Objective To investigate the protective effects of low-molecular heparin and urokinase on glomerular inflammation. Methods Forty 3-month-old female Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups with 8 rats in each group: normal control (NC) group; lipopolysaccharide (LPS) group; LPS and tranexamic acid (LT) group; LPS, tranexamic acid and low-molecular heparin (LTH) group; and LPS, tranexamic acid and urokinase (LTU) group. Fibrin deposition and CD11b positive cells were identified by immunohistochemical staining. Western blotting was used to determine the ICAM-1 expression. Results No fibrin depositions and CD11b positive cells were found in glomeruli of rats in NC group. Compared with NC group, fibrin deposit (9.1%?1.6%), CD11b positive cell (11.2?2.1) and ICAM-1 expressions (0.23?0.09) were significantly increased in L group (P0.05). Conclusion Both low-molecular heparin and urokinase can effectively decrease fibrin deposits and alleviate inflammation.

ObjectⅣe To investigate the effect of sense and antisense TIMP-1 on the expression of FN and type Ⅳ collagen of rat glomerular mesangial cells in vitro. Methods Two recombinant retroviral vectors, pLXIN-TIMP-1 (PLT)encoding sense TIMP-1 and pLXIN-ATIMP-1 (PLA)encoding antisense TIMP-1 were constructed by using DNA recombining techniques. These two vectors were then introduced into the PA317 packaging cell line with lipofectin DOTAP. The high-titer retroviral supematants containing sense or antisense TIMP-1 were used to infect rat glomerular mesangial cells. PCR and Northern blot were used to detect the integration and expression of human TIMP-1. Northern blot and ELISA were employed to investigate the expression of endogenous TIMP-1, FN, and Ⅳ collagen. Results Both sense and antisense TIMP-1 were successfully integrated into rat mesangial cells and expressed the sense and antisense ITMP-1 RNA. Overexpression of TIMP-1 induced by sense TIMP-1 caused upregulation of FN and Ⅳ type collagen in protein level, in contrast, supprssion of TIMP-1 expression by antisense TIMP-1 caused downregulation of FN and Ⅳ type collagen protein; but neither sense nor antisense TIMP-1 infection had effects on the RNA level of FN and Ⅳ type collagen. Conclusion TIMP-1 suppresses the degradation of ECM in rat glomerular mesangial cells and antisense TIMP-1 may be available for renal fibrosis in the future.

Objective To investigate the risk factors for the presence of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in the midphase.Methods A total of 287 patients with HBV-related ACLF in the mid-phase were recruited.Clinical data (age,gender,diabetes,liver cirrhosis,upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage,spontaneous bacterial peritonitis,and pulmonary infection) and laboratory findings [albumin,globulin,total bilirubin (TBil),alanine transaminase (ALT),aspartate aminotransferase (AST),glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GT),alkaline phosphatase,total cholesterol,cholinesterase,creatinine,prothrombin activity (PTA),international normalized ratio,alpha-fetoprotein (AFP),loads of HBV DNA,serum potassium,serum sodium,white blood cell,and platelet count] were included as potential risk factors and analyzed with univariate and multivariate Logistic regressions.Results Multiple Logistic regression analysis indicated that serum potassium(B =-2.006,P =0.000,OR =0.135,95％CI:0.051-0.353),serum sodium(B=-0.096,P=0.014,OR=0.908,95％CI..0.841-0.981),pulmonary infection (B =1.648,P =0.018,OR =5.199,95 ％ CI:1.326-20.386),AFP (B=-0.010,P =0.024,OR =0.990,95％ CI:0.982-0.999) were correlated with hepatic encephalopathy.Conclusion Hypokalemia,hyponatremia,pulmonary infection and low levels of AFP are independent risk factors of the presence of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with HBV-related ACLF in the mid-phase.

