Epigenetic mechanisms influence gene expression and function without modification of the base sequence of DNA and may generate a genetic phenotype.Epigenetic modifications include DNA methylation,histone modifications,and deployment of noncoding RNA.There is growing evidence that epigenetic mechanisms could play a crucial role in the development of diabetic retinopathy (DR).Molecular biological methods which could maintain mitochondrial homeostasis through the regulation of epigenetic mechanisms may prevent the development of DR.Epigenetic-related treatment modalities will become the new direction of targeted therapy for DR.

Objective To observe the clinical effect of interferon on the treatment of virus keratitis. Meth-ods Review and analysis was made of 476 patients with virus keratitis who was treated with high concentration of an-ti-virus eyedrops and one million unit of α-2b interferon, the clinical safety and effect was evaluated. Result The total cure rate was 59. 1%, and the type from high to low is interstitial、endothelial、epithelial and the total cornea. The total recurrence rate is 23.5% ,and the type from high to low is epithelial,the total cornea,endothelial and inter-stitial. The incidence rate of the adverse effect is 10. 7%. Condusion Systemic administration of interferon has a direct anti-virus effect, and it can raise the cure rate of virus keratitis as well as decrease recurrencerate. One million unit of interferon has a high clinical safety and effect.

Objective To study the spectrum of upper gastrointestinal diseases and infection rate of Helicobacter pylori(Hp) in our hospital during the past 35 years.Methods Patients who were 16 or older with duodenal ulcer,gastric ulcer,reflux esophagitis,gastric cancer and esophageal cancer diagnosed by gastroscopy and pathology were retrospectively enrolled in our study from January 1980 to December 2014.Patients with chronic superficial gastritis,chronic atrophic gastritis or Hp infection from January 1989to December 2014 were also included in our study according to the same diagnostic criteria.The incidences of diseases and the infection rates of Hp were studied.Results A total of 213 495 patients underwent gastroscopy in our department during the past 35 years.The overall diagnostic rates of duodenal ulcer,gastric ulcer,reflux esophagitis,gastric cancer and esophageal cancer were 9.87％,3.79％,6.66％,1.59％ and 0.66％ respectively.There were 183 426 patients receiving gastroscopy in our department from January 1989to December 2014.The overall endoscopic diagnosis rates of chronic superficial gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis were 49.83％ and 22.43％ respectively.The overall infection rate of Hp was 36.18％,which had a declining trend consistent with peptic ulcer (all P =0.000).Yet,the prevalence of reflux esophagitis,chronic superficial gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis were increasing (all P =0.000).The diagnostic rates of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer were persistent (P =0.266,P =0.156).Conclusions The Hp infection during years has been decreasing,consistent with the declining tendency of peptic ulcer.On the other hand,reflux esophagitis,chronic superficial gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis show an ascendant trend.The proportion of patients with gastric cancer and esophageal cancer is relatively stable.

Objective To study the influence of Bw4 broad specific motif on hepatitis C virus (HCV) specific T cell response.Methods The 86 patients with HCV infection were enrolled in this study,who had history of non-standard paid blood donation.The sequence specific primer SSP-PCR and specific primer Amplification Refractory Mutation system was used to analyze HLA type.The T cell response,using PBMCs stimulated by HCV nonstructural protein NS3,NS4 and NS5 was tested by ELISPOT assay.Results There were 29 (33.7％) cases with homozygosity Bw4/4,38 cases (44.2％) with heterozygosity Bw4/6 and 19(22.1％) cases with homozygosity Bw6/6 in 86 patients with HCV infection.HCV viral loads in Bw4/4group,Bw4/6 group and Bw6/6 group were (3.98±0.32) Log (copy/ml),(5.22± 0.29) Log (copy/ml),(5.04±0.38) Log(copy/ml),respectively and there was a significant difference in HCV load among three groups(P=0.0153).The 24 cases with HCV infection were test HCV specific T cell response divided homozygosity Bw4/4 group and non-homozygosity Bw4/4 group.The HCV specific T cell response frequency in homozygosity Bw4/4 group and non-homozygosity Bw4/4 group was 50％ (5/10) and 14.28％ (2/14,respectively.The HCV specific T cell response magnitude in homozygosity Bw4/4 group and non-homozygosity Bw4/4 group was 70 SFU/106 PBMC (0-2020 SFU/106 PBMC)and 0 SFU/106 PBMC (0-200 SFU/106 PBMC).The response magnitude and frequency in homozygosity Bw4/4 group was significantly higher than that of non-homozygosity Bw4/4 group,P value was 0.0450 and 0.069,respectively.In homozygosity Bw4/4 group NS5 induced T cell response was dominant.The NS5 specific T cell response frequency in Bw4/4 group and non-Bw4/4 group was 50％ and 7.14％,respectively,and the difference was nearly significant(P=0.050).Conclusion The HCV-infected blood donors with homozygosity for HLA-Bw4 alleles is associated with a significant lower HCV virus load and stronger HCV specific T cell response,compared with non-homozygosity Bw4/4 group.

