正常人双眼旋转融合功能的研究

目的 :探讨正常人双眼旋转融合功能。方法 :采用随机点同视机立体图 (random dotstereogramssynoptophone,RDSS)检测 6 2例正常人双眼旋转融合范围和旋转融合恢复力。结果 :①RDSS 80 0″～ 6 0″双眼外旋融合力是 (11.79± 3.4 0 )°～ (8.2 3± 1.91)°,内旋融合力是 (9.38± 3.4 0 )°～ (6 .4 8± 2 .72 )°。②RDSS不同视锐度的各组间比较 ,仅 2 0 0″和 6 0″内旋融合组之间差异无显著性 (P =0 .14 1) ,其余内旋、外旋融合各组间差异均有显著性 (P≤ 0 .0 1)。③RDSS 80 0″～ 6 0″双眼外旋融合力恢复点为 (5 .77± 1.89)°～ (3.6 7± 1.17)°,内旋融合力恢复点 (3.6 9± 1.2 1)°～ (2 .35± 1.4 0 )°。结论 :①双眼外旋、内旋融合力范围随立体视锐度的增高呈下降趋势 ,即视差越大 ,旋转融合力越大。②不同立体视锐度 ,其外旋、内旋融合力表现不同 ,能反映出与旋转融合功能的关系。临床可采用RDSS对双眼旋转融合力及范围进行检测。     

医科蒙古族汉族大学生心理健康状况比较研究

目的：了解医科大学生的心理健康状况并进行民族、性别的比较。方法：采用ＳＣＬ－９０量表进行测查并进行统计分析。结果与结论：医科大学生ＳＣＬ－９０各因子均值都高于全国常模，有１９１％的学生存在较严重的心理卫生问题；汉族学生的心理卫生问题较蒙古族学生严重；女生的心理卫生问题较男生严重；人际关系、忧郁、强迫化是医科大学生主要的心理卫生问题。     

The patient's daily activities in acute psychiatric care

The patient's daily activities in acute psychiatric care
This study is part of a research project entitled:'Towards patient-focused nursing on an acute psychiatric ward'. The aim of the project is to describe the changes taking place in nursing activities during a research project. This paper is a qualitative analysis of the patient's daily activities in acute psychiatric care. The data were collected by observing, selectively, seven patients for 61 h. The constant comparative method was used in data analysis. On the basis of the data analysis, the categories listed below were identified.
1 The core category of the patient's daily activities was'being a patient'.
2 Being a patient mainly consisted of being alone without meaningful activities.
3 Participating in the daily routines of the ward consisted of being alone while being together with others.
4 Being together was initiated by either the patient or the nurse. The aim of being together was to satisfy the acute basic needs of the patients.
5 Being together on the initiative of the nurse meant participating in the daily routines of the ward.
Because the data were collected by observation, no insight into the patients'desires, expectations and thoughts could be presented. The findings challenged the nursing staff to develop a more therapeutic daily routine in acute psychiatric care. It was also of importance to change the patients'meaningless existence into a meaningful participation in the daily activities on the ward.     

Primrose syndrome associated with unclassified immunodeficiency and a novel ZBTB20 mutation

Primrose syndrome is a congenital malformation syndrome characterized by intellectual disability, developmental delay, progressive muscle wasting, and ear lobe calcification. Mutations in the ZBTB20 gene have been established as being accountable for this syndrome. In this study, a novel de novo ZBTB20 mutation, NM_001164342.2:c.1945C>T (p.Leu649Phe), has been identified through whole exome sequencing (WES) in a female patient presenting a typical Primrose phenotype. Because the present patient exhibited recurrent otitis media, detailed immunological examinations were performed in this study and subnormal immunoglobulin levels were firstly identified in a Primrose patient. Anatomical anomaly of the inner ear has never been reported in this patient and WES data did not include any relevant variants causally linked with the immunologic defect. Thus, there is a possibility of a relation between an unclassified immunodeficiency with selective IgG2 deficiency and Primrose syndrome and this may be the reason of recurrent otitis media frequently observed in Primrose patients. Because subnormal levels of IgG2 in this patient might be caused by an unrelated and still uncharacterized genetic cause, further studies are required to prove the causal link between aberrant ZBTB20 function and immunodeficiency.     

A comparative study of gut‐associated lymphoid tissue in calf and chicken

The calf contains two types of Peyer's patches (PPs): jejunal and ileal. The ileal PP has been thought to be equivalent to the bursa of Fabricius (BF) as a central lymphoid organ. The morphologies of ileal and jejunal PPs in the calf were compared with those of the BF and the caecal tonsil (CT) in the chicken. Immunoglobulin G–positive (IgG⁺) cells appear in the follicles of them all and exhibited a dendritic appearance after birth. We investigated whether the IgG in these follicles was produced in situ. IgG‐producing cells were detected in the follicular medullas of the jejunal PP and the CT, but not in those of the ileal PP and the BF. CD4⁺ cells were distributed in the follicular medullas of the jejunal PP and the CT, but not in those of the ileal PP and the BF. The data suggest that Ig class switching occurs in both jejunal PP follicles and CT follicles, but does not occur in either the ileal PP follicles or the bursal follicles. Because CD4⁺ T cells would be prerequisite for Ig class switching in these follicles, IgG⁺ cells of the follicular medullas in the ileal PP and the BF would trap immune complexes from the gut lumen. The primary B‐cell repertoire might be selected by gut‐derived antigens in the ileal PP and the BF before seeding the periphery. Anat Rec 266:207–217, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

