Objective To study the toxic effect of glufosinate-ammonium on the liver. Methods SD rats aged 6 weeks with weight of 140-160 g were randomly divided into four groups, 20 (10 males and 10 females) in each group. The rats were treated for three months by gavaging different doses of glufosinate-ammonium (0, 100, 250, 500 mg/kg bw) for the experimental group and 2% Tween-80 solution for the control group. All the rats were weighted once a week. The activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the serum were determined at the end of the study. Liver weight was measured and liver index was calculated. Pathological examination was performed. Results Treated with high-dose of glufosinate-ammonium, a retarded growth of rats was seen, the activity of ALT, AST and ALP increased significantly in both male and female rats, the liver index increased significantly and pathological changes of the liver were also observed compared with the control. No significant changes were found in the rats treated with moderate and low dose compared with the control. Conclusion Glufosinate-ammonium may produce a toxic effect on the liver of rat when the exposed dose is more than 500 mg/kg.

Purpose To assess the diagnostic value of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG PET/CT scan in patients with lung cancer. Materials and Methods Computer-based retrieval was performed on Medline, PubMed, EMbase, Wanfang data, CNKI and the Cochrane Library to search reports on diagnostic value of lung cancer with 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG PET/CT scan. The quality of included studies was evaluated according to quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS), and MetaDisc software was adopted to conduct meta-analysis. The pooled specificity, sensitivity, and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were calculated. The heterogeneity was tested. The summary receiving operating characteristic (SROC) curve was drawn, and the areas under the curve (AUC) as well as Q* were measured. Results Ten studies were included. Meta-analysis showed pooled sensitivity was 0.88, pooled specificity was 0.56, DOR was 9.10, AUC was 0.8102, Q*was 0.7448 for FDG group;pooled sensitivity was 0.79, pooled specificity was 0.78, DOR was 12.50, AUC was 0.8440, Q*was 0.7756 for FLT group. Conclusion Both 18F-FDG and 18F-FLT have well diagnostic value for lung cancer, but the specificity of 18F-FLT is higher than that of 18F-FDG in the diagnosis of lung cancer.

Objective To investigate the correlations of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with fibrosis and fibroblast activation protein (FAP) score in pancreatic cancer .Methods Eighteen patients with pathologically confirmed pancreatic cancer were per‐formed conventional MR imaging ,DWI examinations .ADCs were measured with region of interest method on a “Single slice” .The wax blocks of 18 patients with pancreatic cancer were received Masson staining and FAP immunohistochemical staining .The correla‐tions of ADC with levels of fibrosis and FAP scores of pancreatic cancer were assessed by Pearson correlation analysis .Results The mild negative correlation between ADC value of cancerous foci and fibrosis was not significant (r= -0 .459 ,P=0 .056) .Significant negative correlation was found between ADC values of moderate and high differentiation cancerous foci and fibrosis (r= -0 .564 ,P=0 .044) .Significant negative correlation was found between ADC value and FAP score (r= -0 .497 , P=0 .036) .Conclusion The negative correlations are found between ADC and fibrosis ,FAP score of pancreatic cancer .DWI will be helpful to infer the pathologi‐cal characteristics .

Objective To analyze the correlation between anxiety symptoms and abnormal brain function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)under long-term chronic hy-poxia.Methods Twenty-one patients with COPD complicated with anxiety were prospectively select-ed as COPD group,and 26 healthy individuals matched for gender and age were selected as control group.Both groups underwent high-resolution 3D-T1-weighted imaging(3D-T1WI),T2-fluid-attenua-ted inversion recovery(T2-FLAIR),and blood oxygen level dependent(BOLD)sequence examina-tion.DPARSF and SPM8 software were used to analyze the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations(ALFF)in the brain of the two groups.Results In the COPD group,the ALFF value in the left parahippocampal gyrus-cingulate gyrus increased,and the ALFF value in the right superior frontal gy-rus decreased(P＜0.05).Pearson correlation analysis found that there was a negative correlation be-tween the ALFF value in the right superior frontal gyrus and the anxiety score(r=-0.485,P=0.03).Conclusion Chronic hypoxic patients with COPD have brain functional impairment in the right superior frontal gyrus,and the degree of impairment is positively correlated with anxiety symp-toms.There may also be compensatory enhancement of brain function activity in the parahippocampal gyrus-cingulate gyrus.

Objective To analyze the correlation between anxiety symptoms and abnormal brain function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)under long-term chronic hy-poxia.Methods Twenty-one patients with COPD complicated with anxiety were prospectively select-ed as COPD group,and 26 healthy individuals matched for gender and age were selected as control group.Both groups underwent high-resolution 3D-T1-weighted imaging(3D-T1WI),T2-fluid-attenua-ted inversion recovery(T2-FLAIR),and blood oxygen level dependent(BOLD)sequence examina-tion.DPARSF and SPM8 software were used to analyze the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations(ALFF)in the brain of the two groups.Results In the COPD group,the ALFF value in the left parahippocampal gyrus-cingulate gyrus increased,and the ALFF value in the right superior frontal gy-rus decreased(P＜0.05).Pearson correlation analysis found that there was a negative correlation be-tween the ALFF value in the right superior frontal gyrus and the anxiety score(r=-0.485,P=0.03).Conclusion Chronic hypoxic patients with COPD have brain functional impairment in the right superior frontal gyrus,and the degree of impairment is positively correlated with anxiety symp-toms.There may also be compensatory enhancement of brain function activity in the parahippocampal gyrus-cingulate gyrus.