老年人围手术期血压变化

随着人口老龄化,老年高血压患者的患病率逐年增加,需选择外科手术的老年高血压患者也逐渐增多。由于围手术期发生的生理性变化,血流动力学不稳定在围手术期很常见。尽管存在这种血流动力学改变频率及与其相关的潜在危害,特别是在老年人群中,但缺乏优化围手术期血压的指南。低血压与围手术期的不良结果有关,特别是肾损伤、心肌损伤和死亡率增加。个性化血压可能是老年人围手术期血压管理的关键。     

CDCA8通过调控增殖促进前列腺癌发生的作用机制研究

目的 探讨细胞分裂周期相关蛋白8（CDCA8）在前列腺癌（PCa）中的表达及作用机制。方法 通过生物信息学方法分析正常前列腺组织和PCa组织中CDCA8 mRNA水平差异。利用癌症基因组图谱（TCGA）数据库中RNA表达测序数据分析CDCA8表达相关的PCa患者无病生存期（DFS）。免疫组织化学方法检测根治性前列腺切除...     

The involvement of ERK/CREB/Bcl-2 in depression-like behavior in prenatally stressed offspring rats

A number of studies reveal that prenatal stress (PS) may induce an increased vulnerability to depression in offspring. Some evidences indicate that extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-cyclic AMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) signal system may play an important role in the molecular mechanism of depression. In the present study, we examined the effects of prenatal restraint stress on depression-like behavior in one-month offspring Sprague-Dawley rats and expression of ERK2, CREB, B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) mRNA in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and striatum to explore the potential role of ERK–CREB pathway in mediating the behavioral effects of PS exposure. Our findings demonstrated that PS increased immobility time in forced swimming test and decreased expression of ERK2, CREB, Bcl-2 mRNA in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of juvenile offspring rats except for CREB in hippocampus of male offspring. Changes induced by PS were partly prevented by MK-801, an N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist. These findings suggested that the ERK–CREB system might be related with the depression-like behavior in juvenile offspring rats subjected to PS, in which NMDA receptors might be involved.     

我国城市地区癌症筛查项目人员对筛查工作意愿倾向的多中心调查及政策建议

目的 基于癌症筛查实际供方角度,从工作人员主观感受及意愿层面评价癌症筛查项目的可持续性。方法 2014-2015年,基于城市癌症早诊早治项目,在16个省份项目点选取2013-2015年所有承担项目的医院、CDC和社区卫生服务中心,采用纸质问卷和网络调查开展访谈,对象包括宏观管理人员、具体项目管理人员和一线工作人员等。结果 最终完成访谈4 626份,访谈对象总体认为参加项目的最大收获在于社会价值感的提升（63.6%）、当地影响力（35.9%）及专业技能提升（30.6%）等;最大困难在于社会物质激励不够所致工作积极性低（30.9%）、信息采集口径不一致（28.3%）、部门间协调（24.4%）和机构间沟通衔接困难（23.5%）等。当单项筛查服务劳务补偿约50元时,工作人员会考虑加班工作。63.7%的受访者有长期筛查服务意愿,主要原因：可通过项目提升个人/团队在当地影响口碑（48.7%）、通过项目提升个人/团队专业技能（43.1%）等;无服务意愿者主要担心工作量超负荷（59.8%）、对日常工作的干扰（49.8%）等。结论 收获与困难相关结果提示,若要长期可持续性开展癌症筛查工作,建议加强项目内荣誉激励、对外宣传及专业能力建设,根据具体情况提高劳务补偿。服务意愿结果则提示,应从政府和领导层面加强信息化建设及机构/部门间协调,机构内应合理协调筛查项目与日常工作。     

A comparison between raltitrexed plus cisplatin and docetaxel plus cisplatin in concurrent chemoradiation for non-surgical esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

