肠道菌群在脊髓损伤后胃肠道炎症反应中的研究进展

脊髓损伤(spinal cord injury, SCI)目前尚无有效的治疗手段。脊髓损伤后,患者常伴有严重的胃肠功能障碍,严重影响患者的生活质量。研究发现,脊髓损伤后肠道菌群的紊乱和脊髓损伤后的胃肠道功能障碍密切相关。因此,本文围绕脊髓损伤后肠道菌群的变化,探讨肠道菌群在迷走神经、下丘脑-垂体-肾上腺和肠道菌群代谢物3个途径中发挥的作用,及与胃肠道炎症反应相关的研究进展。     

模拟四季温度层积对南方红豆杉种子生理性状的影响

为了解濒危物种南方红豆杉(Taxus chinensis var. mairei)种子内含物含量受温度和湿度层积的影响,设置4个季节、2种湿度(16%和24%)基质层积处理,对种子的可溶性糖、淀粉、可溶性蛋白和脂肪等内含物质的变化进行研究。结果表明,不同层积处理下种子贮藏物质的含量有显著变化,春季层积9个月后,可溶性蛋白含量达到最高值;可溶性糖含量呈现降低-升高-降低的变化趋势;淀粉和脂肪含量均随层积逐渐减少。秋季层积9个月后,淀粉含量降至最低。相比于24%湿度,16%湿度的春季、秋季、冬季层积9个月后,脂肪含量均减少较多,说明16%湿度下种子代谢活动更强。春季和秋季的暖温更能促进种子代谢,促进种子形态后熟。夏季温度过高,导致种子生活力下降,夏季层积处理3个月后,种子已经发霉和腐烂。层积过程中,种子内含物在相关酶的作用下,降解为可溶性蛋白、可溶性糖等,为种子萌发提供物质与能量。种子层积时间、温度和湿度及交互作用可作为种子内含物的调控因子。     

四川省岷山地区花蝇科泉种蝇属四新种（双翅目;花蝇科）

本文记述四川省松潘县和茂汶县地区花蝇科泉种蝇属４新种,即蝶肛泉肿蝇Ｐｅｇｏｈｙｌｅｍｉａ ｐａｐｉｌｉｏｃｅｒｃａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ。巨板泉种蝇Ｐｅｇｏｈｙｌｅｍｙｉａ ａｌｃａｅｃｅｒｃａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ。角泉种蝇Ｐｅｇｏｈｙｌｅｍｙｉａ ｃｏｒｎｕｔａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．四尖泉种蝇Ｐｅｇｏｈｙｌｅｍｙｉａ ｔｅｔｒａｃｒｕｌａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ。     

古背鳕(Palaeoniscinotus)在我国初次发现

记述了在宁夏六盘山盆地侏罗系中发现的古背鳕（Palaeoniscinotus）一新种─—宁夏古背鳕（P.ningxiaensis）。其一般形态特征如体形、鳍的位置和结构、悬挂骨的倾斜程度、鳃盖骨系统及鳞片等结构,与俄罗斯伊尔库茨克中侏罗世的切卡诺夫斯基氏古背鳕（P．czekanowskii）很相似,但新种的背鳍和臀鳍的鳍条均较少、鳞片条纹倾斜分布以及侧线鳞较少等特征显然有别于后者。最后讨论了这个属的系统位置和含鱼化石地层的时代,认为属中侏罗世的可能性较大。     

Acutely administered melatonin reduces oxidative damage in lung and brain induced by hyperbaric oxygen

Pablos, Marta I., Russel J. Reiter, Jin-Ing Chuang, GenaroG. Ortiz, Juan M. Guerrero, Ewa Sewerynek, Maria T. Agapito, DanielaMelchiorri, Richard Lawrence, and Susan M. Deneke. Acutely administered melatonin reduces oxidative damage in lung and brain induced by hyperbaric oxygen. J. Appl.Physiol. 83(2): 354-358, 1997.Hyperbaric oxygenexposure rapidly induces lipid peroxidation and cellular damage in avariety of organs. In this study, we demonstrate that the exposure ofrats to 4 atmospheres of 100% oxygen for 90 min is associated withincreased levels of lipid peroxidation products [malonaldehyde(MDA) and 4-hydroxyalkenals (4-HDA)] and withchanges in the activities of two antioxidative enzymes[glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and glutathione reductase (GR)], as well as in the glutathione status in the lungs and in the brain. Products of lipid peroxidation increased after hyperbaric hyperoxia, both GPX and GR activities were decreased, and levels oftotal glutathione (reduced+oxidized) and glutathione disulfide (oxidized glutathione) increased in both lung and brain areas (cerebralcortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, striatum, and cerebellum) but not inliver. When animals were injected with melatonin (10 mg/kg) immediatelybefore the 90-min hyperbaric oxygen exposure, all measurements ofoxidative damage were prevented and were similar to those in untreatedcontrol animals. Melatonin's actions may be related to a variety ofmechanisms, some of which remain to be identified, including itsability to directly scavenge free radicals and its induction ofantioxidative enzymes via specific melatonin receptors.

