Latency to enter a mirrored chamber: a novel behavioral assay for anxiolytic agents

Many animal species exhibit approach-avoidance responses upon the novel placement of a mirror into an individual animal's environment. With a view toward identifying new behavioral measures with qualitatively or quantitatively different responses to anxiolytic agents, we developed a mirrored chamber apparatus for which adult male BALB/cByJ mice showed an extended latency to enter. Administration of diazepam significantly reduced this latency to enter a mirrored chamber in a dosage-dependent manner. The psychomotor stimulant, methylphenidate, had no effect on latency to enter the mirrored chamber at a dose which stimulated locomotor activity to the same extent as diazepam. Thus, the decreased latency to enter the mirrored chamber brought about by diazepam seems unlikely to reflect the motor effects of this benzodiazepine. The potency of diazepam was significantly lower in the mirrored chamber assay than it was on three other measures of exploratory activity--"head-dipping" performance, plus-maze performance and locomotor activity stimulation. The findings of our study indicate that the mirrored chamber method is simple to carry out, nonpunishing, rapid and quantitative and that it possesses pharmacological attributes which distinguish its response to anxiolytics from other assays of exploratory behavior.     

QT Dispersion Level and Its Clinical Significance.in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

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Efficacy and Mechanism of Intravenous Sotalol for Termination of Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia

ＳＶＴ ,ｉｎｃｌｕｄｉｎｇＡＶＲＴａｎｄＡＶＮＲＴ ,ｉｓａｋｉｎｄｏｆａｒｒｈｙｔｈｍｉａｏｆｔｅｎｓｅｅｎｉｎｃｌｉｎｉｃａｌｐｒａｃ ｔｉｃｅ .Ｓｏｔａｌｏｌ,ａｃｌａｓｓⅢａｎｔｉ ａｒｒｈｙｔｈｍｉｃｄｒｕｇｗｉｔｈａｄｄｉｔｉｏｎａｌβ ｂｌｏｃｋｉｎｇａｇｅｎｔｐｒｏｐｅｒｔｉｅｓ ,ｈａｓｂｅｅｎｗｉｄｅｌｙｕｓｅｄｔｏｔｒｅａｔｖａｒｉｏｕｓａｒｒｈｙｔｈｍｉａ(ｓｕｐｒａ ｖｅｎｔｒｉｃｕｌａｒａｎｄｖｅｎｔｒｉｃｕｌａｒ)ｅｆｆｉｃｉｅｎｔｌｙｉｎｗｅｓｔｅｒｎｃｏｕｎｔｒｉｅｓ[1 9]…     

影响鼻窦显微手术疗效因素的分析

目的 分析影响鼻窦显微手术疗效的因素。方法 鼻内筛窦手术,经上颌窦手术,上颌窦窦口扩大,中鼻道开窗。结果 ３５９侧鼻窦显微手术,术后１～４年（平均３６．４个月）,随访２８８侧,治愈１０８例（３７．５％）,显著进步８７例（３０．２％）,好转６５侧（２２．６％）,无效２８侧（９．７％）,良好率６７．７％,鼻内筛窦手术良好率６０．６％,经上颌窦手术良好率７２％,上颌窦窦口扩大未闭良好率６０．１％,中鼻开     

Transcriptome analysis of Armillaria gallica 012 m in response to auxin

Gastrodia elata is an achlorophyllous and fully mycoheterotrophic orchid which obtains carbon and other nutrients from Armillaria species in its life cycle. Many researchers suggested that plant hormones, as signing molecules, play a central role in the plant–fungi interaction. In the process of Armillaria gallica 012 m cultivation, both exogenous indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) distinctly stimulated the growth of mycelia in solid media. The differential expression genes (DEGs) of A. gallica 012 m with IAA versus blank control (BK) and IBA versus BK were investigated. The results showed that more than 80% of DEGs of the IAA group were coincident with the DEGs of the IBA group, and more than half of upregulated DEGs and most of the downregulated DEGs of the IAA group coincided with those DEGs of the IBA group. Above research implied that A. gallica 012 m could perceive IAA and IBA, and possess similar responses and signaling pathways to IAA and IBA. The overlapping differential genes of the IAA group and IBA group were analyzed by GO term, and the results showed that several DEGs identified were related to biological processes including positive regulation of the biological process and biological process. The downregulated NmrA-like and FKBP_C genes might be benefit to the growth of mycelia. Those results can explain that exiguous IAA and IBA improved the growth of A. gallica to some extent. We speculate that IAA and IBA are signaling molecules, and regulate the expression of growth-related genes of A. gallica 012 m by the same signaling pathway.     

