K562细胞转染HLA-B分子对NK细胞杀伤功能的影响

为了研究不同HLA B分子对NK细胞杀伤活性的影响 ,我们分别构建pcDNA3 HLA B 390 5 2、B 2 70 4、B 5 1 0 2 2基因真核表达载体 ;借助脂质体将各质粒转染入K5 6 2细胞 ,经G4 1 8筛选 ,分别获得阳性表达细胞株 ;并应用LDH法检测转染细胞对不同个体外周血NK细胞杀伤活性的抑制效应。结果显示 :与转染了空质粒的对照组相比 ,外周血NK细胞对K5 6 2 B39的杀伤率无明显影响 ,而对K5 6 2 B2 7,K5 6 2 B5 1的杀伤率降低。当使用针对NK细胞受体KIR3DL1的单抗DX9封闭NK细胞后 ,此抑制效应大部分消失。提示靶细胞表达HLA Bw4分子可明显抑制NK细胞的杀伤效应 ,而表达HLA Bw6分子对NK细胞杀伤功能无明显影响     

HLA-G3蛋白能够抑制多克隆NK细胞的杀伤功能

目的 研究HLA－G3蛋白对NK细胞杀伤功能的抑制作用。方法 用RT－PCR方法扩增HLA－G3和HLA－G1的cDNA，并将其克隆到真核表达载体pcDNA3中，采用脂质体转染法将其转入K562细胞，用免疫荧光法确定其在细胞表面表达，细胞毒试验研究其对NK细胞杀伤功能的抑制作用。结果 HLA－G3蛋白和HLA－G1表达在细胞表面，以PBL细胞为效应细胞的细胞毒实验表明K562－G1细胞和K562－G3细胞的细胞裂解率都比K562细胞裂解率低。结论 HLA－G3蛋白能够抑制多克隆NK细胞的杀伤功能。     

Raji细胞逃逸NK细胞免疫杀伤机制的初步探讨

目的 探讨人B细胞淋巴瘤Raji细胞逃逸NK细胞免疫杀伤的机制.方法 以K562细胞作为对照,应用LDH释放法检测不同效靶比时同种异体NK细胞杀伤Raji细胞的活性.并分别用PCR方法和流式细胞仪检测K562和Raji细胞MICA/B、ULBP1-3、HLA基因型和分子的表达情况.效靶比20∶1时用单抗分别阻断K562和Raji细胞表面MICA、MICB、ULBP1、ULBP2、ULBP3和HLA-Ⅰ类分子,观察NK细胞对其杀伤活性的变化.结果 不同效靶比时NK细胞杀伤Raji细胞的活性明显低于杀伤K562细胞的活性,二者之间差异有统计学意义(P<0.05).K562细胞表达MICMB和ULBP1～3基因和分子,不表达HLA-Ⅰ类分子,Raji细胞表达ULBP1～3基因和HLA-Ⅰ类分子,不表达MICA/B和ULBP1～3分子.Raji细胞HLA基因型为A*3、3.B*71、71,Cw3、4.用单抗封闭MICMB和ULBP1～3分子后,NK细胞对K562细胞的杀伤活性明显降低,对Raji细胞的杀伤活性无明显改变.结论 Raji细胞逃逸NK细胞免疫杀伤机制和Raji细胞高表达HLA-Ⅰ类分子,不表达NKG2D的配体MI-CA/B和ULBPI～3有关.     

HLA-G分子在体外抑制NK细胞杀伤效应的研究

在获得稳定表达HLA G分子的K5 62细胞克隆的基础上 ,观察 4h及 16h不同效靶比例时NK细胞对靶细胞的杀伤效应 ,结果显示 ,NK细胞对转染HLA G基因的K5 62细胞的杀伤作用较未转染细胞明显降低 (P <0 0 1) ,用W6/ 32及BFL 1单克隆抗体阻断HLA G分子 ,可以恢复NK细胞的杀伤活性。用Y9/Z2 70及XA185 /Z2 70单抗特异性阻断抑制性受体CD94/NKG2A ,未观察到明显影响     

两种不同HLA-B分子对NK细胞表面受体表达的研究

目的：探讨两种HLA-B分子(HLA-B51和HLA—B39)对NK细胞表面活化性受体CDl6和抑制性受体KIR3DL1表达的调节。方法：采用流式细胞仪检测NK细胞分别与转染HLA-BSl和HLA-B39分子的K562细胞相互作用后，CD16和KIR3DL1的表达情况。结果：外周血淋巴细胞与K562细胞作用24小时后，CD56 CD16 细胞数、KIR3DL1 细胞数均明显增加。与表达HLA-B39的K562细胞相比，表达HLA-B51的K562细胞与外周血淋巴细胞作用后，CD56 CD16 细胞数、KIR3DL1 细胞数均明显下降。结论：NK细胞杀伤靶细胞时，活化性受体CD16表达上调后会伴有抑制性受体KIR3DL1的上调；HLA-B51分子表达在K562细胞后，表达外源性HLA-B51分子的K562细胞与NK细胞作用，NK细胞表面受体KIR3DL1的表达可下调，同时伴有CD16的表达下调。     

同种异体NK细胞对不同肿瘤细胞的体外杀伤活性及其机制的初步探讨

为了观察同种异体NK细胞对不同肿瘤细胞的体外杀伤活性,并初步探讨其分子机制。以K562细胞为对照,应用LDH释放法检测不同效靶比时同种异体NK细胞杀伤CNE2、KG1a和U251细胞的活性。应用RT-PCR和流式细胞仪分别检测4种细胞MHCI类链相关分子(MICA/B)和人巨细胞病毒糖蛋白UL16结合蛋白(ULBP1~3)基因和分子的表达情况。效靶比20∶1时用AMO-1、BMO-1、M295、M310和M551单抗分别阻断肿瘤细胞表面MICA、MICB、ULBP1、ULBP2和ULBP3分子,观察NK细胞对其杀伤活性的变化。结果:NK细胞对K562、CNE2和KG1a细胞均有杀伤活性,对U251细胞无杀伤活性。在mRNA水平4种细胞均表达MICA/B和ULBP1~3基因。K562细胞表达MICA/B和ULBP1~3全部分子;KG1a和U251细胞均不表达5种分子;CNE2细胞表达MICA/B和ULBP2,不表达ULBP1和ULBP3。CNE2、KG1a和U251细胞均高表达HLAI分子,而K562细胞不表达。用单抗分别阻断靶细胞表面相应的NKG2D配体分子,NK细胞对KG1a和U251细胞的杀伤活性无变化。NK细胞对K562和CNE2细胞的杀伤活性可部分被封闭。同种异体NK细胞在体外对不同肿瘤细胞的杀伤活性不同,其杀伤机制也不完全相同。     

膜结合型HLA-G1～G4分子的克隆表达及对NK细胞杀伤功能的影响

目的 探讨膜结合型HLA-G1～G4异构体的表达及对NK细胞杀伤功能的影响.方法 通过基因克隆及转染,分别建立稳定表达HLA-G1～G4抗原的人绒癌JAR细胞株.采用RTPCR、流式细胞术、Western blot及免疫细胞化学法分析、鉴定转染细胞中HLA-G的mRNA及蛋白表达.通过加载HLA-G高亲和性KIPAQFYIL抗原肽,观察对HLA-G表达的影响.LDH释放法检测HLA-G1～G4表达对NK细胞杀伤活性的影响.结果 RT-PCR、Western blot及免疫细胞化学结果显示,HLA-G1～G4/pVITRO2-mcs重组质粒成功转染HLA-G表达阴性的人绒癌JAR细胞株.FACS分析显示HLA-G1抗原能在JAR-HLA-G1细胞株表面表达,HLA-G2～G4抗原不能有效到达细胞表面.体外杀伤试验发现表达HLA-G1～G4抗原的细胞均能抑制NK细胞的杀伤活性(P＜0.05);加载HLA-G高亲和性KIPAQFYIL抗原肽对HLA-G表达无明显影响,对NK细胞杀伤抑制程度也未见明显改变.结论 HLA-G1～G4能够明显抑制NK细胞的杀伤活性,提示不同膜结合型HLA-G异构体分子均能作为免疫耐受分子,具备免疫调节功能.     

导入NKG5—SV基因增强细胞杀伤活性的研究

目的研究免疫效应蛋白NKG5的拼接异构体基因NKG5-SV导入外周血自然杀伤细胞(NK细胞)对其杀伤活性的影响.方法Percoll细胞分离液分离外周血NK细胞,流式细胞仪检测分离后CD56阳性细胞浓度.以逆转录病毒为载体将NKG5-SV基因和对照基因LacZ导入NK细胞,Northernblot检测NKG5-SV的表达,K562细胞杀伤实验检测病人NK细胞转染NKG5基因前后和正常人NK细胞的NK活性.结果Percoll分离后的淋巴细胞CD56阳性细胞为77.44%,分离前为15.88%.病人NK细胞经NKG5-SV基因转染后NKG5-SVmRNA表达增高.病人NK细胞、NK-LacZ细胞、NK-NKG5-SV细胞和正常人NK细胞对K562的杀伤活性分别为5.96%±0.38%、6.03%±0.42%(P＞0.05)、27.67%±0.18%(P＜0.01)、30.33%±0.83%(P＜0.01).结论免疫效应蛋白基因导入NK细胞,可增强NK细胞的杀伤活性.     

阻断内源性IL-15的表达对人胚胎横纹肌肉瘤细胞的影响

目的　观察应用反义RNA阻断胚胎横纹肌肉瘤细胞内源性IL 15表达后 ,肿瘤细胞对NK细胞杀伤敏感性及其体内、外增殖的变化。方法　应用流式细胞技术检测RD细胞及转染IL 15反义RNA的RD 10细胞表面MHCⅠ类 (包括HLA ABC重链及β2M链 )分子的表达 ;应用LDH释放法检测NK细胞对RD和RD 10细胞的细胞毒活性 ;通过对转染细胞的细胞周期分析以及接种到裸鼠体内来评价IL 15对肿瘤细胞增殖的影响。结果　①阻断IL 15的表达可使HLA ABC分子阳性细胞百分率从 19.5 %升至 95 .5 % ;β2M分子阳性细胞百分率从 31%升至 90 .6 %。由于MHCⅠ类分子表达的增高 ,RD 10细胞对NK细胞的杀伤敏感性低于RD细胞 (P <0 .0 1)。②RD 10细胞的增殖减慢 ,阻滞在G0 /G1期。动物实验的结果也表明RD 10细胞在体内的致瘤性低于RD细胞。结论　阻断RD细胞内源性IL 15的表达可抑制该细胞的增殖 ,从而提示IL 15在肿瘤发生及发展过程中作用的多样性     

不同肿瘤细胞表面MICA的表达及NK细胞杀伤活性的研究

目的：观察不同肿瘤细胞表面MICA的表达及其对NK细胞杀伤活性的影响。方法：以体外培养的K562（人慢性髓原白血病细胞株）、MCF-7（乳腺癌细胞株）、HR-8348（直肠腺癌细胞株）、CNE-2（人鼻咽癌细胞株）、Hela（人宫颈癌细胞株）为靶细胞，流式细胞仪检测细胞表面MICA的表达，以K562细胞作为对照，应用LDH释放法检测不同效靶比情况下体外培养的NK细胞对靶细胞的杀伤活性。结果：K562、MCF-7、HR-8348、CNE-2、Hela细胞表面均表达MICA，体外杀伤试验表明NK细胞对上述肿瘤细胞均有杀伤活性，anti-MICA单抗可部分封闭NK细胞对靶细胞的杀伤活性。结论：NK细胞对K562、MCF-7、HR-8348、CNE-2、Hela细胞具有较高的杀伤活性，可作为一种生物治疗手段。     

Schizophrenia in a North Swedish geographical isolate, 1900–1977. Epidemiology, genetics and biochemistry

Over 200 schizophrenic patients belonging to three major and interrelated pedigree complexes have been investigated over the past 30 years in a North Swedish geographically isolated population, presently numbering about 6,000. An intensive investigation of a number of biochemical correlates and genetic markers in a few selected families belonging to one of the major pedigrees has indicated new strategies for the current research program.
Schizophrenia, as defined operationally, is significantly associated with decreased activities of two enzymes (1) blood platelet monoamine oxidase, (2) plasma dopamine-β-hydroxylase, and (3) with the genetic marker Gc² (group specific antigen). Both enzymes are subject to genetic variation. A positive score for linkage between schizophrenia and low plasma DBH activity has been calculated, but, so far, available data are insufficient for discrimination between linkage and partial contribution of genetically controlled low plasma DBH to the pathogenesis of the disease. Alternatively, both mechanisms could be involved.
As a model for continued research, schizophrenia is explained as based on a double dominant-recessive genotype (Aabb), representing a vulnerability which in about 50 % of cases develops into clinical schizophrenia. It is suggested that the dominant mutation (A) operates on or affects MAO activity, and that the recessive genotype (bb) is instrumental in low variates of DBH activity and very likely such variates within the normal range of physiological variation. Moreover, it is suggested that the combined effects of MAO- and DBH-reduced efficiency on the metabolism of e.g. dopamine could be an essential pathogenic mechanism for the schizophrenic illness which is segregating in this population.     

