OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of soybean isoflavones （SI） on the reproductive development of young mice. METHODS C57BL/6 young mice were randomly divided into control group， SI low-dose and high-dose groups （10， 100 mg/kg）， with 10 mice in each group （half male and half female）. The young mice in each group were given corresponding liquid intragastrically， once a day， for 2 consecutive weeks. After the last administration， the percentage of body weight increase was calculated； serum estradiol and testosterone levels， malondialdehyde （MDA） content， total antioxidant capacity （T-AOC）， superoxide dismutase （SOD） and glutathione peroxidase （GSH-Px） activities in the reproductive organs of the young mice were determined. The histopathological changes in the reproductive organs were observed. The cell apoptosis of reproductive organs was detected. RESULTS Compared with the control group， the percentage of body weight increase in female mice was increased significantly in the SI high-dose group， while that of male mice was decreased significantly （P＜0.05 or P＜0.01）. Cystic follicles could be seen in the ovarian tissue in SI groups， a loose arrangement of spermatocytes could be seen in the testicular tissue， and partial epithelial cell shedding could be seen in epididymal tissue. The serum level of testosterone in female young mice and the serum levels of testosterone and estradiol in male young mice in SI groups， GSH-Px activity in the ovarian tissue of female young mice in the SI low-dose group， T-AOC activities in the ovarian tissue of female young mice in SI groups as well as the apoptotic rates of cells in testicular and epididymal tissue of male young mice in SI groups were increased significantly （P＜0.05 or P＜ 0.01）； the serum level of estradiol in female young mice in SI groups， SOD activity in the ovarian tissue of female young mice in the SI high-dose group， and MDA contents in the ovarian tissue of female young mice in SI groups as well as the apoptotic rates of cells in ovarian tissue of female mice in SI groups were decreased significantly （P＜0.05 or P＜0.01）. CONCLUSIONS SI can enhance the antioxidant stress capacity of ovarian tissue in female young mice and reduce their oxidative stress damage， but it has certain toxicity to reproductive organs in male mice.

Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate long-term survivals and toxicities of early-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in endemic area, evaluating the role of chemotherapy in stage II patients. Materials and Methods: Totally 187 patients with newly diagnosed NPC and restaged American Joint Committee on Cancer/ International Union Against Cancer 8th T1-2N0-1M0 were retrospectively recruited. All received intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT)±chemotherapy (CT) from 2001 to 2010. Results: With 15.7-year median follow-up, 10-year locoregional recurrence-free survival, distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), disease-specific survival (DSS), and overall survival (OS) were 93.3%, 93.5%, 92.9% and 88.2%, respectively. Multivariable analyses showed cervical lymph nodes positive and pre-treatment prognostic nutritional index ≥ 52.0 could independently predict DMFS (p=0.036 and p=0.011), DSS (p=0.014 and p=0.026), and OS (p=0.002 and p < 0.001); Charlson comorbidity index < 3 points could predict DSS (p=0.011); age > 45 years (p=0.002) and pre-treatment lactate dehydrogenase ≥ 240 U/L (p < 0.001) predicted OS. No grade 4 late toxicity happened; grade 3 late toxicities included subcutaneous fibrosis (4.3%), deafness or otitis (4.8%), skin dystrophy (2.1%), and xerostomia (1.1%). No differences on survivals were shown between IMRT+CT vs. IMRT alone in stage II patients, even in T2N1M0 (p > 0.05). Unsurprising, patients in IMRT+CT had more acute gastrointestinal reaction, myelosuppression, mucositis, late ear toxicity, and cranial nerve injury (all p < 0.05) than IMRT alone group. Conclusion Superior tumor control and satisfying long-term outcomes could be achieved with IMRT in early-stage NPC with mild late toxicities. As CT would bring more toxicities, it should be carefully performed to stage II patients.

