小鼠慢性应激性抑郁症易感品系筛选及其易感机制初步研究

Objective: To screen mouse strain that susceptive to chronic unpredicted mild stress (CUMS) and preliminarily research its susceptive mechanism. Methods: KM, ICR, BABL/c and C57BL/6 mice were used to establish CUMS depression model. Body weight, sucrose preference test (SPT), open field test (FT) were used to evaluate the sensitivity of mice to CUMS. Hippocampal levels of glucocorticoid receptor (GR), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), kynurenine (KYN) were measured and used for susceptive mechanism research. Results: Body weight, SPT, horizontal movement score and vertical movement score of C57BL/6 mice were found to susceptive to CUMS. SPT, horizontal movement score and vertical movement score of BABL/c showed similar tendency. Hippocampal levels of GR and KYN of normal C57BL/6 mice were significantly lower or higher than that of normal KM, ICR and BABL/c mice. Conclusions: Our study has led to the view that C57BL/6 mice are susceptive to CUMS and hippocampal levels of GR and KYN may be the main mechanism responsible for its susceptibility.目的  筛选对慢性轻度不可预见性应激（CUMS）敏感的小鼠品系，并初步研究其敏感机制，为小鼠抑郁模型的品系筛选、培育及改良提供科学依据。方法  选用KM、ICR、BABL/c、C57BL/6小鼠建立CUMS抑郁模型，通过体重、糖水偏好、旷场实验得分考察不同品系小鼠对慢性轻度不可预见性应激的敏感性。通过对小鼠海马组织糖皮质激素受体、5-羟色胺、犬尿氨酸含量的测定，对其易感机制进行初步研究。结果  造模后C57BL/6小鼠体重、糖水偏好、旷场实验水平运动和垂直运动得分等指标均对CUMS表现出显著敏感性，BABL/c小鼠对糖水偏好、旷场实验水平运动和垂直运动得分较为敏感。对照组C57BL/6小鼠海马组织糖皮质激素受体、犬尿氨酸含量与其他三种小鼠存在显著差异。结论  本研究结果认为C57BL/6 小鼠对CUMS最为敏感，适于建立CUMS抑郁症动物模型，其敏感机制可能与海马组织糖皮质激素受体、犬尿氨酸含量有关

Promoting cold-start items in recommender systems

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Energy Efficiency Optimization Design of a Forward-Swept Axial Flow Fan for Heat Pump

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Novel magnetic excitations beyond the single- and double-magnons

Conventional wisdom suggests that one photon that carries one unit of angular momentum can change the spin angular momentum of a magnetic system with one unit (delta Ms = +-1) at most. This would imply that a two-photon scattering process can manipulate the spin angular momentum of the magnetic system with a maximum of two units. Here we examine the fundamental limit of the photon-driven transport of angular momentum by studying the magnon spectrum of {\alpha}-Fe2O3 using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. We discovered a cascade of higher-rank magnons carrying double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple the spin angular momentum of a single-magnon. Guided by theoretical calculations, we reveal how a two-photons scattering process can create exotic higher-rank magnons and the relevance of these quasiparticles for magnon-based applications.Comment: Work presented as an invited talk by Hebatalla Elnaggar at the IXS conference 2021 https://www.bnl.gov/rixsrexs2021