Renal dysplasia and asplenia in two sibs

A family is reported in which two sibs, one male and the other female, both died within 24 hours of birth with enlarged polycystic kidneys. Postmortem histology in the second child showed gross renal dysplasia. In both children the pancreas was enlarged, nodular and cystic but the liver appeared macroscopically normal. In the second child, histological examination confirmed pancreatic fibrosis with cystic dilation of ducts, but showed portal fibrosis with bile duct proliferation in the liver.
This combination of findings is very reminiscent of those in a girl and her brother reported by Ivemark et al. (1959). The children reported here also showed absence or hypoplasia of the spleen, cardiac anomalies and other features of the Ivemark syndrome (Ivemark 1955), a quite different, usually sporadic, congenital disorder. It is suggested that the children described here have a distinct lethal congenital disorder, probably inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.     

The dominant diseases of modernized societies as omega-3 essential fatty acid deficiency syndrome: Substrate beriberi

About 1900, modern food selection and processing caused widespread $\text{epidemics}$ of the B vitamin deficiency diseases of beriberi and pellagra which, for genetic reasons, often expressed as different diseases ranging from bowel and heart disease to dermatoses and psychoses. But the B vitamins merely help convert essential fatty acids (EFA) into the prostaglandin (PG) tissue regulators and it now turns out that, through hydrogenation, milling and selection of w3-poor southern foods, we have also been systematically depleting, by as much as 90%, a newly discovered trace Nordic EFA (w3) of special importance to primates and sole precursor of the PG3(4) series, even as a concurrent fiber deficiency increases body demand for EFA. Since substrate EFA is processed by many B vitamin catalysts, an EFA deficiency will mimic a $\text{panh}$ypovitaminosis B, i.e., a mixture of $\text{substrate}$ beriberi and $\text{substrate}$ pellagra resembling vitamin beriberi and pellagra but exhibiting as even more diverse $\text{endemic}$ disease. This would consitute a second stage of the Modern Malnutrition and explain why some workers now hold the dominant diseases of modermized societies to be new, nutritionally based, pellagraform yet lipid-related and to range, once again, from heart disease to psychosis. It is an assumption that our dominant diseases are unrelated to each other or are merely revealed by our diagnostic acumen and therapeutic success; and that hydrogenating millions of tons of food oils annually, to destroy the rancidity producing w3-EFA, is safe for $\text{primates}$. Extensive beriberiform disease is reported here in 32 typical cases taken from medical practice which responds strikingly to linseed oil supplements (60% w3-EFA) in confirmation of identical results in Capuchins.     

'Very sore nights and days': the child's experience of illness in early modern England, c.1580-1720

Sick children were ubiquitous in early modern England, and yet they have received very little attention from historians. Taking the elusive perspective of the child, this article explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual experience of illness in England between approximately 1580 and 1720. What was it like being ill and suffering pain? How did the young respond emotionally to the anticipation of death? It is argued that children’s experiences were characterised by profound ambivalence: illness could be terrifying and distressing, but also a source of emotional and spiritual fulfilment and joy. This interpretation challenges the common assumption amongst medical historians that the experiences of early modern patients were utterly miserable. It also sheds light on children’s emotional feelings for their parents, a subject often overlooked in the historiography of childhood. The primary sources used in this article include diaries, autobiographies, letters, the biographies of pious children, printed possession cases, doctors’ casebooks, and theological treatises concerning the afterlife.     

Guidelines for the Validation and Use of Immunoassays for Determination of Introduced Proteins in Biotechnology Enhanced Crops and Derived Food Ingredients

Recent advancements in agricultural biotechnology have created a need for analytical techniques to determine introduced proteins in crops enhanced through modern biotechnology techniques. These proteins are expressed in plant tissues and may be present in food ingredients. Immunoassays are ideally suited for protein detection and may be used as both quantitative and threshold methods. Microplate ELISA and lateral flow devices are two of the most commonly used immunoassay formats for agricultural biotechnology applications. This paper provides general background information and a discussion of criteria for the validation and application of immunochemical methods to the analysis of proteins introduced into plants and food ingredients using biotechnology methods. It is the result of a collaborative effort of members of the Analytical Environmental Immunochemical Consortium. This collaborative effort represents the combined expertise of several organizations to reach consensus on establishing guidelines for the validation and use of immunoassays. Further, the paper offers developers and users a consistent approach to adopting the technology as well as aid in producing accurate and meaningful results.     

