Objective To investigate the clinical significance of serum sICAM-1 level in patients with NSCLC.Methods Sera from 51 cases with different TNM stages of NSCLC were collected and analyzed for concentration of sICAM-1 with Sandwich ELISA method.Results Serum levels of sICAM-1 were significantly higher in NSCLC group than in healthy controls and correlated with the clinical stage of NSCLC cases.Conclusions sICAM-1 could be an important factor which underlies tumor invasion and metastasis and may have a prognostic value in lung cancer.

Objective To study the expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) in the peripheral blood and investigate its value for the metastasis and prognosis of lung cancer.Methods The plasma levels of suPAR in 26 normal adults,54 patients with lung cancer were measured by using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).Results The plasma suPAR levels of lung cancer patients were increased in comparison with that of normal adults (P

ObjectiveTo investigate the serum tumor markers level of carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA) ,cytokeratin fragment antigen21-1 (CYFRA21-1),neuron specific enolase (NSE) in patients with lung cancer, and the change after chemotherapy on them. Methods Radioimmunoassay was applied to detect the levels of CEA, CYFRA21-1 ,NSE in 45 patients with advanced NSCLC before and after chemotherapy,and the tumor markers were also detected in 20 patients with SCLC and 20 patients with benign lung diseases of control groups. ResultsThe levels of CEA, CYFRA21-1, NSE in lung cancer group before chemotherapy were much higher than benign group, but there was no difference of CYFRA21-1 between the SCLC group and benign group. The same result of NSE was found between NSCLC and benign group(P ＞0. 05). The value of NSE was lower in the patients with SCLC after chemotherapy than before(P ＜0. 01 ). The level of CYFRA21-1 was lower in squamous carcinoma than before( P ＜0. 01 ). But in the adenocarcinoma group only NSE's level was lower after chemotherapy( P ＞0. 05) ,there were no differences in CEA and CYFRA21-1 ( P ＞ 0. 05 ). ConclusionThe levels of the three tumor markers rise obviously in advanced NSCLC and decrease after chemotherapy. The differences were significant with NSE in SCLC and CYFRA21-1 in squamous cell carcinoma and CEA in adenocarcinoma. The levels of serum CEA,CYFRA21-1 and NSE could be a tumor marker in progressive lung cancer. And the decrease of the levels could be used to evaluate the chemotherapeutic response respectively in different pathologic types of lung cancer.

Objective To test the antiproliferative and proapoptotic effect of Survivin small interfering RNA(siRNA) expression vector on lung adenocarcinoma cell A549 in vitro.Methods The Survivin-siRNA expression vector was constructed and conformed by sequencing.The inhibitory effect of Survivin-siRNA was tested by fluorescent quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(FQ RT-PCR),Western blot and immunohistochemistry.The cell proliferation and apoptotic rate were assayed by tetrazolium bromide(MTT)colorimetry and flow cytometry.Results Survivin-siRNA expression vector was constructed and transfected into A549 cell.It effectively reduced mRNA and protein level of Survivin.Immunohistochemistry also showed lower expression of Survivin.The A549 cells transfected with Survivin-siRNA had a lower cellular growth rate than that of control group(P

Objective To screen and identify the differential expression genes on peripheral blood cells of mice based on the experimental animal model of radon exposure. Methods BALB/c mice were exposed in a type HD-3 multifunctional radon-room, with the accumulative doses of radon-exposure group at 105 WLM and control group at 1 WLM. Total RNA was extracted from peripheral blood cells and the methods of SMART for dscDNA synthesis and SSH for gene screening was applied. With the construction of the cDNA library enriched with differentially expressed genes, the pMD 18-T plasmid containing LacZ operator at the multiple cloning site was used to allow a blue-white screening. The TA clones were amplified by nested PCR and the reverse Northern blot was used to identify up and down regulation of the clones. The differently expressed cDNA was then sequenced and analyzed. Results The subtracted cDNA libraries were successfully constructed. A total of 390 recombinant white colonies were randomly selected. Among the 312 cDNA monoelones selected from bath forward- and reverse-subtracted libraries,41 clones were chosen to sequence for their differential expressions based on reverse Northern blot. Among the 41 sequenced clones, 10 clones with known function/annotation and 3 new ESTs with the GenBank accession numbers were obtained. Most of the known function/annotation genes were revealed to be related with cell proliferation, metabolism, cellular apoptosis and carcinogenesis. Conclusions The animal model of radon exposure was established and the cDNA library of peripheral blood cells was suceessfully constructed. Radon exposure could up- and down-regulate a series of genes. Differentially expressed genes could be identified by using SSH technique and the results may help exploring mechanisms of random exposure.