Objective To determin and compare the significance of the expression of chemotactic cytokines in pleural effusions monocyte chemoattractant protein-1(MCP-1)and regulated on activation,normal,T-cell expressed and secreted(RANTES)levels in tuberculous and malignant pleural effusions.Methods The effusion and serum levels of MCP-1 and RANTES were measured in 37 patients with tuberculous pleural effusion and 35 patients with malignant pleural effusion,and selected 20 healthy people acting as control group.Results The effusion and serum levds of MCP-1 and RANTES in tuberculous effusion patients was significantly higher than that in malignant group(P＜0.01);In tuberculous group,the content of MCP-1 in serum was higher than control group,the serum level of RANTES was no statistic significant difference between control group and tuberculous group.The contents of MCP-1 and RANTES were not correlated with pathologic type of lung.cancer.Conclusion MCP-1 and RANTES technique has an important clinical value in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of tuberculosis and malignant pleural effusion.

Objective To predict the CTL epitopes of Tat exon 1 region in HIV-1 CRF07_BC strains, which were prevailing in China. Methods Total of 236 plasma samples were from the 3rd National HIV Molecular Epidemic Survey (NMES3). All the subjects were infected with HIV-1 CRF07_BC viruses. The tat exon 1 region was amplified by reverse transcription reaction and nested polymerase chain reaction (nested-PCR), then the PCR products were sequenced. The distribution of CTL epitopes of this region were predicted by on-line software BIMAS HLA Peptide Binding Predictions and statistics software. Results To-tal of 236 CRF07_BC strains were from 16 provinces, mainly in intravenous drug asers(58.9%)and then sex(25.0%). It was showed that there were 12 CTL epitopes of 236 Tat exon 1 region of CRF07_BC strains mainly located in proline-rich region, cysteine-rich region and core-region. Those epitopes were banded by 5 HLA presenting molecules in genotype(A * 2501 ,A * 2902, B * 15,B * 5301 and Cw * 1203) and 6 HLA presenting molecules in serotype (B53, B58 ,B57 ,A3 ,A68 and Cw12). The frequency of single amino acid substitution was more than 50% in 7 CTL epitopes. Conclusion The CTL epitopes in Tat exon 1 of CRF07 _BC strains were located in different functional regions, and there were some amino acid variations in them.

Objective To study the different drying technology.on Wudang Lonicerae Flos (Ⅰ) in chlorogenic acid content.Methods Using HPLC method to research the difference in the contents of chlorogenic acid of Wudang Lonicerae Flos (Ⅰ) employing oven-drying method,air-dried method and steamed drying technologies.DIONEX C18 (4.6 mm×250 mm,5 μm) was used.The mobile phases consisted of acetonitrile-0.4％ phosphoric acid aqueous solution (17 ∶ 83).The detection wavelengths of chlorogenic acid was 327nm.The flow rate was 0.4 ml/min.The column temperature was 30 ℃.Results The Separation of Chlorogenic acid content was satisfactory.The concentration and peak area showed a good linearity relationship with the range of 0.285-2.850 μg.Precision,repeatability and stability met the requirements.The average recovery was 100.26％ with RSD 1.95％.Chlorogenic acid content in the steamed drying Wudang Honeysuckle (Ⅰ) was higher.Conclusions The method of steam drying is better than that of oven-drying method and drying.