肌苷对缺氧心肌跨膜电位和收缩强度的影响

本工作在正常和缺氧情况下,观察肌苷对豚鼠心室乳头肌跨膜电位和收缩强度的影响。结果表明肌苷使正常心肌细胞动作电位时间(APD_(10)、APD_(50)延长。在缺氧心肌,肌苷使细胞静息电位增大,动作电位去极化幅度增高,零期最大去极化速度加快和动作电位时间延长。肌苷增加正常心肌收缩力,使缺氧心肌收缩的衰减显著缓和,亦即使收缩功能改善,且表现剂量-依从性。肌苷对心肌细胞跨膜电位的影响提示它很可能有抗心律失常作用,特别是在缺氧心脏。肌苷对离休乳头肌收缩的影响,证明其对心肌有直接的强心作用。     

嘉兰块茎形成过程中物质变化的研究

嘉兰(Gloriosa superba L.)系百合科草本植物,其块茎含有秋水仙碱。本文研究块茎形成规律及其形成过程中物质变化。研究结果表明:块茎播后,新生的块茎在生长初期和后期生长速度都较慢,中期生长速度最快,也是嘉兰块茎产量形成的主要时期。块茎中营养物质主要是淀粉。新生块茎中淀粉含量,是随着新块茎的生长,其含量逐渐增高。叶片的光合速率和叶面积,从播后逐渐增加,开花前达到高峰,花后又逐渐降低。开花前如能增加光合叶面积,可为后期块茎生长提供较多物质。块茎中秋水仙碱含量是随着块茎的成熟与淀粉含量的渐增而增加,至收获期达到高峰。这一结果表明:收获未充分成熟的块茎,会降低秋水仙碱含量。     

The disaccharide composition of heparins and heparan sulfates

Heparin and heparan sulfate can be cleaved selectively at their N-sulfated glucosamine residues by direct treatment with nitrous acid at pH 1.5. These polymers can also be cleaved selectively at their N-acetylated glucosamine residues by first N-deacetylating with hydrazine and then treating the products with nitrous acid at pH 4. These procedures have been combined and optimized for the conversion of these glycosaminoglycan chains into their disaccharide units. A modified hydrazinolysis procedure in which the glycosaminoglycans were heated with hydrazine:water (70:30) containing 1% hydrazine sulfate gave rapid rates of N-deacetylation and minimal conversion of the uronic acid residues to their hydrazide derivatives. Under these conditions, N-deacetylation was complete in 4 h and the beta-eliminative cleavage of the polymer chains that occurs during hydrazinolysis (P. N. Shaklee and H. E. Conrad (1984) Biochem. J. 217, 187-197) was eliminated. Treatment of the N-deacetylated polymer with nitrous acid at pH 3 for 15 h at 25 degrees C then gave simultaneous cleavage at the N-unsubstituted glucosamine residues and the N-sulfated glucosamine residues. These deamination conditions minimized, but did not eliminate, the side reaction in which nitrous acid-reactive glucosamine residues undergo ring contraction without glucosaminide bond cleavage. Thus, the disaccharides were obtained in a yield of 90% of those originally present in the glycosaminoglycan chains. Since the ring contraction side reaction occurs randomly at the diazotized glucosamine residues, the disaccharides formed in the pH 3 nitrous acid reaction were recovered in proportions equal to those in the original glycosaminoglycan chain.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Charge dependence of Fe(II)-catalyzed DNA cleavage.

The effect of charge of the Fe(II) reagent used to induce DNA strand cleavage reactions in the presence of a source of reducing equivalents is investigated using two oligonucleotide models. The first consists of the two strands dA20 and dT20, and an equimolar complex between them. The second is a short four-arm branched DNA complex composed of four 16-mer strands. In the former case, cleavage of the 1:1 complex by three reagents with different formal charge, Fe(II).EDTA2-, Fe(II).EDDA and Fe2+, is comparable in rate to that of the individual dT20 and the dA20 strands. While the three reagents show similar cleavage rates for the duplex and single stranded molecules, they give distinctive cutting patterns in the DNA tetramer, consistent with the presence of a site of excess negative charge at the branch point. Scission induced by Fe(II).EDTA2- shows lower reactivity at the branch site relative to duplex controls, whereas Fe(II)2+ shows enhanced reactivity. Formally neutral Fe(II).EDDA shows weak loss of cutting reactivity at the branch. The position of attack by Fe(II)2+ in the branched tetramer is shifted with respect to those of Fe(II).EDTA2- or Fe(II).EDDA; a slower migrating species is also detected in the scission of dA20.dT20 duplex by Fe(II) reaction. These results suggest that the Fe(II)2+ reaction proceeds by a different mechanism from the other agents. The difference in cutting profiles induced by the neutral and negatively charged chelated complexes is consistent with a local electrostatic repulsion of a negatively charged source of radicals, not a positively charged one.     

