Circulating immunoglobulin A- and immunoglobulin G-secreting hybridoma cells in peripheral blood preferably migrate to female genital tracts. The role of sex hormones

Antigen-specific circulating immunoglobulin-secreting cells (ISC) migrate to various secondary and tertiary lymphoid tissues. To understand the migration of the cells into the genital tract and its regulation by sex hormones, spleen-derived SG2 hybridoma cells secreting immunoglobulin G2b (IgG2b) and Peyer's patch-derived PA4 hybridoma cells secreting polymer IgA were labelled with (3) H-TdR, and intravenously injected into syngeneic mice of both sexes. Using flow cytometry, surface molecular markers of plasma cells, CD38 and CD138, and adhesion molecules, CD49d, CD162, and CD11a were found to be positive in SG2 and PA4 cells, but CD62L, alpha4beta7 and CD44 were not expressed on these cells. The relative distribution indexes (RDIs) of the cells in genital tract and other tissues were measured. The means of RDIs of SG2 and PA4 cells in female genital tissues were 6.5 and 4.5 times as many as the means in male genital tissues, respectively. The treatment of ovariectomized mice with beta-oestradiol significantly increased the RDIs of PA4 cells in cervix and vagina, but decreased the RDIs of SG2 cells in vagina, horn of uterus, uterus and rectum (P <0.05). Progesterone treatment increased the RDIs of PA4 cells in vagina and rectum (P <0.05). The treatment with testosterone significantly increased the RDIs of SG2 and PA4 cells in epididymis and accessory sex glands (P <0.05). These results demonstrate that the female genital tract is the preferable site for the migration of circulating hybridoma cells to the male genital tract, and sex hormones play an important role in regulation of the migration of circulating ISC to genital tracts.

Centrifuge modelling of the response of buildings to tunnelling

Understanding how buildings respond to tunnelling induced ground movements is an area of great importance for many urban tunnelling projects. Testing described in this paper aims to investigate soil structure interaction effects by observing the response of elastic and non elastic beams of varying stiffness and geometry to tunnelling, using the 8 m diameter beam centrifuge at Cambridge University. Soil and structure displacements are extensively monitored through a photo imaging technique which enables a detailed analysis of the interaction mechanisms. Results demonstrate that buildings can significantly modify greenfield ground movements in both the vertical and horizontal planes. The magnitude of the modification is shown to be strongly dependent on the relative building stiffness. It is also shown that negligible horizontal strains are transferred into the model buildings. This can have significant implications for commonly adopted damage assessment methods. © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group.

黄颡前驼形线虫发生和成熟的季节动态

报道了寄生于黄颡鱼(Pelteobagrus fulvidraco)胃、肠中的黄颡前驼形线虫(Procamallanus fulvidraconis)的成熟和感染丰度的季节动态。从2001年2月到2002年7月的18个月中,对来自于湖北省梁子湖的900尾黄颡鱼进行了调查,结果表明:该线虫的感染率除在2002年1月比较低(32%)外,其他月份都在90%以上,且没有显著的季节性变化(G=16.96F0.01[17,882]=1.98)。在对黄颡前驼形线虫雌虫成虫的三个阶段(成熟期、怀卵期和怀幼期)和雄虫成虫的

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.

饲料质量对丰鲤和奥尼罗非鱼氮及能量收支的影响

实验比较了丰鲤与奥尼罗非鱼摄食低质和高质两种等能饲料时的氮收支和能量收支。低质饲料的蛋白质含量为 34.2 5 %、蛋白质主要来源为豆粕 ,高质饲料的蛋白质含量为 4 5 .4 4 %、蛋白质主要来源为鱼粉。 5 3d的生长结果显示 :摄食低质饲料时 ,奥尼罗非鱼通过降低排泄氮、排泄能和代谢能的比例 ,使生长氮和生长能的比例显著高于丰鲤 ,摄食高质饲料时 ,则通过降低粪氮和粪能的比例取得快速生长的效果 ;丰鲤生长氮和生长能比例不受饲料质量的显著影响 ,但高质饲料使排泄氮和代谢能比例显著降低 ;奥尼罗非鱼的

草鱼仔鱼耳石的自然标记和生长轮的清晰度

将野生和人工繁殖的草鱼仔鱼的耳石取出并置于显微镜下观察微结构特征。结果表明 :草鱼耳石一般有一个圆形或卵圆形的原基和中心核 ,但有 0 4 1%～ 4 6 7%的样本具有双原基或双中心核。343尾野生仔鱼中 ,6 71%的个体在矢耳石和微耳石上具有营养转换标记 ,而 187尾人工繁殖的仔鱼中 ,在矢耳石和微耳石上出现营养转换标记的比例分别是 6 4 17%和 5 0 80 % ;在营养转换标记处 ,矢耳石和微耳石的直径分别为 5 4 12±9 4 9μm和 4 0 4 8± 7 0 2 μm (n =5

一个含WD结构域蛋白的基因在鱼类卵子发生过程中的差异表达及其特征分析

用抑制性差减杂交结合ＳＭＡＲＴ　ｃＤＮＡ合成和ＲＡＣＥ－ＰＣＲ技术的综合方法，从鱼类卵母细胞卵黄形成后期差减文库中克隆到一个新的含ＷＤ结构域蛋白的基因．该基因ＣＤＮＡ全长为１８７０ ｂｐ，可读框长９９０ ｂｐ，编码的蛋白质由３２９个氨基酸组成，含有６个ＷＤ结构域；５’非编码区长 ２１０ ｂｐ，３’非编码区长 ６７０ ｂｐ，有脊椎动物典型的ＡＮＮＡＴＧ起始序列和ｐｏｌｙＡ加尾信号ＡＡＴＡＡＡ．由于其编码的蛋白质与ＳＴＲＡＰ蛋白（ｓｅｒｉｎｅ－ｔｈｒｅｏｎｉｎｅ ｋｉｎａｓｅ ｒｅｃｅｐｔｏｒ－ａｓｓｏｃｉａ

Continuous-time subspace flows related to the symmetric eigenproblem

The classes of continuous-time flows on Rn×p that induce the same flow on the set of p- dimensional subspaces of Rn×p are described. The power flow is briefly reviewed in this framework, and a subspace generalization of the Rayleigh quotient flow [Linear Algebra Appl. 368C, 2003, pp. 343-357] is proposed and analyzed. This new flow displays a property akin to deflation in finite time. © 2008 Yokohama Publishers.

红鲫血型的血清学研究

运用经典血清学方法首次在红鯽中证明了一种与金枪鱼中的A-B-O血型及人类的ABO血型模式相似的红细胞抗原系统,命名为S血型系统。该系统有四种血型表型:S~1,S~2,S~2S~2和S~0,推测它由S~1、S~2和S~0三个复等位基因决定。