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Objective:To study the protective effect of Mongolian medicine Bateri-7 on radiation-induced intestinal injury in mice.Methods:C57BL/6J male mice were randomly divided into control group, irradiation group and irradiation plus drug administration group, with 10 or 15 mice in each group. For irradiation group, the mice were given a single dose of 12 Gy 60Co γ-rays with total body irradiation. For drug treatment, the mice were gavaged with Bateri-7 (530 mg/kg) 7 d before irradiation until 3 d after IR. At 6 h and 24 h after irradiation, the Tunel positive cells in intestine were detected immunohistochemically. At 3.5 d after irradiation, the structure of intestinal villi was observed by HE staining, and the BrdU and Ki67 positive cells were detected immunohistochemically. The expression levels of IL-6, TNF-α and Cxcl-5 were detected by qPCR. The FITC-dextran in peripheral blood was also determined. Results:The survival of irradiated mice was significantly increased by Bateri-7 ( χ2= 5.84, P < 0.05), but there was no significant difference in weight between two groups ( P > 0.05). The villi length of small intestine in the irradiation plus drug group was significantly longer than that in the irradiation group ( t = 20.24, P < 0.05), and there was no significant difference in the depth of intestinal crypt between two groups ( P > 0.05). At 6 and 24 h after irradiation, the number of Tunel positive cells in intestinal crypts in the irradiation plus drug group was significantly reduced in comparison with the irradiation group ( t = 3.52, 2.90, P < 0.05). At 3.5 d after irradiation, the level of FITC-dextran in serum and the expressions of IL-6, TNF-α and Cxcl-5 in small intestine of mice in the irradiation plus drug group were significantly lower than those in the irradiation group, respectively( t = 6.92, 7.01, 7.18, 13.16, P < 0.05). The number of BrdU and Ki67 positive cells in the crypt of mice in the irradiation plus drug group was higher than that of the irradiation group ( t = 3.91, 2.57, P < 0.05). Conclusions:Mongolian medicine Bateri-7 can effectively alleviate irradiation-induced intestinal injury of mice, which may have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on radiation enteritis.
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Objective To investigate the expressions of miR-21 in clinical lung tissues,serum of lung cancer patients and X-ray irradiated A549 cells in vitro and in vivo.Methods A549 cells were irradiated with 2 and 4 Gy X-rays,and pulmonary metastasis model of lung cancer in nude mice was established to detect the expression of miR-21 in vitro and in vivo,as well as in clinical lung tissues of different pathological types serum sample of lung cancer patients and NSCLC patients whether or not received radiotherapy.The survival rate was further analyzed in the above mention NSCLC patients.Results The miR-21 expressions was up-regulated in 60.0％ of tissue samples of NSCLC patients,and it was up-regulated in 50.5％ serum samples of lung cancer patients (52 out of 103).The miR-21 expressions in lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma had significant difference (x2 =5.766,P ＜ 0.05).In the serum samples of 87 NSCLC patients,miR-21 was detected in 66.7％ samples from the patients of radiotherapy but only 39.6％ of patients without radiotherapy (x2 =6.321,P ＜ 0.05).Kaplan-Meier curves showed that the survival rate of patients with low miR-21 expression was higher than that with high miR-21 expression (P ＜ 0.05).Multivariate Cox regression analysis demonstrated that the miR-21 expression,regional lymph node metastasis and radiotherapy were independent prognostic factors for NSCLC patients.The expression of miR-21 was up-regulated significantly in X-ray irradiated A549 cells at different time-points after irradiation (t =-7.552--1.206,P ＜ 0.05).Furthermore,the expression of miR-21was up-regulated in the serum and lung of nude mice (t =-47.845--2.356,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The X-ray irradiation could up-regulate the expression of miR-21 in A549 cells in vitro and in vivo,which might be correlated with the enhanced metastasis of A549 cells.
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Objective To establish a stem cell life-cycle management information system to realize collection,storage,inquiry,processing and statistical analysis of the stem cell and to provide information for the research on stem cell translation medicine.Methods The functional modules of the system were determined based on the analyses on the requirements of stem cell bank management and its operational flow.The system design was explored from the aspects of technical framework,safety control and fuzzy query.Results The system was gifted with a technical architecture and anallocation scheme based on Spring MVC mode,which proved its efficiency by the trial.Conclusion Stem cell resource library can be used as an important supplement to the clinical sample life-group database,providing data and technical basis support for large-scale clinical samples to transform,integrate,manage and share large data resources.
