Advances in research on altered cardiomyocyte autophagy and its regulatory mechanisms in the elderly / 中华老年医学杂志

Cardiomyocyte autophagy plays an important role in maintaining normal cardiac structure and function.Recent studies have shown that cardiomyocyte autophagy is decreased in the aging heart.The expression of autophagy-related genes Atg5, Atg7 and Beclin1 decreases in the aging myocardium.Decreased cardiomyocyte autophagy in the aging heart is associated with dysregulation of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase(PI3K)/serine-threonine kinase(Akt)/mammalian target of rapamycin(mTOR), adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase(AMPK)and/or the SIRT1 signaling pathways.In addition, reactive oxygen species and some neural hormonal factors such as endothelin-1 can also mediate the decrease of cardiomyocyte autophagy in cardiac aging.The regulation of cardiomyocyte autophagy may provide new strategies for the prevention and treatment of cardiomyopathy in the elderly.

Relationship between abdominal fat distribution and diabetic complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

Objective:To investigate the association of abdominal fat distribution with glycolipid metabolism and diabetic complications in patients with T2DM.Methods:Totally 357 inpatients with T2DM were collected from the Endocrinology Department of our hospital. All patients received quantitative computed tomography to measure the visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), and were divided into three groups depending on the tertile of VAT value: T1 group (VAT<162.0 cm 2), T2 group (162.0≤VAT<221.1 cm 2), T3 group (VAT≥221.1 cm 2). The incidences of diabetic kidney disease, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, peripheral atherosclerosis, and cardia-cerebrovascular disease were examined in all patients. Results:HbA 1C level in T1 group was higher than that in T3 group( P<0.05). High density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in T1 group were higher compared with those in T2 and T3 groups ( P<0.05). Male proportion, age, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), triglyceride (TG), 24h urinary albumin, diabetic kidney disease and peripheral atherosclerosis in T2 and T3 groups were higher than those in T1 group ( P<0.05). Fasting C- peptide (FCP) and modified homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in T3 group were higher than those in T1 and T2 group ( P<0.01). VAT and SAT were positively correlated with BMI, FCP, and HOMA-IR (p<0.01). VAT was positively correlated with age, SBP, DBP, TG, 24h urinary albumin, diabetic kidney disease, peripheral atherosclerosis, and cardia-cerebrovascular disease ( P<0.05), while inversely correlated with HbA 1C, HDL-C, and eGFR ( P<0.05). SAT was positively correlated with total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol ( P<0.01), while negatively correlated with peripheral atherosclerosis ( P<0.01). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that VAT was still a risk factor for diabetic kidney disease after adjusted by age, BMI, SBP and fasting plasma glucose( P=0.013). Conclusion:VAT and SAT are associated with blood lipids and insulin resistance, while VAT seems to be a risk factor for diabetic kidney disease.

Clinical effect of Tongxinluo capsule in the treatment of women with microvascular angina / 中国基层医药

Objective To analyze the clinical effect of Tongxinluo capsule in the treatment of female patients with microvascular angina .Methods 122 female patients with microvascular angina pectoris were selected ,and they were randomly divided into conventional group and observation group ,61 cases in each group .On the basis of the two groups in the same treatment ,including antiplatelet ,lipid,the observation group was given Tongxinluo capsule orally , treatment for 3 months.The therapeutic effect was compared between the two groups .Results The total effective rate of the observation group was 93.44％,which of the conventional group was 80.33％,the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (χ2 =4.603,P=4.603).The total effective rate of exercise electrocardiogram ( ECG ) improvement in the observation group was 91.80％, which of the conventional group was 75.41％, the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (χ2 =4.552,P=0.048).Conclusion Tongxinluo capsule in the treatment of female patients with microvascular angina pectoris has good clinical curative effect ,it can obviously improve the clinical symptoms ,promote disease recover ,which is worthy of popularizing .

The burden of brucellosis in Jingyuan County of Gansu Province and influencing factors / 中华地方病学杂志

Objective To analyze the economic burden and its influencing factors of brucellosis for providing scientific basis to targeted epidemic prevention and control in Gansu Province.Methods A total of 226 outpatients and inpatients treated at different levels of medical institutions in Jingyuan County of Gansu Province during 2013 to 2016 were selected as research subjects.The basic information (sex,age,education level,family income,etc.) of the subjects was collected according to the questionnaire.By consulting the patient's hospital billing settlement list,outpatient billing invoices,and related bills,the information about the cost of visiting the patient due to brucellosis,cost information of the paramedics and the visiting staff was obtained.A Kruskal-Wallis rank-sum test was used for univariate analysis to analyze the direct medical costs and total costs of patients with various diseases,including gender,occupation,age,education level,per capita income,misdiagnosis,medical institution level,different stages,and different types of disease.The generalized multiple linear regression model was used to analyze the relationship between misdiagnosis,different stages,different types of brucellosis,medical institution levels,and the direct medical expenses and total costs of ill patients.Results Of the 226 patients with brucellosis,each person was hospitalized twice a year and stayed in hospital for 28 days.Direct medical expenses of 115 cases with acute brucellosis and 111 cases of chronic patients,direct non-medical expenses,indirect economic losses and total expenses were 11 835,1 850,2 475,16 396 and 16 733,3 240,4 748,24 188 Yuan RMB,respectively.The western medicine fee of direct medical treatment of acute brucellosis was 67.95％ (8 042/11 835),the inspection fee was 16.92％ (2 002/11 835) and the examination fee was 9.02％ (1 068/11 835).The cost of western medicine for chronic and complications was 39.82％ (6 663/16 733),37.50％ (6 339/16 904),the inspection fee was 27.37％ (4 580/16 733),24.30％ (4 108/16 904),the examination fee was 13.32％ (2 229/16 733),15.46％ (2 613/16 904),and the traditional Chinese medicine cost was 9.34％ (1 563/16 733) and 10.11％ (1 709/16 904).The results of univariate analysis showed that there were significant differences in the direct medical expenses and total costs of patients with misdiagnosis,medical institution level,different stages,and different types of brucellosis (P ＜ 0.05).The results of multivariate analysis showed that there was a positive correlation between misdiagnosis and provincial medical institutions and patients' direct medical expenses and total expenses (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions It should give rise to enough attention that the burden of different types of brucellosis is heavy.Local medical institutions should refer to "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Brucellosis" (2012) to carry out standardized diagnosis and treatment,reduce the complications of brucellosis and chronic brucellosis.Therefore,strengthening the training of medical personnel,standardize diagnosis and treatment of brucellosis in hospitals at all levels is very urgent.

Etiological characteristics of the first human derived Brucella melitensis type 3 in Gansu Province / 中华地方病学杂志

Objective To analyze the etiological characteristics of human Brucella strains isolated, and to improve the precision in control and prevention of brucellosis. Methods In 2016, blood samples were collected from patients in Jingyuan County Gansu Province, and tested via the Rose-Bengal Plate Agglutination Test (RBPT) and the tube agglutination test methods,and serological positive blood samples were inoculated to bidirectional blood culture bottle for culturing, and further identified by traditional biological classification method and the Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis, and Brucella suis species-specific PCR (AMOS-PCR). Multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat sequence analysis (MLVA) -16 was used to detect molecular typing and do cluster analysis. Results The isolated strain was identified by the traditional biological classification method, bacteria could grow in thionine and reddened dye, A and M factors agglutination tests were positive, Bk2phage treatment of bacterial strain cracking, but Tb, Wb phages were not cracked. AMOS-PCR amplification result showed a 731 bp band, which was a strain of Brucella melitensis. The results of MLVA-16 showed that there was a difference in the number of repeats on some Variaable Number of Tandem Repeat(VNTR)sites of the isolated strain. Clustering analysis showed that, the isolated strain was clusted into the same clade with the clustering of Brucella melitensis type 3 from GS-201605 in Gansu. And the clustering was similar compared with that of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian and Yunnan. Conclusion Human brucellosis is a inputting transmission in Gansu Province, there is a genetic variation of genotype 3 sheep Brucella between Gansu Province and other domestic provinces.

