Objective To observe the curative effects of Guillain-Barre Syndrome(GBS) treated with large dose of immunoglobulin.Methods 34 patients with acute GBS were randomly divided into intravenous immunoglobulin(IVIG) group and control group(17 cases in each group).The patients in IVIG group were treated with intravenous injection of human immunoglobulin 0.4 g/(kg?d) for five days,while the other treatment of two groups was similar.The curative effects was evaluated at 21 days after therapy.Results The cure-rate(52.9%) and total effective rate(100%) in IVIG group were signifcantly higher than those in control group(11.8% and 76.5%)(all P

Objective To study the clinicopathological characteristics of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) in Chinese population with different criteria and guidelines. Methods Twenty four families fulfilling Amsterdam Criteria (AC), 15 additional families fulfilling Japanese Criteria (JC) and the remaining 19 patients fitting Bethesda Guidelines (BG) were analyzed. Results In the 24 AC families there were 116 malignant tumor patients including 90 colorectal cancer (CRC) subjects and in the 15 JC families there were 54 malignant tumor patients including 33 CRC cases. The two groups displayed similar clinical features. Mean age of first CRC at diagnosis was 46.1 and 51.4 years old, respectively. The proximal colonic cancers accounted for 55.4% versus 44.8%. Synchronous and metachronous multiple CRCs occurred in 25.6% and 18.2% of patients respectively. Totally there were 55 extracolonic tumors in the two groups. Gastric and endometrial carcinomas were two most common extracolonic tumor types in our series. The tumors of the 34 probands showed more frequent exophytic growth pattern, higher occurance of poorly differentiated carcinoma, A / B Dukes stage and more Crohn's like lymphoid reaction ( P

ObjectiveToinvestigatethecorrelationbetweenbloodpressurevariabilityandcognitive impairment in ischemic stroke. Methods The inpatients with acute ischemic stroke were enroled. The demographic and clinical data were colected. The coefficient of variation of blood pressure within 7 days after onset w as calculated. Montreal Cognitive Assessment w as used to evaluate the cognitive function at three month after onset. Multivariate logistic regression analysis w as used to identify the relationship betw een the coefficient of variation of blood pressure w ithin 7 days and the cognitive impairment at 3 months after onset. Results A total of 708 patients w ith acute ischemic stroke w ere enrol ed in the study. At 3-month folow-up, 510 patients (72.0%) had cognitive impairment and 198 (28.0%) had normal cognitive function. The coefficient of variation for systolic blood pressure ( 8.3 ±1.2 vs.8.7 ±1.4; t= -3.299, P=0.001) and coefficient of variation for diastolic blood pressure ( 7.8 ±1.3 vs.8.0 ±1.5; t= -2.529, P=0.012) in the cognitive impairment group w ere significantly higher than those in the normal cognitive function group. With the first quintile as a reference, after adjusting other confounding factors, multivariate logistic regression analysis show ed that cognitive impairment at 3 months after onset w as significantly associated w ith coefficient of variation for systolic blood pressure. The odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals for the 2-5 quantile groups w ere 2.33 (1.18-4.6), 2.31 (1.15-4.66), 2.70 (1.29-5.65), and 4.82 (1.92-12.1), respectively ( al P<0.05 ). Conclusion Systolic blood pressure variability in the acute phase of ischemic stroke is associated w ith cognitive impairment.

Objective:To evaluate the proliferative activity of and changes in the expression of related differentiation proteins in a stably NCSTN gene-silenced human immortalized keratinocyte cell line HaCaT, and to preliminarily explore the possible mechanism underlying the occurrence of acne inversa.Methods:By lentivirus-mediated short hairpin RNA (shRNA) , a NCSTN gene-silenced HaCaT cell model was established (shRNA group) , and other HaCaT cells transfected with empty lentivirus served as a negative control group. Real-time quantitative PCR and Western blot analysis were performed to determine the NCSTN gene-silencing efficiency. Cell counting kit-8 (CCK8) assay was conducted to evaluate the proliferative activity of HaCaT cells, and real-time quantitative PCR and Western blot analysis were performed to determine the mRNA and protein expression of cytokeratins (CK1, CK5, CK7, CK10, CK14, CK16, CK17, CK18, CK19 and CK20) and other differentiation molecules (involucrin and loricrin) respectively in HaCaT cells. Two-independent-sample t test was used to compare the measurement data between two groups. Results:NCSTN mRNA and protein expression were significantly lower in the shRNA group (0.42 ± 0.19, 0.30 ± 0.07 respectively) than in the negative control group (1.00 ± 0.34, 1.00 ± 0.26; t = 5.196, 2.637, P < 0.001, < 0.05, respectively) , and the gene-silencing efficiency was 70%. Compared with the negative control group, the shRNA group showed higher cellular proliferative activity, but decreased protein expression of CK16, CK19 and terminal differentiation molecule involucrin ( t = 3.787, 3.817, 2.904, P < 0.01, < 0.05, < 0.05, respectively) . Conclusion:Stable silencing of NCSTN gene can lead to abnormal proliferation and differentiation of HaCaT cells, which provides new ideas for subsequent exploration of acne inversa caused by NCSTN gene mutation.