Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting of American College of Cardiology: Progress of diabetes-related cardiovascular diseases / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

The 71st Annual Meeting of American College of Cardiology(ACC) was held online and onsite from April 2 to April 4, 2022 in Washington, D. C. As one of the most influential academic annual meeting in the field of cardiovascular diseases, the ACC annual meeting delivers the most advanced research progress and academic hotspots in the field of cardiovascular diseases to the world. As diabetes is a high risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is closely related to heart failure, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and so on, this article summarizes the academic advances in the field of diabetes-related cardiovascular disease at the conference, with the aim of providing cutting-edge information for the clinical management of patients.

Characteristics and associated factors of visual and motor integration in children with developmental dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / 中国学校卫生

Objective@#To investigate the characteristics of visual motor integration in children with developmental dyslexia and ADHD, and to provide a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of these children.@*Methods@#During July to November of 2020，students from grade 3 to grade 5 of 7 primary schools in Xinjiang were selected by using random cluster sampling method. A total of 56 dyslexia group (group DD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder group (group ADHD), comorbidity group and normal control group were selected and compared the differences of their visual motor integration ability and related factors ability. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to explore the predictive effects of related factors on visual motor integration ability.@*Results@#The scores of visual integration ability and visual perception in comorbidity group (95.05±14.01, 12.71±7.40) were lower than those in DD group (104.77±17.19，23.04±11.48), ADHD group (104.00±14.11，25.70±10.74) and normal control group (129.80±12.91, 44.05±16.56) ( F/Z =58.24,110.49, P <0.05). The visual working memory score of the comorbidity group ( 73.64 ±5.36) was lower than the normal control group (78.96±4.68) ( P <0.05)，and there was no significant difference between the DD group (74.48±7.06) and the ADHD group (75.98±7.36) ( P >0.05). The results of multiple regression showed that visual perception, age, IQ and visual working memory were associated with visual and motor integration ability of dyslexia children with ADHD ( R 2=0.32，0.17，0.11， 0.04 ， P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#Visual motor integration and visual perception among children with DD combined ADHD are more severely impaired than those with ADHD and DD alone. Visual perception, age, IQ and visual working memory could help predict the development of visual and motor integration ability in children with DD combined ADHD.

Interplay between non-coding RNA and insulin signaling pathway and its clinical application / 中国药科大学学报

@#Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is a type of RNA that has no or limited protein-coding ability. It mainly includes microRNA (miRNA), long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), circular RNA (circRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA), and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA).At present, research has found that ncRNA plays a central role in regulating the function of pancreatic β cells, and that defects of insulin signaling is an important cause of diabetes.This article reviews the relationship between ncRNA and insulin signaling pathway in recent years, and discusses the possibility of ncRNA as a potential therapeutic target and clinical diagnostic marker for diabetes, hoping to provide some reference for the treatment and diagnosis of diabetes.

Relationship between circular RNA and type 2 diabetes and its clinical application / 中国药科大学学报

@#Circular RNA (circRNA) is a novel type of non-coding RNA with covalently closed loops which plays an important role in the occurrence and development of type 2 diabetes. In this paper, the relationship between circRNA and type 2 diabetes in terms of the regulation of pancreatic β-cell function by circRNA and the metabolic activity of heart, kidney and other organs is reviewed, and the possibility of circRNA as a clinical diagnostic marker for type 2 diabetes and its complications is emphasized, hoping to provide reference and clues for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Inhibition of miR-802 on insulin secretion by targeting Hnf1B / 中国药科大学学报

@#To investigate the effect of miR-802 on insulin secretion by islet β cells and its mechanism, miR-802 was overexpressed or knocked down in primary islet cells and Min6 cells via transfecting miR-802 mimic and miR-802 inhibitor, respectively. The effect of miR-802 on insulin secretion was detected by ELISA. The target gene of miR-802 was confirmed by miRNA target gene database prediction, luciferase report and Western blot. The function recovery experiment was carried out to clarify the mechanism of miR-802 regulating β cell secretion of insulin. The results showed that overexpression of miR-802 in islet primary cells and Min6 cells inhibited insulin secretion. qPCR and Western blot showed that miR-802 inhibited insulin secretion by inhibiting the transcription and translation of the target gene, hepatocyte nuclear factor 1β(Hnf1B).

