Influence of Unconscious Emotional Control Goals Priming on Anticipatory Anxiety and Physiological Activity

Individuals frequently generate emotion during the anticipation process and the anticipatory emotion has an important adaptive significance, especially the negative anticipative emotion. Many researches used conscious emotion regulation strategy and successfully reduced negative anticipatory emotion. However, it is costly for our limited cognition. In the present study, we used sentence unscrambling tasks to prime unconscious emotion control goal and investigated its effect on anticipatory anxiety, including experience and physiological activity. The results showed that 1) relative to anticipating neutral images, participations’ anxiety experience and skin conductance level were higher when anticipating negative and unknown images;2) participants who had a unconscious emotion control goal primed achieved the same decrease in skin conductance as those explicitly instructed to reappraise, compared to a control group;3) heart rate was not affected by experiment condition and anticipation type. Together, these findings suggest that unconscious emotion regulation may provide an effective mean of regulating negative anticipatory emotion.

Effects of arsenic on seed germination and physiological activities of wheat seedlings

The effects of arsenic （As） were investigated on seed germination, root and shoot length and their biomass and some other factors to elucidate the toxicity of As. The results showed low concentrations of As （0-1 mg/kg） stimulated seed germination and the growth of root and shoot, however, these factors all decreased gradually at high concentrations of As （5-20 mg/kg）. The contents of O2^-, MDA, soluble protein and peroxidase （POD） activity all increased with increasing As concentrations. Soluble sugar content, ascorbate peroxidase （APX）, and superoxide dismutase （SOD） activities decreased at low concentrations of As, and increased at high concentrations of As. While acetylsalicylic acid （ASA） and chlorophyll contents, catalase （CAT） activity displayed increasing trend when the concentrations of As was lower than 1 mg/kg, and then decreasing trend. By polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis （PAGE）, As induced the expression of POD isozymes of wheat seedlings. As induced the expression of CAT isozymes but inhibited the expression of SOD isozymes of wheat seedlings at concentrations lower than 1 mg/kg. However, As inhibited the expression of CAT isozymes but induced the expression of SOD isozymes at concentrations higher than 5 mg/kg. The results indicated As could exert harmfulness in the early development stage of wheat at inappropriate concentrations.

Synthesis of 5-[5-(α-Naphthyl)-2H-Tetrazol-2-Methylene]-2-Aroylamino-1, 3,4-Thiadiazoles

Introduction Acylthiosemicarbazides have been reported to possess extensive physiological activities. Substituted thiadiazoles are known to exhibit fungicidal and insecticidal activities. Chen Limin and her coworkers reported that the cyclization of 1[5-(3’-pyridyl )-2H-tetrazol-2-acetyl-]-4-acylthiosemicarbazides gave 5-[5-(3’-

Research Progression of Resveratrol on Its Physiology Function

Resveratrol(Res)is a non-flavonoid polyphenol compound containing a stilbene structure,which mainly exists in grape,peanut,mulberry,Polygonum cuspidatum and other plants.It has a variety of biological activity such as anti-oxidation,anti-aging,anti-tumor and cardiovascular disease prevention.In this paper,we reviewed the current research on resveratrol s biological activity and application,and prospected the application potential and development prospects of resveratrol in food,health products and biomedicine.

Crystal Structure of 2-[(N-methyl-N-phenyl ) aminomethyl] flavanone

The title compound 1 (C23H21NO2) was obtained by photoinduced reaction of flavone and N, N- dimethylaniline. The crystal structure of 1 has been determined by X-ray analysis. The crystal belongs to orthorhombic system, space group isPbca with a= 11. 799(2), b=11. 979(1), c=25. 972(3), V=3670. 9(5) , Z=8, Mr= 343. 4, Dc = 1.26 g/cm3, μ= 5. 98 cm-1, F(000) = 876 and the final R=0.073 and Rw =0.070 for 2235 observed diffractions. Structure analysis reveals thatthe pyran ring is distorted into a C(1)-sofa con formation.

