Parkinson's disease(PD)challenges us to assess the disease due to the lack of definitive biomarkers.Currently,PD patients have been found to contract several gastrointestinal comorbidities such as con-stipation and intestinal inflammation that precede its symptomatic manifestations.These conditions are intricately linked to proliferative metabolisms of the gut microbiota,which are manifested to be some primary changes in the gut microbiota or other changes involved in medication during treatment.In this paper we review the recent research on gut microbiota biomarkers in PD,arguing for the clinical relevance of gut microbiota as a marker in the progression of PD and prospecting the potential efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation as an intervention in managing PD.

The aim of this paper is to study the methods of 3D visualization and the 3D interactive clipping of CT/MRI image sequence in arbitrary orientation based on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). A new method for 3D CT/MRI reconstructed image clipping is presented, which can clip 3D object and 3D space of medical image sequence to observe the inner structure using 3D widget for manipulating an infinite plane. Experiment results show that the proposed method can implement 3D interactive clipping of medical image effectively and get satisfied results with good quality in short time.
Algorithms ; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted ; methods ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional

The aim of this paper is to study the methods of 3D visualization and the 3D interactive clipping of CT/MRI image sequence in arbitrary orientation based on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). A new method for 3D CT/MRI reconstructed image clipping is presented, which can clip 3D object and 3D space of medical image sequence to observe the inner structure using 3D widget for manipulating an infinite plane. Experiment results show that the proposed method can implement 3D interactive clipping of medical image effectively and get satisfied results with good quality in short time.

Objective To screen potential genes associated with drug resistance and multidrug resistance. Methods Microarray with 8000 genes was used to detect the different expression of 5-8F cells and 6-10B cells. Subsquently, genes of drug resistance and multidrug resistance were screened by MILANO online programme. Semiquantitative RT-PCR was utilized to confirmed the reliability of differentially expressed genes. Results 283 genes were identified the differential expression. Of these, 85 genes were shown to be upregulated and 98 downregulated. After the analysis of MILANO, 4 genes including UGT1A9 (15.85 folds),MVP(6.77 folds), CAV1(2.49 folds) and HIF1A(2.67 folds) with higher expression in 5-8F cells were found to be likely associated with drug resistance and multidrug resistance. Subsquently, semiquantitative RT-PCR confirmed the reliability of differential expression of these 4 genes. Conclusion Differentially expressed genes shown in NPC 5-8F cells compared to 6-10B cells with the identification of online MILANO program analysis are likely associated with drug resistance and mnltidrug resistance of NPC cells with the ability of metastasis.

In this article a new principle of geometric design for blade's surface of an impeller is provided. This is an optimal control problem for the boundary geometric shape of flow and the control variable is the surface of the blade. We give a minimal functional depending on the geometry of the blade's surface and such that the flow's loss achieves minimum. The existence of the solution of the optimal control problem is proved and the Euler-Lagrange equations for the surface of the blade are derived. In addition, under a new curvilinear coordinate system, the flow domain between the two blades becomes a fixed hexahedron, and the surface as a mapping from a bounded domain in R2 into R3, is explicitly appearing in the objective functional. The Navier-Stokes equations, which include the mapping in their coefficients, can be computed by using operator splitting algorithm. Furthermore, derivatives of the solution of Navier-Stokes equations with respect to the mapping satisfy linearized Navier-Stokes equations which can be solved by using operator splitting algorithms too. Hence, a conjugate gradient method can be used to solve the optimal control problem.

In this article a new principle of geometric design for blade's surface of an impeller is provided. This is an optimal control problem for the boundary geometric shape of flow and the control variable is the surface of the blade. We give a minimal functional depending on the geometry of the blade's surface and such that the flow's loss achieves minimum. The existence of the solution of the optimal control problem is proved and the Euler-Lagrange equations for the surface of the blade are derived. In addition, under a new curvilinear coordinate system, the flow domain between the two blades becomes a fixed hexahedron, and the surface as a mapping from a bounded domain in R2 into R3, is explicitly appearing in the objective functional. The Navier-Stokes equations, which include the mapping in their coefficients, can be computed by using operator splitting algorithm. Furthermore, derivatives of the solution of Navier-Stokes equations with respect to the mapping satisfy linearized Navier-Stokes equations which can be solved by using operator splitting algorithms too. Hence, a conjugate gradient method can be used to solve the optimal control problem.

In this article a new principle of geometric design for blade's surface of an impeller is provided. This is an optimal control problem for the boundary geometric shape of flow and the control variable is the surface of the blade. We give a minimal functional depending on the geometry of the blade's surface and such that the flow's loss achieves minimum. The existence of the solution of the optimal control problem is proved and the Euler-Lagrange equations for the surface of the blade are derived. In addition, under a new curvilinear coordinate system, the flow domain between the two blades becomes a fixed hexahedron, and the surface as a mapping from a bounded domain in R2 into R3, is explicitly appearing in the objective functional. The Navier-Stokes equations, which include the mapping in their coefficients, can be computed by using operator splitting algorithm. Furthermore, derivatives of the solution of Navier-Stokes equations with respect to the mapping satisfy linearized Navier-Stokes equations which can be solved by using operator splitting algorithms too. Hence, a conjugate gradient method can be used to solve the optimal control problem.

Objective To construct a recombinant lentiviral expression vector for RNA interference (RNAi) of human Snail gene and to study its effects on the proliferation and invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line 5-8F. Methods The effective sequence of short hairpin RNAs (shRNA) targeting Snail gene was designed and cloned into the linear pLVTHM vector after enzyme digestion. After confirmation by DNA sequencing, 5-8F cells were infected with the viral supernatants. The cells with stable Snail gene knock-down were separated by fluorescence activated cell sorter (FASC). The expression of Snail mRNA was detected by real time RT-PCR. MTT and cell invasion assay were used to detect the proliferation and invasion of 5-8F cells after plVTHM-siSnail transfection. Results The lentivirus vector plVTHM-siSnail was constructed successfully. The separated 5-8F-plVTHM-siSnail exhibited significant knock-down of Snail mRNA expression. Slower proliferation and decreased cells to permeate through the Matrigel were found after plVTHM-siSnail transfection (P

OBJECTIVETo compare gene expression gene profile of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) tissue with that of normal nasopharyngeal tissues by cDNA array and to discuss possible functions of DNA repair-related genes in NPC tissue.

METHODSAfter hybridization of atlas human cancer cDNA expression array 7742 - 1, atlas hybridization results were analyzed by Atlas Image 1.01 a software package. Using RT-PCR was used to confirm the results.

RESULTSOf 63 differentially expressed genes in quadrangle C including DNA damage response, repair & recombination-related genes, 6 DNA repair-related genes were up-regulated, 12 were down-regulated.

CONCLUSIONDNA repair-related genes may be involved in patho-physiological process of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

DNA Repair ; genetics ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Humans ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ; genetics ; pathology ; Nasopharynx ; metabolism ; pathology ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; methods ; RNA, Neoplasm ; genetics ; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

AIM: To investigate the expression map of two p53 binding proteins 53BP1 and 53BP2 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) tissue.METHODS: The expression of 53BP1 and 53BP2 mRNA in NPC biopsy and control group are tested by RT-PCR. The expression of two mRNA in NPC paraffin section are examined by in situ hybridization. RESULTS: No expression of 53BP1 mRNA was found in NPC tissue and control group. However, expression of 53BP2 was detected in NPC biopsy and control group by RT-PCR, specific expressoin found cancerous nest in NPC paraffin section by in situ hybridization.CONCLUSION: The high expression of 53BP2 may be related to the development of NPC.