Objective To explore the early diagnostic value of quantitative sensory testing (QST) in diabetes with peripheral neuropathy (PNP).Methods The nerve conduction velocity (NCV) and QST were examined in 46 diabetic patients, and their results were compared. Results The abnormal ratio of NCV in 46 patients was 72.8%. 32 cases (69.6%) were diagnosed as diabetes with PNP. While using QST, the abnormal ratio was 91.3%. 40 cases (86.9%) were diagnosed as diabetes with PNP. There was a significant difference between two methods ( P

Objective To acquire NF-?B p65 TAD(transcription activation domain) and construct its eukaryotic expression vector and express it in endothelial cells.Methods Human umbilical vein endothelial cells(HUVECs) were cultured and total RNA was extracted.The p65 TAD gene was amplified by RT-PCR.After sequencing,the p65 TAD gene was inserted into the eukaryotic expression vector pEGFP-N1 with the green fluorescence protein,named pEGFP-N1-p65 TAD.pEGFP-N1-p65 TAD was transfected into HUVECs and its expression was observed under fluorescence microscope and analyzed by Western blotting.Results p65 TAD(288-548) was cloned successfully.The constructed plasmid including p65 TAD gene was identical to the designed.p65 TAD gene was expressed successfully in HUVECs.Conclusion The construction of eukaryotic expression vector including p65 TAD gene and its expression in HUVECs are very successful.

BACKGROUND:Animal models of osteoporosis play an important role in the research of the pathogenesis, occurrence and development of osteoporosis, as wel as in the clinical diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. OBJECTIVE: To summarize and discuss the establishment and research ideas of osteoporosis models, explore the current situation and advance of osteoporosis models, compare the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, and provide evidence for clinical investigation. METHODS: A computer-based online search was conducted in SinoMed, VIP, Wanfang and PubMed databases by using the key words of “animal model, osteoporosis” from January 1969 to October 2015. The language was limited to both Chinese and English. Relevant articles were screened according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The documents about the methods of osteoporosis model preparation, method improvement as wel as their advantage and disadvantage were summarized. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:A total of 576 articles were included. Among them, articles published earlier, duplicated, and similarly were excluded, and 53 articles were finaly included. Various animal models of osteoporosis may only focus on the certain causes, certain stage, some of the main symptoms and some pathophysiological changes of disease. Accordingly, appropriate modeling methods and experimental animals should be selected based on research objective. Rat undergoing castration is the most commonly used model in the modeling of osteoporosis. Among drug methods for constructing osteoporosis model, glucocorticoids is the most commonly used one. Disuse method and nutritional method have limitations, and always combined with castration and drug methods. The effects of gene transfer, gene mutation and brain-derived model deserve

Objective To compare the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) versus open liver resection (OLR) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Methods A total of 89 HCC patients undergoing liver resection between January 2012 and November 2016 were enrolled.Nonparametric tests were employed to compare the clinicalpathological characters and preoperative outcomes.Results No significant difference was observed in clinicalpathological features and postoperative morbidity.LLR group had shorter hospital stay (Z =4.642,P ＜0.01),lower serum ALT level in 1st,3rd and 5 day (Z =2.157,3.089,2.384,all P ＜0.05) and AST level in 1st-and 3rd-day postoperatively (Z =2.688,2.566,all P ＜0.05).The growth rate in serum total protein (TP) and albumin (ALB) postoperatively is higher for LLR group (y =2.348 4x + 51.696 vs.y =0.902 9 + 35.532),(y =1.539 9x + 29.68 vs.y =0.732 9x + 30.406).Conclusion LLR allows quicker liver function recovery and shortens patients' postoperative hospital stay.

