BACKGROUND:In recent years, a lot of studies have reported the feasibility and efficacy of transplanting seed celsvia tissue-engineered cardiac patches into specific infarcted myocardial area, helping regeneration of damaged heart tissue and improving heart functions.
OBJECTIVE:To review the methods and strategies of fabricating tissue-engineered cardiac patches and to analyze the structure and functional characteristics of cardiac patches prepared by different methods.
METHODS: The first author retrieved relevant articles about the fabrication methods of tissue engineered cardiac patches by searching PubMed and Web of science data bases. The key words were “cardiac infarction, cel death”.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The fabrication methods and strategies of tissue-engineered cardiac patches are as folows: (1) obtaining multi-layer cel sheets by overlapping monolayer cel sheets; (2) combing gelatin with cels to construct multi-layer cel sheets; (3) seeding cels on scaffolds; (4) homogeneous arrangement of cels. Recent studies about tissue-engineered cardiac patches have demonstrated that the biological activities of seed cels, such as retention, survival and paracrine effects, greatly influence the effect of cardiac patches on the repair and regeneration of infarcted myocardial tissues. Temperature-sensitive method is the most mature and wide-spread used constructing technique; besides, other strategies also successfuly improve the biological activities of seed cels to different extents, and they also increase the mechanical strength and thickness of cel sheets in order to have better operability. Tissue-engineered cardiac patches are usualy prepared by different combined strategies on purpose to obtain better biological and mechanical properties.

Objective To discuss the application value of texture analysis of conventional MRI in differential diagnosis of orbital lymphoma from inflammatory pseudotumor.Methods The conventional MRI data of 15 patients with lymphoma and 17 patients with inflammatory pseudotumor proven by pathology or clinical follow-up were retrospectively reviewed.The texture features of lesions based on axial T1WI,fat-saturated T2WI and contrast enhanced fat-saturated T1WI were extracted by manually drawn ROIs with software MaZda.The subsets of optimized texture parameters were chosen by four different methods:Fisher coefficient,probability of classification error and average correlation coefficient (POE+ ACC),mutual information measure (MI) and the combination of the above three methods (FPM),respectively.Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and nonlinear discriminant analysis (NDA) were performed for texture classification.The texture features from the sequence with the best classification result of orbital lymphoma and inflammatory pseudotumor were compared.Results The optimal texture parameters were mainly derived from co occurrence matrix and run-length matrix on T1WI and T2WI.The optimal texture parameters were mainly derived from co-occurrence matrix and histogram on contrast enhanced T1WI.The best classification of MRI texture was obtained within T2WI with lowest classification error of 1.56％ achieved by FPM in combination with NDA.Comparing the texture parameters of orbital lymphoma and inflammatory pseudotumor on T2WI,the angular second moment and long length emphasis were significantly higher in orbital lymphoma (both P＜0.005),while the entropy and short length emphasis were significantly lower in orbital lymphoma (both P＜0.005).Conclusion It is feasible to use texture analysis on conventional MRI for the differentiation of orbital lymphoma and inflammatory pseudotumor.

