[Comparative study on activity of adenylate cyclase in normal human ovary with ovarian tumors]

It has been documented that the binding activity sites of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) receptor and kd in human ovarian tumors are different from those in the normal ovary. And some observations suggest that the HCG receptor depends on adenylate cyclase (AC) for its physiological functions. We studied the activity of AC in normal human ovary and ovarian tumors. Five human ovarian specimens and eighteen ovarian tumor specimens were obtained from women patients undergoing gynecological surgery. Ovaries were homogenized and sonicated. The homogenates were centrifuged at 1000 x g for 15 min. After sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation (78000 x g, 4 h), the membrane fraction was collected from interface between 33% and 37%. The membrane protein approximately 10 micrograms, ATP 1 mmol/L, 3H-ATP 5 x 10(4) cpm, sulphydryl-ethyl alcohol 10 mmol/L, in a final volume of 200 microliters of Tris-HCl buffer (50 mmol/L), pH7.5, containing MgSO4 5 mmol/L, were incubated at 35 degrees C for 10 min. The reaction was stopped by boiling water bath for 3 min. The AC activity (U/mg): of human normal ovary, 67 +/- 8, of cystadenocarcinoma serous, 146 +/- 70; of cystadenocarcinoma mucinous, 289 +/- 83.

Stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing from a mixture of carbon disulfide and phenylethanol in a hollow optical fiber

We observe, for what is to our knowledge the first time, stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing in a liquid-core optical fiber filled with a mixture of carbon disulfide and phenylethanol pumped by the frequencydoubled output of a Q-switched YAG laser (lambda = 532.1 nm). The frequencies of the stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing spectra are specified, and theoretical interpretations are also given.

High-order stimulated Raman scattering and nonlinear red-shifted broadening in benzyl alcohol core optical fiber

Six orders of Stokes lines and the first-order anti-Stokes line were observed we believe for the first time, in a benzyl alcohol liquid core optical fiber. All the Stokes lines were asymmetrically broadened favoring the lower frequencies. The blue-shifted broadening was only a few percent of the amount of the red-shifted broadening, and the broadening of the fifty-order Stokes line was so broadened to exceed the characteristic Raman frequency shift, 1000 cm(-1), to connect with the sixth-order Stokes line. The asymmetric broadening was discussed to be mainly due to the effect of the stimulated Rayleigh wing scattering.