1.The cloning of mouse nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyl-transferase gene and the detecting of its expression
Hong ZHAO ; Zichao YANG ; Jingyu ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2011;30(10):866-868
Objective To construct eukaryotic expressing vector of the mouse NMNAT1 (nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyl-transferase) gene and examine its ability to express the NMNAT1 gene in Hela cells.Methods The full-length NMNAT1 cDNA sequence was amplified by PCR and cloned into the plasmid of T-vector and then to pcDNA3.1 construct.The recombinant plasmid pcDNA3.1-NMNAT1 was identified by DNA sequencing and then transfected with Lipofectamine2000 into Hela cells.The expression of NMNAT1 was detected by real time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and Western blot after 48 h transfection.Results The recombinant eukaryotic vector carrying NMNAT1 gene was constructed successfully in a match with database and this vector could up-regulate the expression of the NMNAT1 gene both in mRNA and protein levels in Hela cells.Conclusions The eukaryotic vector carrying NMNAT1 gene (pcDNA3.1-NMNAT1) enhances the expression of NMNAT1 gene.
2.Design and synthesis of novel antifungal compounds bearing quinoline and thiophene moieties
Lei PANG ; Jing ZHAO ; Tingjunhong NI ; Chengxu ZANG ; Zichao DING ; Dazhi ZHANG ; Yuanying JIANG
Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice 2017;35(1):17-21,86
Objective Based on the structure-activity relationships on the reported antifungal agents bearing quinoline or thiophene moieties ,novel compounds bearing both quinoline and thiophene were designed ,synthesized ,and evaluated for in vitro antifungal activity against Candida albicans .Methods With 5-cyanothiophene-2-carbaldehyde or 5-cyanothiophene-3-car-baldehyde as starting materials ,13 compounds were synthesized via reductive amination ,reduction of cyano group and amida-tion of quinoline-or isoquinoline-carboxylic acid .Their chemical structures were characterized by 1 H NMR and MS . In vitro antifungal screening against Candida albicans SC5314 was performed with the microbroth dilution method .Results All the compounds exhibited potent antifungal activities against Candida albicans .Among them ,compound 6k showed the highest an-tifungal activity with MIC80 value of 0 .5 μg/ml ,which is same potent as fluconazole .Conclusion The designed compounds bearing both quinoline and thiophene exhibited potent antifungal activities ,and deserve further research .
3. Clinical efficacy and safety of thrombolytic treatment with reteplase in patients with intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism
Haige ZHAO ; Shuxian WANG ; Zhinan LU ; Xinxin YAN ; Zichao LYU ; Fuhua PENG ; Yan WU ; Xin GAO ; Lu HUA ; Zhicheng JING ; Xiqi XU
Chinese Journal of Cardiology 2017;45(4):314-317
Objective:
To assess the efficacy and safety of thrombolytic treatment with reteplase in patients with intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism.
Methods:
Ten consecutive patients with intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism who received thrombolytic treatment with reteplase at Thrombosis and Vascular Medicine Center, Fuwai Hospital from March to November in 2016 were included.Vital signs, right ventricular diameter, systolic pulmonary artery pressure, and biochemical markers were assessed before and after thrombolytic therapy with reteplase, and bleeding complications were also observed during 3 months follow up.
Results:
(1) For the efficacy outcomes: at 48 hours after thrombolytic treatment with reteplase, echocardiography-derived diameter of right ventricular was significant reduced from (27.9±3.8) mm to (24.8±2.6) mm (
4.The predictive value of microvascular obstruction for adverse left ventricular remodeling after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a prospective study
Si CHEN ; Haixia DIAO ; Yiqing ZHAO ; Zichao JIANG ; Kang LIU ; Zeyu ZHANG ; Xin A ; Weiwei LING ; Geng QIAN
Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine 2023;62(12):1458-1464
Objectives:Microvascular obstruction (MVO) is a specific cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging feature in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the predictive value of MVO in left ventricular adverse remodeling after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).Methods:A total of 167 patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI in the Chinese PLA General Hospital from 2016 to 2020 were enrolled in this prospective cohort study, the average age of study patients was 57±10 years old, with 151 males (90.4%) and 16 females (9.6%). The patients were divided into the MVO group ( n=81) and non-MVO group ( n=86) according to the presence or absence of MVO on CMR imaging, respectively. The primary endpoint of the study was the occurrence of left ventricular adverse remodeling, which was defined as an increase in left ventricular end diastolic volume (LVEDV) by >20% at 6 months after primary PCI compared with the baseline. Patients who completed follow-up were diagnosed as left ventricular adverse remodeling or no left ventricular adverse remodeling according to CMR. The baseline data, perioperative data, and related data of end points were compared between the MVO group and non-MVO group. Finally, the predictive value of MVO in left ventricular adverse remodeling was calculated by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Results:In the baseline data, preoperative thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow ( χ2=13.74, P=0.003) and postoperative TIMI flow ( χ2=14.87, P=0.001) were both obviously decreased in the MVO group. After 6 months of follow-up, the incidence of left ventricular adverse remodeling in the MVO group was significantly higher than that in the non-MVO group [37.0%(27/73) vs. 18.9%(14/74), χ2=5.96, P=0.015]. The left ventricular end systolic volume at 6 months post infarction in the MVO group was significantly larger than that in the non-MVO group [(94±32) vs. (68±20) ml, t=-5.98, P<0.001], as well as the LVEDV [(169±38) vs. (143±29) ml, t=-4.74, P<0.001]. Receiver operating characteristic curve showed that the area under the curve of MVO size for predicting left ventricular adverse remodeling was 0.637. Conclusion:The risk of left ventricular adverse remodeling is significantly increased in patients with MVO after primary PCI for acute STEMI.
