Anti-tumor activities and apoptotic mechanism of ribosome-inactivating proteins / 癌症

Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) belong to a family of enzymes that attack eukaryotic ribosomes and potently inhibit cellular protein synthesis. RIPs possess several biomedical properties, including anti-viral and anti-tumor activities. Multiple RIPs are known to inhibit tumor cell proliferation through inducing apoptosis in a variety of cancers, such as breast cancer, leukemia/lymphoma, and hepatoma. This review focuses on the anti-tumor activities of RIPs and their apoptotic effects through three closely related pathways: mitochondrial, death receptor, and endoplasmic reticulum pathways.

Study on the survival of patients with gastrointestinal cancer versus the expression of LGT fingerprints / 肿瘤研究与临床

Objective To demonstrate the result that progression of disease and prognosis of gastrointestinal cancer patients are correlated with the expression of the cluster and the abundance of lost goodwill target (LGT) fingerprint. Methods To research the period of survival and the time of death, 61 patients treated by SELDI (Surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometer)were involved in. According to the fingerprint spectrum obtained by SELDI and the appearance of fingerprints of LGT, these patients were divided into four groups namely non-peak, single-peak, double-peak, tri-peak and multi-peak groups. By means of Multi-factor analysis of variance and Cox regression analysis of risk, we compare four groups each other so as to find out one group in which patients have the greatest risk of death.Results Among the fingerprint spectrums of patients suffered from gastrointestinal cancer, which were obtained by SELDI, the patients with negative expression of LGT had low risk of death, which were lower than those of single-peak and double-peak groups, especially lower than those of tri-peak and multi-peak groups;the risk of death among the tri-peak and multi-peak groups were much higher than single-peak, the difference had statistical significance (P ＜0.05), and the death rate is rather high. Conclusion Among the serums from cancer patients tested by SELDI, the expression of LGT with tri-peak and multi-peak suggested that patient' s state of illness is about to deteriorate. This kind of fingerprint spectrum can be regarded as positive indicators,and the negative expression of LGT suggested that patient will have a good prognosis with a very low risk of death in the near future.

Drug-resistance of Commonly Encountered Pathogens and Irrational Use of Antibiotics / 中华医院感染学杂志

OBJECTIVE To study the drug-resistance of commonly encountered pathogens and the manifestations of irrational use of antibiotics,in order to provide the gist for clinical therapy.METHODS The retrospective analysis on the drug-resistance of commonly encountered pathogens that isolated from clinical samples and records of(irrational) use of antibiotics from Jan 2004 to Jon 2005 were carried out.RESULTS Among 870 isolates,the first five kinds of pathogens were Pseudomonas aeruginosa(17.47%),Klebsiella pneumoniae(9.66%),Acinetobacter baumannii(8.85%),Escherichia coli(7.36%)and Candida albicans(11.95%).They had resistance to the commonly used(antibiotics) in various degrees.In 4 462 records,there were 659 records of irrational use of (antibiotics),occupied 14.77%.CONCLUSIONS It is important that to strengthen the management of antibiotics(usage) and institutions in hospitals,to inform doctor the drug-resistance trend,based on the result of drug(sensitivity) test,in order to use antibiotics more rationally and reduce the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria.