妊娠早期女性非稳态负荷水平与抑郁的相关性研究

背景 已知慢性应激与抑郁发生相关,非稳态负荷（AL）作为评估机体慢性应激反应的综合生理指标可能在抑郁的发生过程中起着重要作用。目的 探讨妊娠早期女性AL水平与抑郁的关系。方法 采用便利抽样法,选取2021年11月—2022年6月于中国人民解放军联勤保障部队第901医院、六安市金安区妇幼保健院产检的630例妊娠早期女性为研究对象,根据有无抑郁分为抑郁组（n=162）和非抑郁组（n=468）。采用一般资料调查表、妊娠相关焦虑量表、爱丁堡产后抑郁量表进行问卷调查,通过体格检查和实验室检查收集AL相关数据。采用多因素Logistic回归模型分析妊娠早期女性AL与抑郁的相关性。结果 630例妊娠早期女性抑郁发生率为25.7%(162/630)。低水平AL(AL<3分)孕妇427例（67.8%）,高水平AL(AL≥3分)孕妇203例（32.2%）。多因素Logistic回归分析显示,高水平AL是妊娠早期女性抑郁的危险因素[OR=1.651,95%CI(1.096,2.489),P<0.05]。结论 妊娠早期女性AL与抑郁存在正向关联,高水平AL会增加抑郁的发生风险。     

Ca2+ entry through the apical membrane reduces antidiuretic hormone-induced hydroosmotic response in toad urinary bladder

The role of Ca²⁺ in the regulation of antidiuretic hormone(ADH)-induced water permeability of the apical membrane of the toad urinary bladder was examined. The effects of modifying Ca²⁺ entry through the apical membrane of toad urinary bladders on the hydroosmotic water flow _H2O) and short circuit current (I _sc) were measured. In most experiments the bladders were treated with small amounts of Ag⁺ (10^–7 mol/l) on the apical side. This treatment was used because previous experiments indicate that it markedly increases alkali-earth cation fluxes through an amiloride-insensitive cation channel in the apical membrane of the urinary bladder. Moreover, when Ca²⁺ is the major cation in the apical solution of these Ag⁺-treated bladders, I _sc is mostly due to Ca²⁺ entry through the apical membrane. Ag⁺ increased I _sc and simultaneously inhibited _H2O in bladders perfused with Ca²⁺ solutions on the apical side. Addition of La³⁺ to the apical solution reversed the stimulation of I _sc and the inhibition of _H2O produced by Ag⁺. When bladders were perfused with Ca²⁺-free solutions on the apical side, addition of Ag⁺ did not inhibit _H2O while the stimulation of cation movements through the amiloride-insensitive cation channel persisted. In bladders perfused with apical Ca²⁺ solutions and treated with chlorophenyl thio-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (ClPheS-cAMP) the addition of Ag⁺ did not inhibit _H2O while it still increased I _sc. Finally, addition of Ca²⁺ to the apical solution of bladders not treated with Ag⁺ reduced _H2O. These results taken together with other findings in the literature suggest: (1) Ca²⁺ entry through the Ag⁺-treated amiloride-insensitive cation channel of the apical membrane inhibits _H2O; (2) the effects of Ca²⁺ entry are at a regulatory site that precedes the interaction of cAMP with the water channels; (3) it is also possible that Ca²⁺ entry through the unmodified amiloride-insensitive cation channel may have some inhibitory effect on _H2O.     

The reduction of water intake in rats caused by a low dose of apomorphine is unaltered by α-methyl-p-tyrosine: are autoreceptors not involved?

Summary Low doses of the dopamine (DA) agonist apomorphine (APO) induces a behavioural syndrome characterized by reduced spontaneous activity, reduced food and water intake and induction of yawning and penile erections. Traditionally these effects of APO have been considered to be caused by a preferential stimulation of DA autoreceptors, causing a decreased amount of transmitter at the postsynaptic receptors. If this is so, it could be hypothesized that 1) the same behavioural effects should be obtained if DA transmission is decreased by some other means, for example by synthesis inhibition, and that 2) the response to APO should be altered if DA transmission is already lowered.It was found that high doses of -methyl-p-tyrosine (-MPT; 50–200 mg/ kg) did not reduce water intake in thirsty rats, which low doses of APO do. It was further found that pretreatment with -MPT did not alter the response to APO. These results are difficult to reconcile with the DA autoreceptor hypothesis claiming that behavioural effects of low doses of APO are caused by a decreased release of DA. An alternative interpretation is that low doses of APO stimulates a certain population of sensitive postsynaptic D-2 receptors.     

