中国蒿属植物化学分类的初步研究——精油化学成分与系统分类的相关性

分析了171个中国蒿属植物样品的精油化学成分,鉴定出305个化合物。这些样品代表64个种,其中蒿亚属47种,龙蒿亚属17种．分析结果表明,这些化合物在两亚属中的分布有一定的规律性。在蒿亚属糖油中主要含单萜类和倍半萜类化合物．而在龙蒿亚属精油中主要含倍半萜类化合物和芳香族化合物．这种分布与中国蒿属植物从较原始到进化划分为7个组的系统分类有一定的相关性,即蒿亚属：莳萝蒿组(单萜类化合物)→艾蒿组(单萜类化俣物)→艾组(单萜类化合物)→腺毛蒿组(单萜类化合物和倍半萜类化合物)→白苞蒿组(倍半萜类化合物)。龙蒿亚属：龙蒿组(倍半萜类化台物和芳香族化合物)→牡蒿组(倍半萜类化合物和芳香族化合物)。     

中国蒿属植物化学分类的初步研究――精油化学成分与系统分类的相关性

分析了171个中国蒿属植物样品的精油化学成分,鉴定出305个化合物。这些样品代表64个种,其中蒿亚属47种,龙蒿亚属17种。 分析结果表明,这些化合物在两亚属中的分布有一定的规律性。在蒿亚属精油中主要含单萜类和倍半萜类化合物,而在龙蒿亚屑精油中主要含倍半萜类化合物和芳香族化合物。这种分布与中国蒿属植物从较原始到进化划分为7个组的系统分类有一定的相关性,即蒿亚属:莳萝蒿组(单萜类化合物)→艾蒿组(单萜类化合物)→艾组(单萜类化合物)→腺毛蒿组(单萜类化合物和倍半萜类化合物)→白苞蒿组(倍半萜类化合物)。龙蒿亚属:龙蒿组(倍半萜类化合物和芳香族化合物)→牡蒿组(倍半萜类化合物和芳香族化合物)。     

菊三七属植物化学成分及药理作用的研究进展

菊科菊三七属植物中含有生物碱类、黄酮类、香豆素类、三萜类、甾体类及其皂苷、倍半萜类、酚酸类、脑苷脂类等化学成分,具有良好的止血、降血糖、降血压、抗肿瘤、抗炎、抗凝血等药理活性。可见,该属植物化学成分丰富,药理活性多样,极具药用及食用保健价值。本文就近年来菊三七属植物的化学成分和药理作用研究进展作一综述。     

多苞裂萼苔化学成分的研究

目的研究裂萼苔属植物多苞裂萼苔Chiloscyphus polyonthus(L.)Cord的化学成分.方法用硅胶、Sephadex LH-20柱层析分离原植物乙醇提取物,根据所得化合物的理化性质、波谱数据确定结构.结果分离得到两个倍半萜类化合物,分别鉴定为(-)-桉烷-3-烯-6α-乙酰氧-7α-醇(Ⅰ)、(+)-桉烷-3-烯-7a-醇(Ⅱ);此外,尚得到β-谷甾醇(Ⅲ)和胡萝卜苷(Ⅳ).结论化合物Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ均为首次从该植物中分离得到.     

荔枝草中一个新的倍半萜

为了研究荔枝草全草中的倍半萜类化学成分,该文运用大孔吸附树脂D101、MCI、硅胶和反相HPLC等色谱技术对其进行分离纯化,根据HR-ESI-MS、NMR波谱数据鉴定了化合物的结构。结果表明:从荔枝草全草95%乙醇提取物的乙酸乙酯部位中分离得到3个桉叶烷型倍半萜类化合物,分别鉴定为8-ethoxy-eudebeiolide B(1)、salplebeone D(2)、salplebeone A(3)。其中,化合物1为新化合物。     

药用山蚂蝗属植物的化学成分和药理活性研究进展

由于在中药中的广泛应用,近年来对豆科Leguminosae山蚂蝗属Desmodium Desv.植物的研究已成为热点。山蚂蝗属植物的化学成分主要包括黄酮类、生物碱类、萜类、甾醇类、烷类及各种烷衍生物等,具有抗氧化性、抗炎、镇痛解热、抗菌、抗虫、抗心脑血管疾病等药理活性。本文对山蚂蝗属中小槐花、广东金钱草、三点金、小叶三点金、假地豆、大叶山蚂蝗、饿蚂蝗等药用植物的研究进行总结,综述其化学成分及生物活性的研究进展,旨在为该属植物的进一步研究与利用提供参考。     

荚迷属植物化学成分及生物活性研究进展

不少荚迷属植物有悠久的药用历史,从该属植物中分离到的化学成分有二萜、三萜、环烯醚萜苷、黄酮类、木脂素及酚苷.二萜类化合物主要是vibsane型化合物,某些具有生物活性;三萜类化合物主要是齐墩果烷型和重排达玛烷型;环烯迷醚萜苷类其糖苷的连接位置主要在环烯迷醚的C11位上,C1位连有异戊烯基.生物活性研究发现一些提取物具有抗氧化作用,对A549、HT-29和PC-3和NUGC癌细胞有毒性.本文对国内外有.关荚迷属植物化学成分和生物活性的研究作一综述,为开发利用荚迷属植物资源提供科学依据.     

金钗石斛倍半萜类成分研究进展

金钗石斛为传统名贵中药,药用历史悠久。现代研究发现金钗石斛中含有倍半萜类、茋类、黄酮类、以及多糖等多种化学成分,其中倍半萜类报道较多,且以结构特殊的picrotoxane型为代表,同时发现金钗石斛倍半萜具有神经保护、免疫调节、抗肿瘤等方面的生理活性。因此,本文对金钗石斛中的倍半萜类成分进行总结归纳,为其进一步研究提供参考。     

宽叶泽苔草萜类化学成分分析及其化学分类学意义

宽叶泽苔草Caldesia grandis隶属泽泻科Alismataceae,是一种珍稀濒危水生植物。其化学成分迄今未见报道。本文利用气质联用的方法鉴定了该植物的43种化学成分,并总结了已报道的其近缘泽泻属Alisma、慈姑属Sagittaria、刺果泽泻属Echinodorus植物的化学成分,据此进行化学分类学分析:它们的特征化学成分是二萜,宽叶泽苔草和泽泻属植物的二萜成分是处于二萜生源合成途径最顶端的kaurane类型;慈姑属植物的二萜成分既有处于该途径底端的clerodane型、中间的pimarene型,也有顶端的kaurane型、abietene型二萜;刺果泽泻属植物的二萜成分是处于该途径底端的clerodane型。宽叶泽苔草和泽泻属植物都有桉叶烷型和愈创木烷型的倍半萜。因此宽叶泽苔草和泽泻属植物的亲缘关系比慈姑属、刺果泽泻属植物的近,由此推测它们的进化层次可能依次是刺果泽泻属植物、慈姑属植物、泽泻属植物、宽叶泽苔草。     

台湾扁柏化学成分研究进展

从植物台湾扁柏（Chamaecyparis obtusa var．formosana）中提取分离得到一百多种化合物,这些化合物大多结构新颖、具有较强生理活性,主要有倍半萜类、双萜类、木酚素类、固醇类以及其它化合物。本文综述了从该植物中得到的各类化学成分的结构和^13C NMR谱图数据。     

Evoked potentials of the medulla oblongata of the skate in response to stimulation of lateral line nerves

The characteristics of the bioelectrical reactions of structures of the medulla oblongata connected with lateral line electro- and mechanoreceptor were investigated in acute experiments on skates under urethane anesthesia. The parameters of the evoked potentials (EP) are characteristic of each of the lateral line nerves studied. A comparison of the characteristics of the fast and slow components of the EP obtained by stimulation of nerves of the medulla oblongata makes it possible to state a hypothesis concerning the presynaptic origin of the fast and the postsynaptic origin of the slow components of the EP. A dependence of the magnitude of the EP on the amplitude of the stimulus and on the location of the active electrode was found. The location of the focus of maximum activity was determined for each of the nerves investigated. A correlation was established between some parameters of the bioelectrical reactions of the medulla oblongata and the morphophysiological properties of the fibers which make up the nerves studied. The results obtained make it possible to assume the presence in the medulla oblongata of spatially arranged structures responsible for the development of the bioelectrical effects in response to stimulation of the lateral line nerves of fish.I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 284–292, May–June, 1971.     

