非线性时间序列互信息与Lempel-Ziv复杂度的相关性研究

为探究非线性动力学系统的互信息和复杂度的相关性，用Logistic映射、Lorenz模型和心电RR间期的非线性时间序列作为实验数据，计算多分段延时互信息和多分段Lempel-Ziv复杂度以及它们之间的相关系数.结果表明这些序列的互信息和复杂度呈强负相关，对Logistic方程生成的201个序列的不同段互信息和不同段复杂度之间的相关系数绝对值都大于0.9162，最大达0.9923；对94个心电RR间期序列都大于0.8555，最大达0.9860.研究还发现互信息比复杂度能更敏感地表现出非线性动力系统的特征. 关键词： 相关系数 互信息 Lempel-Ziv 复杂度 心电RR间期     

Retrospectively gated cardiac cine imaging with temporal and spatial acceleration

Parallel imaging methods are routinely used to accelerate the image acquisition process in cardiac cine imaging. The addition of a temporal acceleration method, whereby k-space is sampled differently for different time frames, has been shown in prior work to improve image quality as compared to parallel imaging by itself. However, such temporal acceleration strategies prove difficult to combine with retrospectively gated cine imaging. The only currently published method to feature such combination, by Hansen et al. [Magn Reson Med 55 (2006) 85-91] tends to be associated with prohibitively long reconstruction times. The goal of the present work was to develop a retrospectively gated cardiac cine method that features both parallel imaging and temporal acceleration, capable of achieving significant acceleration factors on commonly available hardware and associated with reconstruction times short enough for practical use in a clinical context.Seven cardiac patients and a healthy volunteer were recruited and imaged, with acceleration factors of 3.5 or 4.5, using an eight-channel product cardiac array on a 1.5-T system. The prescribed FOV value proved slightly too small in three patients, and one of the patients had a bigemini condition. Despite these additional challenges, good-quality results were obtained for all slices and all patients, with a reconstruction time of 0.98±0.07 s per frame, or about 20 s for a 20-frame slice, using a single processor on a single PC. As compared to using parallel imaging by itself, the addition of a temporal acceleration strategy provided much resistance to artifacts.     

Magnetic resonance imaging of coronary arteries and heart valves in a living mouse: techniques and preliminary results

New investigations in MRI of a mouse heart showed high-contrast cardiac images and thereby the possibility of doing functional cardiac studies of in vivo mice. But is MRI, in addition, capable of visualizing microstructures such as the coronary arteries and the heart valves of a living mouse? To answer this question, 2D and 3D gradient echo sequences with and without flow compensation were used to image the coronary arteries. To increase signal-to-noise ratio, a birdcage resonator was optimized for mouse heart imaging. Contrast between blood and myocardium was achieved through the inflow effect. A segmented three-dimensional FLASH sequence acquired with a multiple overlap thin slab technique showed the best results. With this technique an isotropic resolution of 100 microm was achieved. The left coronary artery could be visualized up to the apex of the heart. This is demonstrated with short axis views and 3D surface reconstructions of the mouse heart. The four cardiac valves were also visible with the 3D method.     

BIOMARKERS INDICATING SEDIMENTARY PALEOENVIRONMENTS

Samples involved in this paper are 35 pieces of crude oils and 43 pieces of source rocks, from which a series of biomarkers, capable of indicating paleoecology and paleoenvironment. This will provide a scientific basis for tracing back to sedimenta-y paleoenvironment and paleoecology.     

原油饱和烃指纹的内标法分析

采用内标法建立了原油中正构烷烃、生物标志物(甾、萜烷类)的分析方法。确定了样品前处理方法和组分定性定量方法。讨论了柱层析分离能力。结果表明,所有饱和烃组分均流入第一部分流出液F1中,分离能力较为满意。对48种甾、萜烷类生物标志物组分以及姥鲛烷、植烷和正构烷烃等进行了定性确认,定性化合物数量多,信息量大,易于据此进行可靠的油指纹分析鉴别。32个正构烷烃组分相对标准差为1.2%～7.4%;45个生物标志物组分相对标准偏差为2.5%～9.2%。分析精密度较好,满足油指纹鉴别需要。正构烷烃回收率为73%～116%;生物标志物为84%～106%;回收率结果较为满意。正构烷烃方法检出限为7.0μg/g;生物标志物为0.65μg/g,满足原油样品分析要求。通过本方法对自不同和相同平台的原油样品进行饱和烃浓度分析,并采用浓度数据进行鉴别,结果与实际情况相符。     

