Chemical Constituents of Nitraira tangutorum Seed from Qaidam Basin

Six compounds were isolated from the 75% ethanol extract of Nitraria tangutorum seed.On the basis of spectroscopic methods including 1H NMR,13C NMR and ESI-MS and comparison with literature,their structures were elucidated as daucosterol(1),4-hydroxypipecolic acid(2),quercetin(3),allantoin(4),1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-methyl-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid(5) and L-tyrosine(6).Compounds 1,2,3,5 and 6 were isolated from Nitraria tangtorum for the first time.

珠芽蓼果实营养成分分析

本文对珠芽蓼果实的营养成分进行了分析.结果表明,珠芽蓼果实含有丰富的蛋白质、总糖、氨基酸和矿质元素,是一种值得有效开发的野生植物资源.

藏药细穗香薷挥发性化学成分的研究

研究细穗香薷(Elsholtzia ianthina)的挥发油成分.采用水蒸气蒸馏法提取,用气相色谱质谱联用技术进行分析,用面积归一法计算出有关的相对含量,鉴定出45个化合物,主要的挥发油化学成分为三环[4.3.1.13,8]十一烷-1-醇,2,3,5,6-四甲基酚,共占挥发油总量的56.29%.

款冬的胚胎学

系统报道了中藏药款冬大小孢子的发生、雌雄配子体发育和胚胎的发育过程。药壁发育双子叶型; 绒毡层发育接近菊科中的“The Com os bip innatus”型; 成熟花粉为3 细胞型; 单珠被, 薄珠心, 倒生胚珠；具发达的珠被绒毡层；胚囊发育4 孢子型, 接近五福花(A d ox a)型胚囊。受精作用属于有丝分裂前配子体融合类型。胚乳发育为核型。胚胎发育为紫菀型千里光变型。讨论了该种胚胎学特征的生态学及系统学意义。

夏季自然水体与大气界面间气态总汞的交换通量

利用动力学通量箱法与高时间分辨率大气测汞仪的联用技术, 在瑞典西南的Kristineberg海洋观测站(KMRS)和Knobesholm的Hovgårdsån河分别测定了夏季海水和河水表面与大气间汞的交换通量. 在夏季, 河水和海水都是大气汞的源. 河水和海水表面与大气间汞的交换通量在夏季具有一致的昼夜变化规律, 白天由水体向大气排汞且在正午达到最大值; 夜间排汞量相对较小且有时会出现大气汞向水体沉降. 河水与大气间汞的交换通量与光照强度呈线性正相关关系, 与大气相对湿度呈线性负相关性, 同时还与水体温度存在指数相关性. 海水与大气间汞交换通量只与光照强度存在良好的线性正相关关系. 水体中溶解态气汞的过饱和是水体汞向大气释放的驱动力.

河南小秦岭大湖金－钼矿床地球化学及其矿床成因

秦岭造山带是华北与扬子两大古板块的接合带，在空间上，自北而南，秦岭造山带可分为华北板块南缘（华熊地块）、北秦岭造山带、南秦岭造山带和扬子板块北缘等4个构造单元。小秦岭金矿田位于华熊地块北缘，是国内外学者共识的造山型金矿田，河南灵宝大湖金－钼矿床位于小秦岭金矿田，属断控脉状矿床。大湖金－钼矿床最先正是以金矿床进行勘查的，其黄金储量28t，平均品位8.7g/t。随着开采深度的加大，部分含金石英脉向深部转变为辉钼矿－石英脉，目前探明钼资源量已达中型规模。 本论文主要从区域地质背景、矿床地质特征、元素地球化学、同位素地球化学、流体包裹体地球化学、矿床年代学及成矿机理等角度对大湖金－钼矿床进行了较为系统的研究，主要获得如下认识： 成矿过程经历3个阶段：早阶段为黄铁矿-石英脉，遭受变形、破碎，应形成于挤压或压剪过程；中阶段为细粒的辉钼矿-黄铁矿-石英网脉，贯入到早阶段黄铁矿或石英矿物的裂隙（可呈共轭状），应形成于剪切环境；晚阶段石英-碳酸盐细脉具梳状构造，充填于张性或张扭性裂隙。 大湖金-钼矿床的金属硫化物ISr=0.70470-0.71312，平均0.70854；(143Nd/144Nd)i=0.51143-0.51215，平均0.51162；(206Pb/204Pb)i=17.033-17.285，(207Pb/204Pb)i=15.358-15.438，(208Pb/204Pb)i = 37.307-37.582。其围岩太华群样品平均值ISr＝0.72294，(143Nd/144Nd)i=0.51107，(206Pb/204Pb)i=17.127-18.392，(207Pb/204Pb)i =15.416-15.604，(208Pb/204Pb)i=37.498-37.814，它们的平均值分别是17.547，15.470，37.616。通过金属硫化物及围岩太华群的对比，可以看出，成矿物质具有太华群和深部地幔混合的特征。 通过对不同阶段的含矿石英脉中的流体包裹体特征研究表明，早阶段只发育CO2-H2O型流体包裹体；中阶段流体包裹体类型复杂，有纯CO2型、CO2-H2O型、H2O-NaCl型和含子晶包裹体，指示流体沸腾作用强烈；而晚阶段只发育水溶液包裹体。早、中、晚3个阶段的流体包裹体均一温度分别集中在400-500℃、290-470℃、220-260℃；估计的早、中阶段流体的最低捕获压力分别为138-331MPa和78-237MPa，对应于成矿深度分别为13.8-11.0km和7.8-8.0km。早、中阶段的压力反应出静岩压力到静水压力的转变。成矿温度和压力明显高于浅部含金石英脉的成矿温度120-310℃，成矿压力100-150MPa。与野外观察到的“上金下钼”的空间关系一致。 大湖金－钼矿床辉钼矿－石英脉Re-Os同位素模式年龄较集中，介于215.4±5.4－255.6±9.6Ma，Re-0s等时线年龄为218±41Ma(MSWD=38，2σ误差)，表明大湖金－钼矿的辉矿化形成于印支期。 三叠纪末，随着古秦岭洋的逐渐封闭，处在弧后转换带的深部岩石在挤压作用下发生变质脱水而形成初始成矿流体，成矿流体沿断裂带（韧性剪切带）向上迁移而引起大湖钼矿床成矿系统的发育。随着区域构造环境由挤压转为伸展，区域的变质脱水更强，形成大量成矿流体，变质流体上侵为浅层流体循环提供了的热能，而浅层构造也因减压扩容而为流体循环提供了通道，这无疑有利于浅层流体循环和混入成矿系统。同时，增温和减压也有利于成矿流体发生沸腾。因此，充足的流体、热以及强烈的流体沸腾等，势必导致发生最为强烈的成矿物质快速沉淀作用。随着挤压作用的减弱，伸展作用的增强，区域热异常消失，地壳深部组分发生亏损，流体以浅源大气降水占主导，成矿作用迅速衰竭，形成石英-碳酸盐网脉，对成矿作用贡献减弱。总之，通过对大湖金钼矿床研究表明，大湖金钼矿床形成于由挤压转向伸展的构造背景，这与矿床地质的特征一致。

Capillary electrochromatography using a strong cation-exchange column with a dynamically modified cationic surfactant

A novel mode of capillary electrochromatography (CEC), called dynamically modified strong cation-exchange CEC (DMSCX-CEC), is described in this paper. A column packed with a strong cation-exchange (SCX) packing material was dynamically modified with a long-chain quaternary ammonium salt, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), which was added to the mobile phase. CTAB ions were adsorbed onto the surface of the SCX packing material, and the resulting hydrophobic layer on this packing was used as the stationary phase. Using the dynamically modified SCX column, neutral solutes were separated with the CEC mode. The highest number of theoretical plates obtained was about 190 000/m, and the relative standard deviations (RSD's) for migration times and capacity factors of alkylbenzenes were less than 1.0% and 2.0% for five consecutive runs, respectively. The effects of CTAB and methanol concentrations and the pH value of the mobile phase on the electroosmotic flow and the separation mechanism were investigated. Excellent simultaneous separation of the basic and neutral solutes in DMSCX-CEC with a high-pH mobile phase was obtained, A mixture containing the acidic, basic, and neutral compounds was well separated in this mode with a low-pH mobile phase; however, peak tailing for basic compounds was observed in this mobile phase.

[Informe de actividades de asesoría y capacitación técnica en diseño prestadas a los artesanos tejedores del Municipio de San Agustín (Huila)].

[54] hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Two thousand years of missions before Carey, based upon and embodying many of the earliest extant accounts.

http://www.archive.org/details/twothousandyears014145mbp

Micro and nanostructured impedance sensors for biological and biomedical applications

This thesis work covered the fabrication and characterisation of impedance sensors for biological applications aiming in particular to the cytotoxicity monitoring of cultured cells exposed to different kind of chemical compounds and drugs and to the identification of different types of biological tissue (fat, muscles, nerves) using a sensor fabricated on the tip of a commercially available needle during peripheral nerve block procedures. Gold impedance electrodes have been successfully fabricated for impedance measurement on cells cultured on the electrode surface which was modified with the fabrication of gold nanopillars. These nanostructures have a height of 60nm or 100nm and they have highly ordered layout as they are fabricated through the e-beam technique. The fabrication of the threedimensional structures on the interdigitated electrodes was supposed to improve the sensitivity of the ECIS (electric cell-substrate impedance sensing) measurement while monitoring the cytotoxicity effects of two different drugs (Antrodia Camphorata extract and Nicotine) on three different cell lines (HeLa, A549 and BALBc 3T3) cultured on the impedance devices and change the morphology of the cells growing on the nanostructured electrodes. The fabrication of the nanostructures was achieved combining techniques like UV lithography, metal lift-off, evaporation and e-beam lithography techniques. The electrodes were packaged using a pressure sensitive, medical grade adhesive double-sided tape. The electrodes were then characterised with the aid of AFM and SEM imaging which confirmed the success of the fabrication processes showing the nanopillars fabricated with the right layout and dimensions figures. The introduction of nanopillars on the impedance electrodes, however, did not improve much the sensitivity of the assay with the exception of tests carried out with Nicotine. HeLa and A549 cells appeared to grow in a different way on the two surfaces, while no differences where noticed on the BALBc 3T3 cells. Impedance measurements obtained with the dead cells on the negative control electrodes or the test electrodes with the drugs can be compared to those done on the electrodes containing just media in the tested volume (as no cells are attached and cover the electrode surface). The impedance figures recorded using these electrodes were between 1.5kΩ and 2.5 kΩ, while the figures recorded on confluent cell layers range between 4kΩ and 5.5kΩ with peaks of almost 7 kΩ if there was more than one layer of cells growing on each other. There was then a very clear separation between the values of living cell compared to the dead ones which was almost 2.5 - 3kΩ. In this way it was very easy to determine whether the drugs affected the cells normal life cycle on not. However, little or no differences were noticed in the impedance analysis carried out on the two different kinds of electrodes using cultured cells. An increase of sensitivity was noticed only in a couple of experiments carried out on A549 cells growing on the nanostructured electrodes and exposed to different concentration of a solution containing Nicotine. More experiments to achieve a higher number of statistical evidences will be needed to prove these findings with an absolute confidence. The smart needle project aimed to reduce the limitations of the Electrical Nerve Stimulation (ENS) and the Ultra Sound Guided peripheral nerve block techniques giving the clinicians an additional tool for performing correctly the peripheral nerve block. Bioimpedance, as measured at the needle tip, provides additional information on needle tip location, thereby facilitating detection of intraneural needle placement. Using the needle as a precision instrument and guidance tool may provide additional information as to needle tip location and enhance safety in regional anaesthesia. In the time analysis, with the frequency fixed at 10kHz and the samples kept at 12°C, the approximate range for muscle bioimpedance was 203 – 616 Ω, the approximate bioimpedance range for fat was 5.02 - 17.8 kΩ and the approximate range for connective tissue was 790 Ω – 1.55 kΩ. While when the samples were heated at 37°C and measured again at 10kHz, the approximate bioimpedance range for muscle was 100-175Ω. The approximate bioimpedance range of fat was 627 Ω - 3.2 kΩ and the range for connective tissue was 221-540Ω. In the experiments done on the fresh slaughtered lamb carcass, replicating a scenario close to the real application, the impedance values recorded for fat were around 17 kΩ, for muscle and lean tissue around 1.3 kΩ while the nervous structures had an impedance value of 2.9 kΩ. With the data collected during this research, it was possible to conclude that measurements of bioimpedance at the needle tip location can give valuable information to the clinicians performing a peripheral nerve block procedure as the separation (in terms of impedance figures) was very marked between the different type of tissues. It is then feasible to use an impedance electrode fabricated on the needle tip to differentiate several tissues from the nerve tissue. Currently, several different methods are being studied to fabricate an impedance electrode on the surface of a commercially available needle used for the peripheral nerve block procedure.

Dynamic neural networks supporting memory retrieval.

How do separate neural networks interact to support complex cognitive processes such as remembrance of the personal past? Autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval recruits a consistent pattern of activation that potentially comprises multiple neural networks. However, it is unclear how such large-scale neural networks interact and are modulated by properties of the memory retrieval process. In the present functional MRI (fMRI) study, we combined independent component analysis (ICA) and dynamic causal modeling (DCM) to understand the neural networks supporting AM retrieval. ICA revealed four task-related components consistent with the previous literature: 1) medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) network, associated with self-referential processes, 2) medial temporal lobe (MTL) network, associated with memory, 3) frontoparietal network, associated with strategic search, and 4) cingulooperculum network, associated with goal maintenance. DCM analysis revealed that the medial PFC network drove activation within the system, consistent with the importance of this network to AM retrieval. Additionally, memory accessibility and recollection uniquely altered connectivity between these neural networks. Recollection modulated the influence of the medial PFC on the MTL network during elaboration, suggesting that greater connectivity among subsystems of the default network supports greater re-experience. In contrast, memory accessibility modulated the influence of frontoparietal and MTL networks on the medial PFC network, suggesting that ease of retrieval involves greater fluency among the multiple networks contributing to AM. These results show the integration between neural networks supporting AM retrieval and the modulation of network connectivity by behavior.