Objective To investigate the expression ot XAF1 protein in pancreauc cancer,and its relationship with clinicopathological parameters and prognosis.Methods The tissue microarray was composed of 89 pancreatic cancer and 21 normal pancreatic tissues,and immunohistochemistry was used to examine the expression of XAF1 protein.The correlation between XAF1 expression and clinicopathological parameters was analyzed.The 89 patients were followed,and the survival was shown in Kaplan Meier curve.Cox proportional hazards regression was used to identify risk factors for the survival of pancreatic cancer patients.Results The negative expression rate of XAF1 was 44.9％ (40/89),and it was 9.5％ (2/21) in normal tissue,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).The expression of XAF1 was negatively associated with tumor staging (P ＜ 0.05),but it was not associated with age,gender,lymph node metastasis,distant metastasis,pathological grading,surgical margins,vascular and neural invasion.Patients with negative expression of XAF1 had much shorter survival than patients with positive expression.Univariate analysis showed that negative expression of XAF1,pathological grading,lymph node metastasis,distant metastasis was associated with the survival (P ＜ 0.05),and the multivariate analysis indicated that negative expression of XAF1 was an independent prognostic factor for survival of pancreatic cancer.Conclusions XAF1 may be involved in the development and growth of pancreatic cancer,and it is related with patient's prognosis.

Objective To investigate the relationship between expression of nuclear factor kappa B p65 ( NF-κB p65) and hippocampal neuronal apoptosis in acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP) rats with brain injury. Methods Sixty-four SD rats were randomized into normal saline group (NS) and ANP group. The ANP rat model was induced by retrograde injection of 4% sodium taurocholate into the pancreaticobiliary duct of SD rats. Nissle stain was used to detect the brain injury. Neuronal apoptosis was determined by TUNEL.NF-κB p65 expression was detected by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR. Results Hippocampal neuron was absent, karyopyknosis, unclear nucleolus and decreased Nissl bodies were found, the injuries was aggravated with time. The apoptosis index at the 3, 6 and 12 h in ANP group was 10.63 ±0.24, 21.02±0.25, 17.12±0.36, respectively, while they were 0.33±0.19,0.71±0.67, 0.45 ± 0. 33 in NS group, and the difference was statistically significant ( P ＜ 0. 01 ). The expressions of NF-κB p65 mRNA were 0. 63 ± 0.05,1.05 ±0.06,0.92 ±0.05, which were significantly higher than those in the NS group (0.11 ±0.01,0.12±0.01,0.08±0.01,P＜0.05).The chatge of expression of NF±κB p65 protein was consistent with that of NF-κB p65 mRNA. Conclusions The brain injury of ANP rats was highly correlated with neuronal apoptosis at the early and middle phase of ANP, and its mechanism may be related with NF-κB p65 activation.

Objective: Little has been reported on the utilization of the preoperative preparing room before anesthesia.This article aimed to investigate how to improve work efficiency in the operation theatre by utilizing the preoperative preparing room.Methods: Two hundred patients undergoing elective surgery were equally randomized into an operation room group and a preoperative preparing room group,for which the preoperative preparations were made in the operation room and the preoperative preparing room,respectively.Records were made of such parameters as the anxiety score,mean arterial pressure(MAP) and heart rate(HR) of the patients,as well as the surgery rotation time.Results: The anxiety score,MAP and HR were significantly lower(P

Objective To compare the clinical effects of palpation, ultrasound and electromyography (EMG) guided injection of botuli-num toxin type A (BTX-A) on spastic equinovarus in stroke patients. Methods Stroke patients with equinovarus were randomly assigned to palpation-guided group (n=19), ultrasound-guided group (n=21) and EMG-guided group (n=19). All of the patients received injection of BTX-A 300 U in gastrocnemius, soleus and tibialis posterior, guided in their own ways. They were measured with modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Physician Rating Scale (PRS), speed of gait, passive range of motion (PROM) of ankle dorsiflexion and eversion before and 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks after injection. Results Compared with the baseline, all the indexes significantly improved after in-jection in all the groups (P<0.05). Compared with the EMG-guided group, the ultrasound-guided group improved significantly MAS at 4 weeks, PROM of ankle eversion at 4 and 12 weeks (P=0.046, P=0.008, P=0.038). Compared with the palpation-guided group, the ultra-sound-guided group improved significantly in MAS (P=0.015), PRS (P=0.01), PROM of ankle dorsiflexion and eversion (P=0.003, P=0.011) at 4 weeks, in MAS (P=0.002) and PROM of ankle dorsiflexion (P=0.022) at 8 weeks, in MAS (P=0.011) and PROM of ankle ever-sion (P=0.018) at 12 weeks. Compared with the palpation-guided group, the EMG-guided group improved significantly in PRS at 4weeks, PROM of ankle dorsiflexion at 4 and 8 weeks (P=0.048, P=0.08, P=0.026). There was no significantly difference in the variations with the time among 3 groups. Conclusion The correction of equinovarus in stroke patients can be obtained by BTX-A injection with any type of guidance technique. Ultrasound-guided technique is considered a valid alternative, which has a slight advantage over EMG-guided tech-nique. Both the EMG-and ultrasound-guided techniques obtained superior results to palpation-guided technique.

