The finger and palmar prints of 60 women with breast carcinoma were studied. The results were compared with two groups of
healthy women, the first consisted of old women and the second of young women. The dermatoglyphics seem to be of little use
in the diagnosis of cancers of ectodermic origin.
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For the first time ever, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List Index for habitat types was calculated for an entire country, Finland. The RLIs were based on species threat assessments from 2000 and 2010 and included habitat definitions for all 10,131 species of 12 organism groups. The RLIs were bootstrapped to track statistically significant changes. The RLI changes of species grouped by habitats were negative for all habitat types except for forests and rural biotopes which showed a stable trend. Trends of beetles and true bugs were positive in rural and forest habitats. Other 16 observed trends of species group and habitat combinations were negative. Several trends observed were in accordance with studies focusing on particular taxa and habitats, and drivers for their change. This study demonstrates the usefulness of the RLI as a tool for observing habitat change based on species threat assessment data. 相似文献
Summary Chromosome fragile sites are inducible by aphidicolin in cultured human lymphocytes. To assess the frequency and distribution of these common fragile sites in the general population, a cytogenetic survey was performed on 126 subjects, 59 males and 67 females, whose age ranged from 1 day to 72 years. Common fragile sites, induced by aphidicolin, were widespread and showed a remarkably different sensitivity among individuals; age influenced the overall frequency of fragile sites. Moreover, both age and sex seemed to modulate the expression of specific fragile sites. In our population, the most common fragile sites were: 3p14, 16q23, Xp22, 6q26, 1p31, 4q31, 1p22, 7q22, 2q33, 3q27, 2q31, 7q32, 14q24, 10q22, 5q31, 2q37, 6p21. 相似文献
Single batrachotoxin-activated sodium channels from rat brain were modified by trimethyloxonium (TMO) after incorporation in planar lipid bilayers. TMO modification eliminated saxitoxin (STX) sensitivity, reduced the single channel conductance by 37%, and reduced calcium block of inward sodium currents. These effects always occurred concomitantly, in an all-or-none fashion. Calcium and STX protected sodium channels from TMO modification with potencies similar to their affinities for block. Calcium inhibited STX binding to rat brain membrane vesicles and relieved toxin block of channels in bilayers, apparently by competing with STX for the toxin binding site. These results suggest that toxins, permeant cations, and blocking cations can interact with a common site on the sodium channel near the extracellular surface. It is likely that permeant cations transiently bind to this superficial site, as the first of several steps in passing inward through the channel. 相似文献
We have developed a new approach to the measurement of phylogenetic signal
in character state matrices called relative apparent synapomorphy analysis
(RASA). RASA provides a deterministic, statistical measure of natural
cladistic hierarchy (phylogenetic signal) in character state matrices. The
method works by determining whether a measure of the rate of increase of
cladistic similarity among pairs of taxa as a function of phenetic
similarity is greater than a null equiprobable rate of increase. Our
investigation of the utility and limitations of RASA using simulated and
bacteriophage T7 data sets indicates that the method has numerous
advantages over existing measures of signal. A first advantage is
computational efficiency. A second advantage is that RASA employs known
methods of statistical inference, providing measurable sensitivity and
power. The performance of RASA is examined under various conditions of
branching evolution as the number of characters, character states per
character, and mutations per branch length are varied. RASA appears to
provide an unbiased and reliable measure of phylogenetic signal, and the
general approach promises to be useful in the development of new techniques
that should increase the rigor and reliability of phylogenetic estimates.
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1. 1. Isolated cardiac myocytes of perch, Perca fluviatilis, were kept in culture conditions for 1–2 months at 12 or 22°C. In the culture most myocytes flattened, lost their spindle-shaped morphology, protruded pseudopod-like branches and many of them started visible contractions in 1–2 weeks and continued beating for several months. Myocytes did not divide in the sparse cell population used. Typical intracellular structures could be seen in electron micrographs still after 1–2 months, but the sarcoplasmic organization became gradually more irregular in the culture.
2. 2. Beat rates showed linear temperature relationship on the Arrhenius plot. Myocytes cultivated at 22°C showed higher frequencies and slightly less dependence on temperature than myocytes cultivated at 12°C (apparent activation energies (Ea) 86 and 107 kJ/mol, respectively).
3. 3. Temperature dependence of frequencies was related to the presence of added serum or adrenergic agonists: β-adrenergic agonists increased the frequencies and rendered the cells less dependent on temperature; apparent activation energy was 43 kJ/mol for isoprenaline or adrenaline and 108 kJ/mol for noradrenaline and control group.
4. 4. Heat tolerance was greater in myocytes cultivated at 22°C than in myocytes cultivated at 12°C, and the change in tolerance appeared in 12 h after the alteration of culture temperature and the increased tolerance was persistent after that.
5. 5. It is suggested, that the processes of quick heat-hardening and of slower but persistent heat resistance acclimation developed in these cells in culture conditions but not the capacity acclimation, which seems to be dependent on adrenergic regulation of beat rate.
Analysis of the heat-shock proteins (hsps) of six closely related species
of Poeciliopsis demonstrated the existence of biochemical diversity in the
hsp100, hsp70, hsp60, and hsp30 protein families among species. Each
species expressed five to seven hsp70-related isoforms. Constitutive 70-kD
isoforms were identical among species, but four different patterns of
heat-inducible isoforms were seen in these six species. Members of the
hsp70 family of molecular chaperones are included among the most highly
conserved proteins known, and the possibility of variation in hsp70 among
closely related species has rarely been addressed. The hsp30 family is
known to be less conserved than the hsp70 family, and, as expected, the
Poeciliopsis hsp30 patterns showed more variation. Most of the hsp30
isoforms characteristic of a particular species were unique to that
species. Hsp100 and hsp60 were identical in five of the species, but
alternate isoforms were found in P. monacha. The small size and limited
geographical distribution of the P. monacha population have probably
contributed to the uniqueness of the monacha pattern. Two of the species
were shown to acquire thermotolerance, the ability to withstand normally
lethal temperatures when subjected to a gradual temperature increase.
Rapid-heating protocols commonly used to establish critical thermal maxima
of organisms do not include this inducible component of thermoresistance
and therefore do not adequately assess an organism's capacity to withstand
thermal stress.
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