1.Effects of acute lymphoblastic leukemia children bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on the drug tolerance of K562 cell strains
Zhaoxia WANG ; Yuxin ZHAO ; Yawei ZOU ; Chongjun DONG ; Chunguang XIAO
Journal of Chinese Physician 2010;12(6):775-778
Objective To study the effect of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) children bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on the resistance of K562cell atd mechanism in vitro.Method MSCs were obtained from AL children bone marrow after derivation, cultivation and identification.The coculture of MSCs and K562 and K562 suspension were established.Effects of MSCs on the growth of K562 cells were investigated in vivo.The two kinds of cells treated with different concentration of adriamycin (ADM) and the rate of apoptosis was evaluated by flow cytometry.Cell cycle was determined by flow cytometry.RT-PCR was used to detect Bcl-2 and Bax in K562 cells.Result Compared with the cell growth curve of K562 alone, the K562 cell co-cultured with MSCs grew slower and the exponential phase of growth was not obvious.The apoptosis index of the K562 cells co- clutured with MSCs was (9.19 ±0.53)% examined by flow cytometry, and that of the K562 cells alone was 4.00 ± 0.37% respectively( P < 0.05 ).The percentage of cells at G0/G1 phase was (50.2 ± 2.26) % and that at S phase was (37.03 ± 3.50) % in the group of K562 alone, but those of the K562 cells co - cultured with MSCs were (80.95 ± 3.83) % and ( 17.40 ± 1.50)% respectively( P <0.05).The result of RT-PCR suggested expression of Bcl-2/Bax of the K562 cell co-cultured with MSCs was higher than K562 alone.Conclusion ALL children MSCs suppressed the growth of K562 cell in vitro.Adhesion made K562 depress sensitive to ADM.The mechanism was perhaps caused by adhesion with MSCs, K562 cell cycle was changed and related to Bcl-2 gene high level expression.
2.Development of a Software for Automatically Generated Contours in Eclipse TPS.
Zhao XIE ; Jinyou HU ; Lian ZOU ; Weisha ZHANG ; Yuxin ZOU ; Kelin LUO ; Xiangxiang LIU ; Luxin YU
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation 2015;39(3):225-227
OBJECTIVEThe automatic generation of planning targets and auxiliary contours have achieved in Eclipse TPS 11.0.
METHODSThe scripting language autohotkey was used to develop a software for automatically generated contours in Eclipse TPS. This software is named Contour Auto Margin (CAM), which is composed of operational functions of contours, script generated visualization and script file operations. RESULTS Ten cases in different cancers have separately selected, in Eclipse TPS 11.0 scripts generated by the software could not only automatically generate contours but also do contour post-processing. For different cancers, there was no difference between automatically generated contours and manually created contours.
CONCLUSIONThe CAM is a user-friendly and powerful software, and can automatically generated contours fast in Eclipse TPS 11.0. With the help of CAM, it greatly save plan preparation time and improve working efficiency of radiation therapy physicists.
Humans ; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted ; Software
3.Role of glucogen synthase kinase-3β in a rat kidney model of chronic allograft nephropathy
Yuxin WANG ; Yiqin ZHANG ; Huaifu LI ; Jing YE ; Hequn ZOU ; Yanling SHI ; Ling CHEN ; Wenying ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation 2011;32(11):683-687
Objective To investigate the expression and significance of glucogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) in the pathogenesis of chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) in rats.Methods Kidneys of Fisher (F344) rats as donors were orthotopically transplanted into Lewis (LEW) rats as recipients.The renal function and histopathological changes were observed at 4,8,12,16,and 24week post-transplantation.Phosphorylated GSK-3β (p-GSK-3β) protein and mRNA expression was determined by using immunohistological assays and RT-PCR respectively.Results Our data showed that 24-h urinary protein excretion in CAN rats was increased significantly at week 16 as compared with F344/LEW controls.Allografts showed markedly increased mononuclear cells infiltration and presented with severe interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy at 16 and 24 week post-transplantation.p-GSK-3β expression (protein/mRNA) was down-regulated in rat kidneys with CAN,and the decrease became more significant over time after transplantation.p-GSK-3β expression was correlated significantly with 24-h urinary protein excretion,serum creatinine levels,tubulointerstitial mononuclear cells infiltration,smooth muscle cells migration in vascular wall,and interstitial fibrosis.Conclusion It was concluded that GSK-3β down-regulation was the key event that may be involved in mononuclear cells infiltration and vascular SMCs migration at early stage,and interstitial fibrosis and allograft nephroangiosclerosis at later stage of CAN pathogenesis in rats.
