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Objective:To investigate the effects of exogenous melatonin on Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal(HPA) axis and immune function which inhibited by exogenous corticosterone.Methods:By means of radioimmunoassay and cytoimmunology techniques respectively, we observed the effects of two doses exogenous melatonin on the plasma concentrations of ACTH ,corticosteron0e as well as the variations of lymphocytes proliferating response, natural killer cytotoxicity(NKCC) and the level of IL-2 induced by ConA of rat model which Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis and immune function were inhibited by exogenous corticosterone.Results:After 14 consecutive days melatonin injection(i.p.),there were an increasing trends of plasma concentration of ACTH, corticosterone which inhibited by exogenous corticosterone were observed in the melatonin 100 ?g/kg treated group, but no significance in statistics, otherwise, there were significant increasing of plasma concentration of ACTH, corticosterone were observed in the melatonin 200 ?g/kg treated group( P
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p16 gene was a tumor supressor gene found recently. The p16 protein is a negative regulator of cell proliferation . Loss of normal p16 function is associated with the development of neoplasms. To detect antitumorigenic effect of p16 on human lung adenocarcinoma cells, we cloned a p16 cDNA into the pcDNA3 vector at the sites of BamHl and Xho I to gain a p16 gene recombinant expression vector plasmid. We then transferred the p16 gene recombinant plasmid into human lung adenocarcinoma cell line (NCI-H460) by electroporation method. After G418 selection we assessed cell growth properties and cell cycle pattern by flow cytometry to G418-resistant clones of NCI-H460-pl6 and NCI-H460-vect respectively. The results show that human p16 gene could suppress the phenotype of NCI-H460 cell line and p16 gene therapy plays a positive role in human lung adenocarcinoma treatment.