1.Influencing factors of choosing community health centers among Shanghai urban residents
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2012;11(9):687-688
Random clustering was conducted among a total of 1068 residents aged 18 years or older at a certain Shanghai community.And they completed a questionnaire survey.Logistic data processing and model building were performed.The respondents were willing to go to a community health center for the following reasons:close proximity (88.4%),excellent service attitudes (40.4%) and low drug prices (37.8%).No statistically significant differences existed in terms of first choices of community health service,occupation,monthly income and-walking distance (P > 0.05).However,statistically significant differences existed in education level,age and chronic diseases (P < 0.05).
2.Advances in functions of calmodulin in Alzheimer's disease
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2017;36(3):340-343
Calmodulin,as an important signaling regulatory protein,widely exists in eukaryotic cells and participates in a variety of physiological activities.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a typical neurodegenerative diseasemostly affecting the old people.Senile plaques (SP) caused by amyloid protein deposition and neurofibrillary tangles (NTF) caused by over-phosphorylation of Tau protein in the brain are the two major neuropathological hallmarks of AD.Neuronal apoptosis induced by dysregulation of calcium homeostasis also plays a significant role during this pathological process.Recent studies have found that calcium and its downstream receptor,calmodulin,are closely associated with the pathogenesis and progress of Alzheimer's disease.This article reviews the current development and the latest research progress on the effects of calmodulin on β-amyloid protein generation and deposition,neurofibrillary tangle formation,synaptic plasticity in AD around the world,comprehensively discusses the role of calmodulin in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
4.Correlation between polymorphism of regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted gene promoter and diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Song ZHANG ; Rui WANG ; Lixin SHI
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2007;11(17):3447-3450
BACKGROUND: Hereditary susceptibility is an important role in episode and development of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Aggregation of monocyte in kidney tissue, differentiation to histocyte and reinforcement of signal are possibly closed to episode and development of DN in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) is a chemokine of C-C subtribe. It can mediate infiltration and activation of inflammatory cells and cause injuries of renal corpuscle and renal mesenchymal. This may be a key mechanism of episode and development of DM. Thus, RANTES gene may be one of the susceptible gene of DN. OBJECTIVE :To investigate correlation between RANTES gene promoter -28C/G polymorphism and DN in type 2 DM in Chinese. DESIGN: Case-contrast study. SETTING: Department of Endocrine, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College; Center of Diabetes Mellitus of Guizhou Province. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 143 patients with type 2 DM were recruited from the Department of Endocrine, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College and Department of Endocrine,Guizhou People's Hospital from September 2003 to September 2005. Among them, 53 cases had normoalbuminuria, 54 microalbuminuria and 36 macroalbuminuria. Another 55 healthy subjects who were selected from Center of Health Examination, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College were regarded as control group. METHODS: 3-5 mL peripheral venous blood was collected from all subjects. RANTES gene promoter -28C/G genotype was detected with polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism technique. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Allele frequency and genotypic frequency of RANTES gene promoter -28C/G; ② risk factor of DN was analyzed with Logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: All 198 subjects were involved in the final analysis. ① Comparison of CG genotypic frequency of -28C/G: There was no significant difference between normal control group and DM group (P> 0.05); however, that in microalbuminuria group and macroalbuminuria group was higher than that in normoalbuminuria group (24.1%, 47.2%, 9.4%, P < 0.05), and that in macroalbuminuria group was also higher than that in microalbuminuria group (P < 0.05). ② Frequency of G allele of -28C/G: There was no significant difference between normal control group and DM group (P > 0.05); however, that in micro albuminuria group and macrealbuminuria group was higher than that in microalbuminuria group (12.0%, 23.6%, 4.7%, P < 0.05), and that in macroalbuminuria group was also higher than that in microalbuminuria group (P< 0.05). ③ Logistic regression analysis showed that positive genotype of -28G was related to DN (95% Cl:1.402-15.032, P =0.012). CONCLUSION: Positive genotype of RANTES gene promoter-28G may be related to DN.
5.Construction of eukaryotic expression vector for rat Akt1 gene and its expression in 293 cells
Rui ZHANG ; Chun SONG ; Hui WANG
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2009;13(15):2991-2994
BACKGROUND: Akt gene plays an important role in cell survival, proliferation, metabolism, and apoptosis. Although mechanism of Akt gene still remains unclear, it, a major element of survival signal, has aroused much attention in the domain of molecular biological research. OBJECTIVE: To construct eukaryotic expression vector pDC316-Akt1 for Aktl gene and to observe the expression in 293 cells. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: An observational study was performed at Molecular Biological Laboratory of Academy of Military Medical Sciences of Chinese PLA between September and December 2006. MATERIALS: pCD316 plasmid was provided by Benyuan Zhengyang Company; DH5α and 293 cells were reserved in our laboratory. METHODS: Aktl DNA segment was cloned from total RNA of hepatic tissue using RT-PCR and inserted into eukaryotic expressing vector pDC316 between EcoRI and Hind Ⅲ sites after sequencing. And then, 293 cells were transfected with the recombinant by liposome. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Aktl gene content in transfected 293 cells using Westem blotting. RESULTS: Sequencing test indicated that Aktl amino acid sequence was in accordance with wild Aktl sequence. Akt-pDC316 was transcripted in 293 cells, and Akt1 protein with relative molecular weight of 55 000 was highly expressed in 293 cells when assayed using Western blotting. CONCLUSION: Eukaryotic expression vector for Aktl gene highly expresses in 293 cells.
