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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Gene mutations that endow herbicide resistance may cause pleiotropic effects on plant ecology and physiology. This paper reports on the effect of a number of known and novel target-site resistance mutations of the ALS gene (Ala-122-Tyr, Pro-197-Ser, Asp-376-Glu or Trp-574-Leu) on vegetative growth traits of the weed Raphanus raphanistrum. RESULTS: The results from a series of experiments have indicated that none of these ALS resistance mutations imposes negative pleiotropic effects on relative growth rate (RGR), photosynthesis and resource-competitive ability in R. raphanistrum plants. The absence of pleiotropic effects on plant growth occurs in spite of increased (Ala-122-Tyr, Pro-197-Ser, Asp-376-Glu) and decreased (Trp-574-Leu) extractable ALS activity. CONCLUSION: The absence of detrimental pleiotropic effects on plant growth associated with the ALS target-site resistance mutations reported here is a contributing factor in resistance alleles being at relatively high frequencies in ALS-herbicide-unselected R. raphanistrum populations.© 2012 Society of Chemical Industry.
Pest Management Science 08/2012; · 2.25 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Mirtazapine is a tetracyclic antidepressant which works relating to noradrenergic and elective serotoninergic receptors. The aim of this study was to assess the pharmacokinetic properties and bioequivalence of a newly developed tablet formulation of mirtazapine with those of an established branded formulation in healthy Chinese male volunteers.
A randomized, open-label, single-dose, 2-way crossover study was conducted in healthy Chinese volunteers under fasting conditions with a washout of 14 days between the study periods. A sensitive and credible high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated to determine mirtazapine in human plasma.
The main PK parameters of the mirtazapine test and reference tables were as follows: mean (SD) C(max), 58.715 (23.89) and 58.255 (22.34) ng/ml; AUC(0-t), 591.406 (186.79) and 596.339 (201.25) ng × h/ml; AUC(0-∞), 627.03 (201.39) and 631.521 (227.32) ng × h/ml; t(1/2), 18.941 (4.79) and 18.285 (3.91) h; t(max) 1.417 (0.61) and 1.424 (0.75) h. The 90% CI for logtransformed ratios of C(max) (88.8 - 112.4%), AUC(0-t) (93.9 - 104.9%) and AUC(0-∞) (94.5 - 105.3%) for the test and reference formulations respectively, meeting the predetermined criteria for bioequivalence.
Both treatments exhibited similar tolerability and safety. The test product is therefore bioequivalent to the reference product with respect to the rate and extent of mirtazapine pharmacokinetics.
International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 05/2012; 50(5):368-74. · 1.18 Impact Factor
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Wei Jiang, Qin Yu,
Min Gong,
Li Chen,
En Yi Wen,
Yang Bi,
Yun Zhang,
Yuan Shi,
Ping Qu,
You Xue Liu,
Xiao Ping Wei,
Jie Chen,
Ting Yu Li
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ABSTRACT: Vitamin A (VA) is important for postnatal brain development, and VA deficiency (VAD) can cause learning and spatial memory deficits in rats. Most of the biological functions of VA are mediated by retinoic acid (RA). To investigate the mechanisms underlying VA deficits, mother rats were fed elemental diets to achieve blood VA levels classified as normal, deficient or severely deficient. Shuttle box and Morris water maze tests revealed impairments in learning ability and spatial memory, respectively, in adolescent VAD rats (p 30-35). Electrophysiology showed weaker long-term potentiation in VAD rats compared to VA normal rats. Examination of NMDA-induced calcium (Ca(2+) ) excitability revealed decreased excitability in hippocampal slices from VAD rats during postnatal development. Relative to VA normal rats, VAD rats also had decreased NMDA receptor NR1 mRNA and protein expression in later stages of postnatal development (p 10-30), as well as differences in retinoic acid receptor (RARα) mRNA and protein expression. Furthermore, primary hippocampal neurons in culture showed increased neuronal Ca(2+) excitability in response to all-trans-RA or 9-cis-RA, coupled with increases in RARα and NR1 expression similar to those observed in vivo. We also found weaker calcium excitability and lower expression of NR1 mRNA and protein after specific silencing of RARα. Finally, we found that RA signals affected the expression of NR1 do not directly through transcriptional regulation. These data support the new idea that continuous postnatal VAD inhibits RARα expression, which decreases NR1 expression via no direct transcriptional regulation and then inhibits hippocampal neuronal Ca(2+) excitability which affects long-term potentiation, finally producing deficits in active learning and spatial memory in adolescence.
