1.Expression of pancreatic ATP-sensitive K~+ channels in rats with chronic pancreatitis and drug interventions
Quan LIANG ; Chengrui XUE ; Xiaolei ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery 2010;16(3):200-203
Objective To observe the expression of pancreatic K_(ATP) channels (Kir6.2/SUR1) in rats with chronic pancreatitis and explore the intervention of nateglinide on the changes.Methods Wistar rats were induced to suffer from chronic pancreatitis and then randomized into model group, nateglinide group and control group.Then OGTT of them were observed.RT-PCR was used to detect the expression of Kir6.2 and SUR1 mRNA, and western blot to detect the expression of Kir6.2 and SUR1 proteins.Results Model rats displayed impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).The expression of Kir6.2 and SUR1 in model group decreased significantly(P<0.05), and nateglinide displayed up-reg-ulation to the expression in some degree.Conclusion The expression of pancreatic K_(ATP) channels in rats with chronic pancreatitis diminished, which might be the important mechanism of the development of pancreatogenic diabetes.Nateglinide can up-regulate the expression in some degree, which indicates that it may have latent effect of ameliorating the prognosis of patients with chronic pancreatitis.
2.Tissue reaction and injury after nitinol artificial esophagus replacement
Xianliang LIANG ; Jianhui LIANG ; Ping XUE ; Jingtai LIN ; Xing ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2013;(51):8887-8893
BACKGROUND:Previous experiment has confirmed that the nitinol artificial esophagus is an artificial succedaneum which can be used for replacing an esophagus resected and rebuilding esophageal tube.
OBJECTIVE:To observe the tissue reaction of the neo-esophagus and the adjacent organs injury contacted with the nitinol artificial esophagus after replacement.
METHODS:Eight miniature pigs were selected and modeled by resection of a 70 mm segment of the thoracic esophagus. After modeling, the nitinol artificial esophagus was inserted into the proximal and distal end of the thoracic esophagus at an insert distance of about 10 mm. After that, the nitinol artificial esophagus with polyester connecting ring was sewed into the thoracic esophagus in a manner of ful-thickness anastomosis. After operation, the pigs were subjected to feeding regulation measures to control the shedding time of the artificial esophagus. Two model pigs were sacrificed for anatomical observation at 1, 2, 3, 4 months postoperatively, respectively. The tissue reaction during the neo-esophagus formed procedure and adjacent organs injury contacted with the nitinol artificial esophagus were observed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Al pigs survived without complications such as thoracic hemorrhage, pneumothorax, pyothorax, esophageal perforation and anastomotic leakage. The experimental animals with the nitinol artificial esophagus fixed in situ had no dysphagia for eating semisolids food (Bown’SⅡ). Autopsy findings showed that there was slight membrane-like adhesion between partial pleura and lung. No hydrothorax was found. The nitinol artificial esophagus was wrapped up by the neo-esophagus. There was slight membrane-like adhesion between the neo-esophagus and the adjacent organs such as the lung, aorta and esophageal mucosa. The esophageal mucosa covered the neo-esophageal entocoele from esophageal stumps to intermedius of neo-esophagus until completely covered. Histological findings of the neo-esophagus showed that in imbed cycle of the nitinol artificial esophagus the tissue reaction showed aseprtic inflammation reaction and foreign body reaction around the implant. These tissue reactions were most severe at 1 month after operation and thereafter relieved gradual y.
3.Implementation of the undergraduate tutorial system intended for four-year medical English undergraduates
Yingli XUE ; Xiaoni ZHANG ; Mi ZHOU ; Dong LIANG
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2013;(4):404-408
Innovation of cultivation mode and concepts for medical English should be suited to the requirements of making university academically outstanding by its individualized school-running,requirements of strengthening distinguished majors as well as needs for qualified medical English graduates.Through combining undergraduate tutorial system of lower grades with undergraduate tutorial system of higher grades,continuing implementing concepts of team cooperation,strengthening holistic education concept and guiding the development of students' individual personality and academic study based on stages,tutors and tutorial team can play their central roles in the training and molding of qualified medical English undergraduates,ultimately realizing the unity of process cultivation and objective cultivation.
