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Objective:To investigate the expression and clinical significance of Golgi phosphoprotein 3 (GOLPH3) and NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) in gallbladder carcinoma (GBC).Methods:Surgical specimens and clinical data were collected from 63 patients with GBC who underwent radical cholecystectomy in the 904th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA from January 2014 to January 2019. In the GBC group, there were 21 males and 42 females, with an average age of 62.5 years. For 30 patients with mild to moderate atypical hyperplasia of gallbladder during the same period were included in the precancerous lesion group, including 9 males and 21 females, with an average age of 62.4 years. Normal gallbladder specimens from 20 patients who underwent surgical resection due to liver trauma or giant hepatic hemangioma were collected and included in the normal group, including 7 males and 13 females, with an average age of 61.9 years. The expressions of GOLPH3, NLRP3, Ki-67 were detected by immunohistochemistry. Log-rank test and Cox regression were adopted to analyze the GOLPH3 and NLRP3 expression and survival prognosis of gallbladder cancer patients.Results:Expression of GOLPH3 and NLRP3 in the tumor group, precancerous lesion group and normal group was decreased separately. In GBC tissues, the level of GOLPH3 and NLRP3 was positively correlated with the Ki-67 expression ( r=0.972 and r=0.969, both P<0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that high level of GOLPH3 ( HR=4.891, 95% CI: 1.776-13.470) and NLRP3 ( HR=3.006, 95% CI: 1.273-7.099) was an independent risk factor for predicting the postoperative survival of patients with GBC (both P<0.05). Conclusion:GOLPH3 and NLRP3 are highly expressed in GBC tissues, and high expression of GOLPH3 and NLRP3 is an independent risk factor for postoperative survival in patients with GBC.
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OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the effect of chronic emotional stimulation induced by empty bottle stimulation on CXCL12/CXCR4-mediated inflammatory response in rats with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).@*METHODS@#Rat models of anxiety were established by a 21-day stimulation with uncertain empty bottle drinking water, and myocardial infarction was induced by ligating the left anterior descending branch of the coronary artery; compound models were established by performing myocardial infarction operation on the 15th day of anxiety modeling. The rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: shamoperated group (=6), myocardial infarction group (=6), compound model group (with myocardial infarcted and anxiety; = 6), and inhibitor group (compound models treated daily with 1 mg/kg AMD3100 for 6 days; =7). Echocardiography was used to examine the LVEF and LVFS to evaluate the cardiac function of the rats. Elevated maze test and open field test were used to evaluate the behaviors of the rats. The expressions of CXCL12, CXCR4, IL-1β, IL-18 and neutrophil active protease (NE) in the myocardial tissues and blood samples were detected with ELISA and immunohistochemistry.@*RESULTS@#The LVEF and LVFS were lower in the compound model group than in the sham group and myocardial infarction group ( < 0.05), and were higher in inhibitor group than in the compound model group ( < 0.05). LVID; d and LVID; s were lower in the inhibitor group than in the compound model group ( < 0.05). Compared to those in the sham group and myocardial infarction group, the rats in the compound model group more obviously preferred to stay in the closed arm ( < 0.05) in EPM; the rats in the inhibitor group had more times of entering and staying in the open arm than the compound model rats ( < 0.05); the horizontal and vertical movements were less in the compound model rats than in those in the sham group and the myocardial infarction group ( < 0.05) in OFT, and the vertical movement of the rats in inhibitor group was higher than those in the compound model group ( < 0.05). The expression of CXCR4 in the marginal zone of myocardial infarction was significantly higher in the compound model group than in the sham-operated group, myocardial infarction group and inhibitor group ( < 0.05). The expressions of IL-1β, IL-18 and NE in the inhibitor group were significantly lower than those in the compound model group ( < 0.05). Compared with at in the sham-operated group, the number of Nissl bodies in the compound model group decreased significantly ( < 0.01).@*CONCLUSIONS@#Chronic emotional stress induced by empty bottle stimulation can lead to dysfunction of the CXCL12/CXCR4 axis, which causes inflammatory cascade after myocardial infarction to worsen myocardial cell necrosis, cardiac function and hippocampal neuronal damage after the infarction.
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Animals , Rats , Chemokine CXCL12 , Coronary Vessels , Emotions , Myocardial Infarction , Myocardium , Psychological Distress , Receptors, CXCR4 , Signal TransductionABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the expressions and the significance among the three markers TGF β1,Survivin and Caspase-3 in intrahepatic bile duct tissues in patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones.Method Total of 130 paraffin section of intrahepatic bile duct tissue were collected at Department of Pathology,The 904th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA from 2013 to 2018.Total of 50 patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones complicated with bile duct strictures (the stenosis group),40 patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones with chronic inflammation (the inflammation group),and 40 patients with normal liver tissues (the normal control group) were included in this study.The expressions of TGF β1,Survivin and Caspase-3 in liver tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry and compared among the 3 groups to find their correlations with the clinicopathological features of the disease of the patients.Results TGF β1 was expressed in 72.0％ of the patients in the stenosis group,37.5％ in the inflammatory group,and 15.0％ in the normal control group.The differences among the groups were significant (P ＜ 0.05);Survivin was expressed in 78.0％ of the patients in the stenosis group,47.5％ in the inflammatory group,and 25.0％ in the normal control group.The differences among the groups were significant (P ＜ 0.05);Caspase-3 was expressed in 10.0％ of the patients in the stenosis group,42.5％ in the inflammatory group,and 75.0％ in the normal control group.The differences among the groups were significant (P ＜ 0.05).Within the stenosis group,TGF β1 was negatively correlated with Caspase-3 (r =-0.882,P ＜ 0.05),and positively correlated with Survivin (r =0.889,P ＜ 0.05).Survivin and Caspase-3 were also negatively correlated (r=-0.923,P＜0.05).Conclusion Abnormal expressions of TGF β1,Survivin and Caspase-3 were involved in the formation of intrahepatic bile duct stones associated with bile duct strictures.
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Objective To evaluate the application value of the blastocysts derived from non-pronucleus (0PN) zygotes by the good quality blastocyst formation rate and the clinical outcomes of frozen-thawed blastocyst transfers. Methods The good quality blastocyst formation rate derived from 0PN zygotes was compared with that derived from2 pronucleus(2PN)zygotes in in vitro fertilization(IVF)or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles from January 2015 to December 2016. In addition, the clinical pregnancy, embryo implantation and live birth rates of frozen-thawed blastocyst transfers with blastocysts derived from 0PN and 2PN zygotes were analyzed on corresponding dates. Results (1)In IVF cycles, the high quality blastocysts formation rate of 2PN embryos was significantly higher than that of 0PN (46.64% versus 42.42%, P<0.01). In ICSI cycles, the high quality blastocysts formation rate of 2PN embryos was markedly higher than that of 0PN(41.96% versus 21.73%, P<0.01).(2)In frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles for IVF, the clinical pregnancy, implantation and live birth rates of D5 0PN blastocysts were significantly higher than those of D6 2PN(52.64% versus 46.78%, 49.91% versus 41.20%, 46.54% versus 39.56%, all P<0.05), however, the abortion and newborn abnormal rates of D5 0PN blastocysts were lower than those of D6 2PN blastocysts(17.37% versus 23.36%, 1.31% versus 4.21%, both P<0.05); the clinical pregnancy, implantation and livebirth rates of D5 2PN blastocysts were significantly higher than those of D5 0PN(59.73% versus 52.64%, 55.95% versus 49.91%, 53.03% versus 46.54%, all P<0.05), but newborn abnormal rate was a little higher than that of D5 0PN(3.90% versus 1.31%, P<0.05);the clinical pregnancy, implantation and live birth rates of D5 2PN blastocysts were significantly higher than those of D6 2PN(59.73% versus 46.78%, 55.95% versus 41.20%, 53.03% versus 39.56%, all P<0.05), and the abortion rate of D5 2PN blastocysts was lower than that of D6 2PN blastocysts(18.23% versus 23.36%, P<0.05). Conclusions Although the blastocysts derived from 0PN could be transffered, the blastocysts derived from 2PN zygotes are preferred in all cycles. In IVF cycles, the good quality blastocysts derived from 2PN or 0PN zygotes will be transferred.
