1.The rear middle school students′ resilience and social adaptation:the mediation effect of coping
Chongqing Medicine 2015;(33):4674-4676
Objective To explore the mechanism of resilience and social adaptation of the rear middle school students ,and the mediation effect of coping .Methods Totally 641 rural junior high school students were surveyed by the resilience scale for chi‐nese adolescents (HKRA) ,social Adaptation for middle school students (SAS‐SSS) and coping style scale of middle school students (CSSMSS) .Results (1)The girls of the rear middle school were higher than boys in resilience ,problem‐solving ,feeling ventilation and social adaptation(P< 0 .05) ,but lower in fantasy (P< 0 .05) .(2) There were significant correlations in problem‐solving ,help‐seeking ,withdrawal ,resilience and social adaptation .(3)The results showed that partial ,rather than full ,mediation of problem‐sol‐ving was found between resilience and social adaptation ,the mediation effect accounted for 44 .4% .Conclusion The rear middle school students′s resilience and problem‐solving were important factors for their adapting society .
2.The influence of self-confidence on parental rearing pattern and fear of Freshmen
Weixing ZOU ; Lingping XIE ; Hongli WANG ; Yi YUAN
Chongqing Medicine 2017;46(16):2245-2248
Objective To explore the mediating role of self-confidence in the parental rearing style and facing-audience com munication apprehension(FACA).Methods The Chinese College Students' Facing-audience Communication Apprehension Scale (revised version of 2011),the Short-form Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran for Chinese(s-EMBU-C) and the Overall Self-confidence Questionnaire Version of College Students were adopted to survey on 1 072 college freshmen from Guizhou Province.Results FACA in the freshmen of non-one-child was significantly higher than that in the freshmen of one-child,FACA in the freshmen of good performance was significantly lower than that in the freshmen of middle and poor performance;FACA of college freshmen,parental rearing style and self-confidence were significantly correlated with each other;self-confidence played a complete mediated role between the parental care and FACA,and a partial mediated role between the parental control and FACA.Conclusion Self-confidence has significant mediate effect between the parental rearing style and FACA of college freshmen.
3.Ethacrynic acid promotes apoptosis in lung cancer A549 cells when combined with cisplatin chemotherapy
Lingping HUANG ; Lixia XIE ; Yuchao QIU ; Ping HU ; Xiaoqun YE
Journal of Third Military Medical University 2017;39(17):1720-1727
Objective To investigate the killing effect of ethacrynic acid (EA) on lung cancer A549 cells derived spheres and explore the underlying mechanism.Methods A549 spheres were cultured in serum-free medium,and the protein expression of CD133,SOX2,EpCAM and ABCG2 was detected by Western blotting.MTT assay was used to evaluate the cell viability of A549 spheres and A549 cells after treated by 1,2,5,10 and 20 mg/mL cisplatin (DDP) for 48 h.The activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST) was measured by colorimetric method after A549 spheres were treated with 10,50,100 and 200 μmol/L EA,respectively.Flow cytometry,Western blotting,real-time PCR and luciferase assay were used to analyze the levels of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS),formation of A549 spheres,mRNA and protein expression levels of β-catenin,Sox2 and ABCG2,and promoter activity of β-catenin upon 200 μmol/L EA treated cells for 48 h.A549 sphere was infected with β-catenin adenovirus for 24 h,followed by 200 μmol/L EA treatment (in presence or absence of 5 mg/mL DDP) for 24 h.The expression of β-catenin,Sox2 and ABCG2 at mRNA and protein levels was detected by real-time PCR and Western blotting,and cell growth of A549 spheres was evaluated by MTT assay.Results The A549 spheres,with high expression of tumor stem cells markers CD133,SOX2,EpCAM and drug resistance related molecule ABCG2,and resistance to DDP at different doses,were successfully derived.After 200 μmol/L EA had treated A549 sphere for 48 h,the levels of ROS were significantly increased (P < 0.05),and the mRNA and protein levels of β-catenin,Sox2 and ABCG2,and promoter activity of β-catenin were notably decreased (P < 0.05).The treatment of 200 μmol/L EA enhanced the inhibitory effect on proliferation and the promoting effect on apoptosis in A549 spheres induced by 5 mg/mL DDP (P < 0.05).Up-regulation of β-catenin by adenoviral infection partly reversed the effects of 200 μmol/L EA on suppressing the expression levels of β-catenin,Sox2 and ABCG2,compared to the spheres infected with blank adenovirus.Additionally,β-catenin over-expression significantly remitted the inhibitory effect of 200 μmol/L EA and 5 mg/mL DDP on the proliferation in A549 spheres.Conclusion EA exerts inhibitory effect on the proliferation and stemness of A549 spheres through suppressing GST activity and β-catenin expression,and then promotes cell apoptosis.EA might be a novel drug in treatment of lung cancer and cancer stem cells.
4.Plasma relative abundance of epidermal growth factor receptor mutations predicts clinical response to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma
Hanyan XU ; Qianqian LAI ; Shanshan SU ; Lingping ZHOU ; Junru YE ; Dongqing ZHANG ; Yupeng XIE ; Yuping LI
Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine 2019;58(1):49-55
Objective To determine whether relative abundance of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations in plasma predicts clinical response to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma. Methods In this prospective study, adult patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma were enrolled in our hospital from 1 April 2016 to 1 January 2017. EGFR mutations in tumor tissues were detected by ADx-amplification refractory mutation system (ADx-ARMS). EGFR mutations of plasma free tumor DNA were detected by ADx-ARMS and ADx-super amplification refractory mutation system (ADx-SuperARMS) at the same time. Patients with EGFR-mutant in tumor tissues and receiving EGFR-TKIs were finally enrolled. Plasma mutation-positive patients with both methods were high abundance group.Patients with positive mutations by ADx-SuperARMS but negative by ADx-ARMS were medium abundance group. Mutation-negative patients with both methods were recognized as low abundance group. The correlation between EGFR mutation abundance and clinical response to EGFR-TKIs were analyzed. Results Among 71 patients enrolled, 42 harbored EGFR mutations in plasma were detected by ADx-ARMS, while 53 were found by ADx-SuperARMS.There were 42 patients in high abundance group, 11 in medium group while the other 18 in low group. The objective response rates (ORRs) were 69.0%,7/11 and 10/18 in high, medium and low groups, respectively. The difference was significant between high and low abundances groups (P=0.006). Median progression-free survival (PFS) in high,medium and low groups were 11.0, 8.5 and 9.0 monthes, respectively (P<0.001). In patients with tumor 19-Del, the ORRs were 70.4%,5/7 and 6/11 in high,medium and low abundance groups, respectively. The median PFS of high abundance group was significantly longer than the other two groups (12.0 monthes vs 9.0, 9.0 monthes). As to subjects with L858R mutation, the ORRs were 10/15,2/4 and 3/6,respectively, with median PFS 9.6, 5.5 and 9.5 monthes. Conclusions The relative abundance of EGFR mutations in plasma predicts clinical response to EGFR-TKIs in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma. The higher the mutation abundance is, the better the efficacy of EGFR-TKIs is.
5.Rapid detection of the bacterial drug susceptibility testing based on AIE technology
Lisha LAI ; Rentang DENG ; Lu ZHANG ; Yubang JIE ; Lingping XIE ; Zhihong HUANG ; Liming YIN ; Dujuan WANG ; Lijuan LI ; Junfa XU ; Lanfen PENG ; Wenjin FU
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2023;46(11):1186-1192
Objective:Based on the principle that the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) fluorescent probe 6PD-DPAN could bind and aggregate with bacteria, and the fluorescence intensity could reflect the quantity of bacteria, a new method for rapid, convenient, and accurate bacterial drug sensitivity testing was established, which provided a basis for rapid and accurate clinical drug use.Methods:This was a methodological evaluation study. A total of 107 clinical isolates were collected from Houjie Hospital of Dongguan City from January to December 2022, among which 46 isolates were used for the establishment of the new method, and 61 isolates were used for methodological validation. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) determined by broth microdilution method was used as the gold standard, and three antibacterial drugs, gentamicin, levofloxacin, and cefotaxime, were used as experimental drugs. The AIE plate was incubated for 4 hours, and the fluorescence intensity was measured every half an hour to draw a fluorescence change curve. The MIC results were compared with the CLSI breakpoints to determine the bacteria as sensitive, intermediate, or resistant. To simplify the detection process, the ratio of fluorescence intensity at 4 hours(R) was calculated, and the ROC curve was used to analyze the efficacy of R in determining bacterial growth and establish its cutoff value. The new method was used to determine the MIC of 61 clinical isolates, with broth microdilution method as the gold standard. The basic consistency, categorical consistency, very major errors, and major errors of the new method were analyzed, and the consistency between the two methods was determined by the Kappa test.Results:ROC curve analysis of the R after 4 hours of culture: The cut-off value was 3.0, with both sensitivity and specificity for determining bacterial growth being 100%. The median (interquartile) R for bacterial growth inhibition was 11.1 (8.6, 14.4); the median R-value for bacterial growth was 1.1 (1.0, 1.2). Compared to the gold standard, the newly established method showed 100% (61/61) essential agreement in detecting MICs of 61 clinical isolates, with a categorical agreement of 96.7% (59/61). There were no very major or major errors, and the Kappa value was 0.94, indicating good consistency between the newly established method and the microbroth dilution method.Conclusions:This study successfully established a new method for bacterial drug sensitivity testing based on AIE technology, which could obtain satisfactory results within 5 hours, providing a basis for early precision drug treatment in clinical practice.