Objective To explore the change of 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α(8-iso-PGF2α),serum ferritin (SF) and superoxide dismutase(SOD) in serum from children with mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia(MPP) and severe mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia(SMPP),and investigate the correlation between the severity of lung injury induced by oxidative stress(OS) and the severity in children with SMPP.Methods Sixty cases with MPP,30 cases with SMPP and 20 health children were selected in our study.The level of 8-iso-PGF2α,SOD and SF in serum were detected.Results (1) There were no significant difference regarding of 8-iso-PGF2α levels between the MPP group and the healthy control group ((6.01 (13.14)) ng/L vs.4.33 (2.42)) ng/L,P ＞ 0.05).The 8-iso-PGF2α level in patient of the SMPP group was 24.20 (24.05)) ng/L,significantly higher than that in the healthy control group (P ＜ 0.01) and MPP group (P ＜ 0.01).(2) There were no significant difference between the MPP group μg/L] and the healthy control group in terms of SF level((80.91 (54.57) μg/L vs.(82.48 (70.60)) μg/L,P ＞ 0.05).The SF level in the SMPP group was 139.69 (120.98)) μg/L,significantly higher than that in the healthy control group(P ＜ 0.01) and MPP group(P ＜ 0.O1).(3) The level of SOD in the MPP group was 138.60(25.20)) kU/L,significantly higher than that in the healthy control group ((123.10(11.28)) kU/L; P ＜ 0.01).The level of SOD in the SMPP group was 94.43 (63.58)) kU/L,significantly lower than that in the healthy control group (P ＜ 0.05).And level of SOD in the MPP group was significantly higher than that in the SMPP group(P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion The severity of lung injury induce by OS was related with the severity of the children with SMPP.OS may be a important factor in patients with SMPP exacerbation of lung injury.

Objective:To investigate the distribution and characteristics of serum allergen specific IgE (sIgE) in children in Tianjin from June 2015 to April 2019.Methods:The fluorescence enzyme linked immunosorbent assay results (obtained by UniCAP system) of serum allergen sIgE of 5 823 children aged 1-14 in Tianjin area were analyzed.The distribution of serum allergen sIgE and its correlation with the gender, disease type, age and season were discussed.Results:(1) Among the 5 823 cases, 3 602 cases (61.86%) were positive for serum allergen sIgE, including 1 556 cases (43.20%) positive for single airborne allergens, 779 cases (21.63%) positive for single food allergens, 1 267 cases (35.17%) positive for both food and airborne allergens.(2) The top 5 airborne allergens were moulds (33.02%), dermatophagoides farinae (27.21%), dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (24.28%), mugwort (21.64%) and ragweed (17.32%). (3) Food allergens were mainly egg white, milk and wheat, whose positive rates were 27.06%, 25.59% and 20.00%, respectively.(4) The positive rate of serum allergen sIgE in boys (64.02%) was significantly higher than that in girls (57.93%) ( χ2=20.94, P<0.05). (5) The positive rate of serum allergen sIgE in children with asthma (73.18%) was significantly higher than that in children with allergic rhinitis (59.82%)( χ2=64.51, P<0.05) and eczema (51.60%) ( χ2=40.04, P<0.05). The main airborne allergens in children with asthma included moulds, dermatophagoides farinae, dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, wheat and peanut.The main allergens in children with allergic rhinitis were moulds, egg white, wheat, mugwort and dermatophagoides farinae.The main allergens in children with eczema were egg white, milk, moulds, dermatophagoides farinae and dermatophagoides ptero-nyssinus.(6) With the increase of age, the positive rate of airborne allergens increased gradually.In food allergens, the positive rate of milk and egg white decreased gradually while that of wheat and peanut increased gradually with the increasing age.(7) In different seasons, the positive rate of allergen sIgE was varied.The overall positive rate was highest in summer(66.59%), followed by autumn(64.15%), spring(62.07%), and winter(54.63%) successively( χ2=49.38, P<0.05). Among the airborne allergens, the positive rates of dermatophagoides farinae and dermatophagoides pteronyssinus were the highest in summer and autumn[dermatophagoides farinae(32.25%, 30.17%); dermatophagoides pteronyssinus(30.40%, 27.54%)]. The positive rate of moulds was the highest in summer(45.41%), followed by autumn(36.19%). The positive rate of blattella germanica was the highest in summer(5.52%). The positive rates of cat dander, animal dander combination, artemisia argyi and weeds pollen combination were higher in autumn(33.33%, 13.94%, 24.84%, 19.88%). Conclusions:Moulds, dermatophagoides farinae, dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, egg white and milk are the most common allergens in children in Tianjin.The distribution of allergens is correlated with the gender, disease type, age and season.

