1.Forensic Autopsy and Ethics
Rongjun YU ; Zhenyuan WANG ; Junbang FANG ; Shuanliang FAN
Chinese Medical Ethics 1995;0(03):-
With the development of medical technique and the improvement of society,more and people are paying attention to the ethics of death.But the ethics on forensic autopsy-the wildly used technology-lagged behind.We discussed the subject related to forensic autopsy in theory and practice,expecting to have an advanced research.
2.Different sites of extranodal involvement may affect the survival of patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma after chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy.
Lili ZHOU ; Ping LI ; Shiguang YE ; Xiaochen TANG ; Junbang WANG ; Jie LIU ; Aibin LIANG
Frontiers of Medicine 2020;14(6):786-791
Factors associated with complete and durable remissions after anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell immunotherapy for relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r NHL) have not been well characterized. In this study, we found that the different sites of extranodal involvement may affect response, overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with r/r NHL treated with anti-CD19 CAR-T cells. In a cohort of 32 treated patients, 12 (37.5%) and 8 (25%) patients exhibited soft tissue lymphoma and bone marrow (BM) infiltrations, respectively, and 13 (41%) patients exhibited infiltration at other sites. The factors that may affect prognosis were identified through multivariable analysis. As an independent risk factor, soft tissue infiltration was the only factor significantly correlated with adverse prognosis (P < 0.05), whereas other factors did not reach statistical significance. Furthermore, the site of extranodal tumor infiltration significantly and negatively affected OS and PFS in patients with r/r NHL treated with anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy. PFS and OS in patients with BM involvement were not significantly different from those of patients with lymph node involvement alone. Thus, anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy may improve the prognosis of patients with BM infiltration.
Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
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Humans
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Immunotherapy, Adoptive
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Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/therapy*
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Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
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Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
3.Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy: a promising treatment modality for relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
Ping LI ; Ningxin DONG ; Yu ZENG ; Jie LIU ; Xiaochen TANG ; Junbang WANG ; Wenjun ZHANG ; Shiguang YE ; Lili ZHOU ; Alex Hongsheng CHANG ; Aibin LIANG
Frontiers of Medicine 2020;14(6):811-815
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a distinct histological type of B-cell lymphoma with a poor prognosis. Several agents, such as proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, and inhibitors of B cell lymphoma-2 and Bruton's tyrosine kinase have shown efficacy for relapsed or refractory (r/r) MCL but often have short-term responses. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has emerged as a novel treatment modality for r/r non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, long-term safety and tolerability associated with CAR T-cell therapy are not defined well, especially in MCL. In this report, we described a 70-year-old patient with r/r MCL with 48-month duration of follow-up who achieved long-term remission after CAR T-cell therapy. CAR T-cell-related toxicities were also mild and tolerated well even in this elderly patient. This report suggested that CAR T-cell therapy is a promising treatment modality for patients with MCL, who are generally elderly and have comorbid conditions.
Adult
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Aged
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Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
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Humans
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Immunotherapy, Adoptive
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Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/therapy*
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Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
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Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
4.Coupled electrophysiological recording and single cell transcriptome analyses revealed molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal maturation.
Xiaoying CHEN ; Kunshan ZHANG ; Liqiang ZHOU ; Xinpei GAO ; Junbang WANG ; Yinan YAO ; Fei HE ; Yuping LUO ; Yongchun YU ; Siguang LI ; Liming CHENG ; Yi E SUN
Protein & Cell 2016;7(3):175-186
The mammalian brain is heterogeneous, containing billions of neurons and trillions of synapses forming various neural circuitries, through which sense, movement, thought, and emotion arise. The cellular heterogeneity of the brain has made it difficult to study the molecular logic of neural circuitry wiring, pruning, activation, and plasticity, until recently, transcriptome analyses with single cell resolution makes decoding of gene regulatory networks underlying aforementioned circuitry properties possible. Here we report success in performing both electrophysiological and whole-genome transcriptome analyses on single human neurons in culture. Using Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analyses (WGCNA), we identified gene clusters highly correlated with neuronal maturation judged by electrophysiological characteristics. A tight link between neuronal maturation and genes involved in ubiquitination and mitochondrial function was revealed. Moreover, we identified a list of candidate genes, which could potentially serve as biomarkers for neuronal maturation. Coupled electrophysiological recording and single cell transcriptome analysis will serve as powerful tools in the future to unveil molecular logics for neural circuitry functions.
Antigens, Differentiation
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biosynthesis
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Electrophysiological Phenomena
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physiology
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Gene Expression Regulation
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physiology
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Genome-Wide Association Study
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Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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cytology
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metabolism
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Humans
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
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cytology
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metabolism
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Multigene Family
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physiology
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Neurons
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cytology
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metabolism
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Transcriptome
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physiology