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OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the effects of melatonin (MT) on bone mass and serum inflammatory factors in rats received ovariectomy (OVX) and to investigate the effects of MT on the levels of inflammatory factors in culture medium and osteogenic ability of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) stimulated by lipopolysaccharide.@*METHODS@#Fifteen 12-week-old Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 3 groups. The rats in Sham group only received bilateral lateral abdominal incision and suture, the rats in OVX group received bilateral OVX, and the rats in OVX+MT group received 100 mg/(kg·d) MT oral intervention after bilateral OVX. After 8 weeks, the levels of serum inflammatory factors [interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α)] were detected using ELISA assay. Besides, the distal femurs were detected by Micro-CT to observe changes in bone mass and microstructure, and quantitatively measured bone volume fraction, trabecular thickness, and trabecular number. The BMSCs were extracted from the femurs of three 3-week-old SD rats using whole bone marrow culture method and passaged. The 3rd-5th passage BMSCs were cultured with different concentrations of MT (0, 1, 10, 100, 1 000 µmol/L), and the cell viability was then detected using cell counting kit 8 (CCK-8) to select the optimal concentration of MT for subsequent experiments. Cells were devided into osteogenic induction group (group A) and osteogenic induction+1/5/10 μg/mL lipopolysaccharide group (group B-D). The levels of inflammatory factors (IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α) in cell culture medium were detected using ELISA assay after corresponding intervention. According to the results of CCK-8 method and ELISA detection, the cells were intervened with the most significant concentration of lipopolysaccharide for stimulating inflammation and the optimal concentration of MT with osteogenic induction, defining as group E, and the cell culture medium was collected to detect the levels of inflammatory factors by ELISA assay. After that, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) staining and alizarin red staining were performed respectively in groups A, D, and E, and the expression levels of osteogenic related genes [collagen type Ⅰ alpha 1 chain (Col1a1) and RUNX family transcription factor 2 (Runx2)] were also detected by real time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR).@*RESULTS@#ELISA and Micro-CT assays showed that compared with Sham group, the bone mass of the rats in the OVX group significantly decreased, and the expression levels of serum inflammatory factors (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) in OVX group significantly increased (P<0.05). Significantly, the above indicators in OVX+MT group were all improved (P<0.05). Rat BMSCs were successfully extracted, and CCK-8 assay showed that 100 µmol/L was the maximum concentration of MT that did not cause a decrease in cell viability, and it was used in subsequent experiments. ELISA assays showed that compared with group A, the expression levels of inflammatory factors (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) in the cell culture medium of groups B-D were significantly increased after lipopolysaccharide stimulation (P<0.05), and in a concentration-dependent manner. Moreover, the expression levels of inflammatory factors in group D were significantly higher than those in groups B and C (P<0.05). After MT intervention, the expression levels of inflammatory factors in group E were significantly lower than those in group D (P<0.05). ALP staining, alizarin red staining, and RT-qPCR assays showed that compared with group A, the percentage of positive area of ALP and alizarin red and the relative mRNA expressions of Col1a1 and Runx2 in group D significantly decreased, while the above indicators in group E significantly improved after MT intervention (P<0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#MT may affect the bone mass of postmenopausal osteoporosis by reducing inflammation in rats; MT can reduce the inflammation of BMSCs stimulated by lipopolysaccharide and weaken its inhibition of osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs.
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Female , Rats , Animals , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha , Osteogenesis , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Core Binding Factor Alpha 1 Subunit , Melatonin/pharmacology , Interleukin-6/genetics , Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology , Coloring Agents , InflammationABSTRACT
Autophagy often occurs after cells are attacked by oxidative stress, where damaged structures are phagocytic and degraded into nutrients, thereby reducing oxidative damage, promoting the survival of cancer cells and reducing the therapeutic effect of photodynamic therapy (PDT). However, excessive activation of autophagy can promote cell apoptosis. In this paper, the photosensitizer pyropheophorbide-a (Ppa) was used to produce a large amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to achieve the effect of killing cancer cells. At the same time, icaritin (Ica), an autophagy inducer, was used to over-activate autophagy, which transformed the protection of cancer cells into the promotion of cancer cell apoptosis, so as to improve the effect of photodynamic therapy. In this study, the interaction force between Ica and Ppa was exploited to successfully construct a self-assembled nanomedicine IP with good stability and high drug load. The synthesis method is simple, through using the drug itself as a carrier, and the loading capacity (LA) of Ica and Ppa can be increased to 83.53% and 16.45% without introducing potential biosafety risks of nanocarriers. Compared with free Ppa, self-assembled nanomedicine IP showed superior performance in cellular uptake and reactive oxygen species production. In addition, the self-assembled nanomedicine IP can reverse the protective autophagy induced by PDT by activating the autophagy of tumor cells, and facilitate apoptosis and antitumor coordination, which significantly improves the antitumor activity of PDT.
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AIM: To investigate the correlation between axial length and diabetic retinopathy(DR)in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.METHODS:This study is a cross-sectional study. A total of 53 cases(104 eyes)of type 2 diabetes patients who admitted to the ophthalmology department of the Jining No.1 People's Hospital between January and May 2023 were included. Among these cases, 51 patients had both eyes included, while 2 patients had only one eye included. The patients were divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of fundus lesions. The non-diabetic retinopathy(NDR)group consisted of 32 eyes, and the DR group consisted of 72 eyes. Within the DR group, the patients were further categorized based on the severity of fundus lesions. The non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy(NPDR)group comprised of 27 eyes, and the proliferative diabetic retinopathy(PDR)group consisted of 45 eyes. The axial lengths of eyes in the DR group were divided into four groups using quartiles: 19 eyes in the 20.00～22.09 mm group, 17 eyes in the 22.10～22.70 mm group, 18 eyes in the 22.71～23.12 mm group, and 18 eyes in the 23.13～24.48 mm group. Binary Logistic regression analysis was employed to investigate the factors influencing the occurrence of DR and PDR.RESULTS:Binary Logistic regression analysis showed that both axial length and age significantly influenced the development of DR and PDR.(Axial length: OR=0.296, 95%CI:0.130～0.672, P&#x003C;0.05; OR=0.237, 95%CI:0.076～0.736, P&#x003C;0.05; age: OR=0.949, 95%CI:0.907～0.994, P&#x003C;0.05; OR=0.879, 95%CI: 0.820～0.942, P&#x003C;0.05). The risk of PDR in the group with axial length of 23.13～24.48 mm was reduced compared to the group with axial length of 20.00～22.09 mm(OR=0.057; 95%CI: 0.006～0.515, P=0.011).CONCLUSION:The findings indicate that longer axial length in patients with type 2 diabetes are associated with a decreased risk of developing DR, as well as a reduced likelihood of DR progressing to PDR. Therefore, a long axial length can be considered a protective factor against DR.
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Objective:To explore the clinical effect of robot-assisted core decompression combined with bone grafting in the treatment of early-stage osteonecrosis of femoral head.Methods:The data of 49 patients (84 hips) who attended the Department of Orthopedics and Joint Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University from August 2019 to February 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. All the patients suffering Association Research Circulation Osseous (ARCO) II stage of osteonecrosis of femoral head underwent core decompression and bone grafting. Among the patients undergoing surgery, 30 patients (54 hips), including 19 males and 11 females, aged 44.3±5.4 years (range, 21 to 59 years) were treated with conventional surgical methods, and 19 patients (30 hips), including 12 males and 7 females, aged 41.4±7.2 years (range, 20 to 58 years), were assisted by the orthopedic robot navigation system. All operations were performed by the same operator. All patients were informed of the conventional and robotic surgical options by the surgeon at admission, and the patients made the decision. The baseline data of the two groups of patients, the time of unilateral operation, the number of unilateral X-ray fluoroscopy, the Harris hip score at the last follow-up after surgery, the visual analog score (VAS), and the collapse rate at the last follow-up were collected and compared.Results:A total of 41 patients (70 hips) were followed up, including 24 cases (42 hips) in the conventional surgery group and 17 cases in the robot-assisted group (28 hips). The average follow-up time of all cases was 14.6±4.8 months (range, 3 to 21 months). At the last follow-up, a total of 13 patients (13 hips) suffered femoral head surface collapse, including 11 patients in the conventional surgery group (11 hips) and 2 patients in the robot-assisted group (2 hips). The rate of femoral head collapse between the two groups had statistical difference ( P=0.045). The average operation time of unilateral hip in the conventional operation group was 21.3±5.4 min, and 16.8±3.3 min in the robot-assisted group, with significant difference ( t=3.94, P<0.001). The number of X-ray fluoroscopy of unilateral hip in the conventional operation group was 14.4±3.8 times, and 9.6±2.1 times in the robot-assisted group, with significant difference ( t=6.08, P<0.001). The Harris hip score before surgery in the conventional surgery group was 68.4±4.5 points, and 85.1±3.8 points at the last follow-up, while the preoperative Harris hip score of the robot-assisted surgery group was 67.2±3.9 points, and 86.5±4.4 points at the last follow-up. The Harris hip scores at the last follow-up of the two groups were significantly different from those before the operation, but there was no difference between the two groups after surgery ( t=1.09, P=0.283). The preoperative VAS of the conventional surgery group was 4.8±1.7 points, and 1.7±0.8 points at the last follow-up. The preoperative VAS of the robot-assisted surgery group was 5.1±1.5 points, and 0.9±0.3 points at the last follow-up. Τhere were significant differences between the two groups regarding the VAS in the last follow-up ( t=3.92, P<0.001). Conclusion:Core decompression combined with bone grafting have a definite effect in the treatment of osteonecrosis of ARCO II stage of osteonecrosis of femoral head. Compared with conventional surgery, robot-assisted surgery can achieve better short-term results and head preservation rate.