Objective To analyze the correlation of interleukin(IL)-12B gene single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)rs6887695 with clinical phenotypes(including age at onset,family history,clinical types,gender)of psoriasis vulgaris in Chinese Han population.Methods This study recruited 575 patients with psoriasis vulgaris and 1403 healthy controls.DNA samples were obtained from these subjects.PCR with Taqman fluorescent probe(ABI 7900 system)was performed to analyze the genotype of SNP rs6887695 in IL-12B gene.Statistical analysis was carried out by using the software SPSS 14.0,and Chi-square test was conducted to compare the frequency of the SNP rs6887695 genotypes and alleles between the patients and controls as well as between patients with different clinical phenotypes of psoriasis.Results The frequency of GG,GC and CC genotype of the SNP rs6887695 was 42.61％,45.39％ and 12.0％ respectively in the patients,compared to 34.42％,47.83％ and 17.75％ in the healthy controls(x2 =16.31,P ＜ 0.01);the frequency of G and C allele of the SNP rs6887695 was 65.30％ and 34.70％ respectively in the patients,compared to 58.34％ and 41.66％ respectively in the healthy controls(x2 =16.54,P＜0.01).Significant differences were observed in the distribution of genotypes and alleles of the SNP rs6887695 between patients with chronic plaque psoriasis(n =543)and those with acute guttate psoriasis(n =32,x2 =18.11,12.19,both P ＜ 0.01).Increased frequency of G allele and GG genotype of the SNP rs6887695 were noted in the patients with psoriasis vulgaris compared with the healthy controls,and in the patients with plaque psoriasis compared with those with guttate psoriasis.However,there was no statistical difference in the distribution of SNP rs6887695 genotypes or alleles between 540 patients with adult onset psoriasis and 35 patients with child onset psoriasis,between 102 patients with family history and 440 patients without family history,or between 341 male patients and 234 female patients(all P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions The IL-12B SNP rs6887695 may be associated with the susceptibility to psoriasis vulgaris in Chinese Han population,especially with the susceptibility to plaque psoriasis,but seems unassociated with the age at onset,family history or gender of patients.

Objective To investigate the predictive value of plasma lipoprotein associated phospholipase A 2 (Lp-PLA2 ) in cere-bral infarction(CI) after transient cerebral ischemia attack (TIA).Methods Plasma Lp-PLA2 level was detected in 112 TIA pa-tients ,and the incidence rate of CI was observed on 7 ,30 ,90 d after TIA.Then the grouping was performed according to the Lp-PLA2 level ,and the predictive value of Lp-PLA2 in the risk of CI occurrence after TIA was evaluated.Results Among 112 patients with TIA ,27 cases (24.1% ) developed CI within 90 d;there were 17 cases(63.0% ) of CI after TIA in the Lp-PLA2 >207 μg/L group ,which were significantly higher than that in the 175-207 μg/L group and <175 μg/L group (P<0.05);moreover the CI occurrence in TIA patients was mainly concentrated within 7 d after onset ;the patients of Lp-PLA2 ≥175μg/L were mainly distrib-uted in the moderate and high risk groups of ABCD2 score system ;in ROC curve of Lp-PLA2 for predicting CI after TIA ,with Lp-PLA2 ≥194 μg/L as the diagnostic critical point ,the sensitivity was 0.730 and specificity was 0.680.Conclusion Lp-PLA2 may be an effective risk predictive indicator of CI occurrence after TIA ,and can improve the adverse outcome of TIA patients.

Objective To analyze the significance of levels and combined detection of plasma homocysteine(Hcy),high-sensitivity C reactive protein(hs-CRP) and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2(Lp-PLA2) in patients with ischemic cerebral stroke(ICS).Methods A total of 140 patients with ICS were selected into ICS group,and 100 healthy individuals were recruited in the control group.The plasma levels of Hcy,hs-CRP,Lp-PLA2 were examined,then the positive rates of them were statistically analyzed.Analyzed the value of the levels and joint detection of Hcy,hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2.Results The plasma levels and the positive rates of Hcy,hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2 in ICS group were statistically higher than those in the control group(P<0.05).The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve of combined detection of Hcy,hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2 in diagnosis of ICS was 0.949,the sensitivity was 0.850,and the specificity was 0.807,which were higher than Hcy,hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2 alone.Conclusion The plasma levels of Hcy,hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2 increase in ICS patients,and the combined detection of the three indicators might improve the early diagnostic value of ICS.

