1.Construction of MuSK-mCherry fusion fluorescent protein and used for detection of MuSK antibodies in myasthenia gravis
Quanxin JIN ; Jiazhen XU ; Feng WEI ; Fangfang LI ; Yan WANG ; Honghua LI ; Songzhu JIN ; Fanping MENG
Chinese Journal of Immunology 2014;(10):1369-1373
Objective:To construct a fusion protein of extracellular domain peptide fragment of muscle specific kinase ( MuSK) and fluorescent protein mCherry ,and used as antigen in the detection of antibodies against MuSK ( MuSKAb ) in the sera of patients with myasthenia gravis ( MG).Methods:The mCherry gene was amplified by PCR from vector pRSET-B and cloned into pGEM-T Easy Vector,and furthermore, cloned into Eukaryotic expression vector pMT /BiP/V5-His ( MuSK), which contains MuSK extracellular domain 22-452 amino acid peptide fragment gene to construct the fluorescent fusion protein gene MuSK -mCherry.The recombinant vector was subsequently transfected into drosophila S 2 cells for expression.The expressed fusion proteins were verified in confocal mi-croscope ,and used as antigen in the detection of MuSKAb in sera of MG patents in fluorescence immunoprecipitation test .Results:The fluorescent fusion protein MuSK-mCherry was successfully constructed and expressed.The MuSKAb in sera of patents with MG could be detected in fluorescence immunoprecipitation test using the constructed MuSK-mCherry fusion protein as antigen.Conclusion: It is available to use the constructed fluorescent fusion protein MuSK-mCherry as antigen in fluorescence immunoprecipitation test for the detection of MuSKAb in sera of patents with MG.
2.Systematic review and Meta-analysis of incidence of oral feeding intolerance in acute pancreatitis
Zhengyan LI ; Fengni XIE ; Yan ZHAO ; Wei HUANG ; Changqing WANG ; Bin BAI ; Xiaoyong WU ; Pengfei YU ; Xiaolong LI ; Quanxin FENG ; Qingchuan ZHAO
International Journal of Surgery 2018;45(1):29-32,封3
Objective To systemically review andquantify the incidence of oral feeding intolerance in acute pancreatitis. Methods Randomized controlled trials that reported the oral feeding intolerance rates of acute pancreatitis were searchedfrom PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, Cochrane Library, WanFang, CNKI, CMCC and VIP dal,abase wilh the" Acute pancreatitis " " Feeding intolerance" " Incidence" " Meta- analysis "from January 2002 to May 2017. Date were analyzed by using R 3. 4. 0 software. The heterogeneity of data were analyzed using 12test. Results Eleven randomized controlled trials including 658 cases were enrolled in Meta-analysis. The incidence of oral feeding of intolerance was 12. 2% . The result of subgroup analysis showed that there were no significant difference in the incidence of oral feeding intolerance when region, sample size and published year were taken into analysis (P > 0. 05). The oral feeding intolerance rate of mild acute pancreatitis was lower than that when moderately severe acute pancreatitis and severe acute pancreatitis were, included (8. 2% and 19. 9% , respectively; P = 0. 002 7). Conclusion Oral feeding intolerance affects approximately l in 8 patients with acute pancreatitis. The incidence of oral feeding intolerance of patients with severe acute pancreatitis is higher than that of patients with mild acute pancreatitis
3.Kaiser score for diagnosis of breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement on MRI.
Bing ZHANG ; Linlin FENG ; Lin WANG ; Xin CHEN ; Xiaohui LI ; Quanxin YANG
Journal of Southern Medical University 2020;40(4):562-566
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of Kaiser score for breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement.
METHODS:
We collected data from patients with breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement on preoperative DCE-MRI between January, 2014 and June, 2019. All the cases were confirmed by surgical pathology or puncture biopsy. With pathology results as the gold standard, we evaluated the diagnostic efficacy of Kaiser score and MRI BI-RADS classification and the consistency between the diagnostic results by the two methods and the pathological results.
RESULTS:
A total of 90 lesions were detected in 88 patients, including 28 benign lesions (31.1%) and 62 malignant lesions (68.9%). For diagnosis of the lesions, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of Kaiser Score were 100%, 75%, 89.9%, 100% and 92%, as compared with 93.5%, 46.4%, 79.5%, 76.5% and 78.9% of MRI BI-RADS, respectively. The diagnostic specificity of Kaiser score was significantly higher than that of BI-RADS classification (=0.021).
CONCLUSIONS
The Kaiser score system provides a diagnostic strategy for BI-RADS classification of breast lesions with non-mass enhancement and has a better diagnostic efficacy than BI-RADS classification alone. The use of Kaiser score can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity of such breast lesions for inexperienced radiologists.
Breast
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Breast Diseases
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diagnostic imaging
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Humans
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging