1.Acupuncture combined with Qigui decoction for 30 cases of myasthenia gravis.
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2014;34(7):718-718
Acupuncture Therapy
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Drugs, Chinese Herbal
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administration & dosage
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Myasthenia Gravis
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drug therapy
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therapy
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Young Adult
2.Efficacy of laparoscopic hepatectomy for hepatic neoplasms: a report of 258 cases
Xiang ZHANG ; Yongyi ZENG ; Minhui CHI ; Jinhua ZENG ; Jingfeng LIU
Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery 2014;13(3):198-201
Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic hepatectomy.Methods The clinical data of 258 patients who received laparoscopic hepatectomy at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University from March 2010 to January 2013 were retrospectively analyzed.There were 196 patients with primary hepatic cancer,45 with hepatic hemangioma,13 with hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia,2 with hepatic metastatic cancer,1 with carcinoma of gallbladder and 1 with hepatic hamartoma.All patients were followed up via phone call or out-patient examination till March 2013.Results A total of 142 patients received single hepatic segmentectomy,98 received multiple hepatic segmentectomy,18 received multiple lesions resection.Fifty-one patients received hepatic tumorectomy + cholecystectomy.All the operations were successfully done under laparoscope without conversion to the open surgery.The mean tumor diameter and the operation time were (5 ± 3) cm (range,1.0-11.5 cm) and (113 ± 56) minutes (range,50-310 minutes),respectively.Intraoperative hepatic portal occlusion was performed on 122 patients,and the time for hepatic portal occlusion was (15 ± 7)minutes.The volume of intraoperative blood loss was (211 ± 195)mL (range,10-650 mL),and blood transfusion was not needed.The capsule of the tumor was complete.The distance between the resection margin and the malignant tumor was above 1.5 cm,and there was no residual tumor in the resection margin.The hepatic function was back to the normal level in 1 week after the operation,and no patient had hepatic failure.The duration of postoperative hospital stay was (7.2 ± 1.3)days (range,5-10 days).One patient was complicated with bile leakage,6 with slight peritoneal effusion,and other patients had no postoperative complications.The rate of follow-up was 91.47% (236/258),and the time of follow-up was (16 ± 10) months.A total of 199 patients with malignant hepatic tumors were followed up.During the follow-up,180 patients had tumor-free survival; 18 patients had postoperative tumor recurrence; 1 patient had omental metastasis and received surgical resection.Thirty-seven patients with benign hepatic tumor survived without complication during the follow-up.Conclusion Laparoscopic hepatectomy is effective for the treatment of hepatic tumors.Multiple hepatic inflow occlusion under laparoscope in a short time may improve the safety of surgery,without prolonging the recovery time of patients.
3.Clinical observation on 9 patients with anti-coagulation rodenticide.
Ying WANG ; Ren-chi YANG ; Yong-ze LIU ; Lin-xiang JI
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2006;24(6):379-379
Adolescent
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Adult
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Anticoagulants
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poisoning
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Coagulation Protein Disorders
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chemically induced
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diagnosis
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therapy
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Rodenticides
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poisoning
4.Preliminary Study on Solid-state Fermentation of Streptomyces Strain Men-myco-93-63
Chun-Ying HAO ; Qing-Fang MENG ; Guo-Tong CHI ; Wen-Xiang YANG ; Da-Qun LIU ;
Microbiology 2008;0(09):-
The culture medium and cultural conditions of solid-state fermentation of Streptomyces Menmyco-93-63 were tested in this study. The suitable medium which contains rice, sorghum, millet bran, and rice hull with the proportion of 2:2:3:3 was developed for the spore production of Streptomyces Men-myco-93-63 using single substrate screening, mixture substrate screening and orthogonal experiments, and the sporulation was up to 2.52?109 CFU/g. And then, initial charge, initial ratio of water to solid, inoculating quantity, and culture temperature impact to sporulation of Streptomyces Men-myco-93-63 were tested. The favorite cultural conditions are developed as the following: the initial charge is 15 g in 500 mL Erlenmeyer flask; initial ratio of water to solid is 1.7:1.0 (V/W, rice hull excluding), inoculating quantity is 7 mL, culture temperature is 28℃.
