AIM:To discuss the application effect of adjustable sutures in glaucoma filtering operation after trabecular resection.
METHODS: Seventy-eight cases ( 101 eyes ) suffered from glaucoma were randomly divided into two groups, observation group and control group. Thirty-nine cases ( 51 eyes ) in the observation group underwent trabeculectomy with adjustable sutures, the control group (39 cases, 50 eyes) only adopted trabeculectomy.RESULTS: Compared Preoperative IOP in two groups, the difference was not statistically significant (P>0. 05). After 6mo, IOP were decreased compared with preoperative in two groups, and that in observation group was lower than control group, the difference was statistically significant ( P < 0. 05 ). Six months after operation, there were 1 eye with shallow anterior chamber Ⅰ and 2 eyes with non- functional bleb in observation group, and the complication rate was 5. 9%. While there were of 6 eyes with shallow anterior chamber, in which 4 eyes at gradeⅠ, each one at gradeII and Ⅲ. Non-functional blebs in 5 eyes and a scleral flap adhesion complications rate in the control group was 24. 0%, significantly higher than that in the observation group, the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01).
CONCLUSION: The adjustable sutures combined with trabeculectomy for glaucoma can significantly reduce the postoperative complications. The curative effect is exact and clinically applicable.

Endophthalmitis ; etiology ; Humans ; Metals ; Occupational Exposure ; adverse effects

Purpose To investigate the expression of muscarinic cholinergic receptor 3 (M3R) in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and the correlation between it and clinical characteristics of SCLC. Methods The M3R expression was examined in 60 SCLC patients ad-mitted using immunohistochemistry. The patients were evaluated by clinical history, physical examination and chest CT. Survival time was got through telephone follow-up. Results The M3R expression in primary SCLC tissues was higher than that in normal lung tis-sues. The M3R expression had no difference between limited-disease and extensive-disease of SCLC. There was no correlation between M3R expression and age, gender, lymph node metastasis. The M3R expression was significantly correlated with smoking history. The survival time of M3R negative patients was longer than that of M3R positive patients in Kaplan-Meier survival curve. Conclusion The M3R expression in primary SCLC tissues was higher than that in normal lung tissues. M3R expression had some correlation with prog-nosis of SCLC patients.

A new multi-channel EEG signal acquisition system,which adopts Cypress's EZ-USB FX2 series USB as its micro-controller,is presented in this paper.The system employs AD620 and OP07 at the pre-amplifying stage and the following two amplifying stages respectively.Universal Series Bus(USB) technology is used to realize the real-time recording,displaying and tele-monitoring of EEG signal,which can also be stored in CF card after compression.The USB software developing tool is WinDriver.

Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Interleukin-1beta ; blood ; cerebrospinal fluid ; Male ; Seizures, Febrile ; blood ; cerebrospinal fluid ; Zinc ; blood ; cerebrospinal fluid

BACKGROUND: Research on selective attention of mobile visual information is relatively scarce because of difficulties in technology, methodology and experimental condition control. As is well known, most visual information in the real world is mobile and changeable. To examine the mechanism of mobile visual information is helpful to designing natural and highly efficient human-computer interface as well as selecting specialized personnel in special fields OBJECTIVE: To explore the distractive effect of the number, color, and form changes of distractors on multiple-target tracking performance. DESIGN: The present study was a 3 × 2 × 2 within subject design. Participants were undergraduates from Beijing Normal University.SETTING: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University.PARTICIPANTS: The experiment was performed in the Experimental Psychology Lab of Beijing Normal University in April 2003. Twenty-four undergraduates from Beijing Normal University participated in the experiment. Among them there were 11 males and 13 females aged 17-25 years.They all reported normal or corrected-to-normal vision and normal color perception.METHODS: ① Stimuli were presented on a 17-inch Founder monitor with the resolution of 1028 × 800 pixels. A Founder computer controlled the stimulus presentation and randomization of trials. Response latencies were collected by keyboard response with accuracy of one millisecond. The stimuli were randomly moving "日" characters. The number of "日" characters is 4, 8 and 12. As the participants were tracking the objects, the targets would transform to "(│)" and "(│)", and the distractors would change to "(│)" , "(│)", or "H" by removing lines from "日 ". All distractors and targets were red at the beginning of moving. ② The correct responses were analyzed with 3-factor repeated measures analysis of variance, multiple comparison analysis, and pairwise T-test.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Response time and accuracy of pressing the keys.RESULTS: The data of 24 participants were involved in the final statistical analysis. ① The three-factor repeated measures ANOVA results showed that the main effect of the number change of distractors was significant [F(1,22)=6.040, P ＜ 0.05]. The further ANOVA and pairwise comparison in different experiment conditions also showed no distractive effects when target and distractor had different shape but the same color [F(1,2,3)=9.965, P ＜ 0.01]. The further pairwise comparison indicated that when the number of distractors was 2 and 6, the participants' response latencies had no significant effects, and they had significant effect when the number of distractors was 2 and 10, or 6 and 10 (RT10-RT2=46 ms, P ＜ 0.05, two-tail test; RT10-RT6=28ms, P ＜ 0.05, one-tail test). These results showed that the increase in the number of distractors had distractive effects. ② There had no significant effect whether target and distractor had the same color or not, when the number of distractors was 2 and 10. And there had significant effects whether the color of target and distractor was the same or not when the number of distractors was 6; the same shape of target and distractor produced distractive effects (Tsame colons=1.926; Tdifferent colons=2.044,P ＜ 0.05, one-tail test). The main effect of the color was not significant. The further pairwise comparison showed the same result. That is,the color change of diatractors had no obvious distractive effect.CONCLUSION: ① There was distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape and color of distractor and target were different. ② There was no distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape of distractor and target was the same. ③ There was distractive effect when the number of distractors increased while the shape of distractor and target was different, and there was distractive effect when the color of distractor and target was the same.

