Objective: To understand the impact of left behind experience on the mental health of secondary vocational school students, so as to provide theoretical basis for the psychological health education of secondary vocational school students. Methods: From September to December in 2019, a total of 3 401 students from Duyun, Guiding and Pingtang County were selected by multi stage cluster random sampling method. Self designed questionnaire and Symptom Check List-90(SCL-90) were used to investigate mental health status. A total of 1 415 left behind students and 1 415 non left behind students were matched by using propensity score matching (PSM). Wilcoxon test and Logistic regression analysis were conducted. Results: Before the matching of propensity score, there were statistically significant differences in the distribution of family structure, mother s educational level, family residence,family harmony and children s past health among the students with or without left behind experience ( χ 2=28.17, 52.40, 96.31, 29.75 , 19.10, P <0.05). After the matching, there were no statistically significant differences in the distribution of the above variables among the students with or without left behind experience ( χ 2=0.02-4.32, P >0.05). Before the matching of propensity scores, there were significant differences in the scores of 10 dimensions of SCL-90, including somatization (1.67,1.58), interpersonal sensitivity (2.00,1.89), anxiety (1.90,1.70), obsessive compulsive symptoms (2.20, 2.10), depression (2.00, 1.85), hostility (1.83, 1.67), terror (1.85, 1.71), paranoia (1.83, 1.67), psychotic (1.70, 1.60) and other (1.85, 1.71) dimensions among secondary vocational school students with or without left behind experience ( Z=-5.15 to -2.84, P <0.05). After propensity score matching, there were significant differences in scores remained only in three factors for interpersonal sensitivity [(2.00(1.56,2.67)，2.00(1.44,2.56)], paranoia [1.83(1.33,2.50)，1.83(1.33,2.33)] and psychoticism [1.70(1.30,2.30)，1.70(1.20,2.20)] in SCL- 90 among secondary vocational students with or without left behind experience ( Z=-2.45, -2.12, -2.23, P <0.05). Conclusion The impact of left behind experience on the mental health of vocational school students is mainly reflected in interpersonal sensitivity, paranoia, and psychoticism, which should be identified as key areas of psychological education for secondary vocational school students.

Human Gasdermin B (GSDMB) gene, as a member of the Gasdermin (GSDM) gene family, may be associated with the development of asthma, tumor and immune system diseases. Recent studies have found that cell pyroptosis can be mediated by GSDMB protein. The N-terminus of GSDMB cleaved by Granzyme A (GZMA), which is secreted by cytotoxic lymphocytes, can directly promote cell pyroptosis. Moreover, GSDMB protein promotes the cleavage of Gasdermin D (GSDMD) by binding to cysteinyl aspartate specific proteinase-4 (caspase-4), thus indirectly promoting cell pyroptosis. This article summarized the progress in the mechanism of GSDMB gene-mediated cell pyroptosis and the related diseases.

Objective: To explore the interaction effects and possible sex differences in childhood emotional overeating and polygenic influences on adolescent pubertal timing and tempo. Methods: In March 2016 (T0), all participants were recruited from grades 1 to 3 from two primary school of Bengbu, Anhui Province using cluster sampling, and follow up surveys were conducted once per year (T1, T2, T3). Emotional overeating was assessed at T1 and pubertal development was assessed annually (breast Tanner stage in girls and testicular volume in boys). The nonlinear growth model was used to estimate pubertal timing and tempo. Polygenic risk scores were calculated based on 17 SNPs for early pubertal timing. Hierarchical linear regression was performed to examine the interaction effects between childhood emotional overeating and polygenic risk scores on pubertal timing and tempo. Results: The complete data of 896 children were analyzed, including 373 boys (41.60%) and 523 girls (58.40%). A total of 203 (22.7%) children reported emotional overeating behavior at T1. After adjusting for several variables including early life adversity, delivery mode, and birthweight, only emotional overeating was associated with accelerated pubertal tempo among girls with a high genetic risk (B=0.19, 95%CI=0.07~0.32， P<0.01), although there was no association with pubertal timing (B=0.14, 95%CI=-0.12~0.41，P=0.28). In girls with a low genetic risk and boys, no evidence was found to support interaction effects between childhood emotional overeating and polygenic influences on pubertal timing and tempo (P＞0.05). Conclusion Emotional overeating was associated with a faster pubertal tempo in girls who had a high genetic risk of early pubertal development.

Objective: To evaluate the development trajectory of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake in childhood, and to explore the influence of different SSB intake patterns on childhood obesity. Methods: In 2016, a follow-up cohort study was carried out in two primary schools in Bengbu, Anhui Province. Three annual follow-ups were conducted in 1 263 children at baseline, and 997 children were included in the final analysis. Parental and student questionnaires were used to obtain basic information related to the children s consumption of SSBs. A group-based trajectory model (GBTM) was applied to classify the development trajectory of SSB intake patterns in childhood. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to assess the correlation between different SSB intake patterns and childhood obesity. Results: GBTM identified four childhood SSB intake patterns, namely, the "persistently-low group (n=822), “decreasing-after-increasing” group (n=20), “gradually-decreasing” group (n=106), and “increasing” group (n=49). In the decreasing-after-increasing group and the gradually-decreasing group, baseline BMI levels and BMI levels obtained at the three follow-ups were significantly higher than those observed in the persistently-low group (F=6.26, 5.90, 5.99, 5.87, P<0.01). There were sex differences in the association between SSB intake patterns and the children s BMI levels. Among girls, after adjusting for confounding factors, the gradually decreasing group increased by 1.20 kg/m 2(B=1.20，95%CI=0.25-2.15, P=0.01) when compared with the persistently low group at the third follow-up. Among boys, no statistically significant association was found between SSB intake patterns and BMI levels (P>0.05). Conclusion Sex differences were observed with respect to the association between SSB intake patterns and obesity in children. Girls with a higher SSB intake had a significantly increased risk of obesity. Further studies are needed to explore the physiological mechanisms underlying sex differences, to provide the theoretical basis for developing intervention programs to prevent childhood obesity.

To explore the role of autophagy in hair follicle cycle and whether 3-methyladenine(3-MA)could promote hair regeneration in C57BL/6 mice through inhibiting autophagy flux, hair regeneration model of C57BL/6 mice was induced on the dorsal skin by depilation, and 3-MA was intraperitoneally injected to investigate hair regrowth, meanwhile vehicle and rapamycin(RAPA)were used as the controls. Results showed that 3-MA could obviously promote hair regrowth in depilated C57BL/6 mice. Furtherly, haematoxylin-eosin staining, immunohistochemical staining, immunofluorescence and Western blot tests were used to investigate the autophagy signals and the cell proliferation. Results showed that the expression of Beclin1 and LC3B II/I ratio were significantly decreased. Expression of P62 and Ki67 were increased, as well as the CD34 and CD49f double-labeled hair follicle stem cells were obviously increased inside bulge areas in 3-MA group, while contrarily in RAPA group. These results affirmed 3-MA, an autophagy inhibitor, could promote hair regeneration in depilated C57BL/6 mice by facilitating the transformation of hair follicle from telogen to anagen. 3-MA and other analogous autophagy inhibitors probably have a potential usage in future therapy in human telogen effluvium diseases.

AIM: To observe the anti-inflammatory effect of CQMUH-011 and to explore its mechanism.METHODS: Three kinds of animal models, mouse ear swelling induced by xylene, rat granuloma induced by cotton ball and rat rheumatoid arthritis induced by Freund's complete adjuvant, were established to study the anti-inflammatory effect of CQMUH-011.The ear swelling degree, dry weight of cotton ball granuloma, arthritis index, paw swelling and ankle joint pathological changes were measured to reflect the severity of inflammation.The anti-inflammatory mechanisms of CQMUH-011 were investigated by detecting the serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by ELISA.Malondialdehyde (MDA), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and nitric oxide (NO) were determined by corresponding kits.RESULTS: Treatment with CQMUH-011 significantly decreased TNF-α, IL-6 and NO concentrations, MDA contents and MPO activity in the serum.Meanwhile, Ear swelling degree, dry weight of cotton ball granuloma, arthritis index, paw swelling and ankle joint pathological damage were attenuated.CONCLUSION: CQMUH-011 has an anti-inflammatory effect, which may be related to inhibiting the production of inflammatory factors and attenuating lipid peroxidation.

