Anti-human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Constituents of the Bark of Poncirus trifoliata

A total of 36 compounds (1-36) were obtained from the stem bark of Poncirus trifoliata including three new prenylated flavonoids, (-)-5,4'-dihydroxy-7,8-[(3 '',4 ''-cis-dihydroxy-3 '',4 ''-dihydro)-2 '',2 ''-dimethylpyrano]-flavone (1), (-)-5,4'-dihydroxy-7,8-[(3 ''-hydroxy-4 ''-one)-2 '',2 ''-dimethylpyrano]-flavone (2), and (-)-5,4'-dihydroxy-7,8-[(cis-3 ''-hydroxy-4 ''-ethoxy-3 '',4 ''-dihydro)-2 '',2 ''-dimethylpyrano]-flavone (3). The new structures were elucidated by means of spectroscopic methods. Compounds 1-20 were evaluated for their anti-human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) activity, in which 2 showed significant anti-HIV-1 activity with high therapeutic index (T1) of 143.65.

Chemical Constituents from the Leaves and Stems of Schisandra lancifolia

A new nortriterpenoid, 20-hydroxymicrandilactone D (1) and a novel lignan glycoside, lancilignanside A (2) were isolated from leaves and stems of Schisandra lancifolia, together with three known nortriterpenoids (3-5) and nine known phenolics (6-14). The structures of new compounds 1 and 2 were determined by detailed analysis of their 1D and 2D NMR spectra, and chemical evidences. In addition, compounds 1-2, 6-7, and 9-11 showed anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 activities with 50% effective concentration (EC50) in the range of 3.0-99.0 mu g/ml. Compound 12 was not bioactive in this assay with EC50 more than 200 mu g/ml.

动物模型在HIV-1杀微生物剂有效性和安全性评价中的应用

HIV/AIDS的流行趋势没有减弱的迹象,人们迫切需要新的预防HIV传播的手段。杀微生物剂旨在通过局部用药于阴道或直肠,从而阻止HIV的传播。鉴于目前有大量的杀微生物剂候选物,亟待能够有效评价其有效性及安全性的动物模型。通过比较非灵长类小型动物模型与非人灵长类动物模型在评价HIV杀微生物剂的有效性及安全性上的重要作用,该文总结了评价杀微生物剂有效性及安全性的动物模型的优缺点,同时指出了杀微生物剂研究与发展的方向和建议,希望能够对杀微生物剂的研发有所帮助。

鸭催乳素基因外显子5多态性与就巢性状的关联分析

下载PDF阅读器将番鸭不同就巢群体(就巢1月群、就巢2月群、就巢3月群)、番鸭非就巢群和白改鸭群体作为试验材料,采用PCR-SSCP技术研究番鸭不同就巢群体、番鸭非就巢群和白改鸭5个群体250个个体催乳素(PRL)基因第5外显子多态性及其与就巢性状之间的相关性.结果表明:外显子5片段编码区发现3个SNP位点,位于5 871 bp(G/A)、5 926 bp(A/G)和6 029 bp(C/T)处,其中5 871 bp(G/A)与5 926 bp(A/G)处氨基酸序列均改变,分别为I→V和R→K.统计多态片段的基因型频率和基因频率,并对5个试验鸭群间基因频率作差异进行显著性分析,番鸭非就巢群体与各就巢群体间差异显著(P<0.05),同时番鸭与白改鸭差异极显著(P<0.01).

The Effects of Visual Object Size in The Depth Perception in KM Mouse

Whether mice perceive the depth of space dependent on the visual size of object targets was explored when visual cues such as perspective and partial occlusion in space were excluded. A mouse was placed on a platform the height of which is adjustable. The platform located inside a box in which all other walls were dark exception its bottom through that light was projected as a sole visual cue. The visual object cue was composed of 4x4 grids to allow a mouse estimating the distance of the platform relative to the grids. Three sizes of grids reduced in a proportion of 2/3 and seven distances with an equal interval between the platform and the grids at the bottom were applied in the experiments. The duration of a mouse staying on the platform at each height was recorded when the different sizes of the grids were presented randomly to test whether the Judgment of the mouse for the depth of the platform from the bottom was affected by the size information of the visual target. The results from all conditions of three object sizes show that time of mice staying on the platform became longer with the increase in height. In distance of 20 similar to 30 cm, the mice did not use the size information of a target to judge the depth, while mainly used the information of binocular disparity. In distance less than 20 cm or more than 30 cm, however, especially in much higher distance 50 cm, 60 cm and 70 cm, the mice were able to use the size information to do so in order to compensate the lack of binocular disparity information from both eyes. Because the mice have only 1/3 of the visual field that is binocular. This behavioral paradigm established in the current study is a useful model and can be applied to the experiments using transgenic mouse as an animal model to investigate the relationships between behaviors and gene functions.

