Objective:To evaluate the effects of rosiglitazone (ROS) on the expression of adiponectin receptors (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) mRNA in gingival tissue and inflammatory factors,and on the potential of bone loss in the rats with experimental periodontitis.Methods:10 male Sprague-Dawley rats without treatment were used as the controls;40 were used for the creation of periodontis models and then treated by rosiglitazone at 0(periodontitis control),1,3,10 mg/kg(low,median and high dose groups) respectively 1/d for 4 weeks.RT-PCR was used to examine the expression of AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 mRNA in gingiva tissue.Levels of gingival TNF-α,MMP-9 and plasma adiponectin was measured by ELISA.CEJ-A was measured for the evaluation of alveolar bone loss by standard digital photographs.Results:The expression levels of gingival AdipoRl and AdipoR2 mRNA in periodontitis group is lower than that in the control group(P ＜ 0.01).The concentration of plasma adiponectin had no significant difference between control group and periodontitis group(P ＞ 0.05).The concentration of gingival TNF-α,MMP-9 in periodontitis group was significantly higher than that in control group (P ＜ 0.01).Compared with periodontitis group,ROS treatment increased the expression levels of AdipoR1 mRNA(P ＜ 0.05)and decreased the concentration of TNF-α in gingival tissue.Median and high dose treatment increased the expression levels of AdipoR2 (P ＜ 0.01) and the concentration of plasma adiponectin(P ＜ 0.05),decreased the concentration of MMP-9 in gingival tissue (P ＜ 0.01)and the alveolar bone loss(P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion:Rosiglitazone treatment may reduce inflammatory response and suppress the bone resorption probably through up-regulation of the expression of adiponectin receptors and decrease of the concentration of TNF-α,MMP-9 in gingival tissue.

Objective To evaluate whether the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) questionnaire (GerdQ) symptom score could reflect the acid exposure indicated by 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring in patients with GERD, and to further validate the clinical application value of GerdQ.Methods From November 2008 to March 2010, 134 GERD patients from outpatient department with heartburn and acid reflux symptoms were enrolled.All the patients had undergone endoscopy examination, 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring and GerdQ scoring.According to 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring result, acid exposure group and none acid exposure group was divided by the percentage of time that pH was lower than 4 over 4.2% or DeMeester score over 14.72, the difference of GerdQ score was assessed.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of GerdQ score was drawn according to DeMeester score and the percentage of time that pH was lower than 4 as the gold standard.With SPSS 17.0 statistical software, the ratio was compared with the u test and Chi-square test, comparison between groups with t test.Results The BMI of acid exposure group was higher than that of none acid exposure group(t= 2.365, P= 0.019).The GerdQ score of acid exposure group (8.51± 2.34) was significantly higher than that of none acid exposure group (6.67 ± 2.79), the difference was statistically significant (t = 4.002, P = 0.000) .ROC curve was drawn according to DeMeester score over 14.72 as gold standard; the area under curve (AUC) was 0.70.When the critical value of GerdQ score was 7.5, Youden index was up to 0.3365, the sensitivity of diagnosis was 0.6909 and specificity was 0.6454.The percentage of time that PH was lower than 4 over 4.2% as the gold standard, the AUC of GerdQ score was 0.663.When the critical value of GerdQ score was 7.5, Youden index was up to 0.2790, the sensitivity of diagnosis was 0.6600 and specificity was 0.6190.Conclusions GerdQ score greater than 7.5 can better reflect acid exposure at the lower esophageal.There is stronger association between GerdQ score with the DeMeester acid exposure score over 14.72 than with the percentage of time that pH lower than 4 over 4.2% as the critical value for acid exposure.Obesity may aggravate the transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxation leading to occurrence of GERD symptoms.

To explore the impact of Salmonella on Enterococcusfaecalis isolate N41 under the coexisting,the growth traits and the transcription of 26 virulence genes of N41 at various growth phases were detected.Salmonella and/or N41 were inoculated and done plate counting,then growth curves were drawn and bacterial total RNA were extracted at given time points,quantitive realtime PCR was used to analyze the RNA transcription levels of 26 virulence genes of N41.The result showed that comparison with single incubation,the bacteria concentration of N41 dropped about 3.9 times,and Salmonella dropped about 110-times.Among 26 virulence genes of N41,the RNA transcription levels of 12 virulence genes such as ebpA,ebpC,rnjB,ace,ebpR,psr and so on were promoted at the four growth phases,but the RNA transcription levels of SlyA and sprE were dropped.Except that the RNA transcription levels of CylL-S,CylL-L,efaA and AS had no significant changes at the four growth phases,the mostly rest genes increased dramatically at post-log phase.This indicated that when incubated together,N41 inhibited the growth of Salmonella significantly,and Salmonella promoted the transcription levels of virulence genes of N41 as a whole.The results lay a foundation for further research on the interaction between bacteria species and the pathogenicity mechanism of Enterococci.