Clinical value of dual-energy CT Volume software in quantitative analysis of urate crystals / 实用放射学杂志

Objective To assess the clinical value of dual-energy CT (DECT) Volume software in quantitative analysis of urate crystals.Methods The DECT data of 60 gout patients based on the American College of Rheumatology diagnostic criteria were analyzed retrospectively.The volumes of urate crystals were quantitatively analyzed by using Volume software with two senior radiologists.The results were statistically analyzed.Results Seventy-two joints of 60 gout patients were scanned by DECT.40 of 43 joints had urate crystals in foot and ankle with the average volume of (0.621±0.742) cm3;18 of 19 joints had urate crystals in knee with the average volume of (0.842±1.086) cm3;10 of 10 joints had urate crystals in hand and wrist with the average volume of (0.796±0.583) cm3.There was no statistical difference for volume measurement between two doctors (P>0.05).The volumes of urate crystals in 4 patients with regular medication were reduced.Conclusion Volume software of DECT can quantitatively analyze urate crystals with a good repeatability, which has high application value in clinical diagnosis and treatment monitoring of gout.

Single nucleotide polymorphism of miR-149 and susceptibility of rheumatoid arthritis / 中南大学学报(医学版)

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the association between microRNA (miR)-149 polymorphism and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA ), as well as the clinical characteristics in patients with RA .@*METHODS@#A total of 200 RA patients and 120 healthy controls were recruited from Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of Nanjing First Hospital. After obtaining the informed consent, we collected 2 mL of anti-coagulated venous blood samples from all studied subjects to isolate the whole blood genomic DNA, and the clinical data were collected as well. Single nucleotide polymorphisms of miR-149 rs22928323 were detected by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP). Correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms and clinical features were compared.@*RESULTS@#The frequencies of TT, TC and CC for rs22928323 of miR-149 were 25.3%, 51.1% and 23.6% or 18.3%, 20.0% and 61.7% in the patients or the healthy controls, respectively. The onset risk of allele C in RA patients was increased compared with allele T [OR=1.38, 95% CI (1.01-1.75), P=0.023]. There were no significant difference in rheumatoid factor, blood urine nitrogen, antikeratin antibody, and other clinical characteristics among the 3 genotypes in RA patients (P>0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#SNP rs22928323 in miR-149 is correlated with RA in the east of Chinese Han population, whereas there is no correlation between miR-149 polymorphism and clinical characteristics in patients with RA.

Performance verification of portable Celercare M1 analyzer in CRP determination / 国际检验医学杂志

Objective To verify the analytical performance of the portable Celercare M1 analyzer in the C-reactive protein(CRP) quantitative determination.Methods According to the standard program of the American Clinical and Laboratory Standards Insti-tute (CLSI),The portable Celercare M1 analyzer was performed the verification on the CRP detection in the aspects of the linearity range,precision,accuracy,interference test and method comparison.Results The CRP detection showed good linearity in the range of 0.5-200 mg/L and the regression equation was Y =0.979X +0.456.The within-run coefficients of variation(CV)of samples with low and high CRP levels were 5.9% and 2.0%,respectively.The between-day CV of samples with low and high CRP levels were 6.3% and 2.2%,respectively.The accuracy of the assay was admirable,and bias of CRP results at low and high levels were 2.3% and 0.7%,respectively.No significance interference was observed when serum bilirubin ≤340 μmol/L,triglyceride ≤10 mmol/L and hemoglobin ≤8 g/L in this method.The regression equation of Celercare M1 analyzer(Y )and the IMMAGE 800 (X) for detecting CRP was Y =0.944X +0.206,R 2 =0.996(P <0.05).The relative bias of CRP results in three medical decision levels (3,10,100 mg/L)was 1 .0%,4.0% and 5.0%,repectively,which was lower than 1/2 of total error allowance.Conclusion The linearity,precision,accuracy and interference of the Celercare M1 analyzer in CRP determination are admirable and can be accepted in clinical practice.

