不同生境下的蒲公英及其不同器官的分段提取物抑菌作用比较研究

对不同生长环境下的蒲公英的根,叶,利用极性不同的有机溶剂分别进行萃取,比较各段萃取物的数量,分析其中有效物质的组分,并作抑菌试验,蒲公英叶较根萃取物多,阴生蒲公英的萃取的物较阴生蒲公英,其中氯仿所得萃取物抑菌效果最好,其主要含有生物碱,有机酸,甾醇等物质。     

Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Superoxide Dismutases: Comparison of Enzymes from Different Sources in Different Models in Rats: Mechanism of Action

Comparison of the anti-inflammatory properties of superoxide dismutases from different sources using different models (carrageenan and adriamycin induced inflammation, adjuvant-induced arthritis) in rats shows a very wide range of activity from extremely good to zero. Neither circulating life time nor intracellular penetration are of importance. The mechanism of biological activity of the SODs is discussed in detail, and binding to an interphase situation on the outer cell surface is postulated. As a consequence of these various considerations it is predicted that clinical application of human Cu-SOD in humans may well be much less spectacular than is commonly assumed, and indeed may be somewhat disappointing.     

Adjustment Capacity of Maritime Pine Cambial Activity in Drought-Prone Environments

Intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs) are anatomical features formed in response to changes in the environmental conditions within the growing season. These anatomical features are commonly observed in Mediterranean pines, being more frequent in younger and wider tree rings. However, the process behind IADF formation is still unknown. Weekly monitoring of cambial activity and wood formation would fill this void. Although studies describing cambial activity and wood formation have become frequent, this knowledge is still fragmentary in the Mediterranean region. Here we present data from the monitoring of cambial activity and wood formation in two diameter classes of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.), over two years, in order to test: (i) whether the differences in stem diameter in an even-aged stand were due to timings and/or rates of xylogenesis; (ii) if IADFs were more common in large trees; and (iii) if their formation is triggered by cambial resumption after the summer drought. Larger trees showed higher rates of cell production and longer growing seasons, due to an earlier start and later end of xylogenesis. When a drier winter occurs, larger trees were more affected, probably limiting xylogenesis in the summer months. In both diameter classes a latewood IADF was formed in 2012 in response to late-September precipitation, confirming that the timing of the precipitation event after the summer drought is crucial in determining the resumption of cambial activity and whether or not an IADF is formed. It was the first time that the formation of a latewood IADF was monitored at a weekly time scale in maritime pine. The capacity of maritime pine to adjust cambial activity to the current environmental conditions represents a valuable strategy under the future climate change conditions.     

Activity Pattern of Iron-Deficient Rats

Iron-deficient rats appear to have a decrease in total activity and a disorder of diurnal rhythm. These are reversed by the administration of iron. The results may be relevant to the symptomatology of patients with iron deficiency anaemia.     

三种组成型启动子调控的鼠李糖脂基因在防御假单胞菌中的异源表达及活性研究

本研究利用Red/ETDNA重组技术对实验室已有的含鼠李糖基转移酶基因RhlAB的分泌表达载体pBBR1-genta-RhlAB进行修饰,将3种不同强度组成型启动子(Papra、Ptac和PrhaB)成功替换了RhlAB基因在铜绿假单胞菌中的原始启动子,成功获得了表达载体pBBR1-genta-Papra-RhlAB,pBBR1-kan-Ptac-RhlAB和pBBR1-kan-PrhaB-RhlAB,并将这些表达载体分别在防御假单胞菌Pf-5中异源表达,通过LB培养基发酵42h后,Pf-5/pBBR1-genta-RhlAB的鼠李糖脂产量为17.56mg/L,而Pf-5/pBBR1-genta-Papra-RhlAB,Pf-5/pBBR1-kan-Ptac-RhlAB和Pf-5/pBBR1-kan-PrhaB-RhlAB分别是11.135mg/L,441.135mg/L,557.764mg/L,启动子优化后产量分别是原始启动子的0.63,25.12和31.76倍。对发酵产物进行高效液相色谱-质谱联用技术分析,共检出相对含量变化的4类质核比不同的鼠李糖脂同系物。并通过实时荧光定量PCR检测RhlAB基因的表达量,发现启动子替换为Ptac和PrhaB后RhlAB基因表达量分别是原始启动子的2.16和2.77倍。本研究初步实现了RhlAB基因在Pf-5中的表达,发现组成型启动子Ptac和PrhaB比RhlAB的原始启动子表达效率更高,可为异源合成鼠李糖脂提供重要参考。     

