Differentiation of human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells into insulin-secreting cells induced by regenerating pancreatic extract / 生物工程学报

In this study, the natural biological inducer, rat regenerating pancreatic extract (RPE), was used to induce human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs) into insulin-secreting cells. We excised 60% of rat pancreas in order to stimulate pancreatic regeneration. RPE was extracted and used to induce hAMSCs at a final concentration of 20 microg/mL. The experiment methods used were as follows: morphological-identification, dithizone staining, immumofluorescence analysis, reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and insulin secretion stimulated by high glucose. The results show that the cell morphology of passge3 hAMSCs changed significantly after the induction of RPE, resulting in cluster shape after induction for 15 days. Dithizone staining showed that there were scarlet cell masses in RPE-treated culture. Immumofluorescence analysis indicated that induced cells were insulin-positive expression. RT-PCR showed the positive expression of human islet-related genes Pdx1 and insulin in the induced cells. The result of insulin secretion stimulated by high glucose indicated that insulin increasingly secreted and then kept stable with prolongation of high glucose stimulation. In conclusion, hAMSCs had the potential to differentiate into insulin-secreting cells induced by RPE in vitro.

Experimental Study of the Choice of Vital Dyes for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Gastric Cancer / 医学研究杂志

0.05).The average fading time of the lymph nodes stained by PB and MB+PB was 13.06min and 82.13min,we observed the lymph nodes stained by MB 120 min,they were still stained deeply.There were dramatically differences among three groups(P=0.000).Conclusion Application of MB and PB possess their advantage and disadvantage in sentinel node biopsy.The mixture of patent blue and methylene blue could overcome the shortage of the two vital dyes in the experimental study and be an ideal tracer for the use.