Two New C21 Steroidal Glycosides from the Roots of Cynanchum paniculatum.

Two new C21 steroidal glycosides, paniculatumosides H and I, together with four known ones were isolated from the roots of Cynanchum paniculatum (Bge.) Kitag. Their structures were identified by spectroscopic methods including extensive 1D and 2D NMR techniques.

Identification of Ingol and Rhamnofolane Diterpenoids from Euphorbia resinifera and Their Abilities to Induce Lysosomal Biosynthesis.

The phytochemical study of Euphorbia resinifera afforded 18 structurally diverse diterpenoids, including 14 new ingol-type diterpenoids, euphorblins A-N (1-14), a new rhamnofolane diterpenoid, euphorblin O (15), and three known analogues (16-18). The structures of these compounds were deduced using 2D NMR spectroscopy and NOE experiments. The structure of compound 1 was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.

The complete mitochondrial genome of Lista haraldusalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

We have determined the complete mitochondrial genome of Lista haraldusalis Walker, 1859. The mitochondrial genome of L. haraldusalis is 15,213 bp in size with 81.

[PP2A is involved in the inhibitory effect of progesterone on proliferation of mouse endometrial epithelial cells].

Objective: To study the effect of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) in the negative regulation of progesterone on the proliferation of mouse endometrial epithelial cells (EECs).

Methods: Mouse EECs were isolated and cultured in vitro, which were divided into four groups when they grown to confluence: control group (P4) was treated with 1 micromol/L progesterone only, group A, B and C were treated respectively with 1 micromol/L progesterone and different concentrations of okadaic acid (5 nmol/L, 10 nmol/L and 20 nmol/L). After 24 h, the numbers of cells in different phases of the cell cycle were counted with flow cytometry.

[Solving resolution of diffraction gratings using coefficients of Zernike polynomials].

It is hard and costly to test resolution directly, because the focal length of testing equipment could be nearly ten meters. Solving resolution by diffraction wavefront aberration indirectly is an effective solution to this problem. A normalization model of solving resolution using fitting coefficients of Zernike polynomials was established based on the spectral imaging theory of Fourier optics.

[Design and analysis of automatic measurement instrument for diffraction efficiency of plane reflection grating].

A new-style system that automatically measures the diffraction efficiency of plane reflection grating was designed. The continuous illuminant was adopted for illumination, the duplex grating spectrograph structure was applied, and the linear array NMOS was the receiving component. Wielding relevant principle of the grating spectrograph, theoretical analysis principle was carried out for the testing system.