Diet salinity and vasopressin as reproduction modulators in the desert-dwelling golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus)

The time for reproduction in mammals largely depends on the availability of water and food in their habitat. Therefore, in regions where rains are limited to definite seasons of the year, mammals presumably will restrict their breeding correspondingly. But while mammals living in predictable ecosystems would benefit by timing their season to an ultimate predictable cue, such as photoperiod, in unpredictable ecosystems (e.g., deserts) they will need to use a more proximate signal. We suggest a mechanism by which water shortage (low water content in plants) could act as a proximate cue for ending the reproductive season. The golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus), a diurnal rodent living in extreme deserts, may face an increased dietary salt content as the summer progresses and the vegetation becomes dry. Under laboratory conditions, increased diet salinity lead to reproductive hiatus in females, notable in imperforated vagina, and a significant decrease in the ovaries, uteri, and body masses. In females treated with vasopressin (VP), a hormone expressed during water stress, the uteri and body masses have decreased significantly, and the ovaries exhibited an increased number of atretic follicles. VP has also led to a significant decrease in relative medullary thickness (RMT) of the kidney. It is thus suggested that VP could act as a modulator linking the reproductive system with water economy in desert rodents, possibly through its act on the energetic pathways.     

Leptin effects on food and water intake in lines of chickens selected for high or low body weight

There is an association between autonomic nervous system output and obesity. The sympathetic nervous system stimulates lipid metabolism and regulates food intake and, hence, body weight. Leptin, produced by adipocytes in proportion to their size, has been shown to directly stimulate the satiety center. In the experiment reported here, food and water intake were compared after intracerebroventricular administration of human recombinant leptin to lines of chickens that had undergone divergent selection for over 45 generations from a common White Rock base population for high (HWS) or low (LWS) body weight at 8 weeks-of-age. Leptin caused a linear decrease in food intake in chickens from the LWS line whereas no effect was observed in those from the HWS line. The HWS chickens tended to have reduced water intake post leptin administration. Others reported that leptin decreased food intake in both broiler and Leghorn chickens. Leptin concentration in the central nervous system may not contribute directly to the difference of body weight between HWS and LWS chickens.     

Evidence for a glycerol pathway through aquaporin 1 (CHIP28) channels

Permeabilities to glycerol and small non-electrolytes of three Aquaporin 1 CHIP (AQP1) water channels were measured in AQP1 cRNA-injected Xenopus laevis oocytes and in human AQP1 channels reconstituted in proteoliposomes. By an osmotic swelling assay, significant increases of ethylene glycol, glycerol and 1,3-propanediol apparent permeability coefficients (P_solutes) were found in oocytes expressing human, rat and frog AQP1. p-Chloromercuribenzene sulphonate (PCMBS) and CuSO₄ inhibited, by 95% and 58% respectively, apparent glycerol permeability (P _gly) in oocytes expressing human AQP1. pCMBS inhibition was reversed by -mercaptoethanol and CuSO₄ inhibition was partly reversed by the Cu²⁺-binding peptide Gly-Gly-His. Tritiated glycerol uptakes confirmed the augmented P _gly value of AQP1 cRNA-injected oocytes. In contrast, no increases of urea, meso-erythritol, D- or L-threitol, xylitol and mannitol uptakes were detected. Stopped-flow light scattering experiments performed with human AQP1 proteoliposomes also revealed a much greater increase of P _gly than did those with protein-free liposomes; the initial rate of proteoliposomes also swelling was inhibited by 96.2% with HgCl₂ and by 72.5% with CuSO₄. In AQP1 cRNA-injected oocytes and in proteoliposomes, the value of the glycerol reflection coefficient was 0.74–0.80, indicating that water and glycerol share the same pathway. All these results provide strong evidence that water and certain small solutes permeate the AQP1 channels expressed at the surface of X. laevis oocytes or reconstituted in proteoliposomes. The urea exclusion suggests that the selectivity of the AQP1 channels not only depends on the size of the solutes but probably also on their flexibility and their ability to form H-bonds.     

