The impact of diabetic neuropathy on the distal versus proximal comparison of weakness in lower and upper limb muscles of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study

Objectives:This study aimed to determine the impact of diabetic neuropathy (dNP) on the distal versus proximal comparison of weakness in lower and upper limb muscles of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).Methods:19 healthy male controls without neuropathy (HC) and 35 male T2DM patients, without dNP (n=8), with sensory dNP (n=13) or with sensorimotor dNP (dNPsm; n=14), were enrolled in this study. Maximal isometric (IM) and isokinetic (IK) muscle strength and IK muscle endurance of the dominant knee, ankle and elbow, and maximal IM handgrip strength were measured by means of dynamometry.Results:Ankle muscle endurance was lower compared to the knee, independently of dNP (p<0.001). Maximal IK ankle muscle strength was also lower compared to the knee, albeit only in dNPsm (p=0.003). No differences were found between maximal IM handgrip and elbow strength.Conclusions:Our results suggest an impact of T2DM -with or without dNP- on lower limb muscle strength more distally than proximally, while this was not observed in the upper limb. The gradient of dNP seemed to be a determining factor for the maximal muscle strength, and not for muscle endurance, in the lower limb.     

Chromatin and nuclear envelope of freeze-fractured, neuronal interphase nuclei, resolved by scanning electron microscopy

High-resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has previously been used to study intracellular detail, including chromatin. It has, however, been commonly carried out either on cellular subfractions or following extraction methods to visualize detail. In the work presented here, intracellular detail of neurons of the dorsal root was visualized in situ by viewing freeze-fracture faces obtained after hypotonic expansion. This procedure permits the detailed resolution, by SEM, of juxtanuclear and intranuclear detail to a degree impossible without hypotonic dispersal. In agreement with work previously reported, nuclear chromatin of these interphase cells presents largely as 30-nm fibers, with a next higher hierarchical structure imparted by swelling in magnesium chloride. Detailed analyses showed that particles as small as 10-nm nucleosomes comprising the 30-nm chromatin fiber could be resolved, with "end-on" views of such fibers showing 5 nucleosomes per helical turn of the fiber. Chromatin fibers positioned subjacent to nuclear pores, or associated with "nuclear spaces" communicating with nuclear pores, were frequently found to be resolved as clusters, in an apparently more decondensed conformation, rather than tightly coiled into the 30-nm fiber. In addition, details of the nuclear envelope, including nuclear pores and perinuclear filaments as well as membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum, decorated with ribosomes, were clearly resolved.     

基于灰色关联的苗药红禾麻总黄酮含量影响因子分析

采用Al Cl3比色法对苗药红禾麻42个居群中的总黄酮含量进行分析测定,并用土壤养分测定仪测定对应产地土壤中的铵态氮、速效磷、有效钾、p H值和水分,通过向距产地较近的气象部门查询和以全球卫星定位系统GPS、海拔表等测定地理气候因子,结合42个居群红禾麻ISSR遗传多样性分析结果,运用灰色关联度分析法对红禾麻不同种质资源药材中总黄酮的含量与各影响因子进行相关性分析。结果表明:42个红禾麻不同种质资源药材总黄酮含量为0.42%~2.16%,平均加样回收率为97.86%,RSD为1.5%;环境因子和遗传因子中与总黄酮含量关联度较大的因素分别为无霜期和Shannon信息指数I,而各影响因子与总黄酮含量的关联度中,以Shannon信息指数I(r=1.03)最大,土壤p H(r=0.49)最小,表明遗传因子对红禾麻药材总黄酮含量的影响大于环境因子。该研究结果为红禾麻药材优良种质资源筛选及野生变家种研究提供了依据。     

优良啤酒酵母原生质体融合株GR5的构建及其发酵特性

以发酵度较高的非絮凝性的啤酒酵母菌株X6和发酵度较低、絮凝性较强的啤酒酵母菌株N1为亲本进行原生质体融合。用亚硝酸诱变原养型的菌株X6,经筛选得到一株需酪素水解物的营养缺陷型菌株X6~20。采用正交试验法分别优化菌株X6~20和N1的原生质体形成和再生的条件。用X6~20菌株的原生质体作为受体和热灭活的N1菌株原生质体作为供体进行融合。融合株经三角瓶发酵筛选,得到一株较优良的融合株GR5。该融合株的絮凝性较强(本斯值为2.7),以12°Bx麦芽汁为培养基,用500 L的发酵罐在12℃下发酵,发酵至第8 d菌株GR5的发酵度为69.2%,发酵液中的双乙酰含量为0.0498 mg/L、乙醛含量为6.34 mg/L,总高级醇含量为74.4mg/L。融合株GR5具有双亲的优点,发酵的啤酒风味较好,是一株具有工业应用前景的啤酒酿造酵母菌株。     

Assessment of changes in DNA methylation by methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism in Jatropha curcas L. subjected to salinity stress

The present study assesses the changes in DNA methylation in leaf and root tissues of Jatropha curcas L., induced by salinity stress using methylation sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP) markers. Seedlings of 21 days (d) grown under controlled conditions were subjected to 0–100 mM salinity treatment for 24 h (1 d). Immediate changes in DNA methylation and polymorphism in methylated DNA in whole genome of both leaves and roots were assessed using 10 selective combinations of MSAP primers. In root and leaves 70.06% and 57.89% methylation was observed respectively. Similarly 67.22% and 71.21% polymorphism was observed in methylated DNA from root and leaf tissues respectively. Compared with control, the percentage of methylation and methylation polymorphism in roots of plants under different dosages of salinity was found in the order of 50 mM < 25 mM = 100 mM < 75 mM and 75 mM < 25 mM < 50 mM < 100 mM respectively. Similarly percentage of methylation and methylation polymorphism in leaves of plants treated with different levels of salinity was found in order of 75 mM < 25 mM < 50 mM < 100 mM and 50 mM < 25 mM < 100 mM < 75 mM respectively. The MSAP analysis showed that under salt stress homologous nucleotide sequences in genome from control and salt treated plants of J. curcas showed different patterns of methylation; which suggest that these fragments probably play an important role to induce immediate adaptive responses in Jatropha under salinity stress.     

中国人颅骨缝的变化与年龄关系

本文以在广西收集的有生前年龄记录的中国人139例15-84岁男性颅骨为研究材料,依据Broca氏颅缝愈合的0-4度分级标准,分13个年龄组,分别对矢状缝、冠状缝、人字缝、蝶额缝、蝶顶缝、蝶鳞缝、枕乳突缝、顶乳突缝、鳞缝等九个颅骨内外板缝进行研究,分析每个颅骨缝各愈合度的百分率和颅骨缝的变化与年龄关系。并与欧洲人和日本人作对比,显示出人种、民族和个体的一些差异。     

河北省生态环境与经济协调发展的时空演变

基于构建的河北省生态环境与经济协调发展的评价指标体系,并引入耦合度模型,测算了河北省2000—2014年全省及2000、2006、2010、2014年11个地级市的生态环境综合指数、经济发展综合指数及生态环境与经济协调发展耦合度.结果表明: 研究期间,河北省生态环境与经济协调发展水平呈不断提高趋势,从濒临失调衰退到良好协调发展,经历了3个显著发展阶段.11个地级市的生态环境与经济协调发展度均逐年增加,并在空间分布上存在显著差异.通过分析河北省生态环境与经济协调发展时空演化机理,认为政策、经济、产业和区位是其关键影响因素,并据此提出河北省未来生态与经济协调发展的建议.     

沈阳经济区经济与环境系统动态耦合协调演化

选择耦合协调度模型、剪刀差方法、耦合度模型,分别对沈阳经济区1990-2009年经济系统与环境系统的耦合协调状态、发展速度差异、耦合发展趋势进行了分析.结果表明:研究期间,沈阳经济区经济系统与环境系统的耦合协调状态不断提高.由于经济系统发展水平与环境系统建设水平都呈波动升高趋势,使二者耦合协调度指数由0.42增长至0.89,反映了该区域经济与环境的关系不断改善,较好地实现了二者的协调.经济发展速度的降低与环境建设速度的提高,使二者的剪刀差由0.63°降到0.22°,证明了发展速度有助于协调状态的实现.沈阳经济区经济与环境系统耦合度分布于45°＜β＜90°的范围,处于共同发展状态,但由于二者演化速率的比值逐渐减小,耦合度逐渐趋近于45°,说明二者关系在逐步走向协调.     

近10年艾比湖湿地不同植物群落土壤水分 盐分 养分变化特征

为研究新疆准噶尔盆地艾比湖湿地不同植物群落近10年土壤水盐及养分的动态变化,以环湖1周160km范围内的典型植被梭梭-柽柳、梭梭、胡杨、芦苇群落为研究对象,分析其在2006和2015年土壤含水量、盐分含量、pH值和有机质含量的变化和空间分布特征。结果表明:(1)近10年艾比湖湿地不同植物群落土壤有机质含量和含水量明显下降且整体水平较低,二者分别下降了24.65%~48%和5.41%~20.16%;土壤含盐量、pH值分别上升81.92%~128.74%和2.99%~4.21%,土壤盐碱程度加强。(2)通过土壤水分-盐分-养分空间分布分析显示,各群落近10年土壤盐渍化增加、养分降低程度大小表现为梭梭-柽柳群落胡杨群落梭梭群落芦苇群落,其中梭梭-柽柳群落土壤达到重度盐化水平,有机质降到6级,而其他群落土壤均为中度盐化,有机质为4级,但芦苇群落土壤退化程度较小。研究发现,近10年艾比湖湿地不同植物群落土壤养分不断下降、水分含量降低、盐渍化程度加剧,土壤处于退化状态;土壤质地、降水和气温暖干化是不同植物群落下土壤退化程度差异的基础,人口、耕地面积和农业用水等人类活动使各群落土壤退化程度的差异更加显著。