ADP—Fe~（2＋）启动脂质过氧化的化学发光研究

以化学发光法和雨二醛测定法为实验手段研究了ＡＤＰ—Ｆｅ２＋启动的脂质过氧化反应以及几种金属离子对该反应的影响、结果表明,当反应体系中只有ＡＤＰ－Ｆｅ２＋存在时,通过化学发光法和丙二醛测定法都可以现察到脂质过氧化反应在０—５分钟内有一“潜伏期”存在,同时在微粒体浓度保持不变的条件下,增大二价铁离子的浓度,则脂质过氧化的水平增强。如果反应体系中同时加入ＡＤＰ—Ｆｅ２＋与ＡＤＰ—Ｆｅ３＋,则反应起始时的“潜伏期”消失。当ＡＤＰ—Ｆｅ３＋、ＡＤＰ—Ａｌ３＋和ＡＤＰ－Ｐｂ２＋单独存在时本身并不启动脂质过氧化,但对ＡＤＰ－Ｆｅ２＋启动的脂质过氧化都有增强作用,并且三价铁离子对鼠肝微粒体脂质过氧化的增强作用随着ＡＤＰ－Ｆｅ２＋浓度的增大而逐渐加强。将化学发光法与雨二醛测定法的结果加以比较,发现微粒体本身对它的脂质过氧化反应过程中的发光具有猝灭作用。     

在96孔板中进行抗脂质过氧化的微量测定

以Fe²⁺/半胱氨酸诱导大鼠肝微粒体为基本模型,根据硫代巴比妥酸(TBA)反应原理,优化不同反应条件,建立了一种在96孔板上进行抗脂质过氧化测定的一步反应方法,该方法的灵敏度不低于传统的试管法,而且还具有微量、快速、简便等优点,特别适用于大规模筛选和研究抗氧化剂.此外,也可用于其它系统诱导的抗脂质过氧化的测定.     

肝再生刺激因子对小鼠实验性急性肝损伤的保护机制

我们前文证明肝再生刺激因子(HSS)对小鼠实验性肝损伤有保护作用。本文进一步探讨其机制并获得如下结果:(1)HSS显著提高由CCl_4所降低肝细胞膜、线粒体膜和微粒体膜的流动性,使其上升到对照水平。(2)HSS使CCl_4所致的肝组织丙二醛升高幅度降低。(3)HSS使CCl_4所致的肝组织谷胱甘肽降低的含量回升。(4)HSS能刺激受CCl_4损伤的肝再生,促进肝细胞合成DNA和~3H-TdR掺入肝细胞DNA。这些结果提示,HSS具有抗氧化作用,能抗CCl_4所产生的自由基对膜脂质的过氧化。此外还加强肝细胞本身抗氧化能力和促进受损肝脏再生。这些保肝机制可能相互联系。     

牛膝总皂甙的体外抗氧化性研究

通过对由Fe2 /Vc诱导的大鼠肝脏微粒体脂质过氧化、AAPH引发的蛋白质氧化降解和质粒pBR322DNA氧化断裂的抑制作用的检测,研究了牛膝总皂甙抗氧化作用。结果表明,它对脂质过氧化的半抑制浓度为8.0μg/mL;浓度为200和150μg/mL时明显或完全保护由AAPH引起的牛血清白蛋白和DNA氧化降解,说明牛膝总皂甙对这三种生物大分子的氧化性损伤具有较强的保护作用。     

亚油酸体系脂质过氧化引起的DNA损伤研究

用含两个双键的不饱和脂肪酸-亚油酸作为模型化合物,分析其过氧化程度,同时检测了由于脂质过氧化而引起的DNA损伤,结果表明:在脂质过氧化过程中,DNA与亚油酸过氧化产物反应生成一种荧光物质、其最大激发波长315nm最大发射波长410nm并随着氧化时间增加而增加,与此同时,双链DNA百分含量明显下降,DNA-溴乙锭复合物荧光显著降低,反映了DNA二级结构受到破坏.上述结果揭示了脂质过氧化产物在自由基引起DNA的损伤中可能起重要作用     

