Objective To investigate the differentiation from human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) into neuron-like cells. Methods hMSC were separated from rib marrow with Ficoll-Paque reagent and expanded in culture medium. hMSC were induced to differentiate into neurons with DMEM/BHA/DMSO or DMEM/monothioglycerol, respectively. Neuron-specific enolase (NSE), neurofilament (NF), nestin, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were detected by immunohistochemistry. Results hMSC were expanded to be undifferentiated cells in culture for more than 10 passages. The isolated and cultured MSC comprised a single phenotypic population and displayed a fibroblast-like morphology. Simple method induced hMSC exhibiting a neuronal phenotype, with a positive expression of NSE, NF-M and nestin at 5 hours. But the neuron-like cells did not express the glial astrocyte marker GFAP. Conclusion It suggests that hMSC can be differentiated into neurons in vitro .

Objective To observe the difference between the bone marrow and peripheral blood engraftment evidence after allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation(Allo-HSCT) using PCR-STR. Methods DNA from peripheral blood or bone marrow of donors and recipients in different phases were extracted,and 16 STR loci with high polymorphism were amplified by PCR.Separation of the PCR products and fluorescence detection were performed by ABIprism 3100 Genetic Analyzer with capillary electrophoresis.Results The 16 patients included in the study had different levels of engraftment.Twelve patients displayed complete chimerism,while 5 patients showed mixed chimerism.One patient was keeping continuance of remission.The decrease of donor DNA amounts in mixed chimerism was earlier in bone marrow than that in peripheral blood(P

Objective To investigate the allelic polymorphism of Human Leukocyte Antigen(HLA)-DRB1*04 in Southern and Northern Chinese Han populations.Method A total of 104 and 168 samples of HLA-DRB1*04 alleles from Southern and Northern Chinese Han populations respectively were genotyped at high-resolution by PCR-SBT,and then the DRB1*0406/0449 ambiguous allele pairs were identified via high-resolution PCR-SSP.The allelic distribution of DRB1*04 in Southern and Northern Chinese Han populations were compared with other different populations by chi-square test.Results All 56 ambiguous allelic pairs of DRB1*0406/0449 were identified as DRB1*0406.A total of 5 alleles were observed in Southern Chinese Han population and the most frequent alleles were DRB1*0405(47.32%),DRB1*0406(24.24%)and DRB1*0403(16.35%).There were 10 alleles tested in Northern Chinese Han population,and the major alleles were DRB1*0405(40.48%),DRB1*0406(18.45%) and DRB1*0403(17.26%).The overall distribution of DRB1*04 alleles in Southern and Northern Chinese Han differed significantly from that of the Caucasian,African American,Hispanics,and Asian and Pacific Islanders,but not from the Korean.Conclusions The overall distribution of HLA-DRB1*04 alleles differed significantly between Southern and Northern Chinese Han populations,but the major alleles DRB1*0405,DRB1*0406 and DRB1*0403 showed the same distribute characteristic.The distribution of DRB1*04 alleles in different populations has their own characteristics.

Objective To establish eight human platelet antigen systems and HLA-Ⅰ antigen donor bank,and to determine the gene frequencies of human platelet antigen(HPA) and HLA-Ⅰin Guangzhou area.Methods A total of 805 blood samples from Chinese Han voluntary platelet donors were included in this study.PCR-SSP was used to detect single-nucleotide polymorphism in HPA systems.Luminex-SSO was used to detect the HLA-Ⅰantigens.Results The distribution of HPA 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,15 was in Hardy-Weiberg equilibrium among study subjects.Allele frequencies of 0.998 and 0.002 were observed for HPA 1a and 1b,0.952 and 0.048 for HPA 2a and 2b,0.553 and 0.447 for HPA 3a and 3b,0.999 and 0.001 for HPA 4a and 4b,0.976 and 0.024 for HPA 5a and 5b,0.982 and 0.018 for HPA 6a and 6b,1 and 0 for HPA 9a and 9b,0.518 and 0.481 for HPA 15a and 15b.The high frequency HLA-Ⅰ alleles were A*02,0.286;A*24,0.162;A*11,0.323;B*46,0.147;B*75,0.100;C*01,0.177;C*03,0.289;C*07,0.179.Conclusions This study confirmed the ethnic and territorial difference of HPA and HLA-Ⅰ.The establishment of HPA and HLA-Ⅰ matched plateletpheresis donor registry is helpful in the improvement in platelet transfusion.

e tissue and myocardium, as well as myocardial uhrastructure were well-improved; the gene expressions of PPAR-α and GLUT4 were raised in APSgroup. APS may be partially effective in treating diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Objective:Effects of oxymatrine on the sodium current were studied .Methods:The whole cell voltage clamp technique was used in isolated ventricular cells of guinea-pig.Results:Oxymatrine (0.1,0.3 and 1 mmol/L) showed inhibition to the sodium current in dose-dependence.Conclusion:These results indicate that inhibition of oxymatrine to the sodium current may be one of mechanisms of its antiarrhythmic action.

