AIM: To study the anti-cancer effects of octreotide on the proliferation of liver cancer cells. METHODS: The liver cancer cells SMMC-7721 were cultured in RPMI-1640 media with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 U?ml -1 penicillin and streptomycin. 10 -5, 10 -4, 10 -3 and 10 -2 g?L -1 of octreotide were added and MTT colorimetric assay were used to detect the growth inhibition rate. DNA staining and cell cycle analysis were done at 0, 6, 12, 24 and 36 hours after medication when the concentration of octreotide was 10 -3 g?L -1. RESULTS: MTT colorimetric tests showed that octreotide suppressed the growth of liver cancer cells. 48 hours after medication, the cell growth inhibition rate was 9.33%, 12.70%, 19.70% and 20.93% when the octreotide concentration was 10 -5, 10 -4, 10 -3 and 10 -2 g?L -1 separately. Cell cycle analysis showed that the percentage of G 0-G 1 phase cells increased and the percentage of G 2-M phase cells decreased. CONCLUSION: Octreotide inhibits the cultured liver cancer cells proliferation in vitro, its mechanisms may be related to preventing the G 0-G 1 phase cells from going into G 2-M phase.

Background Aheration of eyeball wall caused by ocular axial extension is associated with multiple complications of high myopia.However,the study on quantitative analysis of choroidal thickness and axial length in adult high myopic patients is less.Objective This study was to investigate the choroidal thickness in high myopic eyes of adult patients and estimate the correlation of choroidal thickness with axial length,age,and spherical equivalent(SE).Methods A prospective cohort study was designed.Seventy-five eyes of 75 adult patients with high myopia were entrolled from December 2012 to May 2013,and 70 eyes of 70 age-and gendermatched healthy volunteers were included in Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University.Enhanced depth imaging (EDI)on Cirrus spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) was used to measure the choroidal thickness from the outer border of the retinal pigment epithelium through the inner scleral boarder among the 11 meridians in a 500 μm intervals and range of 2 500 μm for each from fovea toward temporal and nasal lateral.The differences of choroidal thickness and axial length were compared between the high myopia group and normal control group,and the correlation of choroidal thickness with axial length,age,SE were analyzed.Results The subfoveal and mean choroidal thickness values were (146±52) μm and (142±63) μm in the high myopia group,and those in the normal control group were (306±60) μm and (271 ±71) μm,with significant differences between the two groups (t =-17.130,P=0.000; t=-15.890,P=0.000).Choroid was thickest in the temporal and then was subfovea and nasal in the high myopia group,but in the normal control group,it was subfovea,temporal and nasal in turn,and the choroidal thicknesses in various areas were thinner in the high myopia group than those in the normal control group.A negative correlation was found between the choroidal thickness and axial length in high myopia group(r =-0.580,P =0.000),and the regression equation determined a decrease of 17.943 μm per millimeter of axial length.Conclusions SD-OCT determines that choroidal thickness is decreased in highly myopic eyes compared with normal eyes.Choroidal thickness varies with the change of axial length in adult high myopia patient.These findings indicate that abnormalities of the choroids may play a role in the pathogenesis of complication of high myopia.

This article introduced professor WANG Shu-chen's experience in picture treating bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with tougue picture as the key link. Patients with BOS showed deficiency of essence of tongue crack, which should be treated by warming kidney yang, replenishing essence and marrow; fester tongue for qi disorder, inflammation caused by fire, which should be treated by regulating qi, and clearing heat; exfoliative fur accumulation, which should be treated with blood stasis and toxin, removing blood stasis and toxin; thick and greasy fur, which should be treated by warming spleen and activating spleen.

Objective: To study the examination of coronary sinus (CS) and blood flow by transthoracic echocardiography(TTE) and transesophageal echocardiography(TEE).Methods: Thirty patients with supraventricular tachycardia were studied by TTE and TEE. The CS was visualized using modified 4 chamber view. The position of the probe was optimized until the coronary sinus with its ostium into the right atrium could be visualized. CS flow recordings were performed by TEE with Doppler sample volume placed in the CS within a distance of no more than 10 mm from its ostium. Results: In all patients the angle between the doppler beam and the long axis of the CS was <30°. The CS was fully displayed in 18 patients by TTE and 28 patients by TEE. The length and width of the CS were (16.53±2.57) mm and (4.51±1.30) mm by TTE, (24.11±2.46) mm and (5.06±0.97) mm by TEE.The CS flow was characterized by biphasic flow.Its flow velocity was (39±7.8), (31±6.1) and (21±4.7) cm/s respectively. The CS flow velocity-imeintegral was(43±11.6),(43±13.0),(27±8.2) cm/s. Conclusion: Echocardiography is reliable for detecting CS and its flow. TTE is more feasible for detecting CS and its flow than TEE.

Objective: To obtain polycystin-1 intracellular region. Methods: cDNA of polycystin-1 intracellular region was generated by PCR and then cloned into pProEX Hta, which was prokaryotic expression vector. After verified by sequencing, the recombinant was transformed into E.coli host to express and purify the fusion protein by affinity chromatography. Results: 660 bp cDNA of polycystin-1 intracellular region and 2.6×104 fusion protein were obtained. Conclusion: The fusion protein containing polycystin-1 intracellular region is obtained and is helpful for preparing anti-polycystin-1 monoclonal antibody.

