An eukaryotic expression plasmid Rc/CMV GHcDNA containing CMV late promoter and hGH cDNA was constructed and introduced into mouse skeletal muscle by means of direct injection with or without the cationic liposome (Lipofectin and Lipofectamine reagent) intramuscularly. The expression of the gene was detected through both RT-PCR and IRMA (Immunoradiometric assay) at the level of transcription and protein respectively. The gene expression can be detected even after 90 days of single plasmid injection. Compared with the mice injected with the plasmid itself, the expression levels of mice injected with the plasmid-cationic liposome complex seem to be higher, and the expression period longer. Furthermore, the effect of Lipofectamine seems to be even better than that of Lipofectin. The results indicate that direct intramuscular injection with recombinant expression plasmid or plasmid-cationic liposome complex is a simple, efficient and economical way for foreign gene transfer and expression in experimental mice in vivo.

Objective To understand the drug resistance of Escherichiacoli in the bloodstream infections from community infec-tion and hospital infection,in order to provide the basis for clinical rational drug use.Methods According to the CLSI 2013 stran-dard,VITEK-2GN and AST-GN13 cards from France Bio-merieux company were used to identify the bacteria and analyze the drug susceptibility.The data was analyzed by SPSS 13.0.Results A total of 181 strains of Escherichiacoli were isolated from communi-ty-acquired and hospital-acquired bloodstream infections from January to December in 2014.There were 88 strains of community in-fection and 93 strains of hospital infection.The rates of ESBLs (+)strains isolated from community infection and hospital infection were 53.4% and 73.1% respectively.The ESBLs (+)rate of Escherichiacoli isolated from community infection was significantly lower than that from hospital infection (P =0.006).Antibiotics of resistance less than 10% in 181 strains of Escherichiacoli were Cefoperazone/Sulbactam,Piperacillin/Tazobactam,Ertapenem,Imipenem,Amikacin.The resistant rate of Hospital infection strains was generally higher than that of community infection strains.The ESBLs (+)rate of Escherichiacoli isolated from bloodstream in-fections of Urology Surgery wsa higher than that of other departments.Conclusion The drug resistance of Escherichiacoli in the bloodstream infections from hospital infection is higher than that from community infection.Using antibiotics rationally and strengthening the nosocomial infection surveillance of ICU and Surgery Ward are effective measures to control the bacterial drug re-sistance.

Objective To systematically evaluate the application of problem-based learning (PBL)in the teaching process of health management major in China.Methods Databases including CNKI (1979 to December the 2015),VIP (1989 to December the 2015),Wanfang (1982 to December the 2015) and PubMed were systematically retrieved.Any literature about PBL of health management major was included.Seffdeveloped data extraction form was used for collecting the information.Data were input and analyzed using Excel 2007.Results 15 papers were included in the analysis.The first author mainly came from the northeast region of China (7).Most (10) papers did not get the funding support.No paper was published in the journals contained in the Guide to the Core Journals of China.6 papers of experimental studies compared the performance difference of students of the PBL and lecture-based learning (LBL),which was statistically significant.Conclusion PBL is superior to the LBL.However,due to the large difference in the quality of literature,more studies were needed to determine the effect of PBL.Moreover,we should pay attention to the combination of PBL and LBL.

Objective To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of clinical bacteria infection in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University,so as to provide reference for the treatment of bacterial infections.Methods 4 802 strains of bacteria isolated from this hospital,from January 2013 to December 2013,were retrospectively analysed.The isolates were identi-fied by using VITEK-2 Compact bacterial identification system.Drug resistance was measured by using disc diffusion test,and its results were interpreted according to the breakpoints of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute(CLSI)2013.WHONET 5.6 was applied for analysis.Results These pathogens were mainly isolated from urine,sputum,blood,secretions and pus,accounted for 31.7%,21.4%,1 9.7%,1 1.7% and 7.0%,respectively.In the clinical isolates,gram negative bacilli accounted for 55.8%, which was mainly Escherichia coli(26.3%).Gram positive cocci accounted for 31.7%,,which was mainly coagulase negative staph-ylococcus(1 5.0%).Fungi accounted for 3.1%,which was mainly Candida albicans.Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia were most sensitive to carbapenem,resistance rate was less than 10.0%.The detection rates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoni-ae producing extended-spectrumβ-lactamases(ESBLs)was 61.1% and 49.1%,respectively.Among non-fermentative gram nega-tive bacilli,excepting Pseudomonas aeruginosa had good sensitivity to Amikacin,Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter bau-mannii showed high resistance to most antibiotics(resistance rate was more than 50.0%).Among gram positive bacteria,the detec-tion rates of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant coagulase negative Staphylococcus were 42.3% and 65.6%,respectively.The resistance rates of Enterococcus faecium to most of antibacterials were higher.Except for linezolid and teicoplanin,the resistances of Enterococcus faecium to other antibacterials were higher than those of Enterococcus faecalis.Only a strain of Enterococcus faecium resistant to vancomycin was isolated.Conclusion Resistance monitoring might have significance in guiding the clinical rational use of antimicrobial agents,and reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Selection of utilization of carbon source in soya oligosaccharide by three strains of S.cerevisiae was studied.The results showed that S.cerevisiae C could selectively utilize sucrose and the residual rate of stachyose and raffinose could be more than 96%.Using yeast extract as nitrogen source,the sucrose could be used up after 36 hours of culture.Further study showed that the content of sucrose in soya oligosaccharide powder was less than 1.3% after fermentation of waste water of soy whey and downstream processing.

