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Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics generated in relativistic laser-solid interaction is investigated. Numerical simulations show that the modulation depends on surface plasma density profile, resulting in spectral envelope modulation and regular and irregular harmonic splitting. The mathematical and physical connections between the spectral modulation of high-order harmonics and the temporal modification of attosecond pulse train are explained. Based on these understandings, we propose a possible method to produce isolated attosecond pulses by tailoring surface the plasma profile.
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Objective: To analyze the clinical features and pregnancy outcomes in antepartum and postpartum hemolysis, elevated live enzymes, and low platelet count syndrome(HELLP syndrome). Methods: A retrospective study was conducted to collect maternal and neonatal information of pre-eclampsia complicated with HELLP syndrome in Peking University First Hospital during the ten years from April 2009 to March 2019. A total of 83 pregnant women were included according to the Tennessee Classification System. They were then allocated into two groups based on the onset time of HELLP syndrome: antepartum HELLP syndrome group (n=70) and postpartum HELLP syndrome group (n=13). The clinical features, symptoms, laboratory biomarkers, and pregnancy outcomes were compared between the two groups. Results: Among the 83 pregnant women with HELLP syndrome, 70 occurred prenatally (84%, 70/83) and 13 occurred postpartum (16%, 13/83). The twin or triplet pregnancy rate in the postpartum HELLP syndrome group was significantly higher than that in the antepartum HELLP syndrome group [6/13 vs 6% (4/70), P=0.001]. The gestational weeks for HELLP onset and delivery in the postpartum HELLP syndrome group were significantly later than those in the antepartum HELLP syndrome group [(35.8±3.0) vs (31.5±5.2) weeks, P=0.025; (36.7±2.3) vs (32.2±5.0) weeks, P=0.002]. The incidence of early-onset pre-eclampsia in the antepartum HELLP syndrome group was significant higher than that in the postpartum HELLP syndrome group [64% (45/70) vs 2/13, P=0.002]. The quantitative of 24-hour proteinuria was significant higher in the antepartum HELLP syndrome group than that in the postpartum HELLP syndrome group [(4.8±5.1) vs (1.8±1.6) g, P=0.002]. But there were no statistical significances in the comparison of other laboratory test indexes (all P>0.05). There were no significant differences between the two groups in clinical symptoms, severe maternal complications, transfusion or adverse maternal outcomes (all P>0.05). Conclusions: Antepartum and postpartum HELLP syndrome have similar clinical symptoms and laboratory characteristics. Both antepartum and postpartum HELLP syndrome could lead to severe maternal complications, which should be paid special attention in clinical practice, especially to the postpartum HELLP syndrome.
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HELLP Syndrome , Pre-Eclampsia , Infant, Newborn , Pregnancy , Female , Humans , HELLP Syndrome/diagnosis , HELLP Syndrome/epidemiology , Pre-Eclampsia/epidemiology , Retrospective Studies , Pregnancy Outcome , Postpartum PeriodABSTRACT
The efficiency of high-order harmonic generation from a relativistic laser interacting with solid targets depends greatly on surface plasma distribution. The usual method of enhancing efficiency involves tuning the plasma scale length carefully by improving the laser contrast. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that efficient harmonics can be achieved directly by compressing large-scale surface plasma via the radiation pressure of a circularly polarized normally incident prepulse. The harmonic generation efficiency obtained by this method is comparable to that obtained with optimized plasma scale length by high-contrast lasers. Our scheme does not rely on high-contrast lasers and is robust and easy to implement. Thus, it may pave a way for the development of intense extreme ultraviolet sources and future applications with high repetition rates.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of micro and mini parotid gland tumors and to provide reference for their clinical diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: Patients with parotid gland tumors treated in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology from December 2012 to April 2020 were selected. Relevant clinical data of the patients with tumor diameter ≤20 mm detected by preoperative CT were collected to analyze the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of micro and mini parotid gland tumors. And the collected data were divided into two groups with diameter 11-20 mm and diameter ≤10 mm according to tumor diameter measured by preoperative CT. The clinicopathological differences between the two groups were statistically analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 2 067 patients with primary epithelial parotid gland tumors were collected, and 685 patients with tumor diameter ≤20 mm were examined by CT, accounting for 33.1%. The ratio of male to female patients with micro and mini parotid gland tumors was 1 â¶1.93, the average age was (45.3±13.8) years (12-83 years), and the median course of disease was 12 months (1 week to 30 years). Among them, 635 cases (92.7%) were