Acetyltransferases ; genetics ; Breast Neoplasms ; genetics ; Female ; GPI-Linked Proteins ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; genetics ; Humans ; Membrane Glycoproteins ; genetics ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; genetics ; physiopathology ; S100 Proteins ; genetics ; Transcription Factors ; genetics

BACKGROUND: Vascular dementia is a syndrome characterized by cognitive impairment, which is induced by ischemic or hemorrhagic apoplexy or ischemic-anoxic brain injury. It is assigned to "imbecility", "dementia", "sluggish consciousness", "susceptible to forget things" etc. By traditional Chinese medicine. Impairments of memory and cognition etc. Caused by dementia seriously affect psychosomatic health and quality of life of elderly people.OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of shuanggen cephalocathartic decoctum on learning, memory and spatial discrimination ability of vascular dementia rats.DESIGN: Randomized control trail taking experimental animals as objects.SETTING: Teaching and Research Section of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Preclinical Medicine College, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.MATERIALS: The experiment was performed in Laboratory of Viscerastate of Teaching and Research Section of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Preclinical Medicine College, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, from January to February 2004. A total of 40 male SD rats were selected and randomly divided into sham operation group, model group, model plus traditional Chinese medicine group and model plus Western medicine group, with 10 in each group. Before the experiment, all the rats were adaptively fed for one week, free drinking and eating before and during the experiment. Medicine and reagent are shuanggen cephalocathartic decoctum and Nimotop tablet, and main experimental apparatuses are DTT-2 jumping apparatus and SMG-2 water maze apparatus.METHODS: Blood was collected from left ventricle under aseptic condi tion, and dried in incubator at 37 ℃, after trituration, it was sifted with sieve of 200μm meshes and embolus was prepared. 1 mg embolus and 0.3 mL physiological saline was mixed and shaken up into suspension. Common carotid artery was temporarily occluded with a vascular clamp, and external carotid artery was retrogradely intubated and the embolus suspension was injected into encephalon to establish model of multiple cerebral infarction. In sham operation group, canulate tubule was intubated only to the bifurcation of common carotid artery, with no fluid injected in. Before the experiment, rats in model group and sham operation group were normally fed, while rats in model plus traditional Chinese medicine group were additionally given shuanggen cephalocathartic decoctum [4 g/(kg·d)] infusion and rats in model plus western medicine group were additionally given Nimotop [2 mg/(kg·d)] infusion, once a day for consecutive 15 days. Passive escape jumping experiment was conducted on rats in each group on the 9th day.Recorded the reaction time for rat jumping onto the rubber cushion after electric shock and the frequency of mistakes of suffering electric shock due to jumping down from the platform in 3 minutes, and took the results as learning indexes. The test was repeated on the 10th day. Put the rat into the box for 3-minture adaptation, then put it on the rubber cushion; recorded the latency for rat first jumping down from the rubber cushion and the frequency of jumpingdown from the rubber cushion in 3 minutes, and took the results as memory indexes. Water maze spatial discrimination experiment was conducted on rats in each group on the 11th day, recorded the frequency of mistakes of rats entering dead end and the latency for landing on safe platform. Every time, took a 40-second rest after swimming. Each rat was trained 10 times a day for consecutive three days. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Results of passive escape jumping experiment and water maze spatial discrimination experiment. RESULTS: Each group had a rat dead in the process of operation except sham operation group in which all rats moved normally. Totally 37 rats entered results analysis. ① Results of passive escape jumping experiment: On the 9th day, compared with model group, the reaction time of rats in sham operation group, model plus traditional Chinese medicine group and model plus western medicine group significantly shortened (P < 0.01 -0.05), the frequency of mistakes in 3 minutes remarkably decreased in sham operation group and model plus traditional Chinese medicine group (P < 0.05); on the 10th day, the latency was significantly prolonged in sham operation group as compared with model group (P < 0.05); compared with model group, the frequency of mistakes in 3 minutes significantly decreased in sham operation group, model plus traditional Chinese medicine group and model plus western medicine group (P < 0.05). ② Results of water maze spatial discrimination: On the 3rd day, compared with model group, the frequency of mistakes of rats entering dead end significantly decreased in sham operation group, model plus traditional Chinese medicine group and model plus western medicine group (P < 0.001-0.05); the frequency of mistakes in model plus traditional Chinese medicine group obvi ously decreased as compared with model plus western medicine group (P < 0.05). During the 2nd and 3rd days of water maze experiment, the time for the rat reaching terminal was significantly shortened in sham operation group, model plus traditional Chinese medicine group and model plus western medicine group as compared with model group (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: Shuanggen cephalocathartic decoctum can significantly improve learning and memory ability of rat model of vascular dementia, and is more effective than Nimotop in the aspect of improving spatial discrimination ability of rat.

