不同剂量HCG对体外受精-胚胎移植的影响

目的 :比较使用不同剂量人绒毛膜促性腺激素 (HCG)对体外受精 /胞浆内单精子注射 (IVF/ICSI)的结局及对卵巢过度刺激综合征 (OHSS)发病率的影响。方法 :对在本所接受IVF/ICSI辅助生育的 2 6 2例采用GnRH a长方案促排卵的患者进行回顾性分析 ,按HCG用量分为A组 (HCG 5 0 0 0～ 6 0 0 0U)、B组 (HCG 80 0 0～ 10 0 0 0U)。结果 :两组临床妊娠率分别为 35 .94 %和 38.0 5 % (P >0 .0 5 ) ,OHSS发生率分别为 2 .34%和 4 .4 8% (P >0 .0 5 )。结论 :减少HCG用量后对IVF/ICSI的临床妊娠率无明显影响 ,且可以减少OHSS的发生。     

Chronic illness in adolescents: Transfer or transition to adult services?

It is widely believed that the improved survival of young people with chronic diseases will be associated with the development of appropriate services within the adult healthcare domain. There is, however, little evidence to suggest that this is happening at a rate commensurate with clinical requirements. This paper highlights the multiplicity of barriers that impede the development of transition services to facilitate the transfer of medical care from the paediatric to the adult domain. Different models of transition care are described, and the terms 'transfer' and 'transition' are differentiated. The clinical demand for service development is highlighted, as well as the need for specific research in this area of healthcare delivery.     

Direct gamete uterine transfer in patients with tubal absence or occlusion

Purpose: Our aim was to examine the potential of the uterine cavity to affect fertilization and early embryo development. Design: A prospective IRB-approved protocol for patients fulfilling study eligibility criteria was used. Methods: Patients studied included those with primary or secondary infertility, aged less than 38 years, with no history of severe male-factor infertility, and with hysterosalpingogram-and laparoscopic-confirmed bilateral proximal tubal occlusion. Superovulation induction was accomplished with a combination of GnRH agonist and menotropins, with serum hormonal and sonographic monitoring. Within 24 hr prior to, and again at the time of, ovulatory hCG administration, progesterone (P4) was given. Sonographic-guided transvaginal retrieval was performed 35 hr after hCG. Between four and six oocytes were returned to the uterine cavity, admixed with sperm, immediately following retrieval. Luteal support consisted of daily P4 administration. Results: Of the 20 patients recruited for the study, all completed the retrieval and transfer procedure. A total of four clinical pregnancies was achieved, with one early first-trimester loss, one late first-trimester loss (Trisomy 14), and two healthy term infants delivered. IVF of surplus oocytes demonstrated a 82.5% fertilization rate and 66.7% cleavage following cryopreservation. Conclusions: Human fertilization can be achieved through direct uterine transfer of gametes. Furthermore, administration of P4 prior to the ovulatory dose of hCG is compatible with in vitro or in vivo fertilization and implantation.     

Immunotherapy I: Cytokine gene transfer strategies

The cytokine approach to gene therapy of cancer stems from early studies of direct, repeated injection of recombinant cytokines at the tumor site, and extension of the bystander effect that enables a few cytokine gene transduced cells in a tumor to bring about its total destruction. This effect can be extended through the immune system, since cytokine-activated regression of a small mass of tumor cells can afford systemic protection. Transduced cells used as a vaccine provide a local concentration of both cytokine and tumor antigens. Cytokines sustain antigen uptake and presentation by increasing the immunogenic potential of the environment through the recruitment of antigen presenting cells and leukocytes, and activation of a cascade of events which amplify and tone up the efficacy of a vaccine. The promises and difficulties of this approach are discussed by considering what is still missing from experimental studies and what can best be done as soon as possible in animals and humans to reach compelling conclusions.     

体外受精-胚胎移植治疗不孕症85例报道

目的：评价应用体外受精－胚胎移植（ＩＶＦ－ＥＴ）治疗８５例不孕患者的临床结果。方法：用药方案有：①ＧｎＲＨａ／ＦＳＨ／ｈＭＧ；②ＧｎＲＨａ／ＦＳＨ；③ＧｎＲＨａ／ｈＭＧ。培养液包括Ｅａｒｌｅ’ｓ平衡盐液及人类输卵管液（ＨＴＦ）。结果：８５例进行了１０９个ＩＶＦ周期治疗，１２个周期（１１０％）因反应不良而取消。每周期获取卵母细胞（１０２±５４）个，卵子受精率６８９％，卵裂率６０８％，每个转移胚胎植入率７７％（３１／４０２）。９４个移植周期中，每周期移植（４９±２４）个胚胎，获２０次临床妊娠（２１３％）。采用ＨＴＦ妊娠率为２２４％，高于应用Ｅａｒｌｅ’ｓ液的妊娠率（１８５％），但差异无统计学意义。２０次妊娠患者中，１次输卵管妊娠，４次自然流产（２０％），５例足月分娩，１０例继续妊娠。多胎妊娠率４０％，重度ＯＨＳＳ发生率４１％。结论：ＩＶＦ－ＥＴ是治疗输卵管因素、子宫内膜异位症等不孕症的重要而有效的手段。体外培养时用ＨＴＦ可能优于Ｅａｒｌｅ’ｓ液，而有利于提高妊娠率。     

Success Rate with Repeated Cycles of In Vitro Fertilization–Embryo Transfer

Objective: To analyze data from a large multicenter study to determine whether pregnancy and delivery rates decrease with repeated IVF-ET cycles.

Design: Multicenter retrospective study.

Setting: Participating centers from the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Patient(s): Fifty-four centers contributed 4,043 cycles of oocyte retrieval for uterine transfer.

Intervention(s): Oocyte retrieval for uterine transfer.

Main Outcome Measure(s): Pregnancy and delivery rates, analyzed according to age, program success rate, and whether the program was doing assisted hatching.

Result(s): Pregnancy and delivery rates for cycles 1, 2, 3, 4, and >4 were 33.7% and 27.0%, 33.9% and 27.4%, 28.9% and 23.4%, 25.9% and 16.1%, and 21.0% and 15.4%, respectively. The pregnancy rate decreased significantly for >4 cycle; delivery rate decreased significantly for cycles 4 and >4. Assisted hatching was strongly related to better odds of pregnancy (OR, 1.50) and delivery (OR, 1.44) in women under age 40, and for pregnancy (1.64) in women age 40–42 years.

Conclusion(s): Success rates do not decrease markedly with repeated IVF attempts, and the decrease did not change with program success rate, suggesting the IVF population is not markedly heterogeneous. Uncontrolled studies of new treatments for cycle repeaters cannot assume that success rate is poor without a treatment change.     

Morphine-induced suppression of saccharin intake is correlated with elevated corticosterone levels

Rats suppress intake of a saccharin conditioned stimulus (CS) when paired with a drug of abuse. This phenomenon, however, is not uniform across all subjects and is greater following exposure to stress and in animals that more readily self-administer drugs of abuse. The present study was designed to examine these individual differences in intake suppression following seven saccharin-morphine pairings. Plasma corticosterone also was evaluated both before and after conditioning in order to determine whether the magnitude of CS suppression is, or is not, related to circulating corticosterone levels. The findings indicated that, while all rats were exposed to the same number of saccharin-morphine pairings, only half of these animals actually suppressed intake of the saccharin CS. Moreover, the results showed that greater suppression of CS intake was associated with higher corticosterone levels at test (r=-0.84, P<0.0001). Taken together, the results demonstrate that individual differences affect not only the reduction in CS intake following taste-drug pairings, but also the associated cue-induced elevation in circulating corticosterone.     

Limitations in the neuroprotective potential of gene therapy with Bcl-2

Considerable attention has focused on the therapeutic transfer of genes with viral vectors into neurons for the purpose of protecting against neurological insults. A number of papers have reported that overexpression of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 can protect neurons both in vitro and in vivo against a variety of necrotic insults. An emerging literature suggests that the availability of energy tends to modulate a neuron towards dying apoptotically, rather than necrotically, in the aftermath of an insult. This suggests that an anti-apoptotic protein such as Bcl-2 should be minimally protective, at best, against purely energetic insults. In support of this idea, we report that overexpression of Bcl-2 with a herpes simplex viral vector fails to protect hippocampal neurons, either in vitro or in vivo, against the electron transport uncoupler 3-acetylpyridine (3AP). As a positive control, the same vector significantly protected against the excitotoxin kainic acid. This finding supports the view that neurotoxicity induced by 3AP is likely to have only minimal apoptotic facets. On a broader level, it suggests some limitations in the neuroprotective potential of gene therapy with Bcl-2.     

酮洛芬的相转移催化氧化合成

2-(3-苄基苯基)丙醛和高锰酸钾在相转移催化剂度米芬作用下,以苯为有机相、氢氧化钠水溶液为水相氧化制得酮洛芬,收率69%,纯度99.5%.