CXCR7 is a new receptor of chemokine CXCL12 after CXCR4.The present study shows that CXCL12/CXCR7 biological axis has important influence to the development of a variety of tumors,similar to CXCL12/CXCR4 biological axis.CXCR7 is present in many kinds of tumor tissues and tumor cells widely,and plays an important role in tumor cells growth,proliferation,adhesion and migration.Restraining CXCR7 expression or blocking the CXCR7 signaling pathways may offer new strategies for the treatment of tumors.

AIM: To explore curative effect of different drugs in treatment of senile wet macular degeneration.METHODS: We selected 98 patients 98 eyes with senile wet macular degeneration from July 2014 to January 2016 in our hospital as the research subjects.They were divided into control group and research group as the administration sequence, 49 patients in each group.Research group was treated with ranibizumab.The control group was treated with Conbercept.Both once per month and for 3mo.RESULTS: Uncorrected visual acuity, central macular retinal thickness and area of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) leakage before treatment of the two groups were not statistically different (P>0.05).At 1, 3 and 6mo after treatment, the uncorrected visual acuity was improved significantly, the central macular retinal thickness decreased significantly, and the area of CNV leakage decreased significantly (P<0.05).The differences on uncorrected visual acuity at 1mo after treatment, central macular retinal thickness and area of CNV were statistically significant (P<0.05), while those indexes at 3 and 6mo after treatment was not significant (P>0.05).In the follow up period, there was no severe complications in the two groups, such as persistent high intraocular pressure, retinal detachment or tear, endophthalmitis, or other systemic complications.There were subconjunctival hemorrhage in 10 eyes in research group, 8 eyes in control group, all of which recovered within 15d after treatment.Transient elevated intraocular pressure occurred in 7 eyes in research group, in 9 eyes in control group.The complication rates of the two groups were not significant (P>0.05).CONCLUSION: In the clinical treatment of senile patients with wet macular degeneration, treatment effect of Conbercept is not obvious at the early stage, but the effect is equivalent later and more economical.

Objective To explore the role of contact system activation in the mechanism of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with thrombotic events.Methods A simple sample drawing study was conducted.Sixty-nine patients with SLE admitted to Department of Rheumatism in Tianjin Hospital from June 2014 to February 2016 were enrolled.The patients were divided into simple SLE group (n =38) and SLE + vascular diseases (VD) group (n =31) according to whether the patients complicated with VD or not.The VD patients were subdivided into three subgroups including SLE complicated with myocardial infarction (SLE + MI,n =10),SLE complicated with deep vein thrombosis (SLE + DVT,n =13),and SLE complicated with arterial thrombosis (SLE + AT,n =8).Sixty-eight healthy age and gender-matched volunteers without history of VD were served as controls.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the content of FⅫa-C1 inhibitor (FⅫa-C1INH) and FⅫa-antithrombin (FⅫa-AT) in plasma.Flow cytometry was used to analyze the contents of platelets associated factors.The correlation between platelet associated factor and FⅫA-C1INH and FⅫa-AT was analyzed by Spearman correlation analysis.Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was plotted to analyze the predictive value of FⅫA-C1INH and FⅫa-AT for SLE thrombotic events.Results Compared with health control group,the expression of FⅫa-C1INH in plasma in SLE group was significantly decreased [nmol/L:0.00 (0.00,0.07) vs.0.08 (0.03,0.13),P ＜ 0.01],the expression of FⅫa-AT was significantly up-regulated [nmol/L:0.18 (0.07,0.38) vs.0.16 (0.12,0.26),P ＜ 0.05].Compared with the simple SLE group,the expression of FⅫa-C1INH in SLE + DVT and SLE + AT groups was significantly decreased [nmol/L:0.03 (0.02,0.07),0.02 (0.01,0.04) vs.0.07 (0.02,0.11),both P ＜ 0.05],and the expression of FⅫa-AT in plasma in SLE + AT group was significantly increased [nmol/L:0.34 (0.21,0.53) vs.0.17 (0.06,0.30),P ＜ 0.01].It was shown by correlation analysis that FⅫa-C1INH was negatively related with FⅫa-AT in patients with SLE (r =-0.24,P =0.041 6).Activated platelet associated factors such as the production of interferon mediated by transmembrane protein 1 (IFTMI1) and interferon induced by double stranded RNA dependent activation agent (PRKRA) were positively related with up-regulation of FⅫa-AT and down-regulation of FⅫa-C1INH (IFITM1 and FⅫa-AT:r =0.39,P =0.001 2;IFITM1 and FⅫa-C1INH:r =-0.30,P =0.0146;PRKRA and FⅫa-AT:r =0.29,P =0.017 6;PRKRA and FⅫa-C1INH:r =-0.36,P =0.0029).The thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) and platelet P-selectin were positively related with up-regulation of FⅫa-AT (r1 =0.72,P1 ＜ 0.0001;r2 =0.34,P2 =0.003 8).It was shown by ROC curve analysis that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for FⅫa-C1INH on evaluating the risk of SLE thrombotic events was 0.998,the sensitivity was 100％,and specificity was 97.4％ when cut-off ＜ 0.01 nmol/L;AUC for FⅫa-AT for evaluating the risk of SLE thrombotic events was 0.954,the sensitivity was 95.0％,and specificity was 84.2％ when cut-off ＞ 0.40 nmol/L;predicted probability of two markers for predicting diagnosis was 0.5,the sensitivity and specificity were both 100％.Conclusions Contact system is activated in patients with SLE.FⅫA-C1INH and FⅫa-AT levels are closely related with platelet associated factors IFITM1 and PRKRA.FⅫA-C1INH and FⅫa-AT can be served as a promising potential biomarker for evaluation of the risk of thrombotic events in SLE.

