Objective To investigate clinical effects of transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) combined with postoperative perfusion of mitomycin C to urinary bladder on superficial bladder cancer. Methods 32 patients with superficial bladder cancer were treated by TURBT and discontinuous perfusion of mitomycin C (20mg/20ml) to urinary bladder. Results 32 cases of the superficial bladder cancers all were once ablated. 8 cases relapsed in 6 months to 2 years of postoperation, which were treated by TURBT and discontinuous perfusion of mitomycin C to urinary bladder again, and relapse was not found from postoperation to present. Conclusions Treatment of TURBT combined with perfusion of mitomycin C on superficial bladder cancer is repeatable, simple, safe and effective.

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation (MSCT) in patients with refractory polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM). Methods Bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC) or umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSC)were infused intravenously in 8 PM/DM patients. The clinical manifestations and laboratory parameters,including serum creatin in kinase (CK) and manual muscle test 8 (MMT8) score, were compared before and after MSCT. Staistically andlyzed by paired t-test. Results The eight patients were followed up for six to twelve months after MSCT. The level of serum CK decreased from (1681±430) to (886±248) U/L one week after MSCT (P＜0.05) and further decreased at week 2 (474±61) U/L, 1 month (293±89) U/L, 3 month (202±70) U/L and 6 month (175±46) U/L, respectively (all P＜0.05). MMT8 score increased to 1 month [(67±3) vs (45±14), P＜0.05], 3 month [(64±10) vs (45±14), P＜0.05], 6 month [(64±4) vs (45±14),P＜0.05] after MSCT. The dosage of glucocorticoid steroid were tapered in all patients 2 weeks after MSCT [(18±6) mg vs (34±15) mg, P＜0.05]. Clinical symptoms of interstitial pneumonia of both patients were relieved after MSCT, which was confirmed by the result of high resolution CT (HRCT) of the lung.The skin ulcers tended to be recovered after the transplantation in one DM patient. All patients did not develop transplantation related complications. Conclusion Allogenic MSCT is an effective and safe approach for the treatment of refractory PM/DM. However, extensive follow-up study is needed for long-term benefit evaluation.

Background: The present investigation explored the therapeutic actions of oleuropein along with the possible signaling pathway involved in attenuating neuropathic pain in chronic constriction injury (CCI) and vincristine-induced neuropathic pain in male rats. Methods: Four loose ligatures were placed around the sciatic nerve to induce CCI, and vincristine (50 μg/kg) was injected for 10 days to develop neuropathic pain.The development of cold allodynia, mechanical allodynia, and mechanical hyperalgesia was assessed using different pain-related behavioral tests. The levels of H2S, cystathionine-γ-lyase (CSE), cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS), orexin, and nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) were measured in the sciatic nerve. Results: Treatment with oleuropein for 14 days led to significant amelioration of behavioral manifestations of neuropathic pain in two pain models. Moreover, oleuropein restored both CCI and vincristine-induced decreases in H2S, CSE, CBS, orexin, and Nrf2 levels. Co-administration of suvorexant, an orexin receptor antagonist, significantly counteracted the pain-attenuating actions of oleuropein and Nrf2 levels without modulating H2S, CSE and CBS. Conclusions Oleuropein has therapeutic potential to attenuate the pain manifestations in CCI and vincristine-induced neuropathic pain, possibly by restoring the CSE, CBS, and H2S, which may subsequently increase the expression of orexin and Nrf2 to ameliorate behavioral manifestations of pain.

Background: The present investigation explored the therapeutic actions of oleuropein along with the possible signaling pathway involved in attenuating neuropathic pain in chronic constriction injury (CCI) and vincristine-induced neuropathic pain in male rats. Methods: Four loose ligatures were placed around the sciatic nerve to induce CCI, and vincristine (50 μg/kg) was injected for 10 days to develop neuropathic pain.The development of cold allodynia, mechanical allodynia, and mechanical hyperalgesia was assessed using different pain-related behavioral tests. The levels of H2S, cystathionine-γ-lyase (CSE), cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS), orexin, and nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) were measured in the sciatic nerve. Results: Treatment with oleuropein for 14 days led to significant amelioration of behavioral manifestations of neuropathic pain in two pain models. Moreover, oleuropein restored both CCI and vincristine-induced decreases in H2S, CSE, CBS, orexin, and Nrf2 levels. Co-administration of suvorexant, an orexin receptor antagonist, significantly counteracted the pain-attenuating actions of oleuropein and Nrf2 levels without modulating H2S, CSE and CBS. Conclusions Oleuropein has therapeutic potential to attenuate the pain manifestations in CCI and vincristine-induced neuropathic pain, possibly by restoring the CSE, CBS, and H2S, which may subsequently increase the expression of orexin and Nrf2 to ameliorate behavioral manifestations of pain.

Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) analysis has pioneered genome-wide gene discovery and expression profiling. In order to establish a gene expression index in the rice cultivar indica, we sequenced and analyzed 86,136 ESTs from nine rice cDNA libraries from the super hybrid cultivar LYP9 and its parental cultivars. We assembled these ESTs into 13,232 contigs and leave 8,976 singletons. Overall, 7,497 sequences were found similar to existing sequences in GenBank and 14,711 are novel. These sequences are classified by molecular function, biological process and pathways according to the Gene Ontology. We compared our sequenced ESTs with the publicly available 95,000 ESTs from japonica, and found little sequence variation, despite the large difference between genome sequences. We then assembled the combined 173,000 rice ESTs for further analysis. Using the pooled ESTs, we compared gene expression in metabolism pathway between rice and Arabidopsis according to KEGG. We further profiled gene expression patterns in different tissues, developmental stages, and in a conditional sterile mutant, after checking the libraries are comparable by means of sequence coverage. We also identified some possible library specific genes and a number of enzymes and transcription factors that contribute to rice development.
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