Objectives To evaluate bioMerieux VIDAS(Vitek Immune Diagnositc Assay System) Chlamydia test (CHL) and to determine its performance(sensitivity and specificity) by comparing with cell culture. Methods C. trachomatis in urogenital samples was detected by both cell culture and VIDAS CHL. The different results were confirmed by direct fluorescent antibody assay (DFA). The sensitivity to C.trachomatis serotype D and E stocks was alsode tected with VIDAS CHL and cell culture. Results C.trachomatis was found in 33 (20.2%) of 163 urogenital samples by cell culture in coutrast to in 44(27.0%) by VIDA CHL. As the expanded gold standard was defined as either cell culture positive or cell culture negative and both CHL and DFA positive, the sensitivity was 80.5% and 95.3% and the specifiaty were 100% and 97.6% in cell culture and VIDAS CHL, respectively. In the sensitivity test, C. trachomatis serotype D was tested positive at the highest dilution of one to 102 400 dilution and serotype E was at one in 51 200 by cell culture. However, both serotype D and E were tested positive at the highest dilution of one to 6 553 600 by VIDAS CHL. Conclusions Comparing with the expanded gold standard, VIDAS CHL is sensitive and specific for C.trachomatis in urogenital specimens, with simple and short running hours (1 h). First catch urine (FCU), which avoids the painful male swab collectionin male patients, could also be used as specimen in VIDAS CHL test.

Objective To determine the relationship between acceptance of disability and posttraumatic stress response in patients with brachial plexus injury. Methods Total 160 patients with brachial plexus injury were recruited and investigated with the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) and the Acceptance of Disability Scale (ADS). Results The total score of ADS was (79.07±11.99) which showed medium level of acceptance of disability. The total score of IES-R was 4-66 (33.51±14.41), which showed that most of the patients suffered from posttranmatic stress response. Significantly negative correlation was found between acceptance of disability and posttraumatie stress response(r=-0.480, P<0.001). Conclusions Nurses should pay more attention to the acceptance of disability and posttranmatic stress response in patients with brachial plexus injury, and provide appropriate health education and effective psychological intervention to improve the patients' mental health and quality of llfe.

Objective To evaluate the importance of Torch serologic screening in pregnant women and to investigate the relationship between Torch infection and pregnant women with embryo standstills as well as women with habitual abortion.Methods IIF and capture EIA were used for detection of Torch-IgG and IgM antibodies, respectively. Toxoplasma /rubella virus/CMV/HSV serologic screens were carried out in 303/278/280/236 pregnant women, 27/30/31/25 pregnant women with embryo standstills and 192/214/228/168 women with habitual abortions, respectively.Results The positive rates of toxoplasma(rubella virus, CMV, HSV)-IgG/IgM antibodies were found 2.3%/0.33% (93.2%/1.4%, 88.6%/1.1%, 93.2%/1.3%) in pregnant women, 0/0(96.7%/0, 87.1%/0, 88.0%/0,) in pregnant women with embryo standstills and 1.04%/0(98.6%/0, 91.2%/0, 94.6%/0) in women with habitual abortion, respectively. Only one serum sample was found to be true positive with rubella virus-IgM antibody in 31 Torch-IgM antibodies positive serum samples tested by other hospitals. Conclusion The necessity to screen toxoplasma antibodies in pregnant women should be evaluated due to the low incidence. It is important to determine immune status to rubella virus prior pregnancy for prenatal screening.Further studies are needed before the scheme to diagnose CMV infection during pregnancy can be decided. Serum samples tested with Torch-IgM antibodies should be re-tested with kits from other manufactures or by reference labs to avoid false positive. There are no relationships being found between Torch infection and pregnant women with embryo standstills as well as women with habitual abortion.

目的观察心理康复对焦虑、抑郁症状的疗效。方法对212例具有失眠、慢性头痛、头晕或多系统症状而不能用某一种疾病解释的患者,进行焦虑抑郁量表检测,并随机分为康复组(88例)和对照组(124例)。前者给予心理康复治疗,后者给予药物治疗,比较两者的疗效。结果康复组总有效率90.91%,高于对照组(74.19%)(P<0.05)。结论对综合医院中具有失眠、头痛、头晕或多系统症状而不能用某一种疾病解释的患者,应进行焦虑抑郁量表检测并给予心理康复治疗。

OBJECTIVETo research the absorbed character of piperine in Erxiekang plaster, and piperine by transdermal absorption was determined.

METHODThe percutaneous absorption of piperine in vitro at different times was conducted by Franz osmosis and diffusion apparatus as well as high-performance liquid chromatography.

RESULTIt showed that the piperine through skins of mice gradually increased within the experiment time. After 52 h, the penetration of piperine was 78.51%, and remained basically unchanged.

CONCLUSIONThe method is reliable, and can be used for Erxiekang plaster of determination of transdermal absorption.

Alkaloids ; metabolism ; Animals ; Benzodioxoles ; metabolism ; Linear Models ; Male ; Piperidines ; metabolism ; Polyunsaturated Alkamides ; metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Reproducibility of Results ; Skin Absorption

Objective: To investigate the influence of CD133+expression on patients' survival and resistance of CD133+cells to anti-tumor agents in gastric cancer (GC).
Methods: Influence of CD133 expression on prognosis was analyzed employing sam-ples from patients with GC. GC cell lines were utilized to separate CD133+and CD133?subpopulations by immunomagnetic separation and to analyze the biological features of two subpopulations in vitro and in vivo, especially in resistant to anti-tumor reagents and its apoptotic mechanism.
Results: The lower CD133+group showed a significantly better survival compared with the higher CD133+group. The highest content of CD133+subpopulations for KATO-III cells had stronger proliferative ability than CD133?subpopulations. A single CD133+cell was capable of generating new cell colony and the tumorigenicity rate in nude mice was 100% for CD133+ clonal spheres or for CD133+ cells, but 0% for CD133? cells. Furthermore, the higher expression levels of Oct-4, Sox-2, Musashi-1 and ABCG2 in CD133+ clonal spheres were identified compared with CD133+ cells or CD133? cells. Under the treatment of anti-tumor reagents, CD133+ cells had lower suppression rates compared with CD133? cells while lower level of Bcl-2 and higher level of Bax were found in CD133+cells compared with CD133?cells.
Conclusions: The patients with lower CD133+expression had a better survival. Enriched CD133+ cells in clonal sphere shared the ability to be self-renewable, proliferative, tumorigenic and resistant to anti-tumor agents as probably regulated by Bcl-2 and Bax.

ObjectiveTo investigate the expression of CXCR4 and CD133mRNA in primary lesion of primary gastric adenocarcinoma and the relation with clinicopathological features,and to explore the correlation of CXCR4 and CD133.MethodsThe primary lesion of primary gastric adenocarcinoma and normal tissues adjacent to gastric cancer were obtained from 50 patients.The diction of CXCR4 and CD133 protein expression was detected by the immunohistochemical staining,and the relative gray scale values of CXCR4 and CD133mRNA by semi-quantitative RT-PCR (Fisher' s exact probability method).Their relationship with clinicopathological features was also investigated ( Spearman relation analysis).ResultsThe positive rates of CXCR4 and CD133 protein in gastric cancers were 76.0％ and 66.0％ respectively,which were significantly higher than that in normal tissues adjacent to gastric cancer ( 16.0％ and 10％ ; P =0.000,P =0.000).The increment of relative gray scale values of CXCR4mRNA was associated with the larger tumor diameter,the later TNM stage and the occurrence of lymphatic metastasis( P ＜ 0.05 ).And the larger diameter of tumor,the later TNM stage were associated with the higher relative gray scale values of CD133mRNA (P ＜0.05).The levels of the relative gray scale values of CXCR4 mRNA and CD133mRNA were positively related(r =0.453,P ＜ 0.01 ).ConclusionsThe higher expression of CXCR4 and CD133mRNA correlateswith tumour diameter,TNM stage and lymphatic vessel invasion. The relative gray scale values of CD133mRNA increase with the increment of the relative gray scale values of CXCR4.

Objective To compare the inhibition effects of three synthesized fragments used in small interfering RNA(siRNA) against CD133 gene in KATO-Ⅲ gastric cancer cells,and to study effects of suppressed CD133 on the proliferating ability of intervened cells.Methods Three fragments of siRNA were designed and synthesized targeted at the mRNA of CD133.Cell fluorescence counting under confocal laser scanning microscope was used to determine the transfection efficiency after transfection with the CD133FITC-siRNA.The knock-down effect of the CD133 gene was detected by RT-PCR and Western blotting.CCK-8 (cell counting kit-8 assay) was performed to measure the variation of the cell proliferative viability after the above-mentioned treatment.Results The transfection efficiency of siRNA was (85 ± 8) ％ in KATO Ⅲ Gastric cacer cell.All these three fragments of CD133 siRNA effectively inhibited the expression of CD133 gene,the inhibition rate being (11 ± 2) ％,(19 ± 2) ％,(24 ± 3) ％respectively.Compared with the control group,the cell proliferation viability was restrained (42 ± 4)％ in CD133siRNA-3 group (P ＜0.05).Conclusions CD133siRNAs were successfully transfected into KATO Ⅲ Gastric cacer cells and repressed the expression of CD133.Meanwhile,the CD133siRNA fragment 3 was screened from three CD133 siRNA,which has the best inhibition effect.The results provide preliminary evidence for the intereference of CD133+ gastric cancer cells subsequently.

Objective To investigate the biological effect of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) under the treatment of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 on the human gastric cancer cell line SGC7901 in vitro,and to observe whether the TGF-β1 can generate the tumor initiating cells ability in SGC7901 or not.Methods SGC7901 cells were cultured with TGF-β1.The morphological change was observed.The effect on proliferation of SGC7901 cells was detected by CCK-8.The invasion assay was used to investigate the motility and the invasion ability of SGC7901 cells.Immuofluorescence was used to detect the expression of E-cadherin and N-cadherin.The mRNA and protein's expression levels of EMT-related factors and CD44 were analyzed by RT-PCR and Western blotting respectively.Results TGF-β1 induced morphological alterations from epithelial to mesenchymal cells.The proliferation of SGC7901 cells was inhibited,and the ability of motility and invasion of SGC7901 cells were greatly enhanced after being treated with TGF-β1.RT-PCR and Western blotting showed that the expression of Snail (P ＜ 0.05),N-cadherin (P ＜ 0.05) and CD44 (P ＜ 0.05) were significantly increased while the expression of E-cadherin was decreased (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions TGF-β1 can generate the EMT.The CD44 expression was up-regulated.TGF-β1 can inhibit the proliferation and promote the motility and invasion ability of SGC7901 cells.

Objective To investigate if TGF-β1 induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and promotes the obtaining of stemness characteristics in gastric cancer cell lines.Methods After KATO-Ⅲ cells were cultured with or without 5 ng/mL TGF-β1,the morphological change was observed and compared under phase-contrast microscopy.At the same time,the effect of TGF-β1 on the proliferation of KATO-Ⅲ cells was detected by CCK-8.On the other hand,the mRNA and protein' s expressions of EMT-related factors,ESC markers and TICs markers were analyzed by RT-PCR and Western blotting methods too.Results TGF-β1 induced morphological alterations from epithelial to mesenchymal cells.The proliferation of KATO-Ⅲ cells was inhibited after treated with TGF-β1 (P ＜ 0.05).After treated with TGF-β1,the relative mRNA expression levels of Snail (0.5219 ±0.0147) and N-cadherin(0.6640 ±0.0124) were higher than that in control group(0.2049 ±0.0214,P =0.004,0.2722 ± 0.0098,P =0.001),the relative protein expression levels of Snail (0.4769 ± 0.0234) and N-cadherin (0.5014 ± 0.0216) were higher than that in control group (0.2534 ± 0.0345,P =0.02,0.2026 ± 0.0268,P =0.009),while the relative E-cadherin mRNA and protein levels in TGF-β1 treated group (0.4701 ± 0.0215,0.1349 ± 0.0258) were lower than that in control group (0.6792 ± 0.0157,P =0.01 ; 0.6055 ± 0.0227,P =0.004),while the relative mRNA expressions of ESC markers such as Sox2,OCT4,Nanog in TGF-β1 treated group (0.594 ± 0.039、0.438 ± 0.033、0.489 ± 0.037) were higher than that in control group (0.143 ± 0.013,P =0.001,0.156 ± 0.025,P =0.001,0.325 ± 0.046,P =0.03),the relative mRNA expression levels of CD44 (0.437 ±0.037) and CD133(0.543 ±0.028) were higher than that in control group (0.247 ±0.024,P =0.000,0.139 ± 0.016,P =0.000),the relative protein expression levels of CD44 (0.429 ± 0.034) and CD133 (0.316 ±0.027) in TGF-β1 treated group were higher than that in control group (0.152 ± 0.014,P =0.000,0.110 ±0.010,P =0.000),cloning sphere-forming capacity was greatly enhanced after treated with TGF-β1 (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion TGF-β1 can induce EMT in KATO-Ⅲ cells and promote the obtaining of stemness characteristics in gastric cancer cell lines.