马立克氏病毒单克隆抗体的研究

获得了4株分泌马立克氏病毒(MDV)特异性单克隆抗体(McAb)的杂交瘤细胞:4BS10对MDV所有毒株呈阳性反应;4CN8 对MDV血清1,3型毒株发生反应;2BN90和4CN24只对MDV血清1型毒株有阳性反应。3个McAb属IgG1,1个为IgG2b,均不中和MDV,免疫扩散试验也无沉淀线。对禽白血病毒(ALV)无交叉反应。 以2BN90和辣根过氧化物酶、异硫氰酸荧光素的结合物进行直接酶联免疫吸附试验和直接荧光抗体试验,均获得成功。抗体滴度前者为1/51,200,后者为1/640。对ALV无交叉反应。     

Macrophage mediation of the inhibitory effects of elevated intracellular levels of adenosine-3':5' cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) on macrophage-Trypanosoma cruzi association

Presence of theophylline and dibutyryl-cAMP—agents which cause elevation of intracellular levels of cAMP—in in vitro systems in which murine macrophages interact with virulent blood forms of Trypanosoma cruzi resulted in a marked inhibition of cell-parasite association (i.e., decreased surface binding and/or internalization). This effect was evidenced in terms of significant reductions in both the percentage of infected macrophages and the average number of trypanosomes per 100 macrophages. Pretreatment of the macrophages with these agents produced a similar inhibition whereas pretreatment of the parasites had no significant consequence on the interaction. The inhibitory effect was transient since it was no longer seen after 30 min of incubation of the treated macrophages in fresh medium. Thus, the inhibitory effect is exerted through a transient effect on the macrophage.     

诱发斑点小球腔菌假囊壳生成的条件

自然界甘蓝茎点霉(Phoma lingam)的有性世代为斑点小球腔菌Leptosphaeriamaculans通常形成于甘蓝属植株的越冬残茎上。在实验室内其有性阶段不易培养或需要较长的时间,而且形成假囊壳的百分率也很低。为了在实验室内能短期诱发大量L.maculans的假囊壳,本实验研究了该菌假囊壳生成的条件,创造了双层培养方法。自澳大利亚采集到有该菌假囊壳的芸苔(Brassica napus)残基,分离得到子囊孢子单孢后代数十株,同时用保存的已知交配型665(+)和666(-)为材料,研究了(+)(-)配对结合的环境条件。实验结果表明16℃的温度,近紫外光照射(黑光灯)和V_(?)麦杆琼脂培养基上可以产生少量的假囊壳。但是,若配合以双层培养,则在培养4周后可产生大量成熟的假囊壳。实验还确定了该菌在性细胞形成、交配、子囊形成和成熟等阶段对环境因子都有不同的要求。双层培养对假囊壳的发育有重要作用。前期菌体营养生长与后期假囊壳的成熟紧密相关。     

Protonmotive force driven 6-deoxyglucose uptake by the oral pathogen,Streptococcus mutans Ingbritt

Streptococcus mutans Ingbritt was grown in glucose-excess continuous culture to repress the glucose phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system (PTS) and allow investigation of the alternative glucose process using the non-PTS substrate, (³H) 6-deoxyglucose. After correcting for non-specific adsorption to inactivated cells, the radiolabelled glucose analogue was found to be concentrated approximately 4.3-fold intracellularly by bacteria incubated in 100 mM Tris-citrate buffer, pH 7.0. Mercaptoethanol or KCl enhanced 6-deoxyglucose uptake, enabling it to be concentrated internally by at least 8-fold, but NaCl was inhibitory to its transport. Initial uptake was antagonised by glucose but not 2-deoxyglucose. Evidence that 6-deoxyglucose transport was driven by protonmotive force (p) was obtained by inhibiting its uptake with the protonophores, 2,4-dinitrophenol, carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazine, gramicidin and nigericin, and the electrical potential difference () dissipator, KSCN. The membrane ATPase inhibitor, N,N¹-dicyclohexyl carbodiimide, also reduced 6-deoxyglucose uptake as did 100 mM lactate. In combination, these two inhibitors completely abolished 6-deoxyglucose transport. This suggests that the driving force for 6-deoxyglucose uptake is electrogenic, involving both the transmembrane pH gradient (pH) and . ATP hydrolysis, catalysed by the ATPase, and lactate excretion might be important contributors to pH.Abbreviations DNP 2,4-dinitrophenol - CCCP carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone - DCCD N,N¹-dicyclohyxyl carbodiimide - p protonmotive force - pH transmembrane pH gradient - transmembrane electrical potential difference     

Dependent competing risks: a stochastic process model

Analyses of human mortality data classified according to cause of death frequently are based on competing risk theory. In particular, the times to death for different causes often are assumed to be independent. In this paper, a competing risk model with a weaker assumption of conditional independence of the times to death, given an assumed stochastic covariate process, is developed and applied to cause specific mortality data from the Framingham Heart Study. The results generated under this conditional independence model are compared with analogous results under the standard marginal independence model. Under the assumption that this conditional independence model is valid, the comparison suggests that the standard model overestimates by 4% the effect on life expectancy at age 30 due to the hypothetical elimination of cancer and by 7% the effect for cardiovascular/cerebrovascular disease. By age 80 the overestimates were 11% for cancer and 16% for heart disease. These results suggest the importance of avoiding the marginal independence assumption when appropriate data are available — especially when focusing on mortality at advanced ages.     