benign tumors, 50 cases (7.3%) were malignant tumors, and the ratio of benign to malignant was 12.7 â¶1. The most common benign tumor was pleomorphic adenoma, and the most common malignant tumor was mucoepidermoid carcinoma. The micro and mini parotid gland tumors were divided into 11-20 mm group (n=611) and ≤10 mm group (n=74), the clinical characteristics comparison of the two groups of gender ratio, average age, course of di-sease had no statistical difference (P>0.05). In the 11-20 mm diameter group, the percentage of benign and malignant tumor was 92.8% (567/611) and 7.2% (44/611) respectively, and the ratio of benign to malignant tumors was 12.9 â¶1. In the ≤10 mm diameter group, the percentage of benign and malignant tumor was 91.9% (68/74) and 8.1% (6/74) respectively, and the ratio of benign to malignant tumors was 11.3 â¶1. There was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). Fifty patients with malignant tumor were followed up for the median follow-up period of 39.5 months (1-91 months). Local recurrence occurred in 2 patients with one death. The overall 2-year survival rate was 93.7% and the 5-year survival rate was 89.3%. CONCLUSION: The majority of micro and mini parotid gland tumors was benign lesion. There was a good prognosis for micro and mini parotid gland carcinoma. Early surgical treatment was recommended for micro and mini parotid gland tumors.
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Adenoma, Pleomorphic , Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid , Parotid Neoplasms , Adenoma, Pleomorphic/diagnostic imaging , Adenoma, Pleomorphic/surgery , Adult , Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid/diagnosis , Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid/pathology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Parotid Gland , Parotid Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Parotid Neoplasms/surgery , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Human intelligence is usually measured by well-established psychometric tests through a series of problem solving. The recorded cognitive scores are continuous but usually heavy-tailed with potential outliers and violating the normality assumption. Meanwhile, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an unparalleled opportunity to study brain structures and cognitive ability. Motivated by association studies between MRI images and human intelligence, we propose a tensor quantile regression model, which is a general and robust alternative to the commonly used scalar-on-image linear regression. Moreover, we take into account rich spatial information of brain structures, incorporating low-rankness and piece-wise smoothness of imaging coefficients into a regularized regression framework. We formulate the optimization problem as a sequence of penalized quantile regressions with a generalized Lasso penalty based on tensor decomposition, and develop a computationally efficient alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm (ADMM) to estimate the model components. Extensive numerical studies are conducted to examine the empirical performance of the proposed method and its competitors. Finally, we apply the proposed method to a large-scale important dataset: the Human Connectome Project. We find that the tensor quantile regression can serve as a prognostic tool to assess future risk of cognitive impairment progression. More importantly, with the proposed method, we are able to identify the most activated brain subregions associated with quantiles of human intelligence. The prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex are found to be mostly associated with lower and upper quantile of fluid intelligence. The insular cortex associated with median of fluid intelligence is a rarely reported region.
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Here, deep sequencing results of the maize transcriptome in leaves and roots were compared under high-nitrogen (HN) and low-nitrogen (LN) conditions to identify differentially expressed circRNAs (DECs). Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed non-coding RNA with widely regulatory potency that has been identified in animals and plants. However, the understanding of circRNAs involved in responsive nitrogen deficiency remains to be elucidated. A total of 24 and 22 DECs were obtained from the leaves and roots, respectively. Ten circRNAs were validated by divergent and convergent primers, and 6 DECs showed the same expression tendency validated by reverse transcriptase-quantitative PCR. Integrating the identified differentially expressed miRNAs, 34 circRNAs could act as miRNA decoys, which might play important roles in multiple biological processes, including organonitrogen compound biosynthesis and regulation of the metabolic process. A total of 51 circRNA-parent genes located in the genome-wide association study identified loci were assessed between HN and LN conditions and were associated with root growth and development. In summary, our results provide valuable information regarding further study of maize circRNAs under nitrogen deficiency and provide new insights into screening of candidate genes as well as the improvement of maize regarding nitrogen deficiency resistance. CircRNA-miRNA-mRNA co-expression networks were constructed to explore the circRNAs that participated in biological development and nitrogen metabolism.
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MicroRNAs , RNA, Circular , Animals , Genome-Wide Association Study , MicroRNAs/genetics , Nitrogen , Seedlings/genetics , Zea mays/geneticsABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Accurate and robust pathological image analysis for colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis is time-consuming and knowledge-intensive, but is essential for CRC patients' treatment. The current heavy workload of pathologists in clinics/hospitals may easily lead to unconscious misdiagnosis of CRC based on daily image analyses. METHODS: Based on a state-of-the-art transfer-learned deep convolutional neural network in artificial intelligence (AI), we proposed a novel patch aggregation strategy for clinic CRC diagnosis using weakly labeled pathological whole-slide image (WSI) patches. This approach was trained and validated using an unprecedented and enormously large number of 170,099 patches, > 14,680 WSIs, from > 9631 subjects that covered diverse and representative clinical cases from multi-independent-sources across China, the USA, and Germany. RESULTS: Our innovative AI tool consistently and nearly perfectly agreed with (average Kappa statistic 0.896) and even often better than most of the experienced expert pathologists when tested in diagnosing CRC WSIs from multicenters. The average area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) of AI was greater than that of the pathologists (0.988 vs 0.970) and achieved the best performance among the application of other AI methods to CRC diagnosis. Our AI-generated heatmap highlights the image regions of cancer tissue/cells. CONCLUSIONS: This first-ever generalizable AI system can handle large amounts of WSIs consistently and robustly without potential bias due to fatigue commonly experienced by clinical pathologists. It will drastically alleviate the heavy clinical burden of daily pathology diagnosis and improve the treatment for CRC patients. This tool is generalizable to other cancer diagnosis based on image recognition.
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Colorectal Neoplasms , Deep Learning , Artificial Intelligence , Colorectal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Humans , Neural Networks, Computer , ROC CurveABSTRACT
Root canal obturation is conducted by using filling materials to tightly seal the root canal system after the procedure of preparation in order to control infection and promote periapical healing. The quality of root canal obturation is one of the essential factors affecting the prognosis of root canal treatment. Qualified root canal filling is defined as a homogeneous radiographic apical filling within the cemento-dentine junction with neither overfilling nor underfilling. This review elucidates the long-term outcome of root canal overfilling and its causes, the influence of apical overfilling on adjacent structures and the prevention and management of overfilling, so as to help the clinicians achieving a better outcome of root canal treatment and obtaining an optimal long-term prognosis.
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Root Canal Filling Materials , Prognosis , Root Canal Obturation , Root Canal Preparation , Root Canal TherapyABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the protective effect of dexmedetomidine (Dex) against renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (RIRI) in rats through the phosphatidylinositol 3-hydroxy kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt)/hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) signaling pathway. MATERIALS AND METHODS: (1) A Sprague- Dawley rat model of RIRI was established. Thirty rats were divided into Sham group, injury (RIRI) group, and Dex treatment (RIRI + Dex) group. Serum was collected to detect renal function-related indexes, and the levels of serum inflammatory factors were examined via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). (2) The kidney tissues were separated, and the degree of tissue damage was determined using immunohistochemical staining. (3) Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) were extracted from tissues, and the mRNA levels of inflammatory factors were measured using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). (4) The protein expressions of Akt, phosphorylated (p)-Akt, PI3K, p-PI3K, and HIF-1α were detected via Western blotting. RESULTS: Compared with those in RIRI group, the levels of blood urea nitrogen and creatinine declined (p<0.05), the synthesized mRNAs of inflammatory factors in the kidney tissues were reduced (p<0.05), the secreted serum inflammatory factors was also reduced (p<0.05), and the phosphorylation levels of Akt and PI3K and the HIF-1α level rose (p<0.05) in RIRI + Dex group. CONCLUSIONS: Dex promotes the recovery of renal function and reduces the inflammatory level in RIRI rats through the PI3K/Akt/HIF-1α signaling pathway.
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Dexmedetomidine/pharmacology , Hypnotics and Sedatives/pharmacology , Inflammation/drug therapy , Kidney/drug effects , Myocardial Reperfusion Injury/drug therapy , Animals , Dexmedetomidine/administration & dosage , Hypnotics and Sedatives/administration & dosage , Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/metabolism , Inflammation/metabolism , Injections, Intraperitoneal , Kidney/metabolism , Kidney Function Tests , Myocardial Reperfusion Injury/metabolism , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Signal Transduction/drug effectsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: We aimed at investigating the changes in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with early breast cancer (BCa) before and after different treatments, and the influence of INHBA expression on patients' therapy efficacy and prognosis prediction was also evaluated. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Treatment plans were formulated based on patient's condition and willingness. 160 patients with early BCa were divided into trastuzumab adjuvant group (80 cases) and surgery group (80 cases). The correlation between the number of CTCs and Inhibin, beta A (INHBA) level was assessed by Spearman correlation analysis. The cumulative survival curve was depicted using Kaplan-Meier method to evaluate the prognosis of patients in different groups. RESULTS: The number of detected CTCs and INHBA expression in the two groups were both reduced as compared with those before chemotherapy. After 3 months of treatment, CTCs and INHBA level in the surgical group were detected lower than those in the trastuzumab group. The number of CTCs was positively correlated with INHBA level. The overall survival rate of patients in the surgery group was remarkably higher than those in the adjuvant trastuzumab group. CONCLUSIONS: The CTCs in the peripheral blood of patients with early BCa showed a great relevance to INHBA expression, which may thus serve as predictors of treatment effect and prognosis of BCa patients in early stage. Meanwhile, we demonstrate that surgery should be the first choice for early BCa patients after chemotherapy.
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Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Inhibin-beta Subunits/metabolism , Neoplastic Cells, Circulating/metabolism , Adult , Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological/therapeutic use , Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy , Chemotherapy, Adjuvant , Female , Humans , Inhibin-beta Subunits/genetics , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplastic Cells, Circulating/pathology , Trastuzumab/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Objective: To assess the health status and health service utilization of children born to syphilis infected mothers during pregnancy, in order to prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis to the newborns. Methods: Women with maternal syphilis were studied by trained researchers via phone calls, in Shanghai during 2014-2015. Data related to demographics, status of infection and health care, utilization by both mothers and their children were collected through specifically designed questionnaires. Non-parametric tests including chi-square were used to assess the health status and health service utilization of children born to mothers with different demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Results: A total of 495 children born to mothers with maternal syphilis were recruited from 1 000 syphilis infected parturient women. A total of 61 out of the 495 children were diagnosed as having congenital syphilis (57 children were diagnosed at birth and another 4 were diagnosed during the follow-up period). Children born to women who received syphilis treatment during pregnancy were at lower risk on congenital syphilis (χ(2)=7.214, P=0.027). 37.8% of the children were reported to have had different illnesses in the past three months, mainly involving upper respiratory infections (32.3%) or diarrhea (3.6%). Children diagnosed with congenital syphilis showed a higher prevalence of different kinds of diseases, compared to those without congenital syphilis (47.5% vs. 36.6%). 81.6% of the children had received regular child health care services. Subjects with the following factors as: being immigrant, with lower education, unemployed, unmarried and multipara, were related to the less use of regular child healthcare services. Only 39.7% of the parents would inform the care-takers about the risk of congenital syphilis infection of their own children at the child health care centers. Mothers with residency of Shanghai, having higher education level and employed, were less willing to inform doctors about the risk of congenital syphilis infection of their children. Conclusions: Loss to follow-up among children born to syphilis infected pregnant women remained a serious problem. Few parents would be willing to inform the healthcare takers that their children are at risk of syphilis, when receiving child health care services at the centers. It was necessary to integrate the congenital syphilis follow-up programs into the routine child care services so as to timely diagnose and treat the patients with congenital syphilis.
