10.3969/j.issn.1008-9691.2013.03.012

Objective To invcstigate the effects of Maixiansan on insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) and apoptosis in rats with ulcerative colitis related colorectal cancer.Methods The rat model of ulcerative colitis-related coloreetal cancer was induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and azoxymethane(AOM). 40 male SD rats [weight (160 ± 10) g] were randomly divided into 4 groups: model, Maixiansan and Meisalazine treatment as well as normal group peritoneally irjected with saline.The expression of IGFBP7 and apoptosis in coloreetal tissue were detected by real-time PCR and TUNEL after 16 weeks. Results The numbers of colorectal cancer in model group( 1.2 ± 0.4 ),in Maixiansan group ( 0.70 ± 0.15 ),in Meisalazine group ( 0.60 ± 0.16 )were higher than in normal control (P ＜ 0.05), but no differences were found among model,Maixiansan and Meisalazine groups(P＞0.05).The apoptosis in colonic mucosa for Meixiansan(8.70±3.47) group and Mesalazine group were enhanced as compared with that in model group( 1.20 ±0.26 vs.0.38±0.11,P＜0.05).The mRNA expression of IGFBP7 in colon for Meixiansan group were higher than those in model group,Meisalazine group,and normal control(50.5 ± 14.0 vs.18.0 ±3.9 and 39.3±11.4,46.4±6.0,P＜0.05). Conclusions Maixiansan may resist the occurrence and development of ulcerative colitis-related colorectal cancer through upregulating IGFBP7 expression of colorectal tissue and promoting apoptosis of tumor cell.

Objective: To isolate the key domain of a novel polypeptide fragment from NGN-β that functions like intact NGF molecule.Methods: NGF-β had been treated with cyanogen bromide and trypsin skillfully. The peptide fragment with the activity inducing PC12 pheochromocytoma cells differentiation was isolated and purified by Sephadex G-50 gel filtration chromatography , DE-52 celluloseion exchange chromatography and C-18 reversed-phase column HPLC after NGF-β cleavaged by CNBr at 9th met then by trypsin at Arg or Lyscleavaged by CNBr at 9th met then by trypsin at Arg or Lys. Amino acid sequencing of this novel peptide fragment was performed by Automatic Amino Acid Analyser and Amino Acid Sequencer. Results: The functional fragment from cleavaged NGF might induce differentiation of PC12 cells. The fragment was consisting of two linear polypeptides . One of them was 16 peptide, GEFSVCDSVSVWVGDK , and other was 14 peptide, HWNSYCTTTHTFVK, linked by a disulphide bridge corresponding to residues 10～25 and 75～88, respectively, of the amino acid sequence of nerve growth factor, the result of biological activity assay in PC12 cells showed that the optimum concentration of this peptide were 0.001～0.1 μg*L-1. Conclusion: A novel peptide inducing differentiation of PC12 cell line of pheochromocytoma cells was obtained in the study. It′s isolation and purification successfully will underlie synthesis or expression of hyperactive neurotrophic small molecular substance although the relationship between the configuration and functions is not clearly.

Background contamination is a major problem in the analysis of organophosphate esters (OPEs). In this study, the possible sources of OPEs pollution were screened and several different ways were applied to minimize the blank contamination. Under the strict quality control measures, the cleanup efficiency of different solid phase extraction (SPE) was investigated for OPEs in different environmental matrices. A method was developed for the detection of 7 OPEs in dust, soil and sediment samples by gas chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometry ( GC / MS). Target compounds were extracted by hexane:dichloromethane (1 : 1, V/ V) followed by aminopropyl silica gel SPE column cleanup for dust, and target compounds in soil and sediment were Soxhlet extracted and cleanuped by two-step SPE. The results showed that the aminopropyl silica gel SPE column displayed the best purification performance among the three employed columns. Instrumental detection limits among the 7 OPEs ranged from 2. 5 to 25. 8 μg / L, and the method limits of quantification (MLOQs) in dust and soil sample ranged from 1. 4 to 15. 7 ng / g and 0. 3 to 2. 9 ng / g, respectively. The average recoveries of 7 OPEs in different matrices ( dust and soil) at two spiked concentration levels ranged from 67. 9% to 117. 4% . The proposed method was successfully applied to detect OPEs in different environmental matrices collected in Shanghai.

