Anxiety,impulsivity and depressed mood in relation to suicidal and violent behavior

Many different variables have been associated with suicidal behavior as well as with violent behavior. This study was designed to test a model that attempts to relate such variables to violence and suicide risk. Sixty psychiatric patients were evaluated and divided into suicidal and nonsuicidal groups and then into violent and nonviolent groups. Scores on suicide risk, violence risk, anxiety, anger, impulsivity and mood were then compared between these groups. In a second analysis, scores on suicide risk and violence risk were correlated with all the other variables. Anxiety and impulsivity were found to strongly correlate with suicide risk. Angry and resentful mood correlated with violence risk; trait anxiety correlated negatively with violence risk. The results contribute further insight into the authors' two-stage model of countervailing forces.     

2010—2021年国内外老年多重慢病研究热点分析

背景 随着人口老龄化进程的加快,同时患有多种慢病已成为老年人的常态,老年多重慢病相关研究也不断丰富,但鲜有对其研究进展及热点进行分析。目的 分析国内外老年多重慢病的研究热点,揭示近十年来（2010—2021年）老年多重慢病领域研究前沿的热点主题,为相关研究者追踪前沿信息提供参考。方法 基于文本挖掘技术和文献计量学等方法,检索Web of Science核心合集、Scopus、中国知网、万方数据知识服务平台、维普网、PubMed、中华医学会期刊全文数据库、APA-PsycINFO美国心理学会数据库中老年多重慢病领域的相关文献,检索时间为2010—2021年。使用CiteSpace 6.1.3、PASW 18、BICOMB 2.04等软件对文献的发文量趋势、来源、作者、机构、关键词等方面进行分析及可视化,并绘制战略坐标图对领域研究热点进行分析。结果 最终纳入老年多重慢病相关文献9 392篇,其中外文文献5 776篇,中文文献3 616篇。2010—2021年老年多重慢病领域中外文献发文量均呈指数型增长,中文文献年增长率为13.27%,外文文献年增长率为15.84%,该领域正处于发展阶段。中...     

基于太赫兹时域光谱技术的名贵动物药材龟甲的真伪品鉴别

目的： 建立一种利用太赫兹时域光谱和多种化学计量学方法鉴别龟甲真伪的新方法。方法： 选用正品乌龟和伪品红耳彩龟的腹甲进行实验,先用经典的性状鉴别、显微鉴别方法比较两种样品的典型性状特征,后利用太赫兹时域光谱仪测得样品的光谱信息,对样品谱图进行平滑处理和基线校准,并运用化学计量方法进行数据分析以区分正品和伪品龟甲。结果： 性状鉴别结果显示完整正、伪品龟甲样品仅有细微差异,且其碎片或粉末基本无差异;显微鉴别未在两种样品中发现明显的特征差异性结构;两种样品的太赫兹时域光谱曲线图经快速傅里叶变换滤波器平滑滤波处理、正交偏最小二乘法判别分析处理后呈现显著差异。结论： 利用太赫兹时域光谱技术结合正交偏最小二乘法判别分析可以实现龟甲真伪品的精准鉴别。     

Renal and hormonal effects of alpha1-adrenoceptor blockade by bunazosin in essential hypertension

Summary The renal and hormonal effects of the ₁-adrenoceptor blocker bunazosin were examined in 6 patients with essential hypertension. Oral bunazosin for 4 to 12 weeks significantly decreased mean blood pressure by 10%, increased effective renal blood flow and creatinine clearance by 34% and 37%, respectively, the plasma norepinephrine concentration was elevated by 60%, and the plasma atrial natriuretic peptide level was lowered by 22%. The plasma renin activity and aldosterone concentration were unchanged. Thus, a moderate reduction in blood pressure was produced by bunazosin treatment while maintaining renal perfusion.     

Oxidative capacity interacts with oxygen delivery to determine maximal O2 uptake in rat skeletal muscles in situ

When intracellular recordings were made from the antral region of murine stomach, cells with three different patterns of electrical activity were detected. One group of cells generated follower potentials, the second group generated pacemaker potentials and the third group generated slow waves that consisted of primary and secondary components. Slow waves recorded in different regions of the gastric antrum had similar amplitudes but different characteristic shapes. At the greater curvature, slow waves had large initial components. Midway between the greater and lesser curvature, the amplitude of the initial component was reduced and at the lesser curvature an initial component was difficult to detect. When the distributions of myenteric (ICC-MY) and intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC-IM) were determined, using an antibody to Kit, ICC-MY were found to be present at the greater curvature but were greatly reduced in density at the lesser curvature. In contrast, ICC-IM were found in the circular layer of each region. When recordings were made from the antrum of W/W^V mice, which lack ICC-IM, incomplete slow waves were detected and their amplitudes fell from the greater to the lesser curvature. Again, a corresponding fall in the density of ICC-MY was detected. The observations indicate that the contribution of ICC-MY and ICC-IM to the generation of slow waves varies in different regions of the mouse gastric antrum.     

Glucose transport in Leishmania donovani promastigotes

Mid-log phase Leishmania donovani promastigotes accumulated 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DOG) via a carrier mediated transport system, maintaining an apparent K_m of 24.4 μM and a V_max of 3.12 nmol mg^?1 protein min^?1. d-Glucose but not l-glucose competitively inhibited the 2-DOG transport with an apparent K_i of 18.7 μM. Transport of 2-DOG was inhibited by 2,4-dinitrophenol and NaN₃. The parasites maintained a 2-DOG gradient of at least 79 fold across the surface membrane, demonstrating the active nature of the transport system.     

Increased yield of full GBA sequencing in Ashkenazi Jews with Parkinson's disease

Background

Variants in GBA are the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD), and are especially prevalent in the Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population. However, most studies on GBA in AJ genotype only seven selected Gaucher-associated pathogenic variants rather than sequencing the whole gene, which may leave carriers of PD-associated GBA variants undiscovered.

Variations in attachment ofNeisseria gonorrhoeae to vaginal epithelial cells during the menstrual cycle and early pregnancy

An in vitro system was used to study the ability of virulent gonococci to adhere to vaginal epithelial cells obtained from healthy donors during the pre- and postmenstrual phases, and from those in early pregnancy. It was found that more gonococci adhered to the cells from donors in the postmenstrual phase than to cells from those in the premenstrual one. This difference was statistically highly significant. The attachment rate of gonococci to vaginal epithelial cells was similar in early pragnancy and in the premenstrual phase.     

Production of anti-RNA antibody by hybridoma cells: Purification from mixed immunoglobulin products

Fusion between spleen cells from an autoimmune NZB/NZW mouse and the Balb/c drugresistant MPC-11 myeloma resulted in the formation of a hybridoma-secreting RNA-specific IgG-3 antibody and the parental IgG-2b myeloma. Analysis of the mixed immunoglobulin assembly products made by the hybridoma cells showed efficient pairing of IgG-2b and IgG-3 heavy chains and did not show a marked preferential assembly of the homologous heavy and light chains. Partial purification of the anti-RNA antibody from the mixed assembly products was achieved by utilizing an antigen affinity column (RNA-Sepharose). The use of a heavy chain-specific affinity column (anti-IgG-2b-Sepharose) increased the purity of the desired antibody, but parental light chains were still present after this step. A complete purification of the RNA-binding protein could be achieved by papain cleavage of the total IgG fraction and binding of the resulting Fab fragments to RNA-Sepharose. This procedure may, therefore, be employed as a general method for purifying antibodies from hybridomas that continue to produce their parental myeloma chains.