Objective To investigate the feasibility of the functional pulmonary lobectomy (FPLT) by studying the blood-gas and morphology of the FPLT model. Methods 18 healthy dogs were divided into three groups randomly: Group A (n=6): the target bronchus and lung bubbles were filled with emulsion of iodine oil and pingyangmycin(PYM)and then target bronchus was occluded with polymethylmethacrylate(PMMA).Group B (n=6): the target bronchus was only occluded with PMMA and Group C (n=6): the target pulmonary lobe was resected. Artery blood gas were measured at the time of pre-operation and post-operation immediately and then 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th week after operation respectively. Chest radiolography and histology and bacterial culture of tissue of target lung lobe were made after 4 weeks. Results There was a significant difference in artery blood-gas among 3 groups pre-operation compared with post-operation immediately (P0.05) compared with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th week after operation. It showed atelectasis radiologically and fibrosis of target lung lobe histologically and no bacterium grew in target tissue the 4th week after operation. There were 3 cases of lung atelectasises but no pulmonary fibrosis in group B. Conclusion FPLT may be obtained after the target bronchus and lung bubbles were filled with emulsion of iodine oil and PYM and then target bronchus were occluded.FPLT is a minimal invasive, safe and effective procedure and might partially replace the surgical pulmonary lobectomy in future.

Objective To study the feasibility of interventional pulmonary lobectomy by animal experiment. Methods Twelve healthy dogs were divided into three groups randomly,with 4 in each. Group A: the target bronchus and alveoli were filled with emulsion of lapiodal and alveolar cells damage liquors and then the target bronchus was occluded with Polymethylmethacrylate(PMMA). Group B: The target bronchus was only occluded with PMMA. Group C: Pulmonary lobe was resected surgically. Arterial blood gases were measured at the time of pre-procedure and post-procedure and then 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th week after the procedure respectively. Chest radiography histology and bacterial culture of tissue of target lung lobe were made after 4 weeks. Results There was a significant difference in arterial blood-gas among 3 groups pre-procedure in comparion with those of post-proceduce immediately (P0.05) in comparing with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th week after the procedure. Atelectasis was shown radiologically with histological formation of fibrosis of target lung lobe but no bacteria grew in target tissue 4th week after the procedure. There were two cases of lung atelectasis but no pulmonary fibrosis occluded in group B. Conclusions Interventional pulmonary lobectomy might be obtained after the target bronchus and pulmonasy alveoli were filled with emulsion of dipiodal and alveolar cells damage liquors and then the target bronchus was occluded with PMMA.

Objective To investigate the technical outline and clinical value of percutaneons transhepatic portal vein port-catheter system implantation in preventing small hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after curative treatments. Methods Fifteen patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma after curative treatment were included in this study. Guided by ultrasound and fluoroscopy, left branch of the portal vein were punctured and port-catheter system were implanted. Then drugs infusion into portal vein system was done for preventing recurrence of hepatic carcinoma. Results Interventional operations were succeed in all 15 cases. Drugs could drop into portal vein smoothly. No operating complications occurred. Conclusion Percutaneous transhepatic portal vein port-catheter system implantation was an easy operating and micro traumatic method. This technique could play an important role in preventing recurrence.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the feasibility and clinical application value of selecting viable spermatozoa by noncontact diode laser.

METHODSWe obtained immotile spermatozoa from 2 infertile men with obstructive azoospermia or severe asthenospermia and selected viable spermatozoa using a single laser shot at the sperm tail. Those that responded to the laser shot by a curling reaction of the tail were regarded as presumably viable and used for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

RESULTSThe mean fertilization rate was 88.89% after ICSI with the laser-selected viable spermatozoa. Both of the embryo transfers resulted in a single pregnancy.

CONCLUSIONNoncontact diode laser is a useful alternative for the assessment of sperm viability, which may help to achieve successful pregnancy.

