Analyzing the prevalence of key occupational hazards in 56 printing enterprises in Shenzhen City / 中国职业医学

@# Objective To investigate the prevalence of the occupational hazard of organic solvent and noise in printing and Methods record medium production enterprises in Longgang District of Shenzhen City. A total of 56 printing and record medium production enterprises were selected as the study subjects by judgmental sampling method to analyze the worksite Results survey of occupational health and the key occupational hazard factors. There were 256 organic solvent samples ， detected in 56 enterprises which included a total of 148 terms and 1 358 categories of volatile constituents. The top three （ ）， - （ ） （ ） volatile constituents were toluene 35.5% n hexane 25.7% and methanol 23.8% . The top three detected samples of the （ ， ， ， ， - ， ，- ， eight key chemical occupational hazard factors benzene toluene xylene ethylbenzene n hexane 1 2 dichloroethane ） ， - ， trichloroethylene and chloroform were toluene n hexane and ethylbenzene. In the workplace air toluene was the most risk ， factor of occupational hazard factors in enterprise and in sample detection while no trichloromethane was detected. The toluene in workplace air was found to exceed the national standard with the rate of 2.6%. It showed that 27.9% of the work sites were found occupational noise hazard which was over national standard in the 10 key work sites. Only 64.3% and 57.1% enterprises - performed occupational hazard factors detection and occupational health examination. Both none or invalid toxicant proof - facilities accounted for 33.9% of the enterprises. Both none or invalid noise proof facilities accounted for 78.6% of the Conclusion ， - enterprises. The occupational hazards factor of toluene n hexane and noise were serious in printing and record ， medium production enterprises in Longgang District of Shenzhen City and the occupational health management was imperfect. The occupational regulation should be enhanced in this industry.

Content comparison of buddleoside and pectolinarin in Cirsium japonicum, C. leo and C. leducei / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To compare Cirsium japonicum characteristics with C. leo and C. leducei, along with the content of buddleoside and pectolinarin, and lay the foundation for the quality control of C. japonicum.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Samples were collected and the relevant drugs were bought. The samples were divided into root, stem, leaf and flower, and the content of buddleoside and pectolinarin was determine by the HPLC. Chromatographic column: Waters XBridge C18 (4.6 mm x 250 mm), mobile phase: methanol-water (45: 55), measurement wavelength: 326 nm, flow rate: 0.8 mL x min(-1), column temperature: 30 degrees C. RESULT AND CONDUSION: Standard curve equation of buddleoside: Y = 74 064X-47 748, R2 = 0.991. Standard curve equation of pectolinarin: Y = 1 711 64X - 180 707, R2 = 0.999. The content of buddleoside: C. japonicum leaf was 1.987 3%, C. leo leaf 1.412 2%, C. leducei leaf 0.149 2%. The content of buddleoside was lower in root and stem. Pectolinarin was not detected in the C. japonicum and C. leo. The pectolinarin content was 0.069 0% in C. leducei leaf.</p>

Study on clonal evolution of monosomy 7 in patients with aplastic anemia by interphase- fluorescence in situ hybridization / 中华血液学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the clonal evolution of monosomy 7 in patients with aplastic anemia (AA).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Monosomy 7 (-7) in 81 AA patients with normal karyotype at diagnosis and 46 AA treated with immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and more than 6 months of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhuG-CSF) were detected by interphase- fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) retrospectively.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There were 5.4% - 7.6% of -7 cells in 11 (13.6%) of 81 patients at diagnosis, the survival and response rate to IST in -7 positive patients did not differ significantly from that in -7 negative patients (P = 0.481, 0.865); -7 cells disappeared after IST in all of the 11 patients including 5 received long-term rhuG-CSF therapy, and none of them evolved to myelodysplastic syndromes/acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML) at a median follow-up of 44 months. Serial assessments of -7 clones were performed in 46 patients, none of whom detected -7 clones 3-6 months after IST, but -7 recurrence in 5 patients 12 - 15 months after IST. At a median follow-up of 48 months, FISH identified 6 patients with -7 clones while the conventional cytogenetic analysis (CCA) recognized in 5. Moreover, the first demonstration of -7 by FISH was 3 - 18 months earlier than that by CCA. All of the 6 patients with FISH detected -7 evolved to MDS/AML with -7 and four of them were retrospectively analysed for in samples at -7 diagnosis of AA, but none of them was positive.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Monosomy 7 exists in a part of AA patients, but the preexisting -7 cells seems neither associated with fatality nor evolvation to MDS/AML. rhuG-CSF might facilitate the expansion of -7 clones; It is necessary to monitor -7 in AA, especially when received long-term rhuG-CSF therapy.</p>

