1.Progress on radionuclide-labeled small peptides in targeting tumor angiogenesis
Xiaoxi PANG ; Yan HUO ; Rongfu WANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2017;44(2):68-72
Early diagnosis and precision medicine generally show significant differences in the prognosis of patients with carcinoma. Angiogenesis not only plays a key role in tumor pathophysiology but also acts as an important drug target. Peptides with specific se-quences can target specific molecules on the endothelial cellular membrane during tumor angiogenesis. Radionuclide-labeled molecu-lar probes exhibit many advantages in oncotherapy. This article focuses on the progress of radionuclide-labeled RGD and RRL in radio-immunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy targeting tumor angiogenesis.
2.SPECT and CT in Evaluating Preoperative Renal Function of Patients with Unilateral Hydronephrosis
Xiaoxi PANG ; Hao ZHONG ; Xuehong CHEN ; Zhengjiang WANG ; Jiangyan LIU ; Junlin ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging 2015;(2):120-124
Purpose To analyze the relationships between glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measured by SPECT and renal parenchyma thickness and enhanced CT value measured by CT, and to explore predictive significance of CT in evaluating renal function of patients with hydronephrosis.Materials and Methods One hundred and fifteen patients diagnosed with unilateral hydronephrosis by ultrasound were retrospectively analyzed. GFR% (GFR percentage of affected kidney to the both kidneys) was measured by SPECT. CT% (percentage of affected renal parenchyma thickness to the both kidneys) and enhanced CT% (percentage of enhanced CT value of affected kidney to the both kidneys) were measured by pre- and post-contrast CT scan. According to GFR, the renal function was divided into mild-to-moderate impairment, severely impairment and non-function. Twenty-five volunteers were recruited as control group. CT%, enhanced CT% and GFR%among the four groups were compared, and the correlation of CT% and enhanced CT%with GFR% was analyzed to evaluated CT in predicting renal function.Results CT%, enhanced CT% and GFR% in mild-to-moderate impairment group was significantly greater than those in severely impairment group and non function group (F=20.24, 7.78 and 329.21,P<0.05). GFR% was positive correlated with CT% (r=0.58,P<0.05) and enhanced CT% (r=0.61,P<0.05). Area under curve (AUC) of CT% were 0.54, 0.79 and 0.83 for mild-to-moderate impairment, severely impairment and non-function, with sensitivity of 92.91%, 93.47%, 65.72%, and specificity of 35.33%, 59.47%, and 88.62%, respectively. AUC of enhanced CT% were 0.79, 0.89 and 0.96 for the three groups, with sensitivity of 97.51%, 80.02%, 97.66%, and specificity of 58.14%, 89.82% and 94.27%, respectively.Conclusion There was high correlation between renal function imaging by SPECT and CT in evaluating renal function of hydroneohrosis patients. Pre- and post-contrast CT scan can be used as complements in predicting renal function, and post-contrast CT with high accuracy.
3.The idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity of Polygonum multiflorum based on endotoxin model.
Chunyu LI ; Xiaofei LI ; Can TU ; Na LI ; Zhijie MA ; Jingyao PANG ; Geliuchang JIA ; Herong CUI ; Yun YOU ; Haibo SONG ; Xiaoxi DU ; Yanling ZHAO ; Jiabo WANG ; Xiaohe XIAO
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2015;50(1):28-33
The liver injury induced by Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. (PM) was investigated based on idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity model co-treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) at a non-hepatotoxic dose. Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were intragastrically administered with three doses (18.9, 37.8, 75.6 g crude drug per kg body weight) of 50% alcohol extracts of PM alone or co-treated with non-toxic dose of LPS (2.8 mg·kg(-1)) via tail vein injection. The plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities were assayed and the isolated livers were evaluated for histopathological changes. The dose-toxicity relationships of single treatment of PM or co-treatment of LPS were investigated comparatively to elucidate the idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity of PM. The results showed that no significant alterations of plasma ALT and AST activities were observed in the groups of solo-administration of LPS (2.8 mg·kg(-1), i.v.) or different dosage (18.9, 37.8 and 75.6 g·kg(-1), i.g.) of PM, compared to normal control group (P > 0.05); while significant elevations were observed in the co-administration groups of PM and LPS. Treatment with LPS alone caused slight infiltration of inflammatory cells in portal area but no evident hepatocytes injury. Co-treatment with LPS and PM (75.6 g·kg(-1), i.g.) caused hepatocyte focal necrosis, loss of central vein intima and a large number of inflammatory cell infiltration in portal areas. When further reduce the dosage of PM, significant increases of plasma ALT and AST activities (P < 0.05) were still observed in co-administration groups of LPS and PM (1.08 or 2.16 g·kg(-1)), but not in LPS or PM solo-administration groups. Nevertheless, the co-treatment of low dosage of PM (0.54 g·kg(-1)) with LPS did not induce any alteration of plasma ALT and AST. In conclusion, intragastric administration with 75.6 g·kg(-1) of PM did not induce liver injury in normal rats model; while the 2 folds of clinical equivalent dose of PM (1.08 g·kg(-1)) could result in liver injury in the LPS-based idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity model, which could be used to evaluate the idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity of PM.
