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AIM: To explore the dynamic expression of high mobility group box 1(HMGB1)in scar tissues after glaucoma drainage valve implantation, and to further reveal the role and possible mechanism of HMGB1 in scarring after glaucoma surgery.METHODS: A total of 60 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into control group(n=20), model group(n=20, silicone implantation under conjunctival sac)and model with drug administration group(n=20, silicone implantation under conjunctival sac combined with 5-fluorouracil injection). The conjunctival tissues were collected at 4 and 8 wk after surgery. HE staining and Masson staining were used to detect the proliferation and distribution of fibroblasts and collagen fibers in conjunctival tissues. Immunohistochemistry was utilized to detect the distribution and changes of HMGB1, transforming growth factor(TGF)-β1, Smad3 and α-smooth muscle actin(SMA)in conjunctival tissues. RT-PCR and Western blot were adopted to detect the mRNA and protein expression of HMGB1, TGF-β1, Smad3 and α-SMA in conjunctival tissues.RESULTS: HE staining and Masson staining showed that the proliferation of inflammatory cells, fibroblasts and collagen fibers in the model group was significantly higher than that in the control group at both 4 and 8 wk. Meanwhile, the proliferation of fibroblasts and collagen fibers in the model with drug administration group was significantly lower than that in the model group. Immunohistochemical staining showed that the expression of HMGB1, TGF-β1, Smad3 and α-SMA protein was observed in the conjunctival tissues of the model group both 4 and 8 wk, with brown and significantly deeper staining of the model group at 8 wk. Meanwhile, the positive staining in the model with drug administration group at both 4 and 8 wk was significantly lower than that in the model group. There was positive correlations between the number of fibroblasts stained with HE and the expression of HMGB1 in the conjunctival tissue of the model group at both 4 and 8 wk(r=0.602, 0.703, all P<0.05). RT-PCR and Western blot revealed that the mRNA and protein expression levels of HMGB1, TGF-β1, Smad3 and α-SMA in the model group were significantly higher than those in the control group at both 4 and 8 wk(all P<0.05). Meanwhile, the mRNA and protein expression levels of HMGB1, TGF-β1, Smad3 and α-SMA in the model with drug administration group were significantly lower than those in the model group(all P<0.05). There was positive correlations between mRNA expressions of HMGB1 and TGF-β1, Smad3 in the model group and the model with drug administration group(all P<0.05).CONCLUSION: The expression of HMGB1 increased at a time-dependent manner after glaucoma valve implantation. HMGB1 acts an indispensable role in the initiation and progression of scar formation after glaucoma surgery, which may be involved in the regulation of TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway.
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Objective:To determine a relationship between ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) and pathological lessions of renal tissues in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD).Methods:It was a cross-sectional observational study, involving children admitted to the Department of Pediatrics of Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology from January to December 2021 with definite pathological diagnosis through kidney biopsy. The SWE was used to determine the Young's modulus (elastic modulus) of the cortex and medulla of the upper, middle, and lower poles of the kidney. The renal histopathology was classified or graded. The statistical method was used to analyze the relationship between Young's modulus of the inferior polar cortex (YM cor) and medulla (YM med) of the right kidney and renal pathology. Results:The study included 110 children with definite pathological diagnosis through renal biopsy, aged (10.1±3.4) years old (2-17 years old), with 55 males (50.0%). The body mass index was (20.6±2.4) kg/m 2, and mean arterial pressure was (95±24) mmHg. There were 94 patients (85.4%) with CKD stage 1, 8 patients (7.3%) with CKD stage 2, and 8 patients (7.3%) with CKD stage 3. There was no significant difference of YM cor and YM med in the upper and middle poles of the right kidneys, and YM med in