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Objective To analyze iodine nutrition and its correlation with thyroid function in pregnant women.Methods A total of 295 pregnant women were enrolled from Jun.to Oct.2016,and detected for serum levels of thyroid stimulating hormone(TSH),free thyroxine(FT4) and thyroid-peroxidase antibody(TPOAb) by using electrochemiluminescence analysis,and for urinary iodine concentration(UIC) by cold digestion method according to iodine catalytic effect of arsenic-cerium.Results The median of UIC was 174.90 μg/L.The prevalence of iodine deficiency and iodine excess were 40.00% and 7.12% respectively.The prevalence of TPOAb positivity and thyroid dysfunction in the iodine deficiency group and iodine excess group were significantly higher than those of iodine proper group(P<0.05).The levels of TSH and FT4 of iodine excess group were significantly higher than those of iodine proper group(P<0.05).Conclusion The abnormality of iodine nutrition could be common in pregnant women.Monitoring of UIC and thyroid hormones should be highlighted.
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Objective To establish a cultivating method for obtaining a large number of P0 generation human placental chorionic-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hpcMSCs).Methods The hpcMSCs were isolated from human placental chorion.After primary culturing and culturing for seven days,the culture medium,the non-adherent tissue and the douching normal saline of the primary culture were centrifuged and re-cultured twice.Cell morphology was observed by an inverted microscope.CCK-8 was used to measure the cell growth curve.Flow cytometry was used to detect cell surface markers.Adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation kits were used to assess the cell differentiation potential.Results The obtained hpcMSCs were fibroblast-like adherent cells and (25.54±3.38)×106 cells were obtained per placenta.The total yield of the primary culture,secondary culture and tertiary culture were (11.73±2.09)×106,(11.12±1.42)×106 and (2.69±0.71)×106,respectively,and the incubation time were (12.00±0.64) d,(8.87±0.63) d and (12.33±0.80) d.There was significant differences in incubation time between the secondary culture and the primary culture as well as the tertiary culture (all P＜0.05),and there was no significant difference between the primary culture and the tertiary culture.However,the incubation time of the tertiary culture had an increasing trend (P＞0.05).The yield per culture flask of the primary culture,secondary culture and tertiary culture were (1.12±0.15) × 106,(2.10±0.16)×106 and (1.04±0.16)×106,respectively.There was significant differences in the yield per culture flask between the secondary culture and the primary culture as well as the tertiary culture (all P＜0.05),and there was no significant difference between the primary culture and the tertiary culture.However,the yield per culture flask of the tertiary culture had a decreasing trend (P＞0.05).There was no difference among the three cultures in the growth curve and the expression of surface markers,and the osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation were all positive.Conclusions The P0 generation hpcMSCs isolated from a choriocarcinoma sample can be doubled by the three cultures compared with the primary culture,which can provide plenty stem cell source for the regenerative medicine.
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BACKGROUND:There are a lot of studies on isolation and culture methods of human placental chorionic-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hpcMSCs), but how to simply and efficiently harvest a large amount of primary MSCs has not been resolved. OBJECTIVE:To optimize the tissue explants method of isolating and culturing hpcMSCsin vitro. METHODS:Human placental chorionic villi were collected from full-term deliveries under aseptic condition and isolated by electric homogenizer. hpcMSCs were prepared by tissue explants method. The fluid and tissue of the primary culture flask and douching normal saline of the initial culture were centrifuged and prepared for secondary culture. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: It saved time and effort to treat human placental chorionic villi with electric homogenizer, with good effects on tissue dispersion and removal of red blood cells. The average time of cell acquisition in initial culture and secondary culture was (17.73±1.14) and (10.03±1.30) days, respectively. The yields of primary cultured cells in initial culture and secondary culture were (6.97±0.98)×105 and (13.82±1.44)×105per Φ100 mm culture dish, respectively. The adherent cells showed fibroblast-cell-like shape, which were in parallel or circinate arrangement. Highly expressed CD73, CD105 and CD90 could be detected in the third generation of hpcMSCs, but CD34, CD45, CD14, CD19 and HLA-DR were negative. Following induction, alizarin red staining and oil red O staining produced a strong reaction in cells. In a word, the optimized method is a simple and efficient method for obtaining a large amount of primary hpcMSCs.
