AIM To determine how the auto-antibodies(Abs) profiles overlap in chronic hepatitis C infection(CHC) and autoimmune hepatitis(AIH) and correlate to liver disease.METHODS Levels of antinuclear Ab, smooth muscle antibod...AIM To determine how the auto-antibodies(Abs) profiles overlap in chronic hepatitis C infection(CHC) and autoimmune hepatitis(AIH) and correlate to liver disease.METHODS Levels of antinuclear Ab, smooth muscle antibody(SMA) and liver/kidney microsomal-1(LKM-1) Ab and markers of liver damage were determined in the sera of 50 patients with CHC infection, 20 AIH patients and 20 healthy controls using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay and other immune assays. RESULTS We found that AIH patients had more severe liver disease as determined by elevation of total Ig G, alkaline phosphatase, total serum bilirubin and serum transaminases and significantly higher prevalence of the three non-organ-specific autoantibodies(auto-Abs) than CHC patients. Antinuclear Ab, SMA and LKM-1 Ab were also present in 36% of CHC patients and related to disease severity. CHC cases positive for auto-Abs were directly comparable to AIH in respect of most markers of liver damage and total Ig G. These cases had longer disease duration compared with auto-Ab negative cases, but there was no difference in gender, age or viral load. KLM-1+ Ab CHC cases showed best overlap with AIH. CONCLUSION Auto-Ab levels in CHC may be important markers of disease severity and positive cases have a disease similar to AIH. Auto-Abs might have a pathogenic role as indicated by elevated markers of liver damage. Future studies will unravel any novel associations between these two diseases, whether genetic or other.展开更多
As a popular meshfree particle method,the smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) has suffered from not being able to di-rectly implement the solid boundary conditions.This influences the SPH approximation accuracy and h...As a popular meshfree particle method,the smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) has suffered from not being able to di-rectly implement the solid boundary conditions.This influences the SPH approximation accuracy and hinders its further de-velopment and application to engineering and scientific problems.In this paper,a coupled dynamic solid boundary treatment(SBT) algorithm has been proposed,after investigating the features of existing SPH SBT algorithms.The novelty of the cou-pled dynamic SBT algorithm includes a new repulsive force between approaching fluid and solid particles,and a new numeri-cal approximation scheme for estimating field functions of virtual solid particles.The new SBT algorithm has been examined with three numerical examples including a typical dam-break flow,a dam-break flow with a sharp-edged obstacle,and a water entry problem.It is demonstrated that SPH with this coupled dynamic boundary algorithm can lead to accurate results with smooth pressure field,and that the new SBT algorithm is also suitable for complex and even moving solid boundaries.展开更多
文摘AIM To determine how the auto-antibodies(Abs) profiles overlap in chronic hepatitis C infection(CHC) and autoimmune hepatitis(AIH) and correlate to liver disease.METHODS Levels of antinuclear Ab, smooth muscle antibody(SMA) and liver/kidney microsomal-1(LKM-1) Ab and markers of liver damage were determined in the sera of 50 patients with CHC infection, 20 AIH patients and 20 healthy controls using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay and other immune assays. RESULTS We found that AIH patients had more severe liver disease as determined by elevation of total Ig G, alkaline phosphatase, total serum bilirubin and serum transaminases and significantly higher prevalence of the three non-organ-specific autoantibodies(auto-Abs) than CHC patients. Antinuclear Ab, SMA and LKM-1 Ab were also present in 36% of CHC patients and related to disease severity. CHC cases positive for auto-Abs were directly comparable to AIH in respect of most markers of liver damage and total Ig G. These cases had longer disease duration compared with auto-Ab negative cases, but there was no difference in gender, age or viral load. KLM-1+ Ab CHC cases showed best overlap with AIH. CONCLUSION Auto-Ab levels in CHC may be important markers of disease severity and positive cases have a disease similar to AIH. Auto-Abs might have a pathogenic role as indicated by elevated markers of liver damage. Future studies will unravel any novel associations between these two diseases, whether genetic or other.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10942004, 11172306)the National Defense Innovation Funds of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Y175031XML)
文摘As a popular meshfree particle method,the smoothed particle hydrodynamics(SPH) has suffered from not being able to di-rectly implement the solid boundary conditions.This influences the SPH approximation accuracy and hinders its further de-velopment and application to engineering and scientific problems.In this paper,a coupled dynamic solid boundary treatment(SBT) algorithm has been proposed,after investigating the features of existing SPH SBT algorithms.The novelty of the cou-pled dynamic SBT algorithm includes a new repulsive force between approaching fluid and solid particles,and a new numeri-cal approximation scheme for estimating field functions of virtual solid particles.The new SBT algorithm has been examined with three numerical examples including a typical dam-break flow,a dam-break flow with a sharp-edged obstacle,and a water entry problem.It is demonstrated that SPH with this coupled dynamic boundary algorithm can lead to accurate results with smooth pressure field,and that the new SBT algorithm is also suitable for complex and even moving solid boundaries.
