Down Syndrome ; complications ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Pleural Effusion ; complications ; congenital

Animals ; Chronic Disease ; Corticosterone ; blood ; Hypoxia ; blood ; Male ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Testis ; metabolism ; Testosterone ; blood

Objective To investigate the expression level of peripheral blood mononuclear cell(PBMC)human leucocyte anti-gen G(HLA-G)in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC).Methods The HLA-G mRNA in PBMC from 44 patients with HCC,21 patients with liver cirrhosis and 40 healthy subjects were measured by reverse transcription real time fluores-cent relative quantitative PCR.Results HLA-G mRNA expression level were 1.71±0.39,1.05±0.38 and 1.01±0.47 in HCC group,liver cirrhosis group and healthy control group respectively.HCC group was higher than the other two groups, the difference was statistically significant (F=33.657,P<0.001).The survival rate of HCC patients in HLA-G mRNA high-expression group was lower than HLA-G mRNA low-expression group,the difference was statistically significant (χ2=5.972,P=0.015).Conclusion PBMC HLA-G mRNA in HCC was closely correlated with tumorigenesis.It can proviede a novel diagnosis and research tool for HCC.

Objective To compare the sub-cellular proteome of isoniazid ( INH)-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) with that of sensitive strains for identifying of unique proteins of these strains and discussing their preliminary application in clinical diagnosis. MethodsProteins of cell wall and membrane of 5 INH-resistant strains and 5 INH-sensitive strains were extracted by density gradient centrifugation.The extracts were subsequently analyzed using weak cation exchange (WCX) liquid chromatography ( LC )followed reverse phase (RP) liquid chromatography to compare the sub-cellular protein patterns. A total of 1280 fractions were collected and identified by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight-tandem mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS/MS). The Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) was used for cell component and biological process analysis. Normalized Spectral Abundance Factors (NASF) was used for semi-quantity of protein expression. 5 proteins significantly up-regulated in INH-resistant strains and 2 proteins significantly up-regulated in INH-sensitive strains were selected for ELISA analysis with autologous sera respectively. Results A total of 347 proteins were identified. Cell component analysis showed that 58％ proteins were cells well or membrane proteins. Biological process analysis showed that 31％ proteins involved in carboxylic/monocarboxylic acid biosynthetic and metabolic process, 26％ and 15％ proteins involved in organic acid or fatty acid biosynthetic and metabolic process,while 28％ proteins involved in lipid biosynthetic , metabolic, transport and localization process. O-succinylbenzoate synthase, monooxygenase, hypothetical protein Rv2255c, nicotinate-nucleotide--dimethylbenzimidazole phosphoribosyltransferase and membrane phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase cdsA were up-regulated in INH-resistant strains and fractions contained these proteins could elicit specific antibody response with autologous sera. The A450 was higher than that with INH-sensitive sera. The differences between the INH-resistant sera and the INH-sensitive sera were significant ( t = 0.028, 0.044, 0.066, 0.064, 0.083, all P＜0.01 ). Chain A of Rv2002 Gene Product and Chain A of Crystal Structure Of Rv2632c were up-regulated in INH-sensitive strains and fractions contained these proteins could elicit specific antibody response with autologous sera. The A450 was higher than that with INH-resistant sera. The differences between the INH-sensitive sera and the INH-resistant sera were significant (t=0.053, 0.073, both P＜0.05). ConclusionThe combination of density gradient centrifugation and 2D-LC MS/MS technology is useful in enrichment and identification of differential expressed proteins between INH-resistant and INH-sensitive strains at sub-cellular level. It is useful in finding antigens associated with INH-resistant MTB infection, which may prove useful for further study in the mechanism of INH resistant, as well as interaction between MTB and host.

