Plasma levels of interferon-inducible protein 10 in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis with different affected areas / 南方医科大学学报

OBJECTIVE@#To explore the value of interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in the auxiliary diagnosis of tuberculosis and the judgment of the severity of disease.@*METHODS@#From February, 2013 to February, 2017, a total of 193 patients with TB admitted in our hospital and 84 healthy control subjects were recruited consecutively. The peripheral blood plasma levels of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and IP-10 were detected using liquid phase chip (Luminex) technique. According to the number of lung fields affected by TB, the patients were divided into group A (with lesions in 1-2 lung fields), group B (3-4 lung fields) and group C (5-6 lung fields), The expressions of IFN-γ and IP-10 in 3 groups were compared.@*RESULTS@#The plasma levels of IP-10 were significantly higher in TB patients than in the control subjects ( < 0.05), but IFN-γ levels were comparable between the two groups ( > 0.05). Among the TB patients, plasma IP-10 levels was the highest in group C ( < 0.05), and IFN-γ levels did not differ significantly among the 3 groups ( > 0.05).@*CONCLUSIONS@#Plasma IP-10 has a certain reference value in the auxiliary diagnosis of active tuberculosis and the judgment of the severity of the disease.

Rapid nondestructive quality control of Compound Danshen Tablet by AOTFnear infrared spectroscopy / 中成药

AIM:A new method to rapidly non-destructive quality control Compound Danshen Tablet was developed by portable acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF)-near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. METHODS:A portable AOTF-NIR spectrometer was used to test 215 different batches of Compound Danshen Tablet collected from fifty-six pharmaceutical factories. The samples were analyzed by the Unscrambler program using principal component analysis(PCA). Quantitative analytical models invoking the partial least squares (PLS) algorithm simultaneously predicted the contents of four major constituents in Compound Danshen Tablet:salvianolic acid B,tanshinoneⅡA,water extract and alcohol extract. RESULTS:The qualitative analysis models accurately identified the differences between Compound Danshen Tablet and other reference substances. The results of external validation showed by the significant t-test that no significant difference between predictive and the chemical value,RSD was equal to 0. 990 9,0. 991 3,0. 964 0 and 1. 73% ,2. 08% ,3. 32% ,1. 32% ,respectively. CONCLUSION:The method of rapid non-destructive analyzing Compound Danshen Tablet is explored.