大连高新区部分居民几种慢性病患病情况调查

目的 了解大连高新区15~74岁居民主要慢性病患病基本特征,为制定和评价大连高新区卫生政策和干预措施提供基础数据。方法 在大连高新区采用分层整群随机抽样方法,随机抽取15～74岁常住居民的976人为调查对象进行调查。结果 高血压患病率为33.61%,糖尿病患病率为11.07%,冠心病患病率为6.76%,血脂异常患病率为50.41%,城乡间患病率无差异;高血压、糖尿病、冠心病和血脂异常患病率均随着年龄的增加呈逐渐上升趋势,丧偶人群患病率最高（P＜0.05）;高血压、糖尿病、血脂异常患病率,男性高于女性,文化程度低者高于文化程度高者,且随着体重指数的增高而增高（P＜0.05）;高血压、糖尿病、血脂异常患者中,有超过半数为本次检查新发现病例。结论 大连高新区居民慢性非传染性疾病患病率处于较高水平,防控策略和措施亟待加强。     

口腔微生物群和人体健康

口腔微生物群作为人体微生物群的重要组成部分,其与人体健康之间的关系已成为各领域研究的焦点。口腔微生物群种类繁多、组成复杂,涵盖了细菌、真菌、古细菌和病毒等。近年来的研究显示,口腔微生物群的组成和比例与人体健康密切相关,会影响口腔疾病如龋齿、牙周病的发生。同时口腔微生物也是全身系统性疾病如肺炎、肿瘤和糖尿病等发生的危险因素之一。大量研究认为,口腔微生物群组成的改变、口腔微生物群之间的相互作用对疾病的发生有协同促进作用。本文聚焦于口腔微生物群的组成相关研究、口腔微生物组的最新进展,并对其与人体健康之间的关系进行综述。     

妊娠期妇女产次与龋病及牙周病发生关系的探究

目的 探究妊娠期妇女龋病及牙周病发生情况和不同产次对妊娠期妇女龋病及牙周病发生的差异。方法 以228名妊娠期妇女（其中初产妇140名,经产妇88名）和85名同龄未妊娠妇女（对照）为研究对象,检查其龋病及牙周病发生状况,并记录菌斑指数（PLI）、探诊深度（PD）、临床附着丧失（CAL）、牙石指数（CI）和龈沟出血指数（SBI）,进行组间统计分析。结果 （1）初产组（47.86%）、经产组（67.05%）的患龋率均高于对照组（29.41%）（P0.05）。结论 妊娠可能导致妇女患龋率、PLI、CI、PD、CAL和SBI的增加,且产次增加可能导致妇女患龋率、PD和SBI的增加。     

The connection between epigenetics and gut microbiota-current perspective

Both the epigenetic changes and gut microbiota (GM) have attracted a growing interest in establishing effective diagnostics and potential therapeutic strategies for a number of diseases. These disorders include metabolic, central nervous system-related diseases, autoimmune, and gastrointestinal infections (GI). Despite the number of studies, there is no extensive review that connects the epigenetics modifications and GM as biomarkers that could confer effective diagnostics and confer treatment options. To this end, this review hopes to give detailed information on connecting the modifications in epigenetic and GM. An updated and detailed information on the connection between the epigenetics factors and GM that influence diseases are given. In addition, the review showed some associations between the epigenetics to the maternal GM and offspring health. Finally, the limitations of the concept and prospects into this new emerging discipline were also looked into. Although this review elucidated on the maternal diet and response to offspring health with respect to GM and epigenetic modifications, there still exist various limitations to this newly emerging discipline. In addition to integrating complementary multi-omics data, longitudinal sampling will aid with the identification of functional mechanisms that may serve as therapeutic targets. To this end, this review gave a detailed perspective into harnessing disease diagnostics, prevention and treatment options through epigenetics and GM.     

ICG-based laser treatments for ophthalmic diseases: Toward their safe and rapid strategy

The eye is a very important organ, and keratitis, corneal neovascularization, floaters, age-related macular degeneration, and other vision problems have seriously affected people's quality of life. Among the ophthalmic treatments, laser photocoagulations have been proposed and have shown therapeutic effects in clinical settings. However, corneal thinning and bleeding lesions induced by laser damage have led to limit its applications. To treat the issues of traditional hyperthermia treatments, photosensitizers [e.g., indocyanine green (ICG)] have been investigated to increase the therapeutic effects of corneal neovascularization and choroidal neovascularization. In the recent study, with the help of ICG, laser-induced nanobubble was proposed to treat vitreous opacities. The developed strategies could enlarge the effect of laser irradiation and reduce the side effects, so as to expand the scope of laser treatments in clinical ophthalmic diseases.     