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Purpose@#This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and effects of primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) on physical and mental health in young adults in mainland China. @*Methods@#An anonymous questionnaire was used to collect information including the sociodemographic characteristics, history of PNE, family history, daytime voiding symptoms, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores, Self-Esteem Scale (SES), and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). A total of 22,500 university students from 23 provinces and 368 cities in mainland China were included. @*Results@#In total, 21,082 questionnaires were collected, and 20,345 of them qualified for statistical analysis. The PNE prevalence was 1.17%, and the distribution of monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (MNE) and nonmonosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (NMNE) was 66.1% and 33.9%, respectively. In total, 28% of respondents with PNE reported bedwetting daily, 31.6% between 1 and 7 times weekly, and 40.4% between 1 and 4 times monthly; 80% of PNE cases had no history of treatment. The prevalence of PNE in patients with a family history, frequency, urgency, urinary incontinence, and recurrent urinary tract infections was significantly higher than in those without these conditions (P<0.001). PNE was significantly correlated with the PSQI total score (sleep quality) (P=0.011). The SES score was lower and the SDS was higher (P<0.001) in the PNE group than in those without PNE. @*Conclusions@#In mainland China, the PNE prevalence among young adults was found to be high, and PNE had significant effects on physical and mental health. Risk factors included a family history, daytime voiding symptoms, and lack of treatment.
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Purpose@#This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and effects of primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) on physical and mental health in young adults in mainland China. @*Methods@#An anonymous questionnaire was used to collect information including the sociodemographic characteristics, history of PNE, family history, daytime voiding symptoms, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores, Self-Esteem Scale (SES), and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). A total of 22,500 university students from 23 provinces and 368 cities in mainland China were included. @*Results@#In total, 21,082 questionnaires were collected, and 20,345 of them qualified for statistical analysis. The PNE prevalence was 1.17%, and the distribution of monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (MNE) and nonmonosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (NMNE) was 66.1% and 33.9%, respectively. In total, 28% of respondents with PNE reported bedwetting daily, 31.6% between 1 and 7 times weekly, and 40.4% between 1 and 4 times monthly; 80% of PNE cases had no history of treatment. The prevalence of PNE in patients with a family history, frequency, urgency, urinary incontinence, and recurrent urinary tract infections was significantly higher than in those without these conditions (P<0.001). PNE was significantly correlated with the PSQI total score (sleep quality) (P=0.011). The SES score was lower and the SDS was higher (P<0.001) in the PNE group than in those without PNE. @*Conclusions@#In mainland China, the PNE prevalence among young adults was found to be high, and PNE had significant effects on physical and mental health. Risk factors included a family history, daytime voiding symptoms, and lack of treatment.
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Objective To explore the fitting and its influencing factors of ICU nurses. Methods There were 268 nurses recruited from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University, the Ninth Hospital of Xi′an, Shaanxi Provincial People′s Hospital by convenience sampling between April and June 2018. The Fitting Scale, Social Undermining Scale, Perceived Organizational Support Scale and Supportive Communication Scale were used in the investigation. Results The score of person-organization fit was (32.20±5.17). The score of person-job fit was (55.14±8.24), with the lowest score of supply-value fit subscale (2.58±0.48). The score of perceived organizational support, social undermining and supportive communication were (45.36 ± 9.64), (46.27 ± 7.48) and (68.47 ± 11.25) respectively. Perceived organizational support, social undermining, contract nurses, and educational level could influence person- organization fit, which could explain 59.3% of the total variation. Working time, supportive communication and perceived organizational support could influence person- job fit, which could explain 47.6% of the total variation. Conclusions Nursing managers should improve the core value system of human resources management and organizational culture construction, enhance organizational support, construct humanities environment and coping strategy of undermining, provide the relevant training of interpersonal communication, and increase their organizational and job fitting.