4.Role and mechanism of phosphate myosin light chain in chronic allograft nephropathy of rats
Yuxin WANG ; Yiqin ZHANG ; Huaifu LI ; Hequn ZOU ; Yanling SHI ; Ling CHEN ; Wenying ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation 2011;32(8):497-501
Objective To investigate the role and mechanism of phosphate myosin light chain (pMLC) in the rat kidney of chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) model. Methods The left donor kidneys from Fisher (F344) rats were orthotopically transplanted into Lewis recipients. Meanwhile, the F344 rats and LEW rats with resection of the right kidney served as control groups. Animals were harvested respectively at the 4th, 8th and 12th week after transplantation. The creatinine clearance rate (CCr) was calculated by urine creatinine of 24-h urine. Blood samples were collected from rats for determination of serum creatinine. The expression of pMLC was detected by using Western blotting and immunohistochernistry, and that of integrin-linked kinase (ILK) by using immunohistochemistry. Results Mononuclear cells infiltration of allografts was markedly aggravated as compared to the controls. Allografts got severe interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy at 12th week after transplantation. The expression of pMILC and ILK was up-regulated in the kidney of CAN rats after transplantation, and increased more significantly as the time went on. The expression of pMILC was significantly correlated with 24-h urine protein excretion (r= 0. 273, P<0. 05), serum creatinine levels (r = 0. 434, P<0. 01 ), the number of tubulointerstitial infiltrated mononuclear cells (r = 0. 525, P<0. 01 ), the number of smooth muscle cells (SMC) in vascular wall (r= 0. 676, P<0. 01 ) and the extent of interstitial fibrosis (r= 0. 570, P<0. 01 ).There was a significantly positive correlation between ILK and pMLC in CAN rats at the 4th week after transplantation (r= 0. 778, P<0. 01 ). Conclusion pMLC might play an key role in CAN, and the over-expression of ILK might be involve in the pathogenesis of CAN.
5.Effect of sarpogrelate hydrochloride on cytochrome P450 2D1/2 in rats
Meijuan XU ; Zhitao JIANG ; Wenzhu ZHAO ; Yuxin ZANG ; Bingting SUN ; Na RONG ; Jiandong ZOU ; Wenzheng JU
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2014;(12):1739-1742
Aim To investigate the influence of sarpog-relate hydrochloride (SH)on the pharmacokinetic pro-file of dextromethorphan (DM),the typical substrate of CYP2D1 /2,in rats when they were administered co-instantaneously.Methods A total of 1 2 SD rats were randomly divided into two groups:the control group (DM,1 0 mg·kg-1 )and the sarpogrelate group (SH, 1 0 mg·kg-1 ;DM,1 0 mg·kg-1 ),which received in-tragastric administration.Plasma samples were collected immediately before and at different time points after drug administration.A LC-MS /MS method was used to determine the concentrations of DM in rat plasma. Pharmacokinetic parameters were analyzed using Drug and Statistics (DAS 2.0).Results There were signif-icant differences in the pharmacokinetic parameters of DM,including T1 2 (2.49 h ±0.93 h vs 1 .47 h ±0.20 h,P <0.05 ),Cmax (325.7 μg·L -1 ±1 33.2 μg· L -1 vs 1 04.5μg·L -1 ±52.4 μg·L -1 ,P <0.05), AUC0 -t(785.5 μg·L -1 ·h ±451 .9 μg·L -1 ·h vs 244.8 μg·L -1 ·h ±1 68.3μg·L -1 ·h,P <0.05) and AUC0 -∞(804.7 μg·L -1 ·h ±445.6 μg·L -1 ·h vs 251 .4 μg·L -1 ·h ±1 73.4 μg·L -1 ·h,P<0.05 )between the two groups.Conclusion SH could significantly inhibit the elimination of DM,the substrate of CYP2D1 /2 in rats.
