Over the past decade,a growing number of studies have reported transcription factor-based in situ reprogramming that can directly conve rt endogenous glial cells into functional neurons as an alternative approach for ...Over the past decade,a growing number of studies have reported transcription factor-based in situ reprogramming that can directly conve rt endogenous glial cells into functional neurons as an alternative approach for n euro regeneration in the adult mammalian central ne rvous system.Howeve r,many questions remain regarding how a terminally differentiated glial cell can transform into a delicate neuron that forms part of the intricate brain circuitry.In addition,concerns have recently been raised around the absence of astrocyte-to-neuron conversion in astrocytic lineage-tra cing mice.In this study,we employed repetitive two-photon imaging to continuously capture the in situ astrocyte-to-neuron conversion process following ecto pic expression of the neural transcription factor NeuroD1 in both prolife rating reactive astrocytes and lineage-tra ced astrocytes in the mouse cortex.Time-lapse imaging over several wee ks revealed the ste p-by-step transition from a typical astrocyte with numero us short,tapered branches to a typical neuro n with a few long neurites and dynamic growth cones that actively explored the local environment.In addition,these lineage-converting cells were able to migrate ra dially or to ngentially to relocate to suitable positions.Furthermore,two-photon Ca2+imaging and patch-clamp recordings confirmed that the newly generated neuro ns exhibited synchronous calcium signals,repetitive action potentials,and spontaneous synaptic responses,suggesting that they had made functional synaptic connections within local neural circuits.In conclusion,we directly visualized the step-by-step lineage conversion process from astrocytes to functional neurons in vivo and unambiguously demonstrated that adult mammalian brains are highly plastic with respect to their potential for neuro regeneration and neural circuit reconstruction.展开更多
Background:Studies have revealed the protective effect of DL-3-n-butylphthalide(NBP)against diseases associated with ischemic hypoxia.However,the role of NBP in animals with hypobaric hypoxia has not been elucidated.T...Background:Studies have revealed the protective effect of DL-3-n-butylphthalide(NBP)against diseases associated with ischemic hypoxia.However,the role of NBP in animals with hypobaric hypoxia has not been elucidated.This study investigated the effects of NBP on rodents with acute and chronic hypobaric hypoxia.Methods:Sprague-Dwaley rats and Kunming mice administered with NBP(0,60,120,and 240 mg/kg for rats and 0,90,180,and 360 mg/kg for mice)were placed in a hypobaric hypoxia chamber at 10,000 m and the survival percentages at 30 min were determined.Then,the time and distance to exhaustion of drug-treated rodents were evaluated during treadmill running and motor-driven wheel-track treadmill experiments,conducted at 5800 m for 3 days or 20 days,to evaluate changes in physical functions.The frequency of active escapes and duration of active escapes were also determined for rats in a shuttle-box experiment,conducted at 5800 m for 6 days or 27 days,to evaluate changes in learning and memory function.ATP levels were measured in the gastrocnemius muscle and malonaldehyde(MDA),superoxide dismutase(SOD),hydrogen peroxide(H_(2)O_(2)),glutathione peroxidase(GSH-Px),and lactate were detected in sera of rats,and routine blood tests were also performed.Results:Survival analysis at 10,000 m indicated NBP could improve hypoxia tolerance ability.The time and distance to exhaustion for mice(NBP,90 mg/kg)and time to exhaustion for rats(NBP,120 and 240 mg/kg)significantly increased under conditions of acute hypoxia compared with control group.NBP treatment also significantly increased the time to exhaustion for rats when exposed to chronic hypoxia.Moreover,240 mg/kg NBP significantly increased the frequency of active escapes under conditions of acute hypoxia.Furthermore,the levels of MDA and H_(2)O_(2) decreased but those of SOD and GSH-Px in the sera of rats increased under conditions of acute and chronic hypoxia.Additionally,ATP levels in the gastrocnemius muscle significantly increased,while lactate levels in sera significantly decreased.Conclusion:NBP improved physical and learning and memory functions in rodents exposed to acute or chronic hypobaric hypoxia by increasing their anti-oxidative capacity and energy supply.展开更多
