Objective To assess the correlation between FFPN22 C1858T polymorphism and rheumatoid arthritis(RA)in Han people in Xiamen area by TaqMan-MGB real-time PCR．Methods A casecontrol study was carried out in Xiamen Han population．Their blood samples(100 RAs and 100 controls respectively)were collected and the PTPN22 C1858T polymnrphism was tested by TaqMan-MGB real-time PCR．Results①A technique of TaqMan-MGB teal-time PCR was established to investigate PTPN22 C1858T polymorphism；② Onlv 1858 C allele was presented in all the RAs and controls，and no T allele was detected．Conclusion There is no PTPN22 1858T allele in Han people in Xiamen area．It is suggested that there's no association between PTPN22 C1858T polymorphism and RA．

Objective To explore the role of caveolin-1 in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) caused by high-fat diet.Methods A total of 12 ten-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were fed with high-fat and high-cholesterol diet for 14 weeks to establish the NAFLD animal model.And six syngeneic mice fed with normal diet at the same time were taken as control.All the mice were sacrificed by the end of 14th week,body weight,liver weight and the changes of serum lipids of the two groups were compared.The changes of caveolin-1 at mRNA and protein levels in the liver of mice with NAFLD were detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and Western blot.The liver steatosis of the mice was observed under light microscopy after stained by hematoxylin and eosin.The changes of distribution of caveolin-1 in liver were examined by immunohistochemistry.The differences of caveolin-1 at mRNA and protein level in livers between the two groups were compared by t test.The differences of immunohistochemical scores of caveolin-1 expression in the livers of mice with different degree of fatty liver were analyzed by ordinal variables of two independent samples ranksum test analysis.Results After 14 weeks high-fat and high-cholesterol diet,all the mice of experiment group developed NAFLD.Nine of which were severe and three were moderate.Compared with the control group,serum total cholesterol,high density lipoprotein cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol of experiment group significantly increased ((1.940 ± 0.300) mmol/L vs (3.771±0.800) mmol/L,(1.120±0.066) mmol/L vs (2.224±0.420) mmol/L,(0.510±0.191) mmol/L vs (1.241±0.660) mmol/L,t=-3.760,-5.474,-3.332,all P＜0.01),however there was no significant difference in triglyceride (P＞0.05).The caveolin-1 of experiment group significantly increased at mRNA (1.536 ±0.226 vs 0.980± 0.272,t=3.371,P＜0.05) and protein levels (0.643±0.240 vs 0.100±0.130,t=4.847,P＜0.01).The immunohistochemical results indicated that the increased caveolin-1 expression mainly distributed in the membrane of hepatocytes,cytoplasm and membrane of lipid droplets.Conclusion The up-regulated caveolin-1 expression in the livers of NAFLD mice induced by high-fat and high-cholesterol may be involved in the mechanism of NAFLD.

