鱼类生物群落对太子河流域土地利用、河岸带栖息地质量的响应

河流生态系统的退化是多空间尺度环境因子作用的结果。探讨不同尺度环境因子及水生生物之间的作用关系,识别影响水生生物群落完整性的尺度问题,是有效开展水生生物保护的基础。基于2009年对太子河流域15个样点的鱼类、河岸带栖息地质量评价,结合遥感影像解译的太子河流域土地利用情况(包括流域尺度和河段尺度),研究鱼类完整性指数(F-IBI)与两种尺度土地利用、栖息地质量参数之间的关系。结果表明太子河上游地区河岸栖息地质量较好,下游地区由于农业用地、城镇用地比例的增加河岸栖息地质量明显下降。F-IBI与自然用地比例呈正相关,与农业、城镇用地比例呈负相关。农业用地对F-IBI的影响体现在流域尺度,而城镇用地在两种尺度上都存在显著影响。相比于农业用地,城镇用地相同比例的增加会导致F-IBI更快的下降。底质、水质状况、人类活动强度是显著影响F-IBI的栖息地质量评价参数。3项参数均随农业和城镇用地比例增加而降低,农业用地主要在流域尺度上对3项参数产生影响,城镇用地主要影响底质和水质状况2项参数,而在两种尺度上的影响相差不大。     

Combination of ascorbate and alpha-tocopherol as a preventive therapy against structural and functional defects of erythrocytes in visceral leishmaniasis

The redox unbalance in erythrocytes has been found to contribute significantly in the development of anemia in visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The present study revealed enhanced production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and gradual depletion of alpha-tocopherol and ascorbate in the erythrocytes of infected animals. The response of erythrocytes to chronic treatment with antioxidants was studied in hamsters during leishmanial infection. Treatment with a combination of alpha-tocopherol and ascorbate proved to be the most effective preventive for the proteolytic degradation of erythrocyte membrane. Erythrocytes from infected animals were thermally more sensitive compared to the control ones. Combination of both antioxidants was most successful in resisting heat induced structural defects in the cells. Cross-linking of membrane proteins subsequent to oxidative damage in the red cells was accompanied by the formation of high molecular weight protein band at the top of the resolving gel in the presence of the cross-linking agent dimethyladepimidate (DMA). Marked inhibition of cross-linking was observed with combination of both antioxidants. Treatment with alpha-tocopherol and ascorbate together could withstand osmotic lysis of erythrocytes in the infected animals very efficiently. Decreased hemoglobin (Hb) level was successfully replenished and was coupled with significant increase in the life span of red cells after treating the animals with both antioxidants. Results indicate better efficacy of the combination therapy with alpha-tocopherol and ascorbate in protecting the erythrocytes from structural and functional damages during leishmanial infection.     

人造血干/祖细胞多态性的研究:Ⅺ.人正常骨髓CD34~ 造血细胞周期动力学相关大分子DNA、RNA和PRO含量的分析

DNA、RNA和PRO的合成、积累及相互关系是调控细胞周期动力学最主要的三个参数。同时检测这些组成部分能够更精确细致地评判细胞的周期动力学特征。本文探索了人正常骨髓CD34~ 造血细胞周期动力学相关大分子DNA、RNA和PRO的含量,以便认识CD34~ 造血细胞周期动力学的特征。用新型CIMS-100免疫磁性分离系统高效富集人骨髓CD34~ 造血细胞,经FCM及APAAP鉴定,富集的CD34~ 造血细胞的纯度达90～95%。随之采用碘化丙啶(PI)、派若宁Y(PY)及异硫氰荧光素(FITC)分别进行标记DNA、RNA和PRO并在FCM上检测。结果表明,DNA、RNA和PRO在CD34~ 造血细胞中的含量明显低于单个核细胞,分别仅占后者的34±3%、48±21%及62±14%。结合我们以往的结果,我们认为CD34~ 造血细胞的确是一独特的体细胞群,不仅表现在重建造血与免疫学功能上,而且表现在细胞周期动力学上。据我们所知,这是目前国际上首次有关人CD34~ 造血细胞周期动力学相关大分子的系统分析报道,提供了大多数CD34~ 造血细胞处于静止期的直接证据。     

Scale-down model qualification of ambr® 250 high-throughput mini-bioreactor system for two commercial-scale mAb processes

Recent advances in high-throughput (HTP) automated mini-bioreactor systems have significantly improved development timelines for early-stage biologic programs. Automated platforms such as the ambr® 250 have demonstrated the ability, using appropriate scale-down approaches, to provide reliable estimates of process performance and product quality from bench to pilot scale, but data sets comparing to large-scale commercial processes (>10,000 L) are limited. As development moves toward late stages, specifically process characterization (PC), a qualified scale-down model (SDM) of the commercial process is a regulatory requirement as part of Biologics License Application (BLA)-enabling activities. This work demonstrates the qualification of the ambr® 250 as a representative SDM for two monoclonal antibody (mAb) commercial processes at scales >10,000 L. Representative process performance and product quality associated with each mAb were achieved using appropriate scale-down approaches, and special attention was paid to pCO₂ to ensure consistent performance and product quality. Principal component analysis (PCA) and univariate equivalence testing were utilized in the qualification of the SDM, along with a statistical evaluation of process performance and product-quality attributes for comparability. The ambr® 250 can predict these two commercial-scale processes (at center-point condition) for cell-culture performance and product quality. The time savings and resource advantages to performing PC studies in a small-scale HTP system improves the potential for the biopharmaceutical industry to get products to patients more quickly.     

Glucose oxidase immobilized electrode for potentiometric estimation of glucose

Glucose oxidase has been immobilized onto a thin platinum strip, by co-crosslinking with bovine serum albumin and glutaraldehyde. The retention of redox characteristics of glucose oxidase has been verified by cyclic voltammetry. The activity of the immobilized enzyme reduces to a quarter of its value when the enzyme is in solution but improves when coimmobilized with 1 urea. The potentiometric response builds up and remains stable after 100 s. It is sensitive to the thickness of the immobilizing matrix, pH and temperature. An improvement in the performance of the electrode has been achieved by coimmobilizing 2 urea and metal ions such as Mg²⁺ and Mn²⁺. The presence of Cu has been proved to be detrimental. The electrode has been calibrated in the 0.1–5.0 mM glucose concentration range. It gives a stable response for more than 50 independent assays and can be stored for 60 days without significant loss of function.     

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) antigens detected with antisera to E rosette-froming and non-E rosette-forming ALL blasts.

Based on the presence or absence of erythrocyte receptors(E) a T cell marker, acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), can be divided into E+ALL and E-ALL. We studied cell surface antigens on blasts from 12 children with untreated ALL: eight with E-ALL and four with E+ALL. Heterologous antisera were raised against thymus cells, E+ and E-ALL blasts, appropriately absorbed and tested by immunofluorescence and a radiolabeled antibody assay with normal and leukemic lymphoid cells. By both methods, anti-thymus and anti-E+ALL sera reacted with human thymocytes. Specific binding of anti-E+ALL serum to T antigens was indicated by the fact that a single absorption with thymocytes abolished its binding to allogenic thymocytes, and the reactivity of anti-E+ALL serum with thymus, blood and bone marrow lymphocytes was similar to that of anti-thymus serum. After exhaustive absorption with blood leukocytes, anti-E+ALL and E-ALL sera were negative against normal lymphocytes and bone marrow cells from children with ALL in remission. Anti-thymus and anti-E+ALL sera reacted with blasts from patients with E+ALL, but not with E-ALL. In contrast, anti-E+ALL serum reacted with 40 to 96% of blasts from all children with E-ALL, whereas of the four patients with E+ALL, two were negative and two had the lowest percentage of immunofluorescent cells (10 to 22%). These results were confirmed with the radiolabeled antibody assay. Patients with active E-ALL had cells bearing E-ALL antigen(s) in the peripheral blood and bone marrow, but the number of immunofluorescent cells was lower in blood. Cells reactive with anti-E-ALL serum did not react with thymus cells, blood lymphocytes, remission bone marrow cells, Raji cells, PWM and PHA-induced blasts and CLL cells bearing mIg (uk). These data suggest that the antigen detected on E-ALL blasts by anti-E-ALL serum is neither a HLA-related nor a cell differentiation antigen. Thus, by using antiserum to E+ALL blasts, we have confirmed the presence of a T cell-specific antigen(s) on E+ALL cells. This antiserum did not recognize other leukemia-associated antigens common to E+ and E-ALL. We have also demonstrated an antigen(s) which is regularly expressed on E-ALL blasts and is either not detectable or is present in a lower proportion of E+ALL blasts.     

Long-Term Selenium-Deficient Diet Induces Liver Damage by Altering Hepatocyte Ultrastructure and MMP1/3 and TIMP1/3 Expression in Growing Rats

The effects of selenium (Se)-deficient diet on the liver were evaluated by using growing rats which were fed with normal and Se-deficient diets, respectively, for 109 days. The results showed that rats fed with Se-deficient diet led to a decrease in Se concentration in the liver, particularly among male rats from the low-Se group. This causes alterations to the ultrastructure of hepatocytes with condensed chromatin and swelling mitochondria observed after low Se intake. Meanwhile, pathological changes and increased fibrosis in hepatic periportal were detected by hematoxylin and eosin and Masson’s trichrome staining in low-Se group. Furthermore, through immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining, higher expressions of metalloproteinases (MMP1/3) and their tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP1/3) were observed in the hepatic periportal of rats from the low-Se group. However, higher expressions of MMP1/3 and lower expressions of TIMP1/3 were detected in hepatic central vein and hepatic sinusoid. In addition, upregulated expressions of MMP1/3 and downregulated expressions of TIMP1/3 at the messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein levels also appeared to be relevant to low Se intake. In conclusion, Se-deficient diet could cause low Se concentration in the liver, alterations of hepatocyte ultrastructure, differential expressions of MMP1/3 and TIMP1/3 as well as fibrosis in the liver hepatic periportal.