4.The Effect of Dexamethasone on the Chemosensitivity of Colon Carcinoma Cells to L-OHP and 5-Fu Treatment
Jinming ZHOU ; Daping ZHONG ; Qi ZHOU ; Qiuping PENG ; Feng PAN ; Ying HE ; Xue WANG ; Houjie LIANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2010;37(3):142-145
Objective: To examine the expression of glucocorticoid receptor in human colon cancinoma tis-sues and call lines and to explore the survival of colon cancer cell lines treated with dexamethasone alone or in combination with 5-Fu and L-OHP in a way of dexamethasone pretreatment or co-administration in vitro.Methods: The expression of glucocorticoid receptor was detected in 61 cases of colon cancer tissue samples and 4 types of colon cancer cell lines by immunohistochemistry. Apoptosis was detected by Hoechst33342 staining and flow cytometry. MTT assay was employed to detect the chemosensitivity of colon carcinoma cells to L-OHP and 5-Fu with dexamethasone pretreatment for 24 hours or co-administretion. Results: Positive GR expression was found in 57.3% colon cancer tissue samples and in Lovo and HCT-116 cell lines, not in HT-29 and SW-480. Apoptosis was detected in GR-expressed Lovo and HCT-116 cells at 72 hours after 1×10~(-4)mol/L Dex treatment, and the rates of apoptosis were higher than those in the control groups without Dex (P<0.01),GR-negative cells, HT-29 and SW-480 even treated with 1 × 10~(-4)mol/L Dex for 72 hours. Pretreatment and co-administration for Lovo cells with 1×10~(-4)mol/L Dex could decrease the IC50 of L-OHP from 13.7±1:1.3μg/mL to 5.9±0.6μg/mL and 4.8±0.7μg/mL, respectively. IC50 of 5-Fu was decreased from 72.2±8.1 μg/mL to 21.1±4.1μg/mL and 18.6±4.0μg/mL, respectively. Conclusion: There is expression of glucocorticoid receptor in part of colon carcinoma tissue samples and cell lines. Apoptosis does occur in GR-expressed Lovo and HCT-116 cells induced by dexamethasone in vitro. Pretreatment for 24h and co-administration with Dex can increase the chemosensitivity of Lovo cells to L-OHP and 5-Fu.
5.The difference among the depression-like behaviours induced by three widely-used stress models in rats
Li ZHANG ; Xiongzhao ZHU ; Mei BAI ; Yi ZHANG ; Shen ZHANG ; Liang XUE ; Sheng ZHOU ; Jinyao YI
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2012;21(3):212-215
Objective In order to study the difference of depression-like behaviours among three widelyused stress models in rats.Methods The new-born Spragne-Dawley rats were randomly divided into maternal deprivation(MD) group(n=27),chronic mild stress(CMS) group (n=29),dual stress(DS) group ( n=31 ) and control (C) group ( n =30) on postnatal day 1.MD rats only received maternal deprivation.CMS rats only received chronic mild stress when 10 weeks old.DS rats received both maternal deprivation and chronic mild stress.Control rats received no experimental handling.Behavior tests including forced swimming test and sucrose consumption which were carried out to evaluate rats' depression-like behaviors in the thirteenth weeks.The extend time of floating and sucrose preference ratio should be recorded in the forced swimming test and sucrose consumption test respectively to reflect the behavior of helplessness and anhedonia of rats.Results In the forced swimming test,the extend floating time of MD group( 119.30 ± 65.56) s,CMS group ( 145.00 ± 80.24) s and DS group ( 170.03 ±61.75 )s were longer than the control group(81.14 ± 52.40)s (F =11.53,P < 0.01 ).In the sucrose consumption test,the MD group(0.32 ± 0.22) had a low sucrose consumption.The comparison of the MD group and CMS group (0.43 ± 0.28 ) to the control group (0.54 ± 0.28 ) had significant differences (F =4.33,P < 0.01 ).In these four groups,no sexual difference was found in the forced swimming test and sucrose consumption test ( all P > 0.05 ).Conclusion The results suggest that MD,CMS and DS may induce some kind of depression-like behaviors in rodents such as anhedonia or the behavior of helplessness and the depression-like behaviors induced by different stresses are similar in male and female individuals.
6.Study on needle-acupointomics based on effects
Fan WANG ; Xue ZHAO ; Liang GAO ; Yangyang LIU ; Dan ZHOU ; Yi GUO
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2012;(12):1102-1104
To make further study on the mechanism of needling based on the concept of needle-acupointomics.This article aims to reveal the biologic basis and interpret the scientific methods of needling,and to optimize needling prescriptions.The article make a standardized and normalized study on key techniques in clinical therapeutic methods,for the purpose of putting scientific mechanism into the practical usage,and better serving for clinical practice.
7.The preliminary establishment and application of a new method for evaluating K-ras mutations based fluid chip
Jiatao LOU ; Yan ZHOU ; Chuanyong WU ; Jian XUE ; Shujun XU ; Xiaohui LIANG
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2013;36(8):704-707
Objective A new method for detecting K-ras mutations based liquid chip was used to evaluate K-ras mutations associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients,to direct the personalized treatment and prognosis evaluation.Methods Take the diagnosis technology research methods,the sensitivity and repeatability of the liquid chip K-ras gene mutation detection method were assessed.A total of 100 NSCLC patients from Nov 2011 to Feb 2012 in Shanghai Chest hospital were included in this study,the fresh tumor tissues were collected for DNA extraction.The 2nd exon 12 and 13 codons,containing 8 K-ras mutations occuring in high frequency were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR),followed by ligation of the PCR products to a series of special probes using ligase detection reaction (LDR),then the PCR-LDR products were analyzed by liquid chip platform.Direct sequencing was applied to compare with the detection results.Results The sensitivity of liquid chip technology detection was 10%-20%,higher than the traditional sequencing method by 1%.Average CV value was 4%-15% and showed good repeatability.5 K-ras mutations in 100 patients (5%) were detected using multiplex PCR-LDR combined fluid chip methods,including 3 Glyl2Val and 2 Gly12Asp mutations in exon 2.The 5 K-ras mutations were verified accurately by direct sequencing.Conclusions The novel detection method of K-ras mutations based PCRLDR and fluid chip shows high throughput,high sensitivity,good repeatability and the results are reliable and accurate.This method can be used to accurately identified K-ras mutations for NSCLC patients prior to their targeted therapy with TKIs.