Objective To investigate the effects of hydrogen on post - cardiac arrest brain injury in rabbits.Method Sixty New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into two groups,namely experiment group ( group A,n =30 ) and control group ( group B,n =30 ).Inhalation of 2％ hydrogen gas was conferred to rabbits immediately at the end of cardiac arrest modeling for 72 hours in the group A. Air instead was given to rabbits in the group B.Blood samples were collected before cardiac arrest (CA),and 4,12,24 and 72 hours after restoration of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in all rabbits for determining the levels of hydrogen,tumor necrosis factor - α ( TNF - α),neuron - specific enolase (NSE) and protein S100β.At the same time,rectal temperature,mean arterial pressure,heart rate and respiration rate were recorded,and the neurologic deficit scoring (NDS) was carried out.The rate of systemic inflammatory response syndrome ( SIRS ) and the rate of survival of rabbits were analyzed. Results There was no significant difference in level of TNF - α activation between group A and group B within12 h of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).In group A,TNF - α level and the rate of SIRS peaked at 24 hours after CPR,which were higher than those in group B,and then decreased gradually,and the rate of survival was higher than that in group B in 72 hours after ROSC,the NSE was lower than that in group B at 24 hours after ROSC.In group B,S100β level began to increase significantly 4 hours after CPR,which was higher than that in group A,the level of NDS in group B was higher than that in group A 72 hours after ROSC.Conclusions Inhalation of hydrogen gas lessened inflammation and alleviated the brain injury after CPR.

Infectious disease hospitals are obliged to cope with public health emergencies such as outbreak of infectious diseases.Such hospitals are required to make early detection,early containment,proper management,reasonable preplans,timely training,targeted drills,reasonable deployment of hospital resources,appropriate protection for hospital staff.General hospitals should also cope with prevention and control of infectious diseases to some extent,and work with infectious disease hospitals hand in hand to better cope with such outbreaks.

Objective To compare the screening effects between Wells and revised Geneva scores on suspected acute pulmonary thromboembolism (APTE),and to explore a optimum screening method for APTE in the emergency department of China.Methods The study was carried out by using random,crossed,prospective methods to compare the screening effects between Wells and revised Geneva scores for 167 suspected APTE patients in the emergency department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University.Results The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of Wells and revised Geneva scores for screening APTE in the emergency department were (0.917 ± 0.022 ) and (0.927 ± 0.020),respectively ( P ＜ 0.05 ).The diagnostic concordance between the two score systems for predicting APTE was poor (Kappa value =0.276 ). In addition, the difference between their hierarchical discrimination for the possibility of APTE was statistically significant ( P ＜ 0.05 ).Compared with revised Geneva score,fewer patients were diagnosed with low clinical probability of APTE and more patients were diagnosed with intermediate or high clinical probability of APTE through Wells score.The patients with low chnical probability of APTE were excluded from pulmonary embolism in Wells or revised Geneva score.At intermediate clinical probability,the accuracy rate of Wells score for predicting APTE (9.64％) was lower than that (32.84％ ) of revised Geneva ( P ＜ 0.05 ).At high clinical probability,there was no significant difference between their accuracy rate [ (67.24％ vs.86.21％),P＞0.05]. Conclusions Revised Geneva score is more suitable than Wells score in screening suspected APTE patients in the emergency department in our country.

