AIM To study the reversal effect of erythromycin on multidrug resistance of human liver cancer cells BEL 7402. METHODS Cultivated the parental cells BEL 7402 in the presence of doxorubicin to obtain a multidrug resistant subline designated BEL 7402/ADM. The expression of P glycopro tein in BEL 7402 and BEL 7402/ADM cells was determined by using cell ELASA method. The cytotoxicity of drugs was determined by using MTT assay, and the intracellular concentration of doxorubicin in BEL 7402/ADM was determined using a spectrofluorometer. RESULTS After growing BEL 7402 cells in the presence of ADM for some time, the resulting cells (BEL 7402/ADM) became not only resistant to ADM but cross resistant to VCR and MMC, the P gp on the subline cells' surface was highly expresssed. Erythromycin, which is a lipophilic antibiotic, enhanced the anti tumor functions of ADM, VCR and MMC to BEL 7402/ADM cells and increased the intracellular concentration of ADM with no effect on the expression of the P gp in BEL 7402/ADM cells. CONCLUSUON Erythromycin can significantly reverse the multidrug resistance in BEL 7402/ADM cells, it may do so by saturating the P gp pathway to reduce the efflux of intracellular concentration of the drugs.

Posterior capsular opacification (PCO),also known as after-cataract,is the most frequent complication and the primary cause for visual decrease after extracapsular cataract surgery.At present,there is no effective way to treat PCO,so more attentions are focused on preventive reseaching of PCO and treatment methods.Although a variety of studies have increased our understanding of the pathogenesis of PCO,the cellular mechanisms responsible for PCO are still unclear.Cultured capsular bag model in vitro could effectively simulate lens capsular membrane and cells survival environment after cataract extraction and IOL implantation.However,lens capsular bag cultivation with different methods have their own characreristics.The material source,preparation methods of capsular bag model,characreristics of materials which maintain capsular bag contours and its application in PCO were reviewed.

Group B Streptococcus ( GBS) is a conditional pathogenic bacteria related to late-term abortion, premature delivery, premature rupture of membranes, perinatal infection, neonatal sepsis and other diseases.Prevention and treatment guidelines by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) suggest that all the pregnant women at 35-37 gestational weeks should screen for GBS .The detection methods for GBS include microbiology , immunology, molecular biology, etc.The appropriate method should be chosen depending on circumstances .Penicillin is recommended for the preventive treatment of GBS , and the treatment for the insensitive should base on the antibiotic susceptibility results .No vaccine against GBS is currently available for clinical use .

BACKGROUND:Tissue-engineered skin is a new method to cure the massive defects of skin caused by burn or trauma.Therefore, the seed cells and scaffold on the tissue-engineered skin have become the focus today.DATA SOURCES: A computer-based online search of Pubmed database was undertaken to identify the articles about tissue-engineered skin published in English between January 1990 and January 2007 with the key words of "tissue engineered skin, stem cell". Meanwhile, we searched Chinese Journals Full-text Database for related Chinese articles published between January 1994 and January 2007 with the key words of index "tissue engineered skin, skin stem cell" in Chinese.STUDY SELECTION: The data were selected firstly to choose the full-text of articles met the criteria. Inclusive criteria:① Articles about seed cells of tissue engineered skin;②Articles about the scaffold of tissue-engineered skin. Exclusive criteria: Repetitive or analogical articles, Meta analysis or case reports.DATA EXTRACTION: Totally 97 articles on tissue-engineered skin were collected and 69 met the inclusive criteria after eliminated the repetitive or similar studies.DATA SYNTHESIS: The development of tissue engineering provides a new approach for the treatment of massive defects with skin transplantation, and gets rid of some problems such as donor site shortage, immune rejection, disease spread et al.① Skin seed cell: Embryonic stem cell and various adult stem cells can serve as seed cell of tissue-engineered skin, and embryonic stem cell is the first choice, which is transplanted on the biological scaffold to acquire the epidermis, dermis and compound skin.②Research progress of epidermis substitute.③Methods to make dermal substitute.④Research direction of compound artificial skin.⑤There are many problems in wide clinical application of tissue-engineered skin, but more and more attention has been paid on its research.CONCLUSION: Tissue-engineered skin is the best choice to cure the massive defects of skin and has a wide clinical prospect. With the rapid development of life science, operation technology, material science and many other related subjects, the ideal tissue-engineered skin can be obtained with similar function and feature to natural skin.

Objective To investigate the changes of blood glucose and insulin after intake of staple food containing potato,sorghum or wheat in healthy adults. Methods This study had a cross-over design. A total of 12 healthy adults were recruited and randomly averaged into 3 groups. After fasting for 10 hours,all the subjects were treated with steamed buns of potato,sorghum and wheat flours(100 g in raw flour),respectively. Serum glucose,insulin,triglyceride(TG),total cholesterol(TC)and uric acid(SUA) were measured at fasting,0.5 h,1 h,2 h and 3 h. After a wash period for 3 days,subjects crossed over to alternate group at second intervention and third intervention on the 5 th and 9 th day. During each intervention,the entire above index were tested. Results Postprandial insulin levels at 3 h was significantly higher in the potato steamed buns group(4.74 μU/ml)than in the sorghum steamed buns (1.65 μU/ml)group(P =0.028). There were no statistical differences in blood glucose and fasting,0.5 h,1 h,2 h insulin level. Conclusion Postprandial insulin level at 3 h was higher in potato flour steamed buns than in sorghum flour steamed buns.

