2.Resting-state fMRI fALFF analysis in patients with non-fluent aphasia after ischemic stroke
Guang XU ; Xiaofen MA ; Guihua JIANG ; Shumei LI ; Junzhang TIAN ; Wenfeng ZHAN ; Jin FANG ; Yingwei QIU
The Journal of Practical Medicine 2014;(7):1016-1020
Objective To understand the impairment and compensation mechanism of brain function in pa-tients with non-fluent aphasia after ischemic stroke. The fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (fALFF) method was used to analyze the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in the resting state between the aphasia patients and the normal controls. Methods The scans of the resting state of fMRI were performed in 17 aphasia patients and 19 age-, education-, and sex-matched healthy control subjects. The scan sequence was single-shot echo planar image,DPARSF software was used to analyze fALFF data of the aphasia patients and the healthy controls. Results Compared to the control group, the value in right superior temporal gurus, inferior parietal lob-ule, frontal lobe cortex, and postcentral gurus were significantly increased in the aphasia group. The fALFF in bilat-eral cerebellum and right thalamus were also decreased in the aphasia group. Conclusions The fALFF values in some brain region in the aphasia group were abnormal in the resting state , indicating a few pathological change of brain function in patients with non-fluent aphasia after ischemic stroke.
3.Investigation and analysis on current situation of blood lipid abnormality among urban and rural residents in Ganzhou City
Lihua LIU ; Minghua DONG ; Lixia JIANG ; Wei QIU ; Jian LI ; Zhengchun HUANG ; Shumei LI
Chongqing Medicine 2017;46(7):938-940
Objective To understand the status quo of dyslipidemia among urban and rural residents in Ganzhou City.Methods The multistage stratified cluster random sampling method was adopted to select the urban and rural residents aged more than 35 years old as the respondents,among them 4 829 respondents had the intact data,the investigation items included age,sex,height,body mass,waist circumference(WC),FBG,Scr,blood pressure,TC,TG,HDL and LDL.The body mass index was calculated.Results The prevalence rates of hypercholesterolemia,high TG and low HDL among the urban and rural residents in Ganzhou City were 8.76 %,16.38% and 24.04% respectively.Compared with the persons of normal blood lipid,FBG,Ser,WC and BMI in the persons of high blood lipid were much higher (P<0.05).Conclsion The blood lipid abnormality in the urban and rural residents in Ganzhou City is dominated by low HDL and high TG.
4.Protective effect of thyroid hormone on spinal cord injury neurons in rats
Shumei QING ; Jiaofeng LI ; Yanli CAO ; Yi LI ; Guangheng LI ; Xinguang QIU
Chinese Journal of Trauma 2018;34(3):260-265
Objective To investigate the protective effect of thyroid hormone on spinal cord injury neurons and its molecular mechanism.Methods A DMEM culture medium with a volume fraction of 10% fetal bovine serum was cultured with the dorsal ridge neurons of RN-dsc rats.The neurons were inoculated in the culture plate after the digestion of trypsin and treated differently as follows:(1) control group:DMEM treatment with no drugs or serum;(2) H2O2 group:serum-free DMEMtreatment containing 100 μmol/L H2O2;(3) H2O2 + 10-6 mol/L triiodothyronine (T3) group:serumfree DMEM treatment containing 100 μnol/L H2O2 and 10-6mol/L T3;(4) H2O2 + 10-5 mol/L T3 group:serum-free DMEM treatment containing 100 μ mol/L H2O2 and 10-5 mol/L T3;(5) negativecontrol group:transfection of negative control mimics with LipofectamineTM2000 reagent;(6) miR-210 group:transfection of miR-210 mimics with LipofectamineTM 2000 reagent.Cell viability,apoptosis number,and expressions of nuclear factor E2 correlation factor 2 (Nrf-2) antioxidant pathway molecules and miR-210 were determined.After transfection of miR-210 mimics and negative control mimics,expressions of Nrf-2 antioxidant pathway molecules were determined.Results The cell proliferation activity and protein expressions of Nrf-2,antioxidant reaction elements (ARE),superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2),and heme oxygenase (HO-1) in H2O2 group (0.39 ±0.06,0.52 ±0.08,0.31 ±0.08,0.25 ± 0.05,respectively) were significantly lower than those in control group (1.00 ± 0.15,1.00 ± 0.17,1.00 ± 0.13,1.00 ± 0.11,respectively) (P < 0.05),while the apoptosis numbers and the expressions of miR-210 were significantly higher than those in control group (P < 0.05).The cell proliferation activity and protein expressions of Nff-2,ARE,SOD2,HO-1 in H2O2 + 10-6mol/L T3 group and H2O2 +10-5 mol/L T3 group were significantly higher than those in the H2O2 group (P < 0.05),while