Combined reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy for in vivo detection of cervical pre-cancer

Optical technologies, such as reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy, have shown the potential to provide improved point-of-care detection methods for cervical neoplasia that are sensitive, specific, and cost-effective. Our specific goals are to analyze the diagnostic potential of reflectance and fluorescence spectra, alone and in combination, to discriminate normal and precancerous cervical tissue in vivo and to identify which classification features contain significant diagnostic information. Reflectance spectra are measured at four source-detector separations and fluorescence emission spectra are measured at 16 excitation wavelengths, from 324 sites in 161 patients. These 20 spectral features are permuted in all possible combinations of one, two, and three; and classification algorithms are developed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of each combination. Algorithms based on fluorescence spectra alone yield better diagnostic performance than those based on reflectance spectra alone. The combination of fluorescence and reflectance do not significantly improve diagnostic performance compared to fluorescence alone, except in the case of discriminating high-grade precancers from columnar normal tissue. In general, fluorescence emission spectra at 330- to 360-nm and 460- to 470-nm excitation provide the best diagnostic performance for separating all pairs of tissue categories.     

Comparative Disease Assessment: a multi-causal approach for estimating the burden of mortality

Journal of Public Health - The Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) framework comprehensively evaluates the impact of exposure to risk factors on health populations using the counterfactual causal...     

A novel cancer vaccine composed of human-recombinant epidermal growth factor linked to a carrier protein: Report of a pilot clinical trial

Background: There is evidence of a relationship between epidermal growth factor (EGF) and tumor cell proliferation, such as the overexpression of EGF receptor (EGF-R) in different human tumors, which makes this system an interesting target for cancer treatment. Up to now, passive immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies against the EGF-R has been assayed in clinics. Our approach consists of active immunotherapy with human EGF (hu-EGF). We conducted a pilot clinical trial to define the safety, toxicity and immunogenicity of vaccination with hu-EGF coupled to a carrier protein.Patients and methods: Ten patients with histologically-proven malignant carcinomas (colon, lung, stomach and prostate) in advanced clinical stages were enrolled. Patients were immunized twice (on days 0 and 15) with hu-EGF linked to either tetanic toxoid (TT, five patients) or P64k Neisseria Meningitidis recombinant protein (P64k, five patients), intradermically, using aluminium hydroxyde as adjuvant.Results: In both groups 60% of patients developed anti-EGF antibody titers without evidence of toxicity. Secondary reactions were very mild, limited to erythema and itching at the site of injection, which disappeared without medication.Conclusions: We conclude that the proposed vaccination with hu-EGF was well tolerated and that antibody titers against self EGF were developed. The results of this trial may be useful in the design of new clinical trials with higher dose immunization protocols and using more effective adjuvants.     

In Silico identification of M. TB proteins with diagnostic potential

The development of a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has become one of the main objectives of the scientific community. Protein antigens have been widely explored as subunit TB vaccines, however lipid antigens could be equally important to be used or included in such a vaccine. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the potential of a liposome formulation composed of an extract of lipids from Mycobacterium smegmatis (Ms) as a TB vaccine candidate. We evaluated the immunogenicity of this formulation as well as the cross reactive response against antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) in BALB/c mice. We determined the anti-liposome IgG response in sera from TB patients and from healthy subjects who displayed a positive (PPD+) or negative (PPD-) tuberculin skin test. A significant increase in anti-liposome IgG (p<0.05) was detected in animals immunized with Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) compared with all groups, and in the group immunized with liposomes from Ms (LMs) compared to animals immunized with either LMs adjuvanted with aluminium (LMs-A) or the negative control group (phosphate buffered saline, PBS) respectively. With respect to the cross reactive response against a cocktail of cell wall antigens (CWA) from MTb, significantly higher IgG levels were observed in animals immunized with BCG and LMs compared to negative controls and either, aluminium-adjuvanted liposomes (LMs-A) or montanide (LMs-M) (p<0.05). Furthermore, the anti-liposome IgG response was significantly superior in sera from pulmonary TB patients compared to PPD+ and PPD- healthy subjects (p<0.001) suggesting the expression of these antigens in vivo during active MTb infection. The results obtained provide some evidence for the potential use of liposomes containing total lipid extracts of Ms as a TB vaccine candidate.

     

大学生信任感及其相关因素

目的:探讨当代大学生的信任感情况,为维护大学生的心理健康提供参考。方法:采用信任量表、简易应对方式问卷、领悟社会支持量表为调查工具,通过分层整群抽样,于2006-06对河北师范大学1250名大学本科学生进行调查分析。其中信任感量表有18题。由3个因子构成。该量表得分越高,信任感越强。领悟社会支持量表包含12题,分家内支持和家外支持2个因子。得分越高,得到的社会支持程度越高。简易应对方式问卷共20题。由积极应对和消极应对2个因子组成。因子得分为因子条目平均分。结果:共发放问卷1250份,收回有效问卷1196份。①大学生的信任感为(77.80±10.87)处于中等偏上水平。在信任总分上,女生高于男生(78.40±11.04,76.67±10.44,P<0.01)。一、四年级学生高于二、三年级学生(77.92±10.86和81.16±10.51,75.46±11.17和76.72±10.01,P<0.01)。文科生高于理科生(79.65±10.48,75.97±10.93,P<0.01)。恋爱学生高于未恋爱学生(79.48±11.34,76.70±10.40,P<0.01)。城市学生高于农村学生(79.59±10.85,77.12±10.80,P<0.01)。②在可依靠因子上,性别和是否独生之间存在交互作用(F=8.469,P=0.004)。③大学生的信任感与领悟社会支持、应对方式有显著性相关。家外支持、积极应对、消极应对、家内支持依次进入信任感回归方程。结论:性别、年级、专业、是否恋爱、是否独生、城乡来源等因素都会影响大学生的信任感。家内家外支持、积极应对与消极应对是影响大学生信任感的个体内部心理因素。     

国内六大行政区域六城市中老年人群膝关节骨性关节炎患病危险因素比较

目的：了解中国不同地区间中老年人群膝关节骨性关节炎患病危险因素。方法：调查时间为2005—07／08。①从中国六大行政区（西北，华北，华东。中南，东北，西南）选出六城市（西安，石家庄，上海。广州，哈尔滨市，成都），用分层多阶段整群抽样方法，抽取6218名40岁及以上具有正式户口常住男女人群进行膝关节骨性关节炎的流行病学问卷调查（包括一般情况、现病史、既往史、体格检查、X射线片检查情况和疾病诊断6个方面，共计94个问题141个变量指标），并对其中4808名有症状者进行X射线平片膝正侧位投照。②膝关节骨性关节炎诊断标准为临床症状阳性加X射线Kellgren ＆ Lawrence分级二级及以上者。③计算患病率，并采用Epilnf06．0和SPSS 10．0软件对其中83个变量进行多因素非条件Logistfc回归分析，表示疾病与暴露因素之间联系强度的指标用比值比（OR），若OR〉1，说明疾病发生危险性增加，与暴露因素呈正关联；若OR〈1，说明疾病发生危险性减少，与暴露因素呈负关联。 结果：①六城市膝关节骨性关节炎总患病率为15．6％，其中西安7．7％，石家庄11．2％，上海9．8％。广州30．5％，哈尔滨16．9％，成都17．5％，各城市患病率比较差异显著（P〈0．01）。②Logistic回归分析膝关节骨性关节炎在大部分城市有共同的危险因素如年龄大（OR=1．032—1．181），使用蹲坑排便年限长（OR=1．021-1．077），体质量高（OR=1．048—1．073），和开始饮酒年龄大（OR=1．008～1．028）；而从事专职体育运动（OR=1．651，西安），骨质疏松病史（OR=3．311，石家庄），吸烟（OR=2．654，石家庄），类风湿关节炎病史（OR=4．964，上海），文化程度高（OR=2．593，上海），女性（OR=2．510，广州），姐妹骨关节炎史（OR=13．251，哈尔滨），母亲骨关节炎史（OR=5．683，成都）等危险因素分别在不同地区出现． 结论：年龄大、使用蹲坑排便年限长、体质量高和开始饮酒年龄大是中国六地区膝关节骨性关节炎患病的共同危险因素，同时，不同地区主要危险因素又有一定差异。     

广地龙中促进子宫收缩的成分

本文研究了自广地龙中提出来的一种引湿性、淡黄色針状結晶(含量約0.2%)对平滑肌器官(特别是对子宮)的作用。介紹了該結晶的提取方法。該結晶0.1毫克加入25毫升Locke液中,能使已孕和未孕大鼠或豚鼠离体子宮角紧张度明显升高,0.3毫克可使之呈痙攣收縮状态。按1毫克/公斤給已孕和未孕麻醉家兔靜脉注射后15—30分钟,在位子宮紧张度升高,作用維持1.5—3小时。按8—10毫克/公斤注射,子宮紧张度立卽升高和血压急剧下降到零而死亡。9只慢性子宫瘻家兔靜脉注射(3—6毫克/公斤)或灌胃給药(10—20毫克/公斤)后15—45分钟,子宮收縮明显增强,作用維持1.5—3小时(注射給药)和7小时以上(灌胃給药)。多数实驗家兔在子宮兴奋同时有排便現象。該結晶对家兔在位腸管和大鼠后肢血管均有强烈兴奋作用,但对豚鼠支气管肌作用极弱。当給小鼠靜脉注射时,LD₅₀为38.7毫克/公斤。     

玻璃体切除术治疗外伤性眼内炎62例

0　引言　外伤性眼内炎是眼外伤的常见并发症 ,对视力及眼球威协极大 .由于病原体随致伤物直接进入眼内 ,在眼内和玻璃体繁殖 ,产生剧烈炎症反应 ,对眼内组织造成严重破坏 .如不及时而有效的控制 ,终使视力丧失 ,眼球萎缩 .近年随着现代玻璃体手术的发展 ,外伤性眼内炎的治愈率明显提高 .现将我科收治的 6 2例报告如下 .1　对象和方法1 .1　对象 1 996 - 0 6 / 1 998- 0 6我院连续收治 6 2例外伤性眼内炎 ,其中男 5 0例 ,女 1 2例 ,年龄 2～ 45岁 ,平均 1 6 .5岁 .1 4岁以下儿童 38例 ,占 6 1 .3% .以致伤原因分类 :角膜穿通伤30例 ,巩膜穿…