1.Effectiveness of moderate aerobic exercise on prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases in patients with hypercholesterolemia
ZHAO Rui ; HUANG Shengnan ; XIAO Nuan
Journal of Preventive Medicine 2022;34(1):58-62
Objective :
To examine the effect of moderate aerobic exercise on the 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in patients with hypercholesterolemia, so as to provide insights into ASCVD prevention.
Methods :
The patients with hypercholesterolemia admitted to the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University from September 2019 to September 2020 were recruited and randomly assigned into the intervention group and the control group using a random number table. Participants in both groups received routine lipid-lowering therapy and health education, and participants in the intervention group were given additional interventions of moderate aerobic exercise. Serum lipid levels were measured before and after 12 weeks of interventions. The 10-year risk of developing ASCVD was evaluated in both groups following interventions.
Results :
There were 50 participants with hypercholesterolemia in each of the intervention and control groups. The mean age was ( 38.80±1.42 ) years in the intervention group and ( 37.14±1.23 ) years in the control group, and males were accounted for 46.00% and 40.00%, respectively. The increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ( HDL-C ), the reduction in total cholesterol ( TC ), triglyceride ( TG ), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ( LDL-C ) and the 10-year risk of ASCVD were all significantly greater in the intervention group than those in the control group before and after the interventions ( P<0.05 ).
Conclusion
Moderate aerobic exercise may reduce the 10-year risk of ASCVD through regulating blood lipid levels.
2.Advances in research of animal models of hyperuricemia combined with abdominal obesity
Zhijian LIN ; Bing ZHANG ; Shengnan HUANG ; Liyu LI
Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica 2014;(4):81-85
Hyperuricemia is closely associated with abdominal obesity .The prevalence of hyperuricemia combined with abdominal obesity has been increased significantly in recent years , along with the improvement of daily life and the changes in dietary structure .The state of hyperuricemia combined with abdominal obesity is most harmful , and becomes a common and high risk metabolic disease .Animal model with hyperuricemia combined with abdominal obesity is very impor-tant for the research of pathomechanism and treatment of this disease .
3.DMD gene defection analysis in 135 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Yang YAN ; Xiaofeng YANG ; Fuhua YIN ; Shengnan HUANG
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2006;0(08):-
Objective Deletion detection of Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD).Methods Totally 135 patients were tested through polymerase reaction of amplification with 12 dystrophin exons,polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis make gene analysis.Results The deletion of different region was found in 54 patients.Conclusion The deletion region is concentrated in 45~53 exons,the deletion of 48 exons is the peak.
4.The Rehabilitation Effects of the Cochlear Implantation on Prelingually Deaf Children with Alba Abnormality
Hongyu ZHANG ; Shengnan YE ; Youhui LIN ; Dongdong HUANG ; Rong ZHANG
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology 2017;25(5):525-528
Objective To study the rehabilitation effects of the cochlear implants on prelingually deaf children with alba abnormality.Methods A retrospective analysis of the effects of CIs was conducted in the prelingually deaf children of 11 cases of the children with abnormal alba(the research group) and 18 cases of the children who had normal alba(the control group) at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian medical university.All the operations were completed by the same doctor.There were no obvious complications during and after the operation.The cochlear implants were turned on after one month and the prelingually deaf children with extremely severe bilateral sensorineural deafness were trained for speech at the rehabilitation centre.The assessment criteria of the categories of auditory performance(CAP) and speech intelligibility rate(SIR) were used.After six months and twelve months of the operation, the family members were followed who have direct contacts with the children.The evaluation of data between the research and the control groups was administered.Results In the research group, the average level of CAP after six months'' post-operation was 2.41±0.47.But in the control group, the average level was 3.28±0.45.In the research group, the average level of SIR after six months'' post-operation was 1.27±0.44.There were 3 children in the research group at level 2, but in the control group, the average level was 1.89±0.31.Two children in the control group were level 1 while the others were level 2.In the research group, the average level of CAP after twelve months'' post-operation was 4.00±0.43 while only one child at level 3.There was one child at level 5 in the research group, the rest were level 4.There was a statistically significant difference in the average level of the CAP after six months'' post-operation(t=4.983, P<0.05) and in the average level of the SIR after six months'' post-operation(t=4.371, P<0.05).There was no statistical difference in the average level of the CAP after twelve months'' post-operation(t=1.033, P>0.05) and in the average level of the SIR after twelve months'' post-operation(t=0.434, P>0.05).Conclusion There is no significant difference of the rehabilitation effects of post-operation between the prelingually deaf children with alba abnormality and those with normal alba.
