Radiotherapy is the primary treatment modality for nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC) which can effectively control the disease.Oral cavity,anatomically near nasopharyngeal region is the main area for the occurrence of complication of radiotherapy.Second primary malignancy (SPM) in oral cavity is an important factor interferencing NPC patients survival rate.The etiology of oral SPM is unclear and,the prognosis is poor.The research of it is still in exploration.

Objective To explore the correlation of preoperative guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) mRNA in peripheral blood with postoperative gastric cancer recurrence. Methods The preoperative blood samples were collected from 60 patients with gastric cancer (GC) before operation, also from 21 patients with dysplasia, 15 with intestinal metaplasia, and 20 healthy volunteers during the same period. GC-C mRNA in the peripheral blood samples was assessed by real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR (RFQ-PCR). The association of peripheral blood GC-C mRNA expression with pathological parameters and gastric cancer recurrence was analyzed. Results The positive rate of preoperative GC-C mRNA in blood samples of gastric cancer patients (48. 3% [29/60]) was significantly higher than that of patients with dysplasia (20. 0%[3/21], P

Objective: To investigate the hypoglycemic targets of Polygonum capitatum. Methods: Human liver cancer HepG2 cells were adopted to detect the supernatant culture medium glucose content, and the effect on PPAR-α and GLUT4 gene expression was investigated by qRT-PCR after treatment of P. capitatum extracts (PCB). INS-1 cells similar to islet β cells, divided into drug protection group and repair group, were adopted to determine the cell proliferation activity by MTT; The intracellular SOD and MDA levels were measured by biochemical method; The Cyt C and Caspase-3 protein expression levels were detected by Western blotting. Adopting maltose as substrate of α-glycosidase enzyme inhibition model, the inhibitory efficiency of PCB on glycosidic enzyme was determined. Results: PCB group significantly promoted the absorption of HepG2 cells to supernatant glucose and increased the expression of PPAR-α and GLUT4 genes significantly. Aim at protection and repair of INS-1 cells, PCB group significantly increased cell vitality and SOD level, reduced MDA level compared with model group, and at the same time significantly reduced Cyt C and Caspase-3 protein expression levels. PCB had inhibitory activity to α-glycosidase enzymes, with IC50 of 11.53 mg/mL. Conclusion: PCB could significantly increase the PPAR-α and GLUT4 genes expression to promote the absorption of HepG2 cells to supernatant glucose by blocking the Cyt C-Caspase-3 pathways to reduce apoptosis of islet cells which were damaged by STZ and by raising SOD and declining MDA to improve INS-1 cell oxidative stress; What’s more it has inhibitory activity to α-glycosidase enzymes.

Randomized control study of gemfibrozil and pantethine was made in 39 NIDDM patients to compare their effect on anti-lipid-peroxidation.The patients were divided into two groups at random. One group took gcmfibrozil 900 mg/d for 4 weeks, the ether group took pantethine 540 mg/d for 4 weeks. The results showed that there were no significant change in faslirg plasma glucose and HbA1 in both groups before and after treatment. The effects on lipicls and lipcproteins in gemfi-barozil and pantethine groups were as follows: TC decreased by 18.15% and 8.75% (P

Objective To investigate the relevance between protein expression and methylation of MG-MT and hMSH2 in glioma patimts.Methods Immunohistochemical and methylation specific PCR were adopted respectively to test on 275 cases of glioma patients for the protein expression and methylation situation of MGMT and hMSH2.Results The negative protein expression rate of MGMT and hMSH 2 in the tissue of brain golima were 47.2% and 62.5% respectively;the occurrence of methylation in gene promoter region were accordingly 41.8% and 22.4%.Statistical analysis revealed that MGMT promoter methylation in peripheral blood gene groups was related with the protein negative expression of tumor tissue (P<0.05),while there was no relationship between the protein expression of hMSH2 and its gene promoter methylation(P>0.05).Conclusion The meth-ylation of MGMT is a common molecular situation in the generation of brain glioma ,which may be connected with that of tumor.However,hMSH2 promoter methylation might not the main reason for inactivation of hMSH 2 pro-tein,there may be other important factors affecting its expression .

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of protein expression of Six1 in cervical cancer. Meth?ods The immunohistochemical (IHC) staining was applied to detect the expression of Six1 protein in normal cervical tis?sues (n=32), cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) tissues (n=49) and cervical cancer tissues (n=123). The localization of Six1 protein was detected in vitro cultured HeLa cells using immunofluorescence (IF) staining. Results The positive rate of Six1was significantly higher in cervical cancer (72.3%) than that of CIN tissues (28.6%) and normal cervical tissues (15.6%,χ2=13.118 and 10.058 respectively, P<0.01). There were significance differences in expression levels of Six1 protein be?tween different tumor sizes and metastasis of cervical cancer (P < 0.01). The Six1 protein showed positive signals in cyto?plasm and nucleoli in HeLa cells. Conclusion Six1 expression is associated with cervical cancer, which may be a potential biomarker for invasion and metastasis of cervical cancer.

