Renji Hospital

About: Renji Hospital is a healthcare organization based out in Shanghai, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Medicine & Biology. The organization has 1112 authors who have published 714 publications receiving 15442 citations. The organization is also known as: Rénjì Yīyuàn.

A Fluid Multivalent Magnetic Interface for High‐Performance Isolation and Proteomic Profiling of Tumor‐Derived Extracellular Vesicles

Abstract: Isolation and analysis of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (T-EVs) are important for clinical cancer management. Here, we develop a fluid multivalent magnetic interface (FluidmagFace) in a microfluidic chip for high-performance isolation, release, and protein profiling of T-EVs. The FluidmagFace increases affinity by 105-fold with fluidity-enhanced multivalent binding to improve isolation efficiency by 13.9 % compared with a non-fluid interface. Its anti-adsorption property and microfluidic hydrodynamic shear minimize contamination, increasing detection sensitivity by two orders of magnitude. Moreover, its reversibility and expandability allow high-throughput recovery of T-EVs for mass spectrometric protein analysis. With the chip, T-EVs were detected in all tested cancer samples with identification of differentially expressed proteins compared with healthy controls. The FluidmagFace opens a new avenue to isolation and release of targets for cancer diagnosis and biomarker discovery.

A Critique of Conventional Economic Approaches to Climate Change

Abstract: Climate change is a typical global environmental challenge. As it is an economic issue, we need to examine its properties in economics. According to the existing economic theories, the academic circle has different opinions on climate change’s economic properties. Some scholars consider climate change an issue of externality; some view it as an issue of public goods, while others believe it is an issue of resource sharing. Different viewpoints on climate change properties lead to various theories, climate change response approaches, and policy selection choices. They also lead to different conclusions on the responsibilities and obligations of different countries.

Expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in hepatic stellate cells

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To explore the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in hepatic stellate cells (HSC). METHODS: Via in situ perfusion with proteinase and collagenase and density-gradient centrifugation with Nycodenz, HSC were isolated and cultured from the livers of both normal Wistar rats and the livers of rats treated with carbon tetrachloride. Expression of ICAM-1 in HSC was detected by an immunohistochemistry assay and reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RESULTS: No ICAM-1 was expressed in the freshly isolated HSC of normal rats, but ICAM-1 was found in primary cultures of HSC at day 10 and in secondary cultures of HSC at day 7. Additionally, the intensity of the expression increased over time. Expression of ICAM-1 was observed in freshly isolated HSC from the livers of rats treated with carbon tetrachloride. CONCLUSIONS: Expression of ICAM-1 is related to the activation of HSC, hepatic inflammation and hepatic fibrogenesis.