Virtual reality simulators and surgical demonstration were used in laparoscopic teaching combining teacher' guiding with students' practice to improve the teaching effectiveness hecause of the limitations of the traditional apprenticeship teaching methods.The new method was applied for 2 cycles and for 6 weeks.The results showed that the teaching methods of virtual reality simulators combined with surgical demonstration can significantly improve the effectiveness of laparoscopic teaching and shorten the initial learning curve,therefore it is worth promoting in laparoscopic operation training and teaching.

Objective To observe the corneal nerve fibres damage in different stage of diabetic retinopathy (DR) with type 2 diabetes.Methods A cross-sectional study.One hundred and twenty eyes of 120 patients with type 2 diabetes served as diabetes group.According to International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy Disease Severity Scales (2002),diabetes patients were classified into 4 subgroups:patients without diabetic retinopathy (NDR),patients with mild or moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (mNPDR),patients with severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (sNPDR) and patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR),each subgroup has 30 eyes of 30 patients.Another 30 eyes of 30 healthy participants served as control group.All eyes were scanned with HRT3 in vivo corneal confocal microscopy.Images of sub-basal nerve plexus were quantified including nerve fiber length (NFL),nerve fiber density (NFD),nerve fiber branch density (NFB),and nerve tortuosity (NT).The correlations of corneal nerve fiber with age,duration of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1 c) were analyzed using Spearman correlation analysis.Results NFL,NFD and NFB were found to be significantly lower in diabetic patients (F=147.315,142.586,65.898;P=0.000,0.000,0.000),NT was significantly greater in diabetic patients (F=39.431,P=0.000),when compared to control group.In diabetic patients,NFL,NFD and NFB were gradually reduced with DR severity,NT was gradually increased with DR severity.While the difference ofNFL,NFD,NFB,NT was not statistically significant between sNPDR and PDR subgroups (P＞.0.05),but was statistically significant between other subgroups (P＜0.05).Spearman correlation analysis results showed that age (r=-0.071,-0.080,0.001,0.100;P=0.391,0.328,0.991,0.224) and HbAlc (r=-0.109,-0.115,-0.126,0.025;P=0.238,0.211,0.169,0.781) had no correlation with NFL,NFD,NFB,NT.Duration of diabetes was negatively correlated with the NFL,NFD (r=-0.212,-0.264;P=0.020,0.004),positive correlated with NT (r=0.261,P=0.004),and had no correlation with NFB (r=-0.119,P=0.194).Conclusions Corneal nerve fiber loss and nerve tortuosity increased were found in patients with type 2 diabetes,and even without diabetic retinopathy.The progress of corneal neuropathy was correlated with the severity of DR,but it was not change significantly between sNPDR and PDR.

Objective: To detect the relationship between variant of rsl255372 in transcription factor 7-Like 2(TCF7L2) gene and the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Tianjin Han populations. Methods: Three hundred and fifty-two T2DM patients and 176 healthy controls were randomly selected to extract the genome DNA. Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography was used to detect the PCR amplified fragment. The different peaks were chosen for sequencing. The differences of different genotype frequency between the groups were analysed. The Logistic regression was used to evaluate the risk factors of T2DM. Results: The G/T genotype frequencies of rsl2255372 were 18.5% and 2.8% in T2DM group and healthy control group respectively (P < 0.05). The G/T genotype, glycosylated hemoglobin, urea nitrogen and the systolic blood pressure were the independent risk factors of T2DM, and the high density lipoprotein was the protective factor. There was no significant difference of the G/T genotype frequency in T2DM patients with different complications. Conclusion: This study indicates that G/T genotype in the TCF7L2 gene significantly contributes to T2DM susceptibility in Tianjin Han populations. The G/T genotype is one of the risk factors of the T2DM.

Objective: To investigate the innate immunity of cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) after recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein of influenza virus innoculation. Methods: HUVECs were divided into four groups: control, H9N2 viral particle, recombinant H3HA and recombinant H5HA. After 24 h of innoculation, the supernatant of the culture was extracted and the HUVECs were lysed. The levels of cytokine in HUVEC were measured by real-time PCR and ELISA. Results: The mRNA and protein expression of IFNB1 and the mRNA expression of CCL5 and IFITM3 in HUVECs of HA (H3HA and H9HA) innoculated group did not show significant difference compared to control (IFNB1 mRNA and protein expression of H3HA group, P=0.051, 0.839; IFNB1 mRNA and protein expression of H9HA group, P=0.127, 0.561; CCL5 mRNA expression of H3HA and H9HA croups, P=0.314, 0.429; IFITM3 mRNA expression of H3HA and H9HA croups, P=0.530, 0.269). The mRNA expression of CCL5 and IFITM3 in HUVECs of H9N2 viral particle innoculated group increased significantly compared to control (P=0.022, 0.047). Conclusions These results suggest that recombinant HA alone did not trigger innate immunity in HUVEC, but viral particle could activate endothelial innate immunity.

