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This study aimed to investigate the clinical significance of the detection of mononuclear phagocytes subsets in pulmonary sarcoidosis blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). For this purpose, a total of 52 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis were selected as the study group, 52 healthy people served as the “NC Group a” (peripheral blood mononuclear cell control group), 47 patients with chronic cough and no pulmonary sarcoidosis who underwent bronchoscopy were used as “control group b” (alveolar lavage fluid macrophage control group). Fasting peripheral blood and BALF were collected, and flow cytometry was used to detect monocytes and macrophage subpopulations. The monocytes and macrophage subpopulations of the study group were compared before and after treatment. The results showed that the proportion of CD14++CD16- subgroup of patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was lower than that of healthy people (74.21±4.10% vs 84.32±4.76%); The proportion of CD14++CD16+ subgroups of patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was higher than that of healthy people (7.42±4.08% vs 3.95±1.94%); The proportion of CD14+CD16++ subgroups of patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was higher than that of healthy people in the control group, but the difference was not significant. After 2 months of treatment, the proportion of CD14++CD16- subgroups in peripheral blood mononuclear cells increased, and the proportion of CD14++CD16+ subgroups decreased. The proportion of M1 in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was lower than that in patients with non-pulmonary nodules (24.32±11.36% vs 47.03±13.86%); the proportion of M2 in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was higher than the proportion of M2 in patients with non-pulmonary nodules (75.40±10.23% vs 52.53±12.01%). After treatment, the proportion of M1 of BALF macrophages in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis was increased (P

The thermal degradation behavior of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) in nitrogen atmosphere was studied in the present work by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The changes of GFRP during the thermal degradation process were characterized from both chemical composition and micro physical structure points of view by using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The steps of thermal degradation of GFRP in nitrogen were investigated in detail by analyzing the residues at different set temperatures, then the temperature ranges for the disappearance of methyl and aliphatic structure and the appearance of carbonyl and polyaromatic structure were determined with a temperature resolution of 20 °C. The changes of micro physical structure of GFRP during the thermal degradation in nitrogen involved the softening, melt, shrinkage, appearing of twisted and shrink lines, debonding of interface between glass fiber and epoxy resin matrix and releasing the pyrolyzed gas consecutively. Based on the results, the entire process of thermal degradation of GFRP from initial intact to final deterioration in nitrogen up to 800 °C was characterized, the present work is helpful for better understanding of the thermal degradation behavior of GFRP used in high voltage composite insulator as well as in other industry applications involving the temperature rising condition.