Objective To study the diagnosis and trea tm ent of urolithiasis in patients after renal transplantation. Methods 5 cases of urinary tract stone in patients after renal transplantat ion were diagnosed and treated.In 1 case,the stone was a remnant of the stone in the donor kidney,in 3 cases,the stone was secondary to a sternotic ureterocysto stomy stoma,in the other case,a stent in the urinary tract was complicated by st one formation.Surgical removal of the stone with ureter-bladder reanastomosis w as carried out for 3,in one of which ESWL has failed.Conventional nonsurgical meas ures was adopted for 2. Results The patients have been f ollowed up for 1～13 years with all the patients and the transplants surviving.I n one of the patients with nonsurgical management,the transplanted kidney has al ready survived for 13 years. Conclusions The treatment o f urinary tract stone in a transplanted kidney is similar to the conventional pr inciples,relieving the block and removal of the stone.Risk factors of uric acid stone formation should be taken care of.

Objective To assess the clinical effects of individual nursing in the prevention of cerebral va-sospasm(CVS)in perioperative intracranial aneurysm intervention based on the therapy use of ligustrazine. Meth-ods Patients who suffered intracranial aneurysm from January 2014 to June 2017 in our hospital were divided into two groups randomly.Normal nursing was applied in the control group,while individual nursing was used for the ex-perimental group. Ligustrazine was used in both groups. Results A total of 56 patients were included in this re-search,28 for the control group,and 28 for the other group.Most patients recovered well and discharged regularly. The incidence rate of CVS in the experimental group(3.57%)was significant lower than that in the control group (28.57%)(P<0.05).Conclusions Based on the fact that individual nursing could lower the incidence of CVS of patients who suffered intracranial aneurysms when ligustrazine was used,it is one of the most important way to pro-mote the recovery as well as lower the mortality rate of patients.

Background and Objectives: Manipulating different signaling pathways via small molecules could efficiently inducecardiomyocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). However, the effect of transcription factors on the hiPSC-directed cardiomyocytes differentiation remains unclear. Transcription factor, p53 has been demonstrated indispensable for the early embryonic development and mesendodermal differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESC).We tested the hypothesis that p53 promotes cardiomyocytes differentiation from human hiPSC. Methods: and Results: Using the well-characterized GiWi protocol that cardiomyocytes are generated from hiPSC via temporal modulation of Wnt signaling pathway by small molecules, we demonstrated that forced expression of p53 in hiPSC remarkably improved the differentiation efficiency of cardiomyocytes from hiPSC, whereas knockdown endogenous p53 decreased the yield of cardiomyocytes. This p53-mediated increased cardiomyocyte differentiation was mediated through WNT3, as evidenced by that overexpression of p53 upregulated the expression of WNT3, and knockdown of p53 decreased the WNT3 expression. Mechanistic analysis showed that the increased cardiomyocyte differentiation partially depended on the amplified mesendodermal specification resulted from p53-mediated activation of WNT3-mediated Wnt signaling. Consistently, endogenous WNT3 knockdown significantly ameliorated mesendodermal specification and subsequent cardiomyocyte differentiation. Conclusions These results provide a novel insight into the potential effect of p53 on the development and differentiation of cardiomyocyte during embryogenesis.

Objective To study the correlation between semen quality and bacterial infection in men with abnormal fer-tility,and provide clinical basis for guiding the reproductive health of men with abnormal fertility.Methods 200 male semen samples with abnormal fertility were collected,and then separated and cultured for 48 hours.According to the culture results,they were divided into three groups:the non-pathogenic group,the pathogenic group,and the sterile group.The bacterial resist-ance analysis of the pathogenic group was conducted,and the semen quality between each group was compared.Results After 48 hours of isolation and cultivation,200 semen samples had been tested,non-pathogenic bacteria was detected in 163 semen samples,accounting for 81.5% ;pathogenic bacteria was detected in 33 semen samples,accounting for 16.5% ;and bacteria was not detected in 4 semen samples,accounting for 2.0% .The top three strains of pathogenic bacteria in 33 cases were Escherichia coli,Streptococcus agalactiae,and Enterococcus faecalis,with drug resistance rates of 80.0% ,87.5% ,and 100.0% ,respec-tively.Conclusion The detection rate of bacterial culture in semen of men with abnormal fertility is relatively high,and patho-genic bacteria can affect semen quality.

Background and Objectives: Although human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) can be efficiently differentiated into cardiomyocytes (CMs), the heterogeneity of the hiPSC-CMs hampers their applications in research and regenerative medicine. Retinoic acid (RA)-mediated signaling pathway has been proved indispensable in cardiac development and differentiation of hiPSC toward atrial CMs. This study was aimed to test whether RA signaling pathway can be manipulated to direct the differentiation into sinoatrial node (SAN) CMs. Methods: and Results: Using the well-characterized GiWi protocol that cardiomyocytes are generated from hiPSC via temporal modulation of Wnt signaling pathway by small molecules, RA signaling pathway was manipulated during the differentiation of hiPSC-CMs on day 5 post-differentiation, a crucial time point equivalent to the transition from cardiac mesoderm to cardiac progenitor cells in cardiac development. The resultant CMs were characterized at mRNA, protein and electrophysiology levels by a combination of qPCR, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, and whole-cell patch clamp. The results showed that activation of the RA signaling pathway biased the differentiation of atrial CMs, whereas inhibition of the signaling pathway biased the differentiation of sinoatrial node-like cells (SANLCs). Conclusions Our study not only provides a novel and simple strategy to enrich SANLCs but also improves our under-standing of the importance of RA signaling in the differentiation of hiPSC-CMs.