Objective To investigate the effect of the gene polymorphism of cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) on the serum lipid levels in renal transplant patients.Methods Serum total cholesterol (TC),triglyceride (TG),low density lipoprotein (LDL),high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC),apolipoproteins (Apo A1,B,E) and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] were measured. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymophism (PCR-RFLP) was used to detect CETP gene polymorphism in renal transplant recipients.Results Serum levels of TC,TG,HDLC,LDLC,ApoB,ApoE in the renal transplant recipients were increased significantly after transplantation. The allele frequency and the distribution of the TaqⅠ(intron 1) and MSPⅠ(intron 8) genotypes showed no significant difference between the controls and the renal transplant recipients. The serum TG level was significantly higher in renal transplant recipients with the genotype TaqⅠB1/B1 than those in the patients with genotype TaqⅠ B1/B2 and B2/B2. But there was no statistical difference among the serum lipid levels in renal transplant recipients with different MSPⅠgenotypes.Conclusion The serum lipid levels were increased significantly in transplant after transplantation,and the patients with CETP genotype TaqⅠB1/B1 liable to develop hypertrglyceridemia.

Objective To analyze the direct and indirect effects of influencing factors on suicide ideation among college students based on the structural equation model. Methods 1505 college students were investigated with ASLEC, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, SSRS, QSA and BDI. Results Incidence rate of college students' suicidal ideations during the past year was 6.67%. The goodness of fit for the structural equation model was satisfactory and 3 major indices( x2/df = 2.23, GFI = 0. 982, RMSEA = 0. 029 ) had met corresponding requirements. The depression was directly influencing factor on suicide ideation, while four factors including passive coping style, social support, positive coping style and suicide attitude, had indirect impacts. Negative life event not only directly affected suicide ideation, but also had indirect effects. According to the percentages of their contribution, the risk factors were ranked as follows:depression (41.08%), negativity life event (35.35%) and passive coping style (6.05%). Similarly, the top protective factor was: social support ( 11.94% ), followed by positive coping style (4.94%) and suicide attitude (0.63%). Conclusion Depression is an important risk factor of suicide,and has a direct impact. So, not only strengthen the mental health of college students, but also train students to face up the difficulties with a positive style, and make the college students get social supports sufficiently.

Objective To investigate the characteristics of minimal fat renal angiomyolipoma (MFAML)and clear cell renal cell carcinoma(CCRCC)in high resolution multi-slice spiral CT(MSCT)and to improve the diagnosis accuracy for the renal tumors.Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 24 MFAML patients(16 females,8 males)with mean age of 43(19-74)years and 24 CCRCC patients(16 females,8 males)with mean age of 44(21-76)years.All patients had undergone MSCT and proved histopathologically after surgery.The characteristics included tumor location,tumor attenuation on unenhanced CT,enhancement characteristics(degree of tumor enhancement in the early corticomedullary phase,homogeneity of enhancement,amount of enhancement,enhancement pattern over time),tumor margin,intratumoral calcification,and perinephric changes.The predictive value of each CT characteristic was determined by using multivariate logistic regression analysis.Results The tumor location in the kidney (upper pole:MFAML,6 cases,CCRCC,6 cases;middle:MFAML,7 cases,CCRCC,9 cases;lower pole:MFAML,11 cases,CCRCC,9 cases)and smooth tumor margin(MFAML,n=21;CCRCC,n=19)were not significantly different between MFAML patients and those with CCRCC,P＞0.05.Twenty-one cases of both MFAMLs and CCRCCs had the significant enhancement in the early corticomedullary phase,which were hypovascular tumors,whereas the mean amount of tumor enhancement was greater in CCRCC than in MFAML in both the early corticomedullary and the corticomedullary phases(CCRCC:175 HU,196 HU;MFAML:125 HU,145 HU;P＜0.05.MFAML usually showed homogeneous enhancement(n=15)rather than heterogeneous enhancement(n =9),whereas most CCRCC showed heterogeneous enhancement(n =17)rather than homogeneous enhancement(n =7),P＜0.05).Enhancement pattern was not a significant predictor.Within the 13 MFAML cases,8 cases had sufficient blood supply(6 cases showed obvious wash-in-and-wash-out,2 cases were with prolonged enhancement),5 cases with hypovascular showed a pattern of prolonged or gradual enhancement,while 21 CCRCC cases had sufficient blood supply and 71％ of them showed obvious wash-in-and-wash-out.High tumor attenuation on unenhanced scans(MFAML:17 patients (75％);CCRCC:2 patients(8％),P=0.002,OR=0.010)and threshold enhancement values of 129.5 HU in the corticomedullary phase(MFAML:5 patients(20％);CCRCC:20 patients(83％),P =0.004,OR =0.057)were valuable predictors for differentiating MFAML from CCRCC at multivariate logistic regression analysis.Conclusions MSCT is useful in differentiating MFAML from CCRCC,with high tumor attenuation on unenhanced scans and threshold enhancement values of 129.5 HU in the corticomedullary phase being the most valuable CT findings.75％ of MFAMLs with sufficient blood supply also show a pattern of wash-in-and-wash-out,which can easily misdiagnosed as a renal cancer.