apoptosis numbers and expressions of miR-210 were significantly lower than those in H2O2 group (P < 0.05).The cell proliferation activity and protein expressions of Nrf-2,ARE,SOD2,HO-1 in H2O2 + 10-5mol/L T3 group (0.88 ±0.14,0.84 ±0.12,0.72 ±0.09,0.69 ±0.09) were significantly higher than those in H2O2 + 10-6mol/L T3 group (0.73 ±0.09,0.71 ±0.08,0.58 ±0.09,0.52 ±0.08) (P<0.05),while apoptosis numbers and expressions of miR-210 were significantly lower than those in H2O2 + 10-6mol/L T3 group.The protein expressions of Nrf-2,ARE,SOD2,and HO-1 in miR-210 group (0.37 ±0.06,0.24 ±0.05,0.45 ± 0.08,0.49 ± 0.07,respectively) were significantly lower than those in negative control group (1.00±0.13,1.00±0.19,1.00±0.15,1.00±0.14,respectively) (P<0.05).Conclusion Thyroid hormone can inhibit the expression of Nrf-2 in oxidative stress injury process of neurons by inhibiting the expression of miR-210,and hence reduce the oxidative stress injury of spinal cord neurons.
5.Fraction amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation in irritable bowel syndrome patients: a restingstate fMRI study
Xiaofen MA ; Guihua JIANG ; Shumei LI ; Jin FANG ; Wenfeng ZHAN ; Junzhang TIAN ; Yingwei QIU
Chinese Journal of Neuromedicine 2014;13(3):292-295
Objective To understand the pathological mechanism of brain function in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients by analyzing the fraction amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) raw data in resting state.Methods The fMRI at resting state was performed in 21 IBS patients and 21 age-,education-and sex-matched normal healthy subjects,collected in our hospital from August 2010 to April 2012.The scan sequence in this study was single-shot echo planar image.The DPARSF software was used to preprocess the fMRI data,and then,the fALFF was compared between the IBS and normal control groups.Results As compared with the control group,the IBS group showed significantly increased fALFF values in the primary somatosensory cortex region and secondary somatosensory cortex region such as right temporal pole,middle temporal gyrus,precentral gyrus,postcentral gyrus and right superior frontal gyrus,and decreased fALFF values in the cerebellum.Conclusion Some somatosensory cortex regions in the IBS group are abnormal in the resting state in IBS patients,which can reflex a few pathological changes of brain dysfunction,and it also helps to understand IBS from the perspective of the brain neural activity for clinic diagnosis.
6.Effects of sodium fluoride on growth and development and serum oxidative stress of offspring rats
Long CHEN ; Na YIN ; Meilin ZHANG ; Yajing QIU ; Shumei FENG
Chinese Journal of Endemiology 2021;40(8):622-626
Objective:To investigate the effects of sodium fluoride on growth and development and serum oxidative stress of offspring rats.Methods:Twenty-four clean female SD rats and 24 clean male SD rats were selected, weighting 180 - 220 g, and mating in the same cage for 10 d according to 1 ∶ 1 for male and female. According to body weight by random number table method, the female rats were divided into control group, low-dose fluoride group, and high-dose fluoride group, 8 rats in each group. They were drunk 0, 100 and 200 mg/L sodium fluoride solution prepared with purified water, respectively, and they all ate standard feed. The female rats were exposed to fluoride from the 0th day of pregnancy to the 3rd week after the offspring rats were born (before weaning). After weaning, 10 female offspring rats were selected from each group and continued to be exposed to fluoride in the same amount and manner until the 12th week after birth. The body weight, body length and hind limb length of the offspring rats were measured every week before weaning and every two weeks after weaning. After 12th week of exposure to fluoride, blood samples were taken from abdominal aortas to detect the levels of serum superoxide dismutase (SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC).Results:At the 2nd week after birth, the body weight [(24.87 ± 3.36) g], body length [(6.37 ± 0.52) cm] and hind limb length [(2.27 ± 0.13) cm] of the offspring rats in high-dose fluoride group were lower than those in control group [(29.23 ± 4.19) g, (6.92 ± 0.47), (2.44 ± 0.16) cm, P < 0.05], but there was no statistically significant difference between low-dose fluoride group and control group and high-dose fluoride group ( P > 0.05). At 3rd to 12th weeks after birth, the body weight, body length and hind limb length of the offspring rats in high-dose fluoride group were lower than those in low-dose fluoride group and control group ( P < 0.05), the low-dose fluoride group were lower than