1.Effect of pentoxifylline on Fas and FasL expressions in pancreas and spleen of NOD mice
Liping GU ; Yijie WU ; Yufei WANG ; Nianwei SHI ; Weiping DONG
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2008;24(3):322-323
NOD mice were treated with pentoxifylline (FTX) to investigate the incidence of cyclophosphamide-accelerated diabetes, the apoptosis and the insulin expression of β-cells and expressions of Fas or FasL mRNA in both pancreas and spleen. The results showed that incidence of diabetes in PTX group was significantly lower compared with control group (P<0.05). The apoptosis of β-cells was decreased in PTX group with higher insulin expression level in islet cells. The expression of FasL mRNA in pancreas of PTX group was lower than that of control group (P<0.05), and there was no significant difference in Fas mRNA expression between two groups. Both Fas and FasL mRNA levels in spleen of PTX group were much higher than those of control group (P<0.05 or P<0.01).
2.Analysis of the dynamic changes and clinic significance of serum CA724, CA242 and AFP levels before and after TACE treatment of primary hepatic carcinoma
Yufei LIANG ; Liang SHI ; Ningning SUN ; Chunying LI
Tianjin Medical Journal 2015;(10):1183-1186
Objective To investigate the change of serum CA724, CA242 and AFP levels before and after transcatheter artery chemoembolization (TACE) treatment of primary hepatic carcinoma(PHC)patients as well as its clinic significance. Methods Patients of PHC (n=45) and healthy adults (n=40) were enrolled. Serum samples were collected from each healthy people and PHC patients 2 days before TACE,l week and 1 month after TACE. Electrochemiluminescence Immunoassay (ECLI) was used to determine serum CA724, CA242 and AFP levels, and correlations among three indexes as well as their relationships with clinical data were also analysed., Change of serum CA724 and CA242 levels before and after TACE were compared in AFP<400μg/L group and AFP≥400μg/L group. Results Serum levels of CA724, CA242 and AFP in PHC group were significantly higher than that in healthy control groups before TACE therapy(P<0.05). Positive rates of serum CA724 and AFP were higher in PHC group(P<0.01)than that in healthy control group. AFP decreased significantly at both 1 week and 1 month upon TACE treatment compared with that at before teratment(P<0.01). CA724 was significantly lower at one month after treatment than that at before treatment(P<0.05). But there was no significant difference in CA242 before and after treatment(P>0.05). CA724 and AFP expressions are associated with tumor size(P<0.05). After one month of therapy, serum CA724 level was obviously decreased in both AFP<400μg/L and AFP≥400μg/L groups. Before and after TACE therapy, there was a positive correlation between the expression of AFP and CA724(r=0.754,P<0.05). Conclusion Serum CA724 can be used as one of the tumor markers to assist the evaluation of curative effect of TACE on PHC.
3.Study on quality control of ELISA method for screening TORCH infection
Shaoqin CHI ; Yiwei CHEN ; Hongci SHI ; Yufei SUN ; Lixin ZHENG
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2015;(24):3550-3551
Objective Onto investigate the indoor quality control method for qualitatively detecting the laboratory indicators of TORCH infection (rubella virus IgG ,cytomegalovirus IgG and IgM ,toxoplasma IgG and IgM ) .Methods The statistical method , normal distribution data ,ratio and standard deviation of positive rate detected by the ELISA method were adopted ,1+2s was set as the out of control rules ,the semi Lerey‐Jennings quality control chart was drawn;the direct probability calculation method was a‐dopted for the non‐normal distribution data and small probability event .The testing data of 57 batches were retrospectively ana‐lyzed .Results The positive rate of rubella virus IgG was 86 .66% ,cytomegalovirus IgG/IgM positive rates were 98 .87% and 0 .13% ,toxoplasma gondii IgG/IgM positive rates were 2 .43% and 1 .71% ,the data of 151 ,3 ,5 ,176 ,27 samples had the critical value range of five indicators .The number of out of control was once for cytomegalovirus IgG ,once and 4 times for Toxoplasma gondii IgG/IgM .Conclusion The indoor quality control for the ELISA qualitative detection of TORCH infection can adopt the data of daily detection positive rate or negative rate for monitoring the false positive .The critical value range of specimens should be fur‐ther conducted the recheck or confirmation experiment .
4.Effect of pentoxifylline on caspases expression in islet beta-cells of NOD mice
Liping GU ; Yijie WU ; Yufei WANG ; Nianwei SHI ; Weiping DONG
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2000;0(08):-
AIM: To investigate the intervention effect of pentoxifylline(PTX) on type 1 diabetes mellitus in non-obese diabetic(NOD)mice and explore its possible mechanism.METHODS: Eight-week-old NOD mice were treated with PTX to investigate the incidence of cyclophosphamide accelerating diabetes.The apoptosis of beta-cells was detected by TUNEL,the expressions of caspase-3 in islet of the NOD mice was checked by immunohistochemistry and the expressions of caspase-8 was determined by RT-PCR.RESULTS: The incidence of diabetes in PTX group was 40.63%,which was obviously lower than 69.70% in the control group(P
5.Determination of Bioequivalence of Cefixime by Three-way Crossover Design
Aixin SHI ; Yufei FENG ; Kexin LI ; Lei LIU ; Qi YIN ; Chunhua SUN
China Pharmacy 1991;0(02):-
OBJECTIVE:To study the bioequivalence of suspension formulation of cefixime(A),capsule formulation of ce-fixime(B) and reference preparation(C: Cefixime Capsules or Cefspan) in human body.METHODS: The study was conducted as a 3- way crossover design in 18 healthy volunteers whose plasma concentrations of cefixime were determined by HPLC after receiving a single oral dose of 200 mg trial preparations or reference preparation.RESULTS:The main pharmacokinetics of the three preparations(A、B、C) were as follows after undergoing BIO3 program fitting:AUC0-1 were(18.54?6.31)mg?h-1?L-1, (16.10?5.51)mg?h-1?L-1 and (17.16?5.96)mg?h-1?L-1, Cmax were(2.63?0.76) mg?L-1, (2.43?0.78)mg?L-1 and (2.57?0.90)mg?L-1;tmax were(4.11?0.58)h,(4.56?0.51)h and (4.56?0.70)h,respectively .The relative bioavailability of cefixime suspensions(A) and cefixime capsules(B) were (108.8?12.3)% and (95.7?15.9)% ,respectively as against reference preparation(C) .CONCLUSION:The test formulations(A and B) were found bioequivalent to the reference formulation(C).
6.Evaluation criteria and maintenance experience of cardiac death organ donor heart from Chinese first category
Yuchen PAN ; Yongbo XUAN ; Yufei ZHAN ; Guiqing MO ; Feng SHI ; Jie HAN ; Xu MENG
Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation 2015;36(9):540-543
Objective To summarize the evaluation standard of cardiac death organ donation from Chinese first category donor heart application and experience of donor heart function maintenance.Method From Jan.2013 to Jan.2015,donor hearts for heart transplantation were obtained in 18 cases of Chinese first category cardiac death organ donors from 109 cases of organ donation donors through rigorous assessment and effective donor heart function maintenance.The diagnosis of brain death was based on the diagnosis of brain death criteria (adult) by the neurological department of internal medicine,department of neurosurgery,and intensive care unit with brain death qualification.Organ donation work followed the basic principles of voluntary,free,fair,equitable and technical access.Result Eighteen case of heart transplantations were all operated with double lumen venous anastornosis.The cold ischemia time was (125.5+ 18.7) min (61-60 min),and cardiopulmonary bypass time was (130.4+ 12.5) min (99-193 min).In 18 heart transplantations,16 cases survived,and 2 eases died of acute right heart failure.During the follow-u period,the quality of life in the survival recipients was satisfactory.Conclusion Using cardiac death organ donation from Chinese first category donor heart transplantation has achieved good results.The accurate assessment of donor hearts and effective donor heart function maintenance are the key factors to guarantee the success of heart transplantation.
7.Interaction of 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein gene polymorphisms and environmental risk factors in ischemic stroke
Yufei WANG ; Congcong SHI ; Lianlong JIAO ; Xiaoyi GUO ; Shuai ZHANG ; Yiqun FU ; Ying HE
Chinese Journal of Neurology 2013;46(8):531-535
Objective To explore the interaction between polymorphisms of rs17222919 which located in the 5-1ipoxygenase-activating protein(ALOX5AP) gene promoter and environmental risk factors in ischemic stroke(IS).Methods We conducted a case-control study involving a total of 622 cases and 631 unrelated healthy controls which were selected from Henan Han populations,and the environment risk factors were recorded.Genotyping aimed at detecting both genetic and environmental factors in relation to IS was performed by TaqMan-polymerase chain reaction technology while interaction indexes (Υ) were calculated to determine interactions and their role models.Results The rs17222919 TG (189/622,30.4%),GG (18/622,2.9%)genotype frequencies and G (225/1244,18.1%)allele frequencies in IS subjects were significantly lower than those in controls (221/631,35.0% ; 31/631,4.9% ; 283/1262,22.4% ; x2 =4.117,P =0.042 ; x2 =4.457,P =0.035 ; x2 =7.294,P =0.007).Negative interactions between TG + GG genotype and hypertension,diabetes or cigarette smoking in the occurrence of IS (Υ =0.943,0.922,0.830) were observed,whose role models were all super-multiplicative models.Conclusions According to our study,ischemic stroke is the result of the interaction of genetic and environmental factors and G allele of rs17222919 may have weakened the role of environmental factors for hypertension,diabetes and cigarette smoking in IS incidence.
8.Comparison of different models of Sysmex hematology analyzers used for red blood cell count and related parameters
Li KONG ; Jianping WANG ; Lanting TONG ; Weigang CHEN ; Yintao PEI ; Yufei SHI ; Nengjiao GAO
Chinese Medical Equipment Journal 2017;38(5):95-98
Objective To evaluate Sysmex XS-800i,XS-1000i and XE-2100D hematology analyzers when used to detect RBC count,hemoglobin (HGB),hematocrit (HCT),mean corpuscular volume (MCV),mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC).Methods XE-2100D hematology analyzer was calibrated after performance evaluation,and the three analyzers had the intra-day precisions measured with three levels of whole-blood quality control materials.Totally 50 whole-blood specimens were detected with the three analyzers respectively,and statistical analyses and clinically acceptable performance evaluation were carried out on RBC count and the obtained results.Results XE-2100D hematology analyzer met the clinical requirements,and the three analyzers all gained high precisions when used to measure the parameters of the whole-blood quality control materials.The correlation coefficients (r2) respectively between the three analyzers were all higher than 0.95 when used to test the 50 specimens.At all medical decision levels XS-800i and XS-1000i hematology analyzers both gained acceptable detection results except XS-800i hematology analyzer in case of 5.9×1012/L RBC count as well as 35% or 50% HCT.Conclusion Sysmex XS-800i,XS-1000i and XE-2100D hematology analyzers have high precisions and correlations when used to detect RBC count,HGB,HCT and MCV,and contrast test is suggested to be executed periodically to ensure the comparability of tbe result.
9.Characteristic of peripheral blood monocyte subsets and chemokines in early stage of acute coronary syndrome
Miaomiao XU ; Wei SHEN ; Haiming SHI ; Xinyu ZHUANG ; Xiangxu LIU ; Yang OU ; Shengjia SUN ; Bangwei WU ; Zhidong ZHU ; Yufei CHEN
Fudan University Journal of Medical Sciences 2017;44(4):403-409,416
Objective To investigate the expression of monocyte subsets and their chemokine,i.e.,monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP-1) and fractalkine (FKN),in patients with acute coronary svndrome (ACS),and to analyze their correlation.Methods Patients with the syndrome of pectoralgia and to be inspected with coronary angiography (CAG) in our hospital from Sep.to Dec.,2016 were included.Patients' venous blood was collected on the operation day before operation,the level and proportion of monocyte (Mon) subsets,which was namely CD14 + CD16-Mon (Mon1),CD14+CD16 + Mon (Mon2) and CD14-CD16 + Mon (Mon3) according to the expression of cluster differentiation-14 (CD14) and CD16,were detected by flow cytometry (FCM).Patients' venous blood was collected on the operation day before operation and one day after operation,the concentrations of MCP-1 and FKN in plasma were measured by ELISA.We compared the expression levels of MCP-1-Mon1 and FKN-Mon3,and analyzed their relationship between each other respectively in different groups.Results Diagnosed according to the clinical symptoms,myocardial markers,electrocardiogram and CAG results,70 individuals were analyzed,including 30 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI group),25 patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP group) and 15 patients with the chest pain symptoms and normal CAG results (control group).The percentage of Mon1 in the AMI group was higher than that in the other groups (P<0.05);no difference was observed for Mon3 among the groups (P>0.05).The Mon3/Mon1 ratio in the AMI group was lower than that in the control group (P<0.05).Moreover,the levels of FKN and MCP-1 in the ACS group were greater than those in the control group.The level of red blood cell distribution width (RDW) was significantly increased in the AMI and UAP group than that in the control group (P<0.05).There was a significant correlation between FKN and Mon3 (P<0.05,R=0.650 2).Conclusions The monocyte subset of Mon1 and Mon3 increased in the early stage of ACS,with their chemokine (FKN and MCP-1) increasing at the same time.There is a significant correlation between FKN and Mon3,which indicates MCP-1-Mon1 and FKN-Mon3 may participate in the pathophysiological process of early ACS in patients.
