Objective To investigate the therapeutic efficacy of Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)in treating hemopneumothorax. Methods 83 cases of hemopneumothorax treated with exploratory thoracotomy with the help of VATS were retrospectively analyzed. Results All the 83 cases were completed successfully by the VATS.22 cases were treated with bunamiody resection,42 eases were treated with lung repair operation,12 cases were treated with pleuropexy,5 cases were treated with albumingel injection,2 cases were treated with thoracotomy because of serious injury.All patients were followed up 1 year and were found in good condition. Conclusion VATS could treat bunamiody resection and lung repair operation,can stop the bleeding effectively, cause less injury,good therapeutic effect and quickly recovery.

Objective To observe the diagnosis and surgical treatment of substemal goiter. Methods The clinical data of 26 cases with substemal goiter underwent thyroidresection were retrospectively analyzed. Results All the 26 cases were treated by operation. 20 cases were operated by Lower collar incision. 6 cases were operated by ster-notomy. The pathological results showed nodular goiter in 18 cases,follicular adenoma in 6 cases,and papillary carcinoma in 2 cases. Conclusions Surgery via cervical collar incision was fit for most of retrostemal thyroid nodules,and sternotomy or thoracotoray were safely fit for large or carcinomatous substemal goiter. Most cases of retrostemal goiter could be removed by Lower collar incision.

Objective To detect the expression and significance of serum miRNA-183 and TK1 in patients with colorectal cancer, and the mechanism thereof. Methods Fifty-two serum samples of colorectal cancer patients and paired health serum samples were collected. The expression of miRNA-183 was detected by real-time quantitative PCR, and TK1 was detected by Western blot enhanced chemiluminescence assay. The correlation between miRNA-183 and TK1 and their relations with the clinicpathologic characteristics were analyzed. Results The serum miRNA-183 expression was significantly higher in colorectal cancer group than that in normal control group (P<0.01). The expression of serum miRNA-183 was significantly higher in stage Ⅲ-Ⅳ group than that in stage Ⅰ-Ⅱ group (P < 0.01). There was more significant increase in serum miRNA-183 in lymphatic metastasis group than that without lymphatic metastasis group (P < 0.01). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve showed that of there was a diagnostic value for serum miRNA-183 in colorectal cancer, with an optimal value of 1.15. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were 78.8%and 67.3%, and the positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 78.9%and 70.2%. The serum TK1 expression was also higher in colorectal cancer group compared with that of normal control group (P<0.01). And the TK1 expression was also higher in stageⅢ-Ⅳgroup than that in stageⅠ-Ⅱgroup (P<0.01). Furthermore, miRNA-183 expression was positively correlated with TK1 expression (rs=0.692, P<0.01). Conclusion The serum expression levels of miR-183 and TK1 may act as tumor markers for early colorectal cancer diagnosis, and also can be used to predict the malignant degree and prognosis of colorectal cancer.

In order to develop a safer vaccine strain exploit Salmonella Pullorum vaccine strain as a live vaccine vector.Methods:AΔcrpΔasd mutant of S.pullorum C79-13 strain was constructed and it was developed E.coli donor strain mutant was generated through the two-step method introduced by χ7213 ( pREΔasd) was conjugated with the recipient of C 79-13Δcrp.The C79-13ΔcrpΔasd the transduction of recombinant suicide plasmid .Results:PCR and sequencing results showed that ΔsipBSL1344 was suc-cessfully constructed.The further study indicated that foreign DAP must be supplied for the ΔcrpΔasd mutant to grow,in addition,the asd gene was transmitted stably .Compared with C79-13 strain,the O antigens was identical to C79-13 strain,but the growth velocity was reduced significantly ,significantly reduced virulence .Conclusion: The ΔcrpΔasd mutant can accept asd+plasmid to construct host-vector balance lethal system , and this system can be used to express foreign gene efficiently and to develop potential oral multivalent vaccines.

Objective:To discuss the effects of recombinant IFN-α-IL-18 fusion protein on chicken lymphocyte histamine induced and the NF-κB p65 activation and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport.Methods: The healthy chickens blood was sterile adopted with anticoagulant,then separation of the chicken peripheral blood lymphocyte and divided into 10 groups:The yeast expression and purification protein IFN-α-IL-18,IL-18,IFN-α were added with 250 ng/ml,500 ng/ml and 1 000 ng/ml respectively while the control was only added RPMI1640 with 3 repetitions for each group.Then the histidine decarboxylase activity,histamine,IFN-γ,PI3K,MAPK and NF-κB p65 in cell nucleus were detected.Results: The recombinant IFN-α-IL-18 and IL-18 could significantly promote the activity of histidine decarboxylase (P<0.01),increase the contents of histamine (P<0.01),induce IFN-γ (P<0.01),improve the contents of PI3K (P<0.01) and the NF-κB p65 levels in nucleus (P<0.01),and the higher concentration of IFN-α had a similar effect to lymphocytes.The effects of IFN-α-IL-18,IL-18 and IFN-α on MAPK was acratia.Conclusion: IFN-α-IL-18 and IL-18 can stimulate chicken peripheral blood lymphocyte populations increased histamine contents significantly and promote the induction of IFN-γ.IFN-α-IL-18,IL-18 and IFN-α increase PI3K expression in lymphocyte associated with the NF-κB activation and NF-κB p65 nucleo-cytoplasmic transport.The study built foundation for the function of IFN-α-IL-18 and the exploration of the mechanism of controlling epidemic diseases.

