Limited internal fixation combined with external fixation for comminuted humerus shaft fractures / 中华创伤杂志

Objective To evaluate the clinical outcome in the treatment of humerus shaft comminuted fractures using limited open reduction and internal fixation combined with an external fixator.Methods Data of 80 patients with comminuted humerus shaft fractures treated from January 2005 to January 2013 were analysed retrospectively.All the patients underwent limited open reduction and internal fixation combined with an external fixator (treatment group) and open reduction and plate fixation (control group) according to the random number table.In the treatment group,there were 40 patients (28 males,12 females),at mean age of 33.5 years (range,21-54 years),with causes of injury including traffic accidents in five patients,falls in nine,crashes in seven and others in six.There were seven patients with open fractures and 33 with closed fractures.In the control group,there were 40 patients (25 males,15 females),at mean age of 32.9 years (range,19-55 years),with causes of injury including traffic accidents in 16 patients,tumbling in seven,crush in seven and others in ten.There were eight patients with open fractures and 32 with closed fractures.The operation time,intraoperative blood loss,bone union time and complications in both groups were recorded.Clinical efficacy was evaluated using the Stewart and Hundley standard.Results Mean follow-up was 19 months (range,15-24 months).Treatment and control groups showed significant differences in operation time [(55.5 ± 10.3) minutes vs.(120.5 ± 15.3) minutes],intraoperative blood loss [(120.4 ± 20.7) ml vs.(245.4 ± 26.7) ml] and bone union time [(11.6 ± 1.3) weeks vs.(14.9 ± 2.3) weeks] (P ＜ 0.05).Rate of incision infection was 8％ (3/40) in treatment group and 10％ (4/40) in control group (P ＞ 0.05).In treatment group the results were excellent in 31 patients and good in nine.In control group the results were excellent in 27 patients,good in nine,fair in one and poor in three.One patient with radial nerve injury after a second surgery for implant removal and two patients with osteomyelitis or bone nonunion were noted in control group.Conclusion Limited open reduction and internal fixation in combination with an external fixator is associated with small trauma,easy operation,short operation time,few bleeding,rigid fixation,early functional exercises and reduced bone nonunion for treatment of comminuted humerus shaft fractures,which exhibits great clinical value.

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on bowel habits in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus / 中华内分泌外科杂志

Objective To observe the impact of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on bowel habits in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM).Methods 70 cases of T2DM undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass were studied.Changes in bowel habits, frequency and odor of flatulence, and social life were estimated at least 6 months after surgery using a self-administered questionnaire.Results 67.1%of the patients had normal bowel habit, 68.6%of patients maintained normal flatus before undergoing surgery, and visual ana-logue scale reveals bowel and flatus habit would cause little trouble on daily life.47.1% of patients maintained their normal bowel habit, and 45.7%of patients had loose stools and diarrhea after surgery.The number of pa-tients with loose stools significantly increased(28/70, 40% after surgery vs 5/70, 7.1% before surgery), with statistical difference( P<0.001) .42.9%patients believed that eating high-fat diet was related with loose stools (P<0.001).Patients with constipation decreased significantly after surgery(5/70, 7.1% vs the preoperative 16/70, 22.9%), with statistical difference(P=0.016).Visual analogue scale showed that 57.1% of patients thought their daily life and social activities were not affected(P=0.05).50%of patients considered an increase flatus, and 55.7%had malodorous flatus, which had statistical significance compared with those before surgery ( P<0.001) .A visual analogue scale showed that 60%of patients thought that this change would not affect their daily life and social activities( P=0.212) .Conclusions After laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, some patients had loose stod, diarrhea, increased flatus and and offensive odor, but after proper treatment these changes do not affect their daily life and social activities.

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery improves quality of life for overweight type 2 diabetes mellitus patients / 中华普通外科杂志