HLA in North Colombia Chimila Amerindians

HLA-A,-B,-C,-DRB1 and -DQB1 alleles have been studied in Chimila Amerindians from Sabana de San Angel (North Colombian Coast) by using high resolution molecular typing. A frequent extended haplotype was found:HLA-A*24:02-B*51:10-C*15:02-BRB1*04:07-DQB1*03:02 (28.7%) which has also been described in Amerinndian Mayos Mexican population (Mexico, California Gulf, Pacific Ocean). Other haplotypes had already been found in Amerindians from Mexico (Pacific and Atlantic Coast), Peru (highlands and Amazon Basin), Bolivia and North USA. A geographic pattern according to HLA allele or haplotype frequencies is lacking in Amerindians, as already known. Also, five new extended haplotypes were found in Chimila Amerindians. Their HLA-A*24:02 high frequencies characteristic is shared with aboriginal populations of Taiwan; also, HLA-C*01:02 high frequencies are found in New Zealand Maoris, New Caledonians and Kimberly Aborigines from Australia. Finally, this study may show a model of evolutionary factors acting and rising one HLA allele frequency (-A*24:02), but not in others that belong to the same or different HLA loci.     

Ultracryotomy: development and application (with examples from the yeast cytology) (author's transl)

The preparation steps usually necessary for obtaining ultrathin frozen sections of biological material (chemical prefixation, enclosing, cryoprotective treatment, freezing, sectioning, and post-staining the sections for transmission electron microscopy) are submitted to a critical analysis. The application of cryo-ultramicrotomy, in particularly for cytochemical purposes, is reviewed. Fundamental considerations of chemical prefixation and poststaining are supported by examples from yeast cytology. Furthermore, the efficiency of the cryo-ultramicrotomy (electron optical resolution of ultrastructural details) is demonstrated on yeast cells and protoplasts.     

The universal muscular chamber. A basic unit of the genitourinary, cardiovascular, gastro-intestinal, skeletal, cutaneous, respiratory and other systems, endocameral hypertension; and spasm, the key to their idiopathic diseases and arthropathies

Starting with the integument, we see many organs are contractile sacs or multiples thereof, which tubes or bags constitute the major part of the entire body. Recognition of this basic unit and its characteristics sheds new light, individually and collectively, on many disorders previously considered unrelated. Muscular tears and perforations develop in the walls of these chambers, being no way peculiar to those organs, wherein, hydrochloric acid occurs. So, it is not necessary to explain the absence of excessive acid from patients who exhibit holes in the gastric, uterine, aortic, duodenal, rectal, pulmonary, retina, and other walls. Muscle, not acid is the great common factor relating idiopathic disorders in the gastrointestinal tract to each other and to similar diseases in other systems. When the units are linked together, the lesions tend to appear as arthropathies, i.e. at the joints. Rephrasing common-place observations, frees us from conventional, conceptual cul-de-sacs. An observation is only as good as its interpretation, so all possibilities must be considered, otherwise, we will remain blinded by our misconceptions.     

Der Einfluß von Nahrungsmitteln und Rauchen auf die klinisch-chemische Diagnostik von Phäochromozytom,Neuroblastom und Karzinoid-Syndrom

Zusammenfassung Der Einfluß von verschiedenen Nahrungsmitteln auf Methoden zur Bestimmung von Adrenalin (AD), Noradrenalin (NA), Vanillinmandelsäure (VMS), Metanephrinen (MN), Homovanillinsäure (HVS) und 5-Hydroxyindolessigsäure (5-HIE) im 24 h-Harn zur Diagnose des Phäochromozytoms bzw. Karzinoid-Syndroms wurde untersucht. Die in die Untersuchung einbezogenen Nahrungsmittel waren: Tee, Kaffee, Mandeln, Ananas, Käse, Walnüsse, Vanillepudding, Bananen, Tomaten und Milchschokolade. Außerdem wurde der Einfluß des Zigarettenrauchens auf die Bestimmung von AD, NA, VMS und MN untersucht.Walnüsse führten zu einer starken Erhöhung der 5-HIE-Ausscheidung. Bananen erhöhten die Ausscheidung von AD, NA, VMS, MN und 5-HIE. Kaffee und Ananas bewirkten eine geringe Zunahme der MN-Werte. Rauchen von 20–30 Zigaretten/Tag beeinflußte keine der vier Variablen.Wenn die beschriebenen Methoden benutzt werden, sollte lediglich auf den Verzehr von Bananen und Walnüssen vor und während der Harnsammelperioden verzichtet werden, da die oberen Normgrenzen im Harn überschritten werden könnten. Ein Verzicht auf Kaffee und Ananas in normalen Mengen ist nicht erforderlich. Es besteht kein Anlaß, weiterhin die bisherigen umfangreichen Restriktionen der übrigen Nahrungsmittel beizubehalten.