In the cultural construction of independent institute,there exist the contradiction between tradition and innovation,cultural conflicts between private enterprises and the university.Therefore,adhering to the people-centered concept,coordinating tradition and innovation,merging the advantages of university culture and private enterprises culture into a whole,cultivating the unique spiritual culture,harmonious system culture and unified material culture of independent institute,forming the distinctive “Institute Culture” with its own cultural tradition will provide reference for the theory and practice to enrich and improve the connotative development of independent institute.

Brain ; pathology ; Cerebrovascular Disorders ; diagnosis ; Child ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Neurofibromatosis 1 ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Treatment Outcome

OBJECTIVETo establish a set of suitable and reliable methods for HBV genotyping and to study the distribution of HBV genotypes.

METHODSType-specific nucleotides were searched through alignment of S genes (more than 1000 sequences) listed in GenBank. Then, type-specific primers were designed and type-specific primer PCR was used to genotype the 238 HBV strains. S genes of the untyped strains were further amplified and sequenced to find out their genotypes with type-specific nucleotide analysis.

RESULTSAll the 238 HBV strains were genotyped. 159 (66.8%) cases were genotype B, 69 (28.9%) were genotype C, 6 (2.5%) were mixtures of genotypes B and C and 4 (1.6%) were mixtures of genotypes B and D. No genotypes of A, E, F, G, and H were found.

CONCLUSIONGenotypes B and C are the most common types for HBV strains. Mixtures of genotypes B and C or genotypes B and D coinfection rarely existed. There is no relationship between the gender of the patients and HBV genotypes (X2 = 0.794, P more than 0.05).

DNA Primers ; DNA, Viral ; blood ; genetics ; Female ; Genotype ; Hepatitis B virus ; genetics ; Hepatitis B, Chronic ; virology ; Humans ; Male ; Nucleotides ; genetics ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; methods ; Sequence Analysis, DNA

OBJECTIVETo investigate the effect of total mesorectal excision(TME) and preoperative therapy on local recurrence in rectal cancer.

METHODSRectal cancer patients who received TME in School of Oncology, Peking University, from January 2000 to August 2004 were enrolled in the study group. Patients who received surgical resection for rectal cancer from January 1996 to December 1999,before the introduction of TME,were chosen as controls. Postoperative complications and local recurrence were compared. Clinicopathological and follow- up data were analyzed.

RESULTSThere were 161 patients in the TME group and 173 as controls. The intra- operative blood loss was significant less,hospital stay shorter,and lymph nodes harvested more in TME group than those in the control group,there was no difference in complication rate between the two groups. Local recurrence (LR) rate was 2.5% in TME and 8.0% in the control group, respectively (chi2=5.144; P=0.023). In TME group,the local recurrence rate was 1.8% in the 77 patients with preoperative therapy,and 2.9% in the other patients without preoperative therapy (P=0.182). Logistic regression analysis revealed that TME and vessel cancerous emboli were major risk factors for local recurrence of rectal cancer.

CONCLUSIONTME and vessel cancerous emboli are major risk factors for local recurrence of rectal cancer.

Aged ; Chemotherapy, Adjuvant ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Male ; Mesentery ; surgery ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ; epidemiology ; Prognosis ; Radiotherapy, Adjuvant ; Rectal Neoplasms ; pathology ; surgery ; therapy

OBJECTIVETo follow up the cohort of a certain factory and analyze the death cause of the employees.

METHODSA dynamic cohort was adopted and the study population consisted of all workers stayed at the factory for more than 1 year. The cohort data was mainly from the personnel ministry in the factory,the death data provided by the personnel ministry,the labour union and the hospital. All cause of death of the all employee and the death condition of radiation group and no-radiation group were analyzed and compared.

RESULTSThe mortality of the workers in the factory was significantly lower than national population, the SMR of all cause of death in all employee, radiation group and no-radiation group were 0.41 (95% CI: 0.37-0.45), 0.24, 0.75 respectively; all cancer death in the three group was 0.59, 0.40 and 0.92. But the death order was different in radiation group and no-radiation group,the order of liver cancer was list first in radiation group, which was unlike that of the nation order and the no-radiation order.

CONCLUSIONThere have no excess death in the factory, but the order of liver cancer is precedence.

Cause of Death ; Cohort Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced ; mortality ; Nuclear Reactors ; Occupational Exposure ; Power Plants ; Prospective Studies ; Workplace

OBJECTIVETo investigate the expression of apoptosis-related protein Bcl-w in adenocarcinoma of the small intestine, and the apoptotic effect of Bcl-w siRNA on small intestinal adenocarcinoma cells HuTu-80.

