Objective: To evaluate chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) for detecting blood levels of aldosterone and rennin with its diagnostic value of primary aldosteronism (PA) with comparison to radio immunoassay (RIA). Methods: According to American protocols of CLSI, we conducted a veriifcation study between RIA and CLIA for their precision, accuracy, linearity and reference ranges; meanwhile, taking clinical diagnosis as golden standard, examined renin activity or concentration and aldosterone concentration in 20 healthy volunteers and 40 hypertension patients by both RIA and CLIA, compared the ratios of ARR (aldosterone concentration/renin activity) or ADRR (aldosterone concentration/renin concentration) for the speciifcity and sensitivity of PA diagnosis. Results: Within-lot and between-lot accuracies of CLIA for detecting aldosterone levels were below 5% and 10%, the recoveries were 102% and 95% respectively. There was a good linear correlation in the range of aldosterone at (3-74) ng/dl and renin at (0.99-330) μIU/ml. In healthy volunteers, renin level was higher in 2 subjects, while aldosterone level and ADRR ratio were within normal references in all subjects by the manufacturer. In hypertension patients, the sensitivity and speciifcity for aldosterone and rennin detections by CLIA were at 85.7% and 97.0%, by RIA were at 85.7% and 94.0%. Conclusion: CLIA has the superiority of simple performance, repeatable and without radioactive contamination; it is recommended for replacing RIA as necessity.

AIM:To investigate the maturation of mice immature myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) induced by antigen(Ag)85B of mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the expression of TSLPR and OX40L mediated by TSLP in vitro. METHODS:Recombinant mouse GM-CSF ( rmGM-CSF) and rmIL-4 were used to induce bone marrow precursor cells of C57BL/6 mice to differentiate into immature mDCs in vitro.mDCs were identified followed by purification using CD 11c binding magnetic beads .The morphological characteristic of mDCs was observed under inverted phase-contrast microscope and scanning electron microscope .The surface phenotypes of mDCs were determined by flow cytometry .To obtain the opti-mal concentrations of Ag85B and TSLP, immature mDCs were cultured with different concentrations of Ag 85B or TSLP at 0 (control group), 50, 100 and 200 μg/L for 24 h, and the expression of cell surface molecules CD 80, CD86, TSLPR and OX40L was detected by flow cytometry.In addition, the expression of TSLPR and OX40L in Ag85B and TSLP-co-stimula-ted mDCs was determined by flow cytometry .RESULTS:After 7 d of culture in vitro, the cells showed irregular dendritic protrusions under the inverted-phase contrast microscope , and had wrinkles and dendritic splits under scanning electron mi-croscope , conformed to the morphological characteristics of immature mDCs .The mDCs cells expressed higher level of spe-cific marker CD11c, lower level of co-stimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86, which conformed to the phenotype of imma-ture mDCs.The CD80 +and CD86 +cell ratios of mDCs displayed significant increases in 50, 100 and 200μg/L Ag85B or TSLP groups compared with control group (P<0.05).The ratios of TSLPR +and OX40L+cells did not differ among dif-ferent concentrations of Ag 85B groups.The ratios of TSLPR +and OX40L+cells were significantly increased in 100 μg/L and 200μg/L TSLP groups compared with control group and 50μg/L TSLP group (P<0.05).Under the circumstance of optimal Ag85B or TSLP treatment concentration at 200 μg/L, there was significantly decreased in TSLPR and OX 40L cell ratio of mDCs in Ag85B group or Ag85B combined with TSLP group when compared with TSLP group (P<0.05), and no significant difference among Ag85B group, Ag85B combined with TSLP group and control group was observed .CONCLU-SION: Ag85B enhances mDCs maturation by up-regulating the expression of co-stimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86, and inhibit the expression of pro-inflammatory specific molecules TSLPR and OX40L on TSLP-activated mDCs, indicating that Ag85B modifies the development of asthmatic airway inflammation through the pathway of TSLP -activated mDCs.

Objective:To study the degree of recognition about the protection of traditional knowledge of Chi-nese medicine and its influencing factors among Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine students and provide scien-tific evidence for improving relevant policies.Methods: 1,162 college students were chosen by stratified cluster sampling from Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine and questionnaires were surveyed among them.Rank sum test and multiple linear regression model were used to explore the related factors on degree of recognition about the protection of traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine.Results: The overall cognition-scoring rate was 36.55％,and subscales in descending order by scoring rate were loss of traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine,international and domestic related protection systems.There were significant differences in scores between age groups,majors,grades,place of origin,family monthly income per capita,parents'educational background,moti-vation of applying for medical school,and whether they had taken the protection of traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine courses(P<0.05).Conclusion:The overall cognition-scoring rate among Shaanxi University of Chi-nese Medicine students was generally low.In order to motivate students to protect traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine and promote a healthy development of Chinese medicine,measures from national institution and school education should be conducted.

Objective To analyze the factors related to early allograft dysfunction(EAD)after liver transplantation and to construct a predictive model.Methods A total of 375 patients who underwent liver transplantation in our hospital from December 2008 to December 2021 were collected,including 90 patients with EAD and 266 patients without EAD.Thirty items of baseline data for the 2 groups were compared and analyzed.Aftergrouping in a ratio of 7∶3,univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used in the training set to evaluate the factors related to EAD and construct a nomogram.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,decision curve analysis(DCA),sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive value,negative predictive value,Kappa value and other indicators were used to evaluate the model performance.Results The incidence of EAD after liver transplantation was 24%.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that preoperative tumor recurrence history(OR=3.15,95%CI:1.28～7.77,P=0.013)and operation time(OR=1.22,95%CI:1.04～1.42,P=0.015)were related to the occurrence of EAD after surgery.After predicting the outcome according to the cut-off point of 0.519 identified by the Youden index,the model performance in the both training set and validation set was acceptable.DCA suggested the model has good clinical applicability.Conclusion The risk factors for EAD after liver transplantation are preoperative tumor recurrence history and operation time,and the established model has predictive effect on prognosis.