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Objective To explore the expression and significance of CD44 gastric cancer stem cell biomarker positive circulating tumor cells (CTC ) in peripheral blood of patients with gastric cancer . Methods From March 2010 to December 2012 ,45 patients with gastric cancer and 20 healthy individuals were enrolled .Peripheral blood samples of all the subjects were collected .The expression of CTC and CD44 postive CTC were detected by density gradient centrifugation method and double immunofluorescent staining .Chi‐square test and t‐test were performed for statistical analysis .Results CTC in peripheral blood of healthy controls were not detected .Among 45 patients with gastric cancer ,CTC were detected in 27 patients and 19 of them were CD44‐positive .The difference in positive rate of CTC expression was statistically significant between two groups (χ2 =10 .986 , P<0 .05) .Among 27 CTC‐positive patients , 19 were proximal gastric cancer and 16 of them were CD44‐positive;16 patients had lymph node metastasis and 14 of them were CD44‐positive;13 patients had distant metastasis and 12 of them were CD44‐positive;14 patients had recurrence and 13 of them were CD44‐positive .The CD44 positive CTC was correlated with tumor location ,lymph node metastasis ,distant metastasis and recurrence (χ2=5 .891 ,5 .527 ,5 .787 and 7 .052 ,respectively ,all P<0 .05) .Furthermore ,in 13 patients with recurrence and CD44 positive CTC ,the recurrence time was (10 .54 ± 5 .55) months which was shorter than that of one patients with CD44 negative CTC (19 months) ,and the difference was statistically significant (t= -3 .654 , P=0 .004) .Conclusions CTC which express cancer stem cell marker may be associated with recurrence and metastasis of gastric cancer .It has more important clinical significance to detect this subtype of CTC .

7.The Experimental Study on Dual Antiplatelet Drugs-Induced Intestinal Damage in Rats

Xia LIU ; Zhiguang ZHANG ; Man LI ; Xuelian ZHANG

Tianjin Medical Journal 2014;(2):167-169

Objective To investigate the effect of dual antiplatelet drugs on the intestinal damage in rats. Meth-ods Eighty SD rats were randomly allocated into four groups:control group (normal saline, n=20), aspirin group (10.41 mg/kg, n=20), clopidogrel group (7.81 mg/kg, n=20) and clopidogrel combined aspirin group (n=20). Each group was given intra-gastric administration of drugs once per day for 14 days. All rats received operation after the final intragastric administration. The intestinal injury was observed. The jejunal fluid was taken for bacterial culture. The intestinal permeability was detected by ethidium bromide (EB) method. The small intestinal mucosal injury was estimated by Chiu method. Results The differ-ent degrees of small intestinal mucosal injury were found in four groups. The scores of pathological lesions were significantly higher in aspirin group, clopidogrel group and clopidogrel combined aspirin group than those of control group (P<0.05). The dual antiplatelet group showed the highest score (3.450±1.356). The small intestinal permeability was significantly increased in experiment groups compared with that of control group (54.012±3.513μg/g, P<0.05). There was a significantly higher small intestinal permeability in dual antiplatelet group than that of aspirin group and clopidogrel group (μg/g:130.533 ± 29.631 vs 90.965±3.765 vs 66.800±4.853, P<0.001). The total jejunal bacteria was significantly increased in dual antiplate-let group than that of control group (CFU/mL:61924.805±1751.159 vs 18154.280±1153.376, P<0.001). The ratio of entero-bacterium and enterococcus was significantly decreased in dual antiplatelet group compared with that of control group (0.220±0.089 vs 1.007±0.148, P<0.001). Conclusion The routine dose of dual antiplatelet drug aggravates the small intes-tinal injury in rats compared with that of single drug. The manifestations of intestinal mucosal injury include increased intes-tinal bacteria, dysbacteriosis, and increased small intestinal permeability.