大鼠成年前异常生活环境对其成年后恐惧记忆的影响

为了探讨早期饲养环境对成年后大鼠条件化恐惧的影响,实验采用巴氏恐惧条件化的方法对不同饲养环境下的大鼠进行了行为检测.具体操作为:把断奶后的大鼠饲养在3个不同的人工控制的环境中(丰富环境、社群环境和贫瘠环境);8周后进行恐惧条件化训练和测试(指标为僵直百分比),以及检测不同饲养环境下的大鼠的体重、自发活动和足部电击敏感性.结果显示:与社群组相比,丰富组的大鼠条件化僵直水平明显增加,而贫瘠组的明显减少;丰富和贫瘠环境明显的影响了大鼠的体重;不同环境对自发活动和足部电击敏感性没有影响.这些结果说明幼年期的丰富环境能提高成年后大鼠的由声音诱发的条件化恐惧反应,而贫瘠环境则削弱了这种反应.     

大鼠成年前异常生活环境对其成年后恐惧记忆的影响(英文）

为了探讨早期饲养环境对成年后大鼠条件化恐惧的影响,实验采用巴氏恐惧条件化的方法对不同饲养环境下的大鼠进行了行为检测。具体操作为：把断奶后的大鼠饲养在3个不同的人工控制的环境中（丰富环境、社群环境和贫瘠环境）;8周后进行恐惧条件化训练和测试（指标为僵直百分比）,以及检测不同饲养环境下的大鼠的体重、自发活动和足部电击敏感性。结果显示：与社群组相比,丰富组的大鼠条件化僵直水平明显增加,而贫瘠组的明显减少;丰富和贫瘠环境明显的影响了大鼠的体重;不同环境对自发活动和足部电击敏感性没有影响。这些结果说明幼年期的丰富环境能提高成年后大鼠的由声音诱发的条件化恐惧反应,而贫瘠环境则削弱了这种反应。     

Pigment Interactions in Light-harvesting Complex II in Different Molecular Environments

Extraction of plant light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) from the native thylakoid membrane or from aggregates by the use of surfactants brings about significant changes in the excitonic circular dichroism (CD) spectrum and fluorescence quantum yield. To elucidate the cause of these changes, e.g. trimer-trimer contacts or surfactant-induced structural perturbations, we compared the CD spectra and fluorescence kinetics of LHCII aggregates, artificial and native LHCII-lipid membranes, and LHCII solubilized in different detergents or trapped in polymer gel. By this means we were able to identify CD spectral changes specific to LHCII-LHCII interactions, at (−)-437 and (+)-484 nm, and changes specific to the interaction with the detergent n-dodecyl-β-maltoside (β-DM) or membrane lipids, at (+)-447 and (−)-494 nm. The latter change is attributed to the conformational change of the LHCII-bound carotenoid neoxanthin, by analyzing the CD spectra of neoxanthin-deficient plant thylakoid membranes. The neoxanthin-specific band at (−)-494 nm was not pronounced in LHCII in detergent-free gels or solubilized in the α isomer of DM but was present when LHCII was reconstituted in membranes composed of phosphatidylcholine or plant thylakoid lipids, indicating that the conformation of neoxanthin is sensitive to the molecular environment. Neither the aggregation-specific CD bands, nor the surfactant-specific bands were positively associated with the onset of fluorescence quenching, which could be triggered without invoking such spectral changes. Significant quenching was not active in reconstituted LHCII proteoliposomes, whereas a high degree of energetic connectivity, depending on the lipid:protein ratio, in these membranes allows for efficient light harvesting.     

