Evaluation of corticospinal tract injury with three-dimensional diffusion tensor tract in patients with acute cerebral infarction

Three-dimensional diffusion tensor tract (DTT) is the newest imaging to describe the structure of white matter fiber in three-dimensions, it has great significance in dividing the concrete anatomic site of gray and white matter lesions, displaying the correlation with fibrous band and judging clinical prognosis, which is incomparable by other imagings.OBJECTTVE: To observe the conditions of corticospinal tract (CST) in acute cerebral ischemic stroke patients,and analyze the relationship between motor function and the severity of CST injury.DESIGN: A case-control observation.SETTTNG: Department of Medical Imaging, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of Chinese PLA.PARTTCTPANTS: Fifteen patients with acute cerebral infarction were selected from Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of Chinese PLA from February to December in 2005. They all suffered from acute attack and motor disorder of hemiplegic limbs to different extent, and were conformed by CT or MRI.There were 9 males and 6 females, aging 16-87 years old, the median age was 51.7 years, and all were right handed. Fifteen right-handed normal subjects, who were matched by age and sex with the patients in the cerebral infarction group, were selected from the relatives of patients and physicians of the Imaging Department as the control group. All the subjects were informed and agreed with the study.METHODS: The patients with acute cerebral infarction and subjects in the control group received MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with GE 1.5 T nuclear magnetic resonance system, fiber tracking with the software of dTV- Ⅱ. Fractional anisotropy (FA) maps and three-dimensional tractography of bilateral CST of all patients were created. Displacement, continuity and destroy of fibrous bands were observed. At the same time, muscle strength of ipsilateral hand of patients with cerebral infarction was measured with Brunnstrom standard. The correlation between the severity of CST injury and the muscle strength of ipsilateral hand was analyzed with spearman correlation analysis.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① FA values in the infarcted sites and those in the contralateral corresponding sites of patients with cerebral infarction; ② CST manifestations in the patients with cerebral infarction and the control group.RESULTS: All the 30 testees were involved in the analysis of results. ① The FA values in infarcted sites of white matter were significantly lower than those in the contralateral ones (t =4.570, P ＜ 0.001 ). ② In the control group, bilateral CST were reconstructed, they originated from precentral gyrus, went downwards to internal capsule, and extended to pontine and medulla oblongata, each fiber had good uniformity in continuous form. In the patients with cerebral infarction, the forms of contralateral CST were consistent with those in the control group with good continuity. Due to the involvement by the infarcted site to different extents, the ipsilateral CST manifested as continuous interruption and loss of uniformity in anatomic structure and form. The CST involvements were divided into three grades: integrated CST for grade I (n =2); integrated CST but compressed or displaced for grade 2 (n =5); interrupted CST for grade 3 (n =8). ③ The severity of CST injury was obviously correlated with the muscle strength of the ipsilateral hand (r=0.888, P＜ 0.05＝.CONCLUSION: ① CST is injured to different extents in patients with acute cerebral infarction, and the severity of injury is associated with muscle strength. It is indicated that it can be used to judge the prognosis of rehabilitative treatment. ②DTT can directly display the status of pyramidal tract more three-dimensionally.     

止血环酸治疗黄褐斑的疗效及安全性观察

止血环酸（氨甲环酸tranexamic acid）是内科常用的止血药。杨希鏸等报道，由于其与参加黑色素代谢的酷氨酸部分结构相似，共有一个羧基，可竞争性抑制酷氨酸酶进而减少黑色素蛋白的形成。皮肤科临床上利用这一机制来治疗黄褐斑。我们于1998～2003年用临床实验研究方法对止血环酸治疗黄褐斑的疗效进行观察，并检测其安全性，现将结果报告如下。     

全雄激素阻断前后前列腺癌细胞中Bcl-2和Bcl-XL基因表达改变

全雄激素阻断是前列腺癌(PCa)治疗的重要手段。虽然已发现一些蛋白分子涉及雄激素的调节[1] ,但其分子机理尚不清楚。我们采用分子生物学方法检测人PCa全雄激素阻断前后Bcl 2和Bcl XL 蛋白的表达,探讨PCa发生发展的分子机理。材料与方法　4 2例局限性PCa患者。全雄激素阻断治疗采用抑那通或诺雷德皮下注射加口服Flutamide 3个月,然后患者接受PCa根治术。PCa标本分别经穿刺活检和根治术标本取得,10 %福尔马林固定后石蜡包埋,病理证实。Bcl 2和Bcl XL 蛋白单克隆抗体(1/ 2 0 0 )和试剂盒购于SantaCruzInc。显微镜下,细胞着色棕黄…     

Studies on the relationship between transaldolase activity and testosterone synthesis in Leydig cells of pubertalmice

Objective: To study the relationship between transaldolase activity, protein expression and testosterone synthesis in Leydig cells of pubertal mice. Methods: Leydig cells were cultured for 2 hours and 8 hours, to the Stimulation Group, hCG was added and to the Controls, only the vehicle. The testosterone concentration was then determined by enzyme-linked immunoadsordent assay (ELISA) and the transaldolase activity and protein expression by Western blot. Results: (1) Both the testosterone concentration and the transaldolase activity in both Stimulation Groups were significantly higher than those in the corresponding Controls (2 h: p<0.05-0.01; 8 h: P<0.001); (2) The ratios of the A isoform, the B isoform and the total transaldolase protein to β-actin between the Stimulation and Control Groups did not differ signifi-cantly. Conclusion: hCG stimulates the transaldolase activity as well as the testosterone synthesis in the Leydig cells of pubertal mice, indicating a positive relationship between them.     

Down-regulation amyloid β-protein 42 production by interfering with transcript of presenilin 1 gene with siRNA

AIM:ToinvestigatethepathogenesisofAβ42yieldingandnewdrugtargetsaswellasthepossibilityofRNAinterference(RNAi)techniquefortreatmentofAlzheimerdisease(AD).METHODS:HumanADpresenilin1(PS1)cDNAsequencewasobtainedfromNCBIwebsite.ThethreesitesofRNAiactionandonemissensecontrolsitewereselectedinPS1cDNAthroughonlinedesignofAmbioncompany.Toconfirmspecificityofthesesites,weconductedaBLASTsearchoftheIMAGEESTlibrary.Thecorrespondingdouble-strandedDNAwasusedtoconstructpSilencer3.1-H1p…     

手术分期Ⅰ期的子宫乳头状浆液性腺癌患者辅助铂类化疗后存活率的提高

目的：子宫乳头状浆液性腺癌（UPSC）是子宫内膜痛中侵袭力较强的一种，复发率高，预后不良。早期有关评估UPSC治疗的研究因病例数量及病例分期有限而受到限制。本研究是对手术分期Ⅰ期的UPSC患者进行的大规模队列研究，旨在评估辅助性铂类药化疗及阴道断端放疗的有效性。方法：回顾性分析本院于1987-2004年间经完整手术分期诊断为Ⅰ期的UPSC患者共74例。结果：ⅠA期患者被分为两组：子宫切除样本中无煽组织的患者（定义为无肿瘤残留组）和子宫切除样本中有癌组织的患者（定义为肿瘤残留组）。无肿瘤残留者无沦是否接受辅助治疗均无复发（n=12），有肿瘤残留者中接受铂类药辅助化疗者均无复发（n=7），而14例有肿瘤残留但未接受化疗的患者中有6例（43％）复发。     

INTRAVENOUS LEIOMYOMATOSIS OF THE UTERUS WITH EARLY PREGNANCY

Intravenous leiomyomatosis is a rare uterineneoplasm, histologically characterized by nodularmasses of benign smooth muscle growing withinthe uterine and pelvic veins. The entity has ty-pical gross and microscopic features. A case of intravenous leiomyomatosisassociated with uterine leiomyoma, adenomyosisand early pregnancy was reported. The condi-tion was recognized during surgery for uterinefibroids. This is, to our knowledge, the thirdcase of intravenOUs leiomyomatosis associatedwith pregnancy so far reported.     

Sympathetic skin response in patients with myasthenia gravis★ A comparative analysis

BACKGROUND: The examination of sympathetic skin response is an important index for assessing the autonomic nerve function, and patients with myasthenia gravis are always accompanied by dysautonomia. Therefore, it will be important to know whether sympathetic skin response can be used as the index for the clinical evaluation of myasthenia gravis. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnostic value of sympathetic skin response in the damage of autonomic nerve function of patients with myasthenia gravis. DESIGN: A case-controlled comparative observation. SETTING: Department of Neurology and Room of Nerve Electromyogram, the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty outpatients or inpatients with myasthenia gravis were selected from the Department of Neurology, the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College from May 2006 to May 2007, including 9 males and 21 females, aged 8–72 years with a mean age of (28±5) years old. They were all accorded with the diagnostic standards of myasthenia gravis, accompanied by different severity of autonomic nerve symptoms, including poor skin nutrition, sweating of hands and feet, pyknocardia, persistent hypotension, abdominal pain, constipation, etc. They all had not taken any drug affecting the autonomic nerve function before the examination. Informed consents were obtained from all the patients. Meanwhile, 30 healthy physical examinees were enrolled as the normal control group, including 10 males and 20 females, aged 10–75 years with a mean age of (31±5) years old. Approval was obtained from the hospital ethic committee. METHODS: After admission, the patients were examined with sympathetic skin response using DANTEC keypoint 2.0 electromyography evoked potential apparatus (Danmark). The changes of the latency and wave amplitude of sympathetic skin response were observed. The subjects in the normal control group were examined with the same methods at physical examination. Abnormality was judged by the disappearance of wave form, latency longer than that in the normal control group by Mean±2.5SD, or wave amplitude lower than the average value in the normal control group by 50%. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The results of the latency and wave amplitude of sympathetic skin response were compared between the patients with myasthenia gravis and normal controls. RESULTS: All the 30 patients with myasthenia gravis and 30 healthy physical examinees were involved in the final analysis of results. There were no significant differences between the left and right upper and lower limbs in both the myasthenia gravis group and normal control group (P > 0.05). In the myasthenia gravis group, the abnormal rate of sympathetic skin response was 37% (11/30), the latency was prolonged and the wave amplitude was decreased as compared with those in the normal control group, and there were significant differences (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Sympathetic skin response can be used as an electrophysiological index for judging the damages of autonomic nerve function in patients with myasthenia gravis.     

肱骨近端骨折合并肩峰骨折的手术治疗

肱骨近端骨折合并肩峰骨折较为少见.2002年1月～2007年2月,我们收治肱骨近端骨折合并肩峰骨折8例,分别采用肱骨近端锁定钢板和重建钢板切开复位内固定,收到良好的近、远期治疗效果,报道如下.