Aged ; Female ; Histiocytic Sarcoma ; diagnosis ; pathology ; Humans ; Skin ; pathology ; Skin Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; pathology

yggG, a Era-binding protein gene, was isolated and cloned from the E.coli genomic DNA library. Previous studies indicated that the product of yggG gene, YggG294(amino acids 1-294), strongly inhibited the growth of host bacteria and caused the death of bacteria cells. To elucidate whether Era is related to the death of bacterial cells expressed YggG294,A double promoter expression vector that can express YggG294 and Era proteins controllably in cells was constructed. Using this vector to express YggG294 and Era protein in the same E.coli cells, then analyzed the relation between YggG294 and Era. The results showed that the ratio of Era proteins to total proteins increased with the increase of induction time in E.coli cells without YggG294 expression and with little YggG294 expression;the ratio of Era proteins to total proteins seemed to be a constant level in E.coli cells overexpressing YggG294;but we could not detect any Era hydrolyzate in E.coli cells overexpressed YggG294 could not be detected. The results also showed that pre-expression of Era protein did not produce any effect on the growth inhibition of E.coli cells caused by YggG294. These results indicate that YggG294 can not hydrolyze Era protein in E.coli cells, and that YggG-Era interaction is not associated with the death of bacteria expressed YggG294. It is thus reasonable to draw a conclusion that Era is not associated with the growth inhibition of E.coli cells caused by YggG294. YggG294 inhibits the growth of bacteria by other way.

OBJECTIVETo study changes of left ventricular remodeling (LVR) in hypertension patients with carotid atherosclerosis (CAS) of phlegm-dampness syndrome (PDS).

METHODSDoppler ultrasonography data of CAS were observed in 223 hypertension patients with CAS (as the hypertension group, including 119 patients of the PDS group and 104 of the non-PDS group), 81 CAS patients with non-hypertension, and 19 non-hypertension non-CAS patients (as the control group). The difference in the degree of LVR was compared among the above groups.

RESULTSThe left ventricular posterior wall thickness (LVPWT), inter ventricular septum thickness (IVS), E/A were higher in the hypertension group than in the non-hypertension group (P < 0.05). The left ventricular end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD), left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVESD), stroke volume (SV) were higher in the soft plaque hypertension group and the soft plaque non-hypertension group than in the hard plaque group, the thickening intimal group, and the normal intimal group (P < 0.01 , P < 0.05). The LVEDD, LVESD, and SV were higher, and the ejection fraction (EF) was lower in the PDS hypertension group than in the non-PDS hypertension group (all P < 0.05). Of them, LVEDD, LVESD, and SV were higher in the soft plaque group than in the hard plaque group (P < 0.01), the thickening intimal group (P < 0.01) and the normal intimal group (P < 0.05). There was no statistical difference in PDS hypertension between the soft plaque group and the hard plaque group (P > 0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe hypertension patients with CAS of PDS might be correlated to LVR, and LVR was more obviously in the soft plaque patients.

Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Carotid Artery Diseases ; diagnosis ; diagnostic imaging ; physiopathology ; Case-Control Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension ; diagnosis ; diagnostic imaging ; physiopathology ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Middle Aged ; Ultrasonography ; Ventricular Remodeling

Women′s health is the cornerstone of national health. During the 70 years since the founding of New China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, a legal system and related policies including more than 100 laws and regulations have been established to fully protect women′s rights and health, and women′s rights and health throughout their life cycle have been effectively protected. The health status of Chinese women has been significantly improved, the form and accessibility of women′s health care services have been continuously improved, and the building of women′s health care teams has been continuously strengthened. All of these achievements demonstrate the original intention of the Communist Party of China to put people′s health first and action of forging ahead.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship between gene polymorphism of CYP2E1, CYP1A1, IL-4 and susceptibility of medicamentosa-like dermatitis induced by trichloroethylene (TCE).

METHODS35 patients with medicamentosa-like dermatitis induced by TCE were chosen as the patient group, and 35 healthy workers as control group. The real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with TaqMan minor groove binding (MGB) probes was used to test single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of CYP2E1, CYP1A1 and IL-4 in the patients with medicamentosa-like dermatitis as well as in the control. The genotypes and the frequency of genotype or allele were compared between the patients and control with statistical analysis.

