1.Expression and amplification of CerbB-2 oncogene in gastric adenocarcinoma and its significance
Lichuan LIU ; Jiefeng HE ; Hong XIAO ; Jiansheng GUO
Cancer Research and Clinic 2011;23(5):307-309,313
Objective To investigate the significance of CerbB-2 oncogene in the occurrence and development of gastric adenocarcinoma. Methods By using immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization, 60 cases of gastric adenocarcinoma tissue, 60 cases of normal margin of mucosal tissue and 30 cases of normal gastric mucosa tissue were detected for the expression and amplification of CerbB-2. Results The positive rate of CerbB-2 expression in gastric adenocarcinoma tissues, normal margin of mucosal tissues and normal gastric mucosa tissues were 31.7 %, 8.33 % and 3.33 %; The positive rate of CerbB-2 amplification of these were 28.3 %, 5 % and 0. There were significant differences between gastric adenocarcinoma tissues and the others in the expression and amplification of CerbB-2. The expression and amplification of CerbB-2 in gastric adenocarcinoma tissues had no correlation with age,gender,tumor size or tumor differentiation degree of patients' (P >0.05), but were correlated with the extent of tumor invasion, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis and clinical stage(P <0.05). Conclusion CerbB-2 is closely related to the occurrence and development of gastric adenocarcinoma, and can be considered as an important index for determining the biological behavior of gastric cancer.
2.Reconstruction of neuron synapses is involved in the function reestablishment of rat neuroimmunoreglation network
Yang GAO ; Xiaotian XU ; Xiangqian KONG ; Lichuan HONG ; Huoyuan LIU ; Jiayou LIN
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2006;0(07):-
Objective To reestablish neuroimmunoregulation network and its function.Methods Whole-some gene array was used to analyze the gene expression involved in neuroimmunoregulation function of the lateral hypothalamic(LH) in rats at different immunizational time.The function trees of different genes were analysed with the PathWay Miner public database.Results 632 genes were differentially expressed: including 374 of 2-day immunized group,62 of 4-day immunized group and 196 of 6-day immunized group.Function signal pathway analysis for 398 up-regulated genes showed 27 genes were involved in 31 cell functional signal conduction pathways,including the well-known signal conduction pathways of synaptic reconstruction.Conclusion Synapses reconstruction appears to be the important pattern of functional reestablishment of neuroimmunoregulation network.
3.Changes in Erythrocyte Rheologic Properties after Mild Burn Injury
Lichuan SONG ; Heqin CUI ; Zhanjun LI ; Shuosen ZHANG ; Hong LIU ; Feng Shu ZHANG
Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2001;18(1):72-75
The changes in erythrocyte deformability and os moti c fragility were studied with an animal model of mild burn injury. The results s howed that after the burn injury there was a gradual decrease with time at first and then a recovery in erythrocyte deformability. Maximum deformation index [(DI)max], integra tion deformation index (IDI) and osmotic fragility of RBCs drawn just after burn were almost identical to those before burn injury. (DI)max and IDI signifi cantly decreased at 1, 2 h but not at 4, 7 h when compared with those before burn injury, however, the RBCs were less deformable at 4, 7 h. Erythrocyte osmotic fragility significantly increased only at 4 h after burn injury when compared at the time points of 0, 1, 2, 4 , 7 h after burn with that before burn injury. The results indicated that the lesion in (DI)max and IDI, and the increase in osmotic fragility might be only related to the body fluid fa ctors in this animal model. The decrease in erythrocyte deformability and the in crease in erythrocyte osmotic fragility did not synchronize, suggesting that the changes might come about not by the same mechanism.