Objective To study the Ile796Val polymorphism in human SCAP gene in Hubei area, and analyze its correlation with coronary heart disease (CHP) and hypertension and the relationship between polymorphism and lipid metabolism. Methods Using PCR RFLP, we detected genotypes of Ile796Val polymorphism in human SCAP gene. Results The allele A frequencies of Ile796Val in human SCAP gene for controls, CHD patients and the hypertension patients were 0.32, 0.45 and 0.42 respectively. The allele G frequencies were 0 68, 0.55 and 0.58 respectively. There were significant differences in frequencies of genotype and alleles between controls and hypertension group. And there was significant difference in the level of TC, LDL C and ApoB. In CHD group, there was significant difference in the TC level between different genotypes. In hypertension patients, although a difference was noted in genotype, there was no significant difference in allele frequencies and lipid level exceps a significant difference in the levels of TC, LDL C and ApoB in hypertension patients. Conclusion Ile796Val polymorphism in human SCAP gene may be a great agent to cause disorder in the lipid level of blood and lipid metabolism of tissue. It is of great significance in disorder in lipid metabolism of inter cellular and genetic investigation of hyperlipidemia.

ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between the oxidative injury induced by low glucose and mitochondrial membrane potential in HUVEC-12 cells. Methods Human umbilicalvein endothelial cells HUVEC-12 were cultured in low concentration glucose for 4 h.Cell viability of HUVEC-12 cell was assessed with MTT assay.Dihydroethidium (DHE) was used as a reactive oxygen species (ROS)capture, which was detected the mean fluorescence intensity of samples and Rhodamine 123 as a fluorescence detector was to measure the level of mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) in cells.Results Comparing to HUVEC-12 cells viability in 5.5 mmol/L glucose group (96.80 ±3.20)％, cells exposed to 2.8 mmol/L glucose group (66.40 ± 1.60) ％ and 0 mmol/L glucose group (58.93 ± 1.67) ％ were decreased by 32％ and 40％ respectively (P ＜ 0.01).ROS level of 5.5 mmoL/L glucose group, 2.8 mmol/L glucose group and 0 mmol/L glucose group were 0.59 ± 0.02, 0.74 ± 0.04 and 0.88 ± 0.05,respectivdy, increased by 25％ in cells exposed to 2.8 mmol/L glucose and by 48％ in cells without glucose exposure comparing to 5.5 mmol/L glucose group (P ＜0.01) ; MMP levels of 5.5 mmol/L glucose group,2.8 mmoL/L glucose group and 0 mmoL/L glucose group were 148.83 ± 3.51, 271.07 ± 19.54 and357.74 ±51.32 respectively, increased to 1.8 times in cells exposed to 2.8 mmol/L glucose and to 2.4times in cells without glucose exposure comparing to 5.5 mmoL/L glucose group (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion Low glucose leads to injury in HUVEC-12 cells, which is probably induced by the oxidative stress via the increasing MMP.

Objective To explore the value of evaluating rat liver fibrosis using contrast enhanced sonography.Methods Carbon tetrachloride was used to induce liver fibrosis.Under the mode of pulse-inversion harmonic imaging,ultrasound contrast agent was bolus iniected through tail vein,hepatic artery arrival time(HAAT),portal vein arrival time(PVAT),hepatic vein arrival time(HVAT)was recorded,and their relationship with immunohistochemical results were analyzed.Results There was no statistical difference of HAAT,PVAT between two groups among S0-S4 stage.HVAT was shorter in S3 and S4 stage than in S0-S2 stage(P＜0.05).HVAT was negative correlated with the percentage of immunohistochemical positive area of C-Ⅳ,LN,the correlation coefficients were-0.680 and -0.639 respectively.Conclusions Contrast enhanced sonography is useful for the diagnosing liver fibrosis.

Caveolae are specialized lipid rafts that form flask-shaped invaginations of the plasma membrane. Many researches show that caveolae are involved in cell signaling and transport. Caveolin-1 is the major coat protein essential for the formation of caveolae. Recently, several reports indicated that the other caveolae-associated proteins, Cavins, are required for caveola formation and organization. It's worth noting that Cavin-1 could cooperate with Caveolin-1 to accommodate the structural integrity and function of caveolae. Here, we reviewed that the relationship between Cavins and Caveolins and explore the role of them in regulating caveolae.
Animals ; Caveolae ; physiology ; Caveolin 1 ; metabolism ; physiology ; Caveolins ; metabolism ; physiology ; Humans ; Membrane Proteins ; metabolism ; physiology ; RNA-Binding Proteins ; metabolism ; physiology