This investigation was aimed to explore whether over-expression of 27heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) could protect bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells(BMSCs)against injury induced by high-concentration glucose. We cultured BMSCs in high-concentration glucose medium, and up-regulated or inhibited HO-1 expression in BMSCs through its agonist or inhibitor. We detected the ability of BMSCs proliferation and secretion respectively by MTT and enzyme-linked immunosorbnent assay (ELISA). Then we detected the effect of BMSCs conditions medium on proliferation and migration of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) through scratch experiments and transwell assay. It was found that HO-1 over-expression could not only promote BMSCs proliferation, but also promote secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and could further accelerate the proliferation and migration of HUVECs. It could be well concluded that HO-1-over-expressing BMSCs can not only inhibit damage induced by high-concentration glucose, but can promote the proliferation and migration of vascular endothelial cells through paracrine as well. The result indicated that HO-1-over-expressing BMSCs played an important role in the treatment of diabetic vascular complication.
Cell Movement ; drug effects ; Cell Proliferation ; drug effects ; Cells, Cultured ; Culture Media, Conditioned ; pharmacology ; Glucose ; toxicity ; Heme Oxygenase-1 ; metabolism ; Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells ; cytology ; Humans ; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells ; cytology ; Up-Regulation ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A ; metabolism

Objective To study the application of autoregressive integrated moving average(ARIMA)model to predict the monthly reported malaria cases in China,so as to provide a reference for prevention and control of malaria. Methods SPSS 24.0 software was used to construct the ARIMA models based on the monthly reported malaria cases of the time series of 2006-2015 and 2011-2015,respectively. The data of malaria cases from January to December,2016 were used as validation data to compare the accuracy of the two ARIMA models. Results The models of the monthly reported cases of malaria in China were ARIMA(2,1,1)(1,1,0)12 and ARIMA(1,0,0)(1,1,0)12 respectively. The comparison between the predictions of the two models and actual situation of malaria cases showed that the ARIMA model based on the data of 2011-2015 had a higher ac-curacy of forecasting than the model based on the data of 2006-2015 had. Conclusion The establishment and prediction of ARIMA model is a dynamic process,which needs to be adjusted unceasingly according to the accumulated data,and in addi-tion,the major changes of epidemic characteristics of infectious diseases must be considered.

This experiment was aimed to create A20 gene site-specific zinc finger DNA-binding protein. The sequence of A20 gene promoter was analyzed with bioinformatics means and submitted to ZF Tools Server at TSRI. Using the database of the web site, we determined the A20 gene valid target sites and designed the amino acid sequence of zinc finger protein predicted to be bound to the target site. And then, the structure of the protein sequence was analyzed and homology was modeled with various bioinformatics means. Based on the characteristic of this protein, the prokaryotic expression vector pTYB11-ZFP was constructed and expressed. Thus, the artificial zinc finger protein that recognized A20 specific sequence was designed, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The results indicate that it is feasible to design engineered artificial Zinc finger proteins by means of bioinformatics.
Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; DNA-Binding Proteins ; chemistry ; genetics ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Binding ; Protein Engineering ; methods ; Transcription Factors ; chemistry ; genetics ; Zinc Fingers ; genetics

Objective To evaluate preoperative three dimensional(3D)reconstruction techniques in perioperative patients of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing hepatectomy.Methods Fifty-eight HCC patients who had undergone hepatectomy between 2015 and 2017 were enrolled.Twenty-three patients underwent hepatectomy based on preoperative 3D reconstruction techniques,while other thirty-five patients were without using it.Results No significant statistical difference was found in clincopathological parameters of patients preoperatively.The patients who underwent hepatectomy based on 3D reconstruction techniques had less operation time (Z =-2.213,P =0.028),hepatic inflow occlusion rate,time (x2 =3.966,P =0.046;Z =-2.371,P =0.018) and blood loss (Z =-2.140,P =0.032) during operation.Totally 23 postoperative complications occurred which were Clavien-Dindo classification grade Ⅰ or Ⅱ.More complications occurred in the not using 3D technique group (x2 =6.061,P =0.014).Conclusion Preoperative 3D reconstruction technique improves the perioperative prognosis of hepatectomy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective To investigate the effect of c?Met inhibitor AMG?102 on proliferation and radiosensitivity in laryngeal squamous carcinoma cells. Methods The effects of AMG?102 on proliferation and radiosensitivity of laryngeal squamous carcinoma cell lines Hep?2 and KBV200 were detected by 3?(4,5?dimethy?2?thiazolyl)?2, 5?diphenyl?2H tetrazolium bromide ( MTT ) assay and colony formation assay, respectively. The apoptosis of Hep?2 and KBV200 cells was detected by flow cytometry.The expression levels of c?Met, phospho?Met (p?Met), cleaved caspase?3 and Akt／p?Akt, Erk／p?Erk were detected by Western blot. Specific small interfering RNA targeting c?Met or plasmid of c?Met were transfected into Hep?2 and KBV200 cells to investigate the cell sensitivity to AMG?102. Results Compared with KBV200 cells, Hep?2 cells were more sensitive to AMG?102 with IC50 of 14 and 9 μmol／L, respectively. The relative expression levels of c?Met and p?Met proteins in Hep?2 cells were 194.48±0.57 and 177.76±1.53, respectively, which were significantly higher than those in KBV200 cells ( 171.24 ± 1.00 and 115.37 ± 0.56, respectively, P＜0.001 for both). Exogenous hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) was added to increase the expression level of p?Met protein in KBV200 cells.The results showed that AMG?102 significantly reduced the expression of p?Met in KBV200 cells treated with HGF ( P＜0.001). Compared with the dimethyl sulfoxide ( DMSO) group, AMG?102 treatment combined with radiotherapy significantly increased the radiosensitivity of Hep?2 cells ( SER＝1.28, P＜0.001). However, AMG?102 had little effect on the radiosensitivity of KBV200 cells (SER＝1.18, P＝0.002). Compared with the 4 Gy radiotherapy alone group and the 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 alone treatment group, the apoptosis rate of Hep?2 cells in the combined treatment group was significantly increased. Meanwhile, the expression level of cleaved caspase?3 protein was also markedly increased. However, there were no significant changes in the apoptotic rate and cleaved caspase?3 expression in each treatment group of KBV200 cells. Compared with DMSO treatment group, the expression levels of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk were significantly decreased in the 4 Gy radiotherapy group, 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 treatment group and combined treatment group of Hep?2 cells. And the levels of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk in the combined treatment group were significantly lower than those in the 4 Gy radiotherapy alone group and 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 treatment alone group. By contrast, in KBV200 cells, the expression of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk in each group was not changed. The relative expression of p?Met in Hep?2 cells before and after radiotherapy at 30 min, 1 h, 4 h, 8 h, 24 h were 99.89±0.61, 138.62±1.00, 163.07±5.00, 87.80±1.85, 90.67±0.65 and 94.09±1.41, respectively. The level of p?Met was slightly increased after radiotherapy at 30 min and 1 h (P＜0.001 for all), whereas it was significantly decreased from 4 h to 24 h after radiotherapy (P＜0.05 for all). By contrast, the expression of p?Met in KBV200 cells did not change with time after radiotherapy (P＞0.05). The sensitivity of Hep?2 cells to AMG?102 was decreased after silencing of c?Met, while the sensitivity of KBV200 cells to AMG?102 was not significantly changed ( P＞0.05). Moreover, the radiosensitivity of Hep?2 cells in c?Met knockdown group had a slightly increasing trend ( SER＝1.07, P＝0.068). After the treatment with 10 μmol／L of AMG?102, the proliferation rate of c?Met ectopically expressed KBV200 cells was 60.05%± 3.23%, It was significantly lower than that of the blank control 90.08%±1.04% and siRNA negative control (90.12%±1.01%, P＜0.001). The results suggested that the overexpression of c?Met in KBV200 cells