1.Extraction of Magnetosome from Acidthiobacillus ferrooxidans
Jianping XIE ; Xinxing LIU ; Wenbin LIU ; Guanzhou QIU
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2005;5(3):7-10
In physiological property and growing environment aspects, there are some similarities between Acidthiobacillus ferrooxidans(ATF) and magnetotactic bacteria. ATF shows magnetotacxis under the microscope. The magnetosome can be extracted from ATF by using the extracting method of magnetosome from magnetotactic bacteria. The membrane of ATF was crushed by ultrasonic wave and the magnetosomes in the ATF which mainly contains Fe through chemical detection were attracted by using magnetite. After purifing with sucrose density gradient centrifugation and washing by PBS, the magnetosomes can be seen clearly through a transmission electron microscope. The results indicate there are a small amount of intracellular magnetosomes which made the ATF be magnetotactic under the applied magnetic field. It is the first time to find that ATF was magnetotactic. The magnetotaxis of ATF can be utilized and isolated by the magnetotactic properties to gain the high-performance ATF strains of mineral leaching, which have high activity and different magnetism.
2.Effects of extremely low frequency magnetic field on growth kinetics, metabolism and cell cycle of human liver cancer cells
Liang DONG ; Lingzhen HUANG ; Yantian CHEN ; Tao GENG ; Dengming XIAO ; Hanshi QI
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2005;5(3):1-6
Objective: To study the effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic field with fixed parameters on human liver cancer cells (SK-HEP-1) at different aspects. Methods: SK-HEP-1 cells were exposed to 50Hz, 20mT magnetic field during the whole culture process, and then proliferation activity, growth kinetics, metabolic profile and cell cycle were analyzed. Results: 50Hz, 20mT magnetic field inhibits the growth and metabolism of SK-HEP-1 cells, and hampers their mitotic division. Conclusion: 50Hz, 20mT magnetic field could be a potential therapy in the treatment of human malignant tumors.
3."The""modification""Type Microsatellite Change in High Frequency Microsatellite Instability Colorectal Cancer Closely Relating to MLH1 and KRAS Mutation"
Yan ZHAO ; Tao ZHANG ; Jianjun ZHANG ; Zhichao ZHENG ; Yiliang ZHAO ; Yoshihiko MAEHARA ; Huimian XIU
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2008;8(5):875-880
Microsatellite instability(MSI)was defined according to the frequency of positive findings in a panel of MSI markers.High frequency MSI(MSI-H)was the phenotype in which repeat sequences were extraordinarily unstable, and was considered to be the bona fide phenotype of DNA mismatch repair defection. However base substitutions in some well studied oncogenes or tumor suppressors were reported to be uncommon in MSI-H tumors. To explore this obvious contradiction, the relationship between MSI and KRAS gene mutations were studied in a panel of 76 human colorectal carcinomas, the whole exon of MLH1 and MSH2 were sequenced for MSI-H tumors. KRAS gene mutation was confirmed by similar frequencies in tumors of different MSI status. Intriguingly, all of the KRAS mutant MSI-H tumors harbored sequence alterations in MLH1gene, which was a key player in DNA mismatch repair system. This implied that in MSI-H tumors carrying MMR mutations, KRAS mutation were frequently and almost exclusively occurred. Furthermore, these MMR mutants were uniformly carrying a unique modification + jumping type MSI, which was different to MSI-H tumors without MLH1 or MSH2 gene mutations. This study shaded lights on the heterogeneity of MSI-H tumors, and implied the connection between modification type MSI and DNA mismatch defection.
