肾母细胞瘤MIB-1（Ki-67增殖指数）和p27kip1表达及与预后的关系

目的:探讨肾母细胞瘤MIB-1（Ki-67增殖指数）和细胞周期蛋白依赖性激酶抑制剂p27kip1的表达及与预后的关系。方法:经医院伦理委员会批准，连续纳入2008年1月至2013年8月在我院就诊的肾母细胞瘤患者样本作为研究对象，观察p27kip1和MIB-1阳性表达与患者临床特征的关系。结果:肿瘤组织中MIB-1阳性表达率高于正常肾组织，p27kip1阳性表达率低于正常肾组织，差异均有统计学意义（P＜0.05）。MIB-1和p27kip1表达与性别、年龄、病理分型、发病部位等均无相关性（P＞0.05），与临床分期存在相关性（P＜0.05）。MIB-1表达阳性患者中位生存时间低于阴性患者，而p27kip1表达阴性患者中位生存时间低于阳性患者（χ2=6.979、15.247，P=0.008、0.000）。结论:MIB-1表达增加和p27kip1表达降低与肾母细胞瘤的发生、发展、预后密切相关，临床应根据其表达情况进行针对性干预，以改善患者的预后。     

Functional Brain Network Classification for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection with Deep Features and Extreme Learning Machine

The human brain can be inherently modeled as a brain network, where nodes denote billions of neurons and edges denote massive connections between neurons.     

Safety and efficacy of different anesthetic regimens for parturients with COVID-19 undergoing Cesarean delivery: a case series of 17 patients

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie - To assess the management and safety of epidural or general anesthesia for Cesarean delivery in parturients with coronavirus...     

CD2AP inhibits metastasis in gastric cancer by promoting cellular adhesion and cytoskeleton assembly

Diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) is a lethal malignancy lacking effective systemic therapy. Among the most provocative recent results in DGC has been that the alter of the cellular cytoskeleton and intercellular adhesion. CD2-associated protein (CD2AP) is one of the critical proteins regulating cytoskeleton assembly and intercellular adhesion. However, no study has investigated the expression and biological significance of CD2AP in gastric cancer (GC) to date. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore if the expression of CD2AP is associated with any clinical features of GC and to elucidate the underlying mechanism. Immunohistochemistry of 620 patient tissue samples indicated that the expression of CD2AP is downregulated in DGC. Moreover, a low CD2AP level was indicative of poor patient prognosis. In vitro, forced expression of CD2AP caused a significant decrease in the migration and invasion of GC cells, whereas depletion of CD2AP had the opposite effect. Immunofluorescence analysis indicated that CD2AP promoted cellular adhesion and influenced cell cytoskeleton assembly via interaction with the F-actin capping protein CAPZA1. Overall, the upregulation of CD2AP could attenuate GC metastasis, suggesting CD2AP as a novel biomarker for the prognosis and treatment of patients with GC.     

Next-generation sequencing through multigene panel testing for the diagnosis of hereditary epidermolysis bullosa in Chinese population

Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a heritable blistering disorder. We performed a next-generation sequencing-based multigene panel test and successfully predicted 100% of the EB types, including, 36 EB simplex (EBS), 13 junctional EB (JEB), 86 dystrophic EB (DEB), and 3 Kindler EB. Chinese JEB and recessive DEB (RDEB) patients have relatively mild phenotypes; for severe type separately accounts for 45.5% and 23.8%, respectively. We identified 96 novel and 49 recurrent pathogenic variants in 11 genes, although we failed to detect the second mutation in one JEB and five RDEB patients. We identified one novel p.E475K mosaic mutation in the clinically normal mother of one out of 13 EBS patients with KRT5 mutations, one recurrent p.G2034R mosaic mutation, and one novel p.G2043R mosaic mutation in the clinically normal relatives of two out of 19 dominant DEB patients. This study shows that next-generation technology could be an effective tool in diagnosing EB.