10.Effects of low-dose interleukin-2 on peripheral regulatory T cells counts of patients with psoriatic arthritis and its short-term clinical efficacy
Yufei HAO ; Shengxiao ZHANG ; Hehua SUN ; Jia WANG ; Lei SHI ; Xiaofeng LI
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2019;23(6):389-396
Objective To study the expression of peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients and the short-term efficacy of low doses of interleukin-2 (IL-2). Methods Ninety-five patients with PsA were enrolled as study subjects and 106 healthy people as control group. On the basis of conventional treatment, a total of 22 PsA patients were randomly selected and treated with low dose IL-2 (5 ×105 U/d, continuously used for 5 days, IH), and the disease condition and lymphocyte changes were observed. Flow cytometry was used to detect the absolute count of T subsets dominated by regulatory T cell(Treg) and T helper cell 17(Th17). Wilcoxon rank sum test, χ2 test and Spearman correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. Results The absolute number of Th17 cells of PsA patients [7.2 (4.0, 12.8) cells/μl] was higher than that of the control group [5.9(4.0, 8.6) cells/μl] (Z=-1.997, P=0.046), the number of Treg cells [25 (17, 36) cells/μl] decreased compared with the control group [30 (23, 40) cells/μl] (Z=-2.957, Z=0.003), T/Treg [50 (36), 76)], B/Treg [7.6 (5.4, 11.5)], CD4+T/Treg [27 (21, 42)], CD8+T/Treg [20 (12, 30)], Th17/Treg [0.34(0.13, 0.51)], Th1/Treg [4.4(2.3, 7.2)], Th2/Treg [0.34(0.20, 0.53)], compared with control group T/Treg [40 (32, 54)], B/Treg [6.5 (4.2, 8.1)], CD4+T/Treg [20 (17, 25)], CD8+T/Treg [16 (11, 24)], Th17/Treg [0.19 (0.13, 0.31)], Th1/Treg [3.5 (1.8, 5.8)], Th2/Treg [0.24 (0.15, 0.39)] were significantly increased (Z=-3.365, -3.217,-5.285, -2.097, -1.69, -1.482, -2.304, P<0.05). Treg cells were negatively correlated with disease activity indexes TJC (r=-0.213, P=0.038), VAS (r=-0.299, P=0.003), PHGA (r=-0.287, P=0.005), DLQI (r=-0.208, P=0.043). Th17 cells increased from [6.3 (2.3, 11.5) cells/μl] to [11 (7, 20) cells/μl, Z=-2.808, P=0.005] after low-dose IL-2 treatment, Treg cells increased from [27 (15, 30) cells/μl] to [71 (37, 98) cells/μl, Z=-3.945, P<0.01]. Because the growth rate of Treg was much higher than Th17, Th17/Treg [before IL-2 treatment: 0.26 (0.11, 0.44), after IL-2 treatment: 0.14 (0.1, 0.35)] returned back to the normal range. After the treatment with IL-2, the patient's activity indicators were significantly improved, and there were no reversible adverse reactions. Conclusion The reduction of Treg cells may be involved in the occurrence and devel-opment of PsA. Low-dose IL-2 treatment can effectively promote the proliferation of Treg cells and the recovery of Th17/Treg balance, which is conducive to the improvement of the condition and good safety.