1.Attention disorder and white matter structure changes in schizophrenia
Xuran SHEN ; Rongrong ZHANG ; Xiaohui PENG ; Qianqian WEI ; Shiping XIE
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2021;30(9):844-849
Attention is an essential cognitive function which was use to perceive the external world, and it is the basis of all cognitive activities.Other cognitive functions such as working memory, executive function, information processing speed and so on, are also adversely affected in hypoprosexia or hyperfocusing state.Patients with schizophrenia have severe attention disorder, which makes patients unable to successfully complete the task of work or study, thus reduce the quality of life.Attention disorder exists throughout the whole course of this disease, and there is no specific drug for it.In recent years, antipsychotic medications have widespread application, but it has not shown up significantly improvement of attention disorder, worse still, its side effects will exacerbate the disease, which results in the impairment of the patients' ability to learn and explore the novelties.Neuroimaging markers of attention disorder in schizophrenia are the focus of current researches.White matter fibers are important pathways that connect attention networks and maintain the three-dimensional structure of the brain.Previous studies have suggested that attention disorder may be related to abnormalities of white matter fibers connecting various encephalic regions.In particular, abnormalities in the integrity of white matter, such as corpus callosum, cingulum bundle, superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, have been reported to be significantly associated with attention disorder in patients with schizophrenia.In this study, the relationship between attention disorder and white matter structure in patients with schizophrenia is reviewed through diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique.
2.Chemical analysis of urinary calculi in pediatric patients exposed to infant formula milk powder contaminated with melamine
Li XU ; Xuran LI ; Xilai LI ; Lunjuan YANG ; Zhi CHEN ; Jun YIN ; Lijun TANG ; Xiaoyan LIN ; Lijuan WANG ; Yu SUN ; Hongzhan XIAO ; Ning SUN ; Weiping ZHANG ; Minglei LI ; Ying SHEN
Chinese Journal of Urology 2009;30(3):188-190
Objective To identify the main compositions of urinary calculi found in pediatric patients who had the history of exposing to infant formula milk powder contaminated with melamine and try to find out the urinary calculus formation mechanism in these patients.Methods Sixteen patients were studied.These infant patients with urinary calculi due to consumption of melamine tainted milk powder had been admitted to hospital from June,2008 to August,2008.The components of the urinary calculi were separated by liquid chromatograph,and identified by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry,electron bombard ionization mass spectrometry,Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,and quantitatively determined by liquid chromatograph.Results The main chemical components of the urinary ealculi were melamine and uric acid.The molar ratio of uric acid tO melamine was 2:1.Conclusion The main urinary calculus formation mechanism in infant patients who exposed to the inrant formula milk powder contaminated with melamine is melamine and uric acid formed indissoluble complex.
3.Allosteric inhibition reveals SHP2-mediated tumor immunosuppression in colon cancer by single-cell transcriptomics.
Jian GAO ; Zhigui WU ; Mingxia ZHAO ; Rui ZHANG ; Manru LI ; Dongdong SUN ; Haibo CHENG ; Xianjia QI ; Yuxian SHEN ; Qiang XU ; Hongqi CHEN ; Dijun CHEN ; Yang SUN
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2022;12(1):149-166
Colorectal cancer (CRC), a malignant tumor worldwide consists of microsatellite instability (MSI) and stable (MSS) phenotypes. Although SHP2 is a hopeful target for cancer therapy, its relationship with innate immunosuppression remains elusive. To address that, single-cell RNA sequencing was performed to explore the role of SHP2 in all cell types of tumor microenvironment (TME) from murine MC38 xenografts. Intratumoral cells were found to be functionally heterogeneous and responded significantly to SHP099, a SHP2 allosteric inhibitor. The malignant evolution of tumor cells was remarkably arrested by SHP099. Mechanistically, STING-TBK1-IRF3-mediated type I interferon signaling was highly activated by SHP099 in infiltrated myeloid cells. Notably, CRC patients with MSS phenotype exhibited greater macrophage infiltration and more potent SHP2 phosphorylation in CD68+ macrophages than MSI-high phenotypes, suggesting the potential role of macrophagic SHP2 in TME. Collectively, our data reveals a mechanism of innate immunosuppression mediated by SHP2, suggesting that SHP2 is a promising target for colon cancer immunotherapy.