Objective:To investigate the necessity of adaptive re-planning during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and its impact on dose improvement.Methods:Clinical data of 89 NPC patients admitted to Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from July 2014 to December 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients received 25+7 rounds of adaptive re-planning during radiotherapy. Plan-A was defined as the initial CT scan-based 25-fraction radiotherapy plan, while plan-B was defined as the re-planned 7-fraction radiotherapy plan based on a subsequent CT scan. The changes in the target and parotid gland volumes were compared between plan-A and plan-B. Plan-I was a one-time simulation of plan-A extended to 32 fraction radiotherapy plan, and plan-II was generated through registration and fusion of the plan-A and plan-B for adaptive re-planning. The differences in dose metrics, homogeneity index (HI), conformity index (CI), and dose to organs at risk (OAR) were compared between plan-I and plan-II. Statistical analysis was performed by using paired t-test. Results:Compared with plan-A, the gross tumor volume of massive bleeding lesions (GTV nx) and parotid gland volume of plan-B were decreased by 13.14% and 11.12%, respectively (both P<0.001). While planning clinical target volume of metastatic lymph nodes (PCTV nd) of plan-B was increased by 7.75%( P<0.001). There were significant changes in the lymph nodes of plan-A and plan-B. The D mean, D 5%, D 95% of massive bleeding lesions planning target volume (PTV nx) and D 5% of high risk planning target volume (PTV1) in plan-II were all significantly higher than those in plan-I (all P<0.05). The CI of PTV nx and PTV1 in plan-II was closer to 1 than that in plan-I. In all assessed OAR, the D mean, D 50%, and D max of plan-II were significantly lower than those of plan-I (all P<0.05). Conclusions:During radiotherapy, NPC patients may experience varying degrees of primary tumor shrinkage, parotid gland atrophy, and lymph node changes. It is necessary to deliver re-planning and significantly improve the dose of target areas and OAR.

Objective:To understand the epidemiological characteristics of human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) among cases presenting with influenza-like illness (ILI) in Shenzhen City from 2019 to 2023.Methods:Respiratory specimens were collected from two national sentinel hospitals in Shenzhen from March 2019 to December 2023, specifically targeting cases of ILI. The real-time PCR method was used for the detection and genotyping of HRSV. Basic demographic information was collected and used for the epidemiological analysis.Results:A total of 9 278 respiratory specimens of influenza-like cases were collected and detected, with a total positive rate of 4.77% (443/9 278) for HRSV. In 2021 (8.48%, 167/1 970), the positive rate of HRSV was significantly higher than in 2019 (3.35%, 52/1 552), 2022 (1.80%, 39/2 169), and 2023 (4.49%, 133/2 960), and the difference was statistically significant ( χ 2=102.395, P<0.001). The prevalence of HRSV was mainly in summer and early autumn (September), and there was an abnormal increase in the positive rate of HRSV in winter 2022. The highest positive rate of HRSV was in children under five years old (9.84%, 330/335). The typing results showed that in 2022, the prevalence of HRSV-A was predominant (71.79%, 28/39), and in 2023, HRSV-A and HRSV-B subtypes coexisted. Conclusions:The prevalence of HRSV in Shenzhen from 2019 to 2023 has obvious seasonality, mainly in summer and early autumn. Children under five years old are the main population of HRSV infections.

