磁场作用对小鼠学习记忆的影响

目的 :探讨磁场作用对小鼠学习记忆能力的影响。方法 :应用水迷宫学习模型测定并对比 30分钟磁场处理组、1 5分钟磁场处理组和非磁场处理的正常对照组动物的空间学习记忆能力。结果 :水迷宫学习训练的实验表明 30分钟磁场处理组与正常对照组比较 ,动物到达水下平台的时间延长 ;游程增加 ;平均游速减慢 ,且均具有显著性差异 (p <0 .0 5)。 1 5分钟磁场处理组与正常对照组比较 ,动物到达水下平台的时间延长 ,且具有显著性差异 (p <0 .0 5) ;游程和平均速度与正常对照组相比无显著性差异 (p >0 .0 5)。结论 :磁场处理 30分钟或 1 5分钟损伤小鼠的空间学习记忆能力 ,且以 30分钟的磁场处理作用较强     

恒定磁场对小鼠空间记忆形成的影响

目的：探讨不同照射时间的恒定磁场作用对小鼠空间记忆形成的影响.方法：应用水迷宫学习模型测定并对比4小时恒定磁场照射组、3小时恒定磁场照射组、2小时恒定磁场照射组和无磁场照射的正常对照组动物的空间记忆能力.结果：水迷宫学习训练的实验表明：第一个训练日中,4小时磁场处理组动物与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间延长,且具有显著性差异（P〈0.05）;3小时磁场处理组与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间缩短,且具有显著性差异（P〈0.05）;第二个训练日中,2小时或3小时磁场处理组与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间延长,且均具有显著性差异（P〈0.05）.第三、四、五连续3个训练日中,3组磁场处理组动物到达水下平台所需的时间与正常对照组相比较均不具有显著性差异（P〉0.05）.结论：一定时间的磁场处理对小鼠空间记忆的形成有促进或损伤作用,究竟是促进还是损伤有可能取决于一个作用“窗口”问题.     

恒定磁场对小鼠空间记忆形成的影响

目的探讨不同照射时间的恒定磁场作用对小鼠空间记忆形成的影响。方法应用水迷宫学习模型测定并对比4小时恒定磁场照射组、3小时恒定磁场照射组、2小时恒定磁场照射组和无磁场照射的正常对照组动物的空间记忆能力。结果水迷宫学习训练的实验表明第一个训练日中,4小时磁场处理组动物与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间延长,且具有显著性差异(P<0.05);3小时磁场处理组与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间缩短,且具有显著性差异(P<0.05);第二个训练日中,2小时或3小时磁场处理组与正常对照组比较,动物到达水下平台所需时间延长,且均具有显著性差异(P<0.05)。第三、四、五连续3个训练日中,3组磁场处理组动物到达水下平台所需的时间与正常对照组相比较均不具有显著性差异(P>0.05)。结论一定时间的磁场处理对小鼠空间记忆的形成有促进或损伤作用,究竟是促进还是损伤有可能取决于一个作用“窗口”问题。     

Testing for Validity and Reliability in Cross-Cultural Research

A set of procedures is offered for assessing interraler reliability and certain aspects of validity of codes in cross-cultural studies. The method assumes that at least two independent raters have coded more than one trait. Each trait coded by one rater is correlated with each trait coded by a second, and all the codings by a single rater are intercorrelated with each other. The results are presented in a multitrait-multi-rater matrix. From this matrix it is possible to determine the interrater reliability and discriminant validity of trails in addition to a higher order concept based on pairs of traits.     

Memory processing in great apes: the effect of time and sleep

Following encoding, memory remains temporarily vulnerable to disruption. Consolidation refers to offline time-dependent processes that continue after encoding and stabilize, transform or enhance the memory trace. Memory consolidation resulting from sleep has been reported for declarative and non-declarative memories in humans. We first investigated the temporal course of memory retrieval in chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. We found that the amount of retrieved information was time dependent: apes' performance degraded after 1 and 2 h, stabilized after 4 h, started to increase after 8 and 12 h and fully recovered after 24 h. Second, we show that although memories during wakefulness were highly vulnerable to interference from events similar to those witnessed during the original encoding event, an intervening period of sleep not only stabilized apes' memories into more permanent ones but also protected them against interference.     

