变温过程中大鼠心肌等长收缩发展张力呈双相变化

本实验旨在探明变温过程对心肌的影响,以及可能的内在机理。采用阶梯方式降、复温,测定３０℃、２５℃、２０℃、１５℃与１０℃条件下,大鼠乳头肌等长收缩的各参数值的变化。结果表明：在降温过程中,心肌发展张力（ＤＴ）呈双相变化,即从３０℃降温到２５℃,ＤＴ增大,而后ＤＴ逐渐下降;温度降到２０℃时,静息张力（ＲＴ）保持不变,而降至１５℃以后ＲＴ明显上升。乳头肌等长收缩的时间参数如ＴＰＰ、ＴＰＮ、ＴＰＴ、Ｔ１／２Ｒ均随温度的降低而逐渐延长。在复温过程中,与降温过程中相同温度点相比,２０℃、２５℃、３０℃点发展张力明显降低,而１５℃、２０℃、２５℃点静息张力显著增高。这提示在降温过程中,心肌细胞肌钙蛋白Ｃ对Ｃａ２＋敏感性可能呈现双相变化,且低温造成的心肌细胞内游离Ｃａ２＋浓度增高,可能引起心肌细胞损伤。因而,心冷停搏液保护心肌功能的关键环节,应是如何防止在降温过程中心肌细胞内游离Ｃａ２＋浓度一过性增高。     

三种稻飞虱在恒定高温胁迫下的生态表现

对揭飞虱、白背飞虱、灰飞虱等3种稻飞虱的不同虫态在38℃恒温下,暴露不同时间后的生存率进行了研究。结果表明,随高温处理时间的延长．卵孵化率明显下降,卵历期延长。褐飞虱、白背飞虱卵在38℃恒温下暴露12h后．卵孵化率比对照分别低34%和45%;暴露24h后,两种稻飞虱的卵孵化率均比对照低25％;致死中时值LT50分别为11h和10h。3种稻飞虱8日龄若虫及羽化后3天的雌雄成虫的生存率,随处理时间的延长而呈显著下降趋势,褐飞虱、自背飞虱和灰飞虱若虫的致死中时值LT50依次为15．6h、17．8h和25．9h,长翅型雌成虫依次为34．7h、17．1h和43．2h．长翅型雄成虫依次为28．9h、23．2h和54．5h。另外,高温处理过的若虫,其羽化出成虫的体重明显下降,在高温下暴露30h后,白背飞虱长趣型雌成虫的体重比对照低32％,褐飞虱短翅型雌成虫低50％;高温处理后存活的白背飞虱雌成虫产出的卵块较小,总产卵量也明显下降。     

储藏物害虫嗜虫书虱的生物学研究(英文)

以全麦粉和酵母粉（10：1）为饲料,分别在8种温度（17．5－35℃）及5种相对湿度（50％－90％RH）条件下系统地研究了嗜虫书虱的生物学特性,获得了其在不同温、湿度组合情况下的生长发育、生存和繁殖的一系列特性和参数。结果表明,在75％RH、20－35℃范围内,世代发育历期在71．9－21．7天之间。世代发育起点温度和有效积温分别为15．7℃和460．7日·度。各虫态及世代存活率均以27．5℃时最高,温度过高或过低均不利于该虫存活。成虫平均寿命在64．4－32．4天之间。每雌平均产卵量为21．1－13．9粒。在28℃条件下,较高的相对温度有利于该虫生长发育和繁殖。相对湿度低于50％或温度低于17．5℃,该虫均不能完成世代发耷。总体来看该虫生长发育、繁殖的最适温区为28－30℃,最适相对湿度在80％—90％之间并就该虫在我国分布及为害严重的原因进行了探讨。     

High-level expression of murine terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase inEscherichia coli grown at low temperature and overexpressingargU tRNA

Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) is a highly conserved vertebrate enzyme that possesses the unique ability to catalyze the random addition of deoxynucleoside 5′-triphosphates onto the 3′-hydroxyl group of a single-stranded DNA. It plays an important role in the generation of immunoglobin and T-cell receptor diversity. TdT is usually obtained from animal thymus gland or produced in a baculovirus system, but both procedures are rather tedious, and proteolysis occurs during purification. Attempts to overexpress TdT in bacteria have been unsuccessful or have yielded an enzyme with a lower specific activity. A dearth of TdT has thus hampered detailed structural and functional studies. In the present study, we report that by lowering growth temperature and overexpressing a rare arginyl tRNA, it is possible to boost the production inEscherichia coli of murine TdT with minimal proteolysis and high specific activity.     