Factors affecting the outcome of surgical treatment for intertrochanteric fractures / 中华创伤杂志

Objective:To investigate the factors affecting the outcome of surgical treatment for femoral intertrochanteric fractures.Methods:A retrospective case series study was conducted for 424 patients with intertrochanteric fractures admitted to four hospitals in Shanghai from January 2014 to December 2016. There were 200 males and 224 females, aged 45-98 years [(77.8±10.5)years]. Normal union was observed in 326 patients (normal union group), and abnormal union was founded in 98 patients including nonunion in 2 patients (abnormal union group). Data were recorded including the age, gender, injury side, AO classification, Evans-Jesen classification, thickness of femoral lateral wall, medial support, tip-apex distance, and screw position within the femoral head. Fracture healing was assessed. Univariate analysis was conducted to examine differences of the above factors between two groups, and Logistic regression was used to screen the main factors affecting fracture union. At the latest follow-up, the hip joint function was estimated according to the Oxford score system.Results:All patients were followed up for 1-3 years [(2.2±0.3)years]. Univariate analysis showed significant differences between two groups regarding the AO classification, Evans-Jesen classification, medial support, tip-apex distance, and screw position within the femoral head ( P<0.05). Multivariate regression analysis revealed that the simple fracture ( OR=1.030), medial support ( OR=0.395), tip-apex distance ≤25 mm ( OR=0.266) and inferior screw position ( OR=0.986) were significantly related to fracture union. The hip function in normal union group was (42.6±4.5)points, better than (35.4±3.2)points in abnormal union group ( P<0.05). Conclusion:The stability of intertrochanteric fracture is the most important factor for fracture union. The medial support, tip-apex distance ≤25 mm and inferior screw position are helpful to promote fracture healing and recovery of hip joint function.

Mechanism of lncRNA-PLUTO on promoting insulin biosynthesis and secretion / 中国药科大学学报

@#The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of long non-coding RNA PLUTO on β cell function and its underlying mechanism. Islet cells of db/db, ob/ob and HFD mice were isolated and extracted by enzymatic method to detect the expression of PLUTO in islet cells of different obesity model mice. Glucolipid toxicity was used to stimulate islet primary cells and Min6 cells, and the expression of PLUTO was detected to elucidate the reasons of PLUTO down-regulation induced by obesity factors. RT-qPCR and ELISA were performed to analyze the function of PLUTO on β cells; Western blot and rescue experiments were carried out to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of β cells by PLUTO. The results showed that the expression levels of PLUTO were significantly decreased in obesity model mice compared with control mice; over-expression PLUTO in primary islets and Min6 cells could improve insulin biosynthesis and secretion; Western blot analysis showed that PLUTO promoted insulin secretion and synthesis by up-regulating the transcription and translation of Pdx1, which is the adjacent gene of PLUTO.

Epidemiology of allergic rhinitis in children in grassland of Inner mongolia / 中华耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

Objective@#To investigate the self-reported prevalence, clinical characteristics, complications of allergic rhinitis (AR) and the sensitization of outdoor air pollen allergens in children in the Inner mongolia grassland region.@*Methods@#A multistage, stratified and random clustered sampling with a face-to-face interview survey study in children from 0 to 17 years old was performed together with 10 common allergen skin prick tests (SPT) and measurements of the daily pollen count in 6 regions in the Inner mongolia grassland region from May to August of 2015. SAS 9.4 software was used for data analysis.@*Results@#A total of 2 443 subjects completed the study. The self-reported prevalence of AR was 26.6%. The prevalence of boys was higher than that of girls (28.8% vs 24.3%, χ2=6.157, P<0.05). Subjects from urban areas showed higher prevalence than rural areas (34.7% vs 18.8%, χ2=79.107, P<0.05). There was significant regional difference in the prevalence of AR among the six areas investigated (χ2=221.416, P<0.05). The main clinical symptoms of AR were sneezing (88.2%) and nasal congestion (78.6%). Among combined diseases, asthma accounted for 16.5% (107/650), rhinoconjunctivitis accounted for 47.9% (311/650). The peak season of AR was April and July, with the top SPT positive allergens of Artemisia species and chenopodium in this area.@*Conclusions@#The prevalence AR in children in the Inner mongolia grassland region is extremely high. Sneezing is the main clinical symptom. Rhinoconjunctivitis is the most common combined disease. High summer and autumn pollen exposure is the main cause of AR.

