急性和慢性低氧胁迫对卵形鲳鲹幼鱼肝组织损伤和抗氧化的影响

自然海域和养殖水体环境频现低氧,本研究针对卵形鲳鲹(Trachinotus ovatus)不耐低氧的特性,将(31.59±3.01)g(n=30)的卵形鲳鲹在(23±0.7)℃下进行3、6、12和24 h的急性和14 d的慢性低氧[溶解氧为(1.55±0.20)mg/L]胁迫。运用光学和电子显微技术,比较急、慢性低氧胁迫对卵形鲳鲹肝组织显微和超微结构的影响。通过测定肝组织中的丙二醛(MDA)含量及过氧化氢酶(CAT)、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和谷胱甘肽还原酶(GSH)的活性,分析低氧胁迫对卵形鲳鲹肝是否造成氧化损伤。急性低氧胁迫下,卵形鲳鲹肝组织间出现空泡、小叶结构破坏,细胞内线粒体数量减少,出现过氧化物酶体,肝细胞间血窦剧烈扩张。这些病理损伤随胁迫时间延长更趋严重,24 h时甚至出现局部肝细胞融合、坏死,慢性低氧胁迫14 d时,肝细胞局部坏死,细胞膜溶解,细胞核破裂分解,胞质内细胞器不明显,只可分辨粗面内质网,细胞内空泡体积大,细胞结构松散,血窦扩张。急性低氧胁迫下丙二醛(MDA)含量随时间先上升后下降,慢性低氧胁迫14 d时丙二醛(MDA)则显著增加。急性低氧胁迫下超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和谷胱甘肽还原酶(GSH)上升后恢复,过氧化氢酶(CAT)则持续上调,慢性低氧胁迫下超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和谷胱甘肽还原酶(GSH)显著上调,过氧化氢酶(CAT)活性下降。结果表明,卵形鲳鲹幼鱼肝组织在低氧胁迫下病理变化明显,氧化损伤严重,且慢性低氧胁迫比急性更甚。     

生态旅游对川金丝猴肠道寄生虫的影响

非人灵长类接触人类或受人类活动干扰导致肠道寄生虫与宿主关系失衡,这种影响造成肠道寄生虫感染,进而增加肠道寄生虫种类和荷虫量。为检验生态旅游对川金丝猴（Rhinopithecus roxellana）肠道寄生虫的种类和承载是否有影响,本研究收集神农架国家级自然保护区川金丝猴投食群和野生群粪便样品,采用福尔马林乙酸乙酯沉淀法,共发现5种肠道寄生虫：阿米巴原虫（Amoeba）,鞭虫属（Trichuris sp.）,蛔虫（Ascaris lumbricoides）,蛲虫（Enterobius vermicularis）,钩虫（Hookworms）。结果显示,投食群的阿米巴和蛲虫的荷虫量高于野生群;蛔虫在投食群和野生群均有发现,但两者之间无显著性差异;鞭虫和钩虫只在投食群中发现。投食群部分肠道寄生虫具有高荷虫量和新增的两个种类是由于非人灵长类直接或间接与人类接触（生态旅游等）所导致的。     

Sensitivity Analyses of a Population Projection Model of Ring-Necked Pheasants

Abstract A large literature exists on population dynamics of ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in North America, but there has not been an attempt to formulate a matrix model nor a sensitivity analysis of the relationships between vital rates and population finite growth rate (Λ) that can be used to guide management. We summarized demographic data available from a 5-year field study in Iowa, USA, collected in Kossuth County (low composition of perennial habitat) and Palo Alto County (high composition of perennial habitat) into a 2-stage (young and adult) matrix projection model. We estimated Λ₁ (the dominant eigenvalue of the deterministic matrix), the stable age distribution (ω), relative reproductive value vector (n̈), other demographic parameters, and Λ_iid, a bootstrap estimate of growth that includes interannual variation in life history parameters. We analyzed the relative importance of vital rates on population growth rate using sensitivity and elasticity of both matrix elements and lower-level parameters such as winter survival and nest success. We first characterized general life history using averaged data from both areas and all years that yielded Λ₁ = 1.086, and a stable stage distribution of. Minimum success of the initial nesting attempt (H₁) that would maintain Λ ≥ 1 under average conditions was estimated to be 42%. Changes in Λ₁ were most sensitive to survival of chicks during brood rearing (S_B), followed in importance by survival during the subsequent winter (S_W), followed by H₁. We followed the general analyses with analyses that helped us to focus on the differences in the landscapes of northwest Iowa. Λ_iid was ≥1 in only 9% of simulations of data from Kossuth whereas estimated Λ_iid was ≥1 in 88% of simulations from Palo Alto. Our analyses of the relative importance and interactions between S_B, S_W, and total recruitment (M, including H₁ and renesting), if combined with data more specific to a local area, would guide management aimed at affecting multiple life history stages whose relative importance will vary across the landscape.     

