环境光对哺乳动物昼夜节律和大脑功能的影响

昼夜循环对人类和其他动物的生理和行为有着巨大的影响。光照条件能影响动物的视觉成像,并通过向大脑中的生物钟中心发送信号来调整生理和行为的节律。环境光向生物钟传递信号的系统包含了一个复杂的神经递质复合体-受体-第二信使系统。在夜间曝光能迅速启动下丘脑视交叉上核中大量相关的早期基因。此外,许多白天活动的物种,通常都是在光照条件下获得认知。本文综述了环境光对哺乳动物睡眠、生物节律、大脑认知能力和基因表达等生理和行为方面的影响。     

多通道局部场电位时变频谱的同步模式及其对行为事件的编码

用时变相干（time-varying coherence）频谱方法分析多通道局部场电位（local field potentials, LFPs）随时间变化的同步模式及其对行为事件的编码。实验数据为行为事件前后3秒的28通道LFPs。分别计算每个通道LFP的功率谱密度（power spectral density, PSD）及多通道LFPs各个特征频段的PSD,选取PSD分布集中的?兹频段为LFPs的特征频段;应用离散二进小波变换获取LFPs的?兹频段分量;从28通道LFPs中选取PSD最大的通道作为参考通道。选取计算窗口为50 ms,从初始点开始计算每个窗口中每个通道LFP及其?兹分量对参考通道的频谱相干分析。移动窗口步长为25 ms,获取多通道LFPs及其?兹分量的时变频谱相干动态分布。研究结果显示,?兹频段分量的PSD占LFPs总功率的71.95%,表明?兹分量是实验中多通道LFPs同步的特征频段;多通道LFPs的?兹分量频谱相干值随时间变化,行为事件点前后1 s的相干值具有显著差别（P＜0.05）,表明多通道LFPs的?兹频段时变频谱相干有效地编码了这一行为事件。     

微流控技术对细胞微环境的模拟及应用研究

细胞微环境是一个多因素组成的、时空可变的复杂集合,对细胞的行为和功能发挥起着决定性作用。但传统的细胞生物学研究方法很难在体外为细胞提供这样一个复杂的、微尺度的生长环境,致使许多体外研究结果与在体情况相差甚远。近年来,微流控技术与细胞培养技术的结合为细胞微环境的模拟和控制提供了可能。文章通过提炼微环境的重要参数及其特征,介绍微流控技术是如何满足这些参数的需求,探讨了微流控技术在体外模拟细胞微环境的可行性,并总结了近年来该技术在微环境体外模拟研究中取得的成果,对微流控技术在细胞微环境构建中的发展方向和应用前景进行了展望。     

围产期食物限制对子代成年大鼠海马CA1区突触可塑性的影响

围产期食物限制导致子代大鼠学习和记忆能力等的神经生物学变化,但其机制并不清楚。将成年Wistar雌性大鼠与雄性大鼠同笼,受孕后随机分为对照组 (n=9) 和食物限制组 (n=8) 。对照组母鼠在妊娠期和哺乳期自由进食和饮水,食物限制组母鼠从妊娠的第7天到子代大鼠出生后21天进行食物限制,食物限制量为对照组大鼠的50%。子代雄性大鼠成年后,通过Morris 水迷宫测试空间学习和记忆能力。之后,在海马CA1区在体记录场兴奋性突触后电位 (field excitatory postsynaptic potential,fEPSP),并采用免疫组织化学方法观察海马CA1区神经元型一氧化氮合酶 (nNOS) 阳性细胞密度的变化。结果表明,围产期食物限制降低了子代大鼠出生后第1、7、10、14和21天的体重,并减弱了成年子代大鼠的学习和记忆能力,海马CA1区fEPSP的斜率和nNOS阳性细胞的密度也明显降低。结果提示,围产期食物限制可能通过抑制NO的产生降低了海马突触可塑性,从而影响了子代大鼠的学习和记忆能力。     

barren inflorescence2 Encodes a co-ortholog of the PINOID serine/threonine kinase and is required for organogenesis during inflorescence and vegetative development in maize

Organogenesis in plants is controlled by meristems. Axillary meristems, which give rise to branches and flowers, play a critical role in plant architecture and reproduction. Maize (Zea mays) and rice (Oryza sativa) have additional types of axillary meristems in the inflorescence compared to Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and thus provide an excellent model system to study axillary meristem initiation. Previously, we characterized the barren inflorescence2 (bif2) mutant in maize and showed that bif2 plays a key role in axillary meristem and lateral primordia initiation in the inflorescence. In this article, we cloned bif2 by transposon tagging. Isolation of bif2-like genes from seven other grasses, along with phylogenetic analysis, showed that bif2 is a co-ortholog of PINOID (PID), which regulates auxin transport in Arabidopsis. Expression analysis showed that bif2 is expressed in all axillary meristems and lateral primordia during inflorescence and vegetative development in maize and rice. Further phenotypic analysis of bif2 mutants in maize illustrates additional roles of bif2 during vegetative development. We propose that bif2/PID sequence and expression are conserved between grasses and Arabidopsis, attesting to the important role they play in development. We provide further support that bif2, and by analogy PID, is required for initiation of both axillary meristems and lateral primordia.     

