Rosmarinic acid,a common ester extracted from Rosemary,Perilla frutescens,and Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge,has been shown to have protective effects against various diseases.This is an investigation into whether rosmarin...Rosmarinic acid,a common ester extracted from Rosemary,Perilla frutescens,and Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge,has been shown to have protective effects against various diseases.This is an investigation into whether rosmarinic acid can also affect the changes of white matter fibers and cognitive deficits caused by hypoxic injury.The right common carotid artery of 3-day-old rats was ligated for 2 hours.The rats were then prewarmed in a plastic container with holes in the lid,which was placed in 37°C water bath for 30 minutes.Afterwards,the rats were exposed to an atmosphere with 8% O2 and 92% N2 for 30 minutes to establish the perinatal hypoxia/ischemia injury models.The rat models were intraperitoneally injected with rosmarinic acid 20 mg/kg for 5 consecutive days.At 22 days after birth,rosmarinic acid was found to improve motor,anxiety,learning and spatial memory impairments induced by hypoxia/ischemia injury.Furthermore,rosmarinic acid promoted the proliferation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in the subventricular zone.After hypoxia/ischemia injury,rosmarinic acid reversed to some extent the downregulation of myelin basic protein and the loss of myelin sheath in the corpus callosum of white matter structure.Rosmarinic acid partially slowed down the expression of oligodendrocyte marker Olig2 and myelin basic protein and the increase of oligodendrocyte apoptosis marker inhibitors of DNA binding 2.These data indicate that rosmarinic acid ameliorated the cognitive dysfunction after perinatal hypoxia/ischemia injury by improving remyelination in corpus callosum.This study was approved by the Animal Experimental Ethics Committee of Xuzhou Medical University,China (approval No.20161636721) on September 16,2017.展开更多
With the incorporation of total Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) method equation and moving least square(MLS) function,the traditional SPH method is improved regarding the stability and consistency....With the incorporation of total Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) method equation and moving least square(MLS) function,the traditional SPH method is improved regarding the stability and consistency.Based on Mindlin-Ressiner plate theory,the SPH method simulating dynamic behavior via one layer of particles is applied to plate's mid-plane,i.e.,a SPH shell model is constructed.Finally,through comparative analyses on the dynamic response of square,stiffened shells and cylindrical shells under various strong impact loads with common finite element software,the feasibility,validity and numerical accuracy of the SPH shell method are verified.Consequently,further researches on SPH shell may well pave the way towards solving problems involving dynamic plastic damage,tearing or even crushing.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China,No.BK20171180(to XRW)
文摘Rosmarinic acid,a common ester extracted from Rosemary,Perilla frutescens,and Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge,has been shown to have protective effects against various diseases.This is an investigation into whether rosmarinic acid can also affect the changes of white matter fibers and cognitive deficits caused by hypoxic injury.The right common carotid artery of 3-day-old rats was ligated for 2 hours.The rats were then prewarmed in a plastic container with holes in the lid,which was placed in 37°C water bath for 30 minutes.Afterwards,the rats were exposed to an atmosphere with 8% O2 and 92% N2 for 30 minutes to establish the perinatal hypoxia/ischemia injury models.The rat models were intraperitoneally injected with rosmarinic acid 20 mg/kg for 5 consecutive days.At 22 days after birth,rosmarinic acid was found to improve motor,anxiety,learning and spatial memory impairments induced by hypoxia/ischemia injury.Furthermore,rosmarinic acid promoted the proliferation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in the subventricular zone.After hypoxia/ischemia injury,rosmarinic acid reversed to some extent the downregulation of myelin basic protein and the loss of myelin sheath in the corpus callosum of white matter structure.Rosmarinic acid partially slowed down the expression of oligodendrocyte marker Olig2 and myelin basic protein and the increase of oligodendrocyte apoptosis marker inhibitors of DNA binding 2.These data indicate that rosmarinic acid ameliorated the cognitive dysfunction after perinatal hypoxia/ischemia injury by improving remyelination in corpus callosum.This study was approved by the Animal Experimental Ethics Committee of Xuzhou Medical University,China (approval No.20161636721) on September 16,2017.
基金supported by the Llyod’s Register Educational Trust (The LRET)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50939002)the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (51222904)
文摘With the incorporation of total Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) method equation and moving least square(MLS) function,the traditional SPH method is improved regarding the stability and consistency.Based on Mindlin-Ressiner plate theory,the SPH method simulating dynamic behavior via one layer of particles is applied to plate's mid-plane,i.e.,a SPH shell model is constructed.Finally,through comparative analyses on the dynamic response of square,stiffened shells and cylindrical shells under various strong impact loads with common finite element software,the feasibility,validity and numerical accuracy of the SPH shell method are verified.Consequently,further researches on SPH shell may well pave the way towards solving problems involving dynamic plastic damage,tearing or even crushing.