Objective:To study influence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) levels and blood pressure variability (BPV) in aged patients with essential hypertension (EH) .Methods:A total of 80 aged EH +T2DM patients treated in our hospital from Jun 2014 to Jan 2016 were selected as observation group ,another 80 aged pure EH patients were selected as EH control group .The 24hABP indexes and BPV indexes were compared between two groups . Results:Compared with EH control group , there were significant rise in 24h mean systolic blood pressure [24hSBP , (126.47 ± 9.64) mmHg vs .(134.98 ± 10.63) mmHg] ,nighttime mean SBP [nSBP ,(125.73 ± 10.19) mmHg vs .(133.74 ± 11.29) mmHg] ,daytime mean SBP [dSBP ,(128.29 ± 10.97) mmHg vs .(136.42 ± 12.18) mmHg] ,daytime mean pulse pressure [dPP ,(59.46 ± 10.79) mmHg vs .(65.38 ± 11.69) mmHg] ,nPP [ (58.00 ± 10.11) mmHg vs .(67.14 ± 9.93) mmHg] and 24hPP [ (59.27 ± 10.16) mmHg vs .(64.76 ± 11.62) mmHg] , P<0.01 all;and significant rise in 24hSBP standard deviation [24hSBPSD ,(12.63 ± 2.87) mmHg vs .(18.41 ± 3.09) mmHg] and nSBPSD [ (10.14 ± 3.53) mmHg vs .(14.89 ± 3.54) mmHg] in observation group , P<0.01 both .Conclusion:Diabetes mellitus elevates daytime and nighttime SBP ,increases BPV and risk of cardiovascular diseases in aged EH patients .

Objective: To study the relationships between the expressions of E-cadherin and ki-67 in the tissues of heatocellular carcinoma(HCC)and the prognosis of HCC patients after hepatectomy as well as their clinical pathology. Methods: We examine the expressions of E-cadherin and ki-67 in 255 HCC tissues by tissue microarray and PV-6000 two-step method of immunohistochemistry and analyze the correlations between their expressions and clinical pathological data, 1-year recurrent rate and overall survival time after hepatectomy. Results: The expression of E-cadherin correlated with the tumor size and the 1-year recurrent rate of positive group was higher than that of the negative group. The expression of ki-67 correlated with vascular invasion and differentiation of the tumor, the positive group showed a higher 1-year recurrent rate and a shorter overall survival time. Multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that the expression of ki-67 was an independent risky factor. Conclusions: The negative expression of E-cadherin and the positive expression of ki-67 predict a higher recurrent rate of early stage. The expression of ki-67 is an independent risky factor which can be used to evaluate the prognosis of patients with HCC after hepatectomy.

BACKGROUND:Early clinical application of non-biological materials (bone cement) for treatment of hip joint is ineffective, due to the large fixed range, long fixation time, as wel as aging and rupture of bone cement interface causing complications such as prosthetic loosening. Thus, postoperative range of motion of the hip joint can be affected to some degree.
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the methods and progress of biological and non-biological materials for total hip replacement and to assess the features and clinical application of different hip prostheses.
METHODS:A computer-based search of PubMed and CNKI was performed by the first author to retrieve articles related to biological materials and tissue-engineered hip joint using the keywords of“carpal bone, fracture ununited”in the title and abstract. The keywords were limited to Chinese and English.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Biological materials for internal fixation have good wear resistance, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. Currently, the combination of metal joint head and polyethylene acetabulum with ultrahigh molecular weight is the most commonly used in hip replacement. However, the metal joint head exhibits an elastic modulus far from the human skeleton, resulting in stress shielding effects which are easy to cause prosthetic loosening and instability. Bio-inert ceramics has high in vivo stability and good mechanical strength;and bioactive ceramics has bone conduction characteristics and performance of the living bone integration. Composite prosthesis, because of adjustable elastic modulus and sufficient mechanical strength, shows the mechanical properties close to the human bone and has been gradual y noticed. However, there is a lack of ideal prostheses with good biocompatibility and biomechanics. Therefore, hip design and manufacturing processes should be improved to elevate wear resistance and mechanical properties, to enhance the binding between prosthesis and the host bone, and to reduce stress shielding in order to improve the biocompatibility of the implant with the host, and extend the prosthetic life.

Objective To study the effect of cyclosporine combined with eleven acid testosterone on serum T helper cells in patients with chronic aplastic anemia.Methods A total of 86 patients with chronic aplastic anemia received treatment in our hospital were collected as the research objects,and divided into experimental group and control group,patients in the experimental group received eleven acid testosterone combined with cyclosporine therapy,patients in the control group received eleven acid testosterone therapy.Blood routine indexes,Th1,Th2,Th17 and Treg cells contents of the two groups before and after treatment were compared.Results Before treatment,hemoglobin content,leukocyte count,platelet count,peripheral blood Th1,Th2,Th17 and Treg cells contents of the two groups had no significant difference(P>0.05).After two courses of treatment,hemoglobin content,leukocyte count,platelet count of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group.After two courses and four courses of treatment,peripheral blood Th1 and Th17 contents of experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group,Th2 and Treg contents were significantly higher than those of the control group.Conclusion Eleven acid testosterone combined with cyclosporine treatment could be more effective to stimulate hematopoiesis,regulate immune function and T lymphocyte subsets content,it′s an effective method for the treatment of chronic aplastic anemia.

