1.Effect of Cx43 on proliferation of C6 glioma cells and its mechanisms
Yeru LI ; Xiangmei PANG ; Min LI ; Qing WANG ; Yuqing YANG ; Xiaojian HAN ; Liping JIANG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2017;33(7):1008-1013
Aim To explore the effect of Cx43 over-expression on proliferation of C6 cells and its mechanisms by transfecting pCMV-Cx43cDNA plasmid into C6 cells.Methods pCMV-Cx43cDNA plasmid was transfected into C6 cells by liposome to up-regulate the expression of Cx43, and C6 cells with over-expression of Cx43 was stably cloned by using G418.Determination of cell doubling time and soft agar colony formation assay to detect the degree of cell proliferation.The cells were treated with ERK1/2 specific blocker PD98059(30 μmol·L-1) and p38MAPK specific blocker SB202190(10 μmol·L-1)respectively, the expression of Cx43, p-Cx43, p-ERK1/2 and p-p38MAPK of each group were detected by Western blot, and the activity of each group was detected by MTT Assay.Results pCMV-Cx43cDNA plasmid was transfected into C6 cells successfully.Cell lines with over-expression Cx43(C6-Cx43) or empty vector (C6-pCMV) were stably selected by using G418.Determination of cell doubling time and soft agar colony formation experiments showed that the proliferative rate and the colony number of C6-Cx43 group were significantly decreased, compared with that of C6 group and C6-pCMV group(P<0.01);ERK1/2, p38MAPK specific blockers were treated with each group,Western blot showed that the expression of Cx43 protein was increased(P<0.01), while p-Cx43 protein was decreased (P<0.05) in C6-Cx43+PD98059 group and C6-Cx43+SB202190 group,compared with that of C6-Cx43 group.Conclusion Cx43 may decrease the proliferation of glioma cells through ERK1/2, p38MAPK pathways.
2.The significance of Hp antigen combined with serum total sialic acid and gastric mucosal Survivin detection in the diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2019;40(4):441-444
Objective To explore the significance of Hp antigen combined with serum total sialic acid and gastric mucosal Survivin detection in the diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma.Methods Selected a hospital 90cases of patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (malignant group) and 90cases of the digestive system benign disease (benign disease group) and hospital check-up of 60cases of healthy people (healthy control group) as the research object.Comparing the three groups of patients with Hp antigen, serum total sialic acid positive detection rate and the positive rate of Survivin in the gastric mucosa, and to assess individual detection of Hp antigen, serum total sialic acid and the two combined diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of gastric adenocarcinomas.Results Hp antigen, serum total sialic acid positive test results showed that the malignant tumor group were significantly higher than that of benign disease group and healthy control group, benign disease group obviously higher than that of healthy control group, difference between three groups of participants were statistically significant (P<0.05) .The sensitivity of Hp antigen and serum total sialic acid combined in the diagnosis of digestive system was 80.1%, which was significantly higher than that of single test, but the specificity was reduced.Linear correlation analysis showed that there was a positive correlation between Hp antigen and serum total sialic acid and Survivin detection in gastric mucosa, and the correlation was high (r=0.94, P<0.05) .Conclusion The combined detection of Hp antigen and total serum sialic acid is positively correlated with the results of Survivin detection in gastric mucosa, and has a high correlation.It can replace Survivin detection in gastric mucosa as a sensitive index for the diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma.