Objective To study the clinical characteristics and x-ray traits of pulmonary sequestration,in order to guide preoperative diagnosis and proper treatment.Methods Data of PS patients in this hospital in ten years were summarized and analyzed.Results The pathology after operation proved that the preoperative error diagnosis rate is 71% (10/14).All patients recovered after operative treatment.The diagnosis rate can be improved by examination of CT and X-ray.Conclusions It is difficult to make a definite diagnosis before operation though PS has its relevant clinical appearances and features of X-ray. The PS cases can be made successfully diagnosed and treated dy surgery.Attention should be paid to manage the unusual artery in operation.

Objective To investigate the potential role of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in wheezing episode in children, and to assess the association of the thromboxane A2 receptor gene (TBXA2R) T924C polymorphism with wheezing after RSV infection. Methods From may to december in 2008, one hundred and twenty-five asthmatic children who were suffering from acute episode were recruited as cases and 49 healthy children as controls in our Polymerase chain reactions-Restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RELP) techniques were used to detect the TBXA2R SNP. RSV IgM and IgG were measured by ELISA. Results RSV specific antibody was positive in 57 asthmatic patients (45.6% ,57/125) and 8 controls (16.33% ,8/49) ,with significant difference between the two groups ( χ2 = 12. 890, P = 0. age asthmatic group and 76. 92% (30/39) in the <3 years of age asthmatic group, with significant difference between the two groups (χ2 = 22. 420, P = 0. 000 ). The genotypes distribution in the asthmatic patients was significantly different from that in the controls(χ2 = 5. 346, P = 0. 021). The frequency of TC and CC genotypes in the cases was significantly higher than that in the control group. The allele frequencies of T and C allele were similar in the two groups ( χ2 =2.660, P=0.103). Conclusions RSV infection was one of the factors that associated with asthma acute episode, especially in children younger than 3 years. The TC,CC genotypes increase the chance of wheezing in children infected by RSV.