4.Expression and Clinical Significance of c-Src in the Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma
Lina GU ; Genying LI ; Linan XING ; Yue FENG ; Yunyan ZHANG
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(26):5022-5028
Objective:we aim to determine the relationship between Cell sarcoma (c-Src) expression in patients with EOC and the disease phenotype.Methods:c-Src expression was evaluated using Western blotting analysis in 21 ovarian carcinomas and 4 normal ovarian tissues.Immunohistochemistry was used to evaluate c-Src expression in 134 ovarian carcinomas and 26 normal ovarian tissues.The association between c-Src expression and clinically pathologic characteristics were also assessed in these patients.Results:Our results indicated elevated c-Src protein in EOCs compared with that in normal tissues.The overexpression of c-Src was significantly associated with aggressive features,such as advanced disease stage,poor histological grade,lymph node metastasis,and tumor recurrence (P<0.05).In addition,the overexpression ofc-Src is significantly associated with EOCs' prognosis.Conclusion:c-Src overexpression was significantly associated with the malignant biological behavior of tumor,suggesting c-Src as a potential preventive target in these patients.
5.Progress in Pathogenesis of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Its Imaging Manifestations
Guohui LUAN ; Dawei DAI ; Fan CAO ; Gongwen LEI ; Xun WANG
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(22):4397-4400
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a clinical imaging syndrome associated with multiple pathogenic factors.The main clinical manifestations were headache,seizures,psychotic symptoms,visual disturbance,disturbance of consciousness,etc.The parieto-occipital reversible white matter lesions are the main manifestations of the imaging.If this disease can be diagnosed and treated in time,the clinical symptoms and imaging changes of most patients can be disappeared.If the diagnosis and treatment cannot be obtained in time,it may happen some irreversible damage,serious and even life-threatening,so it is very important to strengthen the understanding,diagnosis and treatment of this disease.At present,the pathogenesis of the disease is still not clear,now reviewed its pathogenesis and imaging manifestation in order to strengthen the clinician's understanding of the disease's pathophysiological mechanism and improve the level of diagnosis.
6.The Treatment and Progress in Consolidation Therapy of APL
Yingying YU ; Xiaoxia LI ; Shuye WANG ; Chengmin WANG ; Wenyi HOU
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(22):4394-4396,4400
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) was considered to be the most rapidly fatal leukemia,because of serve clinical manifestation,high rate of early death and the low cure rate.APL has achieved great success due to the application of ATRA and ATO.Although the complete remission rate is about 90%,the relapse rate has been reported to be as high as 15%-30%.So reducing the recurrence and improving long-time survival have become the focus of the study.Choosing the reasonable treatment after remission is very important.The post remission therapy usually include consolidation therapy and maintenance therapy,but the optimal strategy has been controversy.Therefore,this artical will review the literature of APL in consolidation therapy.
7.Dynamic Expression of Nogo-A in Hippocampus of Rats after Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Jieying PENG ; Maodan FAN ; Shun ZHANG ; Yuetao CHEN ; Lei ZHOU
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(26):5007-5010,5033
Objective:To study the dynamic expression of Nogo-A in hippocampus of rats after carbon monoxide poisoning,and to explore the effect and influence of Nogo-A in the damage to nervous system after carbon monoxide poisoning.Methods:Thirty male SD rats were randomly divided into NC group(n=6),CO group(n=6),CO-24 h group(n=6),CO-48 h group(n=6),CO-7d group(n=6).The method of injection CO gas was used to establish the carbon monoxide poisoning model.Then immunohistochemical (IHC) and Western blot (WB) techniques were used to observe dynamic expression of Nogo-A in hippocampus of rats at several time intervals after carbon monoxide poisoning and to analyze its change law.Results:IHC results showed that the average optical density value of expression of Nogo-A in NC group,CO group,CO-24 h group,CO-48h group and CO-7d group were 0.0928± 0.0038,0.01172± 0.0042,0.1452± 0.0056,0.1271 ± 0.0057,0.1088± 0.0055.WB results showed that the expression of Nogo-A in hippocampus after carbon monoxide poisoning was significantly higher than that in NC group(P<0.05),and reached the highest level at 24 h,then had a gradual recovery after 24h.The expression of Nogo-A decreased obviously,but still higher than that of NC group by day 7 (P<0.05).Conclusions:In this study,the increase of expression of Nogo-A was associated with carbon monoxide poisoning.The expression of Nogo-A reached the highest level at 24h,then had a gradual recovery after 24 h.
