For recent two decades,radiofrequency ablation technology has made great progress in the field of the treatment for neoplasm.At the very beginning,radiofrequency ablation was adopted in treating the hepatic carcinoma,and since then it has been gradually practiced in treating malignancies of lung,bone,kidney,breast,prostate and other solid tumors.Statistical report of the year 2008 has indicated that in the aspect of similar therapeutic measures radiofrequency ablation therapy for tumors holds a 9% market share.Moreover,in the coming years the clinical use of this kind of therapy for tumors will be steadily increasing by 13% every year.

Purpose: To study the relationship between chromosome abnormalities and the pathogenesis, development and prognosis of endometrial carcinoma of uterus. Methods: FISH was used to detect endometrial carcinoma, endometrial hyperplasia and normal endometrium , 10 cases in each group, respectively. Results: All of the 10 carcinoma cases had chromosome 8 mutation, including trisomy, monosomy, tetraploid and in 10 cases of endometrial hyperplasia with trisomy of chromosome 8 were found. But there were no mutations of chromosome 8 in the normal group. There was significant difference in the three groups. Conclusions: Abnormalities of chromosome 8 are significantly associated with the process of pathogenesis, development of endometrial carcinoma. The abnormalities may occur in the early stage of the carcinoma, and may have the significant association with clinical stage and pathological differentiation among the patients.

Objective To explore the efficiency and safety of sodium valproate intravenous therapy on refractory status epilepsy(RSE)by diazepam in Chinese adult.Methods Twenty-five patients of RSE,consecutively admitted to West China Hospital of Sichuan University from September 1999 to May 2007,received intravenous administration of sodium valproate after being refractory to intravenous diazepam and intramuscular phenobarbitone.The efficiency and side effect of sodium valproate were then evaluated.There were ten males and fifteen females with mean age of fifty-five years.The symptoms of status epilepticus(SE)included generalized tonic-clonic status epilepticus(GTCS)(14 cases),complex partial status epilepticus(CPS)(7 cases),simple partial status epilepticus(SPS)(2 cases)and myoclonic status epielepticus(MS)(2 cases).The primary diseases prior to SE were viral encephalitis(13 cases),withdrawal of antiepilepsy drug(AEDs)(5 cases),cerebral trauma and brain surgery(3 cases),cerebral infarction(2 cases),intoxication(1 case)and cerebral palsy(1 case).Among them nine patients had a history of epilepsy.Results Of all the 25 cases of RSE,twenty-two were controlled with sodium valproate within one hour,and consciousness recovered within next one hour.No significant changes were found in blood pressure,heart rate,respiratory rate and cardiac rhythm,and no encephalopathy occurred.On the other hand,the other three cases who failed to be controlled,frequency and duration of seizure were redured.Conclusions Although intravenous sodium valproate has not been approved to be the drug of first choice for SE therapy,but it is non-sedative anti-convulsion drug that can be safely used to stop different kinds of diazepam resistant SE efficiently without obvious side effect.In addition,a quick recovery of patients' consciousness may be expected within an hour afte RSE being controlled.

Objective: To construct an E1 A-deleted 24-bp triple regulated replicative adenovirus vector SG600/interleukin24 (IL24), which was driven by both hTERT promoter and HRE promoter. The level of IL24 in liver cancer cells was determined and the replication capacity of SG600/ IL24 and its killing effects on liver cancer cells were observed. Methods: SG600-IL24 vector was constructed using DNA cloning and recombination techniques. The IL24 gene expression in liver cancer cell lines SMMC-7721 and BEL-7404 and normal cell line BJ was detected by ELISA assay. The replications of SG600/IL-24 in different cell lines were determined by evaluating TCID50 (50% tissue culture infectious dose) at 49 and 96 h. In vitro cell-killing effects of SG600/IL24 on the three liver cancer cell lines were analyzed by MTT assay and CPE (cytopathic effect) staining method at different MOI values. Results: IL24 was over-expressed in both SMMC-7721 and BEL-7404 cells but was weakly expressed in BJ cells. At 48 and 96 h post infection the replication of SG600/IL-24 were 794 and 7940 folds in SMMC-7721 cells; 622 and 7 810 folds in BEL-7404 cells; 20 and 200 folds in BJ cells. MTT assay showed that the MOI values of SG600/IL24 for killing 50% and 90% cells were 0.3 and 5 for SMMC-7721 cells; 3 and 20 for BEL-7404 cells; 50 and 150 for BJ cells. CPE staining demonstrated that SG600/IL24 had significant killing effects on both liver cancer cells SMMC-7721 and BEL-7404 but had no significant influence on BJ cells. The cell-killing capability of SG600/IL24 was superior than that of replicative adenovirus ZD55/IL24 and non replicative adenovirus Ad-IL24. Conclusion: After SMMC-7721 and BEL-7404 liver cancer cells are infected with SG600/1124 at high efficiency, the virus replication is active and the expression of IL24 increases greatly. SG600/IL24 has specific cell-killing effects on the two liver cancer cell lines but has no significant influence on normal cells. This study provides a basis for further investigating the effect of SG600/IL24 on liver cancer in vivo.

