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Objective To investigate the effect of methylation of the APC gene on expression and the correlation with clinical data in pancreatic cancer.Methods Sixty postoperative tissue samples with pancreatic cancer were collected in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from August 2010 to January 2011,20 benign pancreatic disease tissues were collected as control groups.APC promoter methylation and gene expression levels were detected by Methylation Specific PCR (MSP),Real Time PCR (RT-PCR) and Western blot in 60 pancreatic carcinoma,42 metastasis and 20 benign pancreatic disease tissues,then analyze the relation between methylation of the APC gene and the clinical data.Results APC promoter methlation was observed 48.53％,46.67％ and 1.16％ in pancreatic carcinoma,metastasis and benign pancreatic disease tissue,respectively.Methylation of APC in pancreatic carcinoma and metastasis increased significantly compared with control tissues (x2 =12.903,14.402; P ＜ 0.05).There were no statistically significant differences of APC expression in these tissues (P ＞ 0.05).There was a significant correlation between methylation of APC and clinicopathological stage (x2 =6.801,P ＜ 0.05),but no correlation with gender,age,tumor size,histological grade and metastasis (x2 =0.727,1.311,0.372,0.148,0.017 ; P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion The methylation of APC gene is closely related with pancreatic carcinoma inogenesis and the clinicopathological stage,but do not effect the expression of APC in tissues.
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OBJECTIVE@#To analyze the characteristic of chronic paranasal sinusitis CT scans and discuss the relationship between the anatomic variations in ostiomeatal complex (OMC) and the incidence of chronic sinusitis.@*METHOD@#One hundred and ninety-seven cases diagnosis as sinusitis were selected and analyzed,whose age ranged between 4 and 74 years old. Several common anatomical abnormalities in ostiomeatal complex were evaluated through the observation of the coronal and axial plane CT scans of the paranasal sinusitis.@*RESULT@#The incidence of anatomic variations in OMC concentrated in the age between 11-20. The incidence of chronic sinusitis also concentrated in the age between 11-20. Deviation of nasal septum, uncinate variations, inferior-turbinate hypertrophy were observed between the chronic sinusitis group and the none chronic sinusitis group,the correlation between deviation of nasal septum, uncinate variations, inferior-turbinate hypertrophy and chronic sinusitis were significant (P<0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#The occurrence of OMC variation is common. The anatomic variations may be one of the causes of chronic paranasal sinusitis, especially deviation of nasal septum, uncinate variations and inferior-turbinate hypertrophy. If these abnormalities were altered,it will have a great significance for the preservation and treatment of chronic paranasal sinusitis.
