Glucose-6-Phosphatase (G6Pase) was regarded as a marker enzyme of the endoplasmic reticulum in a number of different cells. The purpose of this report is to study the localization of G6Pase activity in the rat left ventricular myocardial cells. G6Pase activity was found in the lumen of the nuclear envelope, the sarcoplasmic reticulum(SR) and the subsarcolemmal cisterns. The SR tubules between the adjacent myofibrils displayed characteristic distribution on their longitudinal profiles, as a curtain-like network, the tubules appeared to be tight network facing A-band, whereas tubules formed large polygonal meshes facing I-band. It is thought that the SR tubules facing A- and I-bands, respectively, represented an adaptation of SR to the selective shortening of the myofibrils at the I-band during contraction.

Left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy was produced in the rats by ligation of the abdominal aorta below the diaphragm for seven weeks.Ultrastructurally, it was observed that the nucleus and nucleolus were enlarged, and the density of the chromatin of the hypertrophied myocardial cells was decreased. Free ribosomes and endoplasmic reticulum were increased. Golgi apparatus was well developed and was increased in number.Cytochemically, G6Pase activity was localized in the lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, nuclear envelope and subsarcolemmal cisterns, and it was also positive in the regenerative rough endoplasmic reticulum. TPPase activity appeared in the Golgi apparatus, and it was especially prominent in the Golgi apparatus of the hypertrophied cells.These findings suggest that the protein synthetic activity was increased in the hypertrophied myocardial cells.

Objective To observe the effects of Buqi Huoxue Decoction on levels of ?-AP,TGF-? and IGF-Ⅱ in rats of multi-factor AD model and investigate the mechanism of treating AD with Buqi Huoxue Decoction. Method Multi-factor AD Model was established with D-galactose and SCOP by abdominal injection,AlCl3 by perfusion and QA by hippocampus injection. All rats were randomly divided into five groups:A (control group),B (pseudo injuried group),C (model group),D (Buqi Huoxue Decoction group) and E (hydergine group). Group D was treated by Buqi Huoxue Decoction and group E was treated by hydergine. ?-AP,TGF-? and IGF-Ⅱ level in the blood of AD model were detected by radio-immuno-assay after treatment course. Results ?-AP,TGF-? and IGF-Ⅱ level in the blood of group D and E were decreased significantly compared with group C after treatment. Conclusion Buqi Huoxue Decoction could decrease the high level of ?-AP,TGF-? and IGF-II in the blood of multi-factor AD model,so as to achieve the therapeutic effect.

BACKGROUND: High incidence rate in the morning and low incidence rate in the evening is the regularity of stroke; however, there are no clear reports on changes of concentration of plasma endothelins and its relationship with onset of cerebral thrombus.OBJECTIVE: To investigate dynamic regularity of plasma endothelins in patients with acute cerebral thrombus within 24 hours and its correlation with episode.DESIGN: Case-controlled study.SETTING: Center of Radio-immunology and Department of Laboratory of Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Qingdao University.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 32 patients with cerebral thrombus were selected from Neurological Department of Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Qingdao University from January 2002 to January 2003. There were 20males and 12 females with mean age of (61.5±4.1) years. Ten patients had history of diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension, 8 had history of hypertension, 1 had history of diabetes mellitus, and 13 did not have history of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Another 30 healthy subjects were selected from the same hospital including 13 males and 17 females with the mean age of (58.1±6.25) years. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects.METHODS: Radio-immune analysis was used to determine the dynamic changes of plasma-endothelins level in 32 patients with cerebral thrombus and 20 healthy subjects at 2, 8, 14 and 20 o'clock.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Plasma-endothelins level of patients in cerebral thrombus group and control group at the four time points within 24 hours; ② Plasma-endothelins level of patients with or without cerebral thrombus at the four time points within 24 hours.RESULTS: Totally 32 patients with cerebral thrombus and 30 subjects in control group entered the final analysis. ① Plasma-endothelins level in cerebral thrombus group day and night was higher than that in the control group (t=29.1-30.5, P ＜ 0.001). The level was the lowest [(69.96±3.92) ng/L] at 2 o'clock within 24 hours but the highest at 8 o'clock [(78.55±3.80) ng/L,(t=5.67, P ＜ 0.01)]. ② Levels of endothelins in patients with history of hypertension and cerebral thrombus were obviously higher than those in patients without history of hypertension and cerebral thrombus at 2, 8, 14 and 20 o 'clock within 24 hours [(73.28±7.89), (64.52±5.29) ng/L; (82.39±8.62),(75.81±5.14) ng/L; (81.39±8.62), (70.32±5.97) ng/L; (82.47±5.04),(65.27±5.14) ng/L, (t=2.11-5.17, P ＜ 0.05-0.01)].CONCLUSION: Plasma-endothelins level in patients with acute cerebral thrombus has rhythm changes within 24 hours. The changes are high in the morning and low in the evening, and this is accorded with high onset of cerebral thrombus in the morning.

In present study, animal model of cardiac hypertrophy induced by abdominal aortic stenosis was utilized, and the lysosomes were investigated by electron microscopy and ultrastructural cytochemistry. The results showed that while cardiac hypertrophy developed, lysosomes participate in apparent remolding of cardiac muscle cells; in the late stage of cardiac hypertrophy, a great deal of autophagocytoses were viewed in some muscle cells which may result in irreversible cell damage.

AIM:To test the hypothesis that wild-type p53 regulates the expression of p-glycoprotein. METHODS: While Hep3B cells lack expression of both p53 and retinoblastoma tumor suppressor genes because of deletions, were transfected to a wild-type (wt) p53 cDNA and control vector by a liposome method. After G418 selection, stable wt-p53 transformants, and control vector transformants (pNeo) were obtained. The expression of the p53,p21 and P-gp was analyzed by Northern or Western blot methods. In both transformants, cytotoxic effect of doxorubicin and mitomycin was evaluated by MTT assay, and accumulation of doxorubicin was detected by flow cytometer. RESULTS: In wt-p53 transformants, induction of transcriptionally active p53 was confirmed by the increase of P21 waf1/cip1 protein. Levels of P-gp reduced in the cells expressing wild-type p53 were linked to wt-p53 activity. The wt-p53 transfectants were more sensitive to doxorubicin and mitomycin compared with the pNeo transformants, and the accumulation of doxorubicin in the wt-p53 transfectants was 13 times as much as pNeo transformants. After both transformants were treated with doxorubicin at 0.2 mg/L for 24 hours, apparent apoptosis occurred in the wt-p53 transrormants. CONCLUSION: Restoration of wt-p53 activity in Hep3B leads to more sensitive to chemotherapeutic agents because of decrease of p-glycoprotein expression.

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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic performance of plasma miR-499 in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) diagnosis.Methods Diagnostic accuracy test.The suspected AMI patients,who with chest pain for more than half an hour and been admitted in the Second People's Hospital of Wuxi and First People's Hospital of chuzhou during October 2010 and July 2011,were consecutively and prospectively enrolled in the present study.Sixty apparently healthy individuals were designed as healthy control.The plasma samples of the suspected AMI patients were collected within two hours after admission.The plasma miR-499 was determined by real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).The diagnostic performance of plasma miR-499 for AMI was estimated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.The association between plasma miR-499 and AMI was analyzed by multivariable logistic model.The plasma miR-499 was determined and explained in blind fashion.Results Two hundred and nine suspected AMI patients,including 131 confirmed AMI patients (46 STEMI and 85 NSTEMI) and 78 AMI free patients were enrolled in the present study.The delta cycle threshold (ΔCT) was 1.01 ± 3.34 for AMI patients,-2.76 ± 2.90 for non-AMI patients and-3.79 ± 2.21 for healthy controls.The differences had statistical significance (x2 =96.77,P ＜ 0.01).The area under curve (AUC) of plasma miR-499 was 0.80 (95％ C I:0.74-0.86),lower than that of cardiac troponin Ⅰ (AUC =0.90,95％ CI:0.86-0.94) on admission (P ＜0.01).At the optimal cut-off of 0.18,the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were 0.69 (95％ CI:0.61-0.77) and 0.77 (95％ CI:0.66-0.86),respectively.The coefficient of correlation between plasma miR-499 and cTnI was 0.72 (P ＜0.01).The odds ratio (OR) of plasma miR-499 ＞0.18 for AMI was 2.59 (95％ CI:1.10-6.07),after adjusted cTnI.Conclusions Plasma miR-499 is a useful biomarker for AMI diagnosis.It can provide additional diagnostic information beyond cTnI.Combination utility of plasma miR-499 and cTnI may improve the diagnostic accuracy for AMI.