应用冷Schiff组织化学法检测人体组织脂质过氧化反应的研究

自由基引发的生物膜不饱和脂肪酸脂质过氧化反应涉及多种疾病过程,多年来检测脂质过氧化反应一直沿用生物化学（如硫代巴比妥酸法测定丙二醛）或生物物理技术（如分光光度法测定共轭双烯）。自从冷Schiff组织化学染色技术用于自由基研究以来,使形态学方法研究脂质过氧化反应成为可能,当前,应用冷Schiff组织化学法进行组织细胞的脂质过氧化反应检测大多限于动物实验研究,本研究对多种人体离体新鲜组织的冰冻切片应用冷Schiff组织化学法进行检测,未发现被组织存在组织化学水平上的脂质过氧化反应;胆对被测组织人为施加氧化攻击（用Fe-NADPH促氧化剂孵育）后,肝、肾及胃的泌酸细胞与其它组织相比呈现较明显的脂质过氧化反应;皮肤、脂肪组织几科不出现脂质过氧化反应;甲状腺C细胞、肌肉、骨骼等与钙代谢、贮存及利用相关的组织也出现较明显的脂质过氧化反应。结论：冷Schiff组织化学方法检测人体组织脂持过氧化反应具有简便易行、同时可以形态学定位的优点,在医学生物学、肿瘤学及老年医学研究中具有应用前景。     

原核表达的萝卜PHGPx和谷胱甘肽对NIH3T3细胞氧化损伤的联合保护作用

将大肠杆菌中高效表达的萝卜磷脂氢谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(RsPHGPx)及其底物还原型谷胱甘肽(GSH)联合作用于H2O2、过氧化叔丁基(t-BHP)以及磷脂氢过氧化物(PLPCOOH)损伤的小鼠NIH3T3成纤维细胞,研究其对于细胞过氧化损伤的保护作用。发现单独加入10 μg/ml RsPHGPx并不能明显保护细胞应对过氧化损伤,但是10 μg/ml RsPHGPx与3 mg/ml GSH共同作用,可显著提高GSH对细胞过氧化损伤的保护效果,提高细胞存活率,降低细胞膜脂质过氧化水平和胞内活性氧(ROS)水平,保护细胞维持形态完整和抑制细胞凋亡。这一联合作用结果说明RsPHGPx的催化作用可以快速清除细胞内多种过氧化物,高效地保护细胞免受过氧化损伤,为RsPHGPx的应用提供了实验依据。     

脂质过氧化引起的DNA损伤研究进展

脂质过氧化可以引起各种碱基损伤、DNA链断裂和各种荧光产物生成,并对DNA分子鸟嘌呤碱基具有选择性损伤.过渡金属离子可以明显加深脂质过氧化对DNA的损伤程度.多种抗氧化剂、活性氧自由基清除剂对脂质过氧化引起的DNA损伤有一定程度的保护作用.具有致突、致癌作用的8－羟基鸟嘌呤已经观察到．脂质过氧化的致突变、致癌变作用机制引起了人们的极大兴趣．     

生长抑素对氧自由基引起的离体胃粘膜细胞损伤的保护作用及其机制

采用pronase—EDTA法分离大鼠胃粘膜细胞,将黄嘌呤氧化酶(xanthineoxidase,XO)—黄嘌呤(xanthine,X)氧自由基生成系统加入培养液诱发细胞的损伤。观察到预先加入生长抑素可以剂量依赖性地减轻XO—X引起的细胞死亡和乳酸脱氢酶的漏出;同时抑制XO—X引起的细胞脂质过氧化水平的升高,并翻转细胞膜流动性及溶血性卵磷脂与卵磷脂比值的变化。上述结果提示,生长抑素对氧自由基引起的胃粘膜细胞损伤可能具有直接的保护作用,其机制似与防止质膜的脂质过氧化并从而保护细胞膜免受损伤有关。     

羟基自由基对兔脑微粒体膜脂及膜蛋白的损伤

本文研究了过氧化氢与亚铁离子体系产生的羟基自由基对兔脑微粒体脂质过氧化作用及对膜上(Na~++K~+)-ATP酶活性的影响.结果表明,羟基自由基导致兔脑微粒体脂质过氧化,增加丙二醛的含量.羟基自由基还使微粒体膜巯基数下降,(Na~++K~+)-ATP酶活力受到抑制.阿魏酸钠对抑制微粒体脂质过氧化及对膜巯基和(Na~++K~+)-ATP酶均有保护作用.自旋捕集实验结果进一步证明药物对羟基自由基的猝灭作用.     

Antibiotics in the treatment of wounds in the victims of the earthquake in the Armenian SSR

Purulent wounds in 88 victims of the Armenian earthquake with the syndrome of long-term squeezing were examined microbiologically and the experience with using antimicrobial drugs for their treatment was analyzed. In all the cases microbial associations were detected, coliform and nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli, enterococci, anaerobes and yeast-like fungi being isolated from 80, 20, 15 and 25 per cent of the patients respectively. 130 bacterial strains were studied in detail. 80 to 100 per cent of the bacterial isolates were resistant to the antibiotics routinely used in surgical practice, i.e. benzylpenicillin, tetracycline, levomycetin, kanamycin, cephalothin and cefazolin and highly sensitive to new antimicrobial drugs belonging to ureidopenicillins (mezlocillin), quinolones (ciprofloxacin) and cephalosporins of the 3rd generation (cefoperazone and ceftazidime). Retrospective estimation of the antibiotic therapy revealed its inadequacy in 55.7 per cent of the patients for the most part because of the isolates resistance. The 19 variants of the antibiotic use prescribed by the physicians mainly included penicillins, aminoglycosides and their combinations (in 67.2 per cent of the cases). The use of the highly efficient drugs of the groups of ureidopenicillins and quinolones was extremely rare which was likely due to lacking of information on the drugs.     