METHODSForty-two tissue samples were examined in our study, including 7 cases from human small intestinal adenocarcinoma, and 35 cases from normal small intestine served as control. The expression of Bcl-w was detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Western blot analysis was performed to confirm whether Bcl-w siRNA could effectively down-regulate Bcl-w protein after HuTu-80 cells were transfected with Bcl-w siRNA. The cells were treated with chemotherapeutic agent 5-Fu to observe whether Bcl-w protein-silecing affects the pro-apoptotic effect of 5-Fu. Flow cytometry analysis was used for assessment of apoptotic rate of HuTu-80 cells cultured with Bcl-w siRNA alone, with 5-Fu alone, and with combination of Bcl-w siRNA and 5-Fu, using untreated HuTu-80 cells as control.

RESULTSThe positive rate of Bcl-w expression was significantly higher in small intestinal adenocarcinoma than that in normal tissue (85.7% vs. 25.7%, P=0.005). Compared with the control group, Bcl-w siRNA transfection effectively down-regulated the expression of Bcl-w protein (P<0.05). The apoptosis in HuTu-80 cells was not increased significantly in Bcl-w-/-cells compared with that of control group (12.4±2.2)% vs. (8.6±1.7)% (P>0.05). However, compared with the 5-Fu group, the apoptosis in HuTu-80 cells was effectively enhanced after combination treatment with Bcl-w siRNA and 5-Fu (45.7±2.1)% vs. (71.6±3.2)% (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONSBcl-w protein plays a significant role in the carcinogenesis of human small intestinal adenocarcinoma. Down-regulation of Bcl-w protein in small intestine adenocarcinoma HuTu-80 cells leads them susceptible to 5-Fu.

Adenocarcinoma ; genetics ; metabolism ; pathology ; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic ; pharmacology ; Apoptosis ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins ; genetics ; metabolism ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Down-Regulation ; Fluorouracil ; pharmacology ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Gene Silencing ; Humans ; Intestinal Neoplasms ; genetics ; metabolism ; pathology ; Intestine, Small ; RNA, Small Interfering ; genetics ; Transfection

Objective To learn the pension willingness and influencing factors of empty-nest elderly in Hangzhou City. Methods A total of 1000 empty-nest elderly in Hangzhou, taking a formal hosusehold registration, living≥1 year, age≥ 65 years old, were selected from two urban districts and three suburbs by multi-stage simple random sampling, and were surveyed with questionnaires. The data was analyzed by logistic regression model to study the influencing factors of pension willingness. Results A total of 992 valid questionnaires were collected and the effective rate was 99.20%. There were 407 (41.03%) , 365 (36.79%) , 208 (20.97%) and 12 (1.21%) people in the 992 empty-nest elderly, choosing their children's support, social pension insurance, personal pension and other old-age methods. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that, the empty-nest elderly who worried about pension costs (OR=3.007, 95%CI:1.751-5.155), and the greatest wish was physical health (OR=4.404, 95%CI:1.461-13.276), family harmony (OR=7.724, 95% CI: 2.158-27.646), children work smoothly (OR=4.811, 95%CI: 1.203-19.246) . The lower health score (OR=0.982, 95% CI: 0.965-0.999), choosing their children's support as their pension willingness were relatively high, and the empty-nest elderly who worried about pension costs (OR=2.058, 95%CI: 1.267-3.344), the original occupation for the staff (OR=2.353, 95% CI: 1.091-5.078) , city household registration (OR=0.546, 95% CI:0.349-0.856) . The lower the health score (OR=0.979, 95%CI: 0.966-0.993) choose social pension insurance as their pension willingness would be relatively high pension. Conclusion The influencing factors of the pension willingness of the empty-nest elderly were worried about pension costs, the greatest wish, and health status, urban and rural household registration.

OBJECTIVEDietary factors that could potentially be related to the risk of birth defects are still unknown in Shanxi province, a region with high prevalence of neural tube defects(NTDs) in China. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the association between NTDs and local dietary factors.

METHODSA population-based case-control study was conducted during 2003-2005 in four selected counties of Shanxi province with 363 NTDs cases ascertained and 523 control babies without any external birth defects.

RESULTSBy multivariate logistic regression analysis, we found the NTDs risk was significantly associated with low consumption of meat and legume, high consumption of pickled vegetables, noncentralized supply of drinking water and drinking tea after adjusting for maternal education level and birth defects history. A significant dose response trend was found between the NTDs risk and the lower frequencies of meat and legume consumption and higher frequency of pickled vegetable consumption, with population attributable risks (PAR) of 69.4%, 22.0% and 18.5%, respectively. Mothers who got their drinking water from river or pond during periconceptional period were more likely to have a NTD-affected pregnancy [OR = 3.42, 95% CI: 1.44-8.09, population attributable risk (PAR) = 4.7%] compared with those who utilized tap or well water. Those who drank tea everyday had an elevated risk of having a NTD-affected pregnancy compared with those who didn't (OR = 4.65, 95% CI: 1.41-15.36, PAR = 2.6%).