Bone Density Conservation Agents ; therapeutic use ; Bone Neoplasms ; complications ; drug therapy ; secondary ; Breast Neoplasms ; pathology ; Diphosphonates ; therapeutic use ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Pain ; drug therapy ; etiology ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; pathology ; Quality of Life

Objective To systematically review the short-term and long-term efficacy of eversion carotid endarterectomy (eCEA) and patch carotid endarterectomy (pCEA) for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis.Methods The published literature on eCEA and pCEA control studies in medline,PubMed,Ovid,CNKI and CBM (1970.5-2016.10) databases were retrieved by computers.Two reviewers selected literature and extracted data independently according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria.Cochrane Collaboration Network Special Software Rev Man 5.2 was used to analyze the meta-analysis of short-term and long-term outcome measures.Results A total of 1 137 articles were retrieved.Ten studies were included and analyzed (3 of them were randomized controlled trial).A total of 3 213 patients were enrolled,including surgical intervention 3 299 case/time (1 512 in the eCEA group and 1 787 in the pCEA group).The results of meta-analysis showed that:(1) the mean operative time in the pCEA group was shorter 22±8 min than that in the pCEA group.The intraoperative utilization ratio of shunt tube,eCEA was significantly lower than pCEA,they were 12.6 %(53/421) and 50.2% (357/711) respectively (OR,0.11,95%CI 0.08-0.15,P<0.01).The postoperative incidence of stroke within 30 d (OR,0.42,95%CI 0.23-0.76,P=0.004) and the incidence of stroke after 30 d in eCEA were lower than those in pCEA (OR,0.26,95%CI 0.09-0.78,P=0.02).There was significant difference.(2) eCEA reduced the incidence of restenosis at day 30 after procedure (OR,0.57,95%CI 0.38-0.86,P=0.008).Conclusion Compared with pCEA,eCEA has the advantages of reducing the operation time and lowering the utilization rate of shunt tube.At the same time,eCEA can reduce the occurrence of stroke within 30 d and 30 d after procedure,and significantly reduce the incidence of restenosis.

ObjectiveDiabetes is an independent risk factor for coronary artery bypasss grafting(CABG). Off pump coronary artery bypasss (OPCAB) experience in 251 cases was reviewed to determine whether diabetes wou ld be applicable in OPCAB procedures.MethodsConsecutive 251 patients underwent OPCAB over 12 month period. This study included 71 diebetic patients (DM group) and 180 nondiabetic patients (NDM group). Preoperative v ariables were compared between the two groups by univariate analysis.R esultsNo differences were found regarding the length of stay in cardio intensive care unit [DM group(2.4?0.3)d; NDM group (2.4?0.3) d;P=0. 386], and sternal complication (DM group: 5.7%;NDM group: 3.9%;P=0.511) . In hospital complications were as follows: death rate(DM group: 2.8%; NDM gr oup: 1.1%; P=0.680); stroke (DM group: 2 8%; NDM group: 1 7%; P=0 623 ); hemofiltratioin renal failure (DM group: 2.8%; NDM group: 0.5%; P=0.194); myocardial infarction(DM group: 0%; NDM group: 0.5%;P=1.000); blood using were more frequent in DM group comparied with NDM group (P=0.111). ConclusionOPCAB in diabetic patients is as safe as in non diabetic patients.