Comparison of Three Different Extraction Methods on Osmanthus Volatile Oil: Aroma and Biological Activity

The osmanthus volatile oil was welcomed by consumers even if the high price since the unique and pleasant odor. Meanwhile, the low yield of osmanthus volatile oil restricts industrial production. In this work, an osmanthus volatile oil was obtained by means of a novel ultrasonic-assisted flash extraction method and was compared with the oil from hydrodistillation and supercritical fluid extraction on yield, aroma, and biological activities. The volatile oil obtained from the ultrasonic-assisted flash extraction was obtained with the petroleum ether and got a high yield at 3.51 % within a 40-min process, an increase of nearly 81 % from the single solvent extraction. This oil also showed a high aroma intensity and aroma compound concentration. Meanwhile, the oil also has the highest antioxidant ability but lower antibacterial activity against oil from hydrodistillation. It was considered that this work was helpful for the optimization of the extraction method of osmanthus volatile oil.     

Liver-Associated Natural Killer Activity in Cirrhotic Rats

An impaired host defense mechanism is well known in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). Using a sinusoidal lavage method, lymphocytes were obtained from LC rats that were administered thioacetamide, and natural killer (NK) activity was measured by ^5lCr-release assay. The NK cell count was measured by flow cytometric analysis using monoclonal antibody (Mab) 3.2.3 and/or CD 3-8+ as markers for NK cells, and by immunohistochemical staining using Mab 3.2.3. Furthermore, interferon (IFN) α was administered to LC rats and the subsequent changes in hepatic NK activity and NK cell count were observed. In the large granular lymphocyte (LGL)-rich fraction (Fr.1, LGLs: 60-90%), the NK activity was significantly lower in the LC rats (40.0±3.8%) compared to that in the control rats (48.4±4.3%) (P<0.005). In addition, the number of NK cells in the liver tissues of the LC rats was significantly lower compared to that in the liver tissues of the control rats by morphometric analysis (P<0.05). For LC rats, NK activity of the Fr.1 24 hr after IFNα administration (5×10⁴ IU / 100 g body weight) increased significantly (P<0.005). Hepatic NK activity and NK cell count were reduced in the LC rats, and recovered following IFNα administration. The results obtained in this study may give clues to better understanding the impaired host defense mechanism in LC patients.     

Glucose-6-phosphatase Activity in Copper-Deficient Rats

Copper deficiency has been reported to cause glucose intolerance in rats by interfering with normal glucose utilization. Accordingly, copper deficiency was produced in rats to study its effects on glucose-6-P phosphohydrolase and carbamyl-P: glucose phosphotransferase activities of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9), a major enzyme involved in maintaining glucose homeostasis. When measured in homogenates treated with deoxycholate, total glucose-6-P phosphohydrolase was 23% lower and total carbamyl-P:glucose phosphotransferase was 17% lower in copper-deficient rats compared to controls. Latency, or that portion of total activity that is not manifest unless the intact membranous components are disrupted with deoxycholate also was lower in copper-deficient rats. Glucose-6-P phosphohydrolase was 5% latent in copper-deficient rats compared to 24% in controls and carbamyl-P : glucose phosphotransferase was 55% latent in copper-deficient rats compared to 65% in controls. The decrease in latency appears to compensate for the lower total enzyme activities in such a manner as to allow the net expression of these activities in the intact membranous components of the homogenate to remain unaltered by copper deficiency. It thus appears unlikely that copper deficiency affects glucose homeostasis in vivo by altering the net rate of glucose-6-P hydrolysis or synthesis by glucose-6-phosphatase. These observations are interpreted on the basis of a multicomponent glucose-6-phosphatase system in which the total enzyme activity expressed in intact membranous preparation is limited by substrate specific translocases that transport substrate to the membrane-bound catalytic unit. A decrease in latency can then be interpreted as a functional increase in translocase activity and may constitute a compensating mechanism for maintaining constant glucose homeostasis when glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic activity is depressed as it is in copper deficiency.     

