A microanalysis of colloid osmotic pressure

Summary A needle type of colloid osmometer has been devised with special attachments which made it useable with 3-l samples. It has been used in oncometry of fresh water teleosts to give the following results: 5.1±1.0 mm Hg for goldfish, 5.2±0.71 mm Hg for carp, and 14.3±0.75 mm Hg for eel.This study was supported in part by Research Grant 387036 from the Ministry of Education of Japan.invited to National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.     

Recent results on hydrogen and hydration in biology studied by neutron macromolecular crystallography

Neutron diffraction provides an experimental method of directly locating hydrogen atoms in proteins, a technique complimentary to ultra-high-resolution [1, 2] X-ray diffraction. Three different types of neutron diffractometers for biological macromolecules have been constructed in Japan, France and the United States, and they have been used to determine the crystal structures of proteins up to resolution limits of 1.5-2.5 A. Results relating to hydrogen positions and hydration patterns in proteins have been obtained from these studies. Examples include the geometrical details of hydrogen bonds, H/D exchange in proteins and oligonucleotides, the role of hydrogen atoms in enzymatic activity and thermostability, and the dynamical behavior of hydration structures, all of which have been extracted from these structural results and reviewed. Other techniques, such as the growth of large single crystals, the preparation of fully deuterated proteins, the use of cryogenic techniques, and a data base of hydrogen and hydration in proteins, will be described.     

A possible process of the secondary sterilization: Delayed anovulation syndrome

Zusammenfassung Die Wirkung verschiedener Testosterondosen auf die postpuberale Ovulation von Ratten wurde untersucht, wobei an Ovarien der Nachweis gelang, dass der anovulatorische Zustand nach der Pubertät testosteron-dosisabhängig ist.

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Supported by a research grant from the Ministry of Education of Japan.     

Enatioselective[2 2 2] Cycloaddition as A Synthetic Tool

1 Results Transition metal-catalyzed [2 2 2] cycloaddition is one of the most efficient protocols for the construction of six-membered ring system.Our group has comprehensively studied various types of highly enantioselective [2 2 2] cycloaddition for the synthesis of chiral cycloadducts; we already reported an iridium-catalyzed intermolecular [2 2 2] cycloaddition between α,ω-diynes,having various tethers and substituents on the alkyne termini,and monoalkynes,possessing oxygen or/and nitrogen functiona...     

Structure, expression and divergence of T-cell receptor beta-chain variable regions

Analysis of three new T-cell receptor beta-chain variable regions together with those in the literature indicates that they have both remarkable similarities and differences with those of immunoglobulin. Less than 10 V regions appear to predominate in the thymus. V beta sequences are much more heterogeneous at the amino acid level than are immunoglobulin V regions and they appear to diverge between species much more quickly, apparently the result of additional hypervariable regions. Three of these putative new hypervariable regions lie outside of the classical immunoglobulin binding site, an indication that important interactions may be occurring in these regions with polymorphic MHC determinants.     

芯片调试技术中插入点和监听电路区域的研究

根据硬件开销和缺陷的检测能力评估了一种可重构的调试设计方案.对于要调试的目标电路,首先设计并完成了一套由4个32位处理器核组成的多处理机系统,然后评估该调试设计电路的硬件架构.对改变调试电路排列的评估结果表明,调试电路的硬件开销占用所实现的多处理机系统在8.6%～12.7%的范围内.其次,对是否可以通过调试电路发现故障效应进行了评估.在一个16位处理器核上注入了10种不同的故障并且检查其是否会被每一个设置在处理器核上的观测点所发现,同时测量了观察所需的时钟周期数.最后还评估了每一种故障的可观察率以及每一个观察点的可观察率.