Differentiation of the Shoot Apex and its Relationship to the Development of the Vegetative Organs in Spring Wheat (Yu-Chung-Hung and Kansu 96) under Conditions of Different Soil Water Contents

1. In each stage of the differentiation of the growing cones of these two varieties of wheat, their morphological characters are the same as of the general wheat, their fourth stage being the sign of the beginning of their reproductive structures. 2. The sequence of the differentiation in the development of spikelets is as follows: first the outer glume, then the inner glume, the lemma of the first flower, the primordium of the first flower, the lemma of the second flower and finally the primordium of second flower, etc.; while it is the palea, the stamens, the pistil and the lodicules for the flower part. 3. The differentiations of the primordiums of stamens and pistil start at the same time as the appearance of the awn. 4. It was found that in Kansu 96 the rate of the differentiation of the growing cones is more rapid, its volume bigger, the number of its spikelets and flowers, the chance of fruitification and its yield higher, than those of Yu-Chung-Hung, but the average individual weight of the grain is lower than that of the latter. 5. The rate of the differentiation of the growing cones will be slowed, and the numbers of spikelets, flowers and grains increased if a high moisture content of soil is present. The shape of the spike is grand and close under irrigation, but under drought it is slender and soft. Although the yield of Yu-Chung-Hung is lower than that of Kansu 96, but it appears to have a higher hydronasty than the latter. 6. It was shown in our investigation that the Kansu 96 appears to be of drought resistance. 7. Under normal conditions and in the same variety, the appearances of the leaf and the node of the stem, and the developmental phases of plants may be suggested as an indication of the differentiation of the growing cones. It is recommended that they can be used as a field crop.     

Neuronal expression of mutations affecting primarily glia in the mouse: studies in the dysmyelinated and convulsive mutant quaking

1. Various aspects of the noradrenergic system in the brain of the dysmyelinating convulsive mutant mice quaking have been examined. 2. Determination of the endogenous contents of noradrenaline and its metabolite 3-methoxy 4-hydroxyphenyl-ethyleneglycol (MOPEG), as well as measurement of the electrically-evoked release of (3H)-noradrenaline shows an increased noradrenergic activity in the brain of the mutants, when compared to non convulsive controls of the same strain. 3. Ontogenic development of alpha adrenergic receptors indicate that an increased density of alpha-2 sites precedes the appearance of the first convulsions by approximately one week. 4. Anatomical determination of the number of noradrenergic neuronal cell bodies in the locus coeruleus shows a hyperplasia of this nucleus in the mutants. 5. Electrolytic coagulation of the locus coeruleus inhibits the convulsions of the quaking mice. 6. These results suggest that an alteration of the embryonic differentiation of the locus coeruleus, which gives rise to the majority of brain noradrenergic neurons, provokes a hyperactivity of this neuronal system, thereby triggering the convulsions of the quaking mutant mice. 7. The possible involvement of other neurotransmitter systems in the convulsions of these mutants, together with the nature of the relationship between neuronal abnormalities and dysmyelination phenomenon, are discussed.     

ACID-BASE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE AVIAN EGG

1. In the newly laid egg of the domestic fowl the pH values of the albumen and yolk are about 7.6 and 6.0 respectively. 2. When the egg is stored in air there is a loss of carbon dioxide from the albumen and the pH of this fluid rises to a maximum value of about 9.5. A large proportion of the carbon dioxide which remains in the albumen is in the form of carbonate. 3. In the fertile incubated egg the pH of the albumen attains a maximum value within a period of about 2 days; the albumen then becomes less alkaline and it is nearly neutral by the end of the second week. The increasing acidity of the albumen can be attributed to (a) the secretion of hydrogen ions by the blastoderm and (b) the output of carbon dioxide by developing tissues. 4. During the first 2 weeks of incubation the pH of the yolk progressively increases to a maximum value of about 7.5: there is then a tendency for the pH of this fluid to fall and the yolk that is retained within the body of the hatched chick is slightly acidic. 5. The embryo may never come into direct contact with either the albumen or the yolk when the pH of these fluids are high and low respectively. At the beginning of embryonic development the blastoderm is separated from the albumen by the vitelline membrane and from the yolk by a layer of subgerminal fluid with a maximum pH of about 7.8. The vitelline membrane ruptures on day 4 but by this time the embryo is bathed in amniotic fluid with a pH of about 7.5. 6. The pH of amniotic fluid falls from a maximum value of about 7.5 during week I to a minimum value of about 6.5 during week 2. Amniotic fluid is a simple solution of salts until day 12; albumen then begins to flow into the amniotic cavity and the buffering capacity of amniotic fluid increases. 7. The principal end-product of nitrogenous metabolism in the chick embryo is uric acid and about 100 mg of this substance are deposited within the allantoic cavity. The pH of allantoic fluid may exceed 7.5 during week 1 but falls to 6.0 or below after day 13. 8. The tension of carbon dioxide within the egg is determined by the ratio of the rate of carbon dioxide production by the embryo to the permeability of the shell towards carbon dioxide. For the greater part of the period of incubation the permeability of the shell towards carbon dioxide is constant. Thus, as the carbon dioxide output of the embryo increases, the carbon dioxide tension within the egg rises. 9. The pH of the blood can be defined in terms of the ratio of the bicarbonate concentration to the carbon dioxide tension. There is a progressive increase in the carbon dioxide tension of the blood during the period of incubation but the pH is maintained at about 7.4 by an increase in bicarbonate concentration. 10. Part of the increase in bicarbonate is due to the removal of hydrogen ions from carbonic acid by haemoglobin. There is also a large influx of bicarbonate into the blood, but the source of this bicarbonate is not known; the evidence that renal mechanisms are involved is inconclusive and it is probable that the embryo utilizes the enormous potential store of bicarbonate in the egg shell.     

