AIM: To investigate the dynamic expression of Rho kinase(ROCK I) and transforming growth factor ?1(TGF-?1) in pulmonary arterioles of rat with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.METHODS: Sixty-four male Wister rats were randomly divided into eight groups: beginning control group,embolism for 3 d,1 week,2 weeks,4 weeks,8 weeks,12 weeks groups and end control group.The pulmonary thromboembolism(PTE) model was established by injecting thrombin into jugular vein two times in two weeks and each rat underwent peritoneal injection with tranexamic acid one time a day during experiment to prevent thrombolysis.The mean pulmonary artery pressure(mPAP),right ventricular hypertrophy index(RVHI),relative medial thickness of small pulmonary arteries(PAMT) and vessel wall area/total area(WA/TA) were measured.The levels of ROCK I mRNA and TGF-?1 protein in rat pulmonary artery were determined by in situ hybridization,immunohistochemistry and image analysis,respectively.RESULTS: mPAP,PAMT and WA/TA were higher respectively in embolism from 4 weeks group to 12 weeks group than those in beginning control group(mPAP: all P

Objective To study the change curve of ADH in central diabetes insipidus after neurosurgical operation,and analyse the clinical significance of differentiating the types of central diabetes insipidus through the change curve.Methods The serum level of ADH was observed in 158 central diabetes insipidus patients undergone neurosurgical operation.The change curve of ADH in different types of central diabetes insipidus were painted,including transient,continuous and triphasic diabetes insipidus.Results The serum concentrations of ADH in transient and triphasic diabetes insipidus decreased after operation,and arrived the low point(41.7% and 63.6% of the preoperative serum concentration of ADH) after 2 d. The serum concentration of ADH in transient diabetes insipidus recovered to the preoperative level after 10 d.The serum concentration of ADH in triphasic diabetes insipidus arrived the peak after 7 d,then descended.The serum concentration of ADH in continuous diabetes insipidus fell in postoperative 1 d,and arrived the low point(33.3% of the preoperative serum level of ADH) after 7 d.The serum concentration of ADH in continuous diabetes insipidus postoperative 2 weeks was lower than preoperation.Conclusion Though the concentration change curve of ADH,the transient diabetes insipidus can be distinguished from continuous and triphasic diabetes insipidus.The correct differential diagnosis and seemly treatment are beneficial for patients' prognosis.

Objective To study the surgical strategies and techniques for the correction of congenital kyphoscoliosis with hemivertebra and evaluate the surgical results. Methods From June 2010 to June 2011,there were 6 congenital kyphoscoliostic patients with fully segmented hemivertebra were undergone hemivertebra resection through posterior approach, which included 4 males and 2 females with an average age of 15.7 years. The average Cobb angle of scoliosis was 73.4° (range, 52°~87°), the average Cobb angle of segmental kyphosis was 67.4° (range, 43°~89°) . The highest level of hemivertebrae was T9 and the lowest was L2. The surgical strategies were designed as followed:For the 2 cases without structural compensative curve, the posterior hemiverte-brae resection and short segmental internal fixation were performed. For the 4 cases with structural compensative curve, whose Risser signs were classified into 2-5, the hemivertebrae resection and long segmental internal fixa-tion were performed, and the compensative curve was included in the instrumentation level. Results The opera-tion time was 2.5~4.0 h (average,3.5 hours), the blood loss was 700-2 000 mL (mean,1 367 mL) . Numb-ness happened in one lower extremity postoperatively in 1 patient, and the symptom released in 1 month. The aver-age postoperative Cobb angle in coronal plane was 21.4° (11°~28°) with a correction rate of 67.9%. The aver-age postoperative Cobb angle in sagittal plane was 17.8° (12°~35°) with a correction rate of 75.2%. The fol-low-up period was from 26 months to 36 months (average, 26 months),no pseudoarthrosis,and obvious correc-tion loss either in coronal or sagittal plane was noted. Conclusion Hemivertebra resection and individualized oper-ation way has a good capability of correcting congenital kyphoscoliosis caused by hemivertebra.

