Objective To investigate effect of first, second, and third trimester placental factors (PF) on CD4, CCR5, and CXCR4 expression in human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs), and to explore their influence on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vertical transmission.Methods Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were treated with first, second,and third trimester PF (concentration 25%) respectively for 24 hours. The expression of CD4, CCR5,and CXCR4 in PBLs, and the percentages of CCR5+, CXCR4+,and CCR5+CXCR4+ cells in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes were determined with flow cytometry.Results All trimester PFs reduced CCR5 expression in PBLs. The efficiency of the first trimester PF was higher than that of the second and third trimester PF. The percentage of CCR5+ cells in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes of PF groups was significantly lower than that of the control group, and the percentage of CCR5+ cells in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes of the first trimester PF group was significantly lower than that of the second and third trimester group. The percentages of CCR5+CXCR4+ cells in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes of PF groups were significantly decreased as compared with the control group, and the percentage of CCR5+CXCR4+ cells in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes of the first trimester PF group was significantly lower than that of the third trimester PF group.Conclusion PF can reduce the expression of CCR5 in human PBLs and peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes, indicating that PF might reduce R5 virus infection via preventing HIV entry, and might play an important role in reducing R5 virus intrauterine infection.

Objective To prepare insulin thiolated hyaluronic acid nanoparticles (Ins-HA-Cys-NPs)and study its physicochemical properties. Methods The Ins-HA-Cys-NPs was prepared by ultrasonic emulsifying method,and the properties of nanoparticles including morphology,mean diameter,Zeta potential,entrapment efficiency and drug loading efficiency were studied,as well as the cryoprotectant selection.Results The prepared nanoparticles was round in appearance and the mean diameter was(178.5 ±0.8)nm,the polydispersity index was (0.214 ±0.013)and the Zeta potential was -(38.47 ±0.46 )mV,while the entrapment efficiency was (48.85 ±0.66 )%,drug loading efficiency was (4.79 ±0.13 )%;10%mannitol as cryoprotectant provided uniform and well dispersed suspension of nanoparticles with blue opalescence after redispersion.Conclusion The thiolated hyaluronic acid nanoparticles may be used as the carrier for oral drug delivery system of insulin,and it provides a basis for studies on rats in vivo.

Aim To observe the inhibitory effect of dihydroartemisinin combined with COX-2 inhibitor on S180 sarcoma and their possible antitumor mechanisms.Methods The ICR mice model of the subcutaneous transplanting tumor was established by S180 sarcoma to investigate the treatment effect of dihydroartemisinin and COX-2 inhibitor.Expressions of VEGF,COX-2 and CD31 in S180 sarcoma were detected and the amount of leukocyte was also observed.Results Dihydroartemisinin combined with COX-2 inhibitor could potently inhibit tumor growth and inflammation.The maximal antitumor rate reached 55.38%.The results of immunohistochemistry showed that COX-2 and VEGF protein expressions were weakened by dihydroartemisinin and COX-2 inhibitor,versus the control groups.Further,RT-PCR analysis showed that the expression of VEGF mRNA was also effectively decreased.Finally,a significant down-regulation effect of COX-2 and VEGF protein expression was observed.Conclusions Dihydroartemisinin combined with COX-2 inhibitor can significantly inhibit S180 tumor.The antitumor mechanism of these two drugs might be closely related to the effect of COX-2 and VEGF expression suppression.

Objective To evaluate the clinical performance of AQT90 FLEX,a novel time-resolved fluorescence based point-of-care test (POCT) for quantification of D-dimer in elderly patients.Methods The method from Quantitative D-dimer assay (WS/T 477-2015) for testing equipment performance was used as a reference to evaluate the clinical performance of AQT90 FLEX.The correlation was compared between testing results of D-dimer using the AQT90 immune-assay analyzer and those using the ACL TOP coagulation analyzer.Results At high concentration of D-dimer,the within-run precision coefficient of variation (CV)was 2.619％,and at low concentration of D-dimer,the within-run precision CV was 2.767％.The pollution-carrying rate was 0.12％.The measured data from AQT90 and ACL TOP had a correlation coefficient of r =0.9491 (P ＜ 0.01).The equation of the line of best fit for D-dimer with which all AQT90 results can be adapted to the ACL TOP was:AQT90 =2.52 ACL TOP + 0.15.The number from the equation was slightly greater in female than that in male,and it was also increased in elderly.Conclusions The AQT90 FLEX had rational precision and linearity in determination of concentration.There was a high agreement between the testing results from AQT90 and those from ACL TOP.It was recommended to use a slope of 2.52 and an intercept of 0.15 to adjust the D-dimer values of the ACL TOP to the AQT90 FLEX assay systems.POCT for D-dimer by AQT90 FLEX raises feasibility for use in elderly patients.