Journal of Neurochemistry 02/2012; 121(6):932-43. · 4.06 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: To construct the recombinant adenovirus vector containing specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting rat TLR2 gene and identify its function in PC12 cells.
Three pairs of double-stranded DNA fragments for silencing rat TLR2 were annealed in vitro, then directional cloned into the pSES-HUS vector to construct pSES-HUS-siTLR2 plasmid. Afterward, the correct recombinant was linearized by PmeI, following co-transformation with the backbone vector pAdEasy-1 in E.coli BJ5183 to construct pAd-siTLR2 plasmid, and then transfected into HEK293 cell line via Lipofectamine to package the adenovirus. PC12 cells were infected with the adenovirus Ad-siTLR2, and inhibition of siRNA was detected with Real-time PCR and Western blotting.
Using plasmid PCR and gene sequencing, the siTLR2 target gene was verified to be correctly cloned in the adenovirus vector. Trough Real-time PCR and Western blotting, TLR2 expression was significantly decreased in the PC12 cells which was infected with the adenovirus Ad-siTLR2.
Successfully constructed the recombinant adenovirus vector containing rat siTLR2 gene and packaged the adenovirus in HEK293 cell line, which could effectively reduce TLR2 expression in the PC12 cells to facilitate the study of the immunoregulation mechanisms of TLR2 in different diseases.
Xi bao yu fen zi mian yi xue za zhi = Chinese journal of cellular and molecular immunology 02/2012; 28(2):144-7.
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ABSTRACT: Wild radish, a problem weed worldwide, is a severe dicotyledonous weed in crops. In Australia, sustained reliance on ALS-inhibiting herbicides to control this species has led to the evolution of many resistant populations endowed by any of several ALS mutations. The molecular basis of ALS-inhibiting herbicide resistance in a novel resistant population was studied.
ALS gene sequencing revealed a previously unreported substitution of Tyr for Ala at amino acid position 122 in resistant individuals of a wild radish population (WARR30). A purified subpopulation individually homozygous for the Ala-122-Tyr mutation was generated and characterised in terms of its response to the different chemical classes of ALS-inhibiting herbicides. Whole-plant dose-response studies showed that the purified subpopulation was highly resistant to chlorsulfuron, metosulam and imazamox, with LD₅₀ or GR₅₀ R/S ratio of > 1024, > 512 and > 137 respectively. The resistance to imazypyr was found to be relatively moderate (but still substantial), with LD₅₀ and GR₅₀ R/S ratios of > 16 and > 7.8 respectively. In vitro ALS activity assays showed that Ala-122-Tyr ALS was highly resistant to all tested ALS-inhibiting herbicides.
The molecular basis of ALS-inhibiting herbicide resistance in wild radish population WARR30 was identified to be due to an Ala-122-Tyr mutation in the ALS gene. This is the first report of an amino acid substitution at Ala-122 in the plant ALS that confers high-level and broad-spectrum resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides, a remarkable contrast to the known mutation Ala-122-Thr endowing resistance to imidazolinone herbicide.
Pest Management Science 01/2012; 68(8):1164-70. · 2.25 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Taking the nectarine variety 'Shuguang' (Prunus persica var. nectariana cv. Shuguang) as test material, and by using respiration inhibitors KCN and SHAM, this paper studied the cytochrome electron transport pathway and the alternative respiration pathway in nectarine flower bud during dormancy induction under the effects of short sunlight. Both the total respiration rate (V(t)) and the cytochrome electron transport pathway respiration rate (rho' V(cyt)) presented double hump-shaped variation. Short sunlight brought the first-hump of V(t) and rho' V(cyt), forward and delayed the second-hump synchronously, inhibited the rho' V(cyt), but had no significant effects on the V(t). The capacity (V(alt)) and activity (rho V (alt)) of alternative respiration pathway also varied in double hump-shape, and the variation was basically in synchronous. Short sunlight made the first climax of V(alt) and rhoV(alt) advanced, but had little effects on the later period climax. The inhibition of cytochrome electron transport pathway and the enhancement of alternative respiration pathway were the important features of nectarine flower bud during dormancy induction, and according to the respective contributions of the two electron transport pathways to the total respiration rate, the cytochrome electron transport pathway was still the main pathway of electron transport, whereas the alternative respiration pathway played an auxiliary and branched role.