Objective To study which is more advantage between comfortable care and functional care.Methods There are 49 case.We divided them into two groups,countrast group (function mode) and experimental group (comfortable mode) according to the preoperation case and postopreation case.Count the operative complication rate of two groups.Results Satitical analysis was performed using χ2,P<0.05.Conclusions Comfortable care mode was significantly advantage than functional care mode.

BACKGROUND:There are two ways to treat the enamel before bracket bonding: etching and sandblasting, but the few studies focus on the direct use of sandblasting technology on untreated enamel surface.
OBJECTIVE:To observe the damage of etchingversus sandblasting to the enamel surface, and to compare the bonding strength of metal brackets adhesive to isolated teeth with these two kinds of surface treatments.
METHODS:(1) Nine premolar teeth removed for orthodontic treatment were randomized into three groups: sandblasting, acid etching and polishing treatment groups. Surface roughening effects of these three kinds of treatments were observed under scanning electron microscope. (1) Another 40 premolar teeth removed for orthodontic treatment were randomized into two groups: sandblasting and acid etching groups. At 24 hours after bracket bonding, the shear strength was detected using mechanical testing machine, and the adhesive residue index of tooth surface was statisticaly calculated.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: (1) Under the scanning electron microscope, polishing treatment had no damage to the enamel surface; but in the other two groups, the enamel surface was damaged to varying degrees, especialy in the sandblasting group. (2) The bonding strength in the sandblasting group was significantly higher than that in the acid etching group (P < 0.05), but there was no difference in the adhesive residue index of tooth surface between the two groups (P > 0.05). These findings indicate that compared with the acid etching technology, the sandblasting technology can increase the bonding strength between the enamel and metal bracket, but it also results in more damage.

Purpose To investigate the expression of TPX2 in breast cancer, analyze the correlation between its expression and clinico-pathologic characteristics and explore the significances of TPX2 in the treatment and prognosis of breast cancer. Methods Expression of TPX2 in breast cancer tissues, adjacent tissue of cancer and normal breast tissue was examined by immunohistochenistry SP method. The mRNA expression of TPX2 in breast cancer tissues, adjacent tissue of cancer and normal breast tissue was detected by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction ( RT-PCR) . Results The expression of TPX2 is significantly higher in breast cancer tissues (75. 86%) compared with adjacent tissue of cancer (40. 00%) and normal breast tissue (5. 00%). And the expression of TPX2 cor-related with tumor grade and lymph node metastasis (P<0. 01), while unrelated to age and clinical stage (P>0. 05). The expression of TPX2 mRNA is also significantly higher in breast cancer tissues ( 1. 465 7 ± 0. 136 6 ) compared with adjacent tissue of cancer (0. 923 3 ±0. 114 8) and normal breast tissue (0. 326 9 ±0. 097 3) (P<0. 01). Conclusion High expression of TPX2 in breast cancer correlated with tumor grade and lymph node metastasis, so TPX2 might be a risk factor in the tumorigenesis, progression and lymph node metastasis in breast cancer.

Objective To study the adsorption ability of the chitosan and the chitosan film to Cd2+. Methods Under the given condition,different time and different temperature and different beginning concentration of Cd2+, the adsorption rate and capability of the chitosan and the chitosan film were studied. Results The chitosan (or chitosan film) could adsorb Cd2+ quickly at first,however,an hour later,the adsorption rate declined slowly. Adsorption rate increased as the temperature increases. There was significant connection between the beginning concentration of Cd2+ and the adsorption rate and capability of the chitosan(or chitosan film). The adsorption rate of the chitosan (or chitosan film) even reached above 80% when the beginning concentration of Cd2+ was no more than 20 mg/L, whereas the adsorption rate and capability of the chitosan (or chitosan film) declined slowly when enhanced the beginning concentration of Cd2+. The adsorption rate and capability of the chitosan (or chitosan film) obtained a maximum only when the beginning concentration of Cd2+ was about 10 mg/L. The adsorptive ability of the chitosan film to Cd2+ was stronger than that of chitosan under the same condition. Conclusion The biosorption of the chitosan (or chitosan film) to Cd2+ fits the Langmuir equation and the adsorbability to Cd2+ of the chitosan film is stronger compared with chitosanb.

OBJECTIVE:To identify different origin of Scutellaria amoena CH Wright and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi indexed in China Pharmacopeia by HPLC fingerprints.METHODS:RP-HPLC method was adopted in which the samples were separated on Zorbax SB-C18(250mm?4.6mm,5?m)column at a column temperature of 30℃.The gradient elution was performed on the mobile phase which consisted of acetonitrile(contairing 1.0% methanoic acid)-water(containing 1.0% methanoic acid)at a flow rate of 1.0mL?min-1.The detection wavelength was set at 274nm.RESULTS:The fingerprints of Scutellaria amoena CH Wright that from different places were of great resemblance,so were the fingerprints between Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi that from different places,but the fingerprints between Scutellaria amoena CH Wright and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi were of significant difference,with resemblance of only 0.859.CONCLUSION:The RP-HPLC fingerprint serves as basis for the further study of the quality criteria of Scutellaria amoena CH Wright and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi.