Objective To evaluate left ventricular(LV) twist and untwist using velocity vector imaging(VVI) in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ApHCM). Methods Twenty-three patients diagnosed with ApHCM were consecutively enrolled and compared with normal controls. After a standard echocardiographic examination, parasternal basal and apical short-axis planes were scanned to quantify LV rotations,twist and LV untwist using VVI. Results Compared with the normal controls, the rotation and rotaional velocity of apical subendocardial myocardium were markedly decreased in ApHCM patients during the period of systole ( P＜0.05) ,but the decreases in basal planes were not significant. As a consequence,LV twist was significantly lower in ApHCM patients (P＜ 0.05). Compared to normal controls,the velocity of LV untwisting was also significantly decreased in ApHCM patients ( P＜0.05).Conclusions The twist and untwist of LV subendocardial myocardium were decreased in ApHCM patients.VVI is a useful method to assess the characteristics of LV twist and untwist in ApHCM patients.

OBJECTIVETo compare efficacy of unilateral external fixators and locking compression plates in treating type C fractures of the distal radius.

METHODSFrom January 2009 to June 2010, 76 patients with distal radius fracture were treated with LCP and external fixators, 54 patients were followed up. Among them, 29 cases were male and 25 cases were female with an average age of 45.31 (ranged, 24 to 68) years old. There were 29 patients in LCP group. According to AO classification, 8 cases were type C1, 7 cases were type C2 and 14 cases were type C3. There were 25 cases in external fixators group. According to AO classification, 6 cases were type C1, 8 cases were type C2 and 11 cases were type C3. Radial height, volar tilt and radial inclination were compared, advanced Gartland-Werley scoring were used to assessed wrist joint function after 6 and 12 months' following up.

RESULTSTwo cases were suffered from nail infection in external fixators group. Fifty-four patients were followed up from 12 to 24 months with an average of 21.3 months. Radial height was (9.60 +/- 0.72) mm, volar tilt was (9.55 +/- 0.80) degrees and radial inclination was (21.40 +/- 0.78) degrees in LCP group,while those were (9.40 +/- 0.70) mm, (9.47 +/- 0.71) degrees and (21.20 +/- 0.73) degrees in external fixtors group, and with no statistical significance (P>0.05). Advanced Gartland-Werley score after 6 months' following up was 3.31 +/- 1.17 in LCP group, 5.56 +/- 1.58 in external fixtors group, and with significant difference (t=-5.99,P<0.05); after 12 months' following up, advanced Gartland-Werley score was respectively 2.66 +/- 1.01 and 3.08 +/- 1.00, but with no statistical meaning (t=-1.55, P>0.05).

CONCLUSIONLCP and external fixtors can receive good curative effects in treating type C distal radius fracture, and LCP can obtain obviously short-term efficacy, while there is no significant difference between two groups in long-term results. For serious distal radius comminuted fracture which unable to plate internal fixation, external fixators is a better choice.

Adult ; Aged ; Bone Plates ; External Fixators ; Female ; Fracture Fixation, Internal ; Fractures, Comminuted ; surgery ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Radius ; surgery ; Radius Fractures ; surgery ; Treatment Outcome ; Young Adult

Taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene is the precursor for paclitaxel biosynthesis. The diterpenoid paclitaxel (marketed as Taxol), a plant secondary metabolite isolated from yew, is an effective drug widely used in the treatment of numerous cancers. However, further application of taxol has been restricted due to its low yield in plants and the difficulties in extraction. To increase the intact isoprene flux, we constructed the fusion gene plasmid pBgGGTS and individual cassette plasmid pBgGGgTS to enhance the expression levels of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase gene (ggpps) and a taxadiene synthase gene (ts) in Coprinopsis cinerea. These two plasmids were separately transformed into C. cinerea LT2 strain, resulting in several putative transformants. Putative transformants were determined by PCR technique, indicating that 5 out of 13 putative transformants transformed by pBgGGTS and 6 out of 13 putative transformants transformed by pBgGGgTS, respectively. Additionally, the Southern blotting analysis of these 10 transformants confirmed that both ggpps and ts gene were stably integrated into the genome of C. cinerea. Crude extracts from each of the transformants were analyzed. There is no difference in the mycelium extracts among the wild-type LT2 and two types of transformants. However, analysis of culture filtrates indicated that an additional GC peak was found at the retention time of 16.762 min which was absent in the wild type control. The mass fragmentation pattern of this peak had the same diagnostic ions with taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene. According to peak area, the amounts of taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene in each fermented broth were 44 ng/L (transformed with pBgGGgTS) and 30 ng/L (transformed with pBgGGTS), respectively. In conclusion, co-expression of the ggpps and ts gene could increase the taxadiene production in C. cinerea.
Agaricales ; metabolism ; Alkenes ; metabolism ; Diterpenes ; metabolism ; Farnesyltranstransferase ; genetics ; metabolism ; Genetic Engineering ; Isomerases ; genetics ; metabolism ; Paclitaxel ; Plasmids

OBJECTIVETo study the therapeutic efficacy of manipulative reduction and percutaneous pin fixation for the treatment of severely displaced distal tibial fractures in children.

METHODSFrom May 2009 to December 2012,56 children with severely displaced distal tibial fractures were analyzed, who had been treated with manipulative reduction and percutaneous pin fixation. Preoperative fractures were confirmed as severely displaced fractures by X-ray apparatus. There were 33 boys and 23 girls,ranging in age from 3 to 14 years, with an average of 10.1 years. All the fractures were closed without vascular or nerve injuries. According to the bone fracture type, under C-arm fluoroscopy, functional reduction was achieved by manipulative reduction. The fractures were fixed with percutaneous pins. Postoperative X-ray confirmed the functional reduction. Follow-up indexes were recorded: intra-operative and postoperative complications,postoperative radiographic examination, lower extremity length and range of ankle motion. Ankle score system of Teeny was used to evaluate ankle function.

RESULTSAll the patients were followed up, and the duration ranged from 3 to 46 months, with an average duration of 19.4 months. According to the Teeny score standard, 35 patients got an excellent result, 7 good and 3 fair. Pin track reaction was found in 4 cases. The X-ray showed all the fractures healed without shortening deformity or epiphyseal arrest at early stage. All the patients could participate in the normal physical activities, having a normal range of motion and excellent strength of the ankle joint.

CONCLUSIONThe method of manipulative reduction and percutaneous pin fixation is a safe and convenient treatment for severely displaced distal tibial fractures in children. It has several advantages as follow: micro-trauma, tiny tissue damage, firm fixation, and the patients can exercise the function of ankle early, suggesting that it is an effective treatment method.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Bone Nails ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Female ; Fracture Fixation, Internal ; methods ; Humans ; Male ; Manipulation, Orthopedic ; methods ; Middle Aged ; Tibial Fractures ; surgery

OBJECTIVE To analyze the distribution and anti-microbial resistance profile of pathogenic bacteria isolated from hospitalized neonates in Wuhan area.METHODS The strains of bacteria isolated from neonates in hospitalization of Wuhan area from 2006 to 2007 were identified by VITEK 32 automatic bacteria system and antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed by Kirby-Bauer method.The standards of NCCLS issued in 2006 were used to assess the results of antimicrobial susceptibility.RESULTS A total of 3892 strains of bacteria were isolated from 10053 specimens,the positive rate was 38.7%.The Gram-positive cocci and Gram-negative bacilli accounted for 41.0% and 55.2%,respectively.The leading 8 species on the list of isolated strains in the two years accounted for 90.8% of all the isolated strains.MRCNS accounted for 68.6% of coagulase negative staphylococcus,and the MRSA kept a low rate(2.6%) in Staphylococcus aureus.The infection rate of newborn by Enterococcus in blood was remarkably higher than that of the past report in this area.The ?-lactamases-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were accounted for 46.9% and 34.7%,respectively.CONCLUSIONS The distribution and anti-microbial resistance of hospitalized neonates in Wuhan area have regional and group characteristics;it′s necessary to strengthen monitoring the regional epidemic characteristic status and the drug-resistant status of the pathogenic bacteria among neonates.

Objective To evaluate the echocardiographic features of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy( ApHCM). Methods Twenty-seven patients with ApHCM including 21 men and 6 women, average age (42.7 ± 5. 1 ) years old were followed up from 1995 to 2008 to investigate the clinical, electroeardiographic and echocardiographic features. Results The major features of ECG were increased R amplitude( V_4 > V_5 > V_3)and inverteted T wave(especially in V_(3-5) leads and the voltage of the inverteted T waves may be up to ≥10 mm). The major feature of echocardiography was the thickening of left ventricular apical wall to 15 - 37 ( 18. 0± 3. 3 ) mm. The final follow up showed that the mean thickness of the apical wall was ( 19. 7 ±3. 7) mm. The ratio of the thickness of left ventricular apical wall to posterior wall before and after the follow up was 1. 7 ±0. 3 and 1. 9 ±0. 9 respectively, with significant statistical difference ( P < 0. 05). There was no difference in the left ventricular end-diastolic dimension and left ventricular ejection fraction. The main cardiovascular events were atrial fibrillation ( 16 cases) , heart failure of NYHA ID-IV class (3 cases) , anterior wall myocardial infarction ( 1 case) and sudden death ( 1 case). Conclusions The final diagnosis of ApHCM depends on the characteristic inverteted T wave in ECG and apical hypertrophy in echocardiography. The prognosis of ApHCM is rather good for its progression is relatively slow.

