Volumetric and functional changes of skeletal muscles following microwave coagulation / 中国组织工程研究

BACKGROUND: Microwave had been widely used in medical field, which can lead to local coagulation necrosis and repair the necrosis with fibrous tissue. However, whether microwave coagulation can be used in stomatology is poorly understood.OBJECTIVE: To observe the functional and volumetric changes of skeletal muscles following microwave coagulation, and to explore the possibility of microwave coagulation for volumetric reduction of skeletal muscle.METHODS: Both sides of tibialis anterior muscle of 20 New Zealand rabbits were exposed; one side was coagulated by 2 450 MHz microwave therapeutic instrument at 70 W for 20 seconds. No treatment was performed at the other side. Rabbits were sacrificed at hours 24, 48, weeks 1 and 8 after microwave coagulation. The volumetric changes of the ablated tibialis anterior muscle were measured, and electricitic physiology observations were conducted on the ablated muscle at 8 weeks after microwave coagulation before being sacrificed.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The volume of ablated muscle increased at hours 24 and 48, which was (5.82±0.93) and (6.04±0.47) mL, especially greater at hour 48 after microwave coagulation. After 1 week, the muscle volume began to decrease to (4.90±0.80) mL, reduced to (4.27±0.67) mL at week 8, which was 23.6% volumetric loss. However, the electrophysiologic observation showed that the latent periods were (1.765+0.393) and (1.760±0.394) ms, and the wave width was (6.273±0.808)and (6.259±0.773) ms of the control group and experimental group, respectively, without apparent differences (P ＞ 0.05). The volume of the skeleton muscle increased at hour 48 after microwave coagulation, and then decreased, but the muscle function of the skeleton muscle can be preserved.

Morphological changes of ablated muscle after MCT / 医学研究生学报

Objective:To observe the morphological changes in skeletal muscles after therapeutic. Methods:Tibialis anterior muscles of 25 New Zealand rabbits were exposed and coagulated with 70 W for 20 s. The rabbits were sacrificed at 1 hour?24 hours?48 hours?1 week and 2 months after MCT. The specimens of coagulated areas were prepared for histological observation. Results:Obvious rims could be found bet ween coagulated and normal tissues .The ablated site showed tissue fixation in the inner zone and coagulative necrosis in found the outer zone.these were four zones can be seen under high powered magnification:the application zone,the central zone,the transition zone and the reference zone. Demarcation zone of necrosis appeared 24h after MCT. Tibrosis encapsulation occurred after 7 days.Replacement with fine cicatrix was demonstrated after 2 months. Conclusion:Tissue destroyed by coagulation can be replaced with a fine cicatrix gradually.

Construction of the siRNA expression vector and the silencing influence on focal adhesion kinase gene of Tca8113 cell line / 实用口腔医学杂志

Objective:To construct the siRNA expression vector of focal adhesion kinase(FAK) gene and inhibit the expression of FAK gene in tongue cancer cell line Tca8113 by RNA interfering technique. Methods:According to the encoding sequence of FAK mRNA, two pieces of oligonucleotide sequences were designed and synthesized. The annealed oligonucleotide fragments were subcloned into pGCSilencerTM-U6/Neo siRNA expression vector. After being identified by restriction enzyme method, the recombinant pSilencer-FAK plasmids were transfected into Tca8113 cells. The transfected cells were selected by G418 method. Immuocytochemistry and Western blotting were used to evaluate FAK gene silencing efficiency. Results:The oligonucleotide fragments were correctly inserted into pGCSilencerTM-U6/Neo vector. FAK expression of the transfected cells was significantly down-regulated by pSilencer-FAK. Conclusion:The siRNA expression vector of FAK is successfully constructed and FAK expression of Tca8113 cells can be inhibited by RNA interfering technique.