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Objective To investigate the expression of neurotrophins receptor 75NTR in human breast cancer resistant cell line and its correlation with multidrug resistance. Methods Western blot was used to detect the expression level of p75NTR protein in various breast cancer cell lines and multidrug resistant cell lines. The over-expression vector and siRNA vector of p75NTR were constructed by gene recombination method. Western blot was used to detect the expression levels of p75NTR protein in transfected p75NTR and p75NTR - siRNA breast cancer resistant cell line MDA-MB-231/ADR;the sensitivity of MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-231/ADR to different chemotherapeutic anticancer drug (PTX ,ADM ,GEM ,DDP ,OXA) and the multi-drug resistance effects in over-expression and knock-down p75NTR MDA-MB-231/ADR were detected by CCK-8 assay. Results Western blot result showed that the expressions of p75NTR protein in the multidrug-resistant breast cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231/ADR and MCF-7/5-FU were higher than that of other breast cancer cell lines. Over-expression of p75NTRcan up-regulate the expression of p75NTR protein in MDA-MB-231/ADR;the CCK-8 assay indicated that over-expression of p75NTR can effectively enhance the resistance of MDA-MB-231/ADR cells to ADM,GEM and OXA. Conclusion The expression of p75NTR in breast cancer resistant cell line is higher than that of its parental cell line;over-expression of p75NTR can reduce the sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs and promote its multidrug resistance.
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The protein product of metastasis-associated in colon cancer 1 (MACC1) gene induces the activation of hepatocyte growth factor/mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (HGF/c-Met) signaling pathway through transcriptionally activating c-Met gene and upregulating its expression to further promote tumor invasion and metastasis.High level expression of MACC1 is associated with the occurrence and metastasis of a wide variety of human tumors, such as colon cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer etc.In addition, the overexpression of MACC1 is also closely associated with clinical TNM stages and distant metastasis.Thus, MACC1 can serve as an independent indicator of tumor metastasis and prognosis, and become a new target for gene therapy.
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Objective To probe into the chnical value of strain rate imaging on the assessment of left atrial function in patients with hypertensive disorder comphcating pregnancy(HDCP).Methods Thirty two patients with HDCP and 20 control subjects were involved.Patients with HDCP were divided into 2 groups:17 with normal left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and 15 with left ventricular hypertrophy.These patients and controls underwent transthoracic echocardiography,strain and strain rate imaging examination.Atrial strain and strain rate imaging values of patients with HDCP were compared with those of controls.Multiple parameters were compared by one-way anova analysis.Results When compared with the controls,peak early diastolic strain rate (ESR) was significantly decreased in HDCP patients with normal LVMI and left ventricular hypertophy [(-1.13 ± 0.15),(-1.04 ± 0.29) s-1 vs.(-1.26 ± 0.23) s-1,P ＜ 0.05].Compared with the normal LVMI,peak late diastolic strain rate (ASR) was significantly decreased in controls and patients with left ventricular hypertrophy [(-1.23 ± 0.25) s-1 vs.(-1.36 ± 0.33),(-1.34 ± 0.32) s-1].There was no significant difference in the others (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Left atrial function is decreased in HDCP patients,which with left ventricular hypertrophy,the tendency is more obvious.
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Objective To explore the expression of Topo Ⅱα and COX-2 in breast cancer tissues and investigate their correlations to clinicopathologic feature of breast cancer. MethodsThe expression of Topo Ⅱα and COX-2 in 50 specimens of breast cancer and their normal tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry. Their correlation to clinicopathologic features of breast cancer were analyzed.ResultsThe positive rates of Topo Ⅱα were 64 % (32/50) and 22 % (11/50) and COX-2 were 68 % (34/50) , 14 %(7/50) in breast cancer and normal tissue (P＜0.05). The expression of Topo Ⅱα was correlated to degree of differentiation (P ＜0.05), not correlated to patient age, tumor size, clinical stage and lymph node metastasis(P ＞0.05). The expression of COX-2 was correlated to tumor size, degree of differentiation, clinical stage and lymph node metastasis (P ＜0.05), not correlated to patient age (P ＞0.05). Conclusion Topo Ⅱα and COX-2 expression can be used as an indicator for predicting the differentiation, infiltration and metastasis characteristics of breast cancer.
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This article makes a discussion on how to use the encouraging mechanism to foster the character of the students majoring in nursing on loving their specialty,their strong professional knowledge,proficient operating skills and healthy mental quality.It aims at discussing the approaches on how to improve morals and culture of the students majoring in nursing in current situation.
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Medical ethics teaching is the an important part of professional teaching for medical students. The development of economics and medical science will surely make the conception of medical ethics changing constantly, in return the formation of new medical ethics may improve the development of medical science. The society requires that the medical students of new century should become personals of high quality having both ethics and abilities and undertaking medical practice law-abiding. The teachers must renew their conception of medical ethics and pay attention to the infiltration of medical ethics in clinical teaching. The author will make a research through six aspects in the strengthening and infiltrating of medical ethics in clinical teaching so as to find the way of developing by the society qualified medical personals needed.
