pp60c-src在血管平滑肌细胞内丝裂原活化蛋白激酶激活中的作用

观察ｐｐ６０ｃ－ｓｒｃ在血管紧张素Ⅱ（ＡｎｇⅡ）诱导血管平滑肌细胞（ＶＳＭＣｓ）内丝裂原活化蛋白激酶（ＭＡＰＫ）激活中的作用,以了解ＡｎｇⅡ促ＶＳＭＣｓ增殖的信号转导过程。将合成的反义ｃ－ｓｒｃ寡脱氧核苷酸（ｏｌｉｇｏｄｅｏｘｙｎｕｃｌｅ－ｏｔｉｄｅｓ,ＯＤＮｓ）以脂质体包裹转染培养的大鼠ＶＳＭＣｓ,用Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ印迹测得细胞裂解液中ｐｐ６０ｃ－ｓｒｃ含量明显下降,免疫沉淀方法测得ｐｐ６０ｃ－ｓ     

用显微切割技术和催化信号扩增法检测何杰金病瘤细胞（H／RS）中的 …

为明确何杰金病（Ｈｏｄｇｋｉｎ’ｓ ｄｉｓｅａｓｅ,ＨＤ）瘤细胞中是否存在人巨细胞病毒（ｈｕｍａｎ ｃｙｔｏｍｅｇａｌｏｖｉｒｕｓ,ＨＣＭＶ）感染,采用显微切割技术结合ＰＣＲ方法检测ＨＤ组织及其瘤细胞Ｈｏｄｇｋｉｎ／Ｒｅｅｄ－Ｓｔｅｒｎｂｅｒｇ（Ｈ／ＲＳ）中的ＨＣＭＶ核酸;采用免疫组织化学催化信号扩增（ｃａｔａｌｙｓｅｄ ｓｉｇｎａｌ ａｍｐｌｉｆｉｃａｔｉｏｎ,ＣＳＡ）法检测ＨＤ中ＨＣＭＶ的立即     

白介素10的临床应用研究

１９８９年,Ｆｉｏｒｅｎｔｉｏ等发现Ｔｈ２细胞分泌一种能抑制Ｔｈ１细胞功能的未知因子,称为细胞因子合成抑制因子（ｃｙｔｏｋｉｎｅｓｙｎｔｈｅ－ｓｉｓｉｎｈｉｂｉｔｏｒｙｆａｃｔｏｒ,ＣＳＩＦ）。Ｍｏｏｒｅ等发现ＣＳＩＦ与ＥＢ病毒（ＥＢＶ）中ＢＣＲＦ－...     

应用VCS技术的白细胞的分类和计数

在相当长的一段时期里,各种自动白细胞识别方法已被广泛的应用。其中有一种方法应用了ＶＣＳ技术。这种方法即是本病将讨论的内容。一种专用试剂能够防止细胞受染色溶剂或细胞化学试剂的影响而改变。细胞的一些原始特性,诸如白细胞的大小,内部的物理、化学特性,以及各个细胞特殊的表面结构特性可基本保持不变。ＶＣＳ方法是同时运用体积分析,传导系数和激光光散射三种技术,得到每个白细胞几乎处于原始状态的多维记录。     

鼠Ⅰ型可溶性白细胞介素1受体基因在昆虫细胞的克隆和表达

白细胞介素１（ＩＬ－１）是一种重要的细胞因子,具有广泛的生物学活性。它通过与细胞表面的白细胞介素 １受体（ＩＬ－１Ｒ）结合而起作用。以杆状病毒为载体在昆虫细胞中克隆表达了小鼠Ｉ型可溶性白细胞介素１受体（ｓＩＬ－１　ＲＩ）基因。以ＮＩＨ／３Ｔ３细胞ＲＮＡ为模板,采用ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ方法扩增得到小鼠ｓＩＬ－ＩＲＩ的ｃＤＮＡ,克隆至杆状病毒转移载体ｐＡｃＧＰ６７Ｂ,将转移重组质粒与野生病毒ＡＣＮＰＶ ＤＮＡ共转染昆虫细胞Ｓｆ９,经同源重组得到重组杆状病毒ｒＡＣＮＰＶ。应用经纯化的ｒＡｃＮＰＶ感染昆虫细胞Ｓｆ９,表达获得重组的ｓＩＬ－１ＲＩ。经对亲和层析样品的ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ分析和对ＩＬ－１β生物活性阻断作用实验证实,表达产物能够与其配基结合,并且能够分泌至细胞培养上清中。     

同型半胱氨酸对大鼠血管平滑肌细胞增殖的作用

血中同型半胱氨酸（ｈｏｍｏｃｙｓｔｅｉｎｅ,ＨＣＹ）浓度的升高已成为动脉粥样硬化发生的一个独立危险因子．为进一步阐明ＨＣＹ促进血管平滑肌细胞（ｖａｓｃｕｌａｒｓｍｏｏｔｈｍｕｓｃｌｅｃｅｌｓ,ＶＳＭＣｓ）增殖,从而引起动脉粥样硬化发生的机理．本实验采用细胞计数、３Ｈ－ＴｄＲ参入、细胞周期分析、Ｎｏｒｔｈｅｒｎ杂交方法证明,一定剂量的ＨＣＹ可促进离体培养的ＷＫＹ大鼠血管平滑肌细胞增殖,使其ＤＮＡ合成增加,细胞周期中Ｓ期细胞所占比例增加４３％,并促进ｃ－ｍｙｃ与ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因ｍＲＮＡ表达增加．提示ＨＣＹ可能通过促进ＶＳＭＣｓ增殖而诱发动脉粥样硬化     

自发性高血压大鼠原癌基因表达和限制性内切酶片段长度多态性分析

观察自发性高血压大鼠（ＳＨＲ）血管平滑肌细胞（ＶＳＭＣｓ）的生长曲线、ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因表达和ｃ－ｆｏｓ基因酶切图谱的情况,与对照组京都维斯特大鼠（ＷＫＹ）进行对比。结果显示,在小牛血清作用下ＳＨＲ的ＶＳＭＣｓ生长速率和ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因表达明显大于ＷＫＹ;ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因限制性内切酶片段长度多态性（ＲＦＬＰ）分析表明,经ＢａｍＨ Ｉ或ＥｃｏＲ Ｉ酶切后的ＳＨＲ－ＷＫＹ的酶切图谱一致,同时也未发     

自发性高血压大鼠原癌基因表达和限制性内切酶片段长度多态性分析

观察自发性高血压大鼠（ＳＨＲ）血管平滑肌细胞（ＶＳＭＣｓ）的生长曲线、ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因表达和ｃ－ｆｏｓ基因酶切图谱的情况,与对照组京都维斯特大鼠（ＷＫＹ）进行对比．结果显示,在小牛血清作用下ＳＨＲ的ＶＳＭＣｓ生长速率和ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因表达明显大于ＷＫＹ;ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因限制性内切酶片段长度多态性（ＲＦＬＰ）分析表明,经ＢａｍＨⅠ或ＥｃｏＲⅠ酶切后的ＳＨＲ和ＷＫＹ的酶切图谱一致,同时也未发现ＳＨＲ的ｆｏｓ基因扩增现象．提示,ＶＳＭＣｓ的异常增殖和ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因的表达异常与高血压的形成有关,而ｃ－ｆｏｓ原癌基因的过度表达可能是由于某些与基因转录调控有关的因素异常所致．     

荧光素酶基因的克隆表达及其产物纯化和鉴定

利用能形成多角体的杆状病毒载体系统ｐＳＸＩＶＶＩ＋Ｘ３,把萤火虫荧光素酶（Ｆｉｒｅｆｌｙｌｕｃｉｆｅｒａｓｅ,Ｌｕｃ）ｃＤＮＡ克隆到转移功体质粒ｐＳＸＩＶＶＩ＾＋３／３通过共转染草地夜蛾（Ｓｐｏｄｏｐｔｅｒａｆｒｕｇｉｐｅｒｄａ,Ｓｆ）细胞得到重组毒株ＴｎＮＰＶ－Ｌｕｃ－ＯＣＣ,在该重组杆状病毒株中Ｌｕｃ基因受到合成启动子和ＸＩＶ启动子的双重调控。该重组杆状病毒株在Ｓｆ９细胞中能形成多角体,有Ｘ－     

