Immune thrombocytopenia is a common bleeding disease characterized by isolated thrombocytopenia.Some patients last for more than 12 months and suffer from chronic immune thrombocytopenia(CITP). The pathogenesis of CITP is complex, and the traditional first-line has little improvement.In recent years, researches on second-line treatments(thrombopoietin and its receptor agonists, rituximab and splenectomy), immunosuppressive agents, all-trans retinoic acid, atorvastatin, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have provided new ideas for the treatment of CITP.This review summarizes the recent progress in the treatments of CITP and will be helpful for individualized treatment.

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a systemic inflammatory state caused by abnormal activation and infiltration of lymphocytes and histocytes.Characteristic features include unremitting fever, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenia, organ damage, and even failure.Patients can develop central nervous system involvement.The most common neurological symptoms of CNS involvement are seizures and mental status changes, which need to be distinguished from various CNS diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and encephalitis.Early diagnosis and treatment are essential because of the poor prognosis and permanent sequelae of children with CNS involvement.This article aims to review the mechanism, clinical manifestations, accessory examinations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of CNS lesions in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and find clues for improving the outcome.

The importance of structural variants(SVs)for human phenotypes and diseases is now recognized.Although a variety of SV detection platforms and strategies that vary in sensitivity and specificity have been developed,few benchmarking procedures are available to confidently assess their performances in biological and clinical research.To facilitate the validation and application of these SV detection approaches,we established an Asian reference material by characterizing the genome of an Epstein-Barr virus(EBV)-immortalized B lymphocyte line along with identified benchmark regions and high-confidence SV calls.We established a high-confidence SV callset with 8938 SVs by integrating four alignment-based SV callers,including 109x Pacific Biosciences(PacBio)continuous long reads(CLRs),22 x PacBio circular consensus sequencing(CCS)reads,104x Oxford Nanopore Technologies(ONT)long reads,and 114×Bionano optical mapping plat-form,and one de novo assembly-based SV caller using CCS reads.A total of 544 randomly selected SVs were validated by PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing,demonstrating the robustness of our SV calls.Combining trio-binning-based haplotype assemblies,we established an SV benchmark for identifying false negatives and false positives by constructing the continuous high-confidence regions(CHCRs),which covered 1.46 gigabase pairs(Gb)and 6882 SVs supported by at least one diploid haplotype assembly.Establishing high-confidence SV calls for a benchmark sample that has been characterized by multiple technologies provides a valuable resource for investigating SVs in human biology,disease,and clinical research.

Objective To observe the anti-tumor effect and mechanism of curcumin on triple-negative breast cancer mouse model.Methods Human breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 were inoculated to the chest subcutaneous fat pad of mice(about 1 million cells in 0.1 mL cell suspension).At day 2 after tumor inoculation,nodules were seen at inoculation site (tumor formation rate being 100％).Forty successfully-modeled mice were randomly divided into low-,middle-,and high-dose curcumin groups (10,20,40 mg/kg) and model control group,10 mice in each group.The medication lasted for 30 continuous days.After medication,the blood was taken out from the orbital venous plexus,and the serum was separated for the detection of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) contents.Spleen was separated for the calculation of organ coefficient,tumor mass was weighed,and the expression levels of Bcl-2 and caspase-3 were detected by Western blotting method.Results Compared with the model control group,caspase-3 expression level was significantly increased in the three curcumin groups(P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01),but the contents of TNF-α and IL-6,tumor weight,spleen index and Bcl-2 expression were significantly decreased(P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion Curcumin has inhibitory effect on triple-negative breast cancer mouse model through promoting the apoptosis of breast cancer cells.