Primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the prostate in a 58-year-old man: A case report.

Background: Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), especially located in the prostate, is a rare tumor that mainly occurs in young men. Bladder or rectum invasion and distant metastasis are strongly associated with a poor prognosis. Combination therapy, including radical surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, is available.

Flexible cystoscopy can improve anxiety and subjective feelings of bladder cancer patients during follow-up.

Introduction: The effect of repeated cystoscopy on bladder cancer (BC) patient anxiety and feelings is rarely evaluated.

Aim: To compare the difference of patients' anxiety and subjective feelings caused by different cystoscopes.

Material And Methods: We prospectively included 192 BC patients who accepted regular cystoscopy follow-up after transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT): 93 in the flexible group and 99 in the rigid group.

Neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally downregulated 8 promotes tumor progression and predicts poor prognosis of patients with bladder cancer.

Neddylation has been researched in many different human carcinomas. However, the roles of neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally downregulated 8 (NEDD8) in bladder cancer are still unknown. Our study was the first study which systematically investigated the possible functions of NEDD8 in bladder cancer (BC) progression.

Prognostic significance of urothelial carcinoma with divergent differentiation in upper urinary tract after radical nephroureterectomy without metastatic diseases: A retrospective cohort study.

To evaluate the impact of urothelial carcinoma with divergent differentiation (UCDD) on the prognosis of patients for primary upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) with pN0/x status treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) and to evaluate the prognostic value of UCDD in different tumor locations (renal pelvis and ureter).Data from a total of 346 patients with UTUC who received RNU between January 2012 and March 2016 in the institution were retrospectively analyzed. Clinicopathological features and prognostic factors age, sex, complaint, height, weight, blood pressure, tumor grade, stage, smoking status, history of adjuvant chemotherapy, tumor location, history of bladder cancer, tumor necrosis, degree of hydronephrosis, tumor size, tumor focality, and preoperative anemia were compared between patients with pure UTUC and patients with UCDD.

Biological effects of eukaryotic recombinant plasmid pReceiver-M61-BAI-1 transfection on T24 cells and HUVECs.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the biological effect on T24 cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) of transfection with brain-specific angiogenesis inhibitor-1 (BAI-1). The recombinant plasmid pReceiver-M61-BAI-1 was transfected into human superficial bladder tumor cells (T24) and HUVECs, in parallel with the vector control. mRNA and protein expression levels of BAI‑1 were then detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and western blotting, respectively.

The evaluation of the association between the metabolic syndrome and tumor grade and stage of bladder cancer in a Chinese population.

Objective: The objective of this article was to summarize the relationship between some components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the histopathologic findings in bladder cancer in a Chinese population.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of 323 patients from the Department of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University between January 2012 and January 2014. All the patients were diagnosed with bladder cancer for the first time.

[Case-control study on midterm follow-up effects of the extended release of posterior clearance in total knee arthroplasty].

Objective: To evaluate the midterm follow-up results of extended release of posterior clearance in total knee arthroplasty.

Methods: A total of 120 patients with knee osteoarthritis were equally randomly assigned to the experimental group and control group, and underwent unilateral TKA from March 2010 to March 2012. In experimental group, there were 21 males and 39 females with an average age of (62.

Identification of a Novel Rat NR2B Subunit Gene Promoter Region Variant and Its Association with Microwave-Induced Neuron Impairment.

Microwave radiation has been implicated in cognitive dysfunction and neuronal injury in animal models and in human investigations; however, the mechanism of these effects is unclear. In this study, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites in the rat GRIN2B promoter region were screened. The associations of these SNPs with microwave-induced rat brain dysfunction and with rat pheochromocytoma-12 (PC12) cell function were investigated.

Functional analysis and application of the cryptic plasmid pBSG3 harboring the RapQ-PhrQ system in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B3.

This work sequenced and characterized a cryptic plasmid called pBSG3 from wild-type Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B3--a powerful agent for suppression of plant pathogenic organisms. It is an 8439 bp circular molecule, with G+C content of 40.3%.

Vestibular function in military pilots before and after 10 s at +9 Gz on a centrifuge.

Background: Effects of high Gz acceleration can threaten flight safety through loss of consciousness or a lesser-known phenomenon, G-induced vestibular dysfunction (GIVD). There are reports of GIVD following high-G flight or centrifuge exposure. The aim of this study was to explore this problem under controlled conditions using a human centrifuge.