Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Polycythemia ; etiology ; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive ; complications

Cyclosporine ; pharmacokinetics ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Treatment Outcome

To research the association between primary progressive pterygium and tear film.
●METHODS: Totally 60 cases of primary progressive pterygium from September 2012 to June 2013 in our hospital were enrolled. The pterygium eye was for observation group and the contralateral eye as the control group. The differences of eye symptoms, tear film break-up time ( BUT ), Schirmer Ⅰ test ( S Ⅰ t ), corneal fluorescein staining (FL), tear ferning test (TFT) and the conjunctival impression cytology ( ClC) were compared between two groups.
●RESULTS: The eyes in observation group had higher symptoms score, FL score, grades of conjunctival squamous metaplasia, percentage of abnormal tear ferning, but had lower BUT and density of goblet cell, the differences had statistically significance (P<0. 05); Similar S Ⅰ t results were presented in the two groups, the difference had no statistically significance (P>0. 05).
● CONCLUSlON: Primary progressive pterygium can cause a decrease in tear film stability, which in turn lead to some dry eye symptoms such as dry feeling and burning sensation, and its mechanism may be caused by multi-factors, such as density change of goblet cell and the tear fluid dynamics.

PBL is a modern model of classroom teaching. We have introduced it into the teaching of Microbiology. As a result, the students’ learning abilities have been raised to a higher level, and their learning autonomy and achievement have been improved. The combination of PBL method with traditional teaching methods achieved a good effect.

At present, fingerprint has become an effective mean recognized internationally in controlling the quality of Chinese materia medica (CMM) or natural products. In recent years, there are some exploratory studies on the fingerprint of natural product, while only the injection of CMM has taken the fingerprint as one of the quality criteria. Other fingerprint studies on natural products were all staying in the researching phase. There are many reasons for the bottleneck of natural product fingerprint research, such as the component complexity of natural product. There are always a lot of impurity peaks in the analytic result of fingerprint, while it is very difficult to dissociate these impurity peaks by forthcoming analytic methods. Therefore we propose to construct the "interval fingerprint". The studies and analyses on the construction program, approach, model, and application problem of the "interval fingerprint" have been carried out with Shen'an Granule as the example.

Female ; Fibromatosis, Abdominal ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; surgery ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Radiography ; Rupture, Spontaneous ; surgery

Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; etiology ; therapy ; Gap Junctions ; Stem Cell Transplantation ; adverse effects

OBJECTIVETo investigate the genome structure variation (SV) related with keloid using the whole-gene resequencing technology.

METHODSWe studied a keloid pedigree containing 4 generation of 27 people. 5 people (4 cases of keloid patients, and 1 case of normal) were selected to extract the genomic DNA. Then the whole-gene resequencing technique was used to check the variations.

RESULTSThrough database comparison and variation annotation analysis, we obtained 2 SVs associated with keloid formation. We used DAVID software to do the gene ontology and pathway analysis. We found a 168 bp inversion in gene tetraspanin 8 (TSPAN8) in all keloid patients, which contained the forth exon of TSPAN8.

CONCLUSIONSThere was no report about SVs related to keloid. In this study, we found 2 SVs associated with keloid, especially TSPAN8. The tumor cells express the TSPAN8 can up-regulate the vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors, promote the adjacent fibroblasts secrete matrix metalloproteinases and uridylyl phosphate adenosine. So we hypothesis that the inversion of the forth exon in TSPAN8 may lead to the signal transduction disorder in the keloid patients. This study was a preliminary research. It needs a further study containing large sample to confirm.

Base Sequence ; Female ; Humans ; Keloid ; genetics ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Pedigree ; Sequence Analysis ; methods ; Tetraspanins ; genetics

Objective To detect hs‐cTnT and cTnI for exploring their application value in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction(AMI) .Methods From October 2015 to March 2016 ,100 patients with AMI in the cardiology department of our hospital were selected as the observation group(AMI group) and contemporaneous 100 adults undergoing physical examination as the con‐trol group .The chemiluminescence immunoassay was used to detect the levels of hs‐cTnT and cTnI .The positive rate ,sensitivity and specificity of the hs‐cTnT and cTnI in the AMI group for early diagnosis of AMI were compared .Results The level of hs‐cT‐nT in the AMI group was (4 .89 ± 1 .83)ng/mL ,which was higher than that in the healthy population by 99 percentile value 0 .014 ng/mL ;the cTnI level in the AMI group was (28 .82 ± 12 .32)ng/mL ,which was higher than that in the healthy population by the upper limit of normal reference value 0 .4 ng/mL ,both of them were significantly higher than those in the control group ( P<0 .05) ,the positive rate and sensitivity of hs‐cTnT was both 92 .0% ,which was significantly higher than 79 .0% of cTnI both(P<0 .05) ,the specificity of cTnI was 96 .0% ,which was significantly higher than 76 .0% of hs‐cTnT(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The pos‐itive rate and the sensitivity of hs‐cTnT are high ,the specificity of cTnI is high ,their joint detection has an important significance for the early diagnosis of AMI .