[Treadmill exercise test in patients with coronary artery myocardial bridging].

Objective: To observe treadmill exercise test (TET) characteristics in patients with myocardial bridging (MB).

Methods: TET results from January 2003 to December 2010 were retrospectively analyzed in 156 patients with confirmed MB diagnosis. MB patients were divided into smoking group (68 cases) and non-smoking group (88 cases).

[Apoptosis of Kasumi-1 cells induced by puerariae radix flavones and its molecular mechanism].

Objective: To explore the effects and the molecular mechanism of puerariae radix flavones (PRF) on acute myeloid leukemia cell line Kasumi-1 cells in vitro.

Methods: Kasumi-1 cells treated by PRF for 48 hours were observed with Wright's and Hoechst 33258 dying. The apoptotic cells were analyzed by flow cytometry with AnnexinV/PI staining.

Combining nilotinib and imatinib improves the outcome of imatinib-resistant blast phase CML.

Imatinib resistance is an important hurdle in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), and CML patients with this drug resistance are often given a dismal prognosis. In this case report, an imatinib-refractory blast phase CML patient was treated with a combination of imatinib and nilotinib. A complete hematologic response was achieved within 3 months, the drug combination was well tolerated, and there was a relatively long bone-marrow complete remission.

A case report of a 33-year chronic phase survivor of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Here, we report a Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia case with the longest chronic phase and overall survival to our knowledge ever reported in the medical literature. During the 33-year chronic phase, he was asymptomatic without any treatment and had normal blood cell values. BCR-ABL silencing might be referred to the uncommon long-term survivor.

[Clinical and biological features in refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts with fluctuant platelet counts].

The objective of this study was to explore the differences between refractory anemia with ringed sideroblast (RARS) and RARS associated with marked thrombocytosis (RARS-T) in the clinical, biological features and prognosis. The morphological changes of cells were observed by bone marrow smear and biopsy. Immunologic phenotype was analyzed by flow cytometry, and chromosome was examined by conventional chromosomal analysis.

[Apoptosis of NB4 cells induced by flavonoids of puerarin in vitro].

This study was aimed to investigate the effects of flavonoids of puerarin (PR) on apoptosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cell line NB4 cells and its mechanism. The NB4 were treated with PR in vitro, the MTT assay was used to detect the inhibitory effect of PR on cell proliferation. The apoptosis of NB4 cells were detected by flow cytometry labelled with Annexin V/PI.

[Inhibitory effect of flavonoids of puerarin on proliferation of different human acute myeloid leukemia cell lines in vitro].

This study was aimed to investigate the inhibitory effect of flavonoids of puerarin (PR) in different concentrations on proliferation of 4 kinds of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines (Kasumi-1, HL-60, NB4 and U937), and to explore its possible mechanism. The MTT method was used to detected the inhibitory effect of PR on proliferation of AML cell lines. The flow cytometry was adopted to determine the change of cell cycle in vitro.