1.Clinical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility of neonatal Listeria septicemia
Qi JIANG ; Qingxian DENG ; Zhenyong WANG ; Qinqin FU ; Meifang LIN ; Gesheng WEN
Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine 2018;21(3):191-197
Objective To investigate the clinical features and antimicrobial susceptibility of neonatal Listeria septicemia.Methods Eleven cases of neonatal Listeria septicemia that were treated in the Huzhou Maternity and Children Health Hospital from March 2013 to March 2017 were enrolled in this study.Clinical data including the results of bacterial culture,antimicrobial susceptibility test and antibiotic treatment were collected and retrospectively analyzed.Moreover,maternal history of Listeria monocytogenes (LM) infection before delivery was retrieved.Results All of the 11 mothers had fever before delivery and nine of them showed different grades of amniotic fluid contamination during delivery.Clinical symptoms of the 11 neonates included dyspnea (11 cases),fever (ten cases),apnea (nine cases),slow response and feeding difficulty (nine cases),convulsion (six cases),vomiting and abdominal distension (two cases),pulmonary hemorrhage (one case),progressive jaundice (one case) and systemic skin bleeding point (one case).All cases showed abnormal results of blood routine test and increased calcitonin and C-reactive protein.Ten cases received cercbrospinal fluid examination,seven of which were abnormal.Altogether 17 strains of LM were isolated from various specimens.These strains were all sensitive to piperacillin-tazobactam,ampicillin-sulbactam,meropenem,vancomycin,cotrimoxazole,ciprofloxacin and gentamycin,but resistant to oxacillin.Strains those were sensitive to penicillin,ampicillin,erythromycin and clindamycin accounted for 10/17,11/17,9/17 and 8/17,respectively.The 11 neonates were treated with piperacillin-tazobactam,meropenem or vancomycin.All of them improved (11/11)and ten were cured (10/11).All cases were followed up through phone calls at one week and one month after discharge.Two were lost to follow-up,while thc others were all in good condition.Conclusions Neonatal Listeria septicemia is usually a severe disease characterized by rapid progression and mainly presented with dyspnea and fever,besides there is a high possibility of purulent meningitis.Some LM strains are resistant to single-agent penicillin antibiotics.However,antibiotics such as piperacillin-tazobactam,meropenem and vancomycin are effective in the treatment of neonatal Listeria septicemia.
2.Predictive value of 18F-FDG PET/CT metabolic parameters combined with inflammatory markers for medium-term outcome in patients with primary gastrointestinal diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Zeyu ZHANG ; Chao CHENG ; Jiannan WEN ; Zhenyong GU ; Juanli MAO ; Yingying ZHANG ; Siyu LIANG ; Mingxin WANG ; Changjing ZUO
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2023;43(2):85-90
Objective:To explore the predictive value of 18F-FDG PET/CT metabolic parameters combined with inflammatory markers for the medium-term efficacy of chemotherapy in patients with primary gastrointestinal diffuse large B cell lymphoma (PGI-DLBCL). Methods:From April 2011 to May 2020, 67 patients (37 males, 30 females, age: 28-85 years) with PGI-DLBCL examined by 18F-FDG PET/CT before chemotherapy in Changhai Hospital, Navy Medical University were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were treated with cyclophosphamide+ doxorubicin+ vincristine+ prednisone (CHOP) or rituximab+ CHOP (R-CHOP) regimens, and the medium-term efficacy was evaluated after 2-4 cycles of chemotherapy. The effect outcome was divided into complete remission (CR) group and non-CR (NCR) group based on the Lugano lymphoma response evaluation criteria. Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the differences of SUV max, peak of SUV (SUV peak), metabolic tumor volume (MTV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) between two groups. The independent risk factors of NCR were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression and the binary logistic regression model was established according to the results. The model was tested with external validation data ( n=15). Results:Of 67 PGI-DLBCL patients, 28(41.8%) were CR and 39(58.2%) were NCR. SUV peak, MTV, TLG, PLR and NLR in NCR group (17.3(12.3, 28.1), 73.8(42.9, 141.7) cm 3, 887.5(300.9, 2 075.3) g, 203.9(155.7, 297.1), 3.9(3.0, 4.9)) were significantly higher than those in CR group (9.5(6.2, 15.2), 11.3(4.7, 23.2) cm 3, 85.2(35.5, 214.6) g, 149.3(102.8, 173.1), 2.2(1.8, 4.6); z values: from -6.41 to -2.33, all P<0.05). The logistic regression model was as follows: P=1/(1+ e - x), x=0.100×MTV+ 0.024×PLR-8.064. The prediction accuracy for NCR risk was 86.57%(58/67), with the accuracy of 13/15 tested by external validation data. Conclusion:MTV combined with PLR has a good predictive value for medium-term efficacy of CHOP/R-CHOP chemotherapy in patients with PGI-DLBCL.
3.Cannabidiol up⁃regulates BDNF and synaptic protein to exert antidepressant effects
Yan Yang ; Tengteng Ma ; Yujng Bian ; Jiangna Gu ; Yuyuan Sun ; Zhenyong Wen ; Jianping Xie ; Yun Yuan ; Ying Guo
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui 2022;57(8):1206-1210
Objective:
To study the rapid antidepressant effects of cannabioiol(CBD) on depression-like mice and its possible mechanism.
Methods:
Chronic restraint was used to establish a mouse depression model. The test mice were divided into 5 groups: normal control group, model group, positive control group, CBD low-dose group (25 mg/kg) and CBD high-dose group(50 mg/kg). The mice in each group were given intragastric administration one hour before the behavioral experiment. After the behavioral experiment, the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex specimens were collected, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF), postsynaptic density protein 95(PSD-95), synaptophysin(SYP) and target of rapamycin(mTOR) were tested by ELISA.
Results:
Compared with the model group, the central area activity distance percentage, the central area activity time percentage and total distance increased in the open field experiment in the CBD low-dose group. Compared with the model group, the percentage of immobility in the forced swimming experiment in the low-dose CBD group decreased. The ELISA test results showed that CBD could rapidly increase the concentration of BDNF and PSD-95 in the prefrontal cortex, as well as the concentration of SYP and mTOR in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
Conclusion
CBD can rapidly improve the behavioral performance of depression-like mice, and rapidly up-regulate the level of BDNF and synaptic protein in the hippocampus or prefrontal cortex.