新疆地区HBV基因型分布特点及其与肝硬化的相关性分析

目的探讨新疆地区HBV基因分型构成特点及其与肝硬化之间的关系。方法收集2011年10月至2013年6月新疆维吾尔自治区中医医院收治的慢性HBV感染者1018例。其中检测出基因型、资料完整的828例。根据实验室检查及彩超或CT结果将患者分为慢性乙型肝炎组、肝硬化组、原发性肝癌组。采用PCR法对HBV基因分型,运用列联卡方、秩和检验、多因素Logistic回归分析等方法对HBV基因型与临床病情及相关慢性肝病结局进行分析。结果 828例患者中,以C型为主,占总样本的54.11%(448/828),B型占25.15%(200/828),D型占16.18%(134/828);各基因型病情程度构成差异无统计学意义(H=0.1689,P0.05);116例肝硬化患者中基因C型占20.84%,与B型和D型相比较差异均有统计学意义(χ2值分别为25.486、20.947,P值均为0.000);乙型肝炎病程10年以上、基因C型、HBV DNA高病毒载量、ALTULN进入回归模型(P0.05)。其中基因C型与肝硬化的相关度最高(OR=2.819,95%CI:1.582~5.021)。结论新疆地区HBV基因分型以C型为主,其次为B型、D型。基因C型是HBV相关肝硬化患者的独立危险因素。     

新疆维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型分布及其特点

目的探讨新疆维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型分布及其特点。方法采用型特异性引物巢式PCR法对127例维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者进行基因分型,并测序验证。结果基因D型占39．4%（50/127）,基因B型占22．0%（28/127）,基因C型占16．5%（21/127）,基因BD混合型占9．4%（12/127）,基因CD混合型占8．7%（11/127）,基因BCD混合型占3．9%（5/127）; HBeAg阳性与HBeAg阴性的维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者基因型分布,差异无统计学意义（x^2= 6．033,P＞0．05）;不同年龄维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型分布差异无统计学意义（x^2= 3．137,P＞0．05）;不同性别维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型分布差异亦无统计学意义（x^2= 8．058,P＞0．05）。结论新疆维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型以D型占优势,其次可见B、C型及BD、CD、BCD混合型。同一疾病谱的慢性HBV感染者基因型分布可能与宿主HBeAg状态、年龄、性别无明显关系。     

江西乙型肝炎病毒基因型分布及其与临床的相关性

目的了解江西慢性乙型肝炎患者血清乙型肝炎病毒（HBV）基因型的分布情况及HBV基因型与临床的关系。方法选择HBV DNA阳性的慢性乙型肝炎患者血清150份,患者分别诊断为慢性HBV携带者、慢性肝炎轻度、中度、重度和慢性重型肝炎,每组30例,采用多对型特异性引物巢式PCR法检测HBV基因型。结果本组慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因分型结果为B型118例（78．7％）,C型31例（20．7％）,D型1例（0．6％）;在上述5组患者中C型比例分别为0％,16．7％,26．7％,30．0％和30．0％,其中慢性HBV携带者与其他组比,差异有统计学意义（P〈0．05）;B、C两基因型患者HBeAg阳性率分别为83．9％（99／118）和90．3％（28／31）,HBeAb阳性率分别为16．1％（19／118）和9．7％（3／31）,差异均无统计学意义（P〉0．05）。结论江西地区HBV优势基因型以B型为主,C型次之,有少量的D型感染者。     

山东地区乙型肝炎病毒基因分型的研究

目的了解山东地区慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因分布特征,探讨其基因型与病毒复制的关系。方法采用PCR、微板核酸分子杂交和酶联显色技术,对该地区166例慢性乙型肝炎患者血清HBV—DNA进行了基因分型。结果166例患者中C基因型115例（115／131）,分型率为87．79％;D基因型16例（16／131）,分型率为12．21％。未发现A、B、E和F基因型。结论山东地区HBV基因型为C型和D型,优势基因型为C型。     

黄石地区慢性无症状乙型肝炎病毒携带者的基因型分布

目的：了解湖北黄石地区慢性无症状乙型肝炎病毒（HBV）携带者HBV基因型的分布，及其与病毒复制水平、HBeAg表达的相关性。方法：选择黄石地区168例慢性无症状HBV携带者作为研究对象，HBV基因型采用PCR微板核酸杂交．ELISA方法检测；血清HBVDNA复制水平采用荧光定量PCR检测；HBV—M采用ELISA法检测。结果：168例慢性无症状HBV携带者中HBVDNA阳性者为114例（阳性率为67．9％），其基因型分布为B、C、D型以及这3种基因型组成的混合型，而未发现A、E、F基因型。其中以B型、C型为主，所占比例为62．6％和36．8％，D型及混合型比例均为5．3％。C基因型患者中，HBV DNA呈现高水平复制（10^7～10^8 Copies／ml）的患者比例为26．2％（11／42），B基因型为13．3％（8／60）（P〈0．05）。C基因型患者血清抗-HBe阳性率（40．5％）显著高于B基因型（15．0％）（P〈0．01）。结论：黄石地区存在HBV的B、C、D基因型，以及由它们组成的混合基因型；B基因型为优势基因型；C基因型与HBV高复制水平，以及基因变异相关。     

乙型肝炎病毒基本核心启动子突变与基因型的关系

目的研究乙型肝炎病毒（HBV）基本核心启动子（BCP）突变与HBV基因型的关系。方法随机选取我院68例慢性乙型肝炎患者外周血，采用荧光定量PCR结合TaqmanMGB探针技术检测HBV基因型，并用基因扩增和DNA测序方法检测BCPT1762／A1764双突变。结果68例患者HBV分型中，B基因型20例，C基因型46例，B、C混合型1例，未分型（非B非C型）1例。66例B、C两基因型中，B基因型组T1762／A1764双突变5例，突变率25．0％（5／20），C基因型组T1762／A1764双突变24例，突变率52．2％（24／46），C基因型T1762／A1764双突变率明显高于B基因型（P〈0．05）。结论苏州地区慢性乙型肝炎患者基因型以C型和B型为主，C基因型比B基因型更易发生T1762／A1764双突变。     

广东省东莞地区慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型分析

目的探讨东莞地区乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型的分布特点。方法采用PCR-微板核酸杂交-ELISA法检测HBVA—F基因型，采用荧光定量-聚合酶链反应法检测血清HBVDNA定量。结果在295例乙型肝炎患者中检出HBV基因型247例（83．7％），其中HBV基因C型占62．3％（154／247）、B型15．4％（38／247）、D型6．9％（17／247）、B／C混合型4．9％（12／247）、C／D混合型5．3％（13／247）、B／D混合型5．3％（13／247），48例未检出基因型；基因C型感染者之间无性别差异（x^2=0．043，P〉0．05）；各基因型患者血清HBVDNA水平无显著性相差，但与48例未检出基因型者比，后者HBVDNA水平明显降低（P〈0．01）。结论PCR-微板核酸杂交-ELISA法检测HBV基因型具有特异、敏感、简单和实用的特点，东莞地区乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型以C型为主，混合型比例相对较高，HBV复制强弱与病毒基因型无关。     

135例乙型肝炎病毒感染者基因分型及其临床分布

目的研究乙型肝炎病毒（HBV）感染者中HBV基因分型及其临床分布情况。方法应用基因型和亚型特异性引物聚合酶链反应（PCR）法，对鲁西地区135例HBV感染者血清进行HBV基因型及亚型分型。结果未分型11例，已分型124例。其中C型111例（C2基因亚型87例、非C1／C2亚型24例）；B型11例，其中Ba型8例、Bj型3例；B／C混合型2例均为BaC2亚型混和感染。在肝硬化和重度慢性乙型肝炎中C型所占比例较高，分别为100％、88％；无症状携带者中B型所占比例较高为8．51％；HBV基因型分型与性别无关。结论鲁西地区HBV感染者以C基因型为主，其中C2亚型占优势。     

慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型和哑型分布调查

目的研究慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV基因型和亚型流行情况。方法应用HBV基因型和亚型特异性引物PCR法对北京、长春、大连、西安、石家庄、郑州和合肥7个城市660份HBV DNA阳性慢性乙型肝炎患者血清进行基因型和亚型分析。结果在660份HBV DNA阳性血清中,B基因型、C基因型和B／C混合感染分别为16．67％（110／660）、74．54％（492／660）和8．79％（58／660）;在C基因型中,C1亚型6例（1．22％）、C2亚型473例（96．14％）、C1／C2混合基因亚型13例（2．64％）;B基因型均为Ba亚型,B基因型和C基因型混合感染者均为Ba与C2亚型混合感染,未发现其他基因型和基因亚型;不同基因型感染患者HBeAg阳性率差异无统计学意义（P=0．153）;B基因型和C基因型患者之间血清HBV DNA水平差异无统计学意义（6．37±1．62lg copies／ml对6．29±1．76lg copies／ml）,但均高于B和C基因型混合感染患者（5．25±1．65lg copies／ml）。结论这7个城市慢性乙型肝炎患者以B基因型和C基因型感染为主,有部分B／C基因型混合感染。HBV亚型以Ba和C2亚型占优势。     

新疆维吾尔族慢性乙型肝炎病毒感染者病毒基因型及亚型分布特点

目的 了解新疆维吾尔自治区(简称新疆)维吾尔族慢性HBV感染者基因型、基因亚型分布情况及其与预后的关系.方法 采用聚合酶链反应限制性片段长度多态性分析方法,分析109例新疆维吾尔族慢性HBV感染者感染病毒的基因型及基因亚型.多标本均数比较采用单向方差分析.结果 109例新疆维吾尔族慢性HBV感染者,其中慢性乙型肝炎88例,乙型肝炎肝硬化17例,肝癌4例.13基因型HBV感染者9例,占8.3%,C基因型感染者50例,占45.9%,C/D基因型重组体32例,占29.4%,D基因型感染者18例,占16.5%,C基因型、C/D基因型重组体为主要基因型.经过聚合酶链反应限制性片段长度多态性分析及测序检测,鉴定9份B基因型HBV,均为Ba亚型.50例C基因型HBV感染者病毒基因亚型分布情况:Cl亚型27例,占54%,C2亚型23例,Cl亚型比C2亚型感染者多.在慢性乙型肝炎、乙型肝炎肝硬化、肝癌患者中,HBV Ba基因亚型感染者分别为8例(9.1%)、1例(5.8%)和0例;C2基因亚型感染者分别为17例(19.3%)、8例(47.5%)和2例(50%);C/D基因型感染者分别为29例(33.0%)、2例(11.9%)和1例(25%),随着病情加重,Ba基因亚型和C/D基因型感染者所占比例呈下降趋势,C2基因亚型感染者所占比例增加.结论 新疆地区维吾尔族慢性HBV感染者以Cl基因亚型为主,新疆维吾尔族慢性HBV感染者存在C/D基因型重组体.C2基因亚型HBV感染预示病情严重,预后差.     

