group N.Inter-group analysis revealed higher osteoclast numbers in the inflammatory area of group DP and group P when compared with group N(P

OBJECTIVE: Small diameter vascular grafts (＜ 6 mm) are used predominantly in revascularization and reconstructive procedures. The small diameter vascular grafts already used in our clinical practice include autologous veins or arteries, polyethylene terephthalate (Dacron) and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) synthetic vascular grafts. Unfortunately these vascular grafts all have some disadvantages that prohibit their uses. Therefore search for ideal small diameter vascular grafts has become the focus in recent years.DATA SOURCES: A computer-based online search of Pubmed database was undertaken to identify the articles about small diameter vascular grafts published in English between January 1990 and January 2007 with the key words of "prosthetic graft, vascular bypass graft, small diameter vascular graft, tissue engineering".STUDY SELECTION: The data were selected firstly to choose the full-text of articles met the criteria. Inclusion criteria: ① Articles about biological vascular grafts; ②Articles about synthetic vascular grafts; ③Articles about small diameter tissue engineering blood vessels. Exclusion criteria: Repetitive or analogical articles or case reports.DATA EXTRACTION: Totally 113 articles on small diameter vascular grafts were collected and 41 met the inclusive criteria after eliminated the repetitive or similar studies or case reports.DATA SYNTHESIS : Although biological vascular grafts have the outstanding advantages, such as superior long-term patency, relatively resistant to infection, minimal thromboembolism, etc., they also have predominant disadvantages of limited availability, durability and aneurysm formation. Dacron and ePTFE are currently the standard synthetic vascular grafts in the vascular bypass surgery, but their immediate or long-term patency rates are relatively poor due to compliance mismatch, thrombogenicity and poor haemodynamics, especially when they are used in small diameter revascularization and reconstructive procedures. Thus, various modifications have been applied to Dacron and ePTFE grafts to improve their function. In recent two decades, the emergence of tissue-engineering technology has made the development of a novel biologically viable vascular substitute feasible, and it may prove to be the ultimate solution for better small-diameter vascular grafting.CONCLUCTION: So far there is no completely biodegradable small diameter vascular graft suitable for the arterial circulation in humans. Construction of an ideal small-diameter vascular graft will require an interdisciplinary effort requiring critical contributions from biologists, engineers, and clinicians, with strong collaborations among these 3 fields being crucial to success.

Objective To explore the value of applying personalized medicine in the clinical teaching of gastrointestinal surgery. Methods Totally 100 undergraduates in grade 2008 were ran-domly assigned to experimental class (EC) and control class (CC), with 50 cases in each group. The experimental class accepted personalized medical teaching through introducing idea and method of personalized medicine. The control class accepted conventional teaching. The effect of teaching was evaluated by questionnaire survey and examination. The data were analyzed through t-test and Chi-square test. Results Questionnaire survey of satisfaction showed that 88 students (88%) were inter-ested in the new course, 91 students (91%) thought that the new mode of teaching was better than the old one. Questionnaire survey of teaching effect showed that in EC:44 students (88%) thought that the new course could increase interests of clinical question;43 students (86%) thought that the new course could optimize the process of diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer;40 students (80%) thought that the new course could strengthen the communication between doctors and patients; 42 students (84%) thought that the new course could widen the minds in diagnosis and treatment;45 students (90%) thought that the new course could enhance the ability of dialectical thinking;while in CC, the proportions of the above issues were 24(48%), 23(46%), 26(52%), 25(50%) and 26(52%) (all P<0.05). Furthermore, there were statistical difference in auerage scores bertween EC and CC [(86.26 ±5.72) vs. (77.00 ±6.16)] (P=0.000). Conclusions Personalized medicine is suc cessfully practiced in the teaching course of gastric cancer, which not only meets the requirement of personal-ized medicine, but also guides the reformation of clinical teaching to certain extent.

Objective:To explore the clinical value of stereotactic wire-localized biopsy(SWLB)in digital mammography in the detection of microcalcification of the breast.Methods:A total of 45 patients with nonpalpable breast lesions which were positive for microcalcification by mammography but could not be detected clinically underwent SWLB.Their mammography fndings were analyzed in detail with pathology.Results:Among the 45 cases,13 cases(28.9%)had malignant lesions including ductal carcinoma in situ in 3 cases (20.1%),ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion in 4 cases(30.8%),invasive ductal carcinoma in 5 cases (38.5%)and intraductal papillary carcinoma in 1 case(7.7%).Thirty-two cases(71.1%)had benign lesions,2 cases(6.3%)of which were severe atypical hyperplasia.Conclusion:SWLB can accurately guide the surgical excision of nonpalpable breast microcalcification lesions and diagnose microcalcifications exactly,which is helpful for increasing the detection rate of eady-stage breast cancer.

Objective To evaluate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of bupivacaine polylactic acid microspheres in rabbits. Methods Sixteen New Zealand rabbits weighing (2.58?0.17) kg were randomly divided into two groups:in group A a bolus of bupivacaine solution 5 mg?kg-1 was injected subcutaneously, in group B a bolus of bupivacaine polylactic acid microspheres 5 mg ? kg-1 was implanted in subcutaneous tissue. Blood samples were obtained for determination of plasma bupivacaine concentration at 5,10,20,30,45 min and 1,2,3,4, 6,8,12,24h after subcutaneous injection in group A and at 0.5,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12,24,36,48 and 60 h after subcutaneous implantation in group B. Pharmacodynamics study was conducted using a model evaluating the efficacy of regional anesthesia by skin incision and needle pricking. Results In group A plasma bupivacaine concentration peaked quickly at about 0. 34h after subcutaneous injection, then quickly declined and became indetectable in plasma within 12 h. In group B plasma bupivacaine concentration reached a peak much slowly at about 13h after subcutaneous implantation. Cmax was 0.7781 ? 0.3573 ?g?ml-1 significantly lower than that in group A [Cmax = (2.4664 ? 0.7822) ?g?ml-1 ] . The mean retention time (MRT) was 25.2667 ? 2.4857 h, significantly longer than that in group A [MRT= (5.5580 ? 1.3843)h] . Pharmacodynamic study showed that the duration of regional sensory block was significantly longer in group B than that in group A( P

Objective To evaluate the application value of identification on drown by detection 16SrDNA of the diatoms in rabbits' internal organs in summer month of July and winter month of December in YongJiang River of Ningbo. Methods 60 Rabbits were randomly and medially divided into three groups in summer and winter: drowning group, postmortem immersion group and using only lethal aeroembolism as control group. Specimen including heart, liver, lung and kidney from each rabbit were tested with diatom 16SrDNA PCR method. Results Compared with postmortem immersion group, detection rate of diatom 16SrDNA of heart, liver, lung, renal tissue in drowning group was significantly higher than that in summer month of July (P<0.05), In December, the 16SrDNA of the drowning group was detected in heart and lung tissues, There was no significant difference compared with postmortem immersion group (P>0.05) In summer month of July, detection rate of 16SrDNA of heart, liver, lung, renal tissues in drowning group was significantly higher than that in winter month of December (P<0.05). Diatom 16SrDNA of heart, liver, lung, kidney tissues in air embolism group were not detected In summer month of July and winter month of December. Conclusion With the higher detection rate of diatom 16SrDNA in drowning rabbit in summer, the diatom 16SrDNA PCR method can be used for the diagnosis of drowning in Yongjiang River of Ningbo; while in winter , it should be carefully apllied with the lower detection rate of diatom 16SrDNA.

OBJECTIVETo explore the effect and mechanism of sodium butyrate on expression of human clotting factor VIII in vitro.

METHODSMouse NIH/3T3 cell line was transfected with recombinant plasmid vector pRC/RSV-BDD-hFVIII, which enclosed B-domain deleted (760aa approximately 1 639aa) human factor VIII cDNA (BDD-hFVIII cDNA). Then cells were incubated in Dulbecco's modification of Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing sodium butyrate for 24 hours, hFVIII: C and hFVIII: Ag in the cell culture medium were measured by ELISA assay and one-stage method, respectively. In addition, the effect of sodium butyrate on transcription of cDNA encoding the whole hFVIII, heavy and light chain of hFVIII was also investigated by means of run-on assay.

RESULTSAfter stimulation of sodium butyrate, the levels of hFVIII: C and hFVIII: Ag increased 70% than those of control. Run-on assay showed that sodium butyrate enhanced the transcription of cDNA which encoded heavy chain of hFVIII.

CONCLUSIONSodium butyrate can improve the expression of hFVIII through enhancing the transcription of hFVIII heavy chain encoding cDNA. It demonstrated that sodium butyrate had potential utility in inducing the expression of hFVIII in vitro.

3T3 Cells ; Animals ; Butyrates ; pharmacology ; Factor VIII ; genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation ; drug effects ; Humans ; Mice

Objective To investigate the feasibility and application value of the benign and malignant classificational methods of renal occupying CT images based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). Methods An image omics method that can automatically learn the image features and classify CT images was used. Firstly, the CNN model obtained by large-scale natural image training was used to migrate the characteristics of the renal occupancy lesions CT images, and then the fine-tuning of the full connection layer was used to realize the benign and malignant classification of the images. Results The evaluation indexes of the VGG19 model were lower than ResNet50 and Inception V3, and the training result showed obvious overfitting. The accuracy, sensitivity and negative prediction values of the Inception V3 model was 93.8％, 99.5％ and 99.1％, respectively, which were higher than that of the ResNet50 model. Conclusions The benign and malignant classification of renal occupancy lesions CT images using CNN is a reasonable and feasible method, and the fine-tuned Inception V3 model has a better classification performance.

Objective To understand HIV incidence in community residents and epidemiological characteristics of newly detected HIV infection cases in Dali,Yunnan province.Methods A cohort study was conducted among 146720 community residents who were tested to be HIV negative during 2010-2011,they were followed-up from June 1,2014 to May 31,2015.Results A total of 136356 community residents received follow up (92.9％).The follow-up time was 0.23-5.40 years (medium:3.43 years),cumulatively 459675 person years,and 78 people were found to be HIV positive.The incidence rate of HIV infection was 0.170/1000 person years.The incidence rate was 0.037/1000 person years in age group 15-29 years,0.288/1000 person years in age group 30-44 years,0.210/1000 person years in age group 45-59 years,0.204/1000 person years in age ≥60 years;0.213/1 000 person years in males,0.130/1000 person years in females;0.248/1000 person years inHan ethnic group,0.149/1000 person years in Minorities;0.194/1000 in people with education level ≤junior middle school,0.046/1000 person years in people with education level ＞ junior middle school;0.070/1000 person years in the unmarried,0.194/1000 person years in the married and 0.425/1000person years in the divorced/widowed.Cox proportional hazards regression analysis showed that being male (HR=l.731),aged 30-44 years (HR=13.158),aged 45-59 years (HR=10.329),aged ≥60years (HR=8.291),unmarried (HR=3.162) and divorced/widowed (HR=2.689) were the risk factors for HIV infection,while the education level ＞ junior middle school (HR=0.132) was the protective factor for HIV infection.Conclusions By medium 3.43 years follow up,the cohort study showed that incidence rate HIV infection was 0.170/1000 person years in the community residents in Dali.Male,middle aged and old people,people with low education level,the unmarried and the divorced/widowed had relatively higher risk to be infected with HIV,Close attention should be paid to the prevention and control of AIDS in these populations.

Objective To understand the characteristics of newly detected HIV infection cases and related high risk behaviors in the areas with high HIIV infection prevalence in Yunnan province.Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted with census method during January to March 2016 among newly detected HIV infected persons in Dehong,Honghe,Lincang and Dali prefectures in Yunnan during 2012-2015.Results Among 451 HIV seropositive cases,the major transmission route of HIV was heterosexual contact,accounting for 92.5％ (417/451).The total awareness rate of AIDS related knowledge was 73.0％ (329/451).The rates of condom use at sex with regular sexual partners,occasional sexual partners,commercial sexual partners and men who have sex with men within 1 year before knowing their infection status were 48.7％ (167/343),4.2％ (7/165),9.9％ (15/151) and 0.0％ (0/3),respectively.The risk factors for using no condom at sex with regular sexual parmers included living at Dali,being farmer,unmarried,cohabitation,divorced and widowed,monthly income under 1 000 yuan (RMB),living in urban area before infection,knowing no AIDS related knowledge etc.The risk factors for using no condom at sex with occasional sexual partners included living in Dehong,Honghe and Lincang,aged ≤30 years and being farmer.The injecting drug users accounted for 8.2％ (37/450) and 75.5％ of these cases had received AIDS related intervention (340/450).Conclusion High prevalence of heterosexual transmission of HIV,poor AIDS related knowledge on awareness,high risk behavior and poor condom use and poor intervention service utilization were found among newly detected HIV infected persons in areas with high HIV infection prevalence in Yunnan.