AIM: To study the effects of acute HIV-1 infection on gene expression in U937 human promonocyte for understanding the pathogenecis of AIDS. METHODS: The expression levels of 550 host cell RNA transcripts in U937 human promonocyte at 2-3 d after HIV-1 infection were assessed using cDNA microarray analysis, and the results were confirmed by semiquantitative RT-PCR. RESULTS: Our results showed that 38 genes were differentially regulated in the infected U937 cells at 2-3 d post infection: 26 genes were down-regulated and 12 genes were up-regulated. These genes encode a host of proteins with divergent functions in a variety of cellular processes including receptor-mediated signaling transduction, subcellular signal trafficking, apoptosis, transcriptional regulation, and chemotaxis. CONCLUSION: HIV-1 infection alters gene expression in U937 human promonocytes.

Objective. The aim of this study was to detect coronary artery disease using99m Tc-MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with valvular disease.Methods. Thirty patients with valvular disease confirmed by echocardiography underwent 99mTc-MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging using multiSPECT 1h after stress test (exercise, dipyridamole or dobutamine test) and were performed coronary angiography within 1 month before valvular operation.Results.For 29 out of the 30 patients, the results of 99mTc-MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging were similar with those of coronary angiography, the concordance rate was 96.7% and the negative predictability was 100%.Conclusion.99m Tc-MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging is a reliable non-invasive method for detecting coronary artery disease in patients with valvular disease and so as to draw up suitable operation programs for them.

In the canonical version of evolution by gene duplication,one copy is kept unaltered while the other is free to evolve.This process of evolutionary experimentation can persist for millions of years.Since it is so short lived in comparison to the lifetime of the core genes that make up the majority of most genomes,a substantial fraction of the genome and the transcriptome may-in principle-be attributable to what we will refer to as "evolutionarytransients",referring here to both the process and the genes that have gone or are undergoing this process.Using the rice gene set as a test case,we argue that this phenomenon goes a long way towards explaining why there are so many more rice genes than Arabidopsis genes,and why most excess rice genes show low similarity to eudicots.

OBJECTIVETo evaluate the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with primary gastro-intestinal marginal zone lymphoma (MALT).

METHODSRetrospective analysis was performed in 90 patients diagnosed with primary gastro-intestinal MALT lymphoma clinical characteristics and survival analyses.

RESULTSAmong 90 patients, 78 cases were originated from the stomach and 12 cases with extra-gastric origin. Eighty patients were classified as low-risk (IPI score 0-2), and 10 patients high-risk (IPI score 3-5). Compared to gastric MALT patients, extra-gastric cases presented with higher IPI score (7.7% vs 33.3%, P=0.025) and higher Hp infection rate (50.0% vs 87.2%, P<0.01). Treatment options for low risk patients (IPI score 0-2) included Hp eradication, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy could improve progression-free survival (PFS) in low-risk patients. For high-risk patients, those receiving chemotherapy had 100% 3-year overall survival (OS). Univariate analysis revealed that ECOG (P=0.006), Mussh-off staging (P=0.008), IPI score (P=0.000), elevated LDH (P=0.019) and chemotherapy (P=0.026) were correlated with PFS. Multivariate analysis showed that higher IPI score (IPI 3-5) (OR=8.325, 95% CI 3.171-21.853, P=0.000) and chemotherapy (OR=0.319, 95% CI 0.121-0.838, P=0.020) were independent prognostic factors for PFS. ECOG (≥ 2) was independent prognostic factor for OS (OR=5.092, 95%CI 1.005-25.788, P=0.049).

CONCLUSIONPrimary gastro-intestinal MALT lymphoma was an indolent subtype of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Patients usually had low risk IPI and achieved long-term survival. Frontline therapy for low-risk patients was radiotherapy or Hp eradication, and chemotherapy for high-risk ones.

Disease-Free Survival ; Humans ; Intestinal Neoplasms ; Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Survival Analysis