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Objective To improve the quality of clinical biochemistry laboratory by quality indicators of pre-analytical,analytical,post-analytical phase and the whole process.Methods Analytical Phase:The Sigma values of items were calculated,applying the equation Sigma =(TEa％-Bias％)/CV％.Total allowable error (TEa) is from analyticalal specification defined in WS/T403-2012 of China,Bias％ is from the evaluation results of National Center for Clinical Laboratory (NCCL) trueness verification PT series and CV％ is from internal quality control data during the last 6 months in our lab.Normalized Sigma metrics plot was made to evaluate the analysis performance and the quality control strategies were designed accordingly.The quality goal indexes (QGI) were also calculated to propose improvement measures for items below 6 Sigma.Quality indicators of pre-,post-analytical and whole analytical phase,such as quality of specimen,critical value notification,critical value notification in time,TAT of hs-cTnT,TAT of emergency biochemical items,rewrite of laboratory reports and unacceptable performance in EQA-PT were measured in Sigma metrics too.The Sigma metrics changes before and after taking improvement measures were compared to conform the effectiveness.Results The average Sigma value of 17 biochemical tests was 5.29,of which 8 items (UA,K,ALP,CK,AMY,AST,TG,Na) achieved excellent to world class level (≥ 5 Sigma),6 items (LDH,Cre,TC,ALT,Mg,Glu) achieved marginal to good level (5 ＞ Sigma ≥ 3),BUN performed poorly (3 ＞ Sigma ≥ 2),Ca,TP performed unacceptably (Sigma ＜ 2) with serious quality defects.The Sigma values of unacceptable specimen,critical value notification,critical value notification in time,unacceptable turn around time (TAT) of hs-cTnT,unacceptable turn around time (TAT) of emergency biochemical items,rewrite of laboratory reports,unacceptable performance in EQA-PT were 4.17,3.60,2.75,1.72,3.27,4.52,3.33 respectively,rising to 4.30,4.30,2.90,2.45,3.75,4.80,3.60 accordingly after improvement.Conclusions Sigma metrics is potentially an ideal approach for clinical biochemistry laboratories management,which is helpful to find out problems,put forward improvement measures,and confirm the effectiveness,so as to achieve the purpose of continuous quality improvement.
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Objective To investigate the relationship between serum prealbumin (PA) and inflammation in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. Methods A prospective observational study was conducted. AMI patients hospitalized in the cardiovascular department of the General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces from June 2014 to June 2016 were enrolled in the study. At the same time, healthy cases were enrolled as control. Venous blood was taken from patients at admission. Serum PA was detected by immune projection turbidimetry method and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) was measured by latex enhanced immune turbidimetry. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT), and interleukin (IL-6, IL-8) was measured by electrochemical luminescence method. Creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) was detected by rate method. PA, inflammatory factor and myocardial enzyme were compared between two groups. The correlation between PA and inflammatory factors was analyzed by Pearson linear correlation; The diagnostic value of PA was analyzed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results 173 AMI patients and 86 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. There were no significant differences in gender, age, history of smoking, hypertension and diabetes. Compared with the control, the levels of serum PA in AMI patients was lower [PA (g/L): 0.215±0.056 vs. 0.280±0.057], hs-CRP, IL-6, IL-8, hs-cTnT and CK-MB were higher [hs-CRP (mg/L): 6.63±3.52 vs. 2.25±1.45, IL-6 (ng/L): 38.03±22.43 vs. 6.13±3.38, IL-8 (ng/L): 295.61±98.70 vs. 17.24±7.31, hs-cTnT (μg/L): 4.789±2.874 vs. 0.009±0.008, CK-MB (U/L): 244.48±165.54 vs. 12.20±5.24], the difference was statistical significant (all P 0.05). It was shown by ROC curve analysis that area under ROC curve (AUC) of PA for diagnosis of AMI was 0.783±0.039, and the 95% confidence interval (95%CI) was 0.706-0.860 (P < 0.05). When the cut-off value was 0.190 g/L, the sensitivity was 29.63%, and the specificity was 62.22%. Conclusion PA may be involved in the inflammatory process of AMI and had a diagnostic value for AMI.
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@#Objective To explore the effect of Activating Blood to Resolve Stagnation on the expression of CD34 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in rats with acute myocardial infarction. Methods 32 Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into sham operation group (A, n=8), model group (B, n=8), Xuesaitong Injection + granulocyte colony- stimulating factor (G- CSF) group (C, n=8) and G-CSF group (D, n=8). Corresponding medicine was given to each group 3 hours after modeling, for 6 days. Pathomorphological changes were observed through HE staining, and the expression of CD34, VEGF and Ki-67 were observed through immunohistochemical staining. Results The expressions of CD34, VEGF and Ki-67 were higher in groups B, C and D than in group A (P<0.05), and were higher in group groups C and D than in group B (P<0.05). The expressions of CD34 and VEGF were higher in group C than in group D (P<0.05). However, there was no significant difference in the expression of Ki-67 between 2 groups (P>0.05). Conclusion The expression of CD34 and VEGF increases with Activating Blood to Resolve Stagnation method, which is superior to using G-CSF only. Activating Blood to Resolve Stagnation may play an important role in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
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Objective To explore the effect of Activating Blood to Resolve Stagnation on the expression of CD34 and vascular endotheli-al growth factor (VEGF) in rats with acute myocardial infarction. Methods 32 Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into sham opera-tion group (A, n=8), model group (B, n=8), Xuesaitong Injection + granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) group (C, n=8) and G-CSF group (D, n=8). Corresponding medicine was given to each group 3 hours after modeling, for 6 days. Pathomorphological changes were observed through HE staining, and the expression of CD34, VEGF and Ki-67 were observed through immunohistochemical staining. Re-sults The expressions of CD34, VEGF and Ki-67 were higher in groups B, C and D than in group A (P0.05). Conclusion The expression of CD34 and VEGF in-creases with Activating Blood to Resolve Stagnation method, which is superior to using G-CSF only. Activating Blood to Resolve Stagna-tion may play an important role in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
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For a typical electrocorticogram (ECoG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system in which the subject's task is to imagine movements of either the left small finger or the tongue, we proposed a feature extraction algorithm using wavelet variance. Firstly the definition and significance of wavelet variance were brought out and taken as feature based on the discussion of wavelet transform. Six channels with most distinctive features were selected from 64 channels for analysis. Consequently the EEG data were decomposed using db4 wavelet. The wavelet coeffi-cient variances containing Mu rhythm and Beta rhythm were taken out as features based on ERD/ERS phenomenon. The features were classified linearly with an algorithm of cross validation. The results of off-line analysis showed that high classification accuracies of 90. 24% and 93. 77% for training and test data set were achieved, the wavelet vari-ance had characteristics of simplicity and effectiveness and it was suitable for feature extraction in BCI research. K
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Humans , Algorithms , Brain-Computer Interfaces , Cerebral Cortex , Physiology , Electroencephalography , Methods , Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted , Wavelet AnalysisABSTRACT
In order to promote the performance of EEG classification based on multi-task motor imagery (MI), we used common spatial pattern (CSP) as the feature extraction method, and we extracted the features under two conditions, with one "One versus One" and the other "One versus Rest". Then, as for the different feature extraction methods, we presented different classification methods based on support vector machine (SVM) according to the different input features. The final classification results showed that the mean Kappa of "One versus One" classification method based on decision value is much higher than that of voting rule, and a little higher than that of "One versus Rest" classification method.
