Objective To study the relationship between type 1 and type 2 cytokines and human acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD).Methods In 20 patients undergoing allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT), plasma concentrations of interleukin-18 (IL-18), interleukin-2R (IL-2R), tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-?) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) were measured by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).Results All the patients achieved engraftment. Eight cases deve- loped grade Ⅰ-Ⅱ aGVHD and 3 cases developed Ⅲ-Ⅳ aGVHD. The concentrations of IL-18 and IL-2R in the patients with aGVHD were significantly higher than those without aGVHD. The levels of IL-18 were correlated with the severity of aGVHD; The levels of TNF-? showed no difference between the patients with or without aGVHD; The concentrations of IL-10 in the patients with aGVHD were significantly declined but in those without aGVHD were significantly increased.Conclusion Type 1 and type 2 cytokines play an important opposite role in development of aGVHD.

Coats disease,known as the outer exudative retinopathy,is a kind of disease characterized by retinal capillaries expansion and microvascular abnormalities,often accompanied by retinal or subretinal exudation and lipids exudative retinal detachment.Neovascular glaucoma and ocular atrophy often occur in the late time.Coats disease is significant diversity in clinical presentation and morphology.For nearly a century,with the development of understanding of the disease,vireoretinal specialists have a new view on diagnosis and treatment of it.This article reviews the recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Coats disease.

This study was aimed to observe effects of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment from lung on mRNA expressions of iNOS in lung tissues of rats with ulcerative colitis (UC). A total of 52 rats were used to estab-lish the UC rat model by using rabbit intestinal mucosal tissue allergenic model and TNBS-ethanol model (with the model success rate of 78%). Eight rats, which were randomly selected from 40 successfully modeled rats and the normal group, were used as the model group and the normal group before intervention (time point of week zero). The rest 32 successfully modeled rats were randomly divided into the model group, the western medicine (salazosulfapyri-dine) group, treatment from lung (Huang-Qi Jie-Geng, HQJG decoction) group, and treatment from intestine (Huang-Qi Huang-Lian, HQHL decoction) group, with 8 rats in each group. Another 8 normal rats were used as the control group. The intervention was given for 4 weeks. And the mRNA expression of iNOS was detected in week ze-ro, and four weeks after the treatment using real time-PCR. The results showed that in the acute phase of week zero, the mRNA level of iNOS in lung tissues of model group was significantly increased compared with that in normal group (P < 0.05); after 4-week treatment, compared with the normal group, the mRNA level of iNOS in the model group was significantly increased (P< 0.05). Compared with the model group, the mRNA level of iNOS in the treat-ment from lung group was significantly decreased (P < 0.01). It was concluded that NO which was catalyzed and synthesized by iNOS played an important role in pulmonary diseases. It can cause airway inflammation, edema, lung injury, and etc. Treatment from lung can alleviate the lung injury by inhibiting abnormal activation of iNOS.

The article introduced experience of class teaching of neurology from attending a lecture and preparing lessons,actively making use of multimedia teaching,applying combina-tionly many kinds of teaching methods and thoroughly stimulating learning interest.It is key point for improving teaching quality that the teacher strengthen their mixed ability.

Objective To investigate the MR features of adenomyosis and its diagnostic value.Methods Forty-six patients with suspicious adenomyosis underwent preoperative ultrasound and MR exam.Inversion recovery sequence(IR)T 1-weighted images and turbo spin echo sequence(TSE)including T 1-weighted and T 2-weighted images were adopted.All patients were performed with contrast enhancement.Comparative analysis between MRI findings and pathology results was done. Results The diagnostic specificity,sensitivity and accuracy of MRI was 100%,94.74% and 97.14% respectively.The effect of MRI for diagnosis of adenomyosis was better than that of US significantly.All cases showed enlargement of uterus with regular contour.Diffuse and local thickening of junctional zone or low signal intensity lesion in outer myometrial layer was found on T 2-weighted images,sometimes bright foci observed in lesion on T 2-weighted images or on T 1-weighted images.Conclusion MRI has high value in gualitative diagnosis and localization of adenomyosis.It can be used as an important complementary method to ultrasound.

