Glycogen synthase kinase 3β and Alzheimer’s disease: pathophysiological and therapeutic significance

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with cognitive and behavioral dysfunction and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. Several studies have implicated molecular and cellular signaling cascades involving the serine-threonine kinase, glycogen synthase kinase β(GSK-3β) in the pathogenesis of AD. GSK-3β may play an important role in the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques, the two classical pathological hallmarks of AD. In this review, we discuss the interaction between GSK-3β and several key molecules involved in AD, including the presenilins, amyloid precursor protein, tau, and β-amyloid. We identify the signal transduction pathways involved in the pathogenesis of AD, including Wnt, Notch, and the PI3 kinase/Akt pathway. These may be potential therapeutic targets in AD. Received 19 December 2005; received after revision 24 January 2006; accepted 6 February 2006     

中国苏北预先导孔CCSD-PP2片麻岩中锆石的矿物包裹体及其超高压变质作用的证据

采用激光Raman及阴极发光技术,确认中国大陆科学钻探工程预选预先导孔CCSD－PP2几乎所有类型片麻岩中的锆石均保存典型的柯石英包体以及绿辉石、硬玉、石榴石、多硅白云母等矿物包体,表明片麻岩类岩石曾普遍经历了超高压变质作用,该成果对于重新探讨苏鲁超高压变质带的俯冲－折返机制和对中国大陆科学钻探工程的选址有重要的科学意义。     

Information processing along the course of a visual interneuron.

Locust ocellar retinal cells are innervated by giant second order cells, 2 mm long, which show discrete zones of integration along their course, including a major zone in the axonal length of the neuron. The complex synaptic arrangements which exist between higher-order afferent and efferent cells and these second order cells along their course suggests that transmission takes place by the electrotonic spread of slow potentials. The size and accessibility of these visual interneurons offers a unique preparation for examining mechanisms of graded synaptic transmission.     

Early changes of cyclic nucleotide levels in a mitogenic reaction in the rat mesentery.

By measuring simultaneously cAMP and cGMP we found a biphasic time course with regard to cGMP and the cGMP/cAMP ratio very early in a mitogenic reaction in vivo. This is a new finding.     

Effect of ethanol on toxicity and metabolism of amphetamine in the mouse.

Ethanol, 3 g/kg i.p., did not significantly alter the acute toxicity of amphetamine in the mouse. However, the urinary metabolite pattern was changed, suggesting that ethanol suppressed metabolism of the stimulant during the initial 6 h period. After 24 h, the mouse metabolized the same fraction of a given dose of amphetamine, whether it was given as amphetamine alone or amphetamine mixed with 2,3 or 4 g/kg ethanol.     

2.5 Gbit/s PHEMT前置放大器噪声分析与验证

根据OMMIC公司通过测量得到的0.2μm GaAs PHEMT器件参数模型和噪声模型,设计了2.5 Gbit/s的共源跨阻前置放大器.并根据PHEMT晶体管Y参数下的噪声模型,结合Y参数和ABCD参数下的噪声密度矩阵,分析了电路在带有晶体管噪声源情况下整个电路的噪声电压,得出了共源跨阻前置放大器等效输入噪声电流密度的理论公式.实现了芯片制作,并且对芯片进行了噪声参数的测量,测量结果、仿真结果和理论分析结论在6GHz的频率范围内基本符合.     

煤粉高压密相气力输送特性

在输送压力可达4.0MPa,固体输送流率达840kg/h的仓式泵高压气力输送试验装置上进行粉煤高压浓相气力输送试验研究.考察了流化风量、充压风量、输送总差压对煤粉输送量、固气比的影响.研究表明:随着流化风量的增大,煤粉输送量逐渐增大,固气体积比先增大然后减小;当煤粉在发料罐内被充分流化后,再加大充压风量,固气体积比逐渐减小,而煤粉输送量略有增加;输送总压差对煤粉输送量有显著影响,随着总压差的增加,煤粉输送量呈线性增加.研究结果对高压超浓相气力输送系统的设计、运行和控制具有指导作用.     

Lipids of sulfate-reducing bacteria and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria found in the Dongsheng uranium deposit

U-bearing sandstones from the Dongsheng deposit in Ordos Basin contain abundant C15-C18 fatty acids. The fatty acids may have been derived from modern and ancient organisms including organisms from the intervals of U mineralization. A certain amount of i15:0, a15:0, a17:0 fatty acids coexist with small amounts of i17:1ω7c and 10me16:0, characteristic biomarkers of Desulfovibrio and Desulfobacter sp., respectively. This indicates the existence of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in the sandstones. The presence of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB), such as Beggiatoa and Thioploca, is indicated by significant amounts of 16:1ω7c and 18:1ω7c fatty acids. The existence of the SRB in the deposit, as inferred from the fatty acids, is consistent with results from fossilized microorganisms and isotopic compositions of ore-stage pyrite. This suggests that the environment may have been favorable for the SRB to grow since ore formation (9.8-22 Ma). The bacteria may have degraded hydrocarbons directly, or indirectly utilized hydrocarbons degraded by oxic microbes in the deposits. This process may have produced 12C-rich calcite and prominent baseline humps of unresolved complex mixtures (UCM), and 25-demethylated hopanes and tricyclic terpanes. The existence of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the deposit may have resulted in bacterial sulfate reduction to sulfide, re-oxidization of the sulfide to sulfate and subsequent reduction of the sulfate to sulfide. This assertion is supported by ore-stage pyrite with δ34S values as low as-39.2‰, and the lightest sulfate (about 11‰) measured during the Phanerozoic, a difference of more than 46‰.