关于乳腺普通性增生、不典型增生和原位癌相互关系及鉴别诊断的探讨

目的 探讨各种类型乳腺增生症的发病特点、形态学分类、不典型增生与乳腺癌的关系以及不典型增生与乳腺原位癌的鉴别诊断标准。方法 (1)观察本院300例乳腺良性增生性病变的临床发病特点及其病理形态改变。(2)观察86例大切片乳腺癌旁不典型增生病灶与癌灶的关系。结果 乳腺增生症中,纤维腺瘤为主型好发于21～30岁年龄组,而不典型增生病变则多见于40～60岁组。其中囊肿病仅占6．0％,而纤维腺瘤变达25．4％;癌旁组织中不典型增生发生率为65．1％,其中以导管原位癌发生率最高,达74．9％。结论 研究证实了1997年(舟山)“乳腺增生症的组织学分类”(推荐方案)的可行性。乳腺不典型增生与乳腺癌的发生密切相关。乳腺增生症可归纳为普通性增生和不典型增生。不典型增生的特殊增生细胞具有特别的诊断价值。重度不典型增生与原位癌的鉴别诊断有一定困难,但大部分可分。     

Chromosomal integrity maintained in five human embryonic stem cell lines after prolonged in vitro culture

There have been recent reports of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines developing chromosomal aberrations after long-term culture, indicating an unstable genomic status due to the in vitro milieu. This raises concern, since it would limit their use in therapeutics. In this study the chromosomal status of five well-characterized hESC lines, SA002, SA002.5, AS034.1.1, SA121 and SA461, was monitored during long-term in vitro culture. The criteria of defined hESCs were met by all of the five hESC lines (four diploid and one trisomic for chromosome 13). The genomes were screened for chromosomal aberrations and rearrangements using comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and traditional karyotyping on several occasions while in culture. The genomic integrity was shown to be maintained after repeated freeze-thaw procedures and continuous culture in vitro for up to 22 months (148 passages). We discuss the most common de novo chromosomal aberrations reported in hESCs, as well as their possible origin.     

The dragon lizard <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pogona vitticeps</Emphasis> has ZZ/ZW micro-sex chromosomes

The bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps (Agamidae: Reptilia) is an agamid lizard endemic to Australia. Like crocodilians and many turtles, temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is common in agamid lizards, although many species have genotypic sex determination (GSD). P. vitticeps is reported to have GSD, but no detectable sex chromosomes. Here we used molecular cytogenetic and differential banding techniques to reveal sex chromosomes in this species. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), GTG- and C-banding identified a highly heterochromatic microchromosome specific to females, demonstrating female heterogamety (ZZ/ZW) in this species. We isolated the P. vitticeps W chromosome by microdissection, re-amplified the DNA and used it to paint the W. No unpaired bivalents were detected in male synaptonemal complexes at meiotic pachytene, confirming male homogamety. We conclude that P. vitticeps has differentiated previously unidentifable W and Z micro-sex chromosomes, the first to be demonstrated in an agamid lizard. Our finding implies that heterochromatinization of the heterogametic chromosome occurred during sex chromosome differentiation in this species, as is the case in some lizards and many snakes, as well as in birds and mammals. Many GSD reptiles with cryptic sex chromosomes may also prove to have micro-sex chromosomes. Reptile microchromosomes, long dismissed as non-functional minutiae and often omitted from karyotypes, therefore deserve closer scrutiny with new and more sensitive techniques.     

Reconstruction of the ancestral karyotype of eutherian mammals

Applying the parsimony principle, i.e. that chromosomes identical in species belonging to different taxa were likely to be present in their common ancestor, the ancestral karyotype of eutherian mammals (about 100 million years old) was tentatively reconstructed. Comparing chromosome banding with all ZOO-FISH data from literature or studied by us, this reconstruction can be proposed with only limited uncertainties. This karyotype comprised 50 chromosomes of which 40–42 were acrocentrics. Ten ancestral pairs of chromosomes were homologous to a single human chromosome: 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, X and Y (human nomenclature). Nine others were homologous to a part of a human chromosome: 1p+q (proximal), 1q, 2p+q (proximal), 2q, part of 7, 8q, 10p, 10q and 19p (human nomenclature). Finally, seven pairs of chromosomes, homologs to human chromosomes 3 + 21, 4 + 8p, part of 7 + 16p, part of 12 + part of 22 (twice), 14+15, 16q+19q, formed syntenies disrupted in man. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A second group of hepatitis C viruses

cDNA clone 11–7 was isolated by immunoscreening a cDNA library that was prepared from a pooled plasma of non-A non-B hepatitis (NANBH) patients using expression vector gt 11. This cDNA corresponds to known nucleotide positions 3983–4745 of the genome of hepatitis C virus (HCV). This clone was used as a probe for screening the HCV-related cDNAs in a cDNA library similarly prepared by using gt 10. As a result, six more cDNA clones were isolated and analyzed for their nucleotide sequences. The results strongly suggested that there are at least two groups of HCV, group I and group II. According to our classification, the prototype HCV and clone 11–7 belong to group I HCV, and their nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences were diverged from those of group II HCV. Genetic variation observed in the nucleotide and the amino acid sequences between the two groups resembles that in the NS3 region of the genome between Japanese encephalitis virus and West Nile fever virus. Polypeptides produced inEscherichia coli carrying a clone 11–7 or a group II cDNA clone E reacted with antibodies in the blood of 12 or 4 out of 14 individual chronic NANBH patients, respectively. Our data clearly indicate the existence of a second group of HCV.