Ying yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of applied ecology / Zhongguo sheng tai xue xue hui, Zhongguo ke xue yuan Shenyang ying yong sheng tai yan jiu suo zhu ban 11/2011; 22(11):2849-54.
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De-Zhi Li,
Yu-Sheng Chen,
Jing-Ping Yang,
Wei Zhang,
Cheng-Ping Hu,
Jia-Shu Li,
Lan Mu,
Ying-Hui Hu,
Rong Geng,
Ke Hu, [......],
Qiu-Yue Wang,
Li-Ping Wei,
Juan DU,
Qin Yu,
Xiao-Ning Zhong, Rui-Qin Wang,
Jian-Jun Ma,
Gui-Zhen Tian,
Si-Qin Wang,
Zhan-Cheng Gao
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ABSTRACT: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) remains as an important microbial pathogen resulting in community and nosocomial acquired infections with significant morbidity and mortality. Few reports for S. aureus in lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) have been documented. The aim of this study was to explore the molecular epidemiology of S. aureus in LRTIs in China.
A multicenter study of the molecular epidemiology of S. aureus in LRTIs was conducted in 21 hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and twelve other provinces from November 2007 to February 2009. All the collected S. aureus strains were classified as minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), mecA gene, virulence genes Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) and γ-hemolysin (hlg), staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type, agr type, and Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST).
Totally, nine methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) and 29 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains were isolated after culture from a total of 2829 sputums or bronchoalveolar lavages. The majority of MRSA strains (22/29) had a MIC value of ≥ 512 µg/ml for cefoxitin. The mecA gene acting as the conservative gene was carried by all MRSA strains. PVL genes were detected in only one S. aureus strain (2.63%, 1/38). The hlg gene was detected in almost the all S. aureus (100% in MSSA and 96.56% in MRSA strains). About 75.86% of MRSA strains carried SCCmec III. Agr type 1 was predominant (78.95%) among the identified three agr types (agr types 1, 2, and 3). Totally, ten sequence type (ST) of S. aureus strains were detected. A new sequence type (ST1445) was found besides confirming ST239 as the major sequence type (60.53%). A dendrogram generated from our own MLST database showed all the bootstrap values ≤ 50%.
Our preliminary epidemiology data show SCCmec III, ST239 and agr type 1 of S. aureus as the predominant strains in LRTIs in Mainland of China.
Chinese medical journal 03/2011; 124(5):687-92. · 0.86 Impact Factor
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Ning Dai,
De-zhi Li,
Ji-chao Chen,
Yu-sheng Chen,
Rong Geng,
Ying-hui Hu,
Jing-ping Yang,
Juan DU,
Cheng-ping Hu,
Wei Zhang, [......],
Qiu-yue Wang,
Ke Hu,
Gui-zhen Tian,
Shao-xi Cai, Rui-qin Wang,
Bei He,
Si-qin Wang,
Zhan-wei Wang,
Su-rui Zhao,
Zhan-cheng Gao
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ABSTRACT: Acinetobacter baumanii (A. baumanii ) remains an important microbial pathogen resulting in nosocomial acquired infections with significant morbidity and mortality. The mechanism by which nosocomial bacteria, like A. baumanii, attain multidrug resistance to antibiotics is of considerable interest. The aim in this study was to investigate the spread status of antibiotic resistance genes, such as multiple β-lactamase genes and aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme genes, from A. baumanii strains isolated from patients with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs).
Two thousand six hundred and ninety-eight sputum or the bronchoalveolar lavage samples from inpatients with LRTIs were collected in 21 hospitals in the mainland of China from November 2007 to February 2009. All samples were routinely inoculated. The isolated bacterial strains and their susceptibility were analyzed via VITEK-2 expert system. Several kinds of antibiotic resistant genes were further differentiated via polymerase chain reaction and sequencing methods.
