应用组织芯片技术研究MMP-9和PCNA在宫颈癌组织中的表达及其意义

目的探讨MMP-9和PCNA在宫颈癌组织中的联合表达、相关性及其临床意义。方法采用组织芯片和免疫组化技术检测143例宫颈浸润癌(ICC)、20例癌旁正常宫颈上皮(NCE)中MMP-9和PCNA的表达,统计分析MMP-9、PCNA表达与病理分级、临床分期和淋巴结转移等临床病理因素的关系。结果 MMP-9、PCNA在宫颈癌组织中的阳性率分别为89.5%(128/143)和93.7%(134/143),较正常宫颈组织中的阳性率40.0%(8/20)和15.0%(3/20)显著增高(P=0.000)。MMP-9的表达与病理分级(r=0.342,P=0.000)、淋巴结转移(r=0.197,P=0.018)和间质浸润深度(r=0.203,P=0.015)呈正相关。PCNA表达与临床分期(r=0.228,P=0.006)、病理分级(r=0.330,P=0.000)呈正相关。MMP-9和PCNA在宫颈癌组织中的表达强度呈正相关(r=0.228,P=0.006),二者表达一致的比例高达87.41%(125/143)。结论MMP-9和PCNA在宫颈癌中的异常表达与肿瘤的分化、侵袭和发展密切相关,联合检测二者的表达对于进一步理解宫颈癌的生物学行为和判断预后有一定价值。     

FURTHER EXPERIMENTS ON THE ABSORPTION OF IONS BY PLANTS,INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFECT OF LIGHT

1. The conditions of illumination were found to exert a very significant influence on absorption of ions from dilute solution by Nitella. These conditions were also found to influence the penetration of Br and NO₃ into the cell sap. 2. It is concluded that absorption of ions by plants from dilute solutions involves energy exchanges, with light as the ultimate source of the energy. It is suggested that the absorption is intimately related to growth and metabolism. 3. One ion may affect the removal from solution or penetration into the cell sap of another ion present in the same solution, even in solutions of extremely low concentration. It is probable that all three types of relations may exist—anion to anion, cation to cation, and anion to cation. 4. The sulfate and phosphate ions exerted far less influence on the absorption of nitrate than did chlorine and bromine ions. It is suggested as a possibility that sulfate does not penetrate readily to those surfaces at which chlorine, bromine, nitrate, and other ions may become effective.     

生物诱导子调节植物组织次生代谢的研究

论述了生物诱导子对植物组织次生代谢的调节作用,包括生物诱导子的作用机制、生物诱导子的来源和种类以及生物诱导子的应用     

糖类在植物组织培养中的效应

糖类是影响植物组织培养成功与否的关键之一。迄今为止,已用于植物组织培养的糖类有５０多种。在植物体细胞组织培养中,蔗糖一直作为标准碳源,然而其他糖类物质如：葡萄糖、麦芽糖和山梨醇对植物体细胞培养也产生了一定的影响。在植物花药培养中,蔗糖较好,但应注意麦芽糖对花药培养的促进作用。     

EXPERIMENTS ON TOLERATION OF TEMPERATURE BY DROSOPHILA

1. Most wild stocks of Drosophila melanogaster can be bred indefinitely on banana agar at a temperature of 31°C. There is no relation between the geographical origin of these stocks and their ability to tolerate this temperature. 2. A single wild stock has been found which will breed for only one generation at temperatures above 29°C. The offspring hatched at 31°C. will breed normally at 24°C. This difference from other wild stocks is apparently genetic, but its genetic basis has not yet been worked out. 3. The mutant stocks of D. melanogaster tested by us will breed for only one generation at 31°C. and their offspring at this temperature are also fertile at 24°C. This condition is apparently a physiological effect of the presence of any of the mutant genes in a homozygous condition. 4. Similar tests indicate that wild stocks of D. virilis and Chymomyza procnemis will breed at 31°C., while D. simulans, D. immigrans, and D. funebris will not. The last two species are northern forms not commonly found in the tropics. 5. Both male and female flies from mutant stocks hatched at 31°C. produce offspring at this temperature if mated to flies hatched at 24°C. Their germ cells are therefore capable of development, and the cause of their failure to develop at 31°C. when inbred must lie either in the failure of the germ cells to reach each other or in the fertilization process itself.     

INFLUENCE OF MANNITOL ON ABSORPTION AND RETENTION OF RUBIDIUM BY EXCISED CORN ROOTS

Excised root segments of corn were subjected to osmotic stress by immersion in solutions of mannitol before, during, or after a period of Rb absorption. Both the time course of uptake (or loss) and selectivity of uptake were studied. Stress before or during the absorption period reduced Rb absorption to 20 % or less of that of controls, whereas it had no detectable influence on the constancy and selectivity of uptake. Stress imposed following a period of Rb accumulation caused root segments to lose only slightly more Rb than controls during the first 30 min, after which rates of change were insignificant in both. Segments stressed after the Rbabsorption period retained from 70–90 % as much Rb as did the controls, even after two hours. The comparatively great quantitative difference between effect of stress on uptake and its effect on loss is interpreted to mean that the mechanism of stress-induced reduction of ion absorption cannot be adequately explained on the sole basis of increased efflux of ions.     

MORPHOGENETIC BEHAVIOR OF TOBACCO TISSUE CULTURES AND IMPLICATION OF PLANT SENESCENCE

Decreases in the growth and organ-forming capacities characterized continuously cultured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum ‘Wisconsin 38‘) callus. The root-initiation ability was completely lost in 1 1/2-year-old cultures. The rate of shoot formation decreased to a low plateau in cultures that reached 1 1/2-3 years of age since the explanting. An inverse relationship between callus growth and in vitro clonal age was also observed. Studies with callus clones started from individually isolated pith cells showed that the growth and organ-forming potentials of somatic cells varied, signifying that cell alterations had occurred in vivo. Both totipotent and non-totipotent cell lines were obtained. Subculturing the single-cell lines through several passages disclosed that the morphogenetically depressed state was irreversible and instability was characteristic of the totipotent lines. In the latter, a change toward the morphogenetically repressed level was observed. These findings are discussed in relation to the phenomenon of senescence. It is suggested that an accumulation of somatic mutations, i.e., genetic alterations resulting in reductions in the morphogenetic potential of cells, is a basis underlying senescence.