骨髓干细胞的可塑性及其在栓塞性疾病中的应用

栓塞性血管阻塞在急性心肌梗死、脑梗塞、血栓闭塞性脉管炎、糖尿病足等发病过程中起着重要作用。目前临床上针对这些疾病的治疗手段主要有：药物溶栓、血管旁路移植和介入手术等,多年来其治疗方法无实质性进展。上个世纪九十年代人们发现了干细胞新的生物学特性—可塑性,对干细胞可塑性的研究以及相关技术的发展为心脏病、老年痴呆、帕金森等的治疗带来了希望,也为栓塞性疾病的治疗开辟了新途径,有望成为治疗手段之一。     

Thrombospondin co-localises with TGFβ and IGF-I in the extracellular matrix of human osteoblast-like cells and is modulated by 17β estradiol

Thrombospondin (TSP) is a multifunctional glycoprotein which is synthesised by several cell types including osteoblasts, and incorporated into the extracellular matrix (ECM) of these cells. The function and regulation of TSP in bone is not clear. In this study, using a long term culture model of human osteoblast-like cells, we examined the distribution of TSP in the ECM and its modulation by added estradiol. In this model the osteoblast-like cells form a regular multilayer which continues to increase in depth up to 50 days post confluence. In the ECM of these cultures and in 19-week fetal bone, the bone markers osteocalcin and alkaline phosphatase were diffusely distributed in the matrix. In contrast, labelling for TSP was concentrated, confined to the banded collagen and its immediately adjacent ECM. This pattern of labelling resembled that of the growth factors transforming growth factor-I (TGF), and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), with which TSP label co-localised. Labelling intensities were comparable between fetal bone and the in vitro material for TSP, TGF and IGF-I. TSP label was present by 10 days post confluence, reached a maximum by 20 days, and declined slowly thereafter, a time course which was similar to that of IGF-I. Incubation of osteoblast-like cell cultures with 17 estradiol resulted in an increase in multilayer depth and a maximal 3-fold increase in TSP labeling at 30 days as well as approximately 2-fold increases for TGF and IGF-I. The dose-response relationship for these responses to estradiol treatment was biphasic with maximal increases at 10^–10 M–10^–11 M of added estradiol. Treatment with 17 estradiol produced labelling intensities that were not significantly different from controls. Studies with other cell types have suggested that TSP may be involved in modulation of growth factor activity. The similarities between TSP, TGF and IGF-I, in terms of their distribution and regulation by 17 estradiol treatment, may indicate a role for TSP in modulating bone cell proliferation and function through interaction with local growth factors.     

不同贮藏条件下鳗骨油氧化特性的研究

研究了室温下（15℃）鳗骨油在空气中的自氧化速度,以及温度和贮藏条件对鳗骨油氧化速度的影响。实验所设的温度梯度分别为6℃、15℃、35℃,贮藏条件分别是敞口,密封（蜡封）和用N2驱除氧气后密封保存。实验结果显示,室温下鳗骨油在空气中的自氧化速度,敞口存放4天,过氧化值就已超过0.15;温度和贮藏条件对鳗骨油的氧化速度有显著影响,驱除氧气低温贮藏可以有效地防止鳗骨油的氧化。     

Polypeptide translocation machinery of the yeast endoplasmic reticulum

Proteins enter the secretory pathway by two general routes. In one, the complete polypeptide is made in the cytoplasm and held in an incompletely folded state by chaperoning adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases) such as hsp70. InSaccharomyces cerevisiae, fully synthesized secretory precursors engage the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane by interaction with a set of Sec proteins comprising the polypeptide translocation apparatus (Sec61p, Sec62p, Sec63p, Sec71p, Sec72p). Productive interaction requires displacement of hsp70 from the precursor, a reaction that is facilitated by Ydj1p, a homologue of theEscherichia coli DnaJ protein. Both DnaJ and Ydj1p regulate chaperone activity by stimulating the ATPase activity of their respective hsp70 partners (E. coli DnaK andS. cerevisiae Ssa1p, resepectively). In the ER lumen, another hsp70 chaperone, BiP, binds ATP and interacts with the ER membrane via its contact with a peptide loop of Sec63p. This loop represents yet another DnaJ homologue in that it contains a region of 70 residue similarity to the J box, the most conserved region of the DnaJ family of proteins. In the presence of ATP, under conditions in which BiP can bind to Sec63p, the secretory precursor passes from the cytosol into the lumen through a membrane channel formed by Sec61 p. A second route to the membrane pore that is used by many other secretory precursors, particularly in mammalian cells, requires that the polypeptide engage the ER membrane as the nascent chain emerges from the ribosome. Such cotranslational translocation bypasses the need for certain Sec proteins, instead utilizing an alternate set of cytosolic and membrane factors that allows the nascent chain to be inserted directly into the Sec61p channel.     

Some citrus chitinases also possess chitosanase activities

Several acidic chitinase and chitosanase isoforms were found in 4-week-old nonembryogenic sweet orange (Valencia [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck]) callus tissue. Two isoforms (designated A1-CF1 and A1-CF2) were purified to homogeneity using HPLC size exclusion, anion exchange, and chromatofocusing techniques. Both hydrolase isoforms exhibited activity with either colloidal chitin or solubilized shrimp shell chitosan. Specific activities for the purified isoforms could not be calculated because of the lack of protein and contamination of ampholytes. However, the specific activities for chitinase and chitosanase after anion exchange were respectively 404 nmol GlcNAc per min per mg protein and 2,475 nmol GlcN per min per mg protein. The M_r for both enzymes was 30,500. The homogeneous proteins cross-reacted in western blots with antiserum against a basic class I potato leaf chitinase.     

颅骨弹性模量时效性的实验研究

采用猪颅骨为实验材料，使用应变电测法对颅骨各层弹性模量随风干时间的变化规律进行了实验研究。实验结果表明：密质骨弹性模量约是松质骨弹性模量的2．5倍，松质骨对颅骨弹性模量的影响有限；猪颅骨单层密质骨和整体的弹性模量相差约13．9％；冷冻后经室温下自然解冻的猪颅骨单层密质骨的弹性模量变化量相当于新鲜密质骨的9．2％，单纯板障松质骨片的变化量为17％，去掉一层密质骨后的颅骨片变化量为18．1％，整体猪颅骨片的变化量为15．6％；由于各生物体颅骨结构基本相同。由此可知，如果在人颅骨上也能得到相似的结论，在进行有关人颅骨研究时可大大延长同一块颅骨的使用时间。或者可以用风干颅骨、解冻后风干颅骨来代替新鲜骨，然后根据其时效特性对实验数据进行修正，这样会大大降低实验成本和难度。     

骨髓干细胞与急性心肌梗死的血管新生

骨髓干细胞可分化为心肌细胞、血管内皮细胞、平滑肌细胞等，能再生心肌和血管，可用于心肌梗死的治疗。本文就骨髓干细胞在血管新生方面的生物学特性及其对心梗后的血管新生作用作一综述。     

无关供者骨髓移植治疗多次复发性急性白血病

文章探讨无关供者骨髓移植治疗多次复发急性白血病的疗效 .经改良 Bucy方案预处理后对一例第三次复发的急粒患者行无关供者骨髓移植 ,同时给防治 GVHD、抗感染治疗 .结果 + 2 1天骨髓在患者体内植活 ,+ 35天细胞染色体分析呈供者型 ( 4 6,XX.正常核型 ) ,+ 84天血型转换成供者型 ,至今已无病生存超过 6个月 .结果表明 ,无关供者骨髓移植对多次复发的急性白血病患者具有治疗价值