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OBJECTIVE To investigate the distribution and antimicrobial resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii infection in the elderly patients in our hospital. METHODS One hundred and eighty-four strains of A. baumannii isolated from elderly patients with infection from Jun 2001 to Apr 2005 were collected and antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed. RESULTS All strains of A. baumannii were from sputum, urine, pus, etc; the resistance of the strains to the third generation cephalosporin, ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin was all more than 50.0% ; the resistance rate to imipenem was the lowest(2.2%), followed by amikacin (37.5%)and ampicillin/ sulbactam (39.7%), and the resistant rate to ampicillin was the highest( 83.2% ). CONCLUSIONS The antimicrobial resistance of A. baumannii in the elderly patients is high, the antibiotic treatment must depend on antimicrobial susceptibility test.
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To study effects of arachidonic acid (AA) on the growth and differentiation of rat adipocytes, a cells culture system of rat primary preadipocytes was established. The cells treated by different concentration of AA supplemented based on DMEM medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum. Cell proliferation was measured by trypan blue exclusion and methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay method. Hoechst33342 fluorescence staining observed AA induced morphological changes. Oil Red O staining extraction assay assess the degree of adipogenesis and differentiation, and cyclooxygenases-2(COX-2) mRNA were detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The results showed that rat preadipocytes treated with 120 μmol/L AA for 24-72 hours remarkably promoted the cells proliferation compared with control, 160 μmol/L AA treated for 48 hours could induce apoptosis of preadipocytes. 40, 80 μmol/L AA decreased the fat content in cells at 72 hours, and 40 μmol/L AA significantly up-regulated the expression of COX-2 mRNA at 24 hours. This results indicate that AA regulate adipocytes proliferation and differentiation depended on treatment time and concentration. 40-80 μmol/L AA maybe useful to control body fat, which may be associated with the increase of COX-2 mRNA.