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Child Health Services/statistics & numerical data , Child Health/statistics & numerical data , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/epidemiology , Syphilis/epidemiology , Child , China/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control , Pregnancy , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/therapy , Syphilis/therapy , Syphilis/transmission , Syphilis, Congenital/diagnosisABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to study the correlation between neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and soluble CD14 subtype (presepsin) on the severity and prognosis evaluation of acute paraquat poisoning (APP) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied 120 APP patients who were divided into three groups: light (28 cases), moderate (52 cases), and heavy poisoning (40 cases) groups. Twenty healthy volunteers were enrolled as controls. RESULTS: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in 86 APP patients (71.7%, 86 of 120). In AKI group, urine NGAL was elevated 3 h after treatment, serum NGAL was elevated 24 h after treatment, and serum creatine (SCr) was elevated 2 days after treatment, which were all significantly higher than non-AKI group. Compared with control group, there were significant differences in presepsin and acute physiology and chronic health status (APACHE) II score of different poisoning groups. There were significant differences in detection indices 24 h, 3 days, and 7 days after treatment among different poisoning groups. There was a positive correlation between urine NGAL and serum paraquat concentration, urine NGAL, and AKI morbidity (r 1 = 0.974, r 2 = 0.766, p < 0.001), suggesting higher urine NGAL level indicated higher AKI morbidity. Receiver operating characteristic curves analysis suggested serum presepsin level and urine NGAL level had higher sensitivity and specificity than APACHE II score when predicting 28-day mortality of APP patients. CONCLUSION: Serum and urine NGAL level is elevated earlier than SCr, which is important for the early diagnosis of APP. Serum presepsin and urine NGAL levels can be used as markers to diagnose the severity of AKI and predict the mortality of APP patients.
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Acute Kidney Injury/chemically induced , Lipocalin-2 , Lipopolysaccharide Receptors/blood , Paraquat/poisoning , Peptide Fragments/blood , APACHE , Acute Kidney Injury/blood , Acute Kidney Injury/urine , Adolescent , Adult , Case-Control Studies , Creatine/blood , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Humans , Lipocalin-2/blood , Lipocalin-2/urine , Middle Aged , Paraquat/blood , Prognosis , Time Factors , Young AdultABSTRACT
By introducing preplasma truncation to cases with an initial preplasma scale length larger than 0.2λ, the efficiency of high-order harmonics generated from relativistic laser-solid interactions can be enhanced by more than one order of magnitude and the angular spread can be confined into near-diffraction-limited divergence. Numerical simulations show that density truncation results in more compact oscillation of the surface electron sheet and the curvature of the reflection surface for the driving laser is greatly reduced. This leads to an overall improvement in the harmonic beam quality. More importantly, density truncation makes the harmonic generation weakly dependent on the preplasma scale length, which provides a way to relax the extremely high requirement on the temporal contrast of the driving laser pulse. A feasible scheme to realize the required preplasma truncation is also proposed and demonstrated by numerical simulations.
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OBJECTIVE: Ovarian cancer ranks 5th leading cause of cancer-related death in females worldwide. Physcion 8-O-ß-glucopyranoside (PG) is an anthraquinone compound isolated from Rumex japonicus Houtt. This study aimed at investigating the effect of PG on ovarian cancer cells. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Cell viability was detected by CCK-8 assay. Colony formation assay evaluated whether PG could affect anchorage-independent growth. Whether PG affected cell cycle progression was examined by flow cytometry. The morphological changes caused by PG were visualized by microscopy. Apoptosis was quantitatively analyzed by flow cytometry. The effect of PG on cell migration and invasion was assessed by wound healing and transwell, respectively. The effect of PG on the expression of molecular markers was determined by Western blot. Microarray assay was performed to identify the potential target of PG. RESULTS: Results from the present study showed that PG decreased ovarian cancer cells viability. Colony formation assay also showed that PG suppressed the anchorage-independent growth of SKOV3 and OVCAR-3 cells. PG triggered cell cycle arrest at G1/G0 phase. The pro-apoptotic activity of PG was confirmed by flow cytometry, activation of caspase-3 and PARP, upregulation of Bax and downregulation of Bcl-2. The ability of PG to inhibit migration and invasion was evidenced by a decrease in wound healing and invasive cell number, as well as downregulation of MMP-2 and upregulation of TIMP-3. Microarray and qRT-PCR showed that miR-25 expression was downregulated by PG treatment. Moreover, our results indicated that the anti-cancer activities of PG were augmented by miR-25 knockdown and attenuated by ectopic miR-25 expression. CONCLUSIONS: PG exhibited anti-cancer activity in ovarian cancer by downregulating miR-25.
