Role of Platelet/Lymphocyte, Neutrophil/Lymphocyte, and Interleukin-37/Interleukin-17 Ratios in the Occurrence and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

This study was designed to investigate the correlation of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and interleukin (IL)-37/IL-17 ratio with the incidence/treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Firstly, fifty-eight patients with RA treated at the first affiliated hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from January 2018 to January 2019 were selected as the RA group; forty-nine healthy volunteers were enrolled in the control group. RA patients were treated with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

Comprehensive Analysis of the Expression and Prognosis for MCMs in Human Gastric Cancer.

Purposes: Minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins play an important role in replication and cell cycle progression. Even so, their expression and prognostic roles in cancer remain controversial.

Methods: To address this issue, the study investigated the roles of MCMs in the prognosis of GC by using ONCOMINE, GEPIA2, UALCAN, Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), the Human Protein Atlas, Kaplan-Meier Plotter, cBioPortal, GeneMANIA, and DAVID databases.

Tumor-Associated CD163 M2 Macrophage Infiltration is Highly Associated with PD-L1 Expression in Cervical Cancer.

Background: Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a negative costimulatory molecule, and its main function is widely considered to be in the regulation of T cells. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are an important part of the tumor microenvironment, and they also play an important role in immunosuppression. However, the relationship between the expression of PD-L1 and TAMs in cervical carcinoma (CC) remains unclear.

The Leukocyte VCS Parameters Compared with Procalcitonin, Interleukin-6, and Soluble Hemoglobin Scavenger Receptor sCD163 for Prediction of Sepsis in Patients with Cirrhosis.

Background: Patients with liver cirrhosis have a high risk of sepsis and a poor prognosis. Recently, a new standard for sepsis (Sepsis-3) has been proposed in the general population. The Coulter Lh 750 hematology analyzer can evaluate mean volume, conductivity, scatter, and distribution width of leukocyte.

Effect of different types of macrophages on hepatic fibrosis in Echinococcus Granulosus mice.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to illustrate the therapeutic effect of which kind of polarized macrophages-based cell therapy in hepatic fibrosis caused by cystic echinococcosis.

Methods: The isolation culture and polarization induction of mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) are established in an in vitro environment. A model of Echinococcus granulosus infection is established by direct injection of the Echinococcus granulosus suspension into the left hepatic lobe.

The relationship between the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway and DNA mismatch repair in cervical cancer and its clinical significance.

Background: According to recent clinical observations, deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) is capable of improving antitumor effects of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, suggesting that dMMR may act as a prognostic indicator of PD-1/PD-L1 antibody drugs. In this study, we examined the dMMR and PD-1/PD-L1 expression, as well as explored the correlation of dMMR status with PD-1/PD-L1 expression in cervical cancer patients, in order to optimize cervical cancer patient selection for PD-1/PD-L1 antibody drug treatment, which is helpful to avoid adverse effects and keep costs manageable.

Methods: Sixty-six tissue samples from patients with squamous cell carcinoma were collected, and data of their clinical characteristics were also gathered.

Association between PD-L1 and HPV status and the prognostic value for HPV treatment in premalignant cervical lesion patients.

The difference of PD-L1 expression between only HPV-positive patients and premalignant cervical lesion patients did not be reported in present studies. And to test the PD-L1 expression in some cervical cell lesion studies using cervical exfoliated cells sample also was ignored. Meanwhile, the PD-L1 expression as a predictive biomarker still existed controversy.

Increased HPV L1 gene methylation and multiple infection status lead to the difference of cervical epithelial cell lesion in different ethnic women of Xinjiang, China.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) L1 gene methylation deeply involved in the progression and heterogeneity of cervical cell epithelial lesions. The DNA ploidy also represented the early lesions of cervical cell, and it was associated with different HPV infection status in different ethnic women. So, the research was to explore whether it was possible that HPV L1 gene methylation and HPV infection status as the risk factors to lead to the differences of cervical epithelial cells' lesions in different ethnics women.

[Construction and expression of the Echinococcus granulosus recombinant BCG-EgG1Y162].

Objective: To construct and express Echinococcus granulosus recombinant bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strain rBCG-EgG1Y162.

Methods: The encoding gene of the antigen EgG1Y162 of E. granulosus was recombined with E.

