1.The abnormality and clinical significance of follicular helper T cells and T helper 9 cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 2012;32(2):114-118
Objective To investgate the expression of Tfh and Th9 in the peripheral blood of rheumatoid arthritis ( RA),and to analyze the relationship between those cells and disease activity,organs of involvement,ect.,and to underly the possible immunological mechananism of RA.Methods Peripheral blood Tfh cells and Th9 cells,define as the CD4+ CXCR5 + ICOS+ and CD3 + CD8+ IL-9+ population,were examined by flow cytometry in 36 patients with RA and 22 case of age-and gender-matched health controls.According to 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28),patients were divied into two groups:high disease activity(n=22),moderate disease activity(n=14).And then to analyzed the correlation among the Tfh,Th9 and clinical data of RA,such as ESR,CRP,RF,the number of tender joints,the number of swollen joints and bone destruction,etc..While to analyzed the correlation between Th9 and Tfh.Results The expression of Tfh (Z=-6.082,P=0.000) and Th9 (0.989±0.498 vs 0.213±0.084,t=13.063,P =0.000 )in PBMCs of RA was significantly higher than normal controls.Meanwhile,the expression of Tfh ( 3.880 ±1.255 vs 2.678±1.022,t=2.990,P=0.005 ) and Th9( 1.181 ±0.523 vs 0.686±0.254,t =4.043,P=0.000) in high activity of group were higher than those moderate.The percentage of Tfh and Th9 in the two groups were all signifieantly higher than controls(P<0.01 ),There was a positive correlation with Tfh and DAS28 ( r =0.571,P=0.000),ESR ( r =0.375,P =0.029),CRP( r =0.357,P =0.032 ),the number of tender joints ( r=0.598,P =0.000 ),RF ( r =0.421,P =0.023 ) and anti-CCP ( r =0.421,P =0.023 ).There were no relationship with Tfh and course,morning stiffness,the number of swollen joints,bone erosion and the abnormal of EKG.There was a positive correlation with Th9 and DAS28( r=0.461,P=0.005 ),ESR(r=0.347,P=0.042),CRP(r=0.384,P=0.210),the number of tender joints(r=0.341,P=0.042),the number of swollen joints (r =0.347,P=0.038 ) and RF( r =0.379,P =0.025 ) respectively.There were no relationship with Th9 and course,morning stiffness,CCP,the abnormal of EKG,bone erosion.There was a positive correlation with Tfh and Th9 (r=0.727,P =0.000),Conclusion The expression of Tfh and Th9 were increase significantly,which those cells were close relationship with the disease activity and some data,These results indicate that the abnormality of Tfh and Th9 may play an important role in the pathogenesis of RA.
2.The abnormality and clinical significan ce of T helper 9 cells and interleukin-9 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2012;16(7):442-445
Objective To detect the expression of T helper cells 9 (Th9) in the peripheral blood and the level of interleukin (IL)-9 in the plasma of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients,and to analyze the relationship between Th9 and clinical characteristics,and their possible role in the immunological pathogenesis of RA were explored.Methods Thirty-six patients with RA and 22 healthy controls were included.RA patients were divided into high disease activity group (n=22) and moderate disease activity group (n=14).Th9 cells were obtained from RA patients and healthy controls and detected by flow cytometery.The levels of IL-9 in RA patients and healthy controls were detected by ELISA tests.T-test and Spearman's correlation were used for statistical analysis.Results The expression of Th9 and the level of IL-9 of RA patients [(0.99±0.50)%,( 1.06±0.42 ) pg/ml,respectively] were significantly higher than normal controls[ (0.21±0.08)%,(0.69±0.13)pg/ml,respectively,all P<0.01 ].Meanwhile,the expression of Th9 and the level of IL-9 in high disease activity group [ ( 1.18±0.52 )%,( 1.37±0.47 ) pg/ml ] were higher than those of the moderate disease activity group [ (0.69±0.25)%,(0.94±0.30) pg/ml ].There were positive correlations between Th9 and disease activity score(DAS) 28,erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR),C-reactive protein (CRP),the number of tender joints,the number of swollen joints and rheumatoid factor (RF),the level of IL-9 respectively.There were positive correlations between IL-9 and DAS28,ESR,the number of tender joints,and the number of swollen joints.Conclusion High expression of Th9 and level of IL-9 maybe involved in the pat-hogenesis of RA,and is associated with disease activity.These results indicate that the abnormality of Th9 may play an important role in the pathogenesis of RA.
