Preschool language education is a requirement of basic education reform as well as a requirement for children's growth in all aspects of body and mind. It is extremely important and valuable in encouraging the entire growth of preschool education as well as children's general harmonious development. The degree of informatization is changing day by day, and many information technology concepts and tools have entered the preschool education field.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity is characterized by an accumulation of excessive body fat and can be diagnosed by a variety of measures, such as BMI. However, in some obese individuals, oxidative stress is also thought to be an important pathogenic mechanism of obesity-associated metabolic syndrome. Oxidative stress increases the lipid peroxidation product, 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), which is one of the most abundant and active lipid peroxides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate the effects of posterior scleral reinforcement (PSR) in the treatment of pathological myopia.
Methods: The study included 52 eyes in 43 patients with pathological myopia who underwent PSR (PSR group), and 52 eyes in 36 age- and myopia-matched patients who did not undergo such treatment as control group. Axial length, refraction error, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and macular scans by optical coherence tomography (OCT) were recorded at baseline, 6mo, 1, 3 and 5y after the surgery, and the complications were noted.
Objective: Obesity is primarily characterized by the accumulation of large amounts of fat in adipose tissue. Within the adipose tissue, adipocytes are derived from adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ADSCs) via a specialized cell lineage differentiation process, and ADSCs play a key role in the generation and metabolism of adipose tissue. This study investigated whether microRNAs (miRNAs) play a role in adipocyte differentiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate the effects of posterior scleral reinforcement (PSR) combined with vitrectomy for myopic foveoschisis.
Methods: Thirty-nine highly myopic eyes of 39 patients with myopic foveoschisis underwent PSR combined with vitrectomy. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), refraction error, and the foveal thickness by optical coherence tomography (OCT) were recorded before and after the surgery, and complications were noted.
Background: Neovascular glaucoma (NVG) is a refractory glaucoma. The management of NVG is very difficult, and it is more difficult when combined with vitreous hemorrhage. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ranibizumab plus combined surgery for NVG with vitreous hemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopmental signaling molecules involved in dorsal patterning of the spinal cord have been identified in vivo; however, studies have not produced specific functional dorsal spinal cord neurons in vitro. We present here differentiation of R1 embryonic stem (ES) cells into GABAergic dorsal spinal cord neurons by sequential treatment with developmental signaling molecules. We found that retinoic acid, Bmp4 altered the specification of neural progenitors and instructed neural fate when applied at distinct stages of development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochem Biophys Res Commun
July 2009
Previous studies have shown that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) enhance repair following injury or degenerative diseases in the central nervous system, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. The present study investigated the functional relationship between MSCs and neural stem cells (NSCs) using co-culture systems. Results demonstrated that MSCs promoted outgrowth and guided directional extension of NSC-derived neurites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, differentiated somatic cells had been reprogrammed to pluripotential state in vitro, and various tissue cells had been elicited from those cells. Epigenetic modifications allow differentiated cells to perpetuate the molecular memory needed for the cells to retain their identity. DNA methylation and histone deacetylation are important patterns involved in epigenetic modification, which take critical roles in regulating DNA expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2008
Objective: To investigate the effects of 4- hydroxytamoxifen (OHT) on the proliferation and apoptosis of prostate smooth muscle cells and the expression of estrogen receptor (ER) and androgen receptor (AR).
Methods: Prostate smooth muscle cells were isolated from the resected specimens of prostate glands of 10 patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), cultured, and exposed to estradiol (E(2)), diethylstilbestrol (DES), and OHT of different concentrations (1 x 10(-8) - 1 x 10(-5) mol/L) or mixture of E(2) (1 x 10(-8) - 1 x 10(-6) mol/L) with OHT (1 x 10(-7) mol/L). Flow cytometry was used to test the proliferation and apoptosis of the cells, and immunocytochemistry was used to test the expression of estrogen and androgen receptors.
The developmental potential of reconstructed embryos varied according to the source of donor cells, it was thought that the donor cells capabilities to be reprogrammed were different. We established the method of culturing porcine bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (pMSCs), identified and observed the growth characteristics of pMSCs, and determined pMSCs reprogramming potential as donor cells for nuclear transfer (SCNT). We found that the method of gradient centrifugation to isolate pMSCs from porcine bone marrow was better than the method of anchoring culture; the number of pMSCs achieved peak at day 6, the adhesive rate of cultured cells was 78.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMouse embryonic stem (ES) cells can be induced by various chemicals to differentiate into a variety of cell types in vitro. In our study, retinoic acid (RA), one of the most important inducers, used at a concentration of 5 microM, was found to induce the differentiation of ES cells into neural progenitor cells (NPCs). During embryoid body (EB) differentiation, the level of active cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) was relatively high when 5 microM RA treatment was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effects of 4OH-Tamoxifen (OHT) on proliferation and apoptosis of primary cultured prostate stromal cells.
Methods: Primarily cultured prostate stromal cells in vitro were treated with various concentrations (10(-8) mol/L - 10(-5) mol/L) of estradiol (E2), diethylstilbestrol (DES), OHT and the mixture of E2 (10(-8) mol/L - 10(-6) mol/L) with OHT (10(-7) mol/L) and then MTT and TUNEL were used to detect their proliferation and apoptosis respectively.
Results: There was a significant difference (P < 0.
Objective: To establish an in vitro model of posterior capsule opacification (PCO) by culturing the posterior capsule of bovine lens, to observe the proliferation and differentiation of lens epithelial cells and to study the influence of serum and pranoprofen eyedrops on cell confluence of this model.
Methods: The bovine lens posterior capsule was spread on the surface of a 25 ml culture flask with cell layer upward. DMEM with 0%, 10% and 20% fetal calf serum was used as culture medium.
Objectives: To evaluate the first prospective screening program in China for control of alpha and beta-thalassemia in the population of pregnant couples.
Methods: During the period between January 1993 and December 2003, a hospital-based preventive program was conducted at the biggest birth center in Guangzhou, with 1/17 of all deliveries in this city referred annually by use of conventional heterozygote screening strategy in combination with the system of regular healthcare examination in pregnancy.
Results: The screened records included 49 221 pregnant women, and 4503 husbands of the pregnant women showed positive on the screening test.