Effect of fluorofenidone on renal interstitial fibrosis in rats with unilateral ureteral obstruction / 中南大学学报(医学版)

Objective:To investigate the effect of fluorofenidone on renal interstitial fibrosis in rats with unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) and to observe the effect of fluorofenidone on the expressions of collagen type Ⅰ (Col Ⅰ),collagen type Ⅲ (Col Ⅲ),α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA),connective tissue growth factor (CTGF),platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) in the renal tissues of UUO rats.Methods:Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into a sham-operated group,a UUO group,and a flurofenidone group (n=5).UUO model was induced by ligating the left ureter in rats.The rats were treated with 125 mg/(kg.d) fluorofenidone by gastric gavage in the fluorofenidone group at 24 h before the operation,and the rats were treated with the identical dose of 0.5％ sodium carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC-Na) in the other 2 groups.The rats were sacrificed at 14 days after UUO.Pathological changes of the renal tissue were observed by HE and Masson staining,the mRNA expressions of Col Ⅰ,Col Ⅲ,α-SMA,PDGF and CTGF were detected by real-time PCR,and the protein expressions of Col Ⅰ,Col Ⅲ,PDGF and CTGF were detected by immunohistochemical staining.Results:The renal interstitial damage index,relative collagen area and mRNA and protein expressions of Col Ⅰ and Col Ⅲ in the renal tissues of the rats in the UUO group significantly increased (P＜0.05),and fluorofenidone could reduce these indexes (P＜0.05).Compared with the sham-operated group,the protein expressions ofα-SMA,PDGF,CTGF and the mRNA expressions of PDGF and CTGF in the renal tissues of the rats in the UUO group were increased,but fluorofenidone could decrease the protein expressions of α-SMA,PDGF,CTGF and the mRNA expressions of PDGF and CTGF (P＜0.05).Conclusion:Fluorofenidone (125 mg/kg·d) could attenuate renal interstitial fibrosis through inhibition offibroblast proliferation,myofibroblastic activation,PDGF and CTGF expression.

Effect of α-Asarone on Esophageal Eca-109 Cell Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway / 医药导报

Objective To discuss the effect of α-asarone on the expression level of Cyt-c,Smac,Caspase3 mRNA and protein in human esophageal carcinoma Eca-109 cell mitochondria. Methods The Eca-109 cells were cultured in vitro,and divided into the negative control group and the α-asarone treatment groups(final concentration:25,50,100 μg·mL-1).After 48 h,the morphological changes of Eca-109 cells were observed by fluorescence inversion microscope.The total RNA of cells were extracted by TRIzol method,the expressions of Cyt-c、Smac and Caspase3 were measured by RT-PCR and Western blotting. Results After Eca-109 cells were treated with different concentrations of α-asarone for 48 h,and obvious changes in the morphology were observed,the expressions of Cyt-c,Smac and Caspase3 genes and protein were increased significantly compared to the negative control group( P<0.05). Conclusion α-asarone can induce the human Eca-109 cells apoptosis by regulating expressions of mitochondrial apoptosis pathway correlation genes such as Cyt-c,Smac and Caspase3.

Helical long-period grating manufactured with a CO2 laser on multicore fiber.

We have demonstrated a helical long-period grating (HLPG) manufactured from multicore fiber (MCF) combined with twist and CO2-laser heating technology. The MCF we used behaves as a kind of single mode fiber. The nineteen cores of MCF are distributed hexagonally which make the helical structure only exist in core area after heating and twisting. There are several strong couplings between the core and cladding modes at different wavelengths when the grating pitch was 900 µm. The extinction ratio of the main coupling reached 20 dB at 1550 nm. We have investigated the sensor characteristics of the HLPG. It is found that the grating presents clear sensitivity to refractive-index while exhibiting smaller cross-sensitivity to environmental temperature than conventional long-period gratings. The HLPG also shows great potential as a twist sensor, which has a sensitivity up to 0.198 nm/(rad/m) and can apply for measuring twist directions.

