Terpenoids constitute a chemically diverse family of naturally occuring compounds with pharmaceutical significance, such as artemisinin and taxin. They are synthesized in many kinds of microorganisms and plants with very low yield. Metabolic engineering, modifying metabolic pathways of terpenoids-synthesized cells by recombinant DNA techniques, has been developed and applied to improve the production of terpenoids, as well as create a novel biosynthesis pathway of terpenoids in terpenoid-free organisms. The biosynthetic pathway of terpenoids was sumed up, and recent progress of metabolic engineering aiming at raising content of terpenoids in microorganisms and plants was described.

Objective Through the application of recombinant human Ⅱ tumor necrosis factor-Fc function protein (rhTNFR:Fc) in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) with randomized control study,clinical characteristic and clinical effect were summarized.Methods According to the randomized controlled principle,124 patients with JIA were divided into control group and treatment group.The basic treatment in two groups were one antirheumatic slow-acting drug,nonsteroidal drug,adrenal cortical hormone.There were no significant differences between clinical type and basic treatment in two groups (P ＞ 0.05).Sixty-two patients of JIA treated with rhTNFR:Fc by subcutaneous injection.The doses was 0.8mg /kg per week.There were 17 cases of oligoarthritis,15 cases of polyarthritis,30 cases of systemic arthritis in the treatment group and control group respectively.The basic antirheumatic drugs,nonsteroidal anti-inflamatory drugs ( NSAIDs),adrenal cortex hormone were allowed to continued.Clinical evaluation index included ACR Pedi 30,ACR Pedi 50 and ACR Pedi 70.The adverse drug reactions were recorded.Results The remission rate of ACR Pedi 30,50,70 in 2 weeks,one month,three monthes and six monthes were different in types of JIA patients in the treatment group ( P ＜ 0.05 ).The remission rate of systemic arthritis was lower than the other two groups of arthritis ( P ＜ 0.05 ).Only 44％ ACR Pedi 50 remission was achieved after three monthes medication in systemic arthritis and 41.7％ ACR Pedi 50,29.2％ ACR Pedi 70 were achieved after six monthes.The remission rate in the types of oligoarthritis and polyarthritis at different time points (2 weeks,one month,three monthes,six monthes) of ACR Pedi 30,50,70 were similar.After six monthes,more than 80％ reached ACR Pedi 50 remission,more than half of patients reached ACR Pedi 70 remission.Three cases of macrophage activation syndrome in systemic arthritis group was effective treated with rhTNFR:Fc.In the treatment group,2 cases of systemic arthritis appeared ache and discomfort after one week treatment,3 cases appeared repeated mild upper respiratory tract infection and diarrhea during treatment,including one varicella infection.The incidence of adverse reactions in the treatment group of systemic arthritis were 16.7％,Other 2 types of patients did not show adverse reaction during rhTNFR:Fc treatment.Conclusion rhTNFR:Fc has good effect on oligoarthritis and polyarthritis of JIA.The adverse reactions of six monthes were rare.The cases of systemic arthritis could reach some clinical remission,but need to guard against infection and the occurrence of adverse reactions.To whom did not respond to conventional therapy in systemic arthritis or systemic arthritis combined with macrophage activation syndrome,it could be considered with rhTNFR:Fc.

Benzene ; poisoning ; Chronic Disease ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Diseases

Objective To analyze the outcome of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) treated with recombinant human tumor necrosis factor receptor antibody fusion protein (rhTNFR:Fc) for 2 years,and to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety as well as the related factors that affect the curative effect of rhTNFR:Fc.Methods Fifty-seven JIA patients treated with rhTNFR:Fc were followed up for 2 years.Clinical data were registered including age of onset,disease duration before rhTNFR:Fc treatment,disease activity assessment,medication before treatment,dosage regimen of infection or adverse reactions.Pearson Chi-Square statistical test and logistic regression model of binomial classification were used for statistical analysis.Results ①Twenty-two JIA cases completed 2-year therapy.Some were in the process of dosage tapering.Eight cases reached ACR Pedi 50,14 cases reached ACR Pedi 70.All of them were included in the clinical effectiveness analysis.Thirty-five cases withdrawal in 2 years because of disease remission or treatment failure or side effects or infection.Seven who withdrew and then maintained with DMARDs under the supervision of doctors were evaluated by assessment of ACR Pedi 70.They were stable at the end of 2 years,and were included for the clinical effectiveness analysis group.Nineteen cases were withdrew by the doctor because they failed to reach ACR Pedi 30 within 3 months.They were included in the treatment failure analysis.Seven cases were lost during the follow up.② The remission rate (ACR Pedi 50,70) of SO-J1A in 2 years was 33％.Oligoarthritis rate was 60％,while that of polyarthritis rate was 79％.The statistical analysis showed that different categories and RF level were significantly different in effectiveness and treatment failure (x2=31.6,P＜0.05; x2=5.488,P＜0.05).There was no significant difference in age,sex,duration before treatment,AKA,CCP,ANA between the two groups (P＞0.05).③ Logistic regression analysis showed that different categories of JIA and RF levels were correlated with therapy,P＜0.05.The relative risk (OR) value of different categories of JIA was 2.983 (P＜0.05).Negative RF might be the predictive factor for treatment response (OR =0.029,P＜0.05).④ Eight cases (2％) had recurrence and other adverse reations during treatment,the majority (7 cases) was SO-JIA.Conclusions ① The long-term therapeutic effect and safety for oligoarthritis and Polyarthritis by rhTNFR:Fc are better than SO-JIA.② Negative RF maybe the factor associated with favourable rhTNFR:Fc efficacy.③ The long-term safety of rhTNFR:Fc for SO-JIA is good.Physicians should be cautious to infection and other adverse reactions.

Shanyao (Dioscorea opposita Thunb.) is the one of the conventional herbs in the clinical practice, which is good at nourishing yin, and entering the lung, spleen and kidney meridian. Through analysis on all formulae contain-ing Shanyao in past dynasties, we found out the top 30 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbs for the highest frequency in combination with Shanyao, among which there were 28 herbs recorded in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong's Classic of the Materia Medica) and 23 herbs were considered as the top grade medicinals. This article was focused on the analysis of the compatibility meaning and rules of Shanyao and supplementing medic-inals in order to provide scientific basis for clinical formulae and daily health cultivation so as to make good use of Shanyao.

Human kerotinocyte growth factor (hKGF) gene amplified by PCR was inserted into the shuttle vector pAdTrack-CMV to get the recombinant plasmid pAdTrack-CMV-hKGF, which was linearized with Pme I and transferred into Escherichia coli BJ5183 containing the adenoviral bone plasmid pAdEasy-1 to obtain the recombinant adenoviral plasmid pAdEasy-hKGF. The recombinant adenoviral plasmid was then transfected into HEK-293 cell lines via Lipofectamine 2000 to package and amplify the recombinant adenovirus containing hKGF gene detected by PCR. The recombinant adenovirus produced could effectively infect HaCat cells. The result of Western blotting showed that HaCat cells infected with the recombinant adenovirus expressed and secreted hKGF protein.

Objective To study the clinical outcomes and safety of immunoadsorption therapy for refractory autoimmune disease in children.Methods Three boys who suffered of severe autoimmune disease-one boy suffered of severe dermatomyositis and pulmonary infection; one suffered of severe anaphylactoid purpura with alimentary tract hemorrhage and entero ablation for intestinal perforation ; other one suffered of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and severe prosopo-cellular tissue infection,macrophage active syndrome,were treated with blood immunoadsorption by resin immunoadsorbent of HA280.Then evaluated the clinical outcome of 3 cases,including symptom improvement,change of serum immune globulin,complement,enzyme of liver and heart,autoantibody.Results After the treatment of immunoadsorption,the symptom of 3 cases improved obviously; the sensitivity of the corticosteroids increased; autoantibody of antinuclear antibody (ANA) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (CCP) changed to negative; C-reactive protein (CRP) dropped (P ＜ 0.05) ; descending scale of IgM,IgA,C3,C4 increased (P ＜ 0.05) ; the normal scale of immunoglobulin didn't changed (P ＞ 0.05) ; besides aspartate aminotransferase (AST) dropped in the case of dermatomyositis,the other enzyme of liver and heart didn't changed.Conclusions The body could be restored quickly by the treatment of immunoadsorption together with the drug; CRP in the blood could be removed by immunoadsorbent of resin; 1 or 2 times blood immunoadsorption could not change the level of enzyme,but it need to do more on severe cases,especially those with poor organ function; for the safe of the treatment of immunoadsorption for the young age,low weigh and severe cases,the operative procedure should be critical care.