Trypanosoma cruzi: 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine in the treatment of experimental Chagas' disease

An allopurinol metabolite, 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine, was tested on two different strains of mice (NMRI-IVIC and C57Bl/6J) that had been infected 4 days earlier with the virulent Ya strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. Low doses of 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine (0.125-0.500 mg/kg body wt/day) for 10 days induced a significant reduction in parasitemia (direct counts and subinoculation experiments) and increased survival time (without any evidence of toxicity) compared with untreated animals. When tested in vitro, 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine was sixfold more active than allopurinol as a trypanostatic drug. The low therapeutic doses of 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine suggest that this drug may be useful in the treatment of acute Chagas' disease.     

Vertebral pathology in the afar australopithecines

Ten vertebral elements from the AL-288 partial hominid skeleton and 11 elements from the AL-333 collection are described. The AL-288 column presents a marked kyphosis at the level of thoracic vertebrae 6 through 10, with pronounced new bone formation on the ventral surfaces of these vertebrae. These features, associated with narrowed disc space and minor osteophytosis, resemble Scheuermann disease in the human. Even though this diagnosis is consistent with a basically human, bipedal locomotor repertoire, the presence of Scheuermann disease suggests that lifting, climbing, or acrobatic activities may have been important in early hominids.     

Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis,a newly recognized virus disease of penaeid shrimp

Populations of the Pacific blue shrimp, Penaeus stylirostris, reared at the University of Arizona's experimental shrimp culture facility on Oahu in Hawaii from late 1980 through 1981, were severely affected by a highly acute and lethal disease of viral etiology. Also found to be susceptible to the disease were P. vannamei and P. monodon. The disease was named infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis (IHHN) disease to describe the principal lesions observed. The histopathology of acute and subacute IHHN disease in these species was dominated by the presence of conspicuous eosinophilic intranuclear-inclusion bodies of the Cowdry type A variety in ectodermally (especially the cuticular hypodermis) and mesodermally (especially the hematopoietic tissues) derived tissues that were undergoing necrosis. Electron microscopy of affected tissues demonstrated the presence of two or three types of virus-like particles with cubic morphology and diameters of 17 to 27 nm that suggest IHHN virus to be either a parvo- or picornavirus.     

北疆荒漠的锈菌

本文报告新疆北部荒漠的锈菌11属92种。大多数标本是作者1986年8—9月间在巴尔鲁克山、塔尔巴哈台山、准噶尔盆地西缘及南缘地区、西天山的巩留及博格达山等地采得。这一带植被主要由超旱生灌木、半灌木及草本所组成,天山北坡山地发育着较丰茂的草甸及森林植被,植物区系属于中亚荒漠植物区系。文中描述了一个新种,即葛缕子生柄锈Puccinia caricola J.Y.Zhuang;我国新记录种有12个,它们是葱杨栅锈Melampsora allii-populina Kleb.、柳叶栅锈Melampsora epitea Thuem.、尖头多胞锈Phragmidium acuminasum(Fr.)Cooke、胀柄多胞锈Phragmidium bulbosum(Str.)Schlecht.、阿尔及利亚柄锈Puccinia algerica Patouill.、伯内特柄锈Puccinia burnettiiGriff.、巨堆柄锈Puccinia gigantea Karst.、科马罗夫柄锈Puccinia komarovii Tranz.、高山蓼柄锈Puccinia polygoni-alpini Cruchet & Mayor、新塔花柄锈Puccinia zizi-phorae Sydow、柴胡单胞锈Uromyces bupleuri P.Magn.及角果藜单胞锈Uromycesceratocarpi Sydow。所有标本保藏在中国科学院微生物研究所真菌标本室。     

从我国成人手足口病患者疱液中首次分离出肠道病毒71型

本文报道了从我国手足口病(HFMD)患者疱液中肠道病毒71(E71)型H株的分离和鉴定。该株病毒可在原代人胚肺(HEL)细胞、MA104细胞、BSC细胞中生长繁殖,导致典型的肠道病毒CPE出现。将H株接种乳鼠后出现肢体麻痹、第6天开始死亡。电镜下可见感染H株的BSC细胞胞浆中出现大量的结晶状排列的成熟病毒颗粒,直径约25nm。患者双份血清中有对H株4倍增高的中和抗体存在。采用100抗体单位的抗Cox A5、7、9、16、E70、E71抗体和50抗体单位的LBM组合血清A-H以及抗E71BrCr株MeAb P27对H株进行中和试验时,H株可被抗E71血清和MeAb P27所中和。抗E71抗体对H株的最低有效中和作用为1.6抗体单位,MeAb P27对H株的有效中和作用是64抗体单位。其它血清则无此中和作用。然而,在鉴定过程中发现,高滴度的抗Cox A16抗体(200抗体单位以上)也显出有中和H株的作用,提示我们所分离的H株含有与Cox A16的型间共同抗原。