Objective To analyze the serum related proteomic fingerprints when Lost Goodwill Target (LGT) proteomic fingerprints drifting from negative to positive in the advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients. Methods The serum proteomic fingerprints of 31 advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients whose LGT fingerprints drifted from negative to positive were detected by SELDI and CM10 protein chip. More than 10 % cluster and M/Z values from 11,000+H to 12,000+H was regarded as LGT positive, otherwise as negative. Different fingerprints were screened by Biomarker Wizard 3.1 and Biomarker Wizard software and the decision tree model was established. Results There were 16 statistically different protein peaks when LGT fingerprints drifting from negative to positive, including 10 up-regulation proteomic fingerprints (M/Z:11531, 11483, 11686, 11394, 11822, 11323, 11911, 12450, 5811 and 5709) and 6 down regulation proteomic fingerprints( M/Z: 4126, 13927, 13784, 7001, 1959 and 2741). Conclusion By SELDI and CM10 protein chip detection, up-regulating fingerprints of M/Z 11531, 11483, 11686, 11394, 11822 and 11323 were regarded as the subtype of LGT when it drifting from negative to positive, while up-regulation of M/Z 11911,12450, 5811 and 5709 and down-regulating of M/Z 4126, 13927, 13784, 7001 and 1959 were regarded as the related fingerprints when LGT drifting from negative to positive. The above different fingerprints are constituted of the fingerprints library when LGT fingerprints drifting from negative to positive and it will provide a platform for studying the LGT proteins.

Humans ; Medical Waste Disposal ; Occupational Health

Objective To demonstrate the result that progression of disease and prognosis of gastrointestinal cancer patients are correlated with the expression of the cluster and the abundance of lost goodwill target (LGT) fingerprint. Methods To research the period of survival and the time of death, 61 patients treated by SELDI (Surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometer)were involved in. According to the fingerprint spectrum obtained by SELDI and the appearance of fingerprints of LGT, these patients were divided into four groups namely non-peak, single-peak, double-peak, tri-peak and multi-peak groups. By means of Multi-factor analysis of variance and Cox regression analysis of risk, we compare four groups each other so as to find out one group in which patients have the greatest risk of death.Results Among the fingerprint spectrums of patients suffered from gastrointestinal cancer, which were obtained by SELDI, the patients with negative expression of LGT had low risk of death, which were lower than those of single-peak and double-peak groups, especially lower than those of tri-peak and multi-peak groups;the risk of death among the tri-peak and multi-peak groups were much higher than single-peak, the difference had statistical significance (P ＜0.05), and the death rate is rather high. Conclusion Among the serums from cancer patients tested by SELDI, the expression of LGT with tri-peak and multi-peak suggested that patient' s state of illness is about to deteriorate. This kind of fingerprint spectrum can be regarded as positive indicators,and the negative expression of LGT suggested that patient will have a good prognosis with a very low risk of death in the near future.

Objective To analyze the disposition characteristic of LGT fingerprints and the related fingerprints for advanced gastric carcinoma patients when the LGT fingerprints changing. Methods SELDI and CM10 protein chip was used to detect the serum protein fingerprints of 81 cased of advanced gastric cancer patients. After 1 year follow-up, all the patients were detected by SELDI again. According to the expression condition of LGT fingerprints, the patients were divided into 4 groups: A group(LGT changing from negative to positive) 25 cases, B group (LGT changing from positive to negative) 15 cases, C group (LGT fingerprints keeping negative) 29 cases and D group (LGT fingerprints keeping positive) 12 cases. The influencing factor should be rejected. And the remaining fingerprints were LGT fingerprints' subtypes and therelated fingerprints. The different proteomic fingerprints were analyzed by Biomarker Wizard 3.1 Software.Results After rejecting the influencing fingerprints, the up-regulation fingerprints in A group were 11473, 11821, 11664, 11409, 11552 and 11947 (M/Z), and no down-regulation fingerprints. In B group, 3264 was upregulation, and 6523, 11509, 11669, 11413, 11351 and 6483 were down-regulation. In C and D group, there was not statistically differential protein fingerprint. Conclusion M/Z up-regulating fingerprints including 11473, 11821, 11664, 11409, 11552 and 11947 can be regarded as the subtype of LGT when it changing from negative to positive; down-regulating including 11509, 11669, 11413 and 11351 can be regarded as the subtype of LGT when it changing from positive to negative; 3264 up-regulating and 6523 and 6483 downregulating can be regarded as the related fingerprints when LGT changing from positive to negative; and when LGT keeping negative or positive in patients with advanced gastric cancer, there was no differential protein fingerprints.