Poly ( duenedumethylammonuum chlorude ) ( PDDA ) functuonaluzed sulver nanopartucles ( AgNPs ) prepared wuth PDDA as the protectuve and reductuve agents was combuned wuth graphene oxude ( GO ) to prepare PDDA functuonaluzed cubuc sulver nanopartucles ( C-AgNPs)/GO composute, whuch was then modufued on a glassy carbon electrode ( GCE) to form C-AgNPs-PDDA/GO/GCE. The surface morphologues of dufferent modufued electrodes were characteruzed by scannung electron mucroscope ( SEM ) , and theur correspondung cycluc voltammetruc ( CV) behavuors were unvestugated, unducatung that the composute of C-AgNPs-PDDA/GO exhubuted excellent electrocatalytuc oxudatuon actuvuty to DA and NO-2 . By usung dufferentual pulse voltammetry, the responses of C-AgNPs-PDDA/GO/GCE were lunear un the ranges of 0 . 030-0 . 300 μmol/L and 0 . 300-300 μmol/L wuth detectuon lumut of 9. 8 nmol/L (S/N=3) for DA, and 30. 0-2300 μmol/L wuth detectuon lumut of 12. 6 μmol/L (S/N=3) for NO-2, respectuvely. The modufued electrode dusplayed good selectuvuty, reproducubuluty and stabuluty, and could be used for the sumultaneous determunatuon of DA and NO-2 un human serum samples wuth recoverues of 97. 4%-104. 2% and 98. 0%-102. 8%, respectuvely. Compared wuth spectrophotometruc method, the determunatuon results were satusfactory, showung that the modufued electrode possessed a potentual applucatuon value.

Objective To investigate the differents of rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(IELISA) and the traditional serological methods in diagnosis of human brucellosis.Methods Brucella antibody was detected by IELISA,rose bangel plate test (RBPT),standard agglutination test (SAT),Coomb's test and cysteine test of serological methods in 430 confirmed and suspected patients and 300 healthy controls during the same period.The consistency was analyzed between IELISA and other tests.Results Positive rates of patients were significandy higher than those in healthy controls (IELISA:83.49％ vs.0;RBPT:86.97％ vs.0;SAT:76.27％ vs.0;Coomb's:65.58％ vs.0.02％;and cysteine test:67.91％ vs.0,x2 =535.05,412.47,437.66,339.22,489.49,all P ＜ 0.01).Positive consistency rates between IELISA and other tests were 87.19％,79.39％,71.59％ and 76.60％,the highest was between IELISA and RBPT,the lowest was between IELISA and Coomb's.Conclusions Brucella antibody is detected conveniently,quickly,and accurately by the joint application of RBPT and IEHSA,which provides important technical support for prevention and control of brucellosis.It is worthy of application extensively.

BACKGROUND:Stem cel s can be induced to differentiate into dopaminergic neurons in vivo and in vitro, which provides a theoretical basis for stem cel transplantation in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease
OBJECTIVE:To explore the feasibility and mechanism of intracerebral transplantation of umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel s for treatment of Parkinson’s disease rats.
METHODS:Intracerebral injection of 6-hydroxydopamine was used to make Parkinson’s disease models in SD rats. Twenty-two model rats were randomized into cel transplantation group (n=12) and control group (n=10) and respectively injected intracerebral y with umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel suspension and PBS. At 1-8 weeks after cel transplantation, intra-abdominal injection of apomorphine was performed every week to observe the rotation behaviors of rats;at the 2nd and 8th weeks, rat’s striatum and substantia nigra were taken for immunohistochemistry staining.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The rotation behaviors were gradual y decreased with time in the cel transplantation, but had no changes in the control group. At 3-8 weeks after transplantation, there were significant differences in the rotation behaviors between the two groups (P<0.05). At 2 weeks after transplantation, tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cel s were found within and around the striatum of the cel transplantation group;but there were no exogenous cel s in the control group. At 8 weeks after transplantation, there were stil active cel s and tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cel s in the striatum of cel transplantation group, and there was no tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the striatum of the control group. These findings suggest that transplanted umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel s can survive in the brain that are positive for tyrosine hydroxylase, which can improve the behavior abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease rats.

AIM: In this paper, we studied the efficiencies and the mechanisms of a new Chinese herb Qcimum basilicum polysaccharide (BP) on PG cell metastasis in vitro. METHODS: The number of tumor cells going through matrigel was assayed and used to represent the ability of the invasion and migration of PG cells. Using Scrape-loading and dye transfer (SLDT) technique, the efficiencies of BP on recovering PG cell gap junction -mediated intercellular communication (GJIC) was measured. The expressions of c-myc, nm23-H1 and Tiam-1 genes mRNA in PG cells treated with BP were determined by RT-PCR. RESULTS: Compared with the control, the action of invasion and migration of PG cells were decreased after treated with BP (P