Molecular and morphological analysis of endangered species Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus is a critically endangered species endemic to the Gaoligongshan Mountains. It was thought to be only distributed in several headwater-streams of the Longchuanjiang River (west slope of the Gaoligongshan Mountains, belonging to the Irrawaddy River drainage). In recent years, dozens of G. integrigymnatus specimens have been collected in some streams on the east slope of the Gaoligongshan Mountains (the Salween drainage). We performed a morphological and genetic analyses (based on cytochrome b and D-loop) of the newly discovered populations of G. integrigymnatus to determine whether the degree of separation of these populations warrants species status. Our analysis from the cytochrome b gene revealed that nine individuals from the Irrawaddy drainage area and seven individuals from the Salween drainage area each have only one unique haplotype. The genetic distance between the two haplotypes is 1.97%. Our phylogenetic analysis revealed that G. integrigymnatus is closely related to highly specialized schizothoracine fishes. Analysis from the mitochondrial control region revealed that G. integrigymnatus has relatively high genetic diversity (pi was 0.00891 and h was 0.8714), and individuals from different river drainages do not share the same haplotypes. The AMOVA results indicated 87.27% genetic variability between the Salween and Irrawaddy populations. Phylogenetic trees show two major geographic groups corresponding to the river systems. We recommend that G. integrigymnatus should be considered as a high priority for protected species status in the Gaoligongshan Mountains National Nature Reserve, and that the area of the Gaoligongshan Mountains National Nature Reserve should be expanded to cover the entire distribution of G. integrigymnatus. Populations of G. integrigymnatus from different river systems should be treated as evolutionarily significant units.

稀有鮈鲫β-肌动蛋白基因片段的克隆及其同源性分析

采用RT-PCR方法,从稀有鮈鲫肌肉组织中分离和克隆出β-肌动蛋白基因cDNA部分序列,长度为1 029 bp,编码343个氨基酸残基.序列分析表明,该cDNA序列与其他物种β-肌动蛋白基因同源性非常高.RT-PCR能够检出该基因在稀有鮈鲫肌肉、眼、脑、心脏、肝、肠、鳃、睥、卵巢等组织中广普表达,在胚胎不同发育时期持续恒量表达.并基于已知的鱼类β-肌动蛋白基因序列构建了进化树.

企鹅珍珠贝同工酶酶谱特征及其遗传分析

采用垂直板状聚丙烯酰胺梯度凝胶电泳分离技术,对企鹅珍珠贝闭壳肌、外套膜、鳃、消化盲囊、足组织的SOD、EST、LDH、G6PDH、MDH、ME 6种同工酶酶谱特征及其遗传控制进行了研究。6种同工酶在不同组织中的表达有明显的差异,同工酶分析共检测到18个位点,其中有16个位点具多态性,群体中,多态位点比例为88.8％,平均杂合度为0.396±0.029。有13个多态位点上的基因型频率与Hardy-Weinberg定律相符(P>0.05),位点Ldh-1、Ldh-2、Sod-2极显著偏离该平衡(P<0.01)

Codoping of magnesium with oxygen in gallium nitride nanowires

Codoping of p-type GaN nanowires with Mg and oxygen was investigated using first-principles calculations. The Mg becomes a deep acceptor in GaN nanowires with high ionization energy due to the quantum confinement. The ionization energy of Mg doped GaN nanowires containing passivated Mg-O complex decreases with increasing the diameter, and reduces to 300 meV as the diameter of the GaN nanowire is larger than 2.01 nm, which indicates that Mg-O codoping is suitable for achieving p-type GaN nanowires with larger diameters. The codoping method to reduce the ionization energy can be effectively used in other semiconductor nanostructures. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics.

Tensile and compressive mechanical behavior of twinned silicon carbide nanowires

Molecular dynamics simulations with the Tersoff potential were used to study the response of twinned SiC nanowires under tensile and compressive strain. The critical strain of the twinned nanowires can be enhanced by twin stacking faults, and their critical strains are larger than those of perfect nanowires with the same diameters. Under axial tensile strain, the bonds of the nanowires are stretched just before failure. The failure behavior is found to depend on the twin segment thickness and the diameter of the nanowires. An atomic chain is observed for thin nanowires with small twin segment thickness under tension strain. Under axial compressive strain, the collapse of twinned SiC nanowires exhibits two different failure modes, depending on the length and diameter of the nanowires, i.e., shell buckling for short nanowires and columnar buckling for longer nanowires.

Defects in gallium nitride nanowires: First principles calculations

Atomic configurations and formation energies of native defects in an unsaturated GaN nanowire grown along the [001] direction and with (100) lateral facets are studied using large-scale ab initio calculation. Cation and anion vacancies, antisites, and interstitials in the neutral charge state are all considered. The configurations of these defects in the core region and outermost surface region of the nanowire are different. The atomic configurations of the defects in the core region are same as those in the bulk GaN, and the formation energy is large. The defects at the surface show different atomic configurations with low formation energy. Starting from a Ga vacancy at the edge of the side plane of the nanowire, a N-N split interstitial is formed after relaxation. As a N site is replaced by a Ga atom in the suboutermost layer, the Ga atom will be expelled out of the outermost layers and leaves a vacancy at the original N site. The Ga interstitial at the outmost surface will diffuse out by interstitialcy mechanism. For all the tested cases N-N split interstitials are easily formed with low formation energy in the nanowires, indicating N-2 molecular will appear in the GaN nanowire, which agrees well with experimental findings.

Realization of MMI power splitter by UV-light imprinting technique using hybrid sol-gel SiO2 materials

An efficient fabrication scheme of buried ridge waveguide devices is demonstrated by UV-light imprinting technique using organic-in organic hybrid sol-gel Zr-doped SiO2 materials. The refractive indices of a guiding layer and a cladding layer for the buried ridge waveguide structure are 1.537 and 1.492 measured at 1550 nm, respectively. The tested results show more circular mode profiles clue to existence of the cladding layer. A buried ridge single-mode waveguide operating at 1550 nm has a low propagation loss (0.088 dB/cm) and the 1 x 2 MMI power splitter exhibits uniform outputs, with a very low splitting loss of 0.029 dB at 1549 nm.

Structure and Electronic Properties of Saturated and Unsaturated Gallium Nitride Nanotubes

The atomic and electronic structures of saturated and unsaturated GaN nanotubes along the [001] direction with (100) lateral facets are studied using first-principles calculations. Atomic relaxation of nanotubes shows that appreciable distortion occurs in the unsaturated nanotubes. All the nanotubes considered, including saturated and unsaturated ones, exhibit semiconducting, with a direct band gap Surface states arisen from the 3-fold-coordinated N and Ga atoms at the lateral facets exist inside the bulklike band gap. When the nanotubes are saturated with hydrogen, these dangling bond bands are removed from the band gap, but the band gap decreases with increasing the wall thickness of the nanotubes.

Photovoltage and photoreflectance spectroscopy of InAs/GaAs self-organized quantum dots

We present a detailed study of the interband excitonic transitions of InAs/GaAs self-organized quantum dots (QDs) based on photovoltage (PV) photoreflectance (PR) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. At room temperature, the interband absorption transitions of QDs have been observed by using PV spectrum, which clearly exhibits four well-resolved excitonic absorption peaks. The absorption line shape is Gaussian-like. Furthermore, the corresponding excitonic transitions are also observed in PR experiment at 77 K. The first derivative of a Gaussian profile can fit the experimental data well. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(98)00743-8]

