乳酸杆菌肽聚糖对小鼠机体免疫功能的调节作用

以乳酸杆菌肽聚糖腹腔注射方式刺激小鼠,采用Affymetrix MOE430A基因芯片研究了乳酸杆菌肽聚糖对小鼠机体免疫细胞基因表达的影响,结果发现,乳酸杆菌肽聚糖可以刺激免疫调节细胞因子相关基因的表达,释放细胞免疫因子,其可能是通过激活TLR-NF-κB相关信号通路而实现的。     

利用文本提取工具构建乳杆菌肽聚糖特异性免疫调节网络

目的探索乳杆菌肽聚糖免疫调节作用的机制。方法BALB／c小鼠腹腔注射乳杆菌肽聚糖,从腹腔巨噬细胞和脾淋巴细胞提取RNA,基因芯片分析基因表达情况,利用Medscan从pubmed文献摘要提取肽聚糖相关基因网络,映射芯片数据获得乳杆菌肽聚糖特异基因网络。结果乳杆菌肽聚糖主要通过TLR2-NF-κB信号通路激活炎性细胞因子的表达,但是PGRP-L可能通过降解肽聚糖对此通路有负调节作用,NF-κB的激活可能诱导NOD2表达,对此通路进行负调节。结论乳杆菌肽聚糖通过与多种受体作用诱导独特的免疫反应,维持机体免疫稳态。     

益生菌防治过敏性鼻炎的研究进展

益生菌是一类在适当的摄入数量时会对宿主机体带来益处的活体微生物,其对机体的免疫系统具有调节作用。研究表明,益生菌可以通过调节Th1/Th2平衡,纠正患者肠道菌群的紊乱,从而缓解过敏性症状。本研究综述了近年来研究益生菌防治过敏性鼻炎的进展。     

益生菌与肠道健康

肠道菌群与人体肠道健康密切相关.益生菌在防治感染、调节机体菌群平衡,提高机体免疫力和儿童生长发育等发挥关键作用.本文主要介绍了益生菌与肠道健康的主要作用机制及益生菌在消化道疾病的应用.     

益生菌辅助防治过敏性疾病的研究进展

益生菌是一类在适当的摄入数量时会对宿主机体带来益处的活体微生物,其对于机体的免疫系统具有调节作用.研究表明,益生菌可以通过调节Th1/Th2平衡,增加宿主对相关抗原的口服耐受,从而缓解过敏性症状.本文综述了近十年来研究益生菌抗过敏作用在体外试验、动物实验和临床试验三方面的进展.     

乳酸杆菌肽聚糖免疫作用的研究进展

乳酸杆菌是一群生活在机体内益于宿主健康的微生物,它维护人体健康和调节免疫功能的作用已被广泛认可.而对于乳酸杆菌里起免疫调节作用的具体成分目前还不十分清楚.大量资料显示乳酸杆菌细胞壁成分肽聚糖可能在这方面起到了重要作用,乳酸杆菌的细胞壁肽聚糖(whole peptidoglycan,WPG)能够增强吞噬细胞功能、诱导细胞因子和一氧化氮等免疫介质的释放,在抗感染和抗肿瘤免疫中发挥重要作用.本研究综述了乳酸杆菌肽聚糖在免疫方面作用的研究进展.     

益生菌的治疗现状与前景以及 对呼吸道有益菌探索的研究进展

益生菌是调节机体微生态失衡的有效途径。肝功能异常影响肠道微生物,慢性肝衰竭、2型糖尿病、动脉粥样硬化相关心血管疾病等与肠道微生态失衡密切相关。同时肠道菌群亦受环境、遗传等复合条件影响,改变菌群组成可能导致疾病的发生发展。提倡益生菌对疾病的预防、治疗、预后,改善机体微环境,提高生命质量。近年来,益生菌、益生元、合生元三方面的研究飞速发展,对肠道益生菌研发已经取得一定成果。呼吸道作为与外界相通的腔道其优势菌群已经有相关报道,但对呼吸道益生菌的探索尚不明确,呼吸道内的优势菌是否可以制成益生菌制剂尚有待研究。     

益生菌的多重抗病毒作用及其机制

病毒性疾病对人类和动物健康造成了重大威胁。由于现有的免疫接种和抗病毒疗法的局限性,开发安全、广谱、廉价的新型抗病毒制剂极为迫切。益生菌是摄入后能对机体产生多种有益作用的活性微生物,其抗病毒作用及潜在机制是当前的研究热点。本文介绍了益生菌通过促进肠道细胞的紧密连接和产生有利物质来维护机体黏膜屏障;与病毒竞争结合靶点或直接捕获并抑杀病毒;刺激机体免疫系统,调节固有免疫反应和适应性免疫反应;分泌具有抗病毒作用的代谢产物来发挥抗病毒作用及其作用机制,以期为益生菌的抗病毒相关研究提供参考。     

