人参根系发育形态学的研究

人参(Panax qinseng C. A. Meyer)属于直根系植物,有次生构造。一年生苗只具有主根和侧根。二年以上的人参常在根状茎上长出不定根,即人参根系包括主根和不定根及其各级分枝。主根初生木质部为三原型,侧根和不定根及其分枝多为二原型,偶见三原型。根系随参龄的增加而增大。每年末级分枝自基部于休眠前萎缩、脱落,并在萎缩部分的上一级支根内部产生越冬根原基,越冬根原基是翌年形成全部吸收根的基础。一年生人参由中柱鞘产生一圈初生树脂道,由形成层产生一圈(或二圈)次生树脂道,以后次生树脂道的圈数随参龄的增加而每年增加一圈,自第五年开始渐缓。根内淀粉粒含量随发育时期的变化而相应变化,其积累高峰出现在果后期。研究人参根系发育形态学不仅对全面正确认识人参根系具有理论意义,而且对改进人参栽培管理和评价人参质量具有指导意义。     

American anthropologists looking through Taiwanese culture

Conclusion Anthropologists have too often supported — in their words, in their presences, and in their deeds — the paternalistic claims of rulers suppressing the very cultures they want to study. Much anthropological work legitimates substitution of the language of Beijing for Hakka and Holo, justifies ignoring Taiwanese culture, and subordinates consideration of its specific features to writing about Chinese civilization, just as Taiwanese are economically and politically subordinated to the ethnic minority dictatorship which still rules Taiwan under the fiction of being the government of China. The China that Arthur Wolf and others serve in return for support of their research from what purports to be the Republic of China is an egregious, but unfortunately not unique, example.Stephen O. Murray is with El Instituto Obregón, San Francisco, California. Keelung Hong is with the Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.As is normal in anthropology, except for Taiwan, native terms are romanized in the native language (in the first author's recording of the second author's Daidiong idiolect, without indication of the extremely intricate tone differentia), not in the official language of the ethnic oligarchy ruling Taiwan (Beijinghua). Mainland place names are rendered in pinyin. We have followed the convention of treating Chinese and Taiwanese personal names as two words, because books are catalogued with such names. If personal names are considered as two words (an imposition of the hoary dogma that words in Sino-Tibetan languages are monosyllabic), it seems to us that both words should be capitalized. For Taiwanese placenames, we have not separated syllables by dashes or by spaces.     

Plant-microbial interaction under gnotobiotic conditions: A scanning electron microscope study

Inoculation of canola seeds withPseudomonas putida GR12-2 stimulates root elongation under gnotobiotic conditions. Transformation ofP. putida GR12-2 with the broad-host-range plasmid pGSS15 abolishes the enhancement of root elongation. With scanning electron microscopy it was found that both transformed and nontransformedP. putida GR12-2 are capable of binding to canola seed coats. In addition, it was observed that 4 days after the initial inoculation the roots of bothP. putida GR12-2- and GR12-2/pGSS15-treated seedlings were free of adhering bacteria despite the fact that it was subsequently shown that both bacterial strains are capable of binding to roots. Thus, adhesion to roots is not necessary for the initial phase of enhanced root elongation that is induced byP. putida GR12-2 under gnotobiotic conditions.     

神经节苷脂对6-OHDA损毁交感神经末梢的对抗作用

单次6-OHDA (15mg/kg.i.p.)注射后24h,可使雌性成年小鼠颌下腺内儿茶酚胺荧光神经末梢几乎完全消失;同时用 HPLC 测得腺体内去甲肾上腺素(NA)和多巴胺(DA)的含量下降至正常值的3—4%以下。随着受损交感神经末梢再生过程,NA 和 DA 水平有缓慢的恢复。在损毁2周时 NA 和 DA 含量分别达到正常水平的50%和28%,且在4周时完全恢复。在注射6-OHDA 的同时,和在损伤后12h 内给动物注射4次神经节苷脂(每次50mg/kg.i.p.)并在其后的一周內每天注射一次,可使颌下腺内 NA 含量维持在正常水平;在损毁后4h 及损毁前4d 开始施用神经节苷脂,也可不同程度地对抗交感神经末梢损伤,但作用强度不如前者。实验结果提示:(1)神经节苷脂通过减弱6-OHDA 及其代谢产物的损伤效应能够保护交感神经末梢膜,它可能还有促损伤末梢再生性长芽的作用;(2)损伤后神经节苷脂处理得越早,其效果越好。     

促性腺激素诱导猕猴排卵周期中卵巢纤溶酶原激活因子与抑制因子的变化

在用 PMSG 和 hUG 诱导猕猴排卵过程中,我们研究了 pA 和它的抑制因子 PAI-1与排卵的关系。实验结果表明,由促性腺激素所诱导出的卵巢 tPA 活性的增加与排卵密切相关,在排卵前达到高峰,而排卵后明显下降;uPA 只在排卵后的颗粒细胞大量出现;PAI-1分泌高峰比 tPA 峰值早出现12—24小时;排卵来临时,tPA 的明显上升导致 PAl-1的空然下降。上述实验结果说明,卵巢中 tPA 和 PAI-1活性的这种平衡性的变化可能在排卵机制和维持卵巢的正常生理功能中起重要作用,而 uPA 或许与黄体形成的调节有某些关系。