Knowledge and perceptions of brucellosis and human behavior of occupational exposure person and patients with brucellosis in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province / 中华地方病学杂志

Objective To analyze the knowledge and perceptions of brucellosis and human behavior in different populations in Jingyuan County Gansu Province,and to provide a scientific basis for carrying out health education and prevention accurately on brucellosis.Methods In 2015,using two-stage cluster sampling method,nine towns with more accumulative incidence of brucellosis in the past 3 years in Jingyuan Country were selected,5 villages were selected from each town,occupational exposure and patients with brucellosis were selected in each village as respondents.A questionnaire survey was carried out to collect basic information,brucellosis related knowledge,population's behavio.Results The overall awareness rate of prevention and control knowledge on brucellosis was 44.10％ (12 943/29 348),included 809 people with the occupation exposure population and 203 patients with brucellosis,among them,the rate of patients with brucellosis knowledge was 50.40％ (2 967/5 887),occupational exposure population was 42.52％ (9 976/23 461);There were significant differences in the awareness rate of knowledge on prevention and control of brucellosis in population of different gender,age,education and years of work experience (x2 =84.413,166.100,207.200,16.822,P ＜ 0.01);of the following parameters:shared water,peel dead lamb,How to deal with flow products,treatment of abortion without gloves,masks,not wearing gloves,masks when lambing ,to give livestock vaccines and drugs,eat dead cow,lamb,and sale of diseased,dead livestock,slaughter livestock,there were statistical significant differences between patients with brucellosis and exposure people (x2 =13.940,27.965,30.031,19.575,22.597,21.139,14.524,436.450,8.482,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The occupational exposure population has a low knowledge awareness rate;high risk behaviors have higher risk of brucellosis infection in Jingyuan County.We should carry out health education and high-risk behavior intervention in targeted population.

Identification of Brucella strain isolated from sheep blood in Jingyuan County Gansu Province / 中华地方病学杂志

Objective To identify the Brucella strains isolated from sheep blood in Jingyuan County Gansu Province,and to provide scientific basis for Brucellosis control and prevention.Methods In 2016,blood samples from suspected cases of sheep were collected in the home of Brucellosis patient of Jingyuan County,and cultured with vaccination double blood bottles via the enrichment method,and the Brucella strains isolated from sheep were identified by traditional bio-typing,genus specific Brucella surface protein 31 PCR (BSCP31-PCR) and Brucella abortus,Brucella melitensis,Brucella ovis,Brucella suis species-specific PCR (AMOS-PCR),respectively.Results The isolated strain was identified using the traditional biological classification method,bacteria could grow in thionine and fuchsin dyes,A and M factors serum agglutination tests were positive,Bk2 phage lysis test was positive,but Tb and Wb phage lysis tests were negative;and the results of BSCP31-PCR of tested strain was 223 bp band same to Brucella;the results of AMOS-PCR was 731 bp band same to Brucella melitensis.Conclusion Conventional bio-typing test assisted with molecular techniques has confirmed that the isolated Brucella strain from sheep blood is Brucella melitensis type 3 in Jingyuan County Gansu Province.

Analysis of the factors of brucellosis infection in professional population in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province / 中华地方病学杂志

Objective To investigate influencing factors of brucellosis infection in occupational population in Gansu Province.Methods In Jingyuan County of Gansu Province,using the case-control method,the cases were collected through "National Disease Surveillance Information Reporting Management System",the case group was confirmed as brucellosis professionals after laboratory tests were positive in 2013-2015 (203 cases),and the control group was confmmed as occupations without brucellosis (809 cases) in the same periods.Information on general sociological characteristics and occupational exposure characteristic was collected,non-conditional Logistic regression analysis was used for analyzing influence factors of brucellosis.Results A total of 1 012 questionnaires were collected,among them,203 were case group and 809 were control group.Logistic regression analysis showed that,captive (OR =1.971,95％CI:1.193-3.256),type of water source (lage,OR =1.610,95％CI:1.392-1.950),often stripping the dead lamb (OR =2.027,95 ％ CI:1.272-3.231),processing abortion material (throwing away,feeding the dog,stripping;OR =2.120,1.176,2.160;95％CI:1.274-3.731,1.148-2.134,1.548-4.671),often eating dead meat (OR =2.497,95％CI:1.438-4.339),Hui nationality (OR =1.202,95％CI:1.061-1.995),household income less than 10 000 yuan (OR =3.857,95％CI:1.593-9.336),work experience 1-4 years (OR =2.892,95％CI:1.838-4.552) were major risk factors for occupational persons suffering from brucellosis.Livestock was sheep or sheep and goats (OR =0.412,0.277,95％CI:0.217-0.782,0.107-0.720),married(OR =0.124,95％CI:0.016-0.979),wearing gloves and mask when exposed to livestock or livestock lambing (OR =0.455,95％CI:0.230-0.899),and livestock vaccination (OR =0.283,95％CI:0.107-0.747) were protective factors for occupational infection of brucellosis.Conclusions The poor living habits and behaviors of professional people in Jingyuan County of Gansu Province are the main causes of the disease.Among them,captive,often stripping the dead lamb,processing abortion material,eating dead meat are the risk factors for brucella infection.Wearing masks and gloves when livestock lambing,and livestock vaccination are important means in avoiding brucellosis infection.

