Fluctuation of Parameters in Tumor Cell Growth Model

We study the steady state properties of a logistic growth model in the presence of Gaussian white noise.Based on the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation the steady state solution of the probability distribution functionand its extrema have been investigated. It is found that the fluctuation of the tumor birth rate reduces the populationof the cells while the fluctuation of predation rate can prevent the population of tumor cells from going into extinction.Noise in the system can induce the phase transition.     

多层次Fuzzy综合评判在肿瘤疫苗免疫生物治疗评价中的应用

应用多层次 Fuzzy综合评判方法评判肿瘤疫苗在抗肿瘤免疫生物治疗中的效果 ,此法客观、可靠 ,为医务人员综合评估肿瘤疫苗提供了一个良好的数学模型 .     

X线图像的边缘增强和假彩色编码综合技术

本文提出一种具有边缘效果的假彩色编码新方法,不仅能对黑白图像进行假彩色化处理,同时又能使图像边缘获得增强。并且处理的图像面积较大,可使用白光信息处理系统,操作方法简便。用以处理黑白X线胸片,对某些不易确诊的病症,如癌症等的鉴别诊断有很好的效果。     

QuantitativeH MRI and MRS Microscopy of Individual V79 Lung Tumor Spheroids

In this Communication¹H MRI and MRS microscopy experiments of individual V79 lung tumor spheroids with diameters between 550 and 650 μm are reported. The results have been used to determine theT₁,T₂, andDvalues as well as the concentrations of water, total choline, creatine/phosphocreatine, and mobile lipids in the viable rims and in the necrotic centers.     

硒与端粒酶

硒是人体必需微量元素,它参与抗氧化酶谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶和多种硒蛋白的组成,在体内发挥消除自由基、抗氧化物等作用。硒的抗衰老与抑制肿瘤细胞生长的作用是通过它对端粒酶的作用而实现的。研究端粒酶的调控及其与细胞凋亡的关系已成为人类种瘤研究的新热点。     

A STRATEGY FOR ISOLATING DIFFERENTIATIONINDUCING COMPLEMENTARY DNAs FROM HUMAN ESOPHAGEAL CANCER CELL LINE TREATED WITH RETINOIC ACID

Treatment of the human esophageal cancer cell line EC8712 with retinoic acid (RA) stopped the cell growth significantly and gave rise to terminal differentiation of the cells characterized by increased expression of involucrin gene. Two cDNA libraries were constructed from the parental and RA-treated cells respectively. Repeated subtractive hybridization of single-stranded plasmid DNA prepared from pooled colonies of cDNA library of the parental cells with cDNA probe generated from the RA-treated cells exhausted sequences common to both libraries of the cell. The unhybridized cDNA probe represented, therefore, the genes activated after RA-treatment. By using these enriched cDNAs as probe to screen the cDNA library constructed from the RA-treated cells thirty-nine positive colonies were obtained, of which two were specifically due to RA-induction. One of these two cDNA clones, designated as pRA538, has undergone further analysis and shown differentiation-inducing effect on parental cancer cells. A novel     

STUDIES ON THE CELL PHENOTYPE CHARACTERISTICS OF HYBRID CELLS CROSSED BETWEEN RAT NUCLEATED ERYTHROBLASTS AND MOUSE PLASMOCYTOMA (SP~2/O) CELL LINE

The present study is designed to investigate the regulatory effect of mammalian erythroblasts, prior to naturally-occurring denucleation, on malignancy of mouse plasmocytoma cells and the possibility of reactivation of the pyknotic late erythroblast nuclei in hybrid cells crossed between rat intermediate or late erythroblasts of 15-day Wistar rat embryonic livers, and mouse plasmocytoma (SP~2/O) cell lines. Results indicated that:(ⅰ) Suppression of tumorigenicity and reversion of the malignant phenotype were observed in hybrid cells in a similar way as those of cybrid cells crossed between reticulocytes and myeloma cells as we reported previously, thus providing further evidence to support the hypothesis that some regulatory substances already existed in mammalian intermediate and late erythroblasts long before nuclear extrusion. (ⅱ) Appearance of positive histochemical reaction for hemoglobins in cytoplasm and electrophoretic bands of rat and mouse globin chains in hybrid cell lysate were i. The tran     

Novel Porphyrinoids for Chemistry and Medicine by Biomimetic Syntheses

In 1926 Hans Fischer and Bruno Walach synthesized the first porphyrins.

1 H. Fischer, B. Walach, Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1926 , 450, 164–181.

Currently more than 1400 new articles concerning the synthesis and uses of porphyrins are published every year.

2 CAS Online search for 1994 .

However, the strong interest in these compounds indicated by this is in sharp contrast to their restricted availability. This is reflected in the current price of up to 500 DM for 5 mg of the most important porphyrins used in research and other applications (see Scheme 3). Biomimetic syntheses offer possibilities for an improved approach to porphyrins. By following the example set by nature it is also possible to obtain novel porphyrinoids which are different from naturally occurring porphyrins. This is exemplified by N,N′-bridged porphyrinogens, which have cage structures, inverted porphyrinoids (N atoms in the outer periphery) and, in particular, porphyrins with expanded systems. Among the family of expanded porphyrins are superarenes with up to 34 π electrons. Their pronounced aromaticity is indicated by ¹H NMR spectra, bond length equivalence, planar structures, and electrophilic substitution. With their strong absorption bands, the strongest of which have ? values of > 1000000, a value which exceeds the absorption intensity of all other organic pigments observed until now, and their ability to act as efficient photosensitizers, the expanded porphyrins open interesting perspectives in the fields of photochemistry and photomedicine.     

The immunogenicity of the tumor-associated antigen Lewis(y) may be suppressed by a bifunctional cross-linker required for coupling to a carrier protein

A Lewis(y) (Le(y)) tetrasaccharide modified by an artificial aminopropyl spacer was synthesized by a highly convergent approach that employed a levulinoyl ester and a 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonate for temporary protection of the hydroxy groups and a trichloroethyloxycarbonyl as an amino protecting group. The artificial aminopropyl moiety was modified by a thioacetyl group, which allowed efficient conjugation to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) modified by electrophilic 4-(maleimidomethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylate (MI). Mice were immunized with the KLH-MI-Le(y) antigen. A detailed analysis of sera by ELISA established that a strong immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody response was elicited against the linker region. The use of a smaller and more flexible 3-(bromoacetamido)propionate for the attachment of Le(y) to KLH not only reduced the IgG antibody response against the linker but also led to a significantly improved immune response against the Le(y) antigen. This study shows that highly antigenic linkers suppress antibody responses to weak antigens such as self-antigens.