Objective To investigate the epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in five rural counties of eastern China and analyze the biological,demographic and social risk factors.Methods Subjects of this study were all the diagnosed TB patients registered in the five study sites in Shandong Province,Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province during one year of 2008- 2009.Questionnaire interview was conducted in all the subjects to acquire the socio-demographic and clinical information.Sputum samples were collected for culturing and isolating of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.TB) strains.All the M.TB isolates were further tested for the susceptibility to first-line drugs including rifampin,isoniazid,ethambutol and strepomycin by proportion method.Mantel-Haenszel chi-square test,Fisher's exact test,ANOVA and nonconditional Logistic regression modeling were applied for data analysis.Results Among the total 380 M.TB isolates,105 were resistant to at least one of the first-line drugs.The total drug resistant TB prevalence was 27.6％.Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was observed in 8.4％ of newly treated TB patients,whereas it was 23.3％in previously treated TB patients.After adjusted by county,gender and age of the subjects,multivariate analysis showed that previous treatment history (OR=3.900,95％CI: 1.737-8.704),tuberculosis cavity (OR - 1.987,95 ％ CI: 1.001 - 3.942) were independent factors influencing the occurrence of MDR-TB.Conclusions The prevalence of drug resistant TB in rural area of eastern China is relatively low compared with the average level in China,while it is still higher than the global average level.The present study highlights that TB patients with previous treatment history,cavitaryTB are correlated with MDR-TB,and elderly patients are at high risk of MDR-TB.

Objective To investigate the application and administration of hyperbaric oxygen chambers in Beijing.Methods Forty-eight hospitals with hyperbaric oxygen chambers in Beijing were investigated by field investigation,letter investigation or telephone investigation.The investigation includes grades of hospital,personnel,equipment,therapy of severe cases,time of therapy and treatment plans in questionnaire.Results Hyperbaric oxygen was popular in Beijing,which ensured emergency treatments.But the scale was little relatively and the number of full-time technicians was less,besides,the therapeutic system and plans were diversified,which should be standardized.Conclusions Something must be done to improve the conditions of hyperbaric oxygen medicine in Beijing,such as cultivating personnel,standardizing therapeutic system,standardizing treatment plans,realizing computer control and so on.

AIM: To explore the effect of ovariectomization on Alzheimer-like phosphorylation of Tau in hippocampus of Sorague-Dawlery rats. METHODS: An animal model was developed using ovariectimized (OVX) rats, and the phosphorylation of Tau protein was measured by Western blot. RESULTS: The levels of phosphorylated Tau at PHF-1epitope were elevated in ovariectimized rat brain hippocampus 4 weeks and 8 weeks after ovariectomization, when compared with sham-OVX rats (P0.05). CONCLUSION: Ovariectomization may induce Alzheimer-like hyperphosphorylation of Tau protein in brain hippocampus of rats. [