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Objective To explore the relocation stress in families of patients transferred from ICU, and the influence of social comparison orientation and family function on it. Methods There were 168 participants recruited from Critical Medical Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University by convenience sampling method between June 2017 and February 2018. The ICU patients′Family Relocation Stress Scale, Chinese version of the Iowa-Netherland Social Comparison Orientation Measure and Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scale Ⅱ were used. Results The score of relocation stress and social comparison orientation were 58.47±7.66 and 37.83±9.11. The score of family real cohesion was 65.85 ± 7.83, which was higher than norms (t=-2.067, P<0.05). The score of dissatisfaction of adaptation was 9.22±4.41, which was higher than norms (t=-3.093, P<0.05). The results of regression analysis showed that the time of patient staying in ICU, education level, religion, social comparison orientation, family real cohesion and dissatisfaction of adaptation could influence relocation stress. Conclusion Health professionals should pay attention to the relocation stress in families, provide emotional support and effective information support, guide family members to correctly understand the patients′ condition and prognosis, respect their religious beliefs, give full play to their family functions, help them adapt to the role changes quickly and reduce the level of relocation stress.
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Objective@#To explore the fitting and its influencing factors of ICU nurses.@*Methods@#There were 268 nurses recruited from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University, the Ninth Hospital of Xi′an, Shaanxi Provincial People′s Hospital by convenience sampling between April and June 2018. The Fitting Scale, Social Undermining Scale, Perceived Organizational Support Scale and Supportive Communication Scale were used in the investigation.@*Results@#The score of person-organization fit was (32.20±5.17). The score of person-job fit was (55.14±8.24), with the lowest score of supply-value fit subscale (2.58±0.48). The score of perceived organizational support, social undermining and supportive communication were (45.36±9.64), (46.27±7.48) and (68.47±11.25) respectively. Perceived organizational support, social undermining, contract nurses, and educational level could influence person- organization fit, which could explain 59.3% of the total variation. Working time, supportive communication and perceived organizational support could influence person- job fit, which could explain 47.6% of the total variation.@*Conclusions@#Nursing managers should improve the core value system of human resources management and organizational culture construction, enhance organizational support, construct humanities environment and coping strategy of undermining, provide the relevant training of interpersonal communication, and increase their organizational and job fitting.
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The arrival of big data era has constantly changed the habits of social behavior,and also brought new opportunities for the medical and health industry.China's joint registration system has not yet been established.How to establish a national joint registration system in line with China's national conditions in the context of the big data era is a direction that every practitioner in relevant industries should pay attention to and work together.
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Objective@#To analyze and compare the epidemiological features of prevalent influenza A viruses in children in Beijing during 13 consecutive surveillance seasons from 2004 to 2017.@*Methods@#This was a repeated cross section study. Throat swabs were collected weekly from children with influenza-like illnesses (ILI) who presented to the outpatient/emergency department of Children's Hospital, Capital Institute of Pediatrics during the period from September, 2004 to August, 2017. All of the specimens were inoculated into Madin Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells to isolate influenza viruses followed by identifying different types of influenza viruses with reference antisera by hemagglutination-inhibition assay. Descriptive statistics, t test and chi-square test were used to analyze the characteristics of prevalent influenza and characteristics of children infected with different types of influenza viruses.