作者：
Wang Dan;Pi Jianhui;Tan Jia;Tang Jia;Wu Feijian;...
期刊：
生理学报,2005年57(1):59-65 ISSN：0371-0874
通讯作者：
Wang, D.
作者机构：
[Wang Dan; Tang Jia; Tan Jia; Wu Feijian; Chen Qicai] School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University;[Pi Jianhui] Department of Biology, Huaihua College of Hunan
摘要：
In order to explore the possible mechanisms by which ethologically relevant sounds can be extracted from complex auditory environments, this study examined the effects of weak noise on the rate-intensity functions (RIFs) of neurons responding to tone burst in the inferior colliculus (IC) of nine mice (Mus musculus Km). Under free field stimuli conditions, a total of 112 IC neurons were recorded. RIFs with and without simultaneous presentation of weak noise, of which the intensity was relative to 5 dB below minimum threshold of tone burst, were measured in 44 IC neurons. By means of evaluating the changes of dynamic range (DR), slope of RIFs, and percent inhibition at different tone burst intensities evoked by the weak noise, three types of variations in RIFs were observed, i. e.,inhibition (39/44, 88.6%), facilitation (2/44, 4.6%), and no effectiveness (3/44, 6.8%). Statistical analysis indicated that only inhibitory effect of weak noise was significant (P ＜ 0.001, n = 39). The inhibitory effect of weak noise was greater at lower stimulus intensity of tone burst but decreased significantly with increased stimulus intensity (P ＜ 0.0001, n = 39). In addition, the DR and slope of RIFs became narrower and steeper with weak noise presentation, respectively (P ＜ 0.01, n = 31). The results from the present study suggest that weak noise exerts a dynamic modulatory action on acoustical intensity sensitivity of IC neurons, which possibly leads to a better understanding of neural mechanisms underlying the extraction of sound signals from natural auditory scenes.
摘要：
A novel multiwall carbon nanotube-chitosan modified electrode has been prepared. The modified electrode resolves the overlapping voltammetric response of dopamine and ascorbic acid into two well-defined peak by 212 mV. The mechanism of discrimination of dopamine from ascorbic acid is discussed. Dopamine can be determined selectively with the carbon nanotube-chitosan modified electrode. The electrode shows good sensitivity, selectivity and stability.
作者：
Philip H.S.Jen;LUAN Rui-Hong;WU Fei-Jian;SUN Xin-de
期刊：
生理学报,2005年57(2):225-232 ISSN：0371-0874
通讯作者：
Luan, R.H.
作者机构：
[LUAN Rui-Hong; SUN Xin-de] College of Life Sciences,East China Normal University;[WU Fei-Jian] College of Life Sciences,Central China Normal University;[Philip H.S.Jen] Division of Biological Sciences,University of Missouri-Columbia
摘要：
Temporal features of sound convey information vital for behaviors as diverse as speech recognition by human and echolocation by bats. However, auditory stimuli presented in temporal proximity might interfere with each other. Although much progress has been made in the description of this phenomenon from psychophysical studies, the neural mechanism responsible for its formation at central auditory structures especially at the inferior colliculus (IC), a midbrain auditory nucleus which practically receives massive bilateral projections from all the major auditory structures in the brainstem, remains unclear. This study was designed to investigate it in vivo by using electrophysiological recording from the inferior collicular neurons of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus. In our results, the responses of 12 (38%, n= 31) neurons to the test sound (leading sound) were obviously inhibited by the masker (lagging sound). The inhibitory effects in these neurons were correlated with the inter-stimulus level difference (SLD) and the inter-stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) interval. The strength of backward masking increased with the masker intensity increasing, the test sound intensity decreasing and the SOA interval shortening. There were no obvious effects of backward masking on the responses of many other neurons (52%, 16/31), and yet in a part of these neurons, the neural inhibition of responses to the test sound was observed at the special SLD and the special SOA intervals. Moreover, few of the 31 sampled IC neurons (10%, 3/31) displayed facilitating responses to the test sound at the special SLD and the special SOA intervals. These data demonstrate that a lot of IC neurons are involved in the generation of the backward masking of acoustical perception. It is conjectured that the temporal dynamic integration between the leading inhibitory inputs evoked by the masker sound and the excitatory inputs evoked by the test sound might play a key role in shaping the acoustical response characteristics of the IC neurons.
摘要：
A newly synthesized reagent 2-amino-5-mercapto-[1,3,4]triazole (MATZ) has been used to fabricate self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold electrode for the first time. The SAMs electrode was characterized by electrochemical methods and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), the SAMs electrode can be used to determinate dopamine (DA) and uric acid (UA) simultaneously with a detection limit of 8×10-7 mol/L for DA and 1×10-6 mol/L for UA respectively. The SAMs can also be used to detect the contents of DA and UA in synthetic urine sample with satisfactory results.
摘要：
2, 7-Diaminothieno[2, 3-d:5, 4-d]dipyrimidine-4, 5(3H, 6H)diones 4 were synthesized by a facile synthetic method, which includes bis-aza-Wittig reaction of bis-iminophosphorane 1 with aromatic isocyanate to give bis-carbodiimide 2 and subsequent reaction of 2 with various dialkylamine in the presence of solid K2CO3 or EtONa.
