In recent years, the morbidity and mortality of malignant tumors in China have been increased year by year, which has caused a serious economic burden on families and society. Therefore, researches of the mechanism of cancer development and new methods of diagnosis and treatment are desperately needed. Foxf1 adjacent non-coding developmental regulatory RNA (FENDRR) is a long non-coding RNA (LncRNA) discovered in recent years. Its abnormal expression can regulate cell proliferation, migration and invasion through different mechanisms, and participate in the development of various malignant tumors. This article reviews the progress of biological functions and molecular mechanisms of FENDRR in different malignancies.

It is well established that cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of diabetes-related death. Endothelial dysfunction is widely accepted as the initial and critical factor contributing to diabetic vascular diseases. Insulin resistance may result in vascular endothelial dysfunction, which in turn aggravates diabetic vascular diseases. Via PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, insulin inhibits the function of FoxOs, which, endothelial FoxO1 especially, exerts an important role in atherosclerosis and angiogenesis. In this regard, Wang et al. characterized 10 FoxO1 target genes regulated by insulin in endothelial cells, among which, CITED2, a transcriptional coregulator, was selected to extensively investigate its role and the underlying mechanism of insulin-regulated angiogenesis. CITED2 was significantly increased in vascular endothelial cells in diet-induced mice, ob/ob mice, as well as obese type 2 diabetic patients, all of those models or subjects are accompanied by insulin resistance. In endothelial cells, insulin significantly down-regulated CITED2 expression through insulin receptor-PI3K-Akt-FoxO1 pathway. Inhibition of CITED2 resulted in significant increases in proliferation and tube formation of endothelial cells. Overexpression of CITED2, however, repressed the transactivation of HIF. The study on the mouse model with hind limb ischemia showed that endothelial CITED2 deficiency gave rise to significant increases of expression of endothelin-1, a well-known HIF target gene, induced by ischemia or hypoxia, suggesting that CITED2 inhibited endothelial angiogenesis via suppressing HIF transactivation. In summary, insulin resistance accompanying obesity and type 2 diabetes leads to enhanced CITED2 expression, consequently impairing HIF signaling and proangiogenic capacity in endothelial cells. Inhibition of CITED2 will be a promising novel way to deal with ischemic cardiovascular diseases in diabetic patients.

To observe the injury process and pathological changes of the facial nerve,a primer was detonated at a distance of 10 cm from the face of each of 36 anesthelized dogs to simulate blast injury of the maxillofacial region. At the same time, a tangential wound of masseter was produced by a steel pellet fired with a musket to simulate a shrapnel injury. At different time points after injury, the action potential of the facial nerves was checke d and the pathological changes in axons and neurons of facial nerves were observed after HE and Nissle′s staining,respectively.One day after the injury,the facial nerve axons were found to be disrupted extensively,although the epineurium was still in continuity. There were degeneration and necrosis of neurons with infiltration of inflammatory cells in the facial nerve.One week later, the inflammation began to become milder, and the necrotic neurons were gradually absorbed. Four weeks later, the survived neurons appeared normal, and axons began to regenerate. Meanwhile, electromyography (EMG) showed that the action potential of facial nerve recovered. All the observations suggested that severe indirect injury to the facial nerve trunks in an explosive injury was the main pathological changes which involved an extensive area with severe damage in neurons.

Objective: To study the difference between the facial nerve injury by gun-shot and that by blast. Methods: 40 adult dogs were divided into 2 groups, with 20 dogs in each. In the blast group, the impact wave was simulated by detonator blast in the distance of 10 cm over the dog's masseter. At the same time,a steel ball was projected to the dog's face by a rifle to imitate segments in blast. In the gun-shot group, only the steel ball was used. Then the facial nerve was taken at the time of immediateness, 6 hours, 1 day, 3 days and 7 days following the injury for HE or immunocytochemical staining. And the facial nerve conduction velocity was examined 6 hours, 3 days and 7 days after injury.Results: The facial nerve edema was found in both groups just after injury. There was scattering hemorrhage and little hematoma below the spineurium in the gun-shot wound, as well as the diffusing bleeding and larger hematoma in blast wound. In the blast group, the severe edema could be found by light microscope in the whole extracranial facial nerve. Axonal fragments, infiltrating imflammatory cells and few neurofilament protein NF positive axons were observed. In the gun-shot group, only scattering damage was found within 2 cm from the wound track.Conclusion: The facial nerve injury by gun-shot bacomes less severe with the increase of distance from the wound track, but the blast injury is wider and more severe.