Objective To investigate the clinical features of polymyositis and dermatomyositis ( PM/DM) with lym-phoma .Methods The clinical data , treatment and prognosis of PM/DM with lymphoma from 2000 to 2015 in Pe-king Union Medical College Hospital were retrospectively collected and analyzed .Results Ten cases of PM/DM patients complicated with lymphoma were recruited .6 were female and 4 was male.The mean ages of the diagnosis of PM/DM and lymphoma were 44.5 and 44.9 years old respectively .The average disease course from PM/DM to lymphoma was 4.7months.Six cases were dermatomyositis and 4 cases were polymyositis.Three cases had pulmo-nary fibrosis and 2 cases had arthritis .No case had a positive result of anti-Jo-1 antibody .The most frequent symp-toms complicated with lymphoma included as following:enlargement of lymph nodes (9 cases), fever (8 cases), splenomegaly(5 cases).The top 3 lymphoma biopsy specimen included lymph node (4 cases), skin(2 cases)and local mass(2 cases).All the 10 patients were diagnosed as non-Hodgkin lymphoma.4 cases were derived from T cell, 2 cases from B cell, and 4 cases with unknown origin .The clinical staging showed III B (4 cases) and IV B (6 cases).Immunosuppressant agents were given to treat PM/DM.During the follow-up period, 5 patients died, 4 patients received chemotherapy and 1 patient was lost .Conclusions The coincidence of PM/DM and lymphoma is not rare .The course between PM/DM and lymphoma is short , and the mortality is significant , which should arise the attention of clinicians .

Objective To detect the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) DNA load in vesicle fluid and peripheral blood,as well as plasma levels of S100β protein and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) in patients with herpes zoster before and after treatment,and to explore their correlations.Methods Vesicle fluid samples were collected before treatment,and peripheral blood samples before and after treatment from 50 inpatients with acute herpes zoster in the Department of Dermatology of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University,and peripheral blood samplcs were also obtained from 20 heahhy controls.Real-time fluorescence-based quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) was performed to determine the viral load in the vesicle fluid and peripheral blood samples,and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect the plasma levels of S100β protein and NSE.Results VZV DNA was present in all the vesicle fluid samples,as well as in peripheral blood samples from 18 patients before treatment and 5 patients after treatment,but not found in any of the healthy controls.Positive correlation was found bctween the viral load in vesicle fluid and plasma levels of S 100β protein and NSE (r =0.535,0.430,respectively,both P ＜ 0.05) in the patients with acute herpes zoster.Before treatment,patients with VZV DNA in peripheral blood showed significantly increased plasma levels of S100β protein and NSE compared with those without (both P ＜ 0.05),and the viral load in peripheral blood was positively correlated with plasma levels of S100β protein and NSE (r =0.711,0.645,respectively,both P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion VZV DNA is present in some patients with herpes zoster,and increased VZV DNA loads in the vesicle fluid and peripheral blood are related to elevated plasma levels of S100β protein and NSE before treatment.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between 592C/A and-819C/T of interleukin-10 gene polymorphism in patients with immediate ?-lactam drug allergy in Chinese Han population.METHODS The genotype and allele frequency of interleukin-10 gene were studied by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism(PCR-RFLP)in 44 Chinese Han patients with evidence of immediate ?-lactam drug allergy and 44 controls subjects.They all matched for sex and atopy,the production was investigated by sequence analysis.RESULTS Our analysis did reveal differences in the distribution of the single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)between female allergic patients and controls.Among allergy subjects,we found two distinct significant associations between immediate drug allergy women and two linked IL-10 promoter genes polymorphism,-592C/A and-819C/T(P

Objective To investigate the impact of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) overexpression on dendritic cells (DC) functions and its therapeutic effect on acute liver failure (ALF) in mice.Methods Bone marrow derived dendritic cells (BMDC) from C57BL/6 mice were transfected with lentivirus encoding SOCS1 and negative control lentivirus at a MOI=50, and labeled as DC-SOCS1and DC-VNG, respectively after 96 hours of successful transduction.Then DCs were stimulated with lipopolysaccharides(LPS)1 mg/L and collected for flow cytometry analysis of surface costimulatory molecules, allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) and western blot test of Janus kinase (JAK)/signaling transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) pathway.Afterwards, 90 mice were randomly assigned into 4 groups including 12 in normal control group, 26 in ALF group, 26 in treatment groups with DC-SOCS1 and 26 with the treatment of DC-VNG.All were received tail vein injection with normal saline, modified DC-VNG and DC-SOCS1 suspended in normal saline, respectively.Twelve hours after injection, LPS (10 μg/kg)/D-GaIN (600 mg/kg) were injected intraperitoneally to induce ALF model.The mortality, serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST), liver pathology and proportion of splenic regulatory T cells of each group were observed.Means in different groups were compared with one-way ANOVA analysis.Categorical variables were analyzed with x2 test.Variables were examined with normality test and homogeneity of variance with LSD test.Results The results of mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) revealed that T cell proliferation ratio in DC-SOCS1 group with mixture ratio of 100∶1 were (25.87±0.38)%, which was lower than that of mixture ratio of 10∶1 in the mDC group ([84.29±3.25]%) with statistical significance (x2=49.821, P<0.01);interleukin (IL)-10 concentration was higher than that in mDC group with mixture ratio of 10∶1 with statistical significance (F=20.112, P<0.05);IL-6 concentration was also lower with statistical significance (F=47.718, P<0.05).Compared to imDC, expression of JAK2 (t=0.525,0.523 and 0.489, respectively, all P<0.01), signal transduction factors and activation of transcription factors-1 (STAT1) (t=0.442,0.400 and 0.402, respectively, all P<0.01) and SOCS1 (t=0.322,0.363 and 1.090, respectively, all P<0.01) of mDC, DC-VNG and DC-SOCS1 after LPS stimulation increased significantly.Furthermore, the expressions of phosphorylated STAT1 (p-STAT1) and phosphorylated JAK2 (p-JAK2) of DC-SOCS1 were much lower than those of the mDC, with statistically significant difference (t=-3.840 and 0.254, respectively, both P<0.01).Pathological analysis revealed that there existed moderate hepatic cells necrosis and less immune cell infiltration in DC-SOCS1 group accompanied with higher regulatory T lymphocytes proportion than those in ALF group and DC-VNG group.Survival rate of ALF with DC-SOCS1 treatment group was significantly higher than that of ALF group with statistical difference (x2=12.87, P<0.05).Conclusions DC-SOCS1could sustain an immature state and exhibit as regulatory DC through negative regulation of JAK2/STAT1 pathway with overexpression of SOCS1.Infusion of DC-SOCS1 could ameliorate ALF by inhibiting aggressive inflammation response with increased proportion of regulatory T cells in mice, which shows good therapeutic effect for ALF mice.

Aim To study the change of mutant pre- vention concentration (MPC) in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) treated with moxi- floxacin ( MFX ) and/ or cefoperazone/ sulbactam (CFS) in vitro, and provide a theoretical support for preventing the bacterial resistance. Methods To cal- culate the fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) in- dex, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 20 clinical isolates of CRAB treated with MFX and/ or CFS was determined by checkerboard microdilution as- say. In addition, to calculate the selection index (SI), the MPC of 20 clinical isolates of CRAB treated with MFX and/ or CFS was determined by agar plate di- lution assay. Results Our study showed that there was synergistic/ addictive action, rather than antago- nism action against clinical isolates of CRAB when treated with MFX + CFS. The SI of the 20 isolates trea- ted with MFX or CFS alone was 4 ~128 and 8 ~64 re- spectively, but reduced to 1 ~8 and 4 ~16 when trea- ted with MFX + CFS, which decreased by 2 ~16 and 2 ~4 times respectively compared with the single treat- ment. Conclusion These results suggest that the combination treatment of MFX + CFS against clinical isolates of CRAB might lower the MPC of the isolates treated with MFX/ CFS alone, narrow the mutant selec- tion window, and prevent the generation of drug - re- sistant mutants.