Effects of butyrate and insulin and their interaction on the DNA synthesis of rumen epithelial cells in culture

Summary Rumen epithelial cells (REC) were incubated in the presence of various concentrations of butyrate or insulin or with both of them, to obtain information on their effect on the DNA synthesis of cultured cells. The 24-h values of³H-thymidine incorporation into cellular DNA were measured in the presence of butyrate, insulin or butyrate plus insulin. While butyrate reduced DNA synthesis, insulin produced an increase over the control. Combined butyrate plus insulin treatment influenced the incorporation of label in accordance with the relative proportion of these two substances.     

Communicating junctions between pillar cells in the gills of the atlantic hagfish,Myxine glutinosa

Summary In the respiratory lamellae of the gills of the atlantic hagfish,Myxine glutinosa, pillar cells are coupled by communicating junctions. It is suggested that these cells behave like a functional syncytium.Supported by the DFG, SFB 146. The authors are indebted to Drs F. Walvig and H. Stolte for kindly providing the hagfish. The expert technical assistance of G. Voss-Wermbter, Dipl.-Ing., and H. Heidrich is gratefully acknowledged.     

常用光源对太阳电池性能的影响

讨论了太阳、荧光灯、白炽灯的光谱对太阳电池的影响，分析了同亮度下，太阳电池在荧光灯下不能工作，而在白炽灯下能正常工作的原因．     

酚醛树脂碳化产物作为锂离子电池碳电极材料(Ⅱ)──锂离子电池充放电性能测试

测试分析了酚醛树脂碳化产物组装的锂离子充放电性能．实验结果表明，树脂碳化 产物作为锂离子电池碳电极材料时，其碳化处理温度有一个最佳温度范围，酚醛树脂碳化产物 的最佳温度在７００℃左右；树脂碳化产物的比表面积是影响电池充放电性能的重要因素，碳化 产物的比表面积越大，电池的充放电量就越高，电池充放电量与充放电电流密度成反比．     

Observation and isolation of the amyloplasts ribosomes in cotyledon cells of lotus

Ribosome-like particles have been found in the proplastids in young cotyledon cells of lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn L.) Following the development of young embryo, some lamellar structures and tubular complex occurred in the plastids in young cotyledon cells, and some ribosomlike particles appeared in the loose region of these membrane system and stroma. About 15–20 d after fertilization, with the further development of plastid, a large number of starch and DNA were synthesized in the plastids, and the plastids contained abundant and clear morphologically ribosomes, some of which presented spiral structure. About 16–18 d after fertilization, amyloplasts were isolated and purified from cotyledon of lotus, and ribosomes bands were obtained by use of sucrose density gradient centrifugation of ribosomes isolated from amyloplasts. RNA and protein contents of ribosomes have also been determined.     

Blocking of lectin-like adhesion molecules on pulmonary cells inhibits lung sarcoma L-1 colonization in BALB/c-mice

Summary Adhesion and inhibition experiments with pulmonary cells of BALB/c-mouse origin and syngeneic sarcoma L-1 cells indicated that L-fucose specific lectin-like adhesion molecules, presumably situated on pulmonary cell surfaces are (at least partly) responsible for the specificity of this cell-cell interaction. Addition of specific sugars and glycoconjugates (L-fucose and fucoidan, respectively) to the incubation medium evidently inhibited the adhesion process as quantified using radiolabelled tumor cells. Unspecific carbohydrates (e.g. D-galactose) did not affect the cellular interaction. In vivo, repeated administration of fucoidan (but not of unspecific glycoconjugates) significantly inhibited the settling of metastatic sarcoma L-1 cells in the lungs of BALB/c-mice. Therefore, when lectin-like adhesion molecules on pulmonary cells were blocked with competitive glycoconjugates, tumor cell colonization of the lung could be significantly inhibited.     

Identification of hemolytic granules isolated from human myocardial cells

Summary Human myocardial cells from fresh autopsy material contained granules which possessed hemolytic activity against guinea pig and rabbit erythrocytes. The hemolytic granules, which had a density of 1.02 and a diameter of 200–300 nm, were recovered as a microsome fraction from subcellular homogenates of human myocardial cells by differential centrifugation in 300 mM sucrose containing 0.1 mM PMSF and 10 mM EDTA. The membrane lesions caused by the granules were ring-like structures with an internal diameter of about 10–17 nm, analogous to that caused by perforin- and complement-induced lysis. However, the requirement for divalent cation differed from that for perforin-induced lysis, since the microsome-mediated lysis occurred in the presence of EDTA.     

应用UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS技术分析生物诱导后雷公藤悬浮细胞化学成分

利用超高效液相色谱-四级杆-飞行时间质谱连用技术(UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS)和化学计量学结合的方法,分析生物诱导后雷公藤悬浮细胞体系中化学成分的变化.分析样品相似度、层次聚类分析(HCA)和主成分分析(PCA),建立554个共有峰的质谱指纹图谱.结果表明:通过对雷公藤离体培养体系中的质谱指纹图谱分析,鉴定了104种化学成分;生物诱导后雷公藤悬浮细胞和培养液中部分化学成分质量分比显著升高,雷公藤内酯乙、山海棠酸衍生物1、TH1、雷公藤甲素衍生物2、雷酚内酯、雷公藤甲素衍生物1、雷酚新内酯质量比分别提高了7.41,6.50,6.07,5.85,3.63,1.59,1.13倍;质荷比(m/z)为224,278,678,701的未鉴定成分质量比分别提高了2.88,1.57,4.04,6.27倍.     

白细胞介素-10与支气管哮喘之间关系的研究

白细胞介素-10(IL-10)主要由ThO和Th2细胞在激活状态下分泌的一种细胞因子,是具有多向性生物活性的强力免疫抑制因子,可阻断多种炎性细胞因子的合成,具有抗炎作用,文章就其与支气管哮喘之间关系的研究进展作一报道.     

龟鳖类血细胞研究的进展

文章概述了龟鳖类血细胞——红细胞、有粒细胞(包括嗜酸性粒细胞、嗜喊性粒细胞、嗜天青粒细胞和嗜中性粒细胞)、淋巴细胞、单核细胞、血栓细胞的特性,显微和超微结构特点,血细胞发生及功能等方面的研究进展.