靶向性表皮生长因子受体siRNA表达载体的构建和表达

目的构建靶向性表皮生长因子受体(epidermal growth factor receptor，EGFR)的小分子干扰RNA(small interfering RNA，siRNA)表达载体并在TJ905人脑恶性胶质瘤细胞系表达。方法在人EGFR细胞外区受体结合结构域和细胞内区酪氨酸激酶结构域各选择1个siRNA靶序列、进行了psiRNA—NeoG2表达载体的构建，进而以反义EGFR表达载体P—anti—hEGFR为对照进行了脂质体介导的TJ905人脑恶性胶质瘤细胞系表达。应用免疫荧光和蛋白印迹检测EGFR的表达。结果成功构建以psiRNA—NeoG2为载体的siRNA表达质粒，并分别使其在稳定转染TJ905细胞后EGFR表达下调90％和92％；反义EGFR表达载体P—anti—hEGFR使EGFR表达下调82％。结论靶向EGFR的siRNA表达载体可以特异性地抑制EGFR的表达，可以成为胶质瘤靶向性EGFR基因治疗的一种新策略。     

小干扰RNA敲低Dicer对人脑胶质瘤细胞生物学特征的影响

目的 研究敲低Dicer酶的表达全面抑制徽小RNA(microRNA,miRNA)成熟对TJ905人脑胶质瘤细胞的生物学特征的影响.方法 采用RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)技术敲低Dicer酶的表达,逆转录PCR、Western印迹及免疫荧光检测TJ905细胞转染小干扰RNA(small interferen,siRNA)后Dicer酶表达情况;应用流式细胞术检测、噻唑兰比色分析法试验及Tranwell试验评价细胞生长、增殖和侵袭等生物学特征变化.结果 转染siRNA靶向Dicer酶后,Dicer酶被敲低,S期细胞增多,细胞增殖加速,细胞侵袭生长能力增强.结论 敲低Dicer酶全面抑制miRNAs成熟后,肿瘤细胞表型具有更为恶性变的倾向,由此初步推测全面抑制细胞miRNAs表达有可能促进肿瘤生成.     

Apoptin基因/壳聚糖纳米粒的制备及其对U937细胞凋亡的诱导作用

目的以羧甲基壳聚糖为基质材料,制备apoptin基因缓释微球,探讨其对U937细胞凋亡的作用。方法采用复凝聚法制备apoptin/壳聚糖微球,分别用光镜观察微球形态、内切酶研究其稳定性、DNA电泳阻滞分析apoptin/壳聚糖最佳比例、PCR测定apoptin基因作为复制摸板能力、用MTT法检测其抗肿瘤活性。结果壳聚糖与apoptin基因可形成稳定的微球,其直径在200～300之间,成球性较好,apoptin/壳聚糖微球P/N最佳质量比为5.5:1。微球能够有效防止DNA酶的降解作用,apoptin/微球载体中的基因仍具有DNA复制摸板功能,并能有效地转染U937细胞,转染48h可诱导U937细胞发生凋亡,从而抑制瘤细胞生长。结论apoptin基因与羧甲基壳聚糖可形成稳定的缓释微球,并能有效地转染肿瘤细胞,诱导肿瘤细胞发生凋亡。     

Apoptin基因/壳聚糖缓释微球的制备及其对A375细胞的凋亡诱导作用

目的:以羧甲基壳聚糖为基质材料,制备apoptin基因缓释微球.方法:采用复凝聚法制备apoptin/壳聚糖微球,分别用光镜观察微球形态、内切酶研究其稳定性、DNA电泳阻滞分析apoptin/壳聚糖最佳比例、PCR测定apoptin基因作为复制摸板能力、用MTT法检测其抗肿瘤活性.结果:壳聚糖与apoptin基因可形成稳定的微球,其直径在200～300 nm之间,成球性较好、apoptin/壳聚糖微球P/N最佳质量比为5.5:1、微球能够有效防止DNA酶的降解作用、apoptin/微球载体中的基因仍具有DNA复制模板功能,并能有效地转染A375细胞,诱导A375细胞发生凋亡,从而抑制瘤细胞生长.结论:apoptin基因与羧甲基壳聚糖可形成稳定的缓释微球,并能有效地转染肿瘤细胞,诱导肿瘤细胞发生凋亡.     

PLGA/O-CMC载药纳米微粒的体外降解及释药行为研究

本研究以聚乳酸-乙醇酸共聚物（PLGA）和自行制备的O-羧甲基壳聚糖（O-CMC）为原料，以5-氟尿嘧啶（5-FU）为抗癌药物模型，采用自身设计的改良复乳法制备了载药纳米微粒。微粒平均粒径为98.5nm，粒径分布指数为0.192，粒子表面∈电位为61．48eV，载药率高达18.9％。然后用SEM动态监测载药纳米粒子降解过程中表面形貌的变化，并连续追踪粒子降解过程中的质量损失和降解介质的pH变化。载药纳米粒子在PBS中的释药行为研究表明，（1）前12h的释药动力学符合Huguchi方程，具有一级释放特性；（2）在20d内的释药动力学符合零级释放特性。细胞凋亡实验结果表明载药纳米粒子对TJ905脑胶质瘤细胞增殖有明显的抑制作用。     

端粒酶RNA反义核酸降低鼻咽癌细胞p53蛋白表达水平

目的:研究端粒酶活性抑制后鼻咽癌细胞p53蛋白表达水平的变化。方法:脂质体介导端粒酶反义寡核苷酸转染鼻咽癌CNE1和CNE2Z细胞株,MTT法检测细胞增殖能力,流式细胞术检测细胞凋亡,免疫组化法检测端粒酶逆转录酶(hTRT)和p53蛋白表达水平。结果:端粒酶RNA反义寡核苷酸可抑制CNE1和CNE2Z细胞的增殖并呈剂量依赖性,流式细胞仪检测出现凋亡峰,反义寡核苷酸组hTRT和p53蛋白表达水平显著低于其它处理组及空白对照组(P＜0.01)。结论:端粒酶RNA反义寡核苷酸抑制鼻咽癌细胞端粒酶活性后可降低p53蛋白表达水平。     

壳聚糖微球/纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸复合支架制备及其蛋白缓释效果:与单纯纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸支架、壳聚糖微球的比较

背景:骨组织工程骨构建中如何使生长因子持续高效发挥作用是影响成骨速度和质量的关键,现多以各种材料的微球或支架作为缓释载体,但缓释作用有待提高。目的:实验拟制备壳聚糖微球,然后复合到纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸支架上,形成双重缓释作用,并测量对牛血清白蛋白的释放效果。方法:以牛血清白蛋白为模型药物,采用乳化交联法制备壳聚糖微球。将微球与纳米羟基磷灰石、聚乳酸-羟基乙酸按一定比例混合,以冰粒子为致孔剂,采用冷冻干燥法制备壳聚糖微球/纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸复合支架。利用扫描电镜、激光粒度分析仪、压泵仪和力学性能测试仪检测复合支架的形态性能,考察药物在缓释支架上的体外释放规律。结果与结论:所制备的壳聚糖微球形态良好,呈规则圆球形,粒径集中分布在20～40μm,微球药物包封率为86.5%,载药量为0.8%,随牛血清白蛋白初始用量的增加,载药量可升高至2.6%,但包封率下降至74.1%。壳聚糖微球能均匀分布在聚乳酸-羟基乙酸支架上,形成壳聚糖微球/纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸复合支架,孔径为100～400μm,孔隙率80%,压缩强度为1.1～2.3MPa,10周降解率为26.5%。单纯纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸支架其牛血清白蛋白在36h累积释放量达85%以上,壳聚糖微球其牛血清白蛋白10d累积释放量为33.6%,复合支架其牛血清白蛋白40d累积释放量为81.5%。结果证实包埋壳聚糖微球的纳米羟基磷灰石/聚乳酸-羟基乙酸支架其压缩强度和降解速率合适,对蛋白类药物具有良好的缓释作用,有望作为组织工程的支架材料和生长因子的缓释载体。     

明胶-聚乳酸载药纳米微球的制备及其体外释药研究

采用复合乳液—溶剂挥发法制得明胶—聚乳酸载五氟脲嘧啶(5—Fu)微球，以混合型乳化剂Tween—80：Span—80＝5：1—作为初乳乳化剂，O—羧甲基壳聚糖作为复乳乳化剂，考察了明胶—聚乳酸载药微球的制备条件对微球的成球性、药物包封率及体外释药的影响。结果表明乳化剂的选择、内部水相药物浓度和PLA分子量等均对载药微球的结构与性能产生影响，经优化条件得到了成球性和体外释放都比较好的载药微球。     

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.