Inflammatory Factor Levels and Clinical Characteristics of Mental Disorders in Patients with Sheehan Syndrome.

Background: Sheehan's syndrome often occurs in women aged 20 to 40 years. Bleeding is the main cause of the disease. This syndrome is rarely reported in the literature either in China or abroad, and it is rare in psychiatric clinic.

[Analysis of Proliferation Characters of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndrome].

Objective: To analyze the proliferation potential of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

Methods: The MSC derived from the 24 patients with newly diagnosed MDS (MDS-MSC group) and MSC derived from 15 patients with nutritional anemia (control group) in the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University were used as the research objects. The proliferation potential of MSC was analyzed by colony-forming unit assay, doubling time, cumulative passaging, cell number after 10 days of culture with equal amount of MSC and MTT experiment.

gen. nov., sp. nov., a microaerophilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from freshwater sediment.

A novel sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, designated strain LSR1, was enriched and isolated from a freshwater sediment sample collected from the Pearl River in Guangzhou, PR China. The strain was an obligate chemolithoautotroph, using thiosulfate or sulfide as an electron donor and energy source. Growth of strain LSR1 was observed at 15-40 °C, pH 6.

A Two-Step Strategy for the Rapid Enrichment of -Like Ammonia-Oxidizing Thaumarchaea.

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are widely distributed on the earth and play a significant role in the global nitrogen cycle. Although dozens of AOA strains were obtained in the last 13 years, it is still necessary to obtain more AOA strains for the entire exploration of their ecology, physiology, and underlying biochemistry in different environments. In this study, we designed a two-step strategy for the rapid enrichment of -like AOA from soils.

Insight into the diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in the intestinal bacteria of shrimp Penaeus vannamei by culture-dependent and independent approaches.

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that distributed in antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARBs) are widespread in aquaculture and have great threats to the aquatic organism as well as to human. However, our understanding about the risk of ARGs to the health of aquatic organism is still limited. In the present study, we got a deep insight into the diversity of ARGs in the intestinal bacteria of shrimp by culture-dependent and independent approaches.

[Clinical features of mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion in children].

Objective: To investigate the clinical features of mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) in children.

Methods: The clinical data of 8 children with MERS were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: The mean age of onset was 5 years and 2 months (range 10 months to 12 years).

Phrenic nerve transfer to the musculocutaneous nerve for the repair of brachial plexus injury: electrophysiological characteristics.

Phrenic nerve transfer is a major dynamic treatment used to repair brachial plexus root avulsion. We analyzed 72 relevant articles on phrenic nerve transfer to repair injured brachial plexus that were indexed by Science Citation Index. The keywords searched were brachial plexus injury, phrenic nerve, repair, surgery, protection, nerve transfer, and nerve graft.

[Chest CT features and outcome of necrotizing pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children (report of 30 cases)].

Objective: To summarize the chest CT features and outcome of necrotizing pneumonia (NP) caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children and to review the changes of common inflammatory parameters in NP patients to help clinicians understand the proper timing of CT scan.

Method: The imaging data from 30 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in NP group and 24 cases with non-necrotizing Mycoplasma penumoniae pneumonia (control group) were analyzed retrospectively. The changes of common inflammatory parameters in NP group and control group were compared.