Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in China

Thirty strains of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis were isolated from rabbits (17 strains), wild rats (9 strains) and house rats (4 strains) in China between 1990 and 1993. The biochemical properties of these isolates were identical with those of Y. pseudotuberculosis and no special characteristics were found in these strains. Serologically, serogroups 4b and 5b were identical to isolates found in Japan, and a new serogroup 1c and unclassified strains have also been detected. The existence of virulence-associated properties were different among strains. The pYV plasmid was detected from 6 strains of 30 isolates. This report documents the presence of Y. pseudotuberculosis in China, providing important epidemiological information.     

四川省鱼类寄生粘孢子虫两新种（粘孢子纲：双壳目）

本四川省鱼类寄生粘孢子虫两新种：寄生墨头鱼的宜宾两极虫,新种Ｍｙｘｉｄｉｕｍ ｙｉｂｉｎｅｎｓｅ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．和寄生鳙Ａｒｉｓｔｉｃｈｔｈｙｓ ｎｋｂｉｌｉｓ的鳙单尾虫,新种Ｕｎｉｃａｕｄａ ａｒｉｓｔｉｃｈｔｈｙｄｉｓ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ。     

中国管蛛属一新种：蜘蛛目：圆颚蛛科

本文记述采自江西省修水县的管蛛属蜘蛛一新种：中华管蛛Ｔｒａｃｈｅｌａｓｓｉｎｅｎｓｉｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．。该种与日本管蛛Ｔ．ｊａｐｏｎｉｃａＢｏｅｓ．ｅｔＳｔｒ．,１９０６在体型,体色及腹部背面的斑纹上非常相似,但该种的身体明显大于后者,两者外生殖器存在明显的差异。     

小鼠BW5147细胞与网织红细胞融合后cAMP水平及其磷酸二酯酶的细胞化学观察

本实验用PEG介导,将小鼠BW_(5147)细胞与小鼠网织红细胞在体外进行悬浮融合,经HAT选择性培养基筛选获得的胞质杂交细胞,表现出增殖减慢、生长率下降、生瘤能力降低等去恶化现象。本实验从cAMP-PDE细胞化学反应显示出胞质杂交细胞内cAMP-PDE活性比亲本BW_(5147)瘤细胞有所减弱,而cAMP水平则有所升高,提示胞质杂交细胞恶性程度下降可能与细胞内cAMP-PDE活性降低和cAMP水平升高具有一定的关系。本实验的结果将为进一步探索促使肿瘤细胞逆转的可能途径提供一定的依据。     

社鼠一新亚种——闹牛社鼠

社鼠是鼠科的一种,我国已记载的有六种。作者在吉林西部闹牛山采得一新亚种,其尾短,尾长率小于1,与已知各亚种不同,定名为社鼠闹牛亚种(Rattus nivienter naoniuensis,subsp.nov)。     

The induction of acetylcholine synthesis in primary cultures of dissociated rat sympathetic neurons : II. Developmental aspects

Dissociated sympathetic neurons from the neonatal rat, grown in cell culture in the virtual absence of other cell types, can develop many of the properties expected of differentiated adrenergic neurons including the ability to synthesize and accumulate catecholamines (CA)². However, in the presence of high concentrations of appropriately conditioned medium (CM), the cultures develop the ability to synthesize and accumulate acetylcholine (ACh); correspondingly, their ability to synthesize CA decreases. In this paper several developmental aspects of the CM effect are described. The time course of development of cultures grown with or without CM was followed using synthesis and accumulation of [³H]CA from [³H]tyrosine and production of [³H]ACh from [³H]choline as assays for adrenergic and cholinergic differentiation. The ability to produce CA or ACh developed along parallel time courses in the two sets of cultures, rising primarily during the second week in vitro and reaching a plateau during the fourth week. When CM was used as a cholinergic developmental signal, the sympathetic neurons showed a decreasing response to addition of CM as they matured adrenergically; addition of CM during the third or fourth 10 days in vitro was not as effective in inducing ACh production as addition during the first or second 10 days. Similarly, removal of CM at various times from cultures previously grown in CM showed that the cholinergic induction caused by CM was not easily reversible in older cultures. Thus, as with the adrenergic decision, the cholinergic decision becomes less reversible as the phenotype becomes fully expressed.     

