To improve the inulinase application in biotechnology, the characteristic of inulinase from Kluyveromyces marxianus YX01 was investigated. The inu gene of K. marxianus YX01 was transformed into Pichiapastoris GS115 host cells with molecular biology techniques. Then we achieved the heterologous expression of exo-inulinase whose molecular mass was about 86.0 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Furthermore, six His-tag was added to the inulinase and a two-step method was applied in the purification of inulinase, including concentration via dialysis by polyethylene glycol 20 000 and metal Ni-NTA Agarose affinity adsorption. The purification factor of purified protein was 3.6 and the recovery rate of enzyme activity was 33.1%. We characterized the purified inulinase. The optimum temperature was 60 degrees C and pH was 4.62. When inulin and sucrose were used as substrates, the K(m) and V(max) values were 80.53 g/L vs 4.49 g/(L x min) and 183.10 g/L vs 20.20 g/(L x min), respectively. In addition, metal ions including Mn2+, Ca2+, Cu2+, Zn2+ and Fe2+ exhibited different degrees of inhibition on the enzyme activity, and Cu2+, Zn2+ and Fe2+ exhibited the most significant inhibition. Our findings might lay a good foundation for industrial application of inulinase.
Glycoside Hydrolases ; chemistry ; genetics ; Industrial Microbiology ; Inulin ; Kluyveromyces ; enzymology ; genetics ; Pichia ; Sucrose ; Temperature

Objective To establish an assessment scale for hospital stroke patients with Delphi method,by using it to help the nurses evaluate patients' existing and potential problems,and to provide foundations for specific assessment on different patient groups.Methods The first-level indicators and second-level indicators were developed on the basis of the Omaha system.210 nursing records of hospital stroke patients were then combined with to form concrete items.Totally 22 nursing specialists were interviewed with two rounds in order to further collect the opinions and suggestions about the assessment scale.Results 4 first-level indicators,35 second-level indicators and a number of items were included in the assessment scale.Conclusions The assessment scale for hospital stroke patients established by Delphi method comprehensively shows the environmental,physical,mental and behavioral condition in hospital,and it could be used as a tool to assess the hospital stroke patients.

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of pulmonary hypertension(PH) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and study the related risk factors.Methods Patients with stable COPD enrolled in this study,undergoing examinations including full pulmonary function tests (PFT),6-minute walk distance (6MWD),Exercise Oxyhemoglobin,Saint.George's respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ) and transthoracic echocardiography.Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (sPAP) ≥ 36 mmHg(1 mmHg =0.133 kPa) was defined as PH.Results A total of 251 patients were finally evaluable in this study.The frequency of PH was 55.4％ (139/251) in patients with stable COPD.Significant differences were seen between patients with PH and without PH respectively in the following factors (mean P ＜0.05):proportion of age ≥ 60 years (69.8％ vs 57.1％),forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1)(％ predicted) [(47.5±8.2)％ vs(61.2±10.2)％ and(49.8±7.9)％ vs(66.4±11.3)％],sPAP [(41.9 ± 9.1) mmHg vs (28.2 ± 3.2) mmHg],exercise oxyhemoglobin desaturation [(-5.5 ± 3.2) ％ vs(-2.2 ± 1.2) ％],6MWD [(316.0 ± 55.2) m vs(390.0 ±75.2) m].The following variables were negatively correlated with sPAP:6MWD (r =-0.330,P =0.003),FEV1 (％ predicted) (r =-0.210,P =0.024 and r =-0.130,P =0.012,respectively).The following variables were positively correlated with sPAP:age(r =0.560,P =0.031),exercise oxyhemoglobin desaturation ＞ 3％ (r =0.540,P =0.001).Logistic regression test has showed that age≥ 60 years,exercise oxygen desaturation ＞ 3％,FEV1 (％ predicted) ＜ 50％,6MWD ＜ 350 m were risk factors for PH in COPD.Conclusion The incidence of PH in COPD increases with age,yet the performance of lung function and the activity of endurance decrease in elder patients.Sixty years or older,exercise oxygen desaturation ＞ 3％,FEV1 (％ predicted) ＜ 50％,6MWD ＜ 350 m are risk factors of PH in COPD.Echocardiography or right heart catheterization when needed should be considered to confirm the diagnosis.

