酒的低温混浊现象。