Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Multiple Acyl Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency ; complications ; Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases ; complications

BACKGROUND:intervertebral disc degeneration can reduce nucleus pulposus cells,and peroxiredoxin II involved in the regulation of resist oxidation damage,cell division,differentiation,signal transduction and apoptosis.Peroxiredoxin Ⅱ has promotive effect on intervertebral disc degeneration,whereas the mechanism remains poorly understood.OBJECTIVE:To observe the effects of perexiredoxin Ⅱ on human intevertebral disc cells activity and type Ⅱ collagen synthesis in vitro.METHODS:Human degenerated human lumbar disc cells were cultured in vitro,and assigned into the control and peroxidase Ⅱ groups.Peroxidase Ⅱ with doses of 10,100 and 1 000 ng/L were added into the peroxidase Ⅱ groups.The cells were identified by immunohistochemical staining,and the cell proliferation was detected using cck-8 kit.Cell supematant was collected at days 3 and 7 after operation,and the expression of type Ⅱ collagen was measured by double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In vitro cultured human degenerative lumbar intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus cells by adding peroxidase increased with the dose-Ⅱ,the disc nucleus pulposus cells of the volume and type Ⅱ collagen synthesis gradually reduced(P ＜ 0.01).Tips peroxidase Ⅱ on the intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus cells,the number and type Ⅱ collagen synthesis significantly inhibited in a dose-dependent manner.Thus speculated that peroxidase Ⅱ on the nucleus pulposus cells in vitro may lead to disc degeneration as a precipitating factor.

Objective To explore the characteristics of auditory brainstem response(ABR) in children with otitis media with effusion(OME) before and after myringotomy with grommet insertion and the significance of ABR in diagnosing OME.Methods ABR were recorded in 50 cases(100 ears) before receiving myringotomy with grommet insertion for OME,30 cases(60 ears) underwent ABR monitoring after surgery again.For comparison,50 age-matched healthy children(100 ears) were also tested with ABR.Furthermore,30 cases were divided into two groups according to the viscidity of tympanic cavity secretion and the response threshold of wave Ⅴ were compared between the two groups.Results The response threshold of wave Ⅴand the peak latency of wave Ⅰwere normal in 13 percent of 50 cases(100 ears) before surgery.The rate of missed diagnosis was 13%.Among 50 cases,41% had normal response threshold for wave Ⅴ,52% had slight abnormal responses of thresholds of wave Ⅴ and 7% had medium response threshold of wave Ⅴ.The peak latency of wavs Ⅰwas normal in 19% OME children,but it prolonged in 72% OME children and absent in 9% OME children.The prolonged peak latencies(waves Ⅰ,Ⅲ andⅤ) and eleveted response thresholds of wave Ⅴ and shorted transmission time between waves(Ⅰ-Ⅲ andⅠ-Ⅴ) significant when compared to the control group.After surgery,the response thresholds of wave Ⅴand the peak latency of wave Ⅰwere normal in 46.7% children,the response threshold of wave Ⅴ were normal in 70.5% and slight abnormal in 29.5%.Occuring(elicit) rate of wave Ⅰwas 100% and peak latency of wave Ⅰwas normal in 50.2% chilren.The differrence of peak latencies(waves Ⅰ,Ⅲ andⅤ) and the response threshold of wave Ⅴ before surgery

Child, Preschool ; Esophageal Stenosis ; congenital ; Female ; Humans ; Larynx ; abnormalities ; Pharynx ; abnormalities

Objective To analyze the risk factors of acute kidney injury (AKI) in the patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgical procedures.Methods We retrospectively analyzed all gastrointestinal surgical patients nearly 2 years who were in the first affiliated hospital of Kunming Medical University and the first people's hospital of Yunnan province.Results The incidence of AKI was 2.1%.Univariate analysis and multivariate analysis indicated that: age>65 years, emergency operation and serious infection were significantly related with the incidence of AKI.Conclusion AKI is a common complication after gastrointestinal surgical procedures.This study showed that age>65 years, emergency operation, serious infection were risk factors most likely associated with postoperative AKI development.

Objective To explore the expression of costimulatory molecules of CD28 and CD152 for patients with chronic hepatitis B(CHB).Methods Flow cytometric analysis was applied to detect the expression level of CD28/CD152 on CD4+ or CD8+ T lymphocyte subpopulations.Results Compared with control group,the percentage of CD4+CD28+ and CD8+CD28+ increased significantly(P

Objective To observe the effect of dredging acupoints combined with Vojta training on spastic type cerebral palsy (CP).Methods220 children with spastic type CP were randomly divided into the treatment group and control group with 110 cases in each group. The children in the treatment group were treated with traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and Vojta training, and those in the control group were treated with drug through intravenous dropping. The gross motor function of all children in two groups was assessed with Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) before and after treatment.ResultsThe GMFM scores of children in the treatment group were significantly higher than that of the cases in the control group ( P<0.001).ConclusionThe dredging acupoints combined with Vojta training can improve motor function of children with spastic type CP obviously.

Objective To observe the effect of focal cerebral ischemic preconditioning on the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and to investigate the significance of astrocyte activation in cerebral ischemic tolerance.Methods Thirty-six healthy male SpragueDawley rats were randomly divided into reischenmic,ischemic and control groups (n = 12 in each group) after ischemic preconditioning.The former two groups received 10 minutes middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) preconditioning or sham operation 3 days before the 2-hour MCAO.The rats were killed 24 hours after the second MCAO.The control group only receivedthe two sham operations with an interval of three days.The infarct volume,histopathological changes,and GFAP expression in each group were compared.Results The infarct volume after ischemic preconditioning in the reischenmic and ischemic groups was 136.85 ± 14.51 mm3and 281.37 ± 29.93 mm3 respectively.The former was significantly reduced 53.15%compared to the latter (P =0.007).At the same time,neuronal degeneration and necrosis was reduced significantly,and GFAP expression was upregulated significantly (the mean absorbance for immunohistochemical staining in both groups was 102.66 ± 8.39 and 86.28 ± 6.19respectively,P = 0.009) after ischemic preconditioning in the reischemic group.Conclusions Focal ischemic preconditioning may induce brain ischemic tolerance and promote GFAP expression.The activation of astrocytes may be one of the mechanisms of cerebral ischemic tolerance.

BACKGROUND:Anticancer drug and organic metal complexes wil form a new structure or a change in ion concentration, thus changing both the activity and toxicity to produce a synergistic effect. OBJECTIVE:To synthesize new high-efficient and low-toxic metal-fluorouracil complexes as anticancer drugs. METHODS:Copper, zinc and iron salts and fluorouracil were used to synthesize four copper, zinc and iron-fluorouracil complexes that were [Cu(5-Fu)2Cl2], [Cu(5-Fu)2(NO3)2], [Fe(5-Fu)3]SO4 and [Zn(5-Fu)2Cl2]. Preliminary chemical structures of the four complexes were confirmed by elemental analysis and mass spectrometry. Their inhibitory activity on human cancer cells, human leukemia cellline K562 and human colon cancer cellline HCT-116, was measured by MTT colorimetric assay. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:[Cu(5-Fu)2Cl2], [Cu(5-Fu)2(NO3)2], [Zn(5-Fu)2Cl2] and [Fe(5-Fu)3SO4] were successful y synthesized. These four complexes at a mass concentration of 0.1-100 mg/L inhibited the proliferation of K562 and HCT-116 to different extents. The IC 50 values of these four complexes on K562 and HCT-116 cells were lower than those of fluorouracil, and their cytotoxicity was 1.5-7.8 times higher than that of fluorouracil. To conclude, copper/iron/zinc-fluorouracil complexes exhibit synergic inhibitory effects on cancer cellproliferation.

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