Limits of phagocytic power of macrophages

The ability of peritoneal macrophages to take up different doses of antigen (sheep's erythrocytes) and of antigens differing in physicochemical properties (sheep's erythrocytes, rat erythrocytes, and typhoid vaccine) was studied. An increase in the dose of sheep's erythrocytes injected many times over had no effect on the quantity of antigen ingested by the macrophages within a definite time interval. In macrophages taken at short periods after injection of erythrocytes of the different species of animals into the mice, ability to take up these erythrocytes in vitro was sharply inhibited. Preincubation of macrophages (in vivo or in vitro) with all the antigens tested sharply increased their ability to phagocytose typhoid vaccine.Laboratory of Physiology and Regulation of Immunity, N. F. Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR P. A. Vershilova.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsina, Vol. 84, No. 7, pp. 58–61, July, 1977.     

核素显像评价电刺激对健康青年人小肠运动功能影响的试验研究

目的利用放射性核素显像研究十二指肠电刺激对人小肠通过时间的影响。方法12例健康青年志愿者,男女各6例,年龄21～25岁,中位年龄23岁。在胃镜引导下留置导管至十二指肠水平部,并安置电极,将99mTc-DTPA(二乙撑三胺五乙酸)和乳果糖混合液注入导管,用单光子发射式计算机断层仪(SPECT)进行连续小肠显像。择日对受试者进行电刺激,刺激条件:频率13Hz、波宽300ms、刺激强度5mA的方波,采用上述方法进行显像。使用感兴趣区分析法,生成小肠时间-放射性曲线,计算出小肠半排时间(T50),比较刺激前后小肠半排时间的变化。结果电刺激前后小肠平均半排时间分别为(49.5±15.8)min和(29.6±10.9)min,刺激前后T50变化有统计学意义(P<0.01)。结论放射性核素显像能很好地反映小肠运动变化,十二指肠电刺激能明显加快小肠运动。     

帕金森病大鼠模型额叶皮质的代谢及形态改变

目的：探讨帕金森病中大脑额叶皮质的形态及代谢改变。方法：大鼠实验组于6-OHDA毁损后用BIOSPEC47／30磁共振波谱仪(4．7T)，采用点分辨波谱法对双侧额叶皮质行H-MRS检测，分析该区N-乙酰天门冬氨酸／肌酸(NAA／Cr)和胆碱／肌酸(Cho／Cr)比值的变化，并用电镜观察该区神经元及突触的形态变化。结果：实验组大鼠损毁侧额叶皮质．NA．A／Cr比值显著低于对侧，对照组两侧无显著差别；Cho／Cr比值在两组的两侧相比均无显著差别。电镜观察显示：损毁侧额叶皮质的突触数量较对侧减少，突触前、后膜和突触小泡结构异常，典型突触结构消失，树突棘出现大片低电子密度区，细胞器消失。结论：帕金森病大鼠模型损毁侧额叶皮质内存在神经元缺失或突触数量的减少，突触结构异常及功能异常。     

一种用ICA去除瞬态诱发耳声发射伪迹的新方法

如何去除伪迹是瞬态诱发耳声发射检测中一个关键的问题。本研究提出了一种用ICA去除伪迹的新方法。首先用四组线性增长的刺激声在耳道内录音 ,得到的波形是瞬态诱发耳声发射和伪迹的混叠。因为伪迹和瞬态诱发耳声发射是统计独立的 ,而且伪迹随刺激声的变化线性增长 ,而瞬态诱发耳声发射随刺激声的变化非线性增长 ,逐渐趋于饱和 ,所以它们在混叠信号中具有不同的混叠系数。用ICA算法可以将各独立分量及混叠矩阵估计出来 ,伪迹是其中的一个独立分量。然后将伪迹的波形置零后再进行一次混叠 ,便达到了去除伪迹的目的。最后通过与传统的DNLR方法比较 ,证明这种方法是有效的     

Opiatergic mechanisms of the cardiotropic effect of acute cooling

Changes in myocardial contractility after an acute cold exposure following intracerebroventricular administration of opiate receptor agonists were studied in rat hearts isolated after Langendorff. Cold exposures were carried out individually for each animal in chambers at −10°C for 4 h. Thirty min before being exposed to cold the animals were administered in a brain ventricle 10 μl of μ- or δ-opiate receptor agonists (DAGO or DADLE, respectively). Isolation and perfusion of the hearts were performed directly after the cold exposure was over. The mechanism of reduction of myocardial contractility and coronary flow induced by an acute cold exposure is believed to include stimulation of μ-opiate receptors as one of its main components, and the effect of intracerebral hypertension on hemodynamic parameters is partially mediated through activation of δ-opiate receptors. Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 118, N ^o 12, pp. 582–584, December, 1994 Presented by R. S. Karpov, Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences     

虚拟咬合运动初步仿真模拟的研究与实现

我们试验了利用VR技术进行虚拟咬合仿真制作的全部过程。首先,采用光学三维测量仪对上下颌石膏模型进行数字化,通过预处理获取有效的三角网格曲面模型;其次,对咬合运动模型进行合理的简化,分解为一系列的平移运动和旋转运动;通过动态刷新完成开闭口运动、侧移运动的计算机运动仿真,可视化地观察咬合运动;然后利用模型碰撞检测算法动态地计算咬合接触位,并详细地分析了咬合接触时的咬合点位置分布和咬合剖切面上的咬合点接触关系;最后讨论了目前虚拟咬合仿真存在的问题和今后研究的方向。     

军团菌MOMPS基因的克隆并在原核系统中表达

以军团菌DNA为模板，PCR扩增获得军团菌主要外膜蛋白基因（Major outer membrane protein gene，ompS），与原核表达质粒pUC18定向重组，构建重组质粒，转化大肠杆菌BL21，并用限制性酶酶切分析、聚合酶链式反应、核酸序列分析、十二烷基磺酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳、Western印迹进行鉴定。实验结果表明我们扩增出了军团菌914bp的ompS基因，成功构建了重组质粒pLPompS，并在原核系统中得到了表达。     

Expression pattern of growth/differentiation factor 3 in human and murine cerebral cortex, hippocampus as well as cerebellum

Growth/differentiation factor 3 is a member of GDF/BMP subfamily of the TGF-beta superfamily, which has been reported to be implicated in testis carcinoma and deposition of adipose tissue. Interestingly, present work indicated that GDF3/Gdf3 genes were expressed in cerebral cortex, hippocampus as well as in cerebellum, as revealed by RT-PCR, in situ hybridization and immunostaining. Results of RT-PCR in 10 human tissues and 12 rat tissues indicated that GDF3/Gdf3 genes were abundantly transcribed in both human and murine brain, including cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry results revealed that in cerebral cortex, GDF3 was evenly distributed. In hippocampus, it was expressed in most of the neurons in CA2 and DG region, especially only in a restricted number of neurons in the regions of CA1 and CA3 and in Purkinje cells in cerebellum. Present data suggested that GDF3 might play important roles in the central nervous system (CNS), especially in cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum, and it shed new light on further research of GDF3 in the central nervous system.