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Objective To investigate the level of plasma MALAT1 in breast cancer(BC)patients and its clinical significance.Methods The expression levels of MALAT1 different fragments were detected in plasma from 10 healthy controls.The expressions of GAPDH and MALAT1 of plasma samples collected from 102 preoperative breast cancer patients,64 postoperative breast cancer patients,47 breast benign tumor patients and 50 healthy controls were determined by RT-qPCR.The potential association between plasma GAPDH level and cases′clinicopathologic features was analyzed to evaluate the stability of GAPDH. Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was constructed to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of MALAT1,CA153 and CEA for breast cancer.Meanwhile, the association between MALAT1 level and the clinicopathologic features and the expressions of MALAT 1 between preoperative and postoperative BC patients were analyzed.T-test and one-factor ANOVA test were used for normal distribution of quantitative data.The rank sum test was used for non-normal distribution of data.Results GAPDH level was stable in female plasma and was not affected by age and pathology(P>0.05).GAPDH can be used as a reference for plasma lncRNA detection.The levels of different MALAT1 fragments were inconsistent(χ2=27.042,P<0.001).Levels of MALAT1 were significantly elevated in preoperative BC patients[5.58(2.17-12.34)] compared with breast benign tumor patients and healthy controls[1.08(0.61 -2.58)(Z=6.209,P<0.001),1.63(0.98 -3.51)(Z=4.871,P<0.001)].However, there was no significantly difference between breast benign tumor patients and healthy controls(Z=-1.675,P=0.094).The MALAT1 levels of low grade patients(gradeI and II)were higher than those of breast benign tumor patients(Z=5.593,P<0.001).The relative expression of MALAT1 in postoperative plasma was significantly reduced(Z=-2.248,P=0.025).Areas under the ROC curve of MALAT1,CA153 and CEA were 0.744,0.619 and 0.553 respectively.The sensitivity and specificity were 54.1%,60.0%,70.0% and 86.3%,66.7%, 44.1%respectively.The levels of MALAT1 were associated with TNM stage(Z=-1.982,P=0.047), lymph node metastasis(Z=-2.186,P=0.029)and tumor differentiation(Z=-2.435,P=0.015). Conclusion The expressions of MALAT1 were highly elevated in BC patients.Plasma MALAT1 may be an important biomarker for the diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Objective To detect serum ubiquitin-like with PHD and ring finger domains 1 (UHRF1) levels in the patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC),and analyze their differences among different clinicopathological features subgroups and changes during the perioperative period.Methods Serum samples from 130 preoperative ESCC patients,62 patients 1 week after operation,14 patients 1 week and 2 weeks after operation and 67 healthy controls,and clinicopathological data from ESCC patients were collected.Serum UHRF1 levels were detected by ELISA,and the differences among different groups were analyzed with independent t test,paired t test or one-way ANOVA.Results Serum UHRF1 levels in 130 preoperative ESCC patients were significantly higher than that in healthy controls (t =7.680,P ＜ 0.01),and they were related to the ESCC patients' tumor size,differentiation degree,tumor invasion,lymph nodes metastasis and pTNM stage (P ＜ 0.05),but unrelated to the patients' age,gender,tumor location and types (P ＞ 0.05).Serum UHRF1 levels in 62 postoperative patients were significantly lower than that before operation (t =5.530,P ＜ 0.01),but similar to that in healthy controls (t =1.622,P ＞ 0.05).The serum UHRF1 levels before operation,1 week after operation and 2 weeks after operation in 14 ESCC patients decreased gradually (F =7.595,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion Serum UHRF1 levels may be a potential biomarker for dynamically monitoring perioperative ESCC patients.
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Objective To observe the clinical effect of monosialotetrahexosyl ganglioside sodium injection (GM1) on spastic cerebral palsy. Methods 98 children with spastic cerebral palsy were randomly divided into control group (n=50) and treatment group (n=48). Both groups received Bobath approach, and the treatment group received GM1 in addition. They were assessed with Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM), Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) and Gesell Development Schedule (GDS) before and after 90 days of treatment. Results The scores of WeeFIM, all the dimensions of GMFM and the gross motor, fine motor, personal-social and adap-tion of the GDS improved in both groups after treatment (P<0.05), and improved more in the treatment group than in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion GM1 may further improve the recovery of function for children with spastic cerebral palsy.
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Objective To explore the relative expression of plasma miR-199a-5p and miR-200c-3p in gastric adenocarcinoma cancer(GAC) patients and its clinical value.Methods Case-control study was used in this research.The relative expression of plasma miR-199a-5p and miR-200c-3p from 47 GAC patients and 50 healthy controls were determined by RT-PCR ( TaqMan Probe method).Meanwhile, the association with age, gender, tumor location, size, degree of differentiation, TNM stage, lymph node metastasis and other clinical pathological parameters were analyzed.The expression of these two miRNAs in plasma of 30 GAC patients during preoperation was compared with their expression 6-8 days after radical surgery.The sensitivity and specificity of plasma miRNAs expression for the diagnosis of GAC were analyzed using the receiver operating characteristic ( ROC ) curve.SPSS20.0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis.T-test, paired t-test and one-factor ANOVA were used for normal distribution of quantitative data.Results The plasma level of miR-199a-5p in GAC patients was significantly lower(1.05 ±0.22) (t =3.058,P =0.003), while miR-200c-3p was significantly higher(15.15 ±3.02) (t =-2.854,P=0.006), when they were compared with those in controls(26.80 ±8.38, 3.39 ±0.87).Low miR-199a-5p expression in GAC patients were associated with lymph node metastasis ( F =4.725, P =0.029) and the differentiation degree of gastric cancer(F=3.854,P=0.032).The relative expression of miR-199a-5p in postoperative plasma was significantly increased(t=-3.814,P=0.001), but the relative expression of miR-200c-3p was significantly reduced when compared to the preoperative samples(t=2.978, P=0.006).Area under the ROC curve of miR-199a-5p, miR-200c-3p and combined miR-199a-5p and miR-200c-3p were 0.692, 0.792 and 0.798, the sensitivity and specificity were 87%,97%,92.5% and 43%,54%, 65%, respectively.Conclusion Combined detection of miR-199a-5p and miR-200c-3p in plasma has a higher sensitivity and specificity than the conventional tumor marker CEA and CA19-9, and may be a useful combination for gastric cancer diagnosis.
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A high performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of phenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-dichlorophroxyacetic acid in environnmental waters was described.Phenoxyacetic acid and 2, 4-dichioropheroxyacetic acid in sample were enriched on Sep-Pak C18 column,and methanol was employed as elutent.The shim-pack CLC ODS (150mm×6.0mm i.d.) column was used as separation column at 40°C and eluted with methanol-water (9:1,V/V)(pH 3.0) at flow rate of 1.0mL/min,the detection wavelength was 275 nm.The recoveries of the two compounds were＞98%.The detection limit was 0.04mg/L.