急性心肌梗死合并肺部感染患者多药耐药菌分布特征及心肌酶谱指标与炎性因子的关系分析

目的:分析急性心肌梗死合并肺部感染患者多药耐药菌分布特征及炎性因子与心肌酶谱指标的关系。方法:选择2015年2月~2018年10月期间中国人民解放军联勤保障部队第940医院收治的67例急性心肌梗死合并肺部感染患者作为感染组,选取同期收治的60例单纯急性心肌梗死患者作为未感染组,分析感染组多药耐药菌的分布及其耐药性,比较两组炎性因子与心肌酶谱指标水平,采用Pearson相关性分析感染组患者炎性因子与心肌酶谱指标的相关性。结果:67例患者痰培养标本中共分离出136株病原菌,其中有64株属于多药耐药菌,多药耐药菌中革兰阴性菌38株,占59.37%,革兰阳性菌26株,占40.63%。其中主要革兰阴性菌对哌拉西林/舒巴坦、头孢哌酮/舒巴坦、阿米卡星、美罗培南、亚胺培南等较为敏感,主要革兰阳性菌对替考拉宁、万古霉素、利福平等较为敏感。感染组患者白细胞介素-6(IL-6)、乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)、促血管生成素-2(Ang-2)、肌酸激酶(CK)、肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)、谷草转氨酶(AST)、肌酸激酶同工酶(CKMB)水平均高于未感染组患者(P0.05)。经Pearson相关性分析可得,感染组患者血清IL-6、Ang-2、TNF-α水平与AST、LDH、CK、CK-MB水平均呈正相关(P0.05)。结论:急性心肌梗死合并肺部感染患者心肌酶谱与炎性因子水平关系密切,有助于判断患者病情严重程度,且急性心肌梗死合并肺部感染患者多药耐药现象较为严重,临床应针对病原菌合理选取抗菌药物。     

8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine induces senescence-like changes in KG-1, human acute myelocytic leukemia cell line

8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine (oh⁸dG) treatment induced senescence-like changes in KG-1 cells, a human acute myelocytic leukemia cell line. The oh⁸dG-treated cells stained positive for senescence associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-galactosidase) and had enlarged cell shape, both of which are senescence indexes. The oh⁸dG-treated cells were also cell growth inhibited and arrested at G₁ in the cell cycle. The accumulation of cdk (cyclin dependent kinase) inhibitors, such as p16, p21, and p27, also implies that cellular senescence was induced in oh⁸dG-treated cells. However, these changes were not accompanied by cell differentiation or telomerase activity. Taken together, we conclude that oh⁸dG treatment of KG-1 cells induces cellular senescence.     

昆明动物园笼养倭蜂猴的能量代谢

食物是动物适应性生存的基础,能量平衡对动物生存、繁殖和进化起着至关重要的作用 (McNab,1988).     

There are abundant antimicrobial peptides in brains of two kinds of Bombina toads

It is well-known that there is a large amount of antimicrobial peptides in amphibian skins but few antimicrobial peptides are found in amphibian brains. Twenty-two and four antimicrobial peptides were purified and characterized from the brain homogenate of Bombina maxima and B. microdeladigitora, respectively. One hundred fifty-eight cDNA clones encoding 79 antimicrobial peptides were isolated from brain cDNA libraries of B. maxima and B. microdeladigitora. These antimicrobial peptides belong to two peptide groups (maximin and maximin-H). Twenty of them are identical to previously reported antimicrobial peptides (maximin 1-8, 10, 11, maximin H1, 3-5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16) from B. maxima skin secretions. Fifty-nine of them are novel antimicrobial peptides. Some of these antimicrobial peptides showed strong antimicrobial activities against tested microorganism strains including Gram-positive and -negative bacteria and fungi. The current diversity in peptide coding cDNA sequences is, to our knowledge, the most extreme yet described for any animal brains. The extreme diversity may give rise to interest to prospect the actual functions of antimicrobial peptides in amphibian brains.     

东北地区玉米生长发育特征及其对热量的响应

在大田条件下,以3个玉米品种（丹玉39、原单29和龙单13）为试验材料,设置早、中、晚3个播种期,分析了2007-2008年不同播期3个玉米品种关键生育阶段特征及其对温度的响应.结果表明： 从播种到出苗所需天数依次为早播(平均值为13 d)>中播(平均值为11 d)>晚播(平均值为8 d);出苗阶段平均气温在18 ℃左右时的出苗速率最快,气温偏高或偏低都会降低出苗速率.3个玉米品种在苗期营养阶段生育期天数的差异不大且受温度影响较小;从穗期阶段开始,晚熟品种龙单13的生长速率提高,成熟天数明显缩短;3个品种在穗期和花粒期阶段生长天数均随温度的增加呈减少趋势.全生育期地上干物质积累速率、产量、百粒重均表现为丹玉39>原单29>龙单13.     