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Objective To explore the measures to prevent recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN)injury during thyroid surgery.Methods The clinical data of 223 patients undergone thyroid surgery were retrospectively analyzed.Among the 223 surgeries,69 sides were undergone regional protection act of RLN and 191 sides were performed RLN exposure.Results There were 2 cases of RLN injury from the regional protection operation of RLN,including 1 case of temporary nerve injury which could be resulted from surgery clamp and 1 case of permanent nerve injury which might be caused by mistaking ligation during surgery.There was only 1 case of temporary nerve injury in RLN exposure procedure which was probably caused by the postoperative nerve edema and was recovered 2 months after the operation.The total RLN injury rate was 1.35％.Conclusion For benign thyroid lesions and non-dorsal lesions or during partial excision of the gland,the regional protection of RLN is helpful to prevent RLN injury.In cases with dorsal lesions of thyroid or contralateral RLN injury,or during lobe subtotal resection,lobe resection and reoperation,exposing RLN to prevent injury is necessary.Taking different approaches based on the profiles of lesions and surgical procedures to prevent RLN injury can significantly reduce the risk of RLN injury.

Objective To investigate the interseed dose attenuation for multiple 125I seeds.Methods Monte Carlo simulation was done by Geant 4 to investigate the dose distribution of single seed and multiple seeds.The results were compared with the dose calculation method from TG43-U1 and examined by experiments.Results The difference of single seed dose distribution between Monte Carlo method and line source model was ± 3％.The difference between Monte Carlo method and experiment result was ± 5％.The interseed dose attenuation of multiple seeds at the interesting points was 3.8％ to 13.2％ and the average interseed dose attenuation was 7.2％.The difference of experiment result and Monte Carlo result was less than 6％.Conclusions The interseed attenuation is about 7％ and the maximum value may be larger than 13％ for multiple seeds.The interseed dose attenuation may be larger in tissue.So it is not accurate to calculate the dose distribution by using TG43-U1.