目的:分析新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情期间新组建的医院药剂科采用药品货位编码进行药学保障服务的经验与不足,为突发公共卫生事件等紧急情况下新组建的医院开展药学服务提供借鉴。方法:武汉某新型冠状病毒肺炎定点收治医院采用四维立体编码...目的:分析新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情期间新组建的医院药剂科采用药品货位编码进行药学保障服务的经验与不足,为突发公共卫生事件等紧急情况下新组建的医院开展药学服务提供借鉴。方法:武汉某新型冠状病毒肺炎定点收治医院采用四维立体编码法编制货位号编码,结合医院信息管理系统,用于药品的入库、出库和盘库。通过记忆字段假设法,比较药师在货位管理前后需记忆的字段数量;选择6名药师作为试验者,随机分为2组,在不同任务阶段(初期上岗第7天、中期第27天、后期第47天),观察与统计对照组(附无货位编码的出库单)和试验组(附有货位编码的拣货单)完成目标调配任务所需时间和调配差错率;比较该管理手段使用前后,20名药师完成药品盘库所需时间和盘库差错率。结果与结论:药品货位编码管理可提高药师的调配和盘库效率,降低调配差错风险。采用药品货位编码后,药师所需记忆字段由624个降至60个,盘库时间由3.17 h缩短至1.33 h,盘库差错率由7.98%降至1.83%。在不同任务阶段,试验组的调配时间均显著低于对照组(初期95.20 min vs.31.33 min,中期71.67 min vs.22.67 min,后期69.67 min vs.22.67 min),在任务初期经过货位编码管理的调配差错率显著降低(5.80%vs.1.45%)。同时,反思药品货位编码中的管理漏洞,如编制原则中"药品总数"设计不合理、高危、精麻、易混淆及近效期等特殊药品的编制原则缺失、机动码和应急预案的缺失,提出相应的解决策略,以期为突发公共卫生事件下药品的信息化管理提供借鉴。展开更多
Because of high cost and pollution of oil-based drilling fluid,the water-based drilling fluid is increasingly used now.However,bedding planes and micro-cracks are rich in shale formation.When water-based drilling flui...Because of high cost and pollution of oil-based drilling fluid,the water-based drilling fluid is increasingly used now.However,bedding planes and micro-cracks are rich in shale formation.When water-based drilling fluid contacts formation rock,it causes the propagation of crack and invasion of drilling fluid,which decrease shale strength and cause wellbore instability.In this paper,we analyzed influence of water-based drilling fluid on shale strength and failure mode by mechanics experiment.Based on those experimental results,considering the effect of bedding plane and drilling time,we established modeling of wellbore stability for shale formation.The result from this model indicates that in certain azimuth of horizontal well,collapsing pressure increases dramatically due to shale failure along with bedding plane.In drilling operation,those azimuths are supposed to be avoided.This model is applicable for predication of collapsing pressure in shale formation and offers reference for choosing suitable mud weight.展开更多
We performed systematic studies on the effects of event-by-event efficiency fluctuations on efficiency correction for cumulant analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Experimentally, particle eficien...We performed systematic studies on the effects of event-by-event efficiency fluctuations on efficiency correction for cumulant analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Experimentally, particle eficiencies of events measured under different experimental conditions should be different. For fluctuation measurements, the final event-by-event multiplicity distributions should be the superposed distributions of various type of events measured under different conditions. We demonstrate efficiency fluctuation effects using numerical simulation, in which we construct an event ensemble consisting of events with two different efficiencies. By using the mean particle efficiencies, we find that the efficiency corrected cumulants show large deviations from the original inputs when the discrepancy between the two efficiencies is large. We further studied the effects of efficiency fluctuations for the cumulants of net-proton distributions by implementing the UrQMD events of Au+Au collisions at √SNN=7.7 GeV in a realistic STAR detector acceptance. We consider the unequal efficiency in two sides of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), multiplicity dependent efficiency, and the event-by-event variations of the collision vertex position along the longitudinal direction (Vz). When the efficiencies fluctuate dramatically within the studied event sample, the effects of efficiency fluctuations have significant impacts on the efficiency corrections of cumulants with the mean efficiencies. We find that this effect can be effectively suppressed by binning the entire event ensemble into various sub-event samples, in which the efficiency variations are relatively small. The final efficiency corrected cumulants can be calculated from the weighted average of the corrected factorial moments of the sub-event samples with the mean efficiencies.展开更多
We studied the effects of centrality fluctuation and deuteron formation on the cumulant(C_(n))and correlation functions(K_(n))of protons up to the sixth order in the most central(b<3 fm)Au+Au collisions at√SNN=3 G...We studied the effects of centrality fluctuation and deuteron formation on the cumulant(C_(n))and correlation functions(K_(n))of protons up to the sixth order in the most central(b<3 fm)Au+Au collisions at√SNN=3 GeV in a microscopic transport model(JAM).The results are presented as a function of rapidity acceptance within the transverse momentum 0.4<p T<2 GeV/c.We compared the results obtained by the centrality bin width correction(CBWC)using charged reference particle multiplicities with the CBWC using impact parameter bins.It was found that,at low energies,the centrality resolution for determining the collision centrality using charged particle multiplicities is not sufficient to reduce the initial volume fluctuation effect for higher-order cumulant analysis.New methods need to be developed to classify events with high centrality resolution for heavy-ion collisions at low energies.Finally,we observed that the formation of deuterons suppresses the higher-order cumulants and correlation functions of protons and found it to be similar to the efficiency effect.This work can serve as a noncritical baseline for the QCD critical point search in the high baryon density region.展开更多
In this study,different carbon quantum dots(CQDs)/NaBiO3 hybrid materials were synthesized as photocatalysts to effectively utilize visible light for the photocatalytic degradation of contaminants effectively.These hy...In this study,different carbon quantum dots(CQDs)/NaBiO3 hybrid materials were synthesized as photocatalysts to effectively utilize visible light for the photocatalytic degradation of contaminants effectively.These hybrid materials exhibit an enhanced photocatalytic reduction of hexavalent chromium(Cr(Ⅵ))in the aqueous medium.Zero-dimensional nanoparticles of CQDs were embedded within the two-dimensional NaBiO3 nanosheets by the hydrothermal process.Compared with that of the pure NaBiO3 nanosheets,the photocatalytic performance of the hybrid catalysts was significantly high and 6 wt.%CQDs/NaBiO3 catalyst exhibited better photocatalytic performance.We performed the first-principles density functional theory calculations to study the interfacial properties of pure NaBiO3 nanosheets and hybrid photocatalysts,and confirmed the CQDs played an important role in the CQDs/NaBiO3 composites.The experimental results indicated that the enhanced reduction of Cr(Ⅵ)was probably due to the high loading of CQDs(electron acceptor)on NaBiO3,which made NaBiO3 nanomaterials to respond in visible light and significantly improved their electron-hole separation efficiency.展开更多
Dip-pen na.nolithography (DPN) is a useful method for directly printing materials on surfaces with sub-50nm resolution. Because it, involves the physical transport of materials from a scanning probe tip to a surface...Dip-pen na.nolithography (DPN) is a useful method for directly printing materials on surfaces with sub-50nm resolution. Because it, involves the physical transport of materials from a scanning probe tip to a surface and the subsequent chemical interaction of that material with the surface, there are many factors to consider when attempting to understand DPN. In this review, we overview the physical and chemical processes that are known to play a role in DPN, Through a detailed review of the literature, we classify inks into three general categories based on their transport properties, and highlight the myriad ways that. DPN can be used to perform chemistry at the tip of a scanning probe.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.31970906(to WLei)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,No.2020A1515011079(to WLei)+4 种基金Key Technologies R&D Program of Guangdong Province,No.2018B030332001(to GC)Science and Technology Projects of Guangzhou,No.202206060002(to GC)the Youth Science Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.32100793(to ZX)the Pearl River Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team,No.2021ZT09 Y552Yi-Liang Liu Endowment Fund from Jinan University Education Development Foundation。