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Objective To investigate the dynamics of white blood cell count (WBC),prealbumin(PA),high sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP),and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) complicated with or without encephalitis and in vitro inhibitory effects of artesunate on VEGF secretion of mononuclear cells from HFMD patients.Methods Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy control group,HFMD group and HFMD combined with encephalitis group were isolated by Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and treated with different concentrations of artesunate (25,50,100 mg/L).The expression of VEGF in the supernatant was examined by ELISA double antibody sandwich method.The levels of WBC,PA and hs-CRP in the three groups were also detected.Multiple samples were compared by one-way analysis of variance.Multiple comparison was performed by Dunnett T3 test.Correlation of two variables was analyzed by Spearman correlation test.Results There were significant differences in the levels of WBC,hs-CRP,PA and VEGF between the HFMD combined with or without encephalitis group and health control group (F=172.69,366.02,166.32 and 5 941.89,respectively,all P＜0.01).There were significant differences in the levels of VEGF secreted by mononuclear cells treated with three different concentrations of artesunate between the HFMD combined with or without encephalitis groups and health control group (F =194.265 and 4 750.69,respectively,both P＜0.01).Correlation analysis showed that the VEGF level secretion by mononuclear cells from HFMD patients with or without encephalitis were both negatively correlated with different concentrations of artesunate (r=-0.903 and-0.969,both P＜0.01).Conclusions Compared with HFMD without encephalitis,the secretion of VEGF by mononuclear cells,WBC and hs-CRP levels in HFMD complicated with encephalitis group all increase and PA decrease significantly.Artesunate can inhibit the secretion of VEGF by mononuclear cells of patients with hand-foot-and-mouth disease in a dosedependent manner in vitro.
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Objective To investigate the reference ranges of peripheral white blood cells (WBC) and five classification parame‐ters among 13 442 apparently healthy children to provide reference for clinical diagnosis .Methods A total of 13 442 apparently healthy children aged from 1 month old to 5 years undergoing the health physical examination in the healthcare department of the Guangzhou Municipal Women and Children Medical Center were chosen according to the healthy children screening standard and the exclusion standard of hematological diseases ,infection diseases and drug administration history .The WBC analysis and its parame‐ters detection were performed by using the Sysmex XS‐800i automatic blood cell analyzer .Results WBC and its five classification parameters were not accorded with the normally distribution .By the Mann‐whitney test ,no statistically significant differences in WBC ,BASO# and NEU # were detected between different genders of children (P> 0 .05) ,while the differences in LYM # , MONO# and EOS# had statistical significance(P<0 .001) ,in which the LYM # level in females was significantly higher than that in males ,while the MONO# and EOS# levels in females were lower than those in males ;By the Kruskal‐Wallis test ,WBC and five classification parameters had statistically significant differences among different age groups (P<0 .001) .The parameters of WBC ,LYM # ,MONO# and EOS# were decreased with age increase ,while NEU # was constantly increased with age increase and BASO# was decreased with age increase before 4 years old .Conclusion All factors such as gender ,age should be The inde‐pendent reference rangesl of WBC parameters among children aged from 1 month old to 7 years old should be formulated on the ba‐sis of fully considering the factors such as gender ,age .
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Objective To explore the clinical application value of serum amyloid protein(SAA) and C reactive protein(CRP)in early diagnosis of hand‐foot‐mouth disease(HFMD)in children .Methods The serum/plasma levels of CRP and SAA in 81 children with HFMD(HFMD group)and 125 healthy children(healthy control group)were detected by using dot immunogold filtration as‐say .Data including white blood cell (WBC) count ,levels of CRP and SAA were obtained and analyzed .And diagnostic efficacies of these indicators were evaluated by using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve .Results The serum levels of SAA and CRP and WBC count in HFMD group were significantly higher than those in healthy control group ,and all had statistically significant differences(P<0 .05) .The area under the ROC curve(AUC) of SAA(0 .921) was higher than that of CRP(0 .728) ,SAA/CRP ra‐tio(0 .846) and WBC count(0 .721) for diagnosing HFMD ,there were statistically significant differences(P<0 .05) .Compared with CRP ,WBC count and SAA/CRP ratio ,SAA had better diagnostic efficacy .Conclusion As a new biomarker of infections ,SAA can effectively diagnose HFMD early and provide more sensitive reference to clinicians for early diagnosis ,which might be worthy of clinical application widely .
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Objective To explore the clinical significance of platelet count increasing in patients with ovarian malignant tumor . Methods 80 cases of ovarian malignant tumor patients ,80 patients with ovarian benign tumor and 80 cases of healthy women were enrolled in the study as group A ,B ,C respectively .The group A was divided into FIGOⅠ group(n=30) ,and FIGOⅡ and above group(n=50) .Platelet count was detected by using fully automatic blood cell analyzer and the serum CA125 concentrations were also measured for all the groups .Results The platelet count and CA125 concentrations in group A were higher than group B and group C(P< 0 .05) .The positive rate of platelet increasing and serum CA125 were also higher than group B and group C(P<0 .05) .There were significant differences between FIGOⅠ group and FIGOⅡ and above group in platelet count and CA125 concen‐trations .Conclusion Ovarian malignant tumor complicated with increased platelet count is common in patients of advanced stage . The increased platelet count could indicate the malignant degree of ovarian malignant tumor .
