1.Association between pemphigus vulgaris and human leukocyte antigen in Han nation of northeast China.
Long GENG ; Yan WANG ; Ning ZHAI ; Ya-Ni LU ; Fang-Ji SONG ; Hong-Duo CHEN
Chinese Medical Sciences Journal 2005;20(3):166-170
OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship between pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) in Han nation of northeast China.
METHODSStandard microcytotoxicity test and polymerase chain reaction-sequence specific primers method were used to detect the HLA class I antigens and HLA-DRB1 and DQB1 alleles in 27 patients with PV and results were compared with control group.
RESULTSGene and phenotype frequencies of HLA-A3, A26(10), B60(40), and B13 (27.99%, 48%; 16.11%, 30%; 23.02%, 41%; 16.11%, 30%, respectively) increased significantly in PV group compared with control (1.01%, 2%; 0.5%, 1%; 4.61%, 9%; 5.13%, 10%, respectively). After P value correction, the difference of A3, A26 (10), and B60 (40) between the two groups was still significant. The gene frequencies of HLA-DRB1*140x (1401, 1404, 1405, 1407, 1408), DRB1*120x, and DQB1*0503 alleles in PV group (42.26%, 25.46%, and 23.02%) were significantly higher than control group (5.09%, 7.74%, and 1.89%). After P value correction, the difference was still significant between the two groups.
CONCLUSIONPV significantly relates with HLA in PV patients of Han nation of northeast China.
Adult ; Aged ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; ethnology ; China ; ethnology ; Female ; Gene Frequency ; HLA-A Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-A3 Antigen ; genetics ; HLA-B Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-DQ Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-DQ beta-Chains ; HLA-DR Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-DRB1 Chains ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pemphigus ; genetics ; Phenotype
2.Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is involved in the transmission and regulation of nociception in naïve and morphine-tolerant rat nucleus accumbens
Kai Wen XI ; De Duo CHEN ; Xin GENG ; Yan BIAN ; Min Xin WANG ; Hui BIAN
The Korean Journal of Pain 2023;36(2):163-172
Background:
Synaptic plasticity contributes to nociceptive signal transmission and modulation, with calcium/ calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMK II) playing a fundamental role in neural plasticity. This research was conducted to investigate the role of CaMK II in the transmission and regulation of nociceptive information within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of naïve and morphine-tolerant rats.
Methods:
Randall Selitto and hot-plate tests were utilized to measure the hindpaw withdrawal latencies (HWLs) in response to noxious mechanical and thermal stimuli. To induce chronic morphine tolerance, rats received intraperitoneal morphine injection twice per day for seven days. CaMK II expression and activity were assessed using western blotting.
Results:
Intra-NAc microinjection of autocamtide-2-related inhibitory peptide (AIP) induced an increase in HWLs in naïve rats in response to noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli. Moreover, the expression of the phosphorylated CaMK II (p-CaMK II) was significantly decreased as determined by western blotting. Chronic intraperitoneal injection of morphine resulted in significant morphine tolerance in rats on Day 7, and an increase of p-CaMK II expression in NAc in morphine-tolerant rats was observed. Furthermore, intra-NAc administration of AIP elicited significant antinociceptive responses in morphine-tolerant rats. In addition, compared with naïve rats, AIP induced stronger thermal antinociceptive effects of the same dose in rats exhibiting morphine tolerance.
Conclusions
This study shows that CaMK II in the NAc is involved in the transmission and regulation of nociception in naïve and morphine-tolerant rats.
3.Design and implementation of remote ECG monitoring system-server program
Geng-Duo CHEN ; You-Ling ZENG ; Zhe LI
Chinese Medical Equipment Journal 2017;38(10):17-20
Objective To build a server to receive ECG data from the smart phone through remote network transmission,which has the functions of data storage,painting ECG waveform at real time,browsing historical waveform,preliminary ECG self-diagnosis and etc.Methods The development was executed with C# language in Visual Studio 2013,which used the socket for network transmission,GDI for waveform painting,Dataset/Datareader for data access as well as thread for multithreaded programming etc.Five-point smoothing filter was applied to ECG signal preliminary processing,and classical difference threshold algorithm was used to implement waveform analysis of ECG data.The main QRS waves were detected,and ECG features such as R-R interval were analyzed to form ECG self-diagnosis report.Results The server received and showed the ECG data transmitted by smart phone successfully,and then generated ECG waveform and self-diagnosis report.Conclusion This server has a great performance on receiving the data from portable facilities.In addition,it also performs well and stably in accessing and showing ECG data.