OBJECTIVETo study the clinical effect under highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) in AIDS patients and for improving the curative effect and prognosis.

METHODSEpidemiological method was used from five aspects to describe the post-treatment clinical symptoms of 181 AIDS patients in Suizhou, and to evaluate the change of virus load and immune function of 79 AIDS patients. Data was doubly recorded by Epi Data and database was set up by SPSS 13.0 for analysis.

RESULTSThe effective powers of anomal-fever, cough, diarrhoea, lymphadenectasis, weight drop, erythra, mycotic infection were 81.39%, 85.00%, 84.62%, 81.89%, 82.86%, 66.07% and 45.45% respectively. CD4+ T lymphocyte count rose obviously after treatment, with an averag of 276 x 10(6) cells/ml (65 x 10(6)-824 x 10(6) cells/ml), an 129 x 10(6) cells/ml increase in three months and was 294 x 10(6) cells/ml (102 x 10(6)-750 x 10(6) cells/ml) in six months. The count change of CD4+ T lymphocyte between 3 months and 6 months did not show sigificant difference. The number of deaths among drug withdrawals was 14, with a case fatality rate as 29.79%; while the number of deaths among non-drug withdrawals was 3, with the case fatality rate as 2.24%.

CONCLUSIONResults through this study showed that HAART could obviously improve the clinical symptom of AIDS patients, and to increase the number of virus load. Improving the compliance could also reduce the case fatality rate.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; drug therapy ; immunology ; pathology ; virology ; Adult ; Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active ; methods ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ; drug effects ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prospective Studies ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Treatment Outcome

Objective:To investigate the inhibitory effects of Danshen injection against ovarian cancer cell proliferation induced by the interaction between platelets and cancer cells. Method:The induction of platelets on SKOV3 growth in vitro and the inhibitory effect of Danshen injection at 12，24，and 48 g·L^-1 were observed by 3-（4，5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl）-2，5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide （MTT） and cell colony formation assays. The content of transforming growth factor-β₁ （TGF-β₁） in the platelet-tumor cell interaction system and platelet supernatant and the effect of Danshen injection on TGF-β₁ secretion were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay （ELISA）. The influences of tumor cell culture supernatant on platelet aggregation and secretion and the inhibitory effect of Danshen injection were determined by microplate assay and ELISA. The effects of Danshen injection on platelet nuclear factor kappa B （NF-κB） signaling pathway were assayed by Western Blot. Result:Compared with the blank group， the platelet induction group exhibited significantly elevated absorbance at A₅₇₀ （P<0.01）， while the absorbance at A₅₇₀ in the platelet + Danshen injection group was significantly lower than that in the platelet induction group （P<0.01）. The comparison with the Danshen injection group revealed that the cell proliferation inhibitory rate in the platelet + Danshen injection group at the same dose was more significant （P<0.01）. The number of colonies in the platelet induction group was obviously increased in contrast to that in the blank group（P<0.05）， while the number of colonies in the platelet + Danshen injection group was significantly lower than that in the platelet induction group（P<0.05，P<0.01）. As demonstrated by comparison with the blank group， TGF-β₁ content in the supernatant of the platelet induction group rose remarkably（P<0.01）， whereas that in the platelet + Danshen injection group declined（P<0.01）. Compared with the Danshen injection （24 g·L^-1） group， the platelet + Danshen injection group displayed more obvious inhibition（P<0.01）. Compared with the blank group， Danshen injection significantly reduced the TGF-β₁ content in platelet supernatant（P<0.05，P<0.01）. There was no significant change in the content of TGF-β₁ in SKOV3 supernatant treated with Danshen injection. The platelet aggregation， thromboxane A₂（TXB₂）， and serotonin （5-HT） secretion in the SKOV3 cell supernatant induction group were significantly increased as compared with those in the blank group （P<0.01）， while such indexes in the cell supernatant induction + Danshen injection group were obviously decreased （P<0.01）. Compared with the Danshen injection （24 g·L^-1） group， the cell supernatant induction + Danshen injection group displayed more obvious inhibition at the same dose（P<0.01）. Compared with the blank group， the platelet induction group exhibited obviously up-regulated phosphorylated TGF-β-activated kinase-1 （TAK-1） and NF-κB， but down-regulated phosphorylated inhibitory protein of NF-κB （IκB）（P<0.01）， which however were significantly reversed in the platelet + Danshen injection group（P<0.01）. Conclusion:Danshen injection affect the proliferation of SKOV3 cells by inhibiting their interaction with platelets， which may be related to the inhibited secretion of TGF-β₁.

