1.The clinical evaluation of a new diagnostic kit for hepatitis B virus YMDD mutation DNA detection
Lifei HE ; Xiaoyu FU ; Hongjun HUANG ; Bo LIU ; Baiping WU
Journal of Chinese Physician 2015;17(10):1482-1484
Objective To evaluate the clinical application of a novel hepatitis B virus YMDD mutation DNA diagnostic kit (magnetic beads method kit).Methods A total of 324 HBV clinical serum samples was tested with the magnetic beads method kit and another kind of fluorescence diagnostic kit (boiling method).Accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity were compared.Results The consistency of positive detection rate of two kits was 100% (95% CI : 98.0% ~ 100%), negative consistency was 97.12% (95% CI : 92.8% ~99.2%) and the total consistency was 98.76% (95% CI : 96.9% ~99.7%).Four cases of discrepant samples were confirmed by sequencing, and statistical analysis performed by Kappa test (Kappa =0.975) shows good consistency between the two methods.Conclusions The magnetic beads method kit has good consistency compared to the regular boiling method kit, and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection system contains an internal positive control (internal control) to avoid a false negative resuit, which is more suitable for clinical diagnosis.
2.Quantitative proteomics reveals the abnormal liver metabolism-relieving effect of Anemarrhenae rhizoma in type 2 diabetes mellitus rats.
Liying MEN ; Tao ZHANG ; Shujia WU ; Baiping MA ; Yuesheng DONG ; Lei CHANG ; Yao ZHANG ; Ping XU
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2022;38(10):3888-3900
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global metabolic disease with potentially life- threatening complications. Liver metabolism plays a vital role in the occurrence and development of diabetes mellitus. It has been reported that the Chinese medicinal Anemarrhenae rhizoma (AR) can relieve insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus. However, the effect on abnormal liver metabolism in diabetes mellitus is still unclear. Therefore, we extracted liver proteins of T2DM rats induced by high-fat diet (HFD) and streptozotocin (STZ), T2DM rats treated with AR extract (ARE), obesity rats (fed with HFD), and normal control rats (fed with normal diet). Then, through tandem mass tag (TMT) labeling combined with mass spectrometry (MS), we obtained the quantitative proteomic data. Bioinformatics software was used for hierarchical cluster analysis and principal component analysis of the data in each group. The volcano map for differentially expressed proteins (P < 0.05, fold change > 1.5) was plotted. It was found that the treatment group was closer to the normal control group, indicating that the quantitative proteomic data of liver tissue can reflect the therapeutic effect of ARE on T2DM rats. Key protein clusters closely related to the treatment of ARE were screened out. The Gene Ontology (GO) terms and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways of the protein clusters were analyzed by David, and the result showed that AR's alleviation of abnormal fatty acid metabolism in livers of T2DM rats may be related to the regulation of the expression of key proteins Ndufa6 and Prkar2b.
Rats
;
Animals
;
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/metabolism*
;
Proteomics/methods*
;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use*
;
Anemarrhena
;
Liver/metabolism*