Neoplastic stem cell (NSC),cells with stem cell properties,which out of control of proliferation properties can be formed cancer.It plays an important role in the neoplasm metastasis,and its mechanism throughout the tumorigenesis,development and prognosis.

OBJECTIVETo investigate application of the bone flap pedicled on the retrograde branch of radial artery for treatment of old scaphoid bone fractures of type AO-B.

METHODSFrom October 2007 to October 2011,41 patients with old scaphoid bone fractures of type AO-B were treated by transplantation of the bone flap pedicled on the retrograde branch of radial artery including 26 males and 15 females with an average of (27.3±4.5) years old ranging from 16 to 43 years old. The courses before operation ranged from 6 to 22 months with an average of 11 months. All fractures belonged to the type B of AO classification, that is old wrist fracture of scaphoid bone. All patients' wrist function (pain, function, motion, grip strength) were evaluated by Cooney's modifiedwrist scoring system before and 6 months after operation,and the conditions of bone healing were observed during the follow-up time.

RESULTSAmong them, 36 patients were followed up from 4 to 15 months with an average of 8.3 months. The wounds were healed well without other complications as infection appearing. X-rays or CT confirmed that all fractures were healed completely. The Cooney wrist score was improved from preoperative 53.61±13.97 to postoperative 81.81±8.71 (P<0.01).

CONCLUSIONThe operation of transplantation of the bone flap pedicled on the retrograde branch of radial artery is an effective method to treat old scaphoid bone fractures,which is scientific and has curative effects, and valuable for clinical application.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Female ; Fractures, Bone ; surgery ; Humans ; Male ; Radial Artery ; injuries ; surgery ; Scaphoid Bone ; blood supply ; injuries ; surgery ; Surgical Flaps ; Wrist Injuries ; surgery ; Young Adult

Objective To investigate the genetic homology in clinical isolates of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDRAB),so as to provide evidence for better controlling hospital infections.Methods The genotypes of 28 clinical XDRAB isolates were determined by Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus PCR (ERIC-PCR).PCR was conducted to analyze 9 types of β-lactamase genes (blaKPC,blaIMP,blaVIM,blaNDM-1,blaOXA-23,blaOXA-24,blaOXA-48, blaOXA-51 and blaOXA-58),the outer membrane porin gene (CarO)and insertion sequence (IS)ISAba1.We also carried out linkage analysis for ISAba1-OXA23 and ISAba1-OXA58.Results Most of the above 28 XDRAB strains were isolated from respiratory tract specimens from intensive care patients.The result of ERIC-PCR showed that there was high homology between all the strains,suggesting that they might derive from the same clone.The genes blaOXA-23,blaOXA-51,CarO and the IS ISAba1 except Class Bβ-lactamase genes,blaOXA-24,blaOXA-48,blaOXA-58,ISAba1-OXA23 and ISAba1-OXA58 were detected in all the clinical strains by PCR.Conclusions All the XDRAB isolates belong to the same clone and carry the same drug-resistant genes,indicating that there was clone spread among XDRAB isolates.

Purpose To detect and isolate cancer stem cells ( CSC) in fresh specimens of primary and metastatic carcinoma tissues from 10 cases of colorectal cancer to study the biological functions and mechanisms of migrating cancer stem cells. Methods Suspen-sions of primary and metastatic colorectal cancer cells were labeled with antibodies CD133-PE and CD44-FITC, and then flow cytometry was used to detect and isolate the CD133-PE-positive and CD44-FITC-positive cells. Results There were certain percentages of CD133-positive and CD44-positive cells present in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer and the proportion of CSC in metastatic colorectal cancer was higher than that in primary cancer tissue (P<0.05). Conclusions There are CSC in both primary and meta-static colorectal cancer and the proportion of CSC in metastatic colorectal cancer is significantly higher than that in primary cancer tis-sue, suggesting that CSC play an important role in the metastasis of colorectal cancer.

Most anticancer drugs inhibit tumor cell growth by inducing apoptosis.Apoptosis-evasion,also enhancement of anti-apoptosis ability(e.g.anti-apoptosis related genes over-expression or pro-apoptotic related genes loss,etc.)may lead to tumor cell multidrug resistance.Many researches show that apoptosis-evasion is one of the important factors resulting in tumor multidrug resistance.