UHPLC-QTOF-MS was applied to non-targeted metabolomics study of mice infected with K. pneumoniae ATCC^® BAA 2146 to discover potential biomarkers and metabolic pathways that are associated with sepsis. Fifty-eight metabolites were identified by principal components analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), which was combined with variable projection importance (VIP) and nonparametric test. Eighteen of the 58 metabolites were further found to be involved in 8 metabolic pathways, including nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism, pyrimidine metabolism, vitamin B6 metabolism, taurine and hypotaurine metabolism, arginine and proline metabolism, alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism, D-glutamine and D-glutamate metabolism and glycerophospholipid metabolism.

Improving the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) holds important clinical and social significance. Immunotherapy is an emerging therapy approach for cancers, which mainly include immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), immune vaccine and adoptive cell therapy. ICI have achieved good clinical translation in treatment of metastatic CRC with deficient DNA mismatch repair/high microsatellite instability (dMMR/MSI-H) status. The application of some ICI, such as PD-1 inhibitors pembrolizumab and nivolumab, in this type patients have been approved by the FDA. In addition,numerous positive results are acquired in clinical trials of neoadjuvant therapy for resectable dMMR/MSI-H CRC. These results greatly bolstered the exploration enthusiasm of CRC immunotherapy. However, the proficient DNA mismatch repair/microsatellite stability (pMMR/MSS) CRC, which accounting for the vast majority in related patients, hardly benefit from ICI therapy. Various combination strategies, mainly including ICI combined with traditional chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or targeted therapy, have been attempted to alter the “cold tumors” microenvironment characteristics of pMMR/MSS CRC in clinical trials, whereas no breakthrough results were reached. Theoretically, tumor vaccines are ideal choice to break down the barrier of insufficient immune infiltration in solid tumors. However, the outcomes of related clinical trials in CRC patents are not satisfactory, and partially due to the weak specificity of the applied tumor-associated antigens. Clinical studies of adoptive cell therapy in CRC are also actively underway. The favorable efficacy of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, cytokine-induced killer (CIK) and dendritic cell-CIK in CRC have been confirmed, while the CAR-T and TCR-T therapies need more exploration based on screening more suitable antigens and optimizing engineering design. In this review, we made a summary based on the mainline of clinical studies related to diverse immunotherapies, so as to clarify the progress of CRC immunotherapy and provide bases for exploration of better treatment options.

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are major outer membrane components of Gram-negative bacteria. Unlike most Gram-negative bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii can still survive and acquire polymyxin resistance after complete loss of LPS. Previous studies of LPS-deficient Acinetobacter baumannii mostly focused on LPS-deficient strains induced by polymyxin, whose background was complex and unstable. To investigate LPS loss-mediated polymyxin resistant-Acinetobacter baumannii, this study constructed a stable and clear background LPS-deficient strain by knocking out lpxC gene in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 with CIRSPR/Cas9, and then studied the phenotypic changes of the lpxC-deficient strain including morphology, growth rate, antibiotic susceptibility, virulence, membrane permeability, and membrane potential. Animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care and Welfare Committee Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, CAMS and PUMC (approval number: IMB-20240119D₉). The results indicated that the lpxC gene of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 was successfully knocked out. After losing the lpxC, the strain underwent the morphological change from rod-shaped to spherical. Furthermore, it leads to reduced growth rate, enhanced membrane permeability, decreased membrane potential, lower virulence, and increased antibiotic susceptibility to β-lactams, quinolones, aminoglycosides, macrolides, glycopeptides. The lpxC deletion results in significant changes in membrane homeostasis and adaptability of Acinetobacter baumannii. Understanding the phenotypic changes of colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii mediated by LPS loss is useful for exploring the resistance mechanism of Acinetobacter baumannii and developing new therapeutic strategies.