布氏菌病血清学筛选试验的比较

<正> 试管凝集试验(TAT)已成为布氏菌病血清学诊断的标准方法。是公认的关于布病血清学的定量试验。虽然TAT是标准方法,但因其繁琐,所以不适用于布病大量标本的初步试验。TAT对于现场或用于流行病学调查不方便。已报导了几种快速筛选试验,包括玻片凝集试验(TAT),酸性平板抗原凝集试验(CAT)和微量凝集试验(MAT)。在报告中,对SAT、MAT和CAT的敏感性和特异性、TAT真阳性和真阴性的结果界限进行了严格测定。     

巨细胞病毒抗原片的制备及其在快速诊断中初步应用

本文报道了用巨细胞病毒(CMV,AD_(169)株)感染的人胚肺细胞(HL)制备CMV抗原片。在这种抗原片上进行的间接免疫酶组化法(IPA)初步应用于CMV的快速诊断,并与补体结合试验(CFT)和免疫荧光技术(IFA)进行了比较。检测103份血清中抗CMV IgG抗体和18例双份血清中抗CMV IgG和IgM抗体的结果表明,本方法是特异的,其结果与CFT和IFA的结果一致。这种方法简便、快速、灵敏,不需要特殊的设备,可广泛用于临床诊断和流行病学调查。     

早期先天梅毒几种实验室诊断方法的评价

目的评价梅毒螺旋体蛋白印迹试验(TPPA-IgM-WB)和梅毒螺旋体19(s)-IgM酶联免疫吸附法[TP-19(s)-IgM-ELISA]在先天梅毒早期诊断中的作用。方法对45例梅毒孕妇所产46例(1例双胞胎)新生儿运用血清IgM-WB试验、梅毒螺旋体19(s)-IgM酶联免疫吸附法[TP-19(s)-IgM-ELISA]和常规血清学方法(TPPA、RPR、FTA-ABS-IgM)检测,评价上述试验诊断方法在先天梅毒早期诊断中的作用。结果45例梅毒孕妇所生的新生儿中,按常规综合诊断方法21例确诊为先天梅毒,新生儿血清IgM蛋白印迹试验23例阳性,梅毒螺旋体19(s)-IgM酶联免疫吸附法24例阳性(21例常规方法诊断为先天梅毒)。30例作为对照的非梅毒孕妇及新生儿各项检查均为阴性。结论血清IgM蛋白印迹试验和梅毒螺旋体19(s)-IgM酶联免疫吸附法[TP-19(s)-IgM-ELISA]诊断先天梅毒具有较高的特异性和敏感性,结果显示可能高于现行的常规综合诊断方法的诊断价值。     

生物技术在植物病害诊断中的应用

1 免疫技术 1.1 酶联免疫法 Voller[1]和Clark[2]等早在70年代中期就将现代血清学技术——酶联免疫法(enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay,ELISA)应用于植物病毒的检测.ELISA与血清学技术相比具有明显的优越性,可灵敏地大规模定量检测植物提取液中病毒蛋白的含量,这一技术现已成为植物病毒病害诊断的标准方法[3].以后,人们对ELISA技术在检测速度、表确性以及仪器装备等方面进行了改进,使之更加趋于完善.除此之外,其它一些以抗体为基础的检测技术如放射免疫检测、免疫荧光技术、免疫显微镜检技术等也用于植物病害的诊断.     

