1.Comparison and related factors of suicide risk among patients with schizophrenia,major depressive disorder,and bipolar disorder
Chuanlin LUO ; Yuanyuan LI ; Zhaorui LIU ; Yanling HE ; Liang ZHOU ; Bo LIU ; Jie ZHANG ; Yuandong GONG ; Yan LIU ; Jin LU ; Yanping ZHOU ; Changqing GAO ; Qing DONG ; Defang CAI ; Runxu YANG ; Tingting ZHANG ; Yueqin HUANG
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2024;38(1):1-8
Objective:To describe and analyze suicide risk of patients with schizophrenia,major depressive disorder,and bipolar disorder.Methods:A total of 2 016 patients with schizophrenia,903 patients with major de-pressive disorder,and 381 patients with bipolar disorder from inpatients,clinics,or communities who met the diag-nostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Fifth Edition were recruited.All patients were interviewed by psychiatrists using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview to diagnose mental disor-ders and assess suicide risk,as well as Clinical-Rated Dimensions of Psychosis Symptom Severity(CRDPSS)to as-sess symptoms.Differences and risk factors of suicide risk among three types of mental disorders were explored u-sing multivariate logistic regression analysis.Results:In the past one month,37 patients with schizophrenia(1.8%),516 patients with major depressive disorder(57.1%),and 102 patients with bipolar disorder(26.8%)had suicide risk.Compared with patients with schizophrenia,suicide risk in patients with major depressive disorder(OR=36.50)and bipolar disorder(OR=20.10)increased.Female(OR=1.87),smoking(OR=1.76),family history of suicide(OR=5.09),higher score of CRDPSS hallucination(OR=1.80),and higher score of CRDPSS depression(OR=1.54)were risk factors of suicide risk of patients.Conclusions:Suicide risk of patients with ma-jor depressive disorder and bipolar disorder is higher than that of patients with schizophrenia.In clinical practice,it is important to regularly assess suicide risk of patients.Patients who experience symptoms of hallucination and de-pression should be paid more attention to.
2.Norcantharidin induces apoptosis through autophagosome accumulation in breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells
Yuan XIA ; Qingling JIANG ; Xiaoting WANG ; Minjing LI ; Qiusheng ZHENG ; Defang LI
Journal of China Pharmaceutical University 2023;54(6):757-768
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of norcantharidin (NCTD) on the proliferation and apoptosis of triple-negative breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231.Western blot was used to detect the effect of NCTD on the expression levels of apoptosis-related proteins Bax/Bcl-2, cleaved-PARP/PARP/PARP, cleved-caspase-9, cleaved-caspase-3 and MCL-1 in MDA-MB-231 cells.Also, the expression levels of autophagy-related proteins LC3-II/LC3-I, Parkin and PINK1 in MDA-MB-231 cells were measured by Western blot.Flow cytometry was used to measure the effect of NCTD on the changes of mitochondrial membrane potential and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS).The effect of NCTD on autophagy flow in cells expressing mCherry-EGFP-LC3 was detected by a confocal microscope.Moreover, the effects of NCTD combined with chloroquine (CQ) or 3-methyladenine (3-MA) on the apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 cells were detected by flow cytometry.The results showed that NCTD significantly increased the expression levels of Bax/Bcl-2, cleaved-PARP/PARP, cleaved-caspase-9, cleasved-caspase-3 and LC3-II/LC3-I proteins, and promoted the mitochondrial translocation of Parkin, and blocked the autophagic flow in MDA-MB-231 cells. Moreover, NCTD combined with CQ accelerated apoptosis, while NCTD combined with 3-MA decreased apoptosis.These results suggest that NCTD can induce autophagy accumulation and lead to apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 cells.