Rehearsal of dreams and waking events similarly improves the quality but not the quantity of autobiographical recall.

Salient dreams are often discussed and ruminated upon over time, especially when they feature in dream work or therapy. The present study investigated the effects of rehearsal over time on dream memories, as compared to memories for waking experiences. Participants were instructed to complete a dream and waking episodic event diary over two weeks. A rehearsal group (n = 27) were instructed to read through their reports after recording them. A control group (n = 28) were instructed not to look at their reports. A surprise recall task demonstrated that rehearsal reduced significantly the detail of dream, but not waking event, reports. It maintained episodic richness for dreams. Furthermore, rehearsed dream and event reports corresponded significantly more closely with original reports than controls. These data indicate that while rehearsal may not increase dream recall over time, it may influence the phenomenology of memories that are subsequently recalled, such that a rehearsed memory is subsequently recalled, rather than the original experience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

昆虫记忆的形成机制及生态适应性

介绍近十几年来利用蜜蜂Apis mellifera L.、果蝇Drosophila melanogaster Meigen和寄生蜂等昆虫对学习和记忆行为研究的成果。这些研究表明昆虫的记忆形成是多阶段的。从短时记忆向长时记忆的形成过程中,cAMP反应元件结合蛋白(cAMP response element-bindingprotein,CREB)起重要的作用;而蘑菇体是学习、记忆形成的主要位点。已有的研究还表明昆虫记忆的动态是适应于不同物种的生态学需要。这些研究为探索昆虫和其它动物记忆的形成和生态适应性提供了理论基础。     

The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: Limits and Lessons of "Neo-Boasianism"

This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology.     

The World According to Vogue: The Role of Culture(s) in International Fashion Magazines

Anthropologists are known to work in contexts wider than academic settings, actively engaging with people from other disciplines and professions. The lecturers in the Fashion Institute where we presently work are challenged to integrate the practical knowledge and skills originating from the fashion industry into lessons, lectures and␣projects that prepare the students for their future careers. Our own task as (anthro)pology lecturers in Intercultural Communication and Culture and Globalization courses is to engrain a broader knowledge to compliment the practical competencies required in the professional settings. An example of the practical assignments is integrating the students' knowledge of minority groups or other cultures in developing certain fashion brands that would appeal to different ethnic groups or social classes within society or be marketable abroad. The deeper knowledge of segmentation, niche markets and specific target groups helps students to orient themselves in professional situations within the fashion industry. This requires an act of translation as well as transformation in order to translate the general (such as cultural theories) into the concrete (such as examples from the fashion industry) and to transform concrete examples and cases into broader theories. This article reflects on such acts of translation and transformation as evidenced in fashion magazines such as Vogue.     

Properties and Application of Iron-based Shape Memory Alloy

The properties of FeMnSiCrNi shape memory alloy were investigated. The results show that the best shape memory effect of Fel4Mn6SigCrSNi alloy is 85%. The transformation amount of the ε→γ transformation is not complete after heating the alloy to 1000 K, As and At points drop with increased transformation enthalpy (△H^ε→γ) by thermal cycling and increased prestrain. The alloy shows also good creep and stress relaxation resistance. In addition, the alloy having a tensile force of 20 kN and a sealing pressure of 6 MPa can satisfy reauirements for possible industrial application on pipe ioints.     