RESULTSThe frequency of allele G within CYP1A1 gene (rs1048943) was significantly higher in TCE patients (37.1%) than that in control (P<0.05); the frequency of allele T within CYP2E1-1053 C/T was significantly higher in TCE patients (41.4%) than that in control (P<0.01); the frequency of T/T within IL-4-588 C/T (rs2243250) was significantly higher in TCE patients (75.0%) than that in control (P<0.01), and the frequency of allele T within IL-4-588 C/T (rs2243250) was also significantly higher in TCE patients (87.5%) than that in control (P<0.01).

CONCLUSIONThe gene polymorphism of CYP2E1, CYP1A1, IL-4 is probably associated with hypersensitivity for the TCE patients with medicamentosa-like dermatitis, and could be one of the genetic factors related to the individual susceptibility to TCE exposure.

Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 ; genetics ; Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1 ; genetics ; Dermatitis, Occupational ; genetics ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease ; Humans ; Interleukin-4 ; genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Trichloroethylene ; adverse effects

With the alterations of people's living habits and environment,dry eye has become one of the most common diseases in ophthalmic clinic. Diabetes mellitus can cause a variety of ophthalmic complications, such as cataract and diabetic retinopathy. Recently, some studies show that there is higher incidence of dry eye in hyperglycemia and diabetic patients,and diabetes is one of the important risk factors for dry eye.However,the relevant mechanisms and clinical features of diabetic dry eye are not fully understood,and most studies only focus on patients with dry eyes.In this review,we discuss the prevalence,etiology,pathogenesis,clinical characteristics,prevention and treatment for diabetes-related dry eye.

Purpose To observe the changes of histopathology and expression levels of ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NTC), and to evaluate the relationship between the curative effect and clinico-pathological characteristics of breast cancer. Methods 93 ca-ses of invasive breast cancer with NTC were collected and retro-spectively analyzed. Pathologic evaluation of chemotherapeutic effect were evaluated by Miller-Payne (MP) grading system. Results Tumor cells, tumor stroma and lymph nodes status presented different histopathological changes after NTC. There were significant relationship between curative effect and patients age (Z=-1.993, P=0.046 ), histological grade (χ2=7.261, P=0.027), molecular subtypes (χ2=8.289, P=0.040), while it had no statistical relationship between curative effect and tumor size (Z=-1.091, P=0.275) and lymph node status (Z=-1.107, P = 0.268). Expression of ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 showed different degrees of change before and after NTC. The concordance rates of ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 were 81.0％, 72.2％, 83.5％ and 55.7％, respective-ly. And there was no significant difference in expression of these four molecular indicators before and after NTC (χ2 =0.428, P=0.934). Conclusion The histomorphology of tumor cell, tumor stroma and lymph node status can be influenced by NTC. Objective evaluation of the changes of histopathology and molecular indicators after NTC may valuable in predicting clinical prognosis and guiding individual treatment of breast cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the benefits and toxicities of different corticosteroid regimes in preventing relapse in children with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS). METHODS: MEDLINE (Jan. 1963-Mar. 2007), elsevier (Jan. 1997-Aug. 2006), OVID databank (Jan. 1993-Aug. 2006), Springer databank (Jan. 1994-March 2007), the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (Cochrane Library, Issue Feb. 2006), Cochrane Renal Group Specialised Register (Jul. 2006), EMBASE (Jan. 1980-Mar. 2007) and CNKI (Jan. 1994-Mar. 2007) etc, were searched by the terms primary nephrotic syndrome, glucocorticoid, corticosteroid, steroid, prednisone, methylprednisolone, dexamethasone and children etc for the human clinical trials about glucocorticoid (GC) administration in primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) (aged 3 months to 18 years), controlled or semi-controlled ones, including unpublished documents from scientific meetings and theses, and similar documents listed in the references of the above documents were also included. All the studies were evaluated strictly according to Jadad Standard, and the Meta-analysis were adopted. Review manager 4.2 software was used to analyze the data. The odds ratio was calculated for the relapse rate and side effect from the initial episode to the end of follow-up between the patients treated with corticosteroids and the controls. RESULTS: Totally 12 trials with 868 subjects meeting the criteria were included in this review. A Meta-analysis of 7 trials, which compared between 2 months of prednisone and 3 months or more in the first episode, showed that longer treatment duration significantly reduced the risk of relapse at 12-24 months (RR=0.70,95% CI:0.60-0.89),without an increase of side effect. There was a negative linear relationship between the duration of treatment and risk of relapse (r2 =0.66, P=0.05). CONCLUSION (1) Children in their first episode of SSNS should be treated for at least 3 months of GC. The therapeutic effect of patients in the primary nephrotic syndrome treated with GC for 12 weeks was prior to that for 8 weeks, compared with that in the controls. It could reduce the relapse rate of half year, the longer treatment duration in the NS patients at the first relapse was, the lower relapse risk was.(2) Compared with alternative GC administration, standard GC administration can reduce the side effects; Course more than 1 year of GC administration can reduce the 2-year relapse rate. Hence in children who relapse frequently, multicentre, well-designed experiments should be adopted.
Child ; Drug Resistance ; Glucocorticoids ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Nephrotic Syndrome ; drug therapy