Objective: To investigate the circadian ryhthm v ariation of 2-125I-iodomelatonin (125I-Mel) binding sites in the human peripheral leukocytes in patients with acute cerebral infarction. Methods: Melatonin binding sites in the human peripheral leukocytes were studied using 125　I-Mel as a radioligand (radioligand binding assays).A ll patients ［age: (70.18±11.70) years］ were diagnosed by CT according to the standard ［Chin J Nerv， 1996,29(6):379］. We also studied 15 age-match ed healthy old people as the control ［age: (68.33±7.76) years］. Resul ts: The circadian ryhthm variation of 125　I-Mel specific binding in control remained significant (P<0.01) with a higher value at midlight ［ (0.16±0.049) fmol/106］ than at middark ［(0.078±0.035) fmol/106］ with one point analysis. There was no significant variation in the patient grou p (P>0.05). The specific binding in the peripheral leukocytes at midlight in the patients with acute cerebral infarction were lower than that of the control . Conclusion: The expression of Mel receptor decreases in the pa tients wit h acute cerebral infarction and the circadian ryhthm variation of 2-125I -Mel appears abnormal.

Objective: To study the examination of coronary sinus (CS) and blood flow by transthoracic echocardiography(TTE) and transesophageal echocardiography(TEE).Methods: Thirty patients with supraventricular tachycardia were studied by TTE and TEE. The CS was visualized using modified 4 chamber view. The position of the probe was optimized until the coronary sinus with its ostium into the right atrium could be visualized. CS flow recordings were performed by TEE with Doppler sample volume placed in the CS within a distance of no more than 10 mm from its ostium. Results: In all patients the angle between the doppler beam and the long axis of the CS was <30°. The CS was fully displayed in 18 patients by TTE and 28 patients by TEE. The length and width of the CS were (16.53±2.57) mm and (4.51±1.30) mm by TTE, (24.11±2.46) mm and (5.06±0.97) mm by TEE.The CS flow was characterized by biphasic flow.Its flow velocity was (39±7.8), (31±6.1) and (21±4.7) cm/s respectively. The CS flow velocity-imeintegral was(43±11.6),(43±13.0),(27±8.2) cm/s. Conclusion: Echocardiography is reliable for detecting CS and its flow. TTE is more feasible for detecting CS and its flow than TEE.

Objective: To obtain polycystin-1 intracellular region. Methods: cDNA of polycystin-1 intracellular region was generated by PCR and then cloned into pProEX Hta, which was prokaryotic expression vector. After verified by sequencing, the recombinant was transformed into E.coli host to express and purify the fusion protein by affinity chromatography. Results: 660 bp cDNA of polycystin-1 intracellular region and 2.6×104 fusion protein were obtained. Conclusion: The fusion protein containing polycystin-1 intracellular region is obtained and is helpful for preparing anti-polycystin-1 monoclonal antibody.

Objective: To explore the application value of artificial intelligence (AI) automatic detection system in preoperative ultrasonic diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Methods: Totally 98 patients with 137 thyroid nodules admitted to the General Surgery Department of Changzheng Hospital of Naval Medical University (Second Military Medical University) from April 2019 to July 2019 were enrolled in this study. Pathological data and ultrasonic diagnosis results were retrospectively analyzed. All patients underwent conventional ultrasonography and AI automatic detection before surgery. The diagnoses for benign and malignant thyroid nodules were compared between conventional ultrasonography and AI automatic detection system, which were based on the postoperative pathology. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of the two examination methods were calculated, and Kappa coefficient was performed to measure the consistency between the two methods and postoperative pathological diagnosis. Results: The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of conventional ultrasonography in diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules were respectively 93.75% (90/96), 80.49% (33/41) and 89.78% (123/137), and those of AI automatic detection were 89.58% (86/96), 68.29% (28/41) and 83.21% (114/137). There was substantial coefficience between conventional ultrasonography and pathological diagnosis results (Kappa=0.75, P<0.001), and that was fair coefficience between AI automatic detection system and pathological diagnosis results (Kappa=0.59, P<0.001). Conclusion: The sensitivity and accuracy of AI automatic detection system are slightly lower than but close to those of conventional ultrasonography in differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules. AI automatic detection system can be used as an effective supplement to assist conventional ultrasonography for preoperative assessment of thyroid nodules.

Objective To investigate the protective effect of molecular hydrogen against hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced oxidative injury in primary cultures of rat spinal cord neurons and the related mechanism. Methods Rat spinal cord neurons were cultured for 7 days and were randomly assigned to four groups with different treatments-(1) Normal medium (NM) control: treated with NM; (2) Hydrogen-rich medium(HM): treated with HM; (3) NM+H2O2: treated with 100 μmol/L H2O2 and 15 μmol/L ferrous chloride (FeCl2) after pretreatment with NM for 2 h; and (4) HM+H2O2: treated with 100 μmol/L H2O2 and 15 μmol/L FeCl2 after pretreatment with HM for 2 h. The respective media were changed every 6 h in each group, and 12 h later the cells were collected for assays of reactive oxygen species (ROS), hydroxyl radical (HO •), apoptosis, and the expression of glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) and p-GSK-β. Results Compared with NM, HM significantly reduced the H2O2-induced intracellular production of ROS and HO • in purified neurons (P<0. 01), significantly decreased the number of apoptotic neurons (P < 0. 01) and expression of caspase-3 (P < 0. 01), and significantly promoted phosphorylation of GSK-β (P<0. 01). Conclusion Molecular hydrogen has protective effect against H2O2-induced oxidative injury in primary cultured neurons. Themechanisms might be related to reduction of intracellular production of ROS and HO •, inhibition of apoptosis in neurons and promotion of GSK-β phosphorylation.