@*Results@#Out of 10 984 specimens from ILI tested for influenza viruses, 1 052 (9.6%) were positive for influenza A viruses, and the positive rate was higher than that of influenza B viruses (6.7%, 741/10 984). Out of 1 052 cases positive for influenza A viruses, 70 cases of seasonal H1N1, 302 cases of 2 009 pandemic H1N1 and 680 cases of H3N2 were identified. The mean age of children with influenza A was (4.2±2.9) years, in whom 55.5% (584/1 052) were male. The mean age of children infected with seasonal H1N1, 2009 pandemic H1N1 and H3N2 was (4.6±2.1) , (4.3±3.1) and (4.2±2.9) years, respectively. There was no significant difference in the mean age among children infected with different subtypes of influenza A viruses (seasonal H1N1 vs. H3N2: t=1.139, P=0.255; 2009 pandemic H1N1 vs. H3N2: t=0.631, P=0.528; seasonal H1N1 vs. 2009 pandemic H1N1: t=0.720, P=0.472), while the mean age of children with influenza B was higher than that of the patients with influenza A ((5.2±2.7) vs. (4.2±2.9) years, t=7.120, P=0.000). The infection rate of influenza A in children with each age group was significantly different from that of influenza B. The infection rate of 2009 pandemic H1N1 and H3N2 increased with age, except for the patients of 0-6 months. Meanwhile, the infection rate of H3N2 in children aged 6 months to 12 years was higher than that of seasonal H1N1 and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (all P<0.05). The influenza A epidemic peaked earlier than that of influenza B when the positive rate of influenza A was higher than that of influenza B, and vice versa. After 2009, circulating strain was substituted by 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus with higher positive rate, while previous seasonal H1N1 had not been detected. The 2009 pandemic H1N1 circulated at high level in two consecutive seasons, which was followed by low level in next season. H3N2 epidemic peaked mostly in winter and spring each year, however, the epidemic wave of H3N2 with high virulence occurred so early in the summer in the year of 2009 H1N1 pandemic.@*Conclusions@#The characteristics of prevalent influenza A viruses in children were different among 13 surveillance seasons from 2004 to 2017 in Beijing. The 2009 pandemic H1N1 and H3N2 became the predominant strains of influenza A virus.
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Objective@#To investigate the clinical characteristics of respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)bronchiolitis and molecular biological characteristics of RSV in children in Beijing.@*Method@#In a systematic retrospective study, 2 296 nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPA) were collected from children diagnosed with bronchiolitis from July 2006 to June 2016 for respiratory virus screening using direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA). For specimens positive for RSV, subgroup A or B was confirmed by real time RT-PCR and genotype of RSV was determined by amplifying the full G glycoprotein gene and sequencing. Clinical data were evaluated by the modified Tal score to compare the severity between RSV subtypes, as well as genotypes. Statistical analyses were performed using t test, Mann-Whitney U test and χ2 test.@*Result@#In 2 296 bronchiolitis cases, 961(41.9%) were RSV positive, including 719(74.8%) RSV A and 236 (24.6%) RSV B. The dominant RSV subtype changed from year to year: A-A-B-B-A-A-B-AB-A-AB and more bronchiolitis cases were identified in RSV A dominant years. Six genotypes of RSV A (NA1, NA2, NA3, NA4, GA5 and ON1) and 5 genotypes of RSV B (BA3, BA7, BA9, BA10 and CB1) were prevalent in Beijing. The dominant genotypes of RSV A were NA1 (55.9%) with high rates (50.0%-100%) before 2014 and ON1 (39.1%), mainly detected after 2014, while BA9 (90.6%) was the absolute dominant RSV B genotype. No significant difference in the severity of bronchiolitis was shown between cases of RSV A and B. Children positive for NA1 were more likely to stay longer in hospital (Median time: 8 days) compared to the group positive for ON1(Median time: 6 days ) (U=1.035, P=0.005) and had higher proportion of moderate to severe degree symptoms (Moderate: 41.0%, Severe: 10.0%) compared with ON1 group (Moderate: 22.9%, Severe: 4.3%) (U=9.785, P=0.008). In the group positive for ON1, more children had fever (ON1: 38.6%, NA1: 15.0%) (χ2=11.064, P=0.001) and more were younger than 3 months(ON1: 54.3%, NA1: 33.0%) (χ2=77.408, P<0.001).@*Conclusion@#The dominant RSV subgroup changed from year to year with a shifting pattern. The correlation between RSV genotypes and the severity of disease was documented in the study.
