Objective To evaluate the expression and significance of P-glycoprotein(P-gp) in colorectal carcinoma. Methods The expression patterns of P-gp in 48 patients with colorectal carcinoma were examined by immunohistochemistry SP mothod and were analyzed its correlation to clinic opathological features. Results The expression of P-gp was related to lympy node metastasis. Its expression was not related to sex and age of the patients, localization of the primary tumor, tumorsize, histological grade, localinvasion, distant metastasis and Duke's stage. Conclusion Detecting the expression of P-gp might play an important role in chemotherapy strategy of colorectal carcinoma.

From the perspective of portable monitoring devices,we use an analog front-end AFE4490 design a module of Non-invasive blood oxygen measurement, used to collect human pulse wave signal and peak (valley) value detection and then use the principles of non-invasive oximetry calculated oxygen saturation (SPO2). This design of noninvasive oximetry module has the characteristics of small size, low power consumption, and the results of test show that the measurement of oxygen saturation are correct.
Heart Rate ; Humans ; Oximetry ; instrumentation ; methods ; Oxygen ; blood

BACKGROUND: Ligustrazine inhibits discharge of cerebral hippocampal neuron, penetrates blood-brain barrier effectively after absorbed in the body and is distributed extensively in cerebral cortex, brain stem, striate body, hippocampus, cerebellum and midbrain.OBJECTIVE: To probe into the influence of ligustrazine and its different concentrations after abdominal injection on cerebral cortical neural cell structure in epileptic rats induced by penicillin.DESIGN: Randomized control experiment.SETTING: Physiological Department of Xianning Medical College.MATERIALS: The experiment was performed in Anatomy Department of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology from September 2004 to March 2005. Forty healthy SD rats of clean grade were employed, of either sex, mass weighted varied from 200 to 250 g.They were randomized into 5 groups, named operation control, penicillininduced epilepsy group and ligustrazine groups of 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg, 8 rats in each group.METHODS: After anesthetized, the cranium was opened to expose cerebral cortical record region. BL-410 biofunctional experimental system was used to record brain electricity bilaterally and epileptic discharge of cerebral cortex in penicillin-induced epilepsy group and ligustrazine groups of 10 mg/kg,20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg. In the control, 1 hour after anesthesia and craniotomy, cerebrum was collected. In penicillin-induced epilepsy group, 1 hour after induction, cerebrum was collected. In ligustrazine groups of 10 mg/kg,20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg, after penicillin-induced epileptic discharge was stable, ligustrazine of 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg was injected abdominally successively, and cerebrum was collected when the most remarkable inhibition was achieved. Brain tissue section was prepared separately, with HE staining, the observation was done under optic microscope.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Structure changes in cerebral cortical neural cells in rats of each group.In the control, the morphological structure of cerebral cortical neural cell alternations on cerebral cortical neural cell structure, karyopykosis, plasmarrhexis and vacuolar structure, but there was no Nissel bodies in cytomarrhexis, vacuolar structure and decreased Nissel bodies in cytoplasm with the control, there were decreased vacuoles in neural cell, increased cytoplasm and few Nissel bodies in cytoplasm and cell structural morpholcontrol, karyon was big, round and light stained; clot-like Nissel bodies were visible and cell structural morphology was in tendency to be normal.CONCLUSION: In penicillin-induced epilepsy, morphological structure of cerebral cortical neural cell in rats is abnormal. Tetramethylpyrazine of various dosages may improve at different degrees morphological structure of cerebral cortical neural cell, especially significantly at high dosage, by which, its inhibition on epileptic discharge in rats is achieved.

Objective To investigate the effect of calcipotriol on melanin synthesis by human melanocytes and its possible action mechanism.Methods Primary melanocytes were cultured with various concentrations(10~(-5),10~(-6),10~(-7),10~(-8),10~(-9),10~(-10) mol/L)of calcipotriol for 24 or 48 hours.Subsequently,MTT assay,NaoH assay.Dopa-oxidase assay,Western blot and semiquantitative RT-PCR were used to measure the cell proliferation of,melanin synthesis by.tyrosinase activity,protein and mRNA expression levels in the melanocytes.respectively.Those untreated melanocytes served as the control.Results The calcipotriol between 10~(-9) and 10~(-5) mol/L had no significant effect on the proliferation of cultured melanocytes(P＞0.05).while that of 10~(-9) and 10~(-8) mol/L increased tyrosinase activity by 137%and 123%,and enhanced melanin synthesis by 40.63%and 18.75%,respectively,compamd with untreated melanocytes(both P＜0.05).Moreover,the tyrosinase protein level increased by 270.4%(P＜0.05)in melanocytes treated with calcipotriol at 10~(-9) mol/L for 24 hours.The strongest tyrosinase activity and melanin synthesis was observed in melanocytes treated with calcipotriol of 10~(-9) moI/L.Conclusions The proliferation of melanocytes is unaffected by calcipotriol at 10~(-9) to 10~(-5) mol/L,but it can elevate the expression of tyrosinase protein,enhance tyrosinase activity,and promote melanin synthesis in melanocytes.

