A series of polynorbornene homo‐ and copolymers containing aryl‐ and/or hetaryl‐azo dyes were prepared through ring‐opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Thermal studies indicated that the polymers were thermally stable up to 250 °C, and possessed glass transition temperatures ranging from 93 to 133 °C. In THF solutions, the aryl‐azo dye containing homopolymers, displayed λmax = 417 nm while the hetaryl‐azo dye containing homopolymers displayed λmax = 495 nm. The copolymers displayed a λmax that encompassed both the aryl‐ and hetaryl‐azo dye range. The monomers and polymers showed bathochromic shifts in solution when acidified. The polymers were cast into films that changed colour in the presence of both aqueous 1.2 M HCl or HCl(g). The colour change reverses when exposed to aqueous 1.2 M NaOH or NH3(g). This process was repeated several times without disintegration of the polymer film, indicating that these polymers may be useful as reusable acid sensors.
AIMS: To study the postmortem pathology associated with ring substituted amphetamine (amphetamine derivatives) misuse. METHODS: The postmortem findings in deaths associated with the ring substituted amphetamines 3,4-methylenedioxymethyl-amphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) and 3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA, eve) were studied in seven young white men aged between 20 and 25 years. RESULTS: Striking changes were identified in the liver, which varied from foci of individual cell necrosis to centrilobular necrosis. In one case there was massive hepatic necrosis. Changes consistent with catecholamine induced myocardial damage were seen in five cases. In the brain perivascular haemorrhagic and hypoxic changes were identified in four cases. Overall, the changes in four cases were the same as those reported in heart stroke, although only two cases had a documented history of hyperthermia. Of these four cases, all had changes in their liver, three had changes in their brains, and three in their heart. Of the other three cases, one man died of fulminant liver failure, one of water intoxication and one probably from a cardiac arrhythmia associated with myocardial fibrosis. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that there is more than one mechanism of damage in ring substituted amphetamine misuse, injury being caused by hyperthermia in some cases, but with ring substituted amphetamines also possibly having a toxic effect on the liver and other organs in the absence of hyperthermia. 相似文献
The functional activity of serotonin 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors and the expression of the genes encoding them were studied in Norway rats bred for 60 generations for the presence
and absence of high levels of stress-evoked aggression to humans. There were no significant differences in the levels of 5-HT2A receptor mRNA in the midbrain, frontal cortex, and hippocampus and the extents of head twitching evoked by the 5-HT2A agonist DOI in rats with and without genetically determined high levels of aggression. Administration of the selective 5-HT2C agonist MK-212 weakened reflex startle in response to an acoustic signal (the acoustic startle response) in non-aggressive
animals but had no significant effects on the response in aggressive animals. Increases in the level of 5-HT2C receptor mRNA were seen in the frontal cortex and hippocampus in non-aggressive rats as compared with aggressive animals.
Increases in the expression of the 5-HT2C receptor gene and the functional state of 5-HT2C receptors were seen in the brains of non-aggressive rats, without any changes in the 5-HT2A receptor mRNA level or receptor sensitivity; this is evidence for the involvement of 5-HT2C receptors in the mechanisms inhibiting fear-evoked aggressive behavior. 相似文献
We developed a method for gene transfer into mesenchymal stromal cells. Lentivirus vector containing green fluorescent protein
gene for labeling stromal and hemopoietic precursor cells was obtained using two plasmid sets from different sources. The
vector was injected into the femur of mice in vivo and added into culture medium for in vitro infection of the stromal sublayer of long-term bone marrow culture. From 25 to 80% hemopoietic stem cells forming colonies
in the spleen were infected with lentivirus vector in vivo and in vitro. Fibroblast colony-forming cells from the femoral bones of mice injected with the lentivirus vector carried no marker gene.
The marker gene was detected in differentiated descendants from mesenchymal stem cells (bone cavity cells from the focus of
ectopic hemopoiesis formed after implantation of the femoral bone marrow cylinder infected with lentivirus vector under the
renal capsule of syngeneic recipient). In in vitro experiments, the marker gene was detected in sublayers of long-term bone marrow cultures infected after preliminary 28-week
culturing, when hemopoiesis was completely exhausted. The efficiency of infection of stromal precursor cells depended on the
source of lentivirus. The possibility of transfering the target gene into hemopoietic precursor cells in vivo is demonstrated. Stromal precursor cells can incorporate the provirus in vivo and in vitro, but conditions and infection system for effective infection should be thoroughly selected.
__________
Translated from Kletochnye Tehnologii v Biologii i Meditsine, No. 1, pp. 25–28, January, 2007 相似文献
The stability of the maximal muscle response (Mmax) is critical to H reflex methodology. It has previously been reported that the amplitude of Mmax declines over time. If reproducible, this finding would have implications for all experimental studies that normalise the
output of the motoneurone pool against the M wave. We investigated the effect of time on changes in Mmax and the maximal H reflex (Hmax) evoked at 4-s intervals over 60 min. To identify an influence of homosynaptic depression, we extended the interstimulus
interval to 10 s and the time to 100 min. Two recording montages over soleus were used to ensure that interelectrode distance
was not a critical factor. The soleus Mmax and H reflex were evoked by stimulation of the tibial nerve in the popliteal fossa in 7 subjects who sat with the knee flexed
to 30° and the ankle plantar flexed by ~30°. We found no change in the pooled data for Mmax, Hmax, a reflex 50% of maximal, or the current required to produce it. However, one subject had a statistically significant increase
in Mmax and a concurrent decrease in Hmax regardless of the interstimulus interval. On average, there was no change in the Hmax/Mmax ratio over time. While both Mmax and Hmax may change in response to many factors, these results suggest that, typically, time is not one of them. 相似文献
In this work, identification and analyses of 48 full-length sequences of the ospA gene isolates of Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii from Western Siberia and Mongolia has been made. It was shown that B. garinii isolates was of its high genetic heterogeneity of the ospA gene. Four genetic groups of the ospA gene from the Ixodes persulcatus tick collected in of Western Siberia and Mongolia were defined. The basic differences in the genetic variants of the ospA gene considered are seen in regions which code for antibody determinants of thhe OspA protein. 相似文献
We studied the effects of calcitonin, parathyrin, and Ca2+ channel antagonist isoptin and agonist Bay-K-8644 on glucose consumption by muscle (diaphragm) and adipose (epididymal) tissues
and insulin-stimulated glucose consumption in vivo and in vitro. Calcitonin and parathyrin did not alter glucose consumption; parathyrin did not affect, while calcitonin completely abolished the stimulating effect of insulin in vivo and in vitro. Isoptin signifi cantly increased glucose consumption in vivo and in vitro, while Bay-K-8644 in vitro had no effect glucose consumption. Isoptin did not affect, while Bay-K-8644 signifi cantly reduced the stimulating effect
of insulin on glucose consumption by the muscle and adipose tissues. Isoptin did not affect the stimulating effect of insulin
against the background of parathyrin administration and completely blocked the inhibitory effect of calcitonin on insulin-stimulated
glucose consumption by the muscle and adipose tissues in vivo and in vitro, while Bay-K-8644 potentiated this effect of calcitonin in vitro. 相似文献