广西合山石村矿超高有机硫煤饱和烃特征分析

以合山石村矿超高有机硫煤为研究对象,利用带能谱的扫描电镜(SEM-EDX)及气相色谱(GC)和色谱-质谱联用(GC-MS)分析技术,综合分析探讨了研究区样品中有机质来源、沉积环境及物源输入。结果表明,研究区样品镜质体反射率均值1.76%,全硫含量均值6.01%,其中有机硫含量占比达94.3%,为高成熟度的超高有机硫煤。饱和烃色谱图中未分辨的复杂混合物(UCM)鼓包明显,前峰及双峰型均有分布,前峰型主峰碳为C_(16)、C_(18)、C_(21),双峰型主峰碳为C_(18)、C_(27),化合物降姥鲛烷、脱氢松香烷、咔达烯均有发现,规则甾烷C_(27)、C_(28)、C_(29)均呈"V"型分布,说明沉积母质受藻类等低等水生生物与高等植物双重输入的影响。姥植比参数、C_(31-35)藿烷呈阶梯式递减的分布特征表明在海相碳酸盐台地成煤带中存在一定的氧化条件。扫描电镜中拍摄到的铁含氧硫酸盐、细胞充填环状黄铁矿说明在沉积质晚期成岩阶段受到一定程度热液作用影响。     

Nucleotide/Protein Interaction: Energetic and Structural Features of Na,K-ATPase

Microcalorimetric titrations allow to recognize and investigate high-affinity ligand binding to Na,K-ATPase. Titrations with the cardiac glycoside Ouabain, which acts as a specific inhibitor of the enzyme, have provided not only the thermodynamic parameters of high-affinity binding with a stoichiometric coefficient of about 0.6 but also evidence for low-affinity binding to the lipid. The marked enthalpic contribution of -95 kJ mol^-1 at 298.2 K is partially compensated by a large negative entropy change, attributed to an increased interaction between water and the protein. The calorimetric ADP and ATP titrations at 298.2 K are indicative of high-affinity nucleotide binding either in 3 mM NaCl, 3 mM MgCl₂ or at high ionic strength such as 120 mM choline chloride. However, no binding is detected in the buffer solution alone at low ionic strength. The affinities for ADP and ATP are similar, around 10⁶ M^-1 and the stoichiometric coefficients are close to that of Ouabain binding. The exothermic binding of ADP is characterized by a ΔH and ΔS value of -65 kJ mol^-1 and -100 J mol^-1 K^-1, respectively. TheΔH value for ATP binding is larger than for ADP and is compensated by a larger, unfavorable ΔS value. This leads to an enthalpy/entropy compensation, which could express that H-bond formation represents the major type of interaction. As for Ouabain, the negative ΔS values that are also characteristic of nucleotide binding can indicate an increase of solvate interaction with the protein due to a conformational transition occurring subsequent to the binding process. The resulting binding constants are discussed with regard to the results of other studies employing different techniques. A molecular interaction model for nucleotide binding is suggested. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Identification of human hepatocellular carcinoma-related proteins by proteomic approaches

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignant liver tumor. Analysis of human serum from HCC patients using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) combined with nano-high-performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (nano-HPLC–ESI-MS/MS) identified fourteen different proteins differentially expressed between HCC patients and the control group. Twelve proteins were up-regulated and two down-regulated. By using nano-HPLC–MS/MS system to analyze proteome in human serum, 317 proteins were identified, twenty-nine of which to high confidence levels (protein matched at last two unique peptide sequences). Of these twenty-nine proteins, six were present only in HCC patients and may serve as biomarkers for HCC. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

镉的人体健康效应

综述了镉暴露对人体健康的危害、人体对镉的需要量和居民膳食日摄入量、镉暴露生物标记物及危险性评估。过量镉暴露可引起肾、肺、肝、骨和生殖效应以及癌症。在中国和其他国家进行的最新研究表明，生活在镉污染区的一般人群可发生以骨矿密度降低和骨折发生率增加为特征的骨效应；出现肾小管功能异常的镉累积量比骨效应剂量更低，也比从前估计的临界剂量更低。附4图11表25篇参考文献。     

Internal flexibility of cardiac myosins

Conventional and saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR and ST EPR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to study the motional dynamics and segmental flexibility of cardiac myosins.Cardiac myosins isolated from bovine and human heart muscle were spin-labelled with isothiocyanate- or maleimide-based probe molecules at the reactive sulfhydryl sites (Cys-697 and Cys-707) of the motor domain. The maleimide probe molecules attached to human cardiac myosin rotated with an effective rotational correlation time of 33 ns which was at least eight times shorter than the rotational correlation time of the same label on skeletal myosin (260 ns). In the presence of MgADP and MgADP plus orthovanadate, flexibility changes in the multisubunit structure of myosins were detected, but this did not lead to changes of the overall rotational property of the myosin heads. Significant difference in the internal flexibility was detected on myosin samples isolated from ischemic tissue, the rotational correlation time decreased to 25 ns.DSC measurements supported the view that addition of nucleotides produced additional loosening in the multisubunit structure of cardiac myosin. It is postulated that there is an intersite communication between the nucleotide binding domain and the 20 kDa subunit where the reactive thiol sites are located.This work was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation (OTKA T 017099) and Ministry of Social Welfare (ETT 737/1993). The Bruker ESP 300 E spectrometer and the SETARAM Micro DSC-II used in the experiments were purchased with funds provided by the National Research Foundation Grants CO-123 and CO-272. The computer (PC-386) was supported by POPEX Ltd., Pécs, Hungary. The authors thank to Prof. Dr. K. Hideg (Central Research Laboratory) for providing the iodoacetamide spin label.