文摘Over the past decade,a growing number of studies have reported transcription factor-based in situ reprogramming that can directly conve rt endogenous glial cells into functional neurons as an alternative approach for n euro regeneration in the adult mammalian central ne rvous system.Howeve r,many questions remain regarding how a terminally differentiated glial cell can transform into a delicate neuron that forms part of the intricate brain circuitry.In addition,concerns have recently been raised around the absence of astrocyte-to-neuron conversion in astrocytic lineage-tra cing mice.In this study,we employed repetitive two-photon imaging to continuously capture the in situ astrocyte-to-neuron conversion process following ecto pic expression of the neural transcription factor NeuroD1 in both prolife rating reactive astrocytes and lineage-tra ced astrocytes in the mouse cortex.Time-lapse imaging over several wee ks revealed the ste p-by-step transition from a typical astrocyte with numero us short,tapered branches to a typical neuro n with a few long neurites and dynamic growth cones that actively explored the local environment.In addition,these lineage-converting cells were able to migrate ra dially or to ngentially to relocate to suitable positions.Furthermore,two-photon Ca2+imaging and patch-clamp recordings confirmed that the newly generated neuro ns exhibited synchronous calcium signals,repetitive action potentials,and spontaneous synaptic responses,suggesting that they had made functional synaptic connections within local neural circuits.In conclusion,we directly visualized the step-by-step lineage conversion process from astrocytes to functional neurons in vivo and unambiguously demonstrated that adult mammalian brains are highly plastic with respect to their potential for neuro regeneration and neural circuit reconstruction.
基金supported by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Project(2014ZX09J14102-05B and 2018ZX09J18109)。
文摘Background:Studies have revealed the protective effect of DL-3-n-butylphthalide(NBP)against diseases associated with ischemic hypoxia.However,the role of NBP in animals with hypobaric hypoxia has not been elucidated.This study investigated the effects of NBP on rodents with acute and chronic hypobaric hypoxia.Methods:Sprague-Dwaley rats and Kunming mice administered with NBP(0,60,120,and 240 mg/kg for rats and 0,90,180,and 360 mg/kg for mice)were placed in a hypobaric hypoxia chamber at 10,000 m and the survival percentages at 30 min were determined.Then,the time and distance to exhaustion of drug-treated rodents were evaluated during treadmill running and motor-driven wheel-track treadmill experiments,conducted at 5800 m for 3 days or 20 days,to evaluate changes in physical functions.The frequency of active escapes and duration of active escapes were also determined for rats in a shuttle-box experiment,conducted at 5800 m for 6 days or 27 days,to evaluate changes in learning and memory function.ATP levels were measured in the gastrocnemius muscle and malonaldehyde(MDA),superoxide dismutase(SOD),hydrogen peroxide(H_(2)O_(2)),glutathione peroxidase(GSH-Px),and lactate were detected in sera of rats,and routine blood tests were also performed.Results:Survival analysis at 10,000 m indicated NBP could improve hypoxia tolerance ability.The time and distance to exhaustion for mice(NBP,90 mg/kg)and time to exhaustion for rats(NBP,120 and 240 mg/kg)significantly increased under conditions of acute hypoxia compared with control group.NBP treatment also significantly increased the time to exhaustion for rats when exposed to chronic hypoxia.Moreover,240 mg/kg NBP significantly increased the frequency of active escapes under conditions of acute hypoxia.Furthermore,the levels of MDA and H_(2)O_(2) decreased but those of SOD and GSH-Px in the sera of rats increased under conditions of acute and chronic hypoxia.Additionally,ATP levels in the gastrocnemius muscle significantly increased,while lactate levels in sera significantly decreased.Conclusion:NBP improved physical and learning and memory functions in rodents exposed to acute or chronic hypobaric hypoxia by increasing their anti-oxidative capacity and energy supply.