Objective To investigate the current status about the application of alteplase (rt-PA) for intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke patients,and clarify the relevant factors affecting patients'compliance of intravenous thrombolysis.Methods The acute ischemic stroke patients admitted in Department of Emergency,from January 2014 to December 2015 were recruited for study prospectively.After the patients with contraindications of thrombolysis were excluded,the eligible patients were divided into two groups,intravenous thrombolysis group (ITG) and non-intravenous thrombolysis group (NTG).Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was used to determine the optimal cutoff point and the crucial NIHSS score of patients for decision on thrombolysis therapy.Results There were 230 patients with acute ischemic stroke occurred in the period of two years.Of 189 eligible patients,33 refused the intravenous thrombolysis treatment (NTG) whereas 156 willing to take the intravenous thrombolysis treatment (ITG).The intravenous thrombolysis rate of eligible ischemic stroke patients reached to Henan Provincial People's Hospital within the time window (4.5 hours) was 67.8％ without contraindications.The results of the single-factor analysis for the patients of the two groups displayed that the differences in factors including age,baseline NIHSS score,limb weakness,hemiplegic paralysis,dysphasia,as well as dizziness were significant between two groups (t =2.578,P =0.047;U =157.221,P =0.000;x2 =26.702,P =0.000;x2=9.069,P =0.003;x2 =7.381,P =0.007;x2 =28.636,P =0.000).The ROC analysis demonstrated the relationship between the baseline NIHSS score and the patients receiving intravenous thrombolysis.When NIHSS score ＜ 7,patients tended to refuse the treatment with intravenous thrombolysis (sensitivity 0.87,specificity 0.82).Among the patients receiving intravenous thrombolysis,the significant differences in intracranial hemorrhage rate,hospitalization mortality rate and 3-month mortality rate were not found between the patients with baseline NIHSS score≥7 and score ＜7 (1.9％ vs.3.9％,P =0.662;1.9％ vs.7.8％,P =0.168 and 3.8％ vs.11.7％,P =0.142,respectively).However a higher rate of favorable prognosis (3-month modified Rankin Scale score ≤ 1) was observed in thrombolysis patients (75.5％ vs.41.7％,P =0.000).Conclusions Factors such as age,baseline NIHSS score,limb weakness,hemiplegic paralysis,dysphasia,as well as dizziness are supposed to be associated with patients' compliance of intravenous thrombolysis.

Aim To observe the adhesive process of the human gastric cancer cell line MKN1,and study the expression of integrin ?1;to investigate the mechanism of the inhibition of the adhesion process of MKN1 cells by destran sulfate(DS).Methods The MKN1 cells were cultured with DS or PBS,then stained with immunofluorescent cytochemistry and observed in fixed or living conditions with confocal laser scanning microscope.RT-PCR was used to analyze the cDNA expression of MKN1 cells.Results MKN1 cells adhered to culture dishes by the process of forming filopodia,changed into a flat shape,and then adhered to other cells to form a cell-monolayer.Integrin ?1 was intensively expressed in the cell membrane,where integrin ?1 formed clusters.DS inhibted the expression of integrin ?1 in cell membrane,and decreased the area of integrin ?1 clusters.DS-treated cells also tended to maintain a round shape by contracting the filopodia.In DS-containing culture dishes,some cells kept floating 4 hours after seeding.DS decreased the level of the cDNA expression of the adhered cells to 74% and of the floating cells to 38% of that of the cells in un-treated group,respectively.Conclusion The inhibition of the adhesion of MKN1 cells by DS was related to the suppression of the expression of integrin ?1.

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.

Objective:This study aimed to investigate the changes of ventricular repolarization index on ECG and its relationship between prognosis in patients with acute cerebral trauma.Methods:From January 2014 to January 2018, data of 289 consecutive patients with emergency traumatic brain injuries were prospectively collected and ultimately 219 cases were selected into the study group. Meanwhile, 220 healthy persons matched by age and sex served as the control group. ECG indexes such as P wave dispersion (Pd), corrected QT(QTc), Tp-e and Tp-e/QT were all measured and calculated in the 1st and 72th hour. The independent sample t test and paired t test were used to compare the changes of the above indexes on the 1st day and the control group, the 1st day and the 3rd day, respectively, and the association between ECG indexes and the illness severity or adverse events (MACE) of the trauma group during hospitalization. Results:QTc, Tpec and Tp-e/QT of the acute cerebral trauma group increased on the 3rd day compared with the control group and on the first day, the differences were statistically significant ( P all <0.05). Tp-ec and Tp-e/QT in patients with moderate to severe brain injury in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) were increased, and the differences were statistically significant (150.48±16.58 vs 130.14±11.86, P=0.006). 0.29±0.04 vs 0.23±0.03, P=0.030). Tpec and Tp-e/QT were significantly increased in acute brain truma patients with MACE during hospitalization compared with those without MACE (149.76±12.52 vs 128.84±12.47, P <0.001). 0.30±0.04 vs 0.21±0.03,<0.001). Conclusion:Tp-e and Tp-e/QT in patients with acute cerebral trauma are correlated to the severity of the disease, which could be used as short-term prognostic indicators under certain conditions.