Objective To investigate the value of 18F-FDG SUVmax in gastric cancer diagnosis with coincidence imaging.Methods The coincidence imaging was performed in 92 patients with gastric diseases (60 males,32 females,age 65 (32-85) years; 78 malignant cases,14 benign cases).The malignant cases included 3 remnant gastric cancers and 75 primary gastric cancers (staging: 4 of Tis,13 of T1,9 of T2,33 of T3,11 of T4 and 5 without surgery).The well-,moderately-and poorly-differentiated adenocarcinomas were 22,15 and 28,respectively.Images were analyzed retrospectively with visual method and 18F-FDG SUVmax,and the diagnostic results were compared with the histopathological findings.The ROC curve was used to analyze the SUVmax.The Pearson's correlation analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between SUVmax and tumor size.The Wilcoxon rank sum test was applied to determine the difference of SUVmax between early and advanced gastric cancers.The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze the difference of SUVmax in various types of differentiated adenocarcinoma.Results No matter visual method or SUVmax was used,the sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of coincidence imaging in diagnosis of gastric cancer were 64.1％(50/78),64.3％(9/14) and 64.1％(59/92),respectively.The AUC of SUVmax was 0.695 and the cut-off value was 0.700.SUVmax Was positively correlated with tumor size significantly(r=0.489,P＜0.001).There was statistically significant difference between SUVmax of Tis-1 and that of T2-4(0.676± 1.288 vs 3.851 ±3.764;Z=-3.754,P＜0.001).However,there was no statistically significant difference among SUVmax of various grades of differentiated adenocarcinoma(2.805±4.008,3.447±2.365,3.413± 3.737 ; x2 =2.459,P＞ 0.05).Conclusions SUVmax provides more information than visual method in assessing gastric cancer with 18F-FDG coincidence imaging.Appropriate cut-off value of SUV is necessary for improvement of the diagnostic efficiency.Relationships between SUV and pathological T stage,histopathological types and differentiation degree need further investigation.

Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Osteogenesis Imperfecta ; diagnosis ; therapy

Objective To investigate the safety and efficacy of low-dose recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) in Chinese patients with acute ischemic stroke. Methods Consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke received rtPA intravenous thrombolysis within 4. 5 h after symptom onset were enrol ed retrospectively. According to the dosage of rtPA, they were divided into either a low-dose group (0. 5-0. 8 mg/kg, the maximum dose 50 mg) or a standard dose group (0. 9 mg/kg, the maximum dose 90 mg). The incidences of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage ( sICH) ( the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NINDS], and European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study Ⅱ [ECASSⅡ] , European Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke-Monitoring Study [ SITS-MOST ] ), 90 d mortality, 90 d good outcome (the modified Rankin Scale [mRS] score 0-1), and life self-care ability (mRS score 0-2) were compared between the two groups. Results A total of 163 patients were enrol ed, including 74 patients in the low-dose group and 89 in the standard dose group. The constituent ratios of hypertension (44. 6% vs. 68. 5%; χ2 =9. 490, P=0. 002) and diabetes (5. 4% vs. 28. 1%; χ2 =14. 216, P<0. 001) in the patients of the low-dose group were significantly lower than those of the standard group, while the constituent ratios of smoking (56. 8% vs. 38. 2%; χ2 =5. 590, P=0. 018 ) and smal artery occlusive stroke (21. 6% vs. 10. 1%; χ2 =4. 122, P=0. 042 ) in patients of the low-dose group were significantly higher than those of the standard group. After adjusting for age, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, and ischemic stroke typing, multivariate binary logistic analysis showed that there were no significant differences in NINDS defined sICH (10. 8% vs. 9. 0%, odds ratio [OR] 1. 077, 95%confidence interval [CI] 0. 338-3. 436), ECASS Ⅱdefined sICH ( 9. 5% vs. 9. 0%; OR 0. 976, 95% CI 0. 296- 3. 221 ), SITS-MOST defined sICH (8. 1% vs. 4. 5%; OR 2. 269, 95% CI 0. 522-9. 852), 90 d mortality (17. 6% vs. 14. 6%; OR 1. 720, 95% CI 0. 578-5. 119), 90 d good outcome (35. 1% vs. 32. 6%;OR 0. 780, 95% CI 0. 356-1. 709), and life self-care ability (48. 6% vs. 42. 7%;OR 0. 936, 95% CI 0. 441-1. 987) between the 2 groups (al P>0. 05). Conclusions The program of intravenous thrombolysis for the treatment of Chinese patients with acute ischemic stroke with low-dose rtPA is safe and effective.

The vagus nerve is involved in the regulation of human inflammation, mood and pain. Stimulation of the vagus nerve has assured therapeutic effects on intractable epilepsy and refractory depression. On the surface of the human body, the ear is the only area in which vagal afferent fibers distribute. According to the "bottom-up" mechanism of the signal processing, the central nervous system can be modulated by stimulating the peripheral nerve. Therefore, stimulation of the vagus nerve can regulate the activities of brain stem, thalamus, cerebral cortex and other related areas to produce therapeutic effects. Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation is a safe, low-cost, non-invasive physical therapy modified from vagus nerve stimulation. This review focuses on the regulation of organ function by transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and its application to diseases treatment.