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Objective:To investigate the value of plasma Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA detection in the screening of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and its clinical application in non-high-risk areas.Methods:Plasma EBV DNA results in 1 153 newly diagnosed nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who were treated in Sichuan Cancer Hospital from 2015 to 2020 and 244 healthy control cases with matched sex and age were retrospectively analyzed. EBV DNA were detected by quantitative real-time PCR. Positive rate of EBV DNA was determined by the cutoff value of 400 (≥400 copies/ml as positive) and optimization threshold method (presence of S amplification curve as positive). Further analyses were conducted to compare EBV DNA load in different clinical stage, TNM stage and regions distribution characteristics. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to evaluate the diagnostic value of the cutoff value of 400 and optimization threshold method for NPC.Results:Compared with healthy controls, EBV DNA increased significantly in newly diagnosed NPC patients ( P<0.001). Both evaluation methods revealed that the EBV DNA positive percentage increased with TNM and clinical stage ( P<0.001). With 400 copies/ml as cutoff value, the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were 40.85% and 100%, respectively. The area under the curve was 0.704 (95% CI 0.676-0.733, P<0.001). Evaluated by the optimization threshold method, the sensitivity and specificity could improve to 82.0% and 99.2%, respectively, and the area under the curve reached 0.910 (95% CI 0.894-0.924, P<0.001). Conclusions:In the low prevalence area of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the sensitivity for diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is only 40.9% by the 400 copies/ml cutoff value method. The optimization threshold method is a better choice to improve the diagnostic sensitivity without lowering the diagnostic specificity.
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OBJECTIVE：To es tablish the HPLC fingerprint of Arnebia euchroma ，analyze them with chemical pattern recognition technology ， and determine the contents of 3 components. METHODS ： HPLC method was adopted. Using acetylshikonin as reference ，HPLC fingerprint of 34 batches of A. euchroma from different sources were drawn. Similarity Evaluation System for TCM Chromatographic Fingerprint （2012A edition ）was used to evaluate the similarity of the samples ，and common peaks were determined. SPSS 19.0 and SIMCA 14.1 statistical software was used for cluster analysis ，principle component analysis and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminate analysis. According to the standard of the variable importance in the project greater than 1，the differential markers affecting the quality difference of A. euchroma were screened. Meanwhile ，the contents of 3 components were determined by the same HPLC method. RESULTS ：There were 12 common peaks in HPLC fingerprints for 34 batches of A. euchroma . The similarity of other samples were more than 0.86，except that t he three （No.2016A3005-5） batches of medicinal herbs on the market were less than 0.72；3 common peaks were identified ， such as shikonin ，acetylshikonin， β ，β ′-dimethylacrylic acanine. These 34 batches of samples could be classified into two categories . S 1， qq.com S4-S6，S13，S15-S20，S22，S26-S34 were clustered into one category，and others clustered into the other category. By principal component analysis ，the contribution rates of three principle components were 52.834％ ，18.600％ and 8.387％ . Accumulative contribution rate was 79.821％ . Six constituents，such as shikonin，acetylshikonin and β，β'-dimethylacrylic acanine were screened as differential markers，representing the major differences of A. euchroma . The linear range of above three components were 0.72-90，2.05-410，2.50-500 µg/mL（r all more than 0.999）， respectively. The limits of quantification were 0.132，0.135，0.118 µg/mL，respectively. The limits of detection were 0.040，0.041， 0.036 µg/mL，respectively. RSDs of precision ，stability（24 h），reproducibility and durability tests were all lower than 3％. Recoveries were 95.959％-100.201％（RSD＝1.669％，n＝6），97.818％-102.698％（RSD＝1.788％，n＝6），95.831％-99.344％ （RSD＝1.600％，n＝6）. The contents of above three components were 0.002％-0.134％，0.025％-1.388％，0.022％-0.881％. CONCLUSIONS：Established HPLC fingerprint and content determination method are simple and stable ，can be used for quality evaluation and quantitative analysis of A. euchroma . Shikonin ，acetylshikonin and β，β'-dimethylacrylic acanine are different in the content and are differential markers of A. euchroma from different source.
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@#Recently,the incidence of chronic disease has been increasing rapidly every year,which contributes to heavy burdens on society. Chronic disease management（CDM）has become an effective solution. At present,CDM in China is still at an early age,without a widely accepted and efficient model for lack of theoretic and practical support. By analyzing and comparing CDM models in China and abroad,we summarizes that CDM in China needs to be guaranteed by government and law,strengthened by the construction of medical team,promoted by an integrated service network,and implemented by hierarchical diagnosis and treatment of multi-departments.
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Objective A lentivirus-mediated colon cancer cell line stably overexpressing human SAMHD1 gene was constructed to observe the effect of this gene on the ability of the cells to resist herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection. Methods p CDH-EF1-MCS-SAMHD1-T2 A-GFP recombinant plasmid was constructed using pCDH-EF1-MCS-T2 A-copGFP lentiviral vector. After confirming successful synthesis with sequencing, the recombinant plasmid and lentivirus packaging plasmids were co-transfected into 293 T cells. The pseudovirus solution was collected and concentrated, then human colon cancer cells were infected with the concentrated solution. The cell line overexpressing SAMHD1 gene was infected with HSV-1 in contrast to the control group, and the virus infection efficiency was assessed by Western blotting and immunofluorescence analyses. Results The pCDH-EF1-MCS-SAMHD1-T2 A-GFP recombinant plasmid was successfully constructed and verified by gene sequencing. Western blotting confirmed the overexpression of the SAMHD1 gene with higher levels of the gene in the transfected cells in contrast to control human colon cancer cell line. Western blotting and immunofluorescence showed that the cell line overexpressing human SAMHD1 gene could effectively inhibit the infection of HSV-1. Conclusion Lentivirus-mediated stable cell line overexpressing human SAMHD1 gene was effective in inhibiting HSV-1 replication and could help us to further investigate the function of SAMHD1.
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Objective To assess the expression of T cell subset in patients with hepatitis B virus-associated primary liver cancer (HBV-PLC) and its influence on the clinical outcome.Methods 136 cases with PLC were selected, and divided into HBV-PLC group (78 cases) and non-HBV-PLC group (58 cases) according to HBV infection.The percentage of CD4+T cells, CD8+T cells and Treg cells in serum was tested by flow cytometry.After 6 months of follow-up, HBV-PLC patients were divided into death group and survival group.Binary logistic regression analysis was performed to explore the factor and degree affecting clinical outcome of HBVPLC patients.Results As compared with non-HBV-PLC group, dysregualted T cell subset was observed in the HBV-PLC group, percentage of CD4+T cells and Treg cells in HBV-PLC patients was higher (P＜0.05), while CD8+T cell percentage was decreased (P＜0.05).The percentage of CD4+T cells and Treg cells was higher in death group than survival group (P＜0.05), but CD8+T cell percentage was lower than that of survival group (P＜0.05).T-lymphocyte subset (CD4+T cells and Treg cells) was a strong risk factor for adverse clinical outcome of HBV-PLC (OR values were 3.765 and 2.238, respectively, P＜0.05), but CD8+T cell was a protective factor (OR value was-3.537, P＜0.05).Conclusion Obvious dysfunction of T cellular immune function exists in HBV-PLC patients, and T cell subset may be a predictive factor for clinical outcome of HBV-PLC patients.
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Objective To explore the association between prognostic nutritional index(PNI) and prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients before radiochemotherapy.Methods A total of 153 newly diagnosed NPC patients in Sichuan Cancer Hospital were retrospectively reviewed.The hematological parameters and clinical characteristics before radiochemotherapy were collected,and the follow up for these patients was conducted.The effects of pretreatment hematological parameters and PNI on overall survival were analyzed with Kaplan-Meier method.The variables identified as statistically significant differences were further analyzed with multivariate Cox regression analysis.Results The 3,5 and 10-year overall survival were 89.54％,83％ and 75.16％.Both PNI and white blood cell count (WBC) before radiochemotherapy were the independent prognostic indicators for NPC in Cox regression analysis.The 3,5 and 10-year overall survival of NPC in PNI ≤49.45 group were lower than those of PNI ＞ 49.45 group.Conclusion PNI and WBC should be the independent prognostic indicators for NPC and closely relate to overall survival of NPC patients.
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The paper analyzes SCI papers on metabolic diseases in the field of nutrition published from 2010 to 2015 in the core col-lective database of Web of Science TM by use of the co-word clustering method .It extracts high-frequency subject headings , generates the co-occurrence matrix and makes clustering analysis of the matrix with SPSS , and indicates that major research focuses in this field are researches on metabolic syndrome from different angles such as the cardiovascular disease , insulin resistance , risk factors of the coro-nary disease, body mass index, the obesity group and adipose tissue , etc.
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Objective To analyze the popular characteristic and drug resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a hospital of Guiy-ang from January 201 1 to December 2013.Methods The distribution characteristic and drug resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical samples from January 201 1 to December 2013 were analyzed retrospectively.Results A total of 642 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated for three years in our hospital from January 201 1 to December 2013,there was 57.0% isola-ted from sputum specimens,and 27.9% isolated from excreta of wound.The infected endemic area distribution was made up of Or-thopedic Surgery,ICU,Geriatrics Department and Respiratory Department accounting for 22.9%,20.1%,18.8% and 1 5.9% re-spectively.Pseudomonas aeruginosa was most sensitive to polymyxin bacillosporin.The drug resistance rates to Trimethoprim,Am-picillin and Cefazolin were all 100.0%.The drug resistance rates to Ampicillin/sulbactam and Ceftriaxone were 90.0%. Conclusion Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the main cause of lower respiratory tract infections in patients and wound infection and show serious multi-drug resistant,so it is necessary to use drugs reasonably according to the drug susceptibility results.