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Objective@#To evaluate the clinical value of a rapid respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antigen detection in point-of-care testing (POCT).@*Method@#A total of 209 specimens, including 78 throat swabs (TS) and 131 nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPAs), were collected from inpatients who visited the Children′s Hospital Affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics and were diagnosed as acute respiratory infection from 5 January to 7 February, 2015. These specimens were tested for RSV by a rapid antigen detection kit which was compared with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA) for RSV detection.@*Result@#Compared with DFA for NPAs, the sensitivity and specificity of rapid antigen detection were 83.9% and 97.3%, respectively, with Kappa value of 0.86; Compared with RT-PCR, the sensitivity (NPAs, 74.2%; TS, 77.8%) and specificity (NPAs, 100.0%; TS, 92.0%) of rapid antigen detection were high, too, with Kappa value of 0.74 in NPAs and 0.62 in TS. However, the RSV positive rate of rapid antigen detection in TS (21.7%) from pediatric patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection was lower than that in NPAs (78.3%), as well as that of RT-PCR (7.3% in TS verse 78% in NPAs). The RSV rapid antigen detection kit can be finished in about 10 minutes.@*Conclusion@#With characteristics of high specificity, high sensitivity, being rapid, efficient and easy to operate in comparison with DFA and RT-PCR, RSV rapid antigen detection in this study is suitable for POCT. For pediatric patients with acute respiratory tract infection, NPA was better than TS for RSV detection.
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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are divided into three genetic species: HRV-A, HRV-B, and HRV-C. The association of different HRV species with asthma in children in China has not yet been evaluated. This preliminary study aimed to assess the associations between different HRV species, particularly HRV-C, and asthma in young children in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A total of 702 nasopharyngeal aspirates were obtained from 155 children with asthma (asthma group), 461 children with acute respiratory infection (ARI) without asthma (nonasthma ARI group), and 86 children from the control group. Semi-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detect HRVs, and PCR products were sequenced for species identification. Epidemiological characteristics of HRV-positive cases were analyzed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>HRVs were the most common pathogen (15.4%; 108/702) in the patients in this study. The prevalence of HRV was significantly different (F = 20.633, P = 0.000) between the asthma (25.8%) and nonasthma ARI groups (11.1%). Phylogenetic analysis indicated that in the 108 cases positive for HRVs, 41 were identified as HRV-A, 8 as HRV-B, and 56 as HRV-C. Comparing the asthma with the nonasthma ARI group, Spearman's rank correlation analysis revealed an association between HRV-A (P < 0.05) and C (P < 0.01) and asthma, confirmed by regression analysis, with odds ratios of 2.2 (HRV-A) and 4.2 (HRV-C).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Our data revealed a high prevalence of HRVs in children in China, regardless of clinical status. HRV-C was the dominant species and may be one of the key factors in the association of HRVs with asthma.</p>
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Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Asthma , Epidemiology , Virology , China , Epidemiology , Picornaviridae Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Rhinovirus , VirulenceABSTRACT
<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Although human parainfluenza virus (HPIV) has been determined as an important viral cause of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in infants and young children, data on long-term investigation are still lacking to disclose the infection pattern of HPIV in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Nasopharyngeal aspirates were collected from 25,773 hospitalized pediatric patients with ARIs from January 2004 through December 2012 for respiratory virus screen by direct immuno-fluorescence assay.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Out of these specimens, 1675 (6.50%, 1675/25,773) showed HPIV positive, including 261 (1.01%, 261/25,773) for HPIV1, 28 (0.11%, 28/25,773) for HPIV2, and 1388 (5.39%, 1388/25,773) for HPIV3, 2 of the samples were positive for both HPIV1 and HPIV3, and 36 were co-detected with other viruses. The positive rates of HPIVs were higher in those younger than 3 years old. HPIV3 was detected from all age groups, predominantly from patients under 3 years of age, and the highest frequency was found in those 6 months to 1-year old (352/4077, 8.63%). HPIV3 was the dominant type in each of the years detected between May and July. HPIV1 showed a peak in every odd year, mainly in August or September. HPIV was detected most frequently from patients with upper respiratory infection (12.49%, 157/1257), followed by bronchitis (11.13%, 176/2479), asthma (9.31%, 43/462), bronchiolitis (5.91%, 150/2536), pneumonia (6.06%, 1034/17,068), and those with underlying diseases (1.0%, 15/1506). HPIV3 is the dominant type in these six disease groups referred above, especially in the asthma group.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>HPIV is one of the important viral causes of ARIs in infants and young children in Beijing based on the data from the hospitalized children covering a 9-year term. HPIV3 is the predominant type in all these years and in most of the disease groups. HPIVs with different types show different seasonality.</p>
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Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Beijing , Epidemiology , Parainfluenza Virus 1, Human , Virulence , Parainfluenza Virus 3, Human , Virulence , Respirovirus , Virulence , Respirovirus Infections , Diagnosis , VirologyABSTRACT
Thrombospondin(TSP) has five members with diversiform expressions and complicated biologic functions in different histiocytes all over the body.TSP also is widely expressed in different parts of eye,such as retinal pigment epithelial cells,corneal endothelial cells and lens epithelial cells,etc.,and sometimes TSP is secreted by trabecular meshwork cells.As a group of cytokines,TSP plays an important regulating role in the physiological and pathological activities of eye.Studies determined that TSP participates in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration,repaired of corneal diseases,formation of cataract,development of open-angle glaucoma,pathological process of eye tumor,occurrence of proliferating vitroretinopathy and diabetic retinopathy.Studies towards their functions are helpful for revealing the pathogenesis of eye diseases and providing new ideas of prevention and therapy.The distribution,source and eye disease-related action of TSP were summarized.
