Laparoscopic Surgery for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome.

Background: Superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMAS) is a rare condition, for which laparoscopic surgery was successfully performed safely and with long-term efficacy.

Methods: This single center retrospective clinical study comprised 66 patients with SMAS, surgically treated between January 2010 and January 2020, who were allocated to three different surgical groups according to their medical history and symptoms (Laparoscopic duodenojejunostomy,  = 35; Gastrojejunostomy,  = 16; Duodenojejunostomy plus gastrojejunostomy,  = 15). Patient demographics, surgical data and postoperative outcomes were retrieved from the medical records.

Occupational noise exposure and incident hypertension in men: a prospective cohort study.

The associations between occupational noise exposure and hypertension remain controversial because of the differences in study designs, exposure assessments, and confounding controls. This prospective study investigated the relationship between noise exposure and the 10-year risk of hypertension. A cohort of 578 male workers in Taiwan was followed from 1998 to 2008.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the CDH17 gene of colorectal carcinoma.

Aim: To investigate the relationship between c.343A>G and c.2216A>C polymorphism sites in the CDH17 gene and colorectal carcinoma.

Inhibition effects of all trans-retinoic acid on the growth and angiogenesis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in nude mice.

Background: The potential application of retinoic acid receptor activators, such as all trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), for treating various cancers have been studied both pre-clinically and clinically. Whether ATRA has an anticancer effect on human esophageal squamous cancer cell (ESCC) is still unknown. We have explored the anticancer effect of ATRA in ESCC, and in this study, the effects of ATRA on levels and patterns of expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signal transduction pathway in transplantable tumor growth of the human ESCC cell line, EC9706, in nude mice.

High-frequency hearing loss, occupational noise exposure and hypertension: a cross-sectional study in male workers.

Background: The association between occupational noise exposure and hypertension is inconsistent because of an exposure bias caused by outer-ear measurements of noise levels among workers. This study used hearing loss values (HLVs) measured at 4 kHz and 6 kHz in both ears as a biomarker to investigate the chronic effects of noise exposure on hypertension in 790 aircraft-manufacturing workers.

Methods: Participants were divided into a high hearing loss (HL) group (n = 214; average HLVs ≥ 30 decibel [dB] at 4 kHz or 6 kHz bilaterally; 83.

[Retrovirus-mediated RNA inhibition of EphA2 gene expression in colon adenocarcinoma HCT-8 cells].

Objective: To explore novel cancer gene therapy by retrovirus-mediated RNAi technique to suppress the endogenous EphA2 oncogene expression in colon adenocarcinoma HCT-8 cells.

Methods: Sequence information of EphA2 mRNA was selected and two complementary oligonucleotides with hairpin loop were designed. Retrovirus-mediated RNAi expression vector (pSIREN-EphA2) was then constructed and transfected into the HCT-8 cells.