AIM To investigate the effect of ClC-3 antisense oligonucleotide on apoptosis induced by thapsigargin in PC12 cells. METHODS Western-blot was performed to detect the protein expression of ClC-3 in PC12 cells. MTT assay was used to measure the effect of ClC-3 antisense oligonucleotide on growth inhibition induced by thapsigargin. The effect of ClC-3 antisense oligonucleotide on apoptosis was studied with the fluorescent microscopy, DNA agarose gel electrophoresis, flow cytometry analysis. RESULTS Compared with control group, transient transfection of PC12 cells with antisense oligonucleotide specific to ClC-3 caused an inhibitory effect on expression of ClC-3 protein in a time-and concentration-dependent manner,whereas the thapsigargin-induced reductions of viability of PC12 cells and apoptosis were markedly enhanced (P

Objective To investigate MRI manifestations of temporomandibular joint trauma,emphasized on the displacement and deformation of the meniscus.Methods Thirteen patients with TMJ trauma were examined by MRI with 3-inch dual surface coils.T1WI and T2WI images in oblique sagittal and coronal plane were acquired in both closed-and open-mouth positions.Results Twenty(20/26,76.9%) joints had condylar fractures.Nineteen(19/20,95%) discs in 12 patients displaced anteromedially with the condylar fragments,six(6/20,30%) discs showed distortion and deformation.The other one patient had unilateral condylar fracture companied with avulsion and lateral dislocation of ipsilateral disc(1/20,5%),and the opposite disc also showed slight anterior displacement.Effusion was observed in 12(12/20,60%) joints with condylar fractures.The location of the discs didn't show obvious change between closed-and open-mouth positions.Conclusion MRI is an effective method for demonstrating TMJ injuries,and is useful for detecting the changes of morphology and position of the discs.

Objective To investigate the changes of B lymphocyte subsets ( naive B cells, memory B cells and plasmablasts) in peripheral blood of patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( RA) and their correla-tions with the clinical manifestation and laboratory indexes.Methods Sixty-six patients with RA were di-vided into two groups including the group with active RA and the group with inactive RA according to the dis-ease activity score in 28 Joints (DAS28).A control group with healthy subjects was set up accordingly.The distributions of B lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood samples were detected with flow cytometry analysis and their correlations with clinical manifestations and laboratory indicators were analyzed.Results ( 1 ) Compared with healthy subjevts, the mean fluorescence intensities ( MFIs) of CD19 and the percentages of memory B cells in peripheral blood of the patients with RA were significantly decreased, while the percenta-ges of naive B cells were increased (P<0.05).The percentages of plasmablasts in the patients with active RA were significantly increased as compared with those of healthy subjects and the patients with inactive RA (P<0.05).(2) The percentages of plasmablasts in peripheral blood of the patients with RA were positively correlated with the joint tenderness count, joint swelling count and joint swelling index (P<0.05).(3) A positive correlation was found between the MFIs of CD19 and the erythrocyte sedimentation rates ( ESRs ) among the patients with RA.The percentages of plasmablasts were positively correlated with C reaction pro-tein (CRP) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibody (P<0.05).(4) The percentages of plasmablasts were also positively correlated with the DAS28 among the patients with RA ( R2=0.343, P<0.01).Conclusion The distributions of B lymphocyte subsets varied among the patients in different stages of RA, which were related to the patient′s clinical symptoms and laboratory indexes.The study suggested that different subsets of the B lymphocytes might play an important role in the pathological process of RA.

Stargardt disease (STGD) is an inherited disorder of retinal pigment epithelium.Three genes have been found to be implicated in STGD including Abca4 (adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette,sub-family A,member 4),Elovl4 (elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 4) and Prom1 (prominin-1).Target genes can be delivered to the retina by various methods such as lentivirus (LV) vectors,adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors and non-viral nano-particles.The Abca4-/-,Elovl4-/-and Prom1-/ mice model are used to study the pathogenesis mechanism and treatment of STGD.Retinal function improved significantly upon gene therapy in these models.Based on these works using animal model,phase Ⅰ /Ⅱ a clinical trial of Abca4-associated STGD gene therapy are underway.As a LV vector,equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is used to carry the Abca4 gene.These studies will evaluate three dose levels of the EIAV vector for safety,tolerability and biological activity.Moreover,some preclinical attempts to deliver Abca4 via AAV have been made using a modified AAV vectors because of the large size of the ABCA4 cDNA.The good responses in animal models render STGD a very attractive object for human gene therapy after the successful of the phase Ⅰ /Ⅱ clinical trials of Leber's congenital amaurosis.