“灵猫六国”CIVETS

继2001年美国高盛公司首席经济师吉姆·奥尼尔提出'金砖四国BRIC'(巴西Brazil俄罗斯Russia,印度India,中国China)一词后,汇丰银行首席执行官、经济学家迈克尔·盖根于2010年也提出了一个全新的概念——'灵猫六国',即哥伦比亚(Colombia)、印尼(Indonesia)、越南(Vietnam)、埃及(Egypt)。

Comparative Study in Chemical Character and Fatty acidCompositions of Masked Civet's Fat and Nutria's Oil

The fat production rate in adult healthy masked civet(Paguma lavata) and nutria (Myocaster coypus) oil were measured. The values of iodine. saponification and acid PH, composition of fstty acids of grease were analyzed both chemically and by apparatus. The results showed that acid PH, iodine value, saponification value,and unsaturation point are 1.887 and 0.784, 53.90 and 48.32, 98.80 and 100.23. and 60.05% and 58.85% are respectively for masked civet's fat and nutria's oil. Both of masked civet's fat and nutria's oil contain a little of Eicosatetraenoic acid (C-20;4), which is of great significance in nutrition and metabolism for human body. The analysis results indicate that masked civet's oil is similar to nutria's oil in iodine value, saponification value and unsaturation point. Both masked civet's fat and nutria's oil are steady and have highly nutrition. They can be widely exploited and utilized in health protection and cosmetics made industry.

The pattern of cortical thickness underlying disruptive behaviors in Alzheimer’s disease

Background Disruptive behaviors,including agitation,disinhibition,irritability,and aberrant motor behaviors,are commonly observed in patients with Alzheimer’s disease(AD).However,the neuroanatomical basis of these disruptive behaviors is not fully understood.Objective To confirm the differences in cortical thickness and surface area between AD patients and healthy controls and to further investigate the features of cortical thickness and surface area associated with disruptive behaviors in patients with AD.Methods One hundred seventy-four participants(125 AD patients and 49 healthy controls)were recruited frommemory clinics at the Peking University Institute of Sixth Hospital.Disruptive behaviors,including agitation/aggression,disinhibition,irritability/lability,and aberrant motor activity subdomain scores,were evaluated using the Neuropsychiatry Inventory.Both whole-brain vertex-based and region-of-interest-based cortical thickness and surface area analyses were automatically conducted with the CIVET pipeline based on structural magnetic resonance images.Both group-based statistical comparisons and brain-behavior association analyses were performed using general linear models,with age,sex,and education level as covariables.Results Compared with healthy controls,the AD patients exhibited widespread reduced cortical thickness,with the most significant thinning located in the medial and lateral temporal and parietal cortex,and smaller surface areas in the left fusiform and left inferior temporal gyrus.High total scores of disruptive behaviors were significantly associated with cortical thinning in several regions that are involved in sensorimotor processing,language,and expression functions.The total score of disruptive behaviors did not show significant associations with surface areas.ConclusionWe highlight that disruptive behaviors in patientswith AD are selectively associated with cortical thickness abnormalities in sensory,motor,and language regions,which provides insights into neuroanatomical substrates underlying disruptive behaviors.These findings could lead to sensory,motor,and communication interventions for alleviating disruptive behaviors in patients with AD.