Embryo Transfer ; Female ; Fertilization ; Humans ; Infertility, Male ; therapy ; Male ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Outcome ; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic ; Sperm Motility ; Sperm Tail ; physiology

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic recurrent non-specific inflammatory disease in the intestinal tract. About 10%-56% of children with Crohn's disease and about 10% of children with ulcerative colitis have growth retardation. This study reports four adolescents with IBD and growth hormone deficiency who were diagnosed with Crohn's disease. There were three boys and one girl, with an age of 11.0-13.9 years and a disease duration of 11-85 months at diagnosis. The four patients had the involvement of the small intestine only, the colon only, both the small intestine and the upper gastrointestinal tract, and both the small intestine and the colon respectively. The pediatric Crohn's disease activity index ranged from 27.5 to 45 points. All four patients had a height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) of <-2, and the growth hormone provocative test suggested growth hormone deficiency. Of all four patients, two received recombinant human growth hormone combined with infliximab, one received infliximab only, and one received recombinant human growth hormone combined with mercaptopurine. All four patients had an improvement in HAZ after treatment.
Adolescent ; Child ; Colitis, Ulcerative ; Crohn Disease ; Female ; Growth Hormone ; Humans ; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ; Infliximab ; Male

OBJECTIVETo study the clinical features and prognosis of gastrointestinal injury caused by foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract in children.

METHODSA retrospective analysis was performed for the clinical data of 217 children who were diagnosed with foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract complicated by gastrointestinal injury by gastroscopy from January 2011 to December 2016, including clinical features, gastroscopic findings, complications, and prognosis.

RESULTSAmong the 217 children, 114 (52.5%) were aged 1-3 years. The most common foreign body was coin (99/217, 45.6%), followed by hard/sharp-edged food (45/217, 20.7%) and metal (35/217, 16.1%). The most common gastrointestinal mucosal injury was ulceration (43.8%), followed by erosion (33.2%). Compared with other foreign bodies, button cells were significantly more likely to cause esophageal perforation (P<0.01). The esophagus was the most commonly injured organ (207/217, 95.4%). Of all the 217 children, 24 (11.1%) experienced infection. The children with perforation caused by foreign bodies had a significantly higher incidence rate of infection than those with ulceration caused by foreign bodies (P=0.003). Of all the 217 children, 204 (94.0%) underwent successful endoscopic removal of foreign bodies. Among these children, 98 were hospitalized due to severe mucosal injury and were given anti-infective therapy, antacids, and supportive care including enteral nutrition through a nasogastric tube and/or parenteral nutrition. Of all the children, 10 left the hospital and were lost to follow-up, and all the other children were improved and discharged.

CONCLUSIONSMost cases of foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract occur at 1-3 years of age. Coin, hard/sharp-edged food, and metal are the most common foreign bodies. Button cells are more likely to cause esophageal perforation. The incidence rate of secondary infection increases with the increasing severity of gastrointestinal mucosal injury. Children undergoing endoscopic removal of foreign bodies and enteral nutrition through a nasogastric tube tend to have a good prognosis.

Female ; Food ; adverse effects ; Foreign Bodies ; diagnosis ; etiology ; therapy ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Metals ; adverse effects ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Upper Gastrointestinal Tract ; injuries

Stirred culture offers a number of advantages over static systems as it maintains a stable, homogeneous culture environment and is easy to scale-up. This paper focused on the development and application of stirred tank bioreactor to culture hematopoietic cells. Preliminary study of stirred culture of hematopoietic cells was carried out in cord blood mononuclear cells culture in spinner flask. The results showed that the amplification rates of total cell, CFU-GM and BFU-E, with the exception of CFU-Mk, were greater in spinner flask than T-flask. The number of total cells increased 20 fold after 14 days incubation in spinner flask. The amplification rates of CFU-GM, CFU-Mk and BFU-E reached maximum at 10th day, 10th day and 7th day respectively, and the maximal amplification rates were 9.2-fold, 5.5-fold and 2.4-fold respectively, whereas the rate of CD34+ cells in spinner flask was (6.7 +/- 4.0)-fold at day 10. These results indicated that the stirred culture system is better than the static culture systems for hematopoietic cell proliferation. The biocompatibility of cord blood MNC to different types of materials used in bioreactors was also tested. The results showed that glass, stainless steel 316L and polytetraflouroethylene (PTFE) supported the growth of hematopoietic cells well. A higher cell density was reached in stirred bioreactors with controlled pH and DO than static culture. These findings suggested that the controlled large-scale culture could be used to overcome the clinical shortage of hematopoietic cells.
Antigens, CD34 ; metabolism ; Bioreactors ; Cell Culture Techniques ; instrumentation ; methods ; Erythroid Precursor Cells ; cytology ; Fetal Blood ; cytology ; Granulocyte-Macrophage Progenitor Cells ; cytology ; Humans ; Polytetrafluoroethylene ; Stainless Steel

OBJECTIVETo explore the effects of different fertilization methods on the outcomes of elective blastocyst culture.

METHODSWe retrospectively analyzed the outcomes of elective blastocyst culture for 1 153 cycles of IVF and 205 cycles of ICSI performed between january 2009 and December 2012.

