褪黑素对持续光照小鼠学习记忆能力的影响

运用Ｙ－迷宫检测小鼠的分辨学习和记忆能力,观察了年龄,每天２４小时连续１个月的持续光照和每日定时注射褪黑素对小鼠分辨学习和记忆能力的影响。结果表明,成年小鼠与青年小鼠相经学习和记忆能力下降;持续光照可引起小鼠学习记忆能力出现不同程度的下降;实验结果提示,褪黑素在维持学习记忆能力中具有重要作用。     

一些含指数函数的函数方程（Ⅰ）

本文确定满足条件ｆ（ｘｙｚ）＝ｆ（ｘｚｙ）的方程ｆ（ｘｙ）＋ｆ（ｘｙ－１）－［Ψ（ｙ）＋Ψ（ｙ）－１］ｆ（ｘ）＝ｇ（ｘ）ｈ（ｙ）的一般解．     

几何型哈什法和图象的快速合成

提出用图象特征点的不变量阿芬变换和哈什表索法,实现两幅邻近图象的快速合成,并用实验证明其有效性。     

矩阵函数单重积分的格点漂移技术及应用示例

建立了矩阵函数单重积分的格点漂移技术,并阐述了其特殊的数学意义;把格点漂移技术应用于分立基量子系统中的一般转动算符矩阵的格点方法计算中,并将其结果应用于计算二维叠加态在一般转动算符作用下的几率分布演变比。     

大熊猫父权确定的DNA证据

本文对成都大熊猫繁育研究基地,成都动物园,福州大熊猫研究中心及昆明动物园圈养繁殖的大熊猫１４胎次,１９只幼子,２５只次参配雄兽个体的被毛,血液,精液,肝,甲醛固定组织细胞,以及粪,尿等样品,采用同位素与荧光素标记基因探针作ＤＮＡ指纹图谱分析,得到了玫些有意义的结论。     

A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

The seeding of an expanse of surface waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean with low concentrations of dissolved iron triggered a massive phytoplankton bloom which consumed large quantities of carbon dioxide and nitrate that these microscopic plants cannot fully utilize under natural conditions. These and other observations provide unequivocal support for the hypothesis that phytoplankton growth in this oceanic region is limited by iron bioavailability.     

Insect motion detectors matched to visual ecology

To detect motion, primates, birds and insects all use local detectors to correlate signals sampled at one location in the image with those sampled after a delay at adjacent locations. These detectors can adapt to high image velocities by shortening the delay. To investigate whether they use long delays for detecting low velocities, we compared motion-sensitive neurons in ten species of fast-flying insects, some of which encounter low velocities while hovering. Neurons of bee-flies and hawkmoths, which hover, are tuned to lower temporal frequencies than those of butterflies and bumblebees, which do not. Tuning to low frequencies indicates longer delays and extends sensitivity to lower velocities. Hoverflies retain fast temporal tuning but use their high spatial acuity for sensing low-velocity motion. Thus an unexpectedly wide range of spatio-temporal tuning matches motion detection to visual ecology.     

Medical representations of the body in Japan: gender, class, and discourse in the eighteenth century

This paper examines the introduction of European anatomy to Japan via translated medical texts in the eighteenth century. It argues how detailed illustrations of the body found in the texts presented a new discourse by which to objectify and control the body, and new metaphors and analogies by which to view society. Inspection of bodily parts through dissection and the reading of anatomical texts marked a transition to Western forms of science, to 'reliable' knowledge which was certified by the social status of the author. By looking at one important text, the Kaitai shinsho [A New Book of Anatomy] (1774), it will be shown that changes in representations of the body reflect the social construction of gender.     

Nα-quinaldyl-L-arginine·HCl,a new defensive alkaloid fromSubcoccinella-24-punctata (Coleoptera,Coccinellidae)

The isolation of N-quinaldyl-L-arginine·HCl (1) from the CoccinellidaeSubcoccinella-24-punctata is reported. The structure, first established on the basis of the analysis of the spectral properties of1, has been confirmed by synthesis. The alkaloid is of endogenous origin and markedly deterrent to ants.     

2-Carboxyethylgermanium sesquioxide,a synthetic organogermanium compound,as an inducer of contrasuppressor T cells

2-Carboxyethylgermanium sesquioxide (Ge-132), a synthesized organogermanium compound with immunomodulaing activities, was shown to be an inducer of anti-suppressor T cells in normal mice. The suppressor cell activity of T6S cells, a clone of burn-induced CD8⁺ IL-4-producing suppressor T cells, was clearly inhibited when a mixed lymphocyte-tumor cell reaction of the clone was conducted with splenic mononuclear cells from mice treated orally with a 100 mg/kg dose of Ge-132. The activity of anti-suppressor cells was demonstrated in spleens of mice 2 days after treatment with Ge-132 and reached its peak on day 3. The anti-suppressor cells induced by the compound were of a contrasuppressor T cell-linage, because they were characterized as CD4⁺ CD28⁺ TCR/⁺ Vicia villosa lectin-adherent T cells. These cells produced IFN- but did not produce IL-2, IL-4, IL-6 or IL-10 in their culture fluids. CD4⁺ anti-suppressor T cells induced by Ge-132 may be different from other subsets of CD4⁺ T cells because Th1 and Th2 cells generated in our laboratory did not adhere toVicia villosa lectin-coated petri dishes, and each produced specific cytokines. Th1 cells produced IFN- and IL-2 while Th2 cells produce IL-4 and IL-10 in vitro. These results suggest that Ge-132 may be useful as an inducer of contrasuppressor T cells in immunocompromised individuals bearing suppressor T cells. To eliminate suppressor T cells from immunocompromised hosts may result in improved resistance from various opportunistic infections.