Objective We evaluated the role of a quality improvement initiative in improving clinical outcomes in peritoneal di-alysis ( PD) . Methods In a retrospective analysis of 6 years of data from a hospital registry, the period between 1 July 2005 and 30 June 2008 ( control group) provided baseline data from before implementation of systemic outcomes monitoring, and the period between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2011 [continuous quality improvement (CQI) group] represented the time when a CQI program was in place.Per-itonitis incidence, patient and technique survival, cardiovascular status, causes of death, and drop-out were compared between the groups. Results In the 370 patients of the CQI group and the 249 patients of the control group, the predominant underlying kidney diseases were chronic glomerulonephritis and diabetic nephropathy.After implementation of the CQI initiative, the peritonitis rate de-clined to 1 episode in 77.3 patient-months from 1 episode in 22.6 patient-months.In the CQI group, the complicance of blood pressure was more significantly improved than the control group ( 67.8% vs 47.4%,P<0.05).During the 3 years of follow-up,cardiothoracic ratio and IVST were significantly increased in the control group [0.55 ± 0.08 vs 0.51 ±0.05,P<0.05,11.07 ±1.66 mm vs 10.25 ±1.38 mm, P<0.05〗.The difference of LVID between the two groups was signifi-cant at the 2nd and 3rd year of follow-up(P<0.05).Patient survival at 1, 2, and 3 years was significantly higher in the CQI group (97.3%, 96.3%, and 96.3%respectively) than in the control group (92.6%, 82.4%, and 67.3%respectively, P<0.001).Imple-mentation of the CQI initiative also appeared to significantly improve technique survival rates:95.6%, 92.6%, and 92.6%in the CQI group compared with 89.6%, 79.2%, and 76.8%in the control group (P<0.001) after 1, 2, and 3 years respectively. Conclusion Integration of a CQI process into a PD program can significantly improve the quality of therapy and its outcomes.

[Objective]To explore the research status and trend of acupuncture treatment of vitiligo for nearly 20 years,and provide certain reference for future research in this field.[Methods]The literatures related to acupuncture treatment of vitiligo were retrieved in China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP Database and Wanfang Database from January 1,2003 to October 20,2023.After screening,CiteSpace software was used to visually analyse the literature authors,institutions and keywords.[Results]A total of 351 documents were included,and the number of articles published showed an upward trend,especially an explosive growth in 2017.A total of 297 authors were involved,and the core authors with the largest number of publications were REN Yingying,CHENG Aihua and LIU Hongxia,with 5 publications each.A small-scale cooperative team was formed among the authors.Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine published the most papers,with 19 articles.There were 19 keywords with frequency≥5,involving 11 cluster labels and 15 emergent words.[Conclusion]In the past 20 years,the popularity of acupuncture therapy for vitiligo has increased,mainly focusing on the clinical study of fire acupuncture,and there are few basic researches.Large-scale and high-quality multi-center randomized controlled trials and basic experiments are carried out,and strengthening the cooperation between various teams and institutions is conducive to the further development of this field.