increased the radiosensitivity to AMG?102, whereas depletion of c?Met resulted in resistance to AMG?102 in Hep?2 cells. Furthermore, the radiosensitivity of KBV200 cells that overexpressed c?Met showed a decreased trend (SER＝0.7, P＝0.005). Conclusions c?Met inhibitor AMG?102 has a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of c?Met overexpressing laryngeal squamous carcinoma cells, leading to increased radiosensitivity. It suggests that molecular targeted therapy against c?Met receptor is more effective in c?Met overexpressed subtype of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective To investigate the effect of c?Met inhibitor AMG?102 on proliferation and radiosensitivity in laryngeal squamous carcinoma cells. Methods The effects of AMG?102 on proliferation and radiosensitivity of laryngeal squamous carcinoma cell lines Hep?2 and KBV200 were detected by 3?(4,5?dimethy?2?thiazolyl)?2, 5?diphenyl?2H tetrazolium bromide ( MTT ) assay and colony formation assay, respectively. The apoptosis of Hep?2 and KBV200 cells was detected by flow cytometry.The expression levels of c?Met, phospho?Met (p?Met), cleaved caspase?3 and Akt／p?Akt, Erk／p?Erk were detected by Western blot. Specific small interfering RNA targeting c?Met or plasmid of c?Met were transfected into Hep?2 and KBV200 cells to investigate the cell sensitivity to AMG?102. Results Compared with KBV200 cells, Hep?2 cells were more sensitive to AMG?102 with IC50 of 14 and 9 μmol／L, respectively. The relative expression levels of c?Met and p?Met proteins in Hep?2 cells were 194.48±0.57 and 177.76±1.53, respectively, which were significantly higher than those in KBV200 cells ( 171.24 ± 1.00 and 115.37 ± 0.56, respectively, P＜0.001 for both). Exogenous hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) was added to increase the expression level of p?Met protein in KBV200 cells.The results showed that AMG?102 significantly reduced the expression of p?Met in KBV200 cells treated with HGF ( P＜0.001). Compared with the dimethyl sulfoxide ( DMSO) group, AMG?102 treatment combined with radiotherapy significantly increased the radiosensitivity of Hep?2 cells ( SER＝1.28, P＜0.001). However, AMG?102 had little effect on the radiosensitivity of KBV200 cells (SER＝1.18, P＝0.002). Compared with the 4 Gy radiotherapy alone group and the 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 alone treatment group, the apoptosis rate of Hep?2 cells in the combined treatment group was significantly increased. Meanwhile, the expression level of cleaved caspase?3 protein was also markedly increased. However, there were no significant changes in the apoptotic rate and cleaved caspase?3 expression in each treatment group of KBV200 cells. Compared with DMSO treatment group, the expression levels of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk were significantly decreased in the 4 Gy radiotherapy group, 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 treatment group and combined treatment group of Hep?2 cells. And the levels of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk in the combined treatment group were significantly lower than those in the 4 Gy radiotherapy alone group and 5 μmol／L of AMG?102 treatment alone group. By contrast, in KBV200 cells, the expression of p?Met, p?Akt and p?Erk in each group was not changed. The relative expression of p?Met in Hep?2 cells before and after radiotherapy at 30 min, 1 h, 4 h, 8 h, 24 h were 99.89±0.61, 138.62±1.00, 163.07±5.00, 87.80±1.85, 90.67±0.65 and 94.09±1.41, respectively. The level of p?Met was slightly increased after radiotherapy at 30 min and 1 h (P＜0.001 for all), whereas it was significantly decreased from 4 h to 24 h after radiotherapy (P＜0.05 for all). By contrast, the expression of p?Met in KBV200 cells did not change with time after radiotherapy (P＞0.05). The sensitivity of Hep?2 cells to AMG?102 was decreased after silencing of c?Met, while the sensitivity of KBV200 cells to AMG?102 was not significantly changed ( P＞0.05). Moreover, the radiosensitivity of Hep?2 cells in c?Met knockdown group had a slightly increasing trend ( SER＝1.07, P＝0.068). After the treatment with 10 μmol／L of AMG?102, the proliferation rate of c?Met ectopically expressed KBV200 cells was 60.05%± 3.23%, It was significantly lower than that of the blank control 90.08%±1.04% and siRNA negative control (90.12%±1.01%, P＜0.001). The results suggested that the overexpression of c?Met in KBV200 cells increased the radiosensitivity to AMG?102, whereas depletion of c?Met resulted in resistance to AMG?102 in Hep?2 cells. Furthermore, the radiosensitivity of KBV200 cells that overexpressed c?Met showed a decreased trend (SER＝0.7, P＝0.005). Conclusions c?Met inhibitor AMG?102 has a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of c?Met overexpressing laryngeal squamous carcinoma cells, leading to increased radiosensitivity. It suggests that molecular targeted therapy against c?Met receptor is more effective in c?Met overexpressed subtype of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.