Objective To investigate the association of the gene polymorphism of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI 1) with the cerebral infarction and recurrent cerebral infarction (RCI). Methods The plasma PAI 1 activity, by means of chromgenic substrate assay, and the sequence polymorphisms of 4G/5G in promotor region and (CA)n dinucleotide repeats in the 4th intron of PAI 1 gene, by amplified fragment length polymorphism assay, were measured in 50 patients with first ever cerebral infarction (FCI), 45 patients with RCI and 60 healthy controls.Results The plasma PAI 1 activities in both FCI patients (1.13?1 1 AU/ml) and RCI (1.13?0.150 AU/ml) were remarkably higher than that in the controls (0.7?0.25 AU/ml) (both P

Objective To investigate the role of mutation of insulin receptor(IR) gene on the development of ischemic cerebral vascular disease.Methods The base variations at exon 17 and 20 of IR gene, by means of PCR SSCP were determined in the 68 cases of atherothrombotic cerebral infarction (ACI), 81 cases of lacunar infarction (LI) and 62 healthy controls.Results There were two alleles of T and C at exon 17 of IR gene. The prevalence of mutant of T allele in ACI patients was more common than that in the controls. The blood pressure and the parameters of blood sugar,lipid metabolism in the patients with mutant were higher than those in the controls with wild type gene. The correlative analysis showed the polymorphism of IR gene was not related statistically to the blood pressure. No base variation at exon 20 was found in the study.Conclusion By promoting the development of atherosclerosis,the mutation at exon 17 of IR gene may participate in the occurrence of ischemic stroke.

Objective To establish a method to measure Angiotensin Converting Enzyme activity in serum by MECC. Method Mixture of serum and substrate Hip-His-Leu had been incubated for 120 min at 37℃, substrate Hip-His-Leu was digested into two parts, Hip and His-Leu. The reaction was ended by 0. 1 mmol/L HC1 , the production was analyzed by MECC directly to detecte content of Hip in production, and calculated ACE activity. Running buffer was 20 mmol/L pH 9. 0 boric acid-borate buffer (including SDS 50 mmol/L) , capillary column was 75?m i. d.?37 cm, injection was 3s by press, voltage was 16 kV, running time was 7. 5 min, detected by UV detector at 200 nm, tempreture was 20℃. Result The within-run and between-run CV was 2. 7% and 5. 2%. The detection limits of ACE activity was 0. 2 IU/L ( singal/noise = 3). The ACE activity and absorption was linearly related from 2. 4 to 72 IU/L. The mean value of ACE was 5. 2-21. 9 IU/L (x?1. 96 s) in 50 normals. Conclusion It was a one of rapid, precise methods for determination of ACE activity in serum.

Objective To establish a rapid determination of sodium valprate in plasma by capillary zone electrophoresis.Method Plasma was acidized by 1 mol/L HCl, VPA was extracted into organic phase (n-Hexane), then re-extracted into aqueous phase (0.05 mmol/L NaOH solution including 15% Ethanol). Capillary clone was 75 ?m(id)?37 cm. Electrolyte consisted of 15 mmol/L sodium salicylate, 0.5 mmol/L CTAB and 15% Ethanol (pH 5.7).Separating voltage was 20 kV, detection wave was 214 nm, temperature was 20℃,injection time was 5 s by press in negative.Result The linear ranger of concentration for standard drug was between 25~200 ?g/ml (r=0.999),the limit of detection was 0.35 ?g/ml, the average recovery of VPA was 87.4%,the average inter-day and intar-day CV were less than 4% and 6%. Conclusion This method is simple, rapid, reliable and correct, for determination of VPA in plasma.

Objective:To compare the diagnostic efficacy and ability of Thyroid Imaging Reporting Data System version (TI-RADS) of American College of Radiology (ACR) and artificial intelligence(AI) TI-RADS in diagnosis of thyroid nodules.Methods:A retrospective analysis was done on 266 patients(276 nodules) proved by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (US-FNAC) in General Hospital of Eastern Theater Command from January to December 2019. The ROC curve of the two TI-RADS versions was drawn and the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated and compared.Results:AUCs of ACR TI-RADS and AI TI-RADS were 0.747 and 0.853. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value (96.62%, 62.50%, 74.87%, 94.12%) of AI TI-RADS were higher than ACR TI-RADS (95.27%, 44.53%, 66.51%, 89.06%). AI TI-RADS was able to avoid more unnecessary FNAC (71.74%) than ACR TI-RADS (67.03%).Conclusions:Both ACR TI-RADS and AI TI-RADS have good performances for differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules. AI TI-RADS is a more simple scoring system with better overall diagnostic performance and ability to exclude unnecessary FNAC with high negative predictive value than ACR TI-RADS.

Objective: To explore the effects of ulinastatin on the level of MIF in rats with acute necrotic pancreatitis. Method: 52 healthy Wister rats were randomly divided into three groups: normal control group(group C, 12), ANP group(group A, 20)and UTI group(group U, 20). Severe acute pancreatitis rat model in group A were induced by injection of 315 % sodium taurocholate through retrogradely common biliopancreatic ducts via papilla duodeni. After inducing the rat model of ANP through the way above, rats in group U were treated by ulinastatin through portal vein injection. Pancreas and duodenum were only flipped after opening abdominal cavity in group C. Then rats were killed at 3rd, 6th ,12th ,24th hour after operation respectively. Cut the belly open at once, and draw blood in postcava. The levels of serum MIF were determined with ELISA. Blood amylase was detected through biochemistry instrument. Resected pancreas tissues was scored according to the standard of Kusske. Result: Compared to the normal control group, the level of serum MIF , blood amylase and histopathological scores were significantly increased in ANP group, P

Objective To investigate the effect of HSP70 gene transfection to peripheral blood cytokines in the early phase of sepsis in rats. Methods A rat model of sepsis was established by cecal ligation and puncture(CLP),and adenovirus-mediated HSP70 gene transfection was performed in the CLP rats. Serum TNF-?,IL-1?,IL-6,IL-10 were measured before and after HSP70 gene transfection. Results In CLP rats, serum TNF-? increased at 3h and peaked at 6h(t_(TNF-?)=16.506, P

Objective To evaluate the value of circular anastomotic stapler for sigmoid colostomy in laparoscopy abdominoperi-neal resection .Methods 62 patients of low colorectal cancer treated in our hospital from October 2010 to February 2013 was retro-spectively analyzed .All the patients were treated by laparoscopy abdominoperineal resection ,34 patients received sigmoid colostomy with circular anastomotic stapler(group A) ,and the other 28 patients received sigmoid colostomy with conventional suturing tech-niques(group B) .The medical records including operation time ,the time of return of bowl function ,postoperative hospital stay and postoperative complication rate were analysed statistically .Results All patients received the operations successfully .No conversion to open procedure and no operative death occured in two groups .The result of statistical analysis showed that in group A ,the opera-tion time ,the time of return of bowl function ,postoperative hospital stay time were shorter than group B ,and the rate of edema of sigmoid in group A were lower than group B(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The application of circular anastomotic stapler for sigmoid co-lostomy in LAPR is a safe ,effective and minimally invasive technique ,which can shorten operation time ,postoperative hospital stay and reduce the related complications of colostomy .

OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) level to stroke and genetic factor to elevated plasma Hcy level.

METHODSThe plasma Hcy level was measured by capillary electrophoresis-ultraviolet detection and the gene polymorphism of N5,N10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) was studied with PCR-RFLP assay in 43 patients with cortical cerebral infarction and 42 healthy control.

RESULTSThe plasma Hcy level of the patients (19.3 +/- 6.0 micromol/L) was markedly higher than that of the controls (13.7 +/- 5.4 micromol/L) (t = 4.16, P < 0.001). There are 3 genotypes, C/C, C/T and T/T, about base-variation of MTHFR gene at locus 677. The plasma Hcy level of the subjects with T/T genotype was higher than that of subjects with other genotypes. However, the frequencies of each genotype and allele were not significantly different between the patients and the controls.

CONCLUSIONSThe elevated plasma Hcy level is a risk factor for atherothrombotic cerebral infarction, and is related to the C-->T mutation at locus 677 of MTHFR gene.

Aged ; Cerebral Infarction ; blood ; genetics ; Female ; Gene Frequency ; Genotype ; Homocysteine ; blood ; Humans ; Male ; Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (NADPH2) ; genetics ; Middle Aged ; Point Mutation ; Polymorphism, Genetic

Objective To compare the effects of intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering and guideline-recommended standard BP lowering on the early reperfusion and prognosis after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Methods This is a randomised controlled trial consisting of 118 consecutive patients who came from Department of Neurology, Nanjing First Hospital from July 2012 to April 2016, accepting intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator thrombolysis with the systolic blood pressure (SBP) being 150-185 mmHg(1 mmHg=0.133 kPa). The patients with ischemic stroke were diagnosed by multi-mode MRI and confirmed to have ischemic penumbra. The SBP of patients randomly assigned to intensive BP lowering group and guideline BP lowering group was maintained in 140-150 mmHg or below 180 mmHg respectively for 72 h and all patients needed to reexamine multi-mode MRI at 24 h. The primary endpoints were the neurologic function at early stage, modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score and the mortality at 90 d;the secondary endpoints were the volume of infarction and hypoperfusion area, the rate of reperfusion, hemorrhagic transformation (HT) and syptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH). Results Forty-nine cases in intensive BP lowering group and 56 cases in guideline BP lowering group acquired the available images. The volume of infarction was increased both in these two groups, and there was no statistically significant difference in the increased values ((13.21±9.51) cm3 vs (12.95±9.68) cm3). There were no statistically significant differences in the volume of hypoperfusion, reperfusion rate, neurologic function at early stage, the mRS scores and mortality at 90 d, the incidence of sICH except the rate of HT (9.4%, 5/53 vs 23.1%, 15/65, χ2=3.860, P=0.049) between the two groups.Conclusion Early intensive BP-lowering treatment has no adverse effects on the transformation of ischemic penumbra and prognosis after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke and may decrease the the rate of HT in some degree.