Objective To investigate the impact of high intra-abdominal pressure on intracranial pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury and discuss the clinical significance of abdominal decom-pression. Methods Intra-abdominal pressure and intracranial pressure of 15 patients with abdominal trauma and brain injury were observed to discuss changes of intracranial pressure after abdominal decom-pression. Results After abdominal decompression, all patients got lower intracranial pressure, with decrease of (15.2±3.6) mm Hg. Conclusion Intra-abdominal pressure does affect intracranial pres-sure for patients with abdominal trauma and brain injury. Abdominal decompression may be effective for high intracranial pressure.

Objective:To understand the effect of a new tracheal tube fixation device in the "double fixation" of oral tracheal intubation for critically ill patients in adult emergency department.Methods:A retrospective analysis of patients with oral tracheal intubation admitted to our EICU from January 2016 to June 2017 was performed using traditional tape and inch band fixation as a control group; the experience of treatment from July 2017 to December 2018 for patients with oral tracheal intubation, the new double-fixation method of tracheal tube fixation device was used as the observation group. The degree of displacement, oral cleanliness, facial skin allergies and injuries, and comfort of the two groups of patients was compared.Results:The rate of tracheal displacement in the experimental group was mildly 11.2% (11/98), moderately 5.1% (5/98), and the control group was mildly 24.2% (15/62), moderately 14.5% (9/62) and severe 6.5% (4/62). The incidence of facial skin allergy and skin damage was 6.1% (6/98), 0, and the control group was 24.2% (15/62), 11.3% (7/62), the difference was statistically significant ( Z value was -4.021, χ2 value was 24.48, P<0.05). The comfort score of the test group was (1.05±1.01) points, which was significantly higher than (2.10±1.71) points of the control group ( t value was 4.920, P<0.01). Conclusions:The new type of tracheal tube fixation device "dual fixation" for critically ill patients with mechanical ventilation through oral endotracheal intubation is visually beautiful, and has good firmness and comfort. It can effectively reduce the occurrence of adverse events and has good application value.

OBJECTIVETo prepare cinnamic acid derivatives-g-CTS and to study its antioxidation activity.

METHODThe ability of catching oxygen of the products and raw material were determined through two methods, Marklund method and trace pyrogallic acid method, with autoxidation reaction of pyrogallol as the oxygen anion source.

RESULTThe antioxidation activities of all products were better than the raw material.

CONCLUSIONCinnamic acid derivatives-g-CTS is suitable as the O2-* -capture agent.

Antioxidants ; chemical synthesis ; chemistry ; Caffeic Acids ; chemical synthesis ; chemistry ; Cinnamates ; chemical synthesis ; chemistry ; Coumaric Acids ; chemical synthesis ; chemistry ; Molecular Structure ; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared

Objectives To assess the relationship between amniotic fluid erythropoietin(EPO)and neona-tal adverse outcome in fetal growth restriction(FGR)pregnancy labored during 28-36 gestational weeks.To explore the clinical application in timing of delivery. Methods The retrospective research had recruited 87 patients with single pregnancy complicated FGR,of which the gestational weeks range from 28 weeks to 36 weeks. All subjects were collected from amniotic fluid at cesarean section or within a week of cesarean section. Amniotic fluid EPO were detected according to the classical definition. We categorized EPO < 27 IU/L as an normal state,whereasE-PO≥27 IU/L as an abnormal state.The relationship between amniotic fluid EPO with biophysical profile,the flow velocity waveform/blood gas parameters of the umbilical artery,and the neonatal adverse outcome were observed. Results For FGR pregnant women who chose 28-36 weeks for delivery,the incidence of neonatal adverse out-comes was significantly higher in the amniotic fluid EPO increased group than that in normal concentration group (χ2= 9.49,P = 0.002). Pearson analysis showed that amniotic fluid EPO concentration was negatively correlated with umbilical artery pH(P<0.001,r=-0.908)and base excess(P<0.001,r=-0.624).However,it was pos-itively correlated with PCO2(P<0.001,r=0.631),whereas there was no significant correlation between amniotic fluid EPO concentration and PO2(P=0.068,r=-0.197).In addition,neither biophysical profile nor flow velocity waveform has difference in amniotic fluid EPO concentration. Conclusions The abnormal increased amniotic fluid EPO in FGR pregnant women who delivered before 36 gestational weeks were closely related to the adverse out-come of the newborn.The amniotic fluid EPO is expected to be an additional indicator of fetal hypoxia,which can help determine the time of birth.