肠道益生菌抗病毒作用及其机制研究进展

肠道益生菌可以对宿主的健康和生理功能产生积极影响,它们能够抑制一些病原微生物生长,维持肠道微生态平衡,调节免疫,净化肠道环境,改善机体代谢等,近些年来引起人们的高度关注和研究。随着益生菌的生理功能一步步被开发出来,其作用的机制也逐渐被人们所发现,使人们对益生菌有了更新的认识。本文针对近些年来新发现的肠道益生菌的抗病毒作用及其机制做一概述。     

肠道益生菌对骨质疏松症影响及其机制的研究进展

益生菌对改善和维持肠道菌群的平衡,促进宿主体机体健康起着重要的作用。近年来,肠道菌群对骨骼健康特别是对骨质疏松症的影响的研究逐渐深入。结果显示,益生菌被证实为对骨质疏松症具有潜在的预防和治疗效果。本文综述了有关益生菌对卵巢切除小鼠因雌激素缺乏而引起的骨质疏松症的影响及其机制。雌激素缺乏引起的骨质疏松症具有肠道菌群的依赖性并被益生菌所预防。     

四川缙云山森林群落林窗边缘效应的研究

 本文运用Shannon—Wiener物种多样性指数、Simpson生态优势度指标以及边缘效应强度指数,对缙云山亚热带森林群落林窗的边缘效应现象进行了初步研究。29个林窗样地不同部位上述指标的测定表明用物种多样性指数拟合边缘效应测度通式,缙云山亚热带森林群落林窗的边缘效应强度值为1—3左右;而用生态优势度值拟合边缘效应强度测式,则上述边缘效应强度值为0.1一1.2左右。研究表明林窗边缘区由于边缘效应的作用有增大物种多样性的趋势。而林窗面积、所处坡向以及林窗所在的森林群落类型,都对处于不同发育阶段的林窗的边缘效应强度具有影响。在此基础上,本文对林窗边缘效应强度的变化规律、效应性质、测定意义以及对森林营造和优化管理上的作用进行了一定探讨。     

Development of Monascus fermentation technology for high hypolipidemic effect

Monascus species has been used as the traditional food fungus in Eastern Asia for several centuries. Monascus-fermented products are gradually developed as the popular functional food for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, but we know that culture condition affects the hypolipidemic effect of Monascus-fermented product. In the past, the cholesterol-lowering agent--monacolin K--is regarded as the most important hypolipidemic agent. Two natural yellow pigments--monascin and ankaflavin--are also proven as novel hypolipidemic agents in recent years. However, the hypolipidemic effect of Monascus-fermented product should contribute from monacolin K, monascin, ankaflavin, and other unknown functional ingredients. In addition to hypolipidemic effect, the safety concern of Monascus-fermented product is involved in the levels of mycotoxin--citrinin. The hypolipidemic effect and the production of these functional metabolites or mycotoxin are influenced by many factors such as the choice of culture substrates, carbon and nitrogen source, pH value, extra nutrients, and so on. Therefore, this review focused on the effect of various culture conditions and nutrients on the functional metabolites production, hypolipidemic effect as well as citrinin concentration, and further organized the fermentation technologies used by previous studies for the promotion of hypolipidemic effect and safety.     

Effect of ions on the dielectric relaxation of DNA

The dielectric relaxation of DNA solutions has been investigated with and without extraneous ions covering a wide frequency range. The effect of monovalent ions such as Na, K, and Li as well as divalent ions such as Mg, Ca, and Hg have been included in the study. These ions are found to have a profound effect on the dielectric increment and the relaxation time without affecting the molecular dimension drastically. This dielectric effect is interpreted as indicating the importance of counterion fluctuation on the low frequency dielectric constant of DNA in solution. The effect of an organic ion, tetra-methylammoniun bromide, has also been studied. This ion has no noticeable effect. A simple theory is derived on the basis of a microscopic model to account for the effect of external ions on the dielectric behavior of solutions of DNA.     

Adaptation of electropic and ionotropic vagal effects on the isolated rabbit atrium]

Long-time vagal stimulation induces a decrease of electrotropic and inotropic effects on the isolated rabbit atrium in spite of constant stimulation frequency. This decrease is defined as effect adaptation. To compensate this effect adaptation, the n. vagus was stimulated with increasing stimulation frequency. Compensation is possible for a certain period referred to as control time. The adaptation of the electrotropic effects is more delayed and weaker than the inotropic effect adaptation. The control times of the electrotropic effect are longer than those of the inotropic effect. Acetylcholine perfusion without vagal stimulation shows the same results. It was shown that the effect adaptaion does not result from depletion of acetylcholine stores or from co-stimulation of sympathetic nerve fibres. The effect adaptation is discussed as being the result of machano-electrical coupling.     

Point and interval estimation of baseline risk and treatment effect based on logistic model for observational studies

In observational studies with dichotomous outcome of a population, researchers usually report treatment effect alone, although both baseline risk and treatment effect are needed to evaluate the significance of the treatment effect to the population. In this article, we study point and interval estimates including confidence region of baseline risk and treatment effect based on logistic model, where baseline risk is the risk of outcome of the population under control treatment while treatment effect is measured by the risk difference between outcomes of the population under active versus control treatments. Using approximate normal distribution of the maximum‐likelihood (ML) estimate of the model parameters, we obtain an approximate joint distribution of the ML estimate of the baseline risk and the treatment effect. Using the approximate joint distribution, we obtain point estimate and confidence region of the baseline risk and the treatment effect as well as point estimate and confidence interval of the treatment effect when the ML estimate of the baseline risk falls into specified range. These interval estimates reflect nonnormality of the joint distribution of the ML estimate of the baseline risk and the treatment effect. The method can be easily implemented by using any software that generates normal distribution. The method can also be used to obtain point and interval estimates of baseline risk and any other measure of treatment effect such as risk ratio and the number needed to treat. The method can also be extended from logistic model to other models such as log‐linear model.     