Objective To investigate the levels of lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2(Lp-PLA2),D-dimer(D-D),antithrombin Ⅲ (AT Ⅲ) in acute cerebral infarction (ACI)patients,and to analyzed their correlation with ACI.Methods Sixty-nine patients with ACI(ACI group) and 40 individuals undergoing healthy physical examination(control group) were selected in this study.The levels of Lp-PLA2,D-D and ATⅢ were compared between the two groups and their positive rates were statistically analyzed.Then the correlation between Lp-PLA2,D-D and ATⅢ with ACI was analyzed.Results The levels of Lp-PLA2 and D-D in the ACI group were higher than those in the control group,while the ATⅢ level was lower than that in the control group(P<0.05).Their positive rates in the ACI group were higher than those in the control group (P<0.05).Lp-PLA2,D-D and ATⅢ were correlated with ACI occurrence and had mutual correlation (all P<0.05).Conclusion Lp-PLA2,D-D and AT Ⅲ participate in the occurrence process of ACI,and their detection can be applied to screen out ACI high-risk groups,and may guide early prevention and early diagnosis of ACI.

Seven-year-program medical education is an important model to train high-level medical person.Through the change of the teaching concept in medicine cytobiology experiment,re-form of the teaching content,and the use of a variety of effective teaching methods,students’com-prehensive quality,innovative thinking and practical ability is improved,which can meet the needs of modern medical education.

By participating in the research practice of basic medicine,the innovative consciousness,the scientific thinking and researching ability of seven-year program medical students can be improved. Meanwhile,the generalization of Open Experimental Teaching and further development of self-design experiment also improve the innovation and research ability of medical students,which can serve as a new approach to the quality education of higher medical talents.

Objective To investigate the apoptosis induced by adenovirus mediated PML growth suppressor in SGC-7901 gastric cancer cells. Methods Human full-length PML cDNA was cloned into shuttle plasmid pSGCMV, the constructed plasmid containing PML gene was co-transfected into 293 cells together with backbone plasmid pPE3 to obtain recombinant adenovirus Ad-pml. Ad-pml was used to infect SGC-7901 cells. The expression of p53 and bcl-2 in SGC-7901 cells and qualitative, quantitative index of cell apoptosis were detected with MTT, flow cytometry and immunohistochemical method. Results The growth of SGC-7901 cells was inhibited and the apoptosis rate was increased by adenovirus mediated PML in a MOI- dependent manner. The expression of p53 protein was increased and that of bcl-2 protein was unchanged in SGC-7901 cells after treated with adenovirus mediated PML. Conclusions Adenovirus mediated PML exerts its cytotoxic effect on SGC-7901 cells by inducing apoptosis. The increase of p53 protein expression is the mechanism inducing gastric cancer cell apoptosis.

Objective To investigate the association of IL-23R and IL-12B polymorphisms with susceptibility to psoriasis in Chinese Han population. Methods Patients with psoriasis were recruited based on the diagnostic criteria. In the first phase of the study, three SNPs (rs6887695, rs11465817 and rs1343152)were genotyped in DNA samples from 217 unrelated patients with psoriasis as well as 288 control subjects by direct sequencing. The positive SNP rs6887695 was validated in a larger combined sample including 578 patients with psoriasis and 1422 human controls, by using Taqman fluorescent PCR. The data were assessed by Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test, chi square test, haplotype analysis and logistic regression model analysis. Results There was a significant difference in the allele frequency of SNP rs6887695 ( OR = 1.33, 95% CI 1.03 - 1.73,P = 0.028) of IL-12B between patients and controls, but not in that of the other two SNPs, rs11465817 and rs1343152 of IL-23R (P > 0.05 ). Hardy-Weinberg test showed that there was a linkage disequilibrium between rs11465817 and rs1343152 SNPs (D' = 0.744, r2 = 0.281 ); further analysis revealed a risk haplotype for psoriasis (A-A: OR = 2.890, P = 0.0018) constructed with 2 risk alleles of rs11465817 and rs1343152. Conclusions The susceptibility to psoriasis seems to be associated with the SNP rs6887695 of IL-1B gene but not with the SNPs rs11465817 or rs1343152 of IL-23R gene in Chinese Han population. The A-A haplotype of rs11465817-rs1343152 in IL-23R gene may increase the risk of psoriasis in Chinese Han population.