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.     

腭裂儿童ABR表现的初步研究

目的探索腭裂儿童听力受损情况及其听性脑干反应(ABR)异常特征。方法对94例腭裂儿童进行ABR测试,并与正常对照组进行比较。结果94例患儿(188耳)中,不同程度的听力下降共150耳。患儿左耳ABR波Ⅰ、Ⅲ、Ⅴ的峰潜伏期(PL)分别为2.14±0.38、4.30±0.41、6.20±0.53ms;右耳分别为2.12±0.39、4.29±0.44、6.21±0.53。对照组左耳波Ⅰ、Ⅲ、Ⅴ的峰潜伏期分别为1.50±0.13、3.74±0.12、5.60±0.15ms;右耳分别为1.60±0.16、3.72±0.13、5.62±0.17ms。上述所有数据,患儿组与对照组比较,差异均有显著性(P<0.05)。＜3岁的28例听力下降的发生率为94.6%(53/56耳),中重度异常占66.7%;3～6岁的发生率为77.0%(57/74耳),6岁以上至12岁的发生率为69.0%(40/58耳),3岁以后听力中重度异常仅占33.3%。结论腭裂组听力下降发生率高达79.8%;其ABR的特点为波Ⅰ、Ⅲ、Ⅴ波的峰潜伏期均延长;腭裂组年龄越小的,听力损害发生率越高,听力损害程度越重。     

QT Dispersion Level and Its Clinical Significance.in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

［1］Richardson CP, Mckenna RM, Bristow CM, et al.Report of the 1995 Word Health Organization/International Society and Federation of Cardiology Task Force on the definition and classification of cardiomyopathies. Circulation, 1996,93: 841 ［2］Barr CS, Naas A, Freeman M, et al. QT dispersion and sudden unexpected death in chronic heart failure. Lancet, 1994,343:327 ［3］Martin AB, Garson A, Perry JC, et al. Prolonged QT interval in hypertropic and dilated cardiomyopathy in children. Am Heart J, 1994,127(1):64 ［4］Pye M, Quinn AC, Cobble SM. QT dispersion: a non-invasive marker of susceptibility to arrhythmia in patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias?Br Heart J, 1994,71(5):51 ［5］Berger RD, Kasper EK, Baughman KL, et al. Beat to beat QT interval variability: novel evidence for repolarization lability in ischemic and non ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Circulation, 1997, 96 (5):1557 ［6］Wolfram G, Ulrike S, Volker M, et al. QT dispersion and arrhythmic events in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol, 1997,78: 458 ［7］Fei L, Goldman JH, Prasal K, et al. QT dispersion and RR variations on 12-lead ECGs in patients with congestive heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur Heart J, 1996,17: 258 ［8］Pan YZ, Guo NS, Xing ZF, et al. The relation between QT dispersion and ventricular arrhythmia of dilated cardiomyopathy. Chin J Inter Medi, 1996,35(11):73 ［9］Galinier M, Vialette JC, Fourcade J, et al. QT interval dispersion as a predictor of arrhythmic events in congestive heart failure. Importance of aetiology. Eur Heart J, 1998,19(7) :1054     

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