Status epilepticus is a neurological emergency with unknown pathogenesis, controversial treatment options, and poor prognosis. In recent years, with the development of 18F-flurodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ( 18F-FDG PET) imaging technology, further studies on status epilepticus have been carried out from the perspective of molecular metabolism. This article reviews the current role of 18F-FDG PET in patients with status epilepticus on etiology, disease activity, electric activity, location of epileptogenic foci, and prognosis evaluation.

Objective: To explore the impact of welding operations on the health status of workers with low working age, and provide a basis for occupational health risk assessment for workers of low working age. Methods: Used the method of cluster sampling to randomly selected workers from an automobile manufacturing plant in Guangzhou as research subjects: 982 workers with welding posts of 1 year ≤working age ≤5 years were welding groups, 707 workers with simple exposure noise of 1 year ≤working age ≤5 years were assembly groups, and 717 workers in pre-job medical examinations were pre-job groups from June 2017 to September 2018. Then conducted occupational health checks on all subjects, investigated and detected the occupational hazards in welding posts and assembly posts. Results: There was no statistical difference between the noise over-standard rate of welding posts' (59.3%, 16/27) and the assembly posts' (47.4%, 9/19) (P>0.05) . The over-standard rate of welding fume, manganese and its inorganic compounds in welding posts was 11.11% (3/27) . The results of occupational health examination showed that the detection rate of disease or abnormal of the welding group was 78.4% (770/982) higher than 70.2% (496/707) in the assembly group and 53.0% (380/717) in the pre-job group (the value of 2 were 14.92 and 122.37, respectively, P<0.05) . The rate of hearing loss of the assembly group and the welding group were 14.7% (104/707) and 19.3% (190/982) , respectively, which was higher than that of the pre-job group (10.5%, 75/717) , and the hearing loss rate gradually increased with the increase of working age (the value of linear-by-linear association were 12.04 and 44.67, respectively, P<0.01) . Compared with the hearing loss rate of each working age of the assembly group, the hearing loss rate of each working age of the welding group was higher, and when the working age was 3 years, the risk of hearing loss in the welding group was 2.70 times that of the assembly group (P<0.01) . The rate of pulmonary dysfunction in the welding group was 19.2% (189/982) higher than that in the pre-job group (12.6%, 90/717) , and it increased with the increase of working age (the value of linear-by-linear association was 15.97, P<0.01) . Conclusion Welding work seriously damages the health of workers with low working age, increases the hearing loss of workers and the occurrence of pulmonary dysfunction; manganese and its compounds increases noise-induced damage to the hearing system.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the combined effect of noise and other occupational hazards on hearing impairment and electrocardiograph(ECG) of workers in automobile manufacturing enterprises. METHODS: A judgment sampling method was used to select 3 434 workers as study subjects from an automobile manufacture enterprise. According to the exposure to different types of occupational hazardous factors, they were divided into noise series group, noise dust group, noise welding dust group, noise benzene series group, noise nitrogen oxide group and control group, with 716, 693, 1 540, 45, 195 and 245 cases in each group, respectively. The subjects were examined with pure-tone hearing test and ECG. RESULTS: The total rate of high frequency hearing loss was 11.2%(385/3 434), and high frequency hearing loss was the main type of hearing loss among workers in each group. The simple high-frequency hearing loss rates of noise group, noise dust group, noise welding dust group, noise benzene series group, noise nitrogen oxide group and the control group were 10.3%, 11.5%, 12.3%, 26.7%, 10.3% and 4.1% respectively, and the rate of total hearing loss were 13.7%, 14.6%, 14.6%, 31.1%, 16.9% and 6.5% respectively. Compared with the control group, the rate of simple high-frequency hearing loss and total hearing loss were higher in the other 5 groups(P<0.005). The rate of high-frequency hearing loss in noise group was lower than that in noise benzene series group(P<0.005). The rate of arrhythmia was 20.9%(717/3 434). Arrhythmia was the main type of ECG abnormality in all groups. The rates of arrhythmia in noise group, noise dust group, noise welding dust group, noise benzene series group, noise nitrogen oxide group and control group were 16.9%, 16.6%, 27.9%, 17.8%, 13.8% and 6.9%, respectively. The rate of arrhythmia in noise welding dust group was higher than that in noise group(P<0.005). CONCLUSION: The combined effect of noise and benzene series increases the risk of high-frequency hearing loss in workers. The combined effect of noise and welding dust increases the risk of arrhythmia in workers.