Publications by authors named "Li-Wang Zhang"

Urothelial cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of malignant tumor in the bladder, of which primary adenocarcinoma accounts for a small percentage. Secondary malignancies, in particular metastatic adenocarcinoma from the lung, are exceedingly rare, with only six cases previously reported in the literature. The present study describes the case of a 71-year-old Chinese male patient with known lung cancer for >2 years, who was diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma to the bladder.

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Liposarcoma has previously been described in Western studies, however, such cases are rarely reported in the mediastinum. In addition, the presence of a liposarcoma with smooth muscle and neural differentiation has not been previously reported. Thus, the present study describes the rare case of a 28-year-old Chinese male admitted to our hospital with the symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath due to a recurrent fibrolipoma in the mediastinum.

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Paraesophageal bronchogenic cyst was one of common mediastinal congenital cystic lesions of foregut origin. Because of an intimate embryologic relationship with the esophagus, they were usually found intramural (intramural esophageal bronchogenic cysts) with the local esophageal mucosa being intact and the paraesophageal bronchogenic cysts were rarely communicated with esophageal lumen. We report a case of para-esophageal bronchogenic cyst communicating to the esophageal lumen thorough a pedicle of canal, which looked liked a diverticulum on X-ray.

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Objective: To evaluate dendritic cells induced immune response against hepatocellular carcinoma by pulsed CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells originated dendritic cells with p53 gene.

Methods: CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells were harvested after mobilization by chemotherapy and G-CSF. CD34+ hematopoietic stem cell apheresis was induced to differentiate into dendritic cells by cytokine cocktail IL-4,GM-CSF and TNF-alpha.

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Background: DC vaccination with the use of tumor cells provides the potential to generate a polyclonal immune response to multiple known and unknown tumor Ag. Our study comparatively analyzed DC fused with tumor cells or transfected with tumor total RNA as potential cancer vaccines against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: Immature DC generated from PBMC of patients with HCC were fused with HepG2-GFP (HepG2 cell line transfected stably with plasmid pEGFP-C3) cells or transfected with their total RNA.

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alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) may be a possible target for a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-specific vaccination. But some studies have demonstrated that dendritic cells (DCs) treated with AFP become dysfunctional. So in this study, we try to transfect AFP mRNA into DCs and observe the ability of DCs to induce AFP-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells.

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Aim: To construct a recombined human AFP eukaryotic expression vector for the purpose of gene therapy and target therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: The full length AFP-cDNA of prokaryotic vector was digested, and subcloned to the multi-clony sites of the eukaryotic vector. The constructed vector was confirmed by enzymes digestion and electrophoresis, and the product expressed was detected by electrochemiluminescence and immunofluorescence methods.

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