Therapeutic applications of bone marrow-derived stem cells in liver transplantation for end-stage liver diseases

Today, liver transplantation (LT) is the only established treatment for end-stage liver diseases. The de- velopment of LT, including OLT, cadaveric LT, split LT, living donor LT (LDLT), brings hopes to patients with these diseases. However, increasing donor shortage, rejection and life-long immunosuppression with its side effects are the major limitations of this therapy strategy. Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMDSCs) are capable of differentiating into hepatocyte-like cells and contribute to liver injury repair. The microenvironment of liver injury caused by rejection, ischemia/reperfusion, loss of liver mass, recurrence of HCV and "small-for-size syndrome" after LT can attract a variety of bone marrow-derived stem cell population to the peripheral circulation and then migration to the injury liver to promote the hepatic function restoration. Additionally, BMDSCs can also take part in the functional regeneration of living donor liver after LDLT. This participation in liver regeneration may be associated to the interac- tion between SDF-1and its receptor CXCR4, involving HGF, IL-8, MMP9, and VEGF/VEGFR-2. BMDSC with its bio-characteristics could maintain the allograft tolerance from different angles and in different ways. In conclusion, BMDSCs transplantation, as a new assistant therapeutic method for LT, will ex- pand the space of LT, and provide more survival opportunities for the patients suffering liver diseases in the future.     

Finding finer functions for partially characterized proteins by protein-protein interaction networks

Based on high-throughput data, numerous algorithms have been designed to find functions of novel proteins. However, the effectiveness of such algorithms is currently limited by some fundamental factors, including (1) the low a-priori probability of novel proteins participating in a detailed function; (2) the huge false data present in high-throughput datasets; (3) the incomplete data coverage of functional classes; (4) the abundant but heterogeneous negative samples for training the algorithms; and (5) the lack of detailed functional knowledge for training algorithms. Here, for partially characterized proteins, we suggest an approach to finding their finer functions based on protein interaction sub-networks or gene expression patterns, defined in function-specific subspaces. The proposed approach can lessen the above-mentioned problems by properly defining the prediction range and functionally filtering the noisy data, and thus can efficiently find proteins’ novel functions. For thousands of yeast and human proteins partially characterized, it is able to reliably find their finer functions (e.g., the translational functions) with more than 90% precision. The predicted finer functions are highly valuable both for guiding the follow-up wet-lab validation and for providing the necessary data for training algorithms to learn other proteins.     

Identification of the Angel -related elements in cyprinid fishes and their phylogenetic implications

Angel-related element belongs to the family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs). In this paper we report the identification of an Angel- related element in the series Leuciscini of cyprinid fishes, which is located in the second intron of the growth hormone (GH) gene. We have also found that this element is absent in orthologous locus in the series Barbini of cyprinid fishes, that provides new evidence for the monophyly of the series Leuciscini. The insertion of Angel -related element into the GH gene might take place in the common ancestor of the series Leuciscini after its divergence from the series Barbini. The high sequence divergence and relatively broad species distribution of Angel-related elements implies that they might be ancient transposons which appeared about 26 million years ago.     

试论魏晋“深情”及其诗学意义

魏晋时期,伴随着理性世界的转变,人们的感性世界也发生了极大的变化,出现所谓的魏晋“深情”。这种以知识分子为情感主体的“深情”,既不同于《诗经》时代原发性的“民情”,也不同于儒家“发乎情,止乎礼义”的“性情”和道家“有人之形而无人之情”的“天情”,它是知识分子个体生命意识觉醒之后于天地宇宙中寻求心灵安顿和精神自由的情感,即人生和宇宙合而为一的生命超越之情。正是这种魏晋“深情”,把中国诗学引向强调“神与物游”和“情景相生”的抒情道路,并深深地刻上了宇宙情怀。     

浅析供热计量收费计算原理与方法

介绍了热量计量的基本原理和热费确定的基本原则,阐述了供热总费用的构成与计算原理以及用户热费的构成与计算原理。     

合金铸铁激光处理的探讨——Ⅱ.激光辐照工艺参数的控制

用热传导方程控制激光辐照温度,建立了一种新回归方程以控制激光辐照硬化深度,选用卡尔丹公式列热传导方程及同归方程联立求解,可得到同时满足一定的硬化深度及表面最高温度双重要求的工艺参数,此种方法可作为激光硬化处理工艺参数的控制或预报,对本合金铸铁的激光硬化处理,其表面温度的下限应大于其熔点温度,即以表面产生微熔的快速冷凝处理为宜,并以选取低功率慢扫描为最佳。     

CGPSS-F仿真系统数据的采集与分析

本文详细地叙述了“医院门诊部为门诊病人服务的CGPSS-F仿真系统”数据采集与分析的方法.利用CGPSS-F仿真系统的驻留在队列中的实体数和资源处于繁忙状态的单元数,合理调整实体在系统的时间.根据资源容量的利用,实体排队的长度和实体在系统的时间,确定实用的系统参数.     

高分辨率谱估计算法MUSIC和Minimum-Norm及性能比较

本文从理论上详细叙述了高分辨率谱估计技术MUSIC和Minimum-Norm算法的机理,给出并比较了它们的空域谱平坦度、3dB谱宽度和谱峰值随信噪比的变化情况.文章对工程设计人员加深理解、选择算法具有一定的参考意义.     

一种新的基于Kohonen网络的图像矢量量化

矢量量化是一种重要的数据压缩方法.本文利用Kohonen自组织映射神经网络进行矢量量化,首次较为详细地讨论了具体实现的步骤与细节,并在此基础上为改善边缘质量,提出一种基于Laplas算子检测边缘弓引导神经网络训练的方法,并通过实验证明其效果是明显的.     

并行算法软件库PASL

本文介绍了并行算法软件库ＰＡＳＬ。ＰＡＳＬ库运行在具有共享存储的多处理机上，它可以用于科学工程计算和仿真。