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S Liu

Publications and source records attributed to S Liu.

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PubMed1998

[Protective effect of Salvia Miltiorrhizae Composita on myocardium in patients undergoing open heart sugery].

OBJECTIVE: To observe the protective effect of Salvia Miltiorrhizae Composita (SMC) on myocardium injuries induced by oxygen free radicals from ischemic reperfusion in patients undergoing open heart surgery. METHODS: Eighteen patients with either congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) or atrial septal defect (ASD) were divided randomly into control group and treated group, 9 in each. Patients in the treated group were administered intravenously SMC 200 mg/kg before operation and in rewarming period, while patients of the control group received the same volume of balanced salt solution. Serum malonyldialdehyde (MDA), creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were measured before operation, 30 min after myocardium ischemia, 30 min after reperfusion, 30 min after cardiopulmonary bypass and 24 hours after operation. RESULTS: Serum MDA, CPK and LDH levels in the treated group at both myocardium ischemic period and ischemic reperfusion period were significantly higher than those at before operation (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). In the treated group, levels of the 3 indexes at myocardium ischemic period increased slightly in comparison with those before operation (P > 0.05), and the levels of them at ischemic reperfusion period were significantly higher than those before operation (P < 0.05), but there was no significant difference between the levels at ischemic reperfusion period and those at 30 min after myocardium ischemia. Comparison between the two groups showed that the serum MDA, CPK and LDH levels were all significantly higher in the control group than those in the control group respectively in all periods (P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: SMC could effectively protect myocardium from ischemia and ischemic reperfusion by attenuating the free radical damage and inhibiting lipid peroxidation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

[Construction of a pufferfish bacterial artificial chromosome library].

OBJECTIVE: Study of human genome by taking advantage of investigating pufferfish's (Fugu rubripes), compact model vertebrate genome. METHODS: Construct a pufferfish bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library using Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) sperm DNA and pBelo BAC11 vector. RESULTS: The library consists of 23,040 clones, which have been arrayed in 240,96-well microtiter plates. 100 BAC clones have been selected at random and analyzed for estimation of the average insert size, which turns out to be 100 kb indicating its nearly 6-fold coverage of pufferfish haploid genome. Restrict analysis of 10 BAC clones show that these inserts are stable even propagated for at least 100 cell generations. CONCLUSIONS: The library accords with the demands of a BAC library.

Animals↗
PubMed1998

[Cloning of human papillomavirus type 16 E7 gene and expression in E. coli].

OBJECTIVE: To study the biological activity of the E7 gene of human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16). METHODS: E7 gene from the cervical carcinoma of Chinese women was amplified by the PCR. The E7 DNA was sequenced and compared with the prototype E7 gene of HPV 16. RESULTS: It showed no mutations. However when E7 gene was inserted into the prokaryotic expression vector pGEX-2T and the fused E7 protein was efficiently expressed in E. Coli (DH5 alpha). The E7 antibody could combine specifically with this fused protein by Western blot technique. CONCLUSIONS: The result might aid for epidemiological investigation and preparation of the vaccine.

Base Sequence↗
PubMed1998

[Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), platelet growth factor receptor (PGFR) and insulin growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) on lung cancer cell].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the expression of growth factor receptors (GFRs) on lung cancer cells and the relation between the expression of GFRs and metastasis of lung cancer. METHOD: The expression of EGFR, PDGFR and IGF-1R was detected with immunohistochemical method using monoclonal antibodies. RESULT: The expression of EGFR, PDGFR and IGF-1R showed higher positive rates in lung cancer cells than those in normal lung tissues, and the expression was increased as the disease was advanced. CONCLUSION: The increased expression of EGFR, PDGFR and IGF-1R is related with the metastasis of lung cancer.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1998

[Measurement of contraction force of pilot's neck muscles].

In order to discuss the function of contraction force of pilot's neck region. Contraction force of pilot's neck region was measured in 22 volunteers aged 18-35 years. The mean contraction force is 102-396 N, the mean contraction time is 28 s. Authors think that training for pilot's neck muscular power is essential.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

[A study on the nutrient physiology of Ophiopogon japonicus (Thunb.) Ker-Gawl].

By means of observing at regular intervals and on tixed plants, the growth stages, organogenetic habits, content of nutrient elements and its changing regularity, storage habit of dry matter, relationship between aerial and subterraneous parts, and fertilizer requirements have been studied for Ophiopogen japonicus.

Drugs, Chinese Herbal↗
PubMed1998

[Water-soluble ginsenosides in American ginseng].