CONCLUSIONHigher intake of meat and legume protects a woman from having a NTD-affected pregnancy, and consumption of pickled vegetables, drinking water from river or pond and drinking tea everyday increase the risk of having such a pregnancy in the study population.

Case-Control Studies ; China ; epidemiology ; Diet ; Female ; Humans ; Meat ; Neural Tube Defects ; epidemiology ; Pregnancy ; Risk Factors ; Vegetables ; Water Supply

OBJECTIVETo re-confirm and characterize the biophysical and pharmacological properties of endogenously expressed human acid-sensing ion channel 1a (hASIC1a) current in HEK293 cells with a modified perfusion methods.

METHODSWith cell floating method, which is separating the cultured cell from coverslip and putting the cell in front of perfusion tubing, whole cell patch clamp technique was used to record hASIC1a currents evoked by low pH external solution.

RESULTSUsing cell floating method, the amplitude of hASIC1a currents activated by pH 5.0 in HEK293 cells is twice as large as that by the conventional method where the cells remain attached to coverslip. The time to reach peak at two different recording conditions is (21+/-5) ms and (270+/-25) ms, respectively. Inactivation time constants are (496+/-23) ms and (2284+/-120) ms, respectively. The cell floating method significantly increases the amiloride potency of block on hASIC1a [IC50 is (3.4+/-1.1) micromol/L and (2.4+/- 0.9) micromol/L, respectively]. Both recording methods have similar pH activation EC50 (6.6+/-0.6, 6.6+/-0.7, respectively).

CONCLUSIONASICs channel activation requires fast exchange of extracellular solution with the different pH values. With cell floating method, the presence of hASIC1a current was re-confirmed and the biophysical and pharmacological properties of hASIC1a channel in HEK293 cells were precisely characterized. This method could be used to study all ASICs and other ligand-gated channels that require fast extracellular solution exchange.

Acid Sensing Ion Channels ; Amiloride ; pharmacology ; Biophysics ; instrumentation ; methods ; Cell Culture Techniques ; instrumentation ; methods ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane ; chemistry ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Culture Media ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Extracellular Fluid ; chemistry ; metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; drug effects ; Membrane Potentials ; drug effects ; physiology ; Nerve Tissue Proteins ; chemistry ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Neuropharmacology ; instrumentation ; methods ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; instrumentation ; methods ; Perfusion ; instrumentation ; methods ; Sodium Channel Blockers ; pharmacology ; Sodium Channels ; chemistry ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Time Factors

BACKGROUNDAlveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the metacestode stage of Echinococcus multilocularis (E. multilocularis) and is a rare but life-threatening disease. This disease commonly is characterized by an infiltrative, tumor-like growth of the E. multilocularis metacestode in the liver of human. Liver transplantation is an effective therapy for end-stage of hepatic AE, but the characteristics of host immunity associated with E. multilocularis infection with organ transplantation are poorly defined. We hereby aimed to study the immunological status and allograft heart survival in inbred rats with E. multilocularis infection.

METHODSRat models of AE were established by injecting the E. multilocularis suspension made from E. multilocularis infected tissues into the abdomen of Lewis (LEW) rats. Three months later, in the experimental group, allograft heart transplantation was performed from Brown-Norway (BN) rats to the E. multilocularis infected LEW rats. In the control group, we transplanted hearts from BN rats to healthy LEW rats. The influence of the disturbed immune system in E. multilocularis infected rats on the heart transplantation was assessed, including observation of allograft heart survival time, histopathological examination of grafts and immunohistochemical examination of infiltrating cells (CD4(+) T cells, CD8(+) T cells and eosinophile granulocytes), measurement of interleukin (IL)-4 and interferon (IFN)-γ in the serum by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and analysis of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells in peripheral blood by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) flow cytometric analysis.

RESULTSThe survival time of recipients in the experimental group was prolonged compared with those in the control group. The numbers of graft infiltrating CD8(+) T cells were decreased whereas the graft infiltrating eosinophil granulocytes (CD15(+)) were increased in grafts in the experimental group (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the proportion of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells in the peripheral blood was 10.8% on average in the experimental group, which was significantly higher than that in the control group (6.1%). In addition, the level of serum IL-4 in E. multilocularis infected rats was higher than that in the control group rats, whereas the level of serum IFN-γ in experimental group was lower than that in the control group when graft rejection occurred (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONSThis study suggests that E. multilocularis infection could prolong the allograft survival time through the polarization of Th1/Th2-type cells and induction of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells. This strategy may provide a new idea for establishing transplantation tolerance.

Animals ; Echinococcosis ; blood ; immunology ; Echinococcus multilocularis ; immunology ; pathogenicity ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Flow Cytometry ; Gerbillinae ; Heart Transplantation ; Immunohistochemistry ; Interferon-gamma ; blood ; Interleukin-4 ; blood ; Male ; Rats