脊柱三维运动实验加载方式的改进

目的:改进三维运动实验的加载方式。方法:新鲜羊腰椎标本6例(L1~5),置于脊柱三维运动实验机上进行六个自由度的运动。两次预加载后依次对标本进行3、0、0.3Nm的加载,并采集三种加载时的运动图像。3Nm加载及0加载的图像作为传统加载方式计算出脊柱的运动范围及中性区,3Nm加载及0.3Nm加载的图像作为新的加载方式计算出新的脊柱运动范围及中性区,再对两种计算方法得出的运动范围及中性区进行配对t检验,计算两种方法各自的变异率,并进行配对t检验。结果:两种方法得到的运动范围之间不存在差异(P=0.105),但中性区之间存在显著性差异(P=0.013)。采用新的加载方式得到的运动范围的变异系数比以往的方法要小得多(P<0.001)。结论:采用新的加载方式可以得到较为准确的脊柱运动的运动范围。     

Epitope specificity is critical for high and moderate avidity cytotoxic T lymphocytes associated with control of viral load and clinical disease in horses with equine infectious anemia virus

Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is a lentivirus that causes persistent infections in horses. We hypothesized that high-avidity CTL specific for nonvariable epitopes might be associated with low viral load and minimal disease in EIAV-infected horses. To test this hypothesis, memory CTL (CTLm) responses were analyzed in two infected horses with high plasma viral loads and recurrent disease (progressors), and in two infected horses with low-to-undetectable viral loads and mild disease (nonprogressors). High-avidity CTLm in one progressor recognized an envelope gp90 epitope, and the data documented for the first time in EIAV that viral variation led to CTL escape. Each of the nonprogressors had high-to-moderate avidity CTLm directed against epitopes within Rev, including the nuclear export and nuclear localization domains. These results suggested that the epitope specificity of high- and moderate-avidity CTLm was an important determinant for disease outcome in the EIAV-infected horses examined.     

Vasopressin release and firing of supraoptic neurosecretory neurones during drinking in the dehydrated monkey

A close relationship exists between drinking and the release of vasopressin, the two main factors responsible for the maintenance of body water content. Whereas the participation of peripheral factors, such as oropharyngeal stimulation, seems obvious in the metering of fluid intake and in thirst satiation, very little is known about their influence on vasopressin release. In the present experiments, the influence of drinking on vasopressin release was studied using both biochemical and electrophysiological approaches.In one group of monkeys made thirsty by water deprivation, the subsequent drinking of water during a 5–8 min induced: i) a short-term response, consisting of an abrupt fall in plasma vasopressin concentration which was independent of osmolality, occurred at the time of drinking and was partly reversed after the cessation of drinking, and ii) a longer lasting response, consisting of a slow diminution of plasma vasopressin concentration as the intestinal absorption of water progressed. In another group of thirsty monkeys, extracellular recordings were made during drinking from cells which were identified as neurosecretory neurones of the supraoptic nucleus, a number of them being considered vasopressin secreting on the basis of their phasic pattern of firing. Their firing decreased considerably during the periods of water intake and recovered to control levels immediately after-wards.The decrease in vasopressin release at the onset of water intake, the diminution in the firing rate of the neurones, the short latency and the reversibility of these events after cessation of drinking, suggest that a reflex inhibition of vasopressin-secreting neurones occurs which is probably induced by peripheral stimuli and most likely via oropharyngeal or other visceral receptors. It is postulated that this reflex inhibition of vasopressin release may participate in some active manner in the anticipatory mechanisms of thirst satiation.     

The ventilatory threshold gives maximal lactate steady state

Summary The purpose of this study was to examine whether the ventilatory threshold (Th _v) would give the maximal lactate steady state ([1a]_{ss, max}), which was defined as the highest work rate (W) attained by a subject without a progressive increase in blood lactate concentration [1a]_b at constant intensity exercise. Firstly, 8 healthy men repeated ramp-work tests (20 W·min^–1) on an electrically braked cycle ergometer on different days. During the tests, alveolar gas exchange was measured breath-by-breath, and theW atTh _v (W _{Th v}) was determined. The results of two-way ANOVA showed that the coefficient of variation of a singleW _{Th v} determination was 2.6%. Secondly, 13 men performed 30-min exercise atW _{Th v} (Th _v trial) and at 4.9% aboveW _{Th v} (Th _v + trial), which corresponded to the 95% confidence interval of the single determination. The [1a]_b was measured at 15 and 30 min from the onset of exercise. The [1a]_b at 15 min (3.15 mmol·1^–1, SEM 0.14) and at 30 min (2.95 mmol·1^–1, SEM 0.18) were not significantly different inTh _v trial. However, the [1a]_b ofTh _v+ trial significantly increased (P<0.05) from 15 min (3.62 mmol·1^–1, SEM 0.36) to 30 min (3.91 mmol·1^–1, SEM 0.40). These results indicate thatTh _v gives the [1a]_ss,max, at which one can perform sustained exercise without continuous [1a]_b accumulation.