Objective To investigate the role of lncRNA SNHG1 in homocysteine-induced pyroptosis of podocyte.Methods Cbs+/-mice were randomly divided into two groups:a normal diet group(ND)and a high me-thionine diet group(HMD).Western blotting was used to detect the protein expression levels of Caspase-1,Cleaved Caspase-1,and NLRP3.Mouse renal glomerular podocytes were cultured in vitro,and then assigned into a control group(Control,0 μmol/L Hcy)and a homocysteine intervention group(Hcy,80 μmol/L Hcy).Western blotting was used to detect the protein expression levels of Caspase-1,Cleaved Caspase-1,and NLRP3.Mouse renal glomerular podocyion group(OE-NC + Hcy)and the lncSNHG1 overexpression + homocysteine intervention group(OE-SNHG1 + Hcy)were also established.After 48 hours of intervention,Real-time fluorescence quantita-tive PCR was used to detect the expression of lncSNHG1 in podocytes after Hcy intervention.Western blot was used to detect the expressions of Caspase-1,Cleaved Caspase-3 and NLRP3.Immunofluorescence was used to de-tect the expression levels of GSDMD and GSDMD-N.ELISA was used to detect the contents of IL-1β and IL-18.Results(1)In the animal experiments,the expression levels of pyroptosis-related proteins Caspase-1,Cleaved Caspase-1,NLRP3,GSDMD,and GSDMD-N were all increased in the HMD group compared with the ND group.(2)In the cellular experiments,the expression levels of Caspase-1,Cleaved Caspase-1,NLRP3,GSDMD,and GSDMD-N were all increased in the Hcy group compared with the Control group,and the contents of pyroptosis-mediated inflammatory factors IL-1β and IL-18 were increased as well.(3)In the cellular experiments,the expres-sion of lncSNHG1 was increased in the Hcy group compared with the control group.After transduction with lnc-SNHG1 lentivirus,the expression of lncSNHG1 was increased in the OE-SNHG1 group,compared with the control group and the OE-NC group.(4)In the cellular experiments,the expressions of pyroptosis-related proteins Cas-pase-1,Cleaved Caspase-1,NLRP3,GSDMD,and GSDMD-N were increased compared with the OE-NC+Hcy group,and the contents of pyroptosis-mediated inflammatory factors IL-1β and IL-18 were increased in the OE-SNHG1+Hcy group.Conclusion These results indicate that lncSNHG1 may play a role in promoting Hcy induced podocytepyroptosis.

Objective: To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of overseas imported dengue fever and malaria cases in Yunnan Province from 2015 to 2021, so as to provide insights into the prevention and control of overseas imported arthropod-borne infectious diseases. Methods: The data pertaining to imported dengue fever and malaria cases in Yunnan Province from 2015 to 2021 were collected from the Chinese Disease Prevention and Control Information System, and the temporal distribution, regional distribution, population distribution, sources, diagnosis and treatment of imported dengue fever and malaria cases were descriptively analyzed. Results: Totally 4 332 overseas imported dengue fever cases and 2 011 overseas imported malaria cases were reported in Yunnan Province form 2015 to 2021, which accounted for 30.09% of all reported dengue fever cases and 98.53% of all reported malaria cases. The number of overseas imported dengue fever and malaria cases peaked from August to November (83.13% of all imported dengue fever cases) and from April to July (59.08% of all imported malaria cases), and the cases were predominantly reported in Dehong Prefecture (50.99% and 58.88%), with farmers as the predominant occupation (40.21% and 67.93%). The dengue fever and malaria cases were mainly imported from Southeast Asia (99.04% and 88.21%), and the proportions of definitive diagnosis of dengue fever and malaria were 88.33% and 97.80% at township hospitals, respectively. Conclusions The number of overseas imported dengue fever and malaria cases peaked from August to November and from April to July in Yunnan Province from 2015 to 2021, and the cases were predominantly reported in Dehong Prefecture and imported from Southeast Asia, with farmers as the predominant occupation.

In recent years, the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a huge impact on the global medical, political and economic fields. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, our understanding of the impact of COVID-19 has grown exponentially. Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic has changed rapidly in China, and there has been controversy over how to carry out surgical operations for patients with lung neoplastic lesions. Some studies have shown that lung cancer patients undergoing surgery are more likely to experience respiratory failure and perioperative death after contracting COVID-19 than the general population, however, delays in cancer treatment are also associated with increased mortality among these patients. In particular, the novel coronavirus Omikron variant has a higher transmissibility and may escape the immunity obtained through the previous novel coronavirus infection and vaccination. In order to minimize the risk of novel coronavirus infection in surgical patients, it is necessary to develop new treatment guidelines, expert consensus and preventive measures. However, the current rapid change of the epidemic situation has led to insufficient time and evidence to develop guidelines and consensus. Therefore, thoracic surgeons need to evaluate specific patient populations at higher risk of severe complications before surgery and weigh the benefit of surgical treatment against the risk of novel coronavirus infection. We try to give some recommendations on lung surgery during the current domestic epidemic situation based on the guidelines and consensus of oncology and thoracic surgery organizations in different regions on lung surgery.
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Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/complications* ; COVID-19 ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Multiple Pulmonary Nodules ; Pandemics/prevention & control* ; Lung

