The implication of cigarette smoking and cessation on macrophage cholesterol efflux in coronary artery disease patients

We investigated ATP-binding cassette transporters A1/G1 expression and function in mediating cholesterol efflux by examining the macrophages of cigarette-smoking patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) before and after smoking abstinence. Peripheral blood monocyte cells were collected from nonsmokers (n = 17), non-CAD (NCAD) smokers (n = 35), and CAD smokers (n = 32) before and after 3 months of smoking cessation. We found that the ABCA1 expression level was lower in macrophages from NCAD and CAD smokers than from nonsmokers at baseline. The ABCA1 function of mediating cholesterol efflux was reduced in NCAD and CAD smokers as compared with nonsmokers. After 3 months of smoking cessation, ABCA1 expression and function were improved in CAD smokers. However, ABCG1 expression and function did not change after smoking cessation. Furthermore, ABCA1 expression was inhibited by tar in human acute monocytic leukemia cell line THP-1-derived macrophages through the inhibition of liver X receptors. Nicotine and carbon monoxide did not inhibit ABCA1 expression. Our results indicate that chronic cigarette smoking impaired ABCA1-mediated cholesterol efflux in macrophages and that tobacco abstinence reversed the function and expression of ABCA1, especially in CAD patients. It was tobacco tar, rather than nicotine or carbon monoxide, that played a major role in the tobacco-induced disturbance of cellular cholesterol homeostasis.     

健康宣教在小儿狭窄性腱鞘炎围手术期应用价值

目的：对手术疗法治疗狭窄性腱鞘炎的小儿患者采取系统的整体健康宣教,使得患儿疗程缩短,治愈率高,复发率降至最低,功能康复效果良好,提高护理质量。方法：在保守治疗无效的情况下,手术疗法切除部分狭窄腱鞘,围手术期实施系统的全面的功能康复训练及宣教。结果：54例患儿完全治愈,随访3~26个月,无复发及并发症,愈后功能良好。结论：细致、周密的做好围手术期对家长及患儿的双重健康宣教工作,使得护患关系融洽,患者自护能力大大加强,治疗及护理效果满意。     

非人灵长类全雄群的形成与组织结构

在非人灵长类物种中,全雄群是其社会结构中常见的组成部分.本文通过对国内外涉及到非人灵长类全雄群研究的文献进行综述,总结不同物种全雄群内个体组成、个体间关系及全雄群与繁殖群的关系,以揭示全雄群的产生、发展及其社会功能.旨在对非人灵长类全雄群的研究提供借鉴和参考.     

甜荞查尔酮合酶基因Chs的克隆及序列分析

利用RT-PCR技术从甜荞中克隆得到查耳酮合酶(CHS)的cDNA开放阅读框(ORF)序列,命名为FeChs,NCBI登录号为GU172166.1.该序列长1 179 bp,编码392个氨基酸,与其它植物CHS基因的同源性为78%～92%,其推导的氨基酸序列含有CHS高度保守的活性位点及CHS的标签序列GFGPG.     

Structural Basis of Ist1 Function and Ist1–Did2 Interaction in the Multivesicular Body Pathway and Cytokinesis

The ESCRT machinery functions in several important eukaryotic cellular processes. The AAA-ATPase Vps4 catalyzes disassembly of the ESCRT-III complex and may regulate membrane deformation and vesicle scission as well. Ist1 was proposed to be a regulator of Vps4, but its mechanism of action was unclear. The crystal structure of the N-terminal domain of Ist1 (Ist1NTD) reveals an ESCRT-III subunit-like fold, implicating Ist1 as a divergent ESCRT-III family member. Ist1NTD specifically binds to the ESCRT-III subunit Did2, and cocrystallization of Ist1NTD with a Did2 fragment shows that Ist1 interacts with the Did2 C-terminal MIM1 (MIT-interacting motif 1) via a novel MIM-binding structural motif. This arrangement indicates a mechanism for intermolecular ESCRT-III subunit association and may also suggest one form of ESCRT-III subunit autoinhibition via intramolecular interaction.