This study aims to investigate the function of two SNPs (rs8904C > T and rs696G >A) in 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of NFKBIA gene by constructing luciferase reporter gene. A patient's genomic DNA with rs8904 CC and rs696 GA genotype was used as the PCR template. Full-length 3'UTR of NFKBIA gene was amplified by different primers. After sequencing validation, these fragments were inserted to the luciferase reporter vector, pGL3-promoter to construct recombinant plasmids containing four kinds of haplotypes, pGL3-rs8904C/rs696G, pGL3-rs8904C/rs696A, pGL3-rs8904T/rs696G and pGL3-rs8904T/rs696A. Then these plasmids were transfected into LS174T cells and the luciferase activity was detected. Compared with pGL3-vector transfected cells (negative control), the luciferase activity of the four kinds of recombinant plasmids was significantly decreased (P < 0.001). For rs696G > A, the luciferase activity of the recombinant plasmids containing A allele (pGL3-rs8904C/rs696A and pGL3-rs8904T/rs696A) was about 45.1% (P < 0.05) and 56.1% (P < 0.001) lower than those containing G allele (pGL3-rs8904C/rs696G and pGL3-rs8904T/rs696G), respectively. For rs8904C > T, there were no significant differences in the luciferase activity between the recombinant plasmids containing T allele and those with C allele. Together, the luciferase reporter gene vectors containing SNPs in NFKBIA gene 3'UTR were constructed successfully and rs696G > A could decrease the luciferase activity while rs8904C >T didn't have much effect on the luciferase activity.

Objective To observe glomerular mesangial cells (GMCs) proliferation induced by IgA1 and the association with the expression of apoptosis-related proteins-B cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2),cysteine aspartic acid protease-3 (Caspase-3),cysteine aspartic acid protease-9 (Caspase-9) and with mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) in rat GMCs,to study the possible mechanism of valsartan inhibiting rat GMCs proliferation,and to provide a new direction for the mechanism of GMCs proliferation and intervention research in IgA nephrology (IgAN).Methods GMCs stimulated with IgA1 were cultured in vitro to detect cellproliferation with the cell counting kit-8 cell activity assay (CCK8).GMCs were divided into three groups:CG,TG and VG.The GMCs proliferation level was detected by the CCK8,using real-time PCR to detect Mfn2 expression and Western blotting to detect protein levels of Mfn2,Bcl-2,Caspase-3,and Caspase-9.Results Rat GMCs proliferated significantly after stimulation with IgA1,and IgA1 could obviously stimulate high expression of Bcl-2 in GMCs and down regulate the expression of Mfn2,Caspase-3,and Caspase-9.Valsartan could inhibit the proliferation of GMCs induced by IgA1 significantly,downregulate the expression of Bcl-2,and upregulate the expression of Mfn2,Caspase-3,and Caspase-9.Conclusions These results showed that the mechanism of action of valsartan in the treatment of lgAN is inhibiting the proliferation of GMCs.This mechanism may be associated with the regulation of apoptosis-related proteins,such as Mfn2,Bcl-2,Caspase-3,and Caspase-9.These findings may provide a new direction for the mechanism of GMCs proliferation and intervention research in IgAN.

Objective To explore the composition principles of prescriptions for simple obesity based on the analysis of medical literature issued in recently 30 years about Chinese medicine for simple obesity. Methods We collected literature of Chinese medicine in treating simple obesity from VIP, CNKI, Wanfang, CBM and CMCC/CMCI databases, and screened out the formulas for simple obesity to establish a formula database. And then the medication rules were figured out with the Traditional Chinese medicine Inheritance Support System version 2.5 (TCMISS 2.5) software. Results A total of 57 formulas were screened out. And the top 10 herbs with highest occurrence frequency in the prescriptions were Poria, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Alismatis, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Fructus Crataegi, Radix Astragali, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Folium Nelumbinis, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Semen Cassiae. After data mining, we got 13 high-frequency herb-pair combinations and 31 core combinations, and 8 new prescriptions were extracted. Conclusion The research has achieved the quantitative description of the relationship between the Chinese medicines, the extraction of the core combinations and the discovery of new Chinese medicine prescriptions for simple obesity. The results will provide references for the development of new Chinese medicines for the treatment of simple obesity .

