Effects of yangxin decoction on metabolomics of patients with unstable angina / 中国中西医结合杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To primarily seek for unstable angina (UA) correlated metabolic markers and to observe the effects of Yangxin Decoction on the plasma metabolism of UA patients.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Ten UA patients from clinics of No. 2 Circulation Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from November 2009 to December 2010 were recruited as the treatment group. Another 10 healthy volunteers were recruited as the control group (Group D). The changes of plasma metabolic components were observed in UA patients after they took Yangxin Decoction for 28 days, using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Analysis was conducted using principle component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) to seek for UA correlated metabolic markers.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Results of PCA among Group D (the healthy group), Group M (UA group before medication), and Group G (UA group after medication): all samples of the three groups were centrally distributed in the four score plot of the oval regions (95% confidence interval). In Group M, the relative dispersion of the sample 8, 9, and 10 was near to Group D. The samples of the three groups could be separated. The samples of Group M (before medication) and Group G (after medication) could be basically separated. Comparison of metabolic end products between Group D and Group M: In the metabolites of UA group, ceramide, glycocholic acid, allocholic acid, lithocholic acid, leukotriene B4 obviously increased.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Ceramide, glycocholic acid, allocholic acid, lithocholic acid, leukotriene B4 might be metabolic markers of UA. Yangxin Decoction might have effects on some plasma metabolites or metabolic pathways of UA patients.</p>

Effect of ethyl acetate extract of sappan wood on expression of myocardial GrB mRNA in rat model of allogeneic ectopic cardiac transplantation / 中国中西医结合杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the action mechanism of the immune active components of sappon wood (SWE) for antagonizing reject reaction by observing the influence of its ethyl acetate extract on mRNA expression of myocardial GrB in rat model of allogenic ectopic cardiac transplantation.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Animal model of abdominal cardiac ectopic transplantation was established taking Wistar rat as the donor and SD rat as the receptor. The successfully modeled rats were randomly divided into the model group, the SWE group and the CsA group. GrB mRNA expression was detected by RT-PCR method and myocardial pathomorphologic picture was observed in routine.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The pathologic changes in the SWE group (23 scores) and the CsA group (14 scores) were milder than in the model group (31 scores), the former two could markedly alleviate the myocardial pathologic injury (P<0.05, P<0.01). The GrB mRNA expression in the model group was 1.3000 +/- 0.1207, the SWE group 0. 7070 +/- 0.1215, and the CsA group 0.6700 +/- 0.0997, respectively; compared with the model group, the latter two could obviously down-regulate the expression of GrB mRNA (P<0.01) and no significant difference was found between the latter two groups (P>0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>SWE could alleviate the pathologic change, down-regulate the mRNA expression of myocardial GrB in allogenic ectopic transplanted myocardium of rats, it is possibly one of the factors for its antagonizing effect against reject reaction.</p>

Study of antileukemic effect of CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides treated cord blood / 中华血液学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the antileukemic effect of lymphocytes from cord blood treated by CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Lymphocytes from cord blood were exposed to different oligodeoxynucleotides containing a panel of CpG-ODN and were cultured with K562 cells. The cytotoxic effects were detected by MTT method. Immunological markers of cord blood treated by CpG-ODN(3) which showed highest activity were measured with flow cytometry.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Different CpG-motifs have different immunostimulatory activity and CpG-ODN(3) has the highest one. After treated by CpG-ODN(3), NK killing activity to K562 cells increased in a dose-dependent manner, and CD(3), CD(4), CD(19) and CD(56) increased to (60.6 +/- 7.9)%, (40.2 +/- 3.5)%, (22.4 +/- 1.9)% and (15.5 +/- 3.1)%, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>CpG-ODN could reinforces the immunological competence of cord blood lymphocytes and their effects on K562 cells. This provides a new approach to reinforce the antitumor effects of cord blood.</p>

The construction of SCID-Hu IC mice model and application in rAd5HPV16L1-E7 vaccine / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To construct human-SCID chimeric mice through implantation of mononuclear cells from human cord blood and study the immunoreaction of SCID-Hu IC mice immunized with rAd5HPV16L1-E7 vaccine.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>(1) Experiment groups were injected with the suspension of mononuclear cells from human cord blood through a tail vein; the control ones were injected with non serum RPMI 1640 medium. Eight weeks after implantation, blood was collected and human serum IgG level in the mice were tested, and human CD45, CD3 and CD19 were determined. (2) SCID-Hu IC mice were divided into two groups: in group A the mice were immunized intraperitoneally with rAd5HPV16L1-E7 virus and in group B the mice were immunized through nasal drip with rAd5HPV16L1-E7 virus. At the end of fourth week, the serum specific IgG antibody to rAd5HPV16L1-E7 virus, IFN-gamma in culture medium of spleen lymphocyte and T-lymphocyte propagation were tested.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>(1) In the experiment groups, the number of mice positive for human IgG was 10/15, the average values of CD45, CD3 and CD19 were (9.39+/-4.21), (3.25+/-3.99) and (1.69+/-0.75), respectively. In the control ones, the human IgG, CD45, CD3 and CD19 were negative. (2) The results in the experiment groups showed that the IFN-gamma and T-lymphocyte stimulated by HPV16 protein were higher than those in the non-stimulated group (P less than 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>(1) The results indicated that the construction of human-SCID chimaera through the implantation of mononuclear cells from human cord blood into SCID mice was successful. They also indicated that the reconstructed SCID-Hu IC mice has the ability to produce immune response against rAd5HPV16L1-E7 recombinant virus.</p>

Effect of sappan wood on perforin mRNA expression in myocardium of rats after allogeneic cardiac transplantation / 中国中西医结合杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the effect of Sappan wood (SW) on the expression of perforin mRNA in myocardium of rats after allogeneic cardiac transplantation.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The animal model of allogeneic (abdominal) cardiac transplantation was established by taking Wistar rat as provider and SD rat as receptor, perforin mRNA expression in the model's myocardium was detected by RT-PCR.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>SW could obviously reduce the perforin mRNA expression, it also could alleviate the pathological morphology and ultrastructural damage of myocardial cells.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>SW has obvious effect in antagonizing immune rejection after transplantation, the mechanism of its immunosuppression could be through lowering the perforin mRNA expression.</p>