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Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin) was administered orally (3 mg/day) to 9 healthy subjects for 4 weeks. Nocturnal melatonin levels after exposure to bright light (ca. 2500 lx) were determined, as well as the levels of plasma melatonin over 24 h. The timing of sleep was also recorded. Vitamin B12 was given blind to the subjects and crossed over with placebo. We found that the 24-h melatonin rhythm was significantly phase-advanced (1.1 h) in the vitamin B12 trial as compared with that in the placebo trial. In addition, the 24-h mean of plasma melatonin level was much lower in the vitamin B12 trial than with the placebo. Furthermore, the nocturnal melatonin levels during bright light exposure were significantly lower in the vitamin B12 trial than with the placebo. On the other hand, vitamin B12 did not affect the timing of sleep. These findings raise the possibility that vitamin B12 phase-advances the human circadian rhythm by increasing the light sensitivity of the circadian clock. 相似文献
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The timing of sleep and sleep EEG parameters in 10 healthy male subjects were investigated in four seasons under controlled conditions. The phase of nocturnal sleep was delayed about one and a half hours in winter as compared to that in summer. The duration of stage 4 sleep decreased and REM sleep increased significantly in winter compared with summer. The seasonality in the timing of sleep can be explained by photoperiodic time cues, but the changes in sleep EEG parameters are difficult to explain in terms of photoperiod. 相似文献
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XinMiao Lü LiPing Zhu Mitsugu Nishimura Yoshimune Morita Takahiro Watanabe Toshio Nakamura Yong Wang 《科学通报(英文版)》2011,56(27):2931-2940
A 380-cm-long sediment core was acquired from the deep water area of Pumoyum Co, southern Tibet. Twenty-five plant residue
samples were selected, and organic carbon stable isotopes were obtained using the AMS 14C chronological method. The 14C age and carbon reservoir effect were calibrated with surface sedimentation rate measurements using 210Pb dating. Results showed that the core sediment deposited over 19 cal ka BP. Based on a multi-proxy analysis of TOC and IC
contents, grain size and pollen assemblage data, the palaeoclimatic evolution of Pumoyum Co was reconstructed since the last
glacial. Pumoyum Co was a shallow lake prior to 16.2 cal ka BP; although the glacier around the lake began to melt due to
increasing temperatures, climate was still cold and dry. In the interval of 16.2–11.8 cal ka BP, the sedimentary environment
fluctuated drastically and frequently. Two cold-events occurred at 14.2 and 11.8 cal ka BP, and these may correspond to the
Older Dryas and the Younger Dryas events, respectively. After 11.8 cal ka BP, Pumoyun Co developed into the deep lake as it
is now. The lake water temperature was relatively lower at that time because of influx of cold water from glacial meltwater
entering the lake. As a result, the multi-proxy indicators showed no sign of warm conditions. Comparisons between the sedimentary
record of Pumoyum Co with that of other lakes of the same age in southern Tibet indicate a warmer climate following the last
deglaciation influenced the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. These results imply that the southwest Asian monsoon gradually became
stronger since the deglaciation during its expansion to the inner plateau. The glacial-supplied water of the lake responded
sensitively to cold-events. The entire southern Tibet region was dominantly influenced climatically by the southwest Asian
monsoon during the Holocene. 相似文献
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A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
High-strain-rate superplasticity describes the ability of a material to sustain large plastic deformation in tension at high strain rates of the order of 10-2 to 10-1 s-1 and is of great technological interest for the shape-forming of engineering materials. High-strain-rate superplasticity has been observed in aluminium-based and magnesium-based alloys. But for ceramic materials, superplastic deformation has been restricted to low strain rates of the order of 10-5 to 10-4 s-1 for most oxides and nitrides with the presence of intergranular cavities leading to premature failure. Here we show that a composite ceramic material consisting of tetragonal zirconium oxide, magnesium aluminate spinel and alpha-alumina phases exhibits superplasticity at strain rates up to 1 s-1. The composite also exhibits a large tensile elongation, exceeding 1,050 per cent for a strain rate of 0.4 s-1. The tensile flow behaviour and deformed microstructure of the material indicate that superplasticity is due to a combination of limited grain growth in the constitutive phases and the intervention of dislocation-induced plasticity in the zirconium oxide phase. We suggest that the present results hold promise for the application of shape-forming technologies to ceramic materials. 相似文献
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H. Seyama J. S. Edmonds M. J. Moran Y. Shibata M. Soma M. Morita 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1991,47(11-12):1193-1196
Examination of a section of an otolith from a teleost fish by fast atom bombardment-secondary ion mass spectrometry (FAB-SIMS) revealed seasonal periodicity in Sr, Na, and K concentrations that corresponded with visually observed annual banding. Strontium maxima also corresponded with Na and K minima and vice versa. In addition there was a general, apparently age-related, trend in Sr levels, with concentrations at the edge of the otolith being higher than in the core. 相似文献
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Keiko Morita 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》1997,10(5):533-547
Japan's postwar economic “miracle” has attracted much attention. The question is whether the miracle arises from the “unique”
and enigmatic nature of the Japanese culture. This paper presents Weber's views of modernity and Habermas's reconstruction
of Weber's negative view of modernity. Then the paper turns to Habermas's theory of communicative action, especially, his
two-level concept of society integrating the lifeworld and system, and his critical theory of modernity, which analyzes and
accounts for its sociopathologies. Then the paper proceeds to argue that Japan's modernity was born, not out of disenchantment,
but out of reenchantment, with the concimitant consequence in neopositive ideologies through which the system colonized the
lifeworld, leading to imprisonment in a “soft” iron cage. 相似文献
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Substance P (SP) is an undecapeptide originally isolated from the gut and since shown to occur within neurones in several parts of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Immunohistochemical studies indicate an exceedingly dense network of SP-containing nerves within the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig ileum. These nerves are intrinsic to the gut wall and can release SP to contract the longitudinal muscle layer. We have previously shown that SP directly depolarizes myenteric neurones and that this depolarization has a time course and ionic mechanism similar to the slow excitatory postsynaptic potential (e.p.s.p.) which can be produced by electrical stimulation of presynaptic nerves within the myenteric ganglia. We wondered whether SP might mediate this slow synaptic potential. We report here that the SP depolarization and the slow e.p.s.p. are reversibly depressed by chymotrypsin, an enzyme which degrades SP, although the responses to acetylcholine, serotonin and an unknown hyperpolarizing transmitter are unaffected. The results provide direct evidence that a peptide can mediate chemical transmission between neurones in the mammalian nervous system. 相似文献
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Y. Morita 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1969,25(12):1277-1277
Summary The photosensitivity of the epiphysis cerebri of bullfrogs (Rana catesbyana) was investigated by recording with 3 M-KC1 glasscapillary microelectrodes. Of 65 units isolated from the tractus pinealis 21 were inhibited by short wave lengths and excited by longer wave lengths (chromatic response), 44 units were inhibited by all wave lengths (achromatic responses). Most effective for the excitatory component of the chromatic response was green. The spike amplitude of the chromatic response was 5–15 mV, that of the achromatic response 30–40 mV. 相似文献