Human factors in pelvic surgery

In the pelvis, anatomic complexity and difficulty in visualization and access make surgery a formidable task. Surgeons are prone to work-related musculoskeletal injuries from the frequently poor design and flow of their work environment. This is exacerbated by the strain of surgery in the pelvis. These injuries can result in alterations to a surgeons practice, inadvertent patient injury, and even early retirement. Human factors examines the relationships between the surgeon, their instruments and their environment. By bridging physiology, psychology, and ergonomics, human factors allows a better understanding of some of the challenges posed by pelvic surgery. The operative approach involved (open, laparoscopic, robotic, or perineal) plays an important role in the relevant human factors. Improved understanding of ergonomics can mitigate these risks to surgeons. Other human factors approaches such as standardization, use of checklists, and employing resiliency efforts can all improve patient safety in the operating theatre.     

基于电生理信号的生物医学工程专业课程体系建设

生理电信号作为生物医学工程中的重要信号,其中蕴含了丰富的人体信息。该研究以生理电信号为主线,通过对其信号的学习、获取、分析、处理将生物医学工程的专业课串联起来,使学生将专业知识和实际仪器设计分析结合起来,能较为全面的掌握信号与系统方面的知识,加强学生的实际分析和解决医学问题的能力。     

Advancement of chimeric antigen receptor-natural killer cells targeting hepatocellular carcinoma

With the advance of genome engineering technology, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)-based immunotherapy has become an emerging therapeutic strategy for tumors. Although initially designed for T cells in tumor immunotherapy, CARs have been exploited to modify the function of natural killer (NK) cells against a variety of tumors, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CAR-NK cells have the potential to sufficiently kill tumor antigen-expressing HCC cells, independent of major histocompatibility complex matching or prior priming. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in genetic engineering of CAR-NK cells against HCC and discuss the current challenges and prospects of CAR-NK cells as a revolutionary cellular immunotherapy against HCC.     

大黄素治疗代谢相关脂肪性肝病的作用机制研究进展

代谢相关脂肪性肝病既往称为非酒精性脂肪肝，与肥胖、糖尿病、高脂血症等关系密切，还明显增加心血管死亡的风险。大黄素是大黄、何首乌中主要的活性成分，具有多种生物学功能。大黄素可通过降低肝细胞脂质沉积、抑制肝脏炎症反应、抗胰岛素抵抗、抑制肝纤维化、抗氧化应激反应等多种途径对代谢相关脂肪性肝病发挥治疗作用。总结了大黄素治疗代谢相关脂肪性肝病的作用机制，为代谢相关脂肪性肝病的治疗提供参考。     

Arterial spin labeling MR image denoising and reconstruction using unsupervised deep learning

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) imaging is a powerful magnetic resonance imaging technique that allows to quantitatively measure blood perfusion non-invasively, which has great potential for assessing tissue viability in various clinical settings. However, the clinical applications of ASL are currently limited by its low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), limited spatial resolution, and long imaging time. In this work, we propose an unsupervised deep learning-based image denoising and reconstruction framework to improve the SNR and accelerate the imaging speed of high resolution ASL imaging. The unique feature of the proposed framework is that it does not require any prior training pairs but only the subject's own anatomical prior, such as T1-weighted images, as network input. The neural network was trained from scratch in the denoising or reconstruction process, with noisy images or sparely sampled k-space data as training labels. Performance of the proposed method was evaluated using in vivo experiment data obtained from 3 healthy subjects on a 3T MR scanner, using ASL images acquired with 44-min acquisition time as the ground truth. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed txtc framework over the reference methods. In summary, our proposed unsupervised deep learning-based denoising and reconstruction framework can improve the image quality and accelerate the imaging speed of ASL imaging.     

人髌下脂肪垫干细胞的分离培养鉴定及初步研究

目的建立人髌下脂肪垫干细胞分离、培养和鉴定的平台，验证其可作为可靠的干细胞来源，并可作为细胞模型参与科学研究。 方法人髌下脂肪垫取自膝关节置换手术患者，经Ⅰ型胶原酶消化，在高糖Dulbecco改良Eagle培养基(DMEM)内扩增，取P5代细胞用于检测其"干性"及三向分化能力。与微尺度支架结合，通过RT－PCR检测成骨基因的表达，应用最小显著性差异法进行组间两两比较，用于验证微尺度支架的成骨诱导特性。 结果人髌下脂肪垫干细胞具备间充质干细胞相关特性，包括黏附贴壁性；成脂肪、成软骨及成骨分化；表达相关表面标记，如分化抗原簇(CD)73、CD90和CD105；不表达造血细胞系的分子表面标记，如c-kit、CD14、CD11b、CD34、CD45、CD19、CD79和人白细胞抗原(HLA)-DR。本课题中人髌下脂肪垫来源干细胞成功作为一种干细胞模型，证明HaCG微尺度支架具备成骨诱导特性，表现为三组中成骨基因ALP、COL1、Runx2表达差异有统计学意义(分别为F＝150，P<0.01；F＝68，P<0.01；F＝16，P<0.01)。HaCG微尺度支架组高于纯明胶微尺度支架组及二维培养组，纯明胶微尺度支架组高于二维培养组(P值均小于0.05)。 结论人髌下脂肪垫干细胞分离、培养和鉴定平台的建立，未来可作为细胞模型应用于多种不同实验。     

代谢手术治疗肥胖型多囊卵巢综合征的 meta 分析

目的: 系统评价代谢手术对肥胖型多囊卵巢综合征的影响。方法: 检索 PubMed、EMBASE、Cochrane Library、CNKI 和万方数据库。检索时间为 2000－01 ～ 2017－05。结局指标包括 PCOS、月经周期异常、多毛症、不 孕症。结果: 纳入的 19 篇报道中，共纳入接受代谢手术病人共 2716 例，其中女性病人 2274 例。经代谢手术后， PCOS 发生率术前12．27%术后降低为4．76%( 95%CI: 2．14 ～ 9．86，Z = 3．92，P＜0．0001) 。月经周期异常发生率术前 34．43%术后降低为10．79%( 95%CI: 5．62～ 26．15，Z= 6．36，P＜0．0001) 。多毛症发生率70．59%降低为21．01%( 95% CI: 3．57～ 31．06，Z= 4．27，P＜0．0001) 。不孕症发生率7．69%术后降低为2．56% ( 95% CI: 1．77 ～ 5．81，Z = 3．85，P = 0．0001) 。结论: 代谢手术可显著改善肥胖型多囊卵巢综合征的临床症状。