Association of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies with the disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus / 实用医学杂志

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of ANCA in the disease activity of patients with SLE.Methods A total of 1 025 SLE patients were recruited and were divided into inactive and active groups according to SLEDAI score.Demographic characteristics,clinical symptoms,autoantibodies,routine laboratory tests and renal pathology were also recorded and compared between the two groups.Results All patients were divided into inactive group(n = 750)and active group(n = 250).The occurrence of renal,pulmonary,cutaneous,arthritis manifestations were significantly higher than those of the inactive group(all P<0.05).All patients were tested for ANCA,and the most common pattern being perinuclear or p-ANCA,the percentage of p-ANCA seroposi-tive increased greatly with the increased disease activity(P<0.05).The autoantibodies were further analyzed between the two groups,25 patients had reactivity to MPO,but no patient had reactivity to PR3.Also,there were significant differences in anti-dsDNA antibody,anti-nucleosome antibody between the two groups(P<0.05).In the active group,patients with p-ANCA seropositive exhibited higher serum beta-2-microglobulin(β2-MG),titers of anti-dsDNA antibody,SLEDAI scores,lower albumin,C3,and C4 levels(P<0.05).Meanwhile,p-ANCA was associated with IL-6,which increased significantly with the increase of SLEDAI score.In addition,patients with p-ANCA seropositive had more occurrence of lupus nephritis,but it had no association with the renal pathology.Conclusion The appearance of p-ANCA in SLE patients indicated more severe disease activity status.

Structure Design of the Supporting Device of Proton Radiotherapy Equipment Based on Workbench / 中国医疗器械杂志

To reduce contact deformation between the supporting device and the contact area of the rotating gantry rollers, this paper mainly uses the workbench to perform finite element analysis on the contact deformation from two aspects of the layout of the ribs of the rotating gantry roller and the contact width with the supporting roller of the supporting device. The results show that for the proton therapy equipment corresponding to this article, the contact deformation is relatively small and the structure is more reasonable when the ribs are close to the symmetrical position and the contact width between the rotating gantry roller and the supporting roller of the supporting device is 200 mm. This article provides theoretical basis for the design of the proton radiotherapy equipment supporting device.

Rapid identification of four common bacteria by SELDI-TOF MS protein fingerprints / 中华微生物学和免疫学杂志

Objective To establish protein fingerprints of common bacteria in clinics and to lay a foundation for rapid identification of bacteria.Methods Strains of Escherichia coli,Klebsiella pneumoniae,Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus were detected by surface enhanced laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS).Stable expression protein peaks were screened and the data was input into the self-constructed Fingerwave software for identification of target bacteria by protein fingerprint comparison.Two hundred and fifty-six clinical isolates,including E.coli,K.pneumoniae,P.aeruginosa and S.aureus were detected and the data was compared with constructed database to evaluate its diagnostic value.Results The protein fingerprints including four common bacteia was used to identify the target bacteria with identification rate of 93.1％ (54/58) for E.coli,87.2％ (75/86) for K.pneumoniae,96.2％ (60/63) for P.aeruginosa and 96.2％ (51/53) for S.aureus,respectively.Conclusion Common bacteria can be rapidly identified by using the protein fingerprint comparison,which provides a powerful tool for bacterial identification.