Nesfatin-1对卡巴胆碱诱导的大鼠胃粘膜细胞胃酸分泌的影响及其机制研究

目的:探讨Nesfatin-1对卡巴胆碱诱导的离体大鼠胃粘膜细胞胃酸分泌的影响及其机制。方法:采用酶解法分离原代SD大鼠胃粘膜细胞。Nesfatin-1(10-1μmol/L)作用大鼠胃粘膜细胞不同时间以及不同浓度Nesfatin-1(10-1、10-2、10-3、10-4μmol/L)作用大鼠胃粘膜细胞0.5 h后,通过14C-氨基比林(14C-Aminopyrine,14C-AP)法检测其对卡巴胆碱(100μmol/L)诱导的大鼠胃粘膜细胞胃酸分泌的影响。将Nesfatin-1(10-1μmol/L)与卡巴胆碱(100μmol/L)共孵育大鼠胃粘膜细胞0.5 h后,通过透射电镜观察胃壁细胞超微结构的变化。结果:Nesfatin-1(10-1μmol/L)作用于大鼠胃粘膜细胞0.5 h、1.0 h及10-1、10-2、10-3μmol/L Nesfatin-1作用于大鼠胃粘膜细胞0.5 h均可明显降低卡巴胆碱诱导的14C-AP摄取量,与卡巴胆碱组相比,差异有统计学意义(P0.05);Nesfatin-1可影响卡巴胆碱诱导的大鼠胃壁细胞的超微结构,抑制其从静息态向分泌态转化。结论:Nesfatin-1可能通过影响胃壁细胞超微结构变化抑制卡巴胆碱诱导的SD大鼠胃粘膜细胞的胃酸分泌。     

胃多导电刺激及胃液体排空犬动物模型的建立

目的建立胃浆膜多导联电刺激和胃排空动物模型。方法在12条英国比格犬的胃大弯浆膜层包埋四对心内起搏电极,距幽门40cm空肠近端行一造瘘口。结果①造瘘管收集食糜的方法简单易行,通过其排空量,能了解不同的电刺激和不同的电刺激参数对胃动力的作用。②胃浆膜多导联电极记录的胃体、胃窦慢波电信号清晰、稳定,能准确地记录不同时间和不同实验的胃慢波变化。③单导联和多导长脉冲电刺激均能控制胃慢波。结论胃浆膜多导联电极是研究胃电生理、胃电起搏及胃电起搏对胃排空的影响较理想的方法。英国比格犬是此模型的理想材料。     

山楂醇提取物对大鼠离体胃、肠平滑肌条收缩性的影响

目的:考察山楂醇提取液对大鼠离体胃、肠平滑肌的影响.方法:本研究以大鼠的离体胃、肠平滑肌条为模型,考察在正常克氏液条件下加入山楂提取液大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条收缩状况.同时观察乙酰胆碱、阿托品作用下加入山楂提取液大鼠肠平滑肌条收缩状况.结果:山楂醇提取液在5-20mg生药/ml浓度范围内可显著抑制大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条的运动,且具有明显剂量依赖性.山楂醇提取液(20mg生药/ml)可拮抗乙酰胆碱引起的胃肠平滑肌的强烈收缩,山楂醇提取液(20mg生药/ml)可对抗阿托品引起的肠平滑肌的舒张作用.结论:山楂醇提取液对大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条的收缩具有明显的抑制作用.     

Development and Verification of a Mouse Model for Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery with a Small Gastric Pouch