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Objective To investigate the expression of miR-520d-3p in 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells, serum samples of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and its significance. Methods Real time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) was employed to detect the expression miR-520d-3p in 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells in vitro. Besides, 0, 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells were used to prepare animal model of nude mice lung metastasis through mainline. The expressions of miR-520d-3p and lung tissue of nude mice were detected, and the serum samples of NSCLC patients were collected to test the expression of miR-520d-3p . Results Compared with the control group ( 0 Gy ) , the expression of miR-520d-3p was up-regulated significantly in 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells after 48 hours (1.00±0.03, 1.47±0.10, 1.84 ±0.09 respectively), and there was a significant difference (F= 94.350, P= 0.000). Furthermore, compared the control group with injection after 10 weeks, the expressions of miR-520d-3p in nude mice lung tissue in 0, 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated groups were increased (2.33 ±0.13, 8.24 ±0.25, 3.46 ±0.14, respectively) (F=1.787, P= 0.227), and the expressions in serum were increased (11.43±2.30, 10.22±4.62, 8.99 ±3.67, respectively) (F= 1.547, P= 0.246). Out of 20 serum samples of NSCLC patients (including 10 cases of adenocarcinoma, 10 cases of squamous carcinoma ), 11 cases (55%) were detected with up-regulated miR-520d-3p expression. Conclusions 2 and 4 Gy X-ray could increase the expression of miR-520d-3p of A549 cells in vitro and in vivo, which might be correlated with the enhanced invasion and metastasis of A549 cells induced by X-ray in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, the expressions of miR-520d-3p were increased significantly in over 50%serum samples of NSCLC patients, which might be a new marker for the diagnosis of NSCLC.
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Objective To investigate the expression of miR-424* in 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells in vitro and in vivo,as well as in clinical lung tissues and serum sample of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) patients,and to explore its potential role in the diagnosis and prognosis of lung cancer.Methods A549 cells were irradiated with 2 and 4 Gy X-rays,and some of irradiated cells were injected into nude mice through tail vein.Real time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) assay was employed to detect the expression of miR-424 * in 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells in vitro and in vivo,as well as in clinical lung tissues and serum sample of lung cancer patients.Results Compared with the control group,the expression of miR-424* was up-regulated significantly in X-ray irradiated A549 cells at 1,2,12,24 and 48 hpost irradiation,respectively (2 Gy:t =-45.886--6.709,P ＜0.05;4 Gy:t =-29.087--7.833,P ＜ 0.05).Furthermore,the expression of miR-424 * was up-regulated in the lung and serum of nude mice with injection of 0,2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiated A549 cells,compared with control group (fold change was 9.72,8.58 and 4.7 with 2 Gy irradiation and 11.93,9.22 and 8.99 with 4 Gy irradiation,t=-13.243,-12.409,-9.833 in lung andt=-6.436,-3.052,-3.609 in serum,respectively,P ＜ 0.05).Out of 11 tissue samples of NSCLC patients,6 were detected with up-regulated miR-424* expression,and no significant discrepancy of miR-424* expression was detected in two type of NSCLC tissue samples.On the contrary,43 serum samples were detected with up-regulated miR-424* expression out of 84 serum samples (51.20％) of NSCLC patients (fold change range 1.97 to 17.71),and significant discrepancy of miR-424* expression was shown in two subtypes of NSCLC serum samples [adenocarcinoma:39.10％ (18/46) and squamous carcinoma:65.8％ (25/38)],as well as in serum samples of NSCLC patients with radiotherapy [41.5％ (22/53)] and without radiotherapy [67.7％ (21/31)] (t=5.919,5.387,P ＜0.05,respectively).Conclusions 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiation could up-regulate the expression of miR-424* in A549 cells,which might be correlated with the enhanced metastasis of A549 cells induced by X-ray in vivo and in vitro.Furthermore,the expression of miR-424* was up-regulated in over 50％ of the tissue and serum samples of NSCLC patients,which might be correlated with the diagnosis of NSCLC subtype and prognosis of radiotherapy.
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Phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 (PRL-3) is a kind of non-transmembrane protein-tyrosine phosphatase, characterized by its promotion of cell proliferation, migration and invasion. It is highly expressed in many tumors and has a close correlation with tumorigenesis, metastasis and prognosis. With the further research in recently years, more and more studies have suggested that PRL-3 has a wide applicative prospect in clinic, serving as a important clinical biological marker to predict tumor metastasis and prognosis. This paper will review the structure of PRL-3, mechanism and relationship between PRL-3 and tumors.
