1.Effect of Acupuncture plus Medication on Pregnancy RateAfter IVF in Different Age Groups
Siqi GUAN ; Xingyu ZHU ; Caifei DING
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2016;35(8):955-957
ObjectiveTo observe the effect of Chinese medication and acupuncture-moxibustion plus Western medication on the pregnancy rate after in-vitro-fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) in different age groups.MethodTotally 810 eligible patients enrolled between 1st January 2010 and 31st December 2013 from the Reproduction and Infertility Department were categorized into 3 groups according to the age, respectively 20-29 years old, 30-39 years old, and 40-49 years old. The pregnancy rates of the three groups were compared, and the pregnancy rate of IVF-ET after the treatment of the integrated treatment of Chinese and Western medicine was also statistically analyzed.ResultThe pregnancy rate was 54.3% in the group of 20-29 years old, versus 46.4% in the group of 30-39 years old and 26.0% in the group of 40-49 years old, and the total pregnancy rate of IVF-ET was 47.2%. ConclusionThe younger, the higher the pregnancy rate of IVF-ET, and intervention of traditional Chinese medicine following the assisted reproductive technique can enhance the pregnancy rate of IVF-ET.
2.Analysis of biochemical and physical properties for a new recombinant B7-Pseudomonas exotoxin fusion protein B7-2-PE40KDEL
Hairong GUAN ; Yuying SUN ; Zhihong YUAN ; Huili ZHANG ; Fei LIANG ; Nan LIU ; Siqi GUO ; Caixia XI ; Yongzhi XI
Chinese Journal of Immunology 1985;0(02):-
Objective:Identification of some biochemical and physical properties for a new recombinant B7-2-PE40KDEL exotoxin fusion protein.Methods:12%SDS-PAGE separating and gel imaging analyzing,peptide mass fingerprinting,Western blot and MTT assasying were used respectively for identification of the protein.Results:Molecular weight of the recombinant B7-2-PE40KDEL was 72 628,5% of the difference to its theoretical value 69 561.The result of Western blot indicated that the purified recombinant B7-2-PE40KDEL could specifically bind with mAb anti-human B7-2 and the antibody against PEA,while the negative control did not.The recombinant B7-2-PE40KDEL digested with trypsin and then detected by MOLTI-TOF-MS.It was shown that the detected 15 peptides lied in the extracellular part of B7-2 and the truncated Pseudomonas extoxin PE40KDEL.Searching in the peptident data bank of Expasy website,we did not find any known proteins which was accordant with the above terms.The cytotoxic activity of the recombinant toxin with MTT method showed that the B7-2-PE40KDEL selectively killed Jurkat cell line which expressesed CD28 receptor well and had no killing effect on the Raji cell line unexpressing CD28 receptor.Conclusion:Recombinant B7-2-PE40KDEL exotoxin fusion protein we construct proves to be a new one with targeted killing bioactivity to B7:CD28 system.