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Objective To know how large platelets influnece the platelet count difference of the optical and impedance methods so as to provide the support for the reasonable application of optical method and effectively increasing the accuracy of platelet count.Methods 132 blood routine specimens with normal RBC parameters were anaylzed by both electrical impedance and optical methods with the Sysmex-XE5000 fully automativ hematology analyzer.The data were divided into the large platelet group and the normal platelet group according to the platlet-large cell ratio(P-LCR)results.The RBC and platelet parameters were compared be-tween the two groups with the unpaired t-test and the platelet count results detected by the optical and electrical impedance methods were compared within group with the paired t-test.Results The extremely significant differences of platelet parameters existed be-tween the two groups.The P-LCR,MPV,PDW and IPF % of the large platelet group were significantly higher than those of the normal platelet group,but the RBC parameters had no obvious difference.The significant difference of the platelet count also existed between the electrical impedance and optical methods in the large platelet group(P <0.05 ),the platelet count results detected by the electrical impedance method was on the low side,but the normal platelet group had no significant difference.Conclusion P-LCR increase is related with the increase of immature platelet.The electrical impadence method conducts the differentiation according to the granular size,which is easy to exclude the large platelel with larger volume and leads to reduce the platelet count results.There-fore,when P-LCR is increased,the optical method should be adopted in conducting the platelet count for avoiding the false reduce caused by the electrical impedance method.
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Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the analysis capabilities of the dot immunogold filtration method on detecting serum amyloid A ( SAA ) protein in blood.It also aimed to research the clinical value of SAA in diagnosing the infectious diseases of children .Methods ( 1 ) The performance evaluation including the accuracy , within-run precision, inter assay variations , the linear and the distraction-analysis of SAA-SPOT was estimated following the EP file; From March to July in 2014, children from five 3A Grade hospitals in Guangdong Province were enrolled into this observational study.Data including white blood WBC count , CRP and SAA were obtained.(2) From March to July in 2014, children from five 3A Grade hospitals in Guangdong Province were enrolled randomly into this observational study.This study used a cross-sectional survey research method , and 386 children with bacterial infection and 219 children with virus infection were as the research object.The general , clinical diagnosis , treatment information as well as the data of blood SAA , C-reactive protein ( CRP ) and white blood cell ( WBC ) of children were collected.Data were analyzed by variance , independent t test, ROC curve analysis and stepwise regression statistics method.Results ( 1 ) The average recovery rate is 103.74 %.Coefficient of variation (CV) for 10 mg/L,100 mg/L within-run assays were 8.77%, 3.61% and between-run assays were 9.01%, 3.74%;the inter-day CV were 9.07%, 4.03%respectively;the linear range was 5 mg/L-200 mg/L, hemoglobin(5 g/L),serum bilirubin(800 μmol/L),triglyceride(TG, 22 mmol/L), and had no interference in SAA detection.When compared to the BNPRO quantitate system of SIEMENS , the coefficient of association of detection of SAA by SAA-SPOT was R2 =0.96.( 2 ) Compared with control group , the serum SAA of infection group ( bacterial infection group , t =13.05, P=0.001;virus infection group t =7.68, P=0.001) and SAA/CRP ratio (bacterial infection group t=2.29, P=0.023;virus infection group t=3.32, P=0.01) were significantly increased.(3) The serum CRP and SAA rose similarly in bacterial infection, while in viral infection, only SAA increased significantly , CRP had no apparent change.In combination with CRP and WBC , SAA had the better diagnostic efficiency apparently.Conclusions As a POCT detection project , analysis capabilities of the SAA assayed by domestic SAA-SPOT can meet the requirements of clinical test.Combined with CRP , WBC and SAA can improve the efficiency in the diagnosing of infectious disease especially in the virus infection.As a new biomarker of infections , SAA is useful for the early auxiliary diagnosis and differential diagnosis of childhood infection.
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Objective To explore the impact of NaF · EDTA-K2 on blood lipids measurement in pregnant women , determine whetherthe empty-stomach plasma for OGTT could be used as substitute for serumin blood lipids analyses.Methods Fastingplasma with NaF · EDTA-K2 and serumfrom 100 pregnant women werecollected,andconcentration of CHO,TG, HDL,LDL,apoA1 and apoB were tested with Hitachi 7 600 automatic biochemical analyzer.Data were analyzed by SPSS 19.0 software.Results The concentrations oflipids and lipoproteins with NaF · EDTA-K2 were slightly lower than those of serum.There were statistical significances between the means of CHO , HDL, LDL, apoA1 and apoBof two groups ( P<0.05) except TG.Correlation coefficients of the six analyteswere CHO 0.968, TG 0.995, HDL 0.979, LDL 0.991, apoA1 0.692, apoB 0.846respectively.Standard Error of Estimate for plasma were: CHO 0.281, TG 0.094, HDL 0.077, LDL 0.112, apoA1 0.230, apoB 0.111 respectively.The modified coefficients were 1.08 for CHO, HDL and LDL, 1.14 for apoA1 and 1.07 for apoB.Conclusion NaF· EDTA-K2 negatively biased the blood lipidsmeasurement of CHO , HDL, LDL, apoA1 and apoB in pregnant women,yet lipids concentrations in plasma with NaF · EDTA-K2 were closely related to those in serum , which may be used to predict the bloodlipidslevel of pregnant women afterajusted.