Infectious diseases are resulted from the invasion of an organism's body tissues by multiple disease-causing agents. It has been demonstrated that the occurrence and development of infectious diseases are closely associated with the functional status of immune system. Cytokines play significant roles in modulating the host immune response to the clearance of pathogenic microorganisms and maintaining immune homeostasis. Interleukin-35 (IL-35), as a newly identified member of IL-12 family, exerts suppressive effect on immune response by means of a specific pattern. With the progress of research in recent years, IL-35 might serve as an essential contributor in the immunopathogensis of vast infectious diseases, including hepatitis B, sepsis, tuberculosis and parasite infection, which simultaneously appear to be closely related to the severity, progression as well as prognosis of the illness. Apparently, IL-35 is regarded as a potent and promising anti-inflammatory cytokine in clinical application; its potential value may shed light on the therapeutic strategies for infectious diseases. Herein, we mainly review the potential role and its mechanism of IL-35 in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.

Objective To investigate the expression and correlation of interleukin-6(IL-6),myeloid cell leukelia-1(MCL-1) protein and MCL-1mRNA in cervical cancer,cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(CIN) and normal cervix.Methods Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of IL-6 and MCL-1 protein in 30 samples of cervical squamous cell carcinoma,10 samples of CIN and 10 samples of normal cervix,and RT-PCR was used to detect the expression of MCL-1mRNA.Results The protein levels of IL-6 and MCL-1 were significantly higher in cervical cancer tissues than in normal cervix and CIN tissues(P

Objective To study the expression of cyclooxygenase(COX-2) and ki-67 in chronic cervicitis,cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(CIN),squamous carcinoma of the cervix(SCC)and their relationship.Methods Tissue samples were harvested respectively from normal,inflammational,CIN and 30 SCC tissues.The expression of COX-2 mRNA was detected by RT-PCR method.COX-2 and ki-67 proteins were detected by inmmunohistochemical method.Results The overall expression of COX-2 mRNA and protein was higher in inflammation,CIN and SCC groups than that in normal cervix(P

Objective To understand current prevalence of fluorosis, of drinking tea type in Pengyang County of Ningxia to offer scientific basis for preventing and curing, monitoring, health education. Methods Four towns were chosen as investigating spots in Pengyang County of Ningxia in 2007, from each 50 children aged 8-12 year old and 50 adults who either had tea or did not were investigated. Dean method was used to measure dental fluorosis of children and adult; meanwhile fluoride content in water, urine and drinking tea was tested using the fluoride ionic electrode method and that in brick tea using water immersion electrode method. χ2 testing, analysis of variance, u test, q test were performed. Results In adult drink tea group, control group, and children, the detaction rate of dental fluorosis were respectively 24.75%(99/400),9.5%(38/400)and 15.96%(71/445), obviously higher in drink tea group than the control group(χ2= 32.73, P<0.05). Urine average concentration of fluoride was (3.38±2.37), (2.09±1.33 ). (1.41±0.67)mg/L, obviously higher in drink tea group than the control group(u= 9.49, P<0.05). In 4 investigation spots tea fluoride averaged at (3.63±2.05)mg/L, fluoride content in drinking water was averagely (1.01±0.49) mg/L, with that of Wangwa Town [(1.31±0.33)mg/L] exceeding the national standard for drinking water (1.0 mg/L), where dental fluorosis rate was higher and fluoride content was higher than that in 3 other investigation spots (P<0.05). Conclusions Residents in Pengyang County in Ningxia who drink brick tea can cause accumulation of fluorine to poison in Ningxia, leading to fluorosis of drinking tea type; Wangwa Town have both drink tea and water fluorine poison.

Objective To study the relation between the expression of drug-resistance gene and in vitro drug sensitivity test in ovarian carcinoma and clinical biological behavior.Methods In 60 primarily treated patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma,the expression of COX-2,Connexin43(CX43)and P-gp was detected using flow cytometry.Sensitivity of cells of short term in vitro culture to anticancer drugs was also examined by the game techniques.Remits The expression level of COX-2 was higher in tissue with DDP-resistance patients than those with sensitivity patients but the expression level of CX43 was lower in tissue with DDP-resistance and Taxol-resistanee patients than those with sensitivity patients.The expression level of P-gp was higher in tissue with VP16-resistance patients than those with sensitivity patients.The sensitivity of DDP,Taxol and VP16 was lower in tissue with higher expression of COX-2 and P-gp than those with lower expression of COX-2 and P-gp.The sensitivity of DDP and Taxol was higher in tissue with higher expression of CX43 than those with lower expression of CX43.Conclusion The in vitro sensitivity of some of the drugs is effected by tissues with expression of COX-2,P-gp and CX43.It is not only useful but also individualized treatment for application of sensitive drug test and detecting the expression of COX-2,P-gP and CX43 to increase the response rate of chemotherapy in patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma.

