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The organ-system-centered medical integrated teaching mode has become the trend of modern medical education. This model combines basic medicine with clinical medicine closely. It has been widely conducted domestically and abroad for training qualified clinicians as the main task. This paper summarized the experience of integrated curriculum reform of the digestive system in Chongqing Medical University, analyzed the performance of students involved in curriculum reform, explored the problems in the curriculum reform combined with the actual situation of Chongqing Medical University, and investigated possible solutions to accumulate the experience for further deepening the integrated curriculum reform.
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Objective To investigate the effect of netropsin on migration and invasion ability of gastric cancer cells and its mechanisms.Methods To determine if netropsin inhibits migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells, Transwell migration and invasion assay was performed.Then Western blot was performed to detect expression of E-cadherin and vimentin in gastric cancer cells with or without presence in medium netropsin.Finally, immunofluorescence was performed to detect changes in the cellular localization of β-catenin to validate whether Wnt/β-catenin pathway was suppressed or not.Results Netropsin with the concentration of 25 μmol/L had minimal inhibition effect on cell proliferation and was able to suppress ability of migration and invasion by inhibiting EMT in gastric cancer cells(P<0.05).Meanwhile netropsin was able to down-regulate the expression of epithelial markers E-cadherin and up-regulate the expression of mesenchymal marker vimentin.Finally,immunofluorescence showed that netropsin was able to block translocation of β-catenin from cytoplasm to nuclear.Conclusions Netropsin can inhibit EMT thereby suppressing migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells.The mechanism is that netropsin can compete with HMGA2 for transcription factor binding site thereby suppressing the Wnt/β-catenin pathway.
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The high mobility group A2 (HMGA2) is a non-histone chromatin protein. It has no transcriptional activity of itself but could alter chromatin structure to regulate the transcription of other genes. HMGA2 gene is weakly expressed or does not express in normal tissues. The expression of HMGA2 is up-regulated during embryogenesis and malignant neoplasias. In several malignant tumors, HMGA2 is used as a diagnostic molecular marker or an independent prognostic indicator. Furthermore, HMGA2 not only elicits epithelial-mesenchymal transition but also maintains the differentiation potential and self-regeneration capability of stem cells. It plays an important role in initiation, proliferation, and metastasis of malignant neoplasias.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the anti-hypoxia and anti-oxidation effects of aminophylline on human with acute high-altitude exposure.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Totally 100 young male army members newly recruited from Sichuan province (400 meters above sea level) were enrolled. They were randomly divided into two groups: 50 in aminophylline group (A group) and 50 in control group (C group). A group and C group orally took aminophylline and placebo respectively for 10 days, 7 days before entering Lhasa (3 658 meters above sea level) by air and 3 days after it. Several parameters were measured at three time points: before drug taken, 7 days after drug taken, and 3 days after ascending high altitude. These parameters included serum levels of nitric oxide (NO), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), hydrogen dioxide (H2O2), lactic acid (LA), as well as arterial oxygen saturation (SO2), arterial oxygen partial pressure (PaO2), and arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure (PaCO2). Statistical analysis was conducted to compare the difference between two groups with Stata 7.0 software system.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There were no statistical differences between groups in hypoxia and oxidation indicators before and after drug taken in plain area. Three days after ascending high altitude, the serum levels of SOD, CAT, H2O2, LA, PaCO2 increased in both groups, yet to a much larger degree in C group than A group (P < 0.01); and NO, SO2, PaO2 decreased more markedly in C group (P < 0.05 for NO, P < 0.0001 for SO2 and PaO2).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Aminophylline has significant anti-hypoxia and anti-oxidation effects at high altitude.</p>