Adenoid cystic carcinoma is regarded as one of the most common malignant tumors in parotid gland. The local control rate and long term survival rate of salivary gland adenoid cystic carcinoma, which tends to spread along the perinerve and metastasis distantly, are not good. This review focused on the advances in the treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma of parotid gland.

Objective:To explore the relationship between defense style and personality traits of college students.Method:196 college student were assessed with DSQ, EPQ and 16 PF.Results:Students with higher extraversion and liveliness were more inclined to adopt mature defense, while students higher on neuroticism, vigilance, apprehension, tension were inclined to adopt immature or middle defense. Students with higher psychoticism, sensitivity adoppted immature defense to cope emergency, students with higher social boldness and openness to change were more likely to adopt mature or middle defense.Conclusion:Personality trait is one of the factors having influence on defense style.

Objective:To investigate the role of Smad7 in the Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) migration and proliferation and its clinical significance.Methods:Through transfecting pcDNA3.1 (+)-Smad7 or siRNA Smad7 to overexpress or knockdown the Smad7 expression in HCC cell lines HepG2 and Huh7.The MTT assays were used to test the role of Smad7 in proliferation of HCC cells.Transwell and wound-healing assays were used to detect the effect of Smad7 on migratory ability in both tow cell lines.RT-PCR was used to test the Smad7 expression in 9 clinical HCC patients' specimens.Results:As the results,overexpression of Smad7 significantly inhibited the proliferation of cells compared with the control group,while knockdown Smad7 promoted the proliferation.At the same time,overexpression of Smad7 could inhibit the migratory ability of HCC cells compared with the control group,while knockdown smad7 could accelerate this ability.The expression of Smad7 in cancer tissue was significantly lower compared with normal mucosa tissue adjacent to cancer.Conclusions:Smad7 is a kind of anti-progressive molecule in HCC.

It is difficult to diagnose and treat local recurrence of the rectal cancer after operation. The early diagnosis is crucial for the recurrence of rectal cancer after operation. MSCT perfusion imaging is valuable in the diagnosis of recurrence of rectal cancer after operation. The application of MSCT perfusion imaging following rectal cancer operation was reviewed in this article.

Objective To analyze the diagnostic value of serum tumor markers in bone metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods The clinical data and follow-up data of 160 patients with NSCLC from March 2013 to September 2015 in Tangshan People's Hospital were retrospectively analyzed.According to the status of bone metastasis,the patients were divided into the observation group with bone metastasis (n =114) and the control group without bone metastasis (n =46).The positive rates and concentrations of 4 tumor markers including carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA),carbohydrate antigen CA125,CA19-9 and Ferritin were analyzed and compared.And their sensitivities and specificities to the diagnosis of NSCLC bone metastasis were analyzed.The Youden index was calculated to capture the performance of the diagnostic test.Results The concentrations of CEA,CA125,CA19-9 and Ferritin in the observation group were (19.74 ±6.71) μg/L,(45.62 ± 19.53) kU/L,(35.89 ± 15.66) kU/L and (334.02 ± 79.43) μg/L respectively,which were higher than those in the control group [(2.36 ± 0.92) μg/L,(14.37 ± 5.43) kU/L,(15.31 ±7.22) kU/L,(122.58 ± 69.46) μg/L],and the differences were statistically significant (t =7.200,P ＜0.001;t=7.180,P＜0.001;t =6.032,P ＜0.001;t=11.152,P＜0.001).The positive rates of CEA,CA125,CA19-9 and Ferritin in the observation group were 78.95％,68.42％,52.63％ and 73.68％ respectively,which were higher than those in the control group (8.70％,4.35％,4.35％ and 13.04％),and the differences were statistically significant (x2 =66.746,P ＜ 0.001;x2=53.822 P ＜ 0.001;x2 =32.193,P ＜0.001;x2 =48.975,P ＜ 0.001).The sensitivities of CEA,CA125,CA19-9 and Ferritin were 78.94％,68.42％,52.63％ and 73.68％ respectively,and the specificities of them were 91.30％,95.65％,95.65％ and 86.96％ respectively.The Youden indexes were 70.24％,64.07％,48.28％ and 60.64％ respectively.The sensitivity and specificity of multi-factorial combination were 99.17％ and 72.63％,and the Youden index was 71.80％.Conclusion Four tumor markers including CEA,CA125,CA19-9 and Ferritin were correlated with NSCLC,and combined detection has better performance of dignosis than single factor.

