Interferon-induced protein 44 is correlated with clinical features of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus / 中华风湿病学杂志

Objective To investigate the expression of interferon-induced protein 44 (IFI44) gene in the leukocytes of the peripheral blood samples from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and to evaluate the relationship between the expression level and disease activity. Methods Mononuclear cells in the peripheral blood samples from 100 SLE patients were compared with those of 40 disease controls and 40 healthy donors (HD) and the expression of the IFI44 was evaluated by quantitative real-time PCR.Comparisons between groups were performed with ANOVA, and the correlation analysis between the level of expression was higher in SLE patients than disease controls and healthy donors (26.8±5.3, 7.4±2.7, 5.2±2.0,respectively) (P=0.0012, P=0.005), but no difference was found between disease controls and healthy donors. Mild disease activity and the SLE patients with stable disease (63.1±22.4, 28.0±7.2, 9.2±1.8, respectively)and 24 hours urine protein level (r=0.42, P=0.000). Conclusion IFI44 is demonstrated to be highly expressed in SLE patients. The level of IFI44 may be a promising candidate biomarker for identifying SLE activity.

Effect of human umbilical cord blood adherent cells on the expansion of umbilical cord blood hematopoietic cells in vitro / 中国组织工程研究

The experiment was performed at the Institute of Treatment and Prevention of Tumor of Jilin Province and Department of Etiology, Jilin Medical College from October 2004 to June 2005. The normal umbilical cord blood (UCB) was provided by a healthy lying-in woman from Changchun Hospital with the permission of the pregnant woman. Full-term normal delivery and UCB of healthy pregnant women was collected by aseptic venepuncture after fetal disengagement, and with Natrium Citricum anticoagulation. After the UCB mononuclear cells were isolated by Ficoll-paque (relative volume mass: 1.077?0.22) density gradient centrifugation, long-term liquid culture system was used for UCB adherent cells, and co-cultured with UCB mononuclear cells. The adherent cells were observed and mononuclear cell cycles were tested with flow cytometer. It showed that adherent layer of UCB increased UCB mononuclear cells expansion as compared with that of non-adherent layer of UCB after co-culture for 7 days. The cell percentage in S+G2+M phase obviously increased, and there was significant difference [(42.7?1.1)%,(35.5?2.8)%,P