Research Progression on Isolation and Purification of Resveratrol

Resveratrol is a ployphenolic compound which has a wide variety of pharmacological activity. This paper reviewed the physicochemical properties of resveratrol and its purification technology including macroporous resin method, high-speed countercurrent chromatography method, molecular imprinting method, membrane separation method, column chromatography method, two-aqueous phase extraction method and the combination of purification methods, so as to provide certain reference for further research and development.

ACCELERATED DISCOVERY AND PROFILING OF PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPONENTS IN COMPLEX SAMPLES BY HPTLC-EDA-HRMS

On the one hand,the separation of thousands of compounds in a complex extract is thrilling,but may be still be separated unsatisfactorily.Hence,the question arises where to stop in high-sophisticated separation science?Which technical effort is economically justifiable in routine?On the other hand,the separation itself does not imply an effect-directed answer to questions such

Translocation and biotoxicity of metal (oxide) nanoparticles in the wetland-plant system

Engineered nanoparticles(ENPs)threaten the environment through wastewater discharging.Generally,constructed wetlands(CWs)are efficient methods for ENPs removal.However,the biotoxicity of ENPs on plants in CWs is unclear.Here,we investigated the distribution and bio-impacts of different ENPs(Ag NPs,TiO_(2) NPs,and CeO_(2) NPs)in plants under 5-and 60-day exposure to 1 and 50 mg/L concentrations.Results showed that ENPs appeared in the vascular bundle and mesophyll cell space,which induced the variation in antioxidase activities(e.g.,superoxide dismutase[SOD],peroxidase[POD],and catalase[CAT]activities)as well as overproduction of malondialdehyde(MDA).Additionally,Ag NPs inhibited photosynthesis rate and root activity during two exposure phases.CeO_(2) NPs had positive and negative impacts on plants in 5-and 60-day exposure,respectively.Inversely,TiO_(2) NPs enhanced photosynthesis and root activity under 60-day exposure.Finally,the contents of the C,N,and P elements in plants fluctuated in response to ENPs stress.All results have a positive correlation with the wetland performance under ENPs exposure except for TiO_(2) NPs treatment.Overall,our study systematically reveals aquatic plants'responses to ENPs and provides a reference for building ecological treatment systems to purify wastewater containing ENPs.

Biochemical and microbial soil functioning after application of the insecticide imidacloprid

Imidacloprid is one of the most commonly used insecticides in agricultural practice, and its application poses a potential risk for soil microorganisms. The objective of this study was to assess whether changes in the structure of the soil microbial community after imidacloprid application at the field rate（FR, 1 mg/kg soil） and 10 times the FR（10 × FR, 10 mg/kg soil）may also have an impact on biochemical and microbial soil functioning. The obtained data showed a negative effect by imidacloprid applied at the FR dosage for substrate-induced respiration（SIR）, the number of total bacteria, dehydrogenase（DHA）, both phosphatases（PHOS-H and PHOS-OH）, and urease（URE） at the beginning of the experiment. In 10 × FR treated soil, decreased activity of SIR, DHA, PHOS-OH and PHOS-H was observed over the experimental period. Nitrifying and N2-fixing bacteria were the most sensitive to imidacloprid. The concentration of NO3-decreased in both imidacloprid-treated soils,whereas the concentration of NH4＋in soil with 10 × FR was higher than in the control.Analysis of the bacterial growth strategy revealed that imidacloprid affected the r- or K-type bacterial classes as indicated also by the decreased eco-physiological（EP） index.Imidacloprid affected the physiological state of culturable bacteria and caused a reduction in the rate of colony formation as well as a prolonged time for growth. Principal component analysis showed that imidacloprid application significantly shifted the measured parameters, and the application of imidacloprid may pose a potential risk to the biochemical and microbial activity of soils.