3.Clinical characteristics of adult Wilms' tumor
Junfeng ZHAO ; Shaobin ZHENG ; Yun GAO ; Xiangmei ZHANG ; Xukai YANG ; Shanchao ZHAO ; Haikuan ZHOU ; Tong CHEN ; Yaodong JIANG ; Peng WU
Chinese Journal of Urology 2008;29(5):303-306
Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of adult Wilms'tumor in Chinese adults and to improve the recognition of adult Wilms'tumor.Methods The clinical data of 6 Wilms'tumor patients treated in our hospital were reviewed. Of them, there were 4 male patients and 2 female patients with mean age of 31 years old. Four patients with abdominal and flank pain and 2 patients with abdominal masses were the main clinical manifestations. One case accompanied with hematuria and another one had fever.Tumor masses were palpable by physical examination in 4 patients. Five patients had percussion tenderness over kidney region and 1 case had abdominal tenderness. Six cases underwent urinalysis and red blood cell was positive in 2 cases. There were no abnormal results in other laboratory tests. Chest X-ray was routinely performed before operation. Six patients underwent ultrasonography and all showed hypoechoic masses (5.0cm×5.0 cm-22.0 cm×25.0 cm) with clear margin. Four cases examined by CT and all had solid masses with inhomogeneous density and clear margin. On enhanced CT scan, 1 of 4 cases demonstrated irregular enhancement of the mass with local hemorrhagic necrosis area. The CT value ranged from 11-40 HU, with an average value of 22.5 HU, and increased to 35-78 HU, with an average value of 63.5 HU after administration of contrast. Two cases of MRI revealed solid mass defects.Three cases underwent IVU examination and showed the enlargement of renal umbra as well as thinning of renal calices caused by the compression of tumor and 1 case showed hydronephrosis.Thus, 5 cases were diagnosed with renal tumor and 1 case was diagnosed with cavitas pelvis tumor before operation. Five patients successfully underwent nephrectomies and 1 patient accepted oophorotomy with no subsequent complication.Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection(RPLND) was performed at the time of radical nephrectomy or oophorotomy in all patients. The tumor was found to be about 5-25 cm in size during operation. One of the tumors had invaded pancreas tail, one had invaded to the lateral abdominal wall and one had invaded into the inferior caval vein. Renal hilar lymph node was found to be exceeded 1.5 cm×1.5 cm in 2 patients. The post-operative incisal surface of the tumor presented with gray-yellow color. Capsule was intact in 4 patients. Three cases had hemorrhagic necrosis in tumor center. All the specimens sent for the pathological examination. None received adjuvant therapy before operation. Four patients received chemotherapy plus radiotherapy after surgery and other 2 patients received chemotherapy only. All patients were followed up with routine lab tests, ultrasonography and chest X-ray.Results Six patients were staged according to the National Wilms'Tumor Study staging system as follows: 1 case in stage Ⅰ, 2 cases in stageⅡ, 2 cases in stage Ⅲ and 1 case in stage Ⅳ. Nephrectomies or oophorotomy were performed in all patients successfully. Tumor diameters were from 4.5-25.0 cm, in average 11.8 cm.All cases had pathological diagnosis of Wilm's tumor. Five cases were classified into favorable histologic type and 1 case was in unfavorable histologic type. Two patients with lymph node metastasis and 3 patients with local invasion were observed. One patient with pulmonary metastasis was recorded. Six patients were followed up for 1-7 years. Five patients survived with no evidence of cancer recurrence. One patient died of pulmonary metastasis 2 years after surgery.Conclusions The majority of adult Wilms'tumors are found with local invasion and metastasis. The incidence of hematogenous metastasis in adult Wilms'tumor is higher than other types of renal tumor as well. The early diagnosis and radical surgical treatment and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy could improve the survival rate.
4.Clinical study on expression and methylation of SOX17 gene in chronic myeloid leukemia
Chunyan TANG ; Cui AN ; Dongming YAO ; Qing LIU ; Hong GUO ; Xiangmei WEN ; Jiang LIN ; Jichun MA ; Ming ZHANG ; Gaofei XIAO ; Lei YANG ; Jun QIAN
The Journal of Practical Medicine 2014;(19):3070-3072
Objective To investigate the expression level and promoter methylation of SOX17 gene and the clinical correlations in Chinese patients with chronic myeloid leukemia ( CML ) . Methods The levels of SOX17 expression and methylation were detected by RQ-PCR and RQ-MSP. Results SOX17 expression level was significantly lower in CML compared with 30 controls (P=0.001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was 0.748 to differentiate CML from control (P=0.001). There was a trend of correlation between SOX17 expression and bcr/abl transcript (r = 0.439,P = 0.068) in CML patients. Hypermethylation of SOX17 promoter was detected in 3 (4%) CML patients, however, there was no difference as compared with 32 controls. In our study, SOX17 hypermethylation was not corrected with its expression. Conclusion Decreased SOX17 expression is a common molecular event in CML and may be considered as an available biomarker to diagnose CML. Dysregulated SOX17 is not caused by promoter hypermethylation in CML.
