Objective To observe the effects of different gastrointestinal reconstruction methods after dis -tal subtotal gastrectomy on nutritional condition and blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes ( T2DM) and gastric cancer.Methods 88 patients with T2DM and gastric cancer undergoing radial distal gastrectomy were studied and among them 43 patients had Billroth I gastrointestinal reconstruction , 22 patients had Billroth II gas-trointestinal reconstruction and 23 patients had Roux-en-Y gastrointestinal reconstruction .Body mass index ( BMI) , serum albumin and prealbumin of the 3 groups were measured preoperatively and 1 year after surgery . The patients were followed up .Results There was no significant difference among the 3 groups in preoperative values(P>0.05).One year after surgery, BMI, serum albumin and peralbumin in the 3 groups had different de-grees of reduction , but showed no statistical difference ( P>0.05 ) .The effective rate of diabetes control was 18.60%in Billroth I group , 72.73%in Billroth II group , and 73.91% in Roux-en-Y group and the difference had statistical significance(χ2 =17.390 3,P<0.05).The effective rates of diabetes control in Billroth II group and Roux-en-Y group were higher than that in Billroth I group (χ2 =18.340 9,P<0.05;χ2 =19.480 4,P<0.05), and there was no evident difference between Billroth II group and Roux-en-Y group(χ2 =0.008 1,P=0.928 4).Conclusion Billroth II and Roux-en-Y gastrointestinal reconstruction can improve glycemic metabo-lism of patients with T2DM and gastric cancer without significantly reducing the nutrition status .

Agarases are glycoside hydrolases.They are grouped into?and?types,which hydrolyze?-1,3 linkages and?-1,4 linkages respectively.The paper is about advance in research of agarase including the research of biology,the classcification,the crystal structure,the catalysis mechanism and application of agarases.

Tissue engineering has always been a hot spot in the life science area over the past few years. However, there are some problems, such as the multiplication of seeding cells, the preparation of tissue engineering scaffolds, and the controlled release of drugs from scaffolds and so on. Recently microspheres have been widely used to solve these problems. For example, microspheres are used as microcarriers to culture seeding cells. In addition, microsphers can be either used to prepare engineering scaffolds or directly used as scaffolds. Microspheres can be used to load drugs and control the drug release as well. In this paper the application of microspheres in tissue engineering is reviewed and the up-to-date methods are introduced, including ways of improving performances of microcarriers, preparing scaffolds with microspheres and adding drug-loaded microspheres into scaffolds.

Child ; Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte ; Humans ; Neoplasm, Residual ; diagnosis ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; methods ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma ; diagnosis ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell ; genetics

0.10). However, for patients with positive cervical lymph nodes, neck dissection plus radiotherapy resulted in a better local control rate than radiotherapy alone (P

In a previous study, we cloned popW from Ralstonia solanacearum strain ZJ3721, coding PopW, a new harpin protein. The procaryotically expressed PopW can induce resistance to Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), enhance growth and improve quality of tobacco, when sprayed onto tobacco leaves. Here, we constructed an expression vector pB- popW by cloning popW into the bionary vector pBI121 and transformed it into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA105 via freeze-thaw method. Tobacco (Nicotiana tobacum cv. Xanthi nc.) transformation was conducted by infection of tobacco leaf discs with recombinant A. tumefaciens. After screening on MS medium containing kanamycin, PCR and RT-PCR analysis, 21 T3 lines were identified as positive transgenic. Genomic intergration and expression of the transferred gene were determined by PCR and RT-PCR. And GUS staining analysis indicated that the protein expressed in transgenic tobacco was bioactive and exhibited different expression levels among lines. Disease bioassays showed that the transgenic tobacco had enhanced resistance to TMV with biocontrol efficiency up to 54.25%. Transgenic tobacco also exhibited enhanced plant growth, the root length of 15 d old seedlings was 1.7 times longer than that of wild type tobacco. 60 d after transplanting to pots, the height, fresh weight and dry weight of transgenic tobacco were 1.4, 1.7, 1.8 times larger than that of wild type tobacco, respectively.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; Animals ; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins ; genetics ; Disease Resistance ; genetics ; Genetic Vectors ; Phenotype ; Plant Diseases ; prevention & control ; virology ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; genetics ; Tobacco ; genetics ; Tobacco Mosaic Virus ; Transformation, Genetic

