一类四阶常微分方程正解存在性

应用锥上不动点定理讨论一类四阶两点边值问题正解存在性。     

溴化铊和氯化铊中激子的结合能

利用巳有的电子——空穴有效作用势,引进一校正因子ε/ε_0后,用变分法计算溴化铊和氯化铊中激子的结合能,得出的结果比现有的其它理论与实验结果符合得更好。     

Effect of hyperphenylalaninemia on polyphosphoinositides content of rat brain

Summary Hyperphnylalaninemia (experimental PKU) induced in developing rats by treatment with p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) plus phenylalanine (PHE) causes a significant reduction in the triphosphoinositide (TPI) and diphosphoinositide (DPI) content of brain. Since TPI and DPI play an important role in excitable nervous membranes, the functional abnormality in experimental and perhaps in genetic PKU may be related to the reduction in TPI and DPI content.This work was supported by research grant NS14938 from National Institutes of Health.     

Antigenic differences between a primary hamster lymphosarcoma and its liver metastases

Summary An antiserum was raised in rabbits against a primary metastasizing lymphosarcoma (ML) of the hamster. This was made tumor-specific by absorption with normal hamster tissue extracts. Immunoglobulin-G was prepared and tested for its cytotoxicity towards cells derived from the primary tumor and its liver metastases. The ML-specific IgG was found to be 2–5 times more cytotoxic for cells derived from the primary tumor compared to cells obtained from liver metastases. Acknowledgments. The authors thank the North of England Cancer Research Campaign and the Manpower Services Commission for financial support.     

Dissolution behavior of bioactive glass ceramics with different CaO/MgO ratios in SBF-K9 and r-SBF

In the present work,we studied dissolution behavior of three glass ceramics samples each having 34 SiO2–14.5 P2O5–1 CaF2–0.5 MgF2(%wt)and ratio of CaO/MgO varying from 11.5:1 to 1:11.5 in conventional SBF(SBF-K9) and revised SBF(r-SBF) that has ionic concentration exactly equal to that of human blood plasma.For that purpose,samples were immersed in fluids for different time periods upto 25 days.Thin film XRD analysis revealed the diffusive nature of the phases on the surfaces of samples after soaking for different time periods in r-SBF.It showed the poor precipitation and small thickness of the HCAp layer on the samples as compared to that in SBF-K9,thus indicating the fitness and sensitivity of r-SBF for in-vitro characterization of samples.AAS,FTIR and EDS revealed slow bonding rate on the surfaces of the samples in r-SBF than that in SBF-K9 that showed the dependence of bond formation on the composition of the materials as well as on the physiological fluid used for in-vitro characterization.The rate of HCAp formation was slower in r-SBF due to more competitive adsorption of CO3 ions to Ca and Mg ions owing to greater amount of CO3 in r-SBF than that in SBF-K9.It shows the importance of CO3 content in the physiological fluids for the in-vitro assessment of samples.So,r-SBF is recommended to be used for assessment of samples to clearly understand their behavior in-vivo.     

Strain-resolved community proteomics reveals recombining genomes of acidophilic bacteria

Microbes comprise the majority of extant organisms, yet much remains to be learned about the nature and driving forces of microbial diversification. Our understanding of how microorganisms adapt and evolve can be advanced by genome-wide documentation of the patterns of genetic exchange, particularly if analyses target coexisting members of natural communities. Here we use community genomic data sets to identify, with strain specificity, expressed proteins from the dominant member of a genomically uncharacterized, natural, acidophilic biofilm. Proteomics results reveal a genome shaped by recombination involving chromosomal regions of tens to hundreds of kilobases long that are derived from two closely related bacterial populations. Inter-population genetic exchange was confirmed by multilocus sequence typing of isolates and of uncultivated natural consortia. The findings suggest that exchange of large blocks of gene variants is crucial for the adaptation to specific ecological niches within the very acidic, metal-rich environment. Mass-spectrometry-based discrimination of expressed protein products that differ by as little as a single amino acid enables us to distinguish the behaviour of closely related coexisting organisms. This is important, given that microorganisms grouped together as a single species may have quite distinct roles in natural systems and their interactions might be key to ecosystem optimization. Because proteomic data simultaneously convey information about genome type and activity, strain-resolved community proteomics is an important complement to cultivation-independent genomic (metagenomic) analysis of microorganisms in the natural environment.