1.Brain injury biomarkers and applications in neurological diseases.
Han ZHANG ; Jing WANG ; Yang QU ; Yi YANG ; Zhen-Ni GUO
Chinese Medical Journal 2025;138(1):5-14
Neurological diseases are a major health concern, and brain injury is a typical pathological process in various neurological disorders. Different biomarkers in the blood or the cerebrospinal fluid are associated with specific physiological and pathological processes. They are vital in identifying, diagnosing, and treating brain injuries. In this review, we described biomarkers for neuronal cell body injury (neuron-specific enolase, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1, αII-spectrin), axonal injury (neurofilament proteins, tau), astrocyte injury (S100β, glial fibrillary acidic protein), demyelination (myelin basic protein), autoantibodies, and other emerging biomarkers (extracellular vesicles, microRNAs). We aimed to summarize the applications of these biomarkers and their related interests and limits in the diagnosis and prognosis for neurological diseases, including traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and infection. In addition, a reasonable outlook for brain injury biomarkers as ideal detection tools for neurological diseases is presented.
Humans
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Biomarkers/cerebrospinal fluid*
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Nervous System Diseases/diagnosis*
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Brain Injuries/metabolism*
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase/cerebrospinal fluid*
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Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein/blood*
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S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit/blood*
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tau Proteins/cerebrospinal fluid*
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Ubiquitin Thiolesterase/blood*
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Myelin Basic Protein/cerebrospinal fluid*
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Neurofilament Proteins/blood*
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MicroRNAs/blood*
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Brain Injuries, Traumatic/metabolism*
2.Itaconic acid alleviates macrophage PANoptosis in sepsis-associated acute lung injury via inhibiting ninjurin-1-mediated plasma membrane rupture.
Mengrui CHEN ; Xiaohua TAN ; Wenjing ZHONG ; Hanxi SHA ; Liying LIANG ; Shaokun LIU
Journal of Central South University(Medical Sciences) 2025;50(6):970-985
OBJECTIVES:
Sepsis-associated acute lung injury (S-ALI) is one of the major causes of death in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, yet its mechanisms remain incompletely understood and effective therapies are lacking. Lytic cell death of macrophages is a key driver of the inflammatory cascade in S-ALI. PANoptosis, a newly recognized form of lytic cell death characterized by PANoptosome assembly and activation, involves plasma membrane rupture (PMR) mediated by ninjurin-1 (NINJ1), a recently identified pore-forming protein. Itaconic acid is known for its anti-inflammatory effects, but its role in macrophage PANoptosis during S-ALI is unclear. This study aims to investigate the protective effect of itaconic acid on macrophage PANoptosis in S-ALI to provide new therapeutic insights.
METHODS:
Male specific-pathogen-free C57BL/6J mice (6-8 weeks, 18-20 g) received intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to establish a classical S-ALI model. Western blotting was used to assess PANoptosome-related proteins and enzymes involved in the itaconic acid metabolic pathway, while real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and metabolomics quantified itaconic acid levels. Primary peritoneal macrophages (PMs) were pretreated with the itaconate derivative 4-octyl itaconate (4-OI) and then exposed to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) plus interferon gamma (IFN-γ) to induce PANoptosis. Cell viability was evaluated by cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assay. Western blotting was employed to quantify enzymes of the itaconate-metabolic pathway in PANoptotic macrophages, to evaluate the impact of 4-OI on PANoptosome-associated proteins, and to determine NINJ1 abundance in lung tissues from S-ALI mice and in PANoptotic macrophages. Fluorescent dye FM4-64 was used to visualize 4-OI-mediated changes in PMR, whereas immunofluorescence staining mapped the effect of 4-OI on both the expression level and membrane localization of NINJ1 in PANoptotic macrophages. The effect of 4-OI on lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release in culture supernatants and peripheal blood serum was assessed using a LDH assay kit, and non-denataring polyacylamide gel electrophoresis was used to assess the expression of NINJ1 in S-ALI mouse lung tissues and the impact of 4-OI on the expression of PANoptosis-associated NINJ1 multimeric reflected protein in macropahges.
RESULTS:
In S-ALI mouse lungs, PANoptosome components [NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain associated protein 3 (NLRP3), Gasdermin D (GSDMD), Caspase-1, Z-DNA binding protein (ZBP1), and Caspase-3] and phosphorylated mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) S345 were significantly upregulated (all <i>Pi><0.05), while metabolomics showed compensatory increases in itaconic acid and its key enzymes [aconitate decarboxylase 1 (ACOD1)/immunoresponsive gene 1 (IRG1)]. In macrophages, 4-OI obviously suppressed PANoptosome protein expression, reduced LDH release, restored plasma membrane integrity, and inhibited NINJ1 expression and oligomerization at the membrane (<i>Pi><0.05).
CONCLUSIONS
Itaconic acid may alleviate macrophage PANoptosis in S-ALI by inhibiting NINJ1-mediated plasma membrane rupture. Targeting NINJ1 or enhancing itaconate pathways may offer a novel therapeutic strategy for S-ALI.
Animals
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Acute Lung Injury/pathology*
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Succinates/pharmacology*
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Sepsis/complications*
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Male
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Mice
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Macrophages/pathology*
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Cell Membrane/metabolism*
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Lipopolysaccharides
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Hydro-Lyases
3.Mechanism of human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells on alleviating brain injury after cardiopulmonary resuscitation in swine with cardiac arrest.
Feng GE ; Jiefeng XU ; Jinjiang ZHU ; Guangli CAO ; Xuguang WANG ; Meiya ZHOU ; Tiejiang CHEN ; Mao ZHANG
Chinese Critical Care Medicine 2025;37(2):133-139
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the mechanism of human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hESC-MSC) in alleviating brain injury after resuscitation in swine with cardiac arrest (CA).
METHODS:
Twenty-nine healthy male large white swine were randomly divided into Sham group (n = 9), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) group (n = 10) and hESC-MSC group (n = 10). The Sham group only completed animal preparation. In CPR group and hESC-MSC group, the swine model of CA-CPR was established by inducing ventricular fibrillation for 10 minutes with electrical stimulation and CPR for 6 minutes. At 5 minutes after successful resuscitation, hESC-MSC 2.5×106/kg was injected via intravenous micropump within 1 hour in hESC-MSC group. Venous blood samples were collected before resuscitation and at 4, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours of resuscitation. The levels of neuron specific enolase (NSE) and S100B protein (S100B) were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). At 24, 48 and 72 hours of resuscitation, neurological deficit score (NDS) and cerebral performance category (CPC) were used to evaluate the neurological function of the animals. Three animals from each group were randomly selected and euthanized at 24, 48, and 72 hours of resuscitation, and the hippocampus tissues were quickly obtained. Immunofluorescence staining was used to detect the distribution of hESC-MSC in hippocampus. Immunohistochemical staining was used to detect the activation of astrocytes and microglia and the survival of neurons in the hippocampus. The degree of apoptosis was detected by TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL).
RESULTS:
The serum NSE and S100B levels of brain injury markers in CPR group and hESC-MSC group were significantly higher than those in Sham group at 24 hours of resuscitation, and then gradually increased. The levels of NSE and S100B in serum at each time of resuscitation in hESC-MSC group were significantly lower than those in CPR group [NSE (μg/L): 20.69±3.62 vs. 28.95±3.48 at 4 hours, 27.04±5.56 vs. 48.59±9.22 at 72 hours; S100B (μg/L): 2.29±0.39 vs. 3.60±0.73 at 4 hours, 2.38±0.15 vs. 3.92±0.50 at 72 hours, all P < 0.05]. In terms of neurological function, compared with the Sham group, the NDS score and CPC score in the CPR group and hESC-MSC group increased significantly at 24 hours of resuscitation, and then gradually decreased. The NDS and CPC scores of hESC-MSC group were significantly lower than those of CPR group at 24 hours of resuscitation (NDS: 111.67±20.21 vs. 170.00±21.79, CPC: 2.33±0.29 vs. 3.00±0.00, both P < 0.05). The expression of hESC-MSC positive markers CD73, CD90 and CD105 in the hippocampus of hESC-MSC group at 24, 48 and 72 hours of resuscitation was observed under fluorescence microscope, indicating that hESC-MSC could homing to the damaged hippocampus. In addition, compared with Sham group, the proportion of astrocytes, microglia and apoptotic index in hippocampus of CPR group were significantly increased, and the proportion of neurons was significantly decreased at 24, 48 and 72 hours of resuscitation. Compared with CPR group, the proportion of astrocytes, microglia and apoptotic index in hippocampus of hESC-MSC group decreased and the proportion of neurons increased significantly at 24 hours of resuscitation [proportion of astrocytes: (14.33±1.00)% vs. (30.78±2.69)%, proportion of microglia: (12.00±0.88)% vs. (27.89±5.68)%, apoptotic index: (12.89±3.86)% vs. (52.33±7.77)%, proportion of neurons: (39.44±3.72)% vs. (28.33±1.53)%, all P < 0.05].