Objective To dynamically observe the concentrations of plasma neuropeptide Y(NPY)in the patients with lower extremity arteriosclerosis obliterans(ASO)before and after vascular interventional therapy.Methods The levels of plasma NPY were detected by radioimmunoassay in 13 patients with lower extremity ASO(ASO group)before vascular intracavitary therapy and immediately,1 d,3 d and 5 d after vascular intracavitary therapy.Meanwhile,15 healthy subjects were served as control group.Besides,the ankle-brachial indexes(ABI)and clinical staging of ASO group were also obtained and compared before and 3 d after vascular intracavitary therapy.Results Compared with control group,the level of NPY in ASO group was much higher before vascular intracavitary therapy[(250.67?88.27)pg/mL vs(168.40?64.64)pg/mL,P

Objective To explore the role of intraleisonal pingyangmycin in the treatment of maxilla and facial vascular malformation.Methods A total of 160 cases with vein malformation were divided into two groups randomly,and were injected pinyangmycin and sod morrhuate,respectively.Results The size of the swelling reduced by 50% or more in 74 patients(92.5%) and by 75% or more in 64 patients(80%) in pinyangmycin group;the size of the swelling reduced by 50% or more in 50 patients(62.5%) and by 75% or more in 34 patients(42.5%) in sod morrhuate group;there was a significant difference in the two groups.Conclusion Intralesional injection of pinyangmycin is an easy,safe,and effective therapeutic method in venous malformation.

Objective To study clinical value of percutaneous intrabiliary expandable metallic biliary stenting (EMBS) for treatment of malignant obstructive jaundice. Methods One hundred and sixty patients with malignant obstructive jaundice were treated with EMBS ( EMBS group) . Thirty patients underwent only external drainage by PTCD were recruited as control. The patency rate of stent,decline of bilirubin and the complication were analyzed retrospectively. Both groups were followed up for three months. The Kaplan-Meier method (log-rank test) was used to compare the survival period between the two groups. Results Anorexia,skin pruritus and color of urine alleviated at a certain degree in both groups.In the EMBS group,plasma total bilirubin was(218. 78 ±2. 29) μmol/L pre-stent,and decreased to (134. 90 ±2. 34), (83. 18 ±2.40) , (40. 74 ±2. 29) μmol/L at the 7,14,21 days after the stenting, respectively; direct bilirubin was (128.82 ±2.40) μmol/L pre-stent, and decreased to (81.28 ± 2. 34), (51. 29 ±2. 45) and (25. 70 ±2.40)μmol/L at the 7,14,21 days after the stenting ( P =0. 000). In the PTCD group,plasma total bilirubin was (223. 57 ± 2. 58) μmol/L pe-stent, and decreased to ( 145. 68 ± 2. 57 ) ,(87.57 ±2.58) ,(38.65 ±2. 20) μmol/L at the 7,14,21 days after the stenting,respectively;direct bilirubin was (127. 6 ±2. 59)μmol/L pre-stent,and decreased to (79. 78 ±2. 70) ,(58. 36 ±2. 46) and (29.46 ±2. 20)μmol/L at the 7,14,21 days after the stenting,respectively ( P <0.001 ). No significant difference was found between the two groups at any time point ( P > 0. 05). Complications occurred in 34 patients in the EMBS group and the incidence rate was 20. 62% . Two or more complications occurred in 9 patients. In the PTCD group, complications occurred in 60.00% of the patients. In the EMBS group, 14 patients were failed to follow up, and 136 died. The median length was 214 days. In the PTCD group,all patients were followed up and all died,with a median length of survival of 75. 5 days. The survival analysis showed that the EMBS group survived longer than the PTCD group (P =0. 000). Conclusions EMBS placement showed better effect than PTCD. Compared to PTCD, internal drainage of metallic stents lead few complications and faster recover, and can improve the life quality and prolong survival time of patient with malignant obstructive jaundice. The placement of metallic stents is recommended as a preference for palliative therapy of malignant biliary obstruction.

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