In recent years, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been found to be one of the key factors of post transcriptional gene regulation, which are involved in occurrence and development of many diseases. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become an effective alternative treatment approaches for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Peritoneal fibrosis is one of the most important factors leading patients to withdraw from long-term PD, hence restricts the application and development of PD. MicroRNAs are closely related to the development of peritoneal fibrosis. This article reviews the role of miRNAs in the pathogenesis and treatment of peritoneal fibrosis.

Objective In this study, we explored the mechanism of anti-bone resorption of RGD-insulin using osteoclast-like cells (OLCs) from giant cell tumor of bone as an in vitro model. Methods The function of bone resorption was observed and the staining for tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAPase) was identified. The carbonic anhydrase Ⅱ (CAⅡ) gene expression, apoptosis and the adhesion of OLC that treated by RGD-insulin and echistatin were determined by in situ hybridization, TUNEL staining and adhesion test, respectively. Results OLCs were TRAP positive and had bone resorptive function. After OLCs were treated with 10 -5, 10 -6, 10 -7mol/L RGD-insulin and echistatin respectively, the numbers of TRAP-positive multinucleated cells were (179?3), (238?11), (351?10) per well that treated with echistatin and (229?20), (222?21), (265?17) per well that treat with RGD-insulin.The expression of CAⅡ mRNA decreased, the number of OLCs apoptosis increased in a dose-dependent manner (P

Humans ; Molecular Epidemiology ; Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections ; epidemiology ; virology ; Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human ; genetics

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Objective To investigate immunoadsorption in the prevention of hyperacute rejection in highly sensitized recipients of renal allografts.Methods Immunoadsorption treatment was performed on 10 patients whose panel reactive antigen (PRA) was more than 40 %. The adverse effect and hyperacute rejection were observed.Results Two cases of acute rejection of renal allografts were found in highly sensitized recipients and reversed by the therapy of immunoadsorption and adjusting immuno-suppressive drugs.Conclusion Immunoadsorption treatment could effectively and safely prevent highly sensitized recipients from hyperacute rejection post-transplantation.

Objective Due to the incompleteness and complexity of fault diagnosis for power transformers, a comprehensive rough-fuzzy scheme for solving fault diagnosis problems is presented. Fuzzy set theory is used both for representation of incipient faults' indications and producing a fuzzy granulation of the feature space. Rough set theory is used to obtain dependency rules that model indicative regions in the granulated feature space. The fuzzy membership functions corresponding to the indicative regions, modelled by rules, are stored as cases. Results Diagnostic conclusions are made using a similarity measure based on these membership functions. Each case involves only a reduced number of relevant features making this scheme suitable for fault diagnosis. Conclusion Superiority of this method in terms of classification accuracy and case generation is demonstrated.

BACKGROUND:Tissue-engineered bone, as an emerging method, is used to repair bone defects, but it is difficult to be used widely because of no nutrient metabolism of implants. Pre-vascularized tissue-engineered bone research is performed for this limitation. Forward-looking and procedural vascular construction prior to artificial grafting is perspective to supply the nutrient metabolism of implants.
OBJECTIVE:To analyze the research results and developmental tendency of pre-vascularized bone engineering in vitro using a multilevel analysis.
METHOD:Literature search was performed in CNKI database for Chinese literatures and PubMed database for English literatures from 2000 to 2012. The key words included“tissue-engineered bone, vascularization, implant, osteoblasts, endothelial cel s, co-culture”in Chinese, and“bone engineering, endothelial cel s, osteoblast, implant, cel s co-culture”in English. A review addressing pre-vascularized tissue-engineered bone was completed based on retrieved literature classified according to bone physiological studies, in vitro experimental research and material research.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Total y 60 articles were included in result analysis. Studied have documented that microvascular regeneration in normal bone tissue has an important role in osteogenesis regulation. Current bone tissue engineering research is to simulate this physiological process of vascular regeneration in the human body, and lots of in vitro studies are designed to complete this angiogenic process in bone tissue engineering. It is confirmed that in vitro pre-vascular work is used for bone tissue engineering, especial y for in vivo survival and ossification of tissue-engineered bone, pointing out the developmental direction for the clinical application of tissue-engineered bone.

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of polyp of vocal cord. Methods The clinical data of 187 cases were retrospectively analyzed. Results According to the 187 cases, 164/187 cases were cured, 21 cases had obvious improvement, 2 cases have no effect, general effective rate is 98.9%. Conclusion Suspension laryngoscope were visual field widen and visual, every kind of surgical instruments binding equipments improve operation accuracy and reduce complication to acquire better clinical therapeutic effects.

OBJECTIVE: To study the in vitro anti-tumor activity of tungstophosphate compound(K6[P2W18O62]?14H2O) with Dawson structure.METHODS: MCF-7 cells were treated with different concentration of K6[P2W18O62]?14H2O,then its IC50 was measured by MTT assay;flow cytometry was applied to analyze cell cycle and apoptosis by computing the ratio of MCF-7 cells in different phase and its apoptotic ratio.Cell growth and viability were measured by trypan blue staining and cell counting by computing the ratio of living cells.The synergetic anti-tumor activity of tungstophosphate compound(K6[P2W18O62]?14H2O) and pharmorubicin was studied.RESULTS: K6[P2W18O62]?14H2O inhibited MCF-7 cell proliferation with IC50 of(33.7?3.2) ?mol?L-1,it reduced the proportions of MCF-7 cells at S phase and G1 phase,with the apoptotic rate at 3.7%～29.2% within 48 h.The percentage of living cells was 95.37%～76.78% at 48 h.As compared with pharmorubicin alone,the addition of K6[P2W18O62]?14H2O to pharmorubicin showed a significantly higher inhibitory action on proliferation of MCF-7 cells(P

Target of the treatment for advanced pancreatic carcinoma is always palliative without prolongation of survival time almost, therefore the aims of treatment should be concentrated on improving the quality of life and alleviateing the disease-related symptoms. We do not call for the treatment and medicines that can incur obvious adverse reaction with limited effectiveness. Interventional therapy provides superexcellent short term efficacy with alleviating the disease-related symptoms significantly, and without severe side effects and thus coincides to the principle of the treatment for advanced pancreatic carcinoma. The surpassing advantages provide popular recommendation for this very kind of therapy in the recent years.