We compared the efficacy of three antibiotics (ceftriaxone, erythromycin and clarithromycin) against Borrelia garinii infection in mice. The nymphal ticks of Ixodes persulcatus infected with the strain JEM6 of Japanese B. garinii were allowed to feed on female C3H mice. The mice were treated with each of the antibiotics for 5 consecutive days 1, 3, or 7 weeks after tick detachment. The doses of antibiotics per day were as follows: 5 mg intraperitoneal injection of ceftriaxone, 2 mg intraperitoneal injection of erythromycin and 1 mg peroral administration of clarithromycin. The infection status in treated mice was monitored by culturing their earlobes, hearts and urinary bladders in BSK II medium. Ceftriaxone eliminated borreliae completely; however, a recurrence of infection was observed in mice treated with erythromycin and clarithromycin. 相似文献
Immunohistochemistry was applied to AMeX-fixed sections of twelve cases of gastric carcinoma obtained at surgical resection to explore the occurrence and distribution of fibrin deposits in situ. Fibrinogen was distributed in abundance throughout perivascular zones and in the connective tissue of the tumor stroma. Fibrin II (des-fibrinopeptide B-type fibrin) was easily identified in a direct apposition to the surface membranes of viable carcinoma cells, predominantly at the host-tumor interface and in the regions immediately adjacent to the zones of angiogenesis. Further studies are required to identify the triggers of the coagulation reactions as well as fibrinolytic system components in the gastric cancer tissue. 相似文献
BXSB mice have an approximately 40-60% incidence of neocortical ectopias in layer I of the prefrontal/motor cortex. Prior studies have found major behavioral differences between those with ectopias and their non-ectopic littermates. Some of these findings indicate that the two groups differ with respect to spatial reference and working memory. The purpose of this study was to measure reference and working memory in the same animals to test the hypothesis that the ectopics would have better reference memory but less effective working memory. The Lashley III maze has cul-de-sacs which must be eliminated, and T-choices where the animal has to decide whether to go left or right. Ectopic and non-ectopic mice were equally able to learn the maze and did not differ on cul-entry or T-choice errors. Then the maze was inverted and the animals were retested. Turning the maze upside down did not change the relative status of the blind alleys. Therefore, the reference memory knowledge from the prior week's training could be used to avoid entering the culs. However, inverting the maze caused a left-right mirror image reversal of the T-choices. Therefore, prior reference memory information would interfere with learning the new path through the maze, whereas working memory would enable the mouse to eliminate T-choice errors. Ectopic mice made less cul-entry errors and more T-choice errors than their non-ectopic littermates, as predicted. 相似文献
The cell cycle regulatory proteins, which include cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks), cdk inhibitors (CKIs), cyclins, and the pRB, and E2F families of proteins, constitute a network of interacting factors which govern exit from or passage through the mammalian cell cycle. While the proteins within these families have similar structural characteristics, each family member exhibits distinct expression patterns during embryogenesis and distinct biological activities. In order to begin to understand the tissue-specific roles of these interacting factors, we determined the expression pattern and activity of the pRB, E2F, cyclin, cdk, and CKI families of cell cycle regulatory proteins during retinoic acid-induced (neuronal pathway) and DMSO-induced (cardiac muscle pathway) differentiation of the pluripotent murine embryonal carcinoma cell line, P19. We demonstrate here that P19 terminal differentiation causes lineage-specific changes in the expression and activity of distinct members of the E2F, pRB, cyclin, and CKI families. Furthermore, dynamic changes in the activities of these cell cycle regulatory proteins occur through several overlapping mechanisms, culminating in repression of DNA-binding activity by all of the E2F family members as cells terminally differentiate. 相似文献
Summary: The influence of number‐average molecular weight ranging from 1.4 · 104 to 1.2 · 106 g/mol on the thermal behaviour of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been studied. Samples have been prepared by radiation‐induced degradation of commercial PTFE. The molecular weight has been calculated using end‐group concentration determined by infrared (IR) spectroscopy and 19F solid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Melting and crystallisation heats were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results have been discussed with respect to quantitative relationships between number‐average molecular weight and heat of crystallisation of PTFE described in the literature. The molecular weight calculated from Suwa's equation, which is often used in the literature, has been found to be too low.
Concentration of end‐groups and the molecular weight of PTFE versus the irradiation dose. 相似文献
There are both benefits and drawbacks to cultural diversity. It can lead to friction and exacerbate differences. However, as with biological diversity, cultural diversity is valuable in times of upheaval; if a previously effective solution no longer works, it is good to have alternatives available. What factors give rise to cultural diversity? This paper describes a preliminary investigation of this question using a computational model of cultural evolution. The model is composed of neural network based agents that evolve fitter ideas for actions by (1) inventing new ideas through modification of existing ones, and (2) imitating neighbors'' ideas. Numerical simulations indicate that the diversity of ideas in a population is positively correlated with both the proportion of creators to imitators in the population, and the rate at which creators create. This is the case for both minimum and peak diversity of actions over the duration of a run. 相似文献
A perceived limitation of evolutionary art and design algorithms is that they rely on human intervention; the artist selects
the most aesthetically pleasing variants of one generation to produce the next. This paper discusses how computer generated
art and design can become more creatively human-like with respect to both process and outcome. As an example of a step in
this direction, we present an algorithm that overcomes the above limitation by employing an automatic fitness function. The
goal is to evolve abstract portraits of Darwin, using our 2nd generation fitness function which rewards genomes that not just
produce a likeness of Darwin but exhibit certain strategies characteristic of human artists. We note that in human creativity,
change is less choosing amongst randomly generated variants and more capitalizing on the associative structure of a conceptual
network to hone in on a vision. We discuss how to achieve this fluidity algorithmically.