1.The study of etiology of respiratory infection and antibiotics employment in pediatric patients
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014;23(2):196-199
Objective To research the pathogenies' types and analyze the antibacterial drug' s using rationality from the children with acute respiratory infection,our study were generated by pediatric department from the hospital lasting 2 years.Methods A total of 93 pediatric patients with acute respiratory infection admitted from December 1,2010 through November 30,2012 were enrolled into study.The throat swabs from 93 patients were sent to the Beijing Center for Disease and Prevention (CDC) to identify the influenza virus,syncytial virus and mycoplasma with rapid nucleic acid test.The specimens of sputum from hospitalized patients were sent to the hospital bacterial laboratory for bacteria culture.With the Children Drug Utilization Index (cDUI),the rationality of using antibiotics was estimated.The database was established by using SPSS version 18.0 software and the data were analyzed to determine the statistical distinction among the percentage by the Chi square test (P < 0.05).Results Of them,70.96% pediatric patients were below 3 years old (excluding newborns).Of them,62.36% patients had positive findings of viral infection.The predominant viruses of respiratory infection were syncytial virus accounting for 30.43%,the influenza viruses 24.63% and the para-influenza virus 10.14%.The patients with positive results in vital test were more vulnerable to lower respiratory infection than those with negative results.The pneumonia patients with positive finding of syncytial virus accounted for 85.71% (18 patients) in which the median cDUI was 1.30.The antibiotics were given to 28 pneumonia patients with positive virus test,in which the median cDUI was 1.05.Of 28 pneumonia patients,4 (16%) had positive bacteria growth in sputum cultures,and 4 cases (16%) had positive bacteria growth in blood cultures.Conclusions In the district of hospital,the lower respiratory infection was usually caused by viruses.Therefore,antibiotics should not be given in patients without evidence of bacterial infection.It is a irrational strategy to use antibiotics in those patients when the Children Drug Utilization Index is high (> 1.0).It is paramount important to notice that the percentage of positive bacteria growth in sputum cultures is usually not high because the antibiotics are given by OPD physicians before hospitalization of patients with bacterial infections in the acute respiratory illness.
3.Gene expression profiles in response to ΔNp63α overexpression in human cervical cancer cell line SiHa
Xiaohui HAN ; Weidong ZHAO ; Huiying FANG
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui 2017;52(2):181-186
Objective To analyze the gene expression profiles in response to ΔNp63α overexpression, and screen the potential target genes or signal pathways regulated by ΔNp63α. Methods To generate ΔNp63α overexpressed SiHa cells ( SiHa-ΔNp63α) and the control cells ( SiHa-NC) , recombinant lentivirus transfection was performed. Microarray was applied to detect the change of gene expression profiles, and the results were analyzed with bioinfor-matic software. Quantitative real-time PCR was used to validate the expression levels of selected genes. Results Among the 1405 differentially expressed genes which were statistically significant, >1. 5 fold increase or reduce of gene expression, 843 were up-regulated and 562 were down-regulated in SiHa cells with ΔNp63α overexpression. The genes were mostly involved in cell development,cycle regulation, signal transduction, communication, adhe-sion, metastasis and invasion, etc. The involved signal pathways consisted of antigen processing and presentation, cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, cell adhesion, complement and coagulation cascades, and so on. Conclu-sion The research on the potential target genes or mediated signal pathways regulated by ΔNp63α could be helpful to explain the development of cervical cancer.
4.Purification of rat dental follicle cells by differential passage
Xiaohui LIU ; Lingying WEN ; Jun FANG
Journal of Practical Stomatology 2001;0(01):-
Objective:To develop a simple culture and purifying method for rat dental follicle cells.Methods:The upper and lower first and second intact molar germs of SD rat were separated. Then, dental follicle and enamel organ were stripped together, minced into little pieces, digested with collagenase and cultured. Dental follicular cells were purified by differential passage and indentified by immunohistochemical staining of vimentin and cytokeratin. Results:The primary cells were mixed, consisting of dental follicle cells and enamel organ cells. After differential passage, the cells of fourth passage became purified dental follicle cells. Purified dental follicle cells were elongated spindle or triangle in shape, positive for vimentin and negative for cytokeratin.Conclusion:Dental follicle cells can be purified by several differential passages from the mixed primarily cultured cells.
