1.Exploration and practice of the undergraduate innovative experiment program
Dianhua LIU ; Liang ZHU ; Zeyu XIAO
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2017;16(5):454-458
Based on the significance of the innovative experiment program for college students and the experience at home and abroad,this paper analyzes the current situation of the implementation of this plan by School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiaotong University.It summarizes the beneficial experience of training students' scientific research thinking in the implementation of the course plan,through literature reading,project design and so on.Practice has proved that,with rigorous and reasonable protection system and the scientific implementation of the process and the quality control system,the program can play a role in improving the students' ability of innovation and practice,stimulate their interest in scientific research,and excavate their research potential.
2.Penicillium marneffei infection after renal transplantation: one case report
Zeyu CAI ; Yehong YAN ; Qi XIAO ; Xingjian ZHANG ; Chen ZHOU ; Jialiang HAN ; Qiong CHEN
Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation 2023;44(7):428-432
Clinical data were retrospectively reviewed for one case of penicillium marneffei infection after renal transplantation (RT) to explore a proper management of peniciliosis marneffei (PSM)transplantation.This case had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and underwent RT due to uremia.After discharging, postoperative recovery was excellent.Recurrent cough occurred at Month 7 post-operation.Fiberoptic bronchoscopy and pulmonary CT indicated a possibility of pulmonary tuberculosis.However, a definite diagnosis of PSM was confirmed by next generation sequencing (NGS) and pathogenic bacteria culture of alveolar lavage fluid.After adjusting immunosuppressive agents and regular antifungal treatment with voriconazole, respiratory symptoms improved and pulmonary CT hinted at a resorption of lesion.Features of pulmonary CT and bronchoscopic examination were nearly similar to those of tuberculosis.Thus early bacterium culture and NGS may aid an definite diagnosis.Voriconazole is an effective treatment of the disease.
3.Mechanism of Chemotherapy Resistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Intervention with Chinese Medicine: A Review
Zeyu HU ; Qingrui YANG ; Cheng ZHOU ; Lin YANG ; Haijuan XIAO ; Yu FANG
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2022;28(14):254-261
Multidrug resistance (MDR) has been a main culprit behind the failure of chemotherapy in patients with malignant tumors and a major obstacle to improving the life quality and prolonging the survival of patients. Hepatocellular carcinoma cells, the innate drug-resistant cells, are generally insensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Moreover, as the early symptoms of hepatocellular carcinoma are atypical, most patients are diagnosed at the advanced stage, with short survival period and high recurrence rate. Thus, the sensitivity to chemotherapy drugs is decreased. This explains how MDR becomes one of the important reasons for the failure of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (PHC) treatment. Therefore, it is an urgent task to search for safe and effective chemosensitizers with little adverse effect in the research on the drug resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma. As Chinese medicine has been widely applied in the treatment of tumors, the mechanisms of compound Chinese medicine prescriptions, Chinese medicine injections, and single Chinese medicinal in reversing chemotherapy resistance in liver cancer have attracted the interest of scholars. According to previous reports, the mechanisms can be summarized as increasing intracellular drug concentration, influencing changes in enzyme activity, inducing apoptosis, reversing abnormalities in cellular signaling pathways, and regulating the tumor microenvironment. Traditional Chinese medicine reduces the chemotherapy resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma cells through multiple targets and multiple pathways, thereby improving the chemotherapy sensitivity of the cancer cells and enhancing the toxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs to hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Therefore, exploring the mechanism of MDR of hepatocellular carcinoma from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine is important for reversing the MDR and is of great reference value for clinical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. However, there are few experimental types and adverse effects available. Thus, the multi-mechanism and multi-target experiments and clinical research should be carried out in the future.
4.Design of SERS nanoprobes for Raman imaging: materials, critical factors and architectures.