Objective To investigate the characteristics and diagnostic value of multi-slice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) examination of gastrointestinal lipoma.Methods The cross-sectional study was adopted.The clinicopathological data of 96 patients with gastrointestinal lipoma including 32 from the Second Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University,30 from the First Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University,17 from the Ruian People's Hospital of Zhejiang,11 from the Yueqing People's Hospital,3 from the Wenzhou Central Hospital and 3 from the Wenzhou People's Hospital from December 2006 to September 2015 were collected.All patients were fasted for 8 hours prior to the examination,and partial patients underwent enhanced scan after the conventional CT scanning with breathless scanning and no abdominal pressure.Coronal and sagittal images of gastrointestinal tract including the tumor were administrated with multiple planar reconstruction (MPR)techniques of Reformat software.Based on MPR images,the curves along the gastrointestinal tract were drawn,voxel distributed along the curve track were reconstructed,and curved planar reconstruction (CPR) images were obtained.The patients received operation or follow-up according to individual characteristics after examinations.The patients undergoing operation were followed up for detecting tumor recurrence and metastasis by CT examination and patients receiving follow-up were observed by endoscopy for detecting changes of tumor size and morphology up to June 2015.The analysis indexes included tumor location and size,performance of MSCT examination (tumor shape,density,margin,intussusceptions,enhanced MSCT examination),intraoperative findings,results of pathological examination and results of follow-up.Measurement data with normal distribution were presented as i ± s.Results All the 96 patients received MSCT plain scan and the 42 received enhanced MSCT scan.The CPR images in 30 patients were collected.(1) Tumor location and size:3 tumors were located in the stomach,16 in the duodenal,27 in the jejunum,23 in the ileal,2 in the ileocecus,9 in the sigmoid colon,9 in the ascending colon,3 in the descending colon,3 in the transverse colon and 1 in the appendix.The diameter of tumor was (3.8 ± 2.3) cm.(2) Performance of MSCT examination:of the 96 patients,round or oval tumors were detected in 68 patients,tubular tumors in 15 patients and lobulated tumors in 13 patients.Tumors showed homogeneous density in 67 patients and inhomogeneous density in 29 patients.The CT value of tumors was-110--53 HU with a median value of-80 HU.Tumors of the 96 patients had clear boundaries and smooth margins.Twenty-four patients were complicated with intussusceptions with nested length of (28 ±4)cm,including 10 cases of multiple concentric rings,7 cases of double-target sign and 7 cases of banana sign.Enhanced MSCT scan showed that capsule around tumors in the 96 patients demonstrated slightly intensified,tumor body demonstrated no enhancement and that angiolipoma in 10 patients had cable strip like enhancement in the tumors.(3) Intraoperative findings:of the 96 patients,59 patients underwent surgical resection with single tumor,24 patients were concomitant with intussusceptions,9 patients showed aphtha in the center of tumors and 1 patient had partial lipoma in the prepyloric region dropped into the duodenal.Thirty-seven patients received endoscopic examination,showing submucous nodular protrusive lesions of 1.7-3.5 cm.(4) Results of pathological examination:of 59 patients undergoing surgical resection,submucosal,subserous and intramural tumors were detected in 45,9 and 5 patients,respectively,with complete capsule and pedunculated or non-pedunculated.Of the 59 patients,tumors showed round or oval shape in 41 patients,tubular shape in 10 patients and lobulated shape in 8 patients.The section of tumors showed yellowish-white.Specimens from endoscopic and surgical resections were observed under microscopy,the tumors were composed of mature-differentiated adipocytes,different quantities of fibrous connective tissues,blood vessels and mucus ingredients.Tumor cells were round shape with hypochromatic cytoplast and became polygeal and vacuolated after squeezing,nucleus was compressed to peripheral area and cytoplasm was full of lipid droplets.The results of immunohistochemistry stain showed Vimentin,CD34,D2-40,CD68 were positive and AE1/3 and Calretinin were negative.All tumors were diagnosed as benign lipomas.Fifty-nine patients who underwent surgical resection were followed up for 0.5-5.0 years and 37 patients of which specimens were obstained by endoscopic resection were followed up for 1.0-2.0 years after the pathological diagnosis with no significant change.Conclusion The MSCT finding of the gastrointestinal lipoma has characteristic appearance,and MSCT examination can clearly show lipoma location,size,shape and properties,with a widespread application value.

Objective To compare maternal and neonatal outcomes after induction,elective cesarean section and spontaneous onset of labor in uncomplicated term nulliparous women.Methods A total of 3751 uncomplicated term nullipara who delivered in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from Sept 2002 to April 2007 were retrospectively analyzed.They were divided into three groups:the induction group, the elective cesarean section group,and the spontaneous onset of labor group.Their general conditions (such as age,weeks of pregnancy,hospital days and cost),postpartum complications(such as postpartum hemorrhage,puerperal morbidity,urinary retention,blood transfusion,delayed healing,and trauma),and Apgar score were compared by statistic methods.Results(1)Among 3751 women,501(13.3%)of them underwent induction(the induction group),1634(43.6%)delivered by cesarean section(cesarean section group),the other 1616(43.1%)women underwent spontaneous onset of labor(the spontaneous onset of labor group).(2)Results of general conditions:the spontaneous onset of labor group had the shortest hospital days,which was longer in the induction group,and the longest in the selective cesarean section group(P

