Cyanide as a feeding stimulant for the southern army worm, Spodoptera eridania

ABSTRACT.

• 1 All instars of Spodoptera eridania larvae grow as well or better when cyanide is present in their diet as when it is absent. Concentrations up to 0.05% stimulate feeding in first to fourth instar larvae. Concentrations from 0.1% to 1.0% stimulate feeding in fifth and sixth instar larvae.
• 2 Three-day-old sixth instar larvae pre-exposed to cyanide are completely resistant to its acutely toxic effects, but previously unexposed larvae suffer reversible symptoms of poisoning when feeding on a diet containing 1.0% KCN.
• 3 A 1.0% dietary KCN exposure during the sixth instar reduces ecdysis to 17% adult emergence and completely inhibits oviposition.
• 4 Cyanide concentrations from 0.5% to 1.0% in the diet, although effecting increased growth rates, induce necrotic lesions in larval mid-gut epithelial cells.
• 5 Thiocyanate, one of the in vivo cyanide metabolites, at 0.5% in the diet reduces pupation to 23%, delays and reduces adult emergence to 20% and inhibits oviposition.
• 6 The preferred host plant of S.eridania is the lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, probably due to its content of the cyanogenic glycoside linamarin. Dietary valine has no effect on the southern armyworm feeding and growth behaviour (Long & Brattsten, 1982) but dietary cyanide does. The lima bean is known to contain up to 31 ppm cyanide in some varieties.

     

Les génotypes responsables de mucoviscidose ou d’absence bilatérale des canaux déférents ABCD

Over the last decade, the genetic basis for CBAVD has been identified by its association with CFTR gene mutations, and CBAVD is now generally considered to be a mild or incomplete form of CF. In this review, the author summarizes the main results of compilation of CFTR gene analysis conducted in French laboratories for 3,923 patients with CF and 800 males with CABVD. The degree of clinical expression can be affected by several variables, including the molecular mechanisms by which the various CFTR mutations impair or disrupt the function of the CFTR chloride channel. Phenotypic expression of CFTR mutational genotypes varies from severe, progressive pulmonary disease with pancreatic insufficiency (CF-PI), to mild pulmonary disease with pancreatic sufficiency (PS) or singleorgan forms of “CFTR-opathies”. In CF, a total of 310 different CFTR mutations accounting for 94% of 7,846 CF alleles have generated almost 500 different genotypes, comprising 2 severe mutations in 88% of cases (CF-PI), one severe mutation in trans to a mild mutation in 11% (CF-PS), and 2 mild mutations in 1% of identified genotypes. In CBAVD, 137 mutations scattered over the whole gene were identified in 60% of 1,600 CBAVD alleles during the study. Among the 150 characterized mutational CFTR genotypes, compound heterozygosity was the rule, and the most frequent CBAVD combinations were ΔF508/5T (35%), ΔF508/other mutation (30%, including ΔF508/R117H-7T: 5,6%), and 5T/other mutation (17%). No combination of two severe mutations was found in CBAVD (0%); by contrast with the CF population, 88% of genotypes identified in CBAVD comprised a severe mutation in trans to a mild mutation, and 12% consisted of 2 mild mutations. A total of 22 genotypes were shared by both CF and CBAVD. The role of the 5T allele as a splicing variant with variable, incomplete disease penetrance in CBAVD is reviewed. Other haplotype backgrounds, such as the TG12 sequence and the M470V polymorphism, may influence CFTR splicing and/or function. This study confirms the high molecular heterogeneity of CFTR mutations in CBAVD and emphasizes the importance of extensive CFTR analysis in these patients. Longterm follow-up studies of CBAVD patients are necessary in order to predict the phenotypic consequences of numerous CFTR mutational genotypes.     

72株非伤寒沙门菌药敏分析及其所致儿童肠炎的临床特点

为探讨非伤寒沙门菌的耐药性及其引起儿童肠炎的临床特点,收集2009年3月~2010年10月广东省中山市博爱医院儿科消化病区送检的1 665例肠道感染患儿粪便标本,将培养、分离所获的72株非伤寒沙门菌进行药敏试验,并回顾分析其感染后的临床特点.结果显示,非伤寒沙门菌对头孢哌酮-舒巴坦、泰能、左氧氟沙星、哌拉西林-他巴唑坦...     

丙戊酸影响神经干细胞体外分化的量效和时效关系

目的：研究丙戊酸（VPA）浓度和干预时间对神经干细胞（NSCs）体外分化的影响。方法：以不同浓度的VPA（0.1、0.3、0.5、0.75和1.0mmol/L）处理原代培养的神经干细胞,以NB培养基组做对照,分别于神经干细胞分化后3天、7天、10天和14天用免疫荧光双标鉴定并计数微管蛋白-Ⅲ（β-tubllin III）和胶质原纤维酸性蛋白（GFAP）阳性细胞的比例,并作统计学分析。结果：同一时相点组间比较,3天时各组中神经元分化比例无显著差异;7天时不同浓度VPA组与对照组分化神经元比例开始呈现差异;10天时这种差异继续增大,0.75 mmol/L VPA组中神经元比例为82.15±0.93%;14天时保持这种差异;但各时相点1.0 mmol/L VPA组与0.75 mmol/L VPA组神经元分化的比例无显著差异。不同时相点组内比较发现,3-10天内随着时间的延长,各组神经元分化的比例显著增加,但14天时神经元分化的比例较10天无显著变化。结论：0.75mmol/L VPA在10天时促神经干细胞向神经元分化的作用最佳。     

Methods for the Large-Scale Cultivation of an Oxytricha (Ciliophora: Hypotrichida)1

ABSTRACT. Oxytricha strains used in biochemical studies have traditionally been grown in unaerated, unagitated culture tubes or Fernbach flasks. These cultures are limited in volume to about one liter and have a very nonuniform distribution of cells, with the majority of the cells at the very top or bottom of the medium. We have found conditions in which Oxytricha can be grown in 50-liter fermentation vats. The cultures grow to a uniform density of about 6000 cells/ml.