浙江新昌县药用植物资源研究

对浙江新昌县植物资源作了系统调查。经鉴定并根据已掌握的资料,新昌县有药用维管植物155科 504属807种,其中蕨类植物20科34属51种,种子植物135科470属756种。按其药用功能划分成清热药、 解表药等十类,并对每一类的药用功能作了详细介绍。进一步发现在新昌药用植物中有22种属于国家级或 省级珍稀植物。最后对新昌县药用植物资源的保护和持续利用提出了建议。     

大鼠脊髓不完全性损伤后前角运动神经元的酶细胞化学改变

以改良Ａｌｅｎ氏法造成Ｗｉｓｔａｒ大鼠不完全性脊髓损伤,采用神经学功能评分法评定大鼠运动功能,应用定量酶细胞化学方法观察脊髓前角运动神经元内乙酰胆碱酯酶（ＡＣｈＥ）和酸性磷酸酶（ＡｃＰ）活性变化。结果显示：１．脊髓损伤后大鼠运动功能障碍,随后逐渐恢复。２．前角运动神经元内ＡＣｈＥ活性减弱、ＡｃＰ活性增强;随后酶活性呈逐渐恢复,四周时ＡＣｈＥ活性基本恢复正常。结果说明：大鼠脊髓不完全性损伤后运动功能变化与前角运动神经元的功能状态具有较强的相关性;前角运动神经元在不完全性脊髓损伤运动功能恢复中起重要作用。     

马传染性贫血病毒强、弱毒株dUTPase结构与酶活性比较

为研究尿嘧啶脱氧核糖核苷三磷酸酶(dUTPase)在马传染性贫血病毒(equine infectous anemia virus,EIAV)致弱过程中的作用,探索dUTPase结构与功能的关系,分别对EIAV强、弱毒株dUTPase的编码基因进行了结构分析,并在大肠杆菌中进行了表达.经镍-次氮基三乙酸(Ni-NTA)金属亲合层析方法对表达产物纯化后,用3H标记底物的方法测定了重组强、弱毒株dUTPase的活性.证明所表达的两种重组dUTPase均具有水解dUTP的功能,但重组弱毒株dUTPase的活性显著高于重组强毒株dUTPase的活性.结果提示,由于EIAV疫苗株在驴白细胞上连续传代培养,使病毒dUTPase的活性增强和复制能力提高,而决定酶活性改变的分子基础是dUTPase编码基因中的两个氨基酸发生了突变.此结果对其它慢病毒病的免疫预防具有重要参考价值.     

Reconstitution of the Brain Mixed Function Oxidase System: Purification of NADPH-Cytochrome P450 Reductase and Partial Purification of Cytochrome P450 from Whole Rat Brain

NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase was purified to apparent homogeneity and cytochrome P450 partially purified from whole rat brain. Purified reductase from brain was identical to liver P450 reductase by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and western blot techniques. Kinetic studies using cerebral P450 reductase reveal Km values in close agreement with those determined with enzyme purified from rat liver. Moreover, the brain P450 reductase was able to function successfully in a reconstituted microsomal system with partially purified brain cytochrome P450 and with purified hepatic P450c (P450IA1) as measured by 7-ethoxycoumarin and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation. Our results indicate that the reductase and P450 components may interact to form a competent drug metabolism system in brain tissue.     

Annual variations of adrenal gland hormones in the lizard <Emphasis Type="Italic">Podarcis sicula</Emphasis>

The adrenal gland regulates metabolism and maintains normal electrolyte balance. Adrenal hormones are equivalent in all vertebrates; the chromaffin tissue produces adrenaline and noradrenaline and the steroidogenic tissue produces most of the steroid hormones present in mammals. Podarcis sicula belongs to the Squamata family of lizards and it is the most abundant lizard species in southern Italy. This species shows a reproductive annual cycle and the presence of seasonal variations in the activity of the hypothalamus-hypophyseal-thyroid axis. To investigate the existence of an annual cycle of lizard adrenal gland, we have measured plasma concentrations of corticosterone, ACTH, noradrenaline and adrenaline. We have shown that corticosterone rapidly increased from January to March to reach a peak value that persisted until July, then, it slowly decreased until December. ACTH levels increased from January to May and slowly decreased from July to December. Noradrenaline levels were higher in March and then decreased until December. On the contrary, adrenaline levels increased from March to July and slowly decreased until December. Our results demonstrate the existence of an annual cycle of the lizard adrenal gland activity. This is very interesting because its activity is important to rightly regulate the reproductive status of the Podarcis sicula lizard.     