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Down-Regulation , Emodin/analogs & derivatives , Glucosides/pharmacology , MicroRNAs/genetics , Ovarian Neoplasms/genetics , Cell Line, Tumor , Cell Movement/drug effects , Cell Proliferation/drug effects , Cell Survival/drug effects , Emodin/chemistry , Emodin/pharmacology , Female , Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects , Glucosides/chemistry , Humans , Molecular Structure , Ovarian Neoplasms/drug therapyABSTRACT
Objective: To investigate the immunologic functional changes of peripheral dendritic cells (DC) in patients with allergic rhinitis (AR) during the treatment by budesonide aerosol inhalation.Method:25 patients with moderate to severe persistent AR were concluded in current study, and they were given budesonide aerosol inhalation for 8 weeks. AR related nasal symptom scores and indices, peripheral DC counts and percentages as well as their activation before and 4 weeks, 8 weeks after treatment were determined.Result:There were significant decrease in nasal symptom scores, eosinophils, AR specific IgE antibodies after 4 and 8 weeks of treatment. The overall clinical efficiency reached 88% at the end of the treatment. Peripheral DC counts and DC/PBMC decreased in comparison with the levels of pre-treatment (P<0.05). Compared with the levels before treatment, DC activation markers CD86 and CD80 reduced to various extent, while glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) positive cells gradually elevated (P<0.05). In the DC secreted IL-10 decreased against the treatment duration, while IFN-γ from DC conditioned T cells statistically increased after treatment (P<0.05). Conclusion:Budesonide suppressed DC activation and maturation, which might redirect DC-involved Th2 response, in turn alleviating the AR symptoms.
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Objective: To evaluate effect of screening of esophageal cancer though comparing difference of survival level between screening and non-screening patients in Linzhou city. Methods: The records pathologically diagnosed as serious hyperplasia/carcinoma and esophageal cancer were drawn from database of first round screening in Linzhou city from 2005-2013 and were assigned to the screening group. The records of new esophageal cancer cases which diagnosed within 2 years before, screening from the same village aged from 40 to 69, were drawn from database of cancer registry in Linzhou city and were assigned to the non-screening group. Five or 10 year survival rate with 95%CI of patients with different malignant degree diseases in the screening group and the patients with esophageal cancer in the non-screening group was calculated respectively. The survival curves between the screening and non-screening group were compared by Log rank method. Results: All 26 908 persons were examined in first round screening in Linzhou city from 2005 to 2013. There were 374 persons with serious hyperplasia/carcinoma in situ, 157 persons with esophageal cancer (141 intramucosal carcinomas/submucosal cancers, 16 invasive cancers). The 5 year survival rate of serious hyperplasia/carcinoma, intramucosal carcinoma/submucosal cancer and invasive cancer were 95.0% (95%CI: 91.7%-97.0%) , 72.0% (95%CI: 62.7%-79.3%) and 41.7% (95%CI: 17.4%-64.6%) separately. The 5 year survival rate of esophageal cancer in screening and non-screening group were 68.7% (95%CI:59.9%-75.9%) and 40.8% (95%CI: 36.4%-45.2%). The 10 year survival rate of esophageal cancer in screening and non-screening group were 58.0% (95% CI: 44.6%-69.3%) and 34.3% (95% CI:29.1%-39.5%). The 5 or 10 year survival rate of esophageal cancer in the screening group were higher than that in the non-screening group in whatever sex or age. The survival distribution of the screening group was better than non-screening group (χ(2)=38.88, P<0.001). Conclusion: More precancerous lesions and early esophageal cancer can be detected and patients' survival level was improved through organized esophageal cancer screening, which provided support to evaluate value of organized screening.