香荚兰成熟荚果中三种酶的活性测定

不同级别的香荚兰 (Vanillaplanifolia)成熟荚果以及其中的种子和肉质果壳中的 β -葡萄糖甙酶、过氧化物酶和多酚氧化酶的活性研究结果表明高等级的果荚中过氧化物酶活性高于低等级的果荚 ,种子中的 β -葡萄糖苷酶活性几乎达到肉质果荚的 2倍 ;过氧化物酶的活性主要分布在果壳中 ,没有在种子中测过氧化物酶的活性 ;多酚氧化酶的活性在测定样品极低 ,未能测出。     

Normolipidaemic Activity of Liposomal-Encapsulated Superoxide Dismutase in Rats

To determine the regulatory effects of superoxide dismutase (SOD) on lipid metabolism a simple model of hyperlipidaemia induced by a hypercholesterolaemic (HCT) diet in rat was used. In animals fed a HCT diet, triglyceride (TG) were increased by 126%, total cholesterol (TCT) by 40%, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) by 124% and the TCT/HDL ratio by 82%. The procedure would therefore appear to model some of the risk factors of atherogenesis.

In animals fed a hypercholesterolemic diet, liposomal Cu-SOD (200μg/kg i. m. every two days; 1000 μg/kg i. m./day) decreased TG by 29 and 49%, TCT by 14 and 36%, TCT/HDL ratio by 32 and 60%, VLDL by 52 and 55% respectively and increased high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) by 17 and 46% respectively.

The present experiments show therefore that the administration of liposomal SOD has a marked effect on lipid parameters (particularly TCT and TG) and might therefore reduce the atherogenic risk by increasing HDL and decreasing VLDL and cholesterol atherogenicity ratio (CAR).     

Effect of Lithium on Rearing Activity in Rats

EVEN though the use of lithium salts is well established in the clinical treatment of manic states¹ and to a lesser extent in the prophylactic treatment of recurrent depression², there have been few reports of their effects on animal behaviour in laboratory conditions. One reason may lie in Schou's doubts³ as to whether lithium salts have any effects on behaviour outside the clinical context. This view was based on unpublished findings of I. M. Nielson, A. Amdisen, D. R. Maxwell and Schou himself and on the hypothesis that lithium serves to correct a specific biochemical or physiological imbalance characteristic of recurrent affective disorders⁴.     

不同低氧运动模式对大鼠免疫功能的影响

目的:探讨不同低氧运动模式对大鼠免疫功能的影响。方法:30只SD大鼠随机分为常氧运动组(对照组)、高住高练组和高住低练组,对照组大鼠每天在常氧环境下生活23 h,训练1 h;高住高练组每天在低氧环境生活23 h,训练1 h;高住低练组每天在低氧环境生活12 h,常氧环境下生活11 h,训练1 h。全血分析仪分析全血指标,流式细胞仪检测CD4~ 和CD8~ 占有的百分比。结果:与高住低练组及对照组比较,高住高练组大鼠血液红细胞计数(RBC)和血红蛋白水平(Hb)升高,CD4~ T细胞百分数降低,CD8~ T细胞百分数升高,CD4~ /CD8~ 比值下降,差异均具有统计学意义(P<0.05)。对照组大鼠、高住高练组和高住低练组ELISPOT斑点数依次为(230.0±10.6)/2×10~5个脾细胞、(56.5±6.8)/2×10~5个脾细胞和(89.3±9.8)/2×10~5个脾细胞,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论:低氧运动可以提高机体氧运输能力,但是可能会损害机体免疫功能。