Objective To investigate the change in quality of life (QoL) following laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) for T2DM with obesity.Methods A total of 46 overweight T2DM cases (mean baseline BMI (32.7 ± 3.9) kg/m2) undergoing LRYGB were followed by QoL questionnaires (SF-36) before and after 6 and 12 months.Results The preoperative physical QoL scales (physical component summary,PCS) was significantly different from the general population(GP) scales (P ＜ 0.01),and the improvement in QoL was significant at 6 months postoperative and continued to consistently increase up to 12 months (P ＜ 0.01).For mental component summary (MCS),the preoperative scales was not significantly different from the GP scales,however,the 6 and 12 postoperative scales improved significantly (P ＜0.01).As for physical function,role physical,role emotion,the 6 (78 ± 8,76 ± 17,70 ± 23) and 12 months' (85 ± 7,82 ± 18,77 ± 18) postoperative scales were markedly higher than those in the preoperative controls (P ＜ 0.01),and there were no differences between the 12 month's postoperative scales and GP scales.The preoperative bodily pain,general health and social function (66 ± 14,55 ± 12,63 ±15) was different when compared with (76 ± 12,75 ±6,75 ± 13) at 6 months and (82 ±9,79 ±6,94 ±9) at 12 months (P ＜0.01).The preopertive mental health (71 ± 12) was not significantly different from GP scales,nor there were significant difference when compared with (71 ± 10) at 6 months and (73 ±8) at 12 months.Conclusions There were improvements in physical and mental QoL in T2DM patients with obesity after LRYGB.

Abnormal Expression of Tumor Suppressor Gene WWOX in Human Benign and Malignant Pleural Effusion / 中国肿瘤临床

Objective: To detect the abnormal expression of WWOX (WW domain containing oxidoreduc-tase) exons 6-8 at mRNA level in human benign and malignant pleural effusion and to investigate the role of loss of WWOX exons 6-8 in the development of malignant pleural effusion. Methods; Deletion of WWOX ex-ons 6-8 mRNA transcript was analyzed by reverse transcriptase-PCR technology. Results: Of the 56 malig-nant pleural effusion samples, 39 showed loss of WWOX exons 6-8 mRNA transcript (69.6%). This deletion was not detected in the 20 benign pieural effusion samples. Conclusion: WWOX gene may play an important role in the develepment of malignant Neural effusion, Detection of WWOX exons 6-8 mRNA may serve as a candidate molecular target for treatment of malignant pleural effusion and can be a promising index in differen-tial diagnosis of benign and malignant pleural effusion.

Prokaryotic expression of the nucleocapsid protein gene in bovine coronavirus and its preliminary application / 中国人兽共患病学报

To obtain and analyze the sequence of the nucleocapsid gene from bovine coronavirus, and to produce the fusion protein of the N gene in E.coli in order to use this recombinant protein for the study of bovine coronavirus. The N gene of BCV-DQ strain was amplified by RT-PCR, in which the primers were designed on the basis of N gene sequence of BCV-Mebus strain. The PCR products of 1 347 bp in length were cloned and sequenced, and then inserted into the prokaryotic vector pET30a. The recombinant plasmids were then transformed into Escherichia coli BL21 and identified by SDS-PAGE and Western blot assay. ELISA assay was optimized of N protein as the coating antigen to detect the viruses in the clinical samples. In comparison with 6 BCV strains in GenBank, the sequence identity was proved to be more than 98.3%. Result in SDS-PAGE showed that the fusion protein had a molecular weight of 60 ku, and could be specifically recognized by mouse serum against BCV. The indirect ELISA was used to test 256 serum samples collected from Heilongjiang province and 65.23% samples were positive. On testing field samples, an overall agreement of 95.31% was generated between the the neutralization test of viruses (VN) and indirect ELISA. It is apparent that the N gene was highly conservative and is expressed in E. coli in high level,also the prokaryotic expression products of this gene show a fine reactiongenicity in immune responses. It was also suggested that the N protein may be a useful antigen for sero-diagnosis and epidemiological investigation of BCV.

Deletion and mutation of WWOX exons 6-8 in human non-small cell lung cancer / 华中科技大学学报（医学）（英德文版）

To examine the deletion and point mutation of WWOX (WW domain containing oxidoreductase) exons 6-8 in human non-small cell lung cancer and their possible relationship with pathological stages, tumor tissues and the corresponding normal tissues were obtained from 44 Chinese patients who had undergone surgery for non-small cell lung cancer. RNA was extracted from each sample and deletion and mutation of WWOX exons 6-8 were analyzed by RT-PCR and DNA sequencing. Our results showed that 28 of 44 (63.6%) lung cancer samples showed loss of WWOX exons 6-8 transcript and the deletion was detected in only 3 of 44 (6.8%) corresponding adjacent normal tissues (P < 0.05). The transcript sequencing analyses of the 16 lung cancer samples without transcript loss of WWOX exons 6-8 revealed no difference from the sequence of GenBank. Moreover, the deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 was significantly higher in the smokers when compared with the non-smokers. It is also higher in the men and squamous carcinomas than in women and adenocarcinomas (P < 0. 05). The deletion, however, was not found to be associated with pathological stages of the tumors. Our study documented a high incidence of deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 in non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese patients and suggested that the frequent loss of WWOX exons 6-8 might play an important role in the tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese. WWOX exons 6-8 may serves as a candidate molecular target of smoking carcinogenesis, and point mutation is not a predominant way of alteration of WWOX exons 6-8.

