Prognostic significance of resident CD103+CD8+T cells in human colorectal cancer tissues

The prognostic significance and clinical implications of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells in human colorectal cancer tissues still remains largely unexplored. In our present study, we aimed to characterize the resident CD8⁺T cells in human colorectal cancer tissues by using double staining of CD103 and CD8, and further evaluated the prognostic significance of resident CD8⁺T cells in colorectal cancer. We found that the OS rate of the colorectal cancer patients with higher infiltration of CD8⁺T cells, or with higher numbers of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells, or with higher ratio of CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells over total CD8⁺T cells in cancer tissues was significantly better than that of the patients with lower infiltration of CD8⁺T cells, or with lower numbers of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells, or with higher ratio of CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells over total CD8⁺T cells in cancer tissues, respectively. Moreover, higher infiltration of CD8⁺T cells in colorectal cancer tissues was significantly and inversely correlated with advanced TNM stage. Higher numbers of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells in colorectal cancer tissues were significantly and inversely correlated with distant metastasis status. Higher ratio of CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells over total CD8⁺T cells in colorectal cancer tissues was significantly and inversely correlated with age status. The COX model analysis demonstrated that higher infiltration of CD8⁺T cells, higher numbers of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells, or higher ratio of CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells over total CD8⁺T cells in colorectal cancer tissues, could serve as independent prognostic predictors for colorectal cancer patients. Taken together, our present study demonstrated the density of tumor infiltrating CD8⁺T cells or the numbers of resident CD103⁺CD8⁺T cells in colorectal tissues could be used as an important prognostic predictor for this malignancy.     

Chloride channel 3 (CIC-3) predicts the tumor size in hepatocarcinoma

Chloride channel 3 (CIC-3) has been suggested to be implicated in the carcinogenesis though; it still remains ill understood in hepatocarcinoma, especially in terms of clinicopathological meaning of its expression. Given this, herein, to understand the clinicopathological significance of CIC-3 expression in hepatocarcinoma, Immunohistochemistry was performed to examine the level of CIC-3, followed by statistical analysis of the correlation between expression versus clinicopathological variables, including gender, age, TNM classifications, tumor size, lymph node metastasis and overall prognosis. It was shown that positive staining of CIC-3 can be present in both hepatocarcinoma and its paired normal controls; and that CIC-3 was significantly over-expressed in hepatcarcioma on the whole relative to paired normal controls. Moreover, up-regulation of CIC-3 markedly correlated with tumor size and overall prognosis, suggesting that CIC-3 expression could predict both tumor size and overall prognosis in hepatocarcinoma.     

TNF-α/calreticulin dual signaling induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation associated with HuR nucleocytoplasmic shuttling in rheumatoid arthritis

Inflammation Research - The present study was undertaken to validate whether TNF-α and calreticulin (CRT) serve as dual signaling to activate nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-,...     

Modeling Clinical Outcomes in Prostate Cancer: Application and Validation of the Discrete Event Simulation Approach

Objectives

Treatment landscape in prostate cancer has changed dramatically with the emergence of new medicines in the past few years. The traditional survival partition model (SPM) cannot accurately predict long-term clinical outcomes because it is limited by its ability to capture the key consequences associated with this changing treatment paradigm. The objective of this study was to introduce and validate a discrete-event simulation (DES) model for prostate cancer.

免疫抑制鼠根尖周炎的组织病理学研究

目的 :了解免疫抑制对根尖周炎致病作用的影响。方法 :32只SD大鼠分成两组 ,实验组每周 1次环磷酰胺 (70mg/kg)腹腔注射 ,并作尾静脉血白细胞计数 ;白细胞总数明显下降时 ,行下颌磨牙开髓术 ,术后 1、2、3、4周取材 ,摄X线牙片 ,测X线片所示根尖周稀疏区面积 ;制作组织切片 ,HE染色。结果 :用药前外周血白细胞密度为 (1132 0± 3882 )× 10 6/L ,用药后 (12 70± 4 4 9)× 10 6/L ,下降非常显著。术后 1、2、3、4周根尖阴影面积与对照组呈相似的动态过程。组织学观察 :两组呈相似的非特异性炎症反应过程。结论 :免疫抑制剂致外周血白细胞减少 ,对鼠根尖周炎病程无明显影响。     

Microbiome of Deep Dentinal Caries from Reversible Pulpitis to Irreversible Pulpitis

Introduction

This study examined the identity of the microbiome of deep dentinal caries and its correlation with the inflammation status of caries-induced pulpitis.

BMSC-HA/TCP修复羟基磷灰石种植体周围骨缺损的实验研究

目的:探讨应用小型猪BMSC为种子细胞,HA-TCP为支架修复种植体周围骨缺损的可行性。方法:将8只小型猪,随机分为实验组及对照组。在两组种植体周围骨缺损区分别植入细胞-支架材料,单纯支架材料,于种植体植入后1个月,3个月取材,进行观察。结果:细胞-支架组1个月骨缺损区可见新生编织骨包绕支架材料,3个月可见支架材料降解,密质骨形成。支架组1个月骨缺损区纤维组织包裹支架材料,3个月支架材料部分降解。结论:细胞-支架构建方式可作为修复羟基磷灰石种植体周围骨缺损的方法之一。     

Brnemark种植系统在部分牙缺失的临床应用

211颗Branemark种植体植入89名部分牙缺失患者的颌骨内，完成修复体95件，临床观察28－36个月，修复后2年累积成功率为93.4％，修复作稳定率为84.2％，种植失败多数发生在种植早期，其主要原因为局部感染。     

鼠半胱氨酸蛋白酶抑制物cystatin S 对人口腔牙龈卟啉菌生长的抑制

目的：观察鼠半胱氨酸蛋白酶抑制物ｃｙｓｔａｔｉｎＳ对人口腔牙龈卟啉菌（Ｐｏｒｐｈｙｒｏｍｏｎａｓｇｉｎｇｉｖａｌｉｓ）生长的影响。方法：用琼脂扩散法检查了ｃｙｓｔａｔｉｎＳ对人口腔数种牙龈卟啉菌生长的抑制情况。结果：虽然对不同菌株其影响程度略有差异，对实验用牙龈卟啉菌３８１，３８１Ｐ，ＡＴＣＣＷ５０，Ｗ８３，３３２７７，ＮＣＴＣ１１８３４，ＶＰＩ１４０１８生长均有抑制作用，并且具有药物浓度依赖性。结论：鼠半胱氨酸蛋白酶抑制物ｃｙｓｔａｔｉｎＳ对人口腔牙龈卟啉菌生长有抑制作用。