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Objective To investigate the clinical significance of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2(LP-PLA2) measure-ment for type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) patients combined with atherosclerosis .Methods The concentrations of LP-PLA2 ,cho-lesterol(CHO) ,triglyceride (TG) ,low density lipoprotein(LDL) ,high density lipoprotein(HDL) were measured for 47 T2DM pa-tients combined with atherosclerosis(patient group) and 94 healthy people who just underwent healthy examination and were proved to be healthy(control group) ,meanwhile the age and gender information of those people were collected .Then the tests results were compared between the two groups .Results There was no significant difference in age ,gender ,CHO ,HDL ,TG ,LDL between the two patient and control group(P>0 .05);Plasma LP-PLA2 level in patient group was higher than that in control group ,and the difference was statistically significant(P<0 .05) .Non-conditional Logistic regression analysis showed that the LP-PLA2 level was the risk factor with statistical significance(P<0 .05) .Conclusion LP-PLA2 concentration is an independent risk factor for athero-sclerosis in T2DM patients ,and its measurement has certain value for the diagnosis of atherosclerosis in T2DM patients .
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Objective To investigate the correlation between methylation status and death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) in SiHa and Hela cell line of cervical carcinoma and intervention of DNA methyltransferase inhibitor 5-azacytidine on the expression of DAPK1 and the proliferation of the cells. Methods DAPK1 methylation status was analyzed using methylation-specific PCR methods. The expression of mRNA and protein of DAPK1 were analyzed by RT-PCR and SABC methods after the treatment with 5-azacytidine. MTT assay was used to observe the changes of proliferation activity of the cells after 5-azacytidine treatment. Results DAPK1 genes were methylated and did not express in SiHa cells in the cervical carcinoma. Its expression could be restored by 5-azacytidine. MTT assay showed 5-azacytidine could weaken the proliferation of cancerous cells. Conclusion DAPK1 methylation plays an important role in the carcinogenesis of cervical cells and can reexpress after the treatment with 5-azacytidine which also restored its inhibitory function on carcinoma.