A colony of mice with a unique trait of host resistance to tumorigenesis induced by transplantable cells has been established and studied by Cui Zheng et al.These spontaneous regression/complete resistance(SR/CR) mice possess a trait of resistance to a broad spectrum of tumors and can be transferred to cancer-sensitive mice,with an age-dependent spontaneous regression mediated mainly by innate leukocytes.This article reviews the discovery of the SR/CR mouse model and related study of its anti-cancer mechanism.

Objective To explore more safe and effective method for the treatment of common bile duct stones combined with cavernous transformation of the portal vein (CTPV).Methods We report 2 cases of post-treated patients in this series.In order to avoid severe bleeding caused by dissection of bile duct,we applied different methods to remove common bile duct stones compared with traditional operation.We removed common bile duct stones in one patient through cystic duct approach during operation.Two years later,we performed endoscopic duodenal incision (endoscopic sphincterotomy,EST) for him because of lower common bile duct stenosis with sand like stone.Another patient,on the other hand,we conducted the duodenal papilla incision during operation and removed common bile duct stones with choledochoscope through the bottom of common bile duct.Result Of the two patients,all of the three kinds of operation had good curative effects.Conclusions For the patients with common bile duct stones combined with CTPV,we should select appropriate treatments to avoid dissection of bile duct in front of the dilated and tortuous collateral veins during the operation,which is the key to guarantee the safety and success of the operation.EST is the preferred method of the treatment.Open operation with choledochoscopy via cystic duct approach or duodenal papilla incision through distal common bile duct to perform stone extraction also appears to be effective and safe.

Objective To explore the mechanisms of quinolones resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and homology analysis a-mong the strains .Methods 25 strains of quinolones-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated clinically were collected .Kirby-Bauer(K-B) detection was utilized to detect the sensitivity of conventional drugs ,and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was em-ployed to detect quinolone resistance-related genes gyrA and parC which were verified by restriction enzyme digestion and sequen-cing ,repetitive extragenic palindrome(REP)-PCR was adopted to analyze the strain homology .Results Multiple resistances to 12 kinds of antibacterial agents were found among the 25 strains of Acinetobacter baumannii which were sensitive only to minocycline and amikacin ,with sensitive rates were 48 .0% and 32 .0% ,respectively ,and were all sensitive to polymyxin B [minimal inhibitory concentration(MIC)≤2 μg/mL] .gyrA and parC genes were found in the all strain .Mutation TCA→TTA(Ser→Leu) at coden 83 in gyrA gene existed in 25 strains ,mutation TCG→TTG(Ser→Leu) at coden 80 in parC gene existed in 23 strains ,mutation GAA→GGA(Glu→Gly) at coden 84 in parC gene existed in 2 strains .REP-PCR showed that the strains had high degree of homology . Conclusion Quinolone-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has high degree of homology ,existing gyrA and parC gene mutations .

Objective To analyze the drug resistance and homology of Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) isolated from patients with explosive injury ,so as to explore the characteristics of drug resistance and prevalence of infection .Methods A total of 61 strains of AB isolated from clinical specimens of patients with explosive injury were collected .The antimicrobial susceptibility of these iso‐lates was detected by using K‐B test .All the strains were gene typed by using the pulsed field gel electrophoresis .Results The re‐sults of antimicrobial susceptibility test shown that the 61 isolates of Ab had high resistance rate ,and were multi‐drug resistant to common antibacterial agents ,except for tigecycline (the resistante rate was 11 .5% ) and minocycline (the resistante rate was 48 .0% ) .The 61 isolates of Ab were divided into 8 kinds of genotypes ,among which type A was the most prevalent one (25 strains) .Other genotypes were type B(10 strains) ,type C(6 strains) ,type D(4 strains) ,type E(8 strains) ,type F(3 strains) ,type G(4 strains) and type H(1 strain) .The isolates of Ab were with high homology .Conclusion Multi‐drug resistance is observed in strains of Ab isolates from patients with explosive injury .Clonal strains of AB may be disseminates among regions ,which indicates that high attention should be paid to these strains .