8.Effects of gingko flavonoid on expression of NF-κBp65 and TNF-αin mice with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Qiuxiang LIN ; Dongsheng ZHOU ; Jihong BAI ; Zhiqing LIANG ; Xue ZHAO ; Xuewen WANG
Chongqing Medicine 2014;(26):3409-3411,3415
Objective To investigate the effects of different doses of gingko flavonoid on the expression of nuclear factor-κBp65 (NF-κBp65) and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α) in mice with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD) .Methods The mice mod-el of NAFLD was constructed by the high fat diet for 4 weeks .The mice were randomly divided into the control group ,high fat model group ,high ,middle and low doses of gingko flavonoid groups .High ,middle and low doses of gingko flavonoid groups were respectively gavaged with the different doses of gingko flavonoid .The normal control group and the high fat model group were ga-vaged with normal saline .After 12 weeks ,the mice were killed for taking liver tissue and detecting NF-κBp65 expressions ,and ser-um TNF-αand triacylglycerol(TG) levels were detected .Results Compared with the normal control group ,the levels of NF-κBp65 ,TNF-αand TG in the high fat model group were increased(P<0 .05) .Compared with the high fat model group ,the levels of NF-κBp65 ,TNF-αand TG in the high ,middle and low doses of gingko flavonoid groups were decreased (P<0 .05) ,moreover the higher the dose ,the more obvious the decrease .Conclusion Gingko flavonoid may play certain role in the treatment of NAFLD by reducing the generation of NF-κBp65 ,TNF-αand TG .
9.Association between ADAM33 polymorphisms and susceptibility of asthma
Weilin XUE ; Zhaoshan ZHOU ; Yanqing WANG ; Zhongqiang JI ; Xiaoyan ZHANG ; Wenhua LIANG
Chinese Journal of Immunology 2016;32(8):1099-1102
Objective:To investigate the relationship between ADAM 33 polymorphisms and susceptibility of asthma of Chinese in Qingdao.Methods: The polymorphism of ADAM33 gene, they were rs2280090, rs487377 and rs2787094, were detected with SnaPshot method.Results: There was no significant difference between asthma group and control group in genotypic frequencies.Conclusion:The study shows that the rs 2280090 , rs487377 and rs2787094 were not associated with susceptibility of asthma in Han nationality in Qingdao .
10.Antitumor efficacy of lidamycin via hepatic arterial interventional or intravenous administration in rabbit VX2 liver cancer
Zhishan XU ; Genshen ZHONG ; Shuhua HUO ; Jinsong QI ; Huichao XUE ; Yanjun ZHOU ; Liang LI
Military Medical Sciences 2015;(11):850-854
Objective To investigate the difference of effect between interventional treatments and intravenous therapy of lidamycin on VX2 rabbit liver cancer.Methods VX2 Carcinoma cells were surgically implanted into the left liver lobe of 12 New Zealand white rabbits to establish the VX2 rabbit liver tumor model.Tumor size was detected by type-B ultrasonic diagnostic instrument.The rabbits were randomly divided into two groups of six,respectively treated with the hepatic inter-ventional administration of lidamycin (LDM)(1 ml,0.05 mg/kg)under the guidance of digital subtraction angiography (DSA)(group A)and with the auricular intravenous administration of LDMat the same dose (group B).All the rabbits were sacrificed and anatomized on day 10 after treatment,whose liver tumor was fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde solution and embedded in paraffin.Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)and CD34 expression in the sample sections of tumor tissue were assessed through immunohistochemical staining.The levels of alanine transaminase (ALT)and aspartate trans-aminase(AST)were detected by Cobas 8000.Finally,the inhibition of VX2 tumor was evaluated.Results The VX2 tumor volumes were all increased at 10 day after LDMtreatment.However,the tumors in group A were smaller than those of group B (P <0.05).The results of immunohistochemistry showed that the intervention therapy of LDM could further lower the expression of CD34 and PCNA compared to group B.Conclusion Hepatic interventional administration of LDM under the guidance of DSA produces a better effect on attenuating the tumor growth than the intravenous administration of LDM.