Depression in Parkinson's disease / 中国实用内科杂志

Parkinson's disease(PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease. Its clinical manifestations include motor symptoms and non-motor symptoms. Many more researches have focused on non-motor symptoms, especially depression, which seriously affects the quality of life of PD, but in clinical practice, it is difficult to detect depression and get it treated properly. This review will present the situation of depression in PD, including etiology, diagnosis and treatment.

Association of five SNPs at the PARK16 locus as a susceptibility locus with Parkinson's disease for forensic application / 法医学杂志

To investigate the association of five SNPs (rs823083, rs708723, rs4951261, rs823076 and rs16856110) at the PARK16 locus with Parkinson's disease (PD), and to potentiate its forensic application. The genomic DNAs of 215 PD patients and 212 matched controls from the northern Han Chinese population were amplified in two independent PCR systems and subsequently genotyped by digestion with the three endonucleases (Hinf I, Nco I and Msp I ). The genetic parameters and association studies were carried out with SPSS 13.0, Haploview version 4.2 and PLINK 1.07 softwares. We detected accurately all genotypes in the five SNPs with multiplex PCR-RFLP and mismatched multiplex PCR-RFLP techniques. The genotypes of four SNPs, except for rs823083, were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The four SNPs, rs16856110, rs4951261, rs708723 and rs823076, which were in linkage equilibrium, should not be associated with PD (P-values ranging from 0.077 to 0.544). The SNPs investigated at the PARK16 locus were not found to be involved in PD-associated blocks in the northern Han Chinese population. The allele distributions of rs708723, rs4951261, rs823076 and rs16856110 in the northern Han Chinese population can be highly polymorphic, which can be applied to genetic analysis and forensic practices.

Lack of association between three single nucleotide polymorphisms in the PARK9, PARK15, and BST1 genes and Parkinson's disease in the northern Han Chinese population / 中华医学杂志(英文版)

<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Parkinson's disease (PD) is an autosomally inherited neurodegenerative disease in elderly people. The etiology of PD has long been thought to be associated with both genetic and environmental factors. To explore potential genetic risk factors for PD in the northern Han Chinese population, we investigated three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs4538475, rs11107 and rs12564040) in the BST1, PARK15 and PARK9 genes.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Genomic DNA from 215 PD patients and 212 matched controls was amplified in two independent PCR systems and subsequently genotyped by digestion with the endonuclease PstI. Genetic parameter and association studies were carried out with SPSS 13.0 and PLINK 1.07 software.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>We could accurately detect all genotypes in the three loci with the PCR-RFLP or mismatched PCR-RFLP techniques. The observed heterozygosities of the rs4538475 and rs11107 loci in PD and control groups ranged from 0.460 - 0.481 and 0.410 - 0.441, in BST1, PARK15 respectively, while we detected no heterozygosity at the rs12564040 locus in PARK9. The similar distributions of genotypic frequency between both groups suggest that the three SNPs investigated in this study are unlikely to play roles as common risk factors or pathogenic mutations for PD in northern Han Chinese.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The SNPs investigated in the BST1, PARK15 and PARK9 genes associated with PD susceptibility are not associated with PD in the northern Han Chinese population.</p>

Permanent myopathy caused by mutation of SCN4A Metl592Val: Observation on myogenesis in vitro and on effect of basic fibroblast growth factor on the muscle / 神经科学通报·英文版

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>The present study is to observe in vitro the proliferation ability of the muscle cells from permanent myopathy (PM) patients of nomokalaemic periodic paralysis (normKPP), which is caused by mutations of Met1592Val in the skeletal muscle voltage gated sodium channel (SCN4A) gene on chromosome 17q23.1. We also evaluate the possible effect of the foreign basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in preventing and curing PM.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The gastrocnemius muscle cells were taken from two male patients with PM of the same Chinese family with Met1592Val mutation of SCN4A, determined by gene screening. Four male patients suffering from the skeletal injury without PM were taken as control. All preparations were protogenerationally cultured in vitro. Proliferation of the cultured preparations was measured by MTT. Activities of the lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), and protein content in these cells were also detected. The effects of bFGF with different doses (10 ng/mL, 20 ng/mL, 40 ng/mL, 80 ng/mL, 120 ng/mL and 160 ng/mL) on the above mentioned parameters were also evaluated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Cells from both PM and control subjects were successfully cultured in vitro. The cultivation of the muscle cells from PM patients in vitro was not yet seen. Results indicated the obvious stimulation of bFGF on cell proliferation, activities of LDH and CK, protein synthesis, in a dose dependent manner. The optimal dose of bFGF was 120 ng/mL (P<0.05), beyond which greater dose caused a less effect. The effect of bFGF on 160 ng /mL was stronger than that on 80 ng/mL, but there was no significant difference (P>0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Myoblastic cells from patients with PM had a weaker ability of developing into the myotubules, thus they were unable to perform effective regeneration, which resulted in a progressive necrosis. The exogenous bFGF could promote the division and proliferation of the muscle cells in vitro. These results shield a light on bFGFos potential role in preventing and treating PM.</p>