An increasing number of studies have recently indicated the important effects of gut microbes on various functions of the central nervous system.However, the underlying mechanisms by which gut microbiota regulate brain functions and behavioral phenotypes remain largely unknown. We therefore used isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)-based quantitative proteomic analysis to obtain proteomic profiles of the hippocampus in germ-free (GF), colonized GF, and specific pathogen-free (SPF) mice. We then integrated the resulting proteomic data with previously reported mRNA microarray data, to further explore the effects of gut microbes on host brain functions. We identified that 61 proteins were upregulated and 242 proteins were downregulated in GF mice compared with SPF mice. Of these, 124 proteins were significantly restored following gut microbiota colonization. Bioinformatic analysis of these significant proteins indicated that the glucocorticoid receptor signaling pathway and inflammation-related pathways were the most enriched disrupted pathways. This study provides new insights into the pathological mechanisms of gut microbiota-regulated diseases.

Objective:To investigate clinical efficacy of narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) irradiation around vitiliginous lesions in the treatment of refractory vitiligo.Methods:A total of 126 patients with refractory vitiligo were retrospectively collected from Department of Dermatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University from June 2019 to November 2020. The patients were treated with NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions after partial covering (perilesional irradiation group) , or conventional NB-UVB irradiation (conventional irradiation group) , twice a week for 3 consecutive months. After the treatment, the efficacy was evaluated. By using the propensity score method, the lesions in the 2 groups were matched at a ratio of 1∶1. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses and stratified analysis were used to analyze the clinical efficacy of NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions in the treatment of refractory vitiligo.Results:Totally, there were 420 skin lesions in the perilesional irradiation group and 257 in the conventional irradiation group, and 190 lesions were enrolled into each group by propensity-score matching. Before and after the matching, the response rates were both significantly higher in the perilesional irradiation group (71.9%, 67.9%, respectively) than in the conventional irradiation group (31.9%, 30.0%, respectively, both P < 0.05) . After the propensity-score matching, both univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses showed significant differences in the efficacy between the perilesional irradiation group and conventional irradiation group ( OR = 4.9, 95% CI: 3.2, 7.6, P < 0.001; OR = 12.0, 95% CI: 6.5, 22.3, P < 0.001, respectively) . Vitiliginous lesions were classified according to hair types and irradiation methods: before the matching, there were 187 vitiliginous lesions with white hairs treated with the conventional irradiation and 246 treated with the perilesional irradiation, and there were 70 vitiliginous lesions with black hairs treated with the conventional irradiation and 174 treated with the perilesional irradiation; after the matching, 140 vitiliginous lesions with white hairs and 50 with black hairs were enrolled into each radiation group. Stratified analysis showed that the response rates of vitiliginous lesions with white hairs were significantly higher in the perilesional irradiation group (77.6%, 72.8%, respectively) than in the conventional irradiation group before and after the matching (19.3%, 20.7%, respectively, both P < 0.01) ; for the vitiliginous lesions with black hairs, there was no significant difference in the response rate between the 2 groups ( P = 0.908) . Conclusion:The efficacy of NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions is superior to the conventional irradiation in the treatment of refractory vitiligo, especially vitiliginous lesions with white hairs.

Humans ; Nasal Polyps/epidemiology* ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Rhinosinusitis ; Asthma/epidemiology* ; Sinusitis/epidemiology* ; Chronic Disease

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are involved in all human physiological systems where they are responsible for transducing extracellular signals into cells. GPCRs signal in response to a diverse array of stimuli including light, hormones, and lipids, where these signals affect downstream cascades to impact both health and disease states. Yet, despite their importance as therapeutic targets, detailed molecular structures of only 30 GPCRs have been determined to date. A key challenge to their structure determination is adequate protein expression. Here we report the quantification of protein expression in an insect cell expression system for all 826 human GPCRs using two different fusion constructs. Expression characteristics are analyzed in aggregate and among each of the five distinct subfamilies. These data can be used to identify trends related to GPCR expression between different fusion constructs and between different GPCR families, and to prioritize lead candidates for future structure determination feasibility.
Animals ; Computational Biology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Gene Expression ; Humans ; Plasmids ; genetics ; metabolism ; Protein Domains ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1 ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled ; classification ; genetics ; metabolism ; Receptors, Odorant ; metabolism ; Receptors, Purinergic P1 ; genetics ; metabolism ; Sf9 Cells ; Spodoptera