稀土铁双核配合物的合成

本文通过LnCl_3·nTHF和[C_5H_4(SiMe_3)]Na反应得到了两类配合物[C_5H_4(SiMe_3)] LnCl_2·nTHF (Ln = Nd，Sm，Gd；n = 0，1，2)、[C_5H_4(SiMe_3)] LnCl_2·HCl·nTHF (Ln = Nd，Sm，Gd；n = 1，2)。通过元素分析、红外分析、质谱、核磁共振和热重分析确定了配合物的分子组成，特别是带氯化氢的产品在红外光谱中有1250 cm~(-1)，835 cm~(-1)，748 cm~(-1)自的三甲基硅基特征吸收峰。对氯化稀上进行了结构分析，结果发现LnCl_3·4THF (Ln = Sm，Gd)是与NdCl_3·4THF之间存在着变态关系。GdCl_3·4THF。晶体属单斜晶系，空间群为P21/C，晶胞参数为a = 30.765(7)，b = 8.219(3)，C = 17.534(3)A~·，β = 93.71(2)°；SmCl_3·4THF。晶体属单斜晶系，空间群为P21/C，晶胞参数为a = 30.921(13)，b = 8.287(7)，C = 17.665(8)，β = 94.17(4)°。LnCl_3·4THF的单位晶胞中存在着八个分子，每对分子互相等同，但每对分子内部两个分子之间互不等同。SmCl_3·2THF·DME晶体属单斜晶系，空间群为P21/a，晶胞参数为a = 13.547(8)，b = 8.607(4)，C = 16.029(9)A°，β = 90.53(5)°。铲原子与三个氯原子。两个四氢呋喃中的氧原子以及DME中的两个氧原子键合，形成七配位的配合物，但是配位多面体不是理想的五角双锥，而是形成了比五角双锥(D_(5h))对称性更低的多面体(C_(3v))。它能看作是在正八面体的一个面的中心加上第七个原子的结果，而且这八面体主要受到决定上述那个面的三个原子伸展开的畸变。在制备C_5H_5SiMe_3时，如果不用减压蒸馏，而在常压下直接蒸馏，则得到的不是C_5H_5SiMe_3而是它的二聚体(C_5H_5SiMe_3)_2。用红外光谱和核磁共振确定了它的组成和结构，特别是在1650 cm~(-1)处出现(C_5H_5SiMe_3)_2的孤立双键吸收峰。用C_5H_5SiMe_3和Ee(CO)_5回流反应制得了[C_5H_4(SiMe_3) Ee(CO)_2]_2。经过元素分析，红外光谱，质谱，顺磁共振确定了配合物的组成，红外光谱中有桥羰基的吸收峰，质谱图中498的离子峰的出现标志着上述二聚体的存在。用[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2作为制备双金属配合物的原料，用Na/Hg并还原[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2。反应时间为6-7小时得到中间体[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2Na·4THF的深紫红色晶体。反应时间加长，中间体被破坏，反应到15小时时生成了[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Na·TMEDA的黄色晶体，特别是中间体的获得及晶体结构的测定对我们解释反应的机理非常重要。[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2Na·4THF为单斜晶系，空间群为P21/n，晶胞参数为a = 10.155(5)，b = 17.121(4)，C = 18.667(6)A°，β = 97.61(3)°，V = 3216.9A°~3， 2 = 4。铁的配位数为七，钠的配位数为六，钠离子和桥连羰基氧以配位键结合，每个钠离子连结着两个[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2~-，而每个[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]_2~-又连结着两个钠离子，组成一个无限链状分子，键状分子间以Van de W力结合。[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Na·TMEDA正交晶系，空间群为P_(2,2,2,)。晶胞参数为a = 6.001(4)，b = 10.644(6)，C = 24.214(11)A~·。α = β = r = 90°。z = 4 V = 1546·7A°~3，铁的配位数为五。钠的配位数为四，钠离子和羰基氧以配位键结合，每个钠离子连结着两个[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]~-，每个[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]~-又连结着两个钠离子，体系就是以这种连结方式或正负电荷交替的形式无限螺旋分子，每个链节存在着两个[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Na·TMEDA分子，链节的长度为a轴的轴长，说明螺旋分子以a轴轴长向上平移。用LnCl_3·nTHF和[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Na反应制得了[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] LnCl_2·nTHF (Ln = Nd, Sm, Gd; n = 1, 2)，用[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] LnCl_2和[C_5H_4(SiMe_3)]Na或用[C_5H-4(SiMe_3)] LnCl_2和[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Na得到[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] [C_5H_4(SiMe_3)] LnCl·nTHF (Ln = Nd, Sm, Gd; n = 0, 1, 3)，配合物[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] LnCl_2·nTHF及[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] [C_5H_4(SiMe_3)] LnCl·nTHF中存在着2000 cm~(-1)左右的终端羰基吸收峰及1766 cm~(-1)左右的桥连羰基吸收峰。说明稀土和铁之间是以羰基相连的。在TOTOE质谱仪上，配合物[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Gd~·Cl·THF出现[C_5H_5Fe(CO)]GdCl_2、[Fe(CO)_2] Gd~+Cl_2的离子峰，配合物[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]-[C_5H_4(SiMe_3)] GdCl·THF出现[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2] [C_5H_4]Gd~+Cl、[C_5H_5Fe(CO)_2]Gd~+Cl·[C_5H_4C(SiMe_3)] Gd~+Cl等离子峰。所有稀土有机配合物都溶于四氢呋喃、苯，对空气和水敏感。