Objective To classify all the plant pollen allergens, each allergen sequence available was compared with protein family database. After that, the appearance and taxonomic distribution of each protein family could be known. When made reference to evolutionary analysis, a regular rule of the distribu-tion of all plant pollen allergens could be concluded. Methods Protein family memberships of each allergen were assigned by comparing the sequences with the Pfam database. Representative members of the most a-bundant pollen allergen families were compared with the Uniprot database using the BLAST server. Acces-sion number of all the interesting homologous could be obtained and all the sequence information could be ac-quired by Batch Entrez. Finally, the evolutionary trees were drawn with the help of MEGA4.0 software. Re-sults One hundred and sixty-eight pollen allergens were classified into 26 protein families. Profilins, pollen _allerg_1 and EF hands constituted the most abundant pollen allergen families. Profilins and EF hands oc-curred in almost all allergenic plant families, whereas allergenic Expansins, FAD_binding proteins, Amb_V allergens and Thaumatins were confined to single taxon. Conclusion It is concluded that the highly con-served sequences of allergens families such as Profilin may be one of the most important reasons of the cross reactivities in allergic diseases. The classification of pollen allergens may be helpful to clinical practice and basic research.

Objective To identify differentially expressed proteins in keloid tissue and to explore the proteomic characteristics of keloid by utilizing capillary high-performance liquid chromatography (LC) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS).Methods Tissue specimens were obtained from the lesions of 5 patients with non-familial keloid and normal skin of 5 human controls.After extraction and in-solution digestion of proteins,the resultant peptides were separated and identified by LC-MS/MS.Label-free detection and quantitation of peptides were carried out by using the DeCyder MSTM software.Results A total of 570differentially expressed peptides were identified between non-familial keloid and normal tissue (all P ＜ 0.05),which correspond to 1221 proteins.A difference greater than 1.5 folds was observed in the expressions of 293 proteins,including 124 up-regulated and 169 down-regulated proteins in non-familial keloid tissue.Conclusion Differences exist in the expression of proteins between non-familial keloid and normal skin tissue.

The microarray technology used in biological and medical research provides a new idea for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. To find different types of cancer and to classify the cancer samples accurately, we propose a new cluster ensemble framework Dual Neural Gas Cluster Ensemble (DNGCE), which is based on neural gas algorithm, to discover the underlying structure of noisy cancer gene expression profiles. This framework DNGCE applies the neural gas algorithm to perform clustering not only on the sample dimension, but also on the attribute dimension. It also adopts the normalized cut algorithm to partition off the consensus matrix constructed from multiple clustering solutions. We obtained the final accurate results. Experiments on cancer gene expression profiles illustrated that the proposed approach could achieve good performance, as it outperforms the single clustering algorithms and most of the existing approaches in the process of clustering gene expression profiles.
Algorithms ; Cluster Analysis ; Gene Expression Profiling ; methods ; Humans ; Neoplasms ; genetics ; Transcriptome

Advances in ophthalmic surgery,together with achieving greater patient safety,have changed the requirements,methods and choice of regional anaesthesia of the eyes.So far,there still lacks of an absolutely safe ophthalmic regional block method,and the intraoperative anesthesia method depends on the needs of the surgeon and the expectations and the cooperation of the patients.The majority of ophthalmic procedures can be performed under regional anesthesia,but the proximity of important structures,such as the blood vessels,optic nerve and the brainstem,leads to increased risks associated with these blocks.The most serious one of these complications is brainstem anesthesia.An clear and full understanding of these complications,which may sometimes be life-threatening,is thus vital to the anesthesia practitioner.Procedural improvements include a close evaluation of the precise anatomy of the region,with particular attention to injection sites,depth of injection,position of the eyeball,and techniques to avoid nerve damage and accidental injection into surrounding structures,including blood vessels,eyeball and cerebrospinal fluid.To emphasize the importance of the prevention,recognition and management of these complications,which includes the extremely serious complication of brainstem anesthesia.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor(GIST) ,a kind of rare tumor,takes 1%～3% of all tumors in digestive tract,but are the most common in mesenehymal neoplasm.At present,the primal treatment of GIST is surgical operation,standard and rationality of surgery is the significant fatter that affects its curative effect.While imatinib is the main therapeutic tool for GIST that can' t benn resected or recurrence after operation.There is no definite circumscription between optimum and malignancy,there are many factors that influence the prognosis of GIST.We commonly apply Fletcher grading to evaluate the risk of GIST.

