Objective To observe the effect of Kouchuangping oral liquid (KCP), which can clear away stomach-heat, purge fire, nourish yin, on golden yellow hamster aphtha that induced by PQ. Methods Inject PQ which can cause membrana mucosa ulceration in golden yellow hamster’s cheek pouch, observe the pathomorphological process of ulcerative lesion and antioxidation of three different KCP dosage teams. Result The KCP has the function of anti-inflammation and anti-exudation on ulcerative lesion, which can relieve epithelium necrosis and promote the recovery of ulceration. It also can increase the vigor of SOD in serum and degrade the content of MDA. Conclusion KCP has the functions of antioxidation and eliminate oxydic and metabolic products.

Objective To explore expression of plexinA1 and Ki-67 in tissue of human brain glioma cells and their clinical significance.Methods 43 specimens from patients with brain glioma were collected.Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining was used for detecting the expression of tissue plexinA1 and Ki-67 in human glioma cells of 43 cases of patients with brain glioma.The positive expression rate of plexinA1 and Ki-67 among the different pathological grade tissues and their clinical significance were analyzed.So did correlation studies about plexinA1 and Ki-67.Results The positive expression rates of plexinA1 in Ⅰ-Ⅱ grade group (18 cases) and Ⅲ-Ⅳ grade group (25 cases) were 22.22 ％ (4/18) and 72.00 ％ (18/25) (P ＜ 0.05).The positive expression rates of Ki-67 in Ⅰ-Ⅱ grade group and Ⅲ-Ⅳ grade group were 16.67 ％ (3/18) and 56.00 ％ (14/25),respectively (P ＜ 0.05).PlxinA1 and Ki-67 expression in the tissue of human brain glioma were positively correlated (r =0.997,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The positive expression rate of plexinA1 is higher in high malignancy human glioma group than that in low malignancy group which has an important reference value in the estimation of prognosis for human glioma.PlexinA1 and Ki-67 maybe synergism in occurrence and development of glioma.

Objective To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of bacterial pathogens isolated from peritonsillar abscess .Methods Data on bacterial pathogens isolated from peritonsillar abscess in Wenzhou Central Hospital from January 2010 to December 2014 were retrospectively analyzed .Strains were identified with Vitek 32 identification system and the drug susceptibility test was performed with K-B method.Chi-square test for linear trend was performed to reveal the changes of distribution and drug resistance of the strains .Results A total of 2 864 bacterial strains were isolated in five years , in which 1 786 strains were Gram-negative bacilli (62.4%), and 1 078 (37.6%) strains were Gram-positive cocci. The positive rate of Gram-negative bacilli was on the rise during year 2010-2014 (χ2 =84.74, P<0.01), and the top three Gram-negative bacilli were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Haemophilus influenzae, which accounted for 72.5%(1 295/1 786) of the total Gram-negative strains, and the positive rates of first two bacilli were on the rise (χ2 =83.75 and 24.74, P<0.01).Gram-positive cocci were mainly Staphylococcus aureus and Hemolytic streptococcus, which accounted for 83.2% ( 897/1 078) of the total Gram-positive strains.Resistance rates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to ceftazidime, cefoperazone, piperacillin/tazobactam were on the rise (χ2 =16.17, 13.48 and 11.44, P<0.05), while resistance rates to gentamicin and amikacin were on the decline (χ2 =16.54 and 16.63, P <0.05). Resistance rates of Acinetobacter baumannii to ceftazidime, cefoperazone/sulbactam and piperacillin/tazobactam were on the rise (χ2 =12.52, 10.85 and 14.14, P<0.05).Resistance rates of Haemophilus influenzae to ampicillin were on the rise (χ2 =10.21, P<0.05), and the positive rate of β-lactamase producing strains was also on the rise (χ2 =10.38, P<0.05).Resistance rates of Staphylococcus aureus to cefazolin and methicillin were on the rise (χ2 =15.44 and 12.53, P<0.05), but no vancomycin resistant strain was found .Hemolytic streptococcus were sensitive to all commonly used antibiotics .Conclusions Peritonsillar abscess in Wenzhou Central Hospital is mainly induced by Gram-negative bacilli infection . Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Staphylococcus aureus are the top three bacterial pathogens , and are highly resistant to most antibiotics .

Objective To evaluate the stability and compressive mechanical functions of the lumbar spine following insertion of a new self-made allograft interbody fusion cage.Methods Anti-bending intensity with three points test,anti-rotation intensity and compressive stiffness were measured at L4-L5 lumbar spine on five adult human fresh cadaveric specimens following insertion of a new self-made allograft interbody fusion cage and compared with that of before and after nucleus pulposus removal.Results The anti-bending intensity of flexion and extension of lumbar spine after inserting a new allograft interbody fusion cage was increased significantly(P

Objective To investigate the most sensitive methods for diagnosing spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection (sICAD) and spontaneous vertebral artery dissection (sVAD) respectively,for the sake of earlier and more accurate diagnosis.Methods Consecutive patients with sICAD and sVAD who visited the Department of Neurology and Radiology,Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University during 2008-2013 were retrospectively reviewed and the sensitivity of CT angiography (CTA),magnetic resonance T1-weighted fat-suppressed images (MR T1-FS) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for the diagnosis of sICAD and sVAD was compared.Results Eighty patients (62 male,18 female; mean age (45.7 ± 11.9) years) were included in the study.There were 99 arterial dissections in total,45 cases of sICAD,52 cases of sVAD and 2 cases of spontaneous middle cerebral artery dissections.The sensitivity of CTA,DSA and MR T1-FS for diagnosing sICAD was 97.5％ (39/40),90.0％ (36/40) and 69.6％ (16/23) respectively,while for sVAD was 89.8％ (44/49),84.6％ (44/52) and 100.0％ (27/27) respectively.Conclusions sICAD and sVAD have significant differences in many aspects including diagnostic strategies.CTA and MR T1-FS seem to be the most sensitive methods for the diagnosis of sICAD and sVAD respectively.Although DSA has been considered as the gold standard for the diagnosis of artery dissection,this imaging technique does not allow analysis of artery wall thickness,thus also has limitations.It is likely that the diagnostic sensitivity will be improved by combining CTA and MR T1-FS.