This study was to investigate the antiviral effects of a hot water soluble extract S-03 isolated from Isatis indigotica root on different subtypes of influenza A and B viruses in MDCK cell cultures, using plaque reduction, immunofluorescence and hemo-agglutination inhibition (HAD) assays. Chemical analysis of the extract S-03 showed that it contained high proportion of polysaccharides. The antiviral effects in vitro showed that the S-03 had no effect on different influenza viruses if the drug was used before virus adsorption, but S-03 showed obvious activities against influenza viruses if treatment after virus adsorption or direct reaction of drug and virus before virus adsorption. Hemagglutination inhibition assay showed that S-03 inhibited HA activities of different human influenza viruses (inhibition concentration ranged from 3.12 to 25 mg/mL), avain influenza viruses (inhibition concentration ranged from 25 to 50 mg/mL). The antiviral effects of S-03 on different influenza A and B viruses in vitro might be through the inhibition of the HA to prevent infection.
Animals ; Cells, Cultured ; Dogs ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests ; Influenza A virus ; drug effects ; Influenza B virus ; drug effects ; Isatis ; chemistry ; Plant Extracts ; pharmacology ; Plant Roots

OBJECTIVETo investigate the clinicopathologic characteristics of childhood renal diseases.

METHODSA retrospective analysis of 1316 renal biopsies performed over the past 20 years was performed.

RESULTSOf the 1316 patients, 383 (29.09% ) were diagnosed as nephrotic syndrome, 291 (22.00%) as acute nephritis syndrome, 224 (17.21%) as isolated hematuria, 209(15.87%) as purpura nephritis, and 96 (7.30% ) as hepatitis B virus-associated nephritis . Mesangial proliferation was the most common pathological change (756 cases; 57.45%), followed by IgA nephropathy (113 cases; 8.59%), endothelial capillary proliferation(112 cases; 8.51%), membranous nephropathy (66 cases; 5.02%), and various minor and minimal changes (59 cases; 4.48%). Alport syndrome, congenital nephrotic syndrome, thin basement membrane nephropathy, fibrillary glomerulopathy disease, and Fabry disease were confirmed by electronic microscopy. IgA, IgM and C1q nephropathy were definitely diagnosed using immune histochemistry or immunofluorescent. A diagnosis of primary glomerular disease was made in 69.53% of the cases (915 cases); secondary glomerular disease was noted in 26.14% (344 cases). Of the 915 cases of primary glomerular disease, 375 (41.0%) had nephrotic syndrome. Secondary glomerular disease due to purura nephritis was common (209/344; 60.8%).

CONCLUSIONSPrimiary glomerular disease predominates in children. Nephrotic syndrome is the most common clinical diagnosis. Mesangial proliferation is the most common pathological patterns in children with renal disease.

Adolescent ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Kidney ; pathology ; Kidney Diseases ; pathology ; Kidney Glomerulus ; pathology ; Male ; Renal Insufficiency ; pathology ; Retrospective Studies