Purpose To investigate the expression of DLC1 and its relationship with Ki-67 in cancerous and non-cancerous tissues of the breast.Methods In situ hybridization and immunohistochemiscal EnVision method were used to detect the expression of DLC1 mRNA and protein and Ki-67 in 52 invasive breast ductal carcinomas and 42 non-cancerous mammary tissues, including 22 mammary fibroadenomas and 20 paracancerous tissues.Results The positive rates of DLC1 mRNA and protein expression in the breast carcinomas (50% and 57.7%) was significantly lower than that in the non-cancerous mammary tissues (90.5% and 92.9%) (χ~2=17.518 and 10.729,P＜0.01).The expression of DLC1-mRNA was positively related to DLC1protein (r_s=0.379,P＜0.01). The positive rate of Ki-67 expression was 61.5% in the breast carcinomas, but no expression was observed in the all non-cancerous tissues (χ~2=39.186,P＜0.01).Correlation analysis showed that DLC1 expression was negatively correlated with Ki-67 expression (r_s=-0.507,P＜0.01).Conclusions Lower or no expression of DLC1 mRNA and protein may play an important role in the pathogenesis and progression in breast carcinoma. DLC1 may inhibit the proliferation of the breast carcinoma cells,which indicates that it may act as a new molecular marker of breast carcinoma.Combining detection of DLC1 and Ki-67 may be useful parameters for evaluating the biological behaviors of breast carcinoma.

[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To investigate the changes of migration of lung adenocarcinoma cells promoted by IL-8 and the inner and outer mitochondrial membrane dynamic changes during this process.METHODS:Human lung adenocarci-noma cell line A549 was divided into control group and IL-8 group.Cell migration was analyzed by scratch detection and Transwell assay.The secretion of endogenous IL-8 was detected by ELISA.The protein levels of mitochondrial cytochrome C ( Cyt C) and mitochondrial outer membrane protein Tom20 was detected by Western blot.The mRNA expression of mito-chondrial fusion genes Mfn1, Mfn2 and OPA1 and fission genes Fis1, Drp1 and MTP18 was detected by RT-PCR.The morphological changes of mitochondria were observed by MitoTracker Red CMXRos dye staining and confocal microscopy. RESULTS:The migratory rate of A549 cells and endogenous secretion of IL-8 in A549 cells were higher than those in SPC-A-1 cells.The migratory rate of A549 cells was improved by IL-8 in a time-dependent manner.Compared with control group, the Tom20 protein expression was increased ( P<0.05 ) , and the Cyt C protein expression was decreased ( P<0.05).The expression of mitochondrial outer membrane fusion genes Mfn1 and Mfn2 was increased (P<0.05), and the expression of mitochondrial inner membrane fusion gene OPA1 was decreased (P<0.05).The expression of fission genes Drp1 and MTP18 were decreased (P<0.05), while the expression of Fis1 was no change (P>0.05).Under confocal microscope, the punctate aggregates in the mitochondria of the A549 cells treated with IL-8 were observed.CONCLU-SION:The migratory rate of A549 cells is increased by IL-8, which is related to the changes of mitochondrial fusion genes and the fission genes.

Objective To understand the present condition of preclinical dental undergraduate in-terns' AIDS-related knowledge. Methods The questionnaire was designed referring to domestic and foreign relevant questionnaires. The cluster sampling method was used to conduct the questionnaire survey among the undergraduates who started their clinical internship in July 2016 in three domestic colleges, using SPSS 14.0 statistical software to analyze it. Results In this survey, 144 questionnaires were distributed, and 144 ones were filled out and sent back. The survey results suggested that 97.22％ (140) of interns held a posi-tive attitude towards aiding HIV-infected patients despite that 96.53％ (139) of interns knew that dental medical staff was considered to be highly susceptible with HIV. In spite of the fact that most interns knew AIDS-related knowledge and protection measures, 40.28％ (58) of interns were not clear about incubation period of AIDS, and the average awareness of children's AIDS and methods to disinfect HIV-infected dental instruments was less than half in the interns. Meanwhile it was found that 86.81％ (125) of interns didn't perform well in terms of complying with the principles of confidentiality in AIDS prevention and treatment. Conclusion Dental clinical interns' attitudes towards AIDS-infected patients should be praised. Further-more, they should accept education about infection control to have a deeper understanding about AIDS-related clinical manifestations and legal knowledge in order to reduce the probability of nosocomial infec-tion of AIDS.