3.Clinical Effect and Mechanism of Modified Danshenyin Against Chronic Atrophic Gastritis with Syndrome of Stasis in Stomach Collateral: Based on Theory of Collateral Diseases
Defang WANG ; Ming ZHAO ; Xiaoyi DONG ; Xiaoyan LI
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2022;28(23):122-127
ObjectiveTo observe the clinical effect of Danshenyin on chronic atrophic gastritis and explore the mechanism. MethodA total of 152 patients with chronic atrophic gastritis who were treated in Xining No. 1 People's Hospital were selected and randomized into control group (76 cases) and observation group (76 cases). The control group was given conventional western medicine treatment, and the observation group was given Danshenyin (oral). The treatment lasted 8 weeks for both groups. The clinical effect, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome score, and pathological score of gastric mucosa were compared between two groups. The content of pepsinogenⅠ (PGⅠ), pepsinogenⅡ (PGⅡ), proinflammatory cytokines [soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)], and gastric mucosa-proteting factors [prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)] was determined, and the adverse reactions and recurrence rates were recorded. ResultThe effective rate (91.18%, 62/68) in the observation group was higher than that (7.61%, 52/67) in the control group (χ2=4.727, P<0.05). The TCM syndrome score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P<0.05). Compared with the control group, the observation group showed low pathological scores of glandular atrophy and intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia (P<0.05). The observation group had higher serum PGⅠ content and PGⅠ/PGⅡ value and lower PGⅡ content than the control group (P<0.05). The content of sIL-2R and TNF-α decreased (P<0.05) and that of PGE2 and CGRP increased (P<0.05) in the observation group as compared with those in the control group. The incidence of adverse reactions in the observation group was 7.35% (5/68), as compared with the 14.93% (10/67) in the control group. The recurrence rates in the 6-month and 12-month follow-up in the observation group were lower than those in the control group, but the difference was not statistically significant (Fisher's exact test). ConclusionDanshenyin shows satisfactory effect in relieving TCM syndrome, regulating PG secretion, and improving gastric mucosal lesions in the treatment of chronic atrophic gastritis. The mechanism is the likelihood that it modulates sIL-2R, TNF-α, PGE2, and CGRP to alleviate inflammatory damage of gastric mucosa and protect gastric mucosa. The medicine is safe and reduces the recurrence of chronic atrophic gastritis.
4.Multicenter study on the effect of early screening skills training for autism spectrum disorders in primary care hospitals in Chengdu
Wenxu YANG ; Jiao LE ; Lan ZHANG ; Ying ZHANG ; Ping YANG ; Chunxia ZHAO ; Chunhua DU ; Junni HE ; Yanmei CAO ; Jia SHANG ; Li LI ; Yan LIU ; Shenglan WU ; Xia LI ; Xiujin CHEN ; Hai LAN ; Hua LI ; Xiang KONG ; Hengli LI ; Defang MI ; Jie ZHAO ; Yang NIE ; Jinxiu GAO ; Ling LI
Sichuan Mental Health 2022;35(4):337-342
ObjectiveTo investigate effect of conducting training of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) early screening skill on improving the ability to early identify ASD of medical staffs in primary care hospitals. MethodsIn September 2021, the training of ASD early screening skills was carried out for medical staffs from 20 primary care hospitals in Chengdu. After training, the training effect was evaluated. The numbers of referrals from primary care hospitals to superior hospitals, confirmed ASD as well as their average diagnostic age of children with ASD before and after training were used as evaluation indicators. ResultsAfter training, the number of children with suspected ASD referred by primary care hospitals was more than that before training [(16.65±11.60) vs. (3.40±2.23), t=5.431, P<0.01], the number of children diagnosed with ASD was more than that before training[(6.85±4.93) vs. (2.45±1.67), t=4.171, P<0.01], and the differences were statistically significant. As for the diagnosed age of ASD children, after training, the average age was lower than that before training [(34.95±11.67) vs. (42.2±14.64), t=-2.553, P=0.019]. ConclusionTraining of ASD early screening skills for medical staffs in primary care hospitals may help to improve their ability to early screening ASD children.
5.Integrated
Haoshi GAO ; Haoyue JIA ; Jie DONG ; Xinggang YANG ; Haifeng LI ; Defang OUYANG
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2021;11(11):3585-3594
The drug formulation design of self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) often requires numerous experiments, which are time- and money-consuming. This research aimed to rationally design the SEDDS formulation by the integrated computational and experimental approaches. 4495 SEDDS formulation datasets were collected to predict the pseudo-ternary phase diagram by the machine learning methods. Random forest (RF) showed the best prediction performance with 91.3% for accuracy, 92.0% for sensitivity and 90.7% for specificity in 5-fold cross-validation. The pseudo-ternary phase diagrams of meloxicam SEDDS were experimentally developed to validate the RF prediction model and achieved an excellent prediction accuracy (89.51%). The central composite design (CCD) was used to screen the best ratio of oil-surfactant-cosurfactant. Finally, molecular dynamic (MD) simulation was used to investigate the molecular interaction between excipients and drugs, which revealed the diffusion behavior in water and the role of cosurfactants. In conclusion, this research combined machine learning, central composite design, molecular modeling and experimental approaches for rational SEDDS formulation design. The integrated computer methodology can decrease traditional drug formulation design works and bring new ideas for future drug formulation design.
