Objective The pathological changes on SARS CoV infected Microtus brandtii,Lewis rat and Rhesus macaque and the possibility as SARS animal model were studied.Methods The amimals were infected with SARS-CoV through nasal cavity and sacrificed for collecting pathologic tissues after inoculation.The pathological changes,immuno-response and the replication of SARS-CoV in vivo were tested with microscopy,ELISA and virus isolation.Results Similar pathological changes were observed in SARS CoV infected Rhesus macaques,Lewis rats and Microtus brandtii and the pathological changes were similar with those of human.Conclusion All of the tree species of animals infected with SARS-CoV showned similar pathological changes with human SARS case.Among them,SARS-CoV infected Rhesus macaques is the best one in terms of pathological changes.Therefor the infected Rhesus macaque may be one of the most ideal animal model to study the pathogenesis and evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV vaccine.

Optogenetics is a technology invented by Boyden in 2005 that allows targeted, fast control of precisely defined events in neural system. It was widely used in Parkinson disease and emotional neural circuit studies. Optogenetics was selected by Nature Methods for method of the year 2010. This paper reviews on the research advances and applications of optogenetics.

Animal model plays an important role in prevention and control of infectious disease, which could link basic research in laboratory with clinical diagnosis and treatment for human patients.Mouse is the most widely used animal model of infectious disease, however, adult immunocompetent mice are resistant to some pathogens.The highly genetically diverse Collaborative Cross (CC) mice could recapitulate many of the genetic characteristics of an outbred population, such as humans.Based on this, this review will focus on the application and research progress of CC mice in infectious disease (including viruses, bacteria, fungi etc.), which could provide useful reference data for expansion of animal model resource bank, and implement of precision medicine of major and new emerging infectious diseases.We hope this review could serve as a modest spur to induce other researchers to come forward with their valuable contributions.

The outbreaks of Zika virus infection in different regions of the world underscore the potential for the virus to spread further in the Americas and beyond.Zika is a mosquito-borneFlavivirusand is transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes.It is has been reported recently that Zika virus intrauterine infection causes fetal brain abnormality and microcephaly, and WHO encourages pregnant women in countries at risk MUST protecting themselves from mosquito bites. Until now, there is no imported case in China.We have established resource and technology storage to reply to the potentialZika cases in the future, therefore, people do not need to panic in China.

Alzheimer′s disease ( AD) , is a neurodegenerative disorder of the brain that is characterized by loss of memory and cognitive decline.At present, AD etiology remains unclear and there are no effective prevention and treatment measures in clinical practice.Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptorγ( PPARγ) is a ligand-regulated nuclear hormone receptor.Recent studies showed PPARγ-pathway played an important role in the pathogenesis of AD and some PPARγagonists have been proven to be neuroprotective in vitro and in vivo models.This paper reviews the roles of PPARγand related mechanisms in AD, summarizes affecting factors about PPARγpathway.Particularly, the effect of cyanidin-3-O-glucoside ( Cy3G) , one of the anthocyanidin glycoside forms, is a compound of naturally occurring phenolic compounds, suggesting the neuroprotective effect of Cy3G might be used as a potential natural PPARγagonist in the nervous system.

H5N1 subtype of avian influenza virus (AIV) has been prevailing in many countries over the world, which has threaten human health. The establishment of AIV animal models may provide a tool for the study on the infection, mutation of avian influenza virus and pathogenesis of the disease. The pathogenicity of H5N1 to mammalian such as cynomolgus macaques, ferrets, mice, rats, gerbils, cats were summarized in current review, which may provide meaningful help for the establishment and study on ideal experiment animal models.

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Objective The present study is to investigate the effect of EPO pretreatment on TNF-? expression in cultured cardiac myocytes with H/R and to explore the possible NF-?B signal transduction mechanism. Methods The model of cultured cardiac myocytes with H/R was established and the cardiac myocytes were divided into 4 groups, including EPO group (treat with EPO 10?U/ml 24?h before H/R), EPO+PDTC group (treat with EPO 10?U/mL and PDTC 5??g/ml 24?h before H/R), PDTC group (treat with PDTC 5??g /ml 24h before H/R) and control group. Change of TNF-? gene expression before and after H/R in cardiac myocytes was detected with RT-PCR and western blot. Change of NF-?B activity before and after H/R in cardiac myocytes was assayed with EMSA. Results Before H/R, there was no significant difference in TNF-? mRNA and protein expression between the 4 groups and after H/R, TNF-? mRNA and protein expression increased significantly in the 4 groups compared to control group before H/R. After H/R, TNF-? mRNA and protein expression was lower in EPO group than in the other 3 groups. Before H/R, NF-?B activity was higher in EPO group than in the other groups. After H/R, NF-?B activity increased significantly in all the 4 groups compared to the control before H/R and NF-?B activity was lower in EPO group than in the other groups. Conclusion EPO pretreatment inhibited the upregulation of TNF-? gene expression after H/R in cardiac myocytes, which might be related to the inhibition of NF-?B activation; EPO pretreatment might inhibit the activation of NF-?B after H/R through the negative feed-back mechanism of NF-?B activation.

A new method of acquiring electromyographic is presented.An EMG signal acquisition system is developed based on virtual instrument,which adopts traditional electromyographic instrument,high performance data acquisition card and Labview software.The real-time acquisition,digitalization and display of electromyographic signal are realized through the new system.Adapted to various physiological signals with the expanded functions,the system can be considered as the future physiological instrument's direction.

There are approximately 240 million patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the world.Despite the production of HBV vaccines and antiviral drugs, HBV still remains a serious threat as an infectious disease to human health.Due to the lack of an ideal animal model, the study of HBV is limited.This review was to analyze in accordance with existing HBV animal model, to explore the differences in applications of various models regarding their etiology, pathology and pathophysiology.thus, to provide a reference for researchers in future HBV research to better use the resources.