闽北森林群落物种多样性的可塑性面积单元问题

分析闽北森林群落物种多样性的可塑性面积单元问题（ＭＡＵＰ）,结果表明,闽北森林群落物种多样性存在尺度效应和划区效应,其影响随着取样面积增大而减小,长期封禁保护的森林群落和森林群落和近期受人为干扰的退化森林群落物种多样性受ＭＡＵＰ影响趋势相同,文中应用ａｃｋｋｎｉｆｉｎｇ方法估计群落物种多样性的近似正态分布置信区间和划区效应。     

Inference of haplotype effects in case-control studies using unphased genotype and environmental data

A retrospective likelihood-based approach was proposed to test and estimate the effect of haplotype on disease risk using unphased genotype data with adjustment for environmental covariates. The proposed method was also extended to handle the data in which the haplotype and environmental covariates are not independent. Likelihood ratio tests were constructed to test the effects of haplotype and gene-environment interaction. The model parameters such as haplotype effect size was estimated using an Expectation Conditional-Maximization (ECM) algorithm developed by Meng and Rubin (1993). Model-based variance estimates were derived using the observed information matrix. Simulation studies were conducted for three different genetic effect models, including dominant effect, recessive effect, and additive effect. The results showed that the proposed method generated unbiased parameter estimates, proper type I error, and true beta coverage probabilities. The model performed well with small or large sample sizes, as well as short or long haplotypes.     

Prenatal Effect of Fluoxetine on Nociceptive System Reactivity and Psychoemotional Behavior of Young Female and Male Rats

Reactivity of the nociceptive system, psychoemotional behavior and cognitive abilities in female and male rats born to mothers that were exposed to chronic injection of fluoxetine, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, on days 9–20 of pregnancy were studied in a battery of behavioral tests during the prepubertal period. It was found that chronic injection of physiological saline to pregnant females evoked enhanced nociceptive responses in their offspring of both sexes while fluoxetine injection neutralized the effects of such an invasive intervention, demonstrating thereby the antinociceptive effect of this agent. Negative effects of maternal fluoxetine included a weight loss in the neonate offspring of both sexes and 25-day-old males, as well as the increased anxiety level in females only as detected in the elevated plus maze test. Fluoxetine had no effect on the level of depressive-like behavior in the forced swim test in rats of both sexes. The positive prenatal effect of fluoxetine manifested itself in males as an improved spatial learning ability in the Morris water maze; the anti-nociceptive effect of chronic fluoxetine injection, as compared to the pro-nociceptive effect of chronic saline injection, can also be considered as a positive effect of fluoxetine. Sex differences in the prenatal effect of fluoxetine were revealed in the anxiety level with more anxiety behavior in females.     

Effects of multipotent hematopoietic stem cell inhibitory factor on formation of immune response to viral antigen]

An immunostimulating effect of PIF was studied. The augmentation of antibody production to Coxsackie A13 virus as well as protective effect during influenza infection have been found out in mice after PIF injections. An immunostimulating effect of PIF after SRBC immunization of mice has been also revealed. Possible mechanisms of immunostimulating effect of PIF are discussed.     

Investigation of the mutagenic and antimutagenic effects of Origanum compactum essential oil and some of its constituents

In the present study, the chemical composition of Origanum compactum essential oil was determined by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and its mutagenic and antimutagenic activities were investigated by the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in Drosophila melanogaster. No significant increase in the number of somatic mutations was observed with the essential oil tested using both the standard (ST) and high bio-activation (HB) cross. In order to investigate the antimutagenic effect of the essential oil, we have tested the effect on the indirect-acting mutagen urethane (URE), as well as the direct-acting mutagen methyl methanesulfonate (MMS). O. compactum essential oil showed a strong inhibitory effect against URE-induced mutagenicity, especially with the HB cross. However, only a weak inhibitory effect on the mutagenicity induced by MMS was observed. These results suggest that the detected antimutagenicity could be mediated by an inhibitory effect on metabolic activation. The essential oil was fractionated to identify the components responsible of the suppressing effect detected. Seven fractions were obtained: two of them showed the most potent inhibitory effect against URE-induced mutagenicity and were further fractionated. The sub-fractions obtained from the second chromatographic fractionation were tested for their antimutagenic activity, together with carvacrol and thymol. The highest antimutagenic effect obtained with the sub-fractions was similar to the effect of the crude essential oil, as well as to the effect of carvacrol alone. These results suggest the absence of a synergic antimutagenic effect between the components of O. compactum essential oil and indicate that carvacrol was the most active oil component.