6.Deep learning for prediction of pharmaceutical formulations.
Yilong YANG ; Zhuyifan YE ; Yan SU ; Qianqian ZHAO ; Xiaoshan LI ; Defang OUYANG
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2019;9(1):177-185
Current pharmaceutical formulation development still strongly relies on the traditional trial-and-error methods of pharmaceutical scientists. This approach is laborious, time-consuming and costly. Recently, deep learning has been widely applied in many challenging domains because of its important capability of automatic feature extraction. The aim of the present research is to apply deep learning methods to predict pharmaceutical formulations. In this paper, two types of dosage forms were chosen as model systems. Evaluation criteria suitable for pharmaceutics were applied to assess the performance of the models. Moreover, an automatic dataset selection algorithm was developed for selecting the representative data as validation and test datasets. Six machine learning methods were compared with deep learning. Results showed that the accuracies of both two deep neural networks were above 80% and higher than other machine learning models; the latter showed good prediction of pharmaceutical formulations. In summary, deep learning employing an automatic data splitting algorithm and the evaluation criteria suitable for pharmaceutical formulation data was developed for the prediction of pharmaceutical formulations for the first time. The cross-disciplinary integration of pharmaceutics and artificial intelligence may shift the paradigm of pharmaceutical research from experience-dependent studies to data-driven methodologies.
7.The relationship among psychological flexibility, coping style and job burnout of nurses
Libo QU ; Fenfen WANG ; Xiaoyu BAI ; Mengxue WU ; Defang CAI ; Changqiong LI ; Jianping LIU ; Zhuohong ZHU
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2019;28(2):144-148
Objective To explore the relationship among psychological flexibility,coping style and job burnout of nurses.Methods A total of 694 nurses from one district level grade A tertiary general hospital in Yunnan were assessed using acceptance and action questionnaire 2nd edition (AAQ-Ⅱ),simplified coping style questionnaire (SCSQ) and nursing burnout scale (NBS).The relationship among psychological flexibility,coping style and job burnout of nurses was analyzed using structural equation model and Bootstrap test.Results (1) Correlation analysis showed that the total scores of AAQ-Ⅱ (21.81 ± 8.23),job burnout (22.71 ± 6.60) and its three dimensions including emotional exhaustion (8.93 ± 2.87),depersonalization (6.64±2.30)as well as reduced personal accomplishment(7.14±2.52) were positively correlated with negative coping dimension of coping style (10.86±4.99) (r=0.324-0.510,all P<0.01),while negatively correlated with positive coping dimension(26.44±5.86) (r=-0.102--0.143,all P<0.01).(2) Structural equation model analysis showed that positive and negative coping dimension had partial mediating effects on the relationship between psychological flexibility and job burnout (x2/df=2.30,GFI =0.91,AGFI =0.90,NFI=0.90,IFI=0.93,TLI=0.92,CFI=0.93,RMSEA=0.04).(3) Bootstrap test showed that the mediating effect sizes for positive and negative coping were 3.8% and 8.9% respectively and totally mediating effect size of coping style was 12.7%.Psychological flexibility had much larger effects on job burnout,and the direct effect size was 87.3%.Conclusion Coping style plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological flexibility and job burnout,but its effect is less important.Psychological flexibility plays a major role and more directly influences on job burnout.
