Isolation and identification of vapA-absent Aeromonas salmonicida in diseased snakehead Channa argus in China.

Aeromonas salmonicida is the typical pathogen causing furunculosis, reported widely in salmonids. Because of multiple serotypes, the control of A. salmonicida-caused disease has increasingly received much attention.

Seawater immersion exacerbates the pathological changes caused by incisive corneal injury in rabbit eyes.

Background: Seawater immersion complicates injuries suffered during maritime conflicts and eye injury is one of most common injuries on the battlefield. This study aimed to delineate the pathophysiological changes in the cornea after corneal injury combined with seawater immersion.

Methods: The left eye of New Zealand White rabbits was injured with firecracker and a 3-mm long whole-layer incision in the center of the cornea parallel to the corneal limbus, followed by seawater immersion.

The opioid receptor triple agonist DPI-125 produces analgesia with less respiratory depression and reduced abuse liability.

Opioid analgesics remain the first choice for the treatment of moderate to severe pain, but they are also notorious for their respiratory depression and addictive effects. This study focused on the pharmacology of a novel opioid receptor mixed agonist DPI-125 and attempted to elucidate the relationship between the δ-, μ- and κ-receptor potency ratio and respiratory depression and abuse liability. Five diarylmethylpiperazine compounds (DPI-125, DPI-3290, DPI-130, KUST202 and KUST13T02) were selected for this study.

[Effects of Side-effect Attenuation Prescriptions on Cyclophosphamide-induced Myelosuppression in Mice].

Objective: To determine the effects of Side-effect Attenuation Prescriptions on the levels of white blood cells (WBC), hemoglobin (HGB) and platelet (PLT) in peripheral blood of mice influenced by cyclophosphamide (CTX).

Methods: Mice were randomly divided into 6 groups: normal control group, myelosuppression group induced by CTX (model group), recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) group, and Side-effect Attenuation Prescriptions group (experimental groups with high, middle, and low dosages). Marrow depressed models were established by injecting CTX intraperitoneally (40 mg/kg, once/d, 10 d) to the mice.

Development and validation of a sensitive UPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of dapoxetine and its two metabolites in human plasma.

A sensitive and rapid ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (UPLC-MS/MS) method was developed to determine dapoxetine and its two major metabolites (dapoxetine-N-oxide and desmethyldapoxetine) in human plasma simultaneously. After a simple protein precipitation, the analytes and the combined internal standard (carbamazepine) were separated on an Acquity UPLC BEH C18 column using a mobile phase of acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid in water with gradient elution.

An UPLC-MS/MS method for the analysis of glimepiride and fluoxetine in human plasma.

A sensitive and rapid ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) method was developed to determine glimepiride (GPD) and fluoxetine (FLU) in human plasma using diazepam as the internal standard (IS) simultaneously. The presented method used an Acquity UPLC BEH C18 column for chromatographic separation with tandem mass spectrometric detection on a QTrap5500 mass spectrometer operated in positive ESI mode. The mobile phase is a mixture of acetonitrile and 1% formic acid in water with gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.

Determination of cephalomannine in rat plasma by gradient elution UPLC-MS/MS method.

A rapid, sensitive and selective ultra-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) was developed and validated for the determination and pharmacokinetic investigation of cephalomannine in rat plasma. Sample preparation was accomplished through a simple one-step deproteinization procedure with 0.2 mL of perchloric acid-methanol (1:9, v/v) to a 0.

[Insulin-like growth factor-1 induced activation and expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 in scleral fibroblast of guinea pigs].

Objective: To investigate the expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3) in sclera fibroblast of guinea pigs for understanding whether STAT3 signaling transduction pathway induced by the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) was constitutively activated.

Methods: Immunocytochemical staining was used to determine the protein levels of STAT3 and P-STAT3 (activated STAT3) in scleral fibroblasts. RT-PCR was used to detect the mRNA of STAT3.

[Expression of polyprotein of infectious bursal disease virus in Bombyx mori].

Segment A of the genome of infectious bursal disease virus(IBDV) encodes structure protein VP2 and VP3 and protease VP4. In this study a polyprotein gene of IBDV was inserted into a Bombyx mori baculovirus transfer vector pAcHLT--C and contransfected into BmN cells with linear genome DNA of virus Bm-BacPAK6. Dot hybridization suggested that the segment A of the virus genome was inserted in the genome of Bm-BacPAK6.

Expression and activity determination of human angiostatin (k1-3) in culture cells and larvae of silkworm.

Angiostatin (k1-3) gene was inserted into Bombyx mori baculovirus transfer vector pBacPAK8 and cotransfected with lineared DNA of Bm-BacPAK6 virus into BmN cells. The homologous recombination occurred inside the cells, and the recombinant virus BacPAK-angiostatin was expressed, as identified by DNA dot blotting. The BmN cells and fifth instars were infected by the recombinant virus BacPAK-angiostatin; expression product was run in the SDS-PAGE, and its immunoreactivity was determined by using ELISA and Western blotting.