Effects of corticotrophin-releasing hormone on corticotrophs in anterior pituitary gland allografts in hypophysectomized,orchidectomized hamsters

Summary We investigated the effects of corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) on the percentage of anterior pituitary gland (APG) cells which are corticotrophs as well as the size and shape of corticotrophs. Pituitary glands were removed from 7-week-old male hamsters and placed beneath the renal capsules of hamsters that had been hypophysectomized and orchidectomized 3 weeks previously. Beginning 6 days after each host had received a single allograft, each was injected subcutaneously twice daily with 4 g CRH or vehicle for 16 days. Six hosts in each group were decapitated 16 h after the last injection. Sections of anterior pituitary tissue were stained for ACTH and with hematoxylin. The percentage of corticotrophs among APG cells was greater in allografts exposed to exogenous CRH (20%) than in allografts exposed to vehicle (15%). Exposure to exogenous CRH increased the cross-sectional area of corticotroph cells in allografts to values greater than those measured for corticotrophs in allografts exposed to vehicle, without altering the shape of cells. Results of subsequent studies suggested that hamsters with allografts injected with vehicle do not release ACTH and that exogenous CRH causes an abrupt release of ACTH from allografts. These results indicate that CRH releases ACTH from ectopic corticotrophs and that administration of CRH can increase corticotroph size and the percentage of APG cells that are corticotrophs.     

Immuno-electron microscopy of atrial natriuretic factor secretory pathways in atria and ventricles of control and cardiomyopathic hamsters with heart failure

Summary The secretory pathways of atrial natriuretic factor have been investigated in atrial and ventricular cardiocytes of control and cardiomyopathic Syrian hamsters in severe congestive heart failure with four antibodies: a monoclonal antibody (2H2) against rat synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (101–126), which is directed against region 101–103 of rat atrial natriuretic factor (99–126), and polyclonal, affinity-purified antibodies produced in rabbits against synthetic C-terminal atrial natriuretic factor (101–126), synthetic N-terminal atrial natriuretic factor (11–37) or the putative cleavage site of atrial natriuretic factor (98–99): atrial natriuretic factor (94–103). Application of the immunogold technique on thin frozen sections (immunocryoultramicrotomy) revealed an identical picture with the four antibodies. In atria of both control and cardiomyopathic hamsters where atrial natriuretic factor secretion is regulated, the atrial natriuretic factor propeptide travels, uncleaved, from the Golgi complex to immature and mature secretory granules. In ventricles of control hamsters, where secretion is constitutive, the atrial natriuretic factor propeptide travels from the Golgi complex to secretory vesicles. In the ventricles of hamsters with severe congestive heart failure, the Golgi complex is larger, secretory vesicles more abundant and a few secretory granules are present in 20% of cardiocytes. Here again, the peptide travels uncleaved in all these pathways. These results reveal the pathways of secretion of atrial natriuretic factor in atrial and ventricular cardiocytes and indicate that the propeptide is not cleaved intracellularly.Supported by a grant from the Medical Research Council of Canada to the Multidisciplinary Research Group on Hypertension, by the Canadian Heart Foundation and the Pfizer Company (England)     

Hybrid origin of the imperial pheasant Lophura imperialis (Delacour and Jabouille, 1924) demonstrated by morphology, hybrid experiments, and DNA analyses

The imperial pheasant Lophura imperialis was described in 1924 from a captive pair that was obtained in Vietnam, and that became the sole founders of a captive line in France. Always considered a highly endangered and mysterious species, and despite concerted searches, L. imperialis was not found again in the wild until one was trapped in 1990, and the captive population gradually died out. Its status as a distinct species was unquestioned until the late 1990s when the possibility of a hybrid origin was raised. To elucidate the taxonomic status of L. imperialis , we studied all the existing museum specimens, carried out captive hybridization experiments, and analysed mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites. All these lines of evidence demonstrate congruently and conclusively that L. imperialis is an occasional hybrid between silver pheasant L. nycthemera and Edwards's pheasant L. edwardsi, with the 1990 bird probably being a hybrid between L. nycthemera and Vietnamese pheasant L. hatinhensis. Thus L. imperialis has no taxonomic standing and should be removed from lists of species of conservation concern. However, hybridization with L. nycthemera may pose a further threat to the survival in the wild of the endangered L. edwardsi and L. hatinhensis .  © 2003 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2003, 80 , 573–600.     

Synthetic biology tools for engineering Yarrowia lipolytica

The non-conventional oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica shows great industrial promise. It naturally produces certain compounds of interest but can also artificially generate non-native metabolites, thanks to an engineering process made possible by the significant expansion of a dedicated genetic toolbox. In this review, we present recently developed synthetic biology tools that facilitate the manipulation of Y. lipolytica, including 1) DNA assembly techniques, 2) DNA parts for constructing expression cassettes, 3) genome-editing techniques, and 4) computational tools.     

视神经远端切断后再生视网膜节细胞Bcl-2的表达

目的　成年金黄地鼠视神经远端切断后再生视网膜节细胞 (RGCs)Bcl 2的表达与再生的关系。方法　远端切断视神经并对接一段自体坐骨神经 ,玻璃体内注射CTx及 /或植入小段坐骨神经分支 (SN)。动物随机分为AG +CTx组 ;AG +SN组 ;AG +SN +CTx组 ,各组动物分别存活 4W ,用粒蓝 (GB)逆行标记和Bcl 2免疫荧光组织化学双标法观察再生的RGCs和Bcl 2表达。结果　再生RGCs胞质内有Bcl 2蛋白表达 ,玻璃体内给予CTx或植入SN组表达Bcl 2的再生RGCs分别为 32 2± 4 71和 2 9 4± 3 75个 ,约占其再生总数的 82 5 0 %及 80 96 % ,两组相比无显著性差异 (P >0 0 5 ) ;CTx与SN联用组Bcl 2阳性再生的RGCs为 15 1 8± 35 6 9个 ,占再生总数的 91 2 2 % ,与前两组相比 ,均有显著性差异 (P <0 0 5 )。结论　视神经远端切断后约 80 %的再生RGCs有Bcl 2表达 ,提示Bcl 2表达可能与节细胞再生有密切关系。