1.Cloning and sequence analysis of methyltransferase gene in four species of Huperziaceae
Juncheng ZHANG ; Zuoyi CHEN ; Yuhong SONG
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2015;37(7):13-16
Objective To clone and analyze the coding region of methyltransferase gene from four species of Huperziaceae, the species included Huperzia serrata var.longipetiolata, Phlegariurus minchegensis, Phlegariurus austrosinicus and Phlegariurus petiolatus.Methods The methyltransferase coding region sequences were cloned by RT-PCR with the template of total RNA extracted from four Huperziaceae.Then the sequences were analyzed by means of BLAST and MEGA 5.0 software.ResuIts The coding region sequences of the four species of Huperziaceae were highly similar to the methyltransferase in the database.ConcIusion The methyltransferase genes of the four species of Huperziaceae were cloned in this study.The result will provide a foundation for further elucidate the mechanism of Huperzine A biosynthesis and metabolic pathways in Huperziaceae plants.
2.Immune Protection against H9N2 Provided by H1N1 Pre-infection in Pigs.
Jia WANG ; Maocai WU ; Wenshan HONG ; Zuoyi ZHENG ; Rirong CHEN
Chinese Journal of Virology 2015;31(4):357-362
To explore the impact of the history of infection by the influenza A virus subtype H1N1 on secondary infection by the influenza A virus subtype H9N2, pigs non-infected and pre-infected with H1N1 were inoculated with H9N2 in parallel to compare nasal shedding and seroconversion patterns. Unlike pigs without a background of H1N1 infection, nasal shedding was not detected in pigs pre-infected with H1N1. Both groups generated antibodies against H9N2. However, levels of H1N1 antibodies in pigs pre-infected with H1N1 increased quickly and dramatically after challenge with H9N2. Cross-reaction was not observed between H1N1 antibodies and H9N2 viruses. These findings suggest that circulation of the H1N1 virus might be a barrier to the introduction and transmission of the avian H9N2 virus, thereby delaying its adaptation in pigs.
Animals
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Antibodies, Viral
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immunology
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Cross Reactions
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Immune Sera
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immunology
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Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
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immunology
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physiology
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Influenza A Virus, H9N2 Subtype
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immunology
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Orthomyxoviridae Infections
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blood
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immunology
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Species Specificity
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Swine
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immunology
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virology
3.Surgical treatment of hepatic echinococcosis
Gang CHEN ; Zuoyi JIAO ; Jie MAO ; Changjiang LUO
International Journal of Surgery 2014;41(5):349-352
Hydatid is a common pathogen found in human and animals,incidence of hepatic echinococcosis is high in the west China.In recent years,operation and chemotherapy are basic treatment.Faced with varieties of operational manner,a proper choice is very important.5 operational manners are compared in this article,furthermore,problems in the selection of operational manner is analysed.
4.Relationship between the ways of nutritional support and recovery of immunological function after PTCD in patients with malignant obstructive jaundice
Gang CHEN ; Zuoyi JIAO ; Changjiang LUO ; Jie MAO
Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery 2014;20(5):355-358
Objective To investigate the factors affecting the recovery of immunological function after bilirubin decreasing interventional therapy in patients with obstructive jaundice.Methods 67 patients with malignant obstructive jaundice were investigated.The patients were randomly divided into the enteral nutrition (EN) group (n =34)and the parenteral nutrition (PN) group (n =33).TBIL,DBIL,TSP,ALB,PA,TF,CD3 +,CD4 +,CD8 +,CD4 +/CD8 + were determined before PTCD and at the 7th day after the procedure.Results Except for 20 patients,the levels of TBIL,DBIL,CD8 + significantly declined,and the levels of TSP,ALB,PA,TF,CD3+,CD4+,CD4+/CD8 + significantly increased in the 2 groups of patients.There was no significant difference in the recovery of liver function and immunological status between the PN and the EN groups.Conclusions The recovery of immunological function was significantly associated with reduction of serum bilirubin in patients with malignant obstructive jaundice.There was no relationship with the ways of nutrition support.