5.Study on application effect of paclitaxel combined with carboplatin neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced cervical carcinoma
Yuhong FAN ; Huaying FANG ; Xiaohui WU
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2017;37(4):379-381
Objective To explore the application effect of paclitaxel combined with carboplatin neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced cervical carcinoma.Methods Forty patients with stage Ⅱa and above cervical cancer who were treated between August 2015 and August 2016 were selected as the research objectives and all patients were diagnosed by pathological examination.They were divided randomly into experimental group(n=20)and control group(n=20).Patients in the experimental group were treated with intravenous chemotherapy before operation.This scheme included paclitaxel and carboplatin.It included 2 cycles,and the interval between the 2 cycles was 3 weeks.Extensive hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy were made in 14 days after chemotherapy.The patients in the control group were treated only with extensive hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy.The efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was evaluated according to WHO criteria,and observed the operation condition.Adverse drug reactions were evaluated according to WHO anti-cancer drug adverse reaction grade.The quality of life of the two groups was evaluated by the mos item short from health survey(SF-36).Results 20 patients completed chemotherapy,CR5 cases,PR11 cases,SD3 cases,PD1 cases,and the total effective rate(CR+PR)was 80%.At the same time,The paracervical tissue becomed soft in varying degrees,the gap widened,the invasive lesions were controlled in different degrees.Adverse reactions were mild and relieved without special treatment.There was no kidney and heart function damage.All cases were operated successfully after chemotherapy.There were no significant difference in operation time and blood loss between the two groups.The rate of lymph node metastasis,the infiltration rate of uterine tissue and the residual rate of tumor tissue in the vaginal margin were lower than those in the control group(P<0.01).The SF-36 scores of the two groups were higher than those before treatment,but the score of the experimental group was higher significantly than that of the control group,and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.01).Conclusion Paclitaxel combined with carboplatin in neoadjuvant chemotherapy of cervical cancer can reduce the tumor volume,increase the chance of surgery,has less toxic side effects,lower metastatic rate and improve the quality of life of patients.It is worthy of further clinical research and recommendation.
6.Etiological research and medication rationality analysis of acute pneumonia in 0~1 years old
Xiaohui WANG ; Nan ZHANG ; Fang HUANG
Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2013;20(4):376-379
Objective To analyze the etiological results and clinical characteristics in infants with acute pneumonia at the age of 0 ~ 1 years and to evaluate the rationality of the use of antibiotics.Methods Thirty-four infants hospitalized during Dec 2010 to Nov 2012 were selected.The throat swabs were sent to the Beijing Disease Prevention and Control Center for rapid nucleic acid test for influenza; the sputum was sent to the bacteriological laboratory of the hospital for the bacterial culture.Children drug utilization index (cDUI)was used to assess the rationality of the medication amount of antibiotic drugs.For defined daily dose statistic (DDDs),the larger the value of DDDs,the more frequent the clinical use of the drug.Results In the confirmed cases of acute pneumonia,21 cases were of viral infection,9cases were of bacterial infection and 4 cases were of mixed infection.The probability of bacterial pneumonia (4/9) was higher than that of viral pneumonia(5/21) in the case with underlying disease (P <0.001) ;the virus detection rate(12/21) of children with contact history with respiratory tract infection patients was higher than bacteria detection rate(4/9)(P =0.01).In case of no risk of cross infection,the infants were more susceptible to bacterial infection (P =0.006).The sputum culture of 25 cases of positive virus detection showed 13 cases of colonization of conditional pathogenic bacteria and 4 cases of pathogenic bacteria.The ratio of combination use of antibiotic drugs in case of bacterial infection (4/9) was higher than that in mixed infection (1/4) (P =0.001).The durations of the use of antibiotic drugs for every group showed no statistical difference (P =0.29).This research involved 7 antibiotic drugs.The medication frequencies and durations of ceftriaxone (DDDs =1813.45,total medication duration =187 days) and cefuroxirne (DDDs =1513.73,total medication duration =162 days) were higher than those of the other 5 antibiotic drugs.The cDUI of all drugs ≤ 1.0.The decreasing order of drugs by cDUI was amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium (cDUI =1.0),cefuroxime (cDUI=0.89),ceftriaxone (cDUI =0.87),azithromycin oral agent and cefepime (cDUI =0.80),midecamycin oral agent (cDUI =0.75) and penicillin injections (cDUI =0.50).Conclusion Virus is the main pathogen of the acute pneumonia in children in this research.Virus provides preliminary conditions for bacterial colonization.The overuse of ceftriaxone aggravates the pathogenic risks of conditional pathogenic virus.Some children are treated by antibiotic drugs for a long time or by the combination use of drugs,which are irrational mediation.
7.Comparison of the characteristics of induced and spontaneous db/db mouse models of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Fang LIU ; Hua YANG ; Wenjiang ZHOU ; Xiaohui ZHOU
Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica 2014;(6):54-59,74
Object To establish an induced mouse model of type 2 diabetes mellitus, and compare it with db/db mouse model of spontaneous type 2 diabetes.To evaluate the two mouse models objectively, and provide an experimental basis for the choice of animal model and its practical application in diabetes studies.Methods A mouse model of induced type 2 diabetes was established by feeding C57BL/6J mice with high-fat and high-sugar diet for four weeks and taking daily intraperitoneal injections of streptozotocin ( STZ) for consecutive 3 days.Four weeks after infection, the gross appearance of kidney and liver of the mice was assessed, glucose tolerance was tested, serum biochemical indices and expression of se-rum IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-17, and IL-10 were assayed, and were compared with those of the db/db mouse models of spontaneous type 2 diabetes.Results Obvious differences were found in the kidneys and liver gross appearance of the two types of mouse models and the control group.Both the two groups showed significant differences in the blood glu-cose levels at each time point (P<0.05) and low glucose tolerance function, but there were no significant differences in blood glucose levels of the two types of mouse models.Compared with the control group, the serum biochemical indices GLU, GHOL and LDLC of the two types of mouse models were significantly increased (P<0.05).Meanwhile, the blood lipid level of the mouse model of induced type 2 diabetes was higher than that of the db/db mouse models of spontaneous type 2 diabetes.In comparison of immune indices, except IL-2,the serum cytokine levels of the two types of mouse models were significantly higher than those of the control group (P<0.05).Moreover, the serum cytokine levels of db/db mice were higher than those in the mouse models of induced type 2 diabetes, and the IL-6, IFN-γ, TNF-αalso had obvious differences.Conclusions Both the two types of mouse models of type 2 diabetes successfully simulate the human diabetes to some extent, but there are still certain differences according to different etiology of diabetes.We would suggest that peo-ple may take our data as reference and chose appropriate mouse models according to the requirement of their research.