Objective: To study the effect of tripterygium wilfordii polyglycosidium (TWP) on atopie dermatitis (AD) by detecting the expression of IL-2,IL-4,IFN-γ and IL-IO mRNA. Methods: RT-RCR was used to detect the mRNA of IL-2,IL-4, IFN-γ and IL-10 in peripheral blood mononuelear cells (PBMC)of AD cultured with different concentrations of TWP.ResuRs:(1)The expression of IL-2 was significantly different between the high concentration group and other groups(P＜0.05 or P＜0.01 ), and between the control group and the middle concentration group (P＜0.01). (2)The expression of IL-4 was significantly different between the three different concentration groups (P＜0.01 ). (3) The expression of IFN-γmRNA was significantly different between the high concentration group and the control, the low, the middle concentration groups (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01 ). (4)There was no significant difference in expression of IL-10 mRNA between the high concentration group and the middle concentration group (P＞0.05), there was significant difference among the other groups (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01).Conclusion: TWP can suppress the expression of IL-2, IL-4, IFN-γand IL-10 mRNA, but the low concentration of TWP can suppress the high-level expression of IL-4 and IL-10mRNA in vitro.

Objective To discuss the effect of light invasive treatment of endometrial in husband sperm intrauterine insemination outcomes.Methods A total of 248 patients receiving husband sperm intrauterine insemination were divided into two groups by random digits table method.The patients in light invasive treatment of endometrial group (138 cases with 246 cycles) were performed with light invasive treatment of endometrial,and the patients in control group (110 cases with 201 cycles) were not perfomed with light invasive treatment of endometrial.Human chorionic gonadotropin day of endometrial thickness,intrauterine insemination tube placed successfully or not,whether fertilization tube bloody and clinical pregnancy rates and so on were compared between two groups.Results There was no significant difference in human chorionic gonadotropin day of endometrial thickness between two groups (P ＞ 0.05).The success rate of intrauterine insemination tube placement in light invasive treatment of endometrial group was 78.5％ (193/246),which was higher than that in control group (65.2％,131/201),and there was significant difference (P ＜ 0.05).The intrauterine insemination tube bloody rate in light invasive treatment of endometrial group was 13.4％ (33/246),which was lower than that in control group (34.8％,70/201),and there was significant difference (P ＜ 0.05).The pregnancy rate in light invasive treatment of endometrial group was 31.9％ (44/138),which was higher than that in control group (18.2％,20/110),and there was significant difference (P ＜ 0.05).There were no significant differences in ectopic pregnancy rate and abortion rate between two groups (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Through light invasive treatment of endometrial the husband sperm intrauterine insemination outcomes can be improved.

Objective To analyze the outcomes of radiotherapy for keloids by high energy electron beams and the factors influencing the treatment outcome.Methods From Jan 1998 to Jun 2012,846lesions in 578 patients received radiotherapy.The median age is 29 years old (range 5-80 years old).There are 841 lesions with postoperative radiotherapy and 39 lesions with skin-grafting.656 lesions treated within 1 day after operations.The max diameter of 348 keloids are ＞ 5 cm.We used 6 MeV and 7 MeV electron-beam radiation therapy.The total dose ranging from 16-18 Gy/2f (interval 1 week).Treatment fields including entire keloid scars,and any suture/puncture holes with a 1 cm-margin around the lesion were used.The skin grafting patients need radiotherapy after the flap survived (about 10-15 days after the operation).The median follow-up period was 36 months (range 8-185 months).Results There are 736 (87.0％) of 846 lesions with radiotherapy effective.Other 89 (10.5％) lesions relapse in 4-33 months (median 12 months).21 lesions were of no avail.The univarate analysis shows that keloids length,keloids location,skin-grafting,interval between operations and irradiations are the influencing factors of outcomes (P =0.007,0.000,0.000,0.001).The multivariate analysis shows that keloids location and skin-grafting remained statistically significant differences (P =0.001,0.001).Most of the recurrence cases are large and bent scars.Conclusions High-energy electron-beam radiotherapy for keloids can receive good outcomes.Treatment fields flat is very important for electron-beam radiotherapy.

