Objective To investigate the correlation of blood-brain barrier (BBB) damage and depression in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).Methods Consecutive patients with CSVD admitted to hospital were enrolled prospectively.The patients completed head MRI and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination after admission.The BBB damage degree was evaluated by using albumin CSF/serum ratio (Q-Alb).At 3 months after onset,the depression was assessed according to the Hamilton depression scale (HAMD) and the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders,4th edition (DSM-Ⅳ).The correlation between the BBB damage and depression in patients with CSVD was analyzed,Results A total of 130 consecutive patients with CSVD were enrolled,including 58 (44.62％) had depression within 3 months.There were significant differences in the proportions of patients with lacunar infarction (43.10％ vs.26.39％;x2 =4.008,P =0.045),leukoaraiosis (75.86％ vs.58.33％;x2 =4.408,P =0.036),and cerebral microbleed (27.59％ vs.12.50％;x2 =4.707,P =0.030),and baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores (5.02 ± 2.51 vs.3.60 ± 2.43;t =3.256,P =0.001),Fazekas scales of deep white matter (2.35 ± 1.00 vs.1.56 ± 1.05;t =4.358,P ＜0.001) and the proportion of Q-AIb category (x2 =6.852,P =0.033) between the depression group and the non-depression group.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the baseline NIHSS scores (odds ratio [OR] 1.248,95％ confidence interval [CI] 1.027-1.517;P =0.026),leukoaraiosis (OR 14.786,95％ CI 1.776-123.111;P=0.013),Fazekas scales of deep white matter (OR 1.847,95％ CI 1.210-2.819;P=0.004),and Q-Alb (OR 30.417,95％ CI 3.662-252.643;P =0.004) had significant independent correlation with depression.Conclusions The BBB damage is independently associated with depression in patients with CSVD.

Adult ; Female ; Forearm ; surgery ; Free Tissue Flaps ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Oral Surgical Procedures ; methods ; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures ; methods ; Skin Transplantation

Objective To investigate the xenotransplantation model of fetal pig skin precursor tissue and its development after transplantaion. Methods Porcine skin precursor tissue was obtained from the embryo of gestation day 56 (E56), and made into microskin or stamp skin graft. The microskin was transplanted to the dorsal wound in BALB/c nude mice, then covered with human corpse skin. The stamp skin graft was imbedded subcutaneously into the back of nude mice, and microskin was injected subcutaneously into the auricles of nude mice. Their growth and development were observed and they were examined by HE staining at 6th and 12th week after transplantation respectively. Two-sample t test was used to analyze the size of newly grown skin tissue. Results Porcine skin precursor tissue graft in three models above survived and continued growth after transplantation, and growth ability of the dorsal wound transplantation model was significantly stronger than that of the auricle model. Epidermis and hypodermis were detected in newly grown skin tissues. Hair follicles, a few of sebaceous glands, but no sweat glands were observed in auricle model, while many sebaceous glands and sweat glands were observed in the dorsal wound model. Conclusion Transplantation of microskin to dorsal wound is the optimal model of investigating the xenotransplantation of fetal pig skin precursor tissue and its development after transplantion.

60 strains which have antimicrobial activity had been isolated from nutritious soil in China in the study.We have further selected 1 strain which product broad-spectrum antibiotics using agar well-diffusion method.The strain was identified Brevibacillus laterosporus after physiological biochemical characteristic experiments,sequencing of 16S rDNA and cluster analysis,named S62-9.

A.niger M1, the initial strain, was treated by UV and a mutant with 30% higher xylanase activity was obtained. Zymogram for detecting xylanase showed there are three different xylanases in the mutant mature culture, while two xylanases in initial strain. After orthogonal experiment, the optimum fermentation conditions of the mutant were obtained as follows: concentration of the major carbon resource 4 %, ratio between bran and corncob 5:5, concentration of glucose 0.1%, concentration of ammonium oxalate as supplemental nitrogen resource 2.0%, the initial pH of liquid medium 5.0, 100mL/250mL flask.

Aged ; Carcinoma, Small Cell ; genetics ; Case-Control Studies ; Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1 ; genetics ; Female ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; genetics ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

AIMTo illustrate the non-equilibrium properties of drug permeation through stratum corneum (SC) to provide theory and method for transdermal drug delivery.

METHODSThe system of side-by-side permeation chambers in vitro was isolated, thus conditions for equilibrium state were decided. And a network thermodynamic model was established. Non-equilibrium and leakage experiments were completed with which tinidazole was pattern drug.

RESULTSThe properties of non-equilibrium including: long term to reach equilibrium state; delay-start of the permeation; uncertainty of initial drug permeable flux. The properties of leakage including: degression of drug permeable flux; changeability of permeation time constant.

CONCLUSIONThe permeation cell is believed to be a non-linear and time variable system.