天然和氧化修饰型LDL、VLDL及HDL对培养人动脉平滑肌细胞原癌基因fos及myc表达的影响

动脉平滑肌细胞（ＳＭＣ）是动脉粥样硬化（ＡＳ）斑块中的主要细胞,它的增殖在ＡＳ形成过程中极其重要。脂蛋白和氧化修饰型脂蛋白对ＳＭＣ增殖的影响以及ＳＭＣ增殖与原癌基因异常表达的关系是当前ＡＳ发病机制研究的热点之一。我们在建立人主动脉ＳＭＣ体外培养方法的基础上,观察了ＬＤＬ,ＶＬＤＬ及ＨＤＬ和相应的氧化修饰型脂蛋白对培养人ＳＭＣｆｏｓ,ｍｙｃ,ｅｒｂ－Ｂ原癌基因转录表达的影响。结果表明：①ＨＤＬ对ＳＭＣｆｏｓ,ｍｙｃ基因表达无影响;②ＬＤＬ和ＶＬＤＬ有使这些基因表达增加的趋势,但与对照比较差异不显著（Ｐ＞０．０５）;③ＯＸ－ＶＬＤＬ,ＯＸ－ＶＬＤＬ和ＯＸ－ＨＤＬ有使ＳＭＣｆｏｓ,ｍｙｃ基因表达显著增强的作用（Ｐ＜０．０１）,且其作用较相应的天然脂蛋白大（Ｐ＜０．０１）．上述结果说明：ＬＤＬ,ＶＬＤＬ,ＯＸ－ＬＤＬ,ＯＸ－ＶＬＤＬ和０Ｘ－ＨＤＬ的致ＡＳ作用可能与刺激ＳＭＣｆｏｓ和ｍｙｃ癌基因表达增加有关。     

LeukocyteMask: An automated localization and segmentation method for leukocyte in blood smear images using deep neural networks

Digital pathology and microscope image analysis is widely used in comprehensive studies of cell morphology. Identification and analysis of leukocytes in blood smear images, acquired from bright field microscope, are vital for diagnosing many diseases such as hepatitis, leukaemia and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The major challenge for robust and accurate identification and segmentation of leukocyte in blood smear images lays in the large variations of cell appearance such as size, colour and shape of cells, the adhesion between leukocytes (white blood cells, WBCs) and erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBCs), and the emergence of substantial dyeing impurities in blood smear images. In this paper, an end‐to‐end leukocyte localization and segmentation method is proposed, named LeukocyteMask, in which pixel‐level prior information is utilized for supervisor training of a deep convolutional neural network, which is then employed to locate the region of interests (ROI) of leukocyte, and finally segmentation mask of leukocyte is obtained based on the extracted ROI by forward propagation of the network. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the propose method and both the quantitative and qualitative comparisons with existing methods indicate that LeukocyteMask achieves a state‐of‐the‐art performance for the segmentation of leukocyte in terms of robustness and accuracy .     

Paradoxical attenuation of leukocyte rolling in response to ischemia- reperfusion and extracorporeal blood circulation in inflamed tissue

In contrast to acute preparations such as the exteriorized mesentery or the cremaster muscle, chronically instrumented chamber models allow one to study the microcirculation under "physiological" conditions, i.e., in the absence of trauma-induced leukocyte rolling along the venular endothelium. To underscore the importance of studying the naive microcirculation, we implanted titanium dorsal skinfold chambers in hamsters and used intravital fluorescence microscopy to study venular leukocyte rolling in response to ischemia-reperfusion injury or extracorporeal blood circulation. The experiments were performed in chambers that fulfilled all well-established criteria for a physiological microcirculation as well as in chambers that showed various extents of leukocyte rolling due to trauma, hemorrhage, or inflammation. In ideal chambers with a physiological microcirculation (<30 rolling leukocytes/mm vessel circumference in 30 s), ischemia-reperfusion injury and extracorporeal blood circulation significantly stimulated leukocyte rolling along the venular endothelium and, subsequently, firm leukocyte adhesion. In contrast, both stimuli failed to elicit leukocyte rolling in borderline chambers (30-100 leukocytes/mm), and in blatantly inflamed chambers with yet higher numbers of rolling leukocytes at baseline (>100 leukocytes/mm), we observed a paradoxical reduction of leukocyte rolling after ischemia-reperfusion injury or extracorporeal blood circulation. A similar effect was observed when we superfused leukotriene B4 (LTB4) onto the chamber tissue. The initial increase in leukocyte rolling in response to an LTB4 challenge was reversed by a second superfusion 90 min later. These observations underscore 1) the benefit of studying leukocyte-endothelial cell interaction in chronically instrumented chamber models and 2) the necessity to strictly adhere to well-established criteria of a physiological microcirculation.     