AIM: To investigate two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the apolipoprotein(a) promoter at positions -418 and -384 and to compare distributing difference of genotype frequencies of single nucleotide among different races and to explore the influencies of them on serum lipid level and their association with coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS: Using PCR-RFLP (BsgI,BfaI) method, we determined genotypes of these two SNPs in 156 unrelated healthy controls of HanZu Chinese and 56 unrelated CHD patients of HanZu Chinese and 56 unrelated African Blacks, then cloned polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products into T-vector and sequenced it by M13 currency primer, correspondingly. RESULTS: (1) There was no polymorphism at position -418A/A and -384C/C in control group. Only one CHD patient′s genotype determined was -418G/G, other were -418A/A and (-384C/C) in CHD patients. (2) Only two African Blacks′ genotype determined was -418G/G, other were -418A/A and (-384C/C) in African Blacks. (3) However, the Apo(a) promoter sequence was in coincident with the sequence publicized in GenBank and the base at positions -418 was adenine (A) and -384 was cytosine (C). CONCLUSION: The mutation frequencies at position -418 and -384 are low in the Chinese Han Population of Hubei and perhaps no single nucleotide polymorphisms is at two positions. No association with serum lipid levels and CHD is observed. There may be great variabilities to the SNPs in the Apo(a) promoter among different races.

BACKGROUND:Human amniotic epithelial cells are an important source of cells in regenerative medicine as its multipotentation, but new studies mainly focused on differentiation features and there were little research oneffect of culture in vitro on biological property of amniotic epithelial cells.
OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effects of in vitro culture on growth, cellphenotype and differentiation capacity of human amniotic epithelial cells into cardiomyocyte-like cells, and explore the correlation of primarily cultured human amniotic epithelial cells marker SSEA-4 expression level and the change of biological characteristics of human amniotic epithelial cells.
METHODS:Primarily cultured human amniotic epithelial cells were obtained from amniotic tissues by using the same separation protocol. Human amniotic epithelial cells were cultured in vitro. The proliferation, cellphenotype and the differentiation capacity of human amniotic epithelial cells into cardiomyocyte-like cells were evaluated by means of cellcounting kit-8, flow cytometry and real-time PCR.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The SSEA-4 positive cells in primarily cultured human amniotic epithelial cells from different fetal tissues were between 26.7%-97%, which indicated that there was great individual difference among amniotic tissue samples. Moreover, with passage, the SSEA-4 expression in human amniotic epithelial cells decreased significantly, which did not correlate with the SSEA-4 expression in primarily cultured human amniotic epithelial cells. Results indicated that there was great individual difference in SSEA-4 expression level in primarily cultured human amniotic epithelial cells from different amniotic tissue samples. Thus, it is necessary to set up clinical screening indexes to get samples with higher SSEA-4 expression stably and to control the quality of human amniotic epithelial cells. In addition, during culture period, SSEA-4 expression level was affected by culture conditions. The culture conditions of human amniotic epithelial cells should be optimized to maintain SSEA-4 expression at a high level. In addition, the differentiation capacity of human amniotic epithelial cells into cardiomyocyte-like cells was also affected by individual difference among different samples and culture conditions, which wil be further studied in the future.

Objective To study the efficacy,late complications and prognostic factors of postopera-tive radiotherapy for bladder cancer: Methods Between July 1995 and January 21307,109 patients with primary bladder cancer who had received adjuvant pelvic radiation therapy were retrospectively analyzed. The age ranged from 41 to 94 (median 68) years. There were 29 patients with T1 disease,60 with T2,17 with T3, 3 with T4, and 7 with positive lymph node. Three-dimensional radiotherapy was given with a median total dose of 49.2 Gy(39.3 -62.2 Gy) in conventional fractionation after surgery. Field-in-field intensity modu-lated radiotherapy was given to 57 patients. Results The total follow-up rate was 98% ,with a median fol-low up time of 36(2-144) months. The 1-,3- and 5-year local control rate was 63% ,47% and 42% ,respec-tively. The 1-,3- and 5-year overall survival rate was 80% ,48% and 37% ,respectively. Among the 109 pa-tients,33 died of tumor progression or metastasis,42 showed local recurrence,and 22 had lymph node metas-tasis. According to the RTOG criteria,grade 1,2,3 and 4 radiation related early urological side effects were 22% ,59% ,12% and 1% ,respectively;The corresponding late urological side effects were 29% ,28% ,2% and 1%, respectively. Two patients underwent whole bladder cystectomy due to the radiation related side effects. Conclusions Postoperative three-dimensional radiotherapy, achieving high response rate with tol-erable side effects, can be offered as an alternative option to the radical cystectomy in the bladder conserving treatment.