藏药西藏棱子芹抗炎镇痛药效学研究

本文采用二甲苯致小鼠耳廓肿胀法、棉球致小鼠肉芽肿法观察藏药西藏棱子芹的抗炎作用,采用热板法、醋酸扭体法观察藏药西藏棱子芹的镇痛作用。结果表明藏药西藏棱子芹能明显抑制二甲苯所致小鼠耳廓肿胀和棉球所致小鼠肉芽肿;能提高小鼠对热板疼痛的阈值,减少小鼠扭体反应的次数,延长醋酸所致小鼠扭体反应的潜伏时间。藏药西藏棱子芹具有显著的抗炎镇痛作用,值得开发研究。     

A reduction in the abundance of calium oxalate crystals in Oenothera improves the yield of intact chloroplasts

Abstract. Oenothera plants grown as shoot meristem cultures on media having a low calcium concentration had a reduced abundance of raphides when compared to greenhouse-grown plants or shoot meristem cultures grown on higher concentrations of calcium. Plants from the low-calcium media also yielded a higher proportion of intact chloroplasts during subcellular fractionation.     

Absence of spirochaetes (Borrelia burgdorferi) and piroplasms (Babesia microti) in deer ticks (Ixodes dammini) parasitized by chalcid wasps (Hunterellus hookeri)

An entomophagous wasp (Hunterellus hookeri Howard) parasitizes about a third of the host-seeking nymphal Ixodes dammini Spielman et al. ticks on Naushon Island in Massachusetts (U.S.A.) where the agents of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson et al.) and human babesiosis (Babesia microti Franca) are enzootic. Following blood-feeding, wasp-parasitized ticks are destroyed by the developing wasp. The prevalence of either human pathogen in host-seeking ticks collected in wasp-infested sites is nearly 40% lower than that found in other sites. Nymphal ticks, collected early in their season of activity, are more frequently parasitized by the wasp and less frequently by the Lyme disease spirochaete than those collected later in the summer. Spirochaetes never infected wasp-infected ticks, and few wasp-infected ticks were concurrently infected by the Babesia piroplasm. Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens. The presence of the wasp may have reduced risk of human infection on the island by either pathogen by as much as a third.