Chronic effects of nicotine on gastric secretion in vagotomized rats

Résumé La sécrétion gastrique a été mesurée dans des rats mâles avec ligature pylorique de deux heures, après 14 jours d'injections sous-cutanées de nicotine ou de NaCl. Les résultats de l'administration de nicotine furent une augmentation du volume du suc gastrique, de la production d'acide et de la production de pepsine. La vagotomie abdominale bilatérale a prévenu la stimulation gastrique secreteuse, provoquée par la nicotine.     

Hybrid sterility in cattle ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Summary Male offspring resulting from interspecific crosses between the cattle ticks,Boophilus annulatus andB. microplus, are sterile. Hybrid females were found to produce sterile sons through 3 backcross generations.     

Temperature and acidity for maximal fluorescence of serotonin and serotonin-O.P.T.

Résumé Dans la détermination fluorimétrique de la sérotonine elle-mÊme et du complexe sérotonine-O.P.T. (o-phthaldialdéhyde) un maximum de fluorescence a été atteint pour des normalités de HCl de 3.25–3.50 et 6.25–6.50, respectivement. Pour les deux procédés, on a noté des rapports en sens inverse entre la fluorescence produite et la température de l'échantillon, pour des températures comprises entre 5 à 35 C. Entre la température ambiante (de 20 C) et 5 C, la fluorescence s'est accrue de 30% environ.     

Microparticle record in the Guliya ice core and its comparison with polar records since the last interglacial

Based on the study of oxygen isotope and microparticle in the Guliya ice core,atmospheric dust and environmental changes in the northwest Tibetan Plateau since the last interglacial were revealed.The microparticle record indicates that low dust load on the Plateau in the interglacial.Particle concentration increased rapidly when the climate turned into the last glacial and reached the maximum during the MIS 4.In the Last Glacial Maximum, however,the enhancement of microparticle concentration was slight,differing to those in the Antarctic and Greenland.On the orbital timescale,both the temperature on the Tibetan Plateau and summer solar insolation in the Northern Hemisphere had their impact on the microparticle record,but the difference in phase and amplitude also existed. Though having the same dust source, microparticle records in the ice cores on the Tibetan Plateau and the Greenland seem to have different significance.     

Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces

The cyclotron frequency of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field B is related to its mass m and charge q by the relationship omega(c) = qB/m. This simple relationship forms the basis for sensitive mass comparisons using ion cyclotron resonance mass spectroscopy, with applications ranging from the identification of biomolecules and the study of chemical reaction rates to determinations of the fine structure constant of atomic spectra. Here we report the observation of a deviation from the cyclotron frequency relationship for polarizable particles: in high-accuracy measurements of a single CO+ ion, a dipole induced in the orbiting ion shifts the measured cyclotron frequency. We use this cyclotron frequency shift to measure non-destructively the quantum state of the CO+ ion. The effect also provides a means to determine to a few per cent the body-frame dipole moment of CO+, thus establishing a method for measuring dipole moments of molecular ions for which few comparably accurate measurements exist. The general perturbation that we describe here affects the most precise mass comparisons attainable today, with applications including direct tests of Einstein's mass-energy relationship and charge-parity-time reversal symmetry, and possibly the weighing of chemical bonds.     

BubR1 insufficiency causes early onset of aging-associated phenotypes and infertility in mice

Faithful segregation of replicated chromosomes is essential for maintenance of genetic stability and seems to be monitored by several mitotic checkpoints. Various components of these checkpoints have been identified in mammals, but their physiological relevance is largely unknown. Here we show that mutant mice with low levels of the spindle assembly checkpoint protein BubR1 develop progressive aneuploidy along with a variety of progeroid features, including short lifespan, cachectic dwarfism, lordokyphosis, cataracts, loss of subcutaneous fat and impaired wound healing. Graded reduction of BubR1 expression in mouse embryonic fibroblasts causes increased aneuploidy and senescence. Male and female mutant mice have defects in meiotic chromosome segregation and are infertile. Natural aging of wild-type mice is marked by decreased expression of BubR1 in multiple tissues, including testis and ovary. These results suggest a role for BubR1 in regulating aging and infertility.