Study on rhGM-CSF as adjuvant in revaccination among adults of non-and hyporesponders to hepatitis B vaccine / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the effect of recombinant human granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) as adjuvant on immune response in adults of non-and hyporesponders to hepatitis B vaccine.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Those who were once immunized with recombined yeast gene hepatitis B vaccine more than one standard scheme in two years and negative for hepatitis B markers were randomly sorted as group A and group B. 33 adults of group A were given hepatitis B vaccine 10 microg each time. The immune procedure was 0, 1 and 6 month. 34 adults of group B were given rhGM-CSF 300 microg for the first day, then 10 microg each time for routine immune. The blood samples were collected before the first injection and in 1, 2 and 8 months (T1, T2, T8) following the first injection to test Anti-HBs.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Anti-HBs positive conversion rates of group A and B at T8 was 39.39% and 64.71% respectively (P = 0.038). Anti-HBs levels of group B at T1, T2, T8 were (113.85 +/- 198.56) mIU/ml, (312.40 +/- 349.44) mIU/ml, (427.74 +/- 411.58) mIU/ml (P = 0.001). There was significant difference between group A and B in T8 Anti-HBs levels (P = 0.010).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Better immune response was found in the group of rhGM-CSF with hepatitis B vaccine. So rhGM-CSF can induce the immune respond to hepatitis B vaccine.</p>

Effect of conditioned medium from coculture of astrocytes and β-amyloid-induced apoptotic PC12 cells on the differentiation of neural stem cells and the possible mechanism / 中华神经医学杂志

Objective To observe the effect of the conditioned medium obtained from the coculture of astrocytes and β-amyloid (Aβ1-40)-induced apoptotic PC12 cells on the neuronal differentiation efficiency of neural stem cells (NSCs), and investigate the possible involvement of the neurotrophins proteins including brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF)and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) in the induced differentiation of the NSCs. Methods PCI2 cells wereinduced by Aβ1-40 for different time lengths (0, 4, 6, 12, and 24 h), and after detection of the apoptotic rates using flow cytometry, the cells were cocultured with astrocytes for 2 days. The astrocyte-conditioned medium (ACM), after analysis of the neurotrophins proteins using erLzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), was mixed with DMEM/F12 medium at the proportion of 1:3 to induce the differentiation of the NSCs. The cell differentiation was identified by laser confocal microscopy, NSE immunofluorescent labeling, and neuronal counting. Results Flow cytometry showed that induction by Aβ1-40 for 6 h resulted in the highest apoptosis rate of PC12 cells (P<0.05). BDNF content in the ACM derived from the coculture of astrocytes and the PC12 cells induced for 6 h was significantly increased, and the NSCs induced in this ACM showed the highest neuronal differentiation rates, showing significant difference from those induced by other ACMs (P<0.05). Conclusion The ACM derived from the coculture of Aβ1-40-induced PC12 cells and astrocytes can increase the neuronal differentiation rates of NSCs in vitro, and BDNF in the ACM may play a role in this process.

Beneficial effects of BV2 cell on proliferation and neuron-differentiating of mesenchymal stem cells in the circumstance of injured PC12 cell supernatant / 神经科学通报·英文版

Objective The microglias is the representative of immune cells in the brain. It plays dual roles of both repairing and damaging in injured nervous system, and works as an inevitable component of the circumstance of injured neurons. This study was aiming at the effects of the microglias on the biological activities of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the circumstance of injured neurons. Methods MSCs were obtained by primary culture. We adopted PC12 cells (PC12) and BV2 cells (BV2) to substitute for neurons and microglias, respectively. PC12 were injured by aged Abeta(1-40) and the supernatant of the injured PC12 was used to set up the circumstance of injured neurons. Transwells were used for co-culture of BV2 and MSCs, which allowed the independent detection of cells after co-culture. Immunofluorescence was used to identify MSCs and neuron-differentiating cells with CD44 and neuron specific enolase (NSE) staining, respectively. MTT assay was adopted to measure the proliferation. Results In the circumstance of both BV2 presence and injured PC12 supernatant incubation, either the proliferation or the differentiation of MSCs reached the highest, which seemed to be contradictory, but we gave our explanations. With the BV2 co-culture, the proliferation of MSCs tend to be higher, but the neuron-differentiating MSCs were similar to those incubated without BV2 co-culture either in normal or injured in PC12 supernatant. With the incubation of injured PC12 supernatant, the neuron-differentiating cells were significantly higher than that of control (P < 0.05). Conclusion In the circumstance of injured neurons, microlgias tend to promote the MSCs proliferation. Although not helpful in neuron-differentiating, microglias did not exert any negative effect either.