Comparative analysis of common biochemical assay results for venous blood and peripheral blood / 国际检验医学杂志

Objective To investigate the comparability of the results of common biochemical items detected by Celercare M1 an‐alyzer in the peripheral blood and the venous whole blood .Methods The samples of peripheral blood and venous whole blood were collected from subjects .The biochemical items including Mg2+ ,Cl- ,tCO2 ,K+ ,Na+ ,Ca2+ ,α‐HBDH ,LDH ,AST ,CK ,CK‐MB ,TP , ALB ,TBIL ,ALT ,GGT ,ALP ,UREA ,GLU ,UA ,CHOL ,and HDL‐C were determined by Celercare M1 analyzer ,and the results were compared .Results The tCO2 results of venous blood was significantly higher than that of peripheral blood (P<0 .05) .How‐ever ,the results of α‐HBDH ,LDH ,CK and CK‐MB of venous blood samples were significantly lower than those of peripheral blood samples ,and the difference was statistically significant (P<0 .05) .Conclusion The peripheral blood can replace venous blood for biochemical analysis on Celercare M1 analyzer ,except for the electrolyte test items and cardiac enzyme items such as α‐HBDH , LDH ,CK and CK‐MB .

Expression of E-cadherin in the tumor tissue and serum of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma / 中南大学学报(医学版)

OBJECTIVE@#To survey E-cadherin (E-cad) expression in tumor tissue and serum of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients, and to observe the clinical significance of their expression.@*METHODS@#Forty-eight samples of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tissue, 23 samples of erosive esophagitis tissue, 24 samples of normal esophagus tissue and the corresponding sera were obtained. We used immunohistochemistry (IHC) to detect expression of E-cad in the tissues and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to examine expression of E-cad in the serum. Furthermore, we collected complete clinicopathological data from the participating patients.@*RESULTS@#The expression level of E-cad in the esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tissue was lower than that in normal esophagus tissues and erosive esophagitis tissues (P<0.05). Moreover, the expression level of E-cad was related to the depth of invasion, the status of lymph node metastasis and the level of differentiation of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (P<0.05). The expression level of serum E-cad of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients was obviously higher than that in the serum of normal esophagus controls and erosive esophagitis patients (P<0.05). But the expression level of E-Cad in the serum of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients was unrelated to clinicopathological features. The expression level of E-cad in the tissue was not correlated with that in the serum(P=0.134).@*CONCLUSION@#The expression of E-cad in tissues may assistin the diagnosis and prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. The expression of E-cad in the serum may assistin the diagnostic screening of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Expressions of interferon-inducible genes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and their assoc-iation with disease activity / 中华风湿病学杂志

Objective To investigate the expression levels of interferon-inducible genes (IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL,ISG15) in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE).and the relations between these genes expression levels and disease activity are explored.Methods Sybr green dye based real-time quantitative PCR method was used to detect the expression levels (indicated as-△△Ct value) of WIT1,IFIT4.OAS1,OASL and ISG15 in 76 patients with SJJE and 54 controls.Their expression levels were compared with erythroeyte sedimentation rate (ESR),serum C reactive protein (CRP),complement C3,C4.antinuclear antibody (ANA).anti-double stranded DNA antibody.The associations between the expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OASI.OASL,ISG15,ESR,CRP,complement C3,C4,ANA,anti-double stranded DNA antibody and SLEDAI scores in patients with SLE were analyzed.Results ① The expression levels of WIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL and ISG15 in the SLE patients were significantly higher than those of the normal controls (P＜0.01).The expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL and ISG15 in active SLE patients were higher than those of inactive SLE patients (P＜0.05).The real time expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1.OASL and ISG15 showed positive correlations with each other (r＞0.5,P＜0.05) in patients with SLE.② The expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL and ISG15 were positively correlated with the SLEDAI scores (r＞0.5,P＜0.05).③ There was no correlation between ESR,CRP,complement C3,C4,ANA and the expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL,ISG15,SLEDAI scores except anti-double stranded DNA antibody (r＞0.5.P＜0.05).Conclusion The expression levels of IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL and ISG15 in patients with SLE are significantly higher than those of the normal controls,and positively associated with SLEDAI scores,so they are helpful in evaluating SLE disease activity and severity.IFIT1,IFIT4,OAS1,OASL and ISG15 genes may be the potential treating targets for SLE.

