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Glyeated hemoglobin is a widely used important test in the diagnosis and management of Diabetes Mellitus.Although the Reference Measurement System,Traceability and Clinical for HbA1c have reached international consensus,there are still quite a few aspects related with its clinical and laboratory measurement needed further research.

BACKGROUND: Disturbance of lipid metabolism is responsible for many kinds of diseases, and to screen safe and effective prescription for lipid reduction has clinical significance.OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of puerarin-arginine composition on lipid metabolism in rats.DESIGN: Comparative observing study based on animal model.SETTING: Experimental animal center and department of biochemistry in a military hospital of Chinese PLA.MATERIALS: This study was carried out at the Experimental Animal Center and Department of Biochemistry of the General Military Hospital of Chinese PLA between May and August 2004. Eighty Wistar rats were randomly divided into high dosage, middle dosage, low dosage group and control group with 10 male and 10 female rats each.METHODS: Rats took food freely, and experimental groups were supplemented with puerarine-arginine composition of different dosage (0, 0.93,1.39 and 1.85 g/kg) for observing the influence on rats.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:① blood parameters; ② change of body mass and utilization rate of food; ③ parameters of vital organs;④histopathological changes.RESULTS: From onset of the second week, body mass of both male and female rats in experimental groups were found obviously lower than those in control group. The levels of blood cholesterol in female rats were(1.63 ±0.20) and (1.29 ±0.23) mmol/L in 0.93 g/kg dosage group and control group respectively, and were(1.75 ±0. 13) and(1.31 ±0. 19) mmol/L in male rats,and both have statistical significance( F = 6.43, 6. 58, P ＜ 0. 05).Fatty parameters of the three experimental groups were found obviously lower as comparing with those of control group.CONCLUSION: Such composition has been proved to be able to exert function in lipid reduction by decreasing body mass, and improving utilization rate of food and proportion of cholesterol and organic fat.

Objective To study the stability and reproducibility in serum proteome by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS).Methods Bruker Daltonics MALDI-TOF-MS was adopted under the linear mode, with mass ranging from 800 to 10 000 m/z.MB-WCX pre-extraction kit and Clinprotools software was used to analyze data.Results The reproducibility study was carried out under the standardized conditions.Data analysis showed that the m/z ratio was in the acceptable range, and the coefficients of variation(CV) was 12.7% ,13.1% and 18.8% ,respectively in the parallel experiment by taking 2 cancer and 1 healthy control serum samples and could identify the diseased samples.Then 30 healthy control samples were used to validate this result, all of which showed very good mass profile. The average CV was 25.5%, which could meet the requirements of clinical laboratory.Conclusion With the help of optimized experimental conditions and MALDI-TOF-MS, stable and reproducible mass spectrum can be required which is helpful for the early diagnosis of diseases.

BACKGROUND: Puerarin possesses various biological efficacies, such as the protective efficacy on hypertension, cardiac disease, diabetes mellitus and blood disease, and the extracts of puerarin can inhibit the proliferation of S180 sarcoma and Lewis lung cancer to some extent.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the modulation effects of total flavone of puerarin (TFP) on the growth of pheochromocytoma PC12 cells and the protective efficacy on the H2O2-induced cellular oxidative damage.DESIGN: Complete randomization design and control experiment.SETTING: Department of Biochemistry and Institute of Geriatrics, Chinese PLA General Hospital.MATERIALS: Puerarin was bought from Tongrentang drug store, and TFP was extracted and purified routinely by ethanol and ether acetate, then was evaluated with thin-layer chromatography. The content of puerarin in extracts was 31.79% in quantitative assay. Methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT), luminal and anti-oxidative activity reagent xanthine oxidase were all from Sigma Company. PC12 cells were given by Institute of Geriatrics,Chinese PLA General Hospital as a present.METHODS: The experiment was conducted at the Institute of Geriatrics, Chinese PLA General Hospital from January to July in·2001.① The cells were cultured in 20 g/L DMEM (pH 7.1-7.2), and randomized into two groups: TFP group and H2O2-injury+TFP group, and each group was divided into 5 mass concentrations (0, 1.0, 10, 100 mg/L and 1.0 g/L). There were 8 holes for parallel culture with 100 mL culture medium in each hole (containing 1 ×l09 L-1 cells). TFP group:TFP was added for 72-hour culture at 37 ℃; H2O2 injury+TFP group:TFP was firstly cultured for 48 hours at 37 ℃, then 500 mmol/L H2O2 was added and co-cultured for other 24 hours.②The activity of cultured PC12 cells was monitored by MTF assays, the content of nitrite was measured by Griess reagents, and the antioxidant activity of superoxidedismutase (SOD) was monitored by hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase.H2O2-initiated PC12 cellular oxidative damage had been used as experimental model to study the protective efficacy of TFP, and expressed as inhibition ratio [(blank A value-detection A value)/blank A value × 100%]. The higher inhibition ratio indicated the strong ability of clearing O2-. ③ One-factor analysis of variance was used to compare the difference between data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The influence of TFP on the nitrite content, SOD activity and cell activity in PC12 cells.RESULTS: ①Effect of TFP on PC12 cell activity: 1-10 mg/L TFP hadno obvious effects on the growth of PC12 cells, and 100 mg/L TFP in creased the cell growth (P ＜ 0.05), whereas the TFP concentration was increased to 1.0 g/L, the activity of PC12 cells was inhibited obviously (P ＜ 0.01). TFP of 1-100 mg/L could protect the cultured cells from the oxidative damages of H2O2 concentration dependently (P ＜ 0.05).② Effect of TFP on clearing O2-: The ability of clearing O2 increased withthe mass concentrations of TFP in both groups with obvious dose-effect relation, except when 1 mg/L TFP was added in the H2O2 injury+TFP group. The SOD activity in PC12 cell culture liquid was obviously en hanced after adding 100 mg/L and 1 g/L TFP, compared with that without TFP addition (P ＜ 0.05-0.01). ③Modulation of TFP on nitrite: TFP of low concentration (1-100 mg/L) reduced the production of cellnitrite, whereas increased the nitrite production at the concentration of1.0 mg/mL.CONCLUSION: ①TFP can regulate the growth of PC12 cells, which canbe enhanced by low-concentration (1-100 mg/L) TFP whereas inhibited byhigh-concentration (1 g/L) TFP. However, the anti-oxidation of TFP is themost powerful. ②TFP can protect the PC12 cells obviously from the oxidative damages induced by H2O2 at low concentration.

Objective The clinical significance of serum cytokine in kidney transplanted patients have been evaluated by observing the variation of cytokines and biochemical parameters. Methods The serum IL-1?、IL-1?、IL-2、IL-4、IL-6、IL-8、IL-10、VEGF、IFN-?、TNF-?、MCP-1、EGF and 22 items of biochemistry parameters have been followed in 10 patients during 90 days around operation time. Cytokine had been measured by biochips methods in evidence 180 automatic biochips analyzer. The serum biochemical parameters had been measured by Roche diagnostic company reagents kits in HITACHI 7600DDP analyzer.Results Serum IL-6 and IL-8 had reached the highest level [(42.5?42.8) ng/L and (343.5?493.1) ng/L] at 7 days after kidney transplantation,whereas IL-2 and IL-10 were reached the highest level [(16.3 ? 5.7) ng/L and (16.6 ? 24.2) ng/L] respectively at 14 days. Then they decreased gradually, but IL-6 and IL-8 were still higher than normal control. The decreased VEGF, EGF and MCP-1 in kidney failure patient had increased gradually after transplantation. But EGF was still lower than normal control at 90 days after operation. Urea、Cr、Ua and Glu had been restored to normal level after two month of operation and the significant relationship between IL-8 and serum LDH activity have been found( r=0.93,P

Objective To discuss the value of clinical application with Hcy enzymatic cycling assay.Methods To compare the results between enzymatic cycling assay and FPIA.The precision test and correlation test of enzymatic cycling assay were evaluated at Hitachi 7600-DDP automatic Biochemistry analyzer.Serum Hcy concentration of patients with diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial encephalon infarction or chronic renal function failure had been detected in parallel with enzymatic cycling assay and FPIA and the results had been compared to the healthy.Results The within-run imprecision (CVs) of patient serum is 3.07%(low value ), 3.99%(mid value) and 4.21%(high value ). The between-run imprecision (CVs) is 4.00%(low value), 4.79%(mid value) and 4.58%(high value). The correlation of enzymatic cycling assay and FPIA was excellent(r=0.994,n=53).The averages of Hcy concentration in healthy, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial or encephalon infarction or chronic renal function failure respective were (8.15?1.89) ?mol/L, (8.88?1.36) ?mol/L, (10.66?1.60) ?mol/L, (14.02?3.42) ?mol/L, (14.45?3.83) ?mol/L and (15.21?3.50)?mol/L. There is no significant statistic difference between enzymatic cycling assay and FPIA.Conclusion The variation profile of Hcy concentration in different diseases detected by enzymatic cycling assay were similar to FPIA.The results indicated that en{ymatic cycling assay could be used to detect serum concentration of Hcy for clinical laboratory rapidly.

Objective To explore the changes in plasma fibronectin level in patients with SARS in the acute stage, and the feasibility of the use of plasma fibronectin in acute stage of SARS. Methods Plasma fibronectin contents were assayed with ELISA in patients with SARS in acute stage and 24 healthy donors. Results The plasma fibronectin level of control group was 476.2?221.0mg/L, while that of four SARS patients was 42.2?23.0 mg/L(P

Objective:To establish a determination method for sulfadoxine, sulfathiazole and sulfadiazine in animal derived prod-ucts by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry ( UPLC-MS/MS) . Methods:Trichloroacetic acid and ace-tonitrile were used in the extraction and removal of proteins. A Waters Acquity UPLC BEH C18 (100 mm × 2. 1 mm,1. 7 μm) column was used as the separation column. The mobile phase was 0. 1% formic acid in water-methanol with gradient elution. The three sulfona-mides residues were detected with multiple reaction monitoring( MRM) mode in multi-period. Results:Under the conditions,the linear range of sulfadoxine, sulfathiazole and sulfadiazine was 1. 0-200. 0 ng·ml-1 ,the linear correlation coefficient was above 0. 99,the re-covery was more than 70%,the detection limit was 0. 5 ng·ml-1 , and the quantification limit was 1. 0 ng·ml-1 . Conclusion: The sample preparation method is simple and fast, and the method can be used to analyze sulfadoxine, sulfathiazole and sulfadiazine in ani-mal derived food efficiently and sensitively.