增产菊胺酯对雄性小鼠生殖激素的影响

为了探讨增产菊胺酯引起小鼠精了生成障碍的可能机理，本文研究了增产菊胺酯对雄性小鼠卵泡刺激素（ＦＳＨ）、黄体生成素（ＬＨ）及睾酮（Ｔ）的影响。小鼠经口染毒，隔天一次，连续１０次，第３５天处死。检验因清ＦＳＨ、ＬＨ没有明显变化，而睾丸组织睾酮含量出现剂理依赖性降低，高剂量组与对照组比较有显著性差异（Ｐ〈０．０５），结果表明，增产菊胺酯不影响ＦＳＨ、ＬＨ，而影响Ｔ的合成和分泌。这可能是增产菊胺酯对小鼠精     

Pharmacological properties of Ca2+-activated K+ currents of ramified murine brain macrophages

Using the whole-cell configuration of the patch clamp technique, calcium-activated potassium currents (I_K,Ca) were investigated in ramified murine brain macrophages. In order to induce I_K,Ca the intracellular concentration of nominal free Ca²⁺ was adjusted to 1μM. The Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ current of brain macrophages did not show any voltage dependence at test potentials between –120 and +30mV. A tenfold change in extracellular K⁺ concentration shifted the reversal potential of I_K,Ca by 51mV. The bee venom toxin apamin applied at concentrations of up to 1μM did not affect I_K,Ca. Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ currents of ramified brain macrophages were highly sensitive to extracellularly applied charybdotoxin (CTX). The half-maximal effective concentration of CTX was calculated to be 4.3nM. In contrast to CTX, the scorpion toxin kaliotoxin did not inhibit I_K,Ca at concentrations between 1 and 50nM. Tetraethylammonium (TEA) blocked 8.0% of I_K,Ca at a concentration of 1mM, whereas 31.4% of current was blocked by 10mM TEA. Several inorganic polyvalent cations were tested at a concentration of 2mM for their ability to block I_K,Ca. La³⁺ reduced I_K,Ca by 72.8%, whereas Cd²⁺ decreased I_K,Ca by 17.4%; in contrast, Ni²⁺ did not have any effect on I_K,Ca. Ba²⁺ applied at a concentration of 1mM reduced I_K,Ca voltage-dependently at hyperpolarizing potentials. Received: 17 January / Accepted: 5 May 1997     

Neuron transplantation into mice hippocampus alters sensitivity to barbital narcosis

The role of several hippocampal innervations in the sensitivity to barbital-induced narcosis was studied in selected mice strains. The outbred and inbred mouse strains HS/Ibg, SABRA/HUC, C57BL, CBA/LAC, and BALB/c were tested for barbital-induced sleep (315 mg/kg). The relatively short sleeping HS/Ibg (HS) and the longest sleeping BALE/c (BALE) were chosen for further investigation. Cholinergic (ACh), serotonergic (5-HT), and noradrenergic (NE) innervations were studied in HS strain; whereas BALE, which possesses both an unusually high sensitivity to barbital and unique NE innervations in the cortex and hippocampus, was employed in a detailed study of the NE innervations. Transplantation of embryonic NE cells from the mouse embryo into the hippocampus of adult HS mice increased barbital narcosis by 65% (p < 0.05), whereas transplantation of 5-HT cells decreased barbital narcosis by 54% (p < 0.001). Transplantation of ACh cells had no significant effect on barbital-induced narcosis. BALB mice were subjected to NE cell transplantation into the hippocampus and cortex. Similarly to HS, BALB receiving NE transplants into their hippocampus slept 34% longer than control after barbital challenge (p < 0.025). Noradrenergic cell transplantation into frontal cortex had no effect on barbital sleep. The results suggest that (a) enhancement by neural grafting of the NE innervation to the hippocampus accentuates and enhancement of the 5-HT innervations attenuates the sensitivity to barbital narcosis, whereas ACh innervations have no effect on the sensitivity to barbital narcosis, and (b) the unusually high sensitivity of BALB mice to barbital may not be related to its unique NE innervations.     

Directional running in mice: effects of cocaine and chlorpromazine

Mice ran in a circular runway. Some received milk at every third circuit in a designated direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, in daily 1000-s sessions. Under control conditions, about 10 times as many circuits were made in the reinforced direction as in the non-reinforced direction. Cocaine (10, 30, 100 µM/kg) had little effect on the total number of circuits, but progressively increased the number in the non-reinforced direction. Chlorpromazine (1, 3, 10, 30 µM/kg) caused a monotonic decrease in total number of circuits and in number in non-reinforced direction. At the highest doses the proportion in the non-reinforced direction was increased. Mice, untrained in the runway and with no reinforcement of circuits in either direction, made many fewer total circuits than when running was reinforced and about equal numbers were in clockwise and in counterclockwise directions. Cocaine greatly increased the total number of circuits. As in the subjects whose running was reinforced, cocaine led to a much higher tendency for mice to run in a single direction. The similarities between the tendency to run in one direction after cocaine and the rotational behavior of rodents seen after cocaine and amphetamine suggest a common mechanism.     