6.Characteristics of attempted suicide individuals from an emergency room in a seven-year period
Jie ZHANG ; Rui ZHOU ; Chao SONG
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012;21(5):519-522
Objective To study the demographics and background of attempted suicide individuals,such as age,gender,mode of suicide,seasonality,etc.so as to improve prevention strategy.Methods By sequential sampling analysis,there were data of 895 survivors from committed suicide taken from 907 attempted suicide individuals recorded in an emergency room of a local hospital between 2002 and 2008 for retrospectively study.Results The sample was composed of 191 males and 704 females with a male to female ratio of 1∶3.69.The adolescents and young adults aged 15-34 years accounted for the vast majority of attempted suicide individuals with the peak at the age of 24 years.The number of committed suicide remarkably reduced after the age of 47 years.The major mode of committed suicide was ingestion of poisons.The incidence of committed suicide declined significantly from 2002 to 2005,and then increased between 2005 and 2008.It was more often occurred in the seasons of Spring and Summer. Conclusions Age,gender,and seasonality are associated with attempted suicide in china,and these risk faetors should be the focuses of suicide prevention in China.Additionally,control of pesticides and psychological intervention should be the parts of the work to prevent suicide in the this cohort of special individuals with propensity of committed suicide.
7.Blue light-induced replicative senescence of rat retinal pigment epithelial cells
Yifeng KE ; Song CHEN ; Rui HAO
Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases 2009;25(6):462-465
Objective To investigate the relationship between exposure intensity and illumination time of blue light and replicative senescence of rat retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) ceils.Methods Thirty-six 12-14 weeks Wistar rats were kept in the cage with a blue-light bulb [(450±10) nm],and were randomly divided into four groups (no light,nature light,500 lx light and 1000 lx light illumination),each has nine rats.The rats in each group were further divided into three subgroups according to illumination time (one month,two months or three months).Eyeballs were collected after intraperitoneal injection of 10% chloral hydrate.The right eye of each rat was embedded in paraffin and sectioned for hematoxylin-eosin (HE)staining,while frozen sections of the left eye were stained for the senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-Gal).The data were analyzed by SPSS11.5 statistical software.Results The amounts of SA-β-Gal positive RPE cells were significantly different between all groups under the same illumination time 17 (P=0.000),and between all subgroups of different illumination time with same exposure intensity (P<0.01)except for the control group (no light).Conclusion Blue-light can induce replicative senescence in rat RPE cells in an intensity and time-dependent manner.
8.Expression and clinical significance of NrF-2 and Ho-1 in gastric carcinoma
Yang SONG ; Yanping HU ; Rui WANG
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2016;36(9):146-148
Objective To study nuclear factor E-2 related factor 2(NrF-2) and heme oxygenase -1(Ho-1) expression and to explore its clinical significance.Methods From February 2016 to June 2016, 176 cases human gastric tissue paraffin blocks selected in department of pathology in Hangzhou Cancer Hospital, including 78 cases of gastric cancer, 78 cases of normal tissue were analyzed.And the expressions of NrF-2 and Ho-1 were detected by immunohistochemistry in two groups of human gastric tissue.Results The levels of NrF-2 and Ho-1 in gastric cancer group were(0.752 ± 0.098),(0.862 ±0.081) were significantly higher than those in normal group(0.381 ±0.068),(0.412 ±0.083);NrF-2, the positive expression rate of Ho-1 in gastric wall invasion degree of T3 +T4 with lymph node metastasis, NTM stage III and IV gastric cancer tissues were significantly increased.The differences were statistically significant ( P <0.05 ) .Conclusion NrF-2 and Ho-1 play the important role in the development of gastric cancer and NrF-2, the positive expression rate of Ho-1 in the gastric carcinoma and gastric wall invasion, lymph node metastasis and NTM staging are closely related.The clinical diagnosis if the combined detection of NrF-2 and Ho-1, is conducive to the early diagnosis of gastric cancer and the prognosis of the disease.
9.The significance of sFas and sFasL expression on neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer
Yang SONG ; Yanping HU ; Rui WANG
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2016;36(12):183-185
Objective To study the expression and significance of fatty acid synthase ligand ( sFas ) and soluble fatty acid synthase receptor (sFasL) on the neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer.Methods 84 cases of patients with breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy were recorded from January 2015 to January 2016 in our hospital as breast cancer group,another 84 cases of healthy subjects as control group,the two groups were measured sFas,the positive rate of sFasL.At the same time,respectively before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, detection of patients serum sFas, sFasL levels and breast cancer.According to the clinical curative effect were divided into effective group and ineffective group , compared two groups of serum sFas, sFasL levels.Results Breast cancer group called sFas and sFasL positive rate was 58.33% (49/84) and 100.00%(84/84),were significantly higher than that of control group 38.10%(32/84) and 0.00% (0/84);The level of sFas in patients with neoadjuvant chemotherapy was significantly lower than that of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and the level of sFas in neoadjuvant chemotherapy group was significantly higher than that in ineffective group, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion In the course of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer,the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be effectively detected by detecting the level of serum sFas in patients with breast cancer , while sFasL has no significant change in the neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer.
10.Advances of programmed death ligand 1 and its inhibitor in non-small cell lung cancer
Journal of International Oncology 2015;(8):628-630
Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1 ),which is highly expressed in NSCLC,can be divided into two categories:membrane PD-L1 and soluble PD-L1 .PD-L1 participates in tumor immune escape through combining with its receptor.PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors have entered the phase Ⅰ studies and showed a good application prospect.It is also found that the sensitivity of PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors is strongly associated with the expression of PD-L1 in tumor.Therefore,PD-L1 can be used as a biomarker to pre-dict its curative effect.