Objective To investigate the roles of serum visfatin and VE-cadherin in the pathogenesis of psoriasis vulgaris and their clinical significance. Methods Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the serum levels of visfatin and VE-cadherin in 78 patients with psoriasis vulgaris before and after treatment and in 30 normal human controls. The relationship between the two parameters and disease activity was evaluated. Results The serum levels of visfatin and VE-cadherin were significantly higher in untreated patients with psoriasis than in the normal controls (I = 10.53, 10.16, both P< 0.01), and in patients with active psoriasis than in those with stable psoriasis (t = 12.47, 13.11, both P< 0.01). The treatment caused a marked decrease in the serum levels of visfatin and VE-cadherin in patients. The serum level of visfatin was positively associated with the level of VE-cadherin and PASI scores (r = 0.58, 0.64, P < 0.01) in patients with psoriasis. Conclusion Visfatin and VE-cadherin may be used as parameters for evaluating disease activity of psoriasis vulgaris.

Objective To investigate the prevalence of depression and its influencing factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)patients with long-term treatment of insulin pumps.Methods A total of 120 T2DM patients receiving long-term insulin pump treatment were enrolled,and 180 T2DM patients who received intensive insulin injection without pump in the same period were enrolled as controls.We assessed the depression in the two groups using Zung’s self rating scale.Results The depression scores of 32 patients with insulin pump were more than 0.50,and the depression prevalence of these patients was 26.67%,which was significantly lower than 48.89% in the control group (P < 0.05 ). The prevalence of moderate or severe depression was 3.33% and 1.67%, respectively,in the insulin pump group,which were considerably lower than the prevalence of 1 5.56% and 9.44%in the control group (P <0.05).Duration of DM and the number of complications might be independent risk factors of depression in DM patients with insulin pump.Conclusion Long-term use of insulin pump may effectively improve depressive state in T2DM patients through its optimal effect on maintaining blood glucose levels.

The content of bicarbonate ( HCO-3 ) and carbonate ( CO2-3 ) ions in groundwater and lake water reflects a broad set of carbon cycling reactions associated with decomposition or synthesis of organic compounds with mineral dissolution or precipitation, which indicates the local geochemical environment. However, the content of HCO-3 and CO2-3 changes easily under the influence of pH, temperature, atmosphere pressure in the process of sampling, transportation and storage, so it has been a worldwide problem to determine the real content of HCO-3 and CO2-3 ions in groundwater and lake water. This article proposed a new way to solve the problem by fast field detection of HCO-3 and CO2-3 ions through the use of pH electrode combined with carbon dioxide electrode. Studies showed in the base solution of pH=4. 8 ± 0. 1, the detection range of HCO-3 ion was 0. 027-570 mg/L and that of CO2-3 was 1. 25 ×10-8-39. 7 mg/L. In the most case, the coexisting ions and weak acid ( K+, Na+, Mg2+, Cl-, SO2-4 <100 mg/L;HSO-3 , NO-2 , HOAc<50 mg/L) did not interfere with the analysis. The method was validated for real water samples and the recoveries were in the range of 95. 2%-99. 2% with the relative standard deviations (RSDs) of 2. 6%-3. 7%. Compared with the acid-base titration method, the accuracy of this method had proved to be good. However, the method could be affected by temperature, so the standard solution and samples should be measured at the same temperature. Above all, this method is suitable for fast field analysis for HCO-3 and CO2-3 ions in the nature water as it is sensitive, fast, economical, and the electrodes are easy to carry and operate. It has been successfully applied in the determination of HCO-3 and CO2-3 in groundwater and lake water in Qinghai Province. Experiment showed that the pH of the groundwater samples from Haidong district was 6 . 4-7 . 4 , with 234-4096 mg/L HCO-3 and 0. 16-1. 89 mg/L CO2-3 . The pH of the lake water samples was about 8. 7, with 1. 36-1. 86 g/L HCO-3 and 32. 3-43. 9 mg/L CO2-3 , which was consistent with the previous results.

Objective To investigate the biological effects of EB encoding latent membrane protein 1(LMP1) on Tet-on-LMP1 HNE2 nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line.Methods Proliferation of Tet-onLMP1 HNE2 cell induced by DOX at the different time points was detected by Western blot assay,DNA content assay,cell growth curves assay,colonogenesis assay in the soft agar and MTT colorimetric method.Results With the increasing LMP1 protein expression,Tet-on-LMP1 HNE2 progressed rapidly from G0/G1 to S phase,cells grew faster(P

Here we report the clinical,radiological and neuropathological findings of a patient with tumor-like inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system.The patient was a 51-year-old man with a four-month history of inflammatory pseudotumor and no other significant medical history,who presented to our hospital recurrent relapse numbness and weakness of his right extremities,dysarthria and memory deterioration.Brain magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) showed mass focal lesion in white matter of left parietal lobes.The biopsy showed numerous infiltrating macrophages and lymphocytes within the perivascular.The patient responded clinically to corticosteroid and intravenous immunoglobulin(IVIG) therapy.According to the results of the biopsy and the MRI,a diagnosis of inflammatory pseu-dotumor of the central nervous system was made.The vascular dysfunction may act in the pathogenesis of inflammatory pseudotumor of the central nervous system.

Background and purpose:Bladder cancer is the most common urological tumor, and its pathogen-esis is still not fully understood. The study was aimed to observe the expressions of key genes in many tumor-associated signaling pathways in normal bladder tissue and bladder carcinoma, and to provide further evidence for the subsequent study of bladder cancer recurrence and metastasis.Methods:Twenty-seven cases of bladder cancer specimens were col-lected, and normal bladder tissues and bladder cancer tissues were distinguished by frozen section. Then, the expressions of 84 genes of cancer-related signaling pathways in bladder cancer tissues and normal bladder tissues were screened by Cancer Pathway Finder PCR Array produced by QIAGEN company.Results:Compared with the normal bladder tissues, the bladder carcinoma tissues had 8 up-regulated genes and 19 down-regulated genes. In this study, the impact of epithe-lial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) signaling pathway was selected as a research direction in which theGSC,KRT14,DSP were up-regulated,SNAI2,SNAI3 were down-regulated. ThereforeGSC,KRT14,DSP,SNAI2 andSNAI3 were chosen as target genes, and verified by qRT-PCR in many examples. The result showed that the expressions ofGSC gene in bladder cancer tissues were up-regulated, but with no statistical significance;KRT14,DSP expressions in bladder cancer were higher than those in normal bladder tissues (P<0.05);SNAI2,SNAI3 expressions in bladder cancer were lower than those in normal bladder tissues (P<0.05), andSNAI3 showed the most obvious expression differences.Conclusion:KRT14,DSP andSNAI3 may play an important role in bladder cancer’s occurrence, development and metastasis.

Objective To observe the influence of the clinical pathway management intervention on medical service behaviors.Methods The clinical cases data in a grade A class 3 hospital of Zhangjiakou City,Hebei Province during 2011-2013 were retrospectively analyzed.The influence of implementing the clinical pathway management on the diagnosis results,medical records writing quality,clinical medication,operation,hospitalization time,medical costs,assisted examination items selection were observed and analyzed.Results The admission and discharge diagnosis coincidence rate and preoperative and postoperative diagnostic coincidence rate of 3 diseases entities in the two groups were 100%,the difference had no statistical significance (P>0.05);the medical record grade-A rate in the implementing clinical pathway group was significantly higher than that in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the medical record grade-B rate was significantly lower than that in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05);the antibacterial drugs cost and drugs proportion in the implementing clinical pathway group were significantly lower than those in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the medication proportion within the directory in the implementing clinical pathway group was significantly higher than that in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05);the preoperative preparation time in the implementating clinical pathway group was less than that in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05),the grade-A healing rate had no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05);the average hospitalization time,total costs,drug costs,laboratory fee and examination fee in the implementing clinical pathway group were lower than those in the non-implementing clinical pathway group,the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05);the operation fee,healthy material fee and nursing fee had no statistically significant difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion Implementing the clinical pathway can standardize the doctor′s diagnosis and treatment behaviors and makes the medical work to develop to be more favorable for patients.