     

草鱼垂体生长激素分离纯化及其抗体制备的研究

应用碱性抽提,亲和层析,凝胶过滤和离子交换层析等技术从草鱼垂体中分离提纯出纯度高的草鱼生长激素（ｇｃＧＨ）用酶联免疫吸附测定法（ＥＬＩＳＡ）检测表明草鱼ＧＨ与大马哈鱼ＧＨ抗血清具有明显的免疫交叉反应,而与大马哈鱼催乳素（ＰＲＬ）抗血清没有交叉反应,聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳表明草鱼ＧＨ为单一蛋白带,其分子量约为２２５００道尔顿,等电聚焦揭示出草鱼ＧＨ主要由等电点为４．７和５．０的两条蛋白带组成,用纯化的草     

巴拉巴按蚊人工交配中雄蚊蚊龄与受精率的关系

自McDaniel和Horsfall(1957)介绍了伊蚊的人工交配法后,许多原来在实验室内不易自然交配,因而无法繁殖的蚊种,已可在室内大量繁殖以供实验研究之用。1966年Esah和Scanlon用人工交配法,在室内饲养巴拉巴按蚊获得成功。国内四川医学院及成都生物制品研究所亦于1976年在室内同时建立了海南白沙巴拉巴按蚊品系。由于工作的需要,我们通过人工交配对该蚊种进行了饲养繁殖。但在多次人工交配中,雌蚊受精率常不一致,有时只有30％左右,有时则可高达80％以上。这种受精率的不稳定是否与雄蚊蚊龄有相应关系?为此,我们用羽化后12天以内不同日龄的雄蚊,分别进行了人工交配,以观察雄蚊日龄与其对雌蚊授精率之间,有无必然的相应关系。     

十三种农田常见步(虫甲)的食性

步科昆虫食性比较复杂,有的种类猎食害虫,有的为害农作物。所以,在天敌昆虫资源调查和开发利用上,有必要查明农田步(虫甲)的种类和它们的食性。鉴于多种步(虫甲)喜土栖而夜出活动,其经济意义难以了解,我们于1980—1981年间,采取室内饲养试验的方法,初步查明13种农田常见步(虫甲)的食性及其猎食对象。现简要报道如下。     

Resonance Raman spectra of horseradish peroxidase and bovine liver catalase compound I species. Evidence for predominant 2A2u pi-cation radical ground state configurations.

The nature of the porphyrin pi-cation radicals in the horseradish peroxidase and bovine liver catalase (BLC) compound I species have been investigated by studying their resonance Raman spectra. A variety of laser excitation and sample interrogation procedures have been employed in order to minimize previously documented problems arising from photoinduced conversions. With Soret band excitation, the spectra obtained for both species resemble that of a compound II-like photoproduct unless the samples are excited with residence times in the microsecond regime with very low (approximately 1 milliwatt) powers. When these precautions are taken, spectra attributable to the compound I species themselves are obtained. The spectrum for horseradish peroxidase compound I is similar to that reported by Paeng and Kincaid (Paeng, K.-J., and Kincaid, J. R. (1988) Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 7913-7915) using a similar approach. Both horseradish peroxidase and BLC compound I exhibit frequency shifts relative to their compound II species that are in the direction observed for model pi-cation radicals with predominant 2A2u character. The magnitudes of these shifts are smaller than those observed for heme models that lack aromatic axial ligands, but agree well with those observed on formation of the compound I analog of N alpha-acetyl microperoxidase-8 that has His as a proximal ligand. This observation is consistent with partial delocalization of the radical density onto the proximal His-170 and Tyr-357 ligands in horseradish peroxidase and BLC, respectively. The strong ligand field provided by these ligands on the proximal side and oxo ligand on the distal side of the heme group is apparently sufficient to reverse the 2A1u radical ground state preference observed for heme-like porphyrin species (e.g. octaethylporphyrins) with weak axial fields. Enhancement of several bands assigned to the Tyr-357 ligand has also been observed for BLC compound I with 406.7-nm excitation. This is attributed either to resonance with a tyrosinate----Fe(IV) charge transfer band or to the coupling provided by radical spin delocalization onto the tyrosinate ligand.     

Conformational properties of oxytocin in dimethyl sulfoxide solution: NMR and restrained molecular dynamics studies.

The conformation of oxytocin, the neurohypophyseal nonapeptide hormone, in solution in deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide has been determined by 1H-nmr. The structural determination is based on the experimental data set of nuclear Overhauser effect restraints. Obtained after the restrained molecular dynamics simulation on an initial structure of extended conformation, five resultant structures satisfy the experimental restraints well. These structures resemble that of the crystal structure of deamino-oxytocin, an analogue of oxytocin, in terms of a close correlation observed both at two beta-turn regions of the 20-membered tocin ring and at the tripeptide tail end. Based on this comparison and analysis of restrained molecular dynamics trajectories, we found that, although the turns are stabilized by the formation of hydrogen bonds, the oxytocin molecule possesses a slight twist in DMSO solution relative to the orientation of deamino-oxytocin in the crystalline state. Analyses of oxytocin conformation indicate that the tripeptide tail is more flexible than the tocin ring.