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Objective To study the status of coincidence of high-risk human papillomavirus(HR-HPV)test and thinprep cytolo-gy test with biopsy histopathologic diagnosis.And to investigate the value of combined detection in the diagnosis of the cervical cancer and precancerous lesions.Methods High-risk HPV test and thinprep cytology test were taken simultaneously in 1374 pa-tients visiting department of gynecological oncology.The diagnostic value of combination assay of these indices was evaluated.Re-sults In 684 patients with ASCUS pathology diagnosis,inflammation accounted for 5 1.3% and CINⅠ accounted for 47.4%.A-mong the 375 patients with LSIL pathology diagnosis,CINⅠ accounted for 48.5% and CIN Ⅱ-Ⅲ accounted for 21.3%.Among the 294 patients with HSIL pathological diagnosis,CIN accounted for 24.5%,and CIN Ⅱ-Ⅲ accounted for 62.9%.Among 20 pa-tients with SCC pathology diagnosis,CIN Ⅱ - Ⅲ accounted for 20% and cervical cancer accounted for 80%.Statistical analysis showed the difference of diagnostic results between thinprep cytology test and histopathologic diagnosis was statistically significant (P <0.05).The positive rate of high-risk HPV was 74.3%,and the negative rate was 25.7%.The positive rate of high-risk HPV significantly increased along with the rise of pathological level.The difference of pathologic diagnosis results between high-risk HPV positive group and negative group was statistically significant (P <0.05).When thinprep cytology test combined with high-risk HPV test,its sensitivity was 76.5%,and the specificity was 80.3%.The difference of the sensitivity between joint detection and thinprep cytology test was statistically significant (P <0.05).The difference of the specificity between joint detection and high-risk HPV test was statistically significant (P <0.05).Conclusion Combined thinprep cytology test and high-risk HPV test will improve the detection rate of cervical lesions and it is an ideal method to screen for cervical cancer.
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Factors associated with prevalent and incident HIV infection were compared among sexually experienced Ugandans aged 15-24. Most factors were similar. However, in women, older age and current marriage were associated with prevalent, but not incident, infection. It is important to recognize the limitations of prevalence analyses for identifying at-risk youth
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Objective To investigate the diagnostic value and clinical implications of low hemoglobin density(LHD%)in the pa-tients with cervical carcinoma complicating iron deficiency anemia(IDA).Methods The iron metabolism indexes and whole blood cell parameters were detected in 148 patients with cervical carcinomas.LHD% was calculated.The results were compared with that in the healthy group and the hysteromyoma complicating IDA group.Results LHD% was(63 ±30)% in the cervical carcinoma complicating IDA group and(32±15)% in the cervical carcinoma complicating iron deficient erythropoiesis(IDE)group,which were higher than(7±6)% in the healthy group,(22 ±21)% in the cervical carcinoma non-iron deficiency group and(16 ±10)% in the cervical carcinoma non-anemia group(P 0.05 ).Conclusion The new RBC parameter LHD% has the reference value in the diagnosis of cervical carcinoma complicating IDA.The LHD% increase may prompt cervical carcinoma com-plicating IDA.
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OBJECTIVE:To optimize?-cyclodextrin inclusion process in the inclusion of volatile oil compounds of peppermint,biond magnolia flower and agastache rugosa in biyuanling granules.METHODS:Orthogonal experiment was performed,the inclusion process was evaluated with inclusion rate of volatile oil,recovery rate of inclusion compound,extract ratio of inclusion compound as indexes.RESULTS:The optimized inclusion condition was as follows,the ratio of volatile oil to?-cyclodextrin was1∶8(ml/g)with10min ultrasound time and20℃ultrasound water temperature.CONCLUSIONS:The optimized method was simple and efficient,and suitable for industrialized production.
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AIM: To decide the effect that selected siRNA degrades mRNA of IL-1? specifically and suppression of its expression after connected with target site with homology complementary sequence. METHODS: Synthesized DNA expression box aimed directly at target site through PCR reaction in vivo was purified, and transfected into lymphocytes stimulated by LPS. siRNA was transcribed by cellular endogenous RNA polymerase Ⅲ and then evoke the degradation of target mRNA. After 48 hours of transfection, the cell culture supernatant was collected and the concentration of IL-1? was assayed using ELISA. RESULTS: Compared with blank-control and negative-control, selected sequence decreased the expression of IL-1?. Rate of the suppression was about 15%. CONCLUSION: RNAi technology produces specific interference effect in mouse spleen lymphocytes in original culture and inhibits the excretion of IL-1?.