An auxiliary training system was explored for the development of creativity of long-termsystem medical undergraduates through scientific researches in spare time.In practice,professionals from research groups of different disciplines were recruited for developing wide-scope theoretical and technical bases of the undergraduates through training among these research groups followed by focused researches on topics of the running projects of these professionals.The undergraduates were engaged in a serial of research activities,including the discovery of problems for reasoning out scientific research projects,the writing of their project proposals,the summary of their data and the writing of reports,to develop their creativity and their qualification for scientific researches.

[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To observe the inhibitory effect of madecassoside on the LPS-stimulated microglia and to inves-tigate its possible mechanism.METHODS:Microglia cells of neonatal Sprague-Dawley ( SD) rats were cultured, isolated and purified.Microglia cells were activated with lipopolysaccharide ( LPS) .The inhibitory effect of madecassoside on micro-glia was measured by MTT assay.Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 1β(IL-1β) were detected by ELISA. Cell cycle and apoptotic rate were evaluated by flow cytometry.The expression of TLR4 was detected by Western blotting. The expression of NF-κB was detected by RT-PCR.RESULTS: LPS induced the proliferation of microglia and release in-flammatory cytokines significantly.Compared with LPS group, madecassoside inhibited the proliferation of microglia induced by LPS in a dose dependent manner.The IC50 value of madecassoside was 10.97 nmol/L to microglia after incubation for 48 h.Madecassoside also decreased the levels of TNF-αand IL-6, increased the ratios of microglia at the G2 phase and the ap-optotic rate, decreased the expression of TLR4 and NF-κB significantly (P<0.05).CONCLUSION:Madecassoside has in-hibitory effects on the proliferation of LPS-stimulated microglia, by which the mechanism may be related to inhibition of the expression of TLR4 and NF-κB, change of cell cycle distribution and induction of microglia apoptosis.

OBJECTIVEThe present study is to investigate the protective effects of asiaticoside on sepsis-induced acute kidney injury in mice.

METHODWith the sepsis induced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), forty eight kunming mice were randomly divided into four groups as sham operated, CLP treated, CLP + asiaticoside 15, 45 mg x kg(-1) groups. General conditions and the amount of dead rate of mice were observed. The BUN and Cr levels were observed by the kits. IL-6 in serum was assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Kidney tissues were harvested for determination of iNOS expression by Western blotting analysis. The pathologic changes were observed under electron microscope via hematoxylin-eosin (HE) stain.

RESULTCompared with CLP group, the death rate, the levels of BUN, Cr, IL-6, and iNOS protein expression of asiaticoside groups were significantly reduced. The pathologic changes in kidney tissues induced by sepsis were significantly attenuated dose-dependently by asiaticoside under electron microscope.

CONCLUSIONAsiaticoside has protective effects against sepsis-induced acute kidney injury, which were probably associated with the inhibition of IL-6 in serum and iNOS protein in kidney tissues.

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BACKGROUND:Cervical cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies in women worldwide, and its occurrence and development is closely related to cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2).OBJECTIVE: To examine the expression of COX-2 alternative splicing variants in human cervical carcinoma tissue and understand its possible implications.DESIGN: Non-randomized controlled experiment.SETTING: Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital,Chongqing Medical University.PARTICIPANTS: Carcinoma tissue and normal tissue were obtained from 13 cervical carcinoma patients admitted during March 2002 to April 2002in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital,Chongqing Medical University.METHODS: A pair of specific primers were designed for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to obtain the mRNA of COX-2 in human cervical carcinoma tissues. The resultant band on electrophoresis was cloned, sequenced and analyzed.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Agarose gel electrophoresis result of the PCR product of carcinoma and normal tissues; ② Sequencing result of the electrophoresis band from carcinoma and normal tissues.RESULTS: No COX-2 band (252 bp) was found in electrophoresis for normal tissues, while 2 bands appeared for cervical carcinoma tissues, including a new electrophoresis band of 534bp besides the COX-2 band. Cloning and sequencing revealed that this new band contained not only exons 7and 8 of COX-2 gene but also a reserved intron of 282 bp intron between exons 7 and 8. Analysis of the predicted amino acid sequence indicated that an in-frame stop codon occurred in the 48-50 bp of the intron retained in the mRNA.CONCLUSION: The presence of COX-2 alternative splicing mRNA variant (Genbank accession number:BU493602)is confirmed in human cervical carcinoma tissue, which codes for a protein possibly smaller than COX-2.