Objective:To understand the epidemiological characteristics of human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) among cases presenting with influenza-like illness (ILI) in Shenzhen City from 2019 to 2023.Methods:Respiratory specimens were collected from two national sentinel hospitals in Shenzhen from March 2019 to December 2023, specifically targeting cases of ILI. The real-time PCR method was used for the detection and genotyping of HRSV. Basic demographic information was collected and used for the epidemiological analysis.Results:A total of 9 278 respiratory specimens of influenza-like cases were collected and detected, with a total positive rate of 4.77% (443/9 278) for HRSV. In 2021 (8.48%, 167/1 970), the positive rate of HRSV was significantly higher than in 2019 (3.35%, 52/1 552), 2022 (1.80%, 39/2 169), and 2023 (4.49%, 133/2 960), and the difference was statistically significant ( χ 2=102.395, P<0.001). The prevalence of HRSV was mainly in summer and early autumn (September), and there was an abnormal increase in the positive rate of HRSV in winter 2022. The highest positive rate of HRSV was in children under five years old (9.84%, 330/335). The typing results showed that in 2022, the prevalence of HRSV-A was predominant (71.79%, 28/39), and in 2023, HRSV-A and HRSV-B subtypes coexisted. Conclusions:The prevalence of HRSV in Shenzhen from 2019 to 2023 has obvious seasonality, mainly in summer and early autumn. Children under five years old are the main population of HRSV infections.

Objective:To quantify the associations between periconceptional maternal homocysteine (HCY) and offspring′s birth weight and risk of small for gestational age (SGA) infant.Methods:The 19 984 mother-child pairs in this prospective cohort study were recruited from the Shanghai preconception cohort; the infants were delivered from 1 st September 2016 to 11 th November 2022. A standardized questionnaire was used to collect the mothers′ demographic information, medical history, dietary supplement use, and maternal complications during pregnancy, and their serum samples were collected. Serum HCY, folate, and vitamin B 12 were measured using chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay based on serum sample drawn at enrollment. Birth weight data were obtained from medical records. Multiple imputation methods were applied to handle missing data in key variables. Multivariable linear regression and Poisson regression models were used to analyze the relationship between maternal HCY concentration during the periconceptional period and the birth weight and SGA risk of the offspring. Results:A total of 9 452 pairs were enrolled preconceptionally and the remaining 10 532 pairs were enrolled in early pregnancy. The proportion of mothers whose pregnancy age was greater than 35 years was 9.2% (1 832/19 984), the proportion of primiparous women was 76.5% (15 283/19 984), the proportion of pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity was 14.0% (2 804/19 984), the proportion of using folic acid supplements before pregnancy was 21.4% (4 272/19 984), and the proportion of those who supplemented with folic acid during early pregnancy was 85.2% (8 976/10 532); gestational diabetes mellitus was in 6.2% (1 245/19 984), gestational hypertensive syndrome in 3.6% (711/19 984). The birth weight of the offspring was (3 297±468) g, and there were 1 962 SGA children (9.8%). The HCY concentration in the overall population in appropriate for gestational age during the periconceptional period was (7.9±3.2) μmol/L, with (8.3±3.7) μmol/L in the preconception subgroup and (7.3±2.4) μmol/L in the early pregnancy subgroup. After adjustment for the covariates of perinatal demographic information, adverse pregnancy outcomes, serum folate and vitamin B 12, increased maternal periconceptional HCY was significantly associated with lower offspring birth weight ( β=-2.30, 95% CI -4.43--0.16, P=0.035). Only the early pregnancy subgroup was significantly associated with lower offspring birth weight ( β=-7.39, 95% CI-11.50--3.21, P<0.001). No association was found between peripregnancy HCY and offspring SGA risk. However, elevated HCY in early pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of SGA in the offspring ( RR=1.05, 95% CI 1.01-1.08, P=0.002). Periconceptional vitamin B 12 was a mediator of the association between HCY and offspring birth weight, accounting for 16.5%, 41.2% and 5.4% of its total effect in the overall periconceptional population, the pre-pregnancy subgroup and the early pregnancy subgroup, respectively. Conclusions:Maternal periconceptional HCY level is associated with lower birth weight in offspring, but not with the risk of SGA. Elevated maternal HCY in early pregnancy subgroup may be associated with increased risk of SGA in offspring.

Purpose/Significance To reveal secondary infection knowledge related to infectious diseases by mining public literature data,and to promote the research and construction of the secondary infection monitoring platform,so as to improve the prevention and control level of infectious diseases in China.Method/Process The literature based discovery method is firstly adopted to mine and ana-lyze the secondary diseases from large-scale biomedical literature data,taking viral hepatitis,human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)infection and tuberculosis infection as the examples.Result/Conclusion 3 kinds of secondary diseases including infectious diseases,non-infectious diseases and even tumors,are found from more than 36.8 million PubMed literature.The research results not only validate that this method provides a new approach for systematically and comprehensively reveal secondary infection knowledge related to infectious diseases,but also provide more powerful literature evidences for effective monitoring and early intervention of secondary diseases.

Objective To understand the change trend and characteristics of nosocomial infection through the comprehensive surveillance on nosocomial infection in infectious diseases specialized hospitals dur-ing 2017-2023 to provide an evidence for the prevention,control and management of nosocomial infection.Methods The surveillance indicators of nosocomial infection in a hospital during 2017-2023 were collected.The nosocomial infection rate,nosocomial infection rate in different inpatient wards,nosocomial infection sites,nosocomial infection pathogenic bacterial distribution and susceptibility factors conducted the statistical analysis.Results A total of 93 254 patients were admitted and treated during 2017-2023.The nosocomial in-fection rate and infection case-times rate showed the decreasing trend(P＜0.05).The case-times rate of the patients in the AIDS wards was 3.75％,which was higher than 0.79％in the tuberculosis wards(P＜0.05).The nosocomial infection case-times rate in the two wards areas during 2017-2023 showed the decreasing trend(P＜0.05).The infection sites were mainly the respiratory system(61.56％),blood system(9.44％)and urinary system(8.61％).A total of 803 strains of pathogenic bacteria were detected out,which were mainly Gram negative bacteria(63.89％),the top five were in turn Klebsiella pneumoniae(16.19％),Esche-richia coli(15.57％),Acinetobacter baumannii(10.83％),Pseudomonas aeruginosa(8.84％)and Staphylo-coccus aureus(7.22％).The top three of susceptibility factors were low immune function(58.78％),long term antibiotic use(11.29％)and ventilator use(9.20％).Conclusion Initiatively carrying the hospital infec-tion surveillance could accurately grasp the incidence trends and provide the direction and data support for pre-vention and control priorities.

Objective To explore the correlation between serum detection indicators abnormality of in-testinal barrier function with metabolic diseases.Methods A total of 26 838 individuals undergoing serum de-tection of intestinal barrier function in the physical examination center of this hospital from January 2020 to August 2023 were selected as the study subjects and grouped based on whether D-lactic acid(DLC),bacterial endotoxin(BT)and diamine oxidase(DAO)were abnormal.Their clinical data of the patients with abnormal DLC,BT and DAO were collected,including the body weight,blood pressure[systolic blood pressure(SBP)and diastolic blood pressure(DBP)],fasting blood glucose(GLU),pulse rate,total bilirubin(TBIL),direct bilirubin(DBIL),indirect bilirubin(IBIL),total protein(TP),alanine aminotransferase(ALT),aspartate aminotransferase(AST),and human plasma protein phospholipase(Lp-PLA2),etc.;the incidence rate of fat-ty liver in the subjects with abnormal DLC,BT and DAO was statistically analyzed,and the correlation be-tween abnormal DLC,BT and DAO with the fatty liver occurrence was analyzed.Results Among the 26 838 individuals undergoing physical examination,there were 544 cases(2.03％)of abnormal DLC,927 cases(3.45％)of abnormal BT and 649 cases(2.42％)of abnormal DAO.In the populations with abnormal DLC,BT and DAO,the detection rate in the male patients was significantly higher than that in the females,moreo-ver which were often accompanied by obesity,increased blood pressure and elevated blood sugar.68.08％of the patients with abnormal BT had high SBP,51.02％of the patients had high DBP,and 40.72％of the pa-tients had high GLU.99.58％of patients with abnormal DLC had abnormal IBIL.The population with abnor-mal serum DLC,BT and DAO had the high incidence rate of fatty liver,which were 43.57％,44.77％and 38.83％,respectively.The Spearman's rank correlation analysis showed that the DLC,BT and DAO levels were correlated with the occurrence of fatty liver(P＜0.05).Conclusion The DLC,BT and DAO levels could early warn hypertension,diabetes and liver function damage caused by metabolic disorders,and predict the risk of fatty liver occurrence.

Purpose/Significance The paper retrospectively analyzes the research progress on risk prediction models for prostate cancer,and provides references for the construction of prostate cancer intelligent diagnosis and treatment system.Method/Process Through literature mining and analysis,the significance of molecular,imaging,individual,population and other omics level evaluation indexes in the diagnosis of prostate cancer is discussed,and the key characteristic variables and clinical application value of different cal-culation models are compared.Result/Conclusion The existing models have advantages of easy calculation and strong feasibility,but they also have limitations such as limited prediction accuracy and insufficient generalization ability.The integration of multi-omics data and artificial intelligence models is of great significance for medical informatics research and smart medical system construction of prostate cancer.

Objective:To investigate the effect of temozolomide on autophagy of human glioma cells, and the inhibition of autophagy induced pyrocytosis on the proliferation of human glioma cells.Methods:2-64 μ mol/L of temozolomide was used to treat glioma U251 cells cultured in vitro. MTT assay was used to detect cell viability, MDC staining was used to detect autophagic vesicles in cells, cloning assay was used to detect cell proliferation, RT qPCR was used to detect the expression level of pyroptosis related mRNA in cells, Western blot was used to detect the expression of autophagy related proteins and pyroptosis related proteins in cells, and the relationship between autophagy and pyroptosis was detected by adding autophagy inhibitors.Results:Temozolamide could induce autophagy of human glioma cells, and significantly induce tumor cells to pyroptosis, thereby inhibiting the proliferation of tumor cells; RT qPCR results showed that caspase-1, GSDMD, IL-1 after temozolomide administration compared with the normal group β, the mRNA expression levels of IL-18 and NLRP3 increased significantly; Western blot results showed that Cleaved-caspase-1, Cleaved-N-terminalGSDMD, IL-1 β、IL-18 and NLRP3 protein were up-regulated; The incidence of pyroptosis decreased after the addition of autophagy inhibitors.Conclusion:Temozolamide can induce autophagy of human glioma cells, and then lead to pyroptosis, which plays an inhibitory role in proliferation.

Objective To identify and verify the interacting protein of α-11 giardin, so as provide the experimental evidence for studies on the α-11 giardin function. Methods The yeast two-hybrid cDNA library of the Giardia lambia C2 strain and the bait plasmid of α-11 giardin were constructed. All proteins interacting with α-11 giardin were screened using the yeast two-hybrid system. α-11 giardin and all screened potential interacting protein genes were constructed into pBiFc-Vc-155 and pBiFc-Vn-173 plasmids, and co-transfected into the breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231. The interactions between α-11 giardin and interacting proteins were verified using bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC). Results The yeast two-hybrid G. lambia cDNA library which was quantified at 2.715 × 10⁷ colony-forming units (CFU) and the bait plasmid containing α-11 giardin gene without an autoactivation activity were constructed. Following two-round positive screening with the yeast two-hybrid system, two potential proteins interacting with α-11 giardin were screened, including eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (EIF5A), calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAMKL) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH), hypothetical protein 1 (GL50803_95880), hypothetical protein 2 (GL50803_87261) and a protein from Giardia canis virus. The α-11 giardin and EIF5A genes were transfected into the pBiFc-Vc-155 and pBiFc-Vn-173 plasmids using BiFC, and the recombinant plasmids pBiFc-Vc-155-α-11 and pBiFc-Vn-173-EIF5A were co-tranfected into MDA-MB-231 cells, which displayed green fluorescence under a microscope, indicating the interaction between α-11 giardin and EIF5A protein in cells. Conclusion The yeast two-hybrid cDNA library of the G. lambia C2 strain has been successfully constructed, and six potential protein interacting with α-11 giardin have been identified, including EIF5A that interacts with α-11 giardin in cells.