8.Construction of a Mouse Model of Hepatocyte Cell-specific Disruption of the FKBP38 Gene
Shuai WANG ; Yimei LAI ; Yan LIN ; Xiaoxi LI ; Zijian ZHAO
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(26):5001-5006
Objective:To build the model of the gene FKBP38 (FK506 binding protein 38) conditional knock out in liver.Methods:Transgenic mouse whose FKBP38 gene was flanked with loxP was constructed by embryo microinjection.The FKBP38 gene was deleted by breeding mice harboring two loxP sites in FKBP38 (FKBP38fl/fl) with the mice bearing the expression ofCre recombinase mice driven by an album promoter.Afterward,the genotype of FKBP38 conditional knockout mice was analyzed.Results:①Relative hepatic FKBP38 mRNA levels showed significant difference between FKBP38 conditional knockout mice (FKBP38-/-) and wild type(P< 0.001).②Relative hepatic FKBP38 protein expression levels of FKBP38 conditional knockout mice (FKBP38-/-) were significantly different with wild type(P<0.001).③Relative phosphorylation of hepatic p70 S6K and 4E-BP-1 protein of FKBP38 conditional knockout mice (FKBP38-/-) showed no significant difference,with slight decrease in phosphorylation of 4E-BP-1,compared with wild type.④No significant difference in expression of hepatic Bcl-2 between FKBP38-/-and wild type.Conclusions:The mouse model of the gene FKBP38 (FK506 binding protein 38) conditional knock out in liver is successfully built.
9.Research Progress of SERPINE Family in Fibrosis Disease
Tianshi LI ; Zhenfeng GUO ; Muge QILI ; Dandan ZHAO ; Xuelian LI
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(22):4391-4393,4267
Serine protease inhibitor (serpin) is a kind of serine protease activity regulator,which including nine subfamilies (SERPIN A ~ I).SERPINE (Serpin Peptidase Inhibitor,Clade E) can regulate many important life processes.In this paper,the physical and chemical properties,mechanisms and regulatory factors of SERPINE1 and SERPINE2 in the two important members of SERPINE family are introduced,and the research progress of SERPINE family in the fibrosis related diseases is described.
10.High Expression of Long Non-coding RNA HOTTIP Indicates Poor Prognosis in Cancers: Evidence from Six Studies
Ying CHEN ; Guoqing WEI ; Hongwei XIA ; Feng BI ; Ming LIU
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2017;17(22):4376-4381
Objective:The significant role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in early diagnosis and predicting prognosis has been recognized in various cancers recently.However,the prognostic value of HOXA transcript at the distal tip (HOTTIP),a vital lncRNA in tumorigenesis,remains unclear.In this study,we evaluated its prognostic value by analyzing the correlation of HOTTIP expression with overall survival (OS),lymph node metastasis (LNM) and distant metastasis (DM) in different cancer types by meta-analysis.Methods:We performed a systematic search in PUBMED,MEDLINE,Web of Science and Cochrane Library update to November of 2016.A total of 604 patients from 6 studies were included in final analysis and went through a quantitative meta-analysis by Review manager 5.3.Results:We demonstrated that high expression of HOTTIP had a significant correlation with poor OS (hazard ratio [HR] =2.37,95% confidence interval [CI] =1.81-3.10,p<0.001),high LNM rate (odds ratio [OR]=2.29,95%CI=1.54-3.40,p<0.001) as well as more DM occurrence (OR=3.30,95%CI=1.78-6.12,p<0.001).Conclusion:Our results indicated that long non-coding RNA HOTTIP may serve as a potential prognostic biomarker in cancer progression.