5.The safety and application of induced pluripotent stem cells
Shengnan TIAN ; Bo WANG ; Qi LI ; Yuanhua HUANG ; Yanlin MA
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2017;38(5):815-820
BACKGROUND:Induced pluripotent stem cel technology have solved the contradiction between the ethics and immune rejection, and this high-efficient and safe technique is becoming the mainstream of today’s research. OBJECTIVE:To comprehensively review the safety and application of induced pluripotent stem cel s.METHODS:A computer-based online retrieval of PubMed and CNKI was performed to search relevant papers published from January 2006 to April 2016, with the key words of“induced pluripotent stem cel , reprogramming, clinical application, safety, transcription factor, disease mode”in English and Chinese, respectively. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In recent years, research on induced pluripotent stem cel s has attracted much attention from the scientific community and the medical community, and this technique has successful y gained induced pluripotent stem cel s and overcome the problems of immunity and ethics. However, it is limited to the theoretical and laboratory research due to the inability to solve the safety, efficiency and re-differentiation mechanism of induced pluripotent stem cel s. Therefore, we are faced with enormous difficulties and chal enges, which involve al aspects of basic research, including how to safely and effectively induce the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s into the desired cel type and how to establish a suitable disease model as wel as a high-throughput drug screening platform.
6.Echocardiography Characteristics and Clinical Significance in Patients With Diastolic Mitral Regurgitation
Cuihua WANG ; Yunzhou HUANG ; Yadong ZHANG ; Xuan GUO ; Shuang LIU ; Yang SHAO ; Shengnan SHEN
Chinese Circulation Journal 2016;31(5):477-479
Objective: To investigate echocardiography characteristics and clinical significance in patients with diastolic mitral regurgitation. Methods: A total of 15 patients with diastolic mitral regurgitation were studied including 1 patient with large volume of aortic regurgitation, 6 with atrial ifbrillation (AF), 2 with atrial lfutter, 1 with II° type I atrio-ventricular block (A-V block), 1 with II° type II A-V block and 4 with III° A-V block. The characteristics of mitral regurgitation were observed, the heart rates, left ventricular size were measured and left ventricular function was detected in all patients. Results: There was 1 large volume aortic regurgitation patient with diastolic mitral regurgitation occurred in slow iflling phase with less volume, it was less than positive velocity; 1 AF patient occurred in mid and late diastolic phase with less volume, it was obviously less than positive velocity; the rest 8 patients all occurred in mid and late diastolic phase, the velocity reached or surpassed to positive velocity. All 15 patients had slow heart rate, increased left heart, decreased left ventricular ejection fraction, tissue Doppler imaging showed that the early diastolic peak slowed down in mitral ring. There were 93% (14/15) patients having obvious systolic regurgitation. Conclusion: The time phase, quantity and velocity of diastolic mitral regurgitation have various characteristics, most of them associated with systolic regurgitation combining abnormal cardiac structure and function. Echocardiography provides important information for clinical treatment.