Objective To observe the clinical characteristics of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients with hyperuricemia (HUA), and to understand the correlation between AS and HUA, so as to improve the understanding of AS patients with HUA. Methods A retrospective analysis was carried out in patients with the diagnosis with AS from November 2012 to August 2016. Patients were divided into two groups based on complicated with and without HUA. The clinical manifestations, inflammatory indicators, imaging manifest-ations, treatment and outcomes of the two groups were statistically analyzed, and the follow-up results of some patients with HUA were analyzed. The chi-square test was used for the counting data. The measurement data in line with the normal distribution were tested by t test, and the measurement data in non-normal distribution were tested by Mann-Whitney U test. Results Three hundred and sixty-two patients with AS were collected, consisting of 288 males (79.6％) and 74 females (20.4％), aged from 14 to 72 years, a course of disease was 3 months to 40 years. There were 87 cases (24.0％) with hyperuricemia, 77 cases were male (88.5％, 21.3％of all AS patients), and 10 were female (11.5％, 2.8％ of all AS patients). Shorter morning stiffness time [(13 ±31) min and (22 ±48) min, Z=-2.231, P=0.026], lower IgM level [(1.4 ±1.3) g/L and (3.0 ±4.3) g/L, Z=-2.040, P=0.041], and lower erythrocyte sedimentation rate [(25±17) mm/1 h and (33±22) mm/1 h, t=-2.617, P=0.007] in the HUA group when compared with patients without HUA. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant. Four cases (4.6％) had gout arthritis in the group with HUA, all were male, blood uric acid level all>420 μmol/L. There were 7 cases (8.0％) of urolithiasis in the group with HUA, and 24 cases (8.7％) of urolithiasis in the group without HUA, but there was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of urolithiasis between the two groups. None developed hypertensive disease, heart disease, nephropathy, or diabetis. Conclusion The incidence of hyperuricemia is high in AS, and with lower disease activity, and fewer complications.

Parkinson′s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease commonly found in middle-aged and elderly people. It is characterized by resting tremor, bradykinesia, myotonia, and abnormal posture gait. The main pathological changes were the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and the formation of Lewy bodies in the cytoplasm of the residual neurons. The main component of the Lewy bodies was α-synuclein. And why it causes the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra is not known. At present, most studies on Parkinson′s disease focus on the pathogenesis of the disease. More and more evidence shows that respiratory chain injury is a key feature of sporadic PD patients, and the proteins encoded by PD-related genes are related to the disorder of mitochondrial function. We believe that the important mechanism of the disease is impaired mitochondrial function due to environmental and (or) genetic inheritance. This article highlights new advances in mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson′s pathogenesis, including mitochondria and cell-mediated immunity, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondrial axis, sirtuin-mediated mitochondrial stress response, and the role of microRNA in the etiology of PD. A deeper understanding of these mechanisms may provide inspiration for the development of new targeted therapies.

Objective To compare the the levels of serum adipose factors and glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in patients with stable coronary artery disease ( SCAD ) and different body mass index (BMI). Methods From August 2011 to December 2013, seventy-nine patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD,n＝79) undergone coronary angiography and controls with matched age and sex (n＝80) in Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University with stable coronary heart disease with normal body mass and obesity confirmed by coronary angiography (CAG) were selected,and eighty non CHD patients confirmed by age and sex matched by CAG were selected as the control group. According to the body mass index ( BMI) and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease,the subjects were divided into normal group (n＝40,BMI＝18. 5-24 kg/m2), obesity group (n＝40,weight≥28 kg/m2),SCAD group (n＝39) and obesity SCAD group (n＝39). The levels of TNF-α,HMW-APN,Irisin,FGF-21,GLP-1,Apelin were measured by enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA). Results The serum GLP-1 and HMW-APN level of obesity participants was (18. 50±5. 27)ng/L, (3. 85±1. 59) mg/L,much lower than those in non-obesity participants ((20. 35±5. 5)ng/L,( 4. 57±2. 01) mg/L( P＜0. 05). The serum GLP-1 level of obesity SCAD group ((17. 59±5. 13)ng/L) was also lower than that in SCAD group ((21. 21±5. 06) mg/L) (P＜0. 05). The level of FGF-21 was negatively correlated with fasting blood glucose (r＝－0. 169,P＜0. 05). Conclusion The decrease of GLP-1 level was associated with obesity and stable coronary heart disease. Irisin,FGF-21 and Apelin were found to have no predictive value for obese patients with stable coronary heart disease