简介:Inourreport,thevaluesofwholebloodserotonin(5-HT)in87apudomapatients(diagnosedbyoperationandpathology)weresummarized.Amongthem,thelevelsofurinary5-hydroxyindole-3-aceticacid(5-HIAA)of44patientswerealsotested.Theresultsshowedthatbothparametresofapudomapatientswerehigherthanthoseofnon-apudoma,post-operativepatientsofapudomaaswellasthenormal.Theincreasingextentofthelevelsofwholeblood5-HTandurinary5-HIAAinsmallintestinalcarcihoidwasthemostobviousonebutthatofrectumwasnot.Thereferablediagnosticvaluessuggestedwere:5-HT>130ngml,5-HIAA>30mg/24hours.
简介:The5thAnnualScientificSessionofCardiologyinSouthChinawasheldfromApril3—7.2003inGuangzhou.Aseminar——“TheFrontlineProblemsandNewViewpointsinCardiologyinRecentTimes”washeldatthesametime.MorethanonethousandcardiologyspecialistscamefromsouthandmiddleChinatoparticipateinthemeetingand135paperswere
简介:Summary:RiskfactorsforgenitourinaryChlamydiatrachomatis(Ct)infectionwereinvestigatedusinganSTDrelativeriskfactorquestionnaireamong176patientsandtheirregularsexualpartners.Twenty-fourindependentvariableswereselectedforanalysis,nineofwhichwereconfirmedasfactorsassociatedwithC.trachomatis.Fouroftheninefactorsweresignificantlycorrelatedtoinfectionusingamultifactorialunconditionallogisticregressionmodelwhichincluded:levelofeducation(oddsratios[ORs]:2.144forbelowjuniormiddleschool),numberofsexualpartners(ORs:4.503for≥5),numberofregularpartner'ssexualpartner(ORs:16.333for≥5),STDhistoryofregularpartner(ORs:18.417fortheirSTDhistory).Thesedatademonstratethatregularpartner'ssexualbehaviorsarealsoanimportantriskfactorforCtinfectionamong,STDclinicclients.
简介:Wereportedanovelmammalianreovirus,designedBYD1,isolatedfromthroatswabsofpatientswithsevereacuterespiratorysyndrome(SARS),in2003.Inthepresentstudy,wefirstlycomparedthegenomeelectrophoreticmigrationpatternsofreovirusBYD1with3prototypereovirusstrainsbypolyacrylamidegelelectrophoresis(PAGE)anddeterminedthecompletenucleotidesequenceoftheS1genesegmentofBYD1bysingleprimeramplificationtechnique.TheelectropherogramofBYD1wasdifferentfromthoseofthe3prototypestrainsandanyotherreovirusisolatesreportedbefore.TheentireS1segmentsequenceofBYD1is1437bplongwithtwomeaningfulopenreadingframes(ORFs).ThelongestORFencodesσ1,thecellattachmentprotein,andthesecondlongestORFsupposedlyencodesσ1s,animportantnonstructuralvirulencefactor.TheterminalsequencesofS1segmentare5'GCUAand3'UCAUC,whichareconsistentwiththoseofothermammalianreoviruses.Thehighesthomologyofdeducedσ1aminoacidsequenceis64%identitywithknownmammalianreoviruses.PhylogeneticanalysisofbothS1nucleotidesequenceandσ1aminoacidsequenceindicatedtheBYD1isolatebelongedtoanewcladeofserotype2group.TheresultsofthisstudyshowedthattheBYD1S1segmentwasmarkedlydifferentfromthoseofisolatesreportedbeforeandBYD1wasanovelhumanreovirusisolate.