Objective To observe the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1(ICAM-1)and vascular cellular adhesion molecuh 1(VCAM-1)in placenta in patients with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy,investigate their roles in patients with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and correlation.Methods Fifty-two patients with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy(disease group)were collected,including 11 csses with gestational hypertension(GH),18 cases with mild pre-eelampsia(MP)and 23 cases with gevere pre-eclampsia(SP),26 cases of normal pregnant women as control group.Immunohistochemistry and image analytical technique were employed to show the expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1.Results The quantities of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expressed in the placental vascular endothelial cell were 78.85%(41/52)and 75.00%(39/52)in disease group,26.92%(7/26)and 23.08%(6/26)in control group,there was a significant difference between the two groups(P<0.01).and those in SP patients[100.00%(23/23)and 100.00%(23/23)]were higher than those in MP patients[77.78%(14/18)and 72.22%(13/18)]and GH patients[36.36%(4/11)and 27.27%(3/11)](P<0.05 or<0.01).The quantities of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expressed in the placental villous syncytlotrophoblast were cell 38.46%(20/52)and 44.23% (23/52)in disease group,100.00%(26/26)and 96.15%(25/26)in control group,there was a significant difference between the two groups(P<0.01),and those in SP patients[8.70%(2/23)and 13.04%(3/23)]were lower than those in MP patients[44.44%(8/18)and 50.00%(9/18)]and GH patients[90.91%(10/11)and 100.00%(11/11)](P<0.05 or<0.01).Conclusion Abnormal expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 in the placental vascular endothelial and villous syncytiotrophoblast cell in patients with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy may participate in pathogenic process of vascular endothelial damage of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.

Moyamoya disease is a cerebrovascular disease that is characterized by the progressive stenosis in the terminal internal carotid artery, the anterior cerebral artery and the origin of the middle cerebral artery, and compensatory enlargement of basal perforating artery. Both the genetic and environmental factors involxe in its pathogenesis. but its exact cause is unknown. Revascularization is the main treatment approach for moyamoya disease. This article reviews the progress in research on epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis and treatment of moyamoya disease.

Objective To observe the efficacy of Lipo PGE combined with Shuxuetong injection in treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). Methods The 68 DPN patients were randomly divided into treatment group with Lipo PGE plus Shuxuetong injection and comparison group with Shuxuetong alone. The treatment period was 14 days. Results The pain, numbness,paresthesia and other symptoms in the limbs of patients were significantly reduced in treatment group than in comparison group (P＜0. 01). At the same time, the conduction velocity of median nerve and sural nerve was significantly increased in treatment group after treatment (P＜0.05), there were no significant differences in comparison group before and after the treatment. Conclusions The treatment of DPN with Lipo PGE combined with Shuxuetong injection is safe and effective.

Objective Observe effects of TIMP-3 gene transient expression on proliferation,migration and apoptosis of VSMCs.Methods Transfect VSMCs separately in three groups as control,empty plasmid and recombinant group mediated by cationic liposome.First,calculate cells,quantify MMP-2 and analyse TIMP-3 mRNA at 24,48 and 72 h;Second,measure cell apoptosis rate and calculate migrated cells as well after 48 h.Results There were no difference between control group and empty plasmid group in cell growth,MMP-2's content,TIMP-3 mRNA expression and apoptosis rate,cells migration rate;but those of recombinant group were greatly different in other two(P

Mesenchymal stem cells belong to multipotential stem cells, which is easy to isolate and culture. Many researchers have been exploring various ways to induce bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into muscle cells. MSCs were induced into muscle cells by using biochemical and biomechanics approaches. These muscle cells could be used for such clinical applications, as treatment for ischemic cardiomyopathy and post-traumatic repair for muscular tissue. In this article we reviewed the research progress on induction of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into muscle cells and isolation, purification, and identification of MSC.