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Objective To explore the association between clusterin(CLU) gene rs11136000 poly-morphism and late-onset Alzheimer's disease ( LOAD) in Bai population from Dali Bai Autonomous Prefec-ture of Yunnan Province.Methods A case-control study including 109 LOAD patients and 120 normal con-trols matched for age,sex and level of education was taken in Dali Bai population.Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) site testing were used to detect genotype and allele fre-quency of CLU SNP rs11136000.SPSS 17.0 was applied to analyze the data.Result ①The different fre-quency ( C:65.60%,T:34.40%,CC:38.53%,CT:54.13%,TT:7.34%) of CLU SNP rs11136000 genotypes and alleles distribution in Bai between LOAD patients and healthy controls showed no statistical significance (χ2=1.529, P=0.216;χ2=2.805, P=0.246) .②The serum total cholesterol ( TC) of LOAD patients was significantly higher than that in that of control group( t=2.508, P=0.013) .Conclusion The results suggest that CLU rs11136000 polymorphism may not be the susceptible gene of LOAD,and high serum total choles-terol is more common in LOAD patients.
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Objective To explore the relationship of chemotherapy sensitivity and expression of multidrug resistance genes and apoptosis regulation genes in human breast cancer cell lines.Methods MTT assay was used to detect the sensitivity to adriamycin(ADM),cisplatinum(DDP),mitomycin C(MMC),fluorouracilum(5-Fu),carmustine(BCNU) in five breast cancer cell lines including Bcap37,MCF-7,T47D,MDA-MB-231and MDA-MB-435.Multidrug resistance genes including P-glycoprotein(P-GP),Glutsthione-s-transferases-?(GST-?),Lung resistance protein(LRP),multidrug resistance related protein(MRP),MGMT and apoptosis regulation genes FAS,BCL-2,P53 and P16 were examined by flow cytometry(FCM).Results The chemotherapy sensitivity was obviously divergent in different breast cancer cell lines.The correlation analysis showed that there were positive correlations between the sensitivity to 5-Fu in breast cancer cell lines and the expression of P16.There was no correlation among the sensitivity to other drugs and expression of other genes.Conclusions The sensitivity to 5-Fu is related to the expression of P16 in breast cancer cell lines.