Cytological characteristics of a case of adult T-cell leukemia were studied by detection of morphologic, cytochemical and immunological methods. The leukemic cells found in the peripheral blood belonged to mature T-lymphocytes and presented the changes of polymorphous nucleus which had diagnostic significance in association with clinical features and positive ATLA antibody. The mechanism of formation of cytological characteristics of adult T-cell leukemia is also discussed.

Inhibition of proliferation and induction of differentiation by 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamm D3 of human promyelocytic leukemic cell line (HL-60)are reported. At the concentration range of 109 to 106 mol/ L, 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 had effect in inhibiting cell proliferation with time-dependent and dose-dependent manner. Strong inhibition of colony cell growth (74.8?11.1%)was observed at 107 mol/L concentration. It was also found that HL-60 cells could be induced into monocytes by 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3at the same concentrations,which were demonstrated by cytochemistry and specific antigen of cell surface and NBT reduction test. In addition, the relationship between proliferation and differentiation is discussed according to the result of flow cytometry.

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According to the base complementation, the principle antisense technology is the sequence specific binding of complementary antisense nucleic acids or their chemical modification to the nucleic acids in cells, resulting in the suppression or prevention of gene translation. For the treatment of cancer, a lot of antisense drugs have been designed, which target the genes involved in the pathogenesis of cancer. And some of them have been in clinical trials. The author reviewed the progress of the clinical trials of these antisense drugs.

Insulin resistance and islet ? cell dysfunction are well-identified pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. The generation of a great quantity of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) impairs the function of mitochondria and induces oxidative stress during metabolic process of hyperglycaemia and hyperlipemia. Oxidative stress blocks insulin action pathway and induces insulin resistance; inhibit expression of insulin gene; decrease insulin secretion and impair ? cell function. In this paper, the mechanism of the ROS generation, insulin resistance and ? cell dysfunction induced by oxidative stress are reviewed.

Objective To study the factors which affect the functional restoration of the elbow for adults with supracondylar or intercondylar fractures of the humerus treated with open reduction and internal fixation. Methods 22 patients with supracondylar or intercondylar fractures of the humerus were treated with open reduction and internal fixation from January, 1999 to December, 2004. They were followed up for an average of 30 months and complete clinical data were kept. The function of the elbow was evaluated with the Mayo elbow performance index. The relationship between the results and the factors —initial time of postoperative rehabilitation, fracture classification, operative approach and interval from injury to operation —were analyzed with cumulative logistic regression model of SAS software V8.2 (SAS institute, Cary, North Carolina). Results Of the 22 cases, 7 were excellent, 9 good, 5 fair and 1 poor. The excellent and good rates were 72.7%. And the odds ratio estimates of the 4 factors were 0.786, 0.299(B/A)0.221(C/A), 1.038, 0.197 respectively. Conclusions The initial time of postoperative rehabilitation, the fracture classification and the interval from injury to operation affect the functional restoration whereas the operative approach does not. Early operation, anatomical reduction, stable fixation and early rehabilitation will help improve the functional restoration.

OBJECTIVE To study the classification and distribution of the ?-lactamases produced by Escherichia coli in diabetic patients.METHODS To detect the ?-lactamases produced by E.coli in diabetic patients with a multi-disk synergy test.RESULTS Forty-nine strains of 60 strains in our study produced the ?-lactamases with total positive rate of 81.67%,From them 5 strains were producing penicillinases,17 strains producing BSBLs(28.33%),and 27 strains were producing ESBLs(45.00%),no carbapenem-hydrolyzing ?-lactamases were detected.In 27 strains producing ESBLs,the sensitivities to the ceftazidime,aztreonam and cefotaxime were similar.CONCLUSIONS The types of ?-lactamases produced by E.coli in diabetic patients are mainly BSBLs and ESBLs,without carbapenem-hydrolyzing ?-lactamases;the sensitivities to the ceftazidime,aztreonam and cefotaxime are similar.

Objective To study treatment method that improve the cronic perapical periodonitis. Methods To fill the tooth channal of chronic perapical periodonitis with a paste of doxycycline and tinidazol, or gutta percha point. Results Among 206 cases of teeth those succeesful rates of two methods were 97.09 % and 98.06 % after 2 years clinical observe. Conclusion To fill the tooth channal of cronic perapical periodonitis with a paste of doxycycline and tinidazol to treat the chronic perapical periodonitis,it shortens the treatment,simplifies operation,makes application more extensive and its nearly period effect is the same as that of using gutta percha point to fill the tooth.

In order to probe into the mechanism of low-dose chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of leukemia, we studied the effects of low concentrations (l-40ng/ml) of daunorubicin (DNR) on proliferation and differentiation of human promyelocytic leukemia cell line (HL-60). 1 ng/ml DNR could inhibit the proliferation of the cells, but no induction of differentiation was found. DNR at more than 5 ng/ml had both cytotoxicity and induction of differentiation. Through the count of survival cells, [3H]TdR and [3H]UR incorporation, cloning efficiency, cell morphology and NBT reduction test, it is concluded that low-dose DNR could have inhibitory and cytotoxic effects on the cells, and its inducing differentiation was not important.