低层大气垂直运动对粘虫起飞、降落的影响

本文根据昆虫生态学及运动学原理,初步探讨了粘虫迁飞的运动方程,进一步说明空气的垂直运动和粘虫起飞、降落的关系。因此我们运用大气运动的连续方程,对我国粘虫发生区低层大气的垂直运动,进行了大量的计算,再次证明上升气流对起飞有利,下沉气流对起飞不利,它的起飞不仅是由于内在的某种生物学原因主动升空,而且也还要借助于上升气流     

耐药菌感染的噬菌体治疗专利技术

耐药菌,尤其是多重耐药菌的出现和持续进化给人类健康带来了巨大的威胁。在抗生素逐渐失去特效作用的情况下,科学界和医药界又把眼光重新投向了抗菌的天然生物-噬菌体,并在一些研究中证明了噬菌体可以作为新的武器去替代抗生素治疗耐药菌感染。通过对噬菌体治疗及衍生的裂解酶治疗的世界专利申请进行统计及分析,获得了专利发展趋势、申请人分布特点及主要专利申请人等信息,详细分析了噬菌体及裂解酶治疗的主要专利技术路线和研发热点。     

乙型脑炎病毒NS2A-C60A位点突变对其生物学特性影响研究*

目的:旨在探索Ⅰ型日本乙型脑炎病毒传代致弱后基因组突变NS2A-C60A对乙脑病毒生物学特性的影响。方法:首先通过对传代致弱及原始乙脑毒株基因组序列进行测序比对、结构预测分析并利用Western blotting(WB)确定了目标研究位点NS2A-C60A;然后使用反向遗传定点突变技术构建拯救了包含NS2A-C60A单点突变的病毒株;最后利用噬斑形态观察、生长曲线、双萤光素酶分析,WB以及炎性因子检测和动物实验研究了该单点突变对于乙脑病毒生物学特性的影响。结果:首次研究发现Ⅰ型乙脑病毒传代致弱会导致NS1'蛋白表达的显著下降以及可能的相关位点NS2A-C60A,并成功拯救获得了NS2A-C60A单点突变毒株rJEV-C60A,研究发现NS2A-C60A突变对乙脑病毒的生长特性及噬斑形成没有显著影响,但是能够显著降低乙脑病毒NS1'蛋白的表达,并且该位点突变能够轻微阻碍乙脑病毒对细胞炎性因子表达的抑制,动物实验结果显示NS2A-C60A点突变病毒与原毒株具有相似的神经毒力,说明该位点突变不是影响乙脑病毒毒力致弱的关键位点。结论:新发现的NS2A-C60A位点突变能够显著减少乙脑病毒NS1'蛋白的表达,但是对其增殖、诱导炎症及神经毒力等生物学特性没有显著影响。     

Sites of stromelysin cleavage in collagen types II, IX, X, and XI of cartilage

Human recombinant stromelysin-1 was shown to cleave four types of collagen (types II, IX, X, and XI) prepared from bovine and rat cartilages at specific sites. Stromelysin-1 cleaved salt-soluble native molecules of type IX collagen into two main triple-helical fragments, COL1 and COL2,3. Protein microsequencing identified the exact cleavage sites in the NC2 domain of all three chains, alpha 1(IX), alpha 2(IX), and alpha 3(IX). Stromelysin-1 also acted as a "telopeptidase," in that it efficiently clipped intact molecules of types II and XI collagens at sites just inside their terminal cross-linking hydroxylysine residues. Native molecules of type X collagen were cleaved by stromelysin-1 within their triple helical domains at a COOH-terminal site that reduced the alpha 1(X) chain size by 10 kDa. These findings suggest an important role for stromelysin in the turnover and remodeling of the collagenous matrix of cartilage both normally and in degenerative joint disease.