Objective To investigate the effects of genetic factors on the onset of psoriasis. Methods Seven hundred and twenty patients with psoriasis vulgaris were studied by questionnaire. Results① For the male and female patients, the peak ages of the first onset were 20～ 29 and 10～ 19 years, respectively, and the average ages were 27.57? 12.18 and 23.01? 12.40 years, respectively.② In 720 psoriatics, 212 cases (29.4％ ) reported to have a family history of psoriasis. The age of onset was earlier in man with family history than that in man without family history (P0.05).④ The heritabilities of psoriasis were 71.07％? 2.05％ in first degree relatives and 36.77％? 5.17％ in second degree relatives. Conclusion The results show that psoriasis vulgaris may be a multigenic inheritable disease, and the genetic factors play an important role in the pathogenesis.

OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of astragalus polysaccharides(APS) combining with total ginsenoside (TG) on the proliferation of T cells in peripheral blood of healthy adults and on the immune function of mice after treatment with cyclophosphamide (CY) . METHODS: The proliferation rate of T cells in peripheral blood was detected by methyl thia-zolyl tetrazolium(MTT) colorimetric analysis; the weight of immune organs such as spleen and thymus etc. in mice were detected. RESULTS: The proliferation of T cells in human peripheral blood could be enhanced if the concentration of APS remained within 25-100?g/ml and that of TG remained within 5-20?g/ml; the proliferation rates were 102.3%-141.1% and 113.9%-163.1% , respectively; the figure stood at 262.3%-383.0% when APS and TG used in combination. The spleen indexes of APS group and the APS plus TG group increased significantly vs. the CY group(P

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of myeloperoxidase (MPO)-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitis (MPO-AAV) with pulmonary injury and the relationship between pulmonary injury and ANCA against light chain of MPO (LCMPO-ANCA).Methods A total of 195 patients with newly diagnosed primary active MPO-AAV were recruited in this prospective study.Indirect immunofiuorescence assay was used to detect peri-nuclear ANCA (p-ANCA).Immunoblotting and ELISA were used to detect myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA).Clinical features of patients with both positive p-ANCA and MPO-ANCA were collected.Disease activity was evaluated by Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score-version 3 (BVAS-V3) Recombinant light chain of MPO was used to coat substrate of LCMPO-ANCA by ELISA.The clinical characteristics of pulmonary injury and its correlation with serum levels of p-ANCA,MPO-ANCA and LCMPO-ANCA were explored.Results All 195 patients (64 male and 131 female),consisted of 191 patients (98.0％) with microscopic polyangiitis,3 patients (1.5％) with granulomatosis with polyangiitis,and 1 (0.5％) with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis including 64 men and 131 women.Their mean age was (63.2 ±13.5) years old.The level of MPO-ANCA had a positive correlation with general BVAS-V3 (r =0.193,P =0.007) in all patients,and the level of LCMPO-ANCA was positively related with the pulmonary BVAS-V3 (r =0.228,P =0.001).As for multiple systemic damages,the incidence of lung involvement was 60.51％(118/195),which ranked second to renal involvement (71.80％,140/195).The most common pulmonary injuries represented as pulmonary infiltration of 80.51％ (95/118),pleural effusion / pleurisy of 41.53％(49/118),pulmonary nodule or cavity of 22.03％ (26/118).Compared with those without lung involvement,the patients with pulmonary injuries were older [(66.39 ± 10.70) years old vs (58.30 ±15.72) years old;t =4.277,P =0.001],had a shorter course of disease [2.00(1.00,10.50) months vs 3.00(1.00,3.50) months;t =-2.283,P=0.024],and higher scores of general BVAS-V3 (18.21 ±6.08 vs 15.18 ± 5.64;t =3.501,P =0.001).Also,in the patients with pulmonary lesions,the positive rate of LCMPO-ANCA was significantly higher (35.59％ vs 6.49％;x2 =21.569,P ＜ 0.001),and the level of LCMPO-ANCA was significantly higher (0.377 ±0.229 vs 0.285 ±0.079;t =3.399,P =0.001)than those without lung involvement.The pulmonary BVAS-V3 in the patients with LCMPO-ANCA was significantly higher than that in the patients without LCMPO-ANCA (4.34 ± 2.10 vs 2.59 ± 2.52;t =4.301,P ＜ 0.001),whereas the pulmonary BVAS-V3 was not correlated with LCMPO-ANCA (r =0.035,P =0.708) in patients with lung injuries.Conclusion Pulmonary injury was relatively common and insidious in patients with MPO-AAV.To monitor ANCA level is necessary in patients with pulmonary injury.LCMPO-ANCA might play an important role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary lesions in AAV.