7.The clinical significance of tumor budding in predicting lymph node metastasis of T1 colorectal cancer
Qiongyan ZHANG ; Shengnan ZHAO ; Lei WANG ; Dan HUANG ; Weiwei WENG ; Weiqi SHENG
China Oncology 2015;25(11):865-870
Background and purpose:Tumor budding is a poor prognostic factor in colorectal cancer. In this study, we studied the tumor budding by counting the actual number in 10 high power fields and evaluated itsclinical application in predicting lymph node metastasis of T1 colorectal cancer.Methods:Tissue specimens from 307 patients with histologically conifrmed T1 colorectal cancer were enrolled. The clinicopathological characteristics including tumor budding were evaluated for their predictive value in lymph node metastasis. A formula was created to calculate the risk score for prediction of lymph node metastasis which was validated by 14 new cases.Results:In the multivariate analysis, it showed that tumor grade, lymphovascular invasion and the number of tumor budding were signiifcantly associated with lymph node metastasis. The probability of lymph node metastasis was calculated using the following equations:Z=1.571×(lymphovascular state: invasion, 1; no invasion, 0)+2.661×(tumor grade: high grade, 1; low grade, 0)+0.024×(budding counts)-3.885; Probability=1/1+e-Z. The high scores were correlated with the lymph node metastasis in the validations.Conclusion:We can accurately assess the risk of lymph node metastasis by counting the number of tumor budding in 10 high power fields. Therefore tumor budding could potentially assist treatment decision making in T1 colorectal cancer patients with high-risk lymph node metastasis.
8.Effects of cyclic tensile stress on biological function and degeneration of nucleus pulposus cells
Dandan WANG ; Weimin HUANG ; Shengnan CAO ; Pengcheng REN ; Cong'an WANG ; Lei LIU ; Xiuchun YU ; Bin SHI
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics 2021;41(4):242-252
Objective:To investigate the effects of cyclic tensile stress on the function and degeneration of nucleus pulposus cells.Methods:The human primary nucleus pulposus cells were isolated and cultured. The cyclic tensile stress (100 000 μ?, 10% tensile strain, 0.1 Hz, 8 640 cycles) was loaded on the cells for 24 h. The proliferation of the cells was examined by MTT method. The cell cycle and apoptosis were detected through flow cytometry. Gene expression profile chip was used to detect the differentially expressed genes between the tensile stress group and control group. The function of these gene was analyzed by bioinformatics. The expression of inflammatory related factors, TGF-β, matrix degrading enzymes and extracellular matrix molecules were examined by qRT-PCR.Results:The cyclic tensile stress significantly promoted proliferation and cell cycle of nucleus pulposus cells. The cell percentage of S phase ( t=5.336, P<0.05) and G2/M phase ( t=7.288, P<0.01) was significantly different between the tensile stress group and control group. The cyclic tensile stress inhibited apoptosis of nucleus pulposus cells (8.56%±0.48% vs 10.63%±0.32%, t=4.474, P<0.05). A total of 866 differentially expressed genes were detected. Gene ontology analysis showed the roles of these genes in cells including focal adhesion, extractable matrix, membrane raft, condensed chrome kinetochore, cytoskeleton, etc. The cyclic tensile stress significantly affected the mRNA expression of inflammatory related factors, TGF-β genes, matrix proteinase and extracellular matrix molecules. Compared with the control group, the mRNA expression of inflammatory related factors IL15 ( t=5.379, P<0.05), IGF1 ( t=5.454, P<0.05) and IGFBP7 ( t=13.57, P<0.01) were significantly decreased in the tensile stress group; The mRNA expression of TGF-β genes TGFB1 ( t=6.931, P<0.05), TGFB2 ( t= 15.56, P<0.01) and TGFB3 ( t=7.744, P<0.05) were significantly increased in the tensile stress group; The mRNA expression of matrix proteinase ADAMTS3 ( t=5.241, P<0.05) and MMP19 ( t=24.72, P<0.01) were significantly decreased, and TIMP3 ( t=8.472, P<0.01) increased in the tensile stress group; The mRNA expression of extracellular matrix molecules COL2A1 ( t=5.871, P<0.05), FLRT2 ( t=5.216, P<0.05) and FN1 ( t=4.289, P<0.05) were significantly increased. Conclusion:The cyclic tensile stress promoted cell cycle and proliferation and inhibited apoptosis of nucleus pulposus cells. The cyclic tensile stress may affect the function and degeneration of nucleus pulposus cells by regulating the expression of inflammatory related factors, TGF-β, matrix degradation enzymes and ECM molecules.
