| 1 | Key immunity characteristics of diverse stages of brucellosis in rural population from Inner Mongolia, China显示文摘Background: Brucellosis poses a serious threat to human and animal health,particularly in developing countries such as China.The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is one of the most severely brucellosis-endemic provinces in China.Currently,the host immune responses functioning to control Brucella infection and development remain poorly understood.The aim of this study is to further clarify the key immunity characteristics of diverse stages of brucellosis in Inner Mongolia.Methods: We collected a total of 733 blood samples from acute(n=137),chronic(n=316),inapparent(n=35),recovery(n=99),and healthy(n=146)groups from the rural community of Inner Mongolia between 2014 and 2015.The proportions of CD4^(+),CD8^(+),Th1,Th2,and Th17 T cells in peripheral blood and the expression of TLR2 and TLR4 in lymphocytes,monocytes and granulocytes were examined using flow cytometry analysis.The differences among the five groups were compared using one-way ANOVA and the Kruskal–Wallis method,respectively.Results: Our results revealed that the proportions of CD4^(+) and CD8^(+) T cells were significantly different among the acute,chronic,recovery,and healthy control groups(P<0.05),with lower proportions of CD4^(+) T cells and a higher proportion of CD8^(+) T cells in the acute,chronic,and recovery groups.The proportion of Th1 cells in the acute,chronic,and inapparent groups was higher than that in the healthy and recovery groups;however,there was no significant difference between patients and healthy individuals(P>0.05).The proportion of Th2 lymphocytes was significantly higher in the acute and healthy groups than in the inapparent group(P<0.05).The proportion of Th17 cells in the acute group was significantly higher than that in the healthy control,chronic,and inapparent groups(P<0.05).Finally,the highest expression of TLR4 in lymphocytes,monocytes and granulocytes was observed in the recovery group,and this was followed by the acute,chronic,healthy control,and inapparent groups.There was a significant difference between the recovery group and the other groups,except for the acute group(P<0.05).Moreover,a correlation in TLR4 expression was observed in lymphocytes,monocytes and granulocytes among the five groups(r>0.5),except for the inapparent group between lymphocytes and granulocytes(r=0.34).Conclusions: Two key factors(CD8^(+)T cells and TLR4)in human immune profiles may closely correlate with the progression of brucellosis.The detailed function of TLR4 in the context of a greater number of cell types or tissues in human or animal brucellosis and in larger samples should be further explored in the future. | Yongzhang Zhu Li Shi Yige Zeng Dongri Piao Yingbo Xie Juan Du Meng Gao Wei Gao Junli Tian Jun Yue Min Li XiaoKui Guo Yufeng Yao YaoXia Kang | 2022 | Infectious Diseases of Poverty2022，11，3： | 1 |
| 2 | A New Species of the Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger,1843(Squamata:Colubridae)in Southwestern Sichuan,China显示文摘The genus Rhabdophis is a group of widely distributed snakes with more than 20 species.Recent field surveys uncovered a species in southwestern China,which has long been considered as R.pentasupralabialis.Combined molecular and morphological analyses revealed it as a new species Rhabdophis chiwen sp.nov.Based on 12 specimens,this new species is distinguished by the following characters:1)dorsal body saddlebrown,dorsal scales typically with black margins forming spots and stripes,the margin of the outer row forming two faint dorsolateral black cross-bars alongside body;2)ventral scales 151–159,the outer margin of ventral scales and several lateral rows of dorsal scales forming ventrolateral longitudinal brownish-red coloration,with faint black spots in the middle of ventral scales;3)a black oblique stripe present below eyes,often with a black spot between the 2 nd and 3 rd supralabial and a black stripe on the 5 th supralabial;4)eyes dark khaki,pupils black;5)infralabials usually 7,the first four in contact with anterior chin-shields;6)temporal scales 1+1;7)dorsal scales in 15 rows,feebly keeled except the outer 1–2 rows;8)anal scale divided;subcaudals 45–59;9)preocular 1 and postoculars 3(occasionally 2);10)body medium-sized(snout-vent length:adult males 404–431 mm,adult females 409–476 mm);11)tail moderate(tail length/total length in adult males 0.205–0.238,in adult females0.172–0.193).With the discovery of this new species,the total number of species in genus Rhabdophis is 28 with 12 th species known to occur in China. | Yige PIAO Zening CHEN Yanqing WU Shengchao SHI Hirohiko TAKEUCHI Teppei JONO Masaya FUKUDA Akira MORI Yezhong TANG Qin CHEN Li DING | 2020 | Asian Herpetological Research2020，11，2： | 0 |
您所在的机构暂未开通此部分的功能，请联系管理员