Objective To explore the regulatory effect of miRNA on B-cell activating factor (BAFF) in chronic eosinophilic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyp (Eso CRSwNP).Methods Ten nasal mucosal samples were collected from Eso CRSwNP patients who were admitted and treated in our hospital between January 2012 and February 2013.Normal nasal mucosal tissues (n =10) served as control.The miRNA-targeting BAFF was predicted by bioinformatics tools.Immunohistochemistry and real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were used to assess the protein expression of BAFF and the predicted miR-NA.The correlation between the predicted miRNA and BAFF was analyzed.Results Down-regulated expression of let-a was confirmed in Eos CRSwNP,while the BAFF protein expression was increased.Let-a was positively correlated with BAFF in nasal epithelia.Conclusions Let-a might contribute to mucosal eosinophilia in eosinophilic CRSwNP via targeting BAFF.

Objective To compare the performances of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) in the preoperative staging of Borrmann type Ⅳ gastric cancer. Methods 48 patients involved in this study, all the patients had undergone surgical resection, Borrmann Type Ⅳ gastric cancer had con-firmed and evaluated by EUS and MSCT. Tumor staging was evaluated by Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) staging. The results from the imaging modalities were compared with postoperative histopathological outcomes. Results The overall accuracies of EUS and MSCT for the T staging category were 54.2 % and 79.2 %( = 0.009), respectively. Stratified analysis revealed that the accuracy of MSCT in T3 and T4 staging was significantly higher than that of EUS ( = 0.032 for both). The overall accuracies of EUS and MSCT for the N staging category were both 56.3%. The sensitivity and specificity of EUS and MSCT in N staging were 83.3 %/72.2 % and 66.7 %/91.7 %, respectively. Conclusion MSCT prevail over EUS for Borrmann Type Ⅳ gastric cancer patients with invasion into serosal layer or adjacent organs or with distant metastasis.

Abstract Campus exclusion behavior attracts much attention in the filed of school-based social exclusion research field. It threatens the normal relationship and belonging acquisition of primary and secondary school students, resulting in frustration of students needs and negative emotions and behaviors, inability to handle classmates and social relationships well, and hindering mental health development of. Evolution believes that behaviors have a certain adaptive value. From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, a preliminary interpretation of the influencing factors of exclusion in terms of language, needs and motivations, and social status has been made. Resource acquisition, hunting-gathering hypothesis, homosexual competition, etc. Provides a certain evolutionary basis. Therefore, in the intervention and prevention of rejection behaviors, creating a campus atmosphere that accepts diversity has a positive effect on the guidance of all students, and strengthening emotional and cognitive interventions also alleviates the adverse effects of rejection behaviors.

Aneurysm, False ; therapy ; Carotid Artery Diseases ; therapy ; Carotid Artery, Internal ; pathology ; Humans

Objective: To compare the hepatobiliary injury difference of newborn BALB/c mice infected by different titers of rhesus rotavirus(RRV). Methods: Neonatal mice(n=80) were randomly separated into 4 groups and were intraperitoneally inoculated with different titers of rotavirus: High titer group(1×10⁷ PFU/ml); Medium titer group(1×10⁶ PFU/ml); Low titer group(2.5×10⁵ PFU/ml); Control group (only culture medium) within the first 24 hours after birth. All mice were sacrificed at day 12 after RRV inoculation then the liver and blood samples were collected. Meanwhile, mice were observed daily for at least 12 days, including their weight, skin color and survival situation. Liver functions were examined by serum biochemical test and morphologic changes in the biliary tract were observed. Tissue sections underwent H&E staining and immunohistochemically analysis for the presence of CK19. Results: Compared with the normal mice, the mice in the experimental group had different degrees of skin jaundice, weight lost, survival rate decreased, liver function damage. In the experimental group, the symptom of low titer group was light, and could be restored to normal, however, when compared with the low titer group, the mice in the high titer group were serious, their skin jaundice was more obvious, weight was significantly reduced and irreversible, survival rate was lower(50%), liver function of TBIL, DBIL, TBA, ALT, ALP were significantly increased.Further analysis showed that the high titer group had high bile duct obstruction rate (80%), with no case of obstruction in the low titer group. Histologic analysis also showed intrahepatic bile duct atresia in the high titer group, a large number of inflammatory cell infiltrated around the portal area, while the morphology of intrahepatic bile duct was almost normal and just a small amount of inflammatory cell infiltrated around the portal area in the low titer group. Conclusions Different titers of rotavirus had different effects on the newborn mice hepatobiliary system: high titer was easy to cause biliary atresia, and low titer caused hepatitis.

