人类情绪或可影响干细胞生长

<正>南方医科大学南方医院杨默课题组发现,影响人类情绪和抑郁症的血清素与骨髓干细胞的生长分化及移植有密切关系。相关成果近日发表在《干细胞》杂志上。课题组根据研究结果提出:影响人类情绪与抑郁症的血清素与骨髓干细胞的生长分化及移植有密切关系。情绪低落可导致血清素下降,引起干细胞功能受损,影响损伤细胞修复和血细胞再生,从而影响身体免疫功能。这是医学界首次从科学角度证实人类情绪与干细胞生长之间     

细胞重编程和移植技术用于帕金森病治疗的研究进展

帕金森病(Parkinson disease,PD)是一种复杂的中枢神经系统退行性疾病,主要病理特征为黑质致密部多巴胺神经元的进行性丧失.目前PD主要治疗手段包括药物和手术.但药物存在神经保护活性不足、缺乏对因治疗、晚期无药可用等问题,手术治疗风险较大.近年来,细胞重编程技术取得突破性进展,由重编程产生的诱导多能干细胞(induced pluripotent stem cells,iPSCs)、诱导多巴胺神经元(induced dopamine neurons,iDNs)和诱导神经干细胞(induced neural stem cells,i NSCs)可用于治疗PD.移植iPSCs分化而来的多巴胺能神经元、iDNs和iNSCs至相应脑区,可起到神经替代与修复作用,有效治疗PD.本文重点介绍细胞重编程的机制,总结iPSCs、iDNs和iNSCs治疗PD的优缺点,并阐述尚存在的挑战,探讨可能的解决方案.     

MCF—7细胞在亚多层中细胞膜极性的变化

Sub-multilayer of MCF-7 cell, an established human breast carcinoma cell line, was achieved by culturing the cells on millipore filters for a long time. The superficial layer cells maintained their membrane polarity features as MCF-7 cells in monolayers did. MAM-6, a human milk fat globule membrane antigen, was polarized distributed in apical domain of 97.5% superficial layer cells revealed by immunoperoxidase cytochemistry. Whereas, among the low layer cells, which had no free surface (apical domain) toward the culture medium and did not show morphological polarity features, only 12.9% expressed surface MAM-6 with weak immunoperoxidase staining and random distribution. But the immunostaining for detecting cytoplasmic MAM-6 in low layer cells was stronger than that in superficial layer cells, indicating that the vectorial delivery and insert of MAM-6 carrying glycoprotein to the plasma membrane seemed to be stopped or declined and became undirectional in the later situation. The study demonstrates that an asymmetric spatial environment, which is composed of a liquid phase space and a solid phase space, is crucial for the establishment of epithelial membrane polarity of MCF-7 cells.     

The RAF family：an expanding network of post—traslational controls and protein—protein interactions

Protein kinase RAF is strategically located in the “Ras-MAP-kinase signal transduction pathway“,a principle system which transmits signals from growth factor receptors to the nucleus,resulting in cell proliferation.Growth factor responses are mediated in part by activation of Ras,which in turn activates RAF to phosphorylate MEK,its downstream substrate.MEK activates MAPkinase to in fluence nuclear events.it is clear.however,that a network of signals other than those carred by Ras plays a role in RAF regulation.These orthogonal influences are mediated bu:serine/threonine kinases,tyrosine kinases,and protein-protein interactions.As a further complication to the RAF network,three isoforms of RAF have been established which have divergent N-terminal regulatory domains,Whereas these divergent regulatory domains implicate isoform-specific functions,no clear evidence or hypothesis for distinct functions for individual isoforms has been presented.Recently,“isoform-specific protein interactions“have been identified among numerous proteins interacting with RAF,These studies may serve to delineate independent functions for RAF isoforms.     

一种非破坏性监测培养植物细胞的简易方法

在研究悬浮培养中植物细胞的生长规律时,常常采用多次分批法测定生长曲线,但工作量大,且存在着个体差异,以致测定的结果有误差。为此,我们研制出一体化非破坏性监测的培养装置(图1),对剌五加体细胞胚进行培养,监测其体积增长变化,并得到剌五加体细胞胚的生长模型,现简介如下。 1 培养装置由培养的三角瓶和监测体积的量筒组成,两者的容积比为5∶2。结构简单,操作方便。