1.Progress of diagnosis and treatment about syphilis infection causing infant cholestasis
International Journal of Pediatrics 2016;43(7):569-572,580
With the increasing rates of adult syphilis infection,some reports have suggested that the syphilis infection accounted for about 1.45% of the etiology the infantile cholestasis,syphilis infection often lead to multiple organ and system dysfunction as a cause of infant cholestasis disease,it characterized by infantile cholestasis which performanced with jaundice,itchy skin,dark yellow urine,acholic stools,etc when it involved liver,syphilis infection can also merge with mucosal syphilis,osseous syphilis,neurosyphilis.The treatment of infant cholestasis caused by syphilis infection includes early system of adequate antisyphilitics treatment,meanwhile,we should cholagogue,removing jaundice,hepatic protection,and nutritional therapy for cholestasis.In this article,we are planing to review the etiology,clinical manifestation,diagnosis,treatment and prevention of the infantile cholestasis caused by syphilis infection.
2.Screening of Novel Epilepsy-Related Genes and Isolation and Identification of cDNAs
Heming ZHU ; Changgeng ZHU ; Jiandong HAO ; Xiangwen MENG ; Lihua WANG ; Dequan CHEN
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) 2000;20(1):10-12
Twenty cDNA differential fragments were isolated from the hippocampus of rats in epileptic state using mRNA differential display technique. Four fragments were sequenced and compared with the known sequences in the Genebank, which showed that ERG8, ERG11, ERG12had no significant identity to any known sequences; ERG14 had 64%-69% identity to microtubulin-associated protein of the rat. Because the differential expression of these genes was caused by epilepsy inducer coriaria lactone (CL) and anti-epilepsy drug MK-801 and ERG8 might be a novel candidate epilepsy gene; ERG11 and ERG12 might be novel candidate anti-epilepsy genes.Since the microtubulin-associated protein is closely associated with the collateral sprouting of mossy fibers in the hippocampus of seizured rat, the high expression of ERG14 in the early stage of epilepsy might predict the growth of axon and formation of synapse.
3.Screening of Novel Epilepsy-Related Genes and Isolation and Identification of cDNAs
Heming ZHU ; Changgeng ZHU ; Jiandong HAO ; Xiangwen MENG ; Lihua WANG ; Dequan CHEN
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) 2000;20(1):10-12
Twenty cDNA differential fragments were isolated from the hippocampus of rats in epileptic state using mRNA differential display technique. Four fragments were sequenced and compared with the known sequences in the Genebank, which showed that ERG8, ERG11, ERG12had no significant identity to any known sequences; ERG14 had 64%-69% identity to microtubulin-associated protein of the rat. Because the differential expression of these genes was caused by epilepsy inducer coriaria lactone (CL) and anti-epilepsy drug MK-801 and ERG8 might be a novel candidate epilepsy gene; ERG11 and ERG12 might be novel candidate anti-epilepsy genes.Since the microtubulin-associated protein is closely associated with the collateral sprouting of mossy fibers in the hippocampus of seizured rat, the high expression of ERG14 in the early stage of epilepsy might predict the growth of axon and formation of synapse.
4. Genetic characteristics of five human adenovirus type 53 strains isolated from Taiyuan city in 2016, China
Jitao WANG ; Xiaoling NING ; Dequan MENG ; Jiane GUO ; Lifeng ZHAO ; Naiying MAO ; Hong LI ; Wenbo XU ; Zhen ZHU
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019;53(12):1271-1277
Objective:
The genetic characteristics of the human adenovirus type 53 (HAdV-53) strains isolated from Taiyuan city of Shanxi Province were studied to obtain the baseline data of their molecular characteristics.
Methods:
Conjunctival swabs (