Lactate Kinetics in veterinary Critical Care: A Review

Elevation in blood lactate concentration, with or without accompanying metabolic acidosis, is a hallmark finding in patients with circulatory compromise, and is also consistently noted in other conditions affecting critically ill or injured individuals. Little is reported in a veterinary literature regarding lactate measurement in the emergency and critical care setting, despite impressive reports of the clinical usefulness of lactate measurement in people. The purpose of this article is to review lactate kinetics and the clinical utility of lactate measurement. Limitations to lactate evaluation will also be discussed.     

GI PiCO2: Tissue Specific Monitoring For Improving Patient Outcomes

Improvements in human patient monitoring despite their development in animals, do not always find their way into veterinary clinical use due to financial constraints. Gastrointestinal intraluminal CO₂ partial pressure (Gip₁CO₂) monitoring, however, is not only proving very beneficial in human trauma and critical patient care but is also very likely to become relatively inexpensive. By providing information on the perfusion adequacy of a high risk, critically important tissue, the GI mucosa, GI P₁CO₂ monitoring offers an easily accesible indicator of the efficacy and adequacy of resuscitative interventions. The potential for decreasing morbidity and mortality is enormous. Therefore, the practicing veterinarian should become familiar with GI P₁CO₂ monitoring theory and technology so he or she can be better prepared to incorporate it into practice when in becomes available.     

激光麻醉的镇痛机理研究——氦氖激光照射胫神经前后马脑脊液中乙酰胆碱含量、胆碱酯酶活性变化规律的探讨

本文通过对9匹临床健康马激光麻醉实验研究,用18mWHe-Ne激光照射马胫神经30分钟,确认达到了良好的全身镇痛状态,观察分析了激光照射前后三个不同时期脑脊液(CSF)内乙酰胆碱(Ach)含量、真假胆碱酯酶活性的消长规律。激光照射30分后停照10分,CSF内Ach含量显著增高,即由照前的197.91±17.89pg/ml升高到405.50±23.45pg/ml,激光停照60分时,CSF内Ach含量恢复至与照前值没有显著差异的水平。认为在激光镇痛过程中中枢胆碱能神经元功能增强,积极参与了激光麻醉。正常马CSF中真性胆碱酯酶(AchE)与假性胆碱酯酶(ChE)活性分别为2.21±0.1454、0.36±0.0486μM/ml/37℃/30′。激光照射前后马CSF内AchE和ChE均未发生显著变化。     

壳寡糖与草莓细胞结合过程的研究

 壳寡糖是一类能有效的诱导植物抗病性的重要激发子。本研究用2 - 氨基吖啶酮(22AMAC)标记壳寡糖, 应用激光共聚焦显微成像技术, 研究了壳寡糖与草莓细胞结合过程。结果表明壳寡糖能通过草莓细胞壁与细胞膜结合, 在细胞壁和细胞膜上有其结合位点, 与壳寡糖的结合具有专一性。     

Spatial pattern analysis of pre- and post-hurricane forest canopy structure in North Carolina,USA

Existing spatial patterns of a forest are in part a product of its disturbance history. Using laser altimetry and field measures of canopy top height to represent pre- and post-hurricane canopy topography, respectively, we measured changes in spatial patterns of stand structure of a United States southern mixed coniferous-deciduous for est. Autocorrelative and fractal properties were measured in this opportunistic study to quantify changes in canopy architecture along twelve, 190-250 m transects that were subjected to moderate to high levels of wind disturbance. Prior to the hurricane, canopy heights were autocorrelated at scales <40 m with an average fractal dimension of 1.71. After the disturbance, autocorrelation disappeared; the average fractal dimension rose to 1.94. This shift towards spatial randomness illustrates part of the cyclical nature of ecosystem development. It shows how a catastrophic collapse of biomass accumulation corresponds to a decrease in ecosystem organization across a landscape. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Effect of protein kinase C on the expression of myocardial HSP70 mRNA during myocardic ischemic preconditioning in rabbits

AIM:To study the relationship between myocardial HSP70 and PKC during myocardial ischemic preconditioning(IPC). METHODS: PKC inhibitor, polymyxin B(PMB) and PKC activator, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate(PMA) were applied to the models of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion in vivo and in vitro in rabbits, respectively, and the ventricular functions, PLA₂ in the serum, and the expression of mycardial HSP70 mRNA were examined. RESULTS:IPC decreased PLA₂ activity, improved the left ventricular function and increased the expression of myocardial HSP70 mRNA. Howerer, all these effects of IPC could be blocked by PMB. Interestingly, PMA mimicked IPC with attenuating the injuries of cardial myocytes and increasing myocardial HSP70 mRNA expression. CONCLUSION:PKC is involved in the myocardial HSP70 expression in case of ischemic preconditioning.     

高压电击法防治黄斑星天牛的研究

对黄斑星天牛虫害木(毛白杨)施以高压电击的实验结果表明,高压电击法对杀灭黄斑星天牛1～3龄幼虫效果明晃,死亡率达70%～80%;各龄幼虫停止取食率80%～90%.高压电击法在防治木材害虫、树木蛀干害虫及木材检疫上具有广阔的开发应用前景.     

热激处理对棉苗子叶可溶性蛋白质种类和含量的影响

选用抗虫棉品种DP99B,彩色棉品种绿絮1号和棕絮1号,应用现代生物科学技术和手段,研究了棉花早期(萌动期、子叶期、1叶期)热激诱导产生的热激蛋白(HSPs)种类及其含量。结果表明:3个品种3个时期热激处理,处理后41.8 KD热激蛋白含量都增加。此外,DP品种不同时期热激处理后蛋白质含量增加的有3种,含量减少的有1种,含量不变的有3种,含量测不出来的有10种;LV品种热激处理后蛋白质含量增加的有3种,含量减少的有2种,含量不变的有3种,含量测不出来的有8种;ZH品种热激处理后蛋白质含量增加的有6种,含量减少的有2种,含量不变的有2种,含量测不出来的有5种。     

冷刺激对两种泥鳅血液蛋白质的影响

采用SDS-聚丙稀酰胺凝胶电泳技术,探讨冷刺激对泥鳅血液蛋白质的影响.结果表明,泥鳅和大鳞副泥鳅的血液蛋白质发生了变化,即产生了冷激蛋白;同种泥鳅,控制产生冷激蛋白的特定基因在一定的刺激强度和刺激程度下,产生冷激蛋白的时间和种类不同;不同种泥鳅,在相同低温处理条件下,产生冷激蛋白的时间和种类也不一样.本研究不仅为研究冷激蛋白提供了前提,而且为两种泥鳅的人工养殖提供了参考.