MicroRNA: Crucial modulator in purinergic signalling involved diseases

Both microRNAs (miRNAs) and purinergic signalling are widely and respectively expressed in various tissues of different organisms and play vital roles in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Here, we reviewed the current publications contributed to the relationship of miRNAs and purinergic signalling in cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, neurological diseases, and ophthalmic diseases. We tried to decode the miRNAs-purinergic signalling network of purinergic signalling involved diseases. The evidence indicated that more than 30 miRNAs (miR-22, miR-30, miR-146, miR-150, miR-155, miR-187, etc.) directly or indirectly modulate P1 receptors (A₁, A_2A, A_2B, A₃), P2 receptors (P2X1, P2X3, P2X4, P2X7, P2Y2, P2Y6, P2Y12), and ecto-enzymes (CD39, CD73, ADA2); P2X7 and CD73 could be modulated by multiple miRNAs (P2X7: miR-21, miR-22, miR-30, miR-135a, miR-150, miR-186, miR-187, miR-216b; CD73: miR-141, miR-101, miR-193b, miR-340, miR-187, miR-30, miR-422a); miR-187 would be the common miRNA to modulate P2X7 and CD73.     

同型半胱氨酸在心血管疾病中的免疫调节作用

高同型半胱氨酸血症是动脉粥样硬化的独立危险因子,但是其致病机制尚未完全阐明。本文将从体液免疫、单核巨噬细胞以及T细胞活性等几方面归纳总结同型半胱氨酸在心血管疾病中的免疫调节作用。同型半胱氨酸可以诱导单核细胞和T细胞分泌趋化因子和细胞因子,还可以直接刺激B细胞增殖及IgG分泌。此外,本文还总结了高同型半胱氨酸致炎作用的细胞内机制。同型半胱氨酸可以直接或间接导致氧化应激或者内质网应激,还可以降低一氧化氮的生物活性,影响包括S-腺苷蛋氨酸和S-腺苷同型半胱氨酸的水平,从而导致心血管疾病的发生。     

ERF转录因子调控生物胁迫反应的研究进展

ERF家族是植物所特有的APETALA2/乙烯响应因子(APETALA2/ethylene-responsive factor,AP2/ERF)转录因子家族的一个主要亚家族,其成员结构特点是仅含有1个58-60个氨基酸组成的AP2/ERF结构域.有关该家族成员的大多数研究集中在与寒、旱等非生物胁迫方面,最近越来越多的研...     

Modifying mosquitoes to suppress disease transmission: Is the long wait over?

For more than 50 years it has been a dream of medical entomologists and public health workers to control diseases like malaria and dengue fever by modifying, through genetics and other methods, the arthropods that transmit them to humans. A brief synopsis of the history of these efforts as applied to mosquitoes is presented; none proved to be effective in reducing disease prevalence. Only in the last few years have novel approaches been developed or proposed that indicate the long wait may be over. Three recent developments are particularly promising: CRISPR-Cas9 driven genetic modification, shifting naturally occurring allele frequencies, and microbe-based modifications. The last is the furthest along in implementation. Dengue fever incidence has been reduced between 40% and 96% in 4 different regions of the world where Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti have been established in the field. It is not yet clear how sustainable such control programs will prove to be, but there is good reason for optimism. In light of this, the time is ripe for reinvigorated research on vectors, especially genetics. Vector-borne diseases primarily affect under-developed countries and thus have not received the attention they deserve from wealthier countries with well-developed and funded biomedical research establishments.     

中国新发传染病研究的开拓者们——《微生物学通报》创刊40周年纪念

自20世纪70年代初以来,全球有大量的新发传染病出现,仅有重要影响的新发传染病就达45种以上,其中有至少3个团队因相关病原体的发现获得了诺贝尔医学或生理学奖;期间,不论我国处于"文化大革命"时期,还是处于改革开放和经济社会快速发展时期,总有一批科学家战斗在新发传染病应对的第一线。特别是那些在中国新发传染病研究领域的开拓者们,他们努力跟踪国内外传染病疫情进展,进行着新发传染病及其病原体的证实工作。本文借祝贺《微生物学通报》创刊40周年之际,对这些科学家在此期间的开创性工作进行初步整理,并加以简要评述;历史不会忘记他们为我国的医学事业所做出的重要贡献,也会激励一代又一代的微生物学和医学工作者。