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Humans , Algorithms , Brain , Physiology , Electroencephalography , Imagination , Physiology , Movement , Physiology , Psychomotor Performance , Support Vector Machine , Task Performance and AnalysisABSTRACT
Objective To detect the expression of delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) and its relation with the angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer.Methods SP immunohistochemistry method was used to detect the expression of DLL4 in pancreatic cancer and para-cancerous tissue.The microvessel density (MVD) was calculated with CD34 staining for microvessel endothelium and the correlation between expression of DLL4,MVD and clinicopathological parameters of pancreatic carcinoma was investigated.Results The expression of DLL4 in pancreatic cancer was significantly higher than that in para-cancerous normal pancreatic tissue (68.3％ vs 20％,P ＜0.01 ).The over-expression of DLL4 in pancreatic cancer was positively related to the differentiation degree,TNM staging,metastasis and invasion (P ＜0.05),but not related to the location,tumor size and histological types.The MVD in pancreatic cancer tissues was significantly higher than that in para-cancerous normal tissues (34.9 ± 13.2 vs 18.9 ±2.2,P ＜0.01).MVD was correlated with the differentiation degree,TNM staging,metastasis and invasion (P ＜0.05 ),but not with the tumor size and location,histological types.MVD in pancreatic cancer expressing DLL4 was significantly higher than that in pancreatic cancer not expressing DLL4 ( 38.8± 10.7vs 29.0 ± 15.2,P =0.038 ),and the expression of DLL4 and MVD were positively correlated ( r =0.669,P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusions DLL4 expression may play an important role in pancreatic carcinogenesis by promoting angiogenesis and may be associated with tumor invasion and metastasis.
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@#Objective To investigate the influence of CD14 on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) signal transduction pathway during the hepaticstress injury in acute cerebral hemorrhage, and explore the protection mechanism of Xinglouchengqi decoction. Methods The model ofacute cerebral hemorrhage was established with injection of collagenase Ⅶ into internal capsule of cerebrum. The rats were randomly dividedinto blank control group, cerebral hemorrhage group, syndrome of phledm-heat and fu-organ excess model group and Xinglouchengqigroup. Each group was divided into 3 time sub-groups (24 h, 48 h, 72 h). The expression of CD14 mRNA in liver tissue and mesentericlymph nodes were observed by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Results The expression of CD14 mRNA was higher in model-group than blank control group (P<0.05). Xinglouchengqi decoction could reduce liver pathological injury significantly. Conclusion CD14plays an important role in endotoxin-mediated liver injury. Xinglouchengqi decoction can protect the liver in cerebral hemorrhage.
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@#Objective To explore the characteristics of brain function in rats with Stagnation of Liver-qi Syndrome. Methods Model ofStagnation of Liver-qi was made with chronic stress combined with isolated raising in 10 normal Wistar rats. They were scanned with positronemission tomography (PET) before and after modeling. Data analysis was carried out using SPM (statistical parametric mapping 2) inMATLAB software. Results After modeling, the glucose metabolism decreased (P<0.001) in left frontal lobe, parietal lobe, hypothalamus;bilateral posterior cingulate; right anterior cingulate, while the glucose metabolism increased (P<0.001) in left parahippocampal gyrus, insula,temporal lobe, frontal lobe; right basal ganglia, thalamus. Conclusion The function of some cerebral areas can be changed undergoingStagnation of Liver-qi Syndrome.
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Objective: To investigate intervenient actions of Jianxin Decoction on serum level of tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and nitric oxide (NO) in the patient of congestive heart failure (CHF). Methods: 66 cases of CHF were randomized to trial group and control group. 33 cases in each. Control group received routine treatment and the trial group was treated by routine treatment plus Jianxin Decoction for 4 weeks. TNF-a. IL-6 and NO level and cardiac function before and after treatment were investigated. Results: After treatment, serum TNF-a. IL-6 and NO level in both groups were significantly decreased with the trial group decreased more significantly (P