1.Study on cross-cultural adaptation and health status in medical international students
Li MA ; Tiefeng FU ; Ji QI ; Xiaohong GAO ; Wenli ZHANG ; Xiang LI ; Shuang CAO ; Changyu GAO
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2011;10(11):1379-1382
A descriptive study to investigate the situation of cross-cultural adaptation and health status among medical international students was carried out using cluster sampling method and self-designed questionnaire in Dalian Medical University.148 international students come from 24 countries.There are 5 religions belief among these students.Islam,Catholic,Hindu,Buddhism and Sikhism.The main obstacles of cross-cultural adaptation are language,accommodation and diet.Economic status and stress of interpersonal relationship are also the main causes affecting the physical and mental health of medical international students.
2.Patterns of Immunocyte Infiltration in Ovarian Cancer and Their Clinical Significance
Tiefeng CAO ; Jiaming HUANG ; Yushi HE
Journal of Medical Research 2024;53(6):29-34
Objective To explore the patterns of the immunocyte infiltration in ovarian cancer,and their influence on clinical out-come and chemotherapy response.Methods The clinical information and gene expression profiles of 2206 ovarian cancer patients were downloaded from TCGA and GEO publicly databases.The CIBERSORT was used to evaluate the distribution of 22 immune cells and their effects on survival,and chemotherapy response.Unsupervised clustering was used to classify cases and analyze differences in clinical out-comes between subgroups.Immunofluorescence staining was performed to illustrate the macrophages infiltration in ovarian cancer samples collected from the First Affiliated Hospital,Sun Yat-sen University.Results Naive B cells,M2 macrophages,and resting memory CD4+T cells were significantly associated with poor prognosis,while follicular helper T cells were significantly associated with good prog-nosis.Plasma cells,M1 macrophages,and activated memory CD4+T cells were associated with chemotherapy sensitivity,and M2 macro-phages were associated with chemotherapy resistant.Furthermore,three subgroups were identified by unsupervised clustering which showed different distribution ratios of macrophages and T cells,and significant differences in overall survival among subgroups.The infil-tration of macrophages in metastasis tissue of ovarian cancer was more than that in primary tumor.Conclusion The immunocyte infiltra-tion in ovarian cancer is associated with clinical prognosis and chemotherapy resistance.Immune cell targeting therapy or combination chemotherapy may be the potential treatment choices for ovarian cancer.