A quantitative method for the analysis of cell shape and locomotion

Summary A rapid, semiautomated system to quantitate and analyze leukocyte shape and locomotion was developed. Video images of moving leukocytes were obtained using a Vidicon camera mounted on a Nikon phase microscope. The video signal was either inputted directly, or indirectly via a video cassette recorder, to a Datacube video analog-digital, digital-analog converter. A Digital Equipment Corporation LSI 11/23 computer using the RT-11/TSX-Plus operating system and computer programs written in FORTRAN and MARCO assembly language permitted image segmentation, image display, and calculation of position, speed, direction of movement and orientation of each leukocyte at 10 s intervals. These data were stored on a winchester disk for subsequent evaluation of the leukocyte orientation, speed and direction of movement using statistical and graphical methods. The reproducibility of measurements made with the video system was tested by comparison with manual measurements; a correlation coefficient of 0.998 was obtained for the two methods. Rates of chemokinesis were then determined for unstimulated and chemokinetically stimulated polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and found to average 12.8 m/min and 18.1 m/min, respectively. The high speed, ease of data analysis, and potential for multiparameter evaluation makes this system useful for directly evaluating leukocyte locomotion.In honour of Prof. P. van Duijn     

Intestinal motor disorders associated with cyclical bacterial overgrowth in a rat model of enteritis

The aims of this study were: 1) to obtain an experimental model reproducing the characteristics of chronicity and spontaneous relapses found in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and 2) to correlate these changes with intestinal motility and bacteria translocation. For this purpose, two groups of Sprague-Dawley rats were used: a treated group that received two subcutaneous injections of indomethacin (7.5 mg/kg) 48 h apart and a control group that received saline. Blood leukocytes, TNF, and fecal parameters were monitored for 90 days after treatment. In treated rats, a cyclic oscillation of blood leukocytes and TNF concomitant with an inverse correlation of fecal output was observed. Treated rats were then selected either during their highest or lowest blood leukocyte values for motor activity and microbiological evaluation. Controls were obtained in age-matched rats. Rats with high leukocyte levels showed a decrease of motor activity. In contrast, animals with low leukocyte levels presented hypermotility. Bacterial overgrowth accompanied by bacterial translocation was found in the group with high leukocytes, whereas no differences were observed between the control and indomethacin groups during the lowest leukocyte phase. We obtained a model of IBD characterized by a chronic cyclic oscillation of intestinal motility, flora, and inflammatory blood parameters. During the high-leukocyte stage, motor activity decrease is related to bacterial translocation. This phase is followed by a reactive one characterized by hypermotility associated with a decrease in both bacterial growth and leukocytes. However, as in IBD, this reaction seems unable to prevent a return to relapse.     

Leukocyte Populations in Human Preterm and Term Breast Milk Identified by Multicolour Flow Cytometry

Background

Extremely preterm infants are highly susceptible to bacterial infections but breast milk provides some protection. It is unknown if leukocyte numbers and subsets in milk differ between term and preterm breast milk. This study serially characterised leukocyte populations in breast milk of mothers of preterm and term infants using multicolour flow cytometry methods for extended differential leukocyte counts in blood.

Methods

Sixty mothers of extremely preterm (<28 weeks gestational age), very preterm (28–31 wk), and moderately preterm (32–36 wk), as well as term (37–41 wk) infants were recruited. Colostrum (d2–5), transitional (d8–12) and mature milk (d26–30) samples were collected, cells isolated, and leukocyte subsets analysed using flow cytometry.

Results

The major CD45+ leukocyte populations circulating in blood were also detectable in breast milk but at different frequencies. Progression of lactation was associated with decreasing CD45+ leukocyte concentration, as well as increases in the relative frequencies of neutrophils and immature granulocytes, and decreases in the relative frequencies of eosinophils, myeloid and B cell precursors, and CD16- monocytes. No differences were observed between preterm and term breast milk in leukocyte concentration, though minor differences between preterm groups in some leukocyte frequencies were observed.

Conclusions

Flow cytometry is a useful tool to identify and quantify leukocyte subsets in breast milk. The stage of lactation is associated with major changes in milk leukocyte composition in this population. Fresh preterm breast milk is not deficient in leukocytes, but shorter gestation may be associated with minor differences in leukocyte subset frequencies in preterm compared to term breast milk.     

Antibody-dependent cytolytically active human leukocytes: an analysis of inactivation following in vitro interaction with antibody-coated target cells.

