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BACKGROUND:In recent years, with the in-depth research on thecharacteristics and functions of stem cells,stem cell research has become a hot research targeting thetreatment of a variety of diseases.OBJECTIVE:To summarize the research progress of human amnioticmesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of acute lung injury.METHODS:The PubMed and CNKI databases were searched by computerfor relevant literatures published from January 2000 to January 2017. The key words were mesenchymal stem cells, acute lung injury in Chinese and English,respectively.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:As an important member of adult stem cells, human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells not only have the advantages and characteristics of most other stem cells, but also have unique advantages, such as these cells can be extracted from a vast of sources, require only non-invasive operations, and involve no violation of ethics. Human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells can be driven by inflammation reaction and homing to the damaged tissue, and be activated by inflammatory factors to secrete a variety of cytokines in a paracrine fashion, which inhibit neutrophils, macrophages and other immune cell migration and inhibit dendritic cell maturity, and reduce the proliferation of NK cells, B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes, and up-regulate anti-inflammatory cytokines and down-regulate proinflammatory cytokines, and alleviate alveolar inflammatory injury through anti-oxidation and anti-apoptotic processes. Human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells can also assist in the repair or homing to the damaged tissue to directionally differentiate to replace the apoptotic and necrotic cells. All of these characteristics of human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells provide new insight into the treatment of acute lung injury. As acute lung injury is caused by many pathogenic factors and its pathophysiological process is very complicated, human amniotic mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in the treatment of acute lung injury has many issues to be resolved.
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Improving the quality of free hormone test results which is called reliability can improve the diagnosis rates of a series of diseases.However,such a need has not yet been met by the commonly used immunoassay-based methods,partially due to existence of lack of assay accuracy and specificity.Advanced mass spectrometry instrumentation in a combination of equilibrium dialysis or ultrafiltration can avoid the shortage of immunological methods,which is the forefront of the development of hormone detection methods. Free hormone analysis using mass spectrometry may also become gradually adapted as routine testing in clinical laboratories.This review is focused at the related information of free hormone,form of free hormone in body circulating, clinical utility of free hormone analysis, methodologies used for analysis, issues or concerns in quality performance of the commonly used methods, key components of equilibrium dialysis/ultrafiltration coupled liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry procedure and of method validation.
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Objective: To explore the relationship between plasma level of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and short term prognosis in patients of sudden cardiac arrest with successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Methods:A total of 60 relevant patients were divided into 3 groups based on their plasma levels of BNP. Group A, the patients with plasma level of BNP 200 pg/ml , n=22. Group C, the patients with obviously increased BNP at 3 hours after CPR, while at 12-24 hours after CPR, BNP level decreased to lower than 3 hours level,n=22. All patients were followed-up for 6 months to compare the mortality incidence among different groups. Results: There was no patient died in Group A, the mortality incidence in Group B was 11 and in Group C was 3. The 6 months survival rate in Group A was higher than that in Group B (χ2 = 11.337,P=0.001), the survival rates were similar between Group A and Group C (χ2 = 2.330,P=0.127), and the survival rate in Group B was lower than that in Group C (χ2=7.435,P= 0.006). Conclusion: Consistently increased plasma level of BNP may imply heart failure in patients of sudden cardiac arrest with successful CPR, those patients could have poor short term prognosis. It is critical to improve the cardiac function and increase the important organ infusion to make better recent clinical prognosis.