Objective:To evaluate the effect of orbital floor mesh plate in the treatment of orbital floor fracture. Methods:27 patients with orbital margin fractures were treated by surgical operation with orbital floor mesh plates or medial wall plates. All patients were observed for 3 months after operation.Results:It was observed that all patients with enophthalmos were cured and the patients with nerve injury recovered satisfactorily.Conclusion:Orbital floor mesh plate is effective in the treatment of orbital floor fracture.

Humans ; Mandibular Diseases ; prevention & control ; Osteoradionecrosis ; prevention & control ; Radiotherapy ; adverse effects ; Tooth Extraction

Objective To investigate the repair effect of low intensity ultrasound on radioactive mandibule bone to provide new idea for prevention of osteoradionecrosis of the mandibule after irradiation.Methods The animal models of radioactive mandibular injury were made and treated with low intensity ultrasound.Low intensity ultrasound treatment group ( Group Ⅱ ) and not with low intensity ultrasound treatment group (Group Ⅰ ) were observed by microvessel density detection,micro-CT,ponceau trichrome stain and so on,and compared with control group.Then,the obtained data were statistically analyzed.Results The animal models of radioactive mandibular injury were successfully established.The microvessel density in Group Ⅱ was greater than that in Group Ⅰ.The bone volume fraction,trabecular thickness,bone surface/bone volume and the trabecular number in Group Ⅱ were significantly larger than those in Group Ⅰ (P ＜ 0.05).The ponceau trichrome staining showed that the osteocytes largely disappeared and that the cancellous bone trabecular atrophied in Group Ⅰ,while new bone formation,trabecular and numerous osteoblasts around trabecular were largely observed in Group Ⅱ.Conclusion Low intensity ultrasound has a good recovery effect on bone tissue after irradiation.

Objective To study the effect of laparoscopic cholecystectomy endoscopic sphincterotomy combined with Oddi lithotomy (EST) treatment of gallbladder stone on common bile duct stones. Methods A retrospective analysis between May 2003 and June 2009 ,the combined treatment of LC and EST in 78 patients with common bile duct stones was retrospectivelly analyzed. First, bile duct stones were removed by EST, then laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed within 5 days. Results EST was performed successfully in 76 cases (97%), failure in 2 cases, 1 case abdominal choledochojejunostomy due to the end of bile duct stenosis; one cases of common bile duct stone diameter of 1.6 cm, firm, failure of mechanical lithotripsy received common bile duct ploration T-tube drainage 76 cases of laparoscopic operation is successful, without obvious bleeding, bile leakage and other severe complications. Conclusions The advantages of EST + LC for the gallbladder stones and common bile duct stones with less trauma, faster recovery, fewer complications, and no T-tube drainage, etc; this is a safe and effective treatment.

Objective To explore whether miR-451 suppresses cell migration and invasion by targeting macrophage migration inhibitory factors (MIF),thus to reveal molecular mechanism that miR-451 functions as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancer.Methods A quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was carried out to detect the expression of miR-451 in gastric cancer and normal stomach mucosa.Western blotting was performed to detect the expressions of MIF protein regulated by miR-451 in MGC 803 cells.The migration and invasion abilities of MGC-803 cell were evaluated with wound-healing and transwell invasion assays.Results miR-451 was down-regulated in gastric cancer tissues.The expressions of miR-451 were negatively correlated with the clinical stage and lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer patients.Western blot showed that a notable reduction of the protein level of MIF by restoring miR-451 in MGC-803 cells.Overexpression of miR-451 inhibited the migration and invasion of MGC-803 cells.Conclusions miR-451 suppresses cell migration and invasion by targeting MIF in gastric cancer.

This paper reports a case of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI)arising in the maxilla of a 3-month-old male infant.The treatment included surgical excision of the lesion with safe margin,curettage of the maxilla and removal of associated developing tooth bud.Microscopically,it proved to be a dual tumor with small,neuroblastic-like cells and larger epithelial cells.Immunohistochemical staining demonstrated epitheloid cells HMB45(+),EMA(+),CK(+);neuroblast-like cells NSE(+),GFAP(+),S-100(+),but both cells Vim(+),CD45(-),Myogenin(-).The 18-mouth follow-up showed no recurrence or metastasis.The related literature was re-viewed.