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D.?C.?DrakeEmail author B.?Maritz S.?M.?Jacobs C.?J.?Crous A.?Engelbrecht A.?Etale M.?J.?Fourie D.?G.?Furniss S.?L.?Scott S.?Parusnath D.?R.?Tye 《Hydrobiologia》2013,712(1):1-4
The biological and physico-chemical structure of near bottom habitats located under densely growing submerged vegetation, and their significance in the functioning of whole aquatic ecosystems, are very little known due to difficulties in sampling. Corer-type samplers, believed to be the best in littoral studies, do not work properly in such places, because their tube opening is easily clogged by plant shoots, acting as a stopper. In order to overcome this problem, an alteration to the shape of the tube ending is proposed. This can be done by its trimming at an accurate angle, or by fitting (permanently or interchangeably) a metal collar made of stainless steel to its end, so that the ending would resemble the shape of a needle. The modification can be applied to virtually all corer samplers. It was found to be efficient while sampling sediment cores for the purposes of both hydrobiological and paleolimnological studies on heavily overgrown macrophyte-dominated water ecosystems. 相似文献
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G. Gray Eaton Deanne F. Johnson Barbara B. Glick Julie M. Worlein 《Primates; journal of primatology》1986,27(2):141-150
We have quantitatively documented the development of sex differences in the behavior of juvenile Japanese macaques (1 to 2
years of age). Mothers treated their offspring differently by sex, i.e., mothers of males broke contact with them more frequently
than did mothers of females. Juvenile males played more, and mounted other macaques more frequently; juvenile females groomed
their mothers more and were also punished by other group members more frequently than were males. Males showed a pattern of
decreasing interactions with their mothers, but females increased the frequency of their maternal interactions. These patterns
appear to presage the life histories of the sexes. However, comparisons with other species of nonhuman primates indicate that
although sex differences in behavior are common, the variability among species severely limits cross-specific generalizations. 相似文献
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Barbara Beckerman Glide G. Gray Eaton Deanne F. Johnson Julie Worlein 《International journal of primatology》1986,7(2):139-155
The behavioral interactions of 22 infant and mother Japanese macaques with other group members were studied. Focal-animal
observations were made from the time of each infant’s birth until 1 year of age. Infants and mothers both displayed exceedingly
strong preferences for associating with matrilineal kin and, specifically, for female kin. The degree of genetic relatedness
was positively correlated with levels of spatial proximity, contact, grooming, aggression, and play. Overall frequencies of
interactions with nonkin were very low, and partner sex was not an important factor in interactions with nonkin. There were
no significant differences between male and female infants in interactions with kin versus nonkin. There was only one significant
difference between male and female infants in interactions with males versus females: female infants showed stronger preferences
for initiating proximity with females over males than did male infants. Because mothers provide the focal point for infant
interactions during the first year of life, we compared the behavior of infants and mothers. Mothers were the recipients of
more social interactions than were infants, mothers engaged in more grooming than did infants, and infants engaged in more
social play than did mothers. These findings are only partially consistent with kin-selection theory, and the inadequacies
of studying matrilineal kin discrimination to test kin selection are reviewed. The near-absence of infant sex differences
in associations with social partners suggests that although maternal kin other than the mother are important to infant socialization,
they probably do not contribute to the development of behavioral sex differences until after the first year of life. 相似文献
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Glick Barbara Beckerman Eaton G. Gray Johnson Deanne F. Worlein Julie M. 《International journal of primatology》1986,7(5):467-479
Quantitative data are presented on the effects of subject sex, partner sex,and kinship on the social interactions of 18 juveniles of the Oregon troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).Data on these subjects as infants were also used to detail maturational changes in partner sex preferences. Nine males and
nine females, whose multiparous mothers represented a cross section of dominance ranks, were observed using a focal-animal
technique. Juveniles of both sexes engaged in more proximity, contact, grooming, mounting, aggression, and social play with
kin than with nonkin partners. They initiated less contact with females and more contact with males during their second year.
