Objective: To explore the protective effect of leptin against rats intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury and the related mechanism. Methods: Ninety-nine rats were randomly divided into 11 groups (n=9), namely the sham-operation group, ischemia/reperfusion groups (45 min ischemia plus 15 reperfusion [I45R15,I45R30,I45R60,I45R180,I45R360)and the 5 corresponding leptin-treated ischemia-reperfusion groups. The serum levels of TNF-α and IL-10 were determined in all groups and the histopathological changes were observed in the small intestine. Results: Compared with the sham-operation group, the serum levels of TNF-α and IL-10 were significantly increased in the ischemia/ reperfusion groups (both P<0.05), with obvious pathological damage observed in the ischemia/reperfusion groups. Leptin treatment significantly decreased TNF-α level, increased IL-10 level, and alleviated the damage of the small intestine (all P<0.05) of animals after ischemia/reperfusion injury. Conclusion: Leptin can alleviate the intestinal damage in rats after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion through down-regulating TNF-α level and up-regulating IL-10 levels.

Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; therapeutic use

Antiphospholipid Syndrome ; diagnosis ; etiology ; therapy ; Child ; Humans ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; complications ; Male

Objective To investigate the hypothesis that food allergy in infants may be associated with variation in their intestinal microflora. The formation of intestinal microflora in healthy infants and changes in food allergic infants were detected.Methods 16S rRNA gene sequences specific for bifidobacterium, lactobacillus and escherichia coli in fecal were quantitatively detected by real-time PCR. The three fecal floras were assessed in 71 healthy infants and 100 infants with food allergy. Results After birth,there were bifidobacteria colonized in infantile intestine,then the number increased rapidly up to 5 times at the sixth month, which was always the preponderant flora. Lactobacilli was also presented in infantile intestine 1 month after birth and augment gradually. The number of Escherichia coli was less than bifidobacteria and lactobacilli and appeared to decline during the early infants. The number of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli in the infants with food allergy were markedly less than that in the healthy infants, but escherichia coli was significantly more than that in the healthy infants.Conclusions During the first year of life,the intestinal microflora in infants is in a developing process. Compared with the healthy infants,bifidobacteria and lactobacilli decrease, but escherichia coli increase in the food allergic infants.These results indicate that the probiotics may be benefit to the prevention and treatment of food allergy.

The major goal of microbial ecology is to study the structure and function of complex micro-bial communities. New molecular biological techniques have been successfully applied to analyze mi-crobial community structure. However they do not provide information on the physiologic properties of the detected microorganisms. A new tool for structure-function analyses in microbial ecology, micro-autoradiography combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization (MAR-FISH) can be used to simul-taneously examine the phylogenetic identity and the specific activity of microorganisms within a com-plex microbial community at a single-cell level. This article reviews the principle, experimental steps of MAR-FISH technique. The application of this technique in study of the environmental microbial com-munity and function is also summarized.

Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare soft tissue sarcomas, this sarcoma occurs rarely in the larynx. Herein, we describe an unusual case of ASPS occurring in the larynx. The patient was a 46-year-old woman who presented with a more than 2-year history of right pyriform fossa mass and progressive hoarseness for three months. The endoscopic examination of the larynx revealed a mass in the right pyriform fossa with smooth surface and well-defined margin. Computed tomography demonstrated a heterogeneous tumor in the right pyriform fossa, and involving the paralaryngeal space, measuring approximately 2.1 cm x 1.7 cm x 2.6 cm, which was resected via lateral neck approach. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry revealed an ASPS. To ours knowledge, this is the first reported case of ASPS arising in pyriform fossa.
Female ; Hoarseness ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Larynx ; pathology ; Middle Aged ; Sarcoma, Alveolar Soft Part ; pathology ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Animals ; Blood Glucose ; Diet, High-Fat ; Ghrelin ; blood ; Lipids ; blood ; Physical Conditioning, Animal ; Rats

Objective To explore risk factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus in suburban of Tianjin.Methods A frequently matched community-based case-control study was conducted in Tianjin suburb.The multi-phasic stratified cluster sampling method was adopted.Finally 9 961 people were selected as study subjects.All of 585 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were recruited as cases,and 620 persons without type 2 diabetes mellitus were chosen as controls.The two groups were frequently matched by age and sex.Results Family history of diabetes mellitus(OR=2.671),depression(OR=3.759),higher level of BMI(OR=1.502) and WHR(OR=1.740),history of hypertension(OR=2.016),history of hyperlipoidemia(OR=1.867),were risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus while increased the risk of type 2 diabetes.And increasing intake of fruits(OR=0.736) was shown to be reversely associated with diabetes mellitus.Conclusions Family history of diabetes mellitus,depression,overweight,central obesity,history of hypertension,history of hyperlipoidemia were risk factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus in suburban of Tianjin,while increasing intake of fruits was shown to be a protective factor of diabetes mellitus.

AIM:To observe the effects of adiponectin on injury of the 3-4 d SD rat cardiomyocytes induced by the intervention of H2O2.METHODS:Primary cardiomyocytes were obtained from neonatal rat and were cultured by enzymatic digestion methods.The molecular marker was observed by ?-actin immunocytochemistry.Primary cultured 3-4 d cells were used in experiment,and the injury model was established by H2O2,and adiponectin and Ara-A were used for pre-treatment before cell culture.The morphological change of cardiomyocytes was observed under electron microscope.The contents of LDH,MDA and the activity of SOD were measured.The apoptosis of cardiomyocytes was detected by agarose gel electrophoresis and Annexin V/PI staining with flow cytometry.RESULTS:Adiponectin pretreatment significantly decreased the release of LDH(P

Adolescent ; Heart Valve Diseases ; etiology ; Heart Valves ; pathology ; Humans ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; complications ; pathology ; Male