Objective To investigate the relationship between proliferative diabetic retinopathy and E-selectin level .Meth-ods Ninty-two patients with diabetic retinopathy were divided into two groups based on the results of fundus fluorescence angiography :basic diabetic retinopathy (BDR) group, and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) group.Body mass index (BMI), fasting blood-glucose (FPG), total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure ( DBP) , and E-selectin levels of two groups were determined and compared .Results Compared with normal control group, the BDR and PDR group soluble E-selectin (sE-sel), FPG, HbA1c levels were increased significantly ( P <0.05).There was no significant difference in the SBP, DBP, BMI, TC, and TG levels in BDR group compared with control group ( P >0.05).The level of E-sel was positively correlated with HbA 1c and FBG in diabetic retinopathy patients .Conclusions High levels of sE-sel, HbA1c, and FPG were the important risk factors for diabetic retinopathy , and were closely related to the severity of PDR .Detection of serum sE-sel and HbA1c will help to predict the severity and prognosis of diabetic retinopathy .

In order to investigate the neurotoxicity of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra and the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease, LPS was stereotaxically infused into substantia nigra (SN). At different dosages and different time points with 5 microg LPS, the damage of the dopaminergic neurons in SN was observed by using tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemical staining. The results showed that 14 days after injection of 0.1 microg to 10 microg LPS into the rat SN, TH-positive (TH+) neurons in the SN were decreased by 5%, 15%, 20%, 45 %, 96% and 99% respectively. After injection of 5 microg LPS, as compared with the control groups, TH+ neurons began to decrease at 3rd day and obviously decrease at 14th day, only 5% of total cells, and almost disappeared 30 days later. The results suggested that LPS could induce the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the SN in a dose- and time-dependent manner.
Dopamine/metabolism ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Lipopolysaccharides/*toxicity ; *Nerve Degeneration ; Neurons/pathology ; Parkinson Disease, Secondary/*chemically induced ; Random Allocation ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Substantia Nigra/*pathology

In order to investigate the neurotoxicity of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra and the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease, LPS was stereotaxically infused into substantia nigra (SN). At different dosages and different time points with 5 microg LPS, the damage of the dopaminergic neurons in SN was observed by using tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemical staining. The results showed that 14 days after injection of 0.1 microg to 10 microg LPS into the rat SN, TH-positive (TH+) neurons in the SN were decreased by 5%, 15%, 20%, 45 %, 96% and 99% respectively. After injection of 5 microg LPS, as compared with the control groups, TH+ neurons began to decrease at 3rd day and obviously decrease at 14th day, only 5% of total cells, and almost disappeared 30 days later. The results suggested that LPS could induce the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the SN in a dose- and time-dependent manner.
Animals ; Dopamine ; metabolism ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Female ; Lipopolysaccharides ; toxicity ; Nerve Degeneration ; Neurons ; pathology ; Parkinson Disease, Secondary ; chemically induced ; Random Allocation ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Substantia Nigra ; pathology