Objective To explore the expression of tumor necrosis factor(TNF) ligand-related molecule-1A(TL1A) in mice with viral myocarditis(VM) and the role of astragaloside.Methods Fifty-five male Balb/c mice were randomly divided into 4 groups:control group,model group,low-dose intervention group and high-dose intervention group.Mice in model group,low-dose intervention group and high-dose intervention group were inoculated with 0.1 mL coxsackie B3 virus intraperitoneally.Then,mice in low-dose intervention group and high-dose intervention group were treated with 10 g?L-1 and 90 g?L-1 astragaloside solution,respectively.Mice in control group and model group were treated with 0.1 mL carboxymethycellulose solution.All mice were killed on the 15thday.Histological cross sections of heart were stained with hematoxylin-eosin and myocardial histopathologic scores were counted under optical microscope.The expressions of myocardial TL1A mRNA and protein were detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry.Results The mortality were 0,46.7%,40.0% and 13.3% in control group,model group,low-dose intervention group and high-dose intervention group,respectively.Compared with model group and low-dose intervention group,the mortality was significantly lower in high-dose intervention group(?2=9.46,8.95,Pa

Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Pneumonia ; blood ; complications ; diagnosis ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Sepsis ; blood ; complications ; diagnosis ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha ; blood

Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Leukocyte Common Antigens ; metabolism ; Peroxidase ; metabolism ; Sarcoma, Myeloid ; metabolism ; pathology ; Vulva ; metabolism ; pathology ; Vulvar Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology

Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Infant, Premature, Diseases ; microbiology ; prevention & control ; Mycoses ; prevention & control

liver cells. The thermosensitivity of the normal rabbit hepatocyte was higher than that of biliary epithelial cells to radiofrequency ablation. Apoptosis was correlated to the thermal effect induced by RFA.

OBJECTIVETo assess the diagnostic efficacy of contrast-enhanced CT in diagnosing mandibular invasion of oral cancers.

METHODSPubMed, Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), the European Grey Literature Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), and CQVIP were searched electronically on January 03, 2014. Hand-searching was also performed on 19 relevant Chinese journals. The methodological quality assessment, as suggested in Cochrane Handbook, and the data extraction of the studies included were performed by two reviewers in duplicate. Meta-analysis was conducted using the Meta Disc 1.4 software.

RESULTSFourteen studies that involved 642 participants were included. Among the seven prospective studies, one had a low bias risk and the rest had unclear bias risks. When mandibular invasion was diagnosed the Meta-analysis results showed that the pooled sensitivity (SEN) was 0.718 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.665-0.767], the pooled specificity (SPE) was 0.909 (95% CI, 0.872-0.938), the area under curve (AUC) was 0.906 1, and the Q* was 0.837 8. When mandibular medullary invasion was diagnosed, the SEN was 0.787 (0.643-0.893), the SPE was 0.904 (0.790-0.968), the AUC was 0.949 6, and the Q* was 0.890 0. The Meta-regression results showed that the smaller slide thickness had a higher diagnosis efficacy.

CONCLUSIONCT showed a high efficacy in diagnosing mandibular or medullary invasion caused by oral cancers. With a high SPE, contrast-enhanced CT can confirm the clinical diagnosis of bone invasion effectively. In addition, selecting a smaller slide thickness CT can increase diagnosis efficacy.

Humans ; Mandible ; Mouth Neoplasms ; Neoplasm Invasiveness ; Prospective Studies ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

OBJECTIVETo study the molecular mechanism of curcumin in human esophageal carcinoma cell line (EC109).

METHODSEC109 cells were cultivated in vitro. When 80%-90% confluence was reached, they were treated with curcumin in different concentrations (15-120 µmol/L). The effects on cell proliferation were examined by CCK-8 colorimetry. The ultrastructure of EC109 cells were detected with transmission electron microscope(TEM). The cells apoptosis was observed with laser confocal microscope(LCM) by AnnexinV-FITC/PI double staining. The proteins level of PTEN, AKT, GSK3β and Caspase 3 were tested by flow cytometry(FCM) .

RESULTSCCK-8 test showed that curcumin could inhibit the proliferation of EC109 cells in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. TEM and LCM examinations indicated that curcumin could make EC109 cells apoptosis. The data of FCM showed that curcumin could increase the expression of PTEN, GSK3β and Caspase 3, decreased the expression of AKT.

CONCLUSIONThe effects of curcumin on inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis of EC109 cells were related with increased expression of PTEN and inhibition of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway.