Objective To examine the differences in the structure of brain white matter among deficit schizophrenia, nondeficit schizophrenia and healthy controls by using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). Methods Ten deficit schizophrenic patients, eleven nondeficit patients and fifteen healthy comparison subjects participated in the study. All the subjects were scanned by GE Twin Speed 1.5T MRI system. Whole brain, voxel-wise analyses of regional white matter volume were conducted by the VBM toolbox on the Matlab7.6 and SPM5. t -test was then used for the comparison between groups. Results Compared to the healthy controls, nondeficit schizophrenic patients significantly decreased the density of gray matter in the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital lobe and basal ganglia , while the deficit patients showed the characteristically broad and significant decreasion in the frontal lobe, including left medial frontal gyrus, bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, and left orbital gyrus (Cluster ≥ 30 mm3, P<0.01). Moreover, deficit patients showed the decreasion in the temporal cortex and the limbic lobe (right insula). Relative to the nondeficit schizophrenic patients, deficit patients had significant regional gray matter decreases in the left medial frontal gyrus, bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, right precentral gyrus, and right superior temporal gyrus (Cluster ≥ 30 mm3, P<0.01). Conclusion Structural heterogeneity in schizophrenia may relate to specific patterns of gray matter density reductions in deficit and nondeficit patient. However the two subtype of schizophremia patients share a common prefrontal-temperal pattern of structural brain alterations.

Objective To establish a method for the determination of protocatechuic acid, salidroside, and chlorogenic acid in Sargentodoxa cuneata. Methods The separation was performed on a Waters XSELECT CSH C18 (150 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) with methanol-acetonitrile-0.2 % phosphoric acid as the mobile phase in a gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min. The detection wavelength was 260 nm and the column temperature was 35 ℃. Results The linear ranges of protocatechuic acid, salidroside, and chlorogenic acid were 0.0020-0.0120, 0.0600-0.3602, 0.0750-4.5006 mg/ml, respectively. The average recoveries were 98.01% (RSD=0.07%), 98.53 % (RSD=0.12%), and 101.10 % (RSD=1.92%), respectively. Conclusions The method is simple, accurate, and highly reproducible, which could provide the scientific evidence for the quality control of Sargentodoxa cuneata.

LTB gene fragment was amplified by PCR from plasmid pMDTLT, and a recombinant plasmid pETLTBVP1 was constructed by inserting LTB gene fragment into VP1 gene expression plasmid pETVP1 constructed previously. The recombinant plasmids were transformed into E. coli BL21(DE3) and induced to express by IPTG. The recombinant protein existed in the inclusion body and its molecular weight was about 39 kD proved by SDS-PAGE analysis. Western blotting showed that the fusion protein could be reacted with both anti-FMDV and anti-cholera toxin serum demonstrating the immunoactivity of the fusion protein. Strong immune responses can be induced in mice inoculated with the fusion protein intraperitoneally, and the serum antibody level is higher than that of commercial foot-and-mouth disease vaccines.
Animals ; Antibodies, Viral ; blood ; Bacterial Toxins ; genetics ; immunology ; metabolism ; Capsid Proteins ; genetics ; immunology ; metabolism ; Enterotoxins ; genetics ; immunology ; metabolism ; Escherichia coli ; genetics ; metabolism ; Escherichia coli Proteins ; Female ; Gene Fusion ; genetics ; Mice ; Plasmids ; genetics ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; genetics ; immunology ; metabolism

Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes, LM) is an excellent tumor vaccine vector. In this study, recombinant LM vaccine candidate expressing human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) E7 protein was constructed and its charactericts were determined. Through homologous recombination, E7 gene was cloned in frame with the LM4 Phly promoter-signal sequence, and introduced into the chromosome of LM4. The recombinant strain named LM4△hly::E7 with the plasmid-free and antibiotic-resistant gene-free was constructed. LM4△hly::E7 could express and secrete E7-LLO fusion protein; its size is 66 kDa and has immunological activity. Furthermore, LM4△hly::E7 could multiply in RAW264.7 macrophages by confocal laser scanning microscope. Additionally, LM4△hly::E7 could induce specific antibodies against E7 in immunized mice in ELISA. Also, the 50% lethal dose (LD₅₀) of LM4△hly::E7 strain was 3.863×10⁹ CFU (Colony-Forming Units) in C57BL/6 mice with intraperitoneal immunization, which was more attenuated than wild type LM4. Mice immunized with LM4△hly::E7 did not show obvious pathological change. These data show that LM4△hly::E7 expressing E7-LLO fusion protein has good safety, which may provide the materials for research of antitumor effect and would be a promising vaccine candidate for cervical cancer.
Animals ; Cancer Vaccines ; immunology ; Listeria monocytogenes ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Papillomavirus E7 Proteins ; immunology ; Papillomavirus Infections ; prevention & control ; Plasmids ; RAW 264.7 Cells ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; immunology ; Vaccines, Attenuated ; immunology ; Viral Vaccines ; immunology