辣椒素引起脊髓P物质释放及其对血压的影响

为进一步研究脊髓 P 物质(SP)在调节心血管活动中的作用,在大鼠脊髓蛛网膜下腔注射(ith)辣淑素(cap),以刺激脊髓 SP 能神经末梢释放 SP,结果引起血浆去甲肾上腺素(NA)和肾上腺素(AD)含量增高,及具有剂量依赖性的动脉血压上升,心率升高。ith 具有高度特异性的 SP 受体拮抗剂或 SP 抗血清均可阻断 cap 引起的升压效应,免疫组化测定也观察到注入的cap 剂量越大,脊髓胸段 SP 样免疫阳性反应物的致密度越低,这些观察结果支持 cap 可以引起脊髓内 SP 的释放的说法。在第一颈段(C_1)横断脊髓后 ith cap 所引起的升压效应与完整动物 ith cap 的升压效应无显著差异。以上结果提示脊髓 SP 能神经末梢释放的 SP 可以通过交感肾上腺髓质系统引起心血管兴奋效应,SP 可能是引起交感节前神经元兴奋的神经递质。     

家兔面神经后核内侧区在呼吸节律起源中的作用

从腹侧面暴露家兔延髓,脑内微量注射1%普鲁卡因阻滞面神经后核内侧区(mNRF),全部动物(n=20)一次注射(0.3—1.0μl)后即能可逆地消除呼吸节律。区域对照显示此区非常局限,范围约1.0×1.0×1.0mm。组织学检查表明为面神经后核内侧区。本文分析了 mNRF的呼吸相关神经元(RRNs)的放电形式。在 mNRF 有较多的呼气(E)神经元和呼气-吸气跨时相(E-IPS)神经元。在阻滞 mNRF 引起呼吸停止期间,观察到低位延髓背侧呼吸群(DRG)和腹侧呼吸群(VRG)尾端区 RRNs 放电的节律性消失,表现连续放电或停止放电。电刺激DRG,VRG 尾端区,只能诱发短串的膈神经放电,而不能产生节律性发放。说明这些区域的RRNs 无自动节律性活动的能力。结果表明,面神经后核内侧区与呼吸节律发生有关,它可能是呼吸节律发生器的一个重要的所在部位。     

刺激大鼠下丘脑室旁核激活的中脑中央灰质神经元对躯体传入的反应

电刺激大鼠下丘脑室旁核(PVH),在同侧中脑中央灰质(CG)内寻找逆行及顺行反应单位,然后观察它们对躯体感觉刺激的反应。实验结果表明:CG 及邻近网状结构内有10%(32/318)的单位呈逆行反应。逆行传导速度平均为0.37±0.24m/s(均数±标准差);推测这种CG→PVH 投射纤维属于细有髓或无髓神经纤维。这些单位分布于 CG 的腹外侧及背外侧亚核。50%(14/28)的逆行单位对坐骨(胫)神经的强电刺激和夹尾等损伤性刺激起反应,但对触毛或低强度的神经干刺激无明显反应。以上结果表明:外周躯体感觉,特别是损伤性信息传入 PVH 时,CG 是其中枢驿站之一。电刺激 PVH 还能顺行激活7.55(24/318)、抑制0.7%(2/318)的 CG 单位。有69%(18/26)的顺行反应单位对外周躯体神经强电刺激及夹尾起反应。提示 PVH 可能通过影响 CG神经元的活动而参与中枢痛觉的整合。     

椭圆斜羽叶的解剖研究及斜羽叶的系统分类位置

本文根据对椭圆斜羽叶(Plagiozamites oblongifolius)钙质石化化石的研究,认为其主要特征如下:羽状复叶,叶肉无海绵组织和栅栏组织分化。羽片叶脉维管束外韧式,木质部外始式,与现代苏铁属叶脉特征相近。羽轴维管束为“U”形,外始式木质部、梯状纹孔管胞,与现代苏铁属的羽轴维管束相似。根据上述特征,目前可将斜羽叶属归入原始苏铁类植物。但是,如果斜羽叶的生殖器官同 Noeggerathia 一样,为异孢型孢子囊穗,则斜羽叶可能为一种与苏铁类起源有关的原裸子植物。