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Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), an important target for tumor targeted therapy, is overexpressed / mutated in the majority of tumors. Immune cells modified by chimeric antigen receptor , including T cells, NK cells and so on, is a new technology in recent years, which has showed an unique advantage in the treatment of malignant tumors. In this paper, the research progress of T cells and NK cells modified with chimeric antigen targeting for EGFR and its mutants will be reviewed.
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Non-receptor tyrosine kinase c-Abl has been implicated in the regulation of the cell cycle,adhesion, apoptosis and DNA damage responses.Its excessive activation is related with the development of chronic myeloid leukemia, and the relationship between c-Abl and leukemia is in depth and detailed research.In contrast to leukemia, the research between c-Abl and solid tumors is just at the early stage.This paper briefly reviews research progress of the c-Abl in solid tumors.
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miRNA is a kind of small,endogenous noncoding RNA which regulates gene expression in post-transcription level and is highly conserved and tissue-specificity,miRNA generally participates the regulation of many complicated vital process,such as cell growth,development and also plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many kinds of tumors,miR-34b is a newly discovered miRNA,which is regulated by p53,promoter methylation and so on.miR-34b can regulate cellular proliferation and apoptosis,and also involves in the generation and regulation of tumor,which suggests wide application prospect in therapy and prognosis of tumor.This review will focus on the progress of miR-34b and its relationship with tumor.
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of multifunctional regulators which plays crucial role in physiological and pathological processed ranging from development,differentiation and apoptosis to stress responscs.Over 50 ％ miRNAs are located in the tumor-associated region or the fragile chrosomal regions which are susceptible to amplification,deletion or translocation during the process of tumor onset and development.More recently,the new publications indicated that the miRNAs broaden the insight for the mechanism research of tumor metastasis and the applications of miRNAs in carcinoma diagnosis.The article focuses on the mechanism by which some miRNAs are deregulated in lung cancer,the clinical potential of these molecules as the diagnosis and prognosis biomarkers and the future of miRNAs to be potential therapeutic drugs.
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Objective To investigate the effect of ionizing radiation on the expression of transcription factor STAT3 target genes in the pulmonary adenocarcinoma cell line A549.Methods The expressions of VEGF,Bcl-2 and Survivin in A549 cells with or without STAT3 inhibition were detected by RT-PCR and/or Western blot 24 h after 2 or 4 Gy of γ-ray irradiation.Results After γ-ray irradiation with 2 or 4 Gy,the expression of VEGF and Survivin increased significantly.However,the expression of Bcl-2 was not affected by γ-ray irradiation.Furthermore,the increased expression of VEGF and Survivin induced by radiation was found to be inhibited after radiation-induced activation of STAT3 was blocked by AG490 inhibiter.Conclusions γ-ray irradiation could up-regulate the expression of Survivin and VEGF via activating STAT3.The increase of Survivin might partly inhibit the radiation-induced apoptosis of A549 cells,and the up-regulation of VEGF might contribute to the tumor angiogenesis.
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Objective To study the effects of X-ray radiation on CC-chemokine receptor 7(CCR7) expression in human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells.Methods Humanadenocarcinoma cells of the line A549 were cultured and irradiated by X-ray at the absorbed doses of 2,4,6,and 8 Gy respectively by linear accelerator (with the source skin distance of 100 cm and dose rate of 442.89 cGy/min).The relative levels of CCR7 mRNA and protein expression in the A549 cells were respectively detected by real time-PCR and Western blotting 4,12,24,48,and 72 h after radiation.Untreated A549 cells were used as control group.Results The expression levels of CCR7 mRNA and protein in the A549 cells began to increase since 4 h after radiation and then decreased gradually after they reached the peak.The CCR7 mRNA expression levels 72 h after radiation of the 6 and 8 Gy groups were still significantly higher than those of the control group (t = 6.75-7.26,both P < 0.01),and the CCR7 protein expression levels of the 2 and 6 Gy group were still significantly higher than those of the control group(t=11.13-14.17,both P <0.01).Then the CCR7 protein expression levels of the 4 and 8 Gy groups decreased to the control group level 48 and 72 h after radiation respectively.Conclusions The CCR7 mRNA and protein expression levels in the NSCLC cells increase after X-ray irradiation,which may be correlated with the promotion of proliferation and metastasis of NSCLC cells by X-ray irradiation at a certain dose.
