Treatment for subtrochanteric fracture and subsequent nonunion in an adult patient with osteopetrosis: A case report and review of the literature.

Background: As a congenital metabolic bone disease caused by defective osteoclastic resorption of immature bone, osteopetrosis is characterized by diffused sclerosis of bones, brittle bones, easy fracturing, narrow medullary canals, and a weak fracture healing ability. At present, clear standards and principles for the treatment of fractures in patients with osteopetrosis are lacking. Non-operative treatment can prevent fracture hematoma and preserve the blood supply to the bone fragments, while being associated with frequent failures and higher mortality rates.

HIF-1α Is a Rational Target for Future Ovarian Cancer Therapies.

Ovarian cancer is the eighth most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide. Even with the development of novel drugs, nearly one-half of the patients with ovarian cancer die within five years of diagnosis. These situations indicate the need for novel therapeutic agents for ovarian cancer.

Erratum: Association of Genes Variants in RANKL/RANK/OPG Signaling Pathway with the Development of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head in Chinese Population: Erratum.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7150/ijms.19124.

Enhanced Tendon-to-Bone Healing of Chronic Rotator Cuff Tears by Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate in a Rabbit Model.

Background: To evaluate the influence of bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) on tendon-to-bone healing in a rabbit rotator cuff model and to characterize the composition of growth factors in BMAC.

Methods: In this study, 40 rabbits were allocated into five groups: control (C), repair + saline (RS), repair + platelet-rich plasma (PRP; RP), repair + BMAC (RB) and repair + PRP + BMAC (RPB). A tear model was created by supraspinatus tendon transection at the footprint.

Association of Genes Variants in RANKL/RANK/OPG Signaling Pathway with the Development of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head in Chinese Population.

The RANKL/RANK/OPG pathway plays an important role in regulating bone remodeling and bone turnover. However, the association of the genes variants with the risk of ONFH has rarely been reported. Here, we analyzed the correlation of the 10 SNPs polymorphisms of RANKL, RANK, OPG, TRAF6, and NFATC1 genes with the risk and development of ONFH in 200 ONFH patients and 177 health controls of Chinese population with using Mass ARRAY® platform.

Antitumor activity of lentivirus-mediated interleukin -12 gene modified dendritic cells in human lung cancer in vitro.

Objectives: Dendritic cell (DC)-based tumor immunotherapy needs an immunogenic tumor associated antigen (TAA) and an effective approach for its presentation to lymphocytes. In this study we explored whether transduction of DCs with lentiviruses (LVs) expressing the human interleukin-12 gene could stimulate antigen- specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) against human lung cancer cells in vitro.

Methods: Peripheral blood monocyte- derived DCs were transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding human IL-12 gene (LV-12).

[The effect of Bcl-2 gene silencing on the sensitivity of cell line A549 to chemotherapeutic drugs].

Objective: To investigate the effects of miRNA-mediated down-regulation of the Bcl-2 gene on the chemotherapeutic sensitivities and mRNA transcriptions of sensitivity associated genes in human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549 cells, and therefore to provide experimental data for improving the chemotherapeutic effects on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: The miRNA recombinant plasmid targeting to human Bcl-2 gene was designed, synthesized and stably transferred into A549 cells by lipofectin technique as the experiment group. The transcription of Bcl-2 mRNA was detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) by agarose gel electrophoresis, real-time PCR, and the protein level of Bcl-2 was measured by Western blot to confirm the function of miRNA plasmid.

Human resistin inhibits myogenic differentiation and induces insulin resistance in myocytes.

This study is aimed to investigate the effect of human resistin on myocyte differentiation and insulin resistance. The human resistin eukaryotic expression vector was stable transfected into C2C12 myocyte cells and was transiently transfected into COS7 cells. The effects of human resistin on cell proliferation, cell cycle, and myogenic differentiation of C2C12 cells were examined.

Effects of SARA on oxygen-glucose deprivation in PC12 cell line.

Ischemic stroke is a major composition of cerebrovascular disease, seriously threatening to human health in the world. Activin A (ActA), belonging to transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) super family, plays an important role in the hypoxic-ischemic brain injury through ActA/Smads pathway. While as an essential phosphorylation assistor in TGF-β signaling, the functions and mechanisms of smad anchor for receptor activation (SARA) in ischemic brain injury remain poorly understood.

Association of sterol regulatory element binding protein 2 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 genetic polymorphisms with avascular necrosis of the femoral head in the Chinese population.

Background: Sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP)-2 plays a key role in lipid homeostasis by stimulating gene expression of cholesterol biosynthetic pathways. The insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP) family regulates growth and metabolism, especially bone cell metabolism, and correlates with osteonecrosis. However, association of their gene polymorphisms with risk of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (ANFH) has rarely been reported.

Poly[[[μ-1,1'-(butane-1,4-di-yl)diimidazole-κN:N](μ-cyclo-hexane-1,4-dicarboxyl-ato-κO,O:O,O)nickel(II)] 0.25-hydrate].

In the title coordination polymer, {[Ni(C(8)H(10)O(4))(C(10)H(14)N(4))]·0.25H(2)O}(n), the coordination of the Ni(II) ion is distorted octa-hedral. The 1,1'-(butane-1,4-di-yl)diimidazole ligand and the cyclo-hexane-1,4-dicarboxyl-ate dianion bridge metal centres, forming a two-dimensional (4,4) network.

Reversal of MDR1 gene-dependent multidrug resistance using short hairpin RNA expression vectors.

Background: RNA interference using short hairpin RNA (shRNA) can mediate sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression in mammalian cells. A vector-based approach for synthesizing shRNA has been developed recently. Overexpression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), the MDR1 gene product, confers multidrug resistance (MDR) to cancer cells.