1.Fanconi anemia protein and acute myeloid leukemia
Ye LOU ; Lihui ZHAN ; Hua FAN
Journal of Leukemia & Lymphoma 2009;18(5):315-317
Fanconi anemia (FA) is an rare autosomal recessive inherited disease which manifests progressive marrow failure, congenital bone malformation, high risk to cancers and so on. Chromatin of FA cells display auto-instability and high hypersensitivity to interstrand DNA cross-links such as mitomycin C. As normally FA develop into acute myeloid leukemia easily, it has been regarded as pre-leukemia state. Till now 11 FA genes have been found and play a role in sustaining stability of gene groups through the same mechanism. As an active connecting protein, FANCF protein play an important part in correct FA complex formation. Which makes FANCD2 single ubiquitin. Ubiquitin FANCD2 induces chromatin and BRCA1 interact, and repair injured DNA. FA gene defect makes gene group instable and increases the risk of chromatin collapse, which finally leads to acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
2.Clinical effect and safety of Guipi pills combined with levothyroxine sodium in hypothyroidism
Yilan LOU ; Yanling ZHANG ; Hua CHEN
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2016;36(12):133-136
Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of levothyroxine sodium combined with Guipi pills in the treatment of hypothyroidism . Methods A total of 114 cases from August 2013 to November 2015 in Lanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital with hypothyroidism were selected and randomly divided into control group and experiment group, 57 cases in each group.The patients in the both groups were given conventional treatment and symptomatic treatment.Patients in the control group were given levothyroxine sodium tablets 25 μg orally once a day, two weeks after continuous treatment according to the patient’s condition to 50μg.Patients in the experiment group were given levothyroxine sodium tablets 25μg orally once a day combined with Guipi pills 1.2g, three times a day.Two groups of patients a cycle of 28days, a total of 6 cycles of treatment.The clinical efficacy, thyroid hormone, lipid metabolic indexes and adverse drug reactions were compared between two groups.Results After treatment, the total effective rate of the control group was 78.95%, significantly lower than 92.98% of experimental group (P <0.05).The level of serum TSH, TC and TG were significantly decreased in two groups after treatment, and the experimental group was significantly lower than the control group(P<0.05); the levels of FT3 and FT4 were significantly increased, and the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group ( P <0.05 ).The incidence of adverse reactions was 10.53% in the control group and 5.26% in the experimental group, the difference was not statistically significant. Conclusion Levothyroxine sodium combined with Guipi pills in the treatment of hypothyrosis was effective with high safety.
3.Determination of Protocatechuic Acid in Pterospermum heterophyllum by RP-HPLC
Hua LIN ; Dinghong WU ; Buqing LOU
China Pharmacy 2001;0(07):-
OBJECTIVE:To establish an HPLC method for determination of protocatechuic acid in Pterospermum heterophyllum.METHODS: The separation was performed on Agilent TC C18(250 mm?4.6 mm,5.0 ?m)column.Moblie phase consisted of acetonitrile-0.1% glacial acetic acid solution(pH 3.16,10 ∶ 90)with flow rate of 1.0 mL?min-1 and detection wavelength of 260 nm.The column temperature was set at 35℃ and injection volume was 10 ?L.RESULTS:The linear range of protocatechuic acid was 0.007 76~0.310 4 ?g(r=0.999 7) with an average recovery of 97.68% (RSD=1.51%,n=6).CONCLUSION:The method is simple,accurate and reproducible for the quality control of P.heterophyllum.
4.Clinical trial on the effect of leflunomide in treating refractory nephropathy syndrome
Cheng WANG ; Tanqi LOU ; Hua TANG
Chinese Journal of Practical Internal Medicine 2000;0(12):-
Objective To investigate the effect of leflunomide and prednisone in treating refractory nephropathy syndrome.Methods The 60 refractory nephropathy patients in our hospital from Oct,2000 to May,2003 were divided into two groups at random.Paients in test group received leflunomide and prednisone.Patients in control group received mycophenolate mofetil and prednisone.Clinical data were observed in the 2nd,4th,6th,8th,12th,16th,20th,24th and 28th week.Results After receiving leflunomide therapy in the test group,the proteinuria was decreased significantly(P0.05),but rate of showing efficacy in 12th week in Leflunomide group was higher than mycophenolate mofetil group(P
5.Inhibition of dedifferentiation of human articular chondrocytes by transfection with recombinant TGF-?_2 in vitro
Weiguo WANG ; Siquan LOU ; Hua SHE
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics 1999;0(07):-
Objective In cartilage tissue engineering,it was a difficult problem to keep chongdro-cytes phenotype for long time.The aim was made to investigate the dedifferentiation of human articular chon-drocytes,and to verify the inhibition to dedifferentiation by transfection with recombinant pcDNA3.1(+)/TGF-? 2 in vitro.Methods Free chondrocytes were isolated from healthy articular cartilage harvested from6adult patients underwent operation because of other condition.The recombinant pcDNA3.1(+)/TGF-? 2 con-structed in advance was transferred by liposome mediated transfection to monolayer cultured articular chon-drocytes.The first,sixth and ninth generation chondrocytes being transfected and non-transfected were as-sayed by histological examination of HE and Safranine-O staining to observe their morphological changes.RT-PCR,ELISA,immunohistochemistry analysis and prime hybridization were performed to these cells to i-dentify the expression and biosynthesis of TGF-? 2 and cartilage-associated genes and proteins.Results The non-transfected articular chondrocytes in monolayer culture demonstrated the tendency of dedifferentia-tion,and lost the characteristics of their phenotype progressively in subculture.The expression of TGF-? 2 ,collagen typeⅡand proteoglycan in non-transfected cells were decreased,but expression of collagen typeⅠincreased gradually with time going on.On the contrary,as for the transfected chondrocytes,the trans-ferred gene was expressed in cells of all examined generations,and the expression levels were higher than that of non-transfected cell of same generations.The transfected chondrocytes maintained their phenotype and characteristics of articular cartilage.They expressed and produced collagen typeⅡand proteoglycan in a higher level,and collagen typeⅠin a lower level than that of non-transfected cells.Conclusion Human articular chondrocytes in monolayer culture have the tendency of dedifferentiation.The results suggested that chondrocytes tranfected by pcDNA3.1(+)/TGF-? 2 could produce endogenous TGF-? 2 .Transfection of pcD-NA3.1(+)/TGF-? 2 is able to provide transient and long lasting expression of TGF-? 2 in chondrocytes,and may be a feasible method to inhibit dedifferentiation of articular chondrocytes in vitro.
6.Clinical Observation on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Treating Diabetic Nephropathy
Changxiu GUO ; Nanfang LOU ; Hua SUN
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2008;30(3):210,212-
Objective To evaluate the curative effect of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in treating diabetic nephropathy. Methods 114 cases of type 2 diabetes were randomly separated into experiment group and control group. Members in the experiment group were treated by integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and Members in the control group were treated with western medicine alone for 8 weeks' course separately. At the end of therapeutic courses, levels of 24 h total proteinuria, serum creatinine, blood-fasting sugar were evaluated. Results In the experiment group, 8 cases got outstanding effects(11.1%), 50 cases got improvement(69.4%), and 14 cases got no effect (19.4%), with a total effective rate of 80.6%. In the control group, 0 cases got significant effect, 24 cases got improvement(33.3%), and 48 cases got no effect(66.7%), with a total effective rate of 33.3%. There was significant difference in total effective rate between the two groups (P<0.05), that the total effective rate of the experiment group was significantly higher than that of the control group. Conclusion Integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine therapy can be more effective in treating diabetic nephropathy.
7.Effect of Repeated Weight Attached Swimming on Renal Ultrastrueture and Function in Rats
Zhenfang LOU ; Tian WANG ; Ming HUA
Chinese Journal of Sports Medicine 1982;0(01):-
The alterations of ultrastrueture in rat kidney were observed under transmission electron microscopy, results showed that both glomerular filtration membranes and renal tubules had changed immediately after repeated loaded swimming and there were consistency between the recovery of renal ultrastructures and that of urinary protein and excration rate.
8.Basic biological characteristics of adipose mesenchymal stem cells and the characteristics in differentiation into osteoblast
Xiaodong JU ; Siquan LOU ; Hua TIAN ; Weiguo WANG ; Yanqing LIU
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2005;9(18):262-263
BACKGROUND: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) have been investigated initially. Because both fat tissue and bone marrow are tissues originated from mesoderm, so whether MSCs could be obtained from fat tissue as well, which also have multi-lineage differentiation potential?OBJECTIVE:To investigate the basic biological characteristics of adipose MSC and its differentiation into osteoblast under given culture condition for the exploration of its feasibility as seed cell in bone tissue engineering.DESIGN: A randomized and controlled study based on cells.SETTING: Department of Orthopaedics of an Affiliated Hospital of a university.MATERIALS: The study was conducted in the Department of Orthopaedics of the Third Hospital of Peking University. Adipose MSC extracted from the fat tissue of Lewis rats was used as subject.METHODS: Adipose MSCs were obtained from inguinal fat pads of Lewis rat after digestion, which were induced into adipocytes and osteoblasts with adipose and osteogenesis induced culture mediums. The differentiations were examined with cytochemical staining, immuncytochemical staining and Western blotting.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Morphological and biological characteristic of adipose MSCs, and the specific mark of osteoblast after induction.RESULTS: Adipose MSCs were obtained from rat adipose tissue culture,which appeared fibroblast-likely in the culture in vitro, and could stably proliferate and passage in vitro. Primary adipose MSCs could differentiate into adipocytes spontaneously, and passaged cells could form fat drop under the reaction of insulin and dexamethasone, and then differentiate towards adipocytes after the expression of peroxidase proliferation activated receptor ?(PPAR-?) enhanced. There was significant difference between induction group and control group in alkaline phosphatase(ALP) activity detection under the induction of dexamethasone, ascorbic acid, and ?-sodium glycerophosphate(P < 0.01) . Calcium node appeared in yon Kossa staining. Result of osteopontin (OPN) immunocytochemcial staining was positive,and OPN expression was detected by Western blotting after induction.CONCLUSION: MSCs with multi-lineage potential can be obtained from rat adipose tissue, and differentiate into adipocytes and osteoblasts after inductions. Therefore, adipose MSCs can possibly be served as one of optimal seed cells for bone tissue engineering.
9.Expressions and its clinical significance of microRNA-21 and microRNA-146a in colorectal neoplasms
Hua LIU ; Jie LOU ; Xiaoying LIU ; Xiaoyan YIN ; Zibin TIAN
Chinese Journal of Digestion 2015;(7):470-475
Objective To investigate the differences of miRNA-21 and miRNA-146a expression between colorectal neoplasms tissues and serum of the patients with colorectal neoplasm,and the clinical significance was analyzed.Methods The endoscopic biopsy tissues and serum samples of 100 colorectal cancer (CRC),80 colorectal adenoma (CRA)patients and 65 healthy controls were collected.The expressions of miRNA-21 and miRNA-146a were detected by quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction.The relationship between the expression and clinicopathological features were analyzed.And then,the diagnostic value of expression difference of serum miRNA in colorectal neoplasm were evaluated. The Mann-WhitneyU test and Kruskal-Wallis test were performed for comparisons between groups,and the correlation of miRNA expression between tissues and serum was analyzed by Spearman test.Results
The expressions of miRNA-21 in the tissues of CRC and CRA were 8.573 ±0.898 and 7.746 ±1 .183, respectively,which were significantly higher than that of healthy controls 6.160 ±0.835 (U =120.129 and 33.230,both P <0.01).The expressions of miRNA-21 in the serum of CRC and CRA were 1 .829± 0.303 and 1 .624 ±0.226,respeotively,which were higher than that of healthy controls 1 .391 ±0.221 (U =40.353 and 15 .512,both P < 0.01 ).The expression of miRNA-21 in the serum and tissues of patients with CRC were both higher than those of patients with CRA (U =11 .384 and 10.189,both P <0.01).The expression of miRNA-21 in patients with CRC was associated with TNM stage and lymph node metastasis.The expression level of miRNA-21 in CRA was correlated with histological types.The results of Spearman analysis indicated that the expression of miRNA-21 in the tissues and serum of patients with CRC was positively correlated (r=0.459,P <0.01).The expression of miRNA-146a in the tissues and serum of CRC patients were 2.556±0.351 and 0.249±0.038,respectively,which were lower than those of healthy controls (3.428 ±0.328 and 0.279 ±0.053)(U =102.134 and 30.111 ,both P <0.01).The expression in the tissues and serum of CRA patients were 3.255 ±0.332 and 0.290±0.036, respectively,which were also lower than those of healthy controls,however the difference was not statistically significant (U = 3.936 and 3.180,both P > 0.05 ).The expression of miRNA-146a in the tissues and serum of CRC patients were both lower than those of CRA patients (U =73.809 and 21 .123, both P <0.01).The degree of decreased expression of miRNA-146a in CRC patients was correlated with TNM staging and tumor differentiation degree,however there was no correlation between the expression in CRA and clinical features.According to receiver operating characteristic (ROC)curve analysis,the AUC of miRNA-21 ,miRNA-146a and a combination of them in CRC and health individuals was 0.889, 0.791 and 0.863,respectively;in CRA and health individuals was 0.784,0.692 and 0.761 ,respectively;in CRC and CRA was 0.705 ,0.820 and 0.713,respectively.Conclusion The different expressions of miRNA-21 and miRNA-146a had potential values in early detection of colorectal cancer.
10.Clinical Observation of Naloxone Hydrochloride Combined with Danshen Injection in the Treatment of Neo-natal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
Yuanjun LOU ; Hua SHI ; Haijun SHAN ; Caihong CAO
China Pharmacy 2016;27(23):3264-3266
OBJECTIVE:To observe clinical efficacy and safety of naloxone hydrochloride combined with Danshen injection in the treatment of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy(HIE). METHODS:104 patients with HIE were randomly divided into observation group and control group with 52 cases in each group. The control group was treated with Naloxone hydrochloride injec-tion 0.02 mg/kg,ivgtt,qd and conventional symptomatic treatment;while observation group was additionally treated with Danshen injection 4-6 ml+10% Glucose injection 20 ml,ivgtt,qd,on the basis of the control group. Treatment course of 2 groups lasted for 7 d. Clinical efficacy,symptom and sign recovery of 2 groups were compared,as well as levels of serum MMP-9,IL-6 and TNF-α,cerebral hemodynamic parameters and ADR. RESULTS:There was no statistical significance in MMP-9,IL-6,TNF-α and cerebral hemodynamic parameters before treatment(P>0.05). The total effective rate of observation group(92.31%)was signifi-cantly higher than that of control group (75.00%);after treatment,the recovery time of consciousness disturbance,primitive re-flex and muscle tension in the observation group were shorter than those in the control group;the levels of serum MMP-9,IL-6 and TNF-α in observation group were significantly lower than those in control group;peak systolic flow velocity(PSFV),end-dia-stolic flow velocity (EDTV) were higher in the observation group than in the control group,with statistical significance (P<0.05);resistance index (RI) was lower than in control group,but without statistical significance (P>0.05). No ADR was ob-served in 2 groups. CONCLUSIONS:Naloxone hydrochloride combined with Danshen injection can significantly promote HIE and signs recovery,reduce the levels of serum MMP-9,IL-6 and TNF-α,and improve hemodynamic parameters with good safety.