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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. We unveiled the diagnostic value of serum NLRP3, metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP‐9) and interferon‐γ (IFN‐γ) levels in post‐craniotomy intracranial infections and hydrocephalus in patients with severe craniocerebral trauma to investigate the high risk factors for these in patients with TBI, and the serological factors predicting prognosis, which had a certain clinical predictive value. Study subjects underwent bone flap resection surgery and were categorized into the intracranial infection/hydrocephalus/control (without postoperative hydrocephalus or intracranial infection) groups, with their clinical data documented. Serum levels of NLRP3, MMP‐9 and IFN‐γ were determined using ELISA kits, with their diagnostic efficacy on intracranial infections and hydrocephalus evaluated by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The independent risk factors affecting postoperative intracranial infections and hydrocephalus were analysed by logistic multifactorial regression. The remission after postoperative symptomatic treatment was counted. The intracranial infection/control groups had significant differences in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores, opened injury, surgical time and cerebrospinal fluid leakage, whereas the hydrocephalus and control groups had marked differences in GCS scores, cerebrospinal fluid leakage and subdural effusion. Serum NLRP3, MMP‐9 and IFN‐γ levels were elevated in patients with post‐craniotomy intracranial infections/hydrocephalus. The area under the curve values of independent serum NLRP3, MMP‐9, IFN‐γ and their combination for diagnosing postoperative intracranial infection were 0.822, 0.722, 0.734 and 0.925, respectively, and for diagnosing hydrocephalus were 0.865, 0.828, 0.782 and 0.957, respectively. Serum NLRP3, MMP‐9 and IFN‐γ levels and serum NLRP3 and MMP‐9 levels were independent risk factors influencing postoperative intracranial infection and postoperative hydrocephalus, respectively. Patients with hydrocephalus had a high remission rate after postoperative symptomatic treatment. Serum NLRP3, MMP‐9 and IFN‐γ levels had high diagnostic efficacy in patients with postoperative intracranial infection and hydrocephalus, among which serum NLRP3 level played a major role. What is the central question of this study?Severe craniocerebral injury usually leads to the loss of nerve function: what is the diagnostic value of serum NLRP3, metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP‐9) and interferon‐γ (IFN‐γ) levels in the diagnosis of intracranial infections and hydrocephalus in patients with severe craniocerebral trauma after craniotomy?What is the main finding and its importance?Serum NLRP3, MMP‐9, and IFN‐γ levels had high diagnostic efficacy in patients with postoperative intracranial infection and hydrocephalus, among which serum NLRP3 level played a major role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To explore influence of artesunate on T-bet /GATA-3 equilibrium of peripheral blood in oral lichen planus.Methods 18 OLP patients were selected,and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated by density gradient centrifugation. The cells were cultured and treated with different concentrations (0, 1, 100 μmol/L) of artesunate. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Western blot were applied to detect theT-bet and GATA-3 mRNA and protein expression respectively.Results The T-bet/GATA-3 mRNA and protein expressions in groups treated with artesunate (1 μmol/L & 100 μmol/L) were higher than that of control group (treated without artesunate) (P

Zircon U-Pb age, whole-rock elemental and Sr-Nd isotopic data are presented for the Rushan intrusive complex from the northern Sulu orogen, China. The intrusion, emplaced at c. 111 Ma, consists mainly of biotite-bearing gabbro and pyroxene-bearing diorite. The rocks are high-K calcalkaline in major elements, and enriched in large ion lithophile elements (LILE) and light rare earth elements (LREE), depleted in high field strength elements (HFSE), and possess narrow ranges of initial [sup.87]Sr/[sup.86]Sr (0.70746-0.70827) and eNd(t) (-12.37 to -8.26). The complex is interpreted to originate from decompression melting of spinel-facies cratonic mantle that was metasomatized by the subducted Yangtze crustal materials and the melts experienced fractionation of olivine, clinopyroxene, apatite and Fe-Ti oxides. The Rushan complex is similar in composition to other Early Cretaceous mafic-intermediate complexes from the southern margin of the North China Craton, such as the Fangcheng basalts and Yinan gabbros, implying the mantle source of the Rushan intrusion is tectonically affiliated to the southern wedge of the Craton. We infer that the Rushan complex formed in an extensional regime corresponding to the asthenosphere upwelling during gradual erosion and replacement of the cratonic mantle by the fertile lithosphere beneath the eastern North China Craton. Keywords: gabbro-diorite, zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry, petrogenesis, northern Sulu orogen.