A leukocyte population consisting of approximately 85% lymphocytes, prepared from human peripheral blood by centrifugation through a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient, was studied for its capacity to destroy antibody-coated human liver (Chang) cells in vitro. Cytolysis was a rapid event: increased ionic flux (86Rb) from the target cell occurred within 10 min of the addition of effector cells. Kinetic analysis of target cell destruction (51 Cr release) was compatible with a "one hit" hypothesis, thereby indicating that cytolysis resulted from a single collision was an effector cell. The initial rate of cytolysis was linear and related to the number of leukocytes added, but lysis at all of the leukocyte to target cell ratios tested ceased after 5 hr. The number of target cells killed at that time was directly proportional to the number of leukocytes added. While the lytic capacity of the effector population was totally depleted after incubation with antibody-coated target cells, cytotoxicity was not affected by co-culturing leukocytes with Chang cells treated with pre-immune serum. The cytotoxic effector cells functioning in this antibody-dependent lytic system are thus to be contrasted with killer T cells, whose lytic activity is not compromised by interaction with homologous target cells. It was estimated that approximately 4% of the leukocyte population employed could kill antibody-coated Chang cells, a figure consistent with the estimated frequency of "null" cells within human peripheral lymphocytes.     

Merocyanine 540 as a fluorescent probe of membranes: selective staining of leukemic and immature hemopoietic cells.

We have reported (Easton, Valinsky and Reich, 1978) that merocyanine 540 (MC 540) specifically stains a variety of living excitable cells, but not nonexcitable cells. This paper describes the exceptional permeability to MC 540 of leukemic leukocytes and immature hemopoietic precursor cells. We have used fluorescence microscopy and uptake of radioactive dye to study MC 540 staining of peripheral blood leukocytes from 80 leukemic and 34 normal individuals; leukemic leukocytes stain, whereas normal leukcytes do not. The leukocyte staining reaction differs from that previously described for excitable cells since it is independent of the ionic composition of the staining medium, kinetically complex, enhanced by light, enhanced by oxygen and essentially irreversible. Virtually all circulating nucleated cells from leukemic individuals are stained to approximately the same extent, and there is no qualitative or quantitative distinction between the various forms of leukemia. We have also found that MC 540 interacts with granulopoietic colony-forming cells (CFU-C) and with spleen colony-forming cells derived from mouse bone marrow (CFU-S). We cannot as yet identify a specific property of leukocyte plasma membranes that determines MC 540 permeability; since changes in MC 540 uptake appear to be correlated with cellular maturation during normal hemopoiesis, the retention of staining by leukemic cells, some of which appear morphologically normal, may indicate of failure in membrane maturation during leukemic blood cell development.     

Glycogen synthase from human and bovine polymorphonuclear leukocyte Immunochemical characterization and comparison to glycogen synthase from rat and rabbit muscle and liver cells

Glycogen synthase from human and bovine polymorphonuclear leukocytes was purified to homogeneity. Rabbit antisera were raised against the two glycogen synthases and used for immunochemical analysis. Western blotting analysis showed that the subunit of glycogen synthase in crude homogenates of human and bovine leukocytes in both cases has an M_r of 85 000. The existence of a cross-reactivity between the two enzymes and the corresponding antisera demonstrates immunological similarities between bovine and human leukocyte glycogen synthase. In addition, both antisera recognize glycogen synthase in crude cellular extracts from rabbit and rat liver and from skeletal muscle. Leukocyte glycogen synthase, therefore, cannot be classified as either muscle (M-type) or liver (L-type) glycogen synthase and our results do not support the proposed immunochemical distinction between M- and L-type glycogen synthase.     

Skin-window study on the migration of leukocytes of newborns and infants

Migration of leukocytes of newborns and of infants up to the age of 6 months was studied using the in vivo skin-window technique according to Rebuck. Using the non-specific stimulation (abrasion of the skin only) a slight age-dependent physiological increase of migration of cells was observed within the observation period; after a strong local irritation with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine (Alditepera) there was a vigorous migratory response of cells in the skin lesion. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, the migration pattern (i.e. shift from PMN leukocyte to mononuclear cells in the exudate within a 1 d period after abrasion) was not influenced by immunization of infants with Alditepera, suggesting thus the nonspecific nature of this cellular response. The "normal" values of the chemotactic response of leukocytes of newborns and infants are given as a basis for evaluation of defects of this functional activity of leukocytes.