Objective To investigate the association between MYO9B rs962917 and rs1545620 gene polymorphism and clinical pathological characteristics of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and permeability of intestinal mucosa.Methods From September 2010 to May 2012,a total of 196 cases of patients with IBD were collected,100 cases were ulcerative colitis (UC) and 96 cases were Crohn's disease (CD).At the same time,99 gender and age matched healthy individuals were collected as healthy controls.The 5 mL blood of participants was obtained and DNA was extracted.The MYO9B gene rs962917 and rs1545620 polymorphism was detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligase detection reaction (LDR).After 60 patients with UC and 58 patients with CD orally took intestinal permeability testing fluid (with lactulose and mannitol),the urine of the patients was analyzed with high pressure liquid chromatography-pulsed lectrochemical dection (HPLC-PED).The permeability of intestinal mucosa was determined according to the ratio of lactulose and mannitol.Chisquare test was used for count data.Results Compared with healthy control group,there was no significant difference in genotype and allelic gene distribution of MYO9B rs962917 and rs1545620 of IBD group,UC group and CD group (all P＞0.05).The genotype of MYO9B rs962917 and rs1545620 of patients with UC was not related with the disease activity and location of lesions (rs962917:x2 =0.481 and 3.812,rs1545620..x2 =0.398 and 4.543 ;all P＞0.05).The genotype of MYO9B rs962917 of patients with CD was not related with the disease activity,lesion type and occurrence of perianal lesions (x2 =0.384,0.476 and 3.486,all P＞0.05) and was related with location of lesions (x2=15.926,P＜0.05).The genotype of MYO9B rs1545620 of patients with CD was not related with the disease activity and lesion type (x2 =1.407 and 5.126,both P＞0.05),however was related with location of lesions and occurrence of perianal lesions (x2 =18.165 and 7.629,both P＜0.05).The permeability of intestinal mucosa of all 58 patients with CD was high.The genotype of MYO9B rs962917 and rs1545620 of patients with UC was not related with the permeability of intestinal mucosa (x2=1.508 and 1.025,both P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion MYO9B rs962917 and rs1545620 gene polymorphism is related with the location of lesions in CD and is not related with the permeability of intestinal mucosa of patients with UC.

Adult ; Antigens, CD20 ; metabolism ; Carcinoma ; metabolism ; pathology ; DNA Nucleotidylexotransferase ; metabolism ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Keratins ; metabolism ; Lymphoma ; metabolism ; pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Seminoma ; metabolism ; pathology ; Thymoma ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Thymus Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Tuberculosis ; pathology

Objective With the method of detecting hepatitis B virus deoxyribonucleic acid(HBV-DNA) gene in breast milk,in ordered to diagnose whether there is HBV in breast milk in those mothers whose HBsAg are positive.Methods Collected breast milk from 187 mothers whose HBsAg were positive,and complified HBV-N gene in breast milk by Nested-Polymerase chain reaction (Nested-PCR).Results Nested-PCR could detect HBV-DNA in breast milk,and the positive rate was 3.2%.Conclusion The method of detecting HBV-N gene in breast milk by Nested-PCR can detect HBV-DNA in breast milk,and it can be an laboratory evidence for whether breast feeding or not.

Objective To investigate the clinical value of 99Tcm-MIBI gated G-MPI in detecting the myocardial damage in sarcoglycanopathy.Methods 99 Tcm - MIBI G - MPI was performed in 8 patients (3 males,5 females,age ranged from 10 to 30 y) with sarcoglycanopathy confirmed by clinical results and molecular pathology and 4 healthy persons as control group.Quantitative gated SPECT (QGS) software was used for processing and interpretation.Myocardium of left ventricle was divided into 7 segments and 20 subsegments.A five-point scoring system was used to evaluate the myocardial damage.Results Seven patients showed positive results in G-MPI (7/8).Fifty-nine sub-segments of injured myocardium were detected in the 140 sub-segments of 7 abnormal patients.One abnormal segment was observed in 1 patient,two abnormal segments were detected in 2 patients,and ≥3 abnormal segments were observed in 4 patients.Enlarged left ventricles were detected in 5 patients (5/8),and the LVEF of 3 patients among them decreased to (43.1 ±2.8)％.Conclusion 99Tcm-MIBI G-MPI can detect myocardial damage in sarcoglycanopathy as a direct and non-invasive method,and can be used in the early diagnosis and long-term follow-up in sarcoglycanopathy.

Objective To investigate the association between essential hypertension(EH)and nonalcoholic fatty liver(NAFL).Methods Four hundred and nine patients of EH underwent liver uhrasonographic examina- tion during 2006-2007 year were enrolled.Patients were categorized as MS(n=312)or non-MS(n=97)ac- cording to the criteria by CDA.Body mass index(BMI),blood pressure,the profiles of blood lipid,liver func- tion,renal function,plasma sugar were determined.Results 1)The prevalence of fatty liver in EH+MS group (66.0%)was significantly higher than that of EH without MS group(41.2%,P

By means of comparing biomasses of biodegradation fungi,Fusarium sp.HG-P-01 for ?-cypermethrin,a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide used widely in China,in five different media,the Czapek-Dox medium was selected as the best medium for mycelia growth.Furthermore,an experiment of central composite rotatable design(CCRD) was used to optimize the content of nutrient components.The optimal composition of C,N and P in media for HG-P-01 were 20.94 g/L,1.82 g/L and 1.66 g/L,respec-tively,in which an expectant or real rate of ?-cypermethrin-degradation got to 96.34% or 93.78% by HPLC for a concentration of 50 mg/L after 24 h treatment.The predicted value in degradation rate model was con-sistent with that from HPLC method.