1.Clinical effects and quality of life of flupentixol-melitracen compared with paroxetine hydrochloride in treatment of breast cancer patients with anxiety and depression after chemotherapy
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2015;(9):67-69,72
Objective To investigate the clinical effects and the quality of life of flupentixol-melitracen or paroxetine hydrochloride in treatment of the breast cancer patients with anxiety and depression after chemotherapy.Methods 135 breast cancer patients with anxiety and depression after chemotherapy were selected from November 2012 to January 2014 in the hospital.They were randomly divided into the treatment group ( n=68 ) and control group ( n =67 ).The control group were treated by paroxetine hydrochloride treatment, and the treatment group were treated by flupentixol-melitracen.The anxiety, depression and its impact on quality of life of patients were observed between two groups.Results After treatment, the HAMD score and HAMA score decreased significantly in two groups (P<0.05), HAMD score and HAMA score in treatment group after treatment significantly decreased compared with control group (P<0.05).After treatment, the WHOQOL-BREF score of mental health status scale of subjective feeling, the physiological domain, domain score levels in treatment group significantly increased (P<0.05), however, the quality of life of subjective feeling, social relationship and environment domains showed no significant difference.Compared with pre-treatment, only the health status of subjective feeling levels in control group post-treatment significantly increased (P<0.05).The mental health status scale of subjective feeling, the physiological domain, domain score levels in treatment group significantly decreased compared with control group ( P<0.05 ).The adverse reactions of treatment group were 5 cases (7.35%), which was significantly lower than 24 cases (35.82%) of control group(χ2 =16.22,P <0.05).Conclusion Flupentixol-melitracen combined with paroxetine hydrochloride has an obvious clinical effect in treatment of anxiety and depression in patients with breast cancer after chemotherapy.It could effectively control their anxiety and depression, and improve the quality of life of patients.It is worthy of clinical popularization and application.
2.Expression and significance of PD-1 and PD-L1 in the specimens of epithelial ovarian cancer
Ce JU ; Jingchun GAO ; Pengxin ZHANG ; Kaina ZHANG ; Sen YANG ; Tiejin KANG ; Hongzhen ZHAO ; Wenjing QI ; Qiuping ZHANG ; Fandou KONG ; Hongwei GUAN ; Hong SHI
Chinese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2020;55(8):529-534
Objective:To examine the expression of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1) in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) tissues, and investigate the correlation among their expression, clinicopathological features and prognosis.Methods:The specimens of 180 patients with EOC treated in the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University from October 2002 to December 2013 were confirmed by pathological examination. The pathological tissue specimens of subtypes ,included 120 cases of serous carcinoma, 30 cases of mucinous carcinoma, 20 cases of endometrioid carcinoma, and 20 cases of clear cell carcinoma. The normal paracancerous tissues of 50 cases randomly selected from the 180 patients as control group. Immunohistochemical SP method was used to detect the expressions of both PD-1 and PD-L1 in epithelial ovarian cancer tissues, and the relationships among their expressions,the clinicopathological parameters and prognosis were respectively analyzed.Results:(1) PD-1 was expressed in lymphocytes infiltrated in EOC tissues, and PD-L1 was expressed in the cell membranes of cancer tissues. In all EOC cases, 33 cases (18.3%, 33/180) of both PD-1 and PD-L1 were highly expressed, and only 1 (2.0%, 1/50) of control group showed high expression. There was statistically significant difference between two groups ( P<0.01). (2) Among the four subtypes tissue specimens of EOC, the high expression rate of PD-1 was 25.0% (30/120) for serous carcinoma, 3/15 for endometrioid carcinoma, 0 (0/30) for mucinous carcinoma, and 0 (0/15) for clear cell carcinoma. The high expression rate of PD-L1 was 23.3% (28/120) for serous carcinoma, 3.3% (1/30) for mucinous carcinoma, 2/15 for endometrioid carcinoma, and 2/15 for clear cell carcinoma. Both PD-1 and PD-L1 expressions in the four sub-types of tissue specimens were significantly different ( P<0.05). The high expression rate of both PD-1 and PD-L1 was 9.2% (8/87) in the early stage and 26.9% (25/93) in the late stage. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups ( P<0.01). Similarly, the expression of both PD-1 and PD-L1 were significantly higher in the cases of high-grade EOC (type Ⅱ) than those of low-grade (type Ⅰ) and in the cases of EOC distributed bilaterally than that distributed unilaterally, and there were statistically significant differences ( P<0.05). (3) The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that the survival time were respectively 35 and 36 months in the cases with high expressions of both PD-1 and PD-L1, and the survival time were the same as 61 months in the cases with low expression of both PD-1 and PD-L1, and the comparison was statistically significant ( P<0.05). Conclusions:The expression levels of PD-1 and PD-L1 in EOC tissues are higher than those in adjacent tissues, especially in serous carcinomas. The expression of both PD-1 and PD-L1 is higher in specimens of the patients with advanced stages. The results showed that the high expression of both PD-1 and PD-L1 is an indicator of poor prognosis of patients suffering from EOC.
3.Experimental study on the effects of Shumian Capsule on sedation and hypnosis and its mechanisms
Fanfan LIANG ; Xin ZHANG ; Xixi JIANG ; Kaina ZHANG ; Ahmed AL-MAAMARI ; Hongying WANG ; Zhenghang ZHAO
Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University(Medical Sciences) 2021;42(1):168-174
【Objective】 To investigate the central sedative and hypnotic effects and mechanisms of Shumian Capsule. 【Methods】 The blank control group, the positive drug diazepam group, and the low-, medium-, and high-dose groups of Shumian Capsule were designed in the experiments. Male Kunming mice were administered orally by gavage. We conducted the experiment of mouse autonomous activity, and assessed supra- and sub-threshold dose sleep with pentobarbital sodium, respectively. The levels of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamic acid (Glu) in the brain tissue of the mice were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or colorimetric method. Male SD rats were injected intraperitoneally with p-chlorophenyl alanine [PCPA, 350 mg/(kg·d)] to establish an insomnia rat model, after which rats were continuously administered intragastrically for 7 days. The general status and body weight of the rats were observed. Total distance and standing times of rats were measured by open field test. Western blotting and immunohistochemistry assays were used to evaluate the protein expression of 5-HT