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Objective To study the dose-and time-effects of X-ray irradiation on the expression of Pokemon gene in A549 cells of human lung adenocarcinoma.Methods A549 cells were cultured in vitro and exposed to X-rays with the doses of 2,4,6 and 8 Gy,respectively.Untreated A549 cells were used as control group.The relative levels of Pokemon mRNA expression in the cells were detected by using quantitative real-time PCR at 2,4,8,12,24,48 and 72 h after irradiation.Results The Pokemon mRNA expression levels decreased in the early period after irradiation(except 2 and 4 h after irradiation in 2 Gy group)and then increased in the later stage(48 h after irradiation)with significant statistical differences at the most time points in comparison with the control group(t=3.40-154.76,P<0.05).Conclusions Higher doses of X-rays may degrade the expression of Pokemon mRNA in the human A549 cells and induce apoptosis in the early period,hut also may upgrade its expression in the later period, which might be correlated with the cell cycle regulation and DNA damage repair in the A549 cells.
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Vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) can promote the growth of tumor thymphangiogenesis by binding with receptor VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3. It is an important factor of tumor lymphatic metastasis. Lymphatic metastasis is the major diffusion way for non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).The over expression of VEGF-C is significantly correlated to metastasis and prognosis of NSCLC. This article rewiews the bionomics and the functions of VEGF-C in metastasis of NSCLC.
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Adult stem cells identified in tissue organs possess obviously plasticity. They can differentiate into the cells in other systems and germ layers, which are known to support the continuous repair and regeneration of tissues. In the vascular tissue engineering, the research was more and more widespread and deep on adult stem cells as seed cells～ Research indicated that there are many kinds of adult stem cells which can differentiate into vascular endothelial cells, such as bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells, human adipose derived stem cells, and amnion derived stem calls. Thus, this study reviewed the current situation of adult stem cells as seed cells in vascular tissue engineering.
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Objective Present study aimed to research the mechanism of the use of 0.2% brimonidine tartrate eye drops in the treatment of optic nerve crush injury of rat.MethodsAnimal models of optic nerve crush injury were created in 60 SD female rats by clipping the exposed optic nerve at 2 mm in retrobulbar for 6 seconds with 78 grams of reverse forceps.The successful model was identified as Marcus-gun pupil without bleeding of fundus after operation.The animals were randomly assigned to model group and brimonidine treating group,and another 30 normal SD rats were used as the normal control group.The 0.2% brimonidine tartrate eye drops was topically administered at 2 hours before operation and after operation twice per day in the brimonidine treating group.The retinas from 18 rats were isolated after 3,7,21 days for RGCs counting by H&E staining,and the retinal ultrastructure was examined under the transmission electron microscope.The retinas from the other 72 SD rats (including normal,model and brimonidine groups) were prepared for the detection of bcl-2 and bax using immunohistochemistry l,3,5,7,14,21 days after the operation.ResultsNormal and almost normal retina structure was exhibited in rats of the normal group and brimonidine treating group,but disorder of cellular arragement and decrease of retinal thickness were found in the model rats under the optical microscope.The RGCs counting was significantly different among the three groups from 3 days through 21 days after operation with the considerably declination in the model group and brimonidine treating group compared with the normal control group (P＜0.05-0.01).However,that of the brimonidine treating group was obviously increased in comparison with the model group (P＜0.01).The expression of bax in rat retina was obviously reduced (P＜0.01),but the expression of bcl-2 was increased in brimonidine group compared with the model group from 5 through 7 days after operation (P＜0.01).ConclusionThe 0.2% brimonidine tartrate eye drops has a preventive effect on optic nerve crush injury of rat,and its inhibition on apoptosis is one of the mechanisms.
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OBJECTIVE:To compare the therapeutic effects of taurine and catalin eye drops.METHODS:All the mice were divided into the normal control group,the cataract control group,the taurine group and the catalin eye drops group.Except the normal control group,the rest ones were used to establish the galactose cataract models and then received eyedrop administration everyday.The contents of taurine,glycin and glutamic acid in crystalline lens were measured by high perfor?mance liquid chromatography.RESULTS:The contents of amino-acids were not found lower in the taurine group as com?pared with the catalin eye drops group.CONCLUSION:Taurine shows the preventive and therapeutic effects on the experi?mental cataract,which can be comparable to that of catalin eye drops or even more advantageous.