Objective To investigate the effects of Loropetalum chinense extracts on the proliferation of lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells cultured in vitro. Methods CCK-8 assay was performed to evaluate the effect of Loropetalum chinense extracts on the proliferation of A549 cells, and the clonal growth ability of A549 cells was determined by clone formation assay. Flow cytometry Annexin V-APC/PI double staining was used to measure the apoptosis of A549 cells. Western blot was used to measure the expressions of apoptosis-related proteins Bax, Fas, Bcl-2 Caspase3 and cleaved-Caspase 3. Results Loropetalum chinense extracts significantly inhibited the proliferation and colony formation of A549 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The viability of A549 cells decreased by 50% after 48h treatment of 0.5mg/ml extracts, and 100% inhibition of colony formation rate achieved when the cells were treated with 40μg/ml extracts for 14 days. When A549 cells were treated with Loropetalum chinense extracts for 24h, apoptotic rates increased in a dose-dependent manner. Compared with the control group, the protein levels of Fas, Bax, Caspase3 and cleaved-Caspase3 were up-regulated, while Bcl-2 was down-regulated. Conclusion Loropetalum chinense extracts inhibit the growth of human lung adenocarcinoma cells in vitro, and the mechanisms may be related to the activation of mitochondrial and death receptor apoptosis pathway.

There is a high prevalence rate of malnutrition in patients with end-stage liver disease, which often promotes disease progression and has a negative impact on the prognosis of patients. This article briefly describes the etiology of malnutrition in end-stage liver disease and introduces the research advances in nutrition screening, evaluation, and treatment in end-stage liver disease in China and globally, hoping to provide inspiration for nutritional support in patients with end-stage liver disease in China.

Early screening based on computed tomography (CT) pulmonary nodule detection is an important means to reduce lung cancer mortality, and in recent years three dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) has achieved success and continuous development in the field of lung nodule detection. We proposed a pulmonary nodule detection algorithm by using 3D CNN based on a multi-scale attention mechanism. Aiming at the characteristics of different sizes and shapes of lung nodules, we designed a multi-scale feature extraction module to extract the corresponding features of different scales. Through the attention module, the correlation information between the features was mined from both spatial and channel perspectives to strengthen the features. The extracted features entered into a pyramid-similar fusion mechanism, so that the features would contain both deep semantic information and shallow location information, which is more conducive to target positioning and bounding box regression. On representative LUNA16 datasets, compared with other advanced methods, this method significantly improved the detection sensitivity, which can provide theoretical reference for clinical medicine.
Algorithms ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging* ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/methods* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods*

Objective:To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori(HP) cytotoxin-associated gene A (HP-CagA), HP isolate vacuole-forming toxin gene A (HP-VacA) and gastric cancer occurrence and clinical pathological factors.Methods:Eighty-eight patients with gastric cancer from January 2018 to January 2020 in Suzhou Hospital Affiliated of Anhui Medical University was selected as the observation group, 80 patients with benign gastric lesions during the same period was selected as the benign control group, and 80 healthy patients was selected as the healthy control group. The clinical data, HP-CagA, HP-VacA positive expression rates of the three groups were compared, the risk factors of gastric cancer were analyzed, and the relationship between HP-CagA, HP-VacA and gastric cancer clinicopathological factors were evaluated.Results:Family history of gastric cancer, high-salt diet, preference for hot food, decreased pepsinogen (PG)Ⅰ/PGⅡ, combined with fatty liver, increased triglyceride, total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterin, smoking and depression were risk factors of gastric cancer ( P<0.05). The positive rate of HP-CagA, HP-VacA in the observation group were higher than those in the benign control group and the healthy control group: 82.93%(73/88) vs. 62.50%(50/80) and 26.25%(21/80), 30.68%(27/88) vs. 7.50%(6/80) and 0, the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). The positive of HP-CagA and HP-VacA had correlation with age, pathological type, and degree of differentiation of gastric cancer ( P<0.05). The 1-year survival rate of HP-CagA and HP-VacA positive patients was lower than that of negative patients by Kaplan-Meier analysis ( P<0.05). Conclusions:The positive of HP-CagA and HP-VacA in HP infections are closely related togastric cancer. Strengthening the treatment of HP infection patients with positive HP-CagA and HP-VacA has important clinical value and social significance for cutting off the early stage of gastric cancer and improving prognosis.

