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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>Some research has shown that Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is effective in the treatment of various tumors, including transferred melanoma and well differentiated renal cell carcinoma. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of NDV against human acute monocytic leukemia SHI-1 cells in vitro and in vivo.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>In vitro, the density and morphologic changes between wild SHI-1 cells (control) and NDV-infected SHI-1 cells were observed. MTT assay was utilized to observe the effect of NDV on the proliferation of SHI-1 cells. In vivo, the effect of NDV on the tumor inhibition was assessed using SHI-1 xenografts subcutaneously established in CD-1 nude mice. NDV was given by intra-tumor injections, and the tumor inhibition rate and toxic effects were evaluated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>In the control group, the SHI-1 cells were observed using an inverted microscope to be regular in morphology and intensive in distribution. In the NDV-infected group, the SHI-1 cells were irregular and sparsate, and the aggregate and fused cells were common. MTT assay showed that the proliferation of SHI-1 cells were significantly inhibited by NDV at different concentrations (P<0.01) and in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. The tumor inhibition rate in the NDV group was 84.7%, which was significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.01). No toxic effects were observed in the nude mice.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>NDV can suppress the proliferation of human acute monocytic leukemic cells both in vitro and in vivo. The safety of NDV is reliable.</p>
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Animals , Humans , Mice , Cell Proliferation , Immunotherapy, Active , Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute , Therapeutics , Mice, Nude , Newcastle disease virus , Physiology , Xenograft Model Antitumor AssaysABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the relationship of GYPC and TRIP3 gene expression and the prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children in order to explore the molecular biological mechanisms of recurrence and remission of ALL.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Thirty-eight newly diagnosed ALL children were enrolled. Of the 38 patients, 31 achieved complete remission (CR) and 12 relapsed. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR was employed to measure blood GYPC and TRIP3 gene expression. Twenty blood samples from normal children were used as controls.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Blood GYPC expression in newly diagnosed ALL children was significantly higher than that in the control group (p<0.01) and the CR group (p<0.01). The expression of GYPC gene in the CR group was similar to that in the control group. Other than the control group (p<0.01) and the CR group (p<0.01), the GYPC expression of the relapse group was significantly higher than that in the newly diagnosed group (p<0.01). The CR group showed lower GYPC gene expression than the nonjremission group before treatment (p<0.05). Blood expression of TRIP3 gene in the newly diagnosed and the relapse groups was significantly lower than that in the control group (p<0.05). The CR group had increased TRIP3 gene expression compared with the control group (p<0.01) as well as the newly diagnosed and the relapse groups (p<0.01). Of the 38 newly diagnosed ALL children, the patients with positive TRIP3 expression showed higher remission rate than those with negative TRIP3 (p<0.05). The TRIP3 gene expression before treatment in patients who achieved CR was higher than that in non-remission patients (p<0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>A high GYPC gene expression is associated with an unfavorable outcome, in contrast, a high TRIP3 gene expression is associated with a favorable outcome in childhood ALL.</p>
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Glycophorins , Genetics , Mediator Complex Subunit 1 , Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma , Genetics , Mortality , Prognosis , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Transcription Factors , GeneticsABSTRACT
The bilingual teaching must face some innovations and reformations in the contents and methods to acquire some satisfactory outcome.The article discusses some questions of bilingual teaching in paediatrics including the shortage of teachers,the interest deficiency of students,the lack of suitable teaching materials and inferior learning environment,and then provides some useful advice for the innovations of bilingual teaching.
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Objective To study the molecular mechanism of the remission in children with acute lymphocyte leukemia(ALL),as well as the expression of thyroid hormone receptor interacting protein 3(TRIP3) gene in children with ALL and explore the relationship between TRIP3 and ALL.Methods Fasting venous blood 2-4 mL was collected,anticoagulanted with ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid(EDTA),then perpheral blood mononuclear cells was collected by Ficoll density gradient centrifugation,total RNA was extracted by Trizol one step method.Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) was used to detect TRIP3 expression in peripheral blood lymphocytes in 73 ALL children of different stages and 20 normal children.The relationship between TRIR3 expression in children and ALL release was analyzed.Results 1.Expression of TRIP3 was significantly lower both after initial treatment and during recrudescence than that in normal children(Pa0.05).3.In children with ALL after initial treatment,the remission rate was significantly higher in TRIP3 positive patients than in TRIP3 negative ones(remission rate discern 25.0% vs 84.2%,P