Following the requirements for libraries in the Implementing Rules for Evaluation Standards of Tertiary Hospitals in Guangdong Province and taking municipal or above occupational disease prevention and control institutions as objects,the paper analyzes the construction situations,current collections and operating modes of libraries and discusses the setting of the occupational health information service function from 6 aspects of information sources,service objects and function setting,book retrieval,inter-library loan,service feedback and occupational health information service for labor.

Objective To investigate the role of skin homing T lymphocytes in the development of psoriasis vulgaris(PV). Methods Indirect immunofluorescent double staining technique was employed to study the expression of infiltrating skin homing T lymphocytes in normal, uninvolved perilesional and lesional psoriatic skin in different stages (progressing, stable or regressing) and in normal human skin. Results ①Expression of cutaneous lymphocyte associated antigen (CLA) was found in the majority of CD3+T lymphocytes in normal human skin and in lesions of PV, and CD45RO phenotype was expressed in almost all CLA+T lymphocytes. ②In psoriatic lesions, the number of CD4+CLA+and CD8+CLA+cells was higher in progressive stage than that in stable stage(P

Objective To explore the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of integrated visual and auditory continuous performance test (IVA-CPT) ,and to assess the diagnosis value of the Chinese version of IVA-CPT in two samples of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in clinic and school.Methods 112 participants were divided into 4 groups:clinic group, clinic control group, school group and control group from school.The participants were measured by IVA-CPT and the results were compared.Results ①The integrated quotients of IVA-CPT had concordance with the dimensions of the DSM-ⅣV and ASRS.Each integrated quotients of IVA-CPT and each dimension of the DSM-ⅣV and ASRS were negatively correlated(school: r=-0.277, P＜0.05;clinic: r=-0.423, P＜0.05).The score of HI dimension was negatively correlated with integrated attention quotient and integrated inhibition quotient of IVA-CPT (r=-0.480, P＜0.01;r=-0.452, P＜0.01).② The results of the IVA-CPT and the comprehensive assessment had consistency for diagnosis of children with ADHD from the total subjects,the clinic ,and the school.And there were no difference between the sensitivity, the specificity, the coincidence rate, the missed diagnosis rate and the misdiagnosis rate of IVA-CPT when used to diagnose children with ADHD in clinic and school(x2=3.396, P＞0.05).③The IVA-CPT evaluation system had good stability according to the retest of a random sample of 25 subjects(P＜0.01).The pretest and posttest results of each full quotients of IVA-CPT were significantly correlated (P＜0.01).Conclusion The IVA-CPT not only can be used as auxiliary diagnostic tools to diagnose children with ADHD in clinic,it can be used as auxiliary diagnostic tools to diagnose children with ADHD in the community.

Objective To investigate the relationship between complement C3 level and the degree of disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE).Methods A total of 1 012 patients with SLE were enrolled in this study from January 2006 to December 2013 at department of rheumatology and immunology,the first affiliated hospital of Anhui medical university.Serum complement C3 level was detected by rate erythenephelometry assay.The relationship between reduction of complement C3 and SLE was analyzed.Results Serum complement C3 clearly decreased in 782 patients,accounted for 77.27％.There were significant differences concerning serum complement C3 level among different groups of disease activity (F =131.275,P＜0.01).The low serum complement C3 level was correlated with the high degree of disease activity (r =-0.517,P ＜0.01).Patients with SLE had a severe disease activity (SLE disease activity index ≥ 15) when the level of serum complement C3 was less than 0.57 g/L.Serum complement C3 levels were positively correlated with serum complement C4 (r =0.845,P ＜ 0.01),peripheral blood leukocyte count (r =0.115,P ＜ 0.01),hemoglobin (r =0.069,P ＜ 0.01),platelet count (r =0.177,P ＜0.01) and albumin level (r =0.091,P ＜ 0.01).There was also a negative association of serum complement C3 with 24 h urinary protein (r =-0.228,P ＜ 0.01).101 patients whose average level of serum complement C3 was(0.48 ±0.26)g/L,were treated with glucocorticoid pulse therapy as high degree of disease activity.Conclusions There is a close relationship between serum complement C3 level and the degree of disease activity in SLE.Serum complement C3 less than 0.57 g/L might be seen in SLE with severe disease activity.

