Humans ; Interleukin-18 ; chemistry ; metabolism ; Pulmonary Fibrosis ; etiology ; pathology ; Silicosis ; complications ; pathology ; physiopathology

Reccent investigations demonstrated that genetically modified tumor cells could be used as vaccines against cancer. In this light, we introduced human interleukin -2 (IL-2) gene into a poorly immunogenic rat fibrosarcoma cell line WBT, a human lung abenocarcinoma cell line AGZY and a highly metastatie sub - cell line Anip973 derived from AGZY. The transduced cells showed no obvious changes in morphology, growth and colony - forming ability in soft agar.Transduction with IL-2 gene rendered the cells more sensitive than the parental cells and cells transduced with NeoR gene alone to the lysis by cytotoxic lymphocytes. High levels of IFN and TNF were detected in the supernatants of cocultured lymphocytes and tumor cells containing IL-2 gene. Tumorigenicity of WBT/IL-2 cells was greatly reduced in syngeneic rats. Metastatic capacity of Anip973 in nude mice was blocked by the transduction of IL-2 gene, but not the transduction of NeoR gene alone. Inoculation of WBT/IL-2 cells conferred rats resistance to the challenge of parental WBT cells.Splenocytes from WBT/IL-2-inoculated rats restimulated with WBT cells in vitro showed high CTL activity against WBT cells. Our results demonstrated the potential application of tumor cells transduced with IL— gene as active vaccine against cancer.

Humans ; Infant ; Lung Diseases ; etiology ; Male ; Milk Hypersensitivity

Doctor's degree is the highest degree for medical education.Nowadays,medical doctor candidates in more and more medical universities are requested to publish research papers in intemational journals embodied in Science Citation Index(SCI),or they can not graduate with doctor's degree.So,it is significant for medical doctor candidates to learn the related knowledge about SCI and Impact Factor(IF).

Objective:Combined laparoscopy and hysteroscopy in the diagnosis and therapy of the female infertity is and advanced means in the gynecologcial field.We analysed the causes and the treatments of the 71 infertile patients.Pelvic adhesions,endometrosis and salpingtis were the main causes of infertity in our 71 cases.Of 71 cases,29 cases were primary infertity,in whichc endometriosis,PCOS and anatomic uterine defect were the main causes,and 42 cases were secondary infertity,in which 35 cases (83%) had previous intrauterine operations.All the patients were treated for the causes.We concluded that combined laparoscopy and hysteroscopy can diagnose the causes of infertity and can observe the tubal patency by hysteroscopic tubal cathertetization and hydrotubation,which will direct the treatments and estimate the results of the therapy.Methods:Infertity;Combined Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy.

Objective To define whether correlation exists between the enlargement of lateral ventricles and motor development delay. Methods Motor development was assessed with Peabody Developmental Motor Scale (PDMS) in 28 children with cerebral palsy. Correlation between computerized tomography (CT) findings of enlargement of lateral ventricles (ventricle index,body index,width index and frontal horn index) and motor quotients of PDMS(GMQ,FMQ and TMQ) was analyzed. Results Width index was correlated with all three motor quotients (GMQ,FMQ and TMQ)( P

Objective　To explore left atrial(LA) structur e and function changes in 86 cases of essential hypertension disease (EH) and ef fects of age,gender,hypertension duration,hypertension stage and left ventricula r function on them.Methods　 Using M-mode echocardiogram to detect LA diameter, Usi ng ultrasonic acoustic quantification (AQ) to detect LA area,LA systolic and dia stolic function,LV systolic and diastolic function. Results　①Compared with normal group, LA diameter and LA area we re larger in EH group, LA systolic and diastolic function were impaired. ② Gend er had no effect on LA structure and functione in EH patients; LA diameter and L A area dilated with age, LA systolic function was impaired with age. ③ Hyperten sion duration had no effect on LA structure and function in EH patients. ④LA d iameter and area dilated with hypertension stage. With the development of hypert ension, LA diastolic function was first impaired,then LA systolic function was a lso impaired.⑤LA structure and function had signifficant relationship with LV d iastolic function, LA might dilate and LA systolic function might be impaired wi th LV diastolic function damage.Conclusions　LA diameter and LA area are dilated and LA function i s impaired in EH patients, which changes become more signifficant with age. LA s tructure change and systolic function impairment have a relationship with LV dia stolic dysfunction.

Objective To investigate and analyze the requirement for health education during and after hospitalizadon of patients with cerebral apoplexy.Methods 150 sober patients with cerebral apoplexy from department of neurology were investigated by questionnaires and the results were analyzed. Results The education content that most patients wanted to understand during hospitalization was treatment method and limbs activity(83.6%and 82.2%);The health education style that they prefered was to communicate directly with doctors and nurses(74.0%);The education content after hospitalization that most patients required was self-nursing knowledge.clinical manifestation and first aid when relapse(90.4%,87.7%and 87.7%).The health education style that they most needed after hospitalization Was that Some reference books would he recommended to them (56.2%).The time choice for health education was consultation whenever they had problems.Conclusion Medical workers should supply selective education and instruction according to the health education requirement and style at different stages of patients with cerebral apoplexy.

BACKGROUND: There are small amount of hematopoietic stem cells, which are easy to divide in vitro and show the difficulty in applying to transplantation.OBJECTIVE: This paper has focused on the role and means of the Wnt, Notch, Bmi_1, Shh, HOXB4 signaling molecule in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and regulation. METHODS: With the key words of "HSC, Wnt, Notch, Bmi_1, Shh, HOXB4" for the search, we searched PubMed database (2002-01/2008-12) in English. Literatures closely related to the hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal related signaling molecules were included. Repetitive research and Meta analysis were excluded.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The computer initially retrieved 216 documents, of which 30 documents for research. Hematopoietic stem cells are self-renewing, have strong differentiation and growth and regeneration capacities, can produce various types of blood cells ancestor cells, are widely used to treat blood diseases, but the hematopoietic stem cell differentiation in vitro demonstrated that the difficulties used in transplantation. How to make hematopoietic stem cells in vitro amplification and processing, while maintaining hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal characteristics is of a key issue. In recent years, different signaling pathways to enhance the ability of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal signaling molecule have been a research hotspot. The article focused on the role and means of the Wnt, Notch, Bmi_1, Shh, HOXB4 in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and regulation and found that both the above-mentioned five signaling molecules can enhance hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal function. There are also a number of factors playing an important role in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal process, such as endogenous factors, a series of transcription factors Oct-4, Ehox, Nanog, SCL, Runx1 and so on, to explore how their regulatory networks formed by the interaction control self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells will become a key point in the research of self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells.