Research progress of the application of metagenomics technology in female reproductive tract diseases / 中华预防医学杂志

In recent years, many studies have found that vaginal microbiota is closely related to female reproductive tract diseases. However, traditional microbial culture technology has the defects of long culture cycle and most microorganisms cannot be cultured. The development of metagenomics technique has broken the limitations of culture technology, and has been gradually applied to the study of vaginal microorganisms with the characteristics of high throughput, short time, identification of microbial population structure and gene function. It also provides technical support for elucidating the relationship between vaginal microbiota and female reproductive tract diseases. This article mainly introduces the metagenomics techniques and their applications in prevention, screening and diagnosis of common female reproductive tract diseases, and discusses their promising development and limitations to be overcome.

Inhibitory effect of resveratrol on the proliferation of synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis and its mechanism in vitro / 中南大学学报(医学版)

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the effect of resveratrol on the proliferation and apoptosis of synoviocytes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in vitro and explore its mechanism.@*METHODS@#The levels of cell proliferation of synoviocytes in RA after 24 h treated with different concentrations of resveratrol were measured by monotetrazolium colourmetric assay method. The percentages of synoviocytes apoptosis in RA after 24 h treated with different concentrations of resveratrol were tested by TUNEL and flow cytometry. The relative activities of caspase-3 were determined by colorimetric assay after 4, 8, 12, 18, and 24 h treated with resveratrol (200 micromol/L) and 12 h treated with different concentrations of resveratrol. The cleavages of pro-caspase-3 were analyzed by Western blot after 24 h treated with different concentrations of resveratrol.@*RESULTS@#The levels of cell proliferation of synoviocytes with RA after 24 h treated with different concentrations of resveratrol were significantly decreased compared with the control group (P<0.01). The percentages of the apoptotic cells were increased of resveratrol-treated after 24 h, the apoptosis rates between the treated groups and the control group were significantly different (P<0.01). When the synoviocytes in RA were treated with 200 micromol/L resveratrol for different time respectively, the caspase-3 activity began to rise significantly at 4h, reaching the peak at 12 h, and was still much higher than that of the control group at 24 h (P<0.01). After the cells were treated with different concentrations of resveratrol for 12 h, caspase-3 activity increased in a concentration-dependent manner. After synoviocytes in RA were treated with different concentrations of resveratrol for 24 h, the expressions of pro-caspase-3 decreased as the concentration increased, the caspase-3 active fragment P11 (11 kD) appeared at 100 micromol/L and was increased at 400 micromol/L.@*CONCLUSION@#Resveratrol inhibits the proliferation of synoviocytes and induces cell apoptosis in rheumatoid arthritis in vitro, which may relate to the activation of caspase-3.