共聚焦显微拉曼光谱在木质纤维细胞壁预处理中的应用进展

在能源紧缺和环境恶化的双重压力下,利用农林生物质替代化石资源生产生物燃料、生物基化学品和材料逐步发展成为世界范围内的研究热点,而细胞壁中纤维素、半纤维素、木质素以及其他少量组分的空间分布不均一性和化学结构复杂性构成了天然抗降解屏障,严重阻碍生物质的转化效率,因此需要对木质纤维原料进行预处理,以期破坏细胞壁的宏观壁垒,实现生物质的低成本高效转化。在此过程中,全面了解木质纤维细胞壁的化学组成、结构特性及其在生物质转化过程中的解构机理是高效利用农林生物质的重要前提。由于拉曼光谱具有样品制备要求低、灵敏度高、且能在原位状态下对样品进行定性、定量分析等特点,使得拉曼光谱成为研究木质细胞壁结构的有力工具。尤其与显微技术相结合时,可以同时获得木质纤维细胞壁主要组分的微区分布与超分子结构信息,实现生物质转化过程中化学组分动态变化的可视化研究。首先介绍了拉曼光谱成像的工作原理,并对纤维素、半纤维素和木质素的拉曼特征信号进行了归属。其次,总结了近几年拉曼光谱在生物质转化领域内的应用与研究进展,综述了拉曼光谱在未处理状态下以及稀酸、水热、稀碱等不同预处理过程中的分析方法,对细胞壁主要组分的分布进行表征,以揭示预处理过程中各组分的溶出过程及迁移规律,为在细胞及亚细胞水平探究预处理诱导细胞壁主要组分动态溶解机制提供了有效路径。此外,针对检测中收集的光谱数量过多、分析难等问题,文章重点介绍了主成分聚类分析法和顶点成分分析法两种拉曼数据分析方法,用于提取特征信息并对光谱进行分类研究,以深入探究特定组分的空间分布和分子结构。最后,根据上述分析展望了拉曼光谱在生物质转化领域的研究趋势,为相关研究提供技术参考。     

Prediction of vascular injury by cavitation microbubbles in a focused ultrasound field

Many studies have shown that microbubble cavitation is one mechanism for vascular injury under ultrasonic excitation. Previous work has attributed vascular damage to vessel expansions and invaginations due to the expansion and contraction of microbubbles. However, the mechanisms of vascular damage are not fully understood. In this paper, we investigate, theoretically and experimentally, the vessel injury due to stress induced by ultrasound-induced cavitation (UIC). A bubble-fluid-vessel coupling model is constructed to investigate the interactions of the coupling system. The dynamics process of vessel damage due to UIC is theoretically simulated with a finite element method, and a focused ultrasound (FU) setup is carried out and used to assess the vessel damage. The results show that shear stress contributes to vessel injury by cell detachment while normal stress mainly causes distention injury. Similar changes in cell detachment in a vessel over time can be observed with the experimental setup. The severity of vascular injury is correlated to acoustic parameters, bubble-wall distance, and microbubble sizes, and the duration of insonation..     

A lightweight cell switching and traffic offloading scheme for energy optimization in ultra-dense heterogeneous networks

One of the major capacity boosters for 5G networks is the deployment of ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (UDHNs). However, this deployment results in a tremendous increase in the energy consumption of the network due to the large number of base stations (BSs) involved. In addition to enhanced capacity, 5G networks must also be energy efficient for it to be economically viable and environmentally friendly. Dynamic cell switching is a very common way of reducing the total energy consumption of the network, but most of the proposed methods are computationally demanding, which makes them unsuitable for application in ultra-dense network deployment with massive number of BSs. To tackle this problem, we propose a lightweight cell switching scheme also known as Threshold-based Hybrid cEll swItching Scheme (THESIS) for energy optimization in UDHNs. The developed approach combines the benefits of clustering and exhaustive search (ES) algorithm to produce a solution whose optimality is close to that of the ES (which is guaranteed to be optimal), but is computationally more efficient than ES and as such can be applied for cell switching in real networks even when their dimension is large. The performance evaluation shows that THESIS significantly reduces the energy consumption of the UDHN and can reduce the complexity of finding a near-optimal solution from exponential to polynomial complexity.     

Ultrasonic intensity microscopy for imaging of living cells

Ultrasound intensity microscopy was developed for in vivo imaging. This paper describes the preliminary results obtained using 300 MHz ultrasound intensity microscopy for in vitro characterization of cell cultures. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that it allows remote, non-contact and disturbance-free imaging of cultured synovial cells and the changes in the cells’ properties due to external stimulants such as transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1). The intensity imaging method has potential for extracting mechanical cell properties and monitoring the effects of drugs.Ultrasound propagates through a thin specimen such as cultured cells and is reflected at the interface between the specimen and substrate. A two-dimensional distribution of the ultrasonic intensity, which is closely related to the mechanical properties, is visualized to analyze cell organs, such as the nucleus at the central part and the cytoskeleton at the peripheral zone. After stimulation with TGF-β1, the ultrasonic intensity at the actin zone was significantly increased compared with the control.     

