1.Ethical and Legal Responsibilities for Narses'Behavior
Chinese Medical Ethics 2001;(1):8-9,16
This article elaborates on the problem of nursing action accountability,that is,ethical accountability and law accountability.Through two vcrdict examples it gives furthor explanation of nursing action accountability.Therefore,nurses should take the patients' interest into first account and closely bond the internal restraining system-ethical accoantability and the external monitoring system-law accountability together,then they can protect their legitimate right and provide high quality of care for patients.
2.Structural equation modeling analysis of the quality of life′s influencing factors among puerperal women
Hui ZHU ; Yujuan FENG ; Shuxian ZENG ; Qiulian ZHONG ; Jing PU ; Jinyun YU ; Yamin ZHOU ; Li LIAO
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2017;33(15):1135-1138
Objective To explore the relationship among social support, postpartum depression and quality of life of puerperal women. Methods A total of 348 puerperal women were investigated with Postnatal Social Support Questionnaire,Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). Results Pearson correlation analysis showed that there was a significant positive correlation between social support and the quality of life (r=0.483, P < 0.01), and a significant negative correlation to postpartum depression (r=-0.243, P < 0.01),and a significant negative correlation between postpartum depression and quality of life (r=-0.408, P<0.01). Intermediary effect of postpartum depression was tested. Conclusions A good social support system is benefit to improve depression scores for EPDS, and promote the life quality in puerperal women.
3.Inhibition of Telomerase Activity and Induction of Cell Apoptosis in Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Cell Line by Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Gene Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide
Xiulian XU ; Jinliang QI ; Shuxian SHANG ; Shengli CHEN ; Xuesi ZENG ; Jianfang SUN
Chinese Journal of Dermatology 2003;0(12):-
Objective To investigate the effect of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (AODN) on telomerase activity and cell apoptosis in a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) cell line, Hut78. Methods Different concentrations (10 ?mol/L, 20 ?mol/L, 30 ?mol/L) of telomerase antisense oligodeoxynucleotide were introduced into Hut78 cells by lipofectamine-mediated DNA transfection technique. The expressions of hTERT mRNA and telomerase activity were assessed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and telomeric repeat amplification protocol, respectively. The proliferation and apoptosis of Hut78 cells were detected by flow cytometry. Results After 72 h of incubation, AODN down-regulated the expression of hTERT mRNA, inhibited telomerase activity significantly,and suppressed the viability of Hut78 cells in a time-dependent manner.Cell growth was most clearly suppressed with 30 ?mol/L of AODN after 72 h of incubation. The apoptotic rate was 13.05%. Conclusion Telomerase antisense oligodeoxynucleotide could suppress the viability and proliferation of CTCL cell line by inducing apoptosis of these cells.
4.Diagnosis boundary values of metabolic syndrome obesity index for Children and adolescents
Ruijuan HUANG ; Zhe SU ; Zhe ZHAO ; Weiqian KONG ; Yanjun MAI ; Wen SHE ; Jucheng LI ; Zhiyong ZENG ; Shuxian HUANG ; Zhiping HUANG
Journal of Central South University(Medical Sciences) 2014;(7):718-722
Objective: To determine the distribution characteristics of waist circumference (WC), waist height ratio (WHtR) of 6–18 years olds in Guangzhou, and to put forward the WC and WHtR appropriate boundary values for 6–18 years olds on the basis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor assessment. Methods: We analyzed the height, weight, WC and its metabolic indication data (blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, and blood lipids) of 15 000 children in Guangzhou, aged 6–18, with the receiver-operating characteristic curve (ROC), and explored the best value point of WC and WHtRfor the prediction of cardiovascular diseases. Results: When the WC percent reached P85, and WHtR reached 0.48, the cardiovascular risk factors of fasting blood-glucose, blood pressure, and blood fat were signiifcantly higher. Conclusion: The 85th percentile value of WC and 0.48 of WHtR are the appropriate boundary values in increasing the cardiovascular disease risk factors in Chinese children and teenagers. WC and WHtR as a relatively simple inspection method, can well predict cardiovascular diseases, and be used in the conventional measuring items among students.
5.Intragastric administration of interferon-α-transformed Bifidobacterium promotes lymphocyte proliferation and maturation in mice.
Weisen ZENG ; Shuxian ZHANG ; Congwen SHAO ; Yuanjian HUANG ; Wenying LIANG ; Mingyue ZHENG
Journal of Southern Medical University 2015;35(3):326-332
OBJECTIVETo investigate the effects of intragastric administration of human interferon-α (hIFN-α)-transformed Bifidobacterium on immune functions of mice.
METHODSThe E.coli-Bifidobacterium shuttle expression vector containing hIFN-α gene was constructed and transformed into Bifidobacterium. The hIFN-α-transformed Bifidobacterium suspension (1010 /ml) was prepared after induction with 0.2% L-arabinose for hIFN-α expression and administered intragastrically in male Balb/C mice at the dose of 0.1 ml every other day for 2 weeks, with the mice receiving empty vector-transformed Bifidobacteria as the negative control and those having an equal volume of saline as the blank control. The percentages of mononuclear cell subsets in the thymus, spleen and blood were detected in the mice by flow cytometry, and the serum levels of IL-4, IL-12, IFN-γ and TNF-α were assayed using mouse cytokine FlowCytomix Kit.
RESULTSThe percentages of CD3⁺CD8⁺ and CD4⁺CD8⁺ cells in the thymus, CD3⁺CD4⁺, CD3⁺CD8⁺ and CD4⁺CD8⁺ cells in the spleen, and CD3⁺CD8⁺ cells in the blood all increased significantly in IFN group as compared with those in the negative and blank control groups (P<0.01 or 0.05). The serum level of IFN-γ also increased significantly (P<0.05) while IL-4 level remained unchanged in IFN group compared with those in the two groups.
