Purpose To investigate the expression and clinical significance of miR-100 in hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC) . Methods LNA-modified miR-100 fluorescent probe was used to detect the formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues of 29 cases of HCC, while 10 cases of normal human liver tissues were used as the control group. Results Analysis of fluorescence in situ hybridization ( FISH) showed that, in all normal tissues miR-100 expression were positive, fluorescence signal located in the cytoplasm, while only 11 cases of HCC were positive, and there was a significant difference between both positive rates (100% vs 37. 9%, P<0. 01). In addition, with the degree of differentiation of HCC decreased, the expression of miR-100 showed a decreasing trend, positive rate of the well differentiation group and moderate differentiation group was significantly higher than the poor differentiation group ( P<0. 05 ) . Conclusion Detection of miR-100 expression in HCC tissue might be helpful to evaluate the pathologic grade of the tumors.

Objective To investigate the effect of ischemia and ischemia/reperfusion(I/R)in rat heart on matrix metalloproteinase-1(MMP-1).Methods The I/R animal models were established by shutting down and reopening the anterior interventricular branch with a silver clamp,then the distribution and amount of MMP-1 of the normal and I/R rat hearts were observed by immunohistochemical staining and Western blotting and analyzed by computer image analysis.Results 1.Immunohistochemical staining showed MMP-1 existed mainly in the cardiac matrix.There were strong positive reactions in fibrocytes,smooth muscle cells of the blood vessel and endotheliaI cells of capillaries.MMP-1 didn't show distinct changes 30 minutes after ischemia,while its concentration increased dramatically 60 minutes after ischemia.The positive reaction of MMP-1 increased 30 minutes after I/R,and 60 minutes after I/R there was large fusion areas in MMP-1 existing reglons.2.Quantitative analysis showed no dramatic changes of MMP-1 after ischemia for 30 minutes(P＞0.05),while dramatic changes were seen 60 minutes after ischemia(P＜0.05).MMP-1 changed dramatically 30 minutes and 60 minutes after I/R.3.Western blotting showed that there were no distinct naked-eye-observable changes.The bands of MMP-1 became widened 30 minutes after I/R,and became obviously widened 60 minutes after I/R.Conclusion 1.MMP-1 is secreted by fibrocytes,smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells of cardiac tissue under physiological conditions,and cardiomyocytes has the potential to secrete MMP-1 under ischemia or I/R.2.The longer time the heart ischemia lasts,the greater MMP-1 concentration will increase.Reperfusion can increase MMP-1 concentration to an even higher level,which may be the main cause of the collagen destruction after heart I/R.

Purpose To explore the effect of miR-100 in rat liver development and the occurrence of liver cancer. Methods The liv-er tissues of neonate SD rats, adult SD rats and 2-AAF/PH rats were collected, then real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction ( RT-PCR) and FISH methods were used to detect the expression of miR-100 in the liver tissues. Results The expres-sion level of miR-100 in adult SD rats liver tissues was significantly higher than that in neonate SD rats liver tissues (P<0. 05). Com-pared with the adult rats, the expression level of miR-100 in 2-AAF/PH rats liver tissues was obviously decline (P<0. 05). Conclu-sion miR-100 can as a maker of liver mature, and its deletion maybe related to the tumor formation.