Effect of intracavitary therapy on acute pulmonary embolism / 中国综合临床

Objective To explore the effect of intracavitary therapy on acute pulmonary embohsm.Methods Fifteen patients were selected as our subjects,who suffered acute pulmonary embolism and received percutaneous catheter thrombus crashing and catheter directed thrombolysis in Beijing Military.Region General Hospital from January 2009 to June 2011.Local injection of Urokinase was performed with a total amount of 500 000 U in catheter directed thrombolysis.After thrombolysis,low molecular Heparin was administered to patients for 7-10 days and oral administration of Warfarin was performed for 3-6 months.Clinical symptoms,improvement of physical signs,complications,changes of mean pulmonary arterial pressure(mPAP) and arterial partial pressure of oxygen(PO2),and the opening of pulmonary artery were recorded.Results The pulmonary arteries of the 12 patients were completely opened,and partially opened in 3 patients.The effective rate was 100％ (15/15).mPAP was reduced from (40.07 ±5.97) mmHg to (20.00 ±4.66) mmHg (t =-1.128,P ＜ 0.05),PO2 was increased from (50.26 ± 9.30) mmHg to (80.49 ± 9.04) mmHg (t =1.246,P ＜ 0.05).Patients were followed-up for 3-6 months and no recurrence case was seen.Conclusion The interventional therapy is effective,safe and practicable in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism.

Doppel protein and its effects on animal reproduction / 生物工程学报

Doppel protein (abbreviation Dpl) is a newly recognized Glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI) anchored and highly glycosylated protein, which is similar to prion protein (PrP) in the chemical structure. The encoding gene of Dpl named PRND locates at the downstream of the prion protein gene (PRNP). These two proteins are different in physiological functions. The expression of Dpl focuses on testis tissue at the adult, and takes an important role in maintaining sperm integrality, normal fertility, and motion ability. We reviewed the biological characters, physiological functions of Dpl and its effects on male reproduction in order to provide theory guidance for the study on physiological function and male reproduction controlling.

Association between postprandial triglyceride and the severity of coronary artery disease in patients with metabolic syndrome / 中国医师进修杂志

Objective To investigate the association between postprandial triglyceride and the severity of coronary artery disease in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS). Methods AlI of 91 patients with MS were recruited for this study. Thirty-one patients with normal fasting and postprandial triglyceride was in MS1 group, 29 patients with normal fasting triglyceride and postprandial hypertrigtyceridemia was in MS2 group, and 31 patients with fasting hypertriglyeeridemia was in MS3 group. Blood triglyceride at the time of postprandial 4 hours was measured and the quantity of coronary artery branch disease was determined by coronary angiography. The relationship between them was analyzed. Result There was significant positive correlation between the quantity of coronary artery branch disease and the level of blood triglyceride at the time of postprandial 4 hours (r = 0.42, P < 0.01 ). Conclusions It is important to detect the level of blood triglyceride at the time of postprandial 4 hours. Prompt intervention maybe decrease the incidence and mortality rate of cardiovascular disease in patients with MS.

Construction and characterization of a novel somatostatin prokaryotic expression / 生物工程学报

In the current work, the fusion gene including somatostatin (SS) and the hepatitis B surface antigen gene was cloned into a balanced lethal system plasmid (pYA3493), and then transformed into asd- attenuated Salmonella choleraesuis C500 strain, the positive transformant without antibiotic resistance gene was confirmed by restriction analysis and DNA sequencing, designated as pYA-SS. The expression and immunogenicity of fusion protein were detected by SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis. These results show that the recombinant prokaryotic expression plasmid pYA-SS could express the SS fusion protein with good immunogenicity in C500 strain. In above all, this study could provide reliable materials to develop novel, good and safe vaccine in enhancing the growth of animals.

Intravenous leiomyomatosis of the inferior vena cava / 中华普通外科杂志

Objective To summarize the experience on the diagnosis and therapy of intravenous leiomyomatosis(IVL)of the inferior vena cava.Methods Eight IVL patients were treated in our hospital from March 1998 to April 2007. Results The diagnosis of IVL of the inferior vena cava was established histologically by biopsy during inferior vena eavagram before operation in 4 patients.Seven patients received open surgery.Except one patient dying of massive hemorrhage during operation and one IVL recurrence during follow-up,postoperative course was uneventful and an average follow-up of 29 months found no recurrence in the other five patients. Conclusion The final diagnosis of IVL of the inferior vena cava depends on venogram and biopsy,and it is an estrogen dependent tumor originating from uterus leiomyoma.Total surgical extirpation of the tumor is the only effective treatment for IVL.

Review of the role of bone morphogenetic protein family and its receptors in the reproductive modulation / 中国组织工程研究

OBJECTIVE:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) plays a vital role in the prevention and treatment of skeleton diseases, recently researches on the molecular mechanism of sheep prolific FecB gene indicated that BMP and its receptors have important influence on animal follicular development. In this study the influence of different type BMPs andits receptors on the follicular development was reviewed in order to explore effective modulation on animal reproduction.DATA SOURCES: Computer was applied to retrieve Medline database on the related literatures from January 1998 to June 2005. The retrieval words were "BMP" and "BMPR" that combined respectively. Language in the articles was limited to English. Simultaneously related articles were also computer searched in China periodical full text database and Wanfang databases from January 1996 to December 2005 with the retrieval words of "BMP, BMPR", that limiting the article language to Chinese.STUDY SELECTION: At first, the document was retrieved, altogether 200 studies on BMP and its receptors were enrolled including 140 Chinese literatures and 60 English literatures.DATA EXTRACTION: these literatures were screened and 30 were included for relating to the BMP characteristic, as well as the influence of BMP and its receptors on follicular development and reproductive endocrine.DATA SYNTHESIS: Of the 30 literatures, 18 experiments discussed the function of BMP and its receptors and its signal transduction mechanism,12 were about the influence of different BMP on reproductive cell secretion, as well as receptor mutation on ovulation.CONCLUSION: BMPs family plays vital role in animal reproductive modulation, current experiments prove that the changes of signal transduction due to BMP receptor gene mutation has made breakthrough for the exploration of the prolific mechanism in sheep. Moreover studies on follicular development modulation and ovulation mechanism are liable to provide theoretical reference for the prolific modulation in sheep or other species.

Construction of expression vector of follicular inhibin and HBsAg fusion gene and expression in Hela cell / 中国免疫学杂志

Objective:To construct inhibin expression vector with high immunogenicity.Methods:S gene with enzyme site sequence of EcoR I and Nde I was amplified by PCR from pCMV-S;Inhibin(1-32)gene with enzyme site sequence of Nde I and Hind III was cut from pUI;S and inhibin(1-32)gene were directly inserted into pcDNA3.1(-)and the recombinant pCIS was identified by restriction endonculease digestion and sequencing;then pCIS was transfected into HeLa cells.SDS-PAGE and ELISA was employed to detect the cell product.Rats were immunized with inhibin fused expression plasmid pCIS and ELISA was used to detect the blood antibody against inhibin.Results:The recombinant eukaryocyte expression vector of inhibin was constructed.The sequence of the insert was identical to designed gene.Fusion protein weight was about 29 kD and it had inhibin immunologic activity.Rats immunized with pCIS induced antibody against inhibin.Conclusion:The fusion gene expression vector was successfully constructed,and it set up the basis of inhibin gene immunization to induce multiple bear for single birth animals.