Objective To compare the clinical application effect of bi -level positive airway pressure ( BiPAP) and nasal continuous positive airway pressure ( CPAP) in the treatment of preterm infants with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome ( NRDS) .Methods 64 neonates with NRDS were divided into the BiPAP group ( n=35) and NCPAP group (n=29) according to the randomized controlled study method.The blood gas index before and after 2,12 hours of treatment,the total time for ventilation,length of stay,and the incidence rate of abdominal disten-sion,gastroesophageal reflux,bronchopulmonary dysplasia,intraventricular hemorrhage,ventilator-associated pneumo-nia in the two groups were compared.Results The levels of pH and PaO2 in the BiPAP group were higher than those in the NCPAP group in noninvasive respiratory support for 2,12h(t=2.391,2.556,2403,2.355,P=0.020,0.013, 0.019,0.022).The incidence rates of hypoxemia,apnea,re-intubation mechanical ventilation rate after 12h in the BiPAP group were lower than those in the NCPAP group(t=5.049,4.988,4.215,P=0.025,0.026,0.040).The length of stay and mechanical ventilation time in the BiPAP group were shorter than those in the NCPAP group( t=-2.096,-2.669,P=0.041,0.010).Conclusion Compared with NCPAP,early application of BiPAP can obviously reduce the invasive respiratory support rate of children with NRDS with intubation.It is worthy of promotion.

By changing/improving the preparation,ratio,concentration and pH value of the staining solution,the cultured specimen of Trichomonas vaginalis was better observed.Different parts of the parasite are clearly viewed,and the method is simple,prompt and effective for staining and preservation.

Objective:To explore the clinical characteristics and risk factors of severe and critical influenza in children.Methods:The clinical data of 214 inpatient children with severe and critical influenza hospitalized in the Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children′s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019 were retrospectively collected. The clinical characteristics including age, gender, symptoms, signs, underlying diseases, C-reactive protein (CRP), treatment and outcome of children with severe and critical influenza were compared. Chi-Square test was used for statistical analysis. A binary logistic regression model was constructed to analyze the risk factors for critically ill influenza.Results:Of the 214 children, 153 were male (71.5%), 177(82.7%) were under 5 years old. There were 52 children with underlying diseases. Fever occurred in 207 cases. Among the 54 cases that had convulsion during the course of the disease, three developed acute necrotizing encephalopathy. The influenza subtype was mainly type A, accounting for 190(88.79%). A total of 42(19.6%) children were critically ill. The incidence of critical influenza in children with underlying diseases (61.9%, 26/42) was higher than that in severe influenza children (15.1%, 26/172), and the difference was statistically significant ( χ2=40.175, P<0.01). The incidence of critical influenza in children with CRP≥40 mg/L was higher than that of severe influenza in children with CRP ≥40 mg/L (33.3%(14/42) vs 9.3%(16/172)), and the difference was statistically significant ( χ2=16.173, P<0.01). Multivariate logistic regression showed that underlying diseases (odds ratio ( OR)=8.794, 95% confidence interval ( CI) 3.845-20.111) and CRP ≥40 mg/L ( OR=5.050, 95% CI 1.966-12.970) were risk factors for critical influenza. All severe cases were improved and discharged.Among the 42 critically ill children, seven children died. Conclusions:Among the severe and critical influenza in children, the majority of children are under five years old.Underlying diseases and CRP ≥40 mg/L are risk factors for critical influenza.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the impact of extraction and nonextraction in soft tissue profile repair. METHODS: Databases of CNKI, Wanfang, VIP Chinese Periodical Database, CBM, Medline (ovid) and Science direct had been searched for studies of soft tissue profile after orthodontic treatment with and without extractions published in recent decade, with orthodontics, corrective, tooth extraction, soft tissue profile as key words. Hand searching was also done to obtain any further information about the studies. Meta analysis was used to comprehensively quantitatively analyze the upper (lower) lip with esthetic plane and soft tissue plane before and after extraction and nonextraction treatment. According to homogeneity test, fixed effect model and random effect model were adopted to calculate weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95% confidence interval (95% Cl).Revman 5.0 was used for data management. RESULTS: Five studies with 356 patients were included. Homogeneity test showed that lower lip-esthetic line and lower lip-soft tissue line Ⅰ~2 < 50%, without heterogeneity, so fixed effect model was adopted. Upper lip-esthetic line and upper lip-soft tissue line were more than 50%, indicating heterogeneity, so random effect model was adopted. Result of meta-analysis showed that, the WMD value and 95% Cl of lower lip-esthetic line, lower lip-soft tissue line, and upper lip-soft tissue line has statistically significance. CONCLUSION: The extraction treatment significantly decreased the distance of lower lip-esthetic line, lower lip-soft tissue line, and upper lip-soft tissue line.