[Detection and clinical significance of Th1/Th2 cytokines in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura].

Aim: To observe Th1 (IL-2 and IFN-γ) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-10) cytokine changes in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and explore the correlation between ITP development and Th1/Th2.

Methods: A total of 30 patients with ITP and 26 healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study. Serum levels of IL-2, IFN-γ, IL-4, and IL-10 were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) before and after treatment.

Transmembrane protein 166 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Xinjiang, China.

Objective: Transmembrane protein 166 (TMEM166) expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and remote normal esophageal tissues was examined to assess any role in tumour biology.

Methods: TMEM166 mRNA expression in 36 cases with ESCC (36 tumour samples, 36 remote normal esophageal tissue samples) was detected by RT-PCR. TMEM166 protein expression was analysed in paraffin-embedded tissue samples from the same cases by immunohistochemistry.

[Bioinformatics prediction of egA31 recombinant antigen epitopes of Echinococcus granulosus].

Specific primers were designed and synthesized based on the reported EgA31 gene of Echinococcus granulosus (GenBank Accession No. AF067807). Total RNA was extracted from E.

[Dynamic change of IL-10 and TGF-beta1 in the liver of Echinococcus multilocularis-infected mice].

Objective: To observe the dynamic expression and function of IL-10 and TGF-beta1 in liver of BALB/c mice infected with Echinococcus multilocularis (Em).

Methods: Sixty female BALB/c mice were randomly divided into experiment group and control group. Mice in the experiment group were each injected with 0.

[Antioxidant effects of the Uygur herb, Foeniculum Vulgare Mill, in a rat model of hepatic fibrosis].

Objective: To evaluate therapeutic and antioxidant effects of Uygur Herb Foeniculum Vulgare Mill (FVM) in hepatic fibrosis rats.

Method: Hepatic fibrosis model was built in rats by subcutaneous injection with 40% CCl4 olive oil mixture. At the same time the rats were given high lipoid-low protein animal feeds for 5 weeks.

[The effect of Uygur medicine Hyssopus officinalis L on expression of T-bet, GATA-3 and STAT-3 mRNA in lung tissue of asthma rats].

Aim: To study the Uygur medicine Hyssopus officinalis L on T-bet, GATA-3, STAT-3 mRNA levels of asthma rats in order to explore the mechanism of its treatment of asthma.

Methods: Rats were randomly divided into normal control group, asthma model group and dexamethasone group and water extract of Hyssopus officinalis L high and low dose group. The rats were sensitized with OVA, Al(OH)(3); and DPT vaccine and then challenged with inhalation of aerosolized OVA solution for Preparation of asthma model and the level of T-bet, GATA-3, STAT-3 mRNA were detected with RT-PCR.

[Expression of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells and TGF-ß1 in patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura].

Aim: To investigate the expression rate of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells and TGF-ß1 in peripheral blood of the patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and the role they play in the pathogenesis of ITP.

Method: The population of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells in peripheral blood of 31 patients and 25 healthy donors was evaluated by flow cytometry, ELISA was used to test the level of TGF-ß1 in blood serum, and analysed the correlation between levels of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells and TGF-ß1.

Results: ITP patients had a lower proportion of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells than the healthy donors (P<0.

[Regulation on phenotypic and functional maturation of dendritic cells by apolipoprotein A-I].

Aim: to investigate the effects of apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) on the peripherial blood dendritic cell (PBDC) and monocyte derived DC (MDDC) in vitro.

Methods: isolate PBDC or monocyte by cell isolation kit, monocyte were induced to MDDC by treated with GM-CSF plus IL-4 for 6 days, and then collect PBDC and MDDC treated them with apoA-I, LPS or TNF-α for 24 hours. Then check the cell surface marker and phagocytic capacity by flow cytometry.

[Cloning and sequence analysis of the egG1Y162 gene of Echinococcus granulosus].

A pair of primers (egG1Y162) were designed according to the nucleotide sequence of Echinococcus multilocularis emY162 antigen gene. Using genomic DNA and cDNA from protoscoleces and adult worms of E. granulosus as templates, PCR was performed with the primers to obtain fragments of egG1Y162 gene.