Objective To investigate the protective effect of astragaloside on cardiomyocyte mitochoddria and inhibition effect on cardiomyocytes apoptosis of the rats with heart failure, and explore the treatment mechanism. Methods Sixty SD rats were randomly divided into control group, model group, astragaloside group, and trimetazidine group. The last three groups were injected subcutaneously with isoproterenol to make the heart failure model. Astragaloside group was given astragaloside 50 mg/(kg?d), and trimetazidine group was given trimetazidine 10 mg/(kg?d) orally for three consecutive weeks. At the end of the experiment, the myocardial tissue specimens of each group were made, inverted fluorescence microscope was utilized for measuring mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), immunoblotting was utilized for detecting cardiomyocyte telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) expression, and flow cytometry was untilized for detecting cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Results The MMP ratio of astragaloside group was 3.226±0.371, significantly higher than the model group and trimetazidine group (P<0.01). The cardiomyocyte apoptosis rate of astragaloside group was 8.91±2.12, significantly lower than the model group and trimetazidine group (P<0.01), and the most obvious expression of TERT was found in astragaloside group. Conclusion Astragaloside can protect damaged mitochondria, promote TERT expression, inhibit cardiomyocyte apoptosis and protect cardiomyocytes.

Whole blood samples were collected from 316 Uigur subjects inhabiting Kashi City, Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region, and their genomic DNA was extracted using QIAgen Blood Kit. DNA fragment spanning CCR5?32 and CCR5m303 mutation points were amplified by PCR and genotyped by directed electrophoresis and RFLP with HinCII respectively. In all 316 samples only 22 heterozygotes of CCR5?32 were found, in accordance with Hardy Weinberg equilirium. No CCR5m303 mutation was found. No difference existed between male and female individuals. The frequency of CCR5?32 in Uigur population is 3.48%, similar to Medi Asia ethnic groups (higher than that of Chinese Han people and lower than that of Caucasian people), i.e, in continuity regarding district distribution. Due to its slow down effect on clinical course of AIDS , high frequency of CCR5?32 is highly significant in prevention and treatment of AIDS in Uigur population.

Objective To identify the property and implications of dendritic cells of peripheral blood monocytes (PBMC) in patients with persistent HBV infection. Methods The PBMC from 18 patients with persistent HBV infection and 10 healthy subjects were incubated and induced into mature dendritic cells (DC) in the completed medium containing GM CSF、IL 4、FLt3 L and TNF ? cytokines. The flow cytometric analysis was employed to detect the expression of surface markers on DC. ELISA test was used to determine the level of interleukin 12 (IL 12) and IL 10 cytokines produced by DCs. The stimulatory capacity of DC were also determined in allogenic mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR). Results A typical morphology of DCs was observed when the PBMCs from healthy subjects and HBV infected patients were induced for 6 7 day in vitro incubation, but there were some significant differences of DCs as follows: (1) the proliferation ability and number of DCs significantly decreased, in particular, the expression levels of HLA DR,CD80(B7 1),CD86(B7 2) and CD1? on DC surface were simultaneously much lower in patients compared to healthy subjects ( P

It was reported that 249I 280M haplotype of HIV coreceptor CX 3 CR1 was associated with accelerated AIDS progression. In this study, genomic DNA of 119 Uigur subjects (98 normal, 21 HIV 1 infected) was purified from PBMC, and 249I and 280M allelic frequencies were identified by PCR RFLP. All data were tested by ? 2 analysis.It was found that allelic frequency of 249I and 280M was 15 8% and 13 8%, respectively, and there was no difference between normal and HIV infected groups. Both population and sex distribution were in accordance with Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. Frequency of 249I280M haplotype was 13 8%, close to that of Caucasian people. No linkage was found between CX 3 CR1 and CCR5?32, but strong linkage existed between 249I and 280M ( P

Forty five Han individuals were enrolled for the investigation of the polymorphism property of HIV 1 associated SDF 1? in Chinese Han nationality. Four exons of SDF 1? were cloned by PCR amplification using 4 pairs of primers, then sequenced respectively. DNAstar software was employed to analyze the sequencing results. One SNP and one thymidine deletion were identified in the coding region of SDF1 ?. The SNP was G→T at 192 with a frequency of 8.9%, resulting in replacing lysine to asparagine. The thymidine deletion was at 100 (100?T), which caused frame shift from the 34th amino acid and ending at the 59th amino acid. Both of them were discovered for the first time, and their influences on HIV 1 infection and AIDS progression remain to be explored.