Objective To investigate the effects of Kruppel-like factor 6 (KLF6) on the apoptotic and migration ability of HepG2 cell, and the developmental role of KLF6 on zebrafish liver.Methods Constructed plasmid with shRNA-KLF6 was transfected in HepG2 and L-02.The impacts of loss of KLF6 on HepG2 was investigated by Western bolt, apoptosis analyses, cell cycle detection and scratch experiment;KLF6 morpholino oligonucleotides was microinjected into the Tg(lfabp:eGFP) transgenic zebrafish embryos.The morphant phenotype of the liver was imaged and the protein expression of KLF6 after knockdown of KLF6 was analyzed by Immunofluorescence staining.Results The expression of KLF6 in L-02 was significantly higher than in HepG2.After knockout of KLF6, KLF6 protein expression and apoptosis were significantly reduced.In addition, the cell cycle mainly stated in S phase and the migration ability of HepG2 was enhanced.After klf6 knockdown in transgenic zebrafish larvae, the development of zebrafish liver was delayed and KLF6 expression was obviously decreased in the liver.Conclusions The reduction of KLF6 expression increased the proliferation and migration ability, and reduced the apoptosis of HepG2.Loss of KLF6 affects the development of zebrafish liver, which may open a possibility to use zebrafish as a liver cancer model and for anti-liver cancer drug screening.

Baculovirus-mediated gene transfer into mammalian cells has been used to develop non-replicative vector vaccines against a number of diseases in several animal models.A baculovirus pseudotyped with the glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus was used as vector to construct the recombinant baculovirus expressing classical swine fever virus(CSFV) E2 protein under the control of ie1 promoter from white spot syndrome virus.The E2 gene was shown to be efficiently expressed in both insect and mammalian cells.Intramuscular injection of mice with the recombinant baculovirus resulted in the production of high-level CSFV-specific antibodies.Specific lymphoproliferative responses to the CSFV stimulation were induced in the splenocytes of the immunized mice as demonstrated by CFSE staining assay and WST-8 assay.The results indicates that the pseudotyped baculovirus-delivered gene can be a potential non-replicative vaccine against CSFV infection.

Objective To evaluate Sysmex XS-800i,XS-1000i and XE-2100D hematology analyzers when used to detect RBC count,hemoglobin (HGB),hematocrit (HCT),mean corpuscular volume (MCV),mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC).Methods XE-2100D hematology analyzer was calibrated after performance evaluation,and the three analyzers had the intra-day precisions measured with three levels of whole-blood quality control materials.Totally 50 whole-blood specimens were detected with the three analyzers respectively,and statistical analyses and clinically acceptable performance evaluation were carried out on RBC count and the obtained results.Results XE-2100D hematology analyzer met the clinical requirements,and the three analyzers all gained high precisions when used to measure the parameters of the whole-blood quality control materials.The correlation coefficients (r2) respectively between the three analyzers were all higher than 0.95 when used to test the 50 specimens.At all medical decision levels XS-800i and XS-1000i hematology analyzers both gained acceptable detection results except XS-800i hematology analyzer in case of 5.9×1012/L RBC count as well as 35％ or 50％ HCT.Conclusion Sysmex XS-800i,XS-1000i and XE-2100D hematology analyzers have high precisions and correlations when used to detect RBC count,HGB,HCT and MCV,and contrast test is suggested to be executed periodically to ensure the comparability of tbe result.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the perioperative prophylactic use of antibiotics in thoracic surgery department of 7 hos-pitals in Nantong city,and to provide reference for rational drug use in clinic. METHODS:In retrospective study,6652 dis-charged patients with thoracic surgery were selected from 7"third-level hospitals"of Nantong city during 2015-2016. The gender, age,length of stay,preoperative medication,medication timing,classification of incision,operation time,drug name,usage and dosage,route of administration,drug combination and prognosis were analyzed statistically. According to the relevant regulations of special rectification and the principle of perioperative antibiotics use,the rationality of antibiotics use was evaluated. RE-SULTS:Among 6652 patients,there were 2761 cases of typeⅠincision and 3891 cases of typeⅡincision. All of them used anti-biotics. Primary prophylactic time was 0.5-2 h before operation in 5282 cases,accounting for 79.40％;1370 cases were given medicine more than 2 h before surgery or after surgery,accounting for 20.60％. Totally 1070 cases received prophylactic medica-tion within 48 h,accounting for 16.09％;5582 cases received prophylactic medication more than 48 h,accounting for 83.91％. A total of 5702 cases were given only one antibiotic,and 950 cases received two-drug combination. A total of 6342 patients used an-tibiotics irrationally,accounting for 95.34％. Eight categories 15 kinds of antibiotics were involved. β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibi-tors,fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins were mostly used. CONCLUSIONS:After the implementation of special rectification, there are still many irrational phenomena in the prophylactic use of antibiotics in thoracic surgery department of 7 hospitals in Nan-tong city. Some indexes exceed the national standard and still need to be further managed and improved.