PROTEIN EXPRESSION OF METADHERIN AND SENSIBILITY OF BREAST CANCER MDA-MB-231 CELLS TO TREATMENT BEFORE AND AFTER TRANSFECTION.

Breast cancer tends to have an increasing mortality, severely threatening the health of females. The invasion and metastasis of breast cancer are the leading causes of death. It has been reported that breast cancer is caused by the activation of a series of proto-oncogenes and inactivation of anti-oncogenes.

Metastatic Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma in the Stomach: Imaging With 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Metastatic malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) in the stomach is extremely rare. We report a 73-year-old man with MFH in the left popliteal fossa that metastasized to the stomach. Whole-body F-FDG PET/CT showed abnormal tracer uptakes in the stomach, which was subsequently confirmed as metastatic MFH.

Apolipoprotein c3 gene polymorphisms are not a risk factor for developing non-alcoholic Fatty liver disease: a meta-analysis.

Context: Our objective was to evaluate the effect of gene polymorphisms of apolipoprotein C3 (APOC3) on the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in different populations.

Evidence Acquisition: We performed a meta-analysis of all relevant studies published in the literature. A total of 115 clinical trials or reports were identified, but only seven trials met our inclusion criteria.

Contralateral needling at unblocked collaterals for hemiplegia following acute ischemic stroke.

Hemiplegia caused by stroke indicates dysfunction of the network between the brain and limbs, namely collateral shock in the brain. Contralateral needling is the insertion of needles into acupoints on the relative healthy side of the body to treat diseases such as apoplexy. However, there is little well-designed and controlled clinical evidence for this practice.

Feasible Method to enable clear visualization of suspected bladder cancer with 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Purpose: To evaluate value of a new method in detecting bladder lesion with (18)F-FDG PET/CT.

Methods: Routine and delayed scans of 14 patients were retrospectively studied. All these bladder lesions were confirmed by pathology.

Epstein-Barr virus gene polymorphism in different parts of the same nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient.

In most previous studies, comparisons of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) gene polymorphisms and genotypes were made between strains from tumors and normal throat washings (TWs) from different individuals. However, it remains controversial whether different EBV subtypes are present in different parts of the same NPC patient. In order to address this question, in this study, we compared the genotypes in sets of paired throat washings (TW) and paraffin-embedded tissues of 20 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and we found the same genotype in throat washings (TWs) and tumor cells from the same individual in most cases.

[Effects of high-dose N-acetylcysteine on the lung tissues of rats exposed to silica].

Objective: To explore the effects of high-dose N-acetylcysteine on the lung tissues of rats exposed to silica.

Methods: Ninety-six Wistar rats were randomly divided into model group, intervention group and control group (32 rats for each group). The rats of model group and intervention group were exposed to silica by intratracheal infusion of silica dust suspension.

Asymmetry in the brain influenced the neurological deficits and infarction volume following the middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats.

Background: Paw preference in rats is similar to human handedness, which may result from dominant hemisphere of rat brain. However, given that lateralization is the uniqueness of the humans, many researchers neglect the differences between the left and right hemispheres when selecting the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in rats. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ischemia in the dominant hemisphere on neurobehavioral function and on the cerebral infarction volume following MCAO in rats.