Antigens, CD ; metabolism ; Antigens, CD1 ; metabolism ; Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic ; metabolism ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell ; metabolism ; pathology ; Histiocytosis, Sinus ; pathology ; Humans ; Infant ; Langerhans Cells ; pathology ; Lymph Nodes ; pathology ; Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic ; pathology ; Male ; S100 Proteins ; metabolism

Objective To explore the influencing factors of the pregnant women with preeclampsia in blood pressure,glucose and lipid metabolism to hypertension after delivery.Methods One hundred patients of preeclampsias in Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Maternal and Child Care Sservice Centre of Weinan from April 2012 to May 2014 were selected as the observation group.One hundred maternal-health at the same period were selected as the control group.All observed objects were followed up from May 2014 to May 2015.The general situation,sugar metabolism,lipid metabolism were recorded when in group and folllowed up.The general situation,sugar metabolism,lipid metabolism in prenatal were contrasted in two groups of prenatal and postpartum.Influence factors for hypertension of preeclampsia in pregnant women after childbirth were analyzed.Results Family history of hypertension,history of long-term use of contraceptives,prenatal body mass index(BMI),postpartum BMI,systolic prenatal,antenatal diastolic in the observation group were higher than that in the control group.The differences were statistically significant (P＜ 0.05).The fasting glucose (FPG),fasting insulin antenatal,prenatal insulin resistance index,total cholesterol(TC),triglycerides (TG),low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) of prenatal and postpartum in the observation group were (4.51 ±0.48) mmol/L and (5.21±1.08) mmol/L,(10.11±3.88) mU/L and (9.68±4.97) mU/L,(1.64±0.65) and (2.34±1.48),(6.21±0.98) mmol/L and (5.14±0.51) mmol/L,(3.51±1.35) mmol/L and (1.41 ±0.79) mmol/L,(3.31±0.97) mmol/L and (2.69±0.56) mmol/L,higher than that in the control group ((4.12±0.51) mmol/L and (4.76±0.97) mmol/L,(8.19±2.99) mU/L and (7.25±3.96) mU/L,(1.47 ±0.42) and (1.79±0.79),(5.91± 1.01) mmol/L and (4.99±0.39) mmol/L,(2.96±0.87) mmol/L and (0.86±0.78) mmol/L,(3.01 ± 1.01) mmol/L and (2.46±0.47) mmol/L),the differences were statistically significant(t=5.238,3.690,2.069,2.005,3.225,2.015,2.917,3.600,3.089,2.200,4.661,2.961;P＜0.05).Prenatal and postpartum BMI (OR =1.356,95％ CI 1.012-2.102;OR =1.378,95％ CI 1.034-2.609),fasting blood glucose level of prenatal(OR=1.753,95％CI 2.307-59.257) and postnatal fasting insulin levels(OR =1.351,95％ CI 1.810-112.267),the difference of systolic pressure of prenatal and postnatal(OR=1.247,95％CI 1.208-108.323),the difference between prenatal and postnatal triglycerides (OR =1.119,95％ CI 4.540-77.559),the difference of insulin resistance index (OR =1.529,95％ CI 1.828-92.844) and the difference between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol hypertension (OR =2.547,95％CI 1.763-110.693) were the risk factors that can cause preeclampsia occurs hypertension after childbirth (P ＜0.05).Conclusion Preeclampsia with high blood pressure,abnormal glucose metabolism and lipid metabolism are the risk factors that can cause preeclampsia occurs hypertension after childbirth.

Tyrosine phosphorylation is a key post-translational mechanism that regulates cellular processes and maintains homeostasis.Aberrant changes in tyrosine phosphorylation are often associated with disease states such as metabolicdisorders,cancer and cardiovascular disease.Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are the enzyme family that regulates protein phosphorylation level of tyrosine residues in the cellular processes and signaling ways.So far,scientists have discovered 112 kinds of human PTPs.Among them,PTP1B is widely and clearly studied.Recently,as an enzyme that play a role in oncogenesis,PTP1B has been wildey studied by scientists.Here,we highlight the relationship between protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B and hematologic neoplasms.

