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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression changes of human galectin 3(Gal-3)in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing emergency PCI and to assess the relationship between Gal-3 level and myocardial infarction range,coronary thrombotic load and ventricular remodeling.METHODS: Totally 62 patients with AMI who underwent emergency PCI in the department of cardiology of our hospital from January to August of 2018 were selected. Blood samples were taken for Gal-3 determination immediately after admission, 3 and 5 days after PCI. Troponin I was measured in 24 hours after PCI.Echocardiography was completed 24 hours after PCI. The patients were divided into three groups according to the results of coronary angiography: the single-vessel disease group, the two-vessel disease group and the three-vessel disease or the left main disease group.Gensini cumulative index was calculated. According to the imaging of coronary angiography, the coronary thrombus load was divided into 0-5 grades. The changes of Gal-3 level on admission to hospital,and at 3 and 5 days after PCI were analyzed and their relationship with troponin, coronary artery diseaseand thrombus load was analyzed.RESULTS: 1. Gal-3 levels were gradually reduced on admission, at 3 days after PCI and 5 days after PCI,which were respectively(93.38 ± 9.37)ng/L,(82.76 ± 7.43)ng/L and(72.71 ± 7.58)ng/L, and there were statistically significant differences among the three groups(F=99.17,P0.05). No correlation was found between Gal-3 levels and Gensini cumulative index(P>0.05). 3. The patients were divided into the group with thrombus level 0(T0 group)and the group with thrombus level 1-5(T1-5 group). Compared to the T0 group,the admission level of Gal-3 was significantly higher in the T1-5 group,which was(95.6±7.31)g/L vs.(89.62±11.3)ng/L,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant(P=0.014). Similarly, the Gal-3 level of the T1-5 group was significantly higher than that of the T0 group on the 3 days after PCI and 5 days after PCI(P=0.017,P=0.006). Pearson correlation analysis showed that the level of Gal-3 on admission, 3 days after PCI and 5 days after PCI were all positively correlated with troponin I(CTNI)at 24 hours after PCI;there was a negative correlation with left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF).CONCLUSION: Gal-3 is released in the acute phase of AMI,and decreases gradually within 5 days after emergency PCI. The level of Gal-3 is associated with the coronary thrombus load in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The heavier the thrombus load, the higher level the Gal-3. Gal-3 level is positively correlated with the extent of myocardial infarction, and negatively correlated with LVEF, reflecting that Gal-3 is involved in ventricular remodeling after actue myocardial infarction.
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The potential biodegradation of crude oil was assessed based on the development of a fermentative process with a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa which produced 15.4 g/L rhamnolipids when cultured in a basal mineral medium using glycerol as a sole carbon source. However, neither cell growth nor rhamnolipid production was observed in the comparative culture system using crude oil as the sole carbon source instead. As rhamnolipid, an effective biosurfactant, has been reported to stimulate the biodegradation of hydrocarbons, 1 g/L glycerol or 0.22 g/L rhamnolipid was initially added into the medium to facilitate the biodegradation of crude oil. In both situations, more than 58% of crude oil was degraded and further converted into accumulated cell biomass and rhamnolipids. These results suggest that Pseudomonas aeruginosa could degrade most of crude oil with direct or indirect addition of rhamnolipid. And this conclusion was further supported by another adsorption experiment, where the adsorption capacity of crude oil by killed cell biomass was negligible in comparison with the biologic activities of live cell biomass.