黔东北志留纪兰多维列世的似发珊瑚属(Pilophyllia Ge et Y,1974)新资料

Pilophyllia Ge et Y,1974具有典型的包珊瑚型隔壁,是包珊瑚科的主要分子。该属广泛分布于上扬子区志留纪兰多维列世地层。首次对采自贵州石阡中兰多维列世(Llandovery)爱隆期(Aeronian)香树园组和雷家屯组的大量Pilophyllia Ge et Y,1974标本进行详细研究,经鉴定,共计有9种,其中包括6新种,1未定种,它们是:Pilophyllia simplex Chen,1986,P.fenggangensis Ge et Y,1974,P.vesiculosa Tang sp.nov.,P.conica Tang sp.nov.,P.ultimuma Tang sp.nov.,P.stylaris Tangsp.nov.,P.raritabulata Tangsp.nov.,P.lei-jiatunensis Tang sp.nov.,Pilophyllia sp.。此外,根据新的研究材料补充和修订Pilophyllia部分属征,并将石阡地区香树园组和雷家屯组的Pilophyllia种群特征与川北、陕南宁强组(Telychian阶)的进行比较。     

抗香蕉枯萎病的野生蕉抗病基因类似序列的克隆与表达

野生蕉是香蕉遗传改良的天然基因库。为了分离野生蕉中的抗病基因类似序列,根据核苷酸结合位点（nucleotide binding site,NBS）和丝氨酸,苏氨酸蛋白激酶域设计简并性引物,以经过鉴定的抗香蕉枯萎病4号生理小种的野生蕉（Musaacuminata）叶片cDNA为模板进行PCR扩增。经过对扩增产物进行克隆和测序,获得了6个500bp左右的RGAs片段。其中有2个RGA（WNB1和WNB2）具有NB—ARC保守结构域特征,并且WNB1具有连续的ORF。其余4个RGAs（WST1、WST2、WST3和WST4）均具有丝氨酸,苏氨酸蛋白激酶域特征,且WST3编码的氨基酸序列与水稻抗叶斑病基因Xa21同源性很高。用半定量PCR分析枯萎病菌诱导后野生蕉叶片中RGAs的表达情况,结果表明WNB1和WST3受枯萎病菌诱导后表达量增强,这表明wNB1和WST3的表达可能与香蕉枯萎病抗性相关。     

Release of the lipopolysaccharide deacylase PagL from latency compensates for a lack of lipopolysaccharide aminoarabinose modification-dependent resistance to the antimicrobial peptide polymyxin B in Salmonella enterica

Salmonella enterica modifies its lipopolysaccharide (LPS), including the lipid A portion, to adapt to its environments. The lipid A 3-O-deacylase PagL exhibits latency; deacylation of lipid A is not usually observed in vivo despite the expression of PagL, which is under the control of a two-component regulatory system, PhoP-PhoQ. In contrast, PagL is released from latency in pmrA and pmrE mutants, both of which are deficient in aminoarabinose-modified lipid A, although the biological significance of this is not clear. The attachment of aminoarabinose to lipid A decreases the net anionic charge at the membrane's surface and reduces electrostatic repulsion between neighboring LPS molecules, leading to increases in bacterial resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides, including polymyxin B. Here we examined the effects of the release of PagL from latency on resistance to polymyxin B. The pmrA pagL and pmrE pagL double mutants were more susceptible to polymyxin B than were the parental pmrA and pmrE mutants, respectively. Furthermore, introduction of the PagL expression plasmid into the pmrA pagL double mutant increased the resistance to polymyxin B. In addition, PagL-dependent deacylation of lipid A was observed in a mutant in which lipid A could not be modified with phosphoethanolamine, which partly contributes to the PmrA-dependent resistance to polymyxin B. These results, taken together, suggest that the release of PagL from latency compensates for the loss of resistance to polymyxin B that is due to a lack of other modifications to LPS.     

UK~(37)沉积地层记录:三门湾海表温度(SST)和EI Nio现象及其对大型底栖动物生命活动的影响

应用UK37估算三门湾(1916~2003年)表层海水温度,SST波动范围在15.97~18.00℃之间,年平均为17.03℃,此计算值比当年实测海水全年平均温度低3.52℃,与秋季海水实测温度相接近。研究显示出,三门湾的EI Nio事件在大尺度上与东太平洋一样,均受制于气候影响因素,但在变化尺度上又受到地理位置和地方性气候(季风)的影响,事件在形式和年代上相互对应,但其颤动幅度远不如东太平洋强烈。同时通过比较EI Nio期间(2003/2002)和非EI Nio期间(2006/2005)大型底栖生物的群落结构变动信号、生物量、栖息密度以及物种多样性等,研究显示出三门湾若干大型底栖生物对EI Nio事件产生响应迹象,若干大型底栖生物对EI Ni o的响应主要是通过海洋环流的影响来体现生命和生态效应的,主要表现在改变了底栖生物种类数和多样性、以及生命活动及栖息密度分布模式。在EI Nio影响下,台湾暖流入侵势力加强,2003/2002年底栖生物群落种类数减少与海流入侵及盐度密切相关;通过与同海域浮游动物对比研究,三门湾海域浮游动物和底栖生物对EI Nio的生态响应均较大,前者可能与三门湾海域水域较浅,外海暖水从底部入侵改变水温和盐度,直接影响底栖生物的生态环境,致使种类数大大减少有关;而后者由于入侵暖水强度增大,携带大量暖水性浮游动物,呈现出在EI Nio时期浮游动物种类数、生物量和丰度有偏高趋势。     

纺织基人造血管几何特征表征的实验研究

人造血管的壁厚和松弛内径是其主要的几何特征参数。本文中首先依据国际标准ISO 7198的要求设计了测试人造血管松弛内径的测试定规,并对人造血管样品进行了测试。然后对人造血管壁厚的测试方法进行了初步探讨。