Objective To introduce the clinical significance and pathophysiologic aspects of the circulatory and cardiac complications in terminal stage cirrhosis.Methods Recently relevant literatures were reviewed and summarized.Results Haemodynamic changes in cirrhosis arose on the basis of combined humoral and nervous dysregulation,with abnormalities in cardiovascular regulation,volume distribution and cardiac performance.Conclusion Comprehending the mechanisms of cardiovascular complications will contribute a lot for the treatment of terminal stage cirrhosis.

Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration biopsy for children with thyroid nodules.Methods Eleven children with thyroid nodule were examined by fine needle aspiration biopsy.The cytologic features of thyoid nodules were observed by the light microscope.The pathological sections of thyroid nodules were acquired and compared with fine needle aspiration biopsy.Results Eleven cases were diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy including nodule goiter 4 cases,papillary thyroid carcinoma 2 cases,follicular adenoma 2 cases,medullary carcinima 1 cases,Hashimoto′s thyroiditis 1 case and cyst 1 case.Compared with pathological section,10 cases were diagnosed correctly and one was misdiagnosis.Conclusion Fine needle aspiration biopsy is a valuable methods to the diagnosis of children with thyroid nodules.

Adult ; Bone Neoplasms ; Humans ; Male ; Nose Neoplasms ; Osteoblastoma ; Skull Base Neoplasms

BACKGROUND:Damage to nasal ciliated epithelial cels can lead to a severe injury in nasal biological function. Compared with other adult stem cels, human umbilical cord blood stem cels have better differentiation potential.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility of human umbilical cord blood stem cels differentiating into nasal ciliated epithelial cels through in vitro culture and induction techniques.
METHODS:Normal and healthy umbilical cord blood samples were colected to isolate human umbilical cord blood stem cels, folowed by identification and subculturein vitro. Umbilical cord blood stem cels at passage 3 were infected with recombinant adeno-associated virus carrying enhanced green fluorescent protein and cultured using air liquid interface culture method. Thereafter, PCR assay was employed for detecting MUCS expression in cultured stem cels at 1 and 2 weeks after induction, and immunofluorescent staining for FOXJ1 was performed at 3 weeks.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:After subculture, passage 3 umbilical cord blood stem cels that could express stem cel surface markers were visible in a uniform shape and had good refraction. After 3 hours of gene transfection, green fluorescence issued from the passage 3 cels were visible, and the cel positive rate was up to 96.2% until 48 hours, indicating good transfection efficiency. RT-PCR findings showed that MUC8 mRNA had no expression in the umbilical cord blood stem cels, but expressed strongly in the nasal ciliated epithelial cels, whose expression was weak at 1 week of culture and increased at 2 weeks. Additionaly, the positive expression of FOXJ1 red fluorescence was observed under the transfection of green fluorescent protein. These results suggest that human umbilical cord blood stem cels could differentiate into nasal epithelial cels under suitable conditions.

Objective:To investigate the effect of c-maf gene on the MM cells' proliferation and invasion activity. Methods:Lipo-fectin Reagent was used to transfect c-maf siRNA into multiple myeloma cell of RPMI8226. The mRNA expression level of c-maf was detected by RT-PCR.Cell growth curve was measured by MTT assay. Transwell chamber test was used to measure MM cells' in vitro in-vasion activity. The cell cycle distribution were assessed by flow cytomentry. The protein expression levels of survivin,MMP-2, MMP-9, ARK5 and cyclin B1 were detected by Western blot. We also detected the activity of Caspase-3/7. Results:The c-maf siRNA was effectively transfected into cells and the mRNA expression of the c-maf gene was inhibited.MTT test and Transwell chamber test showed that the proliferation and in vitro invasion activity of transfected cells were significantly lower than those of other two groups (P<0.05). Cell cycle of c-maf siRNA transfected group cells was arrested in G2/M phase. The expression levels of survivin,MMP-2, MMP-9,ARK5,cyclin B1 and the activity of Caspase-3/7 between c-maf siRNA transfected group and the other two groups were sta-tistically different (P<0.05). Conclusion:c-maf gene by c-maf siRNA can remarkably inhibit proliferation and invasion of multiple my-eloma cell lines of RPMI8226. C-maf gene may be used as the target for multiple myeloma gene therapy.

A questionnaire was used to survey the perspective of the 22 mentors,24 students, 27 graduate students and 27 public health units on the competence of MPH student. The result showed that the practice skill,analyzing skill,program plan and practice skill,and emergency reaction abil-ity got more attention. This suggested that to the training of MPH,the training objective should focus on the ability to resolve problems; the curriculum should focus on the characters of public health and on the practice training.