Purpose:To evaluate the antitumor effects of human cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells from healthy donors and patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in vitro and in vivo .Methods:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from healthy donors and patients were induced to become CIK cells by in vitro incubation. The CIK cells were identified at different intervals by flow cytometry analysis. The cytotoxicity of CIK cells against autologous primary HCC was determined by 51Cr Release Assays. The antitumor activity of the CIK, LAK and PBMC cells were evaluated in Balb/c nude mice bearing BEL-7402liver cancer.Results:The flow cytometry analysis showed that CIK cells from patients with HCC proliferated and expanded more than 300-fold in vitro incubation by day 28;the percentage of CD3+CD56+ cells increased from 0.23% on day 0 to 17.8% on day 21. CIK cells generated from patients with HCC patients possessed a higher antitumor cytotoxic activity on autologous HCC cells in vitro than autologous PBMC. In addition, CIK cells had a stronger suppressive effect on the tumor growth in Balb/c nude mice bearing BEL-7402 tumor than LAK cells (median inhibitory rates 84.7% vs 52.8%, P

Objective To understand the vision functioning related quality of life in rural residents of Shanxi province,and explore its related factors.Methods By using a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method,237 rural residents from four township of Shanxi Province were conducted a questionnaire survey of vision functioning related quality of life.Using single factor and multiple factor regression model,the factors related to vision functioning related quality of life were explored.Results There were effective survey of 223 people,including 65 males (29.10％) and 158 females (70.9％).The age of residents was (35.8 ±14.2) years old.As the three aspects of vision functioning related quality of life (general health and vision acuity,grades of activity disabilities,reflections of vision problems) scores were 70.87 ± 17.19,91.56 ±9.13,85.20 ± 19.73 respectively.The visual functioning of general health and visual acuity scores and ophthalmic use and ocular history was negatively correlated; grades of activity disabilities scores and family history and history of drug was negatively correlated; reflections of vision problems scores were negatively correlated with age,but positivley related with mental state.Conclusion Vision functioning related quality of life is related with multiple factors,including age,ophthalmic use,ocular history,medication history,family history of ocular disease,and state of mind can affect vision functioning related quality of life score.Health education need strengthen to the residents according to the actual situation.

Objective To investigate diagnosis and treatment of venous cerebral infarction.Methods The reasons, clinical findings, imaging characters, treatment methods and prognosis of 19 patients diagnosed venous cerebral infarction were analyzed.Results The most frequent symptoms were headache, focal deficits, epilepsy, increased CSF pressure.Among 19 cases, multiple cerebral lesions were found in 12 cases, lobes lesions in18 cases, cerebral infarction with hemorrhage in 3 cases. After various treatments, 16 patients were discharged and one patient died and 2 patients gave up treatment. Conclusions Venous cerebral infarction has complicated causes, non-specific chinical manifestations and characteristic MR images. Anticoagulation and thrombolysis treatment in early stage may have good therapeutic effect.

Through analyzing the data of Chinese Scientific and Technological Paper and Citation Database ( CSTPCD) , and studying the paper statistics of regional distribution, higher education institution distribution, medical institution as well as the situation of higher medical institution, the author holds that research strength influence rank of paper distribution most, and whether attach enough importance to paper publishing is an important factor.

Objective To investigate the association between the genetic polymorphisms in GSTA1 and the clinical outcome of breast cancer patients treated with cyclophosphamide-based adjuvant chemotherapy. Methods A total of 137 breast cancer patients receiving cyclophosphamide-based adjuvant chemotherapy were recruited ( 124 cases with infiltrative ductal carcinoma, 5 cases with infiltrative lobular carcinoma and 8 cases with other histological types). PCR-LDR method was used to detect the genotypes of GSTA1. Survival curves were generated by the Kaplan-Meier method, and verified by the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was used to estimate the prognostic factors in multivariate analysis. Results Of the 137 breast cancer patients, the genotypic frequencies of the GSTA1 * A/* A,* A/* B and * B/* B were 67.2% ( 92/137 ), 31.4% ( 43/137 ) and 1.5% ( 2/137 ), respectively. No significant differences were found between the genotypic frequencies and groups categorization according to age, stage, lymph node metastasis, ER or PR status (x2 = 0. 722,1. 967, 3. 303, 0. 226 and 0. 709, all P ＞0. 05 ) ;through Fisher exact test, also no significant differences were found between the genotypic frequencies and group categorization according to tumor size, histological types and grading ( all P ＞ 0. 05 ) . The recurrence rates in patients with GSTA1 * A/* A and * A/* B or * B/* B genotypes were 47. 8% (44/92) and 31.1% ( 14/45 ), respectively, and the mortality rates were 22. 8% ( 21/92 ) and 17. 8% ( 8/45 ),respectively. Patients with GSTA1 * A/* B and * B/* B genotypes were significantly associated with reduced hazard of relapse (x2 =18.723, P＜0. 01)and mortality (x2 =7.352, P＜0.01), compared to cases with the common * A/* A genotypes, according to Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and log-rank test. Moreover,Cox multivariate analysis showed that GSTA1 polymorphisms appeared to be an independent risk factor for recurrence-free survival ( OR =0. 222, 95% CI:0. 108-0. 458, P ＜0. 01 ) and overall survival ( OR =0. 362,95% CI:0. 145-0. 902, P ＜ 0. 05 ). Conclusion These data indicate that GSTA1 polymorphism may be a potential prognostic factor for recurrence-free survival and overall survival in breast cancer patients treated with cyclophosphamide-based adjuvant chemotherapy.