5.Hemangiopoietin Contributes to Hematopoietic Reconstitution in Radiation Damaged Mice
Shi-Hong LU ; Bin LIU ; Wen XING ; Lei ZHANG ; Xiang-Yu ZHANG ; Qian REN ; Peng-Xia LIU ; Tian-Xiang PANG ; Ren-Chi YANG ; Zhongchao HAN ;
China Biotechnology 2006;0(09):-
Aim:To investigate the effect of Hemangiopoietin (HAPO) on the hematopoiesis reconstitution in sub-lethally irradiated Balb/c mice.Methods: Balb/c mice were underwent total body irradiation at 700 cGy 137Cs ? radiation and were treated with HAPO or recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) after irradiation. The hematopoiesis reconstitution of mice were detected. Cells from bone marrow of Balb/c mice were cultured with HAPO or rhG-CSF for 24 hours or 72 hours before or after the cells were irradiated. The viability of cells were assessed and the ability of in vitro hematopoiesis reconstitution were also detected. Result: rhG-CSF and HAPO treated mice both showed increased survival rate and increased colony forming units. The peripheral WBC number increased greatly. The HAPO group was most quickest compared with rhG-CSF group and PBS control group. The number of bone marrow cells at day 14 of rhG-CSF group was higher than that in HAPO group, but the number of bone marrow cells at day 32 of rhG-CSF was lower than that in HAPO group. The number of bone marrow cells at day 42 of rhG-CSF was below normal. The number of bone marrow cells at day 42 of HAPO group was nearly normal. The number of CFU-GEMM in HAPO group was most compared with that in rhG-CSF group and PBS control group at day 7, 14 and 21 after radiation. The survival rate of cells after radiation in HAPO group was markedly higher than that in PBS control group, but the survival rate of cells after radiation in rhG-CSF group was no notable difference compared with that in PBS control group. In MTT assay, both HAPO and rhG-CSF incubation stimulated proliferation of bone marrow cell at 72 hours after radiation. Bone marrow cells formed Hematopoietic islands in HAPO group after radiation and were positive for sca-1 and CD31. CD31 positive endothelial cells increased around the Hematopoietic islands. There was no Hematopoietic islands formation, few CD31 positive endothelial cells and no sca-1 positive cells in PBS control group. Conclusion: HAPO can promote hematopoiesis reconstitution in sub-lethally irradiated Balb/c mice. It can increase the survival rate of mice and stimulate the proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells.
7.Trans-splicing of Cys mutated coagulation factor VIII.
Fu-Xiang ZHU ; Ze-Long LIU ; Jing MIAO ; Hui-Ge QU ; Xiao-Yan CHI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2012;47(6):734-738
To investigate the improving effect of inter-chain disulfide formation on protein trans-splicing, we introduce a Cys point mutation at Tyr(664) in heavy chain and at Thr(1826) in light chain of B-domain-deleted FVIII (BDD-FVIII). By co-transfection of COS-7 cell with the two Cys mutated chain genes, the intracellular protein splicing, inter-chain disulfide formation, secreted BDD-FVIII and bioactivity in culture supernatant were observed. The data showed that a strengthened spliced BDD-FVIII with an inter-chain disulfide detected by Western blotting and an elevated secretion of spliced BDD-FVIII (128 +/- 24 ng mL(-1)) compared to control (89 +/- 15 ng mL(-1)), assayed by a sandwich ELISA. A Coatest was performed to assay the secretion of bioactivity in culture supernatant and shown a much higher value (0.94 +/- 0.08 u mL(-1)) compared to that of control (0.62 +/- 0.15 u mL(-1)). It suggests that inter-chain disulfide formation could improve protein trans-splicing based dual-vector delivery of BDD-FVIII gene providing experimental evidence for ongoing in vivo study.
Animals
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COS Cells
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Cercopithecus aethiops
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Cysteine
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genetics
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metabolism
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Disulfides
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metabolism
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Factor VIII
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genetics
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metabolism
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Gene Transfer Techniques
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Genetic Vectors
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Mutation
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Peptide Fragments
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genetics
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metabolism
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Protein Splicing
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Transfection
8.Leucine zippers improves protein splicing-mediated coagulation factor VIII gene delivery by dual-vector system.
Fu-Xiang ZHU ; Shu-De YANG ; Ze-Long LIU ; Jing MIAO ; Hui-Ge QU ; Xiao-Yan CHI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2012;47(1):39-44
In our recent study by exploring an intein-based dual-vector to deliver a B-domain-deleted FVIII (BDD-FVIII) gene, it showed that covalently ligated intact BDD-FVIII molecules with a specific coagulant activity could be produced from expressed heavy and light chains by protein trans-splicing. Here, we assessed the hypothesis that the efficiency of trans-splicing may be increased by adding to the intein sequences a pair of leucine zippers that are known to bring about specific and strong protein binding. The intein-fused heavy and light chain genes were co-transferred into cultured COS-7 cells using a dual-vector system. After transient expression, the intracellular BDD-FVIII splicing was observed and the spliced BDD-FVIII and bioactivity secreted to culture media were quantitatively analyzed. An enhanced splicing of BDD-FVIII with decreased protein precursors from gene co-transfected cells was observed by Western blotting. The amount of spliced BDD-FVIII and bioactivity secreted to the culture media were 106 +/- 12 ng x mL(-1) and 0.89 +/- 0.11 U x mL(-1) analyzed by ELISA and Coatest method respectively, which was greater than leucine zipper free intein-fused heavy and light chain genes co-transfected cells (72 +/- 10 ng x mL(-1) and 0.62 +/- 0.07 U x mL(-1)). The activity of cellular mechanism-independent protein splicing was also improved, as showed by the increasing of spliced BDD-FVIII and bioactivity in culture media from combined cells separately transfected with heavy and light chain genes which was 36 +/- 11 ng x mL(-1) and 0.28 +/- 0.09 U x mL(-1). It demonstrated that the leucine zippers could be used to increase the efficiency of protein trans-splicing to improve the efficacy of a dual-vector mediated BDD-FVIII gene delivery by strengthening the interaction between the two intein-pieces fused to heavy and light chains. It provided evidence for further study in animal model using a dual-adeno-associated virus vector to deliver FVIII gene in vivo.
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COS Cells
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Cercopithecus aethiops
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Factor VIII
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chemistry
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genetics
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metabolism
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Genetic Vectors
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Inteins
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Leucine Zippers
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Peptide Fragments
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chemistry
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genetics
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metabolism
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Protein Splicing
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Trans-Splicing
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Transfection
9.Enhancing effect of deoxynivalenol-mediated GRP78 down-regulation on heavy chain secretion and bioactivity of two-chain FVIII gene co-transfected cells.
Fu-Xiang ZHU ; Shu-De YANG ; Ze-Long LIU ; Jing MIAO ; Hui-Ge QU ; Xiao-Yan CHI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2011;46(12):1457-1461
Although two chain transfering separately could be used to overcome the volume limitation of adeno-associated virus vectors (AAV) in coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) gene delivery, it leads to chain imbalance for inefficient heavy chain secretion. In this study we aimed to improve the efficacy of two chain strategy in FVIII gene delivery through the degradation of glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) known as a protein chaperone in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by deoxynivalenol (DON) to decrease GRP78-bound FVIII heavy chain. By treating the two-chain gene transduced 293 cells with DON, the heavy chain (HC) secretion and FVIII bioactivity were observed. Data showed that 293 cells after three hours post-treatment with DON at a concentration of 500 ng mL(-1) resulted in obvious decrease the level of GRP78 but no effect on the cell proliferation. The HC secreted from DON-treated cells transfected with HC gene alone was 59 +/- 11 ng mL(-1), higher than that secreted by control cells (15 +/- 4 ng mL(-1)), and the HC secretion was further increasing to 146 +/- 34 ng mL(-1) in light chain (LC) gene co-transfected cells with an activity measured up to 0.66 +/- 0.15 U mL(-1), also greater than control cells (76 +/- 17 ng mL(-1) and 0.35 +/- 0.09 U mL(-1)). Taken together, these data suggest that DON-mediated GRP78 down-regulation could improve the efficacy of two-chain FVIII gene transfering by facilitating HC secretion, providing an experimental basis for in vivo dual-AAV application in FVIII gene delivery.
Cell Proliferation
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Down-Regulation
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Factor VIII
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chemistry
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genetics
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secretion
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Gene Transfer Techniques
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HEK293 Cells
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Heat-Shock Proteins
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metabolism
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Humans
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Transfection
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Trichothecenes
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pharmacology
10.The effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum (GP) on plasma lipoprotein metabolism and lipoperoxidation lipoprotein in the experimental hyperglycemia rats.
Liang ZHOU ; Yu-Ping XU ; Yuan WEI ; Xiang-Ping SHI ; Chi-Pin LIU
Chinese Journal of Applied Physiology 2008;24(2):205-208
AIMTo study the regulation mechanism of GP on plasma lipoprotein metabolism and To explore its mechanism of anti-lipoperoxidation in the experimental hyperglycemia rats.
METHODSThe rats were raised with high fat diet for six weeks,and the model of hyperglycemia was then established. After that, those rats were treated with high or low dose of GP and xuezhikang as a masculine comparison for four weeks. Then, those rat were executed, and detected the plasma TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C, GSH-Px, at the same time the SOD, CAT and MDA concentration also be mensurated.
RESULTSThe results showed that high and low dose of GP could decrease the concentration of serum LDL-C, cholesterol and triglyceride remarkably and raise the concentration of HDL-C. The activity of GSH-Px, SOD and CAT in GP groups were promoted and the level of MDA was decreased distinctly.
CONCLUSIONThe GP can therapy the abnormity of serum lipid and has obviously anti-lipoperoxidation affection.
Animals ; Cholesterol ; blood ; Cholesterol, LDL ; blood ; Gynostemma ; Hyperlipidemias ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Lipid Peroxidation ; Lipids ; blood ; Lipoproteins, HDL ; blood ; Male ; Phytotherapy ; Plant Extracts ; therapeutic use ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Triglycerides ; blood