PurposeTo investigate the effect of gasoline on the skin barrier function.MethodsA rat skin model in vitro was used in this study. The amount of 3H-water penetrated throught the skin was applied as the index of evaluating the barrier function.ResultsThe results showed that the amount of 3H-water was not obviously increased in those exposed to gasoline for 0.5,1 and 2 h(P > 0.05), but the 3H-water penetration amount through the skin increased linearly with the time. In the group exposed to gasoline 4 h, the 3H-water penetration amount through the skin was significantly higher than that in the control group (P 0.05). The skin barrier function of the group (expopsed to gasoline 4 h) was disrupted.Conclusions Gasoline may disrupt the skin barrier function. Gasoline would remove the lipids within the intercellular domains of the stratum corneum and then lead to damage the skin.

The clinical characteristics of patients who presented in poor clinical grade due to ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysms (MCAAs) associated with large sylvian hematomas (SylH) were analyzed and an ingenious designed prophylactic hinged craniectomy was introduced. Twenty-eight patients were graded into Hunt-Hess grades IV-V and emergency standard micro-neurosurgeries (aneurysm clipping, hematoma evacuation and prophylactic hinged craniectomy) were performed, and their clinical data were retrospectively analyzed. 46.43% of the patients reached encouraged favorable outcomes on discharge. The favorable outcome group and the poor outcome group significantly differed in terms of patients' anisocoria, Hunt-Hess grade before surgery, extent of the midline shift and time to the surgery after bleeding (P<0.05). There were no significant differences in age, sex, volume and location of the hematoma, size of aneurysm between the favorable and poor groups (P>0.05). However, ingenious designed prophylactic hinged craniectomy efficiently reduced the patients' intracranial pressure (ICP) after surgery. It was suggested that preoperative conditions such as Hunt-Hess grading, extent of the midline shift and the occurrence of cerebral hernia affect the prognosis of patients, but time to the surgery after bleeding and prophylactic hinged craniectomy are of significant importance for optimizing the prognosis of MCAA patients presenting with large SylH.

ObjectiveTo develop an ELISA method for quantitative determination of enterovirus 71 (EV71) antigen.The method can be applied to detect EV71 antigen contents and analyze the correlation between immunogenicity and immunoprotection.It also can be used for tissue culture infective dose( TCID50 ) assay.MethodsA double antibody sandwich ELISA method was developed for quantitative determination of EV71 antigen on the basis of the high-affinity neutralizing monoclonal antibodies ( K8G2 and Y8H2-HRP).This method was compared with microscopic observation for the detection of EV71 TCID50.The correlation was analyzed between the specific activity of EV71 antigen and the EV71 neutralizing antibody titer in immune serum.ResultsThe linear range of this method was 0.125-4.0 U/ml and the R2 value was 0.9911.The reagent did not react with other antigens except EV71 antigen.The recovery ratio of this method was 0.89-1.16.The coefficient of variation was less than 15％.The heat recovery rate was above 85％ when the reagent was in 37℃ for 9 days.There was a good correlation in TCID50 of EV71 between this method and microscopic observation,r=0.990.The specific activity of EV71 antigen had positive correlation with the neutralization titer of immune serum in 21 EV71 strains,r=0.930.ConclusionThe quantitative ELISA method for EV71 antigen was developed,which could be used to detect EV71 antigen contents and analyze TCID50.The specific activity of EV71 antigen detected by the method could be used to evaluate the immunoprotection of the vaccine potency test.

(0.05)). The sensitivity and the agreement rate were best at dose of Dob 10 ?g?kg~(-1)?min~(-1) with (86.5)% and (86.5)% (Kappa(0.71)), respectively. When Isoket combined with Dob 3,5 ?g?kg~(-1)?min~(-1), the sensitivities and the agreement rates were both significantly improved than either one used (both P