艾燃烧生成物对SAM小鼠学习记忆行为的影响

目的：艾灸不仅可以延年益寿而且可以未病先防。然而仅有少量研究证实,艾灸的燃烧生成物具有抗氧化作用从而延缓衰老。本试验从行为学方面研究艾燃烧生成物对快速老化模型小鼠SAM—W8学习记忆行为的影响。方法：选用6月龄雄性快速老化模型（SAM）小鼠50只,其中SAM—R／1系10只作为空白组,SAM—W8系40只随机分为模型组、单纯艾烟熏吸组、无烟艾灸组和常规艾灸组,每组10只。选取关元穴为治疗穴位,令常规艾灸关元组小鼠在艾灸关元穴的同时处在一定浓度艾烟的环境中;单纯艾烟熏吸组小鼠处在与常规艾灸关元组相同浓度的艾烟环境但不艾灸其穴位;而无烟艾灸关元组则是在艾灸小鼠关元穴的同时立即将艾烟抽除;其余空白组和模型组小鼠进行相同的空白抓取。治疗前后分别进行学习记忆行为的被动逃避试验,并对实验结果进行分析。结果：与空白组比较,治疗前模型组及治疗各组小鼠进行被动逃避试验的潜伏期均明显变短,有显著性差异（P〈0．05,P〈0．05,P〈0．01,P〈0．01）,治疗后模型组及常规艾灸关元组小鼠治疗后潜伏期均明显缩短,有显著性差异（P〈0．01,P〈0．05）;与模型组比较,各治疗组小鼠治疗后潜伏期均明显延长,有显著差异（P〈0．01,P〈0．01,P〈0．05）。与治疗前比较,各治疗组治疗后潜伏期均较前明显延长,有显著性差异（P〈0．01,P〈0．05,P〈0．05）。结论：艾燃烧生成物可延长快速老化模型小鼠被动逃避试验的潜伏期。提示其在一定程度上改善老化模型小鼠的学习记忆功能,为今后艾灸抗衰老在临床上的应用开辟了新思路。     

Afterword: Mysteries of Culture

All humans face the same epistemological dilemma: They must rely on an inherently limited—albeit life-giving—frame of reference to understand a world (which includes other people and cultures) that can never be completely understood in humanly particular terms. Given our common lot, anthropologists and "Natives," and outsiders and insiders, are never absolutely different, for difference is a matter of degree. Further more, the reality of difference, for all humans, is to be found in semiotic processes like translation and interpretation. Even terms that seem neutral to us, like individual and society, are culturally distinctive concepts that would not be commonsensical to all people, everywhere. Even the most familiar meanings are never completely transparent, not even to those "Natives" who use them with ease. Thus, anthropological outsiders and the insiders they study (and who study them) must struggle to transcend their own familiar rationalizations in their attempts to understand one another.     

Drosophila Full-Length Amyloid Precursor Protein Is Required for Visual Working Memory and Prevents Age-Related Memory Impairment

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Differential Role of Hippocampal cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase in Short- and Long-Term Memory

One-trial step-down inhibitory (passive) avoidance training is followed by two peaks of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) activity in rat CA1: one immediately after training and the other 3 h later. The second peak relies on the first: Immediate posttraining infusion into CA1 of the inhibitor of the regulatory subunit of PKA, Rp-cAMPS, at a dose that reduces PKA activity during less than 90 min, cancelled both peaks. Long-term memory (LTM) of this task measured at 24 h depends on the two peaks: Rp-cAMPS given into CA1 0 or 175 min posttraining, but not between those times, blocked LTM. However, the effect of immediate posttraining Rp-cAMPS on LTM could not be reversed by the activator of the regulatory subunit of PKA, Sp-cAMPS, given at 180 min, which suggests that, for LTM, the first peak may be more important than the second. When given at 0, 22, 45, or 90, but not at 175 min from training, Rp-cAMPS blocked short-term memory (STM) measured at 90 or 180 min. This effect of immediate posttraining Rp-cAMPS infusion on STM but not that on LTM was readily reversed by Sp-cAMPS infused 22 min later. On its own, Sp-cAMPS had effects exactly opposite to those of the inhibitor. It enhanced LTM when given at 0 or 175 min from training, and it enhanced STM when given at 0, 22, 45, or 90 min from training. These findings show that STM and LTM formation require separate PKA-dependent processes in CA1. STM relies on the continued activity of the enzyme during the first 90 min. LTM relies on the two peaks of PKA activity that occur immediately and 180 min posttraining.     