Totally, 39 A. baumanii strains were isolated from 2698 sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage samples. There was not only a high resistant rate of the isolated A. baumanii strains to ampicillin and first- and second-generation cephalosporins (94.87%, 100% and 97.44%, respectively), but also to the third-generation cephalosporins (ceftriaxone at 92.31%, ceftazidine at 51.28%) and imipenem (43.59%) as well. The lowest antibiotic resistance rate of 20.51% was found to amikacin. The OXA-23 gene was identified in 17 strains of A. baumanii, and the AmpC gene in 23 strains. The TEM-1 gene was carried in 15 strains. PER-1 and SHV-2 genes were detected in two different strains. Aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme gene aac-3-Ia was found in 23 strains, and the aac-6'-Ib gene in 19 strains. aac-3-Ia and aac-6'-Ib genes hibernated in three A. baumanii strains that showed no drug-resistant phenotype.
A. baumanii can carry multiple drug-resistant genes at the same time and result in multi-drug resistance. Aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme genes could be hibernating in aminoglycoside sensitive strains without expressing their phenotype.
Chinese medical journal 09/2010; 123(18):2571-5. · 0.86 Impact Factor
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Yi-hong Xiong,
Rui Deng,
Rong-rong Fu,
De-zhi Li,
Jie Chen,
Yu-sheng Chen,
Cheng-ping Hu,
Jia-shu Li,
Rui-qin Wang,
Li-ping Wei,
Xiao-ning Zhong,
Gui-zhen Tian,
Lan Mu,
Huan-ying Wan, Qin Yu,
Pei He,
Jian-jun Ma,
Zhan-cheng Gao
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ABSTRACT: To investigate the current status of atypical pathogen associated infections in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults, and their clinical attributes.
Clinical data, sputum specimens from acute phase, and paired sera from acute- and convalescent-phases of CAP in 153 adult patients were collected from May 2005 to May 2008 in multiple medical centers. Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) IgG antibody, and Legionella pneumophila (LP) mixed IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies were determined by indirect immuno-fluorescent assay. Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mpn) mixed IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies were determined by passive agglutination assay. All the sputum specimens were routinely cultured for bacterial isolation.
Fifty-two (34%) out of the 153 cases were diagnosed as atypical CAP per the paired serum-antibody assay. Forty-seven of the 52 atypical CAP cases were infected by one atypical pathogen, 38 with Cpn, 4 with Mpn, and 5 with LP, while 5 out of the 52 atypical CAP cases were infected by 2 pathogens, Cpn and Mpnin 2, Cpn and LP in 3 cases. Eleven cases (21.2%) out of the 52 patients with atypical pneumonia were complicated with bacterial infection. Except peripheral white blood count was significant increased in the group of typical (bacterial only) pneumonia (WBC > 10 × 10⁹)/L, P = 0.03), all the other clinical parameters did not show statistically significant difference between the typical and the atypical pneumonia groups.
Our data suggest that Chlamydia pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila are common pathogens of adult CAP. Chlamydia pneumoniae might be the most frequent atypical pathogen associated with atypical CAP.
Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi = Chinese journal of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 09/2010; 33(9):646-50.
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ABSTRACT: Operation regulations of two main electron transport pathways in nectarine (Prunus persica var. nectariana cv. Shuguang) buds during endodormancy induction were studied to understand possible roles which two main electron transport pathways played in the buds of deciduous fruit trees during endodormancy induction. Respiratory inhibitors (KCN and SHAM) were used to investigate total respiration rate (Vt), the development and operation of the alternative pathway and partitioning of electrons between the cytochrome and alternative pathways in nectarine buds during endodormancy induction. Results indicated that changes of Vt in flower and leaf buds showed single and double hump-shaped curves, respectively. In endodormancy induction, the capacity (Valt) and activity (ρValt) of the alternative pathway rapidly increased, but changes of them had different patterns during the entire measuration. At the same time, changes of engagements of the alternative (ρValt/Vt) and cytochrome pathway (ρ′Vcyt/Vt) were opposite, and ρ′Vcyt/Vt was always further higher than ρValt/Vt during the entire measuration. All these results indicated that the development and operation of the alternative pathway played important roles in endodormancy induction, but the cytochrome pathway was the main pathway for mitochondrial electron transport in buds during endodormancy induction.
Agricultural Sciences in China.
