帕金森病模型研究进展

帕金森病（Parkinson’s disease,PD）是一种常见于中老年的神经退行性疾病,其特征性的病理改变为黑质纹状体多巴胺能神经元选择性缺失以及胞浆内涵物Lewy小体的形成。PD的发病机制目前尚不清楚,但已经明确环境因素和遗传因素在PD的发病中起重要作用。为阐明PD的病理生理机制,进一步探索新的治疗手段,迫切需要与PD密切相似的模型。本文将就目前发展的各种PD模型做一综述。     

Complex latitudinal variation in the morphology of the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes kumadai associated with host use and climatic conditions

We examined complex geographical patterns in the morphology of a kleptoparasitic spider, Argyrodes kumadai, across its distributional range in Japan. To disentangle biotic and abiotic factors underlying morphological variation, latitudinal trends were investigated in two traits, body size and relative leg length, across separate transition zones for host use and voltinism. Statistical analyses revealed complex sawtooth clines. Adult body size dramatically changed at the transition zones for host use and voltinism, and exhibited a latitudinal decline following the converse to Bergmann’s cline under the same host use and voltinism in both sexes. A similar pattern was observed for relative leg length in females but not in males. A genetic basis for a part of observed differences in morphology was supported by a common-garden experiment. Our data suggest that local adaptation to factors other than season length such as resource availability (here associated with host use) obscures underlying responses to latitude.     

MPTP帕金森病动物模型研究进展

用神经毒素1-甲基-4-苯基-1,2,3,6-四氢吡啶(MPTP)制备的动物模型,无论在神经生化和病理组织学特征,还是在运动行为表现方面都酷似人帕金森病(PD),是目前研究PD的理想模型。对MPTP动物模型发病机制等方面的深入研究将有助于PD的防治。     

兔慢性肾功能衰竭模型的建立与评价

目的建立兔慢性肾功能衰竭模型,为干细胞移植治疗和相关研究奠定基础。方法普通级大耳白兔随机分为正常对照组和单侧输尿管结扎（unilateral ureteral obstruction,UUO）组。UUO组于输尿管结扎后2、4、6、8周进行血生化肾功能指标检测,并取肾组织观察肾脏病理学改变,通过SPECT动态观察肾小球滤过率的变化,采用免疫组织化学方法观察肾组织转化生长因子-β1（TGF-β1）的表达情况。结果①UUO组术后第2周,出现明显的血肌酐升高,尿素氮术后第8周开始升高（P〈0.01）。②UUO组术后第4周,肾脏组织出现了早期间质纤维化的病理改变,术后第8周肾小球开始出现硬化,间质纤维化明显,皮质明显变薄。术后第12周,肾小球硬化比例增加,肾小管玻璃样变性,间质纤维化进一步加重（P〈0.05）。③SPECT动态观察肾小球滤过率,UUO组第4周GFR值比正常对照组降低,到第8周时,GFR值进一步下降,结扎侧肾脏功能降低甚至丧失。④免疫组织化学染色显示,TGF-β1在术后第4、8、12周均明显增强,并且各时间点表达均有显著差异（P〈0.05）。结论单侧输尿管结扎法成功制作比较稳定的慢性肾功能不全模型,UUO后第8周符合肾脏间质纤维化模型标准。     

增生性玻璃体视网膜病变动物模型的改进和评价

增生性玻璃体视网膜病变是导致视网膜脱离手术失败的主要原因,建立动物模型能更好的研究其发病机理,从而进行防治。本文就PVR动物模型的所用动物、模型的建立方法以及评价和分级进行综述。     

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Long‐Term HIV Dynamic Models and Antiviral Response

Summary HIV dynamics studies, based on differential equations, have significantly improved the knowledge on HIV infection. While first studies used simplified short‐term dynamic models, recent works considered more complex long‐term models combined with a global analysis of whole patient data based on nonlinear mixed models, increasing the accuracy of the HIV dynamic analysis. However statistical issues remain, given the complexity of the problem. We proposed to use the SAEM (stochastic approximation expectation‐maximization) algorithm, a powerful maximum likelihood estimation algorithm, to analyze simultaneously the HIV viral load decrease and the CD4 increase in patients using a long‐term HIV dynamic system. We applied the proposed methodology to the prospective COPHAR2–ANRS 111 trial. Very satisfactory results were obtained with a model with latent CD4 cells defined with five differential equations. One parameter was fixed, the 10 remaining parameters (eight with between‐patient variability) of this model were well estimated. We showed that the efficacy of nelfinavir was reduced compared to indinavir and lopinavir.     

Dynamic stability of a human standing on a balance board

The neuromuscular system used to stabilize upright posture in humans is a nonlinear dynamical system with time delays. The analysis of this system is important for improving balance and for early diagnosis of neuromuscular disease. In this work, we study the dynamic coupling between the neuromuscular system and a balance board—an unstable platform often used to improve balance in young athletes, and older or neurologically impaired patients. Using a simple inverted pendulum model of human posture on a balance board, we describe a surprisingly broad range of divergent and oscillatory CoP/CoM responses associated with instabilities of the upright equilibrium. The analysis predicts that a variety of sudden changes in the stability of upright postural equilibrium occurs with slow continuous deterioration in balance board stiffness, neuromuscular gain, and time delay associated with the changes in proprioceptive/vestibular/visual-neuromuscular feedback. The analysis also provides deeper insight into changes in the control of posture that enable stable upright posture on otherwise unstable platforms.     

Detection of sequences in the cerebellar cortex: numerical estimate of the possible number of tidal-wave inducing sequences represented

The two major cortices of the brain--the cerebral and cerebellar cortex--are massively connected through intercalated nuclei (pontine, cerebellar and thalamic nuclei). We suggest that the two cortices co-operate by generating precise temporal patterns in the cerebral cortex that are detected in the cerebellar cortex as temporal patterns assembled spatially in the mossy fibers. We will begin by showing that the tidal-wave mechanism works in the cerebellar cortex as a read-out mechanism for such spatio-temporal patterns due to the synchronous activity they generate in the parallel fiber system which drives the Purkinje cells--the output neurons of the cerebellar cortex--to fire action potentials. We will review the anatomy of the mossy fibers and show that within a "beam", or "row" of cerebellar cortex the mossy fibers in principle could embed a vast number of tidal-wave generating sequences. Based on anatomical data we will argue that the cerebellar mossy fiber-granule cell-Purkinje cell system can potentially detect and--through learning--select from an enormous number of spatio-temporal patterns.     

Can axes conventions of the trunk reference frame influence breast displacement calculation during running?

To obtain breast motion relative to the trunk, skin markers are used to define a local coordinate system (trunk), with respect to the global reference frame. This study aimed to quantify any differences in multiplanar breast displacement relative to the trunk using the first axis of rotation as either the mediolateral or longitudinal axis. Ten female participants ran on a treadmill (10 kph) in three different breast supports (no bra, everyday bra, sports bra). Four reflective markers placed on the trunk and right nipple were tracked using eight infrared cameras (200 Hz) during five running gait cycles in each breast support condition. Following marker identification, right breast multiplanar displacements were calculated relative to the trunk using either the mediolateral axis or the longitudinal axis as the first rotational axis to define the orthogonal local coordinate system. Results showed that there was a significant difference (8.2%) in superioinferior breast displacement in the sports bra condition when calculated using different axes conventions for the trunk segment. Furthermore, the greatest magnitude of breast displacement occurred in a different direction depending upon the selection of the first rotational axis. The definition of the primary reference axis of the trunk significantly alters the magnitude of superioinferior breast displacement and therefore it is recommended that the previously reported ‘stable’ longitudinal axis should be defined as the first rotational axis during running. Caution should also be used as the axes convention influences the magnitude and direction of breast support requirements, which has important implications for bra design.