BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that OCT4, SOX2 and HIWI can express in tumor tissues. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between the expression of stem cell transcription factors SOX2 and OCT4 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and their clinical characteristics and prognosis. METHODS: Expression levels of SOX2 and Oct4 were detected using immunohistochemical SP method in 77 cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and 40 cases of adjacent cancer tissues confirmed by pathological examination, and then the their relationship with prognosis and clinical characteristics of the patients was analyzed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Significantly higher levels of SOX2 and Oct4 were found in the esophageal cancer tissues than the adjacent cancer tissues (P < 0.05). SOX2 and Oct4 were highly expressed in the esophageal cancer tissues isolated from poorly differentiated, lymph node metastasis patients (P < 0.05). During the 2-year follow-up, the median survival of patients positive for SOX2 and Oct4 was only 24 and 21 months, respectively, which was significantly lower than that of negative patients (30 and 33 months, respectively). These findings indicate that the highly expressed SOX2 and Oct4 in esophageal cancer tissues are associated with the differentiation, metastasis and prognosis of the patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective:To observe the effect and influence of homocysteine and cystatin C in type 2 diabetes patients treated by Shuxuening injection combined with gliclazide. Methods: Type 2 diabetic patients were randomly divided into observation group and control group,and there were 30 cases in each group. The control group was given gliclazide hypoglycemic treatment, on the basis of the observation group to combined with Shuxuening injection. The course of treatment was 2 weeks. Efficacy , adverse drug reactions ,Ho-mocysteine ( Hcy) , Cystatin C ( CysC) and blood glucose ( FBG, PB) level change of two groups patients before and after treatment were compared. Results:The total effective rate of the observation group was 96. 67%, which was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0. 05). After treatment,blood glucose and Hcy, CysC levels of the two groups of patients were significantly de-creased compared with before treatment (P<0. 05),and those of the observation group was much lower(P<0. 05). The incidence of adverse drug reactions between the two groups had no significant difference(P>0. 05). Conclusion:Shuxuening Injection on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus has good curative effect, it can effectively reduce homocysteine and cystatin C levels, better control of blood glucose.