Objective:To discuss the effects of recombinant IFN-α-IL-18 fusion protein on chicken lymphocyte transformation and the chicken nuclear factor kappa B ( NF-κB ) activity.Methods: The recombinant plasmids pPICZ-IFN-α, pPICZ-IL-18 and pPICZ-IFN-α-IL-18 were constructed,and transformed into P.Pastoris X-33 strain by electroporation.The recombinant proteins were ex-pressed under the induction of 1% methanol,and detected by SDS-PAGE and Western blot.The biological activities of the expressed products were detected by the lymphocyte transformation test,the NF-κB concentration in chicken lymphocyte and lymphocytic nucleus were detected at different times with ELISA.Results:SDS-PAGE and Western blot showed that the expressed products existed in super-natant,and the molecular weights were about 22 kD,23 kD and 43 kD,respectively.The expressed products IL-18 and IFN-α-IL-18 could stimulate chicken lymphocyte transformation (P<0.05),the biological activity of IFN-αstimulating lymphocyte transform was feeble (P>0.05).Compared with the control group,the total NF-κB concentration in chicken lymphocyte induced by IL-18 and IFN-α-IL-18 were increased (P<0.05),and the NF-κB in lymphocytic nucleus was increased significantly (P<0.01).Otherwise,the total NF-κB in lymphocyte induced by IFN-αincrease was limited (P>0.05),but the NF-κB in lymphocytic nucleus showed the remarkable increase ( P<0.05 ) .Conclusion: IFN-α-IL-18 and IL-18 can promote lymphocyte transformation significantly, the activity of IFN-αinduced lymphocyte transformation is imperfect.The biological activity of stimulating lymphocyte transformation is associated with the NF-κB expression,activation and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport.The study built foundation for the function of IFN-α-IL-18 fusion protein and the exploration of the role of controlling epidemic diseases.

The anti-aging effect of Yang Shou Dan (YSD) was studied. It was shown that YSD could obviously increase the activity of superoxicde dismutase (SOD) in erythrocyte, decrease lipid peroxides (LPO) in serum and in liver tissue and reduce the content of lipofucin in myocardium of mice. It could also prolong the mean life span, the half lethal period and the longest life time of drosophila melanogater. It is suggested that YSD exerts an anti-aging effect to a certain extent.

Objective:In order to develop an oral live vaccine vector of swine that can stably carry exogenous genes.Methods:Mutant ΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1 was constructed by the method of suicide plasmid pREasd-mediated bacteria homologous recombination on the basis of attenuated Salmonella choleraesuisΔcrpΔcyaC78-1.Complementary plasmid pYA3493 with asd was electrotransformed into the mutant,and thenΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1(pYA3493) host-vector balanced lethal system was constructed.Its biological characteristics were analyzed further.Results:The results of PCR and sequencing showed thatΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1(pYA3493) was constructed suc-cessfully.Biological characteristics showed that the serotype of ΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1(pYA3493) was identical to ΔcyaΔasdC78-1 and vaccine strain C500 and it can stably carry theΔasd gene in vitro;its growth speed was a little slower than ΔcrpΔcyaC78-1 strain,but both of their growth speeds were significantly slower than vaccine strain C500;the biochemical characteristics of ΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1 ( pYA3493 ) were basically the same with ΔcrpΔcyaC78-1 strain.Oral virulence test in mice showed that the virulence ofΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1 ( pYA3493 ) was similar with ΔcrpΔcyaC78-1, but its median lethal dose is 412 times of vaccine strain C500.Conclusion:These results demonstrated that attenuated Salmonella choleraesuisΔcrpΔcyaΔasdC78-1(pYA3493) strain had the potential to be used as an oral live vaccine vector for expressing foreign genes efficiently.

Objective:In order to develop a safer vaccine strain exploit Salmonella typhimurium vaccine strain .A ΔsipB mutant of Salmonella typhimurium SL 1344 strain was constructed.Methods: Firstly, the recombinant suicide plasmid containing the missing 585 bp sipB ( PREΔsipB ) was built by homologous recombination , and screenned by two-step method.Results: PCR and sequencing results showed that SL 1344ΔsipB was successfully constructed.It was no significant changes compared with SL 1344.But compared with the parent strains SL 1344 , the mutant strain had obvious change in its virulence , oral challenge of bacteria in mice revealed that LD50 of the mutant strain was 1.70 ×108 CFU,the toxicity reduced about 1.4%.The protection rate induced by the sipB mutant was 50%,and the serum antibody peaked 14 d post-immunization.Conclusion:The SL1344ΔsipB mutant was constructed suc-cessfully,and genetic stability ,significantly reduced virulence.The study provides a new approach for further study of the relationship between the gene and pathogenicity of Salmonella typhimurium.It is likely that the ΔsipB mutant could be adapted to develope attenuated Salmonella vaccine.

In order to research immunogenicity of the recombinant rVP2-IL-2 fusion protein, we obtained the rVP2-IL-2 fusion protein using Pichia pastoris expression system, and then evaluated its potential to induce immune responses in chicken. The effect was determined in the form of protective anti-IBDV VP2 titers, antibodies (IgG1 and IgG2a), lymphocyte proliferation, the levels of interferon-gamma and interleukin-4 cytokines, and challenge experiment. Antibody titers and proliferation lymphocyte level suggested that the fusion protein could elicit specific humoral immune and cellular immune responses, antibody sub-type results indicated that the rVP2-IL-2 fusion protein induced secretion both of IgG1 and IgG2a. The seem result elicited from cytokines ELISA test, secretion of both of Th1 (gamma-IFN) and Th2 (IL-4) were induced by the rVP2-IL-2 fusion protein. Challenge experiment result shown that chicken immunized the rVP2-IL-2 fusion protein obtained 85% protection. These results confirm that the fusion protein enhances the protection against IBDV through both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, and thus could serve as a candidate for the development of IBDV subunit vaccine.
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