1.The diagnostic value of color Doppler ultrasonography and CR molybdenum target in breast nodules
Fang LIU ; Haibin CHEN ; Tingyu YE
Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy 2013;20(2):176-177
Objective To evaluate the applicated value of color Doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) and CR molybdenum target in the diagnosis of breast nodules.Methods Comparative analysis of 87 patients with breast nodules diagnosed by CDUS and CR molybdenum target were contrasted with postoperative pathology.Results 47 cases of 78 patients with breast nodules were benign lesions.39 cases were correctly diagnosed by CR molybdenum target,41 cases were correctly diagnosed by CDUS,and 44 cases were correctly diagnosed by CR molybdenum target and CDUS.Contrasted with postoperative pathology,the accuracy rates of breast disease diagnosed were 82.5%,75.0% and 95.0% diagnosed by CR molybdenum target,CDUS,CR molybdenum target and CDUS.Conclusion There is no significant statistical difference between CR molybdenum target and CDUS in the diagnosis of benign breast nodules.The accuracy rate of breast disease diagnosed by CR molybdenum target and CDUS is better than that diagnosed by CR molybdenum target or CDUS only.The two co-diagnosis are benefit to raise the accuracy rate of breast nodules.
2.Effect of thalidomide combined with gefitinib on quality of life andsurvival in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Fang LIU ; Tingyu TANG ; Jianzong DU ; Guangyue QIN
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2017;37(1):185-187
Objective To investigate the effect of thalidomide combined with targeted therapy of gefitinib on quality of life and survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Methods 90 cases with non-small cell lung cancer were selected in our hospital, according to the treatment were divided into observation group and control group, the observation group were treated by thalidomide combined with gefitinib treatment, patients in the control group received only gefitinib treatment, treatment effects was compared between the two groups, the remission rate, quality of life and survival were compared between two groups of patients. Results The effective rate of the observation group patients was 55.6%, compared with 33.3% in the control group, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05), the life quality of the observation group of general health (general health, GH), physical functioning (PF), role –physical (RP), role-emotional (RE), mental health (MH), social functioning (SF), bodily pain (BP) and vitality (VT) were significantly better than the control group (P<0.05), there was no significant difference in 1, 2, 3, 4 years survival rate between two groups, while 5 years survival rate in observation group was higher than the control group(P<0.05). Conclusion Thalidomide combined with gefitinib targeted therapy is helpful to improve the quality of life and 5 years survival rate of non-small cell lung cancer.
3.Detection of TORCH infection in pregnant women by using reverse phase protein array
Wenjun HE ; Fang TANG ; Tao LI ; Zian WU ; Xinzhong WU ; Fan JIANG ; Liandong ZUO ; Tingyu YU ; Zhirong TAN ; Ning XU
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2015;(24):3522-3524
Objective To evaluate whether the reverse phase protein array (RPPA) method can be used for detecting TORCH infection in pregnant women .Methods The RPPA method was established for detecting TORCH infection .The positive coinci‐dence rates of TORCH infection detected by the RPPA method and ELISA method in 2000 fresh serum samples from pregnant women were compared for evaluating the feasibility of RPPA in TORCH detection .Results The positive coincidence rates of estab‐lished RPPA and ELISA for detecting TORCH infection was 100 .0% ,91 .1% ,97 .2% ,91 .3% and 93 .0% respectively ,indicating that the detection results of various indexes by RPPA and ELISA had better consistency (P>0 .05) ,but the positive detection rates of RPPA for Rubellavirus ,CMV and HSV‐1 ,2 were higher than those of correspondent ELISA method .Conclusion RPPA method for detecting TORCH infection has the advantages of simpleness ,rapidness ,high sensitivity and strong specificity ,is an effective method of auxiliary diagnosis for bearing and rearing better children in clinical ,and is worthy of being promoted and used in the fu‐ture .
4.Clinical features and genetic analysis of a patient with type 2 neurofibromatosis manifested as oculomotor nerve palsy.
Xinghuan DING ; Bo LIANG ; Tingyu LIANG ; Jingjing LI ; Fang WANG ; Enshan FENG
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics 2023;40(7):851-855
OBJECTIVE:
To report on a rare case of Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) manifesting as oculomotor nerve palsy and explore its genetic basis.
METHODS:
A patient with NF2 who had presented at Beijing Ditan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University on July 10, 2021 was selected as the study subject. Cranial and spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was carried out on the patient and his parents. Peripheral blood samples were collected and subjected to whole exome sequencing. Candidate variant was verified by Sanger sequencing.
RESULTS:
MRI revealed bilateral vestibular Schwannomas, bilateral cavernous sinus meningiomas, popliteal neurogenic tumors, and multiple subcutaneous nodules in the patient. DNA sequencing revealed that he has harbored a de novo nonsense variant of the NF2 gene, namely c.757A>T, which has replaced a codon (AAG) encoding lysine (K) at position 253 with a stop codon (TAG). This has resulted in removal of the Merlin protein encoded by the NF2 gene from position 253 onwards. The variant was not found in public databases. Bioinformatic analysis suggested that the corresponding amino acid is highly conserved. Based on the guidelines from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), the variant was rated as pathogenic (PVS1+PS2+PM2_Supporting+PP3+PP4).
CONCLUSION
The heterozygous nonsense variant c.757A>T (p.K253*) of the NF2 gene probably underlay the disease in this patient with an early onset, atypical but severe phenotype.
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Computational Biology
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Genomics
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Mutation
5.Comments on Nigel Wiseman's "A Practical Sictionary of Chinese Medicine"--on Wiseman' s literal translation.
Zhu-fan XIE ; Gan-zhong LIU ; Wei-bo LU ; Tingyu FANG ; Qingrong ZHANG ; Tai WANG ; Kui WANG
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2005;25(10):937-940
Comments were made on the word-for-word literal translation method used by Mr. Nigel Wiseman in A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. He believes that only literal translation can reflect Chinese medical concepts accurately. The so-called "word-for-word" translation is actually "English-word-for-Chinese-character" translation. First, he made a list of Single Characters with English Equivalents, and then he replaced each character of Chinese medical terms with the assigned English equivalent. Many English terms thus produced are confusing. The defect of the word-for-word literal translation stems from the erroneous idea that the single character constitutes the basic element of meaning corresponding to the notion of "word" in English, and the meaning of a disyllabic or polysyllabic Chinese word is simply the addition of the meanings of the two or more characters. Another big mistake is the negligence of the polysemy of Chinese characters. One or two English equivalents can by no means cover all the various meanings of a polysemous character as a monosyllabic word. Various examples were cited from this dictionary to illustrate the mistakes.
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6.The application of nanotopography in the development of tissue engineered tissues using mesenchymal stem cells.
Weiying FANG ; Tingyu GU ; Yi LIU ; Lan XU ; Yuelei CHEN
Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2018;35(1):145-150
Tissue engineering has emerged as a promising approach for the repair and functional reconstruction of damaged tissues. The bionic and intelligentized scaffolds provide the structural support for cell growth and differentiation as well as tissue regeneration. The surface properties of the biological material implant, the nanotopology in particular, become key aspects in determining the success of the implant. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are widely favored by researchers as the seed cells in tissue engineering. Recently, it has been shown that nanotopographical characteristics of biomaterials regulate a wide range of MSC properties from their cellular behavior and differentiation potential. Herein, this review will provide an update on studies investigating the roles of nanotopography in the development of tissue engineering using MSC.