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Early Detection of Cancer/statistics & numerical data , Esophageal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Esophageal Neoplasms/mortality , China/epidemiology , Humans , Survival Analysis , Survival RateABSTRACT
Objective: Virus infection is a common complication of transplantation.With the research and application of exosome is becoming more popular, this study focused on whether the virus particles and nucleic acids exist in the exosomes extracted from the plasma of recipients with virus infection after renal transplantation. Methods: A total of 10 independent transplantation recipients at Institute of Organ Transplantation, 309th Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army from January 2015 to July 2017 were studied in this study.5 cases of positive or suspected positive in granulocytes HCMV pp65 antigen detection and positive in plasma HCMV DNA test, and the other 5 cases of positive results in plasma BK DNA test were adopted.Exosomes were extracted from the collected plasma samples with SBI kit.Electron microscopy and nanoparticles tracing analyzer (NTA) were used for exosome analysis.Quantitative real-time PCR method was used to inspect and compare virus DNA copies number in plasma, exosome and effluent. Results: Typical exosome-like vesicle structure was observed.NTA put forward the sample concentration data from 1.2 to 4.5×10(12) particles/ml, and the particle diameters were 30-200 nm.In the qRT-PCR assays, the viral DNA quantitative results of exosome samples are lower but on the same magnitude compared with that of the plasma, and sharply decreased in effluent. Conclusions: Virus DNAs in exosome samples of recipients with viral infection after transplantation were detected in great quantities.This not only hints the spread of the virus may take advantage of the biological formation process of exosomes, but also warns that the limitation of the existing way to extract exosmes from virus infected population may be a bottleneck in research.
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Exosomes , Cytomegalovirus , Cytomegalovirus Infections , DNA, Viral , Humans , Kidney Transplantation , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Viral LoadABSTRACT
Objective: To explore the psychological status and related factors in patients with precancerous of esophageal and gastric cardia in Linzhou of Henan. Methods: Clinical psycho-rating scale of Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS, score ≥50 points with symptoms of anxiety) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS, score ≥53 points with the symptoms of depression) were applied to survey life events and psychological status of subjects who aged 40-69 years old and participated in"The Early diagnosis and Early Treatment"program in Linzhou cancer hospital from July 2015 to Jan 2016. Patients with lower intraepithelial neoplasia or high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia were selected as precancerous lesions (n=118), and patients with normal grade were selected as healthy controls (n=210). Compare the differences of the scores between the two groups, and the logistic regression model was used to analyze the related factors of precancerous lesions and psychological status of the study subjects. Results: Precancerous lesions included esophageal (72 cases), gastric cardia (40 cases), esophageal and cardia dual source (6 cases); Precancerous lesions and healthy controls aged (57.17±7.71) and (53.12±7.99) years old, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). The anxiety and depression scale showed that the scores of SAS and SDS scores in the precancerous lesions were (37.18±10.01), (40.44±8.37) points, and (34.02±6.63), (38.49±8.73) points in control group, the difference was statistically significant (P=0.002, 0.032). While the social support total score (38.26±5.26), and subjective support score (24.08±3.83) and objective support score (7.50±1.89) in control group were all higher than those of precancerous group (36.80±6.18, 23.01±3.93, 6.93±1.57), and the difference were statistically significant (P=0.024, 0.016, 0.004). In addition, the Logistic analysis showed that subjects with low objective social support, subjective social support and anxiety symptoms were more likely to develop precancerous lesions, and the OR were 0.81, 0.72 and 1.05, respectively (P=0.028, 0.005, 0.009). Conclusion: Social support, anxiety and depression status may be related to the occurrence and development of esophageal and gastric cardia precancerous lesions.