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Objective:To investigate the current situation of developmental coordination disorder in preschool children in Taiyuan, providing evidence for developing health strategies for preschool children in this city.Methods:We selected 11 126 preschool children aged 3-5 years from 24 kindergartens in Taiyuan using the cluster random sampling method during November-December 2018. Each preschool child was tested with the developmental coordination disorder questionnaire for young children.Results:The incidence of developmental coordination disorder was 3.4%, and the incidence of suspected developmental coordination disorder was 5.4%, and the incidences of which were higher in boys than in girls ( χ2 = 9.46, P < 0.01). The incidence of developmental coordination disorder decreased with aging ( r = -0.06, P < 0.01). The incidence of developmental coordination disorder was negatively correlated with parents' education level and maternal passive smoking during pregnancy ( r = -0.11, P < 0.01; r = -0.12, P < 0.01; r = -0.03, P < 0.01). Lower parents' education level and maternal passive smoking during pregnancy led to a higher incidence of developmental coordination disorder in children. Conclusion:Preschool children from Taiyuan had a lower incidence of developmental coordination disorder than those from economically developed south areas. The higher the gross domestic product in the areas where the kindergartens locate, the lower the incidence of developmental coordination disorder ( r = 0.03, P < 0.01). Environmental factors have a certain impact on developmental coordination disorders in preschool children. Parents, kindergarten teachers, and child health workers should take active intervention measures against the adverse factors in the early development environment of children.
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Irreversible destruction of bronchi and alveoli can lead to multiple incurable lung diseases. Identifying lung stem/progenitor cells with regenerative capacity and utilizing them to reconstruct functional tissue is one of the biggest hopes to reverse the damage and cure such diseases. Here we showed that a rare population of SOX9 basal cells (BCs) located at airway epithelium rugae can regenerate adult human lung. Human SOX9 BCs can be readily isolated by bronchoscopic brushing and indefinitely expanded in feeder-free condition. Expanded human SOX9 BCs can give rise to alveolar and bronchiolar epithelium after being transplanted into injured mouse lung, with air-blood exchange system reconstructed and recipient's lung function improved. Manipulation of lung microenvironment with Pirfenidone to suppress TGF-β signaling could further boost the transplantation efficiency. Moreover, we conducted the first autologous SOX9 BCs transplantation clinical trial in two bronchiectasis patients. Lung tissue repair and pulmonary function enhancement was observed in patients 3-12 months after cell transplantation. Altogether our current work indicated that functional adult human lung structure can be reconstituted by orthotopic transplantation of tissue-specific stem/progenitor cells, which could be translated into a mature regenerative therapeutic strategy in near future.
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Humans , Bronchiectasis , Genetics , Metabolism , Pulmonary Alveoli , Cell Biology , Metabolism , SOX9 Transcription Factor , Genetics , Metabolism , Stem Cell Transplantation , Methods , Stem Cells , Cell Biology , MetabolismABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the distribution and drug resistance situation of pathogens in the respiratory department during the recent 9 years to provide the basis for rational use of antibacterial drugs in clinic .Methods All pathogens isolated from the respiratory depeartment from January 2003 to December 2011 and the drug susceptibility test results were retrospectively and statistically analyzed .Results A total of 5 714 strains of pathogenic bacteria were isolated ,which mainly distributed in the sputum (90 .1% ) ,excrement (4 .2% ) and urine (3 .6% );among them ,2 943 strains (51 .5% ) were Gram‐negative bacteria ,596 strains (10 .4% ) were Gram‐positive bacteria and 2 175 strains (38 .1% ) were fungi .The top six of isolated bacteria were Candida albi‐cans ,Pseudomonas aeruginosa ,Acinetobacter baumannii ,Klebsiella pneumoniae ,Candida tropicalis and Escherichia coli .The isola‐tion rates of A .baumannii and C .albicans were increased year by year ,while the isolation rate of E .coli was decreased .A .baumannii and P .aeruginosa had a high resistant to all antibacterial drugs ,whereas the resistant rate of A .baumannii was increased year by year and that of P .aeruginosa showed some fluctuation .K .pneumoniae had a high susceptibility to imipenem and meropenem ,and the sensitivity to other antimicrobial agents had a gradually increasing tendency .The sensitive rate of C .albicans to amphotericin B was almost 100% ,and they had a high susceptible to other antifungal agents .Conclusion Drug resistance of the pathogens is com‐mon in the respiratory department .It is of importance to emphasize the pathologic examination ,carry out the surveillance of drug re‐sistance of pathogenic bacteria ,and use the antibacterial drugs rationally in clinical anti‐infective therapy .
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Objective To study the application effect of clinical pathway teaching in respiratory medicine. Methods Seventy clinical medical students of our department during 2007 to 2009 were randomly divided into two groups. The control group (35 students) was treated by traditional teaching ways, while the experimental group(35 students) was treated by clinical pathway teaching ways, with 5 to 6 students forming a small group. Teachers provided one copy of the CP version to each person in advance. Then progressive questions and discussions were conducted according to the diagnosis, dif-ferential diagnosis and treatment of CP. After its implementation for a certain time, students were co-mprehensively assessed by the practice examination and questionnaire and the statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS 17.0 version statistics software. Results The experimental group's total aver-age score was (90.00±4.00) points, while the control group's total average score was (76.00±7.20) points. There was significant difference between the two groups(P=0.001). The effect of these two kinds of teaching was evaluated and compared in stimulating interest in learning (P=0.002), improving the analytical ability(P=0.004),improving self-study ability(P=0.001), deepening the under-standing of the basic concepts(P=0.112), improving the innovation ability (P=0.005), improving the efficiency of learning(P=0.034), improving clinical comprehensive ability(P=0.016), and improving the ability of language expression(P=0.000), showing that teaching method of clinical pathway could significantly improve clinical teaching effect, and there was statistically significant difference between them. Conclusion Clinical pathway teaching has obvious advantages in cultivating students' diagnostic thinking and clin-ical ability to solve practical problems, and therefore it has better clinical teaching effect than the tra-ditional teaching method.
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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>There is no any specific dynamic criterion in early diagnosis of lung cancer yet. The aim of this study is to obtain the cDNA sequence of hnRNP A2/B1 and then determine its expression in patients with lung cancer, and to provide experimental data for the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Total RNA was isolated from A549 cells and RT-PCR was performed. The fragment was cloned into PUCm-T plasmids and further sequenced. hnRNP A2/B1 expression was detected in 41 patients with lung cancer and 13 patients with carcinoma-free diseases by in situ hybridization.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The fragment was identified by DNA sequencing. The positive rate of hnRNP A2/B1 was 87.8% (36/41) in lung cancer tissues, which was significantly higher than that in control group (23.1%, 3/13) (P < 0.01). hnRNP A2/B1 was localized in the cytoplasm and/or nucleus, but mainly in the cytoplasm. Four subtypes of lung cancer all showed positive staining of hnRNP A2/B1 protein. The positive rate of hnRNP A2/B1 was 91.3% (21/23) in squamous cell carcinoma, and 78.6% (11/14) in adenocarcinoma (P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>hnRNP A2/B1 has been cloned successfully. It can highly express in lung cancer tissues, but it does not correlate with histological classification of lung cancer.</p>
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0.05). The positive rate of hnRNP A2/B1 in smoking patients was 80.0% (32/40), significantly higher than that in non-smoking patients (50.0%) (P