OBJECTIVE: To establish an HPLC method for the determination of fumaric acid in Pleurotm citrinopileatus. METHODS: HPLC was performed on Yilite C18 column(250 mm?4.6 mm,5 ?m) with methanol-0.01 mol?L-1 potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution(5 ∶ 95,pH adjusted to 2.5 using phosphoric acid) as mobile phase and detection wavelength of 216 nm. RESULTS: The linear range of fumaric acid was 0.16～1.6 ?g (r=0.999 9). The average recovery was 101.59% (RSD=1.28%,n=6). CONCLUSION: This method is accurate, simple and reproducible for the content determination of fumaric acid in P. citrinopileatus.

Objective To investigate the expression of CD55 and myeloperoxidase (MPO) on neutrophils in patients with MPO-specific anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis(MPO-AAV), and analyze the relationship between the expression and clinical manifestation.Methods Forty untreated patients with active MPO-AAV (patient group) and 30 healthy volunteers (control group) were enrolled in this study.The CD55 on neutrophils and both membrane and cytoplasmic MPO were detected by flow cytometry.Serum fragment-from the activated complement factor B(Ba) and MPO were measured by ELISA.The clinical activity of vasculitis was valued by Birmingham vasculitis activity score-version 3(BVAS-V3).The significance of laboratory data was evaluated by Spearman correlation test and multivariate linear regression analysis.Results (1)The mean fluorescence intensity(MFI) of CD55 expressed on neutrophils was significantly higher than that in control group[4 068.6±2 306.0 vs 2 999.5±1 504.9,P=0.033].Similar results of serum MPO and Ba in patient group were found compared to controls [500.0(381.0, 612.7) IU/L vs 286.9(225.5, 329.1) IU/L,P<0.001;35.2(25.2, 79.5) ng/L vs 18.0(15.0, 28.0) ng/L,P<0.001], respectively.However, MIF of cytoplasmic MPO in patients was significantly lower than that of control group(1 577.1±1 175.9 vs 3 105.3±2 323.0,P=0.003).(2) In patient group, cytoplasmic intensity of MPO was negatively associated with the serum levels of MPO(r=-0.710,P<0.001) and Ba (r=-0.589,P=0.001).Moreover, serum MPO was positively associated with serum Ba(r=0.691,P<0.001).Membrane intensity of CD55 on neutrophils was positively correlated with patient age (r=0.514, P=0.001), C reactive protein (r=0.376, P=0.018), peripheral neutrophils count (r=0.485, P=0.001) and BVAS-V3 (r=0.484, P=0.002), whereas negative correlation between membrane CD55 and disease duration was seen (r=-0.403,P=0.01).(3) The result of multiple linear regression analysis showed there was statistically significant positive correlation between MFI of CD55 expressed on neutrophils and BVAS-V3 (β=0.001,P=0.027).Conclusions In MPO-AAV,CD55 expression on neutrophils is markedly enhanced, which is one of the independent risk factors related to disease activity.It might protect neutrophils from attacking AAV, CD55 expression on neutrophils is markedly enhanced, which is one of the independent risk factors related to disease activity.It might protect neutrophils from attacking by complement alternative pathway.Activated neutrophils release more MPO and lysosome to intensify the inflammation reaction and aggravate the disease.Thus CD55 might become a new potential target for the treatment of this disease in the future.

Objective:To investigate the effects and mechanisms of interleukin-22(IL-22) on inhibiting liver fibrosis induced by HSC,and explore the role of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in the activation of hepatic stellate cells(HSC).Methods:Rat HSC was activated by TGF-β1,and the mRNA and protein levels of β-catenin and α-SMA were detected by q-PCR and Western blot,respectively.HSC was treated with different hours and concentration of recombinant rat protein IL-22.The cell proliferation rates were detected by CCK8,cell apoptosis rates were tested by flow cytometry.HSC were treated with optimal concentration of IL-22 after activated by TGF-β1,the cell proliferation rates,mRNA and protein levels of β-catenin and α-SMA were compared of before and after intervention.Results:The mRNA and the protein levels of β-catenin and α-SMA were significantly increased after activated by TGF-β1(P<0.05).IL-22 inhibiting the proliferation of HSC in a dose-and time-dependent manner (P<0.05) and decreased the mRNA and the protein expression level of β-catenin and α-SMA(P<0.05),but had no significant effect on apoptosis rates(P>0.05).IL-22 significantly inhibited the activation of HSC induced by TGF-β1 and remarkably decreased the mRNA and the protein expression level of β-catenin and α-SMA(P<0.05).Conclusion:The Wnt/β-catenin pathway may participates in the process of HSC activation and α-SMA secretion,and IL-22 inhibits biological function of HSC in a dose-and time-dependent manner.This effect probably via inhibited the Wnt/β-catenin signal pathway.