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Objective To detect the serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interferengamma (IFN-γ) in brucellosis patients and to study the Th1 immune response in acute and chronic patients.Method Serum levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma of 110 brucellosis patients,including 58 acute brucellosis patients and 52 chronic brucellosis patients,were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) from 2014 to 2015 in Zhangjiakou Infectious Disease Hospital.Results The serum levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma of 58 acute brucellosis patients were (38.2± 3.6) pg/L and (31.3 ± 3.7) ng/L,respectively;the serum levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma of 52 chronic brucellosis patients were (12.4 ± 2.6) pg/L and (8.8 ± 3.4) ng/L,respectively.The differences were statistically significant between acute and chronic patients (t =43.216,33.809,all P ＜ 0.05).The early cure rate,early base cure rate,improvement rate and inefficiency rate were 36.2％ (21/58),32.7％ (19/58),25.9％ (15/58)and 5.2％ (3/58),respectively in acute patients.Inversely,they were 17.3％ (9/52),13.5％ (7/52),15.4％ (8/52)and 53.8％ (28/52),respectively in chronic patients.The therapeutic effect was better in acutepatients than chronic patients (x2 =4.937,5.657,all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion It seems that acute brucellosis patients have a higher serum levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma and a better prognosis due to effective Th1 immune response,and chronic brucellosis patients are associated with poor outcome due to deficiency of Th1 immune response.
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Purpose To establish Logistic regression model of gallbladder lesions of≥1 cm in diameter diagnosed by ultrasound, and to filter benign and malignant sonographic features. Materials and Methods The sonographic features were retrospectively analyzed in 165 patients with gallbladde apophysis lesions of≥1 cm in diameter which confirmed by pathology, including the number of lesions, size, shape and basal width, gallstones, continuous gallbladder wall continuous, blood flow signals detected by color Doppler flow imaging. Logistic regression model with bipartition was established by multivariate Logistic regression analysis, and the efficiency of Logistic regression model was evaluated to predict benign or malignant of these lesions. Results Three characteristic variables, including lesion morphology, basal width and flow signals, were took into the Logistic regression model by binary Logistic regression analysis, which was the sensitive indicators can differentiate the benign or malignant gallbladder lesions. The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of this model were 97.0%, 93.8%and 97.3%for predicting the benign or malignant gallbladder apophysis lesions≥1 cm in diameter, respectively. Area under ROC was 0.979. Conclusion Binary Logistic regression analysis can filter the sonographic features which can differentiate the benign or malignant gallbladder apophysis lesions≥1 cm in diameter, and lesion morphology, basal width and flow signals are of important differential diagnosis value of benign lesions or malignant lesions.
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Objective:To study possibility of traditional Chinese drug preparation of controlled drug delivered to the colonic region. Methods: After the herbs was extracted and refined, micropills was produced with pectin selected as coating material and thallium monochloride was as internal standard substance. Results: The preparation was testified to attain schedule colon target. Conclusions: This research provided a way for traditional Chinese drug preparation of colon targeting.