Licorice seedlings were taken as experimental materials, an experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous sucrose on growth and active ingredient content of licorice seedlings under NaCl stress conditions. The results of this study showed that under salt stress conditions, after adding a certain concentration of exogenous sucrose, the licorice seedlings day of relative growth rate was increasing, and this stress can be a significant weakening effect, indicating that exogenous sucrose salt stress-relieving effect. The total flavonoids and phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity were significantly increased, the exogenous sucrose can mitigated the seedling roots under salt stress, the licorice flavonoid content in the enhanced growth was largely due to the activity of PAL an increased, when the concentration of exogenous sucrose wae 10 mmol x L(-1), PAL activity reaching a maximum, when the concentration of exogenous sucrose was 15 mmol x L(-1), PAL activity turned into a downward trend, the results indicating that this mitigation has concentration effect. After applying different concentrations of exogenous sugar, the contents of liquiritin changes with the change of flavonoids content was similar. After applying different concentrations of exogenous sucrose, the content of licorice acid under salt stress was higher than the levels were not reached during salt stress, the impact of exogenous sucrose concentration gradient of licorice acid accumulation was not obvious.
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BACKGROUND:Stem cell transplantation and tissue engineering in repairing bone defects is a hotspots of recent study.OBJECTIVE:To observe the therapeutic effect of engineering repair on bone defect by auto-transplantation of bone marrow stromal cells(BMSCs)DESIGN: Left-right comparative studySETTING:Experimental center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical UniversityMATERIALS:Twelve New Zealand rabbits with birth age of 10 days to 2months were selected ,male or female with body mass of 2 to 2.5 kg.METHODS :The experiment was conducted in the Experimental Center of First Clinical Medical College, Harbin Medical University from June 2002to June 2003. Self-BMSCs were separated for subculture. 1.5 cm bone was intercepted at middle of radius in 12 rabbits so as to simulate complete bone defect. Then, the left radius defect was filled with collagen sponge carrying BMSCs ( experimental side),which was replaced by simple collagen sponge in the right side(control side). Twelve weeks later, rabbits were put to death and the outcomes of both sides were compared.X-ray assessment was accorded to the standardized stage of bone defect repair (bone repair was graded into 0 to 5 grades,grade 5 implies that bone defect has been completely replaced by new bone,grade 0 implies that no new bone repair).MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:The general observations of rabbit radius defects,X-ray scanning, histological and electro-microscopic observations.At week 12, callus became strong and protruded to bone defects in experimental side,well connecting with broken ends. While broken ends in control group were only connected by fibrous tissue and no continuous callus was found continuously crossing through the bone defect of experimental side, marrow cavity was smooth, but molding was incomplete. While in control side, no continuous callus could be observed passing through the broteoblasts and new stroms could be observed in bone defect of experimental side, but only a few of osteocytes appeared in the broken ends of control vations: The osteoblast observed in the experimental side seems normal and was rich in enlarged endoplasmic reticula energetic in ,protein synthesis and abundant in organelle.CONCLUSION :As osteogenetic cells, BMSCs possess better osteogenesis property. They can be used as seed cellsin bone defect repair by using bone-engineering techniques.

Objective To construct the eukaryotic expression plasmid of pEGFPC1uPAR gene and explore the effect on the proliferation and invasion ability of Pam 212 cells. Methods The human uPAR cDNA was cloned by PCR, and inserted into the eukaryotic expression plasmid pEGFPC1. After identification of sequencing, the reconstructive plasmid was transformed transiently into Pam 212 cells, then the cell growth and the invasion ability were evaluated. Results The reconstructive plasmid of pEGFPC1uPAR was validated by sequencing. The reconstructive plasmid can promote the growth of Pam 212 cells and enhance the invasion ability. Conclusion The pEGFPC1uPAR plasmid was constructed successfully and uPAR was confirmed to promote the growth and the invasion ability of Pam 212 cells, which lay the foundation for further studies of uPAR in vivo.

AIM: To investigate the role of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) and protein kinase C (PKC) signaling in tumor necrosis factor-? (TNF-?)-induced cardioprotection against hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) injury. METHODS: Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes were pretreated with TNF-? or sodium nitroprusside (SNP) or L-arginine (L-Arg), respectively, for 12 h and then subjected to continuous hypoxia for 12 h, followed by reoxygenation for 6 h. The manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) activity of the cells was measured after H/R. Myocyte injury was determined by the release of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH). RESULTS: TNF-? (10~5 (U/L)) significantly increased the Mn-SOD activity and decreased release of LDH from ventricular myocytes. The cardioprotection against H/R injury was induced by the pretreatment with SNP (5 ?mol/L) or L-Arg (5 mmol/L), which was blocked by ODQ (10 ?mol/L), the specific sGC inhibitor, and Chel (5 ?mol/L), the specific PKC inhibitor. Pretreatment with L-NAME (100 ?mol/L), ODQ, Chel, antoxidant 2-MPG (400 ?mol/L) or tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein (50 ?mol/L) attenuated the increased Mn-SOD activity and reduced LDH level induced by TNF-?. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that NO may play a role in TNF-?-induced cardioprotection, which is mediated by sGC and PKC. [

OBJECTIVE:To select a technique for preparation of fluconazole for injection and to establish a method for determination of its content.METHODS:The formula was selected on the basis of pH value and species of solution adjuvant.The content was determined by HPLC.RESULTS:The preparation was stable when pH value was between6.5～8.5,and its clarity could be increased by propylene glycol.The detectable concentration of fluconazole showed a good linear correlation in the range of40～200?g/ml.The average recovery was100.37%,RSD=1.37%(n=3).CONCLUSION:The fluconazole for injection prepared by the present technique is stable in quality and the method for content determination is accurate and practicable.

BACKGROUND:Induction of osteoblasts differentiating into osteocytes is a hot spot in tissue engineering;however, the regulatory mechanism underlying differentiation has not been ful y elucidated. MicroRNA, as an endogenous smal RNA molecule, can regulate post-transcriptional gene expression by binding to the 3’ nontranslated region of the target gene mRNA, which also has been found to play an important regulatory role in osteocyte differentiation. OBJECTIVE:To study the regulation of miR-155 on osteoblast differentiation and the underlying mechanism. METHODS:The mouse osteoblast cel lines MC3T3-E1 were selected and induced by mouse bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2, 200 ng/mL) and then the miR-155 mRNA expression was determined by quantitative real-time PCR at 1, 3, 7 and 14 days. MC3T3-E1 cel s were divided into control, BMP2, miR-155 and miR-155 inhibitor groups, fol owed by cultured withα-MEM medium, BMP2, miR-155 and miR-155 inhibitor, respectively, for 2 weeks. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:After induction using BMP2, miR-155 expression was downregulated in a time dependent manner. The staining intensity of alizarin red in the BMP2 group was significantly higher than that of the control group, and the activity of alkaline phosphatase and mRNA expression were also significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.01). The staining intensity of alizarin red, activity of alkaline phosphatase and mRNA expression in the miR-155 group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.01), while al above measurements were reversed significantly by miR-155 inhibitor (P<0.05). miR-155 could bind to the 3’ untranslated region of SMAD5 mRNA and significantly downregulated the expressions of SMAD5 protein and mRNA in MC3T3-E1 cel s (P<0.01). These results show that miR-155 can inhibit MC3T3-E1osteogenic differentiation by downregulating SMAD5 expression.

Objective To detect the effects of pancreatic kininogenase on the expression of TGF-?1 and collagen remodeling in myocardiom of spontaneously hypertensive rats(SHR).Methods Twenty-four male SHR(aged fifteen weeks)were randomly divided into three groups:SHR group,pancreatic kininogenase group and captopril group(n=8),8 male Wistar Kyoto rats with normol blood pressure was considered as control group.Pancreatic kininogenase was given by peritoneal injection(7.2 U? kg-1? d-1),captopril was given by intragastric administration(10 mg? kg-1? d-1),the rats in SHR group and control group were administered with 0.9% NaCl(2 mL ? kg-1? d-1)through peritoneal injection.After four-week experiment,the pressure was measured in rats througth carotid artery,the rats were sacrificed and left ventricular mass index,collagen volume fraction,peripheral vascular collagen area were measured.Myocardial tissue was stained with VG and pathological changes were observed.The expression of TGF-?1 were detected by immunohistochemical technique(SP method).Results The systolic blood pressure,left ventricular mass index,collagen volume fraction,peripheral vascular collagen area and the expression level of TGF-?1 in SHR group were obviously higher than those in control group(P0.05).Conclusion Pancreatic kininogenase can obviously control pressure and reverse myocardial fibrosis probably by decreasing the expression of TGF-?1 in SHR.

Objective To explore the relationships between erythropoietin( EPO), endothelin - 1 (ET - 1) and perinatal anoxia. Method ELISA was used to test cord blood EPO and ET-1 in 54 high risk neonates as subjects and 14 healthy neonates as controls.Results The cord blood EPO levels in amniotic fluids turbid Ⅲ degree group and group eclampsia/pre - eclampsia were higher than those in control group (t= 4.0842,3 680 allP