1.Studies of the pig interleukin 2(IL-2) eukaryon expression plasmid on cellular immune responses of BALB/c mice immuned with pcDNA-PRRSV-ORF5 DNA vaccine
Xiwen CHEN ; Anchun CHENG ; Mingshu WANG ; Nigen XINI ; Wenbo DOU ; Pingying ZHANG ; Xuemei LI ; Gang WANG ; Wumei LIU
Chinese Journal of Immunology 1985;0(01):-
Objective:To study the effect of pig interleukin 2(IL 2) eukaryon expression plasmid on cellular immune responses of BALB/c mice immuned with pcDNA PRRSV ORF5 DNA vaccine.Methods:BALB/c mice were immunized with pcDNA PRRSV ORF5 DNA vaccine and pig interleukin 2(IL 2) eukaryon expression plasmid by the routes of co injection and DNA vaccine injection alone respectively, with PBS and pcDNA3 1(+) as controls. Fluoresecence Activated Cell Sorter(FACS),T lymphocyte proliferation test(MTT) were used to detect the number of CD4 +、CD8 + and the T lymphocyte proliferation in peripheral blood of mice vaccinated.Results:ConA response of T lymphocytes in blood was higher in experiment group than the control group ( P
2.Retinal Thinning as a Marker of Disease Severity in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Yueting CHEN ; Haotian WANG ; Bo WANG ; Wenbo LI ; Panpan YE ; Wen XU ; Peng LIU ; Xinhui CHEN ; Zhidong CEN ; Zhiyuan OUYANG ; Sheng WU ; Xiaofeng DOU ; Yi LIAO ; Hong ZHANG ; Mei TIAN ; Wei LUO
Journal of Movement Disorders 2024;17(1):55-63
Objective:
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) involves a variety of visual symptoms that are thought to be partially caused by structural abnormalities of the retina. However, the relationship between retinal structural changes, disease severity, and intracranial alterations remains unknown. We investigated distinct retinal thinning patterns and their relationship with clinical severity and intracranial alterations in a PSP cohort.
Methods:
We enrolled 19 patients with PSP (38 eyes) and 20 age-matched healthy controls (40 eyes). All of the participants underwent peripapillary and macular optical coherence tomography. Brain 11C-2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-fluorophenyl) tropane (11C-CFT) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography imaging were also performed in patients with PSP. We investigated the association between retinal thickness changes and clinical features, striatal dopamine transporter availability, and cerebral glucose metabolism.
Results:
The peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and macula were significantly thinner in patients with PSP than in controls. The thickness of the superior sector of the pRNFL demonstrated a significant negative relationship with the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III and Hoehn and Yahr staging scale scores. A significant negative correlation was found between outer inferior macular thickness and disease duration. Outer temporal macular thickness was positively correlated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores. In PSP, lower outer temporal macular thickness was also positively correlated with decreased dopamine transporter binding in the caudate.
Conclusion
The pRNFL and macular thinning may be candidate markers for monitoring disease severity. Additionally, macular thinning may be an in vivo indicator of nigrostriatal dopaminergic cell degeneration in PSP patients.