[Soil properties and microbial respiration activities of riparian forest wetland in the north of permafrost zone, the Great Hing'an Mountains, Northeast China].

Riparian wetlands in permafrost regions are critical regions for hydrological, ecological, and biochemical processes. We studied the soils of riparian and transition wetlands and analyzed physicochemical properties, stoichiometry, and microbial respiration activities (microbial biomass carbon, basal respiration, microbial entropy, and metabolic entropy) of the humus layer and diffe-rent soil layers. The results showed that the main differentiation of soil physical and chemical pro-perties in riparian forest wetlands was below 20 cm.

Roles of lncRNA MAGI2-AS3 in human cancers.

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are noncoding RNAs more than 200 nucleotides in length. A growing number of reports indicate that lncRNAs play a key role in multiple cancers by serving as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. MAGI2 antisense RNA 3 (MAGI2-AS3) is ubiquitously expressed in human cancers, and the level of MAGI2-AS3 expression is associated with the progression and prognosis of cancers.

[A cross-sectional survey on the prevalence of Brucellosis among workers in Jiangsu province, 2012].

Objective: To study the status of infection and risk factors on Brucellosis among workers in Jiangsu province so as to provide related preventive and control measures.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 238 workers at three butcheries, one trading market and one stockyard. Related risk factors on the different exposures to the disease were also analyzed.

[Surveillance of echinococcosis in high risk areas of Yixing City from 2008 to 2009].

An investigation was conducted retrospectively for echinococcosis (hydatid disease) in Yixing City from 2008 to 2009, the serum or fecal samples of suspected patients during the past 5 years and host animals were assessed by ELISA. There were 2 cases reported by network and 4 confirmed patients by investigation, and among the total 6 cases, 5 cases may be infected in the locality. The positive rates were 0.