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the hyper-CVAD/MA regimen as an intensified treatment option for 28 T cell and aggressive/highly aggressive B cell NHL in Chinese patients. Methods Clinical data of 28 NHL patients treated with hyper-CVAD/MA regimen from Jan 2005 to Sep 2008 were retrospectively analyzed. Results 27 NHL patients were available for the efficacy analysis, with a response rate of 70.4 %. For the 13 B cell lymphoma cases, the response rate was 84.6 %. The main toxicity was Grade Ⅲ or Grade Ⅳ myelosuppression in all cases and 2 treatment related deaths. Conclusion Hyper-CVAD/MA regimen had a high response rate in T cell and aggressive /highly aggressive B cell NHL lymphoma, companied by significant toxicity when treating Chinese patients. Further clinical practices are needed to pick up a suitable dose which can balance efficacy and safety.

Objective To explore the three ultrasonic technologies of two -dimensional ultrasound(2D -US),ultrasonic elastography(UE) and contrast -enhanced ultrasound(CEUS) for the measurement error in breast cancer and the correlation with the expression of ER,PR,VEGF.Methods 50 patients with breast cancer were meas-ured by 2D -US,UE,CEUS preoperatively,and the pathological specimen were measured postoperatively.Then used the immunohistochemistry to detect the expression of ER,PR,VEGF in tumor,and analyzed the correlation with the measurement errors.Results The results of differences between 2D -US,UE,CEUS and pathology were respectively as follows:( -0.59 ±-0.34)cm,( -0.20 ±-0.14)cm,( -0.40 ±-0.31)cm,and the differences were statistically significant(F =20.497,P <0.001).The positive expression rate of ER and PR was high if the difference between UE and 2D -US was less than or equal to 0.44cm.And the positive expression rate of VEGF was low if the difference between CEUS and 2D -US was less than or equal to 0.19cm.Three ultrasonic technologies in the measurement of breast cancer were different,the trend of difference between UE and 2D -US was smaller if the ER and PR were positively expression,and the trend of difference between CEUS and 2D -US was bigger if the VEGF was positively expression.Conclusion There is correlation between different immunohistochemical expression of breast cancer with measurement error in three different ultrasonic imaging technologies.The results suggest that the molecular pathology difference of breast cancer can impact on ultrasonic imaging,which contributes to know the reason and regulation of measurement error in different ultrasonic imaging technology.

Objective:To study the role of indocyanine green(ICG)fluorescence imaging in laparoscopic partial splenectomy (LPS).Methods:The data of 4 patients who underwent ICG fluorescence imaging technology for LPS at Beijing Luhe Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University from May 2017 to May 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. There were 3 females and 1 male, aged 46, 41, 27 and 12 years respectively. The extents of spleen preservation were compared between ICG fluorescence imaging with ordinary white light during operation. The residual splenic remnants were tested with fluorescence imaging after splenectomy, which showed fluorescence fading indicating good vascular perfusion.Results:ICG fluorescence imaging was performed on 4 patients. The operation time ranged from 180.0 to 250.0 min, and the intraoperative blood loss ranged from 40.0 to 200.0 ml. The postoperative hospital stay ranged from 4 to 14 days. There were no serious complications. Postoperative histopathology showed: splenic cyst ( n=1), splenic hemangioma ( n=2), and splenic laceration ( n=1). Conclusions:ICG fluorescence imaging technology had a significant role to play in partial splenectomy. This study showed this technique to improve safety of laparoscopic partial splenectomy.

OBJECTIVETo extract and separate toxic components from Phytolaccae Radix, and to comare the changes in toxicity of Phytolaccae Radix before and after being processed with vinegar.

METHODThe mucous membrane irritation response, mouse peritoneal inflammation model and in vitro macrophages release NO model were applied to compared the changes in inflammatory toxicity of toxic components from Phytolaccae Radix before and after being processed with vinegar.

RESULTToxic components of Phytolacca Radix had significant inflammatory toxicity, which could cause conjunctival edema in rabbits, and increase of PGE2 and macrophages release NO content in peritoneal exudate in mice. After being processed with vinegar, they showed reduced irritation, which resulted in decrease of PGE2 and macrophages release NO content in peritoneal exudate in mice.