PurposeChemoradiotherapy (CRT) is considered as a standard treatment for unresectable and inoperable esophageal cancer (EC) patients. However, no consensus has been reached regarding the optimal synchronous chemotherapy regimen and the best combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of raltitrexed plus cisplatin and docetaxel plus cisplatin to find a safe and effective concurrent chemotherapy schedule.Patients and methodsOur retrospective study included 151 EC patients treated with raltitrexed and cisplatin (RP) (n = 90) or docetaxel and cisplatin (DP) (n = 61) from 2011 till 2018. Survival outcomes and treatment related toxicity were analyzed between the two groups.ResultsPFS and OS were 18 and 34 months in the RP group, while 13 and 20 months in the DP group (P = 0.118 and P = 0.270). The 1-, 2-, 3-year survival rates of the RP group were 71.1, 55.4 and 46.4%. For the DP group, these were 63.9, 44.3 and 37.6%, respectively. Compared with DP group, RP group received a superior CR rate (68.9% versus 52.5%, P = 0.041). There was a trend that the total number of toxic reactions in RP group was lower than that in DP group (P = 0.058).ConclusionsEven RP and DP groups have the similar survival outcomes and toxicity, raltitrexed/cisplatin get a higher complete response rate. Our study suggests that raltitrexed combined with cisplatin is a safe and effective concurrent chemotherapy regimen and it might be used as an alternative for cisplatin/5-FU and cisplatin/docetaxel in CCRT for EC patients.     

Prediction model for malignant pulmonary nodules based on cfMeDIP-seq and machine learning

Cell-free methylated DNA immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing (cfMeDIP-seq) is a new bisulfite-free technique, which can detect the whole-genome methylation of blood cell-free DNA (cfDNA). Using this technique, we identified differentially methylated regions (DMR) of cfDNA between lung tumors and normal controls. Based on the top 300 DMR, we built a random forest prediction model, which was able to distinguish malignant lung tumors from normal controls with high sensitivity and specificity of 91.0% and 93.3% (AUROC curve of 0.963). In summary, we reported a non–invasive prediction model that had good ability to distinguish malignant pulmonary nodules.     

Hypermethylation of Death-Associated Protein Kinase (DAPK1) and its association with oral carcinogenesis - An experimental and meta-analysis study

ObjectivesThe value of abnormal DNA methylation of DAPK1 promoter and its association with various cancers have been suggested in the literature. To establish the significance of DNA methylation of DAPK1 promoter in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), we a) performed a case-control study, b) evaluated published data for its utility in the diagnosis and prognosis of OSCC and c) identified the association of DAPK1 gene expression with promoter DNA methylation status.DesignBisulfite gene sequencing of DAPK1 promoter region was performed on non-malignant and malignant oral samples. Further, using a systematic search, 330 publications were retrieved from PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar and 11 relevant articles were identified.ResultsSignificant association of DAPK1 promoter methylation with OSCC (p < 0.0001) was observed in the case-control study. The studies chosen for meta-analysis showed prognostic and predictive significance of DAPK1 gene promoter, despite defined inconsistencies in few studies. Overall, we obtained a statistically significant (p-value < 0.001) association for both sensitivity and specificity of DAPK1 DNA promoter methylation in oral cancer cases, without publication bias.ConclusionDNA hypermethylation of DAPK1 gene promoter is a promising biomarker for OSCC prediction/prognostics and suggests further validation in large distinct cohorts to facilitate translation to clinics.     

Leveling the Playing Field in Homozygosity Mapping Using Map Distances

Studies of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and its variation in the genome are of central importance for understanding evolutionary history, population structure, and selective sweeps. Extreme forms of the latter may result in runs of homozygosity (ROH). In human gene mapping, long ROHs are the basis for homozygosity mapping (HM) with length measured in terms of Mb (10⁶ base pairs physical distance). LD varies greatly over the human genome so that long ROHs tend to occur preferentially in regions of high LD and ROHs of the same length in different regions are not strictly comparable. Thus, in human gene mapping, LD appears as a confounder that needs to be taken into account in the interpretation of ROHs. The effect of varying LD can be mitigated by working on a scale of centimorgans (cM, genetic distance) instead of Mb. We demonstrate this effect for HapMap 3 data on chromosome 19 and show examples with different ROH lengths depending on whether physical or genetic lengths are used. These results suggest that HM should preferably be done on genetic rather than physical distances.