CONCLUSIONIntragastric administration of hIFN-α-transformed Bifidobacterium promotes lymphocyte proliferation and maturation and increases the serum levels of Th1 cytokines in mice.
Animals ; Bifidobacterium ; Cell Proliferation ; Genetic Vectors ; Humans ; Interferon-alpha ; pharmacology ; Interferon-gamma ; blood ; Interleukin-12 ; blood ; Interleukin-4 ; blood ; Lymphocyte Activation ; drug effects ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Recombinant Proteins ; pharmacology ; Spleen ; cytology ; Th1 Cells ; cytology ; Thymus Gland ; cytology ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha ; blood
6.Draft Genome Assembly and Annotation for Cutaneotrichosporon dermatis NICC30027, an Oleaginous Yeast Capable of Simultaneous Glucose and Xylose Assimilation
Laiyou WANG ; Shuxian GUO ; Bo ZENG ; Shanshan WANG ; Yan CHEN ; Shuang CHENG ; Bingbing LIU ; Chunyan WANG ; Yu WANG ; Qingshan MENG
Mycobiology 2022;50(1):66-78
The identification of oleaginous yeast species capable of simultaneously utilizing xylose and glucose as substrates to generate value-added biological products is an area of key economic interest. We have previously demonstrated that the Cutaneotrichosporon dermatisNICC30027 yeast strain is capable of simultaneously assimilating both xylose and glucose, resulting in considerable lipid accumulation. However, as no high-quality genome sequencing data or associated annotations for this strain are available at present, it remains challenging to study the metabolic mechanisms underlying this phenotype. Herein, we report a 39,305,439 bp draft genome assembly for C. dermatis NICC30027 comprised of 37 scaffolds, with 60.15% GC content. Within this genome, we identified 524 tRNAs, 142 sRNAs, 53 miRNAs, 28 snRNAs, and eight rRNA clusters. Moreover, repeat sequences totaling 1,032,129 bp in length were identified (2.63% of the genome), as were 14,238 unigenes that were 1,789.35 bp in length on average (64.82% of the genome). The NCBI non-redundant protein sequences (NR) database was employed to successfully annotate 11,795 of these unigenes, while 3,621 and 11,902 were annotated with the Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL databases, respectively. Unigenes were additionally subjected to pathway enrichment analyses using the Gene Ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), Cluster of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COG), Clusters of orthologous groups for eukaryotic complete genomes (KOG), and Non-supervised Orthologous Groups (eggNOG) databases.Together, these results provide a foundation for future studies aimed at clarifying the mechanistic basis for the ability of C. dermatis NICC30027 to simultaneously utilize glucose and xylose to synthesize lipids.
7.Value of the serum levels of Clusterin and sphingosine 1-phosphate in assessing the prognosis of sepsis patients with acute liver injury
Dazhou XU ; Shuxian ZHANG ; Kun WANG ; Chenyan ZUO ; Yi ZENG ; Qingwen YUAN ; Zhimei ZHANG
Journal of Clinical Hepatology 2023;39(12):2867-2872
ObjectiveTo investigate the value of the serum levels of Clusterin and sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) in assessing the prognosis of sepsis patients with acute liver injury. MethodsA total of 127 sepsis patients with acute liver injury who were admitted to Lianyungang Hospital, Xuzhou Medical University, from March 2019 to May 2022 were enrolled, and according to their prognosis after 28 days of treatment, they were divided into death group with 35 patients and survival group with 92 patients. The independent-samples t test was used for comparison of continuous data between two groups, and the chi-square test was used for comparison of categorical data between groups. A pearson correlation analysis was used to investigate the correlation. The prognostic value of serum Clusterin and S1P was analyzed by receiver operating characteristic curve. ResultsThere were significant differences between the two groups in the degree of liver injury, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Ⅱ (APACHEⅡ) score, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, the presence or absence of acute kidney injury, prothrombin time (PT), international normalized ratio (INR), Child-Pugh class, and C-reactive protein (all P<0.05). The death group had significantly lower serum levels of Clusterin and S1P than the survival group (t=11.094 and 10.390, both P<0.05). The patients with severe liver injury had significantly lower serum levels of Clusterin and S1P than those with mild or moderate liver injury (t=9.825 and 11.418, both P<0.05). The multivariate regression analysis showed that the degree of liver injury (odds ratio [OR]=1.260, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.081 — 1.468, P<0.05), APACHEII score (OR=1.031, 95%CI: 1.019 — 1.044, P<0.05), SOFA score (OR=1.066, 95%CI: 1.039 — 1.094, P<0.05), Clusterin (OR=0.899, 95%CI: 0.859 — 0.940, P<0.05), and S1P (OR=0.824, 95%CI: 0.749 — 0.908, P<0.05) were independent risk factors for the prognosis of patients with sepsis. The ROC curve analysis showed that serum Clusterin and S1P used alone or in combination had an area under the ROC curve of 0.864, 0.861, and 0.949, respectively. Serum Clusterin and S1P were significantly negatively correlated with alanine aminotransferase, total bilirubin, PT, and INR in sepsis patients with acute liver injury (all P<0.05). ConclusionThe sepsis patients with acute liver injury who died had significant reductions in serum Clusterin and S1P compared with those who survived, and the levels of Clusterin and S1P are closely associated with the degree of liver injury. The combination of Clusterin and S1P has a good value in predicting the prognosis of sepsis patients with acute liver injury and is expected to become a potential marker for predicting the prognosis of sepsis patients with acute liver injury.