The practice of English teaching of microbiology course using the original edition of Microbiology (Prescott LM et al., 5e, 2002) as textbook have been carried out for two years for undergraduate students majoring in Biology. The strengths of this book are comprehensive coverage, flexibility of organizing, and emphasis on the enhancing the overall ability of students. Its content is excellent with fundamental knowledge, systematic arrangement and up-to-date currency, which helps instructor to construct a suitable system in the course structure and curriculum, as well as to enrich the teaching content and to increase teaching effectiveness. The selection of original edition of English textbook in microbiology course is useful to train high-quality biological talents possessing international view and the adaptive ability of globalization process.

Objective To observe the effect of intra-articular injection of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)on the experimental osteoarthritis in rabbits and study the mechanism.Methods Forty rabbits un derwent unilateral anterior cruciate ligament transection(ACLT)and then divided into two groups randomly. 100?mol/L DHEA resolved in the dimethylsulphoxide were injected into the knees of experimental rabbits 4 weeks after transection,once a week for five weeks.Rabbits in the control group were treated under the same schedule using dimethylsulphoxide.All rabbits were killed 9 weeks after ACLT and the knee joints were evalu- ated by gross morphology and histology.The mRNA expression of metalloproteinases-3(MMP-3),tissue in- hibitor of metalloproteinases-1(TIMP-1)and interleukin-lbeta(IL-1?)in the cartilage and synovium was analyzed using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR).Results Gross morphologic in- spection and histological evaluation showed that the extent and grade of cartilage and synovium damage in the experimental group were less severe than the control group.The mRNA expression of MMP-3 in cartilage and synovium decreased significantly in the experimental group(both P＜0.05).The mRNA expression of TIMP-1 in cartilage and synovium increased significantly in the experimental group compared with that in the control group(both P＜0.05).No significant difference of IL-1?mRNA expression in cartilage was found between the experimental and the control groups(P＞0.05).The mRNA expression of IL-1?in the synovium was signifi- cantly suppressed in the experimental group compared with that in the control group(P＜0.01).Conclusion DHEA protects against cartilage degradation,alleviates synovium inflammation and inhibits the progression of osteoarthritis in the experimental model.Down-regulation of MMP-3 and up-regulation of TIMP-1 in cartilage and synovium and IL-1?in the synovium may be the mechanism of the protective effect of DHEA on os- teoarthritis.

Objective To analyze the long-term results of fractionated stereotactie radiotherapy(FSRT)for the local residual lesion after the first course of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Methods From July 1997 to July 2002,46 patients were treated with FSRT.According to the 1992 Fuzhou staging system,the number of patients was 1,6,30 and 9 with stage Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ disease,respectirely;3,11,27 and 5 with T1,T2,T3 and T4 tumor,respectively;14,16,12 and 4 with N0,N1,N2and N3 disease.Radiotherapy was delivered to tumors with the total of dose 68-70 Gy in 7-8w.Chemotherapy(2 cycles of PVF or POF)was given to the patients with stage Ⅲ and Ⅳ a disease.FSRT was given to the residual disease with the total dose of 18-24 Gy in 3 fractions with an interval of 3-7 days.The reference dose line was 70%-90%.Resuits CR and PR rates in this group were 61%and 39%,respectively.The overall survival rates of each year from 1- to 5-year were 100%,87%,83%,78%and 76%.The 1-,3- and 5-year disease-free survival rates were 100%,93%and 89%;The distant metastasis-free survival rates were 100%,85%and 79%;The local-regional control survival rates were 100%,94%and 91%.Seventeen patients who died during the follow-up period were 1 for local cervical lymph node recurrence,2 for fatal nasopharyngeal hemorrhage,4 for local nasopharynx recurrence,and 10 for distance metastases. Conclusions Fraetionated stereotactic radiotherapy is safe and effective for the patients with residual lesion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the primary site after radiotherapy.The optimized fractionation and total dose requires the further investigation.