基于透明质酸构筑的药物递送载体及其应用

传统纳米药物控释载体主要通过细胞胞吞作用实现药物递送,其主要过程为被动靶向机制,因此会影响纳米载体在肿瘤组织的富集和治疗效果.近年来生物大分子透明质酸因其优异的水溶性、生物相容性、可降解性和肿瘤靶向性备受科研工作者青睐,已被广泛用于药物控释载体的构筑中,并成为靶向肿瘤治疗纳米载体领域的研究热点.本文根据透明质酸基纳米载...     

用光波导光模光谱技术研究DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用

探讨了应用光波导光模光谱(Optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy,OWLS)技术研究DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用的可行性和灵敏性。以固定在传感器芯片表面的DNA探针为捕捉分子,溶液中同时含有探针结合序列和NF—κB结合位点序列的寡核苷酸与NF-κB亚单位p50同源二聚体形成的DNA-蛋白质复合物为检测分子,用光波导光模光谱检测技术建立非标记DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用检测研究体系。利用这一体系对不同样品中NF-κB p50浓度和具不同NF-κB结合位点序列的寡核苷酸与NF-κB p50亲合和力进行检测。样品中低至0．33 nmol/1的NF-κB p50被光波导光模光谱检测出,不同的NF-κB结合序列与NF-κB p50亲合力有显著的差异。研究发现,光波导光模光谱技术可以用于DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用研究,所建立的非标记检测研究体系可以进行样品中结合蛋白含量高灵敏检测和核酸序列与结合蛋白的亲合力的检测研究。     

基于微光机电系统的微光学自适应微镜的研究

提出了一种利用热应力改变镜面曲率的可调焦微光学自适应微镜。与传统自适应微镜相比,采用该原理制作的微镜具有驱动电压低和驱动力较大的优点,而且制作简单。以硅为基底进行了表面热氧化、光刻显影、HF酸刻蚀、KOH湿法刻蚀,溅射铝膜等微加工工艺的研究,获得硅铝双金属可调焦微反射镜4×4阵列,单元尺寸3 mm×3 mm,单晶硅基底厚60μm,硅表面溅射的铝膜厚150 nm。该微镜的镜面填充率为100%,可变形镜面占总镜面面积的79%。利用激光波面干涉仪对可调焦微反射镜的动态性能进行了测试。实验表明,该微镜可产生单向连续变形,最大变形量15.8μm,非线性滞后27%,工作电压0~2.5V,可调焦范围∞~0.036 m。     

Discovery of β-Dihydroagarofuran-Type Sesquiterpenoids from the Leaves of Tripterygium wilfordii with Neuroprotective Activities

Nine undescribed dihydro-β-agarofuran sesquiterpenoid derivatives(1—9),along with a known analogue(10),were obtained from the leaves of Tripterygium wilfordii.Their gross structures were determined via extensive spectroscopic data,and the absolute configurations were elucidated by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and electron circular dichroism(ECD)techniques,which include ECD exciton chirality,octant rule of saturated cyclohexanone and comparison between the experimental and calculated ECD spectra.All the isolated compounds were tested for their neuroprotective activities against H2O2-induced cell injury in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells.Compounds 5 and 6 improved cell viability by 16.15%and 15.12%compared with the H2O2 treated group at 25μmol·L^-1,respectively.     

Multiscale Weighted Permutation Entropy Analysis of Schizophrenia Magnetoencephalograms

Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disease that affects the nonlinear dynamics of brain activity. The primary objective of this study was to explore the complexity of magnetoencephalograms (MEG) in patients with schizophrenia. We combined a multiscale method and weighted permutation entropy to characterize MEG signals from 19 schizophrenia patients and 16 healthy controls. When the scale was larger than 42, the MEG signals of schizophrenia patients were significantly more complex than those of healthy controls (p<0.004). The difference in complexity between patients with schizophrenia and the controls was strongest in the frontal and occipital areas (p<0.001), and there was almost no difference in the central area. In addition, the results showed that the dynamic range of MEG complexity is wider in healthy individuals than in people with schizophrenia. Overall, the multiscale weighted permutation entropy method reliably quantified the complexity of MEG from schizophrenia patients, contributing to the development of potential magnetoencephalographic biomarkers for schizophrenia.     

