Objective To study the clinical and MRI features of central pontine myelinolysis after liver transplantation.Methods 3 cases of orthotopic liver transplantation patients,displaying unconsciousness,drowsiness,reduced muscle strength of both lower extremities 3 to 21 days after the operation respectively,went through MRI scan in 2 days.Results MRI showed that symmetric long T1 and T2 signals,high-signal-intensity DWI and low-signal-intensity ADC were found in central pontine region.The cerebral cortex was involved in 2 cases,and abscess in basal ganglia appeared in 1 case.MRI examination showed that 2 cases had decreased lesion range,clear boundary and equal-signal-intensity DWI 35 days and 2 months respectively after.Conclusion MRI is valuable for the diagnosis of the patient with central pontine myelinolysis after liver transplantation.

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease with various etiologic factors.Asthma is believed as a result of interaction between gene variation and environmental factors.Asthma increased rapidly worldwide in recent 40 years, air pollutants are believed to be the important triggers, crossover design and multi-pollutant models were used in the further studies.Although some efforts had been made in the mechanism of asthma triggers, they were limited to the lab studies.Studies in asthma related SNP and its interaction with air pollutants will be a revised method in mechanism researches.Based on epidemiological studies, in vivo and in vitro studies, the biological effects and mechanisms of air pollutants on asthma were discussed and evaluated in this paper.

To elucidate the relationship between WT1 expression and differentiation of leukemia cells and the role of WT1 gene in differentiation of leukemia cells, HL 60 and K562 cell lines were induced for 5 days by all trans retinoic acid(ATRA).Then the degree of differentiation and WT1 expression of cell lines were determined by NBT reduction assay and RT PCR respectively. The resultsshowed that only differentiation of HL 60 cells but no K562 cells could be induced by ATRA. When HL 60 cells were induced to differentiate to granulocytes by ATRA, the expression of WT1 decreased markedly during differentiation. However, WT1 transcripts were not significantly altered in K562 cells in which differentiation wasn't found. It suggested that WT1 gene expression may relate to the differentiation of leukemia cells.

Objective To investigate the effect of low intensity microwave electromagnetic fields (EMF) on energy metabolism of cerebral cortical neurons of postnatal rats. Methods The cultured neurons were exposed to low intensity 900 MHz continuous microwave EMF (SAR=0.38-3.22 mW/g) 2 hours a day for 4 to 6 consecutive days. The activity of cytochrome oxidase(CCO) was taken as the index for energy metabolism level. Results The results of cytochemistry showed that compared to the sham-exposed, a significant decrease of cytochrome oxidase activity in exposed neurons(0.38-3.22 mW/g P

Objective To study the advantage of magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) in diagnosis of complications following liver transplantation.Methods The MRI appearances were analyzed retrospectively in seventy-eight patients with postoperative complications after liver transplantation which was confirmed by operation,hepatic biopsy,angiography and cholangiography.Results The symptoms of skin and sclera jaundice,fever and belly pain were found in sixty-four patients.Liver function was abnormal in laboratory tests.Fourteen were non-symptom with normal liver function.By analyzing the MRI images,the results were found including hepatic portal vein anastomosis stenosis(n=21),hepatic arterial anastomosis stenosis(n=10),inferior vena cava anastomosis stenosis(n=1),bile duct anastomosis stenosis(n=15),bile duct non-anastomosis stenosis(n=5),transplant rejection(n=17),hepatic carcinoma recurrence(n=9).Conclusion MRI can be revealed hepatic vessels and bile ducts stenosis and dilations;it's the best device in diagnosis of complications after liver transplantation.

Objective To establish a RP-HPLC method for the determination of encapsulation efficiency (EE) and medicine loading (ML) in β-elemene-loaded Nano Polymeric Micelles; To study its release characteristic in vitro. Methods DSPE-PEG2000 was used as carrier to prepare medicine-loaded micelles. EE and ML were determined by petroleum ether extraction method, and its release characteristic in vitro was studied by dialysis method. Results The average EE and ML ofβ-elemene-loaded Nano Polymeric Micelles were 89.47%and 8.33%, respectively. Its release characteristic was slow. Conclusion The method for EE and ML determination is simple and accurate, and the prepared micelles have the property of sustained release.

Objective To investigate the survival, differentiation and action of neural stem cell transplanted into striatum of Parkinson disease rat model. Methods Neural stem cells were isolated and cultured. The character of self-renewing was confirmed by technique of single cell clone culture. The ability of multi-directional differentiation and specific antigen-nestin was showed by immunocytochemistry(ICC). PD rat models were established, and the DAPI-labelled neural stem cells were transplanted into striatum. The 6-HHDA induced rotary behavior was measured, distribution and migration of the cell were checked by fluoresce activating. ICC and HPLC are used to see its differentiation and action of secrete neurotransmitter dopamine(DA) and it’s metabolites. Results The cultured stem cell express nestin and have the ability of self-renewing and multi-directional differentiation. 6-HHDA induced rotation decreased after transplantation of NSC into the PD rat striatum(P

In the present study, the effect of fibroblast-mediated IL-2 gene therapy on immune and hematopoietic reconstitution was observed after syngeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in the mice which had received high-dose chemotherapy. The NK activity , LAK activity and the proliferation of BMT were augmented significantly , while there were no effects on the formation of CFU-GM, CFU-MK and CFU-E of bone marrow after IL-2 gene therapy. The results suggested that fibroblast-mediated IL-2 gene therapy can accelerate and prompt the process of immune reconstitution, then enchance the antitumor effect and reduce the complication such as infection after BMT. The experiment provide basis for the application of IL-2 gene therapy in BMT in the future.

In the present study, we prepared cationic liposomes encapsulated IL-2 DNA or IL-6 DNA with reverse-phase evaporation to investigate their efficiency in mediating gene transfer. After transfection with IL-2 DNA liposome or IL-6 DNA liposome, the supernatants of NIH3T3 cell contained high levels of IL-2 or IL-6. The peritoneal cells from the mice injected i.p. of IL-2 DNA or IL-6 DNA liposome 10 days later could also be detected to secrete IL-2 or IL-6. The B16F10 melanoma cells from tumor-bearing mice which were injected intratumorally of IL-2 DNA or IL-6 DNA liposome exhibited resistant to G418 and secreted high levels of IL-2 or IL-6. The results show that the liposome can mediate cytokine gene transfer efficiently in vitro and in vivo.

In the present study, the effects of G-CSF gene therapy was investigated on the recovery of murine hematopoietic suppression induced by high dose of cyclophosphomide (Cy) . The results showed that G-CSF gene therapy could slow down the Cy-induced decreasing of peripheral WBCs and platelets, and accerelate their recovery.It also could increase the CFU-GM, CFU - MK, CFU-S derived from the splenocyte and bone marrow cells in the chemotherapy-treated mice. The data demonstrated that fibroblast-mediated G-CSF gene therapy could significantlyreduce the hematopoietic damage to less extent, and accerelate hematopoietic recovery after chemotherapy.