Objective To investigate the effect of gender and age on the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of normal adult pancreas.Methods A total of 383 patients with normal pancreas (290 male,93 female,range from 21 to 78 years of age) were enrolled in this study.The subjects were divided into four groups based on different age (≤40 years,41-50 years,51-60 years and ＞60 years) with patient number of 56,108,139 and 80,respectively.Breath-hold single-shot echo-planar DWI (b value =0,500 s/mm2) was performed to determine ADCs on all patients.The average ADCs was calculated by four ADCs measured from the head to tail part of the pancreas in each patient.Patients with different age or gender were analyzed by independent-samples t test.Effect of gender on ADCs was analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test.Relationship between ADCs and age was analyzed using Spearman rank-order correlation test,and Kruskal-Wallis H test was used to compare the ADCs among 4 age groups.Results The median pancreatic ADC values in female group(n =93) [1.60 × 10-3 mm2/s (1.47 × 10-3-1.77 × 10-3) mm2/s] was higher than that in male group (n =290) [1.57 × 10-3mm2/s(1.41 × 10-3-1.74 × 10-3)mm2/s].Mann-Whitney U test results showed the mean ADCs was similar between the two groups (Z =1.335,P =0.182).The age distribution was similar between the male [(52 ± 10) years of age] and female [(51 ± 11) years of age]groups (t =0.267,P=0.790).The age spectrum showed that there was no correlation between the average ADC values and age (r =0.016,P =0.752).The median ADC values of the four age groups were 1.58 ×10-3,1.54 × 10-3,1.59 × 10-3 and 1.57 × 10-3 mm2/s,respectively.Kruskal-Wallis H test showed no significant difference of mean ADCs among the age groups (x2 =2.15,P =0.542).Conclusion There is no correlation of ADCs between age and gender in normal adult pancreas.

Objective To investigate the risk factors of ICU delirium in critically ill patients. Methods A total of 1 74 critically ill patients in ICU who were older than 18 yrs and stayed in ICU exceeding 24 hs from January 201 5 to June 201 5 were enrolled.Patients were divided into delirium group and non delirium group.Delirium was assessed twice daily with the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU)during the first 7 days.The factors such as history of alcoholism and other 12 factors were analyzed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify those risk factors associated with delirium.Results With 22 cases of delirium in 1 74 patients,the in-cidence of delirium was 12.64% (delirium group).Variables associated with delirium were coronary heart history,operation,tracheal intubation,clinical use of mechanical ventilation,hypoxemia and Benzodiazepine.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that coronary heart disease (OR 3.932,95%CI 1.225-12.61 7),surgery(OR 9.691,95%CI 2.103-44.657),hypoxemia(OR 6.595, 95%CI 1.377-31.585),Benzodiazepine use (OR 7.620,95%CI 1.713-33.899)was independent risk factors of delirium in critically ill patients (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01 ).Conclusion Coronary heart disease,surgery,hypoxemia and Benzodiazepine are independent risk factors of ICU delirium in criti-cally ill patients.Early screening and prevention of delirium should be given to reduce the occurrence of delirium for patients in ICU.

Objective To determine the significance of the quantitative parameters obtained from intravoxel incoherent motion ( IVIM) diffusion weighted imaging ( DWI) in differentiating renal tumors from normal renal tissues.Methods Twenty-four patients with surgical pathology-proven renal tumors and 13 volunteers with healthy kidneys were included.DWI was performed with 9 b-values (0, 20, 50, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1 000 s/mm2).The slow component of diffusion (Dslow), fast component of diffusion ( Dfast ) and fraction of fast ADC ( f) of the biexponential DWI were calculated for the clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), the normal renal parenchyma and the non CCRCC ( NCCRCC) .The ADC was calculated for all b-values using linear regression yielding standard ADC ( ADCtot ) .The parameters were compared among the groups, and the receiver operating characteristic ( ROC ) analysis was performed. Results CCRCC showed higher ADCtot (1.73 ±0.43) ×10 -3 mm2/s, Dfast (14.75 ±14.73) ×10 -3 mm2/s, Dslow(1.34 ±0.38) ×10 -3 mm2/s than NCCRCC (ADCtot(1.23 ±0.26) ×10 -3 mm2/s, Dfast(9.47 ± 5.27) ×10 -3 mm2/s, Dslow(0.58 ±0.15) ×10 -3 mm2/s), and the differences of ADCtot(P=0.037) and Dslow(P=0.001) were significant.The normal renal parenchyma showed higher ADCtot (2.25 ±0.11) × 10 -3 mm2/s, Dslow ( 1.74 ±0.17 ) ×10 -3 mm2/s, f ( 35.00% ±9.37%) than CCRCC ( f, 31.13% ± 10.75%) and NCCRCC(f, 33.76%±24.02%), and the differences between the normal renal parenchyma and CCRCC of ADCtot ( P =0.000 ) and Dslow ( P =0.001 ) were significant.There were no differences between the normal renal parenchyma and the tumor ipsilateral renal parenchyma of all parameters.Dslow had higher accuracy ( sensitivity 95%, specificity 100%) in distinguishing CCRCC and NCCRCC, with area under the curve of 0.988.Conclusions Multi-b-value DWI derived quantitative parameters including ADCtot and Dslow may differ significantly between the renal tumor and normal renal parenchyma.Dslow is the best parameter in distinguishing CCRCC and NCCRCC.

Abstract] Objective To study the roles of IL-12 and IL-23 in the development of protective im-munity and pathological changes during chlamydial urogenital infection.Methods C57BL/6J wild type (wt) mice and mice deficient in IL-12p35 (IL-12p35 KO) or IL-12p40 (IL-12p40 KO)were inoculated in-travaginally with 1×104 IFU of live Chlamydia muridarum ( C.muridarum) organisms.Half mice of each group were reinfected on day 114 after primary infection.Vaginal swabs were taken every 3 or 4 days to mo-nitor live organism shedding.The mice were sacrificed after 114 or 143 days of primary infection and the va-ginal tract and kidney samples were collected for pathological analysis.The numbers of chlamydial inclusion bodies and bacteria in kidney homogenates were titrated after 100 days of primary infection.Results The infection time courses of mice deficient in either IL-12p35 or IL-12p40 were similar after primary infection, but were prolonged as compared with the wild type mice.All mice regardless of genotypes developed severe pathological damages in upper genital tracts with no significant difference among different groups.Almost all IL-12p40 KO mice and some IL-12p35 KO mice showed pathological changes in kidney samples.No obvious abnormality was observed in any of the kidneys from wild type mice.Neither the age-matched IL-12p35 KO nor IL-12p40 KO mice developed any gross pathological changes in kidney in the absence of chlamydial in-fection.C.muridarum inclusions were detected in kidney samples with gross pathological damages from IL-12p35 KO mice and IL-12p40 KO mice.No inclusions were ever detected in kidneys from the wild type mice.The numbers of chlamydial inclusions in the IL-12p40 KO mice were much higher than those of the IL-12p35 KO mice.Live bacteria were detected in mice deficient in either IL-12p35 or IL-12p40, but not in the wild type mice.No significant difference with the number of live bacteria was found between IL-12p35 KO mice and IL-12p40 KO mice.Conclusion IL-12 and IL-23 could inhibit the spread of C.muridarum in-fection from genital tract to kidney.The deficiency of IL-12 or IL-23 might relate to the renal lesions induced by Chlamydia infection.

With DQOL (diabetes quality of life) scale, quality of life was evaluated before and after diabetic education in 136 type 2 diabetic patients. The Cronbach′s ? of DQOL scale was from 0.809 to 0.849, suggesting that the DQOL scale did effectively reflect the life quality of type 2 diabetic patients.

This paper reviews the effects of physical environments (including light, electric field, ultrasound, magnetic field, microgravity, temperature, mechanical vibration, and heterogeneous nucleation interface) on protein crystal nucleation. The research results are summarized and the possible mechanisms of the effects are discussed. In the end of this review, the application prospects of these physical environments (including coupled environments) in protein crystallization are presented.
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Objective To investigate the effects of control status scale for diabetes (CSSD70), designed by diabetes center of Ruijin Hospital, in type 2 diabetes patients. Methods The correlations between CSSD70 and age, gender, duration of diabetes, educational backgrounds, insulin use, instruments for diabetes control, diabetes family history, symptoms at the onset of diabetes, complications, random plasma glucose and HbA_(1c) were analysed in 136 type 2 diabetes patients. The correlation between CSSD70 and another national questionnaires DQOL was analysed, and in order to determine the validity and stability of CSSD70, 30 patients were asked to complete the scales twice within one week. Results The coherent results in CSSD70 and DQOL were obtained, but CSSD70 was more comprehensive and sensitive. Almost all factors included in this study were related to CSSD70 total score and sub-scale score. The stability of CSSD70 was fine, and a close relationship between total score and sub-scale score was found. Conclusion The CSSD70 appears to be a good scale in evaluating the functional health status in type 2 diabetes, and is suitable for Chinese patients in evaluating diabetes control.