Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; therapy ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; trends

Acute Disease ; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury ; etiology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Toluidines ; poisoning ; Young Adult

Objective To investigate the role of nentrophils in the pathogenesis of psoriasis vulgaris. Methods Neutrophils were isolated from venous blood samples of 25 patients with psoriasis vulgaris (including 13 cases of active psoriasis and 12 cases of inactive psoriasis) as well as 25 normal human con-trols, and cultured. Then, these neutrophils were grouped and treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 100 g/L),CpG-A (50 mg/L), CpG-B (50 mg/L), and RPMI 1640 culture medium, respectively, for 24 hours followed by the collection of culture supematants. Human keratinocytes (HaCaT) were cultured in the presence of su-pematants of treated or untreated nentrophils for 72 hours followed by the detection of cell proliferation with MTT assay. To determine the role of proinflammatory factors, SOD/CAT and monoclonal antibody to IL-8 and TNF-alpha of 400 u/mL were used to pretreat HaCaT cells 1 hour prior to the stimulation with super-natants of neutrophils. Results Compared with culture medium, the supematant of unstimulated neutrophils from normal controls or patients with inactive psoriasis had no significant effect on the proliferation of HaCaT cells (P ＞ 0.05), but that from patients with active psoriasis markedly promoted the proliferation of HaCaT cells (t = 2.41, P < 0.05). ARe, stimulation by LPS, CpG-A and CpG-B, the supematant of active patient-derived neutrophils significantly promoted the proliferation of HaCaT cells compared with that of normal control-derived nentrophils (t = 3.11, 2.89, 2.29, respectively, all P < 0.05). In comparison with tmstimulated neutrophils, the supematant from LPS- and CpG-A stimulated nentrophiles significantly accelerated the pro-liferation of HaCaT cells. Furthermore, the proliferation of HaCaT cells induced by the supematants of LPS-,CpG-A-, CpG-B-stimulated neutrophils from psoriatic patients was statistically suppressed by the pretreat-ment with the monoclonal antibody to IL-8, TNF-alpha and SOD/CAT (all P < 0.05). Conclusions In patients with psoriasis vulgaris, there is an abnormal secretion of IL-8, TNF-alpha and superoxide by neutrophils in peripheral blood, and these proinflammatory factors could promote the proliferation of HaCaT cells.

Female ; Humans ; Mercury Poisoning ; therapy ; Young Adult

Adolescent ; Adult ; Allyl Compounds ; poisoning ; Chronic Disease ; Female ; Humans ; Occupational Diseases ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Poisoning ; diagnosis ; therapy

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Burns ; drug therapy ; physiopathology ; Epidermal Growth Factor ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Recombinant Proteins ; therapeutic use ; Wound Healing ; drug effects ; Young Adult

Burns, Chemical ; Eye Burns ; Humans ; Hydrogen Sulfide ; Male ; Occupational Injuries

Adult ; Antigens, CD20 ; metabolism ; CD3 Complex ; metabolism ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; immunology ; pathology ; Ki-1 Antigen ; metabolism ; Lymphoma ; immunology ; pathology ; Lymphoma, B-Cell ; immunology ; pathology ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ; immunology ; pathology

Adult ; Antigens, Neoplasm ; metabolism ; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors ; pathology ; Humans ; MART-1 Antigen ; Male ; Neoplasm Proteins ; metabolism ; Osteoclasts ; pathology ; S100 Proteins ; metabolism ; Sarcoma, Clear Cell ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Soft Tissue Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery

BACKGROUND:Simvastatin enhanced the expression of bone morphogenetic protein-2(BMP-2),which plays an anabolic role in bone metabolism and osteoblastic lineage differentiation.However,little is known about the molecular mechanism of simvastatin on regulation of bone marrow stromal cells differentiation.OBJECTIVE:To investigated the effect of simvastatin on osteoblastic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells based on genetics level.METHODS:Bone marrow stromal cells derived from femur and tibia were cultured in different mediums with simvastatin or Vehicle for 7 days Following extraction and purification,mRNA was reverse-transcripted into cDNA.Fluorescence labelina was employed and the samples were then hybridized with oligonucleotide chip to screen the different genes,which were utillzed to analyze osteogenesis-related factors.Alkaline phosphatase and Von Kossa staining were performed at days 14 and 21,respectively.RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:At day 14,alkaline phosphatase-positive cells were more in the experimental group than control group.Von Kossa staining demonstrated that simvastatin could promote BMSCs osteoblastic differentiation and mineralization.Comparative analysis showed that 103 genes out of 22 575 rat genes had differential expression (≥2 fold or≤ 0.5 fold),and some genes were related to cell proliferation and ostoeblastic differentiation,including C/EBP δ,Cited,Ascl2,Ptpnl6,Wisp2,Tieg,etc.Simvastatin could induce osteoblastic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells,involving in many osteogenetic-related genes.