Objective To explore facial emotion cognition character and the correlation to frontal lobe white matter fiber tracts in first-episode of schizophrenia patients in comparison with healthy control.Method The diffusion tensor imaging data were obtained from 56 patients with untreated first-episode schizophrenia and 30 healthy controls subjects.Fiber tracking was performed in the whole cerebral cortex of brain.The parameter of impairment white matter fiber tracts were obtained,such as fractional anisotropy,mean diffusivity,radial diffusivity,axial diffusivity.Computer-based facial emotion cognition test was used to evaluate difference of facial emotion identification.The correlation between ability of identifying ambiguous emotion and the parameter of impairment white matter fiber tracts,and the correlation between ability of identifying ambiguous emotion and PANSS scale were explored by linear correlation analysis.Result (1) Between patients and healthy control,there was no significant difference in the proportion of recognition as happy emotion to mixture of 50％ happy emotion plus 50％ angry emotion.In patients group,the number of regarding 100％ happy emotion plus 0 angry emotion (9.96±2.42) and regarding 75％ happy emotion plus 25％ angry emotion (9.91 ± 2.33) both as happy emotion were significantly lower than the healthy control (11.40 ± 1.48,11.30± 1.44;t=-3.332,-3.325;all P＜0.01).The number of regarding 25％ happy emotion and 75％ angry emotion as happy emotion(2.24±2.57),and the number of regarding 0 happy emotion and 100％ angry emotion as happy emotion(1.78 ± 2.66) were higher than healthy control(0.83 ± 2.21,0.70±2.02;t=2.537,2.056;P＜0.05 or P＜0.01).The total response time for all images on screen was significantly longer than healthy control(t=6.441,P＜0.01).(2)There are five relative serious fiber tracts impaired.Patients with schizophrenia were demonstrated lower activation in right dorsolateral frontal gyru,right inferior frontal operculum,right medial frontal gyrus,left precentral gyrus,left olfactory cortex (t=-2.993 0-2.830 0,P＜0.01 or P＜0.05),in comparison with healthy controls,except FA value of right inferior frontal operculum and AD value of left precentral gyrus were found higher in patients group.(3) There was no correlation between identifying facial emotion and PANSS.(4)The correlation between identifying ambiguous emotion and the parameter of impairment or white matter fiber tracts was explored by linear correlation analysis,which found FA value of left precentral gyrus positively correlated to the number of identifying happy emotion from 25％ happy emotion plus 75％ angry emotion (r=0.362,P=0.007),and from 0 happy emotion plus 100％ angry emotion (r=0.476,P=0.000).Conclusion This study suggests that schizophrenia patients could not identify facial emotion accurately and their white matter fiber tracts in the frontal lobe are damaged significantly.The impairment of facial emotion recognition is correlated with the abnormality of white matter fiber tracts.

Objective To explore facial emotion cognition character and the correlation to frontal lobe white matter fiber tracts in first-episode of schizophrenia patients in comparison with healthy control.Method The diffusion tensor imaging data were obtained from 56 patients with untreated first-episode schizophrenia and 30 healthy controls subjects.Fiber tracking was performed in the whole cerebral cortex of brain.The parameter of impairment white matter fiber tracts were obtained,such as fractional anisotropy,mean diffusivity,radial diffusivity,axial diffusivity.Computer-based facial emotion cognition test was used to evaluate difference of facial emotion identification.The correlation between ability of identifying ambiguous emotion and the parameter of impairment white matter fiber tracts,and the correlation between ability of identifying ambiguous emotion and PANSS scale were explored by linear correlation analysis.Result (1) Between patients and healthy control,there was no significant difference in the proportion of recognition as happy emotion to mixture of 50％ happy emotion plus 50％ angry emotion.In patients group,the number of regarding 100％ happy emotion plus 0 angry emotion (9.96±2.42) and regarding 75％ happy emotion plus 25％ angry emotion (9.91 ± 2.33) both as happy emotion were significantly lower than the healthy control (11.40 ± 1.48,11.30± 1.44;t=-3.332,-3.325;all P＜0.01).The number of regarding 25％ happy emotion and 75％ angry emotion as happy emotion(2.24±2.57),and the number of regarding 0 happy emotion and 100％ angry emotion as happy emotion(1.78 ± 2.66) were higher than healthy control(0.83 ± 2.21,0.70±2.02;t=2.537,2.056;P＜0.05 or P＜0.01).The total response time for all images on screen was significantly longer than healthy control(t=6.441,P＜0.01).(2)There are five relative serious fiber tracts impaired.Patients with schizophrenia were demonstrated lower activation in right dorsolateral frontal gyru,right inferior frontal operculum,right medial frontal gyrus,left precentral gyrus,left olfactory cortex (t=-2.993 0-2.830 0,P＜0.01 or P＜0.05),in comparison with healthy controls,except FA value of right inferior frontal operculum and AD value of left precentral gyrus were found higher in patients group.(3) There was no correlation between identifying facial emotion and PANSS.(4)The correlation between identifying ambiguous emotion and the parameter of impairment or white matter fiber tracts was explored by linear correlation analysis,which found FA value of left precentral gyrus positively correlated to the number of identifying happy emotion from 25％ happy emotion plus 75％ angry emotion (r=0.362,P=0.007),and from 0 happy emotion plus 100％ angry emotion (r=0.476,P=0.000).Conclusion This study suggests that schizophrenia patients could not identify facial emotion accurately and their white matter fiber tracts in the frontal lobe are damaged significantly.The impairment of facial emotion recognition is correlated with the abnormality of white matter fiber tracts.

Objective To perform a preclinical test of a delineation software based on atlas-based auto-segmentation (ABAS),to evaluate its accuracy in the delineation of organs at risk (OARs) in radiotherapy planning for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC),and to provide a basis for its clinical application.Methods Using OARs manually contoured by physicians on planning-CT images of 22 patients with NPC as the standard,the automatic delineation using two different algorithms (general and head/neck) of the ABAS software were applied to the following tests:(1) to evaluate the restoration of the atlas by the software,automatic delineation was performed on copied images from each patient using the contours of OARs manually delineated on the original images as atlases;(2) to evaluate the accuracy of automatic delineation on images from various patients using a single atlas,the contours manually delineated on images from one patients were used as atlases for automatic delineation of OARs on images from other patients.Dice similarity coefficient (DSC),volume difference (Vdiff),correlation between the DSC and the volume of OARs,and efficiency difference between manual delineation and automatic delineation plus manual modification were used as indices for evaluation.Wilcoxon signed rank test and Spearman correlation analysis were used.Results The head/neck algorithm had superior restoration of the atlas over the general algorithm.The DSC was positively correlated with the volume of OARs and was higher than 0.8 for OARs larger than 1 cc in volume in the restoration test.For automatic delineation with the head/neck algorithm using a single atlas,the mean DSC and Vdiff were 0.81-0.90 and 2.73％-16.02％,respectively,for the brain stem,temporal lobes,parotids,and mandible,while the mean DSC was 0.45-0.49 for the temporomandibular joint and optic chiasm.Compared with manual delineation,automatic delineation plus manual modification saved 68％ of the time.Conclusions A preclinical test is able to determine the accuracy and conditions of the ABAS software in specific clinical application.The tested software can help to improve the efficiency of OAR delineation in radiotherapy planning for NPC.However,it is not suitable for delineation of OAR with a relatively small volume.

