Objective:To explore an effective treatment method for mycobacterial infection of multiple abscesses in the face and breast after autologous fat injection.Methods:Six patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection after autologous fat injection in the face and chest were treated from June to September in 2018. All patients underwent preoperative ultrasound localization. The small incision was opened for debridement and the necrotic granular tissues were completely scraped. Vacuum aspiration therapy in the sinus was used to promote wound growth, in line with the standard anti-tuberculosis drug treatment.Results:All six patients in this group were being followed up for 10-14 months. The average follow-up time was 12 months. All the infected patients were recovered, and the appearance of the infected site was satisfied by the patients.Conclusions:Small incision debridement with vacuum aspiration therapy combined with a variety of anti-tuberculosis drugs can effectively treat non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection after autologous fat injection, and achieve good results.

Objective To validate the value of Cleveland Clinical Score in predicting acute renal injury requiring renal replacement therapy(RRT-AKI) after cardiac valve surgery in Chinese adult patients.Methods An analysis was conducted for all the adult patients who underwent cardiac valve surgery from January 2010 to December 2014 in Changhai Hospital,Shanghai.A total of 3 230 adult patients were included.Based on Cleveland Clinical Score,the patients were divided into 3 risk stages:0 to 2 point,3 to 5 point,and 6 to 8 point.The incidence of RRT-AKI were compared between different stages.And the predictive value of the Cleveland Clinical Score model was assessed by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve(AUC-ROC) and the model calibration was assessed using the Hosmer-Lemeshow test.The patients were also divided into two groups:Non-RRT group and RRT-AKI group.The mortality were compared between these two groups.Results The incidence of RRT-AKI was 1.67％ vs the predicted ratio of RRT-AKI 1.70％ (x2 =0.018,P =0.892).Among the stage 1,2,and 3,the actual incidence of RRT-AKI,was 1.23％,2.66％,and 16.7％ vs the predicted incidence 0.40％,1.80％,and 9.50％,respectively.The AUC-ROC for Cleveland Clinical Score predicting RRT-AKI was 0.64 [95 ％ CI(0.57,0.71),P ＜0.01].Compared with Non-RRT group,the RRT-AKI group got a higher mortality(87.00％ vs 1.50％,x2 =1 330,P ＜0.01).Conclusion The Cleveland Clinical score had no real predictive value for RRT-AKI in Chinese adult patients after cardiac valve surgery.The incidence of RRT-AKI of the whole population and the stage 3 patients could be predicted by the model.And the patients with a high Cleveland score got a higher mortality than that of patients with a low Cleveland score.

Objective To validate the value of Simplified Renal Index Score(SRI) in predicting acute renal injury requiring renal replacement therapy(RRT-AKI) after cardiac valve surgery in Chinese adult patients.Methods An analysis was conducted for all the adult patients who underwent cardiac valve surgery from January 2010 to December 2014 in Changhai Hospital,Shanghai.A total of 3 183 adult patients were included.Based on SRI Score,the patients were divided into 3 risk stages:0 to 1 point,2 to 3 point,and 4 to 8 point.The incidence of RRT-AKI was compared between different stages.And the prediction value of the SRI model was assessed by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AU-ROC) and the model calibration was assessed with the Hosmer-Lemeshow (H-L) test.Results After surgery 52 (1.6％) patients developed acute kidney impairment and subsequently underwent renal replacement therapy.Patients with low values of simplified renal index (0-1),medium(2-3) and high values (4 and more) were found to have increasingly higher risk for renal replacement therapy of 0.8％ (95％ CI:0.005-0.012) 、3.8％ (95％ CI:0.026-0.052) 、20％ (95％ CI:0.010-0.720),respectively.TheAU-ROCwas0.68(95％ CI:0.610-0.760,P＜0.01).The H-L test was x2 =2.45,P=0.29.Conclusion SRI model gives a certain clinical significance,suggesting that high-values patients may occur RRT-AKI with a significantly higher risk than low-values patients.However,SRI model cannot give an accurate prediction value for RRT-AKI in Chinese adult patients after cardiac valve surgery.Direct clinical use of the model should be considered cautiously.

Objective To determine the reproductive physiology and blood physiological and biochemical characteristics of SPF Yorkshire and Landrace swine.Methods Ten reproductive physiology parameters,19 blood physiological parameters and 18 blood biochemical parameters in SPF Yorkshire and Landrace swine were measured using conventional methods and the differences between population,between age groups and between both sexes were analyzed.Results There were no significant differences(P>0.05) in reproductive physiology parameters and most blood physiological and biochemical parameters of the SPF Yorkshire and Landrace swine.A few of parameters,such as blood physiological indices GRAN,HGB,RDW,PLT,PCT,and blood biochemical indices ALKP,CHOL,TBIL,BUN,showed significant difference(P<0.05) between populations,between age groups and between both sexes,however,the values of difference were rather small,deviated from the normal range.Conclusion The physiological and biochemical characteristics of SPF Yorkshire and Landrace swine are basically stable and there is no significant difference compared with other laboratory miniature pigs.This study will provide valuable basic data for raising velvet yield,establishment of animal models and evaluating the genetic quality of closed colony.