p16在肝细胞癌组织内变异的研究

应用分子杂交及免疫组化方法检测５６例ＨＣＣ组织内的抑癌基因ｐ１６。结果显示,ＨＣＣ标本中ｐ１６蛋白在癌细胞内表达的阳性率为３７５％（２１／５６）,而ｐ１６ＤＮＡ斑点杂交的阳性率为５５３６％（３１／５６）。Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ转膜杂交证实,１２５％（７／５６）ＨＣＣ标本存在ｐ１６的甲基化变异,４４６４％（２５／５６）ｐ１６基因缺失。提示ＨＣＣ发生、发展过程中存在ｐ１６基因的缺失和甲基化变异     

鼻咽癌中与已知基因同源的差异表达cDNA序列

采用新近发展的ｃＤＮＡ代表性差异分析法筛选鼻咽癌中不表达的或表达降低的ｃＤＮＡ序列。结果显示：有９个与已知基因高度同源的ｃＤＮＡ序列。通过对这些已知基因的结构和功能分析,发现有与细胞骨架成分相关的基因：αａｃｔｉｎｉｎ,ｅｚｒｉｎ和细胞角蛋白１３;直接与瘤基因和抑瘤基因相互作用的基因：鲨烯合成酶和ＴＲＩＰ１基因;直接参与ＤＮＡ合成以及调控基因转录和翻译的基因：ＴＡＦⅡ６８和组蛋白Ｈ１０;另外还有人类补体因子Ｂ及类转运ＲＮＡ合成酶的基因。这些基因大多具有相当于抑瘤基因的功能。从而进一步说明鼻咽癌的发生是多基因相互作用的结果。     

Heterogeneous cardiac sympathetic denervation and decreased myocardial nerve growth factor in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: implications for cardiac sympathetic dysinnervation complicating diabetes

Heterogeneous myocardial sympathetic denervation complicating diabetes has been invoked as a factor contributing to sudden unexplained cardiac death. In subjects with diabetic autonomic neuropathy (DAN), distal left ventricular (LV) denervation contrasts with preservation of islands of proximal innervation, which exhibit impaired vascular responsiveness. The aims of this study were to determine whether this heterogeneous pattern of myocardial sympathetic denervation occurs in a rat model of diabetes and to explore a potential association with regional fluctuations in myocardial nerve growth factor (NGF) protein. Myocardial sympathetic denervation was characterized scintigraphically using the sympathetic neurotransmitter analog C-11 hydroxyephedrine ([11C]HED) and compared with regional changes in myocardial NGF protein abundance and norepinephrine content after 6 and 9 months in nondiabetic (ND) and streptozotocin-induced diabetic (STZ-D) rats. In ND rats, no difference in [11C]HED retention or norepinephrine content was detected in the proximal versus distal myocardium. After 6 months, compared with ND rats, myocardial [11C]HED retention had declined in the proximal segments of STZ-D rats by only 9% (NS) compared with a 33% decrease in the distal myocardium (P < 0.05). Myocardial norepinephrine content was similar in both ND and STZ-D rats. At 6 months, LV myocardial NGF protein content in STZ-D rats decreased by 52% in the proximal myocardial segments (P < 0.01 vs. ND rats) and by 82% distally (P < 0.01 vs. ND rats, P < 0.05 vs. proximal segments). By 9 months, [11C]HED retention had declined in both the proximal and distal myocardial segments of the STZ-D rats by 42% (P < 0.01 vs. ND rats), and LV norepinephrine content and NGF protein were decreased in parallel. Therefore, 6 months of STZ-induced diabetes results in heterogeneous cardiac sympathetic denervation in the rat, with maximal denervation occurring distally, and is associated with a proximal-to-distal gradient of LV NGF protein depletion. It is tempting to speculate that regional fluctuations of NGF protein in the diabetic myocardium contribute to heterogeneous cardiac sympathetic denervation complicating diabetes.