1.Advances in the development of novel pancreatic duct stent materials:from inert implantation to intelligent degradation through medical-engineering integration
Jingyang YIN ; Zhongchao YI ; Yanjun WANG ; Jia SHE ; Shixiang GUO
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2025;34(9):1892-1901
Pancreatic duct stents are essential devices for managing chronic pancreatitis,ductal strictures,and postoperative fistula.Conventional plastic and metal stents effectively facilitate pancreatic drainage but often cause infection,restenosis,or migration upon long-term implantation.An ideal stent should provide excellent biocompatibility,efficient drainage,and controllable biodegradation.With advances in material science and medical-engineering integration,stent technology has evolved from inert implantation to intelligent degradation.Biodegradable polymers and metals,particularly magnesium alloys(Mg-Zn-Mn),offer tunable mechanical strength,corrosion resistance,and in vivo degradability.Mg-2Zn-1.0Mn alloy achieves balanced strength and corrosion control through compositional optimization and surface modification.Polymeric stents such as polylactic acid and polydioxanone demonstrate favorable drainage and avoid secondary removal.Composite biodegradable stents,exemplified by the multi-rate ARCHIMEDES model,have received international approval.Supported by 3D printing and smart functionalization-such as drug-eluting or shape-memory designs-next-generation pancreatic stents may achieve integrated functions of support,repair,and tumor inhibition.Future research should emphasize interdisciplinary material design,degradation kinetics under physiological conditions,and long-term biocompatibility to accelerate clinical translation.
2.Advances in the development of novel pancreatic duct stent materials:from inert implantation to intelligent degradation through medical-engineering integration
Jingyang YIN ; Zhongchao YI ; Yanjun WANG ; Jia SHE ; Shixiang GUO
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2025;34(9):1892-1901
Pancreatic duct stents are essential devices for managing chronic pancreatitis,ductal strictures,and postoperative fistula.Conventional plastic and metal stents effectively facilitate pancreatic drainage but often cause infection,restenosis,or migration upon long-term implantation.An ideal stent should provide excellent biocompatibility,efficient drainage,and controllable biodegradation.With advances in material science and medical-engineering integration,stent technology has evolved from inert implantation to intelligent degradation.Biodegradable polymers and metals,particularly magnesium alloys(Mg-Zn-Mn),offer tunable mechanical strength,corrosion resistance,and in vivo degradability.Mg-2Zn-1.0Mn alloy achieves balanced strength and corrosion control through compositional optimization and surface modification.Polymeric stents such as polylactic acid and polydioxanone demonstrate favorable drainage and avoid secondary removal.Composite biodegradable stents,exemplified by the multi-rate ARCHIMEDES model,have received international approval.Supported by 3D printing and smart functionalization-such as drug-eluting or shape-memory designs-next-generation pancreatic stents may achieve integrated functions of support,repair,and tumor inhibition.Future research should emphasize interdisciplinary material design,degradation kinetics under physiological conditions,and long-term biocompatibility to accelerate clinical translation.
3.Analysis on occupational health monitoring to workers in Zhoushan City
Danyan FAN ; Yuan WU ; Zhongchao GU ; Jingping YI
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2020;38(12):944-947
Objective:To analyze the occupational health monitoring data of workers in Zhoushan City, and provide scientific basis for health monitoring and the formulation of occupational disease prevention measures.Methods:From January 2016 to November 2019, the occupational health examination data of 37826 workers in Zhoushan City were collected to analyze the change trend of the detection rate of suspected occupational diseases and occupational contraindications, and to compare the health monitoring status of workers with different social characteristics such as enterprise scale and economic type.Results:From 2016 to 2019, the detection rate of suspected occupational diseases showed a downward trend (χ 2trend=21.09, P<0.05) . The occupational health examination of on-the-job workers in Zhoushan were mainly small enterprises (59.72%, 22591/37826) , private economic enterprises (65.32%, 24707/37826) , male (82.03%, 31028/37826) , 30-49 years old (59.11%, 22359/37826) , and exposed to noise (67.06%, 25365/37826) . The detection rates of occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases were higher in micro enterprise, male, over 60 years old, exposed to occupational hazards for more than 49 months, and exposed to chemical and physical hazards at the same time. The detection rates of occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases were significantly different among different enterprise scale, economic type, gender, age and occupational hazard factors ( P<0.05) . Among benzene workers with occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases, the detection rate of A/G abnormality in female workers was higher than that in male workers ( P=0.04) , and there was no significant difference in other genders ( P>0.05) . Conclusion:It is necessary to pay more attention to the workers working in small and private enterprises in Zhoushan City, strengthen the occupational health supervision of male workers who are over 60 years old who are exposed to benzene, noise and other occupational hazards, standardize the occupational health inspection, and effectively protect the health of the occupational population.
