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As indications of radiotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer continue to expand, more and more patients need radiotherapy after mastectomy. With the development of breast reconstruction, radiotherapy and its timing will affect breast reconstruction while patients benefit from tumor treatment and may lead to different postoperative complications and cosmetic effects. How to optimize the comprehensive therapeutic strategies of postoperative breast reconstruction and radiotherapy for breast cancer, especially the techniques of breast reconstruction and the choices of radiotherapy timing, has become an issue of common concerns of multidisciplinary treatment involving radiotherapy, breast surgery, and plastic surgery. This paper aims to review and summarize the latest high-quality research in this field including the impact of radiotherapy and its timing on tissue expander/prosthetic breast reconstruction, rate of prosthetic reconstruction, and postoperative patient satisfaction so that scholars can understand the latest research progress of radiotherapy and breast reconstruction and clinicians can optimize therapeutic regimens.
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Objective Oxidative stress (OS) plays a crucial role in ischemic stroke. Grape seed procyanidin extract (GSPE) was reported to be a critical regulator of OS. We hypothesized that GSPE might also be protective in ischemia-reperfusion brain injury. This study aimed to explore whether GSPE administration can protect mice from ischemia-reperfusion brain injury.Methods Transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) was conducted followed by reperfusion for 24 hours to make ischemia-reperfusion brain injury in mice that received GSPE (MCAOG, n=60) or normal saline (MCAONS, n=60). Sham-operated mice (GSPE group and normal saline group) were set as controls. The neurological severity score (NSS) was used to evaluate neural function impairment 1 hour, 24 hour, 3 days and 7 days after MCAO. Mice underwent brain T2WI imaging with a 3T animal MRI scanner 24 hours after reperfusion, and the stroke volume of brains were calculated according to abnormal signal intensity. Immunohistopathological analysis of brain tissues at 24 h after reperfusion was performed for neuronal nuclear antigen (NeuN), CD34, Bcl-2, and Bax. Glutathione peroxidation (GSH-Px) activity and the level of malonaldehyde (MDA) of brain tissue were also examined. The above indexes were compared among the groups statistically.Results Significant functional improvement was observed 24 hours after MCAO in MCAOG group compared to MCAONS group (P<0.05). MCAOG group had smaller cerebral stroke volume (22.46 ± 11.45 mmvs. 47.84±9.06 mm, P<0.05) than MCAONS group 24 hours after MCAO. More mature NeuN-immunoreactive neurons and more CD34-positive cells in peri-infarct zones were observed in brain tissue of MCAOG mice 24 h after MCAO than that of MCAONS mice (both P<0.05). MCAONS mice had significantly higher number of Bax-positive cells in brain tissue than MCAOG (P<0.05). The mean MDA level was significantly lower (P<0.05) and the GSH-Px activity was significantly higher (P<0.05) in brains of MCAOG mice compared to those of MCAONS mice.Conclusion GSPE administration protects mice from ischemia-reperfusion brain injury through attenuating oxidative stress and apoptosis, promoting angiogenesis, and activating antioxidant enzyme GSH-Px. GSPE may represent a new therapeutical direction for the treatment of ischemia-reperfusion brain injury.
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Animals , Male , Mice , Apoptosis , Brain , Glutathione Peroxidase , Metabolism , Grape Seed Extract , Pharmacology , Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Neuroprotective Agents , Pharmacology , Oxidative Stress , Proanthocyanidins , Pharmacology , Reperfusion Injury , Drug Therapy , MetabolismABSTRACT
With the economic development of science and technology advance,medical model,as the total understanding of health and disease at a certain historical period,has undergone several different phases:spirtualism medical model,mechanistic medical model,Biological Medical Model and biological-psychological-social medical model.Under the background of biologic and psychogenic society medicine,the professional quality of contemporary doctor faces new requirements and challenges.This article discusses the necessity,importance and approaches of intensifying research on humanistic knowledge which adapts to the transformation of medical model.
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A novel probe (DNSBN) towards biothiols on the basis of 4-hydroxynaphthalimide as fluorophores and 2, 4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyloxy group as specific recognition site was designed and synthesized.The result of absorption and fluorescence spectral analyses indicated that the probe had high sensitivity and selectivity towards cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (Hcy) and glutathione (GSH), and the detection was not affected by other 17 kinds of natural amino acids.Meanwhile, it was confirmed that DNSBN was a ratiometric probe through the fluorescence titration experiment, and the fluorescent intensity at 555 nm had a high linear relationship with biothiols concentration in the range of 0-20 μmol/L.The detection limits (3σ) of Cys, Hcy and GSH were 25.9, 92.0 and 77.9 nmol/L, respectively.The absorption, emission and mass spectra indicated that biothiols could be engaged in nucleophilic substitution reaction with 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonate, which induced the sulfonic esters decomposed.With the departure of receptor unit, the d-PeT progress (donor-excited photoinduced electron transfer) was blocked with an obvious colorimetric and fluorescence change.Finally, HeLa cell imaging experiments verified that DNSBN had good biocompatibility and could be used to detect exogenous biothiols.
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Early diagnosis and intervention is an important way to delay the progress of Alzheimer′s disease (AD).Compared with cerebrospinal fluid, blood sampling is not invasive and easy to be obtained in clinic practice.In this study, the serum samples of 9 controls, 10 AD and 12 mild cognitive dysfunction (MCI) patients were analyzed and compared through one by one analysis to screen potential markers for AD diagnosis.The experimental results showed that VGFYESDVMGR of α-2-macroglobulin peptide was closely related to the late stage of AD disease, and the large amount degradation of apolipoprotein C-Ⅲ, histone H1.2 and histone H1.4 was significantly related to early stages of AD progression.The characteristics of serum peptidome were different for the early and late AD, and these four proteins may be used as potential biomarkers of AD disease.In addition, the obvious ladder sequence characteristic was observed for apolipoprotein C-Ⅲ and histone H1, which could partly explain why the peptides distribution in different samples was somewhat contingent.On the contrary, the distribution at protein level was more stable.Finally, it was confirmed that the peptides of proteins such as fibrinogen α-chain, thymosin β-4 and patchy proteins were the dominant peptides in all serum samples.Overall, this study showed that the method of using serum peptidomics to diagnose AD was possible.The results may provide evidence and references for the large-scale clinical validation of AD.
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Based on the introduction of the concept and characteristics of the wearable medical devices,the paper elaborates the development situation of wearable medical devices at home and abroad,focuses on the statement of the functions of wearable medical devices in medical practice including achieving dynamic monitoring,providing medical diagnosis data,finding out the causes of diseases,achieving early treatment of diseases,promoting medical level,improving medical techniques,and relieving the situation of medical resources shortage of China,and meanwhile analyzes the problems of wearable medical devices and the healthcare industry.
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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma( DIPG)is a highly invasive tumor located in the pons (middle)of the brain stem. They are usually diagnosed during childhood and account for 10% -15% of primary brain tumors in children. DIPG has a very poor prognosis. Fewer than 10% of DIPG patients survive more than 2 years after diagnosis. The imaging manifestations of DIPG are typical,and biopsy is only performed in atypi-cal cases. The tissue specimens of newly diagnosed DIPG are very few and limit its molecular biological research. Recent advances in surgical and molecular-analytic techniques have increased the safety of biopsy which has already been used in many clinical trials step by step. The research of DIPG′s molecular pathogenesis and treatment is sure to achieve new breakthroughs.