Potential prognostic and therapeutic value of ANXA8 in renal cell carcinoma: based on the comprehensive analysis of annexins family.

Background: Annexins are a family of proteins involved in a wide variety of cellular processes such as inflammation, proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, migration and membrane repair. However, the role of most Annexins in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remained unclear.

Methods: The differentially expressed Annexins in RCC compared with normal controls were screened applying the TCGA database.

Laparoscopic Extravascular Stent Placement for Nutcracker Syndrome: A Report of 13 Cases.

Objective: To report our techniques and experience of laparoscopic extravascular stent placement for nutcracker syndrome.

Patients And Methods: This study included 13 nutcracker syndrome patients who were treated by laparoscopic extravascular stent placement from June 2009 to August 2013. Clinical and surgical data and short-term outcomes were analyzed retrospectively.

Study on the treatment of acute thallium poisoning.

Background: Acute thallium poisoning rarely occurs but is a serious and even fatal medical condition. Currently, patients with acute thallium poisoning are usually treated with Prussian blue and blood purification therapy. However, there are few studies about these treatments for acute thallium poisoning.

Association of NAT2, GSTM1, GSTT1, CYP2A6, and CYP2A13 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility and clinicopathologic characteristics of bladder cancer in Central China.

Objective: To explore the association of polymorphisms in N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2), glutathione S-transferase (GST), cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A6, and CYP 2A13 genes with susceptibility and clinicopathologic characteristics of bladder cancer in a Chinese population.

Methods: In a hospital-based case-control study of 208 cases and 212 controls matched on age and gender, genotypes were determined by PCR-based methods. Risks were evaluated by unconditional logistic regression analysis.