Study on serum erythropoietin levels in patients of hematologic malignancies with aneamia and application of recombinant human erythropoietin / 白血病·淋巴瘤

Objective To investigate the effect of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in patients of hematologic malignancies with aneamia and its relationship of serum erythropoietin levels. Methods Serum EPO (sEPO) level in 80 patients with hematologic malignancies were detected by chemolumimiscence,and treated by recombinant human erythropoietin for patients with Hb<100 g/L. Results The effect on aneamia in tumor patients with remission were significantly higher than that with no-remission. The patients with lower level of sEPO had better respose to treatment by rhEPO than patients with higher level. Conclusion Higher level of sEPO in patients with no-remission hematopoietic tumor, with condition of marrow erythropoiesis aplasia, the effect of rhEPO was poor;, but sEPO level in patients with remission hematopoietic tumor were nearly normal with recovery of marrow erythropoiesis aplasia was effective by use of rhEPO.

Catalytic Spectrophotometric Determination of Osmium (Ⅳ) Using Osmium (Ⅳ)-KIO4-Chlorophosphonazo-mA System / 分析化学

A catalytic spectrophotometric method for the determination of micro amounts of osmium has been established based on the catalytic action of Os(Ⅳ) on the oxidation fading reaction of chlorophosphonazo-mA with KIO4 in alkaline-medium. The reaction conditions were optimized by orthogonal experimental design. The detection limit for osmium was 2.0 μg/L.Beer＇s law was obeyed in the range from 7.0 to 25.0 μg/L for Os(Ⅳ). The method has been applied to the determination of micro amounts of Os(Ⅳ) in concentrate of noble metals and secondary alloy,both of the relative errors were 0.9%. Recoveries varied from 95.38% to 106.0%.

Density and Affinity of IL-6 Receptors in Human Leukemic Cells / 中国肿瘤生物治疗杂志

Objective: To make a study of density and affinity of IL-6R in human leukemic cell lines, and discuss the affection of high affinity IL-6R to the targeted treatment of leukemia with IL-6-PE40 fusion protein. Methods: Radial binding assay with scatchard plot and FACS were used to analysis the density and affinity of IL-6R and protein expression of IL-6Rα and β subunits in totally 8 representative human leukemic cell lines. Results: Myelocytie, monocytic and erythrocytic leukemic cell lines U937, HL-60, KG1 and TF1 express high affinity IL-6R, whose average density per cell is 2 502,2 874, 2 319 and 9 329 respectively, however no 125I-IL-6 binding was detected on chronic myelocytic leukemic cell line K562 and lymphoblastic leukemic cell lines such as Raji, CEM and HUT28. These results correlate with those of FACS highly. Conclusion:These observations suggest that acute nonlymphoblastic leukemic cells may be more suitable for targeted treatment with IL-6-PFA0 fusion protein.

The Comparison between the Killing Effects of Two Anti-T Immunotoxins on Target Cells / 中国实验血液学杂志

The key to killing target cells by immunotoxin depends on the specific recognition of antibody to target cell and the cytotoxic effect of toxin. The comparative study of the killing effects of two anti-T immunotoxins, CD5:Ricin and CD5:rRA, on target cells was performed. The elimination rate of immunotoxins was analysed by flow cytometry and MLR. The effect of immunotoxins on the proliferation of hematopoiesis was evaluted by CFU-GM. The results showed that (1) CD5(+) T cells were eliminated and CD25(+) CD3(+) activated T cells were concentration-dependently inhibited by the two immunotoxins in the range of 10(-9) - 10(-11) mol/L; (2) both immunotoxins significantly inhibited the mixed lymphocyte reaction, and the inhibiting effect of CD5:rRA to T cell proliferation was markedly lower than that of CD5:Ricin in the range of 10(-10) - 10(-11) mol/L; (3) the combination of CD5:rRA with 10 mmol/L NH(4)Cl increased the T cell elimination rate; and (4) the two immunotoxins and the combination of NH(4)Cl and CD5:rRA did not suppressed proliferation of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors in the range of concentrations with killing effect. It was concluded that T cell and activated T cell could be eliminated effectively by immunotoxins, the proliferation of granulocyte-macrophage progenitor was not inhibited significantly.