非同源蛋白质空间折叠的动力学参数研究

从蛋白质折叠成自由能最小的稳定结构类型为研究的出发点,为揭示蛋白质空间折叠的动力学本质,对非同源蛋白质数据库,以蛋白质序列的氮基酸频率和自协方差函数为特征矢量,求出表征特征矢量中各分量耦合作用与协同作用的协方差矩阵所对应的特征值．与Chou的方法相比,更全面地反映了蛋白质折叠密码的简并性、全局性和多意性,为定量表征折叠成不同结构类的蛋白质,提供了一种动力学参数分析方法．     

卤虫(Artemia salina)孵化腺细胞分化时相的免疫细胞化学研究(简报)

动物孵化酶(hatching enzyme,HE)是早期胚胎在特定发育阶段由孵化腺细胞产生和分泌的,在动物早期胚胎孵化中具有关键性作用。孵化腺细胞(hatching gland cell,HGC)一般为单细胞腺体,是从胚胎发育到特定阶段(孵化前)出现、至胚胎孵出后的特定时期消失的一时性细胞(transient type ofcells)。完全分化的HGC内充满了低电子密度的酶原颗粒(孵化酶原颗粒),在鱼胚中的分布因物种而异。在大多数鱼中,HGC分布在胚体的外表面和/或卵黄囊中,一般为外胚层来源。如在虹蹲鱼HGC分布在胚体的前表面、卵黄囊、咽部、鳃的内表面及外表面,属于外胚层来源。而日本鳉鱼HGC     

Statistical mechanics of protein folding by cluster distance geometry

This is our second type of model for protein folding where the configurational parameters and the effective potential energy function are chosen in such a way that all conformations are described and the canonical partition function can be evaluated analytically. Structure is described in terms of distances between pairs of sequentially contiguous blocks of eight residues, and all possible conformations are grouped into 71 subsets in terms of bounds on these distances. The energy is taken to be a sum of pairwise interactions between such blocks. The 210 energy parameters were adjusted so that the native folds of 32 small proteins are favored in free energy over the denatured state. We then found 146 proteins having negligible sequence similarity to any of the training proteins, yet the free energy of the respective correct native states were favored over the denatured state.     

Accuracy of touch imprint cytology in diagnosing lung cancer.

A 3-year study assessed the diagnostic accuracy of touch imprint smears in the diagnosis of lung cancer. Touch imprint smears were prepared from 90 computerized tomographic-guided core needle lung biopsies. Cytological diagnosis of touch imprint smears were correlated with the histological diagnosis of the corresponding core needle biopsy specimen, which was taken as the gold standard. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of imprint smear results were 89%, 100%, 100% and 68%, respectively. There were no false positives, and all patients with small cell lung cancer were correctly diagnosed with this technique. Imprint cytology can be used to provide a rapid, preliminary diagnosis of lung cancer.     

Fine structure of the Nassonow's gland in the neotenic endoparasitic of female Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta)

Nassonow's gland consists of a number of cells with ducts that open on to the ventral surface of the brood canal in the cephalothoracic region of a neotenic female strepsipteran. The structural organization of the gland is reminiscent of the class 3 of the epidermal gland cells as defined by Noirot and Quennedey [Ann. Rev. Entomol. 19 (1974) 61], which consists of secretory and duct forming cells. The ultrastructure of the Nassonow's gland is described in female Xenos vesparum (Rossi) parasitic in the social wasp Polistes dominulus Christ. The large secretory cells are clustered in groups of three to four, rich in smooth endoplasmic reticulum and produce a secretion made up of lipids. In young females, just before mating, the ultrastructure of the cells and their inclusions indicate that they are active. In old-mated females the Nassonow's gland degenerates. Microvilli line an extracellular cavity and there are pores present in the irregularly thick cuticle of the efferent duct. The small duct forming cells, intermingle with epidermal cells, overlap secretory cells and produce a long efferent duct, the cuticle of which becomes thick close to its opening in the brood canal. Nassonow's gland could be the source of a sex pheromone, which might be capable of attracting the free-living male to a permanently endoparasitic female.