4.Analysis on occupational health monitoring to workers in Zhoushan City
Danyan FAN ; Yuan WU ; Zhongchao GU ; Jingping YI
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2020;38(12):944-947
Objective:To analyze the occupational health monitoring data of workers in Zhoushan City, and provide scientific basis for health monitoring and the formulation of occupational disease prevention measures.Methods:From January 2016 to November 2019, the occupational health examination data of 37826 workers in Zhoushan City were collected to analyze the change trend of the detection rate of suspected occupational diseases and occupational contraindications, and to compare the health monitoring status of workers with different social characteristics such as enterprise scale and economic type.Results:From 2016 to 2019, the detection rate of suspected occupational diseases showed a downward trend (χ 2trend=21.09, P<0.05) . The occupational health examination of on-the-job workers in Zhoushan were mainly small enterprises (59.72%, 22591/37826) , private economic enterprises (65.32%, 24707/37826) , male (82.03%, 31028/37826) , 30-49 years old (59.11%, 22359/37826) , and exposed to noise (67.06%, 25365/37826) . The detection rates of occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases were higher in micro enterprise, male, over 60 years old, exposed to occupational hazards for more than 49 months, and exposed to chemical and physical hazards at the same time. The detection rates of occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases were significantly different among different enterprise scale, economic type, gender, age and occupational hazard factors ( P<0.05) . Among benzene workers with occupational contraindications and suspected occupational diseases, the detection rate of A/G abnormality in female workers was higher than that in male workers ( P=0.04) , and there was no significant difference in other genders ( P>0.05) . Conclusion:It is necessary to pay more attention to the workers working in small and private enterprises in Zhoushan City, strengthen the occupational health supervision of male workers who are over 60 years old who are exposed to benzene, noise and other occupational hazards, standardize the occupational health inspection, and effectively protect the health of the occupational population.
5.Inhibitory effect of CDCA5-siRNA on proliferation of breast cancer and its mechanism
Hong PENG ; Yi LUO ; Ziwei WANG ; Zhongchao LIN
Chinese Journal of Endocrine Surgery 2018;12(2):109-114
Objective To study the effect of CDCA5 silencing on the growth of human breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-435s in vitro and its mechanism.Methods The expression of CDCA5 in breast cancer tissue,the adjacent normal tissue and human breast cancer cell lines MCF-7,MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-435s was tested by Western blot.The target sequences of CDCA5 small interfering RNA (siRNA),control siRNA (siRNA-NC) and blank groups were designed.PCR was used to observe the gene silencing effect on CDCA5.The cell viability was measured by MTT assay in siRNA,siRNA-NC and Blank groups.Cell cycle was determined by flow cytometry.Plkl,SA2 and pSA2 protein expression was tested by Western blot.Rssults The expression of CDCA5 was higher in breast cancer tissue than in the adjacent normal tissue.The expression of CDCA5 was higher in human breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-435s than in MCF-7 or MDA-MB-231 cell line.The expression level of CDCA5 was downregulated significantly in siRNA group than other groups.The cell viability was decreased and the cell percentage of G2/M phase was elevated in siRNA group compared with those in siRNA-NC and Blank groups.Inhibition of the CDCA5 gene can suppress the expression of Plk1 and pSA2.Conclusion Silencing CDCA5 expression can effectively inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer cells,whose mechanism may lie in arresting cell cycle in G2/M phase by suppressing CDCA5/Plkl/SA2 signaling pathway.
6.Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells enhance imatinib-induced apoptosis in chronic myeloid leukemia
Ying LIU ; Baoquan SONG ; Yimeng WEI ; Huifang FAN ; Yi YU ; Shuxu DONG ; Zhongchao HAN ; Fengxia MA
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2017;21(25):4032-4037
BACKGROUND: Imatinib has a significant pro-apoptosis effect on chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), but there are still some patients being resistant to it. Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) affect the apoptosis of a variety of hematologic malignancies. However, the impacts of hUC-MSCs on the apoptosis of CML cells induced by imatinib remain unclear.OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether hUC-MSCs have an influence on the apoptosis of K562 cells induced by imatinib and to reveal the possible underlying mechanism.METHODS: K562 cells were cultured with hUC-MSCs or/and imatinib. Cellular apoptosis was measured with Annexin-V and PI staining by flow cytometry analysis. The protein expressions of Bax, Bcl-2, caspase-3, caspase-9 and cleaved-PARP in K562 cells were detected by western blot assay. Pan-caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK was used to block apoptosis in each group, and during this process the effect of caspase apoptosis signaling pathway was detected.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The apoptosis of K562 cells was enhanced, when imatinib was combined with hUC-MSCs. Western blot analysis showed that the expression of pro-apoptotic protein Bax was enhenced and the expression of anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 was suppressed. Furthermore, the cleaved forms of caspase-9, caspase-3 and PARP in K562 cell were higher in the hUC-MSCs+imatinib group than in the imatinib group. The apoptosis of K562 cells induced by the hUC-MSCs combined with imatinib was significantly inhibited by Z-VAD-FMK. In conclusion, these findings indicate that hUC-MSCs can enhance imatinib-induced apoptosis of K562 cells by activating caspase apoptosis signaling pathway.

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