Background and purpose: Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) may be a precursor lesion of inifltrating pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The mutation of the phenotypic impact of K-ras G12D alone, silencing of p53 and p16 could promote this process. The role of Smad4 in this progression was poorly understood. In our previous studies, we investigated that RNA interference silence of Smad4 to promote the PanIN cell malignant transformation. In the present study, we investigate. The further explores the siRNA interference of Smad4 expression on PanIN cells could lead to proliferation and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Methods:Smad4 knock-down PanIN cells (PanIN-S) were established by stable transfection with lentiviral-mediated Smad4 RNA interference. In vitro,silence of Smad4 enhanced the proliferation of PanIN cells as determined by cell counting. A soft agar assay was used to assess the anchorage-independent growth ability of cells. Cell migration and invasion assays were performed using transwell chambers with or without Matrigel. In xenograft model experiments, PCNA, VEGF and MMP-9 staining was separately used to evaluate cell proliferation and angiogenesis and migration (VEGF and MMP-9). Results:Effect of siRNA of Smad4 gene in PanIN cells was conifrmed by real-time RT-PCR and western blot. In vitro, silence of Smad4 enhanced the proliferation of PanIN cells as determined by cell counting. Soft agar assay showed that there were more colony cell numbers in PanIN-S cells compared with PanIN cells (P<0.05). Using the transwell assay, we observed that PanIN-S cells migrated faster than PanIN cells and similar results were obtained by Matrigel assay (P<0.05). Furthermore, immunohistochemical analysis of the harvested tumors suggested that Smad4 silencing was associated with cell proliferation (PCNA reactivity) and angiogenesis and migration (VEGF and MMP-9), and the expressions of PCNA, VEGF and MMP-9 in PanIN-S group were signiifcantly increased (P<0.05). Conclusion:Silence of Smad4 in PanIN cells enhanced progression to invasive adenocarcinoma of the pancreas by promoting cell growth, migration and invasion. Smad4 might be a new diagnostic marker in pancreatic cancer and prove to be a feasible and novel target for therapeutic intervention.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the effect of embryonic dermal signal on the hair-inductive capacity of neonatal mice dermal cells which have been amplified in vitro.

METHODSEmbryonic mice dermal cells of embryonic day 14 were added to a chamber on the back of nude mice with neonatal mice dermal cells which had been amplified in vitro for 3 days and freshly isolated neonatal mice epidermal cells. The hair regeneration was compared between the groups with or without embryonic mice dermal cells. Meanwhile, chambers with following cells respectively were constructed as controls: embryonic mice dermal cells + neonatal mice epidermal cells; freshly isolated neonatal mice dermal cells + neonatal mice epidermal cells; amplified neonatal mice dermal cells only; embryonic mice dermal cells only; freshly isolated neonatal mice dermal cells only; neonatal mice epidermal cells only.

RESULTSThe number of regenerated hairs with the aid of embryonic mice dermal cells (207 +/- 15. 948) was significantly higher than that (67 +/- 8.963) in the group without embryonic mice dermal cells (n = 3, t = 7.653, P = 0.002).

CONCLUSIONEmbryonic dermal signal can enhance the hair-inductive capacity of neonatal mice dermal cells which have been amplified in vitro.

Animals ; Cell Transplantation ; methods ; Cells, Cultured ; Hair ; physiology ; Hair Follicle ; surgery ; Mice ; Mice, Nude ; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures ; Regeneration ; Skin ; cytology ; embryology

OBJECTIVETo analyze the impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors on health-seeking behavior among patients with long-term chronic cough.

METHODS310 patients with chronic cough, identified in two county general hospitals from the study sites were involved in a cross-sectional study. Questionnaire and personal interview were used for data collection. Binary logistic regression, Kaplan-Meier method and Cox analysis were applied in multivariate analysis to identify and quantify the impact of individual factors regarding the delay of reaching primary health care provider and the choice of health facility selection.

RESULTSDelay caused by patients themselves showed a difference between the counties with or without the programes. Occupation and medical insurance were associated with patients' health-seeking behavior. Patients under 18 years old had an earlier chance to access the health facility (RR = 1.90, 95% CI: 1.27 - 2.84), and choosing the general hospital as their first preference when seeking healthcare (RR = 2.06, 95% CI: 1.12 - 3.80). Patients with medical insurance were more likely to seek health care service in the general hospitals (RR = 1.64, 95% CI: 1.35 - 2.10). Only 2.5% of the patients with cough longer than two weeks had received sputum smear tests in the general hospitals.

CONCLUSIONOccupation, medical insurance had great importance to the health seeking behaviors of patients with chronic cough which had not been viewed as an 'on-the-alert' symptom to be included in the tuberculosis control programs at the general hospitals either in the Programmed or Non-programmed counties in Jiangsu province.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Child ; China ; epidemiology ; Cough ; epidemiology ; etiology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Female ; Health Services Accessibility ; Health Services Research ; Hospitals, Rural ; statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Infant ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Multivariate Analysis ; Patient Acceptance of Health Care ; statistics & numerical data ; Prevalence ; Sputum ; microbiology ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; complications ; epidemiology