联合检测血清透明质酸、Ⅳ型胶原及层黏蛋白对肝纤维化的诊断价值

目的 :探讨血清透明质酸 (HA)、Ⅳ型胶原 (CIV)及层黏蛋白 (LN)联合检测对肝纤维化的诊断价值。方法 :采用酶联免疫法对健康人组 2 2例、急性肝炎组 10例、慢性肝炎组 10例、肝硬化组 2 5例及慢性重症肝炎组 10例 ,分别检测血清HA ,CIV及LN的水平 ;对肝硬化组三项指标分别检测和联合检测所得的敏感性、特异性及准确性进行比较。结果 :血清中HA ,CIV及LN的水平以肝硬化组和慢性重症肝炎组最高 ,均明显高于其它组 (P <0 0 1)。肝硬化组联合检测的敏感性高于单项检测的敏感性 ,但其特异性降低。结论 :联合检测HA ,CIV及LN可提高诊断肝纤维化敏感性 ,但特异性降低 ;其中HA +CIV的敏感性和特异性较高 ,为最优联合     

Evaluation of the safety of a non-animal stabilized hyaluronic acid (NASHA – Q-Medical, Sweden) in European countries: a retrospective study from 1997 to 2001

BACKGROUND: In Europe, several filler devices are currently on the market for use in aesthetic dermatology and some of them cause severe, permanent, adverse reactions. Since 1996 a non-animal stabilized hyaluronic acid (NASHA) from Q-Medical, Sweden, has been introduced and is becoming a leading product in aesthetic dermatology. Hyaluronic acid has no species specificity and skin testing is not recommended before treatment. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to evaluate the incidence of adverse reactions from 1997 to 2001 and the safety of NASHA after injections into the skin for aesthetic reasons. METHOD: Surveys were sent to physicians in European countries that agreed to participate. This is a retrospective study. A total of 12 344 syringes were sold by the Q-Medical to these physicians and we evaluated the total number of patients treated to 35% of this number (4320). We separated immediate hypersensitivity reactions from delayed reactions and analysed infectious and other types of reactions. RESULTS: From 1997 until 2001, 34 cases of hypersensitivity were reported: 16 cases of immediate hypersensitivity and 18 cases of delayed. The global risk of sensitivity is 0.8%. Since 2000, the amount of protein in the raw product has decreased and the incidence of hypersensitivity reactions is around 0.6%. As 50% of these reactions are immediate and resolved within less than 3 weeks, the risk of strong but transient, delayed reaction is around 0.3%. Four cases of abscess were reported. They were all sterile. No bacterial infection was found. Herpetic recurrence is possible after lip augmentation according to the technique of injection. No systemic reactions were reported. CONCLUSION: NASHA is a very useful and safe filler product. Skin testing does not seem to be necessary.     

Acrometageria: A spectrum of “premature aging” syndromes

A child with manifestations of acrogeria and metageria, two “premature aging” syndromes, is presented. Because of his indistinct phenotype and because the question has been previously raised as to whether these conditions are separate, we propose the designation of acrometageria to describe this phenotypic continuum. As there is much in common clinically between acrometageria and the syndrome of type III procollagen deficiency (Ehlers-Danlos type IV), it might be presumed that a similar pathogenesis for acrometageria exists. This possibility has been tested previously, without demonstrating specific quantitative or qualitative deficits, but with some indirect evidence that collagen metabolism is deranged in these patients. One such crude indicator is the elevation of urinary hyaluronic acid levels, demonstrated in our patient and also observed in the phenotypically distinct Werner and Hutchinson-Gilford premature aging syndromes. On one hand, it could be argued that this supports the concept that premature aging syndromes exist as a biological continuum. On the other hand, it is equally valid to argue that syndromes of premature aging are so described merely because they include recognizable changes of normal aging and that the demonstration of an underlying mutation in a collagen gene, for example, invalidates their study as models of accelerated normal aging. © Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

高产、大分子透明质酸突变菌株NUF-036的选育

对兽疫链球菌NUF-035进行紫外诱变,得到突变菌株NUF-036,使透明质酸的产量从1.8 g/L提高到3.0 g/L,相对分子质量从2.1×10~6提高到3.2×10~6,突变株经多次传代,透明质酸产量及相对分子质量保持稳定.     

Review of long-term adverse effects associated with the use of chemically-modified animal and nonanimal source hyaluronic acid dermal fillers

Although only recently introduced, chemically-modified hyaluronic acid dermal fillers have gained widespread acceptance as “redefining” dermal fillers in the fields of dermatology and cosmetic facial surgery. Although hyaluronic acid-based dermal fillers have a low overall incidence of long term side effects, occasional adverse outcomes, ranging from chronic lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory reactions to classic foreign body-type granulomatous reactions have been documented. These long-term adverse events are reviewed.     

肝病患者血清透明质酸放射免疫测定的临床分析

检测256例肝病患者HA,结果表明各肝病组均增高,幅度从慢迁肝到慢活肝至肝硬化呈递增,其数值的高低可反映肝脏病变的程度。根据HA与中医血瘀证关系的分析,HA的增高与血瘀证存在明显的正相关关系。     

Hyaluronan turnover in the rat small intestine

The main metabolic pathway for the interstitial matrix component hyaluronan seems to be via lymph. Present estimates of turnover of intestinal hyaluronan are based on isolated organs and/or experiments in anaesthesia over a few hours. In this study lymph was sampled from the main mesenteric lymphatic for 24 h in awake, restrained rats. The tissue content of hyaluronan averaged 28 /μ g^-1 in the duodenum/jejunum and 124 μ g^-1 in the colon. Based on tissue content and lymphatic output, the turnover rate of hyaluronan in the small intestine was estimated at approximately 50%. In another experimental group anaesthetized rats were fed either phosphate buffer or triolein in buffer via a gastric tube. Lymph flow increased with fluid absorption from the gut and hyaluronan output in lymph was elevated correspondingly. However, no effect of acute fat administration on hyaluronan concentration or lymph flow could be demonstrated.