RESULTSA total number of 14 748 embryos in the IVF group and 2 655 embryos in the ICSI group underwent sequential blastocyst culture, with 7 871 blastocysts formed in the former and 1 210 in the latter. No cycles were canceled for no blastocyst formation in either of the two groups. The rates of quality embryos, blastocyst formation and embryo utilization were significantly higher in the IVF than in the ICSI group (64.77 vs 58.72%, 53.37 vs 45.57%, and 60.06 vs 52.17%, all P < 0.05), but the rates of implantation, clinical pregnancy and abortion showed no significant differences between the two groups (48.94 vs 51.43%, 49.03 vs 52.02%, and 11.69% vs 15.56, all P > 0.05).

CONCLUSIONWith the same inclusion criteria of selective blastocyst culture, IVF has a lower risk of cycle cancellation due to no blastocyst formation and therefore may effect higher rates of blastocyst formation and embryo utilization than ICSI. Our study suggested that appropriate inclusion criteria of selective blastocyst culture should be laid down according to different fertilization methods.

Adult ; Blastocyst ; Embryo Transfer ; Female ; Fertilization in Vitro ; methods ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Retrospective Studies ; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic

To optimize the culture environment and protocol of hematopoietic cells' expansion, avoiding the fluctuation caused by medium changing in stirred culture and concentration gradient in static culture, the hematopoietic cells from cord blood (CB) were cultured in a stirred bioreactor connected with a cell retention system, which is a gravity sedimentation settler designed for hematopoietic cell. Total cells expanded 11.5 and 18.6 fold respectively in the twice perfusion stirred cultures, in which CFU-Mix was expanded 23.2 and 20.4 fold, CFU-GM 13.9 fold and 21.5 fold, BFU-E 8.0 fold and 6.9 fold, CD34+ cells 17.1 fold and 15.4 fold. After 12-day culture, it was obtained that 1082 x 10(6) total cells, 6.31 x 10(6) CFU-GM, 6.2 x 10(6) CFU-Mix and 23 x 10(6) CD34+ cells from 267 x 10(6) CB mononuclear cells (MNC) in the first culture, and 1080 x 10(6) total cells, 4.65 x 10(6) CFU-GM, 11.0 x 10(6) CFU-Mix, and 25.0 x 10(6) CD34+ cells from 180 x 10(6) CB MNC. These two cultures met to the clinical scale. Due to the optimized dissolved oxygen (DO) and stable culture environment, the rate of stem/progenitor cells to total cells in the perfusion culture was higher than that in T-flask cell-retention feeding culture. But the cell growth was inhibited in the later phase of perfusion culture, when the cell density is high. The inhibition should be attribute to the high cell density itself. The perfusion culture environment in bioreactor with optimal DO and pH controlling is more favorable for stem/progenitor cells' maintenance and expansion, and the expanded cells' number has reached a clinical scale. But the high cell density in the later phase of perfusion culture caused inhibition to mature hematopoietic cell's growth.
Bioreactors ; Cell Culture Techniques ; methods ; Cells, Cultured ; Fetal Blood ; cytology ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells ; cytology ; Humans

Objective To explore the relationship between the course of disease and glycolipid metabolic parameters in drug-naive schizophrenia patients. Methods All 186 drug-naive schizophrenia patients,admired to our hospital from March 2010 to October 2011,were chosen in our study; relative glycolipid metabolic parameters at baseline were tested and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was performed on these patients; and the relationships between relative glycolipid metabolic indexes and both the course of disease and manipulated variable (age,gender,education level and severity of the disease) were assessed.Results Gender might play a significant role to some glycolipid metabolic parameters (waist-hip ratio [WHR]:β=0.364; high-density lipoprotein [HDL]:β=-0.248; triacyiglycerol [TG]:β=0.167 and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA):β=-0.198,P＜0.05); age might play an important role to some glycolipid metabolic parameters (body mass index [BMI]: β=0.213; WHR: β=0.286 and apolipoprotein B 100 [apoB100]:β=0.221,P＜0.05).Simultaneously,the severity of disease appeared to affect some glycolipid metabolic parameters (BMI:β-0.167; WHR:β=-0.150 and fasting blood-glucose [FBG]:β=0.172, P＜0.05). The course of disease hardly affected the majorities of relative glycolipid metabolic indices of drug-naive schizophrenia but LPa (β=0.173, P＜0.05). Conclusion The high metabolic abnormality incidence in schizophrenia patients maybe result from multi-factor interactions.