The effect of partial hepatectomy upon circadian distribution of mitosis in the cornea of rats

Zusammenfassung Die Resultate zeigen, dass der oder die Mechanismen, welche die Mitosis in der Cornea von normalen Tieren synchronisieren, nach partieller Hepatektomie immer noch aktiv sind.

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This work was supported in part by a Grant (CY-6473) from the Natl. Inst. Health, USPHS, and from Fundacao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil.     

Electrically-induced mechanical activity of the isolated guinea-pig sciatic nerve. Influences of calcium and anoxia

Summary The electrically induced motility of isolated segments of guinea-pig sciatic nerves is reported. This motility was characterized by waves of tensional variations. The removal of Ca²⁺ from the suspending solution, the addition of EDTA as well as anoxia, resulted in a decrement of tension accompanied by a prolongued duration of the cycles of mechanical activity.This work was supported by grant 6638, from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas de la República Argentina (C.O.N.I.C.E.T.).     

Calcitonin in tissues of thyroidectomized monkey

Summary Immunochemical studies indicate that immunoreactive calcitonin (iCT) is present in many tissues of monkey following thyroidectomy (thx) (e.g. liver, thymus, lung). Extrathyroidal iCT may play a role in calcium metabolism.Supported by the Ella O. Latham Trust, George Washington, NCI Grant RO1CA22137-02, and the Veterans Administration.     

Control of flowering and storage organ formation in potato by FLOWERING LOCUS T

Seasonal fluctuations in day length regulate important aspects of plant development such as the flowering transition or, in potato (Solanum tuberosum), the formation of tubers. Day length is sensed by the leaves, which produce a mobile signal transported to the shoot apex or underground stems to induce a flowering transition or, respectively, a tuberization transition. Work in Arabidopsis, tomato and rice (Oryza sativa) identified the mobile FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) protein as a main component of the long-range 'florigen', or flowering hormone, signal. Here we show that expression of the Hd3a gene, the FT orthologue in rice, induces strict short-day potato types to tuberize in long days. Tuber induction is graft transmissible and the Hd3a-GFP protein is detected in the stolons of grafted plants, transport of the fusion protein thus correlating with tuber formation. We provide evidence showing that the potato floral and tuberization transitions are controlled by two different FT-like paralogues (StSP3D and StSP6A) that respond to independent environmental cues, and show that an autorelay mechanism involving CONSTANS modulates expression of the tuberization-control StSP6A gene.     

庆大霉素/水杨酸/壳聚糖复方纳米粒的制备及体外释放

通过壳聚糖与三聚磷酸钠的离子交联作用制备了具有拮抗庆大霉素耳毒性功效的庆大霉素/水杨酸复方壳聚糖纳米粒。用紫外分光光度计、纳米粒度仪和Zeta电位仪、透射电子显微镜、扫描电子显微镜、傅里叶变换红外光谱仪和X射线衍射仪等考察了壳聚糖纳米粒的粒径、zeta电位、形态、载药能力及体外释放行为。结果显示复方纳米粒为球形,平均粒径为40 nm;庆大霉素与水杨酸的包封率分别为(91.24±0.24)%和(80.75±0.15)%,载药量分别为(34.15±1.02)%和(38.35±0.48)%;在体外释放试验中,庆     

Intravenous delivery of a multi-mechanistic cancer-targeted oncolytic poxvirus in humans

The efficacy and safety of biological molecules in cancer therapy, such as peptides and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), could be markedly increased if high concentrations could be achieved and amplified selectively in tumour tissues versus normal tissues after intravenous administration. This has not been achievable so far in humans. We hypothesized that a poxvirus, which evolved for blood-borne systemic spread in mammals, could be engineered for cancer-selective replication and used as a vehicle for the intravenous delivery and expression of transgenes in tumours. JX-594 is an oncolytic poxvirus engineered for replication, transgene expression and amplification in cancer cells harbouring activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/Ras pathway, followed by cell lysis and anticancer immunity. Here we show in a clinical trial that JX-594 selectively infects, replicates and expresses transgene products in cancer tissue after intravenous infusion, in a dose-related fashion. Normal tissues were not affected clinically. This platform technology opens up the possibility of multifunctional products that selectively express high concentrations of several complementary therapeutic and imaging molecules in metastatic solid tumours in humans.     

支持向量机在大类别数分类中的应用

研究支持向量机在大类别数分类中的应用;结合二叉决策树的基本思想提出一种基于支持向量机（support vector machine,SVM)的大类别数分类解决方法,即SVM决策树方法,对不同背景下可选用的SVM决策树的结构进行了讨论,分析了SVM决策树的特点,并对其识别错误率进行数学进行,结果表明该方法可降低平均分类错误率,对实际应用中的多类分类问题提供新的途径。     

基于计算池模型的网格性能分析

简要分析了传统网格计算中存在的不足之处,并对当前比较实用的一种网格计算模型(网格计算池模型)用排队论的方法进行了系统的研究,定量分析了网格计算池模型的特性,对网格计算能起到一定的指导作用,并且对组成网格计算池的高性能计算机数量的选择给出了一些指导性的意见。