Objective:To explore the relationship between human papilloma virus (HPV)-DNA and cytomegalovirus (CMV)-DNA virus content and the risk factors of endometrial cancer (EC) and their prediction models.Methods:Fifty-eight patients with EC from January 2017 to June 2020 in Suzhou Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University were selected as the observation group, and 58 patients with endometrial hyperplasia (EH) during the same period were selected as the control group according to the 1∶1 matching case control principle. The clinical data, HPV-DNA, CMV-DNA positive rate and virus content of the two groups were compared, and the independent variables with P<0.05 were included in the Logistic regression model through single factor analysis. The risk factors of EC were analyzed, and the correlation between HPV-DNA, CMV-DNA and EC risk factors were evaluated. Logistic regression model was evaluated using the likelihood ratio chi-square and goodness-of-fit test, and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to analyze the predictive value of the model to EC. Results:The proportion of patients with age ≥ 55 years old, body mass index (BMI)≥ 24 kg/m 2, a history of hypertension and diabetes, malignant tumor family history and hormone replacement therapy history in the observation group were higher than those in the control group: 72.41%(42/58) vs. 39.66%(23/58),70.69% (41/58) vs. 43.10%(25/58), 36.21%(21/58) vs. 10.34%(6/58), 31.03%(18/58) vs. 8.62%(5/58),29.31%(17/58) vs. 5.17%(3/58), 27.93%(17/58) vs. 8.62%(5/58), and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). The positive rates of HPV and CMV, the contents of HPV-DNA and CMV-DNA in the observation group were higher than those in the control group: 62.07%(36/58) vs. 29.31%(17/58),81.03%(47/58) vs. 41.38%(24/58), (471.16 ± 33.58) copies/ml vs. (240.08 ± 17.41) copies/ml, (256.19 ± 24.77) copies/ml vs. (132.27 ± 13.20) copies/ml, the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). Age ≥ 55 years, BMI ≥ 24 kg/m 2, history of hypertension and diabetes, family history of malignant tumors, history of hormone replacement therapy, HPV positive, CMV positive were risk factors for EC ( P<0.05). HPV-DNA virus content was positively correlated with the age of EC patients, family history of malignant tumors, and history of diabetes ( P<0.05), the viral content of CMV-DNA was positively correlated with age, family history of malignant tumors, and history of hypertension ( P<0.05). According to the ROC curve drawn by the predicted value and the true value of the Logistic regression model, the area under the curve was 0.930 (95% CI 0.885 - 0.976), when the predictive probability of individual nosocomial infection>0.528, the prediction sensitivity was 84.48%, and the specificity was 89.66%. Conclusions:The occurrence of EC is related to many factors, and the content of HPV-DNA and CMV-DNA viruses are the risk factors of its occurrence. The overall predictive value of a Logistic regression model constructed based on EC pathological characteristics and the virus content of HPV-DNA and CMV-DNA is high, and it has clinical application prospects.

Objective To explore the clinical effect of tumescent anaesthesia in laparoscopic cholecystectomy(LC). Methods We analyzed the data of 71 patients who underwent LC for gallbladder benign disease. Anesthesia swelling fluid was injected in 37 cases before the operation in the gallbladder triangle( group D)and another 34 cases received no injection(group C). SBP,DBP,HR and Spo2 were monitored at 4 min before gallbladder traction(T1),1 min(T2),6 min(T3)and 11 min after gallbladder traction(T4),and when the gallbladder was dissected from gallbladder bed completely(T5). The operation time,intraoperative blood loss,postoperative exhaust time,time of getting out of bed after the surgery and length of stay were recorded. The gallbladder rupture, vascular injury ,bile duct injury ,intestinal injury ,placement of drainage tube ,intra-abdominal hemorrhage , intraoperative use of atropine or ephedrine and nausea and vomiting 24 hours after the operation were recorded. Results In group C,SBP,DBP and HR were significantly decreased at T2-T4 when compared with those at T1, and were significantly lower when compared with those in group D(P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in oxygen saturation between the two groups(P > 0.05). There were shorter operation time and less intraoperative blood loss in group D when compared with those in group C and the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05). The anus exhaust time,time of getting out of bed after the surgery,length of stay,intraoperative intra-abdominal hemorrhage and nausea and vomiting in the two groups indicated no statistical significance (P > 0.05). Gallbladder damage,vascular injury,placement of drainage tube and the incidence of adverse event were less in group D than those in group C. Conclusion Swelling anesthesia in LC can shorten the operation time ,induce less postoperative complications and maintain blood circulation stability.

We constructed the CAP2NC prokaryotic expression vector of HIV-1 NL4-3 strain and obtained relatively pure CAP2NC protein by optimizing its purification conditions to explore its in vitro self-assembly conditions. Primers were designed according to the CAP2NC DNA sequence of HIV-1 NL4-3 strain. The target gene was amplified by PCR and cloned into prokaryotic expression vector pTO-T7. Then the recombinant strain was transformed into Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). IPTG induced protein expression, then the protein was purified by hydrophobic chromatography. SDS-PAGE and Western blotting were performed to analyze the target protein, and the biological activity of the antigen was identified through ELISA. The self-assembly of CAP2NC protein was analyzed by transmission electron microscopy and gel filtration chromatography. The protein had good reaction with the specific antibodies of p24 and formed different structures in various conditions. When 10% yeast RNA was added to the protein complex, the recombinant protein only formed into a tubular structure, which was similar to the self-assembled structure of the HIV-1 virus capsid. The results showed that the HIV-1 CAP2NC protein had in vitro self-assembly activity, and the RNA affected the structure of CAP2NC protein assembly. The protein can be used as a simple and effective molecular model to study its structure, and then it can provide a reference for the study of HIV immature virus particles.