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Marcello Bertotti Paul Watts Gopalakrishnan Netuveli Ge Yu Elena Schmidt Patrick Tobi Shahana Lais Adrian Renton 《PloS one》2013,8(12)
Objectives
To examine the extent to which individual and ecological-level cognitive and structural social capital are associated with common mental disorder (CMD), the role played by physical characteristics of the neighbourhood in moderating this association, and the longitudinal change of the association between ecological level cognitive and structural social capital and CMD.Design
Cross-sectional and longitudinal study of 40 disadvantaged London neighbourhoods. We used a contextual measure of the physical characteristics of each neighbourhood to examine how the neighbourhood moderates the association between types of social capital and mental disorder. We analysed the association between ecological-level measures of social capital and CMD longitudinally.Participants
4,214 adults aged 16-97 (44.4% men) were randomly selected from 40 disadvantaged London neighbourhoods.Main Outcome Measures
General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12).Results
Structural rather than cognitive social capital was significantly associated with CMD after controlling for socio-demographic variables. However, the two measures of structural social capital used, social networks and civic participation, were negatively and positively associated with CMD respectively. ‘Social networks’ was negatively associated with CMD at both the individual and ecological levels. This result was maintained when contextual aspects of the physical environment (neighbourhood incivilities) were introduced into the model, suggesting that ‘social networks’ was independent from characteristics of the physical environment. When ecological-level longitudinal analysis was conducted, ‘social networks’ was not statistically significant after controlling for individual-level social capital at follow up.Conclusions
If we conceptually distinguish between cognitive and structural components as the quality and quantity of social capital respectively, the conclusion of this study is that the quantity rather than quality of social capital is important in relation to CMD at both the individual and ecological levels in disadvantaged urban areas. Thus, policy should support interventions that create and sustain social networks. One of these is explored in this article.Trial Registration
Controlled-Trials.com ISRCTN68175121 http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN68175121 相似文献23.
Elisabeth M. A. Strain Peter D. Steinberg Maria Vozzo Emma L. Johnston Marco Abbiati Moises A. Aguilera Laura Airoldi J. David Aguirre Gail Ashton Maritina Bernardi Paul Brooks Benny K. K. Chan Chee B. Cheah Su Yin Chee Ricardo Coutinho Tasman Crowe Adam Davey Louise B. Firth Clarissa Fraser Mick E. Hanley Stephen J. Hawkins Kathleen E. Knick Edward T. C. Lau Kenneth M. Y. Leung Connor McKenzie Catriona Macleod Sandisiwe Mafanya Francesco P. Mancuso Luciana V. R. Messano Lais P. D. Naval‐Xavier Terrence P. T. Ng Kathryn A. O'Shaughnessy Paula Pattrick Mathew J. Perkins Shimrit Perkol‐Finkel Francesca Porri Donald J. Ross Gregory Ruiz Ido Sella Rochelle Seitz Raviv Shirazi Martin Thiel Richard C. Thompson Jean C. Yee Chela Zabin Melanie J. Bishop 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2021,30(1):140-153
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Microbial Composition and Structure of a Rotating Biological Contactor Biofilm Treating Ammonium-Rich Wastewater without Organic Carbon 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Egli K Bosshard F Werlen C Lais P Siegrist H Zehnder AJ Van der Meer JR 《Microbial ecology》2003,45(4):419-432
High nitrogen losses were observed in a rotating biological contactor (RBC) treating ammonium-rich (up to 500 mg NH4(+)-N/L) but organic-carbon-poor leachate from a hazardous waste landfill in K?lliken, Switzerland. The composition and spatial structure of the microbial community in the biofilm on the RBC was analyzed with specific attention for the presence of aerobic ammonium and nitrite oxidizing bacteria and anaerobic ammonium oxidizers. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) involves the oxidation of ammonium with nitrite to N2. First the diversity of the biofilm community was determined from sequencing cloned PCR-amplified 16S rDNA fragments. This revealed the presence of a number of very unusual 16S rDNA sequences, but very few sequences related to known ammonium or nitrite oxidizing bacteria. From analysis of biofilm samples by fluorescence in situ hybridization with known phylogenetic probes and by dot-blot hybridization of the same probes to total RNA purified from biofilm samples, the main groups of microorganisms constituting the biofilm were found to be ammonium-oxidizing bacteria from the Nitrosomonas europaea/eutropha group, anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria of the "Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis" type, filamentous bacteria from the phylum Bacteroidetes, and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira. Aerobic and anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria were present in similar amounts of around 20 to 30% of the biomass, whereas members of the CFB phylum were present at around 7%. Nitrite oxidizing bacteria were only present in relatively low amounts (less than 5% determined with fluorescence in situ hybridization). Data from 16S rRNA dot-blot and in situ hybridization were not in all cases congruent. FISH analysis of thin-sliced and fixed biofilm samples clearly showed that the aerobic nitrifiers were located at the top of the biofilm in an extremely high density and in alternating clusters. Anammox bacteria were exclusively present in the lower half of the biofilm, whereas CFB-type filamentous bacteria were present throughout the biofilm. The structure and composition of these biofilms correlated very nicely with the proposed physiological functional separations in ammonium conversion. 相似文献