巴尔通体分离培养特性观察

从鼠类血液中分离巴尔通体(Bartonella),观察其分离培养特性。被检鼠血为2004年收集自云南省的4个县,采用含5%去纤维兔血脑心浸液琼脂培基置于35℃含5%CO2培养箱中分离培养巴尔通体,进行观察,涂片革兰染色镜检,疑似菌落用巴尔通体属特异性引物进行聚合酶链反应(PCR)扩增特异基因片段[枸橼酸合酶基因(gltA)的379 bp片段],电泳图中出现目标带即判断为阳性菌株。从397份鼠血分离到巴尔通体47份,分离率为11.8%。阳性菌落长出时间最早为3 d,多数为1~2周,占70.2%(33/47)。阳性菌落形态随培养时间延长而改变,特点多样。PCR阳性的菌经革兰染色,镜下均可见革兰阴性小杆菌。结果可见,可先用涂片革兰染色镜检,对疑似菌落进行初筛,巴尔通体种类多、形态多样,培养时间延长,菌落形态可能发生变异,有待进一步探索。     

Focus: The Aging Brain: The Knowledge of Memory Aging Questionnaire: Factor Structure and Correlates in a Lifespan Sample

The authors examined the factor structure of the Knowledge of Memory Aging Questionnaire (KMAQ) [1] using confirmatory factor analysis in a lifespan sample of 933 individuals who ranged in age from 18 to 101. Participants were college students at Louisiana State University and adults from the community enrolled in the Louisiana Healthy Aging Study (LHAS). A two-factor solution was expected, consistent with the normal and pathological memory aging dimensions that comprise the KMAQ. A bi-factor solution with items loading on a general response bias factor and either a normal or pathological knowledge-specific factor showed good model fit. Knowledge scores were correlated with demographic and cognitive performance variables. Implications of these data for clinical settings and research are considered.     

Retrieval and the Extinction of Memory

1. Memory is assessed by measuring retrieval which is often elicited by the solely presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS). However, as known since Pavlov, presentation of the CS alone generates extinction.2. One-trial avoidance (IA) is a much used conditioned fear paradigm in which the CS is the safe part of a training apparatus, the unconditioned stimulus (US) is a footshock and the conditioned response (CR) is to stay in the safe area. Retrieval of the memory for the step-down version of this task is measured in the absence of the US, as latency to step-down from the safe area (i.e., a platform).3. Extinction of the IA response is installed at the moment of the first non-reinforced test session, as clearly shown by the fact that many drugs, including PKA, ERK and protein synthesis inhibitors as well as NMDA receptor antagonists, hinder extinction when infused into the hippocampus or the basolateral amygdala at the moment of the first test session but not later.4. Some, but not all the molecular systems required for extinction are also activated by retrieval, further endorsing the hypothesis that although retrieval is necessary for the generation of extinction this last process constitutes a new learning secondary to the non-reinforced expression of the original trace.     

Dual Role of an mps-2/KCNE-Dependent Pathway in Long-Term Memory and Age-Dependent Memory Decline

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芪丹通脉片对大鼠慢性脑缺血损伤大鼠学习记忆的影响

目的:研究芪丹通脉片对慢性脑缺血所致学习记忆障碍的治疗作用及其可能机制。方法:采用双侧颈动脉结扎方法复制慢性脑缺血模型。将健康雄性SD大鼠随机分为空白对照组、模型组、假手术组、芪丹通脉片低剂量组、芪丹通脉片中剂量组、芪丹通脉片高剂量组、阳性对照尼莫地平组,应用Morris水迷宫检测大鼠学习记忆能力,HE染色观察海马神经元形态学改变。结果:与对照组比较,模型组大鼠可见显著学习记忆障碍,并可见海马神经元呈现出典型的神经病理性改变,海马区神经细胞数量减少、固缩等改变。芪丹通脉片可显著减轻慢性脑缺血所致学习记忆能力,并减其轻海马神经元损伤,且有显著剂量依赖性。结论:本实验证实芪丹通脉片可显著减轻慢性脑缺血所致学习记忆障碍,其可能机制是通过减轻海马损伤来改善学习记忆能力。