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@#Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of tuberculosis T cell spot test (T-SPOT.TB) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) test in the diagnosis of simple pulmonary nodules in Xinjiang. Methods A retrospective analysis of 72 patients with asymptomatic simple pulmonary nodules in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from October 2017 to July 2019 was performed. According to the pathological results, the patients were divided into a tuberculoma group [n=23, including 14 males and 9 females, aged 37-84 (56.91±12.73) years] and a lung cancer group [n=49, including 31 males and 18 females, aged 34-83 (61.71±10.15) years]. The predictive value of T-SPOT.TB and ESR results for the diagnosis of simple pulmonary nodules was evaluated. Results The positive rate of T-SPOT.TB in the tuberculoma group (69.60%) was higher than that in the lung cancer group (42.90%) (χ2=5.324，P=0.021), with a sensitivity of 69.56% and specificity of 57.14%; the positive ESR was 47.80%in the tuberculoma group and 59.20% in the lung cancer group, and no statistical difference was found between the two groups (χ2=0.981, P=0.322), with a sensitivity of 47.82% and specificity of 40.81%; the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was 0.618, the 95% confidence interval of AUC was (0.479, 0.758), and the Youden’s index was 0.267 with a sensitivity of 69.60% and specificity of 57.10%. Difference in the T-SPOT.TB and ESR test results was statistically significant (χ2=4.986, P=0.026), but the correlation between the tests was weak with a Pearson contingency coefficient of 0.199. ESR results in patients with different ages were statistically different (χ2=7.343, P=0.025), but the correlation between age and ESR results was weak with a Pearson contingency coefficient of 0.239; T-SPOT.TB results in patients with different ages were not statistically different (χ2=0.865, P=0.649), and the correlation between age and ESR results was weak with a Pearson contingency coefficient of 0.084. Conclusion The diagnostic value of T-SPOT.TB and ESR tests is small in the diagnosis of simple pulmonary nodules.
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Objective When detecting the blood C peptide by chemiluminescence method,used had confronted the lack of qual-ity control.This paper examines the feasibility of self-made C peptide quality control as indoor quality control products. Methods From the serum of diabetic patients and health examination,C peptide low values(concentration around the 1.20 ng/ml)and high value(concentration around the 12.0 ng/ml)were collected,excluding hemolysis,jaundice and tallow ser-um,preventing bacterial contamination,hepatitis B surface antigen,hepatitis C virus,human immunodeficiency virus indica-tors are negative;then these serum was mixed respectively,embalmed,packaged,-20 DEG preserved.The performance e-valuation of the C peptide mixed serum was carried out using SIEMENS’s C peptide reagent kit.Results Low value,high value of two levels of serum C peptide quality control in batch imprecision respectively were 4.46% and 4.15% respective-ly.Day not precision respectively were 6.00%,5.56%,-20 DEG saved stability for at least 6 months (P>0.05).Com-pared with six months by analysis of variance,F value of the low and high values were 0.665,0.602,P values were 0.471, 0.568 and the difference was not statistically significant (P>0.05),but the difference among bottles was no significant. Conclusion Two levels value of the C peptide in self-made preserved at -20 DEG can meet the requirements of internal quality control products.
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Objective To investigate levels of IL-17 and IL-22 mRNA in the blood of type 2 diabetes(T2DM)patients with the different stages of kidney injury and explore the relationship between the gene expression levels of IL-17,IL-22 and renal lesions in patients with diabetic nephropathy(DM).Methods Subjects included 60 T2DM patients with or without kidney injury and 20 normal controls(NC,n=20).Diabetes patients were divided into 3 groups by level of urinary albumin to creati-nine ratio (ACR):no proteinuria group (NA,ACRACR>300 mg/g,n=18)and diabetic nephropathy group (DN,ACR>300 mg/g,n=20).Quantitative Real-Time RT-PCR was used to detect IL-17 and IL-22 mRNA levels.Analysis differences of IL-17 and IL-22 mRNA levels among NA,MA,DN and NC groups.Results The levels of IL-17 and IL-22 mRNA were significantly higher in DN group than that in MA,NA and NC group (P 0.05,re-spectively).Conclusion Levels IL-17 and IL-22 mRNA were increased in blood of T2DM patients with nephropathy.IL-17 and IL-22 may play role in the pathogenicity of diabetic nephropathy.
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Objective To investigate the preparation of the internal quality controls for urinary retinal binding protein(RBP)de-tected by the latex enhanced immunoturbidimetry assay and its performance evaluation.Methods The urine specimens from the pa-tients with nephropathy and healthy people with physical examination were collected,centrifuged by 3 500 r/min for removing sedi-ment,urinary RBP levels were adjusted to the low value for healthy population and the high value for the patients with nephropa-thy;then conducted the anticorrosion,packed and stored at -20 ℃.By using the urinary RBP commodity kits,the latex enhanced immunoturbidimetry was adopted to detect urinary RBP,the intra-batch and inter-batch precisions were detected respectively.Then the high and low values of self-prepared controls were detected once per day for consecutive 5 months.The data were processed by using the SPSS13.0 software.Then the performance of self-prepared urinary RBP quality control was evaluated.Results The intra-batch imprecision of 2 levels of urinary RBP controls was less than 5% and the inter-batch imprecision was less than 6%;the stable period by storage at -20 ℃ was at least 5 months,the imprecision had no statistical difference within 5 months(P >0.05).Conclu-sion The high and low levels of self-prepared urinary RBP quality controls can meet the operating requirements of internal quality controls.