A laboratory scale combination process of anaerobic baffled reactor(ABR) with sequencing batch reactor(SBR) for treatment of real dyeing wastewater was studied.The effects of operational conditions were investigated.The results demonstrated that removal rates of COD,colour and aniline were 32%~95%,89%~99% and 50%~98%,respectively,the effluents of COD were 30.0 ~97.1mg/L,colour were 8 ~40 times dilution ratio,concentration of aniline were 0.20 ~0.95 mg/L,which could meet the National Discharge Criteria(GradeⅠ) under the operational conditions of HRTs of 24~36 h,organic loading rates of 0.43 ~2.46 kg COD/(m~(3)?d),the influent pH values of 6.5~8.0,ambient temperatures of 20℃~35℃ at the ABR stage and DOs of 2 mg/L,reaction times of 3~10h,settle times of 2 h at the SBR stage.

Objective To prepare high-titer monoclonal antibodies against STX2A1 subunit of enterohemorrhagic E.coli(EHEC) O157∶H7.Methods BALB/c mice were immunized with GST-STX2A1 fusion protein and the spleen cells of BALB/c mice which were not immunized were used as feeder cells.Hybridoma technique,natural STX2A protein and ELISA test were used to prepare and screen the hybridoma cell lines of monoclonal antibodies against STX2A1.The ascites developed by injecting the hybridoma cells into abdominal cavity of the BALB/c mice and was purified with Protein A-Sepharose.The subclasses and isotypes were identified by mouse monoclonal antibody isotyping kit.The antigenic epitopes that can be recognized by STX2-1A3,STX2-1E10 and STX2-3A7 were analyzed by the ELISA additivity test.Results Three hybridoma cell strains were obtained and named as STX2-1A3,STX2-1E10 and STX2-3A7,respectively,all of which produced monoclonal antibodies specifically against STX2A1.The isotypes of the monoclonal antibodies were IgG1?,IgG1?,and IgG3? and the affinity constant was 5.76 ?109,1.21 ?109 and 3.97 ?108,respectively.Conclusion We have successfully prepared three hybridoma cell strains which secrete high-titer and highly specific monoclonal antibodies against STX2A1.Our study provides a basis for researching the early diagnosis,prevention and cure of the disease induced by EHEC O157∶H7.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the tongue manifestation features of sexually transmitted and intravenous drug use spread HIV infected population in Xinjiang.

METHODSRecruited were 990 HIV infected subjects in Xinjiang from May 2011 to March 2012, who were assigned to the intravenous drug use spread HIV infected (498 cases) and the sexually transmitted (492 cases). By using tongue figure shoot combined with analyses of experts, tongue manifestations were analyzed and compared between the sexually transmitted and the intravenous drug use spread from four aspects, i.e., the tongue color, the tongue shape, the fur color, and the fur property.

RESULTSCompared with the sexually transmitted population, red tongue, fissured tongue, yellow fur, thick fur, eroded fur, deficiency of fur fluid were more often seen, showing statistical difference (P < 0.05). Compared with the intravenous drug use spread population, pale tongue, white fur, and thin fur were more often seen, showing statistical difference (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONSThe tongue manifestations of the intravenous drug use spread HIV population reflected inner exuberance of evil toxin and heat impairing qi and yin. Compared with the intravenous drug use spread population, the attack of HIV infection was more hiding in the sexually transmitted population, with milder internal injury. Their Wei-qi was not damaged and no obvious change occurred in the tongue figure.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; HIV Infections ; diagnosis ; etiology ; pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Middle Aged ; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral ; diagnosis ; pathology ; Substance-Related Disorders ; complications ; diagnosis ; Tongue ; pathology ; Young Adult