Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. The majority of the patients die of metastases and recurrences after surgery. Circulating tumor cells (CTC) exist in the patients' peripheral blood, which can be considered as the crucial step in the metastasis cascade, thus being considered as the most valuable prognostic indicator. This paper summarized the clinical research works about CTC in eolorectal cancer during recent years.

DNA methylation is one of the most common epigenetic events in eukaryotic cell.Aberrant DNA methylation is tightly related to tumorigenesis.Recent evidence indicates that DNA methylation is a promosing biomarker for cancer.The cancer-associated DNA methylation events could be detected from serum(plasma),urine,stool and bronchoalveolar lavage,providing a new choice for noninvasive cancer diagnosis.In this review,we summarized the advances on DNA methylation for noninvasive cancer diagnosis.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. The majority of the patients die of metastases and recurrences after surgery. Circulating tumor cells (CTC) exist in the patients’ peripheral blood, which can be considered as the crucial step in the metastasis cascade, thus being considered as the most valuable prognostic indicator. This paper summarized the clinical research works about CTC in colorectal cancer during recent years.

One of the most problems is the diagnosis of the borderline lesion and/or borderline tumor to pathologists. It is necessary to make the correct diagnosis of the gastrointestinal borderline lesion and/or borderline tumor and correlative lesion such as gastrointestinal stromal tumors, gastrointestinal lymphoid proliferation and MALT lymphoma, IPSID, gastrointestinal adenoma and appendix carcinoid.[

The mechanism of invasion and metastasis of colorectal carcinoma was associated with many aspects, including correlative genes such as k-ras,c-met,nm23,c-SRC,HES-6 and P107; immunoreaction; angiogenesis; correlative molecules interacting with extracellular matrix,nitric oxide. The paper summarized the current development in this field.

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Objective To investigate the relationship between Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index (AASI)and kidney damage or carotid endarterectomy damage in hypertension patients.Methods One hundred and forty-nine patients with hypertension but without diabetes or other arteriosclerosis diseases were enrolled.Forty-eight healthy volunteers during the same period were enrolled as control group.All participants'24 h-ambulatory blood pressure monitoring(ABPM),urinary albumin/creatinine ratio(ACR)and IMT were recorded and AASI was calculated.Then the correlation between AASI and ACR or IMT were calculated.Results There were significant differences in the urinary albumin/creatinine ratio(46.34 vs.33.52)(P ＜ 0.05),microalbuminuria incidence(41％ vs.21％),Carotid intima-media thickness([0.90 ±0.21]mm vs.[0.83 ±0.20]mm),abnormal incidence(72％ vs.60％)and AAS1(0.50 ± 0.16 vs.0.42 ± 0.17)(P ＜ 0.01)between the subjects with hypertension and those without.The AASI were positively correlated with ACR and IMT in hypertension patients.Compared with healthy subjects,the AASI were significantly increased in the patients with abnormal CR and IMT(P ＜0.05 、P ＜0.01).Conclusion The AASI were correlated with kidney damage and carotid endarterectomy damage in hypertension patients.

Objective To determine whether rabbit articular chondrocytes express growth factor genes delivered by recombined rat TGF beta 1,IGF 1 and what other influences on chondrocytes are,and to determine which gene is the best one for osteoarthritis therapy.Methods Monolayer cultures of rabbit articular chondrocytes were infected with recombinant plasmid pcDNA 3 and pAT 153 carrying genes encoding the following growth factors respectively:TGF beta 1 and IGF 1.The synthesis of TGF beta 1,IGF 1 and type Ⅱ collagen was measured by in situ hybridization,immunohistochemistry,immunofluoroscopy,flow cytometer and 3 H TdR radiolabeling.Results The expression of TGF beta1,IGF 1 and type Ⅱ collagen was high beyond control levels ( P

The extraction method and structure of exo-polysoccharide from schizophyllum commune by submerged cultivation were studied. Proteins were removed com p letely from the polysoccharide by the sevag method following the isoelectric poi nt precipitation method. The purified schizophyllan was proved to be homogeneou s with molecular weight 4?10 4D by sephadex G-200 column chromatography, PAGE and HPLC. Its monomer was determined by hydrolysis, PC, GC and its structure wa s analyzed by IR, enzymolysis, periodate oxidation, the results showed that schi zophyllan was only composed of glucose and it was the ?-glucan consisting of ?-(1-3) and ?-(1-6) glucosidic linkages.