3.Clinical application of intensified helical CT and pulmonary artery angiography in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism
Xingwang SUN ; Ran TAO ; Jinguo CUI
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army 1982;0(03):-
Objective To evaluate the value of helical CT and pulmonary artery angiography in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism. Methods The data of helical CT and pulmonary angiography of 18 cases of pulmonary embolism suspected by clinical diagnosis were analyzed retrospectively. Pulmonary embolism was diagnosed in 12 patients with pulmonary angiography, and treated by suction throngh cathether and local fibrinolysis. Results Embolism was found to involve 107 pulmonary artery branches in the 18 cases, including bilateral pulmonary lower lobes in 28.97%, left and right main pulmonary artery in 22.43%, lobar artery and segmental artery in 40.18%, and main pulmonary artery in 8.41%. The direct signs of helical CT and pulmonary angiography included partial filling defect, mural filling defect, central filling defect or so-called railway-track sign, and total occlusion. Secondary signs included enlargement of pulmonary artery trunk, local pulmonary digemia, pulmonary infarction and pleural effusion. 12 patients survived and showed clinical improvement with significant increase in PaO_2. Conclusion Helical CT is a noninvasive and effective method for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, while the pulmonary artery angiography is also an important tool in diagnosis and treatment of it.
4.Electrocardiographic characteristics and radiofrequency catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia and frequent ventricular premature contractions originating from left ventricular outflow tract
Hong CHEN ; Weiwei ZHANG ; Rongqin LI ; Zhanquan LI ; Ran CUI
Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy 2008;15(7):1075-1076
Objective To investigate the electrocardiographic(ECG) characteristics and assess the safety of radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) of ventricular tachyeardia (VT), and frequent ventricular premature con- tractious(VPCs) originating from left ventricular outflow tract(LVOT). Methods Twelve-lead ECG analysis and RFCA were performed in 9 patient with VT or VPCs originating from LVOT. Results The sites to be successfully ablated were in left valsalva sinus in 6 patients,and subaortic valve in 3 patient. ECG revealed tall R wave in leads Ⅱ, Ⅲ ,aVF, V5 and V6. QS morphology in both leads aVR and aVL,QS morphology in lead Ⅰ in most cases. R wave in lead Ⅰ was relative tall, the R/S wave amplitude in lead V1 was over 0.62 ,and precordia R wave transition was irregular. All 9 patients were successfully ablated. No death or recurrenced case during follow-up. Conclusion Ventricular taehycardia and frequent ventricular premature rcontractions originating from left ventricutar outflow tract could be known by some specific ECG characteristics and could be radically treated safely by RFCA.
5.Mechanisms underlying the promotion of woundhealing by bletilla carrying exogenousrecombinant human epidermal growth factor
Xiao WANG ; Ping CUI ; Ran WU ; Bei WANG
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2016;20(20):2964-2971
BACKGROUND:How to promote wound healing is always the research focus of the surgical physicians in the clinic. Recombinant human epidermal growth factor (rhEGF) can effectively promote wound healing. However, as a biological agent, it is easy to be decomposed under normal temperature.
OBJECTIVE:Toexplorethe mechanisms underlying the promotion of wound healing in the back of rabbits by bletila carrying exogenous rhEGF.
METHODS:Model rabbitswith ful-thickness skin defects in the back were treated with bletila carrying exogenous rhEGF (combined treatment group), bletila, rhEGF, or saline (control group).
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The time of wound healing was the shortest (P< 0.05) and the wound healing rate was the highest (P< 0.05) in the combined treatmentgroup. On postoperative days 3 and 10, newly formed granulation tissue, capilaries, and colagenous fibersshowed by hematoxylin-eosin staining staining and Masson staining and the strongest immunoreactivity of vascular endothelial growth factor determined by immunohistochemical staining were found in the combined treatment group (P< 0.05). These findings confirm that bletila carrying exogenous rhEGF promotes wound healing by accelerating the forming of granulation tissue, new-born capilaries, and colagenous fibers, and the effects are superior to either of them alone.
6.TLC Identification of Erhuang Capsule
Ran XUE ; Muxin GONG ; Jia CUI ; Lei WANG ; Xinmiao WANG
Traditional Chinese Drug Research & Clinical Pharmacology 1993;0(02):-
Objective To establish a TLC identification method for Erhuang Capsule and to provide basis for the establishment of its quality standard.Methods TLC method was adopted.Results Nine kinds of medicinal materials such as Radix Rehmanniae,Radix Polygoni Multiflori,Rhizoma Gastrodiae had discriminating characteristics and distinctive spots.Conclusion TLC is a simple,reliable and specific method with good reproducibility,and can be used for the quality control of Erhuang Capsule.
7. Chinese electronic medical record named entity recognition based on sentence-level lattice-long short-term memory neural network
Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University 2019;40(5):497-506
Objective To propose a conditional random field (CRF) model based on the new word segmentation method Re-entity, and to compare with bi-directional long short-term memory neural network (BiLSTM)-CRF and Lattice-long short-term memory neural network (LSTM). Methods After analyzing the existing entity recognition methods, we proposed CRF method based on Re-entity, BiLSTM-CRF and Lattice-LSTM for the China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing in 2018 (CCKS2018) task one: Chinese clinical named entity recognition, and trained character vector sets at different parameter levels based on different corpora. The comparative experiments on model performance were carried out in the different neural network models for each methods. Finally, the comparative study was carried out based on different input lengths such as the sentence level and the text level. Results Re-entity method can improve the performance of CRF model. Lattice-LSTM model based on sentence level achieved a strict F1-measure of 89.75% on this task, which was higher than the highest F1-measure (89.25%) on the task one of CCKS2018. Conclusion The CRF model based on Re-entity can effectively improve the recognition rate of traditional Chinese medicines in electronic medical records by using normalized Chinese clinical drug. Re-entity method can improve the error accumulation caused by word segmentation in data preprocessing. Lattice structure can better combine the latent semantic information of characters and word sequences. At the same time, sentence-level input can effectively improve the recognition accuracy of neural network models.
8.Discussion on the management model of subject screening and reasonable application of subject databases in phase Ⅰclinical trials in China
Ran XIE ; Xiao CHEN ; Xia ZHAO ; Yi-Min CUI
The Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2016;32(8):749-752
It is particularly important to confirm that whether subjects were repeated to participate in the clinical trial, the time interval from the last dose in the recent clinical trial, whether the physical conditions of subjects accord with the clinical trial protocol in phase I clinical trials and so on.This paper will introduce two types of the subject database, one was established by our hospital, another one is subject networking database, and will introduce the operation mode, the present situation of subjects screening under the database management. To explore the existing problems, optimize the use of subject database and give long-term prospects of subject networking database.
10.The role and clinical significance of follicular helper T cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Ran CUI ; Jianhua XU ; Zongwen SHUAI ; Fen WANG ; Shengqian XU ; Shuang LIU ; Li LIAN ; Shanyu CHEN
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2012;16(5):300-304
Objective To test the level of cell factor interleukin (IL)-21,CXCL13 in the plasma of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA),and to analyze the relationship between Follicular helper T cells(Tfh)and clinic features and discuss the possible immunological pathogenesis of RA.Methods The Tfh cells were obtained from patients and healthy controls (NC) and detected by Flow cytometery.While the levels of IL-21,CXCL13 in patients and NC were measured by ELISA tests.Those analysis were performed by student's t-test,one-way ANOVA,SNK-q test,Chi-square test,Spearman's correlation and multiple linear regression.Results The expression of CD4+CXCR5+ICOS+ cells (Tfh) in PBMCs of RA was significantly higher than normal controls (3.0±1.2 vs 1.1±0.4,P<0.01).Meanwhile,the three RA groups of patients were divided to low,moderate and high disease activity groups,and the results showed that the expression of Tfh were increased accordingly (1.8±0.7,2.5±0.6,4.0±1.2).The expression of Tfh in the three groups were all significantly higher than that of controls (P<0.01).There was a positive correlation between Tfh and DAS28,ESR,CRP,TJC,and bone erosion,RF and anti-CCP respectively.The expression of Tfh in those patients who had bone destruction was higher than those with no or mild bone destructions (2.7±1.1vs 3.4±1.3).The expression of Tfh in patients with un-treated RA patients,when compared to those RA patients who were treated appropriately and those who were not treated appropriately,was decreased significantly.The expression of Tfh in appropriately treated RA patients was lower than that without appropriately treatment.The level of IL-21,CXCL13 was decreased in patients with RA in the order of high,moderate,low disease activity and NC.Conclusion The expression of Tfh and the levels of IL-21,CXCL13 are increased significantly,and are closely related to disease activity and bone ersions.The expression of Tfh is decreased after relevant treatment.These results indicate that the abnormality of Tfh may play an important role in the pathogenesis of RA.