This study aims to investigate the effect of different local testicular treatments and validate common prognostic factors on primary testicular lymphoma (PTL) patients. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of 32 patients from 1993 to 2017 diagnosed with PTL and included 22 patients for analysis. The Kaplan-Meier method, Log-rank test, and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis were applied to evaluate progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and determine prognosis predictors. The median follow-up time was 30 months. Median OS and PFS were 96 months and 49 months, respectively. In univariate analysis, advanced Ann Arbor stage (III/IV) (P < 0.001), B symptoms (P < 0.001), and extranodal involvement other than testis (P = 0.001) were significantly associated with shorter OS and PFS. In multivariate analysis, Ann Arbor stage was significantly associated with OS (OR = 11.58, P = 0.049), whereas B symptom was significantly associated with PFS (OR = 11.79, P= 0.049). In the 10 patients with the systemic usage of rituximab, bilateral intervention could improve median OS from 16 to 96 months (P = 0.032). The study provides preliminary evidence on bilateral intervention in testes in the rituximab era and validates common prognostic factors for Chinese PTL patients.

BACKGROUNDConsidering the existence of a large number of liver cell degeneration and necrosis in fibrotic liver, liver function was damaged severely and could not effectively regenerate after partial hepatectomy (PHx). The aim of this study was to investigate whether decorin (DCN) could promote the liver regeneration after PHx in fibrotic mice.

METHODSForty mice (5-week-old, Balb/c) were injected with CCl4 intraperitoneally and liver fibrosis model was established after 5 weeks. The survival mice were randomly divided into two groups: control group and DCN group. Then, we performed 70% PHx on all these mice and injected DCN or phosphate-buffered saline plus normal saline (NS) to each group, respectively, after surgery. Liver body weight ratio (LBR), quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, and immunohistochemistry were used to analyze liver regeneration and fibrosis degree in both groups, and to find out whether exogenous protein DCN could promote the regeneration of fibrosis liver after PHx.

RESULTSExpressions of a-smooth muscle actin (SMA) mRNA and LBR had significant increases in the DCN group at postoperative Day 3 (POD 3, P < 0.05). The protein expressions of CD31, a-SMA, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a were higher in the DCN group than those in the control group by immunohistochemistry at POD 3 (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONExogenous protein DCN could promote liver regeneration after PHx in fibrotic mice.

Animals ; Decorin ; therapeutic use ; Hepatectomy ; Immunohistochemistry ; Liver Cirrhosis ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; surgery ; Liver Regeneration ; drug effects ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 ; metabolism

Proteasome inhibitors have shown remarkable success in the treatment of hematologic neoplasm. There has been a lot of attention to applying these drugs for solid tumor treatment. Recent preclinical study has signified the effectiveness on cell proliferation inhibition in lung adenocarcinoma treated by carfilzomib (CFZ), a second generation proteasome inhibitor. However, no insight has been gained regarding the mechanism. In this study, we have systematically investigated the CFZ functions in cell proliferation and growth, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis in lung adenocarcinoma cells. Flow cytometry experiments showed that CFZ significantly induced G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in lung adenocarcinoma. MTS and colony formation assays revealed that CFZ substantially inhibited survival of lung adenocarcinoma cells. All results were consistently correlated to the upregulation expression of Gadd45a, which is an important gene in modulating cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in response to physiologic and environmental stresses. Here, upregulation of Gadd45a expression was observed after CFZ treatment. Knocking down Gadd45a expression suppressed G2/M arrest and apoptosis in CFZ-treated cells, and reduced cytotoxicity of this drug. The protein expression analysis has further identified that the AKT/FOXO3a pathway is involved in Gadd45a upregulation after CFZ treatment. These findings unveil a novel mechanism of proteasome inhibitor in anti-solid tumor activity, and shed light on novel preferable therapeutic strategy for lung adenocarcinoma. We believe that Gadd45a expression can be a highly promising candidate predictor in evaluating the efficacy of proteasome inhibitors in solid tumor therapy.
Adenocarcinoma of Lung/pathology* ; Apoptosis/drug effects* ; Cell Cycle Checkpoints/drug effects* ; Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics* ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Forkhead Box Protein O3/physiology* ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects* ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/pathology* ; Oligopeptides/pharmacology* ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/physiology* ; Up-Regulation

Administration, Inhalation ; Animals ; Female ; Male ; Pesticides ; analysis ; toxicity ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar