广西蕨类植物孢子形态的研究Ⅲ.凤尾蕨科

利用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜对广西产凤尾蕨科及其近缘科蕨科、姬蕨科和碗蕨科5属9种植物的孢子形态进行了观察研究,详细描述了9种植物孢子的形态及表面纹饰特征.井栏边草、刺齿凤尾蕨、隆林凤尾蕨、剑叶凤尾蕨、林下凤尾蕨、蕨和碗蕨植物的孢子为三裂缝,辐射对称;极面观为钝三角形,赤道面观为半圆形或超半圆形;栗蕨和姬蕨植物孢子为...     

高温胁迫下五种杜鹃花属植物的生理变化及其耐热性比较

高温是制约分布于较高海拔地区杜鹃花迁地保育与园林应用的重要因子.为探讨杜鹃花属植物的 高温致伤机理,该实验以隶属不同亚属的白花杜鹃、羊踯躅、毛棉杜鹃、红滩杜鹃及红棕杜鹃4年生实生苗为 材料,通过人工气候箱的盆栽实验,研究了30℃、38℃高温胁迫下其叶片生理生化指标的变化,并利用隶属 函数法及系统聚类分析法对其种间...     

两种罗布麻营养器官的解剖结构及其生态适应性

采用石蜡切片法,对红麻和大麻状罗布麻的营养器官进行解剖学观察.结果显示:(1)红麻和大麻状罗布麻叶片均为异面叶,叶片表皮均被不同厚度的角质层,气孔具孔下室,栅栏组织2层;红麻的栅栏组织比大麻状罗布麻的排列紧密,而海绵组织比大麻状罗布麻的排列疏松;大麻状罗布麻叶片主脉厚度平均值为489.61 μm,而红麻仅为369.29...     

铝胁迫对入侵植物北美车前生长特性和生物量分配的影响

探讨了铝胁迫对入侵植物北美车前生长特性和生物量分配的影响.结果表明:低浓度( 100 mg/L)的铝胁迫处理对北美车前的生长无显著影响,高浓度(2 000 mg/L)使植株叶片数减少、叶面积变小;短时间高浓度铝胁迫促进北美车前的抽穗数,长时间(30 d)铝胁迫处理后穗生长受到抑制,这种抑制作用在高浓度铝胁迫处理下表现尤...     

薇甘菊可溶性蛋白和抗氧化酶活性对田野菟丝子不同寄生密度的响应

为探求利用寄生植物田野菟丝予对入侵杂草薇甘菊进行生物控制的有效措施,研究了薇甘菊对0、1、2、4和8棵田野菟丝子幼苗寄生在可溶性蛋白和一些抗氧化酶活性方面的响应.寄生后30 d,1棵田野菟丝子/株薇甘菊（以下简称棵/株）以上的寄生密度导致薇甘菊可溶性蛋白含量显著降低.和对照相比,在寄生密度为1棵/株时,超氧物歧化酶(S...     

过表达外源ST3Gal I增加MCF-7细胞与胞外基质粘附和侵袭能力

为探讨过表达外源α2,3-唾液酸转移酶（ST3Gal Ⅰ）对乳腺癌MCF-7细胞粘 附和侵袭能力的影响,构建pEGFP-N1-ST3Gal I真核表达载体.采用GenEscortTM Ⅱ包裹后转染MCF-7细胞. MCF-7细胞为3组：未转染组 (M)、转染空质粒组 (P) 和转染ST3Gal I组 (ST3); 荧光显微镜观察融合蛋白EGFP ST3Gal I的表达.采用 半定量RT-PCR、Western印迹法分析转染后MCF-7细胞ST3Gal Ⅰ基因mRNA水平和 蛋白表达水平;流式细胞术分析ST3Gal Ⅰ下游产物细胞表面α2,3-唾液酸含量;采用细胞粘附实验及transwell小室检测转染前后细胞与基质胶Matrigel粘附、迁移和侵袭运动能力的变化.结果表明, 荧光显微镜下P组细胞内绿色荧光呈弥散分 布,而ST3组绿色荧光主要集中在细胞质中,RT-PCR与Western印迹也证实了外源 ST3Gal Ⅰ基因mRNA和蛋白表达均明显增加（P<0.05）,其下游产物细胞表面 α2,3-唾液酸含量明显增加（P<0.05）;与M、P组相比,ST3组表现为粘附、迁移和侵袭能力明显增强（P<0.05）.利用转染技术可明显提高外源ST3Gal Ⅰ在MCF -7细胞表达,明显增加MCF-7细胞与胞外基质（ECM）粘附、迁移和侵袭能力,可形成肿瘤入侵表型,将有望成为治疗乳腺癌转移的新靶点.     

A two-stage meta-analysis identifies several new loci for Parkinson's disease

A previous genome-wide association (GWA) meta-analysis of 12,386 PD cases and 21,026 controls conducted by the International Parkinson''s Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC) discovered or confirmed 11 Parkinson''s disease (PD) loci. This first analysis of the two-stage IPDGC study focused on the set of loci that passed genome-wide significance in the first stage GWA scan. However, the second stage genotyping array, the ImmunoChip, included a larger set of 1,920 SNPs selected on the basis of the GWA analysis. Here, we analyzed this set of 1,920 SNPs, and we identified five additional PD risk loci (combined p<5×10⁻¹⁰, PARK16/1q32, STX1B/16p11, FGF20/8p22, STBD1/4q21, and GPNMB/7p15). Two of these five loci have been suggested by previous association studies (PARK16/1q32, FGF20/8p22), and this study provides further support for these findings. Using a dataset of post-mortem brain samples assayed for gene expression (n = 399) and methylation (n = 292), we identified methylation and expression changes associated with PD risk variants in PARK16/1q32, GPNMB/7p15, and STX1B/16p11 loci, hence suggesting potential molecular mechanisms and candidate genes at these risk loci.     

Methicillin-susceptible ST398 Staphylococcus aureus responsible for bloodstream infections: an emerging human-adapted subclone?

In the course of an annual 3-month bloodstream infections (BSI) survey conducted during a four-year period in 31 healthcare institutions located in three noncontiguous French regions, we report 18 ST398 Staphylococcus aureus BSI. ST398 BSI incidence showed a seven-fold increase during the study period (0.002 per 1,000 patient days in 2007 vs. 0.014 in 2010). ST398 BSI isolates differed from the pig-borne multiresistant clone: 17/18 BSI isolates were methicillin susceptible and none was of t011, t034 or t108 pig-borne spa-types. ST398 BSI isolates had homogenous resistance patterns (15/18 with only Ery(r)) and prophagic content (all harboured the hlb-converting Sau3int phage). The clustering of BSI and pig-borne isolates by spa-typing and MLVA, the occurrence of Sau3int phage in BSI isolates and the lack of this phage in pig-borne isolates suggest that the emergence of BSI isolates could have arisen from horizontal transfer, at least of the Sau3int phage, in genetically diverse MSSA ST398 isolates. The acquisition of the phage likely plays a role in the increasing ability of the lysogenic ST398 isolates to colonize human. The mode of acquisition of the non pig-borne ST398 isolates by our 18 patients remains unclear. ST398 BSI were diagnosed in patients lacking livestock exposure and were significantly associated with digestive portals of entry (3/18 [16.7%] for ST398 vs. 19/767 [2.5%] for non ST398 BSI; p?=?.012). This raises the question of possible foodborne human infections. We suggest the need for active surveillance to study and control the spread of this human-adapted subclone increasingly isolated in the hospital setting.