To study the inhibitory effect of oxymatrine (OM) on quartz-induced secretion of TNF-alpha in the fibroblast proliferation, a given amount of quartz powder and OM of different concentrations were put into the media of pure culture containing macrophages. After 24 h of the culture, the TNF-alpha in the media was measured by double-antibody sandwich ELISA. The TNF-alpha (10 ng/mL) and OM of different concentrations were added into the media containing the fibroblasts of the 4th generations from neonate rats. The gamma values of cAMP and cGMP in fibroblasts were determined by the radioimmunoassay and the concentrations of cAMP and cGMP were calculated according to standard curve. The intracellular Ca2+ was determined by flow cytometry and cell proliferation was detected by MTT. Our results showed that at the concentrations between 200 microg/ mL-1600 microg/mL, OM inhibited the secretion of TNF-alpha by alveolar macrophages (AM) in a dose-dependent manner. Especially, there were significant differences, to various degrees, in the inhibitory effect of OM between the concentration range of 800 microg/mL-1600 microg/mL and the concentration of 10 ng/mL TNF-alpha. When compared with 10 ng/mL TNF-alpha, OM of different concentrations could dose-independently increased the level of intracellular cAMP and decreased the level of cGMP, thereby raising the ratio of cAMP/cGMP and lowering the concentrations of intracellular Ca2+. Moreover, OM of 800 microg/mL had the strongest inhibitory effect on cell proliferation and at this concentration, the cAMP/cGMP was highest and Ca2+ was at the lowest level. We are led to conclude that OM can antagonize the damaging effect of quartz on the membrane of AM and the effect of TNF-alpha promoting the proliferation of fibroblasts. It achieves its inhibitory effect on the promoting effect of TNF-alpha on fibroblast proliferation by elevating the cAMP level and decreasing the release of Ca2+.

Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics of injury in college students in north jiangsu area ,a‐nalysis its related factors .Methods With the method of random cluster sampling ,1 857 students as the research object .Using self‐made questionnaire survey ,choose Chinese college students′ mental health scale (CCSM HS ) and Chinese perceived stress scale (CPSS) to investigate the mental health status of the research object .Results In 1 857 students ,639 students had more than once hurt ,harm the annual incidence of 34 .41% ;Incidence rate of injury was highest in junior college student(38 .94% ) ,lowest in gradu‐ate student(31 .75% ) .The highest constituent ratio of hurt types was fall/collision injury(34 .64% ) ,and lower extremity injuries was the main injured area .Education ,age ,ranking in the home ,parents′marital status ,students and their parents′physical condi‐tion ,the relationship with the students ,and the roommate to the occurrence of friction ,go out to work ,as well as the psychological stress test ,10 factors of college students′psychological scale ,10 factors oftotal pressure and tension factor were influencing factors of injury .Conclusion Damage and mental health problems is closely related .Safety education ,psychological education and interven‐tion should be carried out in order to effectively prevent and reduce the incidence of injury .

OBJECTIVEThe automatic generation of planning targets and auxiliary contours have achieved in Eclipse TPS 11.0.

METHODSThe scripting language autohotkey was used to develop a software for automatically generated contours in Eclipse TPS. This software is named Contour Auto Margin (CAM), which is composed of operational functions of contours, script generated visualization and script file operations. RESULTS Ten cases in different cancers have separately selected, in Eclipse TPS 11.0 scripts generated by the software could not only automatically generate contours but also do contour post-processing. For different cancers, there was no difference between automatically generated contours and manually created contours.

CONCLUSIONThe CAM is a user-friendly and powerful software, and can automatically generated contours fast in Eclipse TPS 11.0. With the help of CAM, it greatly save plan preparation time and improve working efficiency of radiation therapy physicists.

Objective To evaluate the effects of flapless versus flap implant surgery on the tissues surrounding the implants in the esthetic zone.Methods A controlled study was conducted in 20 patients with a single implant in the anterior esthetic zone,as compared with the flapless and traditional flap implant placement.6 and 12 months after the implant ation,the vertical reduction of labial and lingual bone were assessed by cone beam computed tomography (CBCT);6 and 12 months after the crowns restoration,the peri-implant soft tissues were examined by probing depth (PD),modification sulcus bleeding index (mSBI),papillary index (PPI) and evaluated by pink esthetic score (PES) standard.Results The vertical reduction of the flapless labial and lingual bone was lower than that of the flap,in which the change of labial bone was statistical differences at 6 months after implant surgery between groups (P ＜ 0.05).The differences of PES between two groups were not statistically significant,although PES increased over time in both groups,which the flapless group had a significantly change in PES from crown placement to 12 months (P＜0.05).Conclusions A flapless implant surgery in sufficient bone support may provide a better short-term esthetic result,whereas the longterm effects need further studies.

Objective To summarize the experience on clinical diagnosis and treatment for cervical neurilemmoma. Methods The clinical data of 77 cases of cervical neurilemmoma from 1976 to 2005 were retrospectively analyzed. Results The diagnosis was dependent on the anamnesis, clinical presentations, ultrasonography, CT and cytology of fine needle aspiration. Correct preoperative diagnosis was abtained in 51 cases (66. 2% ) , and the misdiagnosis rate was 33. 8% (26/77). All patients underwent surgical resection. The postoperative diagnosis was benign neurilemmoma by pathological examinations. The postoperative complications included recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries (6 cases) , Horner syndrome (4 cases) , tongue deviation (3 cases), neck pain or numbness (2 cases) and reffered pain in limb (1 case). Sixteen patients were followed up, and these symptomes disappeared after 3-11 months. Nerve dysfunction remained in 2 out of 3 patients in whom the vagus was wrongly amputated during the operation. Intraoperative inadvertent sympathetic nerve amputation caused permanent nerve dysfunction. Conclusion B-mode ultrasonography, CT and fine needle aspiration cytology are useful for the diagnosis of cervical neurilemmoma. Surgical resection is most effective among all available therapies.

To study the inhibitory effect of oxymatrine (OM) on quartz-induced secretion of TNF-α in the fibroblast proliferation, a given amount of quartz powder and OM of different concentrations were put into the media of pure culture containing macrophages. After 24 h of the culture, the TNF-α in the media was measured by double-antibody sandwich ELISA. The TNF-α (10 ng/mL) and OM of different concentrations were added into the media containing the fibroblasts of the 4th generations from neonate rats. The γ values of cAMP and cGMP in fibroblasts were determined by the radioimmunoassay and the concentrations of cAMP and cGMP were calculated according to standard curve.The intracellular Ca2+ was determined by flow cytometry and cell proliferation was detected by MTT.Our results showed that at the concentrations between 200 μg/mL-1600 μg/mL, OM inhibited the secretion of TNF-α by alveolar macrophages (AM) in a dose-dependent manner. Especially, there were significant differences, to various degrees, in the inhibitory effect of OM between the concentration range of 800 μg/mL-1600 μg/mL and the concentration of 10 ng/mL TNF-α. When compared with 10 ng/mL TNF-α, OM of different concentrations could dose-independently increased the level of intracellular cAMP and decreased the level of cGMP, thereby raising the ratio of cAMP/cGMP and lowering the concentrations of intracellular Ca2+. Moreover, OM of 800 μg/mL had the strongest inhibitory effect on cell proliferation and at this concentration, the cAMP/cGMP was highest and Ca2+was at the lowest level. We are led to conclude that OM can antagonize the damaging effect of quartz on the membrane of AM and the effect of TNF-α promoting the proliferation of fibroblasts. It achieves its inhibitory effect on the promoting effect of TNF-α on fibroblast proliferation by elevating the cAMP level and decreasing the release of Ca2+.