AIM: To investigate the effect of L-phenyla lanine on vascular remodeling in hypertensive rats. METHODS: Vascular remodeling was measured by laser scanning conf ocal microscopy (LSCM) in mesenteric resistance arteries isolated from spontaneo usly hypertensive rat (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat. The effect of L-phenylalanine on the hypertensive vascular remodeling was observed. The thi rd most distal first-order branches of mesenteric resistance arteries from SHR a nd WKY were studied. The arteries were fixed under pressure. The segments were s tained with the nuclear dye propidium iodide. The diameter, wall thickness and o rientation angle of smooth muscle cells were measured with LSCM. RESULTS: Compared with WKY, SHR arteries showed: (1) smaller lum en, (2) increased wall thickness, (3) disorganized orientation angle of smooth m uscle cells. L-phenylalanine treatment induced specific changes in the lumen, wa ll thickness and the orientation angle of smooth muscle cells. CONCLUSIONS: Hypertension induces vascular remodeling of the bra nches of mesenteric arteries from SHR. L-phenylalanine inhibits the vascular rem odeling process of hypertension.

Objective To observe the effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) on growth of human hair follicles in vitro. Methods NGF was added to the model of human hair follicles in vitro. The length and the DNA synthesis rate of human hair follicles in vitro were measured. Results We found both 100 ?g?L -1 NGF and 125 mg?L -1 minoxidil significantly accelerated the growth of human hair follicles in vitro (P

A child case of acute myocardial ischemia induced by symptomatic myocardial bridge (SMB)was reported and relevant literatures were reviewed in this article.The case and literatures indicate that myocardial bridge is a rare congenital coronary artery anomaly in children.The pathogenesis may be related to stenosis,spasm,arteriosclerosis of coronary artery because of myocardial bridge compression during systole.Clinical manifestations include chest pain,malignant arrhythmia,syncope,cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction.The diagnosis of myocardial bridge is based on cardiac imaging.SMB patients should be first treated with β-adrenergic; if ineffective,surgical treatment or implantable automated cardiac defibrillator shonld be chosen.The patients complicated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have worse conditions with high mortality.

Objective To analyze the simple sequence repeat(SSR)information in expressed sequence tag(EST)resource of Saruma henryi and lay a solid foundation for the development of EST-SSR markers in this species.Methods ESTs of S.henryi were downloaded from GenBank and used to perform the contig assembly using Sequencher 4.8.Uni-ESTs were obtained and screened for SSR-containing unigenes using SciRoKo 3.4.The distributing frequency of the EST-SSRs and the basic characteristics of motifs were analyzed.Results A total of 10 274 ESTs of S.henryi were retrieved and were assembled into 6 643 non-redundant Uni-ESTs with a total length of 5.11?106 bp.In all,the data mining yielded 1 408 SSR loci,which corresponded to 1 232 Uni-ESTs(18.55%).On average,EST-SSRs spanned 22.30 bp,and occurred every 3.63 kb in length.In S.henryi,mononucleotide repeats predominated with an occurrence frequency of 12.24%.Dinucleotide repeats followed with a frequency of 5.01%.The most frequent one was A/T among all the repeat motifs,then followed by AG/CT.Conclusion SSRs in ESTs of S.henryi display a relatively high level of occurrence frequency and show abundance of types.

Objective To explore molecular mechanism of expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA and secretion of VEGF protein in HL-60 cells induced by all-trans refinoic acid (ATRA). Methods MTr method was used to detect the proliferation of HL-60 cells induced by ATRA,cell cycle and CD11b expression in HL-60 cells were detected by flow cytometry. Expression of VEGF, c-myc, by-poxia-inducible factor(HIF)-lα, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 and MMP-2 mRNA were detected by semi-quantitative RT-PCR. VEGF protein in HL-60 cells culture supernatant was measured by ELISA before and after being induced by ATRA. Results After treatment with ATRA,the proliferation of HL-60 cells was obviously inhibited, CD11b expression increased, trend of granulocyte directional differentiation emerged, and differentiation degree was increasd(P <0. 05) ;expression level of c-my and VEGF mRNA was down-regulated (P < 0. 05), but expression level of HIF-1α mRNA was up-regulated (P < 0. 05). VEGF protein level in HL-60 cells culture supernatant was decreased by blocking the expression of MMP-9 or MMP-2(P <0. 05).Conclusion VEGF expression has positive correlation with c-myc expression,but has negative correlation with HIF-1α expression. MMP-9 and MMP-2 may be the main factors regulating VEGF secretion in HL-60 cells.

Objective To study the molecular mechanism of different sensitivities to apoptosis induced by low concentration of As2O3 in PML-RARα negative HL-60 cells and PML-RARα positive NB4 cells. Meth-ods NB4 and HL-60 cells were cultured with As2O3 for 1 to 4 days; cell proliferation were detected by MTT method; the apoptosis was detected by flow cytometry,Bcl-2,Bax and Fas mRNA were determined by RT-PCR. Results The proliferation of NB4 cells was inhibited obviously by As2O3(1.0 μmol/L)with the induction of apoptosis( P <0.05) ,which was accompanied by the down-regulation of Bcl-2 mRNA expression( P <0.05)and the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax(P <0.05), but there was no obvious variation of Bax and Fas expression( P >0.05). Inhibition of proliferation and apoptosis were not obvious in PML-RARα negative HL-60 cells induced by low concentration As2O3 ( P >0.05), and there was no obvious variation of Bcl-2, Bax, Fas mRNA expres-sion or Bcl/Bax ratio( P >0.05). Conclusion The ratio of Bcl-2/Bax is contributed to the different sensitiv-ities of PML-RARα negative HL-60 cells and positive NB4 cells induced by low concentration of As2O3.