Objective To investigate the differential expression of ST8SIA4 in the both chronic myeloid leukemia(CML) cell lines KCL22 and adriamycin resistant cell lines KCL22/ADR ,peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of CML patients ,to clar-ify the correlation of ST8SIA4 and multidrug resistance of CML .Methods Using real-time PCR and Western blot for quantification of ST8SIA4 ,we compared the differential expression of ST8SIA4 in CML cell lines and PBMC of CML patients .The differentially expressed ST8SIA4 gene was silenced ,and the chemosensitivity to anti-tumor drugs was analyzed in vitro .Results ST8SIA4 was differentially expressed in CML cell lines and PBMC of CML patients(P< 0 .05) .The altered level of ST8SIA4 was increased drug-resistant phenotype of KCL22/ADR cells both in vitro and in vivo(P< 0 .05) .Conclusion The expression of ST8SIA4 was different in CML cell lines and PBMC of CML patients ,these characteristic alterations were associated with multidrug resistance in CML .

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of intraopèrative ultrasonography (IOUS) on primary and repeated hepatectomies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Methods 430 patients underwent 555 operations for HCC.New tumors detected by IOUS at the primary and repeated hepatectomies were retrospectively analyzed.The long-term outcomes were also studied.Results IOUS had the highest sensitivity in the routinely used imaging examinations.The detection rate by each imaging modality decreased slightly but uniformly at the second hepatectomy.IOUS detected 56 new tumors in 30 patients (7.1％) at the primary hepatectomy and 13 new tumors in 8 (7.3％) at the second.The average size of tumor detected was 8.7±3.8 and 9.0±5.2 mm at the primary and second resections,respectively.The preoperative surgical plan was changed due to the IOUS findings alone in 24 patients (5.6％) at the primary hepatectomy,and in 7 (6.4％) at the second.Although recurrence was frequent in patients with new tumors detected at the primary hepatectomy,long-term survival after appropriate treatment for recurrence was similar to those patients without new tumors detected.Conlusions Despite recent progress in imaging modalities,IOUS is still the most sensitive examination.The same degree of precaution is necessary to detect new tumors using IOUS in repeated hepatectomy.Patients with new tumors detected by IOUS are at high risk for recurrence so that regular check-up is important to improve patient survival.

BACKGROUND: Membrane materials of bioreactor have exchange of substance and good physiochemical characteristics as well as good biocompatibility.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the biocompatibility of interface of human hepatocyte/microporous polypropylene, i.e. graft modified microporous polypropylene semipermeable ultrafiltration membrane (MPP).DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: Animal observation was performed at the Organ Transplantation Center, Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School and Polymers Institute of Zhejiang University between September 2005 and October 2007.MATERIALS: The microporous polypropylene ultrafiltration plane thin membranes, 0.2 μm diameter, M<,r> 50 000-100 000 molecular blockage, were used. Photochemical graft polymerization modification technique was adopted to graft hydrophilic acrylamide group through chemical bonds on MPP surface and succeeded in constructing an interface of human hepatocyte/microporous polypropylene, i.e. bioreactor membrane of bioartificial liver, graft modified MPP.METHODS: The biocompatibility of modified MPP was evaluated by hemolysis test, cytotoxicity test, acute systemic toxicity test, pyrogen test, skin sensitization and percutaneous stimulation test according to the requirements and biological evaluation criteria of medical device of ISO10993-1:1992.MAIN OUTCOME MEAURES: The experimental results of hemolysis, cytotoxicity, general acute toxicity, pyrogen, skin sensitization and percutaneous stimulation of modified MPP.RESULTS: The hemolytic rate of modified MPP was 1.90% (<5%), which showed that modified MPP did not lead to hemolysis. The extract solution of modified MPP exhibited no significant inhibition on the proliferative activity of L929 cells. At 24, 48 and 72 hours after MPP injection, no mice death, significant changes in body mass, or acute systemic toxicity were observed, such as ptosis, dyspnea, eyanosis, abdominal stimulation, diarrhea, decreased movement or tremor. In rabbit pyrogen test, the body temperature changed in a range from -0.2 to 0.4, which was consistent with the evaluation criteria of biomedical materials without pyrogen. Only one case was found with very slight erythema in skin sensitization test; its integral was 1 and primary stimulation index was 0.25 (<0.4), and the primary stimulation index of percutaneous stimulation test was 0.2; the average primary stimulation index was 0.068, indicating that modified MPP had no skin irritation.CONCLUSION: Modified MPP has no haemolytieus, cytotoxicity, pyrogenicity or skin sensitization, suggesting good biocompatibility by photochemical graft acrylamide on the surface of MPP.

Hepatocyte transplantation may be a viable alternative treatment to liver transplantation for acute/chronic liver failure and metabolic liver disorders. Hepatocyte transplantation is an effective treatment to support liver function around liver transplantation due to its relatively easy manipulation and mild wound. In recent two decades, hepatocyte transplantation have been applied in clinical treatment and showed some effect in acute/chronic liver failure and metabolic liver disorders. Here, we sum up the status of clinical hepatocyte transplantation, discuss its value in clinical application and some challenges need to resolve.

Objective To discussion the effect of endoscopic single nostril transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection on improving clini-cal symptoms and related quality of life of patients. Methods Selected 114 cases of patients with pituitary tumors in our hospital from August 2013 to August 2015, and randomly divided them into the nasal endoscopic group and the microscopic group according to the random number table,with 57 patients in each group. Patients of the 2 groups were treated with nasal endoscopic and microscopic single nostril transsphenoi-dal pituitary tumor resection respectively. The operation situation,hormone decline,incidence of complications after surgery and SNOT-20 and VAS score of the two groups were compared. Results Operative time of nasal endoscopic group was significantly higher than that in the mi-croscopic group,whlie the blood loss,length of hospital stay in endoscopic group was significantly lower than the microscopic group,and the difference was statistically significant (P<0. 05). The total resection rate of pituitary tumor of the two groups were of no statistically signifi-cance (P>0. 05). One week after operation,cerebrospinal fluid cell count,cerebrospinal fluid protein,adrenocorticotropic hormone,serum chloride,sodium, growth hormone,and prolactin levels of the nasal endoscopic group were lower than the microscopic group (P<0. 05). The complication rate was 14. 9% in the nasal endoscopic group,which was obviously lower than 59. 6% in the microscopic group (P<0. 05). One week after operation,the SNOT-20 scores and VAS scores were increased in both of the two groups,but the microscopic group increased more significantly (P<0. 05). Conclusion Endoscopic single nostril transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection surgery cost longer operation time,but it lead to less trauma and less postoperative complications,which may delay the decline of patients’ quality of life and promote the improvement of prognosis.

OBJECTIVE:To create an in vitro harvesting method of culturing a large number of adult bone marrow MSCs(BMSCs) DESIGN,TIME AND SETTlNG:The randomized, controlled study was performed at the Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery (Key Laboratory of Education Committee of Shanghai City),as well as Department of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation Center,Ruijin Hospital,Medical College.Shanghai Jiao Tong University from September 2005 to April 2006.MATERIALS:Bone marrow samples were collected from normal persons.who did bone marrow examination at the Department of Hematology,Ruijin Hospital,Medical College.Shanghai Jiao Tong University.Donors were volunteers who signed the informed consent.METHODS:Human BMSCs were harvested using Pemoll gradient centrifugation and adherence method.and then incubated in microcarrier cytodex3.Common monolayer polystyrene was incubated as controls.Cell phenotype and proliferative activity were tested utilizing flow cytometry and MTT.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Collection.incubation,morphology of human BMSCs.and prolireration and cell cycle of human BMSCs on the cytodex 3 were measured.RESULlTS:Flow cytometry detection showed that the surface marker of human BMSCs on the cytodex3 was ldentical to that on the common monolayer polystyrene;BMSCs were positive for CD29,CD44 and CD105.but negative for CD14,CD34,CD45,VLA-1 and HLA-DR.MTT detection demonstrated that human BMSCs were in the adaptive phase at days 1-3.and entered logarithmic phase frOm day 3.No significant difference was detected in human BMSCs on the monolayer polystyrene and cytodex3(P＞0.05).On the monolayer polystyrene,human BMSCs entered degenerating stage from day 6,whereas on the cytodex3,human BMSCs were still in the logarithmic growth phase at day 9(P＜0.05).Flow cytometry detection confirmed that the cell cycle of human BMSCs was the same both on the monolayer polystyrene and cytodex3 (P＞0.05). CONCLUSION:Using cytodex3 culture technique,a large amount of human BMSCs can be obtained,and the proliferative activity of these BMSCs is good.

BACKGROUND: Hepatocyte/polymer interface with good biocompatibility is the key factor in bioreactor design andconstruction, however, bioreactor used in the clinical practice currently is not an ideal one.OBJECTIVE: To establish human hepatocyte compatible polypropylene interface and to lay a foundation for establishingbioartificial liver reactor with polypropylene hollow fiber.DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: The comparative observation, cell compatibility experiment was performed betweenFebruary and October 2003 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.MATERIALS: Polypropylene Photochemical graft polymerization modification technique was used to graft hydrophilicacrylamide groups on the surface of polypropylene membrane by chemical bonds to form modified polypropylenemembrane.METHODS: L02 human hepatoeytes were seeded on polypropylene membrane, modified polypropylene membrane andpolystyrene membrane, and polystyrene membrane was used as normal control.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Static water contact angle of polypropylene membrane before and after graftmodification; morphology, adherent rate and proliferation activity of L02 human hepatocytes on different material surfaces.RESULTS: Static water contact angle after polypropylene membrane graft modification was smaller than that before graftmodification (P < 0.05). The adherent rate of L02 human hepatocytes on the surface of modified polypropylene membranewas 0, and the proliferation activity of them, which grew as spherical aggregates, was markedly higher than that of cells onpolystyrene membrane and polypropylene membrane without graft modification.CONCLUSION: Grafting polyacrylamide on the surface of polypropylene can establish good interface of L02 humanhepatocytes/polypropylene and form hepatocyte spherical aggregates through simple static culture.

Objective:To analyze the factors influencing prognosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) after surgical resection.Methods:The clinical data of patients diagnosed with ICC and who underwent surgical resection from December 2015 to December 2019 at the Fifth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Of 39 patients who were included in this study, there were 23 males and 16 females, with age of (54.1±7.2) years old. The body mass index, hepatitis B virus infection status, tumor diameter, degree of differentiation, microvascular tumor thrombus, lymph node metastasis, and serum levels of carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) were analyzed as risk factors affecting postoperative recurrence and survival.Results:The median times to recurrence were significantly better in patients with a tumour length <5 cm (11 vs. 5 months), patients without microvascular tumor thrombus (54 vs. 6 months) and patients without lymph node metastasis (8 vs. 5 months) (all P<0.05). The median survival of patients with CA19-9≥100 U/ml was significantly shorter than that of patients with CA19-9<100 U/ml, (9 vs. 27 months, P<0.05). Tumor diameter>5 cm, microvascular tumor thrombus, lymph node metastasis, and CA19-9 ≥100 U/ml are risk factors affecting the recurrence time after ICC resection, CA19-9 ≥100 U/ml is a risk factor affecting survival time after ICC resection. Conclusion:Tumor diameter, microvascular tumor thrombus, lymph node metastasis and CA19-9 can be used to estimate the risk of ICC recurrence, and CA19-9 level can be used to estimate postoperative survival of ICC patients after resection.

Objective To study the accuracy of traditional basilar membrane displacement evaluation criteria for evaluating hearing compensation performance of round window-stimulated middle ear implant, so as to provide the theoretical basis for performance evaluation of round window-stimulated middle ear implant. Methods An acoustic microscopic finite element model of cochlea was constructed based on experimental data of the cochlea geometry. Reliability of this model was verified by comparison with experimental measurement values of inner hair cell, outer hair cell, tectorial membrane displacement. Based on this model, the displacement of basilar membrane and the stereocilia shear displacement of inner hair cells under forward stimulation and round-window stimulation were comparatively analyzed. Using the stereocilia shear displacement of inner hair cells as the criterion for sense of sound, the equivalent sound pressure level (SPL) deviation under round-window stimulation was studied when using traditional basilar membrane displacement as evaluation criterion. Results At 5 kHz characteristic frequency of the studied slice of cochlea, under sound pressures with the same amplitude, the displacement of basilar membrane and the stereocilia shear displacement of inner hair cells under round-window stimulation were lower than that under forward stimulation. Conclusions Under forward stimulation, the inner hair cells were more excited and the performance for sense of sound was better than that under round-window stimulation. Concurrently, using the displacement of basilar membrane under forward stimulation as the criterion of hearing compensation performance would overestimate hearing compensation performance of middle ear implant under round-window stimulation; but the deviation was relatively small, which was a relatively reliable evaluation method.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the clinical characteristics and diagnosis of silicosis with pulmonary tuberculosis and pulmonary aspergillosis. METHODS: The clinical data of a case of silicosis combined with pulmonary tuberculosis and aspergillosis was analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: The clinical symptoms of this patient were chest tightness, suffocation, cough, expectoration and hemoptysis. The patient was diagnosed as tuberculosis in the local hospital in 2015. Two previous sputum smears of the patient were positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis. Both qualitative analysis of blood tubercle bacilli and sputum smear examination of acid-fast bacilli were negative. Chest computed tomography(CT) showed right lung pneumoconiosis with large shadow, left lower lobe of lung with uneven density and flake shadow, low density necrotic foci, a cavity with smooth wall. Sputum fungal culture: Aspergillus fumigatus(+++); bronchoscopic lung biopsy showed: Aspergillus pneumoniae. CONCLUSION: Low immunity, malnutrition and long-term use of antibiotics and hormones are the high risk factors of pulmonary aspergillosis. It is helpful to combine laboratory examination, patients′ clinical manifestations and chest CT characteristics, and to analyze the condition comprehensively for the early diagnosis of silicosis with pulmonary aspergillosis.