CONCLUSIONS
Application of hESC-MSC at the early stage of resuscitation can reduce the brain injury and neurological dysfunction after resuscitation in swine with CA. The mechanism may be related to the inhibition of immune cell activation, reduction of cell apoptosis and promotion of neuronal survival.
Animals
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Heart Arrest/therapy*
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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Swine
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Humans
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Male
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Human Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology*
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Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology*
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase/blood*
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Brain Injuries/therapy*
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S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit
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Apoptosis
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Disease Models, Animal
4.Optimization of promoter screening for heterologous expression of carbonic anhydrase and characterization of its enzymatic properties and carbon sequestration performance.
Dandan YAO ; Yunhui LI ; Xingjia FU ; Hui WANG ; Yun LIU
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2025;41(4):1588-1604
In this study, high-throughput promoter screening was employed to optimize the heterologous expression of <i>Mesorhizobium lotii> carbonic anhydrase (MlCA) in order to reduce the costs associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS). To simplify the complexity of traditional vectors, a fusion protein expression system was constructed using superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) and MlCA. The synthetic promoter library in <i>Escherichia colii> was utilized for efficient one-step screening. Based on fluorescence intensity on agar plates, a total of 143 monoclonal colonies were identified, forming a library with varying expression levels. The top four recombinants with the highest fluorescence intensity were selected, among which MlCA driven by the promoter 342042/+ exhibited the highest enzymatic activity, with a specific activity of the 34.6 Wilbur-Anderson units (WAU)/mg. Optimization experiments revealed that MlCA exhibited the best performance when cultured for 4 days under pH 7.0 and 40 ℃ conditions. The Michaelis constant (<i>Ki>m·hdy) and maximum reaction rate (<i>Vi>max·hdy) for CO2 hydration were determined to be 62.46 mmol/L and 0.164 mmol/(s·L), respectively. For esterase hydrolysis, MlCA showed the <i>Ki>m and <i>Vi>max of 639.8 mmol/L and 0.035 mmol/(s·L), respectively. MlCA accelerated the CO2 hydration process, promoting CO2 mineralized into CaCO3 within 9 min at low pH and room temperature conditions. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses confirmed that the precipitated product was calcite. This study provides a low-cost and environmentally friendly alternative for future CCS applications.
Carbonic Anhydrases/biosynthesis*
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Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics*
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Escherichia coli/metabolism*
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Carbon Sequestration
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Carbon Dioxide/metabolism*
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Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism*
5.Diagnostic values of conventional tumor markers and their combination with chest CT for patients with stageⅠA lung cancer.
Qin PENG ; Ning WU ; Yao HUANG ; Shi Jun ZHAO ; Wei TANG ; Min LIANG ; Yu Liang RAN ; Ting XIAO ; Lin YANG ; Xin LIANG
Chinese Journal of Oncology 2023;45(11):934-941
Objective: To investigate the diagnostic efficiency of conventional serum tumor markers and their combination with chest CT for stage ⅠA lung cancer. Methods: A total of 1 155 patients with stage ⅠA lung cancer and 200 patients with benign lung lesions (confirmed by surgery) treated at the Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from January 2016 to October 2020 were retrospectively enrolled in this study. Six conventional serum tumor markers [carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125), squamous cell carcinoma associated antigen (SCCA), cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21-1), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and gastrin-releasing peptide precursor (ProGRP)] and chest thin-slice CT were performed on all patients one month before surgery. Pathology was taken as the gold standard to analyze the difference of positivity rates of tumor markers between the lung cancer group and the benign group, the moderate/poor differentiation group and the well differentiation group, the adenocarcinoma group and the squamous cell carcinoma group, the lepidic and non-lepidic predominant adenocarcinoma groups, the solid nodule group and the subsolid nodule group based on thin-slice CT, and subgroups of ⅠA1 to ⅠA3 lung cancers. The diagnostic performance of tumor markers and tumor markers combined with chest CT was analyzed using the receiver operating characteristic curve. Results: The positivity rates of six serum tumor markers in the lung cancer group and the benign group were 2.32%-20.08% and 0-13.64%, respectively; only the SCCA positivity rate in the lung cancer group was higher than that in the benign group (10.81% and 0, <i>Pi>=0.022). There were no significant differences in the positivity rates of other serum tumor markers between the two groups (all <i>Pi>>0.05). The combined detection of six tumor markers showed that the positivity rate of the lung cancer group was higher than that of the benign group (40.93% and 18.18%, <i>Pi>=0.004), and the positivity rate of the adenocarcinoma group was lower than that of the squamous cell carcinoma group (35.66% and 47.41%, <i>Pi>=0.045). The positivity rates in the poorly differentiated group and moderately differentiated group were higher than that in the well differentiated group (46.48%, 43.75% and 22.73%, <i>Pi>=0.025). The positivity rate in the non-lepidic adenocarcinoma group was higher than that in lepidic adenocarcinoma group (39.51% and 21.74%, <i>Pi>=0.001). The positivity rate of subsolid nodules was lower than that of solid nodules (30.01% vs 58.71%, <i>Pi>=0.038), and the positivity rates of stageⅠA1, ⅠA2 and ⅠA3 lung cancers were 33.33%, 48.96% and 69.23%, respectively, showing an increasing trend (<i>Pi>=0.005). The sensitivity and specificity of the combined detection of six tumor markers in the diagnosis of stage ⅠA lung cancer were 74.00% and 56.30%, respectively, and the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.541. The sensitivity and specificity of the combined detection of six serum tumor markers with CT in the diagnosis of stage ⅠA lung cancer were 83.0% and 78.3%, respectively, and the AUC was 0.721. Conclusions: For stage ⅠA lung cancer, the positivity rates of commonly used clinical tumor markers are generally low. The combined detection of six markers can increase the positivity rate. The positivity rate of markers tends to be higher in poorly differentiated lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, or solid nodules. Tumor markers combined with thin-slice CT showed limited improvement in diagnostic efficiency for early lung cancer.
Humans
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Lung Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging*
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Biomarkers, Tumor
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Retrospective Studies
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Antigens, Neoplasm
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Keratin-19
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Carcinoembryonic Antigen
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Adenocarcinoma/diagnostic imaging*
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/diagnostic imaging*
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
6.Diagnostic values of conventional tumor markers and their combination with chest CT for patients with stageⅠA lung cancer.
Qin PENG ; Ning WU ; Yao HUANG ; Shi Jun ZHAO ; Wei TANG ; Min LIANG ; Yu Liang RAN ; Ting XIAO ; Lin YANG ; Xin LIANG
Chinese Journal of Oncology 2023;45(11):934-941
Objective: To investigate the diagnostic efficiency of conventional serum tumor markers and their combination with chest CT for stage ⅠA lung cancer. Methods: A total of 1 155 patients with stage ⅠA lung cancer and 200 patients with benign lung lesions (confirmed by surgery) treated at the Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from January 2016 to October 2020 were retrospectively enrolled in this study. Six conventional serum tumor markers [carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125), squamous cell carcinoma associated antigen (SCCA), cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21-1), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and gastrin-releasing peptide precursor (ProGRP)] and chest thin-slice CT were performed on all patients one month before surgery. Pathology was taken as the gold standard to analyze the difference of positivity rates of tumor markers between the lung cancer group and the benign group, the moderate/poor differentiation group and the well differentiation group, the adenocarcinoma group and the squamous cell carcinoma group, the lepidic and non-lepidic predominant adenocarcinoma groups, the solid nodule group and the subsolid nodule group based on thin-slice CT, and subgroups of ⅠA1 to ⅠA3 lung cancers. The diagnostic performance of tumor markers and tumor markers combined with chest CT was analyzed using the receiver operating characteristic curve. Results: The positivity rates of six serum tumor markers in the lung cancer group and the benign group were 2.32%-20.08% and 0-13.64%, respectively; only the SCCA positivity rate in the lung cancer group was higher than that in the benign group (10.81% and 0, <i>Pi>=0.022). There were no significant differences in the positivity rates of other serum tumor markers between the two groups (all <i>Pi>>0.05). The combined detection of six tumor markers showed that the positivity rate of the lung cancer group was higher than that of the benign group (40.93% and 18.18%, <i>Pi>=0.004), and the positivity rate of the adenocarcinoma group was lower than that of the squamous cell carcinoma group (35.66% and 47.41%, <i>Pi>=0.045). The positivity rates in the poorly differentiated group and moderately differentiated group were higher than that in the well differentiated group (46.48%, 43.75% and 22.73%, <i>Pi>=0.025). The positivity rate in the non-lepidic adenocarcinoma group was higher than that in lepidic adenocarcinoma group (39.51% and 21.74%, <i>Pi>=0.001). The positivity rate of subsolid nodules was lower than that of solid nodules (30.01% vs 58.71%, <i>Pi>=0.038), and the positivity rates of stageⅠA1, ⅠA2 and ⅠA3 lung cancers were 33.33%, 48.96% and 69.23%, respectively, showing an increasing trend (<i>Pi>=0.005). The sensitivity and specificity of the combined detection of six tumor markers in the diagnosis of stage ⅠA lung cancer were 74.00% and 56.30%, respectively, and the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.541. The sensitivity and specificity of the combined detection of six serum tumor markers with CT in the diagnosis of stage ⅠA lung cancer were 83.0% and 78.3%, respectively, and the AUC was 0.721. Conclusions: For stage ⅠA lung cancer, the positivity rates of commonly used clinical tumor markers are generally low. The combined detection of six markers can increase the positivity rate. The positivity rate of markers tends to be higher in poorly differentiated lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, or solid nodules. Tumor markers combined with thin-slice CT showed limited improvement in diagnostic efficiency for early lung cancer.