5.Expression of G9a in breast cancer and its effect on proliferation of breast cancer cells .
Zichao ZHAO ; Qilun LIU ; Chunmei WU ; Wenjing GUO ; Jinping LI
Journal of Southern Medical University 2019;39(4):477-484
OBJECTIVE:
To study the expression of G9a in human breast cancer, its association with the clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer, and its effect on the proliferation of breast cancer cells.
METHODS:
A total of 122 specimens of breast cancer tissues and 61 adjacent normal tissues resected between October, 2016 and October, 2017 were obtained from the Tissue Bank of Ningxia Medical University General Hospital. Immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR were used to detect the expression of G9a in the breast cancer tissues. The relationship of G9a with the clinicopathological features of the patients, molecular subtypes of breast cancer and the immunohistochemical markers was analyzed. A bioinformatics approach was used to analyze the expression of G9a in breast tissues and its association with the prognosis of the patients with breast cancer. UNC0631, a G9a inhibitor, was used to investigate the effect of G9a on the proliferation of breast cancer cells .
RESULTS:
The results of immunohistochemical study, real-time PCR and bioinformatics analysis showed that G9a was highly expressed in human breast cancer tissues. G9a was highly expressed in breast invasive ductal carcinoma, and its expression was negatively correlated with age ( < 0.05). Her-2-overexpressing breast cancer showed high expressions of G9a, which was positively correlated with the expressions of Her-2, Ki-67 and E-cadherin ( < 0.05). Bioinformatics analysis suggested that a high G9a expression was an independent risk factor for poor prognosis of breast cancer. In cultured breast cancer cells, the application of the G9a inhibitor significantly inhibited the cell proliferation.
CONCLUSIONS
G9a is highly expressed in breast cancer tissues to promote the development and progression of breast cancer. A high G9a expression is an independent risk factor for poor prognosis of breast cancer, and G9a may serve as a new target for early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Breast Neoplasms
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Cell Proliferation
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Disease Progression
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Female
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Humans
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Immunohistochemistry
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Prognosis
6.A heart sound classification method based on joint decision of extreme gradient boosting and deep neural network.
Zichao WANG ; Yanrui JIN ; Liqun ZHAO ; Chengliang LIU
Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2021;38(1):10-20
Heart sound is one of the common medical signals for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. This paper studies the binary classification between normal or abnormal heart sounds, and proposes a heart sound classification algorithm based on the joint decision of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and deep neural network, achieving a further improvement in feature extraction and model accuracy. First, the preprocessed heart sound recordings are segmented into four status, and five categories of features are extracted from the signals based on segmentation. The first four categories of features are sieved through recursive feature elimination, which is used as the input of the XGBoost classifier. The last category is the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), which is used as the input of long short-term memory network (LSTM). Considering the imbalance of the data set, these two classifiers are both improved with weights. Finally, the heterogeneous integrated decision method is adopted to obtain the prediction. The algorithm was applied to the open heart sound database of the PhysioNet Computing in Cardiology(CINC) Challenge in 2016 on the PhysioNet website, to test the sensitivity, specificity, modified accuracy and F score. The results were 93%, 89.4%, 91.2% and 91.3% respectively. Compared with the results of machine learning, convolutional neural networks (CNN) and other methods used by other researchers, the accuracy and sensibility have been obviously improved, which proves that the method in this paper could effectively improve the accuracy of heart sound signal classification, and has great potential in the clinical auxiliary diagnosis application of some cardiovascular diseases.
Algorithms
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Databases, Factual
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Heart Sounds
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Neural Networks, Computer