Mitochondrial data support an odd-nosed colobine clade

To obtain a more complete understanding of the evolutionary history of the leaf-eating monkeys we have examined the mitochondrial genome sequence of two African and six Asian colobines. Although taxonomists have proposed grouping the "odd-nosed" colobines

树鼩内侧隔核-斜角带复合体向腹侧海马的胆碱能和非胆碱能投射

本研究运用JKLMNOP逆行追踪结合胆碱乙酰化酶免疫组织化学法研究了树鼠句内侧隔核M斜角带复合体向腹侧海马 的投射Q结果表明B)R+树鼠句腹侧海马接受内侧隔核M斜角带复合体的投射有三种形式B即来自内侧隔核B内侧隔核M斜角带垂直部 的外侧部和内侧隔核M斜角带垂直部的后部Q)G+腹侧海马来自内侧隔核和斜角带垂直部的投射主要是非胆碱能的B其非胆碱能 和胆碱能均主要来自内侧隔核Q)I+腹侧海马各亚区)SLRTSLGUSLI和齿状回门区或SLE+都主要接受内侧隔核的纤维传入B但 胆碱能和非胆碱能比例不同BSLRTSLGUSLI和SLE来自内侧隔核M斜角带垂直部的投射均主要是非胆碱能的B且主要来自内 侧隔核B其胆碱能几乎等量来自内侧隔核和斜角带垂直部Q内侧隔核M斜角带复合体@腹侧海马亚区胆碱能和非胆碱能投射比例 的不同B为认识内侧隔核M斜角带复合体@海马通路对记忆环路中的海马调节机制B提供了新的形态学依据Q

奶水牛卵胞质内单精子注射(ICSI)胚胎体外发育潜能的研究

本试验以奶水牛为研究对象,探讨卵胞质内单精子注射(ICSI)操作液中添加不同浓度聚乙烯吡咯烷酮(PVP)、细胞松弛素(CB)、透明质酸(HA)对早期胚胎发育的影响.旨在探寻一套适合奶水牛ICSI的操作程序,为高效生产奶水牛体外胚胎提供科学依据.结果表明:4%PVP组卵裂率高于6%PVP组和8%PVP组(65.8%vs59.5%、44.4%,P<0.05):4%PVP组囊胚率高于6%PVP组(21.0%vs16.2%,P<0.05)和8%PVP组(21.0%vs8.3%,P<0.01);添加CB组的卵裂率高于未加CB组(73.3%vs68.9%,P>0.05),添加CB组囊胚率高于未加CB组(22.2%vs20.0%,P<0.05);操作液中添加1.5mg/mL HA更有利于胚胎的发育.1.5mg/mL HA组和4%PVP组相比较,操作过程中润滑作用相似,HA组卵裂率略高于PVP组(71.0%vs65.8%,P<0.05);HA组囊胚数略高于PVP组(22.6%vs21.0%,P>0.05).

Effects of unconditioned and conditioned aversive stimuli in an intense fear conditioning paradigm on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 area in vivo

Repeated vivid recalls or flashbacks of traumatic memories and memory deficits are the cardinal features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The underlying mechanisms are not fully understood yet. Here, we examined the effects of very strong fear conditioning (20 pairings of a light with a 1.5-mA, 0.5-s foot shock) and subsequent reexposure to the conditioning context (chamber A), a similar context (chamber B), and/or to the fear conditioned stimulus (CS) (a light) on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 area in anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats. The conditioning procedure resulted in very strong conditioned fear, as reflected by high levels of persistent freezing, to both the contexts and to the CS, 24 h after fear conditioning. The induction of long-term potentiation ON was blocked immediately after fear conditioning. It was still markedly impaired 24 h after fear conditioning; reexposure to the conditioning chamber A (CA) or to a similar chamber 13 (CB) did not affect the impairment. However, presentation of the CS in the CA exacerbated the impairment of LTP, whereas the CS presentation in a CB ameliorated the impairment so that LTP induction did not differ from that of control groups. The induction of long-term depression (LTD) was facilitated immediately, but not 24 h, after fear conditioning. Only reexposure to the CS in the CA, but not reexposure to either chamber A or B alone, or the CS in chamber B, 24 h after conditioning, reinstated the facilitation of LTD induction. These data demonstrate that unconditioned and conditioned aversive stimuli in an intense fear conditioning paradigm can have profound effects on hippocampal synaptic plasticity, which may aid to understand the mechanisms underlying impairments of hippocampus-dependent memory by stress or in PTSD. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

恒河猴黄体中tPA,uPA和PAI-1的鉴别与其功能的研究

在大鼠和恒河猴卵巢颗粒细胞(GC)存在组织型(tPA)和尿激酶型(uPA)纤溶酶原激活因子(PA)和一种PA的抑制因子(PAI-1).在排卵、排精和子宫内膜的周期性变化中tPA和PAI-1基因在这些组织的同类细胞或不同类型细胞间的协调表达起重要作用.因为恒河猴GC和膜-间质细胞(TC)在促性腺激素作用下都能产生tPA,uPA和PAI-1,而排卵后GC和TC转化为黄体细胞(LC),后者分泌孕酮,维持妊娠.本研究目的:(1)探讨LC是

树qu红核的细胞构筑和红核脊髓束的起源

用Nissl法染色和HRP注入树qu脊髓的不同节段,结果表明,树qu红核和上丘高度向吻侧延伸至乳头体内侧核尾端,细胞柱呈梭状,长约3.7mm,最大处直径2mm。它由大(60-100#mu#m)、中(30-50#mu#m)和小型(10-25#mu#m)细胞构成。红核吻段大细胞较多,占60.7%,中尾段中小型细胞多,占71.7%,, 中、小细胞散在分布于大细胞之间。树qu的红核-脊髓束主要由对侧红核大、中和小型细胞发出的纤维组成;红核吻段背侧部,中尾段的腹部、腹中部和腹中背部细胞发出的纤维交叉投射到颈吻段;红核吻、中、尾段的腹部、腹中部和腹中背部细胞发出的纤维还投射到对侧颈尾段;红核中尾段的腹部、腹中部、腹中背部细胞也有纤维交叉投射到腰段;只有红核吻段和尾段少量细胞发出的纤维投射到同侧颈段。

保安湖沉水植物分布的GIS模拟

以 GPS为辅助 ,在保安湖主体湖和桥墩湖进行沉水植物调查。将野外调查数据构建 GIS数据库 ,基于 GIS软件平台 ,运用 Kringing插值法对保安湖沉水植物分布进行模拟。模拟结果清楚地显示出调查时保安湖沉水植物及 4优势种 (金鱼藻 Ceratophyllum demersum L.、穗状狐尾藻 Myriophyllum spicatum L .、微齿眼子菜 Potamogeton maackianus A.Benn.及苦草 Vallisneria spiralis L.)分别在湖中的分布情况。统

Growth and antioxidant system of Escherichia coli in response to microcystin-RR

Microcystins are a kind of cyclic hepatoxins produced by many species of cyanobacteria. The toxic effects of microcystins on animals and plants have been well studied. However, the reports about the effects of microcystins on microbial cells are very limited. In present paper, Escherichia coli was undertaken to determine the effect of microcystin-RR. These results suggested that microcystin-RR could prolong the growth of E. coli when exposed to high concentrations of microcystin-RR and cause the accumulation of ROS and induce the oxidant stress for a short time. The antioxidant system protects E. coli from oxidative damage.

Application of methyl parathion hydrolase (MPH) as a labeling enzyme

Methyl parathion hydrolase (MPH) is an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of methyl parathion, generating a yellow product with specific absorption at 405 nm. The application of MPH as a new labeling enzyme was illustrated in this study. The key advantages of using MPH as a labeling enzyme are as follows: (1) unlike alkaline phosphatase (AP), horseradish peroxidase (HRP), and glucose oxidase (GOD), MPH is rarely found in animal cells, and it therefore produces less background noise; (2) its active form in solution is the monomer, with a molecular weight of 37 kDa; (3) its turnover number is 114.70 +/- 13.19 s(-1), which is sufficiently high to yield a significant signal for sensitive detection; and (4) its 3D structure is known and its C-terminal that is exposed to the surface can be easily subjected to the construction of genetic engineering monocloning antibody-enzyme fusion for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). To demonstrate its utility, MPH was ligated to an single-chain variable fragment (scFv), known as A1E, against a white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) with the insertion of a [-(Gly-Ser)(5)-] linker peptide. The resulting fusion protein MPH-A1E possessed both the binding specificity of the scFv segment and the catalytic activity of the MPH segment. When MPH-A1E was used as an ELISA reagent, 25 ng purified WSSV was detected; this was similar to the detection sensitivity obtained using A1E scFv and the HRP/Anti-E Tag Conjugate protocol. The fusion protein also recognized the WSSV in 1 mu L hemolymph from an infected shrimp and differentiated it from a healthy shrimp.

Theoretical design and performance of InxGa1-xN two-junction solar cells

The efficiencies of InxGa1-xN two-junction solar cells are calculated with various bandgap combinations of subcells under AM1.5 global, AM1.5 direct and AM0 spectra. The influence of top-cell thickness on efficiency has been studied and the performance of InxGa1-xN cells for the maximum light concentration of various spectra has been evaluated. Under one-sun irradiance, the optimum efficiency is 35.1% for the AM1.5 global spectrum, with a bandgap combination of top/bottom cells as 1.74 eV/1.15 eV. And the limiting efficiency is 40.9% for the highest light concentration of the AM1.5 global spectrum, with the top/bottom cell bandgap as 1.72 eV/1.12 eV.

Growth temperature dependences of InN films grown by MOCVD

We investigate the growth temperature dependences of InN films grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Experimental results indicate that growth temperature has a strong effect on the surface morphology, crystalline quality and electrical properties of the InN layer. The increasing growth temperature broadened the v scan's full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) and roughened the surface morphology; whereas the electrical properties improved: As the temperature increased from 460 degrees C to 560 degrees C, room-temperature Hall mobility increased from 98 cm(2)/V s to nearly 800 cm(2)/V s and carrier concentration dropped from 5.29 x 10(19) cm (3) to 0.93 x 10(19) cm (3). The higher growth temperature resulted in more efficient cracking of NH3, which improved Hall mobility and decreased carrier concentration. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Effect of CO on characteristics of AlGaN/GaN Schottky diode

Pt Schottky diode gas sensors for CO are fabricated using AlGaN/ GaN high electron mobility transistor ( HEMTs) structure. The diodes show a remarkable sensor signal (3 mA, in N-2; 2mA in air ambient) biased 2V after 1% CO is introduced at 50 degrees C. The Schottky barrier heights decrease for 36meV and 27meV in the two cases respectively. The devices exhibit a slow recovery characteristic in air ambient but almost none in the background of pure N2, which reveals that oxygen molecules could accelerate the desorption of CO and offer restrictions to CO detection.

The influence of 1 nm AlN interlayer on properties of the Al0.3Ga0.7N/AlN/GaN HEMT structure

The sheet carrier concentrations, conduction band profiles and amount of free carriers in the barriers have been determined by solving coupled Schrodinger and Poisson equation self-consistently for coherently grown Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN and Al0.3Ga0.7N/AlN/GaN structures on thick GaN. The Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN heterojunction structures with and without 1 nm AlN interlayer have been grown by MOCVD on sapphire substrate, the physical properties for these two structures have been investigated by various instruments such as Hall measurement and X-ray diffraction. By comparison of the theoretical and experimental results, we demonstrate that the sheet carrier concentration and the electrons mobility would be improved by the introduction of an AlN interlayer for Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN structure. Mechanisms for the increasing of the sheet carrier concentration and the electrons mobility will be discussed in this paper. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Hydrogen sensors based on AlGaN/AIN/GaN HEMT

Pt/AlGaN/AIN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) were fabricated and characterized for hydrogen sensing. Pt and Ti/Al/Ni/Au metals were evaporated to form the Schottky contact and the ohmic contact, respectively. The sensors can be operated in either the field effect transistor (FET) mode or the Schottky diode mode. Current changes and time dependence of the sensors under the FET and diode modes were compared. When the sensor was operated in the FET mode, the sensor can have larger current change of 8 mA, but its sensitivity is only about 0.2. In the diode mode, the current change was very small under the reverse bias but it increased greatly and gradually saturated at 0.8 mA under the forward bias. The sensor had much higher sensitivity when operated in the diode mode than in the FET mode. The oxygen in the air could accelerate the desorption of the hydrogen and the recovery of the sensor. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.