运输应激猪骨骼肌中热应激蛋白HSP70和HSP90家族的表达

利用Western blot技术，检测长途运输试验猪骨骼肌（背最长肌和臀长肌）中分属于HSP70家族和HSP90家族的4种应激蛋白（HSP70，HSP72，HSP86和HSP90）的表达，所有运输应激猪和对照猪肌肉组织 中均检测到了上述4种HSP，对照猪组织中HSP的表达说明HSP除了在受应激 的细胞内行使生理功能外，还具有独立于应激刺激应答以外的其它作用，6h长途运输后，HSP的表达量明显不同，HSP70和HSP72在肌肉组织中的表达虽然有一定的增加，但统计学分析差异不显（P＞0．05），而HSP86和HSP90在骨髓肌中的表达明显下降，尤以HSP90下降最显（P＜0．01），提示HSP90家族成员与肉品品质相关，可能作为判应激损伤的的指征。     

省葛藤属根瘤菌的遗传多样性研究

用AFLP、REP-PCR、23SrDNAPCR-RFLP等方法对分离自四川的23株葛藤属的根瘤菌的遗传特性进行了研究。结果表明,供试的葛藤根瘤菌遗传特性存在明显差异。AFLP分析结果显示,23个菌株分为7个AFLP遗传群;在BOXAIR-PCR分析中,23株根瘤菌则被分为5个遗传群;对23SrDNAPCR-RFLP分析表明,葛藤根瘤菌分属于中慢生根瘤菌属(Mesorhizobium)、慢生根瘤菌属(Bradyrhizobium)2个属,聚类分析结果将其划分为5个遗传群。分离自四川省的葛藤根瘤菌存在较大的遗传多样性。     

Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel

The plastic behavior of crystalline materials is mainly controlled by the nucleation and motion of lattice dislocations. We report in situ dynamic transmission electron microscope observations of nanocrystalline nickel films with an average grain size of about 10 nanometers, which show that grain boundary-mediated processes have become a prominent deformation mode. Additionally, trapped lattice dislocations are observed in individual grains following deformation. This change in the deformation mode arises from the grain size-dependent competition between the deformation controlled by nucleation and motion of dislocations and the deformation controlled by diffusion-assisted grain boundary processes.     

Developmental neuroethology: changes in escape and defensive behavior during growth of the lobster

The changes in relative efficacy of two incompatible behaviors was investigated during growth of the lobster, Homarus americanus. In larval and early juvenile stages, physiological and morphological factors favor use of the escape response over defensive behavior. In large animals, defensive behavior is preferred almost exclusively to escape behavior unless the claws are lost. The interaction of escape and defensive behavior is modified by neural and morphological factors, which are dependent on the stage in the life cycle of the organism.     

Radio Frequency Signals in Jupiter's Atmosphere

During the Galileo probe's descent through Jupiter's atmosphere, under the ionosphere, the lightning and radio emission detector measured radio frequency signals at levels significantly above the probe's electromagnetic noise. The signal strengths at 3 and 15 kilohertz were relatively large at the beginning of the descent, decreased with depth to a pressure level of about 5 bars, and then increased slowly until the end of the mission. The 15-kilohertz signals show arrival direction anisotropies. Measurements of radio frequency wave forms show that the probe passed through an atmospheric region that did not support lightning within at least 100 kilometers and more likely a few thousand kilometers of the descent trajectory. The apparent opacity of the jovian atmosphere increases sharply at pressures greater than about 4 bars.     

CD46 in meningococcal disease

The human-specific bacterial pathogen Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of sepsis and/or meningitis. The pili of N. meningitidis interact with CD46, a human cell-surface protein involved in regulation of complement activation. Transgenic mice expressing human CD46 were susceptible to meningococcal disease, because bacteria crossed the blood-brain barrier in these mice. Development of disease was more efficient with piliated bacteria after intranasal, but not intraperitoneal, challenge of CD46 transgenic mice, suggesting that human CD46 facilitates pilus-dependent interactions at the epithelial mucosa. Hence, the human CD46 transgenic mice model is a potentially useful tool for studying pathogenesis and for vaccine development against meningococcal disease.     

水作与地表覆盖旱作水稻的生长和水分利用效率

通过田间试验研究水作水稻和不同地表覆盖旱作水稻的生长和水分利用效率。结果表明 :水作稻田当季用水总量是旱作稻田的 3 5～ 3 7倍 ,旱作稻田灌溉水生产效率是水作稻田的 1 0 6～ 1 6 4倍 ,田间总水分利用效率也达到水作的 3倍左右。尽管地表覆盖有较好的保墒增温效果 ,但因水分胁迫使旱作水稻生育期较水作延长 4～ 1 0d ;旱作中的覆膜处理保墒增温效果最好 ,灌水量最低 ,其耕层土壤温度比其他旱作处理平均高 1℃ ,生育期延长时间最短。水作、覆膜、盖草和裸露处理的水稻产量分别为 95 74、 85 1 8、 84 81和 7833kg·hm-2 。覆膜处理虽在产量和水分利用效率上略高于盖草处理 ,但差异不显著 ,且覆膜处理存在成本高 ,污染土壤等缺陷。因此盖草不失为一项较好的替代水稻覆膜旱作的技术。     

Hormone-sensitive lipase: sequence, expression, and chromosomal localization to 19 cent-q13.3

Hormone-sensitive lipase, a key enzyme in fatty acid mobilization, overall energy homeostasis, and possibly steroidogenesis, is acutely controlled through reversible phosphorylation by catecholamines and insulin. The 757-amino acid sequence predicted from a cloned rat adipocyte complementary DNA showed no homology with any other known lipase or protein. The activity-controlling phosphorylation site was localized to Ser563 in a markedly hydrophilic domain, and a lipid-binding consensus site was tentatively identified. One or several messenger RNA species (3.3, 3.5, or 3.9 kilobases) were expressed in adipose and steroidogenic tissues and heart and skeletal muscle. The human hormone-sensitive lipase gene mapped to chromosome 19 cent-q13.3.