This study aims to observe different factors which affected the bionic enzymatic hydrolysis of icariin into baohuoside I and to optimize the reaction conditions in order to provide research foundation for building a novel bionic enzymolysis drug delivery system. To simulate the environment in vivo, 37 degrees C was set as the temperature and artificial intestinal juice and gastric juice were selected as the buffer solutions. Taking the conversion of baohuoside I as index, the effects of the kinds of enzyme, enzyme activity, substrate concentration, reaction time, pancreatin in artificial intestinal juice and surfactant on the conversion of baohuoside I were investigated. The results showed that cellulase, beta-glucosidase and snailase were all inactive in artificial gastric juice and no baohuoside I generated. Pancreatin in artificial intestinal juice couldn't significantly influence the activity of beta-glucosidase or snailase (P > 0.05), but noticeably decrease the activity of cellulase (P < 0.05). In artificial intestinal juice, the conversion of baohuoside I was highest by using beta-glucosidase, and the optimum reaction conditions were determined as follows: enzyme activity 10 U x mL(-1), substrate concentration 1 mg x mL(-1), 3 g x L(-1) rhamnolipid and reaction time 3 h. Under this condition, the conversion of baohuoside I was 99.8%.

Objective This article was designed to observe the effects of astragalus polysaccharides (APS) on glucose and lipid metabolism, and on expressions of proxisome proliferator activated receptors-α (PPAR-α) and its downstream genes in diabetic hamsters cardiomyopathy. Methods Forty-five hamsters were divided into 3 groups randomly: normal control group (15 normal hamsters), diabetic control group [15 streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic hamsters], and astragalus polysaccharides (APS)-therapy group (15 STZ-induced diabetic hamsters administered with APS 2 g/kg per day orally for 10 weeks). The levels of insulin, C-peptide, myocardial enzymes, glycosylated serum protein (GSP) and lipoprotein of all hamsters were measured. The ultrastructure of myocardium was studied, and the gene and protein expressions of PPAR-α, FATP and ACS were also detected by fluorescent quantitative RT-PCR and Western blot. Results It was shown that Compared with DM group, the levels of GSP, myocardial enzymes and lipoprotein of hamsters in APS-therapy group were lower, the myocardial ultrastructure of hamsters in APS-therapy group was well-protected, and the gene and protein expression of PPAR-α, FATP and ACS of hamsters in APS-therapy group were higher. Conclusions APS is partly effective in treating diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect and safety of ureteroscopy pneumatic lithotripsy(PL) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy(ESWL) in the treatment of distal ureteral calculi.Methods 368 cases of distal ureteral calculi were divided into the PL treatment group(178 cases) and the ESWL treatment groups(190 cases).The clinical datas were compared between the two groups.Results PL treatment group 97.19% patients became stone free in 4 weeks,and in ESWL treatment group the stone free rate was 73.16%(P

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequently occurring cancers. Hepadnaviral DNA integrations are considered to be essential agents which can promote the process of the hepatocarcinogenesis. More and more researches were designed to find the relationship of the two. In this study, we investigated whether HBV DNA integration occurred at sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), one of the most detrimental DNA damage. An 18-bp I-SceI homing endonuclease recognition site was introduced into the DNA of HepG2 cell line by stable DNA transfection, then cells were incubated in patients' serum with high HBV DNA copies and at the same time, DSBs were induced by transient expression of I-SceI after transfection of an I-SceI expression vector. By using nest PCR, the viral DNA was detected at the sites of the break. It appeared that integration occurred between part of HBV x gene and the I-SceI induced breaks. The results suggested that DSBs, as the DNA damages, may serve as potential targets for hepadnaviral DNA insertion and the integrants would lead to widespread host genome changes necessarily. It provided a new site to investigate the integration.