新疆野生啮齿动物嗜肝病毒的感染

[目的]为调查新疆野生啮齿动物的血清中嗜肝病毒的存在状态。[方法]应用乙肝表面抗原诊断试剂盒和乙肝表面抗体诊断试剂盒,对野生啮齿动物进行了血清学调查。[结果]灰旱獭(Marmotabaibaci-na)的阳性率为17.8%(24/135)、长尾黄鼠(Citellusundulatus)阳性率为17.4%(12/69)和赤颊黄鼠(Citelluserythrogenys)阳性为(8/15)。作者认为赤颊黄鼠可以作为乙型肝炎病毒潜在的动物模型。     

牛种布氏菌天然半抗原用于放免试验

<正> 人和动物布病的诊断,主要基于标准试验,如玻片血清凝集试验、虎红平板试验、补体结合试验和牛奶环状试验对抗体的测定。预防措施包括血清学测定和阳性动物的捕杀以及用牛种布氏菌B_(10),45/20或羊种布氏菌H_(38)、Rev-1进行预防接种。但是,接种产生的抗体不能与实际感染相区别。这     

立克次体病的检疫和诊断(续二)

<正> (三)血清学鉴别诊断 血清学是鉴别诊断细菌、病毒、立克次体等微生物及其疾病的重要力法。熟练而准确地运用血清学技术才能做出正确、可靠的实验诊断。应用于立克次体和立克次体病的血清学诊断方法很多,最常用的有:补体结合试验、立克次体凝集及外斐氏凝集试验、间接血凝和反相血凝及其抑制试验、中和试验等。近年来免疫萤光抗体染色、酶免疫吸附及细胞免疫试验也常被采用。本文着重立克次体学上最常用的几种方法做一介绍。 血清学诊断的基本原则:(1)是应用已知的某种病原体或抗原去测知未知抗体的存在和滴度,以确定系由何种病原体而感染。当人或动物被某种病原体感染后,常在患者     

百日咳的血清学诊断

<正> 血清学试验可确诊百日咳,用凝集试验或补体结合试验(CFT)方法能证明百日咳抗体。凝集试验检出不耐热血清型抗原的1,2,3型和耐热的菌体抗原的抗体。活的或福尔马林杀菌的菌悬液检出不耐热抗原的抗体。新近的两个试验中应用了不同的CFT抗原。1972年Bradstreet等用60℃加热1小时菌悬液的远沉上清作抗原,菌株血清型抗原并不影响血清效价,提示发现的主要抗体是对抗原1的(所有菌株所共有)而不是型特异抗体。苏格兰联合研究用新近分离的1,3型菌株并用NaOH37℃2小时提取抗原,他们没有证明是否测出了型特异抗体。 用间接血凝试验(IHA)测定人血清百日咳抗体的报导很多,除了Schuber等用百日咳可疑病例的双份血清做过试验,没有任何别的作者指出抗原附着到红血球上。     

肾综合征出血热早期诊断方法的比较

应用免疫-PCR方法和ELISA法对比检测96份肾综合征出血热(HFRS)患者血清标本中特异性IgM抗体,结果免疫-PCR方法的阳性检出率高于ELISA法,表明免疫-PCR方法是一种可用于HFRS早期诊断的高敏感性的血清学检测方法。     

牛分枝杆菌Mb0950c的免疫特性及其血清学检测方法的建立

[目的]利用原核表达系统对牛分枝杆菌Mb0950c蛋白进行表达和纯化,通过小鼠模型评价其免疫原性,建立血清学间接ELISA方法用于牛结核病的临床检测.[方法]构建pET32a-Mb0950c原核表达质粒,并转化至BL21(DE3)中诱导蛋白的表达,对蛋白进行纯化.使用流式细胞术(flow cytometry,FCM)、...     

Land,livestock, and livelihoods: Changing dynamics of gender,caste, and ethnicity in a Nepalese Village

Over the past 10 years, Ghusel VDC, Lalitpur District has moved from primarily subsistence agriculture into the wider cash economy aided by the Small Farmers' Development Program (SFDP), which provides credit to farmers mainly for the purchase of buffalo for milk production, and by the National Dairy Corporation, which supports local dairy cooperatives. Analysis reveals that buffalo-keeping and milk sales are increasing the well-being of many households, while at the same time creating new inequalities in gender roles and responsibilities, greater inequities between Brahmin and Tamang residents in Ghusel, and placing pressures on the ecosystem for increased supplies of fodder and fuelwood. Evidence suggests that there is critical, need for attention to the social, and particularly gender-based, implications of maintaining livestock for milk sales and to the ecological underpinnings of this livelihood system.     

Influence of Fluoride on Rat Kidney Antioxidant System: Effects of Methionine and Vitamin E

The aim of the study has been to determine and compare the influence upon the kidney antioxidative system, exercised by administration of vitamin E, and vitamin E in combination with methionine, under conditions of oxidative stress induced by sodium fluoride. The experiment was carried out on Wistar FL rats (adult males) that, for 35 days, were administered water, NaF, NaF with vitamin E, or vitamin E with methionine (doses: 10 mg NaF/kg of body mass/24 h, 3 mg vitamin E per 10 μl per rat for 24 h, 2 mg methionine per rat for 24 h). The influence of administered sodium fluoride and antioxidants upon the antioxidative system in kidney was examined by analyzing the concentration of malondialdehyde (MDA) and the activity of the most important antioxidative enzymes (SOD, total and both its isoenzymes, GPX, GST, GR, and CAT). The studies carried out confirmed the disadvantageous effect of the administered dose of NaF upon the antixodiative system in rats (increase in the concentration MDA, decrease activity of all antioxidative enzymes). The administration of vitamin E increased the activity of studied enzymes with the exception of glutathione reductase GR; it also reduced the procesess of lipid peroxidation. It has been found that combined doses of vitamin E and methionine were most effective in inhibiting lipid peroxidation processes. The results confirmed the antioxidative properties of methionine.     

Identification of specific binding sites for leukotriene C4 in human fetal lung

Specific leukotriene C₄ (LTC₄) binding sites were identified in membrane preparations from human fetal lung. Specific binding of [³H]-LTC₄ represented 95 percent of total binding, reached steadystate within 10 minutes and was rapidly reversible upon addition of excess unlabeled LTC₄. Binding assays were performed at 4°C under conditions which prevented metabolism of [³H]-LTC₄ (80 mM serineborate, 10 mM cysteine, 10 mM glycine). Under these conditions, greater than 95 percent of the membrane bound radioactivity, as analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography, co-eluted with the LTC₄ standard. Computer-assisted analyses of saturation binding data showed a single class of binding sites with a dissociation constant (K_d) of 26 + 6 nM and a density (B_max) of 84 ± 18 pmol/mg protein. Pharmacological specificity was demonstrated by competition studies in which specific binding of [³H]-LTC₄ was displaced by LTC₄ and its structural analogs with inhibition constants (K_j) of 10 to 30 nM, whereas LTD₄, diastereoisomers of LTD₁, LTE₄ and the end organ antagonist FPL 55712 were 150 to 700 fold less potent competitors than LTC₄. These results provide evidence for specific, reversible, saturable, high affinity binding sites for [³H]-LTC₄ in human fetal lung membranes.     

Reorientation of Microfibrils and Microtubules at the Outer Epidermal Wall of Maize Coleoptiles During Auxin-Mediated Growth

Auxin-mediated elongation growth of isolated subapical coleoptile segments of maize (Zea mays L.) is controlled by the extensibility of the outer cell wall of the outer epidermis (Kutschera et al., 1987). Here we investigate the hypothesis that auxin controls the extensibility of this wall by changing the orientation of newly deposited microfibrils through a corresponding change in the orientation of cortical microtubules. On the basis of electron micrographs it is shown that cessation of growth after removal of the endogenous source of auxin is correlated with a relative increase of longitudinally orientated microfibrils and microtubules at the inner wall surface. Conversely, reinduction of growth by exogenous auxin is correlated with a relative increase of transversely orientated microfibrils and microtubules at the inner wall surface. These changes can be detected 30–60 min after the removal and addition of auxin, respectively. The functional significance of directional changes of newly desposited wall microfibrils for the control of elongation growth is discussed.     

