山西太岳山南部针阔混交林群落特征及空间分布格局

为探究针阔混交林群落的空间分布特性、种间关系及演替规律,该研究通过点格局分析方法中的Ripley’L函数对山西太岳山南部1 hm~2针阔混交林中主要乔木种群的空间分布格局及空间关联性进行了研究。结果表明:样地内共调查木本植物41科71属76种,以蔷薇科、毛茛科、唇形科、豆科、菊科、百合科为主,科的分布区类型主要以世界广布为主,属的分区类型以北温带为主;辽东栎(Quercus wutaishanica)、槲树(Quercus dentata)、油松(Pinus tabuliformis)和山杨(Populus davidiana)是该群落的主要树种,样地内的林木总径级结构与主要乔木种群的径级结构相似,呈近似正态分布。辽东栎和槲树的空间分布相似,随尺度增大种群的聚集性减弱并逐渐表现出随机分布的格局特征;油松和山杨在一定尺度范围内呈现聚集分布;主要树种均在一定尺度上表现为两两正相关,且槲树与油松、山杨在整个尺度内都表现为显著正相关。山西太岳山南部针阔混交林中各个乔木种群处于相对稳定的状态。     

Linear measurement error models with restricted sampling

The relationship between nutrient consumption and chronic disease risk is the focus of a large number of epidemiological studies where food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) and food records are commonly used to assess dietary intake. However, these self-assessment tools are known to involve substantial random error for most nutrients, and probably important systematic error as well. Study subject selection in dietary intervention studies is sometimes conducted in two stages. At the first stage, FFQ-measured dietary intakes are observed and at the second stage another instrument, such as a 4-day food record, is administered only to participants who have fulfilled a prespecified criterion that is based on the baseline FFQ-measured dietary intake (e.g., only those reporting percent energy intake from fat above a prespecified quantity). Performing analysis without adjusting for this truncated sample design and for the measurement error in the nutrient consumption assessments will usually provide biased estimates for the population parameters. In this work we provide a general statistical analysis technique for such data with the classical additive measurement error that corrects for the two sources of bias. The proposed technique is based on multiple imputation for longitudinal data. Results of a simulation study along with a sensitivity analysis are presented, showing the performance of the proposed method under a simple linear regression model.     

微RNA在植物抗逆过程中的作用

微RNA（microRNA,miRNA）通过降解靶基因的mRNA或者抑制其靶基因的翻译控制生物体的多项重要生物途径,影响生物体不同组织器官的发育。本文重点综述了与植物抗逆相关的miRNA的最新研究进展。     

从猕猴肝脏组织扩增黄嘌呤脱氢酶／氧化酶基因片段

RT-PCR扩增猕猴黄嘌呤脱氢酶／氧化酶（XDH／XO）基因片段,为进一步开展相关研究提供实验资料。方法提取猕猴新鲜肝脏组织总RNA,用RT-PCR二步法进行XDH／XO基因片段扩增,对获得的目的片段进行序列测定,与GenBank上发表的人类（Homosapiens）、小鼠（Musmusculus）、家鼠（Rattusnorvegicus）、野猪（Susscrofa）等物种XDH／XO基因进行该序列同源性比对分析,DNAMAN软件预测该段核苷酸的氨基酸序列,Inter-ProScan及SWISS-MODEL工具进行XDH／XO的编码蛋白结构域及功能预测及三维结构构建。结果RT-PCR产物电泳检测得到了与设计大小相一致的目的条带,序列测定共测到683个核苷酸,DNAMAN软件预测该段核苷酸的氨基酸序列包括了1个编码53个氨基酸的开放阅读框（ORF）,通过该软件包中Multiplealignment对目的基因片段的核苷酸序列与NCBI报道的人类、小鼠、家鼠、野猪XDH／XO基因mRNA互补的cDNA核苷酸序列同源性进行同源性比较分析,结果显示所扩增得到的目的片段与人类同源性最高,为95．6％,与小鼠、家鼠、野猪的同源性分别为85．2％、84．3％、86．1％,说明获得的基因片段是猕猴的XDH／XO基因片段,且该基因在物种间具有较高的相似性。生物信息学预测该段XDH／XO编码蛋白含有醛氧化／脱氢酶的钼喋呤结合点结构域及黄嘌呤脱氢酶结构域。结论在体外成功扩增出猕猴XDH／XO基因片段,为进一步开展高尿酸血症致病机理研究,抗高尿酸血症新药研发奠定工作基础。     

微流控分析芯片在医学领域的应用

微全分析系统(μ_TAS)又称为芯片实验室,自从Manz等于20世纪90年代首次提出这一概念以来,经过十余年的发展μ_TAS已成为生物分析的一个独立领域并被学术界所认可。微流控分析芯片作为μ_TAS发展的主要方向以其快速、高效分析,低消耗和微型化等特点发展非常迅速。在此结合微流控分析芯片在医学领域的应用状况,着重从基因检测、蛋白质分析和细胞分析等方面,对该技术在医学领域里的应用及其未来发展趋势作一综述。     

Genetic Variants in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Pathway Genes and Risk of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Gastric Cancer in a Chinese Population

The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling pathway regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival, and is frequently dysregulated in esophageal and gastric cancers. Few studies have comprehensively examined the association between germline genetic variants in the EGFR pathway and risk of esophageal and gastric cancers. Based on a genome-wide association study in a Han Chinese population, we examined 3443 SNPs in 127 genes in the EGFR pathway for 1942 esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (ESCCs), 1758 gastric cancers (GCs), and 2111 controls. SNP-level analyses were conducted using logistic regression models. We applied the resampling-based adaptive rank truncated product approach to determine the gene- and pathway-level associations. The EGFR pathway was significantly associated with GC risk (P = 2.16×10⁻³). Gene-level analyses found 10 genes to be associated with GC, including FYN, MAPK8, MAP2K4, GNAI3, MAP2K1, TLN1, PRLR, PLCG2, RPS6KB2, and PIK3R3 (P<0.05). For ESCC, we did not observe a significant pathway-level association (P = 0.72), but gene-level analyses suggested associations between GNAI3, CHRNE, PAK4, WASL, and ITCH, and ESCC (P<0.05). Our data suggest an association between specific genes in the EGFR signaling pathway and risk of GC and ESCC. Further studies are warranted to validate these associations and to investigate underlying mechanisms.     

黄芩乙醇提取物通过下调NAD特异的谷氨酸脱氢酶抑制哈维氏弧菌生长

哈维氏弧菌（Vibrio harveyi）是水产动物的常见致病菌,对人类健康和水产经济带来巨大威胁。抗生素的滥用使得药物残留和耐药性问题变得日益严重。因此,迫切需要寻找新型、不易产生耐药性和低毒的抗菌物质。本文研究黄芩醇提物对哈维氏弧菌的抑制作用及抑菌机制。实验结果表明,黄芩醇提物对哈维氏弧菌的抑菌圈为18.33±0.58 mm,最低抑菌浓度（MIC）和最小杀菌浓度（MBC）分别为7.92 mg/mL和15.84 mg/mL。经分析型扫描电镜（SEM）观察和细菌胞内外蛋白质浓度测定,发现实验组菌体表面虽有细小破裂,但形态依然完整,表面光滑,菌体细胞膜仍保持相对完整性;通过SDS-PAGE、蛋白质质谱(MALDI-TOF-TOF MS)和实时荧光定量PCR分析,显示黄芩醇提物抑制哈维氏弧菌体内NAD特异性的谷氨酸脱氢酶（NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase, NAD-GDH）及其mRNA的表达。本研究表明,黄芩醇提物通过下调NAD特异性的谷氨酸脱氢酶表达而抑制哈维氏弧菌的生长,为中药应用于水产养殖提供了新的证据。     

Genetic variation in the HSD17B1 gene and risk of prostate cancer

Steroid hormones are believed to play an important role in prostate carcinogenesis, but epidemiological evidence linking prostate cancer and steroid hormone genes has been inconclusive, in part due to small sample sizes or incomplete characterization of genetic variation at the locus of interest. Here we report on the results of a comprehensive study of the association between HSD17B1 and prostate cancer by the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium, a large collaborative study. HSD17B1 encodes 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1, an enzyme that converts dihydroepiandrosterone to the testosterone precursor Δ5-androsterone-3β,17β-diol and converts estrone to estradiol. The Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium researchers systematically characterized variation in HSD17B1 by targeted resequencing and dense genotyping; selected haplotype-tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (htSNPs) that efficiently predict common variants in U.S. and European whites, Latinos, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians; and genotyped these htSNPs in 8,290 prostate cancer cases and 9,367 study-, age-, and ethnicity-matched controls. We found no evidence that HSD17B1 htSNPs (including the nonsynonymous coding SNP S312G) or htSNP haplotypes were associated with risk of prostate cancer or tumor stage in the pooled multiethnic sample or in U.S. and European whites. Analyses stratified by age, body mass index, and family history of disease found no subgroup-specific associations between these HSD17B1 htSNPs and prostate cancer. We found significant evidence of heterogeneity in associations between HSD17B1 haplotypes and prostate cancer across ethnicity: one haplotype had a significant (p < 0.002) inverse association with risk of prostate cancer in Latinos and Japanese Americans but showed no evidence of association in African Americans, Native Hawaiians, or whites. However, the smaller numbers of Latinos and Japanese Americans in this study makes these subgroup analyses less reliable. These results suggest that the germline variants in HSD17B1 characterized by these htSNPs do not substantially influence the risk of prostate cancer in U.S. and European whites.     

利用与PKD1紧密连锁的微卫星多态性对黑龙江省汉族人群进行ADPKD的症前诊断

目的：利用与PKD1紧密连锁的微卫星的多态性对黑龙江省汉族人群常染色体显性遗传性多裳肾病（autosomal dominant polycystic diseaseADPKD）家系成员进行症状前诊断。方法：扩增PKD1基因内部（KG8）及基因两侧（AC2．5、CW4）共三个微卫星遗传标记,并采用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳进行检测,银染,最后进行家系连锁分析。结果：家系1中一名男孩携带了PKD1突变基因,处于发病前期。结论：通过连锁分析ADPKD进行连锁分析能高效、快捷、准确地进行早期诊断.     

抑制性寡脱氧核苷酸的生物学效应及研究进展

DNA对于机体免疫系统具有很多复杂的作用。存在于细菌DNA中的刺激性CpG基序能够促进机体免疫细胞分泌多种细胞因子,使机体产生偏向Th1方向的免疫应答,而抑制性寡脱氧核苷酸（oligodeoxynucleotide,ODN）可以选择性阻断刺激性CpG诱导的免疫激活作用。抑制性ODN按其结构不同大致分为三类,它可能通过影响细胞对CpG-S的结合及摄取、降低CpG-S特异性受体TLR9的表达发挥抑制作用。本综述主要介绍抑制性ODN的结构特征、作用机制和它在一些疾病中发挥的作用。