Factors associated with high-risk behaviors among people newly diagnosed to be infected with HIV through heterosexual contact before and after diagnosis in some areas in Henan province / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To understand the factors associated with high risk behaviors among people newly diagnosed to be infected with HIV through heterosexual contact before and after diagnoses in some areas in Henan province,and evaluate the risk of secondary transmission.Methods A face to face interview was conducted among people infected with HIV through heterosexual contact by using self-designed questionnaires during January-May in 2015.Results Among 361 HIV infected persons,the proportions of those with commercial heterosexual behaviors or sex with irregular sex partners decreased from 77.3％(279/361) and 28.5％(103/361) before diagnosis to 13.6％ (49/361) and 2.5％(9/361) after diagnosis,the difference was significant (x2=16.66,P＜0.001;x2=4.80,P=0.03).The subjects surveyed always had more commercial heterosexual behaviors in Henan,Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces before and after diagnosis.After HIV infection confirmation,the condom use rates were 51.0％(25/49) for commercial heterosexual behaviors,88.5％ (184/208) for sex with regular partners and 88.9％(8/9) for sex with irregular partners,respectively.Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that risk behaviors associated with HIV transmission included commercial sexual behaviors,previous HIV detection and age of 35 years or older.Conclusions Extra-marital heterosexual behavior has posed serious challenge to the prevention and control of HIV spread.It is necessary to inform the HIV test results,improve the intervention and promote condom use in people with history of commercial sex and people aged ≥35 years.

Change and clinical significance of ischemia modified albumin in transient myocardial ischemia before and after radio frequency ablation / 中国综合临床

Objective To observe the changes and clinical significances of ischemia modified albumin (IMA),cardiac triponin T (cTnT) and creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) in transient myocardial ischemia induced by radio frequency ablation ( RFA ) in patients with arrhythmia.Methods One hundred and twelve patients with arrhythmia undergoing RFA and 91 patients undergoing CAG were evaluated with blood levels of IMA,cTnT and CK-MB before and 3 and 6 hours after operation.Results Serum levels of IMA at 3 h [ (80.62 ± 7.53 )U/ml ] and 6 h [ (76.37 ± 9.21 ) U/ml ] after operation rose significantly (P ＜ 0.05 ) in the 112 cases of RFA compared with the preoperative [ ( 45.42 ± 7.00 ) U/ml ].While the levels of IMA were not significantly different at 3 and 6 hours after CAG in the 91 patients compared with before sugery ( P ＞ 0.05).The levels of cTnT and CK-MB remained unchanged between the two groups after the procedures ( P ＞ 0.05 ).Conclusion The levels of IMA were quickly increased after myocardial ischemia induced by RFA and this change occurred earlier than that of cTnT.IMA is an early diagnostic biochemical marker of myocardial ischemia.

Role of centrosome in tumorigenesis and oncotherapy / 基础医学与临床

The centrosome plays a crucial role in the maintaining of cell conformation,mitosis and chromosome seg-regation.It responds to the DNA damage and keeps the genome stability via cross-talking with the intranuclear DNA damage repair system.The apoptosis of tumor cells can be induced through inhibition of the duplication of centro-some.So the inhibitors of centrosomal proteins will be a potential anti-tumor therapy.

A high throughout assay for human papillomavirus genotypes with fluorescence polarization / 中华医学杂志(英文版)

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To develop a simple, cheap, quick, accurate and practical method for a high throughout genotypes assay of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Crude DNA was extracted by a simplified proteinase K digesting method. HPV common conservative primers: GP5+/6+ system was used to amplify HPV DNA in 127 samples of condylomata acuminatum (CA) and cervical scrapes by PCR, then the PCR product was assayed using a template directing terminator incorporation (TDI) and genotypes were detected with fluorescence polarization (FP). Major HPVs type-specific probes (HPV6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 35 and 58) designed by us were hybridized with the specific PCR products and a special fluorescent ddNTP terminator was directly added to the end of the probe under direction of specific PCR products. The results were measured with FP and compared with the results of the DNA sequence.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Compared with the results of DNA sequencing, the results detected with fluorescence polarization were all correct. The proposed method could detect more than one type of HPV infection, but DNA sequencing method could not. The positive rate of HPV was 100% in 78 CA biopsies. Among them, there were 14 HPV double infections [HPV6B and 11 (9 cases), HPV11 and 16 (4), HPV11 and 18 (1)], 5 HPV triple infections [HPV6B, 11 and 16 (4), HPV11, 16 and 18 (1)], and one HPV quadruple infection (HPV6B, 11, 16 and 18). The positive rate of HPV was 77% in the 49 cervical scrapes. Six HPV double infections [HPV6B and 11 (2), HPV11 and 16 (1), HPV6B and 16 (1), HPV16 and 18 (1), HPV18 and 58 (1)], 3 HPV triple infections [HPV6B, 11 and 16 (2), HPV11, 16 and 18 (1)] and one HPV quadruple infection (HPV6B, 11, 16 and 18) were detected in cervical cancer scrapes.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The proposed method allowed a high throughout, special, simple, rapid, automatic and economical detection of HPV-DNA genotyping without a use of labeling probes. It can detect multiple HPV genotype infection and will be and useful tool in HPV genotype screening.</p>

Identification of down-regulated genes in cardiac fibroblasts stimulated by angiotensin Ⅱ / 中国病理生理杂志

AIM: To identify the down-regulated genes in adult rat cardiac fibroblasts (CF) stimulated with angiotensin Ⅱ (AngⅡ). METHODS: Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was performed between the CF stimulated by AngⅡ (driver) and unstimulated CF (tester) to generate subtractive cDNA library. The library was screened with dot blots hybridization to further verify the differentially expressed cDNA clones. Partial positive clones were sequenced and BLAST analyzed. RESULTS: Seventeen down-regulated genes related to intracellular signal transduction, transcriptional repression, deposition of fibrous matrix and cellular cytoskeletal rearrangement, and 4 new expression sequence tags (EST) were acquired. CONCLUSION: SSH is a powerful technique with high sensitivity for the detection and clone of down-regulated genes expressed in CF induced by AngⅡ, which is helpful to clarify the mechanism of cardiac remodeling.