Objective To analyze the expression characteristics of excision repair cross-complementing 1 (ERCC1), topoisomeraseⅡ (TOPOⅡ), ribonucleotide reductase M1 (RRM1), β3-tubulin and thymidylate synthase (TS) in lung cancer and their associations with the pathological types. Methods The immunohistochemical EnVision method was used to determine the expression of ERCC1, TOPOⅡ, RRM1,β3-tubulin and TS in 548 patients who were diagnosed as lung cancer from January 2011 to December 2014. Variance analysis was performed to analyze their expression characteristics among different pathological types and correlation. Results The expression positive rates of ERCC1, TOPOⅡ, RRM1, β3-tubulin and TS were 61.86 % (339/548), 91.06 % (499/548), 62.59 % (343/548), 73.18 % (401/548) and 70.44 % (386/548), respectively. The expression of ERCC1 was weak positive mostly (P<0.05), meanwhile the expression of TOPOⅡ was medium-strong positive mostly (P<0.05). In ERCC1 group, the positive rate of squamous cell carcinoma was higher than that of adenocarcinoma [57.39 % (167/291) vs. 42.61 % (124/291), P=0.000]. In weak positive of TOPOⅡ group, the proportion of adenocarcinoma was higher than that of squamous cell carcinoma [23.58 % (100/137) vs. 8.73 % (37/137), P=0.000]. In medium-strong positive of TOPOⅡ group, the proportion of squamous cell carcinoma was higher than that of adenocarcinoma [47.41 % (201/287/) vs. 20.28%(86/287), P=0.000]. The expressions of ERCC1, TOPOⅡ, RRM1,β3-tubulin and TS were irrelevant (r=0.4, P=0.397). Conclusions The expressions of ERCC1 and TOPOⅡ are higher in squamous cell carcinoma than those in adenocarcinoma. The expression of ERCC1 is weak positive mostly, meanwhile the expression of TOPOⅡis medium-strong positive mostly. There is no correlation between them.

Objective To observe the incidence of malnutrition, the therapeutic effect of nutritional support and the prognosis of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) under mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients with different traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome types and discuss the relationships between these indicators and the differentiation of cold-heat/deficiency-excess syndrome. Methods One hundred and three patients with COPD and MV admitted to Zhuji Hospital of TCM from September 2015 and July 2017 were enrolled, according to the different TCM syndromes, they were divided into an excess-heat syndrome group 42 cases and an asthenia-cold syndrome group 61 cases, and the differences in nutrition indexes and prognosis between the two groups were compared. Results The acute physiology and chronic health evaluationⅡ (APACHE Ⅱ) score, nutritional risk screening 2002 (NRS2002) score and the incidence of malnutrition in excess-heat syndrome group were significantly lower than those in the asthenia-cold syndrome group, while the body mass index (BMI) in excess-heat syndrome group was obviously higher than that in the asthenia cold syndrome group [APACHE Ⅱ score: 20.1±5.4 vs. 22.0±3.4,NRS2002 score: 5.2±0.6 vs. 6.2±0.8, incidence of malnutrition: 61.9% (26/42) vs. 80.3% (49/61), BMI (kg/m2): 22.6±3.8 vs. 19.9±4.8, all P < 0.05]. The levels of albumin (Alb), prealbumin (PA) and transferrin (TF) of the excess-heat syndrome group were higher than those in the asthenia-cold syndrome group, and the differences between the two groups were statistically significant on the 7th day under MV [Alb (g/L): 36.14±2.97 vs. 34.40±3.37, PA (mg/L): 237.67±28.01 vs. 185.34±30.86, TF (g/L): 2.13±0.38 vs. 1.95±0.12, all P < 0.05]. In the excess-heat syndrome group, the percentage of weaning from MV was higher than that of the asthenia-cold syndrome group [85.7% (36/42) vs. 65.6% (40/61)], the 28-day mortality [14.3% (6/42) vs. 31.1% (19/61)] and ICU stay time (days: 9.21±2.96 vs. 11.13±3.96) were lower than those of the asthenia cold syndrome group (all P < 0.05). Conclusion The analysis of TCM differentiation of cold-heat/deficiency-excess syndrome has a certain reference value to realize the changing rules in nutritional status and prognosis of patients with COPD under mechanical ventilation.

Objective To explore the application value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptom score in the evaluation of the prognosis of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic cardiac insufficiency and establish a mortality probability model to assess the patients' consistency between the risk of death and actual death. Methods A retrospective observational study was conducted. Three hundred and twenty patients with acute exacerbation of chronic cardiac insufficiency admitted to Zhuji Hospital of TCM from January 2015 to June 2017 were divided into survival and death groups according to 28-day prognosis. The TCM symptom score and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ(APACHE Ⅱ) score were recorded on admission, then Spearman correlation analysis was used to determine the correlation between the two types of evaluating score; the differences in APACHE Ⅱ score and TCM symptom score between the two groups of patients were compared; the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was drawn, and the area under ROC curve (AUC) was calculated to evaluate the values of APACHE Ⅱ score and TCM symptom score in predicting the prognosis of patients. Whether the patients being dead or not and the TCM symptom score were used to carry out the logistic regression analysis and establish the regression model, then the relationship between the risk of death and actual death was verified. Results A total of 320 patients were enrolled, of whom 279 survived and 41 died.① The APACHE Ⅱ score and TCM symptom score in the dead group were significantly higher than those in survival group [APACHE Ⅱ score: 30.0 (22.5, 33.5) vs. 14.0 (8.0, 21.0); TCM symptom score: 28 (25, 33) vs. 15 (10, 20); both P < 0.01]. ② The APACHE Ⅱ score of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic cardiac insufficiency was positively correlated with their TCM symptom score obviously (r = 0.814, P < 0.01). ③ The AUC for predicting the prognosis of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic cardiac insufficiency by APACHE Ⅱ score and TCM symptom score were 0.816 and 0.920 respectively, when the best critical value of APACHE Ⅱ score was 21, the sensitivity of predicting death in the patients was 82.9%, and specificity was 74.1%, and the 95% confidence interval (95%CI) was 0.739-0.893;when the best critical value of TCM symptom score was 25, the sensitivity of predicting death in patients was 82.7%, specificity was 91.0% and 95%CI was 0.876-0.964. ④ Whether the patient being dead or not and TCM symptom score were brought into logistic regression analysis to obtain the death risk model: ln [R/(1-R)] = -8.131+0.283×TCM symptom score, after the TCM symptom score was substituted into the death risk model, the result revealed that the death risk was consistent with the actual death situation, that is with the rising of TCM symptom score, the death risk rate increases, and the actual fatality rate also increases gradually. Conclusions The application of TCM symptom score is helpful to realize the degree of disease severity and early judgement of prognosis in patients with chronic cardiac insufficiency.

OBJECTIVE: Early bolting of Saposhnikovia divaricata has seriously hindered its medicinal value and sustainable development of resources. The molecular mechanism of bolting and flowering of S. divaricata is still unclear and worth of research. In our study, we explored the transcriptome of the genes related to the bolting and flowering of S. divaricata. METHODS: The transcriptome library was constructed, sequenced, assembled and annotated from the bolting and unbolting leaves of S. divaricata by high-throughput sequencing at the bud and flowering stage. Focus on the pathways related to bolting and flowering in plants, and exploring genes. The expression of seven candidate genes was verified by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR). RESULTS: Transcriptome results showed that 249 889 422 high-quality clean reads were obtained. A total of 67 866 unigenes were assembled with an average length of 948.1 bp. Trinity de Novo assembly produced 67 866 unigenes with an average length of 948.1 bp. Among 993 differentially expressed genes, 484 genes were significantly up-regulated and 509 genes were down-regulated in the SdM group. A total of 79 GO terms were significantly enriched for differentially expressed genes. KEGG results showed that 11 154 unigenes were enriched in 89 pathways. And 21 candidate genes related to bolting and flowering of S. divaricata were excavated. The qRT-PCR results showed that expression trends of HDA9, PHYB, AP2, TIR1, Hsp90, CaM, and IAA7 were consistent with transcriptomic sequencing results. In addition, RNA-seq had identified 10 740 transcription factors and classified them into 58 families by their conserved domains. Further studies showed that the transcription factors regulating the flowering of S. divaricata were mainly distributed in the NAC, MYB_related, HB-other, ARF, and AP2 families. CONCLUSION Based on the results of this study, it was found that the plant hormone signal transduction pathway was one of the decisive factors to control bolting and flowering. Among them, auxin related genes IAA and TIR1 are the key genes in the bolting and flowering process of S. divaricata.