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Objective To explore the changes of peripheral serum glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) levels in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD),and to provide a new mark-er for early identification of ADHD in clinical practice. Methods Totally 42 drug-naive children with ADHD(ADHD group) and 45 healthy children(HC group) were included. General demographic informa-tion,scale scores,and fasting peripheral serum GDNF levels were compared between the two groups. Mean-while,the correlation between GDNF level and symptom severity score of children with ADHD was analyzed. Results There were significant differences in FSIQ,attention deficit, and hyperactivity/impulsivity scores between ADHD group and HC group(FSIQ(105. 26±13. 82) vs (114. 73±9. 93); attention deficit(23. 60± 5. 06) vs (20. 04±2. 85); hyperactivity/impulsivity(19. 43±3. 47) vs (15. 93±2. 42),all P<0. 05). Serum level of GDNF in the ADHD patients was significant lower than that in the HC group ((442. 52± 70. 01) pg/ml vs (554. 02±101. 37)pg/ml,P<0. 01). In addition,GDNF levels were negatively correlated with at-tention deficit scores in children with ADHD (radj=-0. 447,P<0. 01). More importantly,ROC curve results show that GDNF had good diagnostic value (AUC=0. 81). Conclusion GDNF levels decreased child with ADHD. Decreased serum GDNF levels have certain promising value in the diagnosis of ADHD.
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Objective To study the expression of multidrug resistance associated protein 1 (MRP1) and MRP2 in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with intractable epilepsy (IE).Methods During Nov.2010 to Oct.2013,50 children with I E were collected as the experimental group,simultaneously 50 children with epilepsy controlled by the anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) and 50 healthy children without epilepsy were collected as the control group from the outpatient or inpatient of Xuzhou Children's Hospital.The expressions of MRP1 and MRP2 in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children were detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and Western blot.Results 1.The mean relative expression of MRP1 and MRP2 mRNA in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with IE (0.795 ± 0.042,0.804 ± 0.023) were higher than those in epilepsy controlled by AEDs (0.682 ± 0.030,0.675 ± 0.021) and healthy children without epilepsy (0.665 ± 0.031,0.654 ± 0.029) (all P ＜0.001).2.The mean relative expression of MRP1 and MRP2 protein in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with IE (2.027 ±0.034,1.902 ±0.021) were higher than those in epilepsy controlled by AEDs(1.131 ±0.042,1.086 ± 0.027) and healthy children without epilepsy (1.093 ± 0.023,1.045 ± 0.018) (all P ＜ 0.001).3.There was no difference in the expression of MRP1,MRP2 mRNA and proteins between the children with epilepsy controlled by AEDs and healthy children without epilepsy (all P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions MRP1 and MRP2 over-expression in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with IE may be associated with drug-resistance mechanism for medically intractable epilepsy.