The clinical application of laparoscope-assisted peritoneal vaginoplasty for the treatment of congenital absence of vagina.

Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of laparoscope-assisted peritoneal vaginoplasty for the treatment of congenital vaginal atresia.

Methods: A retrospective study enrolled patients diagnosed with congenital vaginal atresia who were treated with one of two different laparoscope-assisted peritoneal vaginoplasty techniques (named Luohu-one and Luohu-two) between October 31, 2001 and December 31, 2014. Operative time, intraoperative bleeding volume, surgical difficulty, complications, and post-procedure sexual satisfaction were reported.

Expression of γ-Synuclein in Bladder Carcinoma: A Possible Marker for Prognosis.

Aim: To investigate if γ-synuclein (SNCG) could be used as a bladder cancer (BC) marker to predict prognosis of BC.

Patients And Methods: Medical records of 140 patients with BC (January, 2006 to December, 2009) were retrospectively reviewed. SNCG expression level was examined by immunohistological staining.

IL-9 inhibits HTB-72 melanoma cell growth through upregulation of p21 and TRAIL.

Background: IL-9 is a pleiotropic cytokine produced mainly by Th9 cells. IL-9 may have an anti-proliferative role in murine melanoma, however, its effect on human melanoma is unknown.

Methods: We examined the effects of IL-9 on proliferation and apoptosis in four human melanoma cell lines, HTB-65, HTB-72, CRL-11147, and SK-Mel-5.