Occurrence of Fusarium Crown Rot Caused by on Winter Wheat in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the predominant grain crop and plays a pivotal role in grain production in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China. Its cultivated area constitutes approximately half of the total sown area of grain crops in XUAR, with 1.

Discovery of Causing Crown Rot of Winter Wheat in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Fusarium pseudograminearum is an important plant pathogen that invades many crops (Zhang et al. 2018). Since it was first discovered in Australia in 1951, F.

An online survey data in senior high school students and their parents in China during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019.

The dataset presents the raw data collected through an online survey of senior high school students and their parents from 24 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (96 cities) of China. We conducted the online survey using electronic self-administered questionnaires designed as student-version and parent-version during 26th February and 4th March of 2020. The questionnaires were designed using the online survey tool Sojump (Shanghai Information Co.

Self-reported anxiety level and related factors in senior high school students in China during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019.

Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a big challenge for senior high school students in China who are facing tremendous pressure of the highly competitive College Entrance Examination.

Methods: To evaluate the psychological impact of the event in the population, we conducted an anonymous online survey among senior high school students in China between 26 Feb and 4 March, 2020. Information collected included demographic characteristics, attitude toward medical study, infection of COVID-19 in acquaintances, anxiety symptoms evaluated using the GAD-7, and health literacy level measured using the IDSHL.

[Magnetic resonance-ultrasound fusion guided transperineal prostate biopsy for the diagnosis of prostate cancer].

Objective: To investigate the application value of magnetic resonance-ultrasound fusion (MR-USF) guided transperineal prostate biopsy (TPPB) in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Methods: Relevant data were collected retrospectively from 77 patients undergoing MR-USF guided TPPB (n = 22) or 12-core systematic prostate biopsy (SPB) (n = 55) in Binhai People's Hospital from May to July 2019 and statistically analyzed using the software Graphad Prism 7.0 and SPSS 22.

Retroperitoneal laparoscopic partial resection of the renal pelvis for urothelial carcinoma: A case report.

Background: The standard treatment of transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract consists of radical nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff removal, which can be performed either in open or laparoscopy or robot-assisted laparoscopy. Treatment of chronic renal insufficiency patients with upper urothelial tumor is in a dilemma. Urologists weigh and consider the balance between tumor control and effective renal function preservation.

Cancer-associated fibroblasts induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer via CXCL12/CXCR4 axis.

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are closely related to epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and chemoresistance in various cancers. Experiments and retrospective studies were applied to explore the role of CAFs in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We found that CXCL12 expression was significantly increased in interstitial CAFs by immunofluorescence.

TNFSF9 exerts an inhibitory effect on hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective: Tumor necrosis factor superfamily member 9 (TNFSF9), also known as 4-1BBL and CD137L, has been implicated in cancer immunotherapy due to its function as a T-cell co-stimulator. We aimed to investigate the role of TNFSF9 in the cancer pathogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: TNFSF9 expression was examined by immunohistochemistry in 106 pairs of HCC and adjacent non-tumorous tissues, and by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and Western blot in HCC cell lines.

Overexpression of Gli1 in cancer interstitial tissues predicts early relapse after radical operation of breast cancer.

Objective: To investigate whether Gli1 expression is important in relapse after radical operation of breast cancer.

Methods: Using immunohistochemistry, Gli1 expression was analyzed in human primary breast cancer (n=284) and paracancerous tissues (n=20), and also in local lymph nodes (n=28) and metastatic lymph nodes (n=28).

Results: Initial analysis of Gli1 expression in a small cohort of 20 breast tumors and their paracancerous tissues showed a tendency towards Gli1 overexpression in breast cancer tissues (P<0.

[Complete sequence determination and phylogenetic analysis of FKN among seven higher primates including homonids and Old World Monkeys].

To obtain full-length FKN nucleotide sequences of homonids including human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan and gibbon, and Old World Monkeys including macaque and leaf monkey and make phylogenetic analysis, three exons of FKN were amplified by degenerated PCR using obtained peripheral blood cells DNA as template which was extracted from homonids and Old World Monkeys. After extracting and purifying from agarose gels, PCR products were sequenced and then spliced by using BioEdit. All the FKN sequences were aligned and compared the percent identity by using DNAStar.

[Identification of hepatitis B virus integration sites in hepatocellular carcinoma tissues from patients with chronic hepatitis B].

Objective: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration into the host genome is frequently detected in HBV positive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in China. The aim of this study is to carry out a large-scale screening for the HBV integrations sites in HCC samples from Chinese patients.

Methods: Cellular DNA was extracted from 40 HBV-related HCC by proteinase K digestion/phenol extraction method.

Protective effect of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate on liver injury induced by intestinal ischemia-reperfusion in rats.

Background: The nuclear translocation of transcription factors may be a critical factor in the intracellular pathway involved in ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB) in the pathogenesis of liver injury induced by intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (IIR) and to investigate the effect of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) on this liver injury.

Methods: Male Wistar rats were divided randomly into three experimental groups (8 rats in each): sham operation group (control group); intestinal/reperfusion group (I/R group): animals received 1-hour of intestinal ischemia and 2-hour reperfusion; and PDTC treatment group (PDTC group): animals that received I/R subject to PDTC treatment (100 mg/kg).

[Observation on therapeutic effect of acupuncture at lateral cervical Jiaji points on cervical spondylosis of vertebroarterial type].

Objective: To compare therapeutic effects of acupuncture at lateral cervical Jiaji and at traditional Jiaji points on cervical spondylosis of vertebroarterial type.

Methods: Seventy-two cases of vertebroarterial type cervical spondylosis were randomly divided into a needling lateral cervical Jiaji group (n=40) and a traditional Jiaji group (n=32). After 2 courses, therapeutic effects were evaluated and ultrasound Doppler's detection of skull was conducted.

[Clinical study on Zhuyu Tongfu serial recipe combined with acupuncture and massotherapy in treating hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage].

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy and mechanism of Zhuyu Tongfu (ZYTF) Serial Recipe combined with acupuncture and massotherapy in treating hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage (HCH).

Methods: One hundred and eighteen patients with hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage, on the basis of conventional Western medicine treatment, were randomly divided into ZYTF combined with acupuncture and massotherapy group (treated group) and simple Western medicine group (control group); the clinical efficacy, neurofunction deficit scoring (NDS) alterations and hematoma absorption rate of both groups were observed, and also the plasma superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, plasma lipid peroxidase (LPO) content, erythrocyte glutathion peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity, hematocrit (Ht) and the whole blood viscosity (Va) change were also observed.

Results: In the treated group, the clinical efficacy, NDS improvement and hematoma absorption rate were superior to that of the control group; comparison between the two groups after treatment showed that plasma SOD activity and GSH-Px activity got more elevated and plasma LPO content, Ht and Va more lowered in the the treated group than those in the control group.

[Quantitative analysis of circulating DNA in serum of cancer patients].

Objective: To develop a method for ng quantitation of circulating DNA in serum and explore the value in the diagnosis of cancer.

Methods: Serum DNA was extracted by commercial "genomic DNA extraction kit" and detected by fluorescent dye (SYBR green I) staining. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at BRCA1 (D17S579, D17S855) and p53 (TP53, D17S786) in serum DNA was analyzed by PCR-based method.