Objective To analyze the susceptibilities of Escherichia coli isolates collected from blood and the prevalence of ESBLs encoding genes.Methods A total of 121 Escherichia coli isolates collected from blood during 2012 were analyzed for antimicrobial susceptibilities by software of WHONET 5.6,the production of ESBLs was confirmed by confirmatory pheno-typic testing,PCR and DNA sequence were further implemented to analyze the ESBLs-encoding genes.Results 121 E.coli isolates displayed high resistance towards broad spectrum penicillin and 2nd or 3rd generation cephalosporins,levofloxacin and cotrimoxazole,with the resistance rates being more than 40%,susceptibilities to imipenem,piperacillin/tazobactam,ami-kacin were observed,with the resistance rates to be less than 12%,86(88.7%)out of 121 isolates were found to produce ESBLs.Among them,59.5% (72),38.8% (47)and 4.1% (5)were confirmed to carry blaCTX-M,blaTEM and blaSHV genes.Additionally,2(1.7%)isolates carried all the genes detected,30(24.8%)isolates carried both of blaCTX and bla-TEM,1(0.8%)isolate carried both of blaSHV andblaTEM.Conclusion Most of the E.coli isolates from the blood culture in Nanjing Gulou Hospital produce ESBLs,and displayed resistance towards most of the penicillins,cephalosporins and sin-gle amide antimicrobial agents should be chosen according to susceptibility results.

Objective To assess the clinical value of pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) in diagnosis and survey of therapeutic effect for lung cancer.Methods The serum level of PTX-3,carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA),cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA 21-1) were measured in 802 patients with lung cancer,462 with benign lung diseases and 522 healthy controls from multiple research centers,using ELISA and electrochemiluminescent assays.The clinical value of PTX-3 was assessed by comparing the area under receiver characteristic curves (AUC) with CEA and CYFRA21-1.The optimum cutoff value for diagnosis of lung cancer was investigated by maximizing the sum of sensitivity and specificity.By following-up,the serum level of PTX-3 was measured at 3 day,7 day,and 14 day in 61 lung cancer patients after surgical resection of lung cancer.Results In test group and validation,the serum levels of PTX-3 (g/L) are significantly higher in lung cancer group [9.21 (6.13-12.80),10.4(5.54-13.11)] than in benign lung diseases [5.28 (3.42-8.53),6.52 (3.84-7.89)] and in healthy controls [2.18 (0.54-5.44),2.44 (0.67-5.87)],[Z =8.161,14.118,(test group,all P ＜ 0.05) ;Z =9.832,17.595 (validation group,all P ＜0.05)].ROC curve showed the optimal cut-off values for PTX-3 was 8.03 g/L [AUC of 0.831,with a sensitivity of 76.1％ and specificity of 75.2％ in the test cohort; 0.828,71.3％,89.2％ in the validation cohort].Similar results were noted for early-stage lung cancer [0.764,79.1％,and 62.2％ in the test cohort; 0.744,71.3％,and 69.6％ in the validation].In the diagnosis of early-stage lung,the AUC and sensitivity and specificity of PTX-3 were 79.1％,0.764,71.3％ (test group),and 75.2％,89.2％,0.824 (validation group) significantly higher in these patients than CEA and CYFRA21-1.In small cell lung cancer,PTX-3 and NSE shared similar AUC differentiating LC from benign lung diseases and health controls.In following-up 61 lung cancer patients,PTX-3 levels before surgical resection of tumours [11.12(9.12-12.59)] was significant high than following 3 day after surgery(Z =4.32,P ＜0.01),and 14 day (5.12 ±2.54) vs.7 day (7.13 ±3.42) (t =2.143,P =0.023).The correlation between PTX-3 and CRP in LC,benign lung diseases,health control was 0.364,0.592,0.512 (all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Serum PTX-3 is a valuable biomarker of lung cancer and early-stage lung cancer with high sensitivity and specificity and improved identification of patients with lung cancer from those with non-malignant chronic lung diseases.

Objective To analyze the species classification and chracteristics of drug resistance and virulence in CTX-M producing Escherichia coli isolated from urine culture.Methods Escherichia coli cultured by urine were collected from our hospital during 2014,the ring disk diffusion test was implemented to determine the bacterial susceptibility,the EBLs determination test was used to analyze the bacterial EBLs producing situation;the enterobactoer duplicated gene spacer consensus sequency PCR(ERIC-PCR) was adopted to perform the genetic relation analysis;PCR was used to amplify the CTX-M encoding genes and multiple virulence genes iutA,ompT,fyuA,fdeC,fimH,traT,cvaC,pap,kpsMT,pAI,usp,aer,hlyA,cnf and chuA;the multiple PCR was used to analyze the species calssification of CTX-M-producing Escherichia coli;these strains of bacteria were classified as the CTX-M-producing group and non-CTX-M-producing group according to the results of CTX-M coding gene detection,the differences in the antibacterial drug resistance and virulence genes between the two gorups were performed the contrastive analysis.Results One hundred and sixty-two strains of E.coli by urine culture had no genetic correlation,among 126 EBLs positive strains,91 strains produced CT-M,in which 57 strains of CT-M producing Escherichia coli belonged to type D,and 116 strains belong to Type B2.The statistical analysis found that the drug resistance rate in the CTX-M-producing group was significantly higher than that in the non-CT-M producing group (except for imipenem),the prevalence of virulence genes including iutA,chuA and traT in the CT-M producing bacteria group was significantly higher than that in the non-CTX-M-producing group(P=0.001,0.006,0.000)Conclusion CTX-M-producing E.coli is main pathogenic bacterium of urinary infection in our hospital,its majority belong to type D with increased drug resistance,moreover has close correlation with virulence genes iutA,chuA and traA and is a pertential threat in clinical treatment of urinary infection.