9.125 cases of children with epilepsy peripheral blood B lymphocytes ,NK cells and NKT cells in the detection and analysis
Yonghong HUANG ; Ying KANG ; Dengke HAN ; Qiong CHEN ; Shengnan XU
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2017;38(23):3286-3287,3290
Objective To investigate the changes and clinical significance of CD19 ,CD20 ,CD3-CD16+ CD56+ (NK cells) and CD3+CD16+CD56+ (NKT cells) in the children with epilepsy .Methods 125 cases of children with epilepsy children confirmed by Pediatric neurology specialists in Zhongshan People's Hospital from January 2013 to March 2016 were selected as epilepsy group , while 125 cases of healthy children were selected as control group ,and the levels of CD19 ,CD20 ,NK cells and NKT cells in periph-eral blood of two groups were detected by flow cytometry .Results CD19 ,CD20 ,NK cells and NKT cells levels in epilepsy group were higher than those in control group ,and the difference was statistically significant (P<0 .05) .For ROC curve analysis ,CD19 optimal cutoff value of 9 .4 ,the area under the curve was 90 .3% ,with 91 .7% sensitivity .CD20 optimal cutoff value of 7 .75 ,the ar-ea under the curve was 87 .3% ,with 91 .7% sensitivity .NK cells optimal cutoff value of 8 .55 ,the area under the curve was 80 .5% , with 95 .8% sensitivity .NKT cells optimal cutoff value of 0 .35 ,the area under the curve was 76 .9% ,with 91 .7% sensitivity .Con-clusion CD19 ,CD20 ,NK cells and NKT cells can be used as important indexes for monitoring immune conditions in children with epilepsy .
10.Clinical Observation of Heat-sensitive Moxibustion Combined with Modified Pipa Qingfei Decoction in the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris
Qing HUANG ; Ting HONG ; Shengnan PENG ; Gang HUANG ; Yibo XU ; Jian LONG ; Jiangang WANG
China Pharmacy 2018;29(2):229-232
OBJECTIVE:To observe the clinical efficacy and safety of of heat-sensitive moxibustion combined with modified Pipa qingfei decoction for acne vulgaris.METHODS:A total of 120 patients with acne vulgaris were randomly divided into control group and observation group,with 60 cases in each group.Control group was given Minocycline hydrochloride capsules 50 mg/d,bid.Observation group was given heat-sensitive moxibustion (every other day) combined with modified Pipa qingfei decoction (one dose every day,decocting to 300 mL,morning and night).Both groups were treated for 42 d.Skin lesion score and serum testosterone level were observed in 2 groups before treatment,1st and 90th day after the end of treatment.Clinical efficacies were evaluated in 2 groups on 1st and 90th day after the end of treatment,and the occurrence of ADR was observed in 2 groups during treatment.RESULTS:Before observation,there was no significant difference in these indexes.On 1st day after the end of treatment,the scores of skin lesion items and serum testosterone level in 2 groups were all decreased significantly compared to before treatment,and the scorns of skin lesion items in observation group were significantly lower than control group (P<0.05);there was no significant difference in the serum testosterone level between 2 groups (P>0.05).On 90th day after the end of treatment,the scores of skin lesion items and serum testosterone level in control group had no statistical significance compared to before treatment (P>0.05).The scores of skin lesion items and serum testosterone level in observation group were decreased significantly compared before treatment,and were significantly lower than control group at corresponding period (P<0.05).On 1st and 90th day after the end of treatment,total response rates of observation group were 85.00% and 73.33%,which were significantly higher than 73.33% and 55.00% of control group,with statistical isgnificance (P<0.05).There was no statistical significance in the incidence of ADR between 2 groups (P>0.05).CONCLUSIONS:The heat-sensitive moxibustion combined with modified Pipa qingfei decoction can significantly reduce the scores of skin lesion and serum testosterone levels,improves the symptoms of skin lesions,and shows good safety.