Aim Toexaminethecombinedeffectsof 5-ALA and metformin on diabetes mellitus induced by streptozotocin( STZ) in mice, and to discuss the mech-anisminitially.Methods Thediabeticmiceinduced by intraperitoneal injection of STZ were treated with 5-ALA and/or metformin for 30 days. Physical signs, fasting blood glucose ( FBG ) , fasting plasma insulin ( FIns) , plasma leptin ( Lep) , glucose tolerance, and histological changes of liver and pancreas were as-sessed. Insulin resistance was evaluated by the homeo-stasismodelassessment(HOMA).Results There were more significant effects when 5-ALA combined with metformin than only using metformin on lowering FBG, FIns and Lep. And 5-ALA combined with met-formin could improve glucose tolerance and the insulin sensitivity. Microscopic analysis demonstrated that sig-nificant changes in pancreatic islet and characteristic feature of the vacuolization phenotype in liver was ob-served on diabetic mice, and use of 5-ALA could in-hibit shrinking pancreatic islet number and hepatic morphological changes, especially in combination with metformin.Conclusions Asynergisticeffectof5-ALA and metformin is observed. Combined therapy of 5-ALA and metformin can decrease FBG and improve glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and islet ? cells function and morphology.

With the development of medical technology, tumor vaccines as a novel precise immunotherapy approach have gradually received attention in clinical applications. Against the backdrop of the global corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, vaccine technology has further advanced. Depending on the types of antigens, tumor vaccines can be divided into whole-cell vaccines, peptide vaccines, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, recombinant virus vaccines, etc. Although some tumor vaccines have been marketed and achieved certain therapeutic effects, the results of tumor vaccines in clinical trials have been unsatisfactory in the past period. With the maturation of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology and the continuous development of bioinformatics, dynamic monitoring of the entire process of tumor subpopulation development has become a reality, which has laid a solid foundation for personalized, neoantigen-centered therapeutic tumor vaccines. This article reviews the recent developments of tumor vaccines of different types, starts with lung cancer and summarizes the achievements of tumor vaccines in clinical applications, and provides an outlook for the future development of antigen-centered tumor vaccines.
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Humans ; Cancer Vaccines/therapeutic use* ; Antigens, Neoplasm ; Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy* ; Neoplasms/genetics* ; Computational Biology ; Immunotherapy/methods* ; Lung

Background and objective Metabolic change is one of the important characteristics of radiation pneu-monitis.Radiotherapy,as a conventional method for the treatment of thoracic tumors,can not only effectively kill tumor cells,but also cause adverse reactions such as local inflammation and fibrosis,which leads to limited therapeutic effect and profound impact on the quality of life of patients.Therefore,it is of great significance to explore the metabolic changes caused by radio-therapy.The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of X-ray irradiation on the metabolism of a mouse lung epithelial cell line(murine lung epithelial-12,MLE12).Methods MLE12 cells were cultured in vitro and randomly divided into radiation group(IR)and control group(NC).Cells in the IR group were irradiated at a dose of 10 Gy using a Hitachi X-ray irradiator.Cell supernatant samples were collected at 48 h after irradiation.Metabolomic analysis of the samples was performed by liq-uid chromatograph mass spectrometer(LC/MS).Results LC/MS metabolomics analysis revealed the metabolic changes of MLE12 cells at 48 h after irradiation.A total of 38 secretory metabolites were altered in the IR group compared with the NC group.According to the annotation of Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes(KEGG)database,the differential metabo-lites are mainly involved in nucleotide metabolism,amino acid metabolism and lipid metabolism,among which the difference in nucleotide metabolism is the most significant.Conclusion The metabolism ofMLE12 cells was significantly affected by X-ray irradiation,mainly affecting the nucleotide metabolic pathways,including purine and pyrimidine metabolites and related meta-bolic pathways.