Humans
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Lung Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging*
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Biomarkers, Tumor
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Retrospective Studies
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Antigens, Neoplasm
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Keratin-19
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Carcinoembryonic Antigen
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Adenocarcinoma/diagnostic imaging*
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/diagnostic imaging*
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
7.EHHADH is a key gene in fatty acid metabolism pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma: a transcriptomic analysis.
Siyu XIE ; Miaosheng LI ; Fengle JIANG ; Qian YI ; Wei YANG
Journal of Southern Medical University 2023;43(5):680-693
OBJECTIVE:
To explore the driving gene of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurrence and progression and its potential as new therapeutic target of HCC.
METHODS:
The transcriptome and genomic data of 858 HCC tissues and 493 adjacent tissues were obtained from TCGA, GEO, and ICGC databases. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) identified EHHADH (encoding enoyl-CoA hydratase/L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase) as the hub gene in the significantly enriched differential pathways in HCC. The downregulation of EHHADH expression at the transcriptome level was found to correlate with TP53 mutation based on analysis of the TCGA- HCC dataset, and the mechanism by which TP53 mutation caused EHHADH downregulation was explored through correlation analysis. Analysis of the data from the Metascape database suggested that EHHADH was strongly correlated with the ferroptosis signaling pathway in HCC progression, and to verify this result, immunohistochemical staining was used to examine EHHADH expression in 30 HCC tissues and paired adjacent tissues.
RESULTS:
All the 3 HCC datasets showed signficnatly lowered EHHADH expression in HCC tissues as compared with the adjacent tissues (<i>Pi> < 0.05) with a close correlation with the degree of hepatocyte de-differentiation (<i>Pi> < 0.01). The somatic landscape of HCC cohort in TCGA dataset showed that HCC patients had the highest genomic TP53 mutation rate. The transcriptomic level of PPARGC1A, the upstream gene of EHHADH, was significantly downregulated in HCC patients with TP53 mutation as compared with those without the mutation (<i>Pi> < 0.05), and was significantly correlated with EHHADH expression level. GO and KEGG enrichment analyses showed that EHHADH expression was significantly correlated with abnormal fatty acid metabolism in HCC. The immunohistochemical results showd that the expression level of EHHADH in HCC tissues was down-regulated, and its expression level was related to the degree of hepatocytes de-differentiation and the process of ferroptosis.
CONCLUSION
TP53 mutations may induce abnormal expression of PPARGC1A to cause downregulation of EHHADH expression in HCC. The low expression of EHHADH is closely associated with aggravation of de-differentiation and ferroptosis escape in HCC tissues, suggesting the potential of EHHADH as a therapeutic target for HCC.
Humans
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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/genetics*
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Transcriptome
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Liver Neoplasms/genetics*
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Fatty Acids
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Peroxisomal Bifunctional Enzyme
8.Acupoint thread-embedding for children with tic disorders of spleen deficiency and liver hyperactivity and its effect on serum level of NSE.
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2023;43(11):1261-1265
OBJECTIVES:
To observe the clinical efficacy of acupoint thread-embedding for children with tic disorders of spleen deficiency and liver hyperactivity and its effect on serum level of neuron-specific enolase (NSE).