A comparative cytogenetic analysis in large scale between adult and childhood patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia / 中国实验血液学杂志

This study was purposed to comparatively analyze the cytogenetic characteristics between 566 cases of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (aALL) and 586 cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL). The cytogenetic analysis of all the patients was performed, and the FISH detection for partial patients was carried out. The result showed that the difference of chromosome abnormality between cALL and aALL was statistically significant. The percentage of abnormal karyotypes in aALL was 62.0%, including mainly t(9;22)(q34;q11), hypodiploidy, hyperdiploidy (47 - 50), abn(6q), abn(9p) and -7, most of which conferring an unfavorable prognosis. The percentage of abnormal karyotypes in cALL was 39.2%, composed mainly of high hyperdiploidy, hypodiploidy, TEL/AML1(+), +8, hyperdiploidy (47 - 50) and +21, etc, most of which conferring a favorable prognosis. The incidences of abnormal karyotypes, total hypodiploidy, total hyperdiploidy (47 - 50), t(9;22)(q34;q11), -7, abn(7q), abn(14q32) and +Ph in aALL were significantly higher than those of cALL (p < 0.05), whereas the incidences of normal karyotype (N), high hyperdiploidy, +8, +21*2 and TEL/AML1(+) in cALL were significantly higher than those of aALL (p < 0.05). 20.5% of aALL were Ph+ aALL, with 63.8% of which being with additional abnormalities, composed mainly of +Ph, -7, i (9q+), 9p-, +8, +21, +X, 6q-, abn(14q32) and +14. In contrast, only 4.4% of cALL were Ph+ aALL, with 42.3% of which being with additional abnormalities, including mainly abn(9p), abn(7p), -7, 17p- and +21. It is concluded that almost every chromosome is involved in the numerical and structural abnormalities and complex karyotypes are common. The significant difference of chromosome abnormality exists between aALL and cALL.

Detection of bcr/abl fusion gene by dual color-dual fusion fluorescence in situ hybridization / 中国实验血液学杂志

This study was aimed to investigate the sensitivity and clinical application of interphase-dual-color and dual-fusion fluorescence in situ hybridization (DC-DF-FISH). The bcr/abl fusion gene was detected by FISH with dual-color and dual-fusion bcr/abl DNA probe in interphase cells of bone marrow from 1295 specimens. Retrospective analysis for the cases was performed by the means of conventional cytogenetic analysis (CCA) and FISH. The results indicated that in 1295 specimens from 539 patients, 456 specimens were positive involved in 310 patients, the karyotypes of 18 patients were normal, 5 patients failed to karyotyping analysis. About 75.5% (234/310) of positive patients displayed the typical DC-DF-FISH signal pattern, 76 patients showed atypical DC-DF-FISH signal patterns, 66 cases out of which showed variant signal, 16 patients displayed typical variant signals (1Y2G2R), 50 patients displayed deletion ABL and/or BCR signal. In 213 patients, the negative rate was 60% (128/213) after the treatment, 12 patients were sometimes negative and sometimes positive during the process of the treatment. It is concluded that DC-DF-FISH can be used to detect karyotypes with masked or variant Ph, gene deletion and minor residual disease (MRD) in process of treatment. The dual-color FISH technique is a much more sensitive and accurate tool for monitoring MRD and monitoring relapse, which is a necessary supplement to CCA.