5.A study on creating a promotion index system of medical quality in Grade Ⅲ hospitals in Beijing
Jun LI ; Baoli ZHOU ; Miaorong XIE ; Jiang QIAN ; Yabin YU ; Xiulan LI ; Dongxiang ZHENG ; Xiaoying LI ; Jinsheng ZHANG ; Ying WANG ; Kunling SHEN ; Shengcai HOU ; Xiangmei ZHAO ; Yutong ZHENG ; Yanghai CUI ; Jiang FENG ; Dongguo LIU ; Xiaosong LI ; Yong YAN
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 2011;27(4):254-257
To explore how to create and optimize a promotion index system of medical quality evaluation, this article focuses on the hospital visiting process from patients, using analyzing collected those index system from couples of Grade Ⅲ hospitals in Beijing, and combining the results of literal study, field study and specialist consult, according to the different situation of general hospitals and specially hospitals, with the spirit of "maintaining the patients benefits, safeguarding the patients safety,and enhancing the medical quality", introduces the framework of the promotion index system, the rules to select the indicator, and so on, and discusses several problerns related to creating the index system.
6.Domestic imatinib in treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia: a real world multicenter clinical research
Xiangmei XU ; Hongyun XING ; Liying HAN ; Yan CHEN ; Mei CHEN ; Jiang LIN ; Ji WANG
Journal of Leukemia & Lymphoma 2020;29(10):586-589
Objective:To investigate the clinical therapeutic efficacy and safety of domestic imatinib mesylate in treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).Methods:The clinical data of 87 CML-chronic phase patients treated by domestic imatinib between December 2013 and March 2018 in the Affiliated Hospital of the Southwest Medical University were retrospectively analyzed. The clinical therapeutic efficacy and safety of imatinib was analyzed.Results:The completely hematologic reaction (CHR) rate was 95.4% (83/87), 97.7% (85/87) and 100.0% (87/87), respectively after treatment at 3, 6 and 12 months. The completely cytogenetic reaction (CCyR) rate was 31.0% (27/87), 42.5% (37/87) and 64.4% (56/87), respectively at 3, 6 and 12 months. At 3-month, BCR-ABL/ABL IS value was equal to or less than 10% in 44 patients (50.6%), BCR-ABL/ABL IS value was equal to or less than 0.1% in 4 patients (4.6%). At 6-month, BCR-ABL/ABL IS value was equal to or less than 1% in 39 patients (44.8%), BCR-ABL/ABL IS value was equal to or less than 0.1% in 13 patients (14.9%). The major molecular response rate at 12-month was 35.6% (31/87). The major hematologic adverse reaction was grade Ⅰ-Ⅱ hemacytopenia. The common non-hematology adverse reactions were edema, muscular and joints soreness, nausea and vomiting and diarrhea. Most patients didn't have severe adverse reactions. Conclusions:The clinical efficacy of CML patients treated with domestic imatinib is sure; CML patients are well-tolerated and the adverse reactions are mild. It is worthy of wide application in clinical treatment.
7. The potential use of serum HBV RNA to guide the functional cure of chronic hepatitis B
Fengmin LU ; Jie WANG ; Xiangmei CHEN ; Jianning JIANG ; Wenhong ZHANG ; Jingmin ZHAO ; Hong REN ; Jinlin HOU ; Ningshao XIA
Chinese Journal of Hepatology 2017;25(2):105-110
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) in infected hepatocytes is the main cause of off-therapy viral rebound. The half-life of cccDNA is only 33-50 days, so the conversion of newly synthesized rcDNA to cccDNA in the nucleus is essential for the maintenance of cccDNA pool in infected hepatocytes. Though not directly targeting the existing cccDNA, current nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) may exhaust the cccDNA reservoir by blocking the rcDNA formation. Indeed, a prolonged consolidation therapy post loss of serum HBV DNA can achieve sustained remission and thus safe drug discontinuation in a small proportion of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. In recent studies, we and others have demonstrated that it is the serum HBV RNA that reflects the cccDNA activity in infected hepatocytes, particularly among the patients on NAs. Here we suggest that instead of measuring serum HBV DNA only, simultaneous measurement of both viral DNA and RNA would improve the accuracy to reflect the cccDNA activity; therefore, the virological response should be redefined as consistent loss (less than the lower limit of detection) of both serum HBV DNA and RNA, which indicates the safety of drug discontinuation. Accumulating evidence has suggested that for the CHB patients with lower serum HBsAg, switch-to or add-on pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) treatment would result in loss of serum HBsAg in a relatively large proportion of CHB patients. Since serum HBV RNA is an ideal biomarker to reflect the intrahepatic cccDNA activity, for the patients with a serum HBsAg level lower than 1 500 IU/ml after long-term NAs treatment, the serum HBV RNA should be measured. If serum HBV RNA is detected, peg-IFN should be added on; if serum HBV RNA is not detected, NAs treatment should be switched to peg-IFN treatment. We believe the therapy based on serum HBV RNA would make the functional cure of CHB (serum HBsAg loss or even conversion to anti-HBs) more efficient.