6.Determination of hydroxysafflor yellow A in human plasma by LC-MS/MS analysis
Changyin LI ; Jihong CHU ; Jun ZHANG ; Yuxin ZANG ; Guoliang DAI ; Jiandong ZOU ; Wenzheng JU
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2014;(10):1402-1407
Aim To establish a LC-MS/MS method for the determination of hydroxysafflor yellow A ( QA ) in human plasma. Methods After being added into 0. 2M ammonium acetate (1∶1,V/V), QA was extrac-ted using solid-phase extraction technique, and the eluent was directly injected into LC-MS/MS systems. Agilent ZORBAX SB C18 (3. 0 × 100 mm, 3. 5 μm) column and isocratic elution system composing of meth-anol and 0. 2 mM ammonium acetate (70 ∶ 30, V/V) provided chromatographic separation of QA and internal standard isorhamnetin-3-O-neohespeidoside ( SLS) fol-lowed by detection with mass spectrometry. The mass transition ion-pair was followed as m/z 611 . 131→490. 900 for QA and m/z 623. 032→298. 800 for SLS. Results The retention time of QA and SLS was 2. 7 min and 3. 9 min respectively, with no interference in human blank plasma. The proposed method showed good linearity over the concentration range of 8. 57 ~4185 μg·L-1 for QA with a correlation coefficient≥ 0 . 9949 . The lower limit of quantitation was 8. 570 μg ·L-1 . The intra-batch and inter-batch precision and accuracy were within 7%. The average matrix effect ranged from 115. 72% to 119. 06% with RSD less than 5%. The average extraction recovery ranged from 77. 75% to 80. 76% with RSD less than 5%. Stability of human samples after 4 h at room temperature, after the three freeze-thaw cycles and after 31 days at -70℃, and post-preparative stability of the processed sam-ples after 24 h was acceptable. Plasma samples with the concentration beyond the upper quantitation limit could be accurately determined after being diluted using 6. 25 times ( V/V ) of human blank plasma. Conclusion Our current LC-MS/MS method is sensitive, accurate and convenient, and is proved to be suitable for the sys-tematic study on clinical pharmacokinetics of QA.
7.Analysis of diagnosis and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia and its extrapulmonary lesions
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2020;35(16):1219-1224
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of death in children under 5 years old.Bacterial pneumonia is still the primary cause of severe pneumonia.Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus CAP and its clinical features remain incompletely understood, complicating the empirical selection of antibiotics. Staphylococcus aureus is the main bacterial pathogen of CAP besides Streptococcus pneumoniae.Due to the virulence its bacterial factors involved in nasal colonization and its relationship with the host immune response, staphylococcus aureus is easy to cause lung damage after the virus infection. Staphylococcus aureus also produces panton-valentine leukocidin, and other toxin factors, which lead to the death of host cells after infection, activate humoral immunity, produce a large number of inflammatory factors, further cause primary and secondary acute lung injury, and may cause systemic collapse infection.At pre-sent, there is little in-death research on the relationship between the toxicity of Staphylococcus aureus and the host immune response.The prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus makes the anti-infection treatment increa-singly difficult.It is urgent to improve the comprehensive diagnosis and treatment measures, improve the treatment rate, reduce the disability rate, and develop therapies targeted at both pathogen virulence factors and host immunomodulation.
8.Clinical validation of eCura risk scoring system after endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer
Yuxin LI ; Qi SUN ; Huimin GUO ; Xiaoping ZOU
Chinese Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2020;37(6):409-414
Objective:To verify the clinical applicability of " eCura system" , a scoring system for assessing the risk of lymph node metastasis after non-curative endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer (EGC).Methods:A retrospective analysis was performed on clinicopathological data of 155 patients with EGC, who underwent non-curative ESD confirmed by postoperative pathology in Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University from January 2012 to March 2018. According to the eCura scoring system, the 155 patients were divided to three groups: 100 cases in the low-risk group (0 to 1 point), 46 cases in the intermediate-risk group (2 to 4 points), and 9 cases in the high-risk group (5 to 7 points). Lymph node metastasis rates and prognosis of the three groups were observed and compared.Results:The follow-up time of the 155 patients was 25±15.0 months, of which median follow-up time was 25 months in the low-risk group, 23 months in the intermediate-risk group, and 34 months in the high-risk group. A total of 57 patients underwent additional surgery in the low-risk group, including 3 cases [5.26% (3/57)] of lymph node metastases; 29 patients underwent additional surgery in the intermediate-risk group, including 2 cases [6.90% (2/29)] of lymph node metastases; all 9 patients in the high-risk group underwent additional surgery and 4 cases had lymph node metastasis. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that the risk of lymph node metastasis in the high-risk group was significantly higher than that in the low-risk group ( P=0.003, OR=14.499, 95% CI: 2.513-97.214), while the risk of lymph node metastasis in the intermediate-risk group was slightly higher than that in the low-risk group ( P=0.767, OR=1.326, 95% CI: 0.165-8.594). During follow-up, there was no metastasis or cancer-specific mortality in the low-risk group, and recurrence was found in 3 cases [6.98% (3/43)] of the 43 patients without additional surgery. Among the 17 patients in the intermediate-risk group, who did not undergo additional surgery, 1 case [5.88% (1/17)] had recurrence and 2 cases [11.76% (2/17)] had metastasis including 1 case [5.88% (1/17)] died of brain metastasis. There was no recurrence, metastasis or cancer-specific mortality in 29 patients in the intermediate-risk group, who underwent additional surgery during follow-up. And there was no recurrence, metastasis or cancer-specific mortality in the all 9 patients in the high-risk group received additional surgery after ESD during follow-up. Conclusion:The eCura scoring system could contribute to predict the lymph node metastasis risk in patients after non-curative ESD for EGC. The benefits of additional surgery are limited for low-risk patients, while for intermediate-risk and high-risk patients, additional surgery can effectively improve prognosis.
