Adolescent ; Adult ; Benzene ; toxicity ; China ; Female ; Humans ; Leukemia ; chemically induced ; diagnosis ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Exposure ; Young Adult

Acute Disease ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Toluene ; poisoning ; Xylenes ; poisoning ; Young Adult

Acute Disease ; Atropine ; therapeutic use ; Cholinergic Antagonists ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Organophosphate Poisoning ; Scopolamine Hydrobromide ; therapeutic use

To observe the effects of total flavones of Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu et Cheng (TFM) on volume-overload cardiac hypertrophy and the expression of c-Fos protein in rat. Methods　Volume-overload cardiac hypertrophy of rat was induced by aortocaval shunts. The rats were given ig TFM (400, 40 and 4 mg/kg/d). c-Fos protein in the ventricles were measured by immunocytochemical study. Results　TFM at the above dosage decreased heart weight and contents of RNA and protein in the myocardium, inhibited the expression of c-Fos protein in the ventricles. Conclusion　TFM can prevent volume-overload cardiac hypertrophy in rats. The inhibitory effects on the expression of c-Fos protein may be its mechanism in the molecular level.

Objective To evaluate the susceptibility of itraconazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus isolates to four other antifungal drugs.Methods Six strains of Aspergillus fumigatus were serially isolated from a patient with lung aspergilloma,who was resistant to itraconazole therapy.Clinical Laboratory Stan- dard Institute broth microdilution method M38-A and E-test were applied to test the susceptibility of A.fumi- gatus strains to amphotericin B,itraconazole,voriconazole,caspofungin and micafungin.Results With M38-A method,the minimal inhibitory concentration(MIC)of itraconazole was 0.5?g/mL for 2 strains and more than 16?g/mL for the other 4 strains;the MICs of amphotericin B and voriconazole were 1?g/mL and 0.25-1?g/mL respectively for all the 6 strains;and the minimal effective concentration(MEC)of caspofungin and micafungin were no more than 0.03?g/mL for all the 6 strains.Moreover,E-test results also revealed that caspofungin and voriconazole had a good antifungal activity against all the strains,including the 4 itraconazole-resistant ones.Conclusion The itraconazole-resistant A.fumigatus strains isolated from a patient with lung aspergilloma are susceptible to amphotericin B,voriconazole,caspofungin,and micafungin.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship between aldose reductase like protein (ARL-1) gene overexpressed in HCC cells and drug-resistance of the cell to drugs containing carbonyl group.

METHODSTo establish ARL-1 stable expression positive cell line, eukaryotic expression vectors containing ARL-1 gene cDNA were transfected into Hep cell mediated by lipofect AMINE. The positive monoclones were determined by PCR and RT-PCR, respectively. Then MTT assay was used to study the drug resistance ability of the cells to drugs containing carbonyl after incubating three days with those drugs.

RESULTSAfter ARL-1 gene transfection mediated by lipofect AMINE, one positive monoclonal cell overexpressing ARL-1 gene was selected. Compared with the control cell group, drug resistance ability of the positive cells to ADM and MMC which contain carbonyl group increased 2.3 and 3.17 fold, respectively (t=6.39, P=0.016 in ADM group and t=30.06, P=0.001 in MMC group). In the same time, drug resistance ability to 5-FU which has no carbonyl group had no statistical difference between positive monoclonal cell group and control cell group (t=0.684, P=0.531).

CONCLUSIONSThe Hep ARL-1 positive cell line with stable expression of ARL-1 gene has been established successfully and the up-regulation of ARL-1 gene may plays an important role in drug resistance of the cells to anticancer drugs containing carbonyl group.

Aldehyde Reductase ; genetics ; metabolism ; Antineoplastic Agents ; pharmacology ; Doxorubicin ; pharmacology ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ; genetics ; physiology ; Fluorouracil ; pharmacology ; Humans ; Inhibitory Concentration 50 ; Mitomycin ; pharmacology ; Transfection ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; drug effects

Adult ; Antigens, CD34 ; metabolism ; Humans ; Male ; Neoplasms, Fibrous Tissue ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Prostatectomy ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Vimentin ; metabolism

Gastric Lavage ; methods ; Humans ; Mannitol ; administration & dosage ; Norepinephrine ; administration & dosage ; Organophosphate Poisoning ; Pesticides ; poisoning ; Poisoning ; therapy

Objective To study the relationship between the intervals of Mitomycin C treatment and cytotoxicity, apoptosis and drug resistance for bladder cancer cells.Methods The bladder transitional cell cancer line BIU-87 was treated for two hours every time for five times with intervals of 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours respectively.Cytotoxicity was measured by MTT.p53,bcl-2,Bax and p170 expression were analyzed by Western blot.Results The IC_(50)(?g/ml)were 4.41,0.71,2.83,4.51and 6.16 with treatment intervals of 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours respectively, p53 and bcl-2 were significantly down-regulated and bcl-2/Bax was re- duced at 24 hour treatment interval but not changed at 48,72 and 96 hour intervals,p170 was not detected at 24 hour treatment interval but increasingly expressed at 48,72 and 96 hours intervals.Conclusion The in- terval of Mitomycin C treatment is closely related with cytotoxieity and apoptosis and drug resistance of blad- der cancer cells.The intervals of intravesical instillations may play an important role in the effect of chemotherapy.

Animal models with kidney disease are generally divided into two types. One belongs to the models which imitate human kidney disease by the artificial operations, such as anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody nephritis, Heymann nephritis, anti-Thyl. 1 antibody nephritis, BSA nephritis and puromycin nephropathy. The other one pertains to the models which make themselves kidney disease, and appear the pathological characteristics naturally as like as human, such as HIGA mice with IgA nephropathy and NZB/WF1 and MRL/1pr mice with lupus nephritis. In addition,the transgenic animal models with kidney disease can also be established by the modern molecular biologic techniques including gene knockout and siRNA transfection. As for the studies related with kidney disease in pharmacodynamics and pharmacology of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM), it is important to understand deeply the features of each animal model with kidney disease, and select accurately the proper models according to the different experimental objectives, and then, build the special models provided with the combination of disease with syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Therefore,it is the developmental direction for the further study to establish animal models with kidney disease, which should possess the characteristics of syndrome in TCM.
Animals ; Diabetic Nephropathies ; etiology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Humans ; Kidney Diseases ; etiology ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Mice ; Streptozocin