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Lais Pereira Melissa Abbehusen Clarissa Teixeira Jurema Cunha Ivan P. Nascimento Kyioshi Fukutani Washington dos-Santos Aldina Barral Camila Indiani de Oliveira Manoel Barral-Netto Manoel Soto Cláudia Ida Brodskyn 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2015,9(2)
Background
Several intracellular Leishmania antigens have been identified in order to find a potential vaccine capable of conferring long lasting protection against Leishmania infection. Histones and Acid Ribosomal proteins are already known to induce an effective immune response and have successfully been tested in the cutaneous leishmaniasis mouse model. Here, we investigate the protective ability of L. infantum nucleosomal histones (HIS) and ribosomal acidic protein P0 (LiP0) against L. infantum infection in the hamster model of visceral leishmaniasis using two different strategies: homologous (plasmid DNA only) or heterologous immunization (plasmid DNA plus recombinant protein and adjuvant).Methodology/Principal Findings
Immunization with both antigens using the heterologous strategy presented a high antibody production level while the homologous strategy immunized group showed predominantly a cellular immune response with parasite load reduction. The pcDNA-LiP0 immunized group showed increased expression ratio of IFN-γ/IL-10 and IFN-γ/TGF-β in the lymph nodes before challenge. Two months after infection hamsters immunized with the empty plasmid presented a pro-inflammatory immune response in the early stages of infection with increased expression ratio of IFN-γ/IL-10 and IFN-γ/TGF-β, whereas hamsters immunized with pcDNA-HIS presented an increase only in the ratio IFN-γ/ TGF-β. On the other hand, hamsters immunized with LiP0 did not present any increase in the IFN-γ/TGF-β and IFN-γ/IL-10 ratio independently of the immunization strategy used. Conversely, five months after infection, hamsters immunized with HIS maintained a pro-inflammatory immune response (ratio IFN-γ/ IL-10) while pcDNA-LiP0 immunized hamsters continued showing a balanced cytokine profile of pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Moreover we observed a significant reduction in parasite load in the spleen, liver and lymph node in this group compared with controls.Conclusions/Significance
Our results suggest that vaccination with L. infantum LiP0 antigen administered in a DNA formulation could be considered a potential component in a vaccine formulation against visceral leishmaniasis. 相似文献26.
Lawrence T. Wang Lais S. Pereira Patience K. Kiyuka Arne Schn Neville K. Kisalu Rachel Vistein Marlon Dillon Brian G. Bonilla Alvaro Molina-Cruz Carolina Barillas-Mury Joshua Tan Azza H. Idris Joseph R. Francica Robert A. Seder 《PLoS pathogens》2021,17(12)
Combinations of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against different epitopes on the same antigen synergistically neutralize many viruses. However, there are limited studies assessing whether combining human mAbs against distinct regions of the Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) circumsporozoite protein (CSP) enhances in vivo protection against malaria compared to each mAb alone or whether passive transfer of PfCSP mAbs would improve protection following vaccination against PfCSP. Here, we isolated a panel of human mAbs against the subdominant C-terminal domain of PfCSP (C-CSP) from a volunteer immunized with radiation-attenuated Pf sporozoites. These C-CSP-specific mAbs had limited binding to sporozoites in vitro that was increased by combination with neutralizing human “repeat” mAbs against the NPDP/NVDP/NANP tetrapeptides in the central repeat region of PfCSP. Nevertheless, passive transfer of repeat- and C-CSP-specific mAb combinations did not provide enhanced protection against in vivo sporozoite challenge compared to repeat mAbs alone. Furthermore, combining potent repeat-specific mAbs (CIS43, L9, and 317) that respectively target the three tetrapeptides (NPDP/NVDP/NANP) did not provide additional protection against in vivo sporozoite challenge. However, administration of either CIS43, L9, or 317 (but not C-CSP-specific mAbs) to mice that had been immunized with R21, a PfCSP-based virus-like particle vaccine that induces polyclonal antibodies against the repeat region and C-CSP, provided enhanced protection against sporozoite challenge when compared to vaccine or mAbs alone. Collectively, this study shows that while combining mAbs against the repeat and C-terminal regions of PfCSP provide no additional protection in vivo, repeat mAbs do provide increased protection when combined with vaccine-induced polyclonal antibodies. These data should inform the implementation of PfCSP human mAbs alone or following vaccination to prevent malaria infection. 相似文献
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P. Duarte B. Azevedo M. Guerreiro C. Ribeiro R. Bandeira A. Pereira M. Falcão D. Serpa J. Reia 《Hydrobiologia》2008,611(1):115-132
Ria Formosa is a large (c.a. 100 km2) mesotidal lagoon system with large intertidal areas and several conflicting uses, such as fisheries, aquaculture, tourism
and nature conservation. Its watersheds cover an area of approximately 864 km2, with a perimeter of 166 km and a maximum altitude of 522 m. There are about 100 different land use classes being divided
among six major groups: (1) urban, (2) agricultural, (3) forest, (4) rangeland and pastures, (5) wetlands and (6) water bodies.
