Background The diagnosis of diffuse hepatic lesions in early stage is a tough task at any time for clinical conventional imaging. Magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging (MR DWI) can detect the changes of tissu...Background The diagnosis of diffuse hepatic lesions in early stage is a tough task at any time for clinical conventional imaging. Magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging (MR DWI) can detect the changes of tissue structure at molecular level. This study was designed to determine the value of DWI in the diagnosis of diffuse liver lesions in early stage. Methods Diffuse liver lesions were induced by diethylnitrosamine in 42 rats of test group. Fourteen rats in control group were fed with pure water. Dynamic changes of MR DWI were observed every week in both groups during the early stage of diffuse liver lesions (1 to 12 weeks after drug administration in the test group). Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of liver parenchyma in different stages and pathologic changes were analyzed. Results The process of diffuse hepatic lesions in the test group was classified into three stages according to pathological changes, namely hepatitis, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. No obvious morphological changes were shown by conventional imaging in both groups during this stage. But MR DWI demonstrated heterogeneous signal changes in early stage of hepatic cirrhosis in the test group. No significant change of ADC values was found in the control group between different weeks ( P >0.05). The ADC values of the test group declined from the fifth week, and after the tenth week the ADC values were significantly different between the test and control groups at gradient factor (b) value 300 sec/mm 2 ( P <0.05). At b value 600 and 1000 sec/mm 2, significant difference was seen between the two groups from the sixth week onward. The range of ADC value of the groups was (1.7-0.9)±(0.40-0.04) mm 2/sec (b=600) and (1.38-0.75)±(0.07-0.35) mm 2/sec (b=1000), respectively. Dominant pathological changes included swelled hepatocytes within 1 to 4 weeks after the administration of diethylnitrosamine in the test group, hyperplasia of fibrous tissues in 5-8 weeks and formation of cirrhotic nodules in 9-12 weeks. Conclusions 展开更多
A new dinosaur of Early Cretaceous age was recently discovered from the Mazongshan area of northwestern Gansu Province, China. The new dinosaur represents a new genus and species of Sauropoda, and is among the most ba...A new dinosaur of Early Cretaceous age was recently discovered from the Mazongshan area of northwestern Gansu Province, China. The new dinosaur represents a new genus and species of Sauropoda, and is among the most basal members of Titanosauria. Its finding also suggests that titanosaurs might have originated in Asia no later than the Early Cretaceous.展开更多
Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent sema...Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.展开更多
试验旨在克隆河流型水牛热休克蛋白70(heat shock protein 70,HSP70)基因的CDS区序列,构建HSP70原核表达载体,诱导表达HSP70融合蛋白,进一步研究HSP70蛋白对水牛精液抗冻性的影响。以摩拉水牛精子基因组DNA为模板,采用PCR方法扩增HSP70...试验旨在克隆河流型水牛热休克蛋白70(heat shock protein 70,HSP70)基因的CDS区序列,构建HSP70原核表达载体,诱导表达HSP70融合蛋白,进一步研究HSP70蛋白对水牛精液抗冻性的影响。以摩拉水牛精子基因组DNA为模板,采用PCR方法扩增HSP70基因CDS区序列,将PCR产物与pET30a质粒连接构建重组原核表达质粒,诱导表达HSP70融合蛋白,将获得的表达蛋白作为稀释液组分添加到水牛精液中制作冷冻精液并评定其活力。结果显示,试验成功扩增获得HSP70基因CDS区长为2 155bp的片段;SDS-PAGE及Western blotting分析显示,在70ku处出现一条明显条带,且表达产物可与相应的抗体发生反应;对添加有HSP70蛋白的水牛冷冻精液活力评定结果显示,终浓度为2、4、8mg/mL的HSP70能提高冷冻精液活力,且8mg/mL HSP70组冻精活力最高,但各组间差异均不显著(P>0.05)。综上所述,本试验成功表达了水牛HSP70蛋白,获得了高纯度、有活性的HSP70融合蛋白,外源添加HSP70蛋白可提高水牛冷冻精液的活力,为进一步研究水牛HSP70蛋白的抗冻性保护机理奠定了理论基础。展开更多
文摘Background The diagnosis of diffuse hepatic lesions in early stage is a tough task at any time for clinical conventional imaging. Magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging (MR DWI) can detect the changes of tissue structure at molecular level. This study was designed to determine the value of DWI in the diagnosis of diffuse liver lesions in early stage. Methods Diffuse liver lesions were induced by diethylnitrosamine in 42 rats of test group. Fourteen rats in control group were fed with pure water. Dynamic changes of MR DWI were observed every week in both groups during the early stage of diffuse liver lesions (1 to 12 weeks after drug administration in the test group). Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of liver parenchyma in different stages and pathologic changes were analyzed. Results The process of diffuse hepatic lesions in the test group was classified into three stages according to pathological changes, namely hepatitis, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. No obvious morphological changes were shown by conventional imaging in both groups during this stage. But MR DWI demonstrated heterogeneous signal changes in early stage of hepatic cirrhosis in the test group. No significant change of ADC values was found in the control group between different weeks ( P >0.05). The ADC values of the test group declined from the fifth week, and after the tenth week the ADC values were significantly different between the test and control groups at gradient factor (b) value 300 sec/mm 2 ( P <0.05). At b value 600 and 1000 sec/mm 2, significant difference was seen between the two groups from the sixth week onward. The range of ADC value of the groups was (1.7-0.9)±(0.40-0.04) mm 2/sec (b=600) and (1.38-0.75)±(0.07-0.35) mm 2/sec (b=1000), respectively. Dominant pathological changes included swelled hepatocytes within 1 to 4 weeks after the administration of diethylnitrosamine in the test group, hyperplasia of fibrous tissues in 5-8 weeks and formation of cirrhotic nodules in 9-12 weeks. Conclusions
文摘A new dinosaur of Early Cretaceous age was recently discovered from the Mazongshan area of northwestern Gansu Province, China. The new dinosaur represents a new genus and species of Sauropoda, and is among the most basal members of Titanosauria. Its finding also suggests that titanosaurs might have originated in Asia no later than the Early Cretaceous.
基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China(No.19D111201)。
文摘Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.
