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Objective To explore the differentiated diagnostic value of the morphological changes of follicular dendritic cell (FDC)meshwork between different subtype of lymphoma.Methods CD21 was stained by immunohistochemistry (IHC) method,FDC meshwork pattern was studied in 5 6 cases of various lymphomas(including 8 cases of diffuse large B cell lym-phoma,2 cases of burkitts lymphoma,6 cases of small lymphocytic lymphoma,6 cases of plasmacytoma,3 cases of MALT lymphoma,6 cases of peripheral T cell lymphoma,3 cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma,8 cases of NK/T cell lympho-ma,4 cases of follicular lymphoma,3 cases of mantle cell lymphoma,3 cases of AITL,2 cases of FDC sarcoma).Results FDC meshwork in the morphological changes of various subtypes of lymphoma could be classified into four patterns:①FDC form a disappeared and disintegrated meshwork,most of the lymphoma FDC meshwork fully or partially destroyed,including diffuse large B cell lymphoma,burkitt lymphoma,small lymphocytic lymphoma,plasmacytoma,peripheral T cell lymphoma, anaplastic large cell lymphoma,NK/T cell lymphoma;②FDC meshtwork existence,even hyperplasia,including follicular lymphoma,mantle cell lymphoma,MALT lymphoma;③FDC meshtwork proliferation,disorder and deformation,such as AI-TL;④Full expression subtype:such as FDC sarcoma.Conclusion The morphologic pattern of the FDC meshwork in lym-phomas of follicular origin was differs according to the lymphoma subtypes,and it has important clinical value in lymphoma differential diagnostic.
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BACKGROUND: Both antioxidant and cytokine can induce the differentiation of umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem calls (UCB-MSCs) towards neuron-like cells in vitro. It remains unclear regarding how to select an inductor that has the ability of either neuro-protection like cytokines or powerful antioxidation. After wide screening, baicalin has been included in this study. OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of baicalin on in vitro purification, amplification, and differentiation towards neuron-like cells of hUCB-MSCs.DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: A randomized, controlled, cytological in vitro observation was performed at the laboratory of Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University between February and April 2005. MATERIALS: Ten portions of UCB were collected from healthy full-term normal delivery pregnant women aged 23-25 years old. Baicalin with purity > 95% was purchased from Department of Pharmaceutics, Xiangya Medical College of Central South University. Antioxidant additive J -mercaptoethanol was provided by Sino-American Biotechnology Company, China. METHODS: The collected UCB was anticoagulated with heparin to separate mononuclear cells. After concentration adjustment (1 ×109/L), UCB mononuclear cells were purified and amplified with dulbecco's modified eagle's medium containing fetal bovine serum (0.2 volume fraction), glutamine, B27, granulocyte colony-stimulating factors, and stem cell factors. According to antioxidant additive application, 4 groups were set: baicalin, blank control, β -mercaptoethanol, and baicaUn+ β -mercaptoethanol. Cells in each group were cultured for a total of 4 consecutive weeks. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: (1) Detection of CD 34 and CD 29 immunoreactive expression on days 7, 14, 21, and 28 after cryopreservation. (2) Cellular morphology observation. (3) Detection of surface antigen expression of MSCs by flow cytometry. (4) Detection of neuron-specific enolase (NSE), microtubule associated protein 2 (MAP-2), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression after 4 weeks of culture by immunocytochemistry. RESULTS: O Compared with prior to cryopraservation, trypan blue exclusion rate of UCB-MSCs was significantly reduced on days 7, 14, 21, and 28 after cryopreservation (P < 0.05). (2) Morphological observation: UCB mononuclear cells adhered to the wall 2-3 days after culture, reached a peak level at 2 weeks, and formed a confluence of approximately 80%-90% 3 weeks after culture; at this time, all UCB-MSCs displayed a spindle shaped appearance. Four weeks later, in the baicalin group, some spindle-shaped UCB-MSCs began to present shrinkage, with slender processes on the cell edge, and some UCB-MSCs tended to be spherical-, conical-, and triangle-shaped appearance, with many slender processes on the pseudopodia. In the β-mercaptoethanol and baicalin+β -mercaptoethanol groups, an increasing number of cells defoliated and died with culture time in addition to above-mentioned appearances. (3) Four weeks after culture, cells were positive for CD45 in the blank control group, while cells in the remaining groups were positive for CD29 and CD 83, in particular in the baicalin+ β -mercaptoethanol group, followed by the baicalin group, and lastly the β -mercaptoethanol group. Significant difference in CD29 and CD 83 immunoreactivity exhibited between groups (P < 0.01). No CD34 immunoraactive calls were found in each group. (4) Four weeks after culture, NSE and MAP-2 immunoreactive expression was significantly lower in the blank control and β -mercaptoethanol groups than in the baicalin group (P < 0.01). The percentage of cells expressing GFAP was lower than 1% in each group. CONCLUSION: 100 μmol/L baicalin can promote the in vitro amplification of UCB-MSCs in a time-dependent manner and also can induce the differentiation of UCB-MSCs towards neuron-like cells in vitro to some extent.
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BACKGROUND: Present studies have verified that Baicalin has protective effects on various brain damage in the nervous system.OBJECTIVE: To study the possibility of intravenous transplantation of human umbilical blood mesenchymal stem cells (hUBMSCs) and Baicalin after hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD) in neonatal rats.DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: The randomized controlled animal study was performed at the Laboratory of the Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University from February 2007 to January 2008.MATERIALS: Totally 10 umbilical blood samples from healthy full-term pregnant women were obtained from the Department of Obstetrics, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University. A total of 85 clean Sprague Dawley neonatal rats aged 7 days were randomly assigned to a normal control group (n=15), a model group (n =20), a cell transplantation group (n =25), a cell transplantation + Baicalin group (n =25).METHODS: The umbilical blood mononuclear cells were isolated by the gelatin sedimentation + density gradient centrifugation method, and amplified in vitro. Cells at the fifth passage were used for transplantation. Cells were labeled by DAPI at 6-12 hours before use. Neonatal rats in the model, cell transplantation and cell transplantation + Baicalin groups were used to establish HIBD models. Rats in the blank control group were left intact. At 2, 3,4, 5 weeks following model induction, rats in the cell transplantation and cell transplantation + Baicalin groups were injected with DAPI-labeled hUBMSCs (5-10 μL/g) via caudal vein at the density of 1 ×10~9/L. From the first day of transplantation, rats in the cell transplantation + Baicalin group were injected with 120 mg/kg Baicalin via intraperitoneal injection, once a day, for three successive days.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The following parameters were measured: brain tissue lesion, DAPI-positive cell number, location of hUBMSCs following transplantation.RESULTS: Lesion rate of brain tissue was significantly lower in the cell transplantation + Baicalin group compared with the model and cell transplantation groups at 4 weeks following transplantation (P < 0.05). Compared with the cell transplantation group,DAPI-positive cell number was significantly increased in the cell transplantation + Baicalin group at 1, 2, 4 weeks (P < 0.01). From the 3~(rd) week following model induction, abundant DAPI-labeled cells were found surrounding the lesion site, without obvious boundary integrated with the host brain. Few DAPI-positive hUBMSCs were found in non-ischemic region. At 4 and 5 weeks following model induction, DAPI-positive cells were significantly decreased in the lesion site.CONCLUSION: The third week following HIBD is an optimal time for cell transplantation. Baicalin can make a large number of hUBMSCs across the blood-brain barrier to distribute and scatter around the disease focus integrated with host brain tissue.
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BACKGROUND: Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for treatment of hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD) has obtained some outcomes in adult animals, but studies are few in neonatal animal models. Mesenchymal stem cells are commonly harvested from bone marrow. A few studies are on umbilical cord blood-mesenchymal stem cells (UCB-MSCs). OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and timeliness of UCB-MSC transplantation after injecting UCB-MSCs into neonatal rat models of HIBD. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: The complete randomized controlled animal experiment was performed at the Laboratory of Department of Neurology of First Hospital Affiliated to Nanchang University from October 2004 to July 2005. MATERIALS: A total of 38 healthy neonatal SD rats aged 7 days old were used to create rat models of HIBD. Three rats died. METHODS: Cord blood samples were collected after normal full-term delivery of 23-35 healthy pregnant women for culturing UCB-MSCs. MSCs were labeled with 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole 2hci (DAPI) in vitro before transplantation. Thirty-five rat models were divided into three groups. UCB-MSCs were injected into tail vein of twelve rat models in the early transplantation group two days after modeling. UCB-MSCs were injected into tail vein of twelve rat models in the late transplantation group one week after modeling. Same volume of saline was injected into eleven rats of the control group. Six rats from early transplantation and late transplantation groups each were respectively obtained at day 2 after transplantation and at week 2 after modeling. Three, four and four rats from control group were obtained respectively 2 days, 1 and 2 weeks after modeling, and sacrificed after anaesthesia. Ischemic brain tissues from the brain and hippocampal gyrum were sliced into frozen sections. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Brain tissue pathomorphology was measured by Haematoxylin and Eosin Staining. Brain tissue DAPI-positive cells were detected with a fluorescence microscope. RESULTS: Brain edema at ischemic region, neural cell swelling and a decrease in cell number were tested in the control group. DAPI-positive UCB-MSCs were few in focal brain tissues, and swelling degree,extracellular space improvement and increased cell number were insignificant in the early transplantation group. One week after modeling, brain tissue extracellular space became small, cell number increased, and brain swelling reduced; A mass of DAPI-positive cells in rat focal brain migrated and diffused, without significant boundary in the late transplantation group. CONCLUSION: UCB-MSCs effectively traverse blood-brain barrier, and migrate, disperse and conform around focal brain tissues. A good outcome of transplantation is obtained at week 1 after HIBD.
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Objective To analyse the relationship between catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity and affective disorders, and explore the biological mechanism of the etiology of affective disorders.Methods The activities of erythrocytes COMT from 112 affective disorders and 120 normal control were measured with high performance liquid chromatography, all examined data were tested by SPSS 11.0v.Results COMT activity frequency distribution of patients group and control group are at the range of 2～23nmol/ml RBC/hr and 7～28nmol/ml RBC/hr respectively. The average activity of COMT in patients group and control group were (11.0±3.8) nmol/ml RBC/hr and (16.1±4.3) nmol/ml RBC/hr representatively. COMT activity in male and female patient were (11.2±3.7) nmol/ml RBC/hr and (10.6± 4.0) nmol/ml RBC/hr., male and female in control group were (16.5 ±4.6) nmol/ml RBC/hr and (15.4±3.9) nmol/ml RBC/hr, there were significant difference between patients group and control group and also between male and female (P <0.001).conclusion The activity of erythrocytes COMT in affective disorders is lower than normal population and suggested that the lower COMT activity of erythrocytes is associated with affective disorders.
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Objective:To explore the plasma catecholamines (CAs) concentration of postnatal depression and to analyze the relationships between postnatal depression and CAs level. Methods:Using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to measure the subjects' plasma noradrenaline (NE)?adrenaline (E) and dopamine (DA) concentration. The postnatal depression group was compared with depression, ante partum and normal group.Results: NE level of plasma in the depression group and the postnatal depression group were all higher than those of normal group P 0.05) .Conclusion:the plasma NE increase is relative to postnatal depression episode,the plasma DA may be relative to postnatal depression episode. The relationship between plasma and postnatal depression remains unclear.