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT model) has been applied to the catchment areas in order to simulate water discharges
to Ria Formosa, providing forcing to a two-dimensional vertically integrated coupled physical-biogeochemical model, implemented
with EcoDynamo—an object oriented modelling software. This model includes water column and sediment processes as well as their
interactions and several biological sub-models (e.g. phytoplankton dynamics and bivalve growth). The main objectives of this
work are to: (i) Evaluate the relative importance of land drainage, waste water treatment (WTP) plants and water exchanges,
across the lagoon inlets, for nutrient dynamics; (ii) Analyse management scenarios related to changes in lagoon bathymetry
and their potential effects on system dynamics. Model’ results are being used by the Ria Formosa Natural Park authority for
management purposes and may be useful to feedback future updates of the watershed management plans, within the scope of the
European Union Water Framework Directive.
Guest editors: A. Razinkovas, Z. R. Gasiūnaitė, J. M. Zaldivar & P. Viaroli
European Lagoons and their Watersheds: Function and Biodiversity 相似文献
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Fernandes EG Brazaca LC Rodríguez-Mendez ML Saja JA Zucolotto V 《Biosensors & bioelectronics》2011,26(12):4715-4719
This study describes the development of amperometric sensors based on poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and lutetium bisphthalocyanine (LuPc(2)) films assembled using the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique. The films have been used as modified electrodes for catechol quantification. Electrochemical measurements have been employed to investigate the catalytic properties of the LuPc(2) immobilized in the LbL films. By chronoamperometry, the sensors present excellent sensitivity (20 nA μM(-1)) in a wide linear range (R(2)=0.994) up to 900 μM and limit of detection (s/n=3) of 37.5 × 10(-8)M for catechol. The sensors have good reproducibility and can be used at least for ten times. The work potential is +0.3 V vs. saturated calomel electrode (SCE). In voltammetry measurements, the calibration curve shows a good linearity (R(2)=0.992) in the range of catechol up to 500 μM with a sensitivity of 90 nA μM(-1) and LD of 8 μM. 相似文献
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The regulation of sperm transport through the Wolffian duct of male amphibians is poorly understood. These experiments were conducted using rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa) to determine if Wolffian ducts are capable of contracting in vitro and, if so, to characterize the contractile responses to acetylcholine (ACh), norepinephrine (NE), and neurohypophysial hormones. Dose-response curves for NE and ACh, which were prepared by measuring isometric contractions, are similar to those reported for mammalian vas deferens. For NE, the minimum effective dose and ED50 were found to be 1 X 10(-5)M and 4.17 X 10(-5)M, respectively. For ACh, the minimum effective dose was 3.2 X 10(-8)M and the ED50 was 1.37 X 10(-5)M. Alpha-adrenoreceptors appear to mediate the contractile responses to NE because phentolamine (10(-5)M) blocked or attenuated the response to NE (10(-6)M, 10(-5)M or 10(-4) M). Beta-adrenoreceptors appear to mediate relaxation because dichloroisoproterenol (10(-5)M) enhanced the response to 10(-5)M NE. The contractile response to three neurohypophysial hormones were also investigated. Arginine vasotocin was more effective in eliciting contractions than oxytocin. The effect of lysine vasopressin was intermediate between arginine vasotocin and oxytocin. These experiments demonstrate that amphibian (Taricha) Wolffian ducts contract in vitro in response to neurotransmitters and neurohypophysial hormones. The contractile response to neurotransmitters occurs in a dose-dependent manner; the response to neurohypophysial hormones is hormone specific. 相似文献