Objective:To investigate the effect and relationship of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) on cardiac mechanical indices in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease(NOCAD) in the resting state.Methods:This study was a single-center retrospective study. Seventy-nine NOCAD patients who hospitalized in Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from July 2017 to March 2022 were recruited. All patients underwent conventional echocardiography examination and the examination of coronary flow velocity reserved by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TTDE-CFVR). Based on the results of TTDE-CFVR, patients were divided into CMD group (CFVR<2.5, 32 cases) and a control group (CFVR≥2.5, 47 cases). Clinical data, routine echocardiographic parameters, regional mechanical indices including regional myocardial work index(RWI) and regional longitudinal strain(RLS), global mechanical indices including left ventricular global longitudinal strain(GLS), global longitudinal strain in the endocardial layer(GLS-endo), global longitudinal strain in the epicardial layer(GLS-epi), left ventricular global work index(GWI), global contractive work(GCW), global waste work(GWW), global work efficiency(GWE) were compared between two groups. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the risk factors of CMD. ROC curve was used to construct a prediction model for CMD.Results:There was no significant difference in sex ratio, BMI, smoking history, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia between CMD group and control group. Age was significantly higher in the CMD group than in the control group. RWI, GWI, GCW, GWE and the absolute values of RLS, GLS, GLS-endo and GLS-epi were significantly lower in the CMD group than in the control group. Logistic regression analysis showed that the decrease of absolute value of GLS was an independent risk factor for the CMD( OR=1.335, 95% CI=1.041-1.713, P=0.023). ROC curve showed that myocardial strain-related indexes had a good decrease value for the CMD. Conclusions:For patients with NOCAD, the presence of CMD is associated with the decrease of left ventricular regional and global systolic function.

Objective To explore the correlation between EBV DNA load and peripheral immune cells (including lymphocyte supsets and natural killer cells) before treatment in patients with NPC, and analyze the influence of circulating immune cell supsets related to EBV on the prognosis of NPC patients. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the general data of 203 NPC patients without distant metastasis at the first treatment, as well as the data of peripheral blood EBV DNA and circulating immune cell supset. The ROC curve analysis was used to determine the cutoff value of each circulating immune cell supset. Kaplan-Meier method was used for survival analysis, and Cox regression model was used for multi-factor prognostic correlation analysis. Results The 3-year OS, PFS, DMFS and LRFS of EBV DNA < 400 copies/ml group and EBV DNA≥400 copies/ml group were 99.2% vs. 90.1% (P=0.001), 96.7% vs. 90.1% (P=0.028), 98.4% vs. 90.1% (P=0.005) and 98.4% vs. 100% (P > 0.05), respectively. EBV DNA is negatively correlated with the ratio of CD19⁺ B cells before treatment (r=-0.138, P=0.040), and there was no significant correlation between EBV DNA and other circulating immune supgroups (P > 0.05). ROC analysis showed that the cut-off value of CD19⁺B cell ratio before treatment related to the 3-year OS was 8.33% (P=0.02). The 3-year OS, PFS, DMFS and LRFS of patients with CD19⁺B cells ratio ≤8.33% and CD19⁺B cells ratio > 8.33% were respectively 90.4% vs. 99.2% (P=0.003), 89.2% vs. 97.5% (P=0.008), 90.4% vs. 98.3% (P=0.008) and 98.8% vs. 99.2% (P > 0.05). However, ROC analysis showed that there was no significant correlation between OS and other peripheral immune cells (including the proportion of CD3⁺T, CD3⁺CD4⁺T, CD3⁺CD8⁺T and CD56⁺NK cells and CD4⁺/CD8⁺ ratio). Multivariate analysis showed that EBV DNA load was an independent prognostic factor of 3-year PFS of NPC patients, and the ratio of CD19⁺B cells was an independent prognostic factor of 3-year PFS, MFS and OS of NPC patients. Conclusion Before treatment, there is a negative correlation between plasma EBV DNA and the proportion of CD19⁺B cells in peripheral blood. Both can be used as the predictors of 3-year OS, PFS and DMFS of NPC patients.

OBJECTIVETo explore the clinical and genetic characteristics of patients with dentatorubro-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA).

METHODSDNA analysis for DRPLA gene was performed in two patients. Clinical features and genetic testing of Chinese DRPLA patients reported in the literature were reviewed in terms of initial symptoms, CAG repeat and age of onset.

RESULTSBoth families were confirmed by genetic analysis. In family 1, the number of CAG repeat in the proband, his brother and his mother was determined respectively as 8/65, 8/53 and 8/18. In family 2, the number of CAG repeat was respectively 13/63, 13/18, 18/52 and 13/13 in the proband, his brother, his father and his mother. The size of the expanded CAG repeats has inversely correlated with the age at onset (P<0.05, r=- 0.555). The age at onset of epilepsy was 10 and that for the onset of ataxia is forty years in initial symptom.

CONCLUSIONThe clinical characteristics of DRPLA include epilepsy, ataxia and cognitive impairment. The initial symptoms are epilepsy in adolescence and ataxia in adults. The size of expanded CAG repeats inversely correlates with the age at onset. The initial symptoms are different with different age of onset. It is difficult to diagnose DRPLA at an early stage.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Atrophy ; genetics ; Basal Ganglia Diseases ; diagnosis ; genetics ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Dentate Gyrus ; pathology ; Family Health ; Female ; Globus Pallidus ; pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nerve Tissue Proteins ; genetics ; Pedigree ; Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion ; genetics ; Young Adult

Objective:To investigate the efficacy of flexion-lateral curvature-supination reduction combined with primary anterior surgery for the treatment of lower cervical dislocation with unilateral facet inter-locking.Methods:A retrospective analysis was performed in the 32 patients who had been admitted to Department of Spine Surgery, Honghui Hospital for lower cervical dislocation with unilateral facet interlocking from November 2015 to October 2018. According to their treatments, they were divided into 2 groups. In the emergency group treated by flexion-lateral curvature-supination reduction combined with primary anterior surgery, there were 13 males and 3 females, aged from 24 to 63 years. In the traction group treated by cranial traction reduction combined with secondary anterior surgery, there were 12 males and 4 females, aged from 20 to 64 years. The operation time, intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay, bone graft fusion, American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) grade and Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score were compared between the 2 groups.Results:There was no significant difference in the preoperative general data between the 2 groups, showing they were comparable ( P<0.05). All patients were followed up from 26 to 40 months. The hospital stay for the emergency group [(7.2±1.2) d] was significantly shorter than that for the traction group[(10.9±1.2) d] ( P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the operation time, blood loss, ASIA grade or JOA score between the 2 groups ( P>0.05). All patients achieved osseous fusion of intervertebral space. Conclusion:Compared with traditional methods, flexion-lateral curvature-supination reduction combined with primay anterior surgery shows no significant difference in the recovery of neurological function but leads to a shorter hospital stay.

Motion sickness is a series of physiological responses in human being caused by abnormal movement stimulation. With the development of science and technology, a growing number of people choose to travel by high speed vehicles. Motion sickness happens more frequently. A large number of non-drug and drug intervention methods have been reported in the treatment of motion sickness. This article provides an overview on the research developments in the prevention and treatment of motion sickness in order to provide new ideas for drug research.