Simulation and investigation of quantum dot effects as internal heat-generator source in breast tumor site

The Pennes bio-heat transfer equation, which introduces the exchange magnitude of heat transfer between tissue and blood, is often used to solve the temperature distribution for thermal imaging and sensing. Near-infrared light has the ability to be used as a non-invasive means of diagnostic imaging within the woman's breast. Due to the diffusive nature of light in different tissue, computational model-based methods are required for functional imaging within the breast. In this article, the time-dependent bio-heat transfer is solved by a numerical method. In our model, the heat generation source (intrinsic and extrinsic) involves laser, metabolism, and quantum dot that the metabolism and heat generated by QDs are considered as intrinsic. We supposed the injected quantum dots would target the tumor site by a passive targeting process and then by interaction of laser radiation and quantum dot, the photoluminescence of quantum dot is converted to heat in the tumor site. The extra generated heat can impact on the extracted heat profile. One of the important applications of this research has led to a sensitivity improvement of the imaging system, which is potentially useful in the diagnosis and detection of breast cancer.     

样品预处理对有机碳同位素分析结果的影响

文中主要阐述样品预处理方法不同对于有机碳同位素分析结果将产生重要影响,并直接关系到由此而得出研究结论的可靠性。分析样品采自扬子地台震旦纪蓝田组剖面,并对相同岩石样品采取两种不同的预处理方法。分析结果显示,得到的两套数据之间存在明显的差值。这种分析差主要是来源于分析样品中残存的碳酸盐。因此,在对全岩分析样品实施有机碳同位素测定之前,务必将分析样品中无机碳除尽。此外,针对目前应用于有机碳同位素分析的样品预处理方法可能存在的问题提出看法。     

Molecular phylogeny of Aerides (Orchidaceae) based on one nuclear and two plastid markers: a step forward in understanding the evolution of the Aeridinae

Phylogenetic relationships of the orchid genus Aerides (Epidendroideae, Vandeae, Aeridinae) from Southeast Asia were inferred from DNA sequences of one nuclear (nrITS) and two plastid (matK, trnL–trnL–F) regions of 48 taxa (21 Aerides, 25 other Aeridinae, 2 outgroup). Analyses of the combined datasets with parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods revealed that Aerides is monophyletic and consists of three well-supported subclades which are only partly in accordance with previous sectional delimitations based on floral characters. The two different flower types in Aerides (hidden versus open spur entrance) seem to have evolved at least twice in geographically distinct areas. The phylogeny presented here is yet another example in Orchidaceae where floral morphology cannot be relied on to reconstruct phylogenetic history but rather is the result of pollinator-driven selection. The Aerides subclades are characterized by three different length classes of the mutation-rich P8 region in the trnL intron. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the P8 region was studied in orchids. The matK gene has been assumed to be a pseudogene in orchids due to occasional occurrence of frameshift indels, low transition/transversion (ts:tv) ratios and low substitution rates at the 3rd codon position. However, matK does not appear to be a pseudogene in Aerides and a comparison with data from other angiosperms suggests that ts:tv ratios and low substitution rates have been overestimated as arguments for a pseudogene status of matK in orchids.     

Optimized intermolecular potential for nitriles based on Anisotropic United Atoms model

An extension of the anisotropic united atoms intermolecular potential model is proposed for nitriles. The electrostatic part of the intermolecular potential is calculated using atomic charges obtained by a simple Mulliken population analysis. The repulsion-dispersion interaction parameters for methyl and methylene groups are taken from transferable AUA4 literature parameters [Ungerer et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2000, 112, 5499]. Non-bonding Lennard-Jones intermolecular potential parameters are regressed for the carbon and nitrogen atoms of the nitrile group (–C≡N) from experimental vapor-liquid equilibrium data of acetonitrile. Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo simulations and experimental data agreement is very good for acetonitrile, and better than previous molecular potential proposed by Hloucha et al. [J. Chem. Phys., 2000, 113, 5401]. The transferability of the resulting potential is then successfully tested, without any further readjustment, to predict vapor-liquid phase equilibrium of propionitrile and n-butyronitrile. Figure Saturated vapour pressure of nitriles calculated in this work by molecular simulation compared to experimental data: a) for acetonitrile and b) for both propionitrile and butyronitrile     

