[Protective effect of tanshinol on the hepatopulmonary syndrome in rat].

Objective: To explore the mechanism of tanshinol on alleviate the inflammatory injury of lung tissue in rat hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS).

Methods: SD rats were randomly divided into normal control group (n = 8), hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) group (n = 11) and tanshinol intervention group (n = 9). HE staining was used to observe the histopathology changes of pulmonary and hepatic tissues, and to count the number of macrophages in lung tissues.

[Establishment and biological characteristics of lung cancer cell line XWLC-05].

Background & Objective: The incidence of lung cancer is high at Xuanwei, Yunnan Province, at where the mortality rate of this disease in women is the highest in China. This study was to establish a Xuanwei woman lung adenocarcinoma cell line, and provide an in vitro experimental model for the study of preventing and treating lung cancer.

Methods: The cells derived from a surgical specimen of a woman patient with lung cancer were primarily cultured.