Kinetic measurements of cell surface E-selectin/carbohydrate ligand interactions

Selectin/ligand interactions initiate the multistep adhesion and signaling cascades in the recruitment of leukocytes from circulation to inflamed tissues and may also play a role in tumor metastasis. Kinetic properties of these interactions are essential determinants governing blood-borne cells' tethering to and rolling on the vessel wall. Extending our recently developed micropipette method, we have measured the kinetic rates of E-selectin/ligand interactions. Red cells coated with an E-selectin construct were allowed to bind HL-60 or Colo-205 cells bearing carbohydrate ligands. Specific adhesions were observed to occur at isolated points, the frequency of which followed a Poisson distribution. These point attachments were formed at the same rate with both the HL-60 and Colo-205 cells (0.14 +/- 0.04 and 0.13 +/- 0.03 mum(2) s(-1) per unit density of E-selectin, respectively) but dissociated from the former at a rate twice as fast as did from the latter (0.92 +/- 0.23 and 0.44 +/- 0.10 s(-1), respectively). The reverse rates agree well with those measured by the flow chamber. The forward rates are orders of magnitude higher than those of Fc gamma receptors interacting with IgG measured under similar conditions, consistent with the rapid kinetics requirement for the function of E-selectin/ligand binding, which is to capture leukocytes on endothelial surfaces from flow.

二萜生物碱植物的化学成分研究

本论文由三个部分组成。第一部分是综述性文章-天然C19-二萜生物碱的结构及其核磁共振波谱。这篇综述参考160余篇文献，将迄今为止发表的230余个天然C19-二萜生物碱按其结构和波谱特征，分为10个类型。重点叙述了每个类型的结构和核磁共振波谱，对一些立体构型与13C-NMR化学位移的关系进行了讨论。最后以表格的形式报导了每个天然C19-二萜生物碱的结构及其植物来源，并把其中170余个收集到的13C-NMR化学位移数据整理成表，作为手册，对鉴定此类化合物大有帮助。第二部分是实验论文--弯啄乌头的化学成分研究。重点报导了弯啄乌头(Aconitum campylorrhynchun Hand-Nazz.)中分离到的一个新生物碱--8-乙酰都啦碱(8-acetyldolaconine)的结构鉴定，并根据DEPT、COSY、COLO等对1H-NMR和13C-NMR的所有信号归属都进行了指定。通过各种图谱还发现这个生物碱的A环同时存在着椅式和船式两种构象导购体。另外还报导了从同一植物的生物碱部分分离到的两个二萜生物碱，它们都是嘟啦碱和aconosine.在非生物碱部分还分离到三个化合物，经鉴定证明是β-谷甾醇、棕榈酸和香豆酸。第三部分也是实验论文--展毛翠雀花中生物碱成分的研究。报导了从展毛翠雀花(Delphinium Kamaonense Var.glabrescens W. T. Wang)中初步分离到的两个生物碱。经IR、NS、1H-NMR和13C-NMR等方法确定结构，证明其中一个是新化合物，命名为展毛翠雀碱(glabredelphinine)。另外一个是前几年发现的二萜生物碱tatsiensine。这两个化合物的A环上都有碳-碳不饱和键，这在天然C19-二萜生物碱中还比较少见。This master's thesis consists of three parts. The first part is a review: The relationship between the chemical structures of natural C19-diterpene alkaloids and their NMR chemical shift data. The C19-diterpene alkaloids were divided into ten types according to their structures and NMR data. Some relationaships between configuration and NMR chemical shift have been discussed. The structures and distributions of more than 230 known C19-diterpene alkaloids and the assignments of 13C-NMR data of the 170 alkaloids of them were listed in tables. The second part is an experimental paper, Studies on the chemical constituents of Aconitum campylorrhynchum. Six compounds were isolated from the roots of title plant. One of them is a new alkaloid. It has been elucidaled as 8-acetyldolaconine by means of IR, MS, 1H-NMR,13C-NMR,DEPT,COSY,COLOC and on the basis of identification with aconosine by saponification. Other five compounds were idenfified as dolaconine, aconosine,β-sitosterol, palmitic acid and p-coumaric acid. The third part is also experimental paper: The alkaloids of Delphinium Kamaonense var.glabrescens. Two alkaloids were isolated from the roots of title plant. One of them, C22H22O6N,m.p.201-3℃,named glabredelphinine, was proved to be a new compound. Its structure has been established as 2(3)-dehydro-6-demethyl-18-delcosine by means of IR, MS, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR.The other one was identified as tatsiensine by comparising of IR, MS, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR data with that from the literatute.

Spin and spin-isospin instabilities and Landau parameters of Skyrme interactions with tensor correlations

The Landau parameters of Skyrme interactions in the spin and spin-isospin channels are studied using various Skyrme effective interactions with and without tensor correlations. We focus on the role of the tensor terms on the spin and spin-isospin instabilities that can occur in nuclear matter above saturation density. We point out that these instabilities are realized in nuclear matter at the critical density of about two times the saturation density for all the adopted parameter sets. The critical density is shown to be very much dependent not only on the choice of the Skyrme parameter set, but also on the inclusion of the tensor terms.

Constraints on the symmetry energy and neutron skins from pygmy resonances in Ni-68 and Sn-132

Correlations between the behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy, the neutron skins, and the percentage of energy-weighted sum rule (EWSR) exhausted by the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) in Ni-68 and Sn-132 are investigated by using different random phase approximation (RPA) models for the dipole response, based on a representative set of Skyrme effective forces plus meson-exchange effective Lagrangians. A comparison with the experimental data has allowed us to constrain the value of the derivative of the symmetry energy at saturation. The neutron skin radius is deduced under this constraint.