8.Effects of acacetin on T47D cell proliferation
Lingling SI ; Jun MA ; Huanhuan REN ; Boxue REN ; Defang LI ; Qiusheng ZHENG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2017;33(2):260-267
Aim To investigate the effect of acacetin on cell proliferation and the influence of acacetin on estrogen receptor expression in vitro.Methods The proliferation rates and the cell cycle changes of acace-tin-treated T47D cells were measured by sulforhodam-ine B(SRB)assay and flow cytometry,respectively. Moreover,the mRNA expressions of estrogen receptor-alpha(ERα),estrogen receptor-beta(ERβ)and pro-liferating antigen(Ki67)were determined by quantita-tive real time PCR (qPCR).Western blot was em-ployed to detect the ERαand ERβprotein expression. Results Acacetin significantly promoted the prolifera-tion and increased the amount of cells arrested in S and G2 /M phase under the concentration of 0.001 ~1 0μmol·L -1 .Ki67 mRNA level and the ERαprotein level in T47D cells were remarkably upregulated after acacetin treatment.To clarify which estrogen receptors played a role in acacetin induced the proliferation of T47D cells,the combination treatment of acacetin and ERαinhibitor (MPP)/ERβ inhibitor (PHTPP) was employed.We found that MPP could reverse the cell proliferation,the cell arrested in S and G2 /M phase and the increased Ki67 mRNA level induced by acace-tin.PHTPP also alleviated the T47D cell proliferation induced by acacetin,whereas no significant changes were found in cell cycle and Ki67 mRNA level.Con-clusion Acacetin stimulates the cell proliferation of T47D cells in the concentration from 0.001 μmol · L -1 to 1 0 μmol·L -1 ,which is mainly mediated by ERα.
9.Antioxidation effect of dihydroquercetin pretreatment in isolatedrat hearts during myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury
Ning LU ; Jichun HAN ; Boxue REN ; Defang LI ; Bo WANG ; Wenjin HAO ; Qiusheng ZHENG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2017;33(4):487-492
Aim To investigate the protective effects of dihydroquercetin(DDQ) against myocardial ischemis reperfusion injury(MIRI) in rats.Methods Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 4 groups(n=10):normal,control,I/R model, and I/R model+DDQ(5,10 mg·L-1).This study used an isolated Langendorff rat heart model.The left ventricu-lar developed pressure(LVDP),heart rate(HR) and the maximum rise and fall rate of the left ventricular pressure(±dp/dtmax) were monitored and documented using a physiological recorder.The levels of lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) and creatine kinase(CK) were analyzed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Infarct size was measured using 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining.The levels of superoxide dismutase(SOD) and malondialdehyde(MDA), as well as the ratio of glutathione/glutathione disulfide(GSH/GSSG) were measured via ELISA.HE staining was used to observe the pathological changes of myocardial tissue.Results Compared with the I/R model group, the I/R model+DDQ groups raised hemodynamic parameters, SOD level, and GSH/GSSG ratio;and reduced the amount of CK, LDH, MDA levels.Moreover, the I/R model+DDQ groups had lower infarct size and pathological changes in myocardial tissue than I/R model group.Conclusion DDQ exertes cardioprotective effects against I/R via improving the oxygen free radical scavenging ability, the inhibition of oxygen free radical and reducing lipid peroxidation.
10.A case-control study of bloodstream infection and related factor of ICU patients
Defang ZAN ; Hui ZHANG ; Hailing GUO ; Zunzhu LI ; Xin LI
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2017;33(6):406-409
Objective To provide evidence for clinical practice by analyzing the factors associated with bloodstream infection in ICU patients through retrospective case-control study. Methods Using self-made data collection form, 133 cases of blood sample record from HIS system during May 2013 to December 2015 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital ICU ward were collected. In this study, 54 patients with positive blood culture results were allocated to the case group while 79 patients with negative results were in the control group. Baseline characteristics, which included sex, age and chronic diseases, were almost the same between both groups. Binary Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors related to blood infection. Results During May 2013 to December 2015, there were 54 blood infectious cases, among which 19 cases with positive gram bacteria accounted for 35.2%(19/54), 57.4%(31/54) of gram-negative bacilli and 7.4%(4/54) of fungal infection. Logistic regression analysis revealed that blood filtration treatment (OR=7.691), pulmonary infection (OR=7.682), ICU (OR=1.115), Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHEⅡ) scores(OR=1.096), procalcitonin (OR=1.065) were risk factors of bloodstream infection for ICU patients, while albumin (OR=0.763) was a protective factor. Conclusions Blood filtration treatment, pulmonary infection, hospital length of stay, APACHEⅡand procalcitonin are factors associated with bloodstream infection in ICU patients. Clinical procedures in ICU should mainly focus on improvement of prevention awareness, strict aseptic technology, professional quality of nursing staff. Besides, guarantee of patients′nutrition, effective treatment of primary diseases, and shortened hospital length of stay are also important to reduce the infection and improve quality of life of these patients.

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