METHODS:
A total of 68 children with tic disorders of spleen deficiency and liver hyperactivity were randomized into an observation group (34 cases, 1 case dropped out) and a control group (34 cases, 3 cases dropped out, 1 case was eliminated). In the observation group, acupoint thread-embedding was applied at Baihui (GV 20) and bilateral Hegu (LI 4), Taichong (LR 3), Pishu (BL 20), Ganshu (BL 18), Quchi (LI 11), Zusanli (ST 36),etc., once every 4 weeks. In the control group, tiapride hydrochloride tablet was given orally, twice a day. Both groups were treated for 12 weeks. Before and after treatment, the Yale global tic severity scale (YGTSS) score and serum level of NSE were observed in the two groups, and the clinical efficacy was evaluated.
RESULTS:
After treatment, except for vocal tic score of YGTSS in the control group, the each-item scores and total scores of YGTSS and serum levels of NSE in the two groups were decreased compared with those before treatment (<i>Pi><0.05); the each-item scores and total score of YGTSS and serum level of NSE in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (<i>Pi><0.05). The total effective rate in the observation group was 87.9% (29/33), which was higher than 76.7% (23/30) in the control group (<i>Pi><0.05).
CONCLUSIONS
Acupoint thread-embedding has a good effect in the treatment of children with tic disorders of spleen deficiency and liver hyperactivity, could reduce the YGTSS score and serum level of NSE.
Humans
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Child
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Spleen
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Acupuncture Points
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Liver
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Tic Disorders/therapy*
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
9.Carbonic anhydrase IX-based tumor imaging and therapy: a review.
Jia LIN ; Dianyu WANG ; Jianfeng LIU ; Lijun YANG ; Jinjian LIU
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2023;39(1):116-131
Carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) is a transmembrane protein that is specifically overexpressed on the surface of hypoxic tumor cells. With the function of regulating the acidity of tumor cells both inside and outside, CAIX is closely related to tumor proliferation, invasion and metastasis. Therefore, CAIX is a promising target for tumor imaging and therapy. Herein, we summarized recent advances in CAIX-based tumor imaging, therapy and theranostics, and prospected future applications of using CAIX as an anti-tumor target.
Carbonic Anhydrase IX
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Carbonic Anhydrases/metabolism*
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Cell Line, Tumor
10.Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on neurological injury markers and prognosis in patients with acute and severe carbon monoxide poisoning.
Yue Ru DU ; Yan Xue DU ; Pu WANG ; Wei Zhan WANG
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2023;41(1):39-43
Objective: To observe the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on nerve injury markers and prognosis in patients with acute severe carbon monoxide poisoning (ASCOP) . Methods: In May 2021, 103 ASCOP patients were treated in the emergency department of Harrison International Peace Hospital of Hebei Medical University from November 2020 to January 2021. The patients were divided into two groups according to whether they received tDCS treatment. The control group (50 cases) were given oxygen therapy (hyperbaric oxygen and oxygen inhalation) , reducing cranial pressure, improving brain circulation and cell metabolism, removing oxygen free radicals and symptomatic support, and the observation group (53 cases) was treated with 2 weeks of tDCS intensive treatment on the basis of conventional treatment. All patients underwent at least 24 h bispectral index (BIS) monitoring, BIS value was recorded at the hour and the 24 h mean value was calculated. Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and serum S100B calcium-binding protein (S100B) were detected after admission, 3 d, 7 d and discharge. Follow-up for 60 days, the incidence and time of onset of delayed encephalopathy (DEACMP) with acute carbon monoxide poisoning in the two groups were recorded. Results: The NSE and S100B proteins of ASCOP patients were significantly increased at admission, but there was no significant difference between the two groups (<i>Pi>=0.711, 0.326) . The NSE and S100B proteins were further increased at 3 and 7 days after admission. The increase in the observation group was slower than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (<i>Pi>(3 d)=0.045, 0.032, <i>Pi>(7 d)=0.021, 0.000) ; After 14 days, it gradually decreased, but the observation group decreased rapidly compared with the control group, with a statistically significant difference (<i>Pi>=0.009, 0.025) . The 60 day follow-up results showed that the incidence of DEACMP in the observation group was 18.87% (10/53) , compared with 38.00% (19/50) in the control group (<i>Pi>=0.048) ; The time of DEACMP in the observation group[ (16.79±5.28) d] was later than that in the control group[ (22.30±5.42) d], and the difference was statistically significant (<i>Pi>=0.013) . Conclusion: The early administration of tDCS in ASCOP patients can prevent the production of NSE and S100B proteins, which are markers of nerve damage. and can improve the incidence and time of DEACMP.
Humans
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Biomarkers
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Brain Diseases/therapy*
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning/therapy*
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Oxygen
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Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
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Prognosis
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S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

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