RNA-seq can help us quickly obtain the whole transcriptome sequences of species under different conditions. Many Unigenes that are assembled by raw reads always do not contain complete open reading frame (ORF). In addition, it also has some redundancy in transcriptome library. Some Unigenes in the library, although belong to one transcript, cannot be assembled without overlapping. We found five incomplete Unigenes annotated ammonium transporter (AMT) from Salicornia europaea transcriptome, in which two Unigenes (Uni4 and Uni5) had identical expression patterns across four transcriptomes. The two Unigenes may come from one transcript. Analyzing the Unigene position of transcript by NCBI blastx, we found that Uni4 and Uni5 respectively located in 5' end and 3' end compared with the reference transcript, and an unknown gap of 120 bp may exist in a hypothetic transcript to which Uni4 and Uni5 both belong. To verify the hypothesis, single forward primer and single reverse primers were respectively designed on Uni4 and Uni5, and a fragment with about 800 bp was generated by PCR. Then it was sequenced and aligned with Uni4 and Uni5. Finally, we assembled a sequence with 1 667 bp, which contains a complete ORF (1 482 bp, coding 494 amino acids). It belongs to amt1 subfamily and was named Seamt1 via the phylogenetic analysis. It was pointed by bioinformatics tools that SeAMT1 protein conformed to the AMT characteristics of other species. This work clustered expression pattern to explore the Unigenes of one transcript, and the feasibility of this method was validated through the other two groups of Unigenes. The handy method will benefit extension and assembling of Unigene in transcriptome, it also helps achieve the complete ORF and gene function.
Ammonium Compounds ; Chenopodiaceae ; genetics ; Computational Biology ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Genes, Plant ; Membrane Transport Proteins ; genetics ; Molecular Sequence Annotation ; Open Reading Frames ; Phylogeny ; Plant Proteins ; genetics ; Transcriptome

Objective The clinical value of ifrst-trimester standard ultrasound views in screening for fetal structural abnormalities. Methods From September 2008 to March 2011, transabdominal sonographic screening by standard ultrasound views was performed in 3 134 viable singleton pregnancies during the ifrst trimester at Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital. Used the following views:(1) Fetal proifle;(2) Neck sagittal;(3) Skull and brain;(4) Thorax;(5) Abdomen;(6) Bladder;(7) Upper limbs, and (8) Lower limbs. The women underwent 20-to 24-week and 28-to 32-week ultrasound examination if the anatomical survey was normal during the ifrst trimester. Follow-up was obtained by reviewing of the birth records from hospital charts. Results Sixteen prenatal abnormalities were detected at 11-to 13-week scan (including one case of encephalocele and meningoceles, one case of endothelial cushion defect and single umbilical artery, one case of ectopia cordis, gastroschisis, and spinal abnormalities, two cases of exencephaly, one case of anencephaly, one case of gastroschisis and lower limb malformation, two cases of omphalocele, one case of encephalocele, ectopia cordis, and gastroschisis, one case of single ventricle, one case of endothelial cushion defect, four cases of hyhrop). All of the 13 women decided on termination of pregnancy. Three suspected structural abnormalities (hydrops) detected at the ifrst-trimester scan were found as normal after birth. Seven cases were diagnosed at 20-to 24-week scan (including one case of dextrocardiac and double outlet right ventricle;two cases of endothelial cushion defects;one case of trisomy 21 with VSD;one case of omphalocele, one case of short ulna and radial with wrist distortion, and one case of club foot). One case of diaphragmatic hernia was detected at 32-week scan. Two cases (one case of cardiac defects and one case of ear deformity) were identified after birth. Of all the 3 134 fetuses, follow-up was obtained in 2 822 cases, 312 cases were excluded from the analysis because the outcome of their pregnancy could not be traced. Twenty-three fetuses with at least one major structural defect detected by prenatal ultrasonography were confirmed by follow-up. The sensitivity of the standard first-trimester ultrasound views was 56.5%(13/23), speciifcity was 99.9%(2 796/2 799), CR was 99.6%(2 812/2 822), and the false negative rate was 43.5%(10/23). Conclusions The standard views of the ifrst trimester are feasible and effective in screening the major fetal abnormalities including exencephaly, anencephaly, gastroschisis, omphalocele, ectopia cordis and single ventricle. However, ultrasound screening in early pregnancy still has some limitations, continuous scanning in different stages of pregnancy is necessary.

Objective:To investigate the immunoregulation effect of ovalbumin immune tolerance factors (OVA ITFs).Methods:Components that were smaller than 3 kD were isolated from the splenic lymphocytes lysates of OVA tolerance mice or naive mice,respectively,named as OVA ITFs or OVA ITFs conttrol.Naive BALB/c mice were divided into 5 groups,group A,B,C,D were injected i.v.by OVA ITFs,OVA ITFs control,splenic lymphocytes from OVA tolerant mice or PBS,respectively,group E as the blank control.The percentages of CD4+CD25+ T cell subpopulation from spleens before and after adoptive transfer were measured with flow cytometer;OVA specific lymphocyte responses were assessed by MTT assay.The levels of IL-10 and TGF-?1 in the culture supernatants were tested by ELISA kits.Results:For OVA ITFs or splenic lymphocytes from OVA tolerant mice,the percentages of CD4+CD25+ T cell subpopulation from spleens after adoptive transfer were raised significantly compared with that before adoptive transfer (15.32%?1.03% and 15.35%?0.62% vs 9.97%?1.38%,P

Objective:To establish the method for the determination of emodin and danshensu Pinggan oral liquid. Methods:The contents were determined by HPLC. The chromatographic conditions for emodin were as follows: an Agilent Eclipse XDB-C18 column (150 mm × 4. 6 mm, 5μm) was used and the mobile phase was methanol-water (80 ∶20). The detection wavelength was 287 nm and the flow rate was 1. 0 ml·min-1 . The column temperature was 25℃ and the injection volume was 20 μl. The chromatographic condi-tions for Danshensu were as follows:an Agilent Eclipse SB-C18 column (150 mm × 4. 6 mm, 5 μm) was used and the mobile phase was methanol-1% acetic acid solution (2 ∶98). The detection wavelength was 280 nm and the flow was 1. 0 ml·min-1. The column temperature was 30℃ and the injection volume was 20 μl. Results:Emodin had a good linear relationship within the range of 26. 75-428. 00 μg·ml-1(r=0. 999 9). The average recovery was 102. 7% and RSD was 0. 76% (n=6). Sodium Danshensu had a good linear relationship within the range of 10.17-162.77 μg·ml-1(r =0.999 9). The average recovery was 100.5% and RSD was 1. 47% (n=6). Conclusion:The method is simple, accurate and reproducible, which can be used for the quality control of the prep-aration.

Objective To explore the clinical value of magnetic resonance imaging( MRI) in the diagnosis and classification of perianal abscess and anal fistula.Methods Eighty patients with suspected perianal abscess and anal fistula were selected in Yuyao People＇s Hospital from May 2016 to December 2017.They were divided into general examination group and MRI group by random number table,with 40 cases in each group. The general examination group underwent ultrasound examination,and the MRI group underwent MRI examination.The detection rate of MRI examination for various types of perianal abscess and anal fistula was analyzed based on the results of operation. Results In the general examination group, the diagnostic accuracy of anal fistula supervisor, anal fistula internal orifice,perianal abscess and anal fistula branch were 65.0% (26/40),70.0% (28/40),57.5% (23/40) and 52.5% (21/40),respectively,which in the MRI group were 92.5% (37/40),77.5% (31/40),87.5% (35/40) and 95.0% (38/40),respectively.There were statistically significant differences in diagnostic accuracy of anal fistula supervisor, perianal abscess and anal fistula branch between the two groups ( χ2 =9.054,7.116,8.865, all P <0.05). The effective rate of operation in the MRI group was 67.5% (27/40),which was significantly higher than that in the general examination group [67.5% (27/40)],the difference was statistically significant(χ2 =9.935,P<0.01). Conclusion Using MRI to diagnose perianal abscess and anal fistula can accurately judge the number,involvement range,specific location and surrounding structure of the abscess and anal fistula,and has important value for clinical treatment and prognosis.