Objective To investigate the effects of β-arrestin1 on proliferation,migration,invasion and apoptosis of human gastric cancer BGC-823 cell line.Methods The expression of β-arrestin1 in human gastric epithelial cell line GES,human gastric cancer cell line BGC-823,MKN-28 and SGC-7901 was detected by realtime-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Western blot.The stable β- arrestin1 and negative control interfered BGC-823 cell line were established by RNA interference technology.The cell proliferation,migration,invasion and cell apoptosis of β-arrestin1 stable interfered BGC-823 cell line was examined by cell counting,scratch test,Transwell chamber test and flow cytometry assays.The data were analyzed by t test.Results The expression of β-arrestin1 in cell line GES,MKN-28,SGC-7901 and BGC-823 was 0.001 ± 0.001,0.002 ± 0.000,0.003± 0.002 and 0.005 ± 0.000 respectively.The inhibition ratio of proliferation in β-arrestin1 interfered BGC-823 cells and negative control cells were -30.2 ％ and 100.0 ％.The invasion ability was also inhibited,the number of migratory cells was 126.25±3.24 and 213.50±6.27 (t=0.000,P＜0.01),and the apoptosis rate was (41.350±1.053)％ and (11.497±0.589) ％ (t=0.015,P＜0.05).Conclusions β-arrestin1 is highly expressed in gastric carcinoma,and the expression increased along with the malignancy degree.The cell proliferation,migration and invasion is inhibited by interference of β-arrestin1 in BGC-823 cells,while the cell apoptosis is promoted.

Bilateral mandibular first molars of 36 rabbits were extracted.The tooth extraction wounds were treated by:platelet-rich fibrin +acellular dermal matrix(group A),platelet-rich fibrin(group B),acellular dermal matrix (group C) and without treatment (group D,the control) (n =9) respectively.The measurments of alveolar bone height and width showed that there were no significant differences among groups at different times(P ＞ 0.05).Bone histomorphometry showed that at the 2th and 4th week,the best result was found in group A(P＜0.01).While,at the 8th week,the result of group A was still better than that of other 3 ones (P ＜ 0.01),but group B and C showed no significant difference(P ＞ 0.05).The combination of PRF and ADM shows the most significant effect.

Objective To definite the interactions between the human gastric carcinoma cell and the human vascular endothelial cell during the establishment and maintenance of the tumor vascular system and the tumor hematogenous metastasis.Methods We prepared the conditioned mediums of each cell so as to study the effect of the conditioned medium on itself or others by MTT colorimetry. The comprehensive effect of interactions between two cells was determined by stratified transfilter co-culture or direct contact co-culture.Results The conditioned medium of human gastric carcinoma cell can stimulate the proliferation of the human vascular endothelial cell, but the CM of HVEC can inhibit the growth of HGCC. Both kinds of cells can inhibit the growth of itself. The ultimate comprehensive effect of the interactions between two kinds of cells was increase of total cell numbers.Conclusion There exist the complicated interactions between the human gastric carcinoma cell and the human vascular endothelial cell during the tumor angiogenesis and the tumor hematogenous metastasis. The ultimate comprehensive effect of the interactions is increase of total cells numbers and tumor volume.

This study aimed at evaluating the quality of the precise powder decoction pieces (PPDP) of L.japonicae Flos (LJF) compared with the traditional commercial slices with chemical fingerprint methods and DNA molecular identification technology.Different specifications of PPDP were prepared,their dry extract contents were in contrast with that of commercial slices.The three batches of commercial slices were collected,and the content uniformity,fingerprint and similarity evaluation before and after the mixing and pulverization were studied by HPLC-DAD and DNA sequence alignment.As a result,the paste rate of PPDP was slightly higher than that of the traditional commercial slices.The dissolution of chlorogenic acid of PPDP was higher than that of the traditional commercial slices.RSD of inter-assay dissolutions of chlorogenic acid of commercial slices was 11.93％,which was reduced to 8.29％ after mixing and preparing into PPDP.The fingerprint showed that the slimilarity of the fringerprint of the mixed and powdered LJF was elevated with 7 common peaks.All the common peaks were increased at different levels.In conclusion,compared with traditional commercial slices of LJF,PPDP apparently improved the dissolution rate and the quality uniformity,indicating that the boiled powder of CRP obviously presented vantages in clinic.