They initiated more grooming and aggression during their second year than their first year, with females displaying a strong
preference for grooming females and males specifically aggressing males more during the second year. Aggression was higher
between same-sexed partners than between opposite-sexed partners. Males engaged in more social interactions with males during
the second year than the first year of life. Males played more than females during both years. Males played more with males
during the second year than the first year, and males played with males more than did females during the second year. We conclude
that sex differences in behavioral frequencies become evident during the first year of life, and sex differences in partner
preferences emerge during the second year of life. 相似文献
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Acute and Prolonged Alterations in Brain Free Magnesium Following Fluid Percussion-Induced Brain Trauma in Rats 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Abstract: Several studies have reported declines in brain total and free magnesium concentration after a traumatic insult to the CNS. Although the evidence suggests that this magnesium decline is associated with eventual neurologic outcome after trauma, the duration of free magnesium decline and its impact on related bioenergetic variables are relatively unknown. The present study has therefore used phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy to determine the length of time that free magnesium remains suppressed after traumatic brain injury in rats. Immediately after the traumatic event, brain intracellular free magnesium declined to <60% of preinjury values and remained significantly depressed (50 ± 8%; p < 0.001) for 5 days before recovering to preinjury levels by day 8. Cytosolic phosphorylation ratio and mitochondrial oxidative capacity also significantly decreased ( p = 0.008) and increased ( p = 0.002), respectively, after trauma. However, unlike the time of maximum magnesium change, the maximum changes in these bioenergetic variables occurred at 16–24 h after trauma and thereafter remained stable until after the magnesium had recovered. We conclude that free magnesium decline after trauma precedes changes in bioenergetic variables. Furthermore, therapies targeted at reestablishing magnesium homeostasis after trauma may require administration over a 1-week period. 相似文献
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Abstract: The opioid peptides Met- and Leu-enkephalin, dynorphin (1-13), and β-endorphin and the narcotic analgesics, morphine, levorphanol, and dextrorphan all produced a dose-dependent inhibition of nicotine (5 × 10?6m )-mediated release of [3H]norepinephrine ([3H]NE) from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells in culture. None of these agents affected [3H]NE release induced by high K+ (56 mm ). Although the above results suggest that the opioid peptides and narcotic analgesics inhibit catecholamine release from adrenal chromaffin cells in culture, we suggest that these effects are not mediated by specific opiate binding sites, since (1) the inhibition was only produced with high concentrations of the agents—the threshold concentrations were 10?7 to 10?5m and higher; (2) the inhibition produced by the narcotic analgesics did not display stereospecificity, because the (d-isomer, dextrorphan, was slightly more active than the l-isomer, levorphanol; (3) the narcotic antagonists naloxone, naltrexone, and levallorphan did not reverse the inhibition produced by either the narcotic analgesics (e.g., morphine) or the opioid peptides (e.g., dynorphin). These three antagonists themselves inhibited the nicotine-mediated release of [3H]NE from the adrenal chromaffin cells in culture. Finally (4), the I2-Tyr1 substituted analogues of β-endorphin and dynorphin that are biologically less active than the parent compounds produced an inhibition of the nicotine-mediated [3H]NE release similar to that of their parent compounds. These results do not support the idea that high-affinity stereospecific opiate binding sites are involved in the inhibitory modulation of nicotinic evoked catecholamine release from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells in culture. 相似文献
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Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) have profound immune defects. These defects are associated with a poor prognosis and are mediated, in part, by immune inhibitory CD34+ progenitor cells, whose numbers are increased in the peripheral blood of HNSCC patients. Immune inhibitory CD34+ cells are also present within HNSCC tumors. A phase IB clinical trial was conducted with HNSCC patients to determine if treatment with the differentiation-inducer 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 could diminish CD34+ cell levels and improve a panel of immune parameters. Here we present the results of treatment with orally administered escalating doses (20, 40, 60 g) of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, with an emphasis on the six patients who received the maximum dosage of 60 g per day. Peripheral blood was collected at 0, 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks, and assessed for markers of immune activity. Although no clinical responses were observed, results of this pilot study demonstrated that treatment of HNSCC patients with 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 reduces the number of immune suppressive CD34+ cells, increases HLA-DR expression, increases plasma IL-12 and IFN- levels, and improves T-cell blastogenesis. In contrast, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 treatment did not modulate plasma IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, GM-CSF, or TGF- levels.Abbreviations GM-CSF
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
- high CD34+ patients
patients with greater than 1% baseline CD34+ cell levels
- HLA
human leukocyte antigen
- IFN
interferon
- IL
interleukin
- low CD34+ patients
patients with less than 1% baseline CD34+ cell levels
- OD
optical density
- TGF
transforming growth factor 相似文献
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Jurevics H Largent C Hostettler J Sammond DW Matsushima GK Kleindienst A Toews AD Morell P 《Journal of neurochemistry》2002,82(1):126-136
Exposure of mice to the copper chelator, cuprizone, results in CNS demyelination. There is remyelination after removal of the metabolic insult. We present brain regional studies identifying corpus callosum as particularly severely affected; 65% of cerebroside is lost after 6 weeks of exposure. We examined recovery of cerebroside and ability to synthesize cerebroside and cholesterol following removal of the toxicant. The temporal pattern for concentration of myelin basic protein resembled that of cerebroside. We applied Affymetrix GeneChip technology to corpus callosum to identify temporal changes in levels of mRNAs during demyelination and remyelination. Genes coding for myelin structural components were greatly down-regulated during demyelination and up-regulated during remyelination. Genes related to microglia/macrophages appeared in a time-course (peaking at 6 weeks) correlating with phagocytosis of myelin and repair of lesions. mRNAs coding for many cytokines had peak expression at 4 weeks, compatible with intercellular signaling roles. Of interest were other genes with temporal patterns correlating with one of the three above patterns, but of function not obviously related to demyelination/remyelination. The ability to correlate gene expression with known pathophysiological events should help in elucidating further function of such genes as related to demyelination/remyelination. 相似文献
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