Progression of Gastrointestinal Injury During Antiplatelet Therapy After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Secondary Analysis of the OPT-PEACE Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Gastrointestinal injury progression induced by antiplatelet therapy in patients after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not been well studied.

Objective: To assess the association of aspirin, clopidogrel, and their combination with gastrointestinal injury progression among patients without high bleeding risk after PCI.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This secondary analysis assessed data from the Optimal Antiplatelet Therapy for Prevention of Gastrointestinal Injury Evaluated by ANKON Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscopy (OPT-PEACE) double-masked, placebo-controlled, multicenter randomized clinical trial.

Efficacy and safety of linaclotide in patients with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation: Chinese sub-cohort analysis of a phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Objective: To conduct a sub-cohort analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of linaclotide in Chinese patients with constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) using data from a completed trial (NCT01880424).

Methods: In this phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, IBS-C patients were randomized to receive linaclotide (290 μg/d) or placebo for 12 weeks. Efficacy was assessed with two co-primary responder end-points (12-wk abdominal pain/discomfort: ≥30% reduction in either score with neither deteriorating from baseline for ≥6 wks; 12-wk IBS degree of relief: score ≤2 for ≥ 6 wks), seven secondary endpoints and several additional end-points.

Transfer of dechlorane plus between human breast milk and adipose tissue and comparison with legacy lipophilic compounds.

In this study, levels of dechlorane plus (DP) in breast milk and matched adipose tissue samples were measured from 54 women living in Wenling, China. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were measured simultaneously for comparison. The levels of ∑DPs/∑PBDEs varied from less than one to several dozens of ng g lipid weight (lw) in matrices and the levels of ∑PCBs varied between several to hundreds of ng g lw.

Bioaccumulation and transfer characteristics of dechlorane plus in human adipose tissue and blood stream and the underlying mechanisms.

In this study, bioaccumulation and transfer characteristics of dechlorane plus (DP) were examined between human adipose tissue and matched maternal serum, and the possible transfer mechanism between tissues was further discussed. The median level of total DP was 971 pg g wet weight (ww) and 1.22 ng g lipid weight (lw) in adipose tissue, respectively, and was 34.

Partitioning of polybrominated biphenyl ethers from mother to fetus and potential health-related implications.

Presently, knowledge on the partitioning of polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs) from mother to fetus and the relationship between PBDE exposure and the levels of thyroid hormones (THs) needs to be extended further. In the present study, we investigated the concentrations of PBDEs in paired mother-fetus samples from 72 pregnant women in Wenling, China. The detection of PBDE concentration suggested that the expectant women living in Wenling for over 20 years might be highly exposed to PBDEs, which is largely ascribed to e-waste recycling activities in the local environment.

Arsenic trioxide induces apoptosis of human gastrointestinal cancer cells.

Aim: To investigate the changes in apoptosis in gastrointestinal cancer cells from patients with gastrointestinal cancers treated with arsenic trioxide (As₂O₃); and to study the possible molecular mechanisms of such changes by detecting the expression levels of p53 and Bcl-2.

Methods: Twenty patients with gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma based on endoscopic and biopsy findings (ten patients with gastric cancer and ten patients with colorectal cancer) who received treatment in our hospital between August 2007 and December 2008 were included in this study. None of the patients had received anti-tumour agents prior to As₂O₃ treatment.

Placental transfer of dechlorane plus in mother-infant pairs in an e-waste recycling area (Wenling, China).

It has been reported that breastfeeding can expose newborns to dechlorane plus (DP), but transplacental transfer of DP has not been documented. We measured DP and its dechlorinated analogs in matched maternal blood-placenta-cord blood samples from 72 residents of the e-waste recycling area of Wenling, China. DP was detected in cord sera, indicating the occurrence of prenatal DP exposure and the transfer of DP across the placenta.

Dechlorane Plus and its dechlorinated analogs from an e-waste recycling center in maternal serum and breast milk of women in Wenling, China.

We measured Dechlorane Plus (DP) and its dechlorinated analogs in the blood and milk from women living in e-waste recycling sites in Wenling of Taizhou region, China (n = 49). Both syn-DP and anti-DP were detected in all samples. Another compound, Cl(11)-DP, was detected in 45% and 84% of milk and serum samples, respectively.

Expression of the androgen receptor and its correlation with molecular subtypes in 980 chinese breast cancer patients.

Background: Recent studies have shown that androgen displays an inhibitory effect on breast cancer cell lines that express androgen receptor (AR) but not estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR). We have previously reported that approximately 1/3 of ER negative high grade invasive ductal carcinomas express AR. Thus, AR can serve as a potential therapeutic target for this group of patients.

[Experience of the surgical comprehensive treatment on severe acute pancreatitis].

Objective: To summary the experience of the surgical comprehensive treatment of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).

Methods: From July 1999 to December 2009, a total of 506 patients suffered SAP were admitted with a mean APACHE II score 12.8 ± 4.

[Maternal and perinatal prognosis of pregnancy with chronic hypertension and analysis of associated factors].

Objective: To analyze the pregnant outcome of women with chronic hypertension, and to investigate the high risk factors associated with harmful maternal and perinatal prognosis.

Methods: Of the 14 127 deliveries in Peking University First Hospital from Jan 2001 to Dec 2005, 121 pregnant women with chronic hypertension were identified and divided into two groups: chronic hypertension with and without preeclampsia (group PE, 64 cases; group N-PE, 57 cases). The maternal and perinatal outcomes of the two groups and the high risk factors for adverse maternal and perinatal prognosis were analyzed.

[The diagnostic value of telomerase activity in differentiating benign and malignant ascitic fluid].

Objective: To investigate the changes of telomerase activity in benign and malignant ascites fluid.

Methods: The technique of telomerase TRAP-PCR-ELISA was employed to detect telomerase activity in ascites cells from 60 patients with benign or malignant ascites fluid, the cytological diagnosis and total tumor marks (carcinoembryonic antigen, et al.) were compared.

Effect of arsenic trioxide on human hepatocarcinoma in nude mice.

Aim: To study the effect of arsenic trioxide (As(2)0(3)) on human hepatoma cell line BEL-7402 in vivo.

Methods: Human hepatoma cell line BEL-7402 cultured in vitro was inoculated into nude mice and arsenic trioxide, 5-Fu and saline were injected into abdominal cavity of the nude mice respectively. The volumes of tumor and general conditions of the nude mice and structural changes of the liver and kidney were observed.

Effect of arsenic trioxide on human hepatoma cell line BEL-7402 cultured in vitro.

AIM:To study the effect of a varying concentrations of arsenic trioxide on human hepatoma cell line BEL-7402 cultured in vitro and its mechanism of action.METHODS:The BEL-7402 cells were treated with arsenic trioxide (at the concentrations of 0.5 1 2&mgr;mol/L, respectively) for 4 successive days.