Application of the "Hand as Foot" teaching method in liver Couinaud segmentation.

Objective: We aim to provide a teaching method to better explain the liver Couinaud Segmentation teaching.

Method: Through a deep understanding of the liver Couinaud Segmentation teaching, and after more than 20 years of teaching practice, our department teaching team pioneered "Hand as Foot ".

Results: The combined teaching method of "Hand as Foot" can clearly show the liver Couinaud Segmentation teaching.

Effectiveness and Safety of Low-Dose Radiotherapy in Eosinophilic Lymphoid Granuloma.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy and safety of low-dose radiotherapy in treating eosinophilic lymphoid granuloma.

Method: This study included a total of 20 patients diagnosed with eosinophilic lymphoid granuloma. All patients underwent low-dose three-dimensional conformal intensity-modulated radiotherapy for their lesions.

Evaluation of EZH2 expression, BRAF V600E mutation, and CDKN2A/B deletions in epithelioid glioblastoma and anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma.

Introduction: Epithelioid glioblastoma (EGBM) and anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (APXA) are two rare entities with different prognoses. However, they share certain morphological and molecular features. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To better recognize EGBM and APXA and identify the prognostic factors associated with these tumors, EZH2 status, BRAF V600E mutations, and CDKN2A/B deletions were assessed in 15 APXA and 13 EGBM cases.

Benign notochordal cell tumour: clinicopathology and molecular profiling of 13 cases.

Aims: To study the clinicopathological and molecular features of benign notochordal cell tumours (BNCTs) and their differential diagnosis from chordoma.

Methods: 13 cases of BNCT were investigated. The genome-wide copy number imbalances were performed using Oncoscan CNV array in three cases and fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) detection of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/chromosome 7 enumeration probe (CEP7), LSI1p36/1q21, LSI19p13/19q13, CEP3/CEP12 and Telvysion 6 P was performed in 13 cases.

Potassium Aspartate Attenuates Brain Injury Induced by Controlled Cortical Impact in Rats Through Increasing Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Levels, Na+/K+-ATPase Activity and Reducing Brain Edema.

BACKGROUND Potassium aspartate (PA), as an electrolyte supplement, is widely used in clinical practice. In our previous study, we found PA had neuroprotective effects against apoptosis after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion in rats. In this study, we examine whether PA has protective effects on traumatic brain injury (TBI).

[Clinicopathologic features of papillary tumors of the pineal region].

Objective: To study the clinicopathologic features of papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR).

Method: Three hundred and eighty six cases of pineal region and posterior third ventricle tumors, two newborn and two adult pineal glands were analyzed by HE, PAS and immunohistochemistry of 16 antibodies (EnVision method).

Results: Five cases of PTPR were diagnosed with mixed papillary features and densely cellular areas, and included one recurrent case.

Role of Nurr1 and Ret in inducing rat embryonic neural precursors to dopaminergic neurons.

Background: Nurr1, a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors, is highly expressed in midbrain dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Ret is a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) superfamily and a critical signal transducing subunit of receptors for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF). Both Nurr1 and Ret play important roles in the development of DA neurons.

[Gene therapy of tyrosine hydroxylase, aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, and GTP cyclohydrolase genes in rat model of Parkinson's disease].

Objective: To detect the expression and function of enzyme genes involved in biosynthetic pathway for dopamine in vitro and assess their effect in rat model of Parkinson's disease.

Methods: Cos7 cells were transfected with separate adeno-associated virus (AAV) expressing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene, aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) gene and GTP cyclohydrolase I (GCH-I) gene. The expression and function of the three genes were detected by methods of immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization and high performance liquid chromatograph and electrochemical detection (HPLC-ECD).

[Identification of bone marrow stromal cells and expression of tyrosine hydroxylase gene in them].

The study is to establish the method of isolation and identification of bone marrow stromal cells and to investigate the ability of bone marrow stromal cells to accept and express TH gene. Cells were isolated by a density gradient (lymphocytes separation) and identified by BrdU labeling and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) technology using CD11b, CD45 and CD90 antibodies. TH and lacZ gene were transfected to rBMSCs with an adeno-associated virus vector.