CONCLUSIONAfter being processed with vinegar, the toxicity of toxic components from Phytolacca Radix decreased obviously.

Acetic Acid ; chemistry ; Animals ; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical ; methods ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; isolation & purification ; toxicity ; Eye ; drug effects ; immunology ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Phytolacca ; chemistry ; Rabbits

OBJECTIVETo investigate the findings of contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography (MSCT) that characterize intraductal papillary neoplasms of bile ducts (IPNB).

METHODSThe MSCT findings and clinical data of 16 cases of IPNB proven by surgical pathology were reviewed retrospectively.

RESULTSAmong the 16 cases, nine were adenoma (multi-lesions, n = 5; single lesions, n = 4) and seven were adenocarcinoma (multi-lesions, n = 4; single lesions, n = 3). Among the nine adenoma cases, seven showed nodules or masses in the expanding intrahepatic bile ducts with asymmetrical low density on plain scan, and two showed obvious expansion of biliary ducts and the inner wall of bile ducts was rough. All seven of the adenocarcinoma cases showed nodules or masses in the expanding intrahepatic bile ducts with asymmetrical low density-like adenoma. When contrast enhancement was applied, the nine adenoma cases manifested slight-to-moderate degrees of asymmetrical enhancement. For the seven adenocarcinoma cases, two showed asymmetrical enhancement similar to that of the adenoma cases and five showed continued enhancement; one case showed malignant infiltration of the bile duct and evident damage in the adjacent hepatic tissue. The CT plain scan findings for the two groups (adenoma and adenocarcinoma) were not significantly different (t = -1.17, P = 0.2632). Significantly different findings were obtained with the MSCT imaging analysis for the arterial phase (t = 6.53, P less than 0.01) and the portal vein phase (t = 5.63, P less than 0.01). All cases showed asymmetrical expansion of intrahepatic biliary ducts, diffuse or local, and four cases showed moderate expansion of the common bile duct. One adenocarcinoma case showed intumescence in the celiac lymph node by moderate asymmetrical enhancement.

CONCLUSIONMSCT is helpful for the differential diagnosis of IPNB from other hepatic lesions.

Adult ; Aged ; Bile Duct Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic ; diagnostic imaging ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Papilloma, Intraductal ; diagnostic imaging ; Retrospective Studies ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; methods

BACKGROUNDPatients with hypertension coupled with metabolic syndrome (MetS) are among the high risk population in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. To reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is essential to appropriately control blood pressure together with other cardiovascular risk factors.

OBJECTIVEThe current study was designed to investigate the therapeutic effects on blood pressure, blood pressure variability and other cardiovascular risk factors by giving Yiqi Huaju Formula, a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine, in addition to routine treatment to hypertensive patients coupled with MetS.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND INTERVENTIONSA total of 43 patients with hypertension coupled with MetS were recruited into this study. The enrolled patients were randomly divided into the Chinese herbal formula group (anti-hypertensive drugs plus Yiqi Huaju Formula, CHF) and the control group (anti-hypertensive drugs plus placebo). The CHF group enrolled 22 patients while the control group received 21 cases. Treatments were given for 12 weeks in both groups.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESParameters examined include 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), fasting glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), fasting plasma glucose, 2-hour postprandial plasma glucose (PPG), fasting plasma insulin, serum lipid, etc.

RESULTSCompared with the control group, the CHF group had significant improvement (P<0.01) in anthropometric parameters, FPG, HOMA-IR, blood pressure amplitude, blood pressure variability and blood pressure load.

CONCLUSIONThis study showed that integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment can achieve better results in controlling blood pressure as well as other cardiovascular risk factors. The mechanism of controlling of blood pressure may be associated with the improvement of insulin sensitivity due to the Yiqi Huaju intervention. TRIAL REGISTRATION IDENTIFIER: ChiCTR-TRC-11001633.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Blood Glucose ; metabolism ; Blood Pressure ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Female ; Glycated Hemoglobin A ; metabolism ; Humans ; Hypertension ; complications ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; Lipids ; blood ; Male ; Metabolic Syndrome ; complications ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; Middle Aged ; Treatment Outcome ; Young Adult