Reduction in Allergenicity and Induction of Oral Tolerance of Glycated Tropomyosin from Crab

Tropomyosin (TM) is an important crustacean (Scylla paramamosain) allergen. This study aimed to assess Maillard-reacted TM (TM-G) induction of allergenic responses with cell and mouse models. We analyzed the difference of sensitization and the ability to induce immune tolerance between TM and TM-G by in vitro and in vivo models, then we compared the relationship between glycation sites of TM-G and epitopes of TM. In the in vitro assay, we discovered that the sensitization of TM-G was lower than TM, and the ability to stimulate mast cell degranulation decreased from 55.07 ± 4.23% to 27.86 ± 3.21%. In the serum of sensitized Balb/c mice, the level of specific IgE produced by TM-G sensitized mice was significantly lower than TM, and the levels of interleukins 4 and interleukins 13 produced by Th2 cells in spleen lymphocytes decreased by 82.35 ± 5.88% and 83.64 ± 9.09%, respectively. In the oral tolerance model, the ratio of Th2/Th1 decreased from 4.05 ± 0.38 to 1.69 ± 0.19. Maillard reaction masked the B cell epitopes of TM and retained some T cell epitopes. Potentially, Maillard reaction products (MRPs) can be used as tolerance inducers for allergen-specific immunotherapy.     

A new solution of reducing polymer optical fiber losses

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is one of the most commonly used optical materials. However, the application of it in the area of optical communication is strongly limited by the intrinsic absorption loss of carbon-hydrogen stretching vibration. In this paper, we present a method to solve the problem by adopting the hollow-core fibers with cobweb cladding structure. The fibers use a single dielectric material and may solve the problem of structural support. Thus the feasibility of the “OmniGuide” fibers is improved, while a series of advantages of the “OmniGuide” hollow-core fiber are retained. It is promising that a fiber with low transmission loss, high bandwidth, large-core, and low costs can be designed and fabricated using PMMA. At the same time, a very broad range of the wavelengths (from visible to near infrared region, for instance, wavelengths at 0.65-1.12 μm, and even 1.30 μm, 1.54 μm and their neighbors) may be adopted for signal wavelength.     

Magnetic,electrical transport and electron spin resonance studies of ferromagnetic insulating manganites Nd0.85Na0.15MnO3

We have investigated the magnetic, electrical transport and electron spin resonance (ESR) properties of polycrystalline Nd_0.85Na_0.15MnO₃ prepared by sol–gel method. A ferromagnetic–paramagnetic (FM–PM) transition is observed around 110 K, which is not accompanied by a metal–insulator transition. The sample displays the complete PM state associated with the ESR spectra fitted by single Lorentzian line shape above 130 K. Below 130 K, ESR spectra become distorted and then linewidth increases rapidly, where short-range magnetic order develops and coexists with PM phase due to the inhomogeneous magnetic state. In addition, the large difference between the activation energies obtained from the resistivity and ESR parameters (peak-to-peak linewidth and line intensity) at the frame of adiabatic small polaron hopping model is pointed out for Nd_0.85Na_0.15MnO₃.     

Investigation of the near-threshold cluster resonance in ~(14)C

An experiment for p(~(14)C,~(14)C~*→~(10)Be+α)p inelastic excitation and decay was performed in inverse kinematics at a beam energy of 25.3 Me V/u.A series of~(14)C excited states,including a new one at 18.3(1)Me V,were observed which decay to various states of the final nucleus of~(10)Be.A specially designed telescope system,installed around zero degrees,played an essential role in detecting the resonant states near theα-separation threshold.A state at 14.1(1)Me V is clearly identified,being consistent with the predicted band-head of the molecular rotational band characterized by theπ-bond linear chain configuration.Further clarification of the properties of this exotic state is suggested by using appropriate reaction tools.     

液体薄层中的超声空化*

液体薄层中的超声空化,因其边界及所处空间的特殊性,而呈现出非常独特的空化结构和演化行为,在超声清洗、超声钎焊、表面处理、近场声悬浮、超声化学等领域都有所应用。该文梳理了近几年该课题组在液体薄层中的超声空化研究中的一些成果,力图揭示液体薄层内空泡、空化云、空化场的运动和分布规律,及其产生、发展和演化过程,以期对液体薄层中的超声空化行为有一个相对清晰和完整的认识。