Objective To study the effect of humic acid (HA) and soil on dissolution performance of depleted uranium (DU).Methods Using the static dissolve-adsorption experiment and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS) to determine uranium concentration and 235U/238U isotope ratios of the samples at different time and study the dissolution of DU in water.Results The solubility of DU in water was reduced by 90％ by adding HA.Soil could increase the solubility of DU in water by nearly 25％,adding an appropriate amount of HA could play a supporting role on the dissolution of DU,in this experiment adding 5％ of HA was best.Conclusions Soil and HA could produce positive and negative impact on the solubility of DU in water,and the combined effect of the two relied on the complex absorption and complexation reactions of soil,HA and dissolved uranium ions.

Objective:To explore the immunosuppression effects and tocolysis of fructus polygoni orientalis on abortion mice induced by LPS.Methods:Mice of Kunming (55 mice) were divided into control group (group A ,10 mice) and experimental group. Experimental group were divided into group B ( intraperitoneal injection LPS ) , group C ( ingestion fructus polygoni orientalis ) , and group D (ingestion fructus polygoni orientalis and intraperitoneal injection LPS ),each group of 15 mice.Then the pregnancy results were observed ,the positive of α-NAE+and the varity of CD 14+and CD204+macrophages ,TNF-αin the uteri were identified by enzyme-histochemistry ,immunohistochemistry and ELISA.Results:The abortion rate and the embryo resorbing rate were all 100%( P<0.01 ) in group B.But there was the decreased abortion rate of 13.33% in group D .The embryo resorbing rate decreased to 10.39%.The number and positive cell area of α-NAE+and CD14+macrophages in the uteri of gestation mice of group B was greatly increased comparing with group A ( P<0.01 ) .These effects outside of myometrium of group D were remarkably increased comparing with group A (P<0.01),but there was no distinct difference in the inside of myometrium and function layer.The number and positive cell area of CD204+macrophages in group C and D was greatly increased comparing with group A and B ( P<0.01 ) .The TNF-αcontents in the uteri of mice in group B were greatly increased comparing with group A (P<0.01),but the positive cell area of CD14,CD204 were close to normal levels in group D.Conclusion:The effect of miscarriage induced by LPS is antagonized by fructus polygoni orientalis through inhibiting the phenotype ,activity and function characteristics of macrophages in the uteri of gravidity mice.

Objective: To observe influence of different risk factors on prognosis of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and normal myocardial perfusion imaging outcome.Methods: A total of 99 CHD patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging outcome were selected.Left ventricular function indexes were measured by gated resting myocardial imaging in resting and stress state.All patients received telephone follow-up until natural death (died of other causes) or fatal or non-fatal heart attacks, or the termination of the experiment after 45 months.Cox proportion risk regression model was used to analyze risk factors of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks.Results: A total of 15 cases died during the 45-month follow-up.Mean all-cause mortality per year was 5.05%.Fatal heart attacks occurred in nine cases (9.09%), and non-fatal heart attacks occurred in 21 cases (21.21%).Cox proportion risk regression analysis indicated that smoking and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <50% were risk factors for fatal heart attacks (HR=4.887, 3.365, P=0.043, 0.002), while diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, smoking and LVEF<50% were risk factors for non-fatal heart attacks (HR=2.215~4.544, P<0.05 all).Conclusion: Incidence rate of cardiovascular events is higher in CHD patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging.Smoking and impaired heart function suggest poor prognosis in these patients.

Background and purpose: ERCC2 gene silence by siRNA interference was observed in esophageal cancer cell line and it could change cell sensitivity to taxol. This study was to investigate the biological mechanism of paclitaxel-resistance in esophageal cancer cells. Methods: ERCC2 targeting siRNA (si-ERCC2) has been synthesized. The constructor were transfected into ERCC2 cell lines high-KYSE150(bigh expression of ERCC2) through lipofectamine. RT-PCR and flow cytometry (FCM) were used to detect the ERCC2 mRNA and protein expression levels. MTr assay was used to estimate the paclitaxel sensitivity of the cells. Results: In si-ERCC2 group, ERCC2 could not be detected and ERCC2 protein expression were reduced by 31.2%, 51.6% and 60.0%, respectively, 24,48,72 b after transfection. Paclitaxel IC_(50) value for si-ERCC2 group was 6.32±0.87 μg/mL, lower than the control group(49%). Conclusion: siRNA could successfully silence the target gene ERCC2 at the level of transcription and translation of the gene, the reduction of ERCC2 expression may reverse taxol resistance of the cells.

Objective:To observe the relationship between dynamic blood pressure variability (BPV) and left ventric‐ular diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension (EH) .Methods :A total of 140 newly diagnosed EH pa‐tients were selected .According to total coefficient of variation (CV) of 24h systolic blood pressure BPV ,they were divided into high CV group (n=70 ,CV>12.16% ) and low CV group (n=70 ,CV≤12.16% ) .Another 70 healthy subjects with corresponding gender and age were enrolled as healthy control group simultaneously .Echocardiography was used to measure mitral early diastolic peak flow velocity (E) ,late diastolic peak flow velocity (A) and decelera‐tion time of E peak (DT);meanwhile ,tissue Doppler mode was used to record early diastolic peak velocity (Em) and late diastolic peak velocity (Am) .All above indexes were compared among all groups .Results:Compared with healthy control group ,BPV significantly rose in EH patients (P<0.05 or < 0.01) .All BPV indexes in high CV group were significantly higher than those of low CV group except daytime mean diastolic blood pressure variability (dDBP‐BPV) and nighttime mean diastolic blood pressure variability (nDBP‐BPV) , P<0.05 all .Compared with healthy control group ,there were significant reductions in E and Em/Am ,and significant rise in DT and E/Em in EH patients ,P<0.05 or <0.01 ;compared with low CV group ,there was significant rise in E/Em [(10.32 ± 3.20) vs .(14.22 ± 2.20) ,P=0.033] in high CV group .Conclusion:Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is more severe in hypertensive patients with higher dynamic blood pressure variability .

Objective:To silence ERCC2 (excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency,complementatin group 2,ERCC2) expression in esophageal cancer KYSE150 cells by small interfering RNA (siRNA) and observe the altered sensitivity of KYSE150 cells to paclitaxel (PTX) and elucidate the mechanism underlying the reversion of the PTX resistance of KYSE150 cells. Methods:ERCC2-targeted siRNA was synthesized in vitro and transiently transfected into ERCC2 overexpressing KYSE150 cells via Lipofectamine mediation. The mRNA and protein expression levels of ERCC2 were determined by using RT-PCR and FCM method, respectively. The sensitivity of KYSE150 cells to PTX was measured by MTT assay before and after siRNA transfection. Results:RT-PCR results suggested that the specific bands of ERCC2 mRNA were not detected in si-ERCC2 group at 24, 48 and 72 h post transfection. FCM results indicated that the expression levels of ERCC2 protein gradually decreased by 31.2%, 51.6% and 60.0% at 24, 48 and 72 h respectively(P<0.01). The IC_(50) value of PTX for ERCC2-silencing KYSE150 cells was (6.32±0.87) μg/mL, lower than that for control cells (P<0.01). Conclusion:siRNA successfully silenced the expressions of target gene ERCC2 at both the transcription and translation levels. Silencing ERCC2 expression partly reversed the resistance of KYSE150 cells to PTX.

Objective: To study the associations between variants of mTORC1 of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and colorectal cancer. Methods: In this hospital-based case-control study, at the First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University from 2000 to 2013, 665 primary colorectal cancer cases and 695 cancer-free controls were genotyped at 10 potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) loci of mTORC1 (mTOR: rs1034528, rs2295080; Raptor: rs1062935, rs3751934; mLST8: rs3160, rs26865; DEPTOR: rs2271900, rs4871827; AKT1S1: rs2290774, rs2353005) to assess their associations with risk of colorectal cancer by Logistic regression analysis. Results: In single-locus analysis, found a significantly decreased risk of colorectal cancer associated with mLST8 rs26865 by recessive genetic model, especially in populations of ≤68 years of age (OR=0.64; 95%CI=0.43-0.96, P=0.031), female (OR=0.61; 95%CI=0.38-0.99, P=0.046), non-smoking (OR=0.55; 95%CI=0.35-0.87, P=0.010). mTOR rs1034528 CC genotypes were associated with higher risk of colorectal cancer in >68-year-old populations (OR=3.34; 95%CI=1.12-9.91, P=0.030). Raptor rs3751934 CA/AA genotypes were associated with lower colorectal cancer risk in population of body mass index(BMI)>25 kg/m² (OR=0.68; 95%CI=0.47-0.98, P=0.038); and AKT1S1 rs2290774 CC genotypes were associated with lower colorectal cancer risk in non-smoking population (OR=0.67; 95%CI=0.45-0.99, P=0.048). Furthermore, found that populations carrying more than two low-risk genotypes were associated with lower colorectal cancer risk, compared with that of populations carrying less than two low-risk genotypes (OR=0.74, 95%CI=0.58-0.95, P=0.017), especially in population of ≤68 years of age, male and BMI>25 kg/m^2, and non-smoking. Conclusions SNPs of mTORC1-related genes individually or jointly contribute to colorectal cancer susceptibility in Chinese. Further studies of larger cohorts are needed to validate the findings.

Most of the CHD patients reveal string pulse, mainly due to damage of heart function, lowering of arterial compliance and increase of total peripheral resistance. The common pulse in patients of blood diseases reveal frequent, tiny, string and slippery characteristic, mostly due to the increase of compensatory pumping action of the heart, shortening of ejection time of the left heart, with better vessel compliance and hemorheology, low total peripheral resistance.

Objective To investigate the correlation between intra-and peri-tumoral radiomics features and the response to con-current chemoradiotherapy(CCRT)in cervical squamous cell carcinoma,and to explore the difference of predictive performance between 2D and 3D radiomics models.Methods The imaging data of 132 patients were analyzed retrospectively and randomly divided into training set(n=92)and validation set(n=40).Radiomics features were extracted based on the dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging(DCE-MRI),the correlation analysis and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator(LASSO)algorithm were used for dimensionality reduction and screening,then the radiomics score was calculated and the logistic model was constructed.The receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,internal validation of Bootstrap and Brier score were used to evaluate the discrimina-tion and calibration of the model,and the improvement in predictive performance of 3D model compared with 2D model was evaluated by the integrated discrimination improvement(IDI).Results In the training set,the ROC curve showed that the area under the curve(AUC)of the models(2D-intratumoral,3D-intratumoral,3D-peritumoral,3D-combined)ranged from 0.774 to 0.893.The internal validation of Bootstrap showed the AUC were 0.772,0.860,0.847 and 0.888,respectively,while in the validation set,the AUC were 0.757,0.849,0.824 and 0.887,respectively.The Brier scores indicated that the models were well calibrated.In the training set and the validation set,the IDI values were 0.155 and 0.179,respectively,and the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion The radiomics analysis based on the tumor volume can fully explore the tumor heterogeneity.The intra-and peri-tumoral radiomics combined model shows the best predictive performance,which is important to assist clinicians in developing individualized therapies.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the effects of centralized volume-based procurement policy （hereinafter referred to as “centralized procurement”） on the use of anti-tumor drugs in medical institutions. METHODS The interrupted time series model was used to analyze the changes in the monthly purchase volume and purchase amount of docetaxel， gemcitabine and pemetrexed disodium in a third-grade class-A cancer hospital in Shanxi province from January 2018 to December 2021. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS After the implementation of the centralized procurement policy， both the selected drugs and the non-selected drugs had different degrees of price reduction， and the price reduction of the selected drugs was far greater than that of the non- selected drugs； average monthly purchase volume and amount of docetaxel decreased significantly in that month after the implementation of the policy， while those of gemcitabine and pemetrexed disodium increased significantly （P＜0.05 or P＜0.01）. After the implementation of the policy， the average monthly purchase volume and amount of gemcitabine showed a downward trend， while those of docetaxel and pemetrexed disodium showed an upward trend （P＜0.05 or P＜0.01）. It is suggested that hospitals should strengthen pharmaceutical administration， and avoid adopting a “one size fits all” approach to non-selected drugs； relevant departments should further expand the collection range of anti-tumor drugs or carry out special collection of anti-tumor drugs， so as to save medical insurance funds and reduce medical expenses.