基于免疫粒子群优化的移动Sink路径规划算法

为了减少能量空洞和延长网络生命周期，在无线传感网中采用移动 Sink 的方式收集节点采集的数据是解决能 量效率问题的有效措施．采集路径的规划问题类似于旅行商问题，无法得到多项式时间的解．提出了将人工免疫算法和粒子群算法相结合，针对移动 sink 数据收集的路径规划问题寻求近似最优解，仿真结果表明: 与其他算法进行性能比较，所提出的优化算法能够有效减少能耗和缩短遍历路径．     

Science Letters： A synthetic Toll-like receptor 2 ligand decreases allergic immune responses in a mouse rhinitis model sensitized to mite allergen

It has been proposed that activation of Toll-like receptors （TLRs） plays crucial roles in the polarization of adaptive immune responses. A synthetic Toll-like receptor 2 （TLR2） ligand, Pam3CSK4, has been reported to modulate the balance of Th1/Th2 responses. We evaluated the modulation effect of Pam3CSK4 on allergic immune response in a mouse rhinitis model sensitized to house dust mite allergen （HDM）. Mice were sensitized and challenged with Dermatophagoidesfarinae allergen （Der f）, and then the allergic mice were treated by Pam3CSK4. Nasal allergic symptoms and eosinophils were scored. Der f-specific cytokine responses were examined in the splenocytes and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid （BALF）. Serum level of total IgE was also detected. After establishing a mouse allergic rhinitis model with HDM, we have showed that Pam3CSK4 treatment not only ameliorated the nasal allergic symptoms remarkably but also decreased the eosinophils and total inflammation cells in BALF significantly. Analysis of cytokine profile found that IFN-7 released from either BALF or stimulated splenocytes increased markedly in Pam3CSK4-treated mice, while IL-13 decreased significantly. Moreover, serum level of total IgE was significantly lower in Pam3CSK4-treated mice than in the untreated. Thus, in an allergic rhinitis mouse model developed with HDM, Pam3CSK4 was shown to exhibit an antiallergic effect, indicating its potential application in allergic diseases.     

The melatonin rhythm: both a clock and a calendar

The paper briefly reviews the data which shows that the circadian production and secretion of melatonin by the pineal gland can impart both daily, i.e., clock, and seasonal, i.e., calendar, information to the organism. The paper summarizes the 3 patterns of nocturnal melatonin production that have been described. Clearly, regardless of the pattern of nocturnal melatonin production a particular species normally displays, the duration of nightime elevated melatonin is proportional to the duration of the night length. Since daylength under natural conditions changes daily the melatonin rhythm, which adjusts to the photoperiod sends time of year information to the organism. The melatonin receptors which subserve the clock message sent by the pineal gland in the form of a melatonin cycle may reside in the biological clock itself, namely, the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). The melatonin receptors that mediate seasonal changes in reproductive physiology are presumably those that are located on the pars tuberalis cells of the anterior pituitary gland. Besides these receptors which likely mediate clock and calendar information, melatonin receptors have been described in other organs. Interestingly, the distribution of melatonin receptors is highly species-specific. Whereas the clock and calendar information that the melatonin cycle imparts to the organism relies on cell membrane receptors, a fact that is of some interest considering the high lipophilicity of melatonin, recent studies indicate that other functions of melatonin may require no receptor whatsoever.     

Genetic and photoperiodic control of an avian reproductive cycle

European blackcaps,Sylvia atricapilla, with one breeding season per year, have a single-peaked annual testes cycle. However, African conspecifics from the Cape Verde Islands with two breeding seasons per annum demonstrate a two-peaked cycle. Both population-specific cycles reflect differences in the respective endogenous circannual rhythms. Experimental hybridization of birds of the two populations resulted in an intermediate pattern of testes cycle, thus demonstrating that there are genetic components for some temporal aspects in an avian reproductive cycle. Another characteristic of the African birds, their extremely rapid juvenile development and early sexual maturity (at an age of 5–6 months) proved largely to be a photoperiodic (short-day) effect in birds hatched in autumn. The same effect could also be induced in European conspecifics exposed to correspondingly short day-lengths.     

bFGF和NGF对小鼠免疫细胞功能的影响

目的：探讨碱性成纤维细胞生长因子(bFGF)和神经生长因子(NGF)对免疫功能的影响。方法：通过小鼠巨噬细胞吞噬。溶血空斑形成细胞(PFC)和脾细胞增殖等实验，观察bFGF和NGF对正常小鼠免疫细胞功能的影响。结果：一定剂量的啪F、NGF对小鼠免疫细胞功能有较明显的促进作用，且表现具有协同促进效应，而同剂量的NGF对免疫功能的促进作用略强于bFGF。此外，bFGF、NGF还能协同促进活化淋巴细胞分泌sIL-2R。结论：一定剂量的bFGF、NGF表现出较明显的免疫促进作用，并存在协同效应。     

小鼠腹水癌细胞脂酶的亲和制备及一些性质的研究

在接种了血癌(L—7712)及腹水癌(Hep.A)的小鼠腹水癌细胞中存在远高于正常细胞的脂酶(Lipase)活力.本文通过免疫亲和层析方法从小鼠腹水癌细胞中纯化了该脂酶,比活力达到2000国际单位/mg.蛋白.经 SDS 聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳分析,纯度达电泳纯,为单亚基酶.分子量65kd.经等电聚焦电冰分析,等电点(PI)为5.3.     

The pineal and melatonin: Regulators of circadian function in lower vertebrates

Summary The pineal has been identified as a major circadian pacemaker within the circadian system of a number of lower vertebrates although other pacemaking sites have been implicated as well. The rhythmic synthesis and secretion of the pineal hormone, melatonin, is suggested as the mechanism by which the pineal controls circadian oscillators located elsewhere. Both light and temperature cycles can entrain the pineal melatonin rhythm. The pineal, therefore, acts as a photo and thermoendocrine transducer which functions to synchronize internal cycle with cycles in the environment. A model is presented which portrays the pineal as a major component of a multioscillator circadian system and which suggests how these multiple circadian clocks are coupled to each other and to cycles of light and temperature in the external world.     

Internal interactions within the human circadian system: the masking effect

Summary In the realm of human circadian rhythms, the masking effect is defined as the change in the course of deep body temperature induced by changes in the degree of physical activity, or by the alteration between sleep and wake. This effect is particularly obvious during internal desynchronization where the rhythms of deep body temperature, and the sleep-wake sleep-wake sleep cycle — i.e. one of the masking factors — run with different periods.Every sleep onset is accompanied by a rapid drop, and wake onset by a rapid rise in deep body temperature, each one with an overshoot of about 50% of the steady state variations. When rhythms are calculated, with the dominant temperature period as the screening period, exclusively from data obtained during sleep episodes, on the one hand, and from those obtained exclusively during wake, on the other, two average cycles emerge: the sleep temperature curve and the wake temperature curve. Both run in parallel but are separated by the masking effcct. As derived from many experiments, the mean masking effect amounts to 0.28±0.06°C. The masking effect also depends to some extent on the phase of the temperature rhtthm; it is larger than average around the temperature maximum and during the descending phase of the temperature cycle, where the alertness commonly is highest and the probability to sleep, in general, and the REM sleep propensity, in particular, are smaller than average. This also can be interpreted to indicate that the sleep temperature curve is phase advanced relative to the wake temperature curve; this, on the average, by 0.9±0.3 h.If the individually determined amount of masking is added to the temperature data obtained during sleep, or substracted from the temperature data obtained during wake, a temperature curve emerges that can be though of as being purified of the masking effect. Analyses of this artificial curve allow estimation of that part of the internal interactions uninfluenced by the masking effect. On the average, about half of the amount of interaction between the rhythm of sleep-wake and that of deep body temperature is explained by the masking effect, whereas the other half is oscillatory interaction. Both types of interaction are inherent and inseparable parts of the circadian clock mechanism, as can be deduced from model considerations.     

分类规则挖掘的免疫算法

为了高效地从数据库中挖掘分类规则，提出了一种基于免疫算法的分类算法．该算法的核心思想为：对规则的前件进行固定长度编码，适应度函数的计算由分类规则的较小分类错误率、简洁性、一致性和训练实例的覆盖性构成，通过把适应度最小的个体作为先验知识来修改个体的某些分量的方法进行疫苗接种，并通过检测个体是否出现退化和模拟退火来实现免疫选择，同时还采用了基于信息增益的规则剪枝策略．在美国加州大学标准数据集中的5个数据集上将该算法与RISE和OCEC算法进行了实验比较，结果表明该算法不仅具有更快的收敛速度，而且获得了更高的预测准确率及更小的规则集。     

基于克隆选择的粗糙集属性约简方法

基于免疫克隆选择的原理，提出了一种新的粗糙集属性约简方法，将属性集合的分类近似质量作为进化目标，利用免疫反应的分布性特点通过局部并行搜索实现全局优化，并采用抗体更新和亲和力抑制手段来维持群体的多样性，保证了各抗体局部优化解的稳定性，从而获得了多个优化约简集合，通过机械故障诊断数据的实例应用，表明该方法可以获得多个符合分类质量要求的属性约简集合，因此满足了设备故障诊断的特征优化选择要求。