8.Screening anti-human IgG for colloidal gold conjugate with dot immunogold filtration assay
Binbin FANG ; Xinwei QI ; Li WANG ; Xiaohui FENG
Chinese Journal of Immunology 2016;32(12):1790-1792,1796
Objective:To screen the appropriate anti-human IgG (secondary antibody) for conjugating with colloidal gold by dot immunogold filtration assay,and put forward the method of using multiple evaluation indicators for secondary antibody comparing and analyzing. Methods:Three different secondary antibodies A,B and C from three different companies were screened. Firstly the titration was used to determine the optimal reaction conditions. Then three secondary antibodies were conjugated to the colloidal gold,tested with a dot immunogold filtration assay for hydatidosis specific antibody detection. The optimal conjugated secondary antibody were compared with the standard indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results:The optimal pH of three secondary antibodies were 8. 5,the binding capacity were 38. 4,24 and 19. 2μg /ml colloidal gold. According to the comprehensive evaluation,the diagnostic effects of sec-ondary antibody B was better than others. Its diagnostic effects in dot immunogold filtration assay was compared with enzyme-linked im-munosorbent assay. The Kappa was 0. 895(P<0. 05) and showed the two methods were in good agreement. Conclusion:The appropriate secondary antibody for conjugating with colloidal gold could be screened by dot immunogold filtration assay and the evaluation indicators which put forward by this study,the screening method would have an important reference value for all kinds of colloidal gold test kit to screen the suitable secondary antibody.
9.Risk factors and prognosis of acute kidney injury in elderly patients with sepsis
Yi DING ; Qiang FANG ; Xiaoliang WU ; Xiaohui QIU
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2015;34(6):641-644
Objective To investigate the risk factors and prognosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) in elderly patients with sepsis in intensive care unit (ICU).Methods Clinical data of 108 elderly patients diagnosed as sepsis admitted in ICU in our hospital,from May 2010 to May 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.Patients were divided into two groups:the AKI group and the non-AKI group.Clinical characteristics,laboratory and physiologic data were compared between groups.Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the independent risk factors for AKI in these patients,and clinical outcome was retrospectively analyzed.Results Among the 108 elderly patients,60 patients developed AKI and the incidence was 55.6%.Baseline glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) were lower in the AKI group than in non-AKI group (t=4.536 and 3.28).Prothrombin time (PT) (t=3.053),multiple organ dysfunction score (MODS) (t =2.201),acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) score (t=3.423),the incidence of septic shock (x2 =5.400) and patients undergoing surgical operation within two weeks (x2 =5.625) were higher or longer in AKI group than in non-AKI group (all P<0.05).Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that MAP (OR =0.833),baseline GFR (OR=0.776),MODS (OR=2.039) were independent risk factors for AKI occurrence.Hospital mortality,length of stay in ICU and hospitalization time were higher or longer in AKI group than in non-AKI group (P=0.001,0.026 and 0.042).Conclusions MAP,baseline GFR and MODS are the independent risk factors for AKI occurrence in elderly adults with sepsis in ICU.Hospital mortality,length of stay in ICU and hospitalization time are increased in sepsis patients combined with AKI.
10.Effect of Radix astragali on the expression of myocardial Cx43 in rats with dilated cardiomyopathy
Yonghua YUAN ; Xuehua HE ; Yibing FANG ; Liping LIU ; Xiaohui XIA
Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 2014;(11):1080-1083
Objective To observe the effect of Radix astragali (RA) on myocardial connexin-43 in rats with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Methods The dilated cardiomyopathy model in rat was established through intraperitoneal injection with adriamycin. The rats in the model group were randomly divided into RA group and the model control group according to different methods of administration. Rats in RA group were gavaged with Astragalus particles and double-distilled water, and rats in model control group and normal control group were gavaged with an equal amount of double-distilled water daily for four weeks. At the end of 12 weeks, the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was measured with echocardiogram. The Cx43 mRNA level was tested by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Immunohistochemical method was used to observe myocardial Cx43 expression and distribution. Results Compared with the model control group, the Cx43 mRNA and protein expressions and LVEF were increased signiifcantly in RA group (P<0.05). The disorders in distribution of myocardial Cx43 improved in RA group in contrast to the model control group. Conclusions Radix astragali can improve myocardial Cx43 expression and distribution in DCM rats, and can further improve the cardiac function.