β-环糊精包合荧光法对异补骨脂素血药浓度的探测

本文用β－环糊精包含荧光法对兔体中异补骨脂素的血药浓度进行了连续监测，达峰时间为1.0955h，血中异补骨脂素的含量在0.27-2.24μg/mL之间，方法简便、快速、效果良好。     

HGAAS测定生物样品中镍

采用石墨炉平台直接测定全血、血清、尿样中镍，方法简便，快速，灵敏度高，回收率也较理想。     

Transverse oscillations for tissue motion estimation

This paper gives an overview of the methods developed for tissue motion estimation using transverse oscillation images (TO). TO images are specific radiofrequency ultrasound images featuring oscillations in both spatial directions. The initial studies on TO were published in the late 1990s. This paper reviews the main ideas and applications behind this motion estimation approach. First the origin and motivation of TO is briefly reviewed. Then the beamforming methods that lead to TO images are given, detailing the receive-only approach and the transmit-and-receive approach using synthetic aperture data. The different medical applications where TO has been used are discussed (blood flow, elastography and echocardiography), showing how it can improve motion estimation. Finally, the future perspectives of TO are outlined.     

Pressure Boundary Conditions for Blood Flows

Simulations of blood flows in arteries require numerical solutions of fluid-structure interactions involving Navier-Stokes equations coupled with large displacement visco-elasticity for the vessels. Among the various simplifications which have been proposed, the surface pressure model leads to a hierarchy of simpler models including one that involves only the pressure. The model exhibits fundamental frequencies which can be computed and compared with the pulse. Yet unconditionally stable time discretizations can be constructed by combining implicit time schemes with Galerkin-characteristic discretization of the convection terms in the Navier-Stokes equations. Such problems with prescribed pressure on the walls will be shown to be efficient and accurate as an approximation of the full fluid structure interaction problem.     

基于多壁碳纳米管的三电极血乙醇生物传感器的研究

采用丝网印刷技术在PVC基板上印制三电极,将多壁碳纳米管、麦尔多拉蓝、乙醇脱氢酶(ADH)以及氧化型辅酶Ⅰ(NAD+)依次修饰在工作电极表面,然后在该三电极表面贴一层亲水膜,形成一个5μL反应池,制成血乙醇检测新型生物传感器检测条。结果表明,此生物传感器具有良好的准确性和稳定性;检测线性范围为0.5～20mmol/L,r=0.99493;检出限为0.22mmol/L;电流达到95%稳态时间小于15s。考察了pH值、温度及干扰物对生物传感器的影响。用此生物传感器和顶空气相色谱法对10份全血标本乙醇浓度平行测试,两者相关性良好r=0.97583。利用虹吸现象吸取微量全血直接定量测定乙醇浓度是此生物传感器的特点。     

Biosensor system for continuous glucose monitoring in fish

A biosensor system was developed for continuous estimation of blood glucose in fish. Because it is difficult to measure blood components in real-time due to decreased sensor output resulting from blood coagulation and coalescing blood proteins at the sensor placement site, we used the eyeball scleral interstitial fluid (EISF) as the site of sensor implantation. Evaluation of the relationship between EISF and blood glucose concentrations revealed that the blood glucose concentration correlated closely with the EISF glucose concentration (y = 2.2996 + 0.9438x, R = 0.960, n = 112). To take advantage of the close correlation between blood and EISF glucose, we prepared a needle-type enzyme sensor for implantation in the fish sclera using a flexible wire electrode. The sensor provided a rapid response, good linearity, and reproducibility. Continuous glucose monitoring could be carried out by implanting this needle-type glucose sensor onto the eye. The findings indicated that the glucose concentration increased with sensor output current over time, and that changes in the blood glucose were continuously reflected in the EISF. The glucose concentration was estimated based on the one-point or two-point calibration methods. The two-point calibration method yielded the most accurate glucose monitoring (blood glucose range of 70-420 mg dL⁻¹) over 160 min. Sensor-estimated glucose and whole blood glucose values were highly correlated (y = 0.4401 + 0.8656x, R = 0.958).     

Kinetics independent spectrometric analysis using non-linear calibration modelling and exploitation of concentration gradients generated by a flow-batch system for albumin and total protein determination in blood serum

An automatic method for kinetics independent spectrometric analysis is proposed in this study. It uses a non-linear calibration model that explores concentration gradients generated by a flow-batch analyser (FBA) for the samples, dye, and the single standard solution. The procedure for obtaining the gradients of the dye and standard solution is performed once at the beginning of analysis. The same procedure is applied thereafter for each sample. For illustration, the proposed automatic methodology was applied to determine total protein and albumin in blood serum by using the Biuret and Bromocresol Green (BCG) methods. The measurements were made by using a laboratory-made photometer based on a red and green bicolour LED (Light-Emitting Diode) and a phototransistor, coupled to a “Z” form flow cell. The sample throughput was about 50 h⁻¹ for albumin and 60 h⁻¹ for total protein, consuming about 7 μL of sample, 2.6 mL of BCG and 1.2 mL of biuret reagents for each determination. Applying the paired t-test for results from the proposed analyser and the reference method, no statistic differences at 95% confidence level were found. The absolute standard deviation was usually smaller than 0.2 g dL⁻¹. The proposed method is valuable for the determination of total protein and albumin; and can also be used in other determinations where kinetic effects may or may not exist.     

Failure of immunocompetitive capillary electrophoresis assay to detect disease-specific prion protein in buffy coat from humans and chimpanzees with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

The emergence of a new environmentally caused variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the result of food-born infection by the causative agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has stimulated research on a practical diagnostic screening test. The immunocompetitive capillary electrophoresis (ICCE) assay has been reported to detect disease-specific, proteinase-resistant prion protein (PrPres) in the blood of scrapie-infected sheep. We have applied this method to blood from CJD-infected chimpanzees and humans. The threshold of detection achieved with our ICCE was 0.6 nM of synthetic peptide corresponding to the prion protein (PrP) C-terminus, and 2 nM of recombinant human PrP at the optimized conditions. However, the test was unable to distinguish between extracts of leucocytes from healthy and CJD-infected chimpanzees, and from healthy human donors and patients affected with various forms of CJD. Thus, the ICCE assay as presently performed is not suitable for use as a screening test in human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).     

Anticoagulatory Substances of Bloodsucking Animals: From Hirudin to Hirudin Mimetics

Bloodsucking animals contain substances in their saliva that specifically interfere with the blood clotting system. These substances are mainly low molecular weight proteins with a molecular mass of between 4 and 50 kDa. Some have become accessible in large quantities with the help of genetic engineering, and as a result their structures and structure—activity relationships have been studied and clinically tested. In the light of what is known about the mode of action of these natural products at the molecular level, new compounds with possible therapeutic effect can be derived. In the last ten years this approach has been tested with the proteinase inhibitor hirudin, obtained from medicinal leeches, and with the thrombin/hirudin complex. The serine protease thrombin plays a central role in the complex pathway of the blood clotting process and its pathophysiological effect finally results in thrombosis. The selectivity of the formation of complexes from hirudin and thrombin lies in the bivalent interaction of the inhibitor with the active site of the enzyme as well as with a substrate recognition site outside of the active site, the so-called fibrin-(ogen) binding site (FBS). The knowledge of this mode of action enabled the synthesis of bifunctional thrombin inhibitors based on hirudin peptides. Hirudin and hirudin mimetics in vivo have been shown to be highly potent anticoagulants for the treatment of arterial and venous thrombosis.     

平台石墨炉原子吸收法直接测定全血中痕量锗

研究了基体改进及其用量，锗的灰化和原子化温度以及６种共存离子的干扰，采用锶和硝酸铵混合液作基体改进剂，锗的灵敏度高，提高了方法的选择性，样品不需消化与分离，可采用平台石墨炉法直接测定血样中的痕量锗。