Clinicopathologic and prognostic significance of VEGF, JAK2 and STAT3 in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the effect associated with the protein expression of VEGF, JAK2 and STAT3 on the clinicopathologic characteristics and prognosis in the development and progression of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).

Methods: Fifty NPC patients in addition to 20 patients with chronic nasopharyngitis (CNP) were recruited for the purposes of the study. Western blotting and immunohistochemistry methods were employed to evaluate the protein expressions of JAK2, STAT3 and VEGF in the NPC and CNP tissues, with their respective correlations with the clinicopathologic characteristics of NPC patients subsequently analyzed.

MicroRNA-185 inhibits cell proliferation while promoting apoptosis and autophagy through negative regulation of TGF-β1/mTOR axis and HOXC6 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Objective: Accumulating studies have revealed that microRNAs (miRs) play a critical role in the development and progression of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which is a disease with a remarkable racial and geographical distribution. In our study, through the alteration in the expression of microRNA-185 (miR-185) in NPC cells by microarray-based gene expression profiling, we subsequently evaluated its ability to influence NPC cells and associated mechanism.

Methods: The expressions of miR-185 and HOXC6 in NPC and paracancerous tissues collected from patients with NPC were detected.

N'-(2-Bromo-5-hy-droxy-4-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)-3,5-dihy-droxy-benzo-hydrazide methanol monosolvate.

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(15)H(13)BrN(2)O(5)·CH(3)OH, the methanol solvent mol-ecule links symmetry-related mol-ecules through O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Further inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link symmetry-related mol-ecules, leading to the formation of a three-dimensional network. Two of the H atoms involved in hydrogen bonding are disordered.

2-Fluoro-N'-(2-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)benzohydrazide.

The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(15)H(13)FN(2)O(2), exists in a trans configuration with respect to the methyl-idene unit. The two benzene rings form a dihedral angle of of 64.7 (2)°.

2-Fluoro-N'-(2-hy-droxy-benzyl-idene)benzohydrazide.

In the title compound, C(14)H(11)FN(2)O(2), an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond influences the mol-ecular conformation; the two benzene rings form a dihedral angle of 18.4 (3)°. The F atom is disordered over two positions in a 0.

[The strategies of gene prolong expression in mammals].

Gene therapy holds great promises to a variety of inherited diseases. However, the limitations on extended and consistent foreign gene expression has severely hampered the development of applicable gene therapy approaches. Technologies are reviewed here including transponson integration, biolistic measures that pulse the naked plasmid into living organs, or the integration of eukaryotic cis elements into introns, 3' untranslated regions, or the integration of the EBV sequences, which could assist in the prolonged gene expression of the introduced foreign genes.