Histogenesis of the taste buds of the vallate papilla in the in the rat in the postnatal stages of development

The developing taste buds of vallate papillae were studied with electron microscope in rats during the first 7 days after birth. Two types of cells--light and dark--are identified in the taste buds of a one day old animal. The apical parts of dark cells are characterized by numerous dark granules. A distinguishing feature of light cells is the presence of synaptic contacts with afferent intragemmal nerves. On the 4th day of development on the top of the apical parts of the cell, a microvillar apparatus is seen to form, which does not yet communicate with the oral cavity. On the 7th day, basal cells appear in the taste buds. Some of these cells are seen mitotically dividing. The differentiated microvillar apparatus now communicates with oral cavity. The structure of the taste buds is getting similar to that in the adults. The structural and functional peculiarities of the developing taste buds are discussed in association with the period of ontogenesis under consideration.     

Changes in the size of the nucleoli of the Purkinje cells in the canine cerebellum in the postresuscitation period

The changes in the size of Purkinje cell (PC) nucleolus in the lateral and medial cerebellum zones were studied in dogs with different degree of neurologic status recovery after clinical death of various etiology and duration. PC always possess one nucleolus in the control and experimental groups. In the case of complete neurologic status recovery of animals the area of PC nucleolus increases in both zones studied, irrespective of the cause of clinical death. In the case of neurologic disorders the increase in PC nucleolus area is clearly expressed only in the medial zone of the cerebellum, being insignificant in the lateral zone. It is suggested that adaptive characteristics of PC are distinct in the two compared zones, which leads to greater PC vulnerability in the lateral zone during deep hypoxia.     

Frequency of the stages in the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium in the rat

This study determined the optimum number of tubules to be counted per testis cross section, and the number of animals per treatment group, when changes in stage frequencies in the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium are criteria for assessing effects of treatment on spermatogenesis. A data base of 9,672 observed and staged tubules was collected from testicular cross sections of 15 Sprague-Dawley rats. A significant variation between animals was found for the frequencies of Stages I, II, IV, VI, VIII, and XIII. Computer simulation was used to randomly select different combinations of animal and tubule numbers from the observed data. Stage frequency means from each simulation experiment were compared statistically to observed mean frequencies. A model that used data from all 14 stages was analyzed. The following conclusions were made: a) a minimum of 200 tubule cross sections/testis is recommended for estimating stage frequencies; b) for a fixed number of tubules scored, the number of animals sampled is more important than the number of tubules per animal in reducing variance; c) to detect a difference of 2 standard deviations from the mean with a 2% error rate and examining 200 tubules/testis, at least 12 animals must be used per group when assessing all 14 stages; d) when individual stages are examined using 10 animals per group, only Stage VII has 80% or greater power of test (alpha = 0.05) to detect a frequency difference; e) pooling stages into 3-4 groups is recommended to improve the power of detecting a treatment difference.     

Self-organization in the determination of the size of the axial structures in the embryogenesis of the clawed toad

Experiments were performed using X. laevis embryos during gastrulation and neurulation (stages 10, 11 1/2, 12 1/2, 13 1/2, 15 and 18). Part of presumptive epidermis and lateral plate mesoderm was removed, and embryos raised until stage 25. The size of axial structures (notochord, somite mesoderm, central nervous system) was determined using serial histological sections and compared with that of control embryos. In experimental embryos, the size of axial structures was decreased. Until a specific stage of development, close correlation was found between the volume of embryonic compartment corresponding to a particular, structure and the volume of presumptive epidermis and lateral plate mesoderm. This stage is individual for each axial organ: middle gastrula (stage 11 1/2) for notochord, late gastrula (stage 12 1/2) for somite mesoderm, and late neurula (stage 18) for central nervous system. This data suggest that differentiation pattern of ecto-mesodermal rudiment is subject to regulation during gastrulation-neurulation, and subdivision of ectoderm and mesoderm into axial and non-axial tissues is a self-organizing process.     

Role of the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus in the function of generalization in the cat

In chronic experiments on cats contribution of the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus to the organization of the processes of generalization and abstraction was studied by means of alternation method. Electrolytic ablation of the nucleus retarded the learning and impeded the initial stages of formation of the generalization function. Mechanisms of thalamic dementia are discussed.