those in control group ( P < 0.05). Serum SOD, GSH-Px and T-AOC levels in control group [(176.51 ± 29.55), (985.23 ± 164.80) U/ml, (0.864 ± 0.167) mmol/L] were higher than those in low-dose fluoride group [(127.98 ± 24.41), (776.53 ± 107.85) U/ml, (0.639 ± 0.110) mmol/L] and high-dose fluoride group [(99.75 ± 14.56), (425.14 ± 78.67) U/ml, (0.441 ± 0.072) mmol/L], the levels of MDA and iNOS [(3.37 ± 0.73) nmol/ml, (189.00 ± 44.67) pg/ml] were lower than those in low-dose fluoride group [(8.22 ± 1.38) nmol/ml, (305.60 ± 73.41) pg/ml] and high-dose fluoride group [(14.81 ± 1.81) nmol/ml, (431.00 ± 91.19) pg/ml], the differences were statistically significant ( P < 0.05); the levels of serum SOD, GSH-Px and T-AOC in high-dose fluoride group were lower than those in low-dose fluoride group, and the levels of MDA and iNOS were higher than those in low-dose fluoride group ( P < 0.05). Conclusion:Excessive fluoride can increase the serum oxidative stress level of offspring rats, which may affect the growth and development of offspring rats.
7.Analysis of clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with perianal necrotizing fasciitis
Shaoban ZHU ; Dehui LI ; Da'en LIU ; Jun WEI ; Chaoyi ZHONG ; Yajun WU ; Qingwen NONG ; Shumei QIU ; Shuntang LI
Chinese Journal of Burns 2024;40(10):955-962
Objective:To investigate the clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with perianal necrotizing fasciitis.Methods:This study was a retrospective cohort study. Twenty patients with perianal necrotizing fasciitis who met the inclusion criteria were admitted to the Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (hereinafter referred to as our department) from August 2013 to September 2023, including 19 males and 1 female, aged 24-74 (56±11) years. Based on the spreading route of perianal infection to the lower abdomen, the patients were divided into perianal-inguinal-lower abdominal wall group (12 cases) and perianal-pelvic cavity-retroperitoneal group (8 cases). The following clinical data were compared between the two groups of patients: general data, including gender, age, combined underlying diseases, blood glucose level and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) score when admitted to our department, and laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis (LRINEC) score when admitted to our department and at 14 d after admitted to our department; infection indicators when admitted to our department, including C-reactive protein level, white blood cell count, lymphocyte count, procalcitonin level, and lactic acid level; clinical outcome-related indicators, including time from onset to definite infection range, number of surgery, treatment in intensive care unit (ICU), length of hospital stay, treatment outcome, and recurrence of necrotizing fasciitis during follow-up; detection of pathogen and bacterial drug resistance in wound necrotic tissue specimen when admitted to our department.Results:Compared with those in perianal-inguinal-lower abdominal wall group, the APACHE Ⅱ score and lactic acid level when admitted to our department and LRINEC score at 14 d after admitted to our department (with t values of -5.98, -5.01, and -2.86, respectively, P<0.05) and ICU treatment ratio ( P<0.05) were significantly increased, the time from onset to definite infection range was significantly prolonged ( Z=-3.75, P<0.05), and the number of surgery was significantly increased ( Z=2.80, P<0.05) in patients in perianal-pelvic cavity-retroperitoneal group. There were no statistically significant differences in other data between the two groups of patients ( P>0.05). Eighteen patients were cured, and no recurrence of perianal necrotizing fasciitis was observed during follow-up of 6 months in 18 cured patients. The main bacteria were Escherichia coliand Klebsiella pneumoniae, and the fungui were Aspergillus and Candida albicans detected in wound necrotic tissue specimens in two groups of patients when admitted to our department. The ratio of multiple drug resistance of bacteria in wound necrotic tissue specimens in perianal-pelvic cavity-retroperitoneal group of patients was significantly higher than that in perianal-inguinal-lower abdominal wall group ( P<0.05). Conclusions:Perianal necrotizing fasciitis can spread to the lower abdomen through two routes: the perianal-inguinal-lower abdominal wall route and the perianal-pelvic cavity-retroperitoneal route. The latter is more insidious in disease progression and more challenging in treatment. Establishing a mechanism of multi-disciplinary team diagnosis and treatment can achieve the goal of early diagnosis and precise treatment of perianal necrotizing fasciitis.