Ion-channel sensing of ferricyanide anion based on a supported bilayer lipid membrane

Ferricyanide anion has usually been used as a marker of ion-channel sensors. In this work we first found that ferricyanide, itself, can act as a stimulus to regulate the permeability of sBLM prepared from didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (a kind of synthetic lipid) on a GC electrode. We used cyclic voltammetry and a.c. impedance to investigate this phenomenon. The interaction between sBLM and ferricyanide concerns time. Furthermore, we developed a sensor for ferricyanide anion. The ion-channel sensor is highly sensitive. It can detect ferricyanide concentration as low as 5 muM.

稀土离子与红细胞作用的~(133)Cs NMR研究

随着稀土资源的不断开发利用,它们不可避免地通过多种途径进入生物体内,因而从分子和细胞水平上研究稀土的生物效应具有非常重要的理论和实际意义.关于稀土与细胞作用的研究已有诸多报道,本文报道用~(133)Cs NMR方法研究La~(3+)对Cs~+跨膜进入红细胞的影响.对于物质跨膜传输的研究,首先需要合适的手段将被传输物质在膜两侧的分布区分开.在碱金属离子中,仅~(133)Cs~+在不引入顺磁位移试剂情况下,细胞内外NMR信号能确切区分,并且在体系中无K~+时,Cs~+有类似于K~+的功能,故~(133)Cs是研究稀土离子与细胞作用

应用便携式微机伏安仪测定钯

用便携式微机伏安仪对贵金属Pd的电化学性能和测定进行了研究。在1 mol/L HCl溶液中Pd(Ⅱ)浓度2.5ng/ml～60μg/ml范围峰高是线性增加的。回收范围82％～105％。相对标准偏差为(n=8)3.8％。本法应用于贵金属回收液中Pd的测定,获得较为满意的结果。

Expression, purification of recombinant flounder MRF4 protein in Escherichia coli and analysis of its polyclonal antibodies

MRF4 is one of muscle regulatory factors and plays critical roles during skeletal muscle development. The muscle development is important for the fish growth which is an important economic factor for the fish culture. To analyze the function of MRF4 in fish, the founder MRF4 antibody was prepared. The flounder MRF4 was cloned, ligated into prokaryotic expression vector pET-30b and expressed in strain E. coli BL21 (130). The recombinant flounder MRF4 fusion protein was soluble and purified with cobalt IMAC resins. To prepare MRF4 polyclonal antibodies, rabbits were immunized with the soluble protein and the increasing level of antibodies was determined by Western blot. Also, the endogenous flounder MRF4 was recognized by the anti-serum. The result further proved the existence of the anti-MRF4 antibody in the anti-serum, which will be useful for studies on the function of flounder MRF4.

东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液硫化物形成过程

东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液区构造环境上属于快速扩张中心，该区段洋中脊拉张速率达到了12cm/yr，轴部地堑平均水深2630m。本文即是对该研究区（103°54.41´W, 12°42.68´N）获得的热液烟囱体硫化物样品展开了研究。借助偏光显微镜观察了硫化物显微结构特征，并分析了硫化物中的矿物组合。东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液硫化物中常见矿物为Fe硫化物和Zn硫化物，并经历了由早期Fe硫化物为主转变为晚期成熟化以Zn硫化物为主的过程；根据观察到的显微结构，东太平洋海隆13ºN附近热液硫化物的形成至少可划分出四个阶段即黄铁矿阶段、黄铜矿阶段、黄铁矿-闪锌矿和闪锌矿阶段。 建立了热液硫化物样品中常、微量元素的测试方法，测定了东太平洋海隆13°N附近常、微量元素组成，并与有沉积物覆盖的北胡安德富卡脊Middle Valley烟囱体硫化物和弧后环境的北斐济盆地富Zn型烟囱体硫化物进行了对比。以Cu、Pb、Zn相对含量百分比划分，东太平洋海隆13ºN附近热液硫化物属富Zn型。 阐述了东太平洋海隆13ºN附近热液硫化物微量元素组成空间变化特征及元素比值在样品中的演化，并分析了常微量元素之间及元素/Cu值与1/Cu之间的相关性。Cd、Ga、In主要以类质同像的形式存在于Zn硫化物中，Co的主要寄主矿物是Zn硫化物。在东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液硫化物的形成过程中，常量元素Cu、微量元素Mo趋向于在高温(T>300℃)条件下自流体相沉淀。对东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液硫化物而言，硫化物样品中Cu含量、Cu/Pb及Mo/Pb值可以为形成硫化物的流体的温度变化提供指示性佐证；对应于形成硫化物的流体温度由高温至低温的演化，流体化学组成也相应地发生了演化，其中Sr、Ba、Au等微量元素按指数函数规律富集。对获取的硫化物样品进行了R型因子分析，旋转后获得的因子可以区分出形成硫化物的流体的温度和化学组成这两个因素的影响。 在热力学计算的基础上绘制了东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液Fe-S-H2O系统布拜图，据此阐明了实际情况下东太平洋海隆13°N附近热液流体由高温至低温的过程中，硫化物中优势矿物黄铁矿的稳定场的演化。在此基础上结合已有的动力学实验和硫同位素分馏的研究成果，揭示了沉淀硫化物的热液活动过程中形成优势矿物黄铁矿的可能的主要化学反应历程和形成硫化物的流体的温度变化对黄铁矿形成的热力学机制的影响。

Flow cytometry and ultrastructure of cryopreserved red seabream (Pagrus major) sperm

The objectives were to assess motility, fertilizing capacity, structural integrity, and mitochondrial function in fresh versus frozen-thawed (15% DMSO was used as a cryoprotectant) sperm from red seabrearn (Pagrus major). Mean (+/- S.D.) rates of motility, fertilization and hatching of frozen-thawed sperm were 81.0 +/- 5.4, 92.8 +/- 1.9, and 91.8 +/- 5.2%, respectively; for fresh sperm, they were 87.5 +/- 7.7, 95.8 +/- 2.4, and 93.8 +/- 4.2%. Although motility was lower in frozen-thawed versus fresh sperm (P < 0.05), there was no effect (P > 0.05) of cryopreservation on fertilization or hatching. Based on scanning and transmission electron microscopy, 77.8 +/- 5.6% of fresh sperm had normal morphology, whereas for frozen-thawed sperm, 63.0 +/- 7.2% had normal morphology, 20.6 +/- 3.1% were slightly damaged (e.g. swelling or rupture of head, mid-piece and tail region as well as mitochondria), and 16.4 +/- 4.2% were severely damaged. Sperm were stained with propidium iodide and Rhodamine 123 to assess plasma membrane integrity and mitochondrial function, respectively, and examined with flow cytometry. For fresh sperm, 83.9% had an intact membrane and functional mitochondria, whereas for frozen-thawed sperm, 74.8% had an intact membrane and functional mitochondria, 12.7% had a damaged membrane, 9.9% had nonfunctional mitochondria, and 2.6% had both a damaged membrane and nonfunctional mitochondria. In conclusion, ultrastructure and flow cytometry were valuable for assessment of frozen-thawed sperm quality; cryopreservation damaged the sperm but fertilizing ability was not significantly decreased. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

高寒草甸地区小哺乳动物群落与植物群落演替关系的研究

本文阐述了小哺乳动物群落和植物群落的演替关系；验证了动物群落对植物群落结构的非独立性假设。小哺乳动物群落种的多样性与植物群落的盖度和高度呈显著负相关，植物群落的演替引起小哺乳动物群落的相应演替。并通过加速次生植被演替进程的试验，调控了有害小哺乳动物群落，提出从生态演替规律出发，在退化严重的草地上，通过人的合理参与，协调动植物群落间的结构关系，以达到人类获取畜牧业最大持续生产量，最终使生物生产量得到永续利用的目的。

Host sex and ectoparasite infections of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae, Hodgson) on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

A total of 449 plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae Hudgson) individuals were sampled with rattraps from 21 plots (size 1 ha) randomly scattered over the area of the species distribution at the altitude 3275-4807 in a.s.l. in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (West China). Two main ectoparasite species Hypoderma satyrus Brauer and Ixodes crenulatus Neumann of plateau pika were surveyed, and the relations between host sex and parasitism were analyzed. The results were: (i) although not significantly, the infection rate of female young was close to zero and lower than that of male young (6%), while the infection rate of female sub-adults (19%) was contrarily - higher than that of male sub-adults (11%); adult females had significantly higher (41%) infection rate than that of males (18%) (P<0.001); (ii) the parasite infection rates for both males and females increased with increasing age, but female age-groups had obviously steeper slope. We suggested that the differences of body mass, growth rate and home range between males and females had mainly caused the sex-biased parasitism (SBP) of plateau pika at each age stage. Also, due to the higher increases of body mass and maybe as well as of the home range differences between consecutive age-groups, the parasite infections of females became more sensitive to the influences of age than that of males.