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Adenovirus (ADV) is one of the most common causes of acute respiratory infections for infants and children. The objective of this study was to understand the prevalence of ADV in acute respiratory infections in infants and children in Beijing and the types of the circulating ADVs. Clinical specimens were collected from patients with acute respiratory infections in a consecutive period of 10 years from Jan 2003 to Dec 2012. ADVs were detected from the collected clinical specimens by tissue culture and/or immunofluorescence assay and typed by nested-PCR based on the sequence of hexon gene for ADV types 3 and 7. For those strains which could not be typed by the nest-PCR, the gene fragment was amplified by a universal primer pair for all ADV types from group A to F and the PCR products were sequenced directly and analyzed with sequence comparison. Out of 39214 clinical specimens collected, including 7198 throat swabs from outpatients and 32016 nasopharyngeal aspirates from hospitalized patients, 884 were ADV positive by tissue culture and/or immunofluorescence assay, the overall positive rate was 2.25% (884/39214). The positive rate of ADV from the hospitalized was 2.08% (665/32016), while from the outpatients was 3.04% (219/7198). The ADV positive rate for year 2010 was 3.69%, which was the highest among the 10 years. The types of the ADVs were tested for 848 out of the 884 patients by using the nest-PCR and sequence analysis. It was showed that AD3 was the most prevalent with the rate of 53.18% (451/848), followed by AD7 36.79% (312/848), AD2 3.78% (32/848), AD55 2.24% (19/848), AD1 2.0% (17/848), AD5 0.94% (8/848), AD14 0.47% (4/848), AD6 0.35% (3/848) and AD4 0.24% (2/848). AD3 was the most predominant in most of the years among these 10 years, except 2012, 2003 and 2007. AD7 was the most predominant in 2012, and AD3 and AD7 were co-circulated in 2003 and 2007. Among 26 ADV infected severe pneumonia cases with pulmonary failure, 23 (88.5%) were AD7 positive, while 12 ADV associated tonsillitis, 11 (91.7%) were AD 3. The ADV positive rates from age groups 0-3 years were higher than age groups older than 4 years. The ratio for ADV positive males to females was 1.9 to 1. Adenovirus is still an important pathogen of acute respiratory infection in infants and young children. Most of the ADV associated acute respiratory infections in children in Beijing from 2003 to 2012 were AD3 and AD7. Most of the severe lower respiratory infections were associated with AD7. AD55 generated by recombination of AD11 and AD14 emerged in 2006.
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Adenovirus Infections, Human , Epidemiology , Virology , Adenoviruses, Human , Classification , Genetics , China , Epidemiology , Respiratory Tract Infections , Epidemiology , VirologyABSTRACT
To understand the infections and molecular biological characteristics of different human rhinovirus (HRV) genotypes -A, B, C, especially C in children with acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) in Beijing. Seven hundreds and three respiratory tract specimens were collected from children with ARI during Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2011. Semi-nested PCR was developed for detecting HRVs. Gene fragment of VP4/VP2 capsid protein amplified from HRV positive specimens was sequenced and analyzed by software DNAStar, the phylogenetic tree was then constructed by MEGA 5. 05. Among these 703 specimens tested, 54 (7.7%, 54/703) were HRV positive, including 25 (46.3%, 25/54) positive for HRV-A, 8 (14. 8%, 8/54) for HRV-B, 21 (38. 9%, 21/54) for HRV-C determined by sequence analysis. Most of these children (94. 4%00, 51/54) infected with HRVs were younger than 5 years old, and the highest positive rate was shown in group younger than 1 year (11. 4%). These patients positive for HRVs were diagnosed as bronchiolitis (23.1%), asthma (20.0%), pneumonia (1.0%), bronchitis (4.4%) and upper respiratory tract infections (4. 1%). Sequence analysis of VP4/VP2 gene fragment revealed that 70. 0% to 100. 0% nucleotide identity was shown among the sequences within the same HRV genotype, and 55. 5% to 65. 8% nucleotide identity among the sequences from different HRV genotypes. In conclusion, HRVs, especially HRV-C, are important pathogens for children with ARI in Beijing. The prevalence of HRV-C is similar to that of HRV-A, higher than that of HRV-B. High sequence variation among different HRV genotypes was indicated in this study.