Objective To investigate the interconnection of the executive control network in major depressive disorder when they recognized the sad facial stimuli,and to discuss the aberrant mechanism of emotion processing.Methods Twenty major depressive patients and 20 well-matched healthy volunteers participated in the experiment.The brain actions of all subjects were recorded by the magnetoencephalography (MEG) when they were required to distinguish the emotion face.Based on prior knowledge,the interested brain area consisted of the primary visual cortex (V1),the orbitofrontal cortex(OFC),the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC),the anterior cingulated cortex (ACC).Then constructing three competing models to select an optimal model by the method of dynamic causal model(DCM),finally the differences of the effective connections of the optimal model between the depressed patients and healthy controls were analyzed.Results According to the results of Bayesian model selection (BMS),model 1 had the most exceedance probability of 0.80 with the features that there were bidirectional modulatory connections between the OFC,ACC and DLPFC.Given the best model,the parameters of effective connectivity of the optimal model were extracted,and then two-sample t-test over the model 1 was adopted.The modulatory effective connectivity from the OFC to the DLPFC in both hemisphere(t=-2.73,P=0.0096;t=-3.01,P=0.0046) and the OFC to the ACC (t=-2.93,P=0.0057) in the left hemisphere were significantly reduced in MDD.Conclusion There exists abnormal function of executive control network in depressed patients,the decreased effective connections between the OFC and the DLPFC,as well as the OFC and the ACC,may have correlation with the negative

ObjectiveTo investigate the variation of executive function of fronto-cingulate cortex in spatio-temporal sequence in recurrent depressed patients.MethodsEighteen recurrent depressed patients and twenty-one age-,gender- and education- matched healthy controls were involved in the Stroop word-color interference test to detect the executive function of anterior cingulate and prefrontal regions by magnetoencephaloraphy scanning.Results 1.Compared to healthy controls,the increased activation of brain regions in depressed patients during different time periods were separately shown as follows( t represents activation strength):( 1 ) 100 ～ 200 ms:the right anterior cingulate gyrus ( t =1.81,T value means activation strength),the bilateral medial frontal gyrus ( t =1.91,t =1.86),the left superior frontal gyms( t =1.79 ),the right middle frontal gyrus( t =1.82 ),the right inferior frontal gyrus ( t =1.82 ).( 2 ) 200 ～ 300 ms:the left anterior cingulate gyrus ( t =1.82 ).( 3 ) 250 ～ 350 ms:the left anterior cingulate gyrus ( t =2.67 ),the left medial frontal gyrus ( t =2.43 ),the left inferior frontal gyrus ( t=1.91 ).(4)300 ～400ms:the left anterior frontal gyrus(t=2.26),the bilateral inferior gyrus( t=1.97,t=2.66),the left medial frontal gyrus(t=2.35).(5)350 ～450ms:the left anterior cingulate gyrus(t=2.02),the left medial frontal gyrus ( t =2.00),the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus ( t =1.74,t =1.78 ).( 6 ) 400 ～ 500 ms:the left anterior cingulate gyrus( t=2.01 ),the left medial frontal gyrus( t =1.97).2.Compared to healthy controls,patients showed decreased activation in the left middle frontal gyms ( t =1.79) and the left superior gyrus(t =1.76) in 200 ～ 300 ms.ConclusionExecutive dysfunction is reflected in depressed patients with the activation inefficiency in anterior cingulate and prefrontal regions in spatio-temporal sequence.

Objective To explore the gender differences of brain activation between patients with depression in recognition of dynamically sad expression with magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology and the paradigm of expressional experiment,and further to examine its neurological basis. Methods Brain activities were detected using MEG during the recognition of dynamic facial video with 12 female depressed patients, 11 male depressed patients, and their corresponding normal controls matched by age and education. Results Compared with male depression,female depression showed increased activation during different time periods were in turn as follows: bilateral inferior frontal gyrus ( x, y, z = 58/- 60,12/22,20/20, T = 2.17,1.88 ), left anterior cingulate gyrus ( x, y, z = 64,12,4, T = 2.37 ), bilateral superior frontal gyrus ( x, y, z= 30/-24,64/- 4,0/50, T = 2.86,2.36 ),the left brainstem( x, y,z = - 12, - 16, - 18 ,T = 1.96) ,right middle frontal gyrus( x,y,z =40,60,4,T = 2.22 ),bilateral precentral gyrus(x,y,z = -62/56, 16/10, 10/8. T = 1.99,2.65 ) ,left hippocampus ( x,y,z = - 26,- 14, -20,T = 1.77) ,left parahippocampal gyrus(x,y,z = - 16, - 12, -20,T = 1.72) ,right middle occipital gyrus( x ,y ,z = 50, -76, -14 ,T = 1. 75 ),while the decreased brain activation were in turn in right superior temporal gyrus ( x, y, z = 68, - 18,2, T = 1.85 ), right parahippocampal gyrus ( x, y, z = 20, - 36, - 14, T = 1.92 ), left cuneus( x,y,z = -6, -98,14,T =2.46) ,bilateral temporal middle gyrus( x,y,z =52/-34, - 80/-62,20/28,T = 1.95,2.57 ), left pre-cuneus ( x, y, z = - 40, - 74,38, T = 2.58 ), right hippocampus( x, y, z = 24, - 32, - 18,T = 2.05 ) in recognition of dynamically sad expression. ( p ＜ 0. 05, corrected). Conclusion The data suggest that there may be significant gender differences of functional network in depressed patients during recognizing dynamical sad facial expression.

Objective To investigate the variation of brain inhibitory function of depressed patients during the processes of the Stroop color-word interference task with the Magnetic source imaging ( MSI) technology. Methods Twenty-three depressed patients and twenty age-,gender- and education- matched healthy controls were involved in the Stroop word-color interference test to detect the variation of brain inhibitory function by magnetoen-cephaloraphy scanning. Results Compared with the healthy controls,the abnormal activities in depressed patients during different time periods were separately as follows: increased activation in the bilateral thalamus( t = 2.46, t = 2.92 ) ,the right temple fusiform gyrus ( t = 1. 81) , the right middle temporal gyrus ( t = 1. 76) , the right inferior frontal gyrus( t = 2.28) , the left anterior cingulate( t = 2.00) , the left caudate head( t=1.81) ,the precentral gy-rus( t = 2.17) ,the right parahippocampal gyrus( t = 2.04) ,the left superior temporal gyrus(t = 2.47) ; decreased activation in the right superior temporal gyrus( t=1.76) ,the bilateral middle frontal gyrus(t=1.95, t = 2.09), the right cuneus( t=1.97) ,the cingulate gyrus( t=1.70, t = 2.08) ,the postcentral gyrus( t = 2.57, t = 2.65) , the left supramarginal gyrus( t = 2. 16) ,the left lentiform nucleus putamen( t = 2.39) ,the bilateral middle temporal gyrus (t = 2.22, t= 1.90) ,the left insula( t= 1. 81) ,the left superior temporal gyrus( t= 1.90) ,the right parietal lobe( t= 3.26). Conclusion The abnormal activation inefficiency in the brain regions related with inhibition function is reflected in depressed patients,and the ability against interference information declines.

Objective To explore the features of functional networks about recognizing dynamically positive expression with using magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology and the paradigm of expressional experiment, and further to examine its neurological basis. Methods Twelve depressed patients and twelve age,education-matched healthy controls participated to recognize the dynamically positive expression in the MEG scans. Results In comparison with the healthy,the abnormally activities regions in depressed patients during different time periods were separately as follow;decreased activation in the right inferior parietal lobule(t = 3.94),the right su-pramarginal gyms(t = 3.59),the bilateral posterior cingulated(t = 5. 04, t = 4. 85) ,the bilateral precuneus(t = 3.84) ,the left cuneus(t = 3.58) and increased activation in the bilateral hippocampus(t = 2. 13, t = 2.56) ,the left amygdale(t = 2.41), the bilateral uncus gyrus(t = 2.33, t = 2.44) , the right anterior cingulated (t = 2. 15) , the left fusiform gyms (t = 3. 33) (P < 0. 05, unconnected). Conclusion The results indicate, compared with healthy controls,abnormal brain activities as the weakened function of the medial temporal cortex,parietal lobe and the enhanced function of limbic system were distributed extensively in depressed patients during recognizing dynamically positive expression. These abnormalities may prompt the dynamic characteristics of the magnetic source imaging about recognizing dynamically positive expression,and further reveals the mechanisms of emotional symptoms in depression.