the lower poles of right kidneys in CKD patients with different stages (all P>0.05). Both YM cor [(15.75±3.36) kPa] and YM med [(13.50±2.43) kPa] of CKD stage 3 patients were significantly higher than those of CKD stage 1 patients [(12.94±2.45) kPa, (11.88±2.23) kPa](both P<0.05). There was no significant difference of YM cor and YM med in the lower poles of right kidneys between stage 1 and stage 2 CKD patients (both P>0.05). YM cor[(17.93±3.23) kPa] and YM med [(15.50±1.48) kPa] in patients with crescentic glomerulonephritis were higher than those in patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis [(12.71±2.42) kPa, (11.57±2.63) kPa] and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis [(12.73±2.04) kPa, (11.48±2.10) kPa](all P<0.05). There was no significant difference of YM cor and YM med between focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (both P>0.05). YM cor [(16.30±2.63) kPa] and YM med [(15.54±1.59) kPa] of Lee's Ⅳ grade of IgA nephropathy were higher than those of Lee's Ⅲ grade [(13.32±2.70) kPa, (12.57±2.50) kPa](both P<0.05), while the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children grade of purpura nephritis had no significant correlation with YM cor and YM med (both P>0.05). YM cor [(15.41±2.37) kPa] and YM med [(13.82±2.59) kPa] of interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy (T1/T2) group of IgA nephropathy mixed with purpura nephritis were significantly higher than those of T0 group's [(12.99±2.40) kPa, (11.79±2.05) kPa] (both P<0.05). Moreover, crescent formation (C1) group had a higher YM cor [(14.21±2.77) kPa] and YM med [(12.80±2.47) kPa] than those in C0 group [(12.73±2.15) kPa, (11.59±1.97) kPa] (both P<0.05), while YM cor and YM med were unrelated to the mesangial hypercellularity (M), endocapillary cellularity (E), segmental sclerosis or adhesion (S) indicators (all P>0.05). In lupus nephritis patients, YM cor ( r=0.744, P=0.035) and YM med ( r=0.728, P=0.009) were favorably linked with the chronic index, but not with the activity index (both P>0.05). Conclusions:Renal interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy and crescentic development are connected with YM cor and YM med at the lower pole of the kidney as measured by SWE. SWE can be used to assess the chronic renal lesions in children with CKD in the early and middle stages. It may develop into a new noninvasive way to assess renal pathology.
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【Objective】 To investigate the effect of serological methods for eliminating the interference of warm autoantibodies with the compatibility test before blood transfusion. 【Methods】 The blood samples (whole blood and serum, 3 mL/each) of 10 cases of warm autoantibodies interfering with antibody screening and identification were collected. Autogenous or allogeneic red blood cells(RBCs) were treated with microthermal(45 ℃), chloroquine, or ZZAP (dithiothreitol and papain) reagents, and then were used to absorb the autoantibodies in patients′ plasma. The plasma after absorption and RBC elution were used for antibody identification by anti-human globulin method or Polybrene method to determine the specificity of the autoantibody/alloantibody. Blood transfusion with ABO/Rh homotypic RBCs without corresponding antigens was performed in patients with alloantibodies or specific autoantibodies, and the efficacy of blood transfusion was evaluated. 【Results】 The interferenc of warm autoantibodies with antibody screening and identification due to primary or secondary autoimmune diseases were eliminated after absorption, and IgG isospecific antibodies (anti-E, anti-Jka, anti-Wra) in 3 cases and specific autoantibodies (anti-Ce) in 1 case were yielded. 6 of the 10 patients received blood transfusion, and 4 with specific antibodies avoided exposure to corresponding antigens. After transfusion of 2U suspended RBCs, the increase of hemoglobin at 24h in all 6 patients was greater than 10 g/L, and no hemolytic transfusion reaction occurred. Anemia symptoms were improved after transfusion. 【Conclusion】 Appropriate elution methods and autologous/allogeneic absorption methods can eliminate the interference of warm autoantibodies with the identification of alloantibodies, therefore can accurately identify the types and properties of antibodies, thus providing targeted and effective blood transfusion.
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Purpose To investigate the role of SOCS3 on diabetic renal injury. Methods Male CD-1 mice were randomly divided into four groups:control group, diabetic group, empty plasmid vector transfection group and SOCS3 plasmid transfection group. The diabet-ic mice were induced by intraperitoneal injection of STZ at a dose of 150 mg/kg body weight. The mice of transfection group were re-ceived an injection of SOCS3 plasmid or empty vector at every 7 days thereafter. Specimens were collected at 12 week after STZ injec-tion. The morphological changes of tubular epithelial cells were observed by transmission electron microscope. RT-PCR and immuno-histochemistry were used to determine the mRNA and protein expression of CK18 and α-SMA. Western blotting analysis was used to determine the protein expression of SOCS3, p-STAT3, CK18 and α-SMA. Results SOCS3 overexpression in kidney down-regulated the levels of p-STAT3 andα-SMA but up-regulated the expression of CK18. Conclusion Overexpression of SOCS3 can ameliorate the tubular epithelial-mesenchymal transdifferentiation of diabetic mice via inhibiting the phosphorylation of STAT3.
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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic performance of enhancement value and morphological features by using mul-tiphasic MDCT on differentiating untypical T4a from T3 gastric cancer.Methods Fifty-one histopathologically proven T3 and T4a gastric cancer patients with smooth serosa were collected retrospectively.Three radiologists read all images regarding morphological features,while the CT value and enhancement value of regions of interest (ROIs)located in the outer of lesion were calculated.Cut-off analysis was performed to determine optimal threshold levels of enhancement value to discriminate T4a and T3 gastric cancer.Di-agnostic performance of enhancement value and combination of enhancement value and morphologic assessment were compared with morphologic assessment by means of receiver operating characteristic (ROC)curve analysis.Results The sensitivity and specificity of morphological features was 66.67% and 33.33% respectively;the area under the ROC of enhancement value (between venous phase and plain scan)for differentiating T4a from T3 gastric cancer was 0.82,with a cut-off at 43.6 HU,sensitivity of 74.07% and specificity of 70.83%.Combined conventional standard and enhancement value,sensitivity of 100.00% and specificity 26.31%. Conclusion For differentiation of T4a and T3 gastric cancer by means of MDCT,enhancement value is found to be superior to con-ventional standard.
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The morbidity of obesity-related glomerulopathy(ORG) is on the increase in recent years.Studies have demonstrated that the chronic inflammation may play a key role in the pathogenesis of obesity related metabolic dysfunction.LipoxinA4 (LXA4) is an important anti-inflammatory lipid mediator,which is well known as the stop signal of the inflammatory reaction that can promote the resolution of inflammation.This review will provide a survey of recent advances on ORG and LXA4.
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Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of DWI on nasopharyngeal neoplasm recurrence and fibrotic lesions after radiotherapy.Methods A retrospective analysis of pathologically confirmed nasopharyngeal neoplasm was performed in 39 patients with recurrent patients ( recurrence group ) confirmed by biopsy or MRI follow-up and 51 patients with confirmed localized fibrosis (fibrosis group) after radiotherapy.All patients underwent DWI , non-enhanced and enhanced MR scan.DWI findings and ADC values of the lesions in two groups of patients were observed and measured , then compared by using independent samples t test.Diagnostic performance of routine MRI and DWI in the diagnosis of nasopharyngeal neoplasm recurrence after radiotherapy was calculated by using ROC analysis and the differences of both of them were analyzed by using Z test.Results DWI of 39 recurrent patients showed hyper-intensity signal and ADC map showed hypo-intensity signal appearance.Overall signal of DWI in 51 recurrent patients is lower than that in recurrent group , in which ADC maps of 36 cases showed iso-intensity or moderately hypo-intensity signal appearance and the remaining 15 cases showed moderate hyper-intensity signal appearance.The ADC values of recurrent group and fibrotic group were (0.753 ±0.127) × 10 -3 mm2/s, and ( 1.233 ± 0.310 ) ×10 -3 mm2/s, respectively.The difference was statistically significant ( t=-9.118, P<0.05).On the ROC curve, the sensitivity of ADC for the diagnosis of tumor recurrence was 87.18%(34/39), specificity 94.12%(48/51) and area under the ROC curve 0.968 with the ADC cutoff value of 0.887 ×10 -3 mm2/s.The sensitivity of routine MRI was 71.79% ( 28/39 ) , the specificity 74.51% ( 38/51 ) and the area under the ROC curve was 0.732 for the diagnosis of tumor recurrence.The difference of area under the curve between them was statistically significant ( Z=4.583, P<0.01).Conclusion DWI can help tumor detection and diagnosis of recurrent nasopharyngeal neoplasm and has a higher diagnostic performance compared with routine MRI.
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Objective To study the diagnostic value of 1.5T diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for small metastatic cervical lymph nodes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC),and to explore the optimal diagnostic threshold value of apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC)in small metastatic cervical lymph nodes of NPC.Methods 40 patients with histopathologically confirmed NPC were underwent conventional,enhanced and DWI MR.The mean ADC value of large metastatic cervical lymph nodes group,small metastatic cervical lymph nodes group and benign lymph nodes group were measured respectively.Statistical analysis was done by using the SPSS 1 6.0 program software.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC)curve was performed to obtain the ADC thresh-old value of small metastatic cervical lymph nodes and the diagnostic efficacy.Results The mean ADC value of large metastatic cer-vical lymph nodes group was (0.74±0.1 1)×10 -3 mm2/s,which was not significantly different from that in small metastatic cervical lymph nodes group(0.75±0.13)×10 -3 mm2/s,P >0.05.The mean ADC value in benign lymph nodes group was (1.05± 0.18)× 10 -3 mm2/s,which was significantly higher than that in large metastatic cervical lymph nodes group and small metastatic cervical lymph nodes group(P <0.05 ).Using a threshold ADC value of 0.908 × 10 -3 mm2/s for differentiating small metastatic cervical lymph nodes from benign lymph nodes,a sensitivity of 83.2% and specificity of 90.9% were obtained,the area under the ROC curve was 0.92.Conclusion DWI is helpful in the diagnosis of small metastatic cervical lymph nodes of NPC.
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Objective To observe the therapeutic effect of Gusongbao capsule for osteoporosis. Methods Experimental osteoporosis rat models were established by extirpation of bilateral ovaries of female rats. Bone morphological indexes, blood biochemical indexes, and daily output of calcium and phosphorus in urine in the Gusongbao treatment group and control group were determined. Results Compared with the control, the average width of bone trabecula, relative bone volume, average thickness of bone cortex, bone calcium, and the average gray degree of femoral head and femoral shaft were high, and the serum calcitonin (CT) and blood calcium increased markedly in the treatment group. High-dose and moderate-dose Gusongbao increased number of osteocytes in per unit area of bone trabecula, decreased serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level and reduced the daily output of urine calcium. Conclusion Gusongbao capsule can obviously inhibit the excessive bone transformation and promote the re-construction of bone and exerts an antagonistic effect on osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats.
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Objective To observe the anti-osteoporosis effect of Gusongbao capsule (GC).Methods Osteoporosis rat models were induced by gastric infusion of vitamin A acid at a dose of 70 mg/kg for 14 days. The bone morphological and blood biochemical indexes and the amount of calcium and phosphorus in urine excreted every day were determined in both treatment group (treated with Gusongbao) and model control group.Results In the treatment group,the average width of bone trabecula,relative bone volume,average thickness of bone cortex,bone calcium,cell number in per unit area of bone trabecula,and the average gray degree of caput femoris and femoral shaft were higher than those in the moderate group. High dose (0.8 g/kg) and middle dose (0.4 g/kg) of GC increased bone phosphorus level and decreased urine calcium level markedly and high dose of GC also increased serum level of CT (P