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Acute Disease , Epidemiology , China , Epidemiology , Molecular Sequence Data , Phylogeny , Picornaviridae Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Respiratory Tract Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Rhinovirus , Classification , Genetics , Seasons , Viral Proteins , GeneticsABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand the clinical characteristics of different groups human rhinovirus (HRV)-A, B and C infection in children with acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) in Beijing.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Respiratory tract specimens (n = 1412) collected from children with ARI during Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2012 were tested for HRV by using semi-nested PCR. Gene fragments of VP4/VP2 capsid protein amplified from HRV positive specimens were sequenced for HRV genotype confirmation. Then epidemiological characteristics of these HRV-positive cases were analyzed.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Among these 1412 specimens tested, 103 (7.3%) were HRV positive, including 54 (52.4%) positive for HRV-A, 14 (13.6%) for HRV-B, 35 (34.0%) for HRV-C determined by sequence analysis. The positive rates of HRV-A, B and C (2.5%, 16/638; 0.3%, 2/638 and 1.3%, 8/638) in children with acute upper respiratory tract infections (URI) were lower than those (5.8%, 36/623; 1.8%, 11/623 and 3.9%, 24/623) in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections (LRI) (P = 0.003, 0.011, 0.003). In children with LRI, the positive rates of HRV-A, C were similar to each other (P = 0.112), and both were higher than that of HRV-B (P = 0.000, P = 0.026). The severity of ARI among children positive for different groups HRV showed no significant difference evaluated by Kruskal-Wallis H test (Hc = 0.044, P > 0.05), as well as that between children co-infected with HRV and other viruses and those infected with HRV only evaluated by Wilcoxon rank sum test (Zc = 0.872, P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>HRV is one of important pathogens for children with ARI, especially LRI in Beijing. The positive rates of HRV-A and HRV-C are similar to each other, and both are higher than that of HRV-B. No significant difference was shown among children with different HRV genotypes by evaluation of the severity of ARI, and co-infections of HRV with other viruses do not significantly increase the severity of ARI.</p>
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Acute Disease , Age Distribution , China , Epidemiology , Phylogeny , Picornaviridae Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Respiratory Tract Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Rhinovirus , Classification , Genetics , Sequence Analysis, RNA , Severity of Illness IndexABSTRACT
AIM: To evaluate the relationship between damages of visual field and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG)with highly myopia. POAG with highly myopia group (21 eyes of 17 cases), POAG with non-highly myopia group (17 eyes of 16 cases), highly myopia without POAG group (25 eyes of 20 cases) and normal control group (19 eyes of 17 cases).automated perimeter and thickness of RNFL was measured by optical coherent tomography(OCT). Main outcome mean deviation (MD), pattern standard deviation (PSD) and mean sensitivity at superior, inferior, nasal and temporal sectors in total deviation probability plots. Thickness of RNFL at superior, inferior, nasal and temporal sector.total deviation probability plots of the early POAG with highly myopia than that of POAG without highly myopia,and the early visual field defects of glaucoma in pattern deviation probability plots of this group. MD of POAG with highly myopia was more than those of others (P＜0.05).The differences of MD, PSD and mean sensitivity between POAG with highly myopia and others were significant(P＜0.05).Mean sensitivities in each sector of POAG without highly myopia were similar to those of highly myopia(P＞0.05). The thickness of RNFL of POAG with highly myopia was thinner than that of others and the thickness of RNFL of normality was thicker than that of others. The relationship between mean sensitivity and the thickness of RNFL in each quadrant was significant(P＜0.05).judgment of the visual field changes in POAG with highly myopia. The relationship between RNFL thickness by OCT and visual field damage may provide clinically relevant information in diagnosis of POAG with highly myopia. Field; optical coherent tomography