高寒草甸退化对鹅绒委陵菜克隆生长特征的影响

为了揭示高寒草甸典型匍匐茎克隆植物对不同生境的生态适应对策,验证生境适应假说,并为高寒草地的退化演替机理研究提供依据,以调查统计和比较样地法研究了江河源区高寒草甸退化对鹅绒委陵菜克隆生长特征的影响。研究表明,重度退化草甸的植物群落结构、功能以及土壤特征发生了明显的变化,继而对鹅绒委陵菜无性系的克隆生长行为和形态特性产生了影响。高寒草甸退化后鹅绒委陵菜的匍匐茎增多,分支强度加大。退化草甸内鹅绒委陵菜的基株高度小于未退化草甸,根长大于未退化草甸,基株的叶片数目问没有明显差别。退化草甸的分株高度显著小于未退化草甸,而分株叶数大于未退化草甸,根长小于未退化革甸且差异不显著。未退化草甸内鹅绒委陵菜无性系的问隔子长度、粗度和匍匐茎长度大于退化草甸,间隔子平均数目少于退化草甸,差异都不显著。随着鹅绒委陵菜无性系匍匐茎数目的增加,不论重度退化草甸与未退化草甸,用于鹅绒委陵菜克隆繁殖的能量投资也逐渐增加。鹅绒委陵菜在未退化草甸用于克隆繁殖的能量投资比例高于退化草甸,其中未退化草甸内鹅绒委陵菜基株的干重占无性系总生物量的比例略低于退化草甸,分株和匍匐茎的干重占无性系总生物量的比例高于退化草甸。高寒草甸退化对鹅绒委陵菜克隆生长特征的这些影响,与植物群落结构和功能的变化导致生境变异密切相关,是其对高寒草甸退化导致的资源和生境差异的反应,也是对资源利用达到的最合理状态,是一种选择适应的结果,有利于克隆繁殖潜力的发挥。同时为生境适应假说提供了又一例证。     

A study of the cerebral region of the visual system in the pulmonata

The distribution of central axons of receptor cells of the eyes and the locations of neurons sending axons into the optic nerves were studied in the cerebral ganglia of the pulmonate mollusksLymnaea stagnalis andHelix sp. by the method of axonal transport of cobalt chloride injected via the optic nerves. Afferent fibers of these nerves form terminal ramifications (chiefly dorsally) in the middle part of the cerebral ganglion. Some of them pass through the commissure to the symmetrical region of the opposite cerebral ganglion. Neurons innervating the eyes are located in several regions of both cerebral ganglia. InLymnaea they are distributed near the point of entry of the optic nerve, in the region of the commissure, the mesocerebrum, and the posterior part of the ganglion. InHelix these neurons are found in the same regions except in the posterior part of the ganglion. In electrophysiological experiments responses of neurons in these parts of the cerebral ganglion to adequate stimulation of the eye were recorded. Differences in the character of responses and also the presence of neurons indifferent to stimulation of the eye are evidence of the functional heterogeneity of these areas. This suggests that morphologically separate visual centers do not exist in the cerebral ganglion of the Pulmonata. Neurons giving specific responses to stimulation of the eye and evidently belonging to different levels of the visual system (afferent or efferent divisions) are closely connected both with each other and with cells of other functional systems.A. A. Ukhtomskii Physiological Research Institute, A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 179–184, March–April, 1982.     