Three layer functional model and energy exchange concept of aging process

Relying on a certain degree of abstraction, we can propose that no particular distinction exists between animate or living matter and inanimate matter. While focusing attention on some specifics, the dividing line between the two can be drawn. The most apparent distinction is in the level of structural and functional organization with the dissimilar streams of ‘energy flow’ between the observed entity and the surrounding environment. In essence, living matter is created from inanimate matter which is organized to contain internal intense energy processes and maintain lower intensity energy exchange processes with the environment. Taking internal and external energy processes into account, we contend in this paper that living matter can be referred to as matter of dissipative structure, with this structure assumed to be a common quality of all living creatures and living matter in general. Interruption of internal energy conversion processes and terminating the controlled energy exchange with the environment leads to degeneration of dissipative structure and reduction of the same to inanimate matter, (gas, liquid and/or solid inanimate substances), and ultimately what can be called ‘death.’ This concept of what we call dissipative nature can be extended from living organisms to social groups of animals, to mankind. An analogy based on the organization of matter provides a basis for a functional model of living entities. The models relies on the parallels among the three central structures of any cell (nucleus, cytoplasm and outer membrane) and the human body (central organs, body fluids along with the connective tissues, and external skin integument). This three-part structural organization may be observed almost universally in nature. It can be observed from the atomic structure to the planetary and intergalactic organizations. This similarity is corroborated by the membrane theory applied to living organisms. According to the energy nature of living matter and the proposed functional model, the decreased integrity of a human body's external envelope membrane is a first cause of the structural degradation and aging of the entire organism. The aging process than progresses externally to internally, as in single cell organisms, suggesting that much of the efforts towards the restoration and maintenance of the mechanisms responsible for structural development should be focused accordingly, on the membrane, i.e., the skin. Numerous reports indicate that all parts of the human body, like: bones, blood with blood vessels, muscles, skin, and so on, have some ability for restoration. Therefore, actual revival of not only aging tissue of the human body's membrane, but the entire human body enclosed within, with all internal organs, might be expected. We assess several aging theories within the context of our model and provide suggestions on how to activate the body's own anti-aging mechanisms and increase longevity. This paper presents some analogies and some distinctions that exist between the living dissipative structure matter and inanimate matter, discusses the aging process and proposes certain aging reversal solutions.     

Unusual responses of nocturnal pineal melatonin synthesis and secretion to swimming: Attempts to define mechanisms

Abstract: The effect of swimming at night on rat pineal melatonin synthesis was compared with that of light exposure at night. Rats were forced to swim at 0030 hr (lights out at 2000 hr) and sacrificed by decapitation 15 and 30 min later, immediately after swimming. Other groups of animals were exposed to white light (650μW/cm²) for 15 and 30 min at same time. Swimming caused a rapid and highly significant drop in the melatonin content in the pineal gland; however, the activity of N-acetyltransferase (NAT), the supposed rate limiting enzyme in the melatonin production, was not changed. Despite the drop in pineal melatonin levels, serum concentrations of the indole remained elevated in the rats that swam. In contrast, melatonin levels in the pineal and serum of light exposed rats fell precipitously, accompanied by a significant suppression of NAT activity. Since we anticipated that the strenuous exercise associated with swimming may induce release of artrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) from the heart, which in turn could cause the release of pineal melatonin, in a second study we injected physiological saline intravenously to stretch the cardiac muscle and release ANP. Three milliliters of normal saline was injected during the day into the jugular vein of anesthetized rats that were pretreated with isoproterenol to stimulate pineal melatonin production. Animals were killed 15 min after the saline injection, and pineal NAT activity and pineal melatonin levels were measured. The saline injections caused no alteration in the elevated levels of either NAT or melatonin. These data suggest that the disparity in pineal NAT activity (which was high) and pineal melatonin (which was low), in animals swum at night, may not be caused by ANP which is released during strenuous exercise such as swimming.     

The immunoneuroendocrine role of melatonin

Abstract: A tight, physiological link between the pineal gland and the immune system is emerging from a series of experimental studies. This link might reflect the evolutionary connection between self-recognition and reproduction. Pinealectomy or other experimental methods which inhibit melatonin synthesis and secretion induce a state of immunodepression which is counteracted by melatonin. In general, melatonin seems to have an immunoenhancing effect that is particularly apparent in immunodepressive states. The negative effect of acute stress or immunosuppressive pharmacological treatments on various immune parameters are counteracted by melatonin. It seems important to note that one of the main targets of melatonin is the thymus, i.e., the central organ of the immune system. The clinical use of melatonin as an immunotherapeutic agent seems promising in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies as well as in cancer immunotherapy. The immunoenhancing action of melatonin seems to be mediated by T-helper cell-derived opioid peptides as well as by lymphokines and, perhaps, by pituitary hormones. Melatonin-induced-immuno-opioids (MHO) and lymphokines imply the presence of specific binding sites or melatonin receptors on cells of the immune system. On the other hand, lymphokines such as -γ-interferon and interleukin-2 as well as thymic hormones can modulate the synthesis of melatonin in the pineal gland. The pineal gland might thus be viewed as the crux of a sophisticated immunoneuroendocrine network which functions as an unconscious, diffuse sensory organ.     

Melatonin and photoperiodic time measurement: Seasonal breeding in the sheep

Abstract: Well-established circadian physiology supports the view that photoperiodic time measurement utilizes the coincidence between the presence of light and a photosensitive phase of a 'biological clock' to alter reproductive status—the so-called external coincidence model of seasonal breeding. In this review, we examine the mechanism whereby photoperiod interacts with presumed suprachiasmatic nuclei activity to allow endogenous melatonin to normally synchronize reproductive activity to the optimal time of year. The Romney Marsh sheep is particularly explored as an experimental model. It is suggested that the on/off activity of seasonal reproduction may be a robust mechanism able to be predictably manipulated by the judicious use of the light/dark cycle and exogenous melatonin, but firmly based on circadian principles.     

Response of rat pineal melatonin to calcium, magnesium, and lithium is circadian stage dependent

Abstract: Herein we documented the response of pineal melatonin production to electrolytes known to be effective on pineal function in view of a possible circadian stage dependence. We studied the release of melatonin by perifused rat pineal glands at 2 different circadian stages corresponding to the middle of the light and dark periods, i.e., respectively, 7 and 19 HALO (Hours After Light Onset, L:D = 12:12). The initial efflux rates were, as expected, much higher in the perifusates of glands removed from rats sacrificed during the dark phase than of those removed during the light phase. After 3 hr of perifusion, melatonin release reached similar levels which were found constant up to the 8th hr of perifusion, whatever the circadian stage. Perifusion of the glands with physiological concentrations for the rat of calcium (5.2 mmol/1) and magnesium (1.34 mmol/1) resulted in a stimulatory effect on the pineal glands removed from rats sacrificed in the middle of the dark period (19 HALO), whereas no effects were observed on the pineal glands removed from rats sacrificed during the light (7 HALO). Lithium (0.28 and 0.55 mmol/1) was ineffective on melatonin release in pineal glands removed 7 and 19 HALO. Our results show differences in the initial efflux rates of melatonin and in the response of perifused pineal glands to calcium and magnesium according to the circadian stage.     

Conservative management of perforated duodenal diverticulum： A case report and review of the literature

Duodenal diverticula are a relatively common condition. They are asymptomatic, unless they become complicated, with perforation being the rarest but most severe complication. Surgical treatment is the most frequently performed approach. We report the case of a patient with a perforated duodenal diverticulum, which was diagnosed early and treated conservatively with antibiotics and percutaneous drainage of secondary retroperitoneal abscesses. We suggest this method could be an acceptable option for the management of similar cases, provided that the patient is in good general condition and without septic signs.     

Changes in connexin43, the gap junction protein of astrocytes, during development of the rat pineal gland

Abstract: The abundance of gap junctions between rat pineal astrocytes formed by connexin43 (Cx43) was studied during development. Levels and distribution of Cx43 were measured by immunoblotting and indirect immunofluorescence, respectively. The amount of Cx43 in cells located within the gland was low until about the 7th postnatal day and increased to adult values between the 14th and 21st days postpartum. Although astrocytes, recognized by their vimentin immunoreactivity, were scarce before birth, they were abundant by the 7th postnatal day suggesting that the low levels of Cx43 found at this age corresponded to a low expression of this protein. Localization of the immunoreactivity to Cx43 and vimentin showed a close correlation, indicating that mature or immature pineal astrocytes form gap junctions made of Cx43. Since Cx43 levels attained their adult values at about the time the innervation and the functional state of the gland reached maturity (2–3 weeks after birth), it is proposed that astrocyte gap junctions are involved in the function of the adult rat pineal gland.