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Gastric cancer is the first in morbidity and mortality among cancers in China. The presence of peritoneal dissemination is the most common cause of recurrence after radical surgery, and has become a pivotal to the curative resection. Whether intraperitoneal chemotherapy can prevent peritoneal dissemination,lymph node metastasis, eradicate invisible seeding tumor cells, reduce peritoneal metastasis, improve survival and quality of life is always under investigation. This review focus on the theory, clinical applications and problems of intraperitoneal chemotherapy for gastric cancer.
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Breast cancer is a systemic disease, only through multidisciplinary treatment including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine, can we enhance its effectiveness. In recent years, neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer has aroused great interest in tumor academia. We hope that this therapy can not only improve breast conservation rate, but also extend the overall survival through a series of clinical studies. This review presents the research progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.
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A strain of canine parvovirus (CPV) was isolated from feces of an ill puppy in an animal hospital in Wuhan, China. It was designated as CPV/WH02/06. This isolate was identified as serotype CPV-2a by the hemagglutination test, CPV Ag detection strip, electron microscopy, and PCR. The vp2 gene was cloned and sequenced and assigned GenBank accession number EU377537. A 1242 bp segment of the 5' region of the vp2 gene was cloned and inserted into the binary vector pBI121 and used for Agrobacterium-mediated tobacco transformation. Transgenic tobacco plants were selected on MS medium supplemented with 100 μg/mL kanamycin and 100 μg/mL timentin. Integration of the vp2 gene into the tobacco genome was confirmed by PCR using T1 progeny plants, and the expression of the VP2 protein was confirmed by Western blotting.
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Studies have shown that transgenic plants expressing antiapoptotic genes from baculovirus and animals increase resistance to biotic and abiotic stress. However, the mechanism under these resistances is conjectural, or in some cases even controversy. In the present study, the p35 gene from baculovirus Autographa californica multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) was expressed in tobacco, and for the first time P35 protein was detected in transgenic plants by Western blotting. Inoculation of T1 transgenic tobacco leaves with tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) showed enhanced resistance, and DNA laddering was observed after TMV infection in control but not in transgenic plants. DAB staining showed that TMV infection did not affect peroxide induction of transgenic plants, Western blotting analysis of PR1 protein also showed no difference of control and transgenic plants. Inoculation of fungus (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) using a detached leaf assay showed enhanced resistance of transgenic leave tissue. RT-PCR analysis demonstrated that p35 gene expression induced earlier expression of PR1 gene after S. sclerotiorum infection. Taken together, our results suggest that the mechanism under enhanced disease resistance by P35 protein is possibly related to the activation of PR-related proteins in addition to the inhibition of programmed cell death, depending on the pathogens challenged.