Elementary Flux Mode Analysis Revealed Cyclization Pathway as a Powerful Way for NADPH Regeneration of Central Carbon Metabolism

NADPH regeneration capacity is attracting growing research attention due to its important role in resisting oxidative stress. Besides, NADPH availability has been regarded as a limiting factor in production of industrially valuable compounds. The central carbon metabolism carries the carbon skeleton flux supporting the operation of NADPH-regenerating enzyme and offers flexibility in coping with NADPH demand for varied intracellular environment. To acquire an insightful understanding of its NADPH regeneration capacity, the elementary mode method was employed to compute all elementary flux modes (EFMs) of a network representative of central carbon metabolism. Based on the metabolic flux distributions of these modes, a cluster analysis of EFMs with high NADPH regeneration rate was conducted using the self-organizing map clustering algorithm. The clustering results were used to study the relationship between the flux of total NADPH regeneration and the flux in each NADPH producing enzyme. The results identified several reaction combinations supporting high NADPH regeneration, which are proven to be feasible in cells via thermodynamic analysis and coincident with a great deal of previous experimental report. Meanwhile, the reaction combinations showed some common characteristics: there were one or two decarboxylation oxidation reactions in the combinations that produced NADPH and the combination constitution included certain gluconeogenesis pathways. These findings suggested cyclization pathways as a powerful way for NADPH regeneration capacity of bacterial central carbon metabolism.     

马铃薯甲虫结节性硬化复合物基因LdTSC1和LdTSC2基因的克隆及功能分析

【目的】通过RNAi技术明确马铃薯甲虫TOR上游的关键信号集成节点及类胰岛素信号通道下游基因结节性硬化复合物TSC1和TSC2的功能。旨在为探明马铃薯甲虫类胰岛素信号转导提供更多理论支持。【方法】在NCBI(美国国家生物技术信息中心)获取马铃薯甲虫LdTSC1/2序列,分别利用多重序列比对和系统发育分析确定该基因的完整性和系统发育关系;采用喂食幼虫dsRNA的方法,观察该基因的调低对马铃薯甲虫幼虫生长发育、糖脂代谢的影响。【结果】克隆得到马铃薯甲虫TSC1编码蛋白的氨基酸序列与鞘翅目白蜡窄吉丁直系同源蛋白的氨基酸序列的自展一致度为100%,聚为一支;TSC2编码蛋白的氨基酸序列与鞘翅目白蜡窄吉丁和赤拟谷盗的同源蛋白氨基酸序列的自展一致度为100%,聚为一支。通过分别喂食2龄幼虫LdTSC1/2的dsRNA能有效降低靶标基因的表达量,幼虫出现体重减轻,化蛹率和羽化率显著下降,葡萄糖的吸收转化效率降低,海藻糖含量升高和甘油三酯均减少。【结论】下调2龄幼虫LdTSC1/2的表达量,导致试虫出现抑制了糖脂代谢、脂肪体减少、体重减轻以及发育延迟;结果表明LdTSC1/2调控了马铃薯甲虫幼虫的糖脂代谢过程,显著影响幼虫化蛹和蜕皮过程。     

ROS-Mediated Autophagy Induced by Dysregulation of Lipid Metabolism Plays a Protective Role in Colorectal Cancer Cells Treated with Gambogic Acid

Gambogic acid (GA), the main active component of gamboge resin, has potent antitumor activity both in vivo and in vitro. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, we found that GA could initiate autophagy in colorectal cancer cells, and inhibition of the autophagy process accelerated the effect of proliferative inhibition and apoptotic cell death induced by GA, implying a protective role of autophagy. Two-dimensional electrophoresis-based proteomics showed that GA treatment altered the expression of multiple proteins involved in redox signaling and lipid metabolism. Functional studies revealed that GA-induced dysregulation of lipid metabolism could activate 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), resulting in intracellular ROS accumulation, followed by inhibition of Akt-mTOR signaling and autophagy initiation. Finally, results using a xenograft model suggested ROS-induced autophagy protect against the antitumor effect of GA. Taken together, these data showed new biological activities of GA against colorectal cancer underlying the protective role of ROS-induced autophagy. This study will provide valuable insights for future studies regarding the anticancer mechanisms of GA.     

三种检测婴幼儿腹泻A组轮状病毒的方法学评价

目的对婴幼儿腹泻A组轮状病毒的三种不同检测方法进行评价。方法同时采用胶体金、琼脂糖凝胶电泳、逆转录PCR（RT-PCR）对浙江萧山医院1周320份腹泻患儿的标本进行轮状病毒检测,然后进行方法学比较。结果三种方法的阳性检出率分别为36．3％、48．1％和42．8％,经卡方检验三种方法的检出率之间差异均存在统计学意义（P〈0．05）;以琼脂糖凝胶电泳为检测的最终标准,RT-PCR的敏感性为88．9％,特异性达100％;胶体金法的敏感性71．4％,特异性达96．4％。结论胶体金法检测轮状病毒的敏感性和特异性能够满足临床上对轮状病毒快速筛检的要求;PT-PCR法的敏感性和特异性均最高,既可用于临床检测,又是轮状病毒血清G、基因P分型的重要手段,在对无菌体液和环境样本中轮状病毒的检测具有不可比拟的优势。