Objective To investigate the ratio of apoptosis to proliferating cell nuclear antigen(PCNA) in gastric carcinoma(GC) and elucidate the possible role of apoptosis and proliferation in the development of GC.Methods Apoptosis and PCNA were examined in 24 cases with gastric carcinoma and in 24 cases of the surrounding non-cancerous tissue embedded in paraffin by TUNEL and immunohistochemical staining technique respectively.Results The study indicated that the proliferation labeling indices(PIs) in GC(51 2) was significantly higher than that in the surrounding non-cancerous tissue(27 4),and the apoptotic indices(AIs) in GC(3 1) was significantly lower than that in the surrounding non-cancerous tissue(5 4)(P

OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of fibrobronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage in etiologic diagnosis of pneumonia in immunocompromised patients.METHODS The clinical document and results of fibrobronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage in 36 immunocompromised patients with pneumonia were retrospectively analyzed,whose conditions were mainly after organ transplantation and hematologic neoplasia.RESULTS Through fibrobronchoscopy and(or) bronchoalveolar lavage,22 cases(61.1%) were etiologically diagnosed.In 19 cases taking cytomegalovirus(CMV) quantitative PCR test of both peripheral blood and BALF,the positive rate of blood and BALF was 14.3% and 42.9%,respectively(P

Objective To improve the understanding and diagnosis of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (PLAM) by the comprehensive review of domestic literatures in the past ten years.Methods Three new cases with PLAM were reported and integraed with other 45 cases reported domestically in the past ten years for analysis of their clinical features.Results The newly reported three cases of PLAM were all women at child-bearing age, with initial symptom of dyspnea after activity. Two of them complicated with extra-pulmonary PLAM. All the three cases were free of chylous effusion. Forty-seven of 48 cases with PLAM were pathologically diagnozed, with ages of onset of 5~69 (mean?s of 34?10) years. Their clinical manifestations were mainly respiratory, including dyspnoea (95.8%), haemoptysis (52.1%), pneumothorax (45.8%), chylous effusion (33.3%),cough (31.3%) and chest pain (12.5%). Abnormal manifestations in abdomen, including renal mass, retroperitoneal mass and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy, were detected in 16 cases. Thirty-nine cases had their high-resolution CT (HRCT) examined and appearance of multiple cysts distributed throughout the bilateral lung fields could be discerned in 38 of them. Obstructive ventilation disturbance could be observed in 23 of 30 cases with the data or conclusions on pulmonary function tests, and mixed ventilation disturbance in seven cases. Respiratory failure was complicated in 17 of 28 cases with the data of arterial blood gas analyses.Conclusions HRCT had confirmative value for diagnosis of PLAM. In practice, HRCT, as well as other routine abdominal and pelvic imaging examinations, should be performed in time for child-bearing-age women with progressive dyspnoea, haemoptysis, or spontaneous pneumothorax, to detect if they complicate with PLAM.

BACKGROUND:With the medical development, prognostic outcomes of spinal cord injuries have not been improved significantly, and most patients also suffer from severe complications. Nowadays, lots of laboratories and clinical researches have suggested that celltherapy has a great potential, especial y the application of umbilical cord blood stem cells in nervous system diseases. OBJECTIVE:To explore the feasibility and clinical effect of umbilical cord blood neural stem cells transplantation for patients with obsolete spinal cord injury. METHODS:Umbilical cord blood was harvested from newborns under aseptic condition, and differentiated into neural stem cells in vitro that were prepared into cellsuspension at a concentration of 109/L. The cellsuspension (3 mL) was injected via the L 3-4 or L 4-5 into the subarachnoid space. American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) scores and the residual urine were assessed before and 3 months after transplantation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:After transplantation, al the patients showed a stable life indication. Three months later, ASIA scores were increased and the residual urine decreased, which significantly differed from those before transplantation (P<0.05). These findings indicate that umbilical cord blood neural stem cells transplantation is a new treatment that can improve the limb function and life quality of patients with obsolete spinal cord injury.

Baculovirus-mediated gene transfer into mammalian cells has been used to develop non-replicative vector vaccines against a number of diseases in several animal models.A baculovirus pseudotyped with the glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus was used as vector to construct the recombinant baculovirus expressing classical swine fever virus(CSFV) E2 protein under the control of ie1 promoter from white spot syndrome virus.The E2 gene was shown to be efficiently expressed in both insect and mammalian cells.Intramuscular injection of mice with the recombinant baculovirus resulted in the production of high-level CSFV-specific antibodies.Specific lymphoproliferative responses to the CSFV stimulation were induced in the splenocytes of the immunized mice as demonstrated by CFSE staining assay and WST-8 assay.The results indicates that the pseudotyped baculovirus-delivered gene can be a potential non-replicative vaccine against CSFV infection.

Objective To explore the value of sonohysterography (SHG) in diagnosis of post-cesarean scar diverticulum.Methods Totally 28 patients with post-cesarean scar diverticulum suspected clinical underwent SHG and conventional transvaginal ultrasound (TVS).The sizes of the diverticulum and the thickness of muscular layer were observed and the diagnostic value of SHG and TVS were compared.All patients underwent hysteroscopy,and the results were considered as diagnostic standard.Results Twenty diverticulums were found by hysteroscopy,20 diverticulums by SHG and 17 diverticulums by TVS.Taking hysteroscopy as diagnostic standard,the accuracy of SHG,TVS in diagnosis of diverticulums were 100％ (20/20) and 89.29％ (17/20) respectively.Superoinferior diameter ([9.17 ± 2.63] mm),left-right diameter ([11.76± 5.67]mm) of diverticulum and thickness of muscular layer ([3.29 ± 1.01]mm) measured by TVS had statistical differences compared with those measured by SHG (superoinferior diameter:[12.01± 4.04]mm,left-right diameter:[12.37±6.14]mm,thickness:[2.85±1.30]mm,all P＜0.05).The altitude of diverticulum measured by TVS and SHG had no statistial difference ([5.62±± 2.13]mm vs [5.50±2.34]mm,P＞0.05).Five patients with intra uterine adhesions,4 with endometrial polyps and 1 with submucosal myoma were detected by SHG.Conclusion SHG has clinical value in di agnosis of post-cesarean scar diverticulum..

Objective To evaluate the safety and effect of one-way barbs line (absorbable sutures v - locTM180) in primary suturing of laparoscopic choledocholithotomy. Methods From July 2014 to June 2015, clinical data of 86 cases performed primary suturing in laparoscopic choledocholithotomy by the same performer were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into three groups, One-way barbs line continuous full-thickness suture group (A group), ordinary absorption line continuous full-thickness suture group (B group) and ordinary absorption line discontinuous full-thickness suture group (C group). The bile duct suture needed time, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative eating time, postoperative hospital stay and postoperative bile fistula were compared. Results All the 86 cases underwent successful operation without T tube, and none of them received alternative open operation. Compared with group B and C, time needed for bile duct suturing in A group have statistical significance. There was no significant difference in the intraoperative blood loss, postoperative eating time, postoperative hospital stay between the three groups (P > 0.05). The incidence of postoperative bile fistula in A group were none. The incidence of postoperative bile fistula in B group was 1 case, the incidence of postoperative bile fistula in C group was 2 cases.Conclusions The method of one-way barbs line continuous full-thickness suture were simple and secure in primary suturing of laparoscopic choledocholithotomy.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a disease caused by multiple factors and can progress to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. At present, the pathogenesis of NAFLD remains unclear and there are still no effective therapeutic drugs in clinical practice; therefore, it is particularly important to search for new therapeutic drugs that have few side effects and can effectively delay or reverse disease progression. Some studies have shown that related hormones produced by gastric tissue have a variety of effects in the regulation of energy homeostasis and obesity, and the expression level of inflammation-related genes in gastric fundus is consistent with the severity of liver disease; thus we have reason to believe that the stomach is one of the important participants in NAFLD. This article summarizes the role of ghrelin and obestatin produced by the stomach in the progression of NAFLD, which provides a new idea for the pathogenesis of NAFLD and a new direction for treatment.

Objective:To optimize the paper-roasted technology of Aucklandiae Radix. Methods:With methanol-water (65: 35) as the mobile phase, the contents of costunolide and dehydrocostuslactone were determined by HPLC. Senna was used to make diarrhea model in mice, and the sample decoction was administered for the mice by i. g at the dose of 10 g·kg-1 and the diarrhea index was de-termined. The paper-roasted technology of Aucklandiae Radix was optimized by L9 (34 ) orthogonal design taking the contents of cost-unolide and dehydrocostuslactone, and the diarrhea index in mice as the indices with the paper-roasted time, the paper-roasted temper-ature and the layer number as the influencing factors. Results:The variance analysis results show that the layer number and the paper-roasted temperature has the significant impact on the contents of costunolide and dehydrocostuslactone and the diarrhea index in mice. The best paper-roasted technology of Aucklandiae Radix was as follows:a layer of paper was covered by 4mm Aucklandiae Radix and repeated the same operation 5 times, and put them in drying baker at 120℃ for about 2 hours. After the essential oil of Aucklandi-ae Radix permeated on the paper with burnt flavor and dark brown in color, Aucklandiae Radix could be taken out. Conclusion:The optimum paper-roasted technology of Aucklandiae Radix is reasonable and feasible, which can provide reference for the establishment of the quality standard for paper-roasted Aucklandiae Radix pieces and the expanding of the clinical application.

Objective To investigate the value of tissue motion mitral annular displacement (TMAD) in assessment of left ventricular systolic synchrony in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).Methods Thirty-eight DCM patients and 30 healthy subjects were enrolled in this study.The left ventricular end diastolic volume (LVEDV),left ventricular end systolic volume (LVESV),and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in two groups were investigated using conventional echocardiographyexamination.The time of systolic mitral annular peak displacement (TP) in two groups were measured by the technique of TMAD at six sites (anteroseptal,posteroseptal,anterior,lateral,posterior and inferior).The standard deviation of TP (TP-SD) and the maximal difference of TP (TP-DIF) were calculated.And the correlation between TP-SD and LVEF as well as TP-DIF and LVEF in the DCM group were analyzed.The standard deviation and maximal difference of the time to point with minimal systolic volume of 16 segments (Tmsv16-SD,Tmsv16-DIF) of the DCM group were measured by the technique of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT-3D).And the correlation between Tmsv-16SD and TP-SD as well as Tmsv16-DIF and TP-DIF were analyzed.Results Compared with the healthy subjects,LVESV and LVEDV increased (t=14.023,16.643,P ＜ 0.01) and the LVEF decreased significantly (t=26.112,P ＜ 0.01) in the DCM group.TP,TP-SD and TP-DIF in the DCM group obviously increased (t=7.628,6.869,7.507,6.616,5.631,4.738,7.368,5.777,6.781,P ＜ 0.01).TP-SD and TP-DIF were negatively correlated with LVEF (r=-0.645,-0.513,P ＜ 0.05),while TP-SD and Tmsv1 6-SD,TP-Dif and Tmsv1 6-Dif were positively correlated(r=0.643,P ＜ 0.01;r=0.563,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions In this study,the TMAD technique was used to measure the time of peak displacement of mitral annulus to evaluate the synchrony of left ventricle movement.It is expected to be a new method in evaluation of the synchrony of left ventricle,which is simple,feasible approach without angle dependence.