Objective:This study aimed to identify the morphology of mast cells by using a modified toluidine blue staining scheme,so as to provide a powerful reference for the experimental basis research of mast cells.Methods:Bone marrow-derived mast cells were induced in vitro.After 4 weeks,the cells were collected,fixed,and stained.Mast cells were fixed at different temperature during different time.The optimum condition was determined by comparing the effects of toluidine blue staining.Results:Bone marrow cells were induced to differentiate into mast cells by SCF and IL-3 in vitro.When mast cells were stained with modified toluidine blue staining,the staining effect was better.Mast cells were round or oval and the cell membrane was complete and the cytoplasm was filled with a large number of purple particles.Conclusion:In this study,we successfully applied a modified toluidine blue staining method to mast cells cultured in vitro.The results showed that the condition at 37 ℃ full fixation with staining could reduce the degeneration of mast cells.This method was easy to operate with good stability.It was suitable for the morphological observation of mast cells cultured in vitro.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a serious threat for human health, the incidence of HCC in China accounts for more than 50% worldwide. There is an urgent need to develop novel anticancer agents for the treatment of HCC patients. Here we characterized the inhibitory effect and the molecular mechanism of protopine on HCC cancer cells. The results of a CCK-8 assay indicated that protopine displays anticancer activities on HCC cells. Flow cytometry and JC-1 staining confirmed that treatment with protopine decreased the mitochondrial membrane potential and induced apoptosis in HCC cells. Western blot analysis showed that protopine was able to increase protein expression in the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway; the level of cytochrome C, apoptotic protease activating factor-1 (Apaf-1), Bax, cleaved-poly ADP-ribose polymerase (cleaved-PARP), cleaved-caspase-3, and cleaved-caspase-9 were increased while the expression of Bcl-2 was suppressed significantly. An in vivo study revealed that protopine significantly suppressed the growth of tumors in nude mice bearing HepG2 cells. Administration of protopine intraperitoneally at a concentration of 50 mg·kg^-1 inhibited tumor growth by 72.46%. Animal experiments were carried out according to the Regulation of the Animal Ethics Committee of Southwest Medical University. This study provides preliminary evidence that there is potential to develop protopine as a lead compound for the treatment of HCC.

Hematologic Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; pathology ; Humans

Objective To investigate personality characteristics and its correlation with academic performance of vocational nursing students.Methods 153 nursing students were asked to filled out the questionnaire of Chinese College Student Personality Scale(CCSPS).The results were analyzed by 13.0 SPSS.Results Nursing students concentrated in the middle-up level in all the seven dimensions of the T-norm.The mean of directness,sensation and amiability were higer than the T-norm; The mean of tenaciousness and altruian were lower than the T-norm; There were different levels of correlation between academic performance and the four dimensions including directness,tenaciousness,rigorousness and amiability(P＜0.05).Finally only the dimension of rigorousness entered into the regression equation of academic performance.Conclusion Vocational nursing students tend to have ordinary personalities.The dimension of rigorousness is the major factor influencing vocational nursing students' academic performance.So it should be targeted to promote vocational nursing students' personality perfection.

Objective To investigate the effect of a step-wise diversified teaching mode on cardiac electrophysiology (EP) education. Methods 64 young doctors (male:36, female:28) who studied in EP sub-specialty were enrolled. The atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) and atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT) were selected as teaching content. All the doctors were randomly divided into traditional teaching group (TT) and step-wise diversified teaching group (DT) according to cross-over design protocol. In TT group, only teaching and answering the questions by teachers were given to students, for the DT group, in different stages of teaching, multiple teach-ing strategy were combined to complete teaching. T test and Chi square test were used to compare the effect of two teaching methods. Results There was no difference of basic features and time of self-studying between the two groups. In examinations, the students in DT group got higher score than TT group[DT:(92.3±9.8) and (93.1±7.8),TT:(88.3±8.6) and (87.1±10.0),P<0.05], and had better perfor-mance of learning interest, initiative, ability of finding and resolving problems, teamwork spirit and so on. Conclusion The step-wise diversified teaching mode contributes improving the quality of instruction of cardiac EP, moreover, arousing learning interest and initiative, enhancing ability of find-ing and resolving problems, teamwork spirit and so on, which is worthy of wide-popularizing in cardiac EP training.

Objective To identify the related factors of PICC malposition.Methods The domestic published literature about the related factors of PICC malposition were collected from 2001 to 2014.Analysis of heterogeneity was performed and cumulative effects were calculated using either fixed or random effects models by RevMan 5.0.Results The incidence of PICC malposition in patients with median cubital vein or cephalic vein was obviously higher than that in patients with basilic vein,the incidence of PICC malposition in patients with cephalic vein was significantly higher than that in patients with median cubital vein; the incidence of PICC malposition in patients with recumbent position was significantly higher than that in patients with seat position; the incidence of PICC malposition in the older than sixty years patients was significantly higher than that in younger than sixty years patients; the incidence of PICC malposition in male and female patients was not discrepant.Conclusions The vein,position and age of patient are the related factors of PICC malposition,while sex factor has nothing to do with the occurrence of PICC malposition.

Objective We aimed to evaluate the role of CD4 + CD25 + T regulatory cells in predicting the prognoses of patients with sepsis.Methods Patients with sepsis in Shanghai Changzheng Hospital from December 2013 to April 2014 were identified and grouped into survival group (SG,n =19) and death group (DG,n =9) in accordance with their clinical outcomes.CD4 + CD25 +T regulatory cell ratio,C-replication protein,bilirubin,procalcitonin,and coagulation function were tested on the 1st day and 7th day,and APACHE Ⅱ and SOFA were analyzed to assess the predictability of this group of cells.Results Twentyeight patients were identified,with a mean age of (60.36 ± 15.30) years,a mean APACHE Ⅱ score of (16.68±7.00),and a mean SOFA score of (7.18 ±3.78).Twelve (42.9％) of the individuals were accompanied with severe multiple trauma,and 10 (35.7％) were in septic shock,and 9 (32.2％) died of severe sepsis.The first day CD4 + CD25 + T regulatory cell ratios on the first day were 2.10％ (0.80,3.10)％ (SG) vs.1.80％ (1.15,3.65)％ (DG) (Z=-0.148,P=0.883),andonday7 were 0.90％ (0.30,2.80)％ (SG) vs.5.70％ (2.60,8.30)％ (DG) (Z=-2.905,P=0.004) presented significant predictability.Conclusions Dynamic monitoring of CD4 + CD25 + T regulatory cells could predict the prognoses of patients with sepsis and should be generalized in clinical emergency practice.

·α-crystallin is the predominant structural protein in the lens.lt is a member of small heat shock proteins ( sHSPs) which has the common functions of HSPs.lt also has anti-apoptotic activity etc.Recently, it has been proved to combine with the cellular membrane of retinal ganglion cells ( RGCs ) to enhance the survival of RGCs and the regeneration of axons, thereby partly restore visual function.But we haven’t come to a unified conclusion of the mechanism.This review is focused on structure and functions of α-crystallin, the protection function and mechanism of α-crystallin towards RGCs after the optic nerve injury.

Objective To evaluae possible association between interleukin-1 beta (IL-1?) gene exon 5 polymorphism and childhood asthma.Methods The study was conducted in two different groups: asthmatic children(n=55) and healthy children(n=35). The IL-1? gene exon 5 polymorphism was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PCR-RFLP). Results Frequencies of CC,CT and TT genotypes were 92.7%,7.3%,0, and frequencies of C,T allele were 96.4%,3.6% in asthmatic group. However, frequencies of CC,CA and AA genotypes were 85.7%,14.3%,0, and frequencies of C,T allele were 92.9% ,7.1% in healthy group. There were no significant difference in distribution of genotypes and allele frequencies between two groups.Conclusion IL-1? gene exon 5 polymorphism may not be associated with childhood asthma.

0.05).Conclusion PAF-AH-Ala379Val gene mutation is unrelated to bronchial asthma in children.