Objective To investigate the influence to airway responsiveness by using low dose azithromycin in asthmatic children.Methods One hundred and four children with moderate persistent or severe persistent asthma were divided into Group A (include 56 cases) and Group B (include 48 cases) randomly.All of the patients were treated with seretide (50/100 μg/dose) 2 doses/d for4 weeks.Children with severe persistent asthma were added with montelukast 5 mg/d orally,children accompanied with allergic rhinitis were added with nasonex 100 ～200 μg/d intranasal.And four weeks later,all of the patients were given a 12-week observation.Group A kept on treating with seretide (the same dose as before),and azithromycin 7.5mg/ (kg·d) (the maximal dose was 250 mg/d) orally was administered intermittently twice a week.Group B kept on treating with seretide ( the same dose as before) only.At the end of the study,we assessed the number of days with asthmatic symptoms in two groups respectively.At the beginning and the end of the study,we measured the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1 ％ ),peak expiratory flow (PEF％),the PD20-FEV1 by histamine challenged at the 15 th day and at the end of the study in two groups.Twenty-four hours before the study and twenty-four hours after the study,we measured the 24-hour urinary 17-OHCS and 17-KS of the patients.Two weeks after the study,we measured the serumal ALT and AST of the patients.Results ( 1 ) The number of days with asthmatic symptoms was ( 2.13 ± 1.18 ) d and ( 2.25 + 1.19 ) d respectively in Group A and B,and there was no significant difference between two groups ( t =0.54,P=0.59).(2) The PEF％ before and after the study in Group A was (49.77 ± 15.02)％ and (82.73 ±7.81 ) ％ respectively ( t =16.59,P =0.000).The PEF％ before and after the study in Group B was (52.69±13.90)％ and (81.15±7.28)％ respectively (t=12.37,P=0.000).The FEV1％ before and after the study in Group A was (50.48 ± 15.08 ) ％ and ( 83.18 ± 6.61 ) ％ respectively ( t =16.25,P =0.000).The FEV1 ％ before and after the study in Group B was ( 53.29 ± 13.89 ) ％ and ( 82.73 ± 6.10 ) ％ respectively (t=12.83,P=0.000).(3) The PD20-FEV1 at the 15 th day and at the end of the study in Group A was (65.13 ±26.08) μg and (460.79 ±221.72) μg respectively (t =13.54,P =0.000).The PD20-FEVt at the 15th day and at the end of the study in Group B was ( 65.27 ± 25.75 ) μg and (65.66 ± 25.09 ) μg respectively (t =1.45,P =0.15).Compared the PD20-FEV1 between the two groups,there was significant difference at the end of the study (t =13.29,P =0.000).(4) The 24-hour urinary 17-OHCS was (14.27 ±3.41)nmol/L and (14.43 ±3.69) nmol/L respectively of Group A and was (14.31 ±3.66)nmol/L and ( 14.56 ± 3.37 ) nmol/L respectively of Group B before and after the study,and there was no significant difference between Group A and Group B.The 24-hour urinary 17-KS was ( 22.43 ± 5.69 ) nmol/L and (22.07±5.21 ) nmol/L respectively of Group A and was (22.40±5.04) nmol/L and (22.54 ±4.74)nmol/L respectively of Group B before and after the study,and there was no significant difference between Group A and Group B.(5) The serumal ALT of Group A and B measured 2 weeks after the study was (20.39± 9.12) U/L and ( 20.83 ± 7.83 ) U/L respectively ( t =0.26,P =0.79 ).The serumal AST of Group A and Group B measured 2 weeks after the study was (20.68 ±8.67) U/L and (21.44±8.60) U/L respectively (t =0.45,P =0.66 ).Conclusion It can significantly decrease the bronchial hyperreactivity of asthmatic children treated with low dose azithromycin orally for 12 weeks and seretide inhaled,but it can not decrease the number of days with asthmatic symptoms in the patients,can not improve the FEV1 and PEF significantly.There wasn't any influence on adrenal glands.function and liver function of the patients.

Objective To investigate the understanding level of asthma related knowledge and the treatment compliance in parents of children with asthma in Tianjin. Methods Questionnaire survey was given to 93 randomly selected parents of children with asthma at our asthmatic clinic ,whose children began to receive regularly asthmatic administration for at least 6 months from June to July in 2009. Results 72.04% of the parents included into the survey knew that asthma was a chronic airway inflammatory disease; 100% of them adhered to use prescription inhaled corticosteroid (55.91%) or inhaled corticosteroid combined with an inhaled long-acting β2-agonist (44. 09% ) ;74. 68% of them believed that if the child is in a well control state, he/she could participate in exercise as healthy children. There were 93.55% and 97.85% children patients aged ＞ 5 had never used PEF meter or CACT respectively to monitor the ill conditions. 25.81% of the parents chose rapid-acting β2-agonist to deal with asthma at acute attack stage, while 19.35% chose to add antibiotics and 11.83% were unable to do anything. 43.01% of the parents worried that the long-term use of inhaled corticosteroid would have side effects on the growth and development of their children, although they chose to obey to the doctor's prescription. Conclusions The general understanding of asthma is good in the parents, whose children had received asthmatic administration regularly in Tianjin area,but there are still some weak links exist. The related education may help asthmatic children's parents to master the knowledge of asthma, give them correct recognition of the treatment and prevention of asthma,increase the treatment compliance. This work should be insisted continuously.

Nanoporous ZnO was used as a carrier to prepare drug solid dispersion, the mechanism of which to improve the drug dissolution was also studied. Nanoporous ZnO, obtained through chemical deposition method, was used as a carrier to prepare indomethacin and cilostazol solid dispersions by melt-quenching method, separately. The results of scanning electron microscope, surface area analyzer, fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimeter and X-ray diffraction showed that drugs were implanted into nanopores of ZnO by physical adsorption effect and highly dispersed into nanopores of ZnO in amorphous form, moreover, these nanopores strongly inhibited amorphous recrystallization in the condition of 45 degrees C and 75% RH. In addition, the results of the dissolution tested in vitro exhibited that the accumulated dissolutions of indomethacin and cilostazol solid dispersions achieved about 90% within 5 min and approximately 80% within 30 min. It was indicated in this study that the mechanism of drug dissolution improvement was associated with the effects of nanoporous ZnO carrier on increasing drug dispersion, controlling drug in nanopores as amorphous form and inhibiting amorphous recrystallization.

Objective To investigate the anti-tumor efficiency of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) induced by activated B lymphocyte after hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) alpha fetoprotein (AFP) mRNA transfection.Methods B lymphocytes were fractionated,purified and activated by recombinant human soluble sCD40L.PGEM4Z/AFP/A64-EGFP plasmid was established in vitro,mixed with polymerase T7RNA,and then transcribed into AFP mRNA with Poly (A) sequence.B lymphocytes electrotransfected with AFP mRNA were in the experimental group,B lymphocytes electrotransfected with GAPDH mRNA were in the negative control group,and untreated B lymphocytes were in the blank control group.The expressions of antigen-presenting cell (APC)markers (CD19,CD20,CD21,CD40,CD80,CD83) and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of the 3 groups were detected.B lymphocytes of the 3 groups were cultured with T lymphocytes at ratios of 1∶40,1 ∶ 20,1∶10 and 1∶5 to induce and ampify CTL,and then the absorbance values were detected to evaluate the proliferation ability of T lymphocytes.The killing activity of CTL was investigated with HCC cell line SMMC7721 as the target cells.All data were analyzed using the paired t test,one-way analysis of variance or Tamhane's T2 test.Results The expressions of CD19,CD20,CD21,CD40,CD80 and CD83 of the experimental group were 74 ± 11,78 ±8,80 ± 10,90 ± 11,82 ± 6,56 ± 5,which were significantly higher than 51 ± 5,60 ± 7,53 ± 5,73 ± 8,50 ± 5 and 49 ± 6 of the negative control group,and 46 ± 3,54 ± 5,41 ± 3,56 ± 5,52 ± 6 and 21 ± 4 of the blank control group (t =5.302,4.812,7.627,5.932,9.142,7.813; 11.581,7.036,13.592,12.873,9.235,14.619,P ＜ 0.01).The proliferation of CTL of the experimental group was significantly higher than that in the negative control group and blank control group (t =18.203,23.714,15.062,9.417 ; 16.833,19.392,13.871,6.592,P ＜0.01).When the T lymphocytes were mixed with the HCC cell line SMMC7721 at the ratios of 40∶ 1,20∶1and 10∶1,the killing rates of HCC cells by CTL of the exprimental group were 43％ 4％,32％ ± 4％ and 22％ ±3％,which were significantly higher than 15％ ± 5％,7％ ± 3％ and 6％ ±2％ of the negative control group,and 7％±3％,8％±3％ and 9％±4％ of the blank control group (t =9.141,13.272,11.901; 14.372,12.835,9.507,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion Activated B lymphocytes after HCC AFP mRNA transfection may effectively induce CTL to kill HCC cells.