Apoptosis ; Caspase 3 ; metabolism ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Proliferation ; Curcumin ; pharmacology ; Esophageal Neoplasms ; metabolism ; Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 ; metabolism ; Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta ; Humans ; PTEN Phosphohydrolase ; metabolism ; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases ; metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt ; metabolism ; Signal Transduction

Objective To evaluate the right ventricular (RV) systolic function in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by speckle tracking imaging (STI).Methods A total of 40 cases with SLE were divided into two groups,SLE (24 cases) and SLE complicated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) (16 cases).Meanwhile,35 healthy subjects were used as control group.Longitudinal peak systolic strain (PSS) of the basal,mid,apical segments of the free wall of right ventricular and interventricular septum and suben-docardial myocardium of the whole right ventricular were measured by STI respectively.Every parameter was compared.And the main factors affecting the strain of the whole right ventricule were analyzed.T test,one-way ANVOA,SNK-q,Spearman's correlation and Pearson's correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis.Results ① In SLE group,strains of the whole RV(GLS RV) [(-22±4)％] and all segments of RV wall[the basal segments of free wall (bas FW) (-27±8)％ were lower than that of the control group (-26±4)％,(-33±6)％,respectively (t=-4.815,P=0.000; t=-3.619,P=0.001)].Tricuspid valve orifice peak velocity E/A and right ventricular ejection fraction were significantly different between SLE group and control group (P＜0.05).② In terms of conventional parameters and the strain of all segments of RV wall,bas FW and GLS RV were different between the SLE group [(-30±7)％,(-23.7±3.5)％,respectively] and SLE with PAH group [(-22±6)％,(-18.4±2.3)％,respectively] (t=-3.581,P=0.001; t=-5.769,P=0.000).③ The RV anterior wall thickness of the moderate-severe subgroup was significantly higher than that of the mild group [(5.0±0.8) mm,(4.3±0.8) mm; t=-2.49,P=0.017].GLS RV[(-19±4)％,(-24±7)％;t=-3.016,P=0.015],bas FW [(-22±9)％,(-35±6)％; t=-3.125,P=0.03] and bas IVS [(-19±6)％,(-24±6)％; t=-2.272,P=0.029] were significantly lower than that of the mild group.Conclusion Right ventricular function is decreased in patients with SLE.STI can be used objectively to assess the right ventricular longitudinal systolic function.

Background Carotid stenosis is one of the important causes of ocular ischemic diseases,To study their relationship is helpful for us to classify and manage the ocular ischemic diseases.Objective This study was to investigate the correlation between ocular ischemic diseases and carotid stenosis.Methods Twenty patients with internal carotid artery stenosis rate more than 60％ defined by digital subtraction angiography(DSA) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) were selected,including 9 patients with lateral carotid artery stenosis and 11 patients with bilateral carotid artery stenosis.The best corrected visual acuity,intraocular pressure and fundus examinations were carried out,and the peak systolic velocity (PSV) and end diastolic velocity (EDV) of the central retinal artery(CRA) were detected with color doppler flowimaging (CDFI).The resistance index(RI) was calculated by the formula RI =PSV- EDV/PSV.The correlation between internal carotid artery stenosis rate and PSV or RI was evaluated by Spearman rank correlated analysis.Results The subjective inanifestations included transient amaurosis in 77.4％ frequency and visual blur in 22.6％ frequency in the 31 carotid artery stenosis.Twelve eyes(38.7％ ) appeared the ocular vascular abnormality.Other 2 patients were diagnosed as hypoperfusion retinopathy complicated by neovascular glaucoma.A negative relationship was found between internal carotid artery stenosis rate and PSV of CRA ( r =-0.41,R2 =0.168,P =0.021 ＜0.05 ),but no significant relationships was found between internal carotid artery stenosis rate and RI ( r =- 0.26,R2 =0.068,P =0.159 ).Conclusions Carotid artery stenosis can cause the of ocular ischemic symptoms.The characteristics of retinal hemodynamics is the type of low speed and normal resistance.

A high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed for determining degradation dynamics and final residues of myclobutanil 25% WG in ginseng root, stem, leaf and soil. The samples were extracted with acetonitrile, cleaned-up with primary secondary amine (PSA) solid phase extraction cartridge, separated by Kromasil Eternity-5-C18 (2.1 mm x 150 mm, 5 microm) column with a gradient of acetonitrile and 0.1% formate in water as mobile phases, and analyzed with the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) in positive ion mode by employing the external standard method. The average recoveries and the relative standard derivations (RSDs) of myclobutanil at the spiked level of 0.01-0.20 mg x kg(-1) were 80.9%-90.7% and 5.54%-9.29%, respectively, and the limit of quantification (LOQ) was 0.005 mg x kg(-1). The method with good reproducible, high precision and low detection limit could meet the requirements of residual analysis on ginseng production. The half-lives of myclobutanil were from 6.25 days to 9.94 days in ginseng root, stem, leaf and soil at spraying dosage of 1 152 g x hm(-2) The final residues were below 0.060 1 mg x kg(-1) in root, below 0.081 7 mg x kg(-1) in stem, 0.006 0-0.102 2 mg x kg(-1) in leaf and below 0.037 6 mg x kg(-1) in soil at spraying dosage range from 576 to 1 152 g x hm(-2). It is recommended that the MRLs of myclobutanil in dried ginseng may be suggested to be 0.10 mg x kg(-1) temporarily, and the preharvest interval was set at 35 days.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; methods ; Drug Contamination ; Fungicides, Industrial ; chemistry ; Nitriles ; chemistry ; Panax ; chemistry ; Plant Leaves ; chemistry ; Plant Roots ; chemistry ; Plant Stems ; chemistry ; Soil Pollutants ; chemistry ; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ; methods ; Tandem Mass Spectrometry ; methods ; Triazoles ; chemistry