文摘目的:分析新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情期间新组建的医院药剂科采用药品货位编码进行药学保障服务的经验与不足,为突发公共卫生事件等紧急情况下新组建的医院开展药学服务提供借鉴。方法:武汉某新型冠状病毒肺炎定点收治医院采用四维立体编码法编制货位号编码,结合医院信息管理系统,用于药品的入库、出库和盘库。通过记忆字段假设法,比较药师在货位管理前后需记忆的字段数量;选择6名药师作为试验者,随机分为2组,在不同任务阶段(初期上岗第7天、中期第27天、后期第47天),观察与统计对照组(附无货位编码的出库单)和试验组(附有货位编码的拣货单)完成目标调配任务所需时间和调配差错率;比较该管理手段使用前后,20名药师完成药品盘库所需时间和盘库差错率。结果与结论:药品货位编码管理可提高药师的调配和盘库效率,降低调配差错风险。采用药品货位编码后,药师所需记忆字段由624个降至60个,盘库时间由3.17 h缩短至1.33 h,盘库差错率由7.98%降至1.83%。在不同任务阶段,试验组的调配时间均显著低于对照组(初期95.20 min vs.31.33 min,中期71.67 min vs.22.67 min,后期69.67 min vs.22.67 min),在任务初期经过货位编码管理的调配差错率显著降低(5.80%vs.1.45%)。同时,反思药品货位编码中的管理漏洞,如编制原则中"药品总数"设计不合理、高危、精麻、易混淆及近效期等特殊药品的编制原则缺失、机动码和应急预案的缺失,提出相应的解决策略,以期为突发公共卫生事件下药品的信息化管理提供借鉴。
基金This research was supported by the United Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1262209)the Open Fund(Grant No.PLN0906)of Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation(Southwest Petroleum University)Basic research Project of Sichuan Province(Grant No.2014JY0092).
文摘Because of high cost and pollution of oil-based drilling fluid,the water-based drilling fluid is increasingly used now.However,bedding planes and micro-cracks are rich in shale formation.When water-based drilling fluid contacts formation rock,it causes the propagation of crack and invasion of drilling fluid,which decrease shale strength and cause wellbore instability.In this paper,we analyzed influence of water-based drilling fluid on shale strength and failure mode by mechanics experiment.Based on those experimental results,considering the effect of bedding plane and drilling time,we established modeling of wellbore stability for shale formation.The result from this model indicates that in certain azimuth of horizontal well,collapsing pressure increases dramatically due to shale failure along with bedding plane.In drilling operation,those azimuths are supposed to be avoided.This model is applicable for predication of collapsing pressure in shale formation and offers reference for choosing suitable mud weight.
基金Supported by the MoST of China 973-Project No.2015CB856901NSFC(11575069)
文摘We performed systematic studies on the effects of event-by-event efficiency fluctuations on efficiency correction for cumulant analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Experimentally, particle eficiencies of events measured under different experimental conditions should be different. For fluctuation measurements, the final event-by-event multiplicity distributions should be the superposed distributions of various type of events measured under different conditions. We demonstrate efficiency fluctuation effects using numerical simulation, in which we construct an event ensemble consisting of events with two different efficiencies. By using the mean particle efficiencies, we find that the efficiency corrected cumulants show large deviations from the original inputs when the discrepancy between the two efficiencies is large. We further studied the effects of efficiency fluctuations for the cumulants of net-proton distributions by implementing the UrQMD events of Au+Au collisions at √SNN=7.7 GeV in a realistic STAR detector acceptance. We consider the unequal efficiency in two sides of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), multiplicity dependent efficiency, and the event-by-event variations of the collision vertex position along the longitudinal direction (Vz). When the efficiencies fluctuate dramatically within the studied event sample, the effects of efficiency fluctuations have significant impacts on the efficiency corrections of cumulants with the mean efficiencies. We find that this effect can be effectively suppressed by binning the entire event ensemble into various sub-event samples, in which the efficiency variations are relatively small. The final efficiency corrected cumulants can be calculated from the weighted average of the corrected factorial moments of the sub-event samples with the mean efficiencies.