DOES THE KINETICS OF TRYPSIN DIGESTION DEPEND ON THE FORMATION OF A COMPOUND BETWEEN ENZYME AND SUBSTRATE

1. The velocity of hydrolysis of gelatin by trypsin increases more slowly than the gelatin concentration and finally becomes nearly independent of the gelatin concentration. The relative velocity of hydrolysis of any two substrate concentrations is independent of the quantity of enzyme used to make the comparison. 2. The rate of hydrolysis is independent of the viscosity of the solution. 3. The percentage retardation of the rate of hydrolysis by inhibiting substances, is independent of the substrate concentration. 4. There is experimental evidence that the enzyme and inhibiting substance are combined to form a widely dissociated compound. 5. If the substrate were also combined with the enzyme, an increase in the substrate concentration should affect the equilibrium between the enzyme and the inhibiting substance. This is not the case. 6. The rate of digestion of a mixture of casein and gelatin is equal to the sum of the rates of hydrolysis of the two substances alone, as it should be if the rate is proportional to the concentration of free enzyme. This contradicts the saturation hypothesis. 7. If the reaction is followed by determining directly the change in the substrate concentration, it is found that this change agrees with the law of mass action; i.e., the rate of digestion is proportional to the substrate concentration.     

The protein arrestin as a regulator of the phototransduction process and as a factor of pathogenesis of the eye diseases

In the first part of the paper, the results of the investigation of the rhodopsin arrestin interaction are presented. The results were mainly obtained with the technique of the selective labelling of the rhodopsin and arrestin SH-groups and the rhodopsin limited proteolysis. These results are discussed in the frame of the latest data on the three-dimensional structure of arrestin. In the second part of the paper, results of the antigenic properties of arrestin (S-antigen) and its role in the pathogenesis of the retina diseases are summarized. The data on the role of the autoimmune processes in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy are presented. We have also described the results of the use of the elaborated technique of the immune diagnostics in the prognosis of the diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of the premature babies.     

Responses of dorsal and ventral thalamic neurons to visual stimulation in Emys orbicularis tortoises]

Extracellular studies have been made on the background activity and reactions to visual stimuli in neurons of nucleus rotundus and nucleus suprapeduncularis of the thalamus in the tortoise E. orbicularis. Reactions of on-off type to diffuse light flashes were recorded predominantly in both of the nuclei, whereas specific reactions to movement stimuli were found in the neurons of n. rotundus. The receptive area of the neurons in both of the nuclei involves all the visual field of one or both of the eyes. The structure of the receptive area of the neurons of n. suprapeduncularis is relatively homogeneous, whereas the receptive area of the neurons in n. rotundus exhibits a zone with an increased excitability under the horizontal meridian. After a damage of tectum opticum, the heterogeneity of the receptive areas and the specific responses to movement in cells of n. rotundus disappeared, while thresholds of the reactions increased. In the neurons of n. suprapeduncularis homogeneous structure of the receptive area remained unaffected, the thresholds of the reactions being increased as well.     

Department of Protein Structure and Function--Volodimir Oleksandrovich Bielitser School of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Studies on structure of fibrin fiber structure and mechanism (1975-1987

In this short historical review the records about foundation and research activity of the Department of Structure and Function of Protein--school of V. A. Belitser, Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are presented. V. A. Belitser was the founder and indispensable chief of the department since the date of its creation (1944) till 1987. The main research interests (1975-1987) of the department were focused at the investigation of structure, biological function of the fibrinogen-fibrin system, mechanisms of the network assembly and of the fibrin fibers structure. Studying the molecular mechanisms of the fibrin fiber assembly, it was shown that the specificity of the building structure was shown is determined by the specific reactive sites with strong affinity of the molecules. The activity of the sites was investigated on protein molecules as well as the fragments. The physical nature of the bonds created by the active sites, that appearing during in the process of fibrinogen activation by thrombin, was revealed. Examination of the fibrin assembly in cooperation with electronmicroscopists and studies of the complex formation between active fragments and fibrin monomer were summarized. Both the fibrin monomer polymerization and protofibril lateral association are presented as two stages in the assembly of the fibrin network. In the research of the domain fibrinogen structure the specific sites of the fibrin assembly in each of the domains were found. COOH-terminal regions of the A alpha-chains play independent part in the fibrinogen and fibrin. That is why it is relevant to consider them as alpha C-domains. In the free fibrinogen molecules (in solution) these domains are responsible for globular shape, they are linked to domains D intramolecularly. When fibrin assembly takes place, alpha C-domains play significant carriage role in fibrin molecules interaction, linking to domains D intermolecularly. The model of the fibrinogen molecule structure and the general scheme of the fibrin fibers network formation were proposed. Physico-chemical basics of a biological structure assembly were elucidated using the process of the fibrin self-assembly as an example. Much attention was devoted to the problems of practical medicine. The quantitative methods of fibrinogen, soluble fibrin and active fibrin/fibrinogen fragments estimation in blood plasma were developed.