BACKGROUND: Tumor-adopted immunity and gene transduction technique are used to introduce tumor necrosis factor-α vector into carrier cells, which are then re-infused into the body so that cancer cells can be killed by tumor necrosis factor-α more directly and effectively with fewer side effects on the other tissues due to high local expression.OBJECTIVE: To study the bioactivity of in vitro cultured tumor necrosis factor-α transduced tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as well as the inhibitory effects on cancer cells of cancer-loaded rats infused in different ways.DESIGN: A randomized controlled study based on experimental animals.SEETING: Cancer Research Institute of China Medical University.MATERIALS: This study was carried out at the Cancer Research Institute and the Experimental Animal Department, China Medical University,between January 2000 and December 2001. TJ8510 cell line (human brain glioblastoma cell line) was provided by the Neurological Research Institute of Tianjin Medical University Affiliated Hospital. The experimental animals were 36 BALB/C nude mice congenitally having no thymius.METHODS: Based on the establishment of tumor necrosis factor-α retroviral transduction system and the preparation of cartier cells tumor-infil-trating lymphocytes, the monoclonal virus cell line PLC-2 and PLJC-5available were used to introduce marked gene NeoR and targeted gene tumor necrosis factor-α into tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, respectively.Then cell proliferation, tumor necrosis factor expression and in vitro antitumor activity were examined. After cancer cell inoculation, the 36 nude mice were randomly divided into 6 groups: local infusion control group, local tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group, local tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group, venous infusion control group, venous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group and venous tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group, and the therapeutic effects on the cancer-loaded mice were observed.proliferation and tumor necrosis factor-α expression in tumor-infiltrating oR-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes was not significantly different from each other (P ＞ 0.05).NeoR-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, though not significantly different (P ＞0.05), significantly differ from that of tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (P ＜ 0.01); moreover, tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes were found to express higher tumor necrosis factor-α conactivity did not significantly differ between tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and NeoR-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (P ＞ 0.05), but obviously increased come of the animal experiment: 40 days after tumor necrosis factor-tumorinfiltrating lymphocytes infusion, cancer size in local tumor necrosis factortumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group was found smaller than that in local infusion control group [(307±42) and (2 048±278) mm3, P ＜ 0.01],and it was also smaller in venous tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion group than that in venous control group [(954±195)and (1 989±305) mm3 , P ＜ 0.05].CONCLUSION: Tumor necrosis factor-α gene transduced tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes could effectively express tumor necrosis factor, exerting higher and in vivo anti-tumor effects than tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in cancer-loaded nude mice. No obvious inhibitory effects on the growth of subcutaneous solid carcinoma could be observed in nude mice after venous infusion of human brain glioblastoma tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, but the inhibitory effects became obvious due to venous infusion of tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and significant due to local tumor necrosis factor-tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes infusion, indicating that local infusion is the preferable way in the treatment of glioblastoma by immuno-gene therapy.

AIM:To explore the association between single nucleotide polymorphism in exon 33 (E33SNP) of thyroglobulin gene and Graves ’ disease ( GD) relapse after antithyroid drug ( ATD) withdrawal .METHODS:The healthy controls (232 cases) and GD patients with discontinued treatment (243 cases) were selected.According to the time of re-lapse, the GD patients were divided into A, B and C subgroups.The A group contained 77 cases of relapse within 1 year, B group contained 86 cases of relapse 1~2 years after treatment and C group contained 80 cases without recurrence within 2 years.The genotypes of E33SNP were identified by RT-PCR.The genotype ratio of thyroglobulin between control group and observation group was comparatively analyzed , and the levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH) , free triiodothyro-nine (FT3), free thyroxine (FT4) and thyrotropin receptor antibody (TRAb), ophthalmopathy and goiter size in A , B and C subgroups in different genotype GD patients were investigated .Moreover , cumulative efficiency for patients with different genotypes in the observation group after ATD treatment within 2 years were analyzed .RESULTS:The genotype of E33SNP between observation group and control group had no significant difference , but a significant difference between A , B and C subgroups was observed (P<0.05).The levels of TSH, FT3 and FT4, and goiter size of the patients with different geno-types had no significant difference , while the TRAb levels and ophthalmopathy presented a significant difference ( P <0.05).In addition, the cumulative efficiency within 2 years for GD patients with E33SNP T/T, E33SNP T/C and E33SNP C/C genotypes was 61.8%, 42.6% and 21.3%, respectively, all with significant differences (P<0.05).CONCLU-SION:The GD patients with E33SNP C/C genotype have significantly higher TRAb level and ophthalmopathy rate than those in the patients with E33SNP C/T and E33SNP C/C genotypes, and are more likely to relapse after ATD treatment . The GD patients with E33SNP T/T genotype show a lower recurrence rate .Therefore, combination treatment or other treat-ment modalities may be more reasonable for the GD patients with E 33SNP C/C genotype.