37例传染性非典型肺炎流行病学调查与讨论

目的了解传染性非典型肺炎(SARS)流行病学的特点,提出相应的预防和控制措施.方法采取现场调查、网上电子病历审查、电话询问等方法.结果37例SARS患者的治愈率为89.2%,病死率8.1%,有接触史患者占37.8%.由于执行了严格的消毒隔离制度,医院内无任何人员感染发病.结论SARS患者在年龄上以青壮年为多,职业类以商业餐饮食人员为多.     

内皮素-1及受体基因在良性前列腺增生组织中的表达及意义

目的　探讨内皮素 1(ET 1)及受体A、B(ETAR、ETBR)在良性前列腺增生 (BPH)组织中的表达及意义。　方法　应用免疫组化和RT PCR方法检测前列腺组织ET 1及ETAR、ETBRmRNA的表达 ,并与患者临床参数行相关分析。　结果　ET 1、ETARmRNA和ETBRmRNA在BPH组织中的表达 (吸光度A值分别为 0 .94± 0 .0 8、0 .6 4± 0 .0 8、0 .97± 0 .0 8)与正常前列腺组织(0 .5 7± 0 .0 6、0 .37± 0 .0 5、0 .5 1± 0 .0 4 )相比 ,差别均有显著性意义 ,P均 <0 .0 5 ,其中ET 1、ETARmRNA与IPSS、前列腺体积、前列腺尿道长度、前列腺尿道压、最大尿道压呈正相关 ,与最大尿流率、平均尿流率呈负相关。　结论　ET 1和ETAR在BPH中的表达量与膀胱出口梗阻严重程度密切相关。     

A Combination of Speckled Lentiginous Nevus with Patch-type Blue Nevus

A peculiar case of “nevus on nevus” was reported. A 67-year-old man had had a pigmented lesion in the left hypochondrial area since birth. The clinicopathologic findings of the pigmented lesion revealed a combination of speckled lentiginous nevus and patch-type blue nevus. This case of “nevus on nevus” is not described under the term of combined nevus as is current in the literature; it was considered to be a subtype of the type II atypical blue nevus described by Kawamura.     

中医药治疗子宫内膜息肉的临床研究进展

子宫内膜息肉是妇科常见疾病,现代中医认为本病主要病理因素是瘀滞,临床常见气滞血瘀、痰湿瘀阻、湿热瘀滞、气虚血瘀、阳虚血瘀诸证,运用中医药辨证治疗、中医外治法,可有效改善临床症状,降低息肉复发率,提高妊娠率。本文将近十年中医药治疗子宫内膜息肉的临床研究作以综述。     

以循证医学的理念观察颈椎综合征的MRI图像

目的鉴于MRI对组织的高分辨性能,利用该图像观察颈椎综合征患者的椎管外组织的病理状况.方法54例患者,其中男30例,女24例,分为2组.观察组44例颈椎综合征患者,对照组10例颈部外伤和三叉神经痛患者.通过常规的MRI矢状位及横轴位颈椎图像,比较两组软组织增生情况.结果与结论在颈椎综合征MRI的颈椎及上段胸椎棘突后侧,均可观察到不同程度的慢性纤维性变化,与对照组比较,有可比性.提示临床上颈椎综合征多与颈肩区筋膜炎、棘突炎相关,属于无菌性炎症,其慢性阶段,局部发生了纤维增生性改变.建议在观察分析此种病症的颈椎骨质及椎间盘改变的同时,宜重视棘突后侧的纤维性变化,有利于病理病因的研究.     

Is the carbohydrate sialosyl-Tn a marker for altered,non-malignant activity in squamous epithelium in the head and neck region?

Cell surface carbohydrates are involved in many cell functions such as cellular differentiation, adhesion, and invasion. A carbohydrate, sialosyl-Tn (STn), is expressed in many human carcinomas but generally not in normal epithelia. In the oral mucosa, however, STn had recently been observed on basal cell in some lesions with epithelial hyperplasia and dysplasia. The aim of this study was to carry out a systematic investigation of STn expression on epithelial basal cells in hyperplastic, ‘borderline’ malignant, and malignant head and neck lesions, to see if the expression of STn is associated specifically with hyperplastic conditions. Using the primary monoclonal antibody TKH2, normal controls did not reveal STn. STn was detected on probably post-mitotic basal cells in hyperplastic head and neck lesions and on basal cells adjacent to cancers, but not within the carcinomas. A Ki67 antibody reacted with basal cells in other locations. The most highly differentiated lesions, such as focal epithelial hyperplasia and verrucous hyperplasia, revealed a high percentage (86 per cent in both cases) of STn reactivity. The least-differentiated verrucous carcinomas (VCs) and keratoacanthomas (KAs) did not express STn, in contrast to the highly differentiated VCs and KAs. These findings indicate that STn-negative cases may have a greater malignant potential that the STn-positive cases. In conclusion, STn expressed on basal cells is possibly a marker for non-malignant conditions with altered basal cell activity and for highly differentiated verrucous carcinomas.     

Electron microscopic studies of endocrine hyperplasia in duodenal adenomas in familial adenomatous polyposis

Summary Electron microscopical studies on endocrine cell hyperplasia of duodenal adenomas from five patients with familial adenomatous polyposis were performed. All the endocrine cell types normally found in the duodenal mucosa were identified. A constant feature was proliferation of duodenal-enterochromaffin cells but an increase in the number of all other endocrine cell types apart from pyloricgastrin cells and somatostatin cells, was also observed. Certain types of intestinal endocrine cells (the intestinal enterochromaffin cell and the glicentin cell) are rare cells in the normal duodenal mucosa. The finding of these cells may indicate increased biological aggressivity.     

Mutations in activation-induced cytidine deaminase in patients with hyper IgM syndrome

Recent studies have shown that mutations in a newly described RNA editing enzyme, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), can cause an autosomal recessive form of hyper IgM syndrome. To determine the relative frequency of mutations in AID, we evaluated a group of 27 patients with hyper IgM syndrome who did not have defects in CD40 ligand and 23 patients with common variable immunodeficiency. Three different mutations in AID were identified in 18 patients with hyper IgM syndrome, including 14 French Canadians, 2 Lumbee Indians, and a brother and sister from Okinawa. No mutations were found in the remaining 32 patients. In the group of patients with hyper IgM syndrome, the patients with mutations in AID were older at the age of diagnosis, were more likely to have positive isohemagglutinins, and were less likely to have anemia, neutropenia, or thrombocytopenia. Lymphoid hyperplasia was seen in patients with hyper IgM syndrome and normal AID as well as the patients with hyper IgM syndrome and defects in AID.     

Stretching the limits: Stem cells in regeneration science

The focus of regenerative medicine is rebuilding damaged tissues by cell transplantation or implantation of bioartificial tissues. In either case, therapies focus on adult stem cells (ASCs) and embryonic stem cells (ESCs) as cell sources. Here we review four topics based on these two cell sources. The first compares the current performance of ASCs and ESCs as cell transplant therapies and the drawbacks of each. The second explores somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) as a method to derive ESCs that will not be immunorejected. The third topic explores how SCNT and ESC research has led to the ability to derive pluripotent ESCs by the dedifferentiation of adult somatic cells. Lastly, we discuss how research on activation of intrinsic adult stem cells and on somatic cell dedifferentiation can evolve regenerative medicine from a platform consisting of cell transplantation to one that includes the chemical induction of regeneration from the body's own cells at the site of injury. Developmental Dynamics 237:3648–3671, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.