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Objective:To explore the clinical value of heparin binding protein (HBP) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia.Methods:Eighty eight patients with pulmonary infection from the respiratory department of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from January 2019 to January 2021 were enrolled in the study, including 48 cases of bacterial pneumonia and 40 cases of non-bacterial pneumonia; meanwhile, 40 non-pulmonary infection patients were also enrolled as the control group. The BALF levels of HBP, procalcitonin (PCT), interleukin-6 (IL-6) were measured, and the clinical values of the above indexes in differential diagnosis of bacterial and non-bacterial pneumonia were analyzed.Results:The BALF levels of HBP and IL-6 in bacterial pneumonia group were significantly higher than those of the non-bacterial pneumonia group and the control group ( P<0.05). ROC curve showed that the areas under the curve (AUC) of HBP and IL-6 were 0.930 and 0.893 for the early diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia; and the sensitivity was 88.5% and 82.7%, the specificity was 92.5% and 92.5%, respectively. Combined detection of HBP and IL-6, the AUC was 0.942 and the sensitivity was 94.2% and the specificity was 95.0%. When they were used to distinguish bacterial pneumonia, the AUC of HBP and IL-6 were 0.890 and 0.777, and the sensitivities were 80.8% and 71.2%, and the specificity were 91.7% and 75.0%, respectively. Combined detection of HBP and IL-6, the AUC was 0.902, and the sensitivity was 96.2% and the specificity was 79.2%. Conclusions:BALF HBP and IL-6 have good clinical value in the early diagnosis and distinguishing bacterial pulmonary infection and the joint value of the two is better.
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Objective To investigate the expression and clinical significance of CXC chemokine receptors 1 and 2 (CXCR1 and CXCR2) and CXCL8 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and liver biopsy tissues from patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (PHC).Methods Serum specimens were collected from 36 patients with PHC, 30 patients with liver cirrhosis and 28 healthy subjects.Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was performed to measure the expression of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 at mRNA level in PBMCs.Streptavidin-perosidase (SP) immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 at protein level in liver biopsy tissues.Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and ferritin (FER) in the serum specimens were detected by chemiluminescence immunoassay.Then the correlations between these markers were analyzed.Results All of the results showed that the expression of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 at mRNA level in PBMCs from the PHC group were higher than those of the healthy control group (P<0.01) as well as those of the liver cirrhosis group (P<0.05).Up-regulated expression of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 in patients with PHC were associated with the depth of tumor invasion, lymph node or distant metastasis, clinical stage and levels of CRP, AFP and FER in serum (P<0.05).The expression of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 at protein level in liver biopsy tissues were also significantly increased in the PHC group in comparison with those of the healthy control group as indicated by the result of SP immunohistochemistry (P<0.05).Conclusion Levels of CXCR1, CXCR2 and CXCL8 in the patients with PHC are significantly increased and positively correlated with the levels of AFP, FER and CRP in serum, suggesting that the signal transduction process mediated by CXCR1, CXCR2 and their common ligand CXCL8 may play a key role in the pathological process of PHC.This study may provide a potential new strategy for immune intervention in hepatocellular cancer.
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Objective:To investigate the expression levels of CXCR1,CXCR2 and their common ligand CXCL8 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and liver biopsy from the patients with hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma and their clinical significances.Methods:Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used to detect the mRNA levels of CXCR1,CXCR2,CXCL8 in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of thirty-six hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma and the protein levels of CXCR1 and CXCR2 and CXCL8 in liver biopsy were detected by SP immunohistochemical method.The level of C-reactive protein in serum was determined by chemiluminescence immunoassay respectively.Then,the correlations between CRP and the mRNA of CXCR1,CXCR2 and CXCL8 were analyzed.Results:The mRNA levels of CXCR1 (0.952 7±0.197 2),CXCR2 (0.896 9±0.173 0),CXCL8 (1.771 9±0.248 9) in the PBMCs of hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma were significantly higher than those in controls (P＜0.01).And the protein levels of CXCR1,CXCR2 and CXCL8 were also obviously increased in liver biopsy of hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma (P＜0.05).In addition,there was positive correlations between the level of serum C-reactive protein and the mRNA expression of CXCR1 (r =0.54,P＜0.01),CXCR2 (r =0.49,P＜0.01),CXCL8 (r =0.63,P＜0.01).Conclusion:The levels of CXCR1,CXCR2 and CXCL8 significantly increased in hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma patients and positively correlated with serum CRP,suggesting that CXCR1,CXCR2 and their common ligand CXCL8 signal transduction process may play a key role in the pathological process of hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma,which may provide a new direction for the immune intervention therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Objective To observe the expression levels of Mig in the patients with chronic hepatitis B .Methods The study pop‐ulation consisted of 88 chronic hepatitis B patients and 53 healthy controls .The ELISA ,RT‐PCR and Western‐blotting were used for analysing the expression levels of Mig in serum ,peripheral blood mononuclear cells and liver tissue of the patients with chronic hepatitis B ,while the immunohistochemistry was applied for analysing the distribution of Mig in liver tissue .Results The expres‐sion of Mig in serum ,peripheral blood mononuclear cells and liver tissue of the chronic hepatitis B patients with HBeAg negative were (247 .03 ± 63 .14)pg/mL ,(0 .95 ± 0 .21) ,(0 .79 ± 0 .23) ,and that in the chronic hepatitis B patients with HBeAg positive were (243 .05 ± 53 .00)pg/mL ,(0 .98 ± 0 .35) ,(0 .74 ± 0 .18) ,which were both significantly higher than those in healthy controls ,the difference was statistically significant(P<0 .05) .Conclusion Increased levels of Mig in the patients with chronic hepatitis B may be related to immune state of patients .