9. Monitoring and analysis of gross α and gross β levels in drinking water sources in Guangdong province
Jianming ZOU ; Fan CUI ; Yanbing LIU ; Shanyu ZHOU ; Yuxin JIA ; Weixu HUANG
Chinese Journal of Radiological Medicine and Protection 2019;39(11):841-846
Objective:
To investigate the distribution of gross α and gross β radioactive levels in drinking raw water from different regions of Guangdong province, and to establish the radioactive level base line value in raw water.
Methods:
The samples from 191 drinking water sources in use in Guangdong province were collected in rainy season and dry season, respectively, and determined and analyzed under the standard examination method for drinking water-radiological parameters (GB/T 5750.13-2006). The levels of gross α and gross β radioactivity were evaluated under the standard for drinking water quality (GB 5749-2006).
Results:
A total of 377 raw water samples were taken, including 189 samples in rainy season and 188 samples in dry season, in which 186 samples were matched between rainy season and dry season. In dry season, the gross α levels ranged from 0.008 Bq/L to 0.582 Bq/L, averaged at (0.034±0.060) Bq/L, while the gross β levels ranged from 0.014 Bq/L to 0.637 Bq/L, averaged at (0.108±0.091) Bq/L. In rainy season, the gross α levels ranged from 0.008 Bq/L to 0.402 Bq/L, averaged at (0.045±0.064) Bq/L, while the gross β levels ranged from 0.014 Bq/Lto 0.848 Bq/L, averaged at (0.125±0.128) Bq/L. The gross α and gross β radioactivity levels of other samples were much lower than the guidance values in the national radioactivity standards on drinking water radioactivity, except for a sample from Shanwei area. The gross α and gross β radioactivity levels in the rainy season were higher than in the dry water season, and the gross α radioactivity levels in the rainy season were significantly higher than in the dry water season. There were significant differences in gross α and gross β radioactivity levels in rainy(
10.Effect of breast invasive ductal carcinoma with extensive intraductal components on local recurrence after breast conserving surgery
Yuxin MEI ; Ya ZHOU ; Hanqing ZOU ; Rui YIN ; Lei HUANG ; Enhao WU ; Guangyuan TANG ; Xun ZHU
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2019;34(4):340-344
Objective To analyze the clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of patients with breast invasive ductal carcinoma with extensive intraductal components (EIC).Methods The clinical data of 182 patients of early breast invasive ductal carcinoma undergoing breast-conserving surgery were analyzed retrospectively in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University,and the clinicopathological features and prognosis of two groups of breast cancer patients with EIC positive (n =23) and EIC negative (n =159) were compared.Results In the EIC positive group,ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) was 21.7% (5/23) and the distant metastasis rate was 4.3% (1/23);in the EIC negative group,ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) was 1.9% (3/159) and the distant metastasis rate was 3.8% (6/159).The Kaplan-Meier curve showed that the 5-year local recurrence-free survival rates in the EIC positive group was lower than that of the EIC negative group (78% vs.97.7%) (P < 0.001),and the difference was statistically significant,but the 5-year distant metastasis-free survival rates in the two groups was similar (95.7% vs.96.2%) (P =0.892).COX multivariate analysis showed that EIC was an independent risk factor for local recurrence after breast-conserving surgery in breast invasive ductal carcinoma patients.Conclusions EIC increases the local recurrence rate in patients with breast invasive ductal carcinoma undergoing breast-conserving surgery.