BACKGROUND:After acute myocardial infarction(AMI),there is still surviving myocardium in and around the infarcted area,which plays an important role in the occurrence of arrhythmia. OBJECTIVE:To study the alterations of the activities of Na+ channel current(INa),L-calcium current(ICa-L),transient outward K+ current(Ito) and inward rectifying K+ current(IK1) in the cardiomyocytes in the infarcted area after AMI. DESIGN: A randomized controlled study. SETTING:Department of Cardiology,Bethune International Peace Hospital. PARTICIPANTS:The experiment was finished in the Central Laboratory of the Department of Cardiology,Bethune International Peace Hospital from January to June 2003.Twenty New Zealand pure big-ear rabbits were randomly divided into AMI group(n=10) and control group(n=10). INTERVENTIONS:Rabbit AMI models were established by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery.The ventricular myocytes were separated with the method of enzymatic dissociation technique,and the changes of the ion currents were recorded with the whole cell patch-clamp techniques. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:The changes of INa,ICa-L,Ito and IK1 in the cardiomyocytes taken from the infarcted area of epicardium 24 hours after AMI in both the AMI and control groups. RESULTS:Twenty-four hours after AMI,the peak current densities of INa,ICa-L and IK1 in the AMI group [(28.48± 3.53) pA/pF,n=16;(3.91± 0.95) pA/pF,n=12;(26.93 ± 3.48) pA/pF,n=16]were all significantly reduced as compared with those in the control group [(45.50± 5.33) pA/pF,n=12;(5.58± 1.53) pA/pF,n=10;(34.12± 4.21) pA/pF,n=10] (t=3.026,P< 0.01;t=2.985,P< 0.01;t=2.706,P< 0.05).There was no significant difference in the Ito density between the AMI group and control group (P >0.05). CONCLUSION:The reduce of INa,ICa-L and IK1 caused by AMI can result in the decrease of myocardial conduction velocity,the shortening of action potential-time,abnormal repolarization,which is possibly the ionic mechanism for the reentrant ventricular arrhythmia after AMI.

Objective:To explore the clinical value of chest multi-slice computed tomography angiography (MSCTA) as a preoper-ative examination for lung cancer patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy. Methods: Sixty lung cancer patients formed the study population and were randomly divided into 2 groups of 30 cases each. In the experimental group, CTA images of the tumors and pulmo-nary artery, bronchial artery, pulmonary vein were acquired, analyzed, and post-processed using VR to determine the anatomical rela-tionship between vessels and tumors. Pulmonary lobectomy followed. Cases in the control group underwent pulmonary lobectomy with-out guidance by chest MSCTA. Operation times and amounts of operative blood loss were compared between the two groups. Results:Significant differences between groups in terms of operation time (study group vs. control group, 199±55.7 vs. 231.5±51.2(min);P=0.02) and amount of operative blood loss (study group vs. control group, 318.33±99.6 vs. 431.7±89.5(mL), P<0.01) were observed. Val-ues of operation time and amount of contrast agents in the study group were consistently lower than those in the control group. Conclu-sion:Chest MSCTA can shorten the operation time and reduce the amount of operative blood loss during pulmonary lobectomy. Thus, the technique has significant clinical value.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical value of Young's modulus by supersonic shear wave elastography (SWE) in differential diagnosis of thyroid solid nod1ules.MethodsEighty-three patients with 113 solid nodules were examined by SWE.All the nodules were confirmed by pathology.According to Young's modulus,a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was drawn,and it used to identify the value of optimal operating point for differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules.Results ① The mean of Young's modulus of benign nodules was (23.57 ± 9.35)kPa,which was significantly different from the valve of malignant nodules (43.73 ± 19.82) kPa ( t =6.31,P =0.00).(②) It showed that the optimal operating point of ROC curve as 27.49,with high sensitivity(93.2％),specificity(81.2％) and accuracy (85.8％).The area under ROC curve was 0.91.Conclusions SWE is a newly quantitative technique of ultrasonography,which is helpful to identify and distinguish in the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules.

BACKGROUND:Bone graft for acetabular reconstruction includes morselized bone graft, structural bone graft and hybrid bone graft, and the morselized bone has been widely used because of the advantages of simple
production and short healing time.
OBJECTIVE:To explore the key technologies and clinical effect of impaction bone grafting with morselized bone in total hip revision for AAOS Ⅲ acetabular deficiency.
METHODS:Sixteen cases of AAOS Ⅲ acetabular deficiency were treated with impaction bone grafting with morselized bone combined with metal devicesor constructive bone grafting. The hip Harris scores and
radiographic data were compared before and after treatment. The effect of impaction bone grafting with morselized bone on acetabular deficiency was assessed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Al the patients were fol owed-up at 3, 6, 12 months after surgery and every half a year successively. The pain of hip joints after operation was relieved significantly and the walking function was
restored. The hip Harris score was improved from 48.00 points before surgery to 84.94 points after surgery (P<0.01). Five cases were graded as excel ent, eight cases as good, two cases as average, and one case as poor. The excel ent and good rate was 81%, and the satisfying rate of the patients was 94%. The post-operative X-ray films of al the 16 patients showed that the acetabular rotation centers were recovered (near) to normal and the acetabular cups were covered wel by bone. The grafting bone particles got radiological osseointegration and the
acetabular cup prosthesis did not displaced, and no displacement and breakage happened to the metal devices.
Impaction bone grafting with morselized bone in total hip revision for AAOS Ⅲ acetabular deficiency can effectively reconstruct the acetabular bone structure, retain and restore the acetabular bone mass, and it has good technical advantages and good clinical effects.