Existing mouse models of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery are not comparable to human RYGB in gastric pouch volume for a large or absent gastric volume. The aim of this study was to develop and characterize a mouse RYGB model that closely replicates gastric pouch size of human RYGB surgery of about 5% of total gastric volume. We established this model in diet-induced obese (DIO) mice of C57BL/6J. This surgery resulted in a sustained 30% weight loss, entirely accounted for by decreased fat mass but not lean mass, compared to sham-operated mice on the high fat diet. Compared to sham-operated mice, energy expenditure corrected for total body weight was significantly increased by about 25%, and substrate utilization was shifted toward higher carbohydrate utilization at 8 weeks after RYGB when body weight had stabilized at the lower level. The energy expenditure persisted and carbohydrate utilization was even more pronounced when the mice were fed chow diet. Although significantly increased during daytime, overall locomotor activity was not significantly different. In response to cold exposure, RYGB mice exhibited an improved capacity to maintain the body temperature. In insulin tolerance test, exogenous insulin-induced suppression of plasma glucose levels was significantly greater in RYGB mice at 4 weeks after surgery. Paradoxically, food intake measured at 5 weeks after surgery was significantly increased, possibly in compensation for increased fecal energy loss and energy expenditure. In conclusion, this new model is a viable alternative to existing murine RYGB models and the model matches human RYGB surgery in anatomy. This model will be useful for studying molecular mechanisms involved in the beneficial effects of RYGB on body weight and glucose homeostasis.     

焦山楂醇提物对大鼠离体胃、肠平滑肌条收缩性的影响

目的:观察焦山楂醇提取液对大鼠离体胃、肠平滑肌的影响.方法:本研究以大鼠的离体胃、肠平滑肌条为模型,观察在正常克氏液条件下加入焦山楂醇提取液后大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条收缩状况.同时观察乙酰胆碱、阿托品作用下加入焦山楂提取液对大鼠胃、肠平滑肌运动的影响.结果:焦山楂醇提取液在4-8 mg生药/ml浓度范围内可显著抑制大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条的运动,且具有明显剂量依赖性.焦山楂醇提取液(8mg生药/ml)可拮抗乙酰胆碱引起的胃肠平滑肌的强烈收缩和阿托品引起的肠平滑肌的舒张作用.结论:焦山楂醇提取液对大鼠胃、肠平滑肌条的收缩具有明显的抑制作用.     

Effect of Estrogen on Denervated Muscle

Abstract: The rate of increase of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in denervated rat extensor digitorum longus muscle shows sexual dimorphism. This phenomenon is further investigated in this report by assessing the effects of ovariectomy, hypophysectomy, hormone replacement therapy, and treatment with an estrogen antagonist, MER-25. The data demonstrate that physiologic doses of estrogens enhance the rate and extent of the increase in glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity after denervation. The data further indicate that aromatization of androgens may be a significant source of estrogen involved in hormonal modulation of the neural control of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and other processes in muscle. Furthermore, choline acetyltransferase activity, a marker for the neuromuscular synapse, decreased in rat extensor digitorum longus muscles after denervation, but was unaffected by ovariectomy.     

Effects of Vasopressin on Blood-Brain Transfer of Methionine in Dogs

We used a simplified probe detection system for positron-emitting radionuclides in order to measure blood-brain barrier transport of amino acids in anesthetized dogs. Plasma and brain time-activity curves were recorded after intravenous bolus injection of L-[11C]methionine before and after administration of 1 microgram of vasopressin. Three-compartment models with three or four transfer coefficients were used to derive the kinetics of L-[11C]methionine uptake in brain. The blood-brain clearance of the tracer (K1) was 0.075 ml ml-1 min-1 before and 0.041 ml ml-1 min-1 after injection of vasopressin. The partition volume and the initial distribution (plasma) volume of methionine were unchanged and within the expected limits. The net accumulation rate of methionine (K), estimated by both the four-parameter (kinetic) and three-parameter (graphic) approaches, decreased after vasopressin injection in all six studies.     

Studies on Freezing Injury of Plant Cells: I. Relation between Thermotropic Properties of Isolated Plasma Membrane Vesicles and Freezing Injury

The thermotropic transition of plasma membrane of Dactylis glomerata was studied by using fluorescence polarization of embedded fluorophore, 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene. Under the presence of 35% ethylene glycol, reversible thermotropic transitions were observed in isolated plasma membrane vesicles in nearly the same temperature range as the temperature of freezing injury to cells. In liposomes prepared from isolated plasma membranes, however, the thermotropic transitions occurred at much lower temperatures in comparison with those of intact membrane vesicles. Following treatment with pronase, the thermotropic transition also shifted downward.

Thus, the thermotropic properties of plasma membranes appeared to be dependent on the membrane proteins. In vitro freezing of the isolated plasma membrane vesicles without addition of any cryoprotectant, such as sorbitol, resulted in an irreversible alteration both in the fluorescence anisotropy values and the temperatures for the thermotropic transition, suggesting an irreversible alteration in the membrane structure, presumably changes in lipid-protein interactions and protein conformation.

     

Dogs in child psychotherapy: Effects on state of mind

Abstract

Using a pretest-posttest design, this study investigates possible influences of animal-assisted therapy (AAT), using a dog, on the state of mind of children and adolescents who have undergone inpatient psychiatric treatment. To measure this, the Basler Befindlichkeits-Skala (BBS) was used, which measures general “state of mind” and provides four sub-scale scores: vitality, intra-emotional balance, social extroversion, and alertness. For Group 1 patients (n = 61, with AAT), the results show highly significant increases in all dimensions of the BBS. These changes were not found in a second group (Group 2, n = 39), in which there was no AAT. There was a significant negative correlation between pretest BBS scores and the change in scores that occurred after therapy incorporating AAT. Among seven patients in Group 1, a deterioration in state of mind was recorded. Under our controlled clinical conditions, an effect size of 0.38 was calculated for the therapy using a dog. Incorporating a dog could catalyze psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents.     

Effects of Azide on Photophosphorylation in Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts

The influence of sodium azide on open-chain and flavine mononucleotide mediated cyclic photophosphorylation in isolated spinach chloroplasts was investigated under anaerobic conditions. Open chain phosphorylation was completely inhibited with DCMU both in the presence and absence of sodium azide in the experimental medium. Flavine mononucleotide mediated photophosphorylation was only slightly inhibited by DCMU in the absence of sodium azide but inhibited in two steps by increasing amounts of DCMU when sodium azide was present in the medium. The first step can be explained as being mainly an effect of DCMU on an open chain electron transport, with water and H₂O₂ as electron donors and with flavine mononucleotide — kept in an oxidized state by sodium azide — as the electron acceptor. The second step, as well as the comparatively insensitivity to DCMU in the absence of sodium azide, depends on cyclic photophosphorylation mediated by flavine mononucleotide.     

Effects of Glyphosate on Isolated Maize Mitochondria

The effects of the herbicide glyphosate (K⁺ salt) on isolatedmaize mitochondria have been investigated. Protein synthesis,oxygen uptake (state 3 and state 4 respiration) and passiveswelling were inhibited at concentrations in the 10^–6–10^–2M range. No decrease of the respiratory control ratio (RCR)or stimulation of ATPase activity by glyphosate (K+ salt) wereobserved. It is concluded that the previously reported decreaseof the RCR and ATPase stimulation by glyphosate (isopropylaminesalt) were probably due to the isopropylamine moiety or to impuritiesof the technical product. Key words: Glyphosate, Herbicide action, Maize, Mitochondria     

Effects of Ischaemia on Neurotransmitter Release from the Isolated Retina

Abstract: The effects of "ischaemia" (glucose-free Krebs-bicarbonate medium gassed with N₂/CO₂ on the release of glutamate and other major neurotransmitters in the retina were examined using the isolated rat and rabbit retina. Amino acid transmitters, acetylcholine, and dopamine were measured by HPLC. The release of glutamate, aspartate, GABA, and glycine from ischaemic retinas was more than doubled after 30 min, and after 90 min of ischaemia the release of amino acids was ∼ 15–20-fold that of control values. Ischaemia also produced large increases in the release of dopamine from both the rat and especially the rabbit retina. In contrast, the release of acetylcholine from the rat retina was significantly decreased by ischaemia, although the release of choline was increased. Because the ischaemia-induced release of glutamate, aspartate, and GABA from the rat retina was completely Ca independent, and exposure of the retina to high K (50 m M ) did not stimulate amino acid release, it is concluded that the mechanisms underlying the ischaemia-induced release do not involve an initial release of K or an influx of calcium.     

Effects of Group and Individual Housing on the Behavior of Kennelled Dogs in Animal Shelters

Abstract

Recent findings have led researchers to believe that our pets may do more for us than we think. A dog's presence may even make a person appear more likable. Two studies were conducted to test this hypothesis. In the first study, 34 subjects viewed photographs of people pictured alone, pictured with a dog, and pictured with flowers. The subjects were asked to rate the person in the photos with regard to four dimensions: approachability, happy looking, relaxed looking, and best photo. The central finding revealed that photos of individuals pictured with a dog were rated higher than photos of individuals pictured without a dog. In the second study 45 subjects were asked to view three types of slides. The three slides consisted of outdoor scenery, a person walking through the outdoor scene, and a person walking a dog through the outdoor scene. Subjects were asked to rate the slides against each other with regard to several aesthetic dimensions, which included easiest to gaze at and best photo. In addition, subjects were asked how they perceived the person photographed with respect to happiness, relaxed looking, and safety. Finally, subjects were asked to choose photos in which they would like to be included. The major results of Study II demonstrated that (1) photos rated highest for questions concerning subjects' feelings toward the slides (easy to gaze at, feeling relaxed, best photo) were the scenery slides shown alone. The second highest rating went to the slides of the person walking the dog. (2) The person shown in the scene was perceived as appearing happier and safer when with the dog. (3) Subjects preferred to be added to the scene shown alone, without the dog. And when given the choice to replace the person shown, subjects preferred to replace the person in the scene with the dog rather than the person shown alone. Overall, results of both Studies I and II indicate that people appear happier, safer, and make a better “picture” when seen with a dog. Also, the results show that people appear more relaxed when sitting or standing with a dog. Finally, when asked to place themselves in the scene, subjects would rather be in a scene with a dog than alone.     

失神经骨骼肌萎缩的研究现状及进展

当今骨科领域,周围神经损伤一直影响着患者疗效。肌萎缩的发生,细胞凋亡导致骨骼肌萎缩,神经-肌肉接头处营养因子的代谢发生障碍,肌卫星细胞的减少,生长因子以及线粒体和各种酶的变化都是失神经骨骼肌萎缩的机制。电刺激法,保护神经元,生长因子,神经植入提高神经再生速度以及被动活动可以有效治疗患者。失神经骨骼肌萎缩的研究进展也趋于完善。     

Effects of Phenylbutazone and Indomethacin on the Post-operative Course following Experimental Orthopaedic Surgery in Dogs

Randomized placebo-controlled crossover studies were carried out in dogs to evaluate how two non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID) might modulate an acute post-traumatic inflammatory reaction. Two “identical” surgical interventions were performed on the forelimbs of each animal with an interval of 28 days, to enable a paired comparison of the inflammatory signs and the wound/bone healing processes. At one operation 8 dogs received 300 mg phenylbutazone twice daily for 8 days starting on the day before surgery, and at the other operation matching placebo tablets were given. In a similar placebo-controlled trial another group of 8 dogs received 5 mg indomethacin twice daily. With phenylbutazone the post-operative swelling was not significantly reduced compared to placebo, but there was less pain and limping. With indomethacin the swelling was somewhat reduced, but there was no consistent difference to placebo in the pain and limping assessments. None of the drugs appeared to distinctly effect the wound or fracture healing, as evaluated by clinical inspection, comparison of radiographs and comparison of bone sections from the sites of surgery. It proved difficult to select an appropriate dosage of indomethacin due to its high potential to induce GI ulceration and bleeding in dogs. In this experimental surgical model with an acute inflammation, neither phenylbutazone nor indomethacin showed impressive anti-inflammatory or analgesic properties. In the same model paracetamol has proved to significantly and more efficiently, reduce both swelling and pain without any noticeable adverse effects, and appears to be a better alternative than the two presently tested NSAID.