8.Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation of Cefoperazone/sulbactam Combined with Moxifloxacin and Amikacin versus Cefoperazone/ sulbactam Combined with Tigecycline in the Treatment of Pneumonia with Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Pneumonia
Jinglei LI ; Xiangmei RUAN ; Jing LIU ; Jinghang JIANG ; Mingwei YANG ; Lin LIU ; Songlin MA ; Jiamin YANG
China Pharmacy 2019;30(23):3271-3275
OBJECTIVE: To study the efficacy and economics of cefoperazone/sulbactam combined with moxifloxacin and amikacin versus cefoperazone/sulbactam combined with tigecycline in the treatment of pneumonia with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDRAB). METHODS: By prospective study, 150 MDRAB pneumonia patients were selected from Jingmen Second People’s Hospital during Jan. 1st, 2016-Aug. 31st, 2019, and then randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 75 cases in each group. Control group was given Cefoperazone/sulbactam sodium for injection (3 g, q8 h, ivgtt) combined with Tigecycline for injection (first dose 100 mg, maintenance dose 50 mg, q12 h, ivgtt). Observation group was give Cefoperazone/sulbactam sodium for injection (3 g, q8 h, ivgtt) combined with Moxifloxacin hydrochloride and sodium chloride injection (400 mg, qd, ivgtt) and Amikacin sulfate injection (0.6 g, qd, ivgtt). The treatment lasted for 14 days in both groups. The time for body temperature to return to normal, lung rales disappearance, WBC to return to normal and PCT to return to normal, clinical efficacy, bacterial clearance rate and the occurrence of ADR were compared between 2 groups. Cost-effectiveness analysis was used to evaluate the cost- effectiveness ratio (C/E) and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ΔC/ΔE) of 2 groups using antibiotics cost as cost. Sensitivity analysis was performed by reducing drug cost by 15%. RESULTS: There was no statistical significance in the time for body temperature to return to normal, lung rales disappearance, WBC to return to normal and PCT to return to normal between control group and observation group (P>0.05). Clinical response rates of 2 groups were 85.33% and 81.33%, and bacterial clearance rate were 89.33% and 82.67%, with statistical significance (P>0.05). No serious ADR occurred in either group. The antibacterial cost of control group and observation group were 32 371.49 yuan/person and 9 367.82 yuan/person. C/E of clinical response rate were 379.37 and 115.18, and C/E of bacterial clearance rate were 362.38 and 113.32 in 2 groups, respectively. ΔC/ΔE of clinical response rate and bacterial clearance rate between control group and observation group were 5 750.92 and 3 454.00. Sensitivity analysis supported cost-effectiveness analysis results. CONCLUSIONS: Cefoperazone/sulbactam combined with moxifloxacin and amikacin versus cefoperazone/sulbactam combined with tigecycline in the treatment of pneumonia with MDRAB has similar efficacy, but cefoperazone/sulbactam combined with moxifloxacin and amikacin has economic and social benefits.
9. Epidemiological characteristics of non-fermentative bacteria causing bloodstream infection in Sichuan: a retrospective multicenter study
Yuanfang WANG ; Keping AO ; Xuedong HUANG ; Jielun DENG ; Yi XIE ; Xianli WU ; Mei HUANG ; Xiangmei JIANG ; Xiaozheng WEN ; Jun YING ; Haijun LI ; Yin XIANG ; Xuemei XU
Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 2019;39(9):698-704
Objective:
To retrospectively analyze the distribution of non-fermentative bacteria causing bloodstream infection in hospitalized patients in Sichuan Province and their drug susceptibility to common antibiotics for better understanding their epidemiological characteristics.
Methods:
From January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017, all of the non-fermentative bacteria isolated from patients with bloodstream infection in nine hospitals in Sichuan Province were collected. Species distribution and drug resistance test results were retrospectively analyzed.
Results:
A total of 6 291 strains of pathogenic bacteria were isolated, including 3 674 strains of gram-negative bacteria (58.4%) and 2 617 strains of gram-positive bacteria (41.6%). The gram-positive bacteria were 1 895 strains of