Effects of climate change on nitrogen dynamics in upland soils. 2. A soil warming study

A new warming technique has been developed in a field experimental study of the potential effects of climatic change on N leaching from hill land plant/soil systems. Thermocouple compensating cable has been utilized to provide a small cross-section, flexible, low voltage heating cable, mounted on a framework of stainless steel mesh, to provide uniform heating at the vegetation/soil interface of zero-tension lysimeters and surrounding turf. We describe a specially designed heat controller capable of maintaining a temperature differential of 3 °C above ambient at a soil depth of 0.8 cm. The equipment raises temperatures down the soil profile and within the grass sward, whilst tracking normal diurnal temperature variation. Results presented here illustrate the efficacy of the warming technique, together with the consequences for the release of nitrate from lysimeters. The responses of soil solution concentrations of nitrate varied markedly between soil types, but showed a significant decrease in the brown earth during the first 5 months of additional heating. This suggests that increased nutrient release is masked by plant uptake in this soil, but the responses in the other two soils were less marked.     

Seed response to temperature of Mexican cacti species from two life forms: an ecophysiological interpretation

The effect of seven different constant temperatures and five ranges of alternating temperatures on seed germination of seven species of cacti from Puebla, México was analyzed. Six cacti species germinated in a wide range of temperature. Columnar cacti were more tolerant to low temperatures and germinated in a wider range of temperature than barrel cacti. One of the barrel cacti studied (Ferocactus recurvus) only reached full germination at 25 °C . Temperature fluctuations did not produce significant effects on germination compared to the results obtained at constant temperatures. This may reveal differing ecophysiological adaptations with respect to temperature requirements during the establishment conditions for each life form. Columnar cacti may become established mainly under the shade of desert shrubs, whereas barrel cacti maybe can also become established in open areas, beneath the shade of small rocks or soil irregularities. In both cases, temperature fluctuations are attenuated by the shade, but mean temperatures may be higher in the second condition than beneath the shade of plants.     

雄性核不育水稻育性转换的光周期效应指数值(PE)和温度效应指数值(TE)的遗传性初步研究

对比考察了农垦５８ｓ与７００１ｓ、８９０２ｓ与培矮６４ｓ及８９０２ｓ与安农Ｓ１等３个光（温）敏核不育水稻杂交组合的双亲、Ｆ１、Ｂ１、Ｂ２和Ｆ２世代的样本及每一个体的ＰＥ和ＴＥ的变异。无论双亲核不育基因的等位程度及栽培环境的光、温周期如何,在多数情况下都显示了如下的规律：（１）后代样本ＰＥ、ＴＥ的大小虽然形形色色,但都取决于其双亲。Ｆ１表示完全显性甚至超显性。（２）Ｆ２个体的ＰＥ或ＴＥ、尤其同一个体ＰＥ与ＴＥ的集成类型发生有规律的分离和超亲分离,产生形形色色的育性转换类型。在纯粹由雄性不育个体组成的Ｆ２不育分样本中也发生同样分离。（３）ＰＥ或ＴＥ的广义遗传力的估值都大于５０％。据此推断ＰＥ、ＴＥ是两个可遗传并可供选择的独立性状;并对育性转换现象的遗传机制也进行了讨论。     

Hysteresis in the temperature response of carbon dioxide and methane production in peat soils

The ability to predict the effects of climate change on trace gas fluxes requires a knowledge of microbial temperature responses. However, the response of a microbial community to temperature in a given substrate may be complicated by its thermal history. To examine the effect of sequentially changing temperature on methane and carbon dioxide production in different peat types, we incubated anaerobic peat samples from 3 types of northern peatlands, a bog, a sedge fen and a cedar swamp, in both rising and falling temperature regimes. Graphic and statistical comparisons of the different temperature regimes suggest hysteresis in microbial response to temperature, although the absolute rates at any given temperature often did not differ. Where regressions for temperature response (Arrhenius plots) were significant, they generally differed between temperature regimes. The greatest differences among treatments occurred during the first half of the 40-d incubation. Increases in carbon dioxide production were similar across all peat types, but methanogenesis varied widely: methane production was uniformly low in the bog peat but increased sharply with temperature in the other two peat types. The complicating effect of history or chronology on substrate responses to environmental stimuli may restrain our ability to model the responses of complex systems to changing conditions.