Objective:To investigate the effect of donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) by intra-bone marrow (IBM) or intravenous (IV) on the incidence of graft-versus-host disease(GVHD) after allogeneic peripheral hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT).Methods:Female C57BL/6 mice as recipients received total body irradiation (TBI) on day 0,followed by injection of peripheral hematopoietic stem cells from mobilized male BALB/c with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (rhG-CSF),and DLI was performed via IV or IBM.The extent of GVHD was compared in recipients received allogeneic IBM-DLI with those received IV-DLI.The percentage of donor-derived cells and CD4~+CD25~+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) was detected by flow cytometry.14 days after DLI,the levels of IL-4 and interferon (IFN)-γ were tested by ELISA.Results:It was found that the frequency and severity of GVHD were reduced in IBM-DLI compared with that of IV-DLI (P＜0.01).7 days after transplantation,the percentage of H-2~d-positive cells was over 95% in all surviving transplanted mice;and 14 days after transplantation,the percentage of Tregs detected as CD4~+CD25~+ was significantly higher in recipients treated with IBM-DLI than those treated with IV-DLI(P＜0.01).Compared with that of the recipients in IBM-DLI group,the level of IL-4 was significantly decreased,while the level of IFN-γ were elevated in group IV-DLI (P＜0.01).Conclusion:IBM-DLI could induce the proliferation of Tregs and the Th polarizing to Th2,resulting in decreasing the incidence and alleviating severity of GVHD after allo-PBSCT.

Objective To evaluate the impact of different doses of recombinant human B-type natriuretic peptid (rh-BNP) within the dosage of clinical rage on oxygen consumption during acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with heart failure (HF). Methods AMI-HF model of York pig was established by occluding coronary artery with balloon combined with in-jecting microthrombus. Then animals were randomized into rhBNP group and control group. Clinical dose of rhBNP ( 1.5μg/kg bolus followed by a continuous infusion with speed of 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03μg · kg-1 · min-1 for 60 minutes respectively in turn) was administrated in rhBNP group while equal volume of saline was given in the control group. Myocardial oxygen up-take (MOU) was measured by drawing blood from coronary artery and coronary sinus using a catheter. Coronary diameter was determined using quantitative coronary angiography. The observation points were at baseline (T0), instant after the mod-el establishment (T1), 60 min after continuous rhBNP infusion of 0.01, 0.02, 0.03μg·kg-1·min-1 (T2-T4) respectively. Re-sults Compared with the control group, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, central venous pressure, heart rate, systolic blood pressure and MOU were significantly decreased after rhBNP administration. And cardiac output and coronary diame-ter were obviously increased with addition of rhBNP. There is a interaction of drug intervention and time. In rhBNP group, MOU was significantly decreased with drug administraion (T2-T4 vs T1,mL O2/L: 10.61 ± 0.35,9.85 ± 0.60,9.79 ± 0.31 vs 11.59 ± 0.37). Conclusion Intravenous administration of rhBNP in AMI-HF model could decrease MOU and PCWP while increase the cardiac output.

In recent years, large numbers of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been identified in C. elegans but their functions are still not well studied. In C. elegans, CEP-1 is the sole homolog of the p53 family of genes. In order to obtain transcription profiles of ncRNAs regulated by CEP-1 under normal and UV stressed conditions, we applied the 'not-so-random' hexamers priming strategy to RNA sequencing in C. elegans, This NSR-seq strategy efficiently depleted rRNA transcripts from the samples and showed high technical replicability. We identified more than 1,000 ncRNAs whose apparent expression was repressed by CEP-1, while around 200 were activated. Around 40% of the CEP-1 activated ncRNAs promoters contain a putative CEP-1-binding site. CEP-1 regulated ncRNAs were frequently clustered and concentrated on the X chromosome. These results indicate that numerous ncRNAs are involved in CEP-1 transcriptional network and that these are especially enriched on the X chromosome in C. elegans.
Animals ; Binding Sites ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; genetics ; metabolism ; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Untranslated ; metabolism ; Sequence Analysis, RNA ; Transcriptome ; radiation effects ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 ; genetics ; metabolism ; Ultraviolet Rays ; X Chromosome

OBJECTIVETo study the influence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication and expressions of different viral genes on CDC37 level in hepatocytes.

METHODSWe amplified and cloned 6 HBV genes (P, preS1, preS2, S, C and X) into pCMV expression vectors, which were transfected in Huh7 and HepG2 hepatoma cell lines, and CDC37 expression level in the cells was detected using Western blotting. Wealso cloned the promoter sequence of CDC37 into pGL3 vector, and co-transfected pGL3 with pCMV recombinant plasmids into Huh7 and HepG2 cells and the fluorescent signals were detected. To study the influence of HBV replication on CDC37 expression, we constructed 1.28-copy overlength genomes of HBV genotypes B, C, D and CD recombinant. The overlength HBV genomes were transformed into Adeasier-1 cells for recombination and into 293 cells for packaging. Huh7 and HepG2 cell lines infected with the packaged HBV recombinant adenoviruses were examined for CDC37 expression with Western blotting.

RESULTSWestern blotting showed that the expression of different HBV genes did not obviously affect the protein level of CDC37 in the hepatocytes. The protein expression of HBV genes had no effect on the activity of CDC37 promoter. Huh7 and HepG2 cells infected with 1.28-copy HBV replicon showed no significant changes in the expression level of CDC37.

CONCLUSIONHBV replication and its gene expression have no effect on the level of CDC37 in hepatocytes in vitro.

Adenoviridae ; Cell Cycle Proteins ; metabolism ; Chaperonins ; metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Viral ; Genetic Vectors ; Hep G2 Cells ; Hepatitis B virus ; genetics ; physiology ; Hepatocytes ; virology ; Humans ; Transfection ; Virus Replication

Objective To explore the effect of low-carbohydrate/high-monounsaturated fatty acids (LC/HMD) nutrition program for patients with diabetes mellitus and stroke. Methods Thirty-seven patients with diabetes mellitus and stroke after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) were enrolled in this study, and these patients were treated with liquid food nutritional support. All patients were given high-carbohydrate (HCD) nutritional support at the first and second day and then changed to LC/HMD nutrition program. The blood glucose fluctuations were monitored by continuous glucose monitoring(CGM) system. Meanwhile the daily dose of insulin injections, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and biochemical indicators were detected. for just admission and just give LC after/HMD nutrition program and three months later on HbA1c and blood biochemical indexes were detected. Results 3 months after LC/HMD nutrition program treatment, the levels of mean amplitude of plasma glucose excursions (MAGE), ratio of hyperglycemia to time, ratio of glycopenia to time, HbA1c, daily dose of insulin injections were significantly improved compared with those at the 2nd of LC/HMD nutrition program treatment and with HCD nutritional support (P < 0.05). Three months after LC/HMD nutrition program treatment, the levels of blood biochemistry index had no significant change (P > 0.05). Three months after LC/HMD nutrition program treatment, the blood glucose fluctuations significantly reduced in all patients. Conclusions For patients with diabetes mellitus and stroke and receiving liquid food treament, LC/HMD nutrition program can significantly improve glycemic index, reduce dependence on insulin, and lower blood sugar fluctuations.