Mingwang LI ; Yuanyuan QIU ; Chenchen FAN ; Kai CUI ; Yongming ZHANG ; Zeyu XIAO
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2018;8(3):381-389
Raman imaging yields high specificity and sensitivity when compared to other imaging modalities, mainly due to its fingerprint signature. However, intrinsic Raman signals are weak, thus limiting medical applications of Raman imaging. By adsorbing Raman molecules onto specific nanostructures such as noble metals, Raman signals can be significantly enhanced, termed surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Recent years have witnessed great interest in the development of SERS nanoprobes for Raman imaging. Rationally designed SERS nanoprobes have greatly enhanced Raman signals by several orders of magnitude, thus showing great potential for biomedical applications. In this review we elaborate on recent progress in design strategies with emphasis on material properties, modifying factors, and structural parameters.
5.Prevalence of HIV seropositivity and associated factors among the spouses of HIV/AIDS patients in Shanghai, 2018‒2022
Yiling ZHENG ; Minhong LIANG ; Chunyan HE ; Shuang XIAO ; Jie FU ; Leiming ZHOU ; Zeyu ZHANG ; Qing YUE ; Zhen NING
Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine 2023;35(11):1053-1057
ObjectiveTo analyze the HIV infection characteristics and influencing factors among the spouses of HIV/AIDS patients in Shanghai. MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect demographic, behavioral, epidemiological and spousal HIV detection information of newly reported and married patients with HIV/AIDS in Shanghai from January 2018 to July 2022 in the comprehensive HIV prevention and control information system of Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the HIV positivity rate of the spouses of HIV patients and the influencing factors were analyzed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression models. ResultsA total of 1 233 subjects were investigated, and the first HIV-testing positivity rate of the spouses of HIV/AIDS patients was 29.3% (361/1 233). There were statistically significant differences in the HIV-testing positivity rate among spouses of HIV/AIDS patients by different age, gender, education level, occupation, transmission route, quantity of non-marital sexual activities, quantity of homo-sexual activities, and baseline CD4 cell count level (P<0.05). Spouses of the HIV/AIDS patients aged ≥65 years old, female, heterosexual transmission, less non-marital sex, and no history of homosexual sex had relatively high HIV positive rate. The HIV-positive detection rate of spouses in the ≥65 age group was 1.81 times higher than that in the <45 age group. The HIV-positive detection rate of spouses in the female group was 3.66 times higher than that in the male group, and the HIV-positive detection rate of spouses in the homosexual transmission group was 0.25 times higher than that of the heterosexual transmission group. ConclusionRisk awareness of HIV infection among married people with spouses should be improved. The key populations with the characteristics such as females as the first HIV-positive reporter, and heterosexual transmission should be paid special attention.Their spouses should be mobilized to conduct HIV-testing as early as possible
6.Design and synthesis of selective sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 agonists with increased phosphorylation rates.
Qiong XIAO ; Minwan HU ; Si CHEN ; Yifan TANG ; Zeyu SHI ; Jing JIN ; Jinping HU ; Ping XIE ; Dali YIN
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2020;10(6):1134-1142
FTY720 and IMMH002, prodrugs for sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P) agonists, show inadequate and inconsistent levels of phosphorylation in humans compared to that in rats. In this study, FTY720 or IMMH002 analogues (-) were designed and synthesized with modified head pieces to improve the biotransformation of the prodrugs to the active phosphorylated forms. Target compounds were synthesized a convergent route using the key and optically pure building block , which was first synthesized asymmetrically catalyzed amination. The phosphorylation rates of these analogues in rat or human blood were compared. The new methyl-substituted analogue compound showed higher phosphorylation rates in both rats and humans than the parent compound, whereas compound showed improvements in rats, but not in humans. In pharmacokinetics studies of rats, compounds and both had higher levels of phosphorylation than FTY720 and IMMH002. Thus, our study not only yielded new compounds with therapeutic potential, but also showed species differences between rats and humans in response to the structural modifications, which might be useful for predicting the biotransformation behavior and efficacy of this class of prodrugs in the clinic.