Administration, Cutaneous ; Electroporation ; Epidermis ; metabolism ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Permeability ; Tinidazole ; administration & dosage ; pharmacokinetics

The clinical tumor therapy was greatly challenged due to the complex characteristics of tumor microenvironment, however, which also provide arena for novel therapeutic strategies. In this study, poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline)-poly(lactic acid)-SS-poly(β-amino ester (PEOz-PLA-SS-PBAE) triblock copolymers with pH and GSH double response were synthesized, polymer micelles were prepared by thin film hydration method for loading of silybin to improve its antitumor activity. The critical micelle concentration was determined by pyrene fluorescence method as 1.8 μg·mL^-1. The particle size was 155.30 ± 1.80 nm as determined by dynamic light scattering, with polydispersity index of 0.168 ± 0.004. The drug loading and entrapment efficiency of the micelles were determined by HPLC as (5.48 ± 0.04)% and (68.52 ± 0.48)%, respectively. The in vitro drug release profiles showed that the micelles have low pH sensitivity and high GSH responsiveness, and exhibited sustained release profiles. The good biocompatibility of the material was proved by measuring the hemolysis rate and cytotoxicity of the blank micelle. The cytotoxicity and apoptosis rate of tumor cells showed that the drug loaded PEOz-PLA-SS-PBAE micelles had significant inhibitory effect and apoptosis-inducing effect on MDA-MB-231 cells. The results of wounding healing assay and Transwell invasion test showed that the drug loaded PEOz-PLA-SS-PBAE micelles could significantly inhibit the metastasis of MDA-MB-231 cells. The PEOz-PLA-SS-PBAE drug-loaded micelles prepared in this study have good inhibitory effect on tumor growth and anti-tumor metastasis in vitro, which lays the foundation for the further application of silybin.

Atomic force microscope ( AFM) and fluorescence microscope ( FM) have been emerging as two most commonly used tools for single-molecule study in living cells. Combining the advantages of two microscopes, the development of the integrated AFM-FM technique with high spatiotemporal resolution and multi-function has attracted increasing interest. In this review, the principles of AFM single-molecular force spectroscopy and single-molecule fluorescence imaging were briefly discussed, and the recent advances in the integrated AFM-FM instrumentation were summarized. Subsequently based on our own research in the investigation of ligand-receptors interactions with the integrated AFM-FM technique, its applications in live-cell single-molecule imaging and characterization were introduced.

OBJECTIVETo evaluate the effect of cluster of differentiation 14 (CD-14) and Toll like receptors (TLR) on the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6) mRNA induced by Porphyromonas endodontalis (Pe) lipopolysaccharides (LPS).

METHODSMC3T3-E1 cells were treated with 10 mg/L Pe-LPS for different hours, and the cells uninvolved by anything as the blank group. The expression of IL-6 was detected by reverse transcription polymerse chain reaction (RT-PCR) and enzyme-liked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The expression of CD-14, TLR-2 and TLR-4 mRNA was observed at different time point (0 - 24 h) by RT-PCR. The protein of CD-14, TLR-2 and TLR-4 was analyzed with a flow cytometer. MC3T3-E1 cells were pretreated with anti-CD-14, anti-TLR-2 and anti-TLR-4 antibody for 1 h, and then cells were stimulated with 10 mg/L Pe-LPS for 6 h. The expression of IL-6 mRNA was examined by RT-PCR. Statistical analysis was performed using one-way ANOVA Dunnett-t test with SPSS 11.0 software package.

RESULTSThe IL-6 mRNA and proteins increased significantly after treatment with Pe-LPS. When MC3T3-E1 cells treated by Pe-LPS for 6 h, the expression of proteins soared from (11.696 ± 0.672) ng/L to (36.534 ± 0.574) ng/L (P < 0.01); In the control group, the CD-14 and TLR-4 mRNA are ambly-expression, and the ratios of CD-14 and TLR-4 positive cells were (39.038 ± 3.131)% and (11.438 ± 0.385)% respectively in MC3T3-E1. After treatment by Pe-LPS, the expression of CD-14 and TLR-4 mRNA increased significantly, and the ratios of CD-14 and TLR-4 positive cells markedly increased to (62.407 ± 1.800)% and (21.367 ± 2.271)%. TLR-2 expression did not change apparently after Pe-LPS treatment. The expression of IL-6 mRNA was partly inhibited by anti-CD-14 or anti-TLR-4 antibody, but not by TLR-2.

CONCLUSIONSPe-LPS can induce the expression of IL-6 in osteoblast MC3T3-E1 through CD-14 and TLR-4, but not TLR-2.

3T3 Cells ; Animals ; Antibodies ; immunology ; Interleukin-6 ; genetics ; metabolism ; Lipopolysaccharide Receptors ; genetics ; metabolism ; Lipopolysaccharides ; isolation & purification ; pharmacology ; Mice ; Porphyromonas endodontalis ; RNA, Messenger ; metabolism ; Toll-Like Receptor 2 ; genetics ; metabolism ; Toll-Like Receptor 4 ; genetics ; metabolism