There have been very few studies on the effect of Gualou Xiebai Banxia decoction combined with Xuefu Zhuyu decoction in inhibiting apoptosis in myocardial ischemial injury caused by coronary heart disease. In this experiment, Gualou Xiebai Banxia decoction combined with-Xuefu Zhuyu decoction were used to intervene the miniature swine phlegm and blood stasis type coronary heart disease model, in order to observe the effect of the combined prescription on the myocardial apoptosis and the expressions of Bcl-2, Bax, Caspase-3, Caspase-9 in the model. Totally 15 Chinese experimental miniature swine were adopted and randomly divided into the control group, the model group and the phlegm and stasis-treating group. The model group and the stasis-treating group were fed with high fat diets for two weeks, intervened with the coronary artery injury and then given drugs and high fat diets for eight weeks. The control group was fed with ordinary diets for 10 weeks, without the coronary artery injury. After the experiment, myocardia at the juncture of infracted areas were collected and made into formalin-fixed paraffin sections. The TDT-mediate dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay was used to detect the myocardial apoptosis. The immunohistochemistry (IHC) technique was applied to detect Bcl-2, Bax, Caspase-3, Caspase-9 levels in myocardial tissues. According to the findings, the apoptosis indexes (AI) for the control group, the model group and the phlegm and stasis-treating group were 0.92%, 27.68%, 17.28%, respectively. The AI of the phlegm and stasis-treating group was significantly lower than that of the model group (P < 0.01). Compared with the model group, the phlegm and stasis-treating group showed significantly higher Bcl-2 protein expression (P < 0.01) and lower Bax, Caspase-3 and Caspase-9 protein expressions (P < 0.01). In conclusion, Gualou Xiebai Banxia decoction combined with Xuefu Zhuyu decoction have a significant protective effect against the myocardial apoptosis in miniature swine phlegm and blood stasis type coronary heart disease model.
Animals ; Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Caspases ; metabolism ; Coronary Disease ; drug therapy ; Disease Models, Animal ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; Female ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Myocardium ; pathology ; Phytotherapy ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 ; analysis ; Swine ; Swine, Miniature ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein ; analysis

Background Retinal neovascularization (RNV) is one of the major causes of blindness worldwide,but the pathogenic mechanism of this disease remains unclear, and therapeutic modalities need to be improved.Therefore,it is necessary to identify ocular protein markers with significant expression changes during RNV, thereby providing novel therapeutic targets for neovascular retinopathies.Objective This study was to investigate retinal vessel morphological characteristics and protein expression profiling in a mouse model of oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR).Methods Forty four C57BL/6J mouse pups were randomly divided into normal control group and OIR group at postnatal day 7 (P7).The mice in the normal control group were raised under the normal air for 10 days.The mice of the OIR group were exposed to (75±2)％ oxygen for 5 days.The mother mice were alternated between the two groups every day.The mice of the OIR group returned to normal air at P12.Fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran (FITC-dextran) was retrobulbarly injected at P17 mice from both groups, and the retinal flatmounts were prepared after fixation.The FITC-dextran-labeled retinal vessels were observed and quantified;the paraffin sections of eyeballs were processed for hematoxylin and eosin staining,and the number of pre-retinal vascular cell nuclei was quantified.The total proteins were extracted from the eyes, and the expression profiling was analyzed by a customized protein array and verified by Western blot and ELISA.Results The retinal flatmounts labeled with FITC-dextran showed that the peripheral retinal microvessels in the OIR group were tortuous, disorganized with neovascular buds,and the vascular obliteration was prominent in the center of retina.Contrastly,the vessels were smooth,organized, and evenly distributed in the normal control group.The percentage of vascular obliteration area in the OIR group was (25.53±2.16)％ ,which was significantly higher than (0.66±0.36)％ in the normal control group (t=-27.61 ,P＜ 0.01).The number of pre-retinal vascular cell nuclei,as revealed by hematoxylin and eosin staining, was (28.41 ± 3.97)/slide in the OIR group, which was substantially higher than (0.16±0.31)/slide in the normal control group (t =-54.42,P＜0.001).Protein array showed that 10 out of the 62 examined pro-inflammatory, pro-angiogenic cytokines exhibited more than 1.5-fold expression changes,including 3 up-regulated cytokines and 7 down-regulated cytokines;4 cytokines showed more than 2-fold expression changes,in which 3 cytokines were down-regulated and 1 cytokine was up-regulated.The differential expressions were verified by Western blot and ELISA.The expression trends of platelet factor 4 (PF-4), vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A), selectin P (SELP), vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1) ,soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor Ⅱ (sTNF-RⅡ) and chemokine C-X-C motif ligand 16 (CXCL16) were consistent with those revealed by protein array.PF-4,VEGF-A and SELP were up-regulated,and the other 3 were significantly down-regulated (all at P＜0.05).Conclusions Differential expression patterns of the cytokines,including PF-4,VEGF-A, SELP, VCAM-1, sTNF-RⅡ and CXCL16, are identified between normal and OIR mouse eyes.These differential expression patterns suggest that under the condition of OIR,the platelet system is activated,and proinflammatory factors are down-regulated.PF-4 might become a new target for VEGF-independent therapeutic strategy against RNV.