ObjectiveTo understand the distribution of enrofloxacin (ENR) residues in freshwater fish, to evaluate the dietary exposure risk to ENR for consumers through the consumption of different freshwater fish in Shanghai, and to provide a reference for controlling antibiotic residues in freshwater fish. MethodsGrass carp, Wuchang bream, pond loach, and Asian swamp eels were purchased from the markets in Shanghai. After being fed with ENR, the fish were divided into 42 batches according to their species and weight, and thereafter ENR residues in the muscles and skin of the fish were measured. In addition, a total of 44 batches of Wuchang bream, pond loach, Asian swamp eels were purchased from the markets, and the ENR residues in the muscles with or without the fish skin were measured, and the exposure risk was evaluated. ResultsThe average residues of ENR in skin of the freshwater fish after being fed with drugs in the 42 groups were higher than those in muscles (M=659.38 μg·kg^-1, M=460.83 μg·kg^-1; z=-2.212, P=0.027). The over-standard rates of ENR residues in the muscles with or without skin 44 batches of freshwater fish of sold in Shanghai were 36.36% and 29.55%, respectively. The median exposure, P₉₅ exposure, and maximum exposure to ENR through the consumption of the muscles with the skin for adults and children in Shanghai were higher than those through the consumption of muscles without the skin. For children, the margin of safety (MOS) for the max exposure to ENR by consuming the muscles with the skin was more than 1, while the MOS was less than 1 in all other cases for both children and adults. ConclusionThe ENR residues in the skin of freshwater fish are generally higher than those in the muscles. The risk of ENR residues in freshwater fish sold in Shanghai is within a controllable range. However, there might be a certain risk of acute exposure to ENR for children by consuming muscles with the skin of freshwater fish.

Objective:To detect pathogenic mutation in a Chinese family affected with isolated bilateral microtia.Methods:During 2022 June to December, one Chinese Han family with non-syndromic bilateral microtia was recruited at the First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. The clinical data and peripheral blood samples were collected from the family members. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was performed in the proband to screen all candidate variants. Quantitative PCR was applied to identify the candidate copy number variation (CNV) among the proband, the unaffected wife and the affected son to demonstrate the association between candidate variant and phenotype.Results:The patients in the family had non-syndromic bilateral concha-type microtia. WGS detected the duplication in the intergenic region of HMX1 and CPZ gene in the proband, which involved the evolutionarily conserved region (ECR). Both the proband and his affected son carried the CNV, while his unaffected wife did not have this variation.Conclusion:Duplications involving the long range HMX1 enhancer ECR are associated with the bilateral concha-type microtia in this family.

Objective:To detect pathogenic mutation in a Chinese family affected with isolated bilateral microtia.Methods:During 2022 June to December, one Chinese Han family with non-syndromic bilateral microtia was recruited at the First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. The clinical data and peripheral blood samples were collected from the family members. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was performed in the proband to screen all candidate variants. Quantitative PCR was applied to identify the candidate copy number variation (CNV) among the proband, the unaffected wife and the affected son to demonstrate the association between candidate variant and phenotype.Results:The patients in the family had non-syndromic bilateral concha-type microtia. WGS detected the duplication in the intergenic region of HMX1 and CPZ gene in the proband, which involved the evolutionarily conserved region (ECR). Both the proband and his affected son carried the CNV, while his unaffected wife did not have this variation.Conclusion:Duplications involving the long range HMX1 enhancer ECR are associated with the bilateral concha-type microtia in this family.

Objective: To investigate the clinical features and prognosis of intracranial embryonal tumors in children. Methods: Clinical data of 27 patients with intracranial embryonal tumors who were admitted to Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University be-tween May 2011 and December 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The study included 27 patients, comprising 17 male and 10 female children, with a median age of 7 years. Twelve patients underwent gross total resection, and 15 patients underwent subto-tal resection. After surgery, all 27 patients underwent craniospinal irradiation. The dose of craniospinal irradiation was 27-30.6 Gy, and the dose of the tumor bed was 55.8-60 Gy. Twenty-two patients underwent chemotherapy regimen composed of irinotecan, vtncris-tine, etoposide, nedaplatin after radiotherapy. The median follow-up period was 22 (4-93) months. Nine patients are alive without lo-cal or distant recurrence. Eighteen patients died; the causes of death were intracranial recurrence and spinal cord metastasis. The 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates were 79.4%, 50.2%, and 36.5%, respectively. Conclusions: Intracranial embryonal tumors in children are rare and malignant and can metastasize along the neuroaxis. Surgery, adjuvant radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are important for pa-tients with intracranial embryonal tumors. Moreover, the prognosis is poor.

Objective To evaluate the hematological toxicity of craniospinal irradiation,and determine the short-term clinical efficacy and prognostic factors in medulloblastoma.Methods Eightseven patients who underwent craniospinal irradiation were retrospectively analyzed with respect to the changes in hematology during craniospinal irradiation.The effect of sex,age,tumor location,interval between surgery and radiation,interval time during radiation and radiation sequence on survival were also studied.Results The 1,2,3-year overall survival (OS) and progress-free survival (PFS) rate were 95.0％,92.4％,84.9％ and 93.7％,89.8％,80.8％,respectively.The incidence of 2-3 grade leucopenia was 90.8％,while the incidence of 1-2 grade thrombocytopenia was 70.1％,and the incidence of 3 grade thrombocytopenia was 1.1％.The incidence of 1-2 grade hemoglobin reduction was 16.1％.No patient had grade 3-4 hemoglobin reduction.Kaplan-Meier analysis shows that more favorable prognoses in terms of 3-year PFS were evident for 0-1 grade thrombocytopenia compared with 2-4 grade thrombocytopenia (x2 =3.936,P ＜ 0.05).And 3-year PFS and 3-year OS were evident for 0 grade hemoglobin reduction compared with 1-4 grade hemoglobin reduction (x2 =10.269,9.336,P ＜ 0.05).The 3-year PFS between interval time during radiation ＜ 3 days and ≥ 3 days was 84.6％ and 68.6％ (x2 =4.413,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Hematological toxicity during craniospinal irradiation and the interval time during radiation were prognostic factors.

Objective To evaluate the prognostic factors and treatment results of intracranial ependymomas (EPs).Methods Thirty-one intracranial EPs patients who received postoperative radiotherapy in Beijing Shijitan Hospital between January 2009 and June 2012 were analyzed retrospectively.Twenty-two males and 9 females had an average age of 18 years (range 3-60 years).Seventeen patients received gross total resection (GTR) while fourteen received subtotal resection (STR).Median total radiation dose was 53.9 Gy (48.6-60 Gy).The three-year and five-year progress-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated with the Kaplan-Meier method.Univariate analysis was performed using eight clinical and dosimetric factors by Log-Rank testing.Cox proportional hazards model was used to identify the independent prognostic factors correlated to EPs.Results The median time of follow-up was 51 months.At the endpoint of the follow-up period,7 patients experienced tumor recurrence:5 had a local recurrence (LR) and 2 had both LR and distant recurrence.Six patients died,4 of which had cases of pediatric infratentorial anaplastic EPs.The three and five-year progress-free survival (PFS) were 80.6％ and 75.9％.Overall survival (OS) at three-year and five-year were 83.9％ and 76.2％,respectively.Univariate analysis showed a more favorable prognoses in terms of three-year PFS,five-year PFS and OS for GTR compared to STR (x2 =4.685,6.311,4.238,P ＜ 0.05).Besides,a more favourable univariate outcome in terms of five-year PFS was evident in patients when the total radiotherapy dose was ＞ 55 Gy compared to ≤55 Gy (x2 =4.210,P ＜ 0.05),and no severe radiotherapy complications occurred.Conclusions Surgery is the major treatment method,while adjuvant radiotherapy is important for subtotal resection and anaplastic EPs patients.Surgical resection and radiotherapy dose were relevant to prognosis.

objective:To investigate the clinical features and prognosis of pinealoblastoma in children. Methods:The clinical data of 10 patients with pinealoblastoma were retrospectively analyzed. These patients were admitted to the Department of Radiation Oncology, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University from December 2011 to December 2015. Results:This study included 10 patients, with 8 males and 2 females, with a median age of 7 years. Of the 10 patients, 5 underwent gross total resection and 5 underwent sub-total resection. The 10 patients were exposed to craniospinal irradiation after surgery. The median doses of craniospinal irradiation and tumor bed were 30.6 (25.5-36) Gy and 55.8 (50.4-60) Gy, respectively. Of the 10 patients, 4 underwent chemotherapy 1 month af-ter radiotherapy. The median follow-up period was 16.5 (1.5-49) months. The 10 patients survived. No local and distant recurrences were observed. Conclusion:Pinealoblastomas are rare, malignant, and pineal regional lesions that can metastasize along the neuroax-is. Surgery combined with adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy should be applied to patients with pinealoblastoma. Prognosis is also favorable.

Objective To investigate the clinical effects of autologous tumor immune cells (DC-CIK)assisted interventional therapy in the treatment of advanced primary liver cancer.Methods Totally 76 patients with advanced primary liver cancer were divided into 2 groups with 38 cases in each group by random number table method.The control group were merely treated with interventional therapy while the ob-servation group were treated with autologous DC-CIK cell assisted interventional therapy.The short-term curative effect,adverse reactions,liver function indexes before and after treatment,alpha fetal protein (AFP)and changes of immune function were compared between the 2 groups. Results There was no statistically significant difference in short-term curative effect and incidence of adverse reactions between the 2 groups (P >0.05).After treatment,the levels of AST,ALT and AFP in the observation group [(30.4 ±6.0)u/L,(45.2 ±3.8)u/L,(168.5 ± 49.3)mg/L]were significantly lower than those in the control group [(65.1 ±6.3)u/L,(61.8 ±5.3)u/L,(315.2 ±39.5)mg/L],and the differences were statistically significant (P <0.05).After treatment,CD3 +,CD4 + and CD4 +/CD8 + in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P <0.05).Conclusion Autologous DC-CIK cell assisted interventional therapy can sig-nificantly improve the liver function of patients with advanced primary liver cancer,and it can reduce the level of tumor marker AFP and sig-nificantly improve the immune function of patients.

Objective:To study relationship between B10 cells and the incidence of autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice. Methods:20 NOD/LT female mice of 6 week old were cultured in normal culture to 30 weeks,and the mice were divided into two groups according the mice’s blood glucose,serum creatinine and body weight detected at their 30 weeks old. IL-10 levels in spleen tissues of the two groups were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We used flow cytometry to detect the proportion of B10 cells in the spleen of mice in the two groups. NOD/LT mice were randomly divided into control group and B10 group. The B10 cells were inoculated in B10 groups,their blood glucose were detected when they were 10,15,20,25 and 30 weeks old. Results: The blood glucose and serum creatinine levels were significantly higher in the group than that in the autoimmune diabetes group (P< 0. 05),and the body weight was significantly lower than that in the autoimmune diabetes group (P<0. 05). The level of IL-10 in the spleen tissues of the autoimmune diabetes mice was significantly higher than that in the non autoimmune diabetes group. The content of B10 cells in the spleen of the mice with autoimmune diabetes mellitus was significantly higher than that in the non autoimmune diabetes group. When mice at the age of 10,15 weeks,the incidence of autoimmune diabetes in B10 group was significantly lower than that in the control group,but the incidence of autoimmune diabetes in B10 group was significantly higher than that in control group at 20,25 and 30 weeks. Conclusion:The over accumulation of B10 cells may be one of the reasons for the further development of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice.

BACKGROUNDDue to racial differences in the morphology of the knee joint and due to most prostheses available in the market being designed using measurements from Caucasians, the objective of this study was to provide the morphometric data of the patella for the southern Chinese population for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), patellar resurfacing, and prostheses design.

METHODSThe CT slices of the knee joint were obtained from both knees of 40 Chinese volunteers (20 females, 20 males, and age from 20-25 years) by performing a computer tomographic scan. A 3D model was reconstructed by Mimics software based on the computed tomography images. Six metrical characteristics were measured by digital ruler. Statistical analysis was performed with the SPSS statistical program.

RESULTSThe mean, standard deviation and P values of measurements and ratios were calculated using SPSS. All dimensions showed a significant gender difference with P < 0.05, but the six variables of the left and right knees had no statistical significance with P > 0.05. In addition, we studied the relationship between six couples (H-W, H-T, H-HAF, W-T, W-HAF, T-HAF) of the four variables (H: height, W: width, T: thickness and HAF: height of articulating facet) that were measured, which showed a significant correlation.

CONCLUSIONSExamination of the southern Chinese population revealed that males have larger patellae than women. In both genders, comparing data between left and right knees shows no statistically significant difference. Compared with Westerners in previous studies, the patella in our study was thin and small. There was a good linear regression correlation between measurements of the patella. The indirect measurement method on 3D models makes it easy to obtain anatomical data, and the results can provide a region and gender specific database for morphometric measurements of the patella, and can be helpful for designing implants suited for southern Chinese patients.

Adult ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee ; China ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Patella ; diagnostic imaging ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Young Adult