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the polymorphism of SLA class II genes in Canadian SPF Yorkshire and Landrace pigs.Methods Blood samples were obtained from 15 SPF Yorkshire and 22 Landrace pigs for isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells respectively, and the DQB1, DRB1 and DQA genes were amplified by PCR after reverse transcription.SLA class II genes were obtained by analyzing the direct and cloning result.The polymorphism of alleles was analyzed using the DNAsp 5.0 software.Results A total of 25 alleles were identified at three genes, including eight DQB1, ten DRB1 and seven DQA, and three alleles were submitted the complete sequences for the first time.The official allele names were assigned as SLA-DQB1*0212 (KU754590), SLA-DQB1*0203 (KU754591) and DRB1*06:07(KU754601) by the SLA Nomenclature Committee.Three novel DQA alleles were discovered.Five of the 15 amino acids, one of the 16 amino acids and 11 of the 19 amino acids, which bind processing antigens, showed well conserved among the alleles of DQB1, DRB1 and DQA genes in the SPF Yorkshire and Landrace pigs, respectively.Neighbor-joining tree showed that the three genes were divided into two clusters, respectively.There was a close relationship between SPF Yorkshire and Landrace pigs and foreign Yucatan miniature pigs, and it showed no obvious genetic distance with other pigs.Conclusions A total of 25 SLA class II alleles have been identified successfully in this study, and there are more abundant polymorphism for them.There is a widely distribution for SLA class II alleles identified in this study in other pig breeds.It is critical for the eventual future use of SPF Yorkshire and Landrace pigs as classical laboratory animal models.

BACKGROUNDTo isolate and identify the genes related to cancer metastasis by comparison of two cell strains with different metastasis potentials subcloned from human lung giant cell carcinoma cell line.

METHODSSuppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was used to compare the levels of gene expression between the two cell strains and SSH library was constructed. After screening the library by gene chip, the expressed sequence tags (ESTs) with different expressing level were sequenced and blasted with GenBank.

RESULTSSeventy-nine genes were obtained that were expressed much higher in PLA-801D than in PLA-801C, including two full-length cDNA. GenBank Accession numbers of the two cDNA, named MAG-1 and MAG-2, were BC006236 and BC002420, the 8.5 kb MAG-1 gene was composed of four exons and located on the chromosome of 4q21. The MAG-2 gene, which was made up by 9 exons, had a length of 5.2 kb and its location was 2q35. Both sequences had open reading frames (ORF) and promoters before the theoretical transcription start points. Using special software, the secondary structure of theoretical products of the two cDNAs was prognosticated, α-helix was the main proportion, but β-pleated sheet and random coil were also included.

CONCLUSIONSThe expression of MAG-1 and MAG-2 has significant differences in these two cell strains, so they might impact tumor metastasis in some ways that are still uncharted.

OBJECTIVETo establish a animal model of hepatic steatosis induced by chronic viral hepatitis in C(57)BL/6 mice.

METHODSC(57)BL/6 mice were randomly assigned to control group, high-fat diet group, mouse hepatitis virus strain A59 (MHV-A59) virus infection group, and high-fat diet plus virus infection group. At 13 weeks of the experiment, serum samples were collected to detect MHV antibodies and transaminase and lipid levels. The hepatic pathologies of the mice were examined with Oil red O staining of the frozen sections the and HE staining of paraffin-embedded sections.

RESULTSThe mice in the two virus infection groups showed strong positivity of MHV antibodies in the serum. Compared with the control group, the mice in high-fat diet group and the two virus infection groups had significantly increased AST and ALT levels with also elevated TC and LDL-C levels. The two virus infection groups both exhibited obvious pathologies in the liver characteristic of chronic viral hepatitis with increased lipid accumulation in the hepatocytes.

CONCLUSIONWe have successfully established a mouse model of hepatic steatosis induced by chronic viral hepatitis, which provides the basis for further study of the disease mechanism.

Animals ; Antibodies, Viral ; blood ; Chronic Disease ; Diet, High-Fat ; Disease Models, Animal ; Fatty Liver ; virology ; Hepatitis, Chronic ; virology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Murine hepatitis virus

OBJECTIVETo investigate the distribution in rat after oral administration of Smilax china extract.

METHODOxyresveratrol and resveratrol were quantitatively determined by HPLC/DAD method in rat tissues including heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney after oral administration of S. china extract. The separation was performed on a Zorbax SB-C18 column (4.6 mm x 250 mm, 5 microm) with acetonitrile-water using linear gradient elution and UV detection at wavelength of 320 nm. The flow rate was 1.0 mL x min(-1) and the column was kept at 40 degrees C.

RESULTThe HPLC/DAD method for the simultaneous determination of oxyresveratrol and resveratrol in rat tissues was developed.

CONCLUSIONThe method has been successfully applied for the distribution study of two active constituents in rat through oral administration of S. china extract.

Administration, Oral ; Animals ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; methods ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; pharmacokinetics ; Female ; Plant Extracts ; administration & dosage ; analysis ; pharmacokinetics ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Smilax ; chemistry ; Stilbenes ; administration & dosage ; analysis ; pharmacokinetics