Albumin resuscitation protects against traumatic/hemorrhagic shock-induced lung apoptosis in rats

Objective： To determine the effects of albumin administration on lung injury and apoptosis in traumatic/hemorrhagic shock （T/HS） rats. Methods： Studies were performed on an in vivo model of spontaneously breathing rats with induced T/HS; the rats were subjected to femur fracture, ischemia for 30 min, and reperfusion for 20 min with Ringer＇s lactate solution （RS） or 5% （w/v） albumin （ALB）, and the left lower lobes of the lungs were resected. Results： Albumin administered during reperfusion markedly attenuated injury of the lung and decreased the concentration of lactic acid and the number of in situ TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end labelling （TUNEL）-positive cells. Moreover, immunohistochemistry performed 24 h after reperfusion revealed increases in the level of nuclear factor κB （NF-κB）, and phosphorylated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase （MAPK） in the albumin-untreated group was down-regulated by albumin treatment when compared with the sham rats. Conclusion： Resuscitation with albumin attenuates tissue injury and inhibits T/HS-induced apoptosis in the lung via the p38 MAPK signal transduction pathway that functions to stimulate the activation of NF-κB.     

[Re(OH2)3(CO)3]+与组氨酸配位反应的研究

化合物[NEt4]2[ReBr3(CO)3]具有良好的水溶性,在水溶液中以水合三羰基一价铼阳离子[Re(OH2)3(CO)3] 的形式存在, 其中三个配位水分子很容易被其它配体取代.本文详细研究了[Re(OH2)3(CO)3] 与组氨酸(histidine)的反应,采用红外光谱和1HNMR对配合物fac-[Re(η3-his)(CO)3]的结构进行了表征.     

The neural mechanisms of pain-related affect and memory

The pain experience includes a sensory-discriminative and an emotional-affective components. The affective dimension refers to the unpleasantness or aversion of sensation. The great progress at the genetic, molecular, cellular, and systemic levels on the study of the sensory dimension of pain has been made over past four decades. However, “to consider only the sensory features of pain, and ignore its motivational and affective properties, is to look at only part of the problem and not even the most important part of that”. A line of clinic observations indicate that the patients with chronic pain suffer from much more affective disturbance than pain itself. Obviously, physiological arousal and hypervigilance to pain cause negative affect, such as anxiety, anger, worry, aversion, even tendency of suicide, these negative affective states in turn enhance pain sensation. Today, more and more attention has been paid to the study on mechanisms underlying affective dimension of pain. In order to deepen and expand our understanding of the nature of pain, this review summarizes the main progress and recent findings from our laboratory regarding affective component of pain in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and cell biochemistry.     

合成肽核酸单体组氨酸的保护策略

以L-组氨酸为起始原料,设计合成了含组氨酸残基的手性肽核酸单体.以叔丁氧羰基(Boc)保护α-氨基,羧基形成苄酯加以保护,分别以苄氧羰基(Cbz)及2,4-二硝基苯基(Dnp)作为咪唑基的临时和永久保护基,共九步反应,手性肽核酸单体总收率13.3%.     

CD100 is a leukocyte semaphorin

CD100 was originally described as an activation molecule on the surface of human T lymphocytes. Its triggering through distinct epitopes leads to different signals of costimulation with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) or with CD3 and CD2. Interestingly, CD100 was shown to associate with different partner molecules in T cells. First, CD100 can associate with CD45, a key molecule with protein tyrosine phosphatase activity involved in T-cell transduction this association is physical and has functional consequences for both partners. Second, CD100 interacts in its cytoplasmic domain with a Ser/Thr kinase for which it represents a preferential substrate. Recently, CD100 was identified as a member of the semaphorin gene family. This family comprises approximately 20 structurally related proteins. The first semaphorins were identified in the developing nervous system. Function has been shown for only some of them and involves repulsion during growth cone guidance. Since CD100 was the first semaphorin identified in the immune system, this raises the possibility of the involvement of members of the semaphorin family in other physiological phenomena outside the nervous system. Received 1 March 1998; received after revision 8 June 1998; accepted 8 June 1998     

植物细胞钙靶蛋白的研究进展

简述了植物细胞的钙离子调控过程，对钙调蛋白、钙调磷酸酶B类蛋白和钙离子依赖型蛋白质激酶3类钙靶蛋白的最新研究进展进行了综述。     

MAP kinase specifically mediates the ABA-induced H<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>2</Subscript> generation in guard cells of<Emphasis Type="Italic">Vicia faba</Emphasis> L.

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is involved in regulating adverse physiological processes, including stomatal closure, seed development and germination, and mediating many environmental stress responses, such as drought, salinity and extreme temperatures[1,2]. In re-sponse to various stress stimuli, ABA synthesis is in-creased in plant cells, which triggers a series of physio-logical responses to adapt the stress conditions[1—3]. For example, under water deficit, ABA acts directly on…     

Characterization of a calmodulin binding protein kinase from<Emphasis Type="Italic">Arabidopsis thalian</Emphasis>

A full-length calmodulin binding protein kinase cDNA ,AtCBK1 ,from Arabidopsis has been isolated by screening of an Arabidopsis cDNA library and by 5′-RACE-Northern blot and in situ hybridization indicated that the expression of AtCBK1 was more abundant in the vascular bundles and the meristems than in other tissues,The phylogenetic analyses revenl that AtCBK1 is different from animal CaMKs and it falls into CRK subgroup,indicating that they may come from different ancestors,The result suggests that AtCBK1 encoldes a CaM-binding serine/threonine protein kinase.     

Modulating multidrug resistance through inhibiting of protein kinase C activity by phenothiazines

In the present study, actions of phenothiazines(PTZ) in reversing multidrug resistance(MDR) and inhibiting PKC activity were investigated. It was found that the three PTZs caused 2.49, 36.58 and 75.78 fold reversal of K562/AO2 MDR cells resistant to adriamycin, respectively, while the chemosensitizer verapamil caused 40 fold reversal in the same condition, indicating that PTZ11 is a novel reversal agent of MDR and a potential chemotherapeutic reagent for tumor therapy. PKC activity analysis in the presence of PTZs showd that PTZ6 and PTZ11 inhibited rat brain protein kinase C activity in a manner of dose_dependent. The IC 50 values were (489.77±31.4) and (113±9.64) μmol/L, respectively. PTZ7 had no inhibition on PKC activity. Further study showed that PTZ11 could reduce PMA_mediated activation of PKC in a manner of dose_dependent, suggesting that PTZ11 might compete for the high_affinity phorbol ester binding site within PKC molecule. Recently, an X_ray structure of PMA in complex with PKC Cys2 activator_binding domain was solved. We therefore decided to explore the possible binding model of PTZ11 with PKC molecule using SYBYL 6.02 program. It was shown that the binding site of PTZ11 with PKC molecule partially overlapped with that of PMA, providing for the first time new data for designing PKC inhibitors and MDR reversal drugs.