生态系统健康评价方法初探

生态系统是维持人类环境的最基本单元,生态系统功能主要体现在两个方面：一是生态服务功能（service);二是价值功能（goods)这两种功能是人类生态和发展的基础,生态系统健康是保证生态系统功能正常发挥的前提,结构和功能的完整性,具有抵抗干扰和恢复能力（resilience)、稳定和可持续性是生态系统健康的特征,生态系统健康评价需要基于生态系统的结构、功能过程来确定指标,包括生态系统的完整性,适应性和效率,生态系统健康评价主要有两种方法：一是指示物种评价,二是结构功能指标评价,结构功能指标评价包括单指标评价,复合指标评价和指标体系评价,指标体系评价中又包括自然指标体系评价,社会－经济－自然复合生态系统指标体系评价,本文针对生态系统健康的不同评价方法进行了对比研究,同时,针对不同的生态系统类型应选择其健康评价方法方面进行了简要的阐述。     

超声调制生物介质中光子自相关性质研究

本文首次用Monte Carlo方法研究了超声调制生物介质中散射光子的时间自相关性质,讨论了超声参数、介质的散射系数和吸收系数对自相关函数的影响。正常生物组织和病变生物组织的自相关函数有明显的判别,超声调制自相关函数为光学医学诊断提供了一种新参考。     

Taking Variation of Evolutionary Rates Between Sites into Account in Inferring Phylogenies

As methods of molecular phylogeny have become more explicit and more biologically realistic following the pioneering work of Thomas Jukes, they have had to relax their initial assumption that rates of evolution were equal at all sites. Distance matrix and likelihood methods of inferring phylogenies make this assumption; parsimony, when valid, is less limited by it. Nucleotide sequences, including RNA sequences, can show substantial rate variation; protein sequences show rates that vary much more widely. Assuming a prior distribution of rates such as a gamma distribution or lognormal distribution has deservedly been popular, but for likelihood methods it leads to computational difficulties. These can be resolved using hidden Markov model (HMM) methods which approximate the distribution by one with a modest number of discrete rates. Generalized Laguerre quadrature can be used to improve the selection of rates and their probabilities so as to more nearly approach the desired gamma distribution. A model based on population genetics is presented predicting how the rates of evolution might vary from locus to locus. Challenges for the future include allowing rates at a given site to vary along the tree, as in the ``covarion' model, and allowing them to have correlations that reflect three-dimensional structure, rather than position in the coding sequence. Markov chain Monte Carlo likelihood methods may be the only practical way to carry out computations for these models. Received: 8 February 2001 / Accepted: 20 May 2001     

浙贝母根际土壤总DNA提取和纯化方法的比较

本研究通过对6种土壤总DNA提取方法(CTAB-SDS-冻融法、玻璃珠-SDS-酚氯仿抽提法、玻璃珠-聚乙烯聚吡咯烷酮-SDS法、玻璃珠-聚乙烯聚吡咯烷酮-溶菌酶法、玻璃珠-聚乙烯聚吡咯烷酮-冻融法和UltraClean试剂盒法)和4种纯化方法(改进琼脂糖凝胶电泳法、2%聚乙烯吡咯烷酮-琼脂糖凝胶电泳法、PVPP层析柱法和低熔点琼脂糖电泳法)的比较,证明利用20 mmol/L EDTA(pH 7.5)预处理土壤后,利用CTAB-SDS-冻融法提取土壤总DNA并经改进琼脂糖凝胶电泳法纯化获得的浙贝母根际土壤总DNA的得率和纯度相对较高,达44.00 μg/g±2.65 μg/g土壤,可用于后续基于16S rDNA分析基础上的土壤微生物分子生态学的分析工作.     

氢化可的松高产菌株新月弯孢霉的选育*

应用酮康唑抗性筛选法,将经过紫外线诱变处理的甾体11β-羟基化菌株——新月弯孢霉的原生质体倾注在含有酮康唑最小抑制浓度(10μmol/L)的再生培养基平板上,再生出136株酮康唑抗性突变株。其中氢化可的松转化率高于出发菌株的有14株,正向突变率达到10．3％,同时获得了氢化可的松转化率为出发菌株1．42倍的遗传稳定突变株KA-91。