Objective To investigate the expression and significance of ADAMDEC1 in glioma.Methods We prospectively observed the expression of ADAMDEC1 in 77 glioma patients,of which 28 cases were grade Ⅳ glioma,26 were grade Ⅲ glioma (high-grade glioma);of which 23 cases were Grade Ⅱ glioma,5 were grade Ⅰ glioma (low-grade glioma).For 10 cases in the control group,brain tissue samples were collected from internal decompression patients with heavy traumatic brain injury.The expression of ADAMDEC1 in glioma tissue was detected immunohistochemistry,RT-PCR,and Western blot.With follow-up survey we explored the relationship between the survival time and the expression of ADAMDEC1 in the patients with high-grade gliomas and low-grade gliomas.Results Compared with the low-grade glioma group and the control group,qPCR,immunohistochemistry and Western blotting all showed that the protein and mRNA levels of ADAMDEC1 in high-grade glioma group were significantly increased,while ADAMDEC1 was expressed little in low-grade glioma group and not expressed in control group (P ＜ 0.05).The survey results showed that the survival time of high-grade glioma patients was significantly shorter than low-grade glioma patients;however,the expression level of ADAMDEC1 in the highgrade glioma tissue was significantly higher than in low-grade glioma tissue (x2=5.031,P＜0.05).Conclusion The expression of ADAMDEC1 is closely related to the malignant degree of glioma cells and the prognosis of glioma patients.Therefore,ADAMDEC1 can be used as an index to evaluate the malignance degree of glioma and the prognosis of glioma.

Objective To investigate cortactin expression in malignant colorectal tissues and corresponding adjacent non-cancerous colon tissues,precancerous lesions (adenomatous polyps) and the relationship between the expression of cortactin and cell division in colorectal cancer cells.Methods The expression of cortactin was detected by immunohistochemistry in colorectal cancer,colorectal adenomatous polyp (precancerous lesions) and colorectal tissues adjacent to adenocarcinomas (normal tissues).Kaplan-Meier method was employed to compare the survival between the groups.Cortactin expression and cell division were detected by Western blot and immunofluorescence in SW-620 colon cancer cells treated with cortactin siRNA.Results The positive expression rate of cortactin was significantly higher in colorectal cancer tissues than in adenomatous polyp tissues and pericarcinomatous normal tissues.Overexpression of cortactin in colorectal cancer tissues was correlated with poor differentiation (P ＜ 0.01),lymph node metastasis (P =0.006),and TNM stage (P =0.022).The 5 year survival rate of the group of negative/weak positive expression of eortactin was significantly higher than the group of strong positive expression of cortactin.CTTN gene amplification in colorectal cancer tissues was obvious.Cortactin siRNA induction caused a lower cortactin protein expression in colorectal cancer cells.Conclusions It is suggested that the excessive expression of cortactin contributes to the growth of cancer cells in colorectal cancer.

Objective To investigate the risk and value of the dissection of bursectomy in T2 gastric cancer. Methods A total of 86 T2 gastric cancer patients were divided into dissection of bursectomy group (46 cases) and non-dissection of bursectomy group (40 cases) according to the random number table method. The age, Borrman type, tumor location, degree of differentiation, vascular tumor thrombus, operation type, lymph nodes metastasis, number of dissected lymph nodes, tumor size, blood loss during operation, operation time and postoperative complications were observed. The patients were followed up for 1 year, and the local recurrence, metastasis and survive were compared between 2 groups. Results There were no statistical differences in age, Borrman type, tumor location, degree of differentiation, vascular tumor thrombus, operation type, lymph nodes metastasis, number of dissected lymph nodes, tumor size, blood loss during operation and postoperative complications (P>0.05). No metastasis was found in anterior layer of transverse colon and pancreatic capsule in 2 groups. The operation time in dissection of bursectomy group was significantly longer than that in non- dissection of bursectomy group: (169.13 ± 37.94) min vs. (147.45 ± 30.27) min, and there was statistical difference (P<0.05). The patients were followed up for 1 year, and there was no local recurrence in 2 groups. There was 1 case with liver metastasis in dissection of bursectomy group, and 1 case with bony metastasis in non- dissection of bursectomy group. There was no death in 2 groups. Conclusions The dissection of bursectomy in T2 gastric cancer could be abandoned, in order to reduce the operation time, blood loss during operation, and postoperative complications.