Phenotypic analysis of antigen-specific T lymphocytes

Identification and characterization of antigen-specific T lymphocytes during the course of an immune response is tedious and indirect. To address this problem, the peptide-major histocompatability complex (MHC) ligand for a given population of T cells was multimerized to make soluble peptide-MHC tetramers. Tetramers of human lymphocyte antigen A2 that were complexed with two different human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-derived peptides or with a peptide derived from influenza A matrix protein bound to peptide-specific cytotoxic T cells in vitro and to T cells from the blood of HIV-infected individuals. In general, tetramer binding correlated well with cytotoxicity assays. This approach should be useful in the analysis of T cells specific for infectious agents, tumors, and autoantigens.     

Antibody- and cell-mediated immune responses of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae-infected and bacterin-vaccinated pigs

The number involved in and the rate of migration of donor leucocytes into the following recipient organs (spleen, thymus, bone marrow, lung and mesenteric lymph nodes) were measured in two rat models of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) using donor-specific MHC class I antibodies. The first OLT model is one that does not require immunosuppression in order to achieve tolerance and involved the transplantation of DA (MHC haplotype, RT1a) livers into PVG (RT1c) recipients. The second model was one that required a 7-day (10 mg/kg) treatment with cyclosporin A (CsA) to achieve tolerance and used DA donors into Lewis (RT1(1)) recipients. Recipient organs were biopsied on days 3, 20 and 87 following OLT and donor leucocyte migration was quantified by immunohistochemistry and computer densitometry of immunoblots of detergent-solublized tissues in order to resolve both membrane-bound and soluble donor MHC class I antigen. In a separate experiment, spleen biopsies were taken following OLT on days 3 and 15 from the naturally tolerizing OLT model (DA into PVG), treated with and without CsA for 7 days and compared with the (DA into Lewis) model. The initial rate of leucocyte migration between days 3 and 21 following OLT was found to be the most rapid into the spleen, followed by the bone marrow and mesenteric lymph nodes in the naturally tolerant (DA into PVG) model when compared with the (DA into Lewis) model. The number of donor leucocytes in the spleen and mesenteric lymph nodes in both models was, however, approximately the same by 87 days. No real difference in the rate of leucocyte migration was seen in the thymus or the lung for both transplant models over the time course assayed. CsA was found to lower the rate of donor leucocyte migration only over the period it was administered. The rate of donor leucocyte migration into the spleen was still much lower 15 days after OLT in the (DA into Lewis) model compared with the (DA into PVG) model treated with and without CsA. Thus the differences in the rate of donor leucocyte migration into the spleen, bone marrow and mesenteric lymph nodes immediately following OLT may offer an explanation as to why the (DA into PVG) combination is able to accept a transplanted liver without immunosuppressive therapy.     

基于Web的工程索赔决策支持系统的研究

针对我国工程索赔经验少、索赔专家稀缺的实际情况，提出了一种基于Web的工程索赔决策支持系统，首先综合了数据仓库，联机分析处理，数据挖掘技术于一体的综合决策支持系统，给出了数据仓库、模型库和知识库的具体设计，最后对系统的实现作了简要的介绍，该系统的应用旨在建立一个功能强大的在线工程索赔支持平台，共享索赔专家丰富的知识和经验，帮助承包商完成复杂的索赔工作。     

特征线法分析长距离输油管道的流动瞬变过程

本文建立了基于特征线方法求充动瞬变过程的数值模型，编制了针对长距离输油管道流动瞬变过程的分析软件。在数值处理上，Ｄａｒｃｙ＝Ｗｅｉｓｂａｃｈ摩擦力项用二阶精度格式来近似，因此保证了高粘度流体在流动瞬变过程分析时的计算稳定性和精确度。模型考虑了埋管地形对沿线瞬变压力的影响，当某一泵站发生水击后其它站的反应同其上控程序确定。应用该软件，分析模拟了某一长距离输油管道在中间泵站停电或末站瞬时关阀情况下的流     