Objective To observe the change of invasion and migration of the pancreatic carcinoma cell line SW1990 transfeeted with EEF1A2 gene.Methods Pancreatic carcinoma cell line SW1990 was transfected with EEF1A2 by recombinant adenovirus vector.The alteration of motility、invasion and adhesion property of SW1990 was evaluated by wound healing assay,transwell With or without Matrigel basement membrane and adhesion assay.Results Wound healing assay revealed that EEF1A2 enhanced cell motility and transwell assay with Matrigel indicated that the average numbers of transwell cells with EEFlA2 was increased from 23.25±5.23 to 65.42±8.24(P＜0.05).The adhesive rate was substantially increased in EEF1A2 transfected SW1990 cells compared with control cells.Conclusions EEF1A2 gene can promote the migration.invasion and adhesion ability of pancreatic cancer cell in vitro.It is indicated that EEF1A2 may involve in the development of human pancreatic cancer by influencing cell biological characteristics.

Objective To investigate whether expression of XAF1 mediated by edenovirus vector AdS/F35 could induce apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cell line BxPC-3 and its possible mechanisms.Methods Preconstructed recombinant Ad5/F35-XAF1 virus and negative control Ad5/F35-Null was tranfected into BxPC3:the expression of XAF1 mRNA and protein before and after tranfection was,analyzed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR and Western blot.The expressions of proteins including Caspase-3,PARP,Caspase-8 and bcl-2 were detected by Western blots.Cell apoptosis was assessed by Annexin-v/PI and TUNEL staining.Results After Ad5/F35-XAF1 tranfection,XAF1 mRNA and protein expression significantly increased,and the difference was statistically significant when compared with control group and Ad5/F35-Null group(P＜0.05).The apoptosis rate was(19.90±3.09)%and(9.29±2.13)%,which was significantly different(P＜0.01)from those in the Ad5/F35-Null group[(6.72±0.7)6%,(2.73±0.51)%]or in the control group[(7.22±1.53)%,(1.56±0.47)%].The expression of Caspase-3,PARP and Caspase-8 significantly increased,but the expression of bcl-2 decreased.Conclusions XAF1 plays a major role in the apoptosis of pancreatic cancer that acts thriugh the activation of death receptor pathway and mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis.

Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of UL-16 binding protein 2 (ULBP-2,macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1) for pancreatic cancer.Methods The serum samples of 152pancreatic cancer patients,20 precursors of pancreatic cancer,91 chronic pancreatitis patients and 96 age/sexmatched healthy persons were collected.The serum ULBP-2 and MIC-1 levels were determined by using the ELISA kit and were compared with level of CA19-9.A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to evaluate their diagnostic values for pancreatic cancer.Results The serum levels of ULBP-2 in patients with pancreatic cancer,precursors of pancreatic cancer,chronic pancreatitis and healthy persons were (219.9 ± 182.5),(62.6 ± 11.4),(68.4 ± 36.8),(76.5 ± 40.9) μg/L,the corresponding values of MIC 1 were (3521.3±3903.4),(973.6±589.0),(959.6±879.0),(427.6±317.0) μg/L,while the corresponding values of CA19-9 were (1448.8 ± 3707.0),(12.0 ± 9.3),(38.2 ± 139.0),(7.7 ± 5.0)kU/L.The parameters in pancreatic cancer patients were significantly higher than those in control group (x2 =40.628,71.662,45.505,15.827,36.433,63.494,26.264,73.427,49.088,P ＜ 0.01).The area under ROC curves(AUC) of ULBP-2,MIC-1,CA19-9 were 0.909,0.864,0.818,and ULBP-2 was superior to CA19-9 and MIC-1,however the combined measurement of three markers produced the highest diagnostic yield(AUC =0.982).For early stage pancreatic diseases (precursors to pancreatic cancer and IA stage pancreatic cancer),AUC of ULBP-2,MIC-1,CA19-9 were 0.506,0.837,0.684,MIC-1 was superior to ULBP-2 and CA19-9,however the combined measurement of MIC-1 and CA19-9 produced the highest diagnostic yield(AUC =0.897).Conclusions Serum ULBP-2,MIC-1 levels are significantly elevated in pancreatic cancer patients.The combined measurement of ULBP-2,MIC-1 and CA 19-9 can increase the diagnostic yield for pancreatic cancer.

Essential hypertension (EH), a complex polygenic disease, is considered to the result of the genetic interaction of multiple gene alterations in concert with environmental factors. Evidences showed that angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene and G protein beta3 subunit (GNB3) gene are both important susceptibility genes for EH, and that there exists putative biological connection between the two genes in developing hypertension. To investigate whether hypertension was affected by gene-gene interaction between the two genes in the northern Chinese Han population, a case-control association study including 502 hypertensive cases and 490healthy controls was conducted, selecting the ACE gene I/D polymorpinsm and the GNB3 gene C825T polymorphism. Linkage disequilibrium analysis revealed a significant nonrandom distribution only in male hypertensives, indicating that interaction between ACE gene and GNB3 gene may predispose males to the occurrence of hypertension. Multivariate stepwise logistic regression in single locus analysis, with adjustment for common risk factors for hypertension, demonstrated that the OR for DD/ID versus Ⅱ for hypertension among men was significant (OR 1.57; 95% CI, 1.09 ～2.27; P = 0.016) in dominant genetic model. In combination analysis stratified with respect to gender, slightly significant ORs were found after adjustment in males: OR for TT vs CC, 0.11; 95%CI, 0.01 ～0.99; P = 0.049 within ACE DD genotype; OR for DD/ID vs Ⅱ, 1.52; 95% CI, 1.01 ～2.29; P = 0.047 within GNB3 CC+CT genotype. The results suggest that ACE, or a nearby gene, is a male-specific susceptible gene for hypertension, and that there may exist epistatic gene-gene interaction between ACE D allele and GNB3 825C allele.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical feature and surgical treatment of large nasopharyngeal angiofibromas with intracranial orcavernous sinus extension.METHODS A total of 16 male patients were collected with a age ranged from 11 to 35 years(mean,17.21 years).All patients underwent resection of nasopharyngeal angiofibromas with intracranial or cavernous sinus extension.The procedure included lateral rhinotomy,craniofacial combined approach,median labiomandibulotomy combined with a trans-palatal,transmaxillary approach and middle face degloving approach.RESULTS Sixteen cases received 28 procedures.Seven patients had no recurrence but 9 patients had recurrence at least once.Twenty eight procedures include 11 times lateral rhinotomy,6 times craniofacial combined approach,2 times frontotemporal approach,4 times transpalatal approach,2 transmaxillary approach,1 median labiomandibulotomy combined with a trans-palatal and 2 times middle face degloving approaches.CONCLUSION Radical operative resection is the main treatment method for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma with intracranial or cavernous sinus extension.The first operation recurrence rate is 8/15(53.0%) and sphenoid tumor residual may often be ignored in the operation and it is the main site of tumor recurrence.Craniofacial,median labiomandibulotomy combined with a trans-palatal and middle face degloving approaches were the best choices for large nasopharyngeal angio fi broma with intracranial or cavernous sinus extension.

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of S-1 combined with oxaliplatin L-OHP (SOX) in the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer.Methods 70 patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer were randomly divided into trial group (35 cases) and control group (35 cases).The trail group was administered with dose of 130 mg/m2 L-OHP,plus S-1 which was given orally with body surface area (BSA) (BSA＜1.25 m2,80 mg/d; BSA≥ 1.25 m2 and ＜1.5 m2,100 mg/d; BSA≥ 1.50 m2 and ＜1.8 m2,120 mg/d; BSA＞1.8 m2,140 mg/d).This schedule was repeated every 3 weeks.The control group treated by FOLFOX4 regimen (L-OHP was given on d1 with 80 mg/m2 through intravenous,leucovorin was intravenously on d1,2,with 200 mg/m2,5-Fu was intravenously injected on d1,2,with 400 mg/m2,and was administered intravenously 44 hours with 1 200 mg/m2 on d1).This schedule was repeated every 2 weeks.Results The total clinical effective rate had no significant difference in the trail group and control group (51.4 ％,18/35 vs 45.7 ％,16/35) (x2 =0.229,P =0.632).Toxicity,nausea and vomiting rate in the trail group were lower than those in the control group (48.5 ％,16/35 vs 71.4 ％,25/35,68.6 ％,24/35 vs 88.6 ％,31/35,P ＜ 0.05),but hand-foot syndrome and peripheral neurotoxicity rates had no significant difference between two groups (P ＞ 0.05).Weight increased significantly after chemotherapy treatment in the two groups (t =2.702 5,P =0.003 9).Conclusion SOX regimen is feasible and safe for advanced colorectal cancer.