多马胺能药物对鲇鱼促性腺激素（GtH）分泌活动的影响

以珠江流域鲇鱼（silurus asotus)为实验材料,研究了多巴胺（DA）能药物（DA及其D－2型受体拮抗物 ,DOM）对鲇鱼促性腺激素（GtH)释放的影响,结果表明,在性腺发育的各个时期,单独注射DOM（5ug/g)均不能显著提高鲇鱼血液基础GtH水平,当DOM与LHRH－A联合注射时能显著增强LHRH－A刺激GtH释放的作用;DA只能抑制GnRH诱导的GtH释放,对基础GtH释放无抑制作用,这种生殖内分泌调节方式与鲇形目的革胡子鲇（Clarias gariepinus)和大鳍Hu（Mystus macropterus)相似,而与鲤形目的鲁科（Cyrpindiae)鱼类不同。     

Gamma-glutamylcysteine protects ergothioneine-deficient Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants against oxidative and nitrosative stress

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb.), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), cannot synthesize GSH, but synthesizes two major low molecular weight thiols namely mycothiol (MSH) and ergothioneine (ERG). Gamma-glutamylcysteine (GGC), an intermediate in GSH synthesis, has been implicated in the protection of lactic acid bacteria from oxidative stress in the absence of GSH. In mycobacteria, GGC is an intermediate in ERG biosynthesis, and its formation is catalysed by EgtA (GshA). GGC is subsequently used by EgtB in the formation of hercynine-sulphoxide-GGC. In this study, M.tb. mutants harbouring unmarked, in-frame deletions in each of the fives genes involved in ERG biosynthesis (egtA, egtB, egtC, egtD and egtE) or a marked deletion of the mshA gene (required for MSH biosynthesis) were generated. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry analyses (LC-MS) revealed that the production of GGC was elevated in the MSH-deficient and the ERG-deficient mutants. The ERG-deficient ΔegtB mutant which accumulated GGC was more resistant to oxidative and nitrosative stress than the ERG-deficient, GGC-deficient ΔegtA mutant. This implicates GGC in the detoxification of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in M.tb.     

Interactions of an antitumor platinum compound with deoxyribonucleic acid, histones, L-amino acids, poly-L-amino acids, nucleosides and nucleotides

Interaction of cis-dichloro(dipyridine)platinum(II) (cis-PPC) with calf thymus DNA, calf thymus histone, l-amino acids, poly-l-amino acids, nucleosides, and nucleotides has been evaluated by equilibrium dialysis technics. At least a 28 % decrease in the association of cis-PPC with DNA occurs when the platinum compound is pre-incubated with l-amino acids. The greatest decrease in association is seen upon pre-incubation of the platinum compound with the free amino acids. Glut, Asp, Lys, Arg, and CySH, before the addition of a sack containing a solution of DNA. The low level of association between DNA and the amino acids tends to rule out competition between cis-PPC and amino acids for DNA association sites. cis-PPC was repelled from sacks containing positively charged poly-l-Lys, poly-l-Arg, and calf thymus histone; however, in the presence of poly-l-Glut and poly-l-Asp, cis-PPC associated with these negatively charged polymers to a considerable degree. Enhanced chloride dissociation from cis-PPC was observed in the presence of all of the amino acids and the nucleotides GMP, CMP, UMP, and TMP, but not in the presence of AMP or the nucleosides rG and dG. In the presence of calf thymus histone, the association of cis-PPC with calf thymus DNA was reduced by more than 50% at histone/DNA ratios of 0.8–1.0.These data suggest that cis-PPC or cis-Pt(II) may associate with electron-rich areas of not only nucleic acids and proteins but also with body pools of free nucleotides and amino acids. The presence of positively charged histones shielding DNA strands in vivo suggests that the most probable point of platinum-DNA association would be at de-repressed areas of DNA which are undergoing RNA synthesis. The aquated form of the platinum complex may also associate with acidic proteins which appear to be involved in the positive control of RNA synthesis and, as a result, this interaction may be of pharmacological significance.     

Tuning of electronic properties of one-dimensional cyano-bridged Cu-Ni, Cu-Pd, and Cu-Pt bimetallic assemblies by stereochemistry of ligands

Preparations, XPS and electronic spectroscopy, and magnetism of seven new one-dimensional cyano-bridged coordination polymers, chiral [Cu(RR-chxn)₂][Pd(CN)₄] · 2H₂O (1), [Cu(trans-chxn)₂][M(CN)₄] · 2H₂O (2, 4, and 6 for M = Pd, Ni, and Pt), and [Cu(cis-chxn)₂][M(CN)₄] · 2H₂O (3, 5, and 7 for M = Pd, Ni, and Pt) (RR-chxn = cyclohexane-(1R,2R)-diamine, trans-chxn = racemic trans-cyclohexane-(1,2)-diamine, and cis-chxn = racemic cis-cyclohexane-(1,2)-diamine) have been reported in view of tuning of their electronic properties by stereochemistry of chxn ligands and metal-substitution. Comparison of Cu 2p_1/2 and 2p_3/2 peaks of XPS and broad d-d bands around 18 000 cm⁻¹ of electronic spectra are described systematically for 1-7. Variable-temperature magnetic measurement shows that complexes 1-7 indicate weak antiferromagnetic interactions via cyano-bridges. Because of semi-coordination coupled with pseudo Jahn-Teller elongation and electrostatic interaction for 1, the axial Cu-N coordination bond distances of 2.330(7) and 3.092(8) Å are considerably longer than those of equatorial ones in the range from 2.016(6) to 2.030(6) Å. The former bond distances of 1 are intermediate values among the related Ni (2.324(6) and 3.120(8) Å) and Pt (2.34(1) and 3.09(1) Å) complexes.     

Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets – iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine

The diets of over two-thirds of the world's population lack one or more essential mineral elements. This can be remedied through dietary diversification, mineral supplementation, food fortification, or increasing the concentrations and/or bioavailability of mineral elements in produce (biofortification). This article reviews aspects of soil science, plant physiology and genetics underpinning crop biofortification strategies, as well as agronomic and genetic approaches currently taken to biofortify food crops with the mineral elements most commonly lacking in human diets: iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iodine (I) and selenium (Se). Two complementary approaches have been successfully adopted to increase the concentrations of bioavailable mineral elements in food crops. First, agronomic approaches optimizing the application of mineral fertilizers and/or improving the solubilization and mobilization of mineral elements in the soil have been implemented. Secondly, crops have been developed with: increased abilities to acquire mineral elements and accumulate them in edible tissues; increased concentrations of 'promoter' substances, such as ascorbate, β-carotene and cysteine-rich polypeptides which stimulate the absorption of essential mineral elements by the gut; and reduced concentrations of 'antinutrients', such as oxalate, polyphenolics or phytate, which interfere with their absorption. These approaches are addressing mineral malnutrition in humans globally.     

八种脑-肠肽侧脑室内注射对大鼠基础胃酸分泌的影响

用乌拉坦麻醉大鼠作急性实验,采用连续灌流胃并收集流出液的方法,观察向侧脑室内注射微量脑-肠肽对大鼠基础胃酸分泌的影响。实验结果如下:(1)雨蛙肽、八肽胆囊收缩素、促甲状腺素释放激素及四肽胃泌素均使总酸排出量增加;(2)生长抑素、胰多肽、P 物质、胰高血糖素则使总酸排出量减少;(3)上述肽类用侧脑室注射的剂量作肌肉注射,除四肽胃泌素也产生明显的刺激胃酸分泌作用外,对胃酸分泌均无明显影响。以上结果提示,脑内的一些肽类可能以神经递质或调制物的方式,参与中枢对胃酸分泌的调节。