水淬渣罐铸造中支臂及支轴的热节问题分析

分析了钢渣水淬渣罐铸造过程中存在的支臂部位热节处理和支轴部位相对尺寸铸造定位问题。通过改造支臂结构,分散了集中于支臂部位的热节;利用特种模型材料和对支轴的准确定位,解决了支轴部位的相对尺寸精度问题。     

耐热钢主蒸汽管的焊接

1前言我厂动力区三期锅炉项目为2台75 t/h和1台130 t/h锅炉,与之配套的主蒸汽管道大量使用不同规格的15CrMo耐热管材,其主要规格为D273mm×11mm、D219mm×10mm、D159mm×9mm、D76mm×6mm、D36mm×4mm,管内蒸汽工作温度为450℃,工作压力为3.82 MPa,根据DL5007—92《电力建设施工及验收技术规范(》火力发电厂焊接篇)的要求,50%探伤,焊后24 h进行X射线探伤,评定标准为SD143—85,Ⅱ级合格。为保证质量,对15CrMo钢的焊接工艺特点进行了分析,评定了焊接工艺。2焊接工艺特点2、1 15CrMo属耐热钢,一般在热处理状态下焊接,其热处理状态为900…     

河流地貌特征多样性的保护

河流作为一个有机的生态整体与生物多样性共存,构成了一种相互耦合的生态系统.河流丰富的地貌形态为流域生物多样性创造了很好的条件,是生物群落多样性的基础.现代水利工程应该克服对河流形态的多样化重视不足和忽略生态环境的缺陷,在治河过程中,尊重河流流域的自然状况,尊重各类生物的生存权利;认识并遵循河流地貌演变的客观规律,逐步完善河流生态工程建设措施;保护河流地貌形态特征多样性,为生物的生长、繁殖、栖息提供条件,达到保护河流生态系统多样性,维持河流系统健康的目的.     

基于Web Services的水调自动化系统

在阐述水调自动化系统主要应用功能及介绍Web Services技术的基础上,结合WebServices的原理及实现机制提出了面向网络服务的水调自动化系统设计方案.介绍了该系统的总体结构、实现思路及其技术优势和不足,为水调自动化系统的研制与开发提供了一个新型、可靠的设计方案.     

A role for Rev in the association of HIV-1 gag mRNA with cytoskeletal beta-actin and viral protein expression

Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) Rev acts by inducing the specific nucleocytoplasmic transport of a class of incompletely spliced RNAs that encodes the viral structural proteins. The transfection of HeLa cells with a rev-defective HIV-1 expression plasmid, however, resulted in the export of overexpressed, intron-containing species of viral RNAs, possibly through a default process of nuclear retention. Thus, this system enabled us to directly compare Rev+ and Rev+ cells as to the usage of RRE-containing mRNAs by the cellular translational machinery. Biochemical examination of the transfected cells revealed that although significant levels of gag and env mRNAs were detected in both the presence and absence of Rev, efficient production of viral proteins was strictly dependent on the presence of Rev. A fluorescence in situ hybridisation assay confirmed these findings and provided further evidence that even in the presence of Rev, not all of the viral mRNA was equally translated. At the early phase of RNA export in Rev+ cells, gag mRNA was observed throughout both the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm as uniform fine stippling. In addition, the mRNA formed clusters mainly in the perinuclear region, which were not observed in Rev+ cells. In the presence of Rev, expression of the gag protein was limited to these perinuclear sites where the mRNA accumulated. Subsequent staining of the cytoskeletal proteins demonstrated that in Rev+ cells gag mRNA is colocalized with beta-actin in the sites where the RNA formed clusters. In the absence of Rev, in contrast, the gag mRNA failed to associate with the cytoskeletal proteins. These results suggest that in addition to promoting the emergence of intron-containing RNA from the nucleus, Rev plays an important role in the compartmentation of translation by directing RRE-containing mRNAs to the beta-actin to form the perinuclear clusters at which the synthesis of viral structural proteins begins.