Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of copeptin for differentiation of hyponatremia in the course of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and for being a prognostic marker of the severity of TBE.
Materials and methods: One hundred and fourteen patients with TBE were included in the study. The control group consisted of 62 patients diagnosed with viral meningitis.
Results: Copeptin concentration did not differ in patients with hyponatremia and normonatremia. Urinary sodium excretion to plasma copeptin (copeptin/UNa Secretion) ratio was significantly lower in Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH) Secretion patients than in patients with hyponatremia of other origin. Mean copeptin concentration in TBE patients was higher than in control group (VM) patients. There were no differences between patients with severe and mild course of TBE.
Conclusions: Copeptin/UNa ratio may be used as a potential biomarker of SIADH in patients with TBE. Copeptin concentration is significantly higher in patients with TBE than in viral meningitis of other origin, especially in patients aged 18–34 and >49 years old. Copeptin does not differentiate TBE of mild and severe course. 相似文献
Nucleotide sequences from a 434-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene were
analyzed for 65 taxa of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, parasitoid wasps,
sawflies) to examine the patterns of variation within the gene fragment and
the taxonomic levels for which it shows maximum utility in phylogeny
estimation. A hierarchical approach was adopted in the study through
comparison of levels of sequence variation among taxa at different
taxonomic levels. As previously reported for many holometabolous insects,
the 16S data reported here for Hymenoptera are highly AT-rich and exhibit
strong site-to-site variation in substitution rate. More precise estimates
of the shape parameter (alpha) of the gamma distribution and the proportion
of invariant sites were obtained in this study by employing a reference
phylogeny and utilizing maximum-likelihood estimation. The effectiveness of
this approach to recovering expected phylogenies of selected hymenopteran
taxa has been tested against the use of maximum parsimony. This study finds
that the 16S gene is most informative for phylogenetic analysis at two
different levels: among closely related species or populations, and among
tribes, subfamilies, and families. Maximization of the phylogenetic signal
extracted from the 16S gene at higher taxonomic levels may require
consideration of the base composition bias and the site-to-site rate
variation in a maximum-likelihood framework.
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The production of mycotoxins by Alternaria alternata in cellulosic ceiling tiles was examined with thin-layer chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography procedures.
Alternariol and alternariol monomethyl ether were found in ceiling tile extracts, whereas extracts of control rice cultures
of all three isolates produced these mycotoxins plus altenuene and altertoxin I. Extensive fungal growth and mycotoxin production
occurred in the ceiling tiles at relative humidities of 84–89% and 97%.
Received 28 May 1997/ Accepted in revised form 06 October 1997 相似文献
Peroxisome proliferators, which induce proliferation of hepatic peroxisomes, have been shown previously to cause a marked increase in an 80,000 mol wt polypeptide predominantly in the light mitochondrial and microsomal fractions of liver of rodents. We now present evidence to show that this hepatic peroxisome-proliferation-associated polypeptide, referred to as polypeptide PPA-80, is immunochemically identical with the multifunctional peroxisome protein displaying heat-labile enoyl-CoA hydratase activity. This conclusion is based on the following observations: (a) the purified polypeptide PPA-80 and the heat- labile enoyl-CoA hydratase from livers of rats treated with the peroxisome proliferators Wy-14,643 {[4-chloro-6(2,3-xylidino)-2-pyrimidinylthio]acetic acid} exhibit identical minimum molecular weights of approximately 80,000 on SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; (b) these two proteins are immunochemically identical on the basis of ouchterlony double diffusion, immunotitration, rocket immunoelectrophoresis, and crossed immunoelectrophoresis analysis; and (c) the immunoprecipitates formed by antibodies to polypeptide PPA-80 when dissociated on a sephadex G-200 column yield enoyl-CoA hydratase activity. Whether the polypeptide PPA-80 exhibits the activity of other enzyme(s) of the peroxisomal β-oxidation system such as fatty acyl-CoA oxidase activity or displays immunochemical identity with such enzymes remains to be determined. The availability of antibodies to polypeptide PPA-80 and enoyl-CoA hydratase facilitated immunofluorescent and immunocytochemical localization of the polypeptide PPA- 80 and enoyl-CoA hydratase in the rat liver. The indirect immunofluorescent studies with these antibodies provided direct visual evidence for the marked induction of polypeptide PPA-80 and enoyl-CoA hydratase in the livers of rats treated with Wy-14,643. The present studies also provide immunocytochemical evidence for the localization of polypeptide PPA- 80 and the heat-labile enoyl-CoA hydratase in the peroxisome, but not in the mitochondria, of hepatic parenchymal cells. These studies, therefore, provide morphological evidence for the existence of fatty acyl-CoA oxidizing system in peroxisomes. An increase of polypeptide PPA-80 on SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the subcellular fractions of liver of rodents treated with lipid-lowering drugs should serve as a reliable and sensitive indicator of enhanced peroxisomal β- oxidation system. 相似文献
Cultures of Scenedesmus obliquus when grown heterotrophically for 10 or 30 days without addition of fresh medium showed 85 and 98% loss of their photosynthetic capacity respectively. This loss in photosynthetic capacity was accompanied by an increase in quantum requirement. No major changes in the pigment amounts or types were detected which would explain the decay in photosynthetic capacity. Partial reactions mediated by photosystem II or I showed a more or less constant decay over a period of 30 days. Photosystem II reactions appeared less stable than those of photosystem I, decaying by 95% as compared with 70%, over this time period. The results of comparative studies on aged cells for their potential of cytochrome f photooxidation, fluorescence kinetics, 520 nm absorbance change and the variable influence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea and 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone on the photosynthetic capacity of such cells, suggest that it is the inherent ability of the cells to photooxidize plastohydroquinone which is affected primarily. In addition, secondary changes were noted in the activity of reactions on the water-splitting side of photosystem II and in the P700 — plastocyanin — cytochrome f complex. 相似文献