OBJECTIVE: To have further comprehension of American Ginseng on the basis of its water-soluble components. METHOD: The water suspension of 80% methanol extract of American Ginseng was sequentially extracted with ethyl ether and n-butyl alcohol. The saccharides in the water-soluble portion were removed by macro-reticular resin column, and three compounds were obtained by silica-gel column chromatography. Their structures were confirmed on the basis of spectral analysis(IR, NMR, MALDI-MS) melting points and optical degrees. RESULT: Three compounds were identified as malonyl ginsenosides Rb1, ginsenoside Rb1 and Re respectively. Among them Rb1 and Re are known, while malonyl ginsenoside Rb1 was isolated from American Ginseng for the first time. Its structure was elucidated as (3 beta, 12 beta)-20-[(-6-O-beta-D- glucopyranosyl-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy]-12-hydroxylammar-24-en-3-yl-O- [6-O-(carboxyacetyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)]-beta-D-glucopyranoside. CONCLUSION: Water-soluble ginsenosides were isolated from the water-soluble extract of American Ginseng suggesting that malonyl ginsenosides exist both in American Ginseng and Ginseng.

Ginsenosides↗
PubMed1998

An Investigation on Dow Hospital in Beijing (Peking).

Dow Hospital is one of the western medical hospitals and the earliest established by American Presbyterian Mission in 1885 in downtown Beijing. It is good at Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics. It had been playing the role of spreading advanced western medical science. It is a pioneer of transmitting new method of delivery in Beijing and was changed to Beijing Sixth Municipal Hospital since 1949.

China↗
PubMed1998

Research on medical texts quoted by "a new book of pediatrics".

"A New Book of Pediatrics" (hereinafter referred to as "the Book") is a pediatric monumental work written in the Song Dynasty. The Book quoted 141 medical texts with 10096 items totally. Relying on the Book, many lost and important ancient pediatrical works, to a great extent, are preserved up to now. Also, the Book collects a large number of never-published prescriptions applied among the people or handed down on the family from generation to generation secretly. As the source of all quoted literatures are indicated, the original shapes of many literatures can thus be resumed by conclusion and collating. Therefore, the Book has important research significance to collating literatures as well as of great reference value to medical practice.

China↗
PubMed1998

[Human interleukin-13 cDNA cloning and expression].

OBJECTIVE: To construct an efficient expression system for HIL-13 in prokaryotic cells. METHODS: After Amplified by RT-PCR, The cDNA fragment encoding HIL-13 was inserted into pGEX-2T plasmid and expressed under induced condition. RESULTS: HIL-13 cDNA was obtained. Recombinant plasmid pGEX-2T HIL-13 was constructed and sequenced, the inserted fragment of the recombinant plasmid was confirmed to be HIL-13 cDNA. HIL-13 was expressed as a fusion protein with glutathione-s-transferase (GST-HIL-13, MW = 39,000). CONCLUSIONS: (1) HIL-13 cDNA has been obtained from T lymphocytes. (2) The rate of expression of HIL-13 in prokaryotic cells is about 37%.

Amino Acid Sequence↗
PubMed1998

[Bile salt induces apoptosis of hepatocytes: the mechanism of hepatic function injury during obstructive jaundice].

OBJECTIVE: To determine if the bile salt induces hepatocyte apoptosis in vitro. METHOD: Hepatocytes were isolated by in situ collagenase perfusion and plated in 6 well flat bottom with DMEM/F12, 0.5 micro/ml insulin. Two hours later, glycochenodeoxcholate (GCDC) 25, 50, 100, 200, 300 micromol was added and cells evaluated by DNA-PI staining FACS and terminal-deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated nick end labeling (TUNEL) 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 20, 24 hours later. Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA extracted from hepatocytes after incubation with GCDC using various experimental conditions. RESULT: The hepatocytes treated with GCDC have a high apoptotic rate as compared with the controls. 100 micromol GCDC treated 24 hours, nearly 61.81% of hepatocytes were apoptotic by FACS evaluation. The TUNEL showed that apoptotic hepatocytes had less cell volume and stained with brown by Biotin-11-dUTP. DNA ladder of bile-salt treated hepatocytes were shown in agarose gel electrophoresis. CONCLUSION: The mechanism of hepatic injury during obstructive jaundice is related to bile salt caused hepatocyte apoptosis.

Animals↗
PubMed1998

[Effect of CD11b/CD18 on burn-activated PMN-mediated permeability of pulmonary microvascular in isolated perfused lung].

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1) CD11b/CD18 in burn-activated PMN-mediated permeability of microvascular in isolated perfused lung. METHOD: Isolated lungs were distributed into 7 groups according to the different contents of perfused fluid: normal perfused fluid, normal rat serum, burn rat serum, normal rat PMN, burn rat PMN, normal rat PMN blocked by monoclonal antibody to adhesion molecule CD11b/CD18 and burn rat PMN blocked by antibody. The extent of isolated lung edema, vascular permeability to small molecules (fluid) and vascular permeability to large molecules (albumin) were expressed by lung weight gain (LWG), fluid filtration coefficient (Kf) and pulmonary albumin permeability-surface area product (PS) respectively. RESULT: Burn serum could increase LWG, Kf PS, so did burn-activated PMN. The latter could make PS increase more obviously. Monoclonal antibody to CD11b/CD18 on PMN could obviously decrease PMN sequestration in isolated perfused lung. The protective effect of antibody on increasing LWG and Kf, and particularly PS was demonstrated. CONCLUSION: (1) The effect of mediators from burn-activated PMN to EC was mediated by PMN adhesion to EC. (2) Some mediators from burn-activated PMN increase mainly the pulmonary vascular permeability to small molecules, and PMN adhesion to EC mediated by CD11b/CD18 may increase directly the permeability to large molecules. (3) Adhesion molecule CD11b/CD18 perhaps have an ability to regulate directly EC by combining its receptor ICAM-1 on EC.