4.A clinical study on the treatment of mucocele by bleomyin A5 combined with phosphorus-32 colloid.
Xiaoxi PANG ; Xuehong CHEN ; Jingui HU ; Jiangyan LIU ; Xiaohui WANG ; Fangzhou GUO
Chinese Journal of Stomatology 2015;50(10):624-626
OBJECTIVETo evaluate the effect of bleomyin A5 combined with phosphorus-32 colloid in the treatment of mucocele.
METHODSA total of 214 patients divided into three groups, bleomyin A5 (50 cases), phosphorus-32 colloid (50 cases) and bleomyin A5 combined with phosphorus-32 colloid (114 cases).
RESULTSThe efficacy of bleomyin A5 group, phosphorus-32 colloid group, and bleomyin A5 combined with phosphorus-32 colloid group was 84% (42/50), 82% (41/50) and 98% (112/114), respectively. There were significant difference in efficacy among the three groups (P < 0.05). The phosphorus-32 colloid group and the bleomyin A5 group had no significant difference in efficacy (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONSThe independent use of bleomyin A5 and phosphorus-32 colloid is effective, but the combined use of the two methods is more effective.
Bleomycin ; analogs & derivatives ; therapeutic use ; Colloids ; Combined Modality Therapy ; methods ; Humans ; Mucocele ; therapy ; Phosphorus ; Phosphorus Radioisotopes ; therapeutic use ; Treatment Outcome
5. Comparative study of the effect of innervated reverse digital artery island flap and the digital artery island flap with dorsal branches for fingertip repair
Hui WANG ; Xiaoxi YANG ; Bin WANG ; Wei WANG ; Haitao PANG ; Wei LIU ; Jun LI ; Huanyou YANG
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2017;33(4):263-267
Objective:
To compare the clinical effect of innervated reverse digital artery island flap and the digital artery island flap with dorsal branches in the repair of fingertip defects.
Methods:
From January 2014 to June 2015, a total of 43 cases (50 fingers) with fingertip defects in 2-5 fingers were randomly treated with reverse digital artery island flaps (23 cases) or the digital artery island flaps with dorsal branches (20 cases). All cases underwent emergency surgery. The operative time, patient satisfaction of appearance for the reconstructed fingers, the static 2-point discrimination of the flaps, active motion of the injured finger joints and postoperative appearance on donor site were compared respectively.
Results:
All flaps survived primarily. The follow-up period ranged from 12-18 months. No significant differences were found in operative time and active motion of the injured finger joints between the two groups (
6.Identification of benign and malignant nodules in thyroid ultrasound images based on deep convolutional neural network
Wenjun Yao ; Chaoran Yin ; Hongqing Zhu ; Jianmin Jiang ; Xiaoxi Pang ; Yining Sun
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui 2023;58(5):854-858
Objective:
To explore the clinical application value of deep convoluti onal neural network for automatic detection and classification of benign and malignant thyroid nodules ultrasound images.
Methods:
A total of 1 012 ultrasound images of thyroid nodules were retrospectively selected and labeled. The YOLOv5 network model was constructed to accurately locate the location of thyroid nodules and automatically trim the area of the nodules. At the same time , a GoogLeNet network model was constructed to classify benign and malignant nodules after reduction.
Results :
In the collected data set , the mean accuracy of the target detection network for thyroid nodule location detection was 96. 2% . Meanwhile , the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and AUC of the classification network for benign and malignant nodules were 0. 885 ,0. 822 ,0. 866 and 0. 92 respectively ,which were significantly higher than those of the AlexNet model (0. 81) , VGG model (0. 86) and MobileNet model (0. 76) .
Conclusion
The deep convo⁃ lutional neural network model has high localization and recognition ability for benign and malignant thyroid nodules in ultrasound images ,which is helpful to improve the accuracy of automatic image diagnosis.