Objective: To investigate the epidemiological characteristics and the causes of two outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infection in our city. Methods: The epidemiological investigation was carried out on the outbreaks and the pharyngeal swabs were collected to do the pathophysiologic examination by using real-time PCR. Hexon gene of adenovirus was amplified by PCR. Then the positive products were sequenced and BLAST searching was done in GenBank. Results: The clinical symptoms of the two cases were high fever, sore throat and cough, etc, while the main signs were pharyngeal congestion and tonsil swelling; 32 students of a class in Yunxing primary school had respiratory infection related symptoms, of which the incidence rate was 55%; while 12 of 38 students in a class of Fangcun primary school were infected. All these students were on school in the same class, and the incidence was aggregate without proliferation. The duration of the disease was about 5 days and the prognosis was good, no death occurred. The positive result of real-time PCR showed adenovirus. BLAST search analysis on hexon gene showed AdV14. Conclusions According to epidemiological investigation and laboratory test results, the cause of these two outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infection was adenovirus type 14.

A comparative observation about histological and histochemical study were made onthe preservating methods of local ischemic kidney of dogs.The methods of this exp-eriment were divided into five groups:A.Local hypothermia;B.Hypothermic perfu-sion solution 500ml,4℃,containing Procaine 450 mg and Heparin 100 mg,infusedinto renal artery;C.Hypothermic perfusion solution 500ml,4℃,containing 20% Ma-nniton 32ml,25% MgSO_4 0.36 ml,Heparin 100 ml,infused into renal artery;D.Localhypothermia and heparin 30 mg injected into the same vessel.E.Local room tem-perature.The specimens were taken from the kidneys of the experimental dogs atvarious period after treated with every method.The results were as follows;A,D and E group presented irreversible histological changes within 4 hoursaftertreatment.Four hours later,the reaction of SDH,ATPase,AlPase werenegative.It suggested that the kidney damage was serious,as well as expressed thatthe effect of these preservating methods for ischemic kidney are not satisfactory.In B group,the histological and histochemical alteration is very light and almostreversible,during 60 days after treatment.In C group,hypothermic perfusionsolution containing Mannitol,MgSO_4 etc either during experiment or follow observa-tion for 60 days,no histological and histochemical alterations were found.It indica-ted that this method is an ideal perservating technique for ischemic kidney.

Objective: To screen and verify the differential expression profiles of long non-coding RNAs(LncRNAs) in peripheral blood of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM), to identify the potential molecular specific markers of early T2DM. Methods: The blood samples of 4 type 2 diabetic patients and 4 normal control subjects were collected for microarray analysis. Then six candidate markers of LncRNAs screened from the differential expression profile were tested by qRT-PCR among the subjects (80 cases in the T2DM group and 50 cases in the control group). The possibility of these LncRNAs as molecular diagnostic markers was analyzed, and finally two of them were carried out by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results: Compared with control subjects, there were differentially expressed 133 LncRNAs in type 2 diabetic patients, among which 5 were up-regulated with the maximum up-regulated fold 3.29 and 128 were down-regulated with the maximum down-regulated fold 8.99. Six down-regulated LncRNAs were selected for validation and revealed a similar result to that of microarray.The expressions of two LncRNAs(NONHSAT160746 and NONHSAT140069) in peripheral blood of diabetic patients were significantly lower than those of control subjects (P<0.01). The areas under the ROC curve of the two LncRNAs were 0.734 and 0.703, respectively(P<0.01). Conclusion LncRNAs NONHSAT160746 and LncRNAs NONHSAT140069 are the potential molecular specific markers for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.