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B Fei

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Semiquantitative imaging measurement of baseline and vasomodulated normal prostatic blood flow using sildenafil.

The physiologic variability of blood flow to the prostate has not been studied until this time. We report the vasoactive effects of sildenafil and phenylephrine on blood flow of the normal prostate. Sildenafil increases prostate blood flow by approximately 75% and phenylephrine reduces the flow incrementally. Administration of these drugs with dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging may improve the diagnosis of cancerous tissue because according to the literature, tumor angiogenic vessels lack the vasoactive physiologic response of the normal tissue.

Blood Flow Velocity↗

[Association of tumor necrosis factor microsatellite polymorphism with chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric adenocarcinoma].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether TNFd and TNFe microsatellite polymorphisms correlate with chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric adenocarcinoma in Chinese Han population. METHODS: In 164 healthy controls, 53 patients with chronic atrophic gastritis, and 56 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma, TNFd and TNFe microsatellite alleles were typed using PCR technique, followed by high-voltage denaturing PAGE, with silver staining. At the same time, the PCR products were cloned and sequenced. RESULTS: Fight alleles at the TNFd locus and four alleles at the TNFe locus were detected. A new allele was found and identified, its accession number of Genebank is AF315593. Statistical analysis showed that there existed a very strong linkage equilibrium between TNFd8 and TNFe4 allele. No difference was observed between patients and healthy controls in the distribution of alleles at the TNFd and TNFe loci (P > 0.05). The frequence of d2/d6 genotype was significantly higher in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma than in healthy individuals (P = 0.028). d2/d6 genotype wasn't related to age or gender or grade of differentiation or clinicopathologic stage in gastric adenocarcinoma. CONCLUSION: d8e4 haplotype appears to be specific of Chinese population. d2/d6 genotype is associated with the susceptibility to gastric adenocarcinoma.

Adenocarcinoma↗

[Microsatellite polymorphisms at the TNF locus in Hubei Han population].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the distribution of tumor necrosis factor(TNF) microsatellite polymorphisms in Chinese. METHODS: DNA was extracted from 164 unrelated healthy individuals' EDTA-blood. TNF microsatellite alleles were typed using PCR technique followed by high voltage denaturing PAGE with silver staining at the same time the PCR products were cloned and sequenced. RESULTS: Thirteen alleles and forty kinds of genotypes were detected at the TNFa locus; two alleles and three kinds of genotypes at the TNFa locus. The polymorphism information contents (PIC) were 0.80 and 0.28 respectively no deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was observed. Statistical analysis showed that the distribution of TNFa allele frequencies in Chinese Han population was significantly different from that in European Caucasian or in Japanese P<0.01. The result of sequencing revealed that the copy number of dinucleiotide repeats within the same TNF allele was not consistent with that in the reports from western countries. CONCLUSION: There exists ethnic difference in the distribution of TNFa allele. Further investigations will be necessary to define more accurately and clearly the TNFa alleles.

Alleles↗

[The method and development of computer-assisted surgery].

The methodology and the state of the art of Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) are introduced in this paper. Computer-assisted surgery is a new high technology which uses computer science, biomedical engineering, mechanism, mathematics, surgery, and so on. Its objective is to help surgeons use multimodal data, such as CT, MRI, DSA, PET, et al. in a rational and quantitative way in order to plan and perform medical intervention. Stereotactic localization method and registration are two cruxes in computer-assisted surgery. There are several methods for localization and registration. In recent ten years, computer-assisted surgery has been a cynosure of scientists. Some computer-assisted surgery systems have been used in clinical practice.

General Surgery↗

[The study of a frameless stereotactic localization method using DSA].

A frameless stereotactic localization method with DSA is introduced in this paper. A locating plate and four head marks are used in the method. Using two projection images of DSA, the three dimension coordinate of any point can be calculated referring to the reference locating coordinate system. The method is the theoretic basis of locating brain structure such as the blood vessel using DSA.

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