Objective: To prepare Danshen Injection (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae) by micelle-ultrafiltration. Methods: For preparing Danshen Injection, we packed the impurities in the macrofiltered liquor of Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae with micelle of Tween-80, and ultrafiltered the compounds with ultrafiltration membrane withholding molecular weight more than 50000. Then we evaluated the process with the comprehensive indexes including loss rate of UV absorbance, loss rate of Protocatechualdehyde and the stability of transparence. Conclusion: The process of Danshen Injection prepared by micelle-ultrafiltration is better than that of ordinary ultrafiltration.

Choristoma ; Humans ; Infant ; Jaw Diseases ; Male ; Palate, Soft

Objective To analyse protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) gene mutation in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).Methods DNA sequencing technology was used to detect DNA sequences of PTP1B in MPN patients (n =84) and normal controls (n =37).Results For Exon1-6,Exon9 and Exon10,84 cases of MPN patients and 37 cases of control group were not detected mutation.For EXON 8,18 of 84 MPN patients had Exon8 C/T heterozygous mutation and 10 of 37 normal controls were detected C/T heterozygous mutation.There was no significant difference between MPN patients and normal controls (x2 =0.453,P =0.501).Exon7 was detected in 38 MPN patients and 2 cases of patients were found C/T heterozygous mutation,while in the control group,1 case with G/C heterozygous mutation.All of the cases were not detected homozygous mutation.Conclusion Using DNA sequencing technology to detect gene mutations of PTP1B,there is no significant difference between MPN patients and normal controls.

AIM: To investigate the effects of epigallocatechin-3-gallate(EGCG) on 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion(MPP+)-induced apoptosis in rat pheochromocytoma(PC12) cells and to explore the relationships between its roles of anti-oxidation,intracellular calcium homeostasis and anti-apoptosis.METHODS: Rat PC12 cells were pretreated with vehicle control or EGCG(10,50,and 100 ?mol/L) for 30 min,then cultured with MPP+(900 ?mol/L) for 24 h.The cell viability and apoptosis were monitored by MTT assay and flow cytometry using Annexin V and PI.The activity of intracellular reactive oxygen species(ROS),contents of superoxide dismutase(SOD) and malondialdehyde(MDA),cytoplasmic Ca2+ density and apoptotic morphology of mitochondria were examined by fluorescent plate-based assays,confocal microscope,and transmission electron microscope,respectively.RESULTS: MPP+ impaired the PC12 cells in a concentration-dependent pattern and induced apoptosis of the cells(31% versus control).Compared with the control,the cells pretreated with EGCG showed markedly higher rate of viability and lower apoptosis.Meanwhile,EGCG pretreatment significantly increased the SOD activity and decreased the levels of MDA and ROS.Interestingly,EGCG also decreased the concentration of cytoplasmic Ca2+ and improved the morphology of mitochondria.CONCLUSION: EGCG exhibits inhibitory effects on MPP+-induced apoptosis in rat PC12 cells,which is possibly associated with increasing the cell ability of anti-oxidation and decreasing the concentration of cytoplasmic Ca2+.

Objective To investigate the dose-effect relationship of donor antigenic specificity CD4~+ CD25~+ Treg cells prolonging the survival of rat kidney allograft.Methods Sixty allograft kid- ney transplantation animal models were established with SD rats as donors and Wistar rats as recipi- ents.CD4~+ CD25~+ T cells were sorted from Wistar rats'spleens by way of MACS and the phenotypes of donor antigenic specificity were induced in vitro.According to the quantities of prepared CD4~+ CD25~+ T cells injected through tail vein in kidney transplantation,models were divided into four ex- perimental groups:2?10~5(group I),5?10~5(groupⅡ),1?10~6(groupⅢ),2?10~6(groupⅣ).The models which had no injection served as control group(n=12).The survival of the transplanted kid- ney was observed.The levels of blood serum creatinine were determined and the histopathological changes in the transplanted kidney were observed at day 4,9 and 15.The results of histopathology were evaluated according to the standard of Banff Schema and the semi-quantitative scores were gained by way of Watanabe.The reaction indexes of receptor spleen cells to the donor antigens were tested by way of MTT at day 15.Results The mean survival time of transplanted kidneys was the highest in groupⅢ[(31.4?4.6)days]and lowest in the control group[(11.7?6.2)days].There was signif- icant difference between groupⅢand control group in levels of serum cre'atinine(P