宁国贝母生物碱的分离和结构鉴定

从贝母新种——宁国贝母(Fritillaria ningguoensis S. C. Chen et S. F. Yin)鳞茎中分离出五个生物碱,其中碱V是一种新的生物碱,命名为宁贝新(ningpeisine),根据理化常数和光谱解析以及衍生物制备,测定其结构为N-methyl-3β-hydroxy-5α-veratranine-6-one。其余四种生物碱鉴定为浙贝甲素(peimine,verticine,Ⅰ),浙贝乙素(peiminine,verticinone,Ⅱ),异浙贝甲素(isoverticine,Ⅲ)和贝母辛(peimisine,Ⅳ)。     

Immunoelectrophoretic Characterization of Insulin Monomers and Polymers

Insulin monomers and polymers were analysed by quantitative immunoelectrophoretic procedures. The Zn-insulin hexamer dissociated reversibly by dialysis against the Zn-free electrophoresis buffer. The Zn-insulin polymers showed precipitin reactions of partial identity. Monomeric salt-free insulin migrated as soluble immune complexes in the antiserum gel. The insulin monomer did not absorb the precipitating antibodies against the Zn-insulin polymers. Thus the polymer structure creates antigenic epitopes absent from the insulin monomer. As insulin is probably released from the β cells in the relatively stable form of Zn-insulin hexamers, selective monomer assays might underestimate the total content of immunoreactive insulin in the biological fluids. Electroimmunoassay of Zn-insulin immunoreactive antigens in human urine defines a normal reference range of 10–25 ng/ml.     

Growth in Rabbits during Alternate-Day Cortisone Injections: Near Normal Growth on Days without Cortisone

ABSTRACT. Longitudinal bone growth in rabbits during treatment with hydrocortisone was measured by means of Roentgen Stereophotogrammetric Analysis, RSA. This method allows accurate measurement of the distance between metallic markers inserted into long bones. Hydrocortisone was given in i.m. injections as single doses and as repeated doses, daily or every other day. Single injections of hydrocortisone resulted in three types of growth effect, depending on dosage. Low dosage (less than 4 mg/kg b.w.) produced no blunting of growth. Intermediate dosage (4–32 mg/kg b.w.) retarded growth during the first but not the second day after the injection. The effect of high dosage (64–128 mg/kg b.w.) lasted for two days. During daily treatment (4 and 16 mg/kg b.w.), growth decreased to a constant level. During alternate-day steroid injections with a double dose every other day, growth almost normalized during the steroid-free days. Average growth was significantly greater during alternate-day injections than during daily injections. It is concluded that alternate-day treatment has no unfavorable effect on growth so long as the interval between injections exceeds the duration of the growth effect of each single dose.     

Neoadjuvant temozolomide followed by complete resection of a 1p- and 19q-deleted anaplastic oligoastrocytoma: case study

A 38-year-old woman presented with an infiltrative tumor of the right frontal lobe and genu of the corpus callosum that was deemed only partially resectable. A stereotactic biopsy was performed, which revealed a right frontal oligoastrocytoma that had some anaplastic features as well as allelic loss of chromosome arms 1p and 19q. The patient was treated with temozolomide for 24 months. The partial response of the tumor to chemotherapy rendered the lesion amenable to gross total resection, which was performed subsequently. The patient remains alive and well without evidence of recurrence 7 months after resection and 48 months after initial diagnosis. Thus, preoperative chemotherapy decreased tumor mass to a degree that subsequently enabled a gross total resection. This treatment strategy, although common in the treatment of other solid tumors, is rarely utilized in adult neuro-oncology and raises another potential role for chromosome testing in oligodendroglial tumor management.