Background and purpose:Papillary renal cell carcinomas (PRCC) is relatively infrequent, and there are few related researches in China. This study aimed to summarize the clinical and pathological features of PRCC, and evaluate prognostic factors for patients treated with surgery.Methods:A total of 64 patients who under-went surgery for PRCC were retrospectively assessed. PRCC tissue slides from each patient were reviewed for type (ⅠorⅡ), grade, TNM stage, coagulative tumor necrosis and microvascular invasion. We estimated overall survival using the Kaplan-Meier method. Multivariate analysis was done according to the Cox proportional hazards model of factors statistically signiifcant on univariate analysis. Results:The incidence rate of ENE was 6.04%in RCC, the median age was 55 (range 22 to 78) years. The comparison of the 22 (534.4%) typeⅠPRCCs and 42 (65.6%) typeⅡPRCCs revealed that typeⅡtumors were associated with a greater stage and grade more often. The median follow-up was 46 months (range 19 to 133). Of the 64 patients, 14 died, (4.5%) with typeⅠand 13 (31.0%) with typeⅡtumors (P=0.018). The overall survival rate was 85.7%in typeⅠtumors and 55.8%in typeⅡtumors, respectively. Univariate analysis identiifed symptoms at presentation, tumor type, TNM stage and grade as prognostic factors. On multivariate analysis only metastatic RCC remained associated with decreased overall survival (HR:14.78, P=0.004). Conclusion:The per-centage of PRCC is lower and typeⅡPRCC is relatively common compared with foreign data. Metastasis at diagnosis is an independent predictive parameter of overall survival in Chinese patients with PRCC.

Objective To survey the anxiety status of university students in Xuzhou city ,and to analyze its influence factors to propose the effective improvement strategy .Methods The stratified cluster random sampling method was adopted to conduct the questionnaire survey on 1931 college students from 2 colleges in Xuzhou City .The statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS 16 .0 .Results The average score of anxiety in college students was (42 .23 ± 9 .70) points ,the total detection rate was 21 .4% .The main influencing factors of anxiety included the home ranking ,character ,specialty ,school record ,getting scholarship ,plan to partici-pate in graduate entrance examination ,employment prospect ,sleep quality ,physical condition ,relationship with classmates and ro-ommates ,love status ,work-study programs or go out to work situation ,family type ,communication with parents ,family income . Conclusion The anxiety status of college students in Xuzhou City is in middle level .So improving the college students′anxiety sta-tus needs the joint efforts of school ,family and students themselves .

A bromoperoxidase from Gracilaria lemaneiformis was purified to homogeneity using a multi-step process of ammonium sulfate precipitation (AS), dialysis, and DEAE-cellulose 52 anion exchange chromatography. The bromoperoxidase activity was unstable or undetectable in crude extract solution. However, it became stable with electrophoretic purity after this multiple purification process. The anion exchange chromatography purification was a critical step in the purification process, which effectively eliminated the phycobiliprotein and smucilaginous polysaccharides. The purified bromoperoxidase was a monomeric enzyme with the relative molecular masses of 66 kD as determined by denaturing and native gradient gel electrophoresis. The optimal pH for bromoination was 6.0 and bromoperoxidase activity was stable as stored at a broad pH range of 3.0-9.0. Of a range of compounds tested, only vanadium enhanced bromoperoxidase activity. Kinetic studies for the bromination of monochlorodimedone (MCD) showed that the Km values of Br- and H2O2 are 53.5 micromol/L, 38 micromol/L respectively.
Chromatography, Ion Exchange ; methods ; Enzyme Stability ; Gracilaria ; enzymology ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Kinetics ; Peroxidases ; isolation & purification ; metabolism

Objective: To explore the molecular basis for an individual with ABO subtype. Methods: The ABO phenotype of the proband was determined by convention serological testing. Exons 6 and 7 of the ABO gene were subjected to PCR amplification and bi-directional Sanger sequencing. Haplotypes for exons 6 and 7 of the proband was determined using an ABO haplotype-specific amplification and sequencing technique. Results: Red blood cells of the proband showed a 4+ agglutination strength with anti-A or anti-H, no agglutination reaction with anti-A1, and a 3+ agglutination strength with anti-B. His serum had no reaction with standard A cells, O cells or self cells, but was weakly reactive with B cells at 4℃. The proband was assigned as an ABO subtype based on his serological features. Bi-directional sequencing of the ABO gene revealed heterozygosity of 261 G/del, 297AG, 526CG, 657CT, 703GA, 803GC and 930GA, and homozygosity of 796CC in the proband. Haplotype-specific amplification and sequencing showed that one of his alleles was ABO*O.01.01, and another contained a c. 796A>C variation compared with the ABO*B.01 allele, which led to replacement of methionine by leucine at position 266. Searching the ABO allele database of International Society of Blood Transfusion suggested the variation to be a novel one. Conclusion The c. 796A>C variation in the ABO*B.01 allele probably underlies the CisAB subtype. Accurate identification of the ABO subtype requires combined use of serological method and genetic testing.