5.Extraintestinal lesions caused by rotavirus:An experimental study on suckling mice
Junhua CHEN ; Yuanyuan XIE ; Chaomin ZHU ; Zuoyi LIU
Journal of Third Military Medical University 2003;0(15):-
Objective To study the extraintestinal lesions induced by rotavirus(RV)infection and explore the pathogenesis.Methods Simian rotavirus SA11 was cultured in MA-104 cells.After inoculation,the pathological changes in brain,lung,heart,liver,pancreas and kidney tissues were observed,the RV antigens detected,and the apoptotic cells observed.Besides,we stained the filamentous actin(F-actin)with Phalloidine-TRITC,and then quantified the F-actin amount.Results Several pathological changes,inclusive of myocardial interstitial edema,granular degeneration in cardiacytes,hepatic congestion,and hepatocellular vacuolar degeneration,were found,but not found in the brain,lung,and pancreas tissues.Meanwhile,several ultrastructural changes,inclusive of dissolved myocardial F-actin,extended smooth endoplasmic reticulum,swollen mitochondria,and widened perinuclear space,were found.No difference was found in the quantity of myocardial F-actin.Apoptosis was found in liver cells,but not in myocardial cells.RV RNA was detected in tissues such as brain,lung,heart,liver and pancreas tissues.Conclusion All the results suggest that RV may spread from the intestine to various extraintestinal organs and hence induce injury.Filamentous actin depolymerization,cytoskeleton damage and apoptosis induced by RV infection are the important mechanism not only in intestinal damages,but also in extraintestinal lesions.
6.On pathogenesis of rotavirus diarrhea in suckling mouse
Junhua CHEN ; Yuanyuan XIE ; Hua LING ; Zuoyi LIU
Journal of Third Military Medical University 2002;0(12):-
Objective To study the pathogenesis of rotavirus(RV) diarrhea.Methods Simian rotavirus(SA-11) was grown in cultured MA-104 cell.The viral titers of the culture supernatant were determined by plaque forming assay.KM mice aged 7 days were inoculated with the viral supernatant via feeding tube(gavage).Histological and ultramicrostructure changes of the small intestines were observed under light microscope and electron microscope.The values of crypt depth and villi height were measured with software(image pro plus 5.1,IPP5.1).The distribution of the RV antigen in small intestine and the filamentous actin of the small intestine chorioepithelium were observed with immunohistochemical techniques.The apoptosis of the small intestine epithelium cells was observed with an in situ apoptosis detection kit.Results There were mild hyperemia,dropsy and extensive vacuolar degeneration of small intestine villi under light microscope.Plenty of lipid droplet-like structure at the top of the villi,microvilli malalignment or defluxion and enterocyte defluxion could be seen by electron microscope,but no obvious structure changes at the cell junctions were seen.The RV antigen mainly distributed at the top of the villi.The quantity of small intestine filamentous actin decreased and enterocyte apoptosis increased after RV infection.Conclusion RV mainly infects the mature villous epithelium.The presentation of RV diarrhea relates to the lesion of cytoskeleton,the microvilli lesion of the small intestine,enterocyte apoptosis and defluxion,villi atrophy,etc.,but may have no relationship with the structural changes of cell junctions in the small intestine epithelium.
7.Liver transplantation and brain death legislation in the mainland area of China
Gang CHEN ; Zuoyi JIAO ; Junmin ZHU ; Yumin LI
International Journal of Surgery 2016;43(1):47-50
For patients with poor liver function as a result of the final stage of liver disease,liver transplantation is the best way to prevent them from death.Recently,liver transplantation in China get a rapid development,however,patients who need liver transplantation are much more than livers that can be transplanted,that is a bottleneck problem for liver transplantation,adoption of brain death must be a useful way to deal with this problem.More than a hundred countries have adopted brain death and their liver transplantation developed much better than China.Thus,we should pay more attention to brain death and corresponding legislation to promote the development of liver transplantation.
8.Health risk assessment of chemical pollution in rural drinking water in Jinhua
Zuoyi WANG ; Qiang CHEN ; Xiaoqing HE ; Wei SHENG ; Jinbin LUO
Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019;31(10):1012-1016
Objective:
To understand the health risk of drinking water in rural areas of Jinhua and to provide evidence for water sanitary management in rural areas.
Methods:
Totally 2 032 samples of drinking water in rural areas of Jinhua were collected from 2016 to 2018. According to GB/T 5750-2006 Standard Examination Methods for Drinking Water,five chemical carcinogens(As,Cd,Cr6+,CHCl3 and CCl4)and twelve non-carcinogenic chemicals(Pb,Hg,Se、CN-、F-、NO3-、Al、Fe、Mn、Cu、Zn and NH3-N)were detected. The health risk assessment in rural drinking water was conducted by United States Environmental Protection Agency(USEPA)model.
Results:
The total health risk,total carcinogenic risk and total non-carcinogenic risk of rural drinking water caused by the seventeen chemicals were 34.8×10-6/a,34.80×10-6/a and 6.65×10-9/a,respectively. The carcinogenic risk of five chemical carcinogens accounted for 99.98% of the total health risk,and the carcinogenic risk of Cr6+ accounted for 89.95% of the total health risk. The total health risk of the fully processed,partially processed and unprocessed water samples were 31.68×10-6/a,34.78×10-6/a and 34.77×10-6/a,respectively. The total health risk of finished water and peripheral water were 34.79×10-6/a and 34.82×10-6/a.
Conclusion
The health risk of drinking water in rural areas of Jinhuacaused by chemicals is low. The hexavalent chromium has the highest health risk and need more attention to be paid on.
9.Similar Neutralizing Activity in the HIV-1 Infected Long Term Non-progressors(LTNPs) and Typical Progressors(TPs)
Zheng WANG ; Tianyi LI ; Jingyun LI ; Lili CHEN ; Yongjian LIU ; Hanping LI ; Zuoyi BAO ; Xiaolin WANG ; Daomin ZHUANG ; Siyang LIU ; Lin LI
Virologica Sinica 2012;27(3):165-171
Neutralizing antibodies are considered to be an important protective parameter used in HIV-l vaccine evaluation.However,the exact role that neutralizing antibodies plays in controlling the disease progression of HIV-1 infected peoples is still undetermined.In this paper,we compared the protective function of the neutralizing antibody response in the plasma from LTNP and TP against clade B and clade C pseudoviruses.No difference in the neutralizing activities between the plasma from LTNP and TP was found,which was consistent with the most recent reports.In addition,no correlations between the titer or breadth and CD4+ or viral load in HIV-1 infected individuals were found.The protective roles played by neutralizing antibodies in controlling disease progression of HIV-1 infected people need to be considered in a new viewpoint.
10.Clinical feature of gallbladder cancer in Northwestern China: a report of 2 379 cases from 17 institutions.
Haoxin SHEN ; Huwei SONG ; Lin WANG ; Xinjian XU ; Zuoyi JIAO ; Zhenyu TI ; Zhaoyu LI ; Yong DENG ; Chen CHEN ; Li MA ; Yaling ZHAO ; Guanjun ZHANG ; Jiancang MA ; Xilin GENG ; Xiaodi ZHANG ; Jingsen SHI ; Zhimin GENG
Chinese Journal of Surgery 2015;53(10):747-751
OBJECTIVETo analyze the clinical features of patients with gallbladder cancer from 17 hospitals in 5 Northwestern provinces (autonomous region) of China from 2009 to 2013.
METHODSA total of 2 379 cases with gallbladder cancer in 17 tertiary hospitals from 5 Northwestern provinces of China from January 2009 to December 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. The clinical data was collected by standardized "Questionnaire for Clinical Survey of Gallbladder Cancer in Northwestern Area of China". χ² test was used to analyze the data.
RESULTS(1) Gallbladder cancer from 17 hospitals accounted for 1.6%-6.8% of all bile tract diseases from 2009 to 2013 in Northwestern China, average was 2.7%. Gallbladder cancer accounted for 0.4%-0.9% of abdominal surgery, average was 0.7%. (2) The incidence of gallbladder cancer was higher in the aged females, the ration of female to male was 1.0 to 2.1. The average age of gallbladder cancer was (64 ± 11) years. The occupation of patients was mainly farmers (χ² = 147.10, P < 0.01). (3) 57.2% of the gallbladder cancers were associated with gallstones. (4) The main pathological patterns of gallbladder cancer were moderate and poor differentiated adenocarcinoma, showing an aggressive malignancy. TNM stage IV accounted for 55.1% of all cases, which was associated with the poor prognosis. (5) The curative resection rate was 30.4%.
CONCLUSIONSGallbladder cancer is common in the aged females and mainly at advanced stage. The screening and follow-up of high-risk groups with ultrasound and other methods regularly could increase the early diagnosis rate of gallbladder cancer, aggressive surgical resection combined with other comprehensive treatment could improve the prognosis of patients.
Adenocarcinoma ; epidemiology ; pathology ; Aged ; China ; epidemiology ; Female ; Gallbladder Neoplasms ; epidemiology ; pathology ; Gallstones ; epidemiology ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies