Objective To investigate the relationship of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation with clinical features of baselines as well as serum CEA level in patients with recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods A total of 54 patients with first recurrence of advanced lung cancer who had received chemotherapy were included in this study. ADx-ARMS was performed to detect EGFR gene mutations in surgical specimens taken from the primary tumor. Serum CEA level was measured by the electrochemical luminescence method. Results The mutation rate of EGFR was significantly higher in females than in males (χ2= 11.868, P =0.006), with a total mutation rate of 60.8%in 106 patients. The rate was higher in adenocarcinoma than in other histological types(χ2=6.002,P=0.014), and significantly higher in non-smokers than in smokers (χ2= 8.502,P=0.004) and in the patients with serum CEA level over or equal to 5.0 ng/mL than those with CEA level less than 5.0 ng/mL (χ2=22.543,P=0.000). A multivariate analysis revealed that a higher serum CEA level at the time of disease recurrence was associated with EGFR gene mutations (P = 0.002). Conculsions Serum CEA level is closely associated with the presence of EGFR gene mutations in patients with first recurrence of advanced NSCLC. A higher serum CEA level at the time of disease recurrence is independently associated with EGFR gene mutations. CEA level can be used as a potential indicator to determine EGFR mutation.

Objective To study the risk factors for children with acute central nervous system(CNS)viral in-fection,so that pediatrician may identify children with poor prognosis at early stages of the disease,and provide them with a theoretical basis for clinical treatment. Methods The clinical data of a cohort patients of acute CNS viral infec-tion who were hospitalized at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University between January 2010 and June 2013 were retrospectively collected and analyzed. According to Glasgow outcome scale on discharge,children were di-vided into good prognosis group and poor prognosis group. Clinical data and outcomes were analyzed by using univariate analysis and binary Logistic regression multivariate analysis. Results Three hundred and one cases were enrolled,278 (92. 36% )patients were assigned to the good prognosis group,and 23(7. 64% )patients were assigned to the poor prognosis group. By univariate analysis,the patients in the poor prognosis group had longer duration of sickness before admission,longer time of fever,lower white blood cell count in cerebrospinal fluid,a relatively lower calcium level,con-scious disturbance at the early stage,multiple seizures,convulsive status epilepticus,meningeal irritation sign,muscle weakness,severe changes in electroencephalogram(EEG),and abnormal neuroimaging findings(computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging,or both)had significant differences between the good prognosis group and the poor short - term outcome groups(all P < 0. 05). By binary Logistic regression multivariate analysis,factors indicating a poor prognosis during the early stage were conscious disturbance at the early stage(0R = 4. 885,95% CI:1. 523 - 15. 670, P = 0. 008),multiple seizures(0R = 6. 352,95% CI:1. 905 - 21. 178,P = 0. 003),severe changes in EEG( 0R =4. 269,95% CI:1. 708 - 10. 666,P = 0. 002),and abnormal neuroimaging findings( 0R = 9. 740,95% CI:2. 360 -40. 192,P = 0. 002). Conclusions Conscious disturbance at the early stage,multiple seizures,severe changes in EEG and abnormal neuroimaging findings are risk factors for acute viral infection of CNS in children.

Objective To explore the effects of mouse nerve growth factor (mNGF) on expression of metallothionein I/II (MT I/II) and cytochrome C (Cyt C) in hippocampus of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced epileptic (EP) young rats. Methods Fif-ty SD rats aged 19 days were randomly divided into control group, EP group, mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups. Each group had 10 rats. Control group was injected with normal saline every day, and EP group was intraperitoneally injected with PTZ 40 mg/(kg·d) for 21 days in succession. The mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups were respectively intramuscularly injected with mNGF 500, 1 000, 2 000 AU/(kg·d) for 7 days in succession after PTZ injection. Changes of body weight, behav-ioral performance were recorded. The positive cells of MT I/II, Cyt C were examined by immunohistochemisty. The levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA in hippocampus were measured by real-time PCR. Results The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA in hippocampus had signiifcant differences among groups (F=15.98-105.76, P=0.000). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA of EP group were higher than those in control group, mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups (P<0.05). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells of mNGF low group were higher than those in mNGF high dose group (P<0.05). The levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA of mNGF low group were higher than those in mNGF medium and high dose groups (P<0.05). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA had no differences between mNGF medium and high dose groups (P>0.05). Conclusions As a stress protein, metallothionein is involved in the process of chronic epilepsy along with Cyt C. mNGF has neuroprotective effects on the hippocampus of epileptic rats in dose dependent manner.

Objective To study the levels of coagulation factors in cord blood from normal newborns.Methods The study was clinical experimental study.One hundred and thirty-six cord blood samples collected from newborns who were born in Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center from November 2011 to January 2012.The levels of eight coagulation factors FⅡ,FV,FVⅡ,FVⅢ,FⅨ,FⅩ,FⅪ and FⅫ in cord blood were detected using CA-1500 Automatic Blood Coagulation Analyzer.Results The levels of eight coagulation factors in cord blood:the 95％ reference ranges were 27.04％-49.02％,53.30％-116.40％,27.80％-56.70％,19.16％-113.06％,19.85％-35.65％,24.20％-48.00％,24.40％-42.20％ and 9.20％-54.60％ respectively.The 99％ reference ranges were 23.56％-52.50％,53.30％-116.40％,27.80％-56.70％,4.31％-127.91％,17.35％-38.15％,24.20％-48.00％,24.40％-42.20％ and 9.20％-54.60％ respectively.Conclusion The study establishes the reference ranges for levels of coagulation factors in cord blood,it will provide experimental basis for diagnosis and differential diagnosis for neonatal congenital or hereditary coagulation factor deficiency.

Objective To investigate the influence on levels of coagulation factors in cord blood,included the physiological and pathological status of mater and the newborn.Methods We Detected the levels of F Ⅱ 、FⅤ 、FⅦ 、FⅧ 、FⅨ 、FⅩ 、FⅪ and FⅫ in cord blood by CA-1500 Automatic blood coagulation analyzer and related reagents,group results by impact factors and compared them statistically.Results (1) Factors of newborn:every coagulation factor between the male group and the female group was no statistical difference(P ＞0.05) ;F Ⅱ,F Ⅴ,FⅨ and FⅪ in the group of premature infant were less active than the normal (P =0.031,0.037,0.000,0.002) ;FⅡ and FⅦ in the group of birth weight ＞4.0 kg were more active than the normal (P =0.043,0.043) ; FⅧ in the group of cesarean section was less active than the normal (P =0.004) ; FⅧ,FⅨ and FⅪ in the group of twin pregnancy were less active than the normal (P =0.002,0.000,0.028) ;F Ⅱ and F Ⅷ in the group of intrauterine hypoxia were less active than the normal (P =0.032,0.012).(2) Factors of mater:F Ⅱ and FⅨ in the group of≥35-year-old mothers with first delivery were more active than the normal (P =0.009,0.028).Every coagulation factor between the gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) group and the not GDM group was no statistical difference(P ＞0.05) ;FⅧ in the group of pregnancy associated with gynecologic diseases was less active than the normal (P =0.043),F Ⅱ,Ⅶ and F Ⅹ were more active than the normal (P =0.032,0.024,0.022).Conclusion Premature birth,cesarean,twins,intrauterine hypoxia,perinatal infection and other factors have greater impact on the levels of FⅡ,FⅧ,FⅨ and FⅪ in cord blood.To prevent hemorrhagic disease of the newborn,we should avoid the factors mentioned above.

Objective To study the role of gene Scanning in the clonality analysis of Ig/TCR gene remrangement in children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL),and the relationship between the clinical characteristics of ALL and the type of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement.Methods The research was the clinical experimental study.Selected 86 cases of children with ALL who were diagnosed and treated in Department of Hematology-oncology of Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center,and All cases were confirmed by bone marrow cell morphology and flow cytometric immunophenotyping.Used multiplex PCR to detecte Ig/TCR gene rearrangements in children with newly diagnosed ALL.Applied gene scanning to analyze the clonality of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement.Results There were 83 cases detected 1 or more than 1 types of Ig/TCR gene rearrangements in 86 cases (96.5％),with 2.52 types each case.There were 56 cases detected at least one monoclonal Ig/TCR gene rearrangement in 61 cases analyzed by gene scanning (91.8％).The detectable rate for lgH,Igκ,TCRγ and TCRδ were 27.91％,27.91％,19.77％ and 24.42％ respectively in 172 of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement.Monoclonal,oligoclonal and polyclonal composition was 58.1％,30.8％ and 11.1％ respectively,the monoclonal as the main component.There was no significant difference between the types and clonality of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement and the clinical characteristics of children with newly diagnosed ALL (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions Gene scanning can analyze clonality of the Ig/TCR gene rearrangement conveniently and rapidly,thus,it can be possible to select the stable targets for quantitative detection of minimal residual disease minimal residual disease.There is no significant difference between the types and clonality of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement and clinical characteristics of children with newly diagnosed.

Chloroplast genome sequences have comprehensive application prospects in DNA barcoding and chloroplast engineering in traditional Chinese medicine. The complete chloroplast genome of Magnolia officinalis sequenced by high-throughput pyrosequencing and a sequencing procedure was established. Fourteen contigs were obtained after de nove assembly. The sequencing percent of coverage was 99.99%. The chloroplast genome is 160 183 bp in size, and has a typical quadripartite structure with the large (LSC, 88 210 bp) and small copy (SSC, 18 843 bp) regions separated by two copies of an inverted repeat (IRs, 26 565 bp each). chloroplast genes were successfully annotated, of which 17 genes located in each IR region. The chloroplast genome features in Magnolia officinalis are nearly identical to those from other Magnoliid chloroplast genomes. Phylogenetic analyses were performed based on 81 shared coding-genes for a total of 9 Magnolia samples of 5 closely related species. Results showed that distinguishing among species was generally straightforward at the species and population level. This study confirmed the effectiveness of our chloroplast genome sequencing procedure. The chloroplast genome can provide distinguishing differences to help identify Magnolia officinalis and its closely related plants.

Objective To analyze the effect of Noggin silencing on the BMP and Wnt signaling pathways in hair follicle development.Methods The expression of BMP-2, BMP-4, BMPR-IA, BMP-6, BMP-7, LEF-1 andβ-catenin in Noggin silencing MC3T3-E1 stable cell line was detected by RT-PCR and western blot.Results RT-PCR results showed that the expressions of five genes in BMP signaling pathway were all significantly influenced by Noggin silencing, the ex-pressions of BMP-2 (P<0.001), BMP-4 (P<0.01), BMP-6 (P<0.001) and BMP-7 (P<0.001) were all increased and the expression of BMPR-IA (P<0.01) was decreased.While the expressions of the two genes LEF-1 (P<0.001) and β-catenin ( P<0.001) in Wnt signaling pathway were significantly decreased.Western blot results showed that the ex-pressions of these proteins in the two signaling pathways were also affected.The expressions of BMP-2 (P<0.05), BMP-4 (P<0.05), BMP-6 (P<0.05) and BMP-7 (P<0.05) were all increased, while the expressions of BMPR-IA (P<0.05), LEF-1 (P<0.01) andβ-catenin (P<0.001) were decreased.Conclusions There may be a negative feedback regulation of Noggin on the BMP signaling pathway in vitro, but a positive feedback regulation on the Wnt signaling pathway in vitro.It provides certain evidence for studies on the effect of Noggin gene on BMP and Wnt signaling pathways in vivo. There may be an interaction between hair follicle development-related signaling pathways, which still needs further experi-ments to prove.

Background The pathological basis of human primary open angle glaucoma mainly is the degeneration of trabecular meshwork and Schlemm canal.As the outflow pathway of aqueous humor, the tissue origin and characteristics of trabecular meshwork remain less clear.Studying the characteristics of trabecular meshwork may contribute a new thought to the treatment of primary open angle glaucoma.Objective This study was to explore the histological property of trabecular meshwork by detecting the expression of D2-40, a lymphatic biomarker,and CD31,CD34 and smooth muscle actin (SMA), some vascular endothelial biomarkers.Methods Twenty specimens of adult eyeballs were collected from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University,including l0 eyeballs from accident death donors,3 enucleated eyeballs due to posterior segment of choroidal malignant melanoma and 7 orbital exenterated eyeballs.The series ocular meridian sections with the thickness of 4 μm were prepared for the haematoxylin-eosin staining.Immunohistochemistry was employed to detect the expression of D2-40,CD31 ,CD34 and SMA in trabecular meshwork and Schlemm canal.Results Intact structure of chamber angle was observed under the optical microscope by haematoxylin-eosin staining.Human trabecular meshwork tissue was presented with meshlike structure,while Schlemm canal showed the lumen structure.No abnormal substance and periphery synechia were found.D2-40 was strongly expressed in the trabecular meshwork endothelial cells with staining score for 3 points, but CD31, CD34 and SMA were negatively expressed.In contrast, CD31, CD34 and SMA rather than D2-40 were positively expressed in the Schlemm canal.In addition, CD31 and CD34 were also positively expressed in the vascular endothelial cells around the trabecular meshwork.Conclusions The trabecular meshwork expresses lymphatic biomarker rather than vascular biomarkers.This result indicates that trabecular meshwork of human eyes is lymphatic vessel-like tissue.

Objective To evaluate image quality of 640-slice coronary CT angiography by combined anesthesia in Tibet minipigs. Methods Tibet minipigs underwent 640-slice coronary CT angiography after anesthesia with xylazine hydrochloride and pentobarbital sodium. The effect of anesthesia was observed and the image quality was evaluated.Results The anesthesia maintained in 40 minutes.The heart rate was (66.66±6.62)beat per minutes.The respiratory frequency was (15.62±1.53)beat per minutes.The revived time was 30 -60 minutes. All of images were good enough to be diagnosed.Conclusion Combined anesthesia with xylazine hydrochloride and pentobarbital sodium has excellent anesthetic effect.It is also simple,convenient and safe.Therefore,it is one of ideal anesthetic methods on such study for 640-slice coronary CT angiography in Tibet minipigs.