D-Cycloserine enhances social behaviour in individually-housed mice in the resident-intruder test

D-Cycloserine (DCS) has been reported to affect the central nervous system in man. To investigate whether the compound produces specific behavioural effects, DCS was administered to male mice in a resident-intruder situation and the behaviour of the interacting mice assessed using ethological analysis. Resident mice given DCS (32.0–320.0 mg/kg PO, 60 min before testing) showed dose-dependent increases in social investigation, smaller increases in sexual behaviour and decreased aggressiveness. Defensive and flight behaviour were not affected. Intruder mice showed slight increases in sexual behaviour that were not dose-dependent, and small increases in social investigation. The increases in social investigation induced by DCS (320.0 mg/kg) in resident mice were not reversible with R-HA 966 (32.0 mg/kg IP, 30 min before testing), a blocker of the strychnine-insensitive glycine modulatory site associated with theN-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, but were blocked by the GABA antagonist bicuculline (0.56 mg/kg IP, 5 min before testing). The small DCS-induced increase in sexual behaviour in residents was reversed by R-HA 966. Within the parameters of the resident-intruder situation, DCS exerts socio-sexual behaviour-enhancing effects which are dependent upon the role of the interactant, and which are mediated by an action upon multiple substrates. DCS may be regarded as another example of a sociotropic (approach-promoting) agent.Some of these results have been presented at the 1^st International Congress on Hormones, Brain and Neuropsychopharmacology, Rodos, Greece, September 12–17, 1993     

Neuro-toxic interaction in alcohol-treated,thiamine-deficient mice

Summary Groups of adult male mice were either fed a thiamine-deficient diet for 10 weeks and thereafter treated with ethanol by making them inhale vapourized cane spirit for 10 weeks, or given both treatments simultaneously. The brains of these mice were then searched for degeneration using both light and electron microscopy. No degenerating nerve cells were observed in any animal in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, olfactory bulbs, midbrain or hindbrain. However, axon terminal degeneration was seen in the olfactory bulbs and deep cerebellar nuclei in mice given the combined treatment. No cerebellar degeneration was found and only little degeneration was present in the olfactory bulbs of mice given the two treatments at different times. Thus, the combined treatment of alcohol and thiamine deficiency produced more brain damage than the sum of that produced by the two treatments given separately. This represents the first experimental in vivo demonstration of a biochemical interaction between these two factors in alcohol-related brain damage. The findings of long-term animal treatment with models using thiamine antagonists are compared.Supported by the special Research Fund Programme of Monash University (Post-Doctoral Fellowship)     

实验小鼠肠道正常菌群

在动物肠道中栖息的细菌，构成了肠道正常菌群。实验动物的质量与肠道菌群的状态有着十分密切的联系，肠道菌群平衡状态在维持动物机体的生理状态、正常功能，以及抵抗外袭菌方面起着重要的作用。小鼠肠道中，每克肠内容物含有上亿个菌体，可分为10～15个属，上百个种。肠道正常菌群的主要菌属有双歧杆菌、拟杆菌(类杆菌)、肠球菌、乳杆菌、梭杆菌、真杆菌。不同品系的小鼠之间，各种菌的数量有所不同。本文简要介绍了近年来对小鼠肠道正常菌群的研究进展。     

六神丸及其加味抗急性白血病的实验研究

本研究从血象、骨髓、病理、骨髓细胞增殖动力学的角度证明:六神丸具有明显的抑制和杀伤实验白血病小鼠(L7212)白血病细胞的作用(主要机理类似细胞毒剂),具有缓解、减轻白血病细胞对肝脾浸润,明显延长白血病小鼠生存期的作用;六神丸加味(加用清热解毒方、活血化淤方、益气养阴方、补气养血方、补肾方)和六神丸具有明显的协同作用。     

两种工艺类肝素抗凝和降脂作用的比较

实验表明类肝素碱性处理者在抗凝与降脂上明显优于中性处理者;对小鼠的抗凝作用及TritonWR-1339诱发的大鼠高胆固醇血症的降胆固醇作用,二者在所试剂量范围内随剂量增加作用增强,但对TritonWR-1339性高甘油三酯血症,二者的作用强度未见此效应。     

多西他赛联合照射对人胃癌裸鼠移植瘤生物效应的实验研究

目的:观察多西他赛对人胃癌裸鼠移植瘤的放射增敏作用和多西他赛联合放射对肿瘤细胞凋亡的影响。方法:建立人AGS胃癌裸鼠移植瘤动物模型28只,随机分为4组:对照组、单纯照射组、单纯多西他赛组、多西他赛 照射组。测量各组移植瘤体积,计算各组抑瘤率,评价多西他赛的放射增敏效果,并对标本进行光镜观察及原位末段标记(TUNEL)检测。结果:28只裸鼠的成瘤率为100%,实验期间无死亡,比较各组移植瘤体积差异有统计学意义(P<0.01)。各组抑瘤率分别为单纯照射组36.4%,单纯多西他赛组44.2%,多西他赛 照射组86.9%。多西他赛对放射治疗的增敏值(enhancement factor,EF)值为1.5。多西他赛 照射组的平均凋亡指数(AI)为(15.6±2.3)%,与其它各组比较差异有统计学意义(P<0.01)。结论:多西他赛对人AGS胃癌裸鼠移植瘤有良好的放射增敏作用,多西他赛联合放疗能更有效地诱导肿瘤细胞凋亡。