1.Blood pressure variability and stroke
Chenming WEI ; Bo SONG ; Song TAN ; Yuming XU
International Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases 2012;20(4):295-299
Hypertension is an indep endent risk factor for stroke.Blood pressure variability is the result of the overall balance of in vivo dynamic regulation of the neuroendocrine system It is one of the essential characters of blood pressure.It is associated with the effects of the sensitivity of baroreceptor,physical activity,diseases and other factors.Blood pressure variability is closely associated with the target organ damage.An increasing number of studies have shown that blood pressure variability plays an important role in the occurrence and prognosis of stroke.It has a profound significance in the prevention and treatment of stroke.
2.Study oil the heredity and variance of E1 gene of rubella virus Matsuba strain
Xuejun GA ; Meiyu KE ; Chenming LIU ; Yajing ZHAO ; Zhidong WEI ; Liping ZHU
Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 2008;28(8):698-702
Objecflve To study the heredity and variance of E1 gene of rubella villls Matsuba vac-cine strain.and to evaluate the protective efficacy of the vaccine prepared by Matsuba vaccine strain on genelevel.Methods The Matsuba strain was passaged on primary rabbit kidnev cells from 14 to 23 generations.and the E1 genes of 14,16,17,18,23 passages amplified by RT-PCR were cloned into the T-A cloning vector pGEM-T and sequenced,respectively.The sequences of E1 gene of the passaged viruses were tom-pared with rubella virus Matsuba reference strain E1 gene(Accession No.D50673)and other rubella strains in GenBank.respectively.Results The Matanba passaged shared higher homology of nucleotide and amino acid with Matsuba reference strain(D50673).,The sequences of nucleotide and amino acid of RV14,RV16.RV18 were identical to D50673.The homology of nucleotide sequences of RV17,RV23 and D50673 was 99.9%and 99.7%,respectively,andthe homology of amino acidwgg 99.8% and 99.2%,respective-ly.The amino acid related to glycosylation and epitopes of the passage viruses were highly conservative.The phylogenetic tree showed Matsuba strain belonged to la genotype.The rubella virus genotypes circulated in China recent years were 1E,lF,2A and 2B,and 1E genotype was the predominant genotype.The homology of nucleotide and amino acid of Matsuba strain and the other genotype reference strains was 92.1%-99.6% and 98.1%-99.8%.respectively.Condusion The Matsuba vaccine strain possesses highly genetic stabil-ity.which indicates that the Matsuba strain and its vaccine are stable on molecular level.And the vaccine prepared by Matsuba vaccine strain can prevent the infection of various genotype rubella viruses.
3.Should we wait for routine laboratory findings before intravenous thrombolysis for ischemic stroke?
Qiang HUANG ; Wendeng XU ; Chenming WEI ; Xiaofeng ZHANG ; Xiaowei SONG ; Jian WU
International Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases 2019;27(4):241-245
Objective To investigate whether routine laboratory findings should be awaited before intravenous thrombolytic therapy for ischemic stroke.Methods Emergency patients (including ischemic and non-ischemic stroke cases) treated at the Department of Neurology,Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital between January 1st 2016 and October 1st 2017 were analyzed retrospectively.The platelet count,prothrombin time (PT),activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT),and international normalized ratio (INR) in the first test were used as the main indicators.The proportion of patients with abnormalities between the overall population and the ischemic stroke subgroup was analyzed,and the above indicators between all patients with ischemic stroke and those receiving intravenous thrombolytic therapy were compared.The specific causes of failure to receive intravenous thrombolytic therapy in patients with ischemic stroke were analyzed descriptively.Results A total of 3 348 patients were enrolled.The emergency blood routine data were available in all patients.The emergency blood biochemical data were available in 3 278 patients (97.9%),and the emergency coagulation function data were available 1 742 patients (52.0%).There were no significant differences in the proportion of platelet count < 100 × 109/L (1.3% vs.1.5%;x2=0.29,P=0.586),APTT>36.5s (3.8% vs.3.6%;x2=0.06,P=0.809),PT >15s (2.6% vs.2.8%;x2 =0.03,P=0.866),and INR > 1.5 (2.0% vs.2.0%;x2 =0.01,P=0.970) between the general population and the ischemic stroke subgroup.In a total of 687 patients with ischemic stroke,57 (8.3%) received intravenous thrombolysis.There were no significant difference in mean platelet count,APTT,PT,and INR between the thrombolytic group and the entire ischemic stroke group.Forty-nine patients (5.1%) with ischemic stroke had abnormal main indicators,of which 57.1% (28/49) had a history of related diseases at the same time,while only 6.1% (3/49) had abnormal laboratory indicators as the main factor of contraindication for intravenous thrombolysis.Conclusions Patients with acute ischemic stroke (especially in the absence of a history of related disease) have a low proportion of abnormal blood test findings and are less likely to be the main contributor of contraindication for intravenous thrombolysis.Therefore,when there is no reason to suspect that the test findings are abnormal,intravenous thrombolytic therapy should not be delayed because of waiting for the test findings.
4.knocking out mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing for PD-L1 attenuation and enhanced antitumor immunity.
Huan DENG ; Songwei TAN ; Xueqin GAO ; Chenming ZOU ; Chenfeng XU ; Kun TU ; Qingle SONG ; Fengjuan FAN ; Wei HUANG ; Zhiping ZHANG
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2020;10(2):358-373
Blocking the programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) on tumor cells with monoclonal antibody therapy has emerged as powerful weapon in cancer immunotherapy. However, only a minority of patients presented immune responses in clinical trials. To develop an alternative treatment method based on immune checkpoint blockade, we designed a novel and efficient CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system delivered by cationic copolymer aPBAE to downregulate PD-L1 expression on tumor cells specifically knocking out Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 () gene . The expression of PD-L1 on tumor cells was significantly attenuated by knocking out , leading to effective tumor growth inhibition in murine melanoma and lung metastasis suppression in triple-negative breast cancer. Importantly, we demonstrated that aPBAE/Cas9-Cdk5 treatment elicited strong T cell-mediated immune responses in tumor microenvironment that the population of CD8 T cells was significantly increased while regulatory T cells (Tregs) was decreased. It may be the first case to exhibit direct PD-L1 downregulation CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology for cancer therapy. It will provide promising strategy for preclinical antitumor treatment through the combination of nanotechnology and genome engineering.