Objective To study the significance of human rhinovirus C as a pathogen and the clini-cal features of human rhinovirus C infection in pediatric intensive care unit. Methods From November 2010 to April 2012,570 nasopharyngeal aspirates specimens were collected from children who were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with respiratory infections. Nest reverse transcription-polymerase chain reactions were applied to detect the human rhinovirus C. The other common respiratory viruses were detected by multi-plex polymerase chain reaction. The clinical data were collected. Results One hundred and seventy human rhinovirus positive samples ( 29. 8%) were detected in 570 nasopharyngeal aspirates specimens. The VP2/VP4 and 5′UTR region of the human rhinovirus genome was amplified from 170 human rhinovirus positive samples with 80. 6%(136/170) success. While 20. 0%(34/170) samples in total were unclassified to spe-cies. There were 85 single infected samples including 52 of type A,7 of type B,26 of type C. The nucleotide homology was 74. 0% to 99. 2% and the nucleotide variations was 3. 4% to 32. 3% in stains of human rhino-virus C. The late fall and early winter were the epidemic seasons of human rhinovirus C infection. Cough,fe-ver, polypnea and wheezing were the common symptoms. Conclusion Human rhinovirus C is the major cause of infectious disease in pediatric critical illnesses. Human rhinovirus C infections often cause cough, fever,polypnea and wheezing.

Objective To evaluate the long-term effect of surgical procedures for congenital choledochal cyst (CCC).Methods From 1986 to 2000, 120 cases of CCC were admitted and 73 of them underwent the primary operations in General Hospital of PLA. Three types procedures were performed,type I: external drainage of CCC in 7 cases; type II:cystojejunal Roux-en-Y anastomosis in 5 cases; type III: cyst excision with cystojejunal Roux-en-Y anastomosis or cystoduodenostomy in 57cases,and other procedures in 4 cases.Results 68 cases were followed-up for 6 months to 5 years (median 2.7 years). Three cases undergoing type I operations accepted reoperations;two cases undergoing type II operations accepted reoperations due to severe complications as cholongitis and hepatolithiasis; 57 cases treated by type III operation with the good results 88.7% and none reoperation.Conclusions External drainage is only a first-aid management on emergency basis. Internal drainage should never be done,because the effect is temporary,and severe complications result in reoperations. Cyst excision with biliary tract reconstruction is recommended as the optimal treatment of CCC.

OBJECTIVETo detect putative suppressor loci involved in tumor progressing or metastases.

METHODSThirty microsatellite marker primers were employed to amply the corresponding loci of the genome DNA from 83 patients with sporadic colorectal cancer. The PCR products were electrophoresed on a 377 PRISM sequencer and the fluorescent signals were analyzed by Genotyper and Genescan software.

RESULTSThe data were obtained from 24 loci, with an average LOH frequency of 15.16%. The LOH at D2S206 and D2S364 was more frequent than 30%, and was less than 20% at the rest loci. Significant difference was observed between the percentage of LOH and tumor staging or differentiation at D2S142 (2q24.1), D2S126 (2q35), D2S2211 (2p24.2), D2S305 (2p23.3). Occarrence of deletion at the later two loci was correlative.

CONCLUSIONSFrequent LOH was not observed at the loci around known mismatch repair genes on chr. 2. The region between D2S305 (2p23.3) and D2S2211 (2p24.2) deleted holistically, and was correlated to the stage and differentiation of tumor attended by D2S142 (2q24.1) and D2S126 (2q35) on 2q. It is suggested that unknown genes associated with tumor progressing or metastases reside in the two loci on 2q or the region on 2p.

Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Cell Differentiation ; Chromosome Mapping ; Colorectal Neoplasms ; genetics ; pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Loss of Heterozygosity ; Male ; Microsatellite Repeats ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Metastasis