Objective To investigate the construction of Streptococcus mutans luxS gene knockout mutant which can act as the technical platform for following researches on luxS quorum sensing function in oral ecosystem.Methods Erythromycin resistance gene was inserted between two 1 kb fragments containing regions of DNA immediately upstream and downstream of the luxS translational start and stop codons.The resuhing construct was linearized and electro-transformed into Streptococcus mutans cells.After allelic exchange,the luxS gene knockout mutant strains were selected on 10μg/ml erythromycin plates,and compared the growth and biofilms formation of luxS knockout mutant with wild type strains.Results The luxSknockout mutant was confirmed by PCR,and it was also confirmed that this gene mutant could be stably passed through in vitro.The growth mode of luxS knockout mutant showed obvious difierences against that of wild type at stationary phase,the knockout mutant gained more bacteria cells growth.Conclusion Streptococcus mutans luxS gene has been successfully disrupted with allelic exchange.This mutant strains showed higher growth abilitv which could be the consequence of quorum sensing mutant.

Objective To explore the relationship between diet intake and diabetes mellitus(DM) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) in adult residents in Guangxi,so as to provide scientific basis for dietary prevention.Methods 2 281 people(1 020 from urban areas and 1 261 from rural areas) aged 18 years and above were selected from 4 cities and 4 countrysides in Guangxi through a multistage stratified random sampling.The investigation included the meal investigation,medical examination and blood assay. Results Total 37 people(26 from urban and 11 from rural) suffered from DM and 26 people(15 from urban and 11 from rural) had IFG,the general prevalence rate of Impaired Glucose Metabolism(IGM) was 2.8%(4.0% for urban and 1.7% for rural);It showed that the prevalence of IGM in city was obviously higher than that in the countryside(P

Objective To explore the effects of lipoxinA4 on expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in rat primary lung fibroblast cells (LF) after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge.Methods Primary lung fibroblast cells were incubated with various concentrations (0.1,1,10 μg/mL) of LPS for different lengths of time (3,6,9 h).Then primary lung fibroblast cells were still incubated in DMEM medium containing LPS in the presence or absence of lipoxinA4.After incubation,the supematant of medium was collected and the level of PGE2 was detected by using ELISA.The cells were harvested,and COX-2 protein was analyzed by Western blot.Results The model of acute inflammation in fibroblasts was well established by administering 1 μg/mL LPS in fibroblasts for 6 hours.Induction of COX-2 protein by LPS was inhibited by lipoxinA4.The levels of PGE2 in control group,LPS group and LPS + LipoxinA4 group were 55.84 pg/mL,411.73 pg/mL and 307.07 pg/mL,respectively,and there was a significantdifference between LPS group and LPS + LipoxinA4 group (P ＜0.01).Conclusion LipoxinA4 down-regulates the expression of the COX-2 induced by LPS in primary lung fibroblast cells and consequently inhibits the production of PGE2 in a dose dependent manner.

Animals ; Calcineurin ; metabolism ; Diet, High-Fat ; Dietary Fats ; administration & dosage ; Male ; Myocardium ; metabolism ; Physical Conditioning, Animal ; physiology ; Random Allocation ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Superoxides ; antagonists & inhibitors

Objective To observe the therapeutic efficacy of continuous arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with radiofrequency hyperthermia in the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer.Methods A total of 20 advanced colorectal cancer patients with various distant metastasis were treated by the combined continuous intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy and radiofrequency hyperthermia.For the chemotherapy,a dose of 200mg/m2 surface body area of calcium folinate(CF) was given for 1 to 3 days.80mg/m2 of cisplation was infused intravenously for the first day and repalced by etoposide Vp16,60mg/m2 for 1 to 3 days in patients with renal dysfunction.For intra-arterial infusion,a dose of 500mg/m2 5-FU was given for 72 hours.For patients with liver metastases,chemoembolization(ADM 30mg/m2+MMC 6mg/m2 mixed with ultra-lique fied lipiodol) was carried out.Radiof requency hyperthermia with a frequency of 41MHz was performed on the second day after chemotherapy.Results Response rates were as sessed by CT scan and ultrasonography.The overall response rate(CR+PR) of the cases was 70.0%.No serious side effect or complication was found in the course of chemotherapy.Local pain and lipid nodule were occasionally observed in some patients after hyperthermia.Conclusion Continuous intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy in combination with radiofrequency hyperthermia is an useful and safe method for the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

Object To develop a capillary GC-MS analytical method for identification and deter- mination of ginkgolide A, B, C and bilobalide (GA, GB, GC and BB) in Ginkgo biloba L. leaves. Methods The leave samples were extracted in ultrasonic bath with ethanol-water (20∶80). The extract was purified by liquid-liquid extraction with ethyl acetate followed by solid-phase extraction on a column mixed with acid Al 2O 3, active carbon and celite. The terpenes were trimethylsilylated by BSTFA (with 1% TMCS) for 60 min at 100 ℃ and determined by GC-MS with HP-5 MS capillary column in the selected-ion monitoring mode. The intense fragment ions were chosen as monitoring ions for quantitative analysis. Cholesterol was used as an internal standard. Column temperature gradient: initial temperature 180 ℃, maintained 1 min, and then increased at 20 ℃/min to 260 ℃, and finally at 2 ℃/min up to 300 ℃, maintained 2 min. Results The retention times of GA, GB, GC and BB were 13.7,14.3,15.3 and 6.8 min, the major fragmentation ions (monitoring) were at m/z 537, 625, 713 and 455 (299), the average recoveries of GA, GB, GC and BB were 102.0%, 99.4%, 96.0%, 96.3%, RSD were 0.54%, 2.40%, 1.98% and 2.43%, respectively. Conclusion This method is repeatable, specific, accurate and easy to operate. It is adoptable for quality and quantity analysis of terpene lactones from G. biloba leaves.