发酵过程中菌液浓度的检测

采用分光光度测量发酵菌液浓度,选择波长215nm,首先测定样品中菌液的吸光度,再根据校准曲线获得菌体浓度。该法设备简单,操作方便、快速,测量相对误差小于3%,相对标准偏差小于2%,精密度高,准确度好,适合于生产监控。     

荧光光度法测定胰腺肿瘤细胞膜上的潘生丁

测定了胰腺肿瘤细胞膜上的潘生丁在乙腈 -水溶液中的荧光光谱和强度 ,并推算出胰腺肿瘤细胞膜上核苷载体的数量。潘生丁的浓度与其荧光强度在 1.0× 10 -12 — 5 .0× 10 -5mol/ L范围内呈线性关系 ,检出限为 2 .8× 10 -13 mol/ L(1.4× 10 -4ng/ m L) ,相对标准偏差为 2 .7%。     

细胞培养基的吸收光谱研究

使用日本岛津UV 310 1分光光度计分别测量培养了宫颈癌细胞 (Hela)和鼻咽癌细胞 (CNE)的RP MI 16 4 0培养基和DMEM高糖培养基的紫外吸收光谱 ,分析了培养基中蛋白质的紫外吸收特性。RPMI16 4 0培养基的 2 2 7nm吸收峰在培养细胞生长过程中位移至 2 2 2或 2 18nm ,2 78nm的吸收峰位移至 2 80nm ;而DMEM高糖培养基 2 2 4nm吸收峰在培养细胞生长过程中位移至 2 2 1nm附近 ,2 78nm吸收峰基本没有位移。这些位移说明培养基中芳香族氨基酸中各种氨基酸如色氨酸和酪氨酸的含量有变化。也就是说 ,癌细胞在生长过程中对色氨酸和酪氨酸的消耗不是按等量比的。实验也说明Hela和CNE在生长过程中 ,对RPMI 16 4 0培养基和DMEM高糖培养基中氨基酸的消耗是不同的。实验结果为癌细胞生长过程中所需培养基中氨基酸的含量提供了依据     

X射线照射Hep-2细胞对其培养基吸收光谱的影响

采用分光光度计分别测量了受不同剂量X射线照射后继续培养48h时的人上皮样喉癌细胞株Hep-2的培养基RPMI1640的紫外吸收光谱,分析了该培养基中蛋白质的紫外吸收特性.结果发现:各组培养基的吸收光谱存在明显的差别,新鲜培养基RPMI1640(10%胎牛血清)233nm处的吸收峰在细胞生长过程中位移至235nm,275nm处的吸收峰位移至278nm.反映出各组培养基中芳香族氨基酸中各种氨基酸如色氨酸、酪氨酸、苯丙氨酸的含量的变化,说明癌细胞在生长过程中对这几种氨基酸的改变不是按等量比的.实验还发现细胞培养基的吸收光谱强度与各剂量组细胞数基本成正相关,进而与细胞所受X射线照射的剂量有内在的联系.这些结果将为利用光谱技术研究人喉癌最佳X射线放射剂量奠定基础.     

Two-dimensional cell parameters measurement of nematic liquid crystal using optical interferometry and Fourier transform fringe analysis technique

We report a method for the measurement of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) cell parameters i.e., switching voltage, birefringence, retardation, dielectric anisotropy, average tilt angle and change in refractive index with applied DC voltage to LC material. The proposed method is based on optical interferometry and Fourier transform fringe analysis technique, in which we obtain 2-dimensional (2D) phase map of the interferograms as a function of applied voltage. Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was used for the study of cell parameters and interferograms were recorded at different applied DC voltages to NLC cell using CCD camera. From the phase map, 2D-refractive index distribution of the LC cell with applied voltage was reconstructed. Analytical equations are derived based on optical interferometry and then solved to obtain cell parameters. The present method is fast and can give 2D-cell parameters from only two quick interferograms.     

Influence of cell packing by centrifugation on 40-MHz ultrasound backscatter

High-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) signals backscattered from RBL-2H3 cell pellets prepared under different centrifugal forces were analyzed to investigate the packing effect of cell aggregates. The measurements were performed in a pulse-echo setup with a 40-MHz transducer. The changes of ultrasound signals from cell pellet in backscattered power, statistical parameter, and pellet thickness were monitored after centrifugation at between 100g and 1600g. Experimental results showed that the HFUS backscattered power from cell pellets was inversely proportional to centrifugal force and increased to a plateau within 1-2 h after centrifugation. The initial thickness of cell pellets decreased with higher centrifugal force, but the changes in thickness and time that took to reach a plateau increased at higher centrifugal force. The envelope statistics of backscattered signals with Nakagami distribution indicates that the centrifugal force and elapsed time after centrifugation affected the backscattering characteristics. The present study suggests that centrifugal force and data acquisition time after cell pellet formation should be considered in in vitro cell packing method with centrifugation to emulate the tissue in vivo.