500kV瓷柱式双断口SF_6断路器的三维电场分析

采用模拟电荷法计算了500kV瓷柱式双断口SF_6断路器“Y”形和“T”形布置型式的空间三维电场,绘出了两种布置型式中轴向剖面场域分布图及断路器触头表面环向场强分布图,分析了两种系统布置的特点。

湖南、广西泥盆纪硅岩地球化学与沉积构造背景

During the Devonian, a complicated carbonate platform-basin configuration was created through transtensional rifting in the context of opening of Devonian South China Sea; extensive bedded chert, commonly interbedded with tuffaceous beds, occurred in the narrow, elongate interplatform basins (or troughs) in South China, where they occurred earlier (Early Devonian) in southern Guangxi and later (early Late Devonian) in northern Guangxi-south central Hunan. In order to unravel the origin and distribution of the bedded chert successions, and their relationships to basement faulting activities during the opening of the Devonian South China Sea, studies of element (major, minor and REE) geochemistry and Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd isotopic systematics are carried out upon the chert deposits. These chert deposits commonly have high SiO2 contents and (average 94.01%) and low TFe2O3 (average 0.55%), together with other geochemical parameters, suggestive of both biogenic and hydrothermal origins. However, Fe/Ti ratio are high along the elongate interplatform basins(troughs) to the northwest along Wuxiangling-Zhaisha-Chengbu, and to the southeast along Xiaodong-Mugui-Xinpu, suggesting relatively intense hydrothermal activities there. They generally contain very low total REE contents (∑REE average 31.21ug/g) with mediate negative Ce anomalies (mean Ce/Ce*=0.83) and low Lan/Cen values (average 1.64), indicating an overall continental margin basin where they precipitated. The northward increases in Ce/Ce* values, particularly along the elongate troughs bounded both to the east and west of the Guangxi-Huanan rift basin, suggest a northward enhancement of terrigenous influences, thereby reflecting a gradual northward propagation of open marine setting. Generally low positive Eu anomalies in the chert, except for the apparently high Eu anomalies in the chert from Chengbu (Eu/Eu* up to 4.6), suggest mild hydrothermal venting activities in general, except for those at Chengbu. The initial 87Sr/86Sr (0) ratios of chert generally vary from 0.712000 to 0.73000 , suggesting influences both from terrigenous influx and seawater. The Nd isotopic model ages (tDM or t2DM) and initial εNd (0) values of chert vary mostly from 1.5 to 2.1 Ga, and from –16 to –21, respectively, implying that the silica sources were derived from the provenances of the Palaeoproterozoic crust relics at depth. The high εNd (0) values of chert (-0.22 to 14.7) in some localities, mostly along the elongate troughs, suggest that silica sources may have been derived from deeper-seated mantle, being channeled through the interplate boundary fault zones extending downwards to the mantle. At Wuxiangling, Nanning, chert occurs extensively from the Emsian through the Frasnian strata, both U/Th ratios and tDM ages of chert reached up to a maximum in the early Frasnian corresponding to the extensive development of chert in South China, pointing to a maximum extensional stage of Devonian South China basin, which is supported by the Ce/Ce* values as is opposed to the previous datasets as the coeval minimum values.

The Bifurcation Interpreter: A Step Towards the Automatic Analysis of Dynamical Systems

The Bifurcation Interpreter is a computer program that autonomously explores the steady-state orbits of one-parameter families of periodically- driven oscillators. To report its findings, the Interpreter generates schematic diagrams and English text descriptions similar to those appearing in the science and engineering research literature. Given a system of equations as input, the Interpreter uses symbolic algebra to automatically generate numerical procedures that simulate the system. The Interpreter incorporates knowledge about dynamical systems theory, which it uses to guide the simulations, to interpret the results, and to minimize the effects of numerical error.

Winkler springs (p-y curves) for liquefied soil from element tests.

In practice, piles are most often modelled as "Beams on Non-Linear Winkler Foundation" (also known as “p-y spring” approach) where the soil is idealised as p-y springs. These p-y springs are obtained through semi-empirical approach using element test results of the soil. For liquefied soil, a reduction factor (often termed as p-multiplier approach) is applied on a standard p-y curve for the non-liquefied condition to obtain the p-y curve liquefied soil condition. This paper presents a methodology to obtain p-y curves for liquefied soil based on element testing of liquefied soil considering physically plausible mechanisms. Validation of the proposed p-y curves is carried out through the back analysis of physical model tests.