一种骨种子细胞体外应力培养系统的建立

目的建立体外应力培养系统，观察应力刺激对骨种子细胞成骨分化的影响。方法选择具有明确成骨分化潜能的间充质干细胞(MSCs)作为种子细胞，以脱细胞骨基质为支架材料，以流体切应力作为对种子细胞的体外应力刺激。建立一种骨种子细胞体外三维应力培养系统——流动腔灌流体系，并利用该系统对MSCs的碱性磷酸酶(ALP)活性和骨钙素产物的影响进行评价。结果该系统可以明显促进ALP活性和骨钙素产物的表达，而细胞计数无明显改变。结论本系统为骨组织工程研究提供了一种有效的体外培养模型。     

心脏螺旋波演化与驱动的计算机实验

我们利用FitzHugh-Nagumo(FHN)类型方程,对二维心肌可激媒质系统螺旋波(Spiral wave,SW)的形成、演化和控制进行了数值模拟,主要有以下研究结果:(1)改变系统的可激性,不会影响SW的激发区宽度,却改变SW的自转周期和旋波核的大小;当可激性达到某一极限值时,SW的自转周期与旋波核的半径趋于无穷大,系统不再出现SW。(2)对SW的均匀近共振小电流驱动,可以引导旋波头(Spiral wave tip,SWT)的漂移运动;当驱动频率接近SW的自转频率时,SWT会沿着圆周漂移,当驱动频率达到共振频率时,SWT会沿着直线漂移。     

基于线性调频信号的高帧率超声成像系统

基于有限衍射波束的高帧率超声成像系统能实现快速成像，但由于仅通过一次发射事件成像，信噪比较低，本研究针对该问题提出一种改进方案。它采用合成孔径雷达中所使用的线性调频信号作为激励信号，在接收端则利用线性调频信号的脉冲压缩比等于信号的时间带宽积的特征，将接收信号通过匹配滤波器处理。结果表明该方案不仅能显著提高成像系统的信噪比，改善重构图像的质量，增加成像深度，而且不损失分辨率。     

蛙类肠系膜内微小动脉的压力检测

根据Wiederhielm的阻抗平衡压力检测原理,设计了一个改进的伺服零微血管测压系统。利用该系统检测了蟾蜍及蛙肠系膜内微小动脉的压力、获得了各管径级的压力和脉压的参数,并观察了药物的作用,探讨了微动脉内压力的波动特性以及应激情况下压力的骤变式与脉动式的交替,为微循环研究提供一些有价值的现象。     

Septal unit activity and hippocampal EEG during the sleep-wakefulness cycle of the rat

The functional relationship between septal unit activity and hippocampal EEG was studied during the sleep-wakefulness cycle in chronically implanted unrestrained rats. Results were statistically analyzed in order to obtain the time interval and auto and crosscorrelation histograms. During REM sleep and restless wakefulness the hippocampal EEG showed a theta rhythm of 4–8 cps and the septal unit activity was characterized by the presence of rhythmic bursts with a frequency in every single instance similar to that of the hippocampus. The septal units showed a bimodal time interval histogram. Their autocorrelation histogram exhibited a sinusoidal pattern of decreasing amplitude. The crosscorrelation histogram of septal units and the hippocampal EEG also showed a sinusoidal pattern suggestive of the functional relationship between both neural structures. During slow wave sleep and quiet wakefulness there was a disappearance of the hippocampal theta rhythm and rhythmic septal unit bursts. The second mode was missing in the time interval histogram and the auto and crosscorrelation histograms showed an irregular pattern. It is concluded that medial septal nucleus and hippocampal temporal patterns of activity are similar during REM sleep and restless wakefulness.     

THE INTERACTION OF RESPONSES IN THE BRAIN TO SEMANTIC STIMULI

Long time-constant EEG recording during paired stimuli has led to the discovery of the contingent negative variation or expectancy wave (Walter, 1964). This effect is produced when a conditional stimulus signals that an imperative stimulus demanding action, decision, or attention will follow at a short, constant time interval. Symbolic and meaningful stimuli were presented to subjects tachistoscopically, and the evoked responses in the brain were electronically averaged. The cerebral evoked responses to such psychological stimuli are more complex than to flashes. A slow negative DC potential shift (CNV) was seen during the interval between an auditory ready signal and the visual exposure if recognition of the stimulus was required, or if it was interesting. Following the visual exposure, a slow positive DC shift occurred. The method has been developed to study the brain responses to psychological stimuli. The amplitude of the responses relates to the information content and subjective factors rather than to the physical strength of the stimulus.     

冲击波致伤作用实验研究进展

原发冲击伤是爆炸产生的冲击波直接作用于生物体而引起的。各种生物激波管和其它冲击波发生装置的研制大大促进了冲击波致伤作用的实验研究的开展。通过将多种动物、离体器官以及培养的细胞暴露于冲击波,获得了大量的原发冲击伤实验研究结果。作者在简述冲击波的基本物理学特征的基础上,着重概括了生物激波管研制和原发冲击伤实验研究方法及其主要进展。     

A probabilistic approach to measure the strength of bone cell adhesion to chemically modified surfaces

Patterned surfaces with alternating regions of amino silanes [N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyl-trimethoxysilane (EDS)] and alkyl silanes [dimethyldichlorosilane (DMS)] have been used to alter the kinetics of spatial distribution of cellsin vitro. In particular, we have previously observed the preferential spatial distribution of bone cells on the EDS regions of EDS/DMS patterned surfaces (10). In this study, we examined whether the mechanism of spatial distribution of cells on the EDS regions was adhesion mediated. Homogeneous layers of EDS and DMS were immobilized on quartz substrates and characterized by contact angle, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and spectroscopic ellipsometry. The strength of bone cell attachment to the modified substrates was examined using a radial flow apparatus, within either 20 min or 2 hr of cell incubation in the presence of serum. A Weibull distribution was chosen to characterize the strength of cell-substratum adhesion. Within 20 min of cell exposure, the strength of adhesion was significantly larger on EDS and clean surfaces, compared with DMS surfaces (p<0.0001). Within 2 hr of cell incubation, there was no statistical difference between the strength of cell adhesion to EDS, DMS, and clean surfaces. The results of this study suggest that the surface chemistry mediates adhesion-based spatial cell arrangement through a layer of adsorbed serum proteins.     

冲击伤肺肋面的平行出血条纹

本文采用部分肋骨切除术,切除15只家兔双侧5、6、7、8肋中任一肋距脊柱约2cm处一段长约1cm的肋骨。一周后对受冲击波致伤的肺肋面的出血情况进行解剖观察,发现肺肋面的出血条纹呈“工”字形,从而为冲击伤肺肋面的平行出血条纹是肋间压痕这一观点找到了直接的实验证据。