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFE0202002,2018YFE0205201)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11828500,11828501,11575069,11890711,11861131009)。
文摘We studied the effects of centrality fluctuation and deuteron formation on the cumulant(C_(n))and correlation functions(K_(n))of protons up to the sixth order in the most central(b<3 fm)Au+Au collisions at√SNN=3 GeV in a microscopic transport model(JAM).The results are presented as a function of rapidity acceptance within the transverse momentum 0.4<p T<2 GeV/c.We compared the results obtained by the centrality bin width correction(CBWC)using charged reference particle multiplicities with the CBWC using impact parameter bins.It was found that,at low energies,the centrality resolution for determining the collision centrality using charged particle multiplicities is not sufficient to reduce the initial volume fluctuation effect for higher-order cumulant analysis.New methods need to be developed to classify events with high centrality resolution for heavy-ion collisions at low energies.Finally,we observed that the formation of deuterons suppresses the higher-order cumulants and correlation functions of protons and found it to be similar to the efficiency effect.This work can serve as a noncritical baseline for the QCD critical point search in the high baryon density region.
基金the funding provided by Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong ProvinceResearch Project of Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Key R&D Program of China(No.2019YFC0408605)。
文摘In this study,different carbon quantum dots(CQDs)/NaBiO3 hybrid materials were synthesized as photocatalysts to effectively utilize visible light for the photocatalytic degradation of contaminants effectively.These hybrid materials exhibit an enhanced photocatalytic reduction of hexavalent chromium(Cr(Ⅵ))in the aqueous medium.Zero-dimensional nanoparticles of CQDs were embedded within the two-dimensional NaBiO3 nanosheets by the hydrothermal process.Compared with that of the pure NaBiO3 nanosheets,the photocatalytic performance of the hybrid catalysts was significantly high and 6 wt.%CQDs/NaBiO3 catalyst exhibited better photocatalytic performance.We performed the first-principles density functional theory calculations to study the interfacial properties of pure NaBiO3 nanosheets and hybrid photocatalysts,and confirmed the CQDs played an important role in the CQDs/NaBiO3 composites.The experimental results indicated that the enhanced reduction of Cr(Ⅵ)was probably due to the high loading of CQDs(electron acceptor)on NaBiO3,which made NaBiO3 nanomaterials to respond in visible light and significantly improved their electron-hole separation efficiency.
基金Acknowledgements C.A.M. acknowledges the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR, Awards FA9550-12-1-0280 and FA9550-12-1-0141), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, Award N66001-08-1-2044) and the National Science Foundation (NSF, Awards DBI-1152139 and DMB-1124131) for support of this research. K. A. B. and X. L. gratefully acknowledges support from Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology. D. J. E. acknowledges the DoD and AFOSR for a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, 32 CFR 168a.
文摘Dip-pen na.nolithography (DPN) is a useful method for directly printing materials on surfaces with sub-50nm resolution. Because it, involves the physical transport of materials from a scanning probe tip to a surface and the subsequent chemical interaction of that material with the surface, there are many factors to consider when attempting to understand DPN. In this review, we overview the physical and chemical processes that are known to play a role in DPN, Through a detailed review of the literature, we classify inks into three general categories based on their transport properties, and highlight the myriad ways that. DPN can be used to perform chemistry at the tip of a scanning probe.