Expression of KAI1 gene in non-small cell lung cancer and its relationship with P53 / 中国肺癌杂志

<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Recent researches have manifested that down-regulation of KAI1 relates to metastasis in various tumors, but its association with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the mechanism for its down-regulation are not clear. The aim of this study is to investigate the expression of KAI1 in NSCLC and its relationship with clinicopathological characteristics and mutant P53 protein.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The expression of KAI1/CD82 and mutant P53 protein was detected in 48 cases of NSCLC tissues by Western blot, and KAI1 mRNA was detected by RT-PCR method, with 20 cases of pulmonary benign disease tissues and normal lung tissues as control..</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The positive rate of KAI1 mRNA was 52% in lung cancer group and 90% in control group, respectively (P < 0.01), KAI1/CD82 was 48% and 85% respectively (P < 0.01), and mutant P53 protein was 65% and 5% respectively (P < 0.01). The positive rate of KAI1 mRNA, KAI1/CD82 and mutant P53 protein closely related to the tumor stages, cell differentiation and lymph node metastasis status (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01). The expression of KAI1/CD82 highly related to KAI1 mRNA (P < 0.01) and mutant P53 protein (P < 0.05), while expression of KAI1 mRNA did not relate to mutant P53 protein expression (P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The down-regulation of KAI1 may relate to carcinogenesis, development and metastasis of NSCLC. Its reduction may occur mainly at transcriptional level and correlate with p53 in NSCLC. KAI1 and p53 might be helpful to predict the potential metastasis of NSCLC.</p>

Deletion and Mutation of WWOX Exons 6-8 in Human Non-small Cell Lung Cancer / 华中科技大学学报（医学）（英德文版）

To examine the deletion and point mutation of WWOX (WW domain containing oxidoreductase) exons 6-8 in human non-small cell lung cancer and their possible relationship with pathological stages, tumor tissues and the corresponding normal tissues were obtained from 44 Chinese patients who had undergone surgery for non-small cell lung cancer. RNA was extracted from each sample and deletion and mutation of WWOX exons 6-8 were analyzed by RT-PCR and DNA sequencing. Our results showed that 28 of 44 (63.6 %) lung cancer samples showed loss of WWOX exons 6-8 transcript and the deletion was detected in only 3 of 44 (6.8 %) corresponding adjacent normal tissues (P＜0.05). The transcript sequencing analyses of the 16 lung cancer samples without transcript loss of WWOX exons 6-8 revealed no difference from the sequence of GenBank. Moreover, the deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 was significantly higher in the smokers when compared with the non-smokers. It is also higher in the men and squamous carcinomas than in women and adenocarcinomas (P＜0.05). The deletion, however, was not found to be associated with pathological stages of the tumors. Our study documented a high incidence of deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 in non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese patients and suggested that the frequent loss of WWOX exons 6-8 might play an important role in the tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese. WWOX exons 6-8 may serves as a candidate molecular target of smoking carcinogenesis, and point mutation is not a predominant way of alteration of WWOX exons 6-8.

A study on expression changes of a tumor suppressor WWOX in human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549 / 中国癌症杂志

Purpose:To detect the abnormalities of WWOX(WW domain containing oxidoreductase) gene in human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549. Methods:Deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 transcript was analyzed by reverse transcriptase-PCR technology; loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of WWOX gene was analyzed by PCR-based assays for dinucleotide repeat polymorphisms technology. Aberrant expression of WWOX protein was analyzed by western blot. Results:A549 cells samples showed loss of WWOX exons 6-8 transcript.This deletion was not detected in normal primary cultured human bronchial epithelial cells samples.Three microsatellites(D16S3029、D16S3096、D16S504)did not have LOH in the normal primary cultured human bronchial epithelial cells samples, but D16S2029 and D16S3096 were all found to have LOH in A549 Cells samples. We further observed that expression of WWOX protein was significantly lower in A549 cell samples compared to the normal primary cultured human bronchial epithelial cells samples. Conclusions:WWOX gene may be important during tumorigenesis in lung adenocarcinoma cancer.Deletion of exons 6-8,LOH and aberrant expression of protein are all modes of WWOX gene inactivity in lung adenocarcinoma cancer.