A case report of subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell lymphoma with fever and erythema on the body as the initial symptoms / 中南大学学报(医学版)

Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell lymphoma (SPTCL) is a very rare form of peripheral α/β T cell skin lymphoma that is localized primarily in the subcutaneous adipose tissues.It is characterized by single or multiple painful subcutaneous nodules or lumps,often affecting the limbs.The patient presented to the Department of Dermatology,Second Xiangya Hospital,Central South University,who suffered from intermittent fever and erythema on the body,finally was diagnosed as SPTCL after histopathological examinations for twice.

Classification of Diabetes Diet Problems Oriented by Deep Automatic Question Answering / 医学信息学杂志

Taking the diet problem of diabetic patients as an example,the paper puts forward the problems classification system based on functions in the view of users,classifies the problems put forward by patients through the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm,and provides important support for the construction of the deep automatic Question Answering (QA) system.

Detection and epidemiology of NDM-type carbapenemase in Esherichia coli / 中国感染与化疗杂志

Objecive To investigate the prevalence of NDM-type carbapenemases in the carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli strains collected from Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. The epidemiological characteristics of NDM-type carbapenemase-producing isolates were analyzed.Methods Eighteen strains were collected from November 2013 to January 2015 in the clinical microbiology laboratory of Ruijin Hospital. All of them were resistant to imipenem or meropenem (inhibition zone diameter≤19 mm). The blaNDM gene was detected by PCR. The amplified products were subjected to sequencing analysis. Conjugation experiment was carried out to verify the transferability of plasmids. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were performed to analyze the molecular epidemiology.Results The blaNDM gene was identified in 6 strains, 4 of which had blaNDM-1-type and 2 had blaNDM-5-type carbapenemase gene. Three strains were positive in the conjugation experiment. MLST analysis showed that 6 NDM carbapenemase-producing isolates belonged to ifve sequence types, corresponding to five PFGE-DNA patterns (A-E). Two of these isolates shared the identical sequence type (ST5018) and nearly the same PFGE-DNA patterns (A1, A2).Conclusions NDM-type carbapenemase-producing E. coli is identified in this study. Most blaNDM-positive cases were sporadic. Plasmid might play an important role in the spread of blaNDM inE. coli. The blaNDM-5 type carbapenemase gene was first identified in Shanghai, to which more attention should be paid.

Overview of Research and Application of Knowledge Expression and Semantic Reasoning of Ontology in the Diabetes Field / 医学信息学杂志

Through the retrieval of literatures about the research and application of ontology in the diabetes field in PubMed,IEEE/ IET Electronic Library,ACM,WANFANG,CNKI,VIP and other Chinese and English databases,as well as the search engines Google Scholar and Baidu Scholar,the paper shows the current situations and summarizes the main study contents.The result shows that the study achievements of ontology in the field of diabetes increase rapidly and there are obvious advantages in semantic comprehension in recent decade.

Research Status and Implications of Foreign Medical Automatic Question Answering System / 医学信息学杂志

The paper analyzes the documents related to the foreign medical automatic Question Answering (QA) system,and compares the differences between automatic QA and traditional network information retrieval,describes the automatic QA system in the aspects of application researches,common tools and relevant technologies.Combining foreign related researches,it also discusses the current key problems of medical automatic QA system and the implications for China in order to offer reference for further research.

One case of low temperature plasma resection in the neonatal congenital cyst of tongue / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

Our department treated one case of neonatal congenital cyst of tongue in March 23, 2015. The clinical manifestation of the case is mainly laryngeal stridor after birth 10d, and when infants were associated with progressive dysphagia. Electrolaryngoscope examination showed the goitre look like the cyst of tongue. Laryngeal CT scanning showed tongue lesions, consider the possibility of large cyst. Bilateral thyroid gland showed good, and no obvious abnormality was found in the cervical ultrasonography. The children was transferred to the ear-nose-throat department for excision of cyst of tongue by low-temperature plasma knife, and postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis of cyst of tongue.