Animals↗
PubMed1998

[The influence of pressure on human lamina cribrosa cell and its collagen synthesis].

OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of pressure on human lamina cribrosa cell (HLC) and its synthesis of collagen. METHOD: HLCs were cultured in vitro and submitted to elevated hydrostatic pressure, their changes in morphology were observed by light and electron microscopy and their synthesis of collagen was measured with fluorescence spectrophotometer. RESULTS: Under a hydrostatic pressure of 6.67 kPa (1 kPa = 7.5 mmHg), the flat and polygonal HLCs became elongated. Vacuoles appeared in the cytoplasm and increased as the pressure persisted. The mitochondria were swollen, some of them turned into vacuoles, and myelin figures were found in the cytoplasm. When exposed to elevated pressure for 3 days, the amounts of synthesized collagen type I, III, IV were 43.95 +/- 6.37, 61.35 +/- 10.35 and 82.90 +/- 11.36 arbitrary unit (AU) by fluorometry respectively, and compared to controls, they were statistically significantly (P < 0.05) increased; after 5 days of pressure exposure, the amounts were 33.50 +/- 6.94, 40.85 +/- 12.30 and 80.45 +/- 14.65 AU, e.g., still increased. CONCLUSION: It is indicated that under pressure, HLCs undergo obvious morphological changes and increase their synthesis of collagen types I, III and IV.

Collagen↗
PubMed1998

[Difference between the effects of (-) clausenamide and (+) clausenamide on the synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized rats].

With the extracellular recording technique, the basal synaptic responses (population spike, PS) evoked by low frequency test stimulation in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized rats was recorded and the effects of (-) and (+) clausenamide(icv) on the PS and long-term potentiation (LTP) induced by tetanus (50 pulses at 200 Hz) were observed. The results showed that: (1) at a lower dose (1 nmol), (+) clausenamide showed no effect on either the basal PS or LTP, (-) clausenamide did not affect the basal PS but enhanced the magnitude of LTP. (2) At a higher dose (4 nmol), (-) clausenamide not only potentiated the basal PS but also dose-dependently augmented the magnitude of LTP. Meanwhile, (+) clausenamide did not affect the basal PS but attenuated the magnitude of LTP. These results suggest that the effects of clausenamide on the synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus depend on its chirality. The potentiating effects of (-) clausenamide on synaptic transmission in hippocampus strongly support our previous behavioral and neurobiochemical studies on the nootropic action of (-) clausenamide.

Animals↗
PubMed1998

[Isolation of novel expression sequences of C2H2 type zinc finger protein gene from human brain tissue according to the conservation of zinc finger motif].

By low stringency PCR amplification of genomic DNA using the primers designed based on the conservation of zinc finger motif, we got 8 gradient eletrophoretic bands. After recovery of the second and third bands, the DNA fragments in them were cloned and sequenced. Compared to the GenBank database, among these 60 segments containing zinc finger motif, 23 segments were novel zinc finger genes' genomic segments. Then the human brain tissue cDNA library was screened, using these segments as probes, and 44 positive clones were obtained. Rescreening 28 of them, we got 20 rescreened clones. All of them were sequenced and sent to the GenBank DNA database for sequence analysis, the results showed that 16 were novel C2H2 type zinc finger protein cDNA segments. The cDNA segments encoding the novel C2H2 type zinc finger proteins provide the basic materials for cloning of full length cDNA of valuable novel zinc finger protein genes.

Amino Acid Sequence↗
PubMed1998

[Sequencing and homology analysis of cDNAs encoding FhGST and AsGST].

AIM: To study the homologies between FhGST, AsGST and Sj26GST. METHODS: Total RNAs were extracted from Fasciola hepatica (Fh) and Ascaris suum (As) by guanidine hydrochloride/CsCl ultra-centrifugation. Two pairs of primers were designed according to FhGST and AsGST sequences. RT-PCR was carried out using total RNA as template. PCR products were directly sequenced. Then the homology analysis was made using DNASIS software on nucleotide level. RESULTS: A FhGST403 bp fragment and a AsGST411 bp fragment were obtained and they both located in the open reading frame. CONCLUSION: On nucleotide level, the homologies are 59% and 54% between the two cloned fragments and Schistosoma japonicum 26 kDa GST (Sj26GST) respectively.

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