BACKGROUND: High blood lipid can cause a series of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, which has been commonly accepted.OBJECTIVE: To probe into the rule of changes of blood lipid of the elders in aging process.DESIGN: Cross section survey.SETTING: Department of Nutrition, Shanghai Huadong Hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Totally 605 employees who took part in body examination and participated this experiment voluntarily from July 2000 to August 2004, were recruited, including 541 males and 64 females, 91 patients ＜ 70 years , 514 ≥ 70 years, 271 patients having the history of coronary heart disease, 83 of malignant tumors, and 251 of other diseases.METHODS: Blood lipid level of totally 605 who accepted physical examination was detected, at the same times, the disease history and common physical examination status were inquired. Venous blood of the patients was drawn after fasting over 12 hours, separating serum on the morning of the same day. Total cholesterol and triacylglycerol of the blood were detected with enzyme assay by using Automated Biochemistry Analyzer. Total cholesterol: 3.6-6.5 mmol/L; triglyceride: 0.4-1.8 mmol/L were considered as normal level, Total cholesterol: ＞ 5.72 mmol/L;Triglyceride: ＞1.72 mmol/L were considered as abnormal criteria.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Comparison of the blood lipid index of the subjects of different age, disease type and gender RESULTS: Totally 605 elders were involved and all data of them was enthe blood lipid index of the subjects of different age: Peak of total cholesterol appeared at 70 to 74 years, then decreases gradually, the total cholesterol level of the subjects of 70 to 74 years was significantly higher than that at other age (P ＜ 0.05). While Triglyceride level had the trend of going up with growing older, except that of 75-79 ages group slightly went eases: The level of total cholesterol and triglyceride of the subjects in the malignant tumor group was lower than that of other disease groups, level of triglyceride of the subjects in the coronary heart disease was higher than detection rate of blood lipid of the subjects: Detection rate of total cholesterol was 15.5%, while that of triglyceride was 35.9%. There was no significant difference of the detection rate between male and female subjects (P ＞ 0.05).CONCLUSION: Change of blood lipid metabolism of elder with aging is related to the hormone change of different genders and disease types.

Purpose:To investigate p53 gene mutation, CD44V6 expression and their relationship with metastasis of ovarian carcinoma in tumor diagnosis. Methods:PCR SSCP with silver staining was used to detect the mutation of p53 gene; by using Southern blot and image analysis, the quantitative and qualitative expression of CD44V6 were also determined. Results:The positive percentage of CD44V6 expression and p53 gene mutation was not detectable in any of the normal ovarian specimens but in the benign tumors, non metastasizing and metastasizing carcinomas it was 10%, 75%, 88% and 5%, 40%, 60% respectively. The mean dark density of each band in these four groups(mentioned above) was 85.25?23.16, 817.11?126.5, 3820.14?289.43 and 10132.92?1521.20 respectively. The expression of CD44V6 of metastasizing carcinomas was higher than that of non metastasizing group. Conclusions:The expression of CD44V6 is related to tumor metastasis; the positive percentage of CD44V6 is higher than that of p53 gene mutation in the group of metastasizing and non metastasizing tumors; Compared to p53 gene mutation, CD44V6 is a better marker for tumor metastasis.

Objective:To study the feasibility and reliability of using phosphorylated H2AX(?H2AX)as a predictor for sensitivity of hepatic carcinoma cell HepG2.215 to chemotherapy agents: etoposide, doxorubicin, mitomycin, and cisplatin. Methods: HepG2.215 cells were exposed to etoposide, doxorubicin, mitomycin or cisplatin of 1, 2, 4 and 20 concentration index (CI). Untreated HepG2.215 cells were taken as control. The proportion of HepG2.215 cells expressing ?H2AX was measured by flow cytometry, the number of ?H2AX foci in HepG2.215 cells was measured by immunocytochemistry, and cell proliferation was measured by MTT. The correlation between the number of ?H2AX foci and the percentage of HepG2.215 cells expressing ?H2AX in HepG2.215 cells was analyzed; the correlation of CI with the percentage of HepG2.215 cells expressing ?H2AX or ?H2AX foci and inhibitory rate of cell proliferation was analyzed; and the correlation of inhibitory rate of cell praliferation with the percentage of HepG2.215 cells expressing ?H2AX or ?H2AX foci was also analyzed. Results: There was a positive correlation between the number of ?H2AX foci and the percentage of HepG2.215 cells expressing ?H2AX in HepG2.215 cells after treatment with the above 4 agents (all P

The expansion of high-containment bio-defense laboratory in USA is introduced in such aspects as the increase of laboratory magnitude,amplification of laboratory area and the funding growth of the United States National Institutes of Health(NIH).In addition,a series of problems caused by the expansion are analyzed in the perspective of the biosafety training,information exchange of laboratory and public participation.

Objective To study percutaneous absorption kinetics and synergistic penetration enhancement of tetrahydropalmatine,aconitine and ginsenoside Rg1.Methods The in vitro intact and stripped skin permeation experiments were carried out by using Permcell KH-5P horizontal proliferation system.The percutaneous kinetic parameters of tetrahydropalmatine,aconitine and ginsenoside Rg1 were determined by HPLC,and the transdermal behaviors of the three active ingredients and interactions of combination were investigated.Result The cumulative amounts in 24 h of intact skin of tetrahydropalmatine,aconitine and ginsenoside Rg1 were 123.95,50.32,96.25(?10-10 cm2/s).The cumulative amounts in 24 h of stripped skin of them were 539.00,93.60,354.70(?10-10 cm2/s).The LogP were 1.66,0.66 and 0.57 respectively.Each component had cumulated amount permeated of improvement by 64%～293% in coexistence system of three active ingredients.Conclusion The combination of three active ingredients results in a synergistic enhancement effect on percutaneous absorption of every active ingredient,and it is shown that the maximal enhancement effect appears between aconitine and ginsenoside Rg1.