Objective To study the olfactory function in Chinese patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) and its application in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism Methods The thresholds of olfactory detection and identification were determined by using “five odors olfactory detection arrays” provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences for the 50 PD patients, 30 healthy controls, 30 persons with other neurological diseases, and 7 atypical Parkinsons disease patients Results The olfactory detection and identification thresholds of PD patients were significantly higher than those of the normal controls and than those with other neurological diseases But the olfactory identification threshold of PD patients was significantly higher than those with atypical Parkinsons disease The sensitivity and specificity in the olfactory test were 74 0% and 91 7%, respectively by combining the olfactory detection and identification thresholds together Conclusions The olfactory function was found significantly decreased in PD patients The olfactory test might play an important role in the diagnosis and differentiated diagnosis of PD

Objective To investigate the incidence of anxiety and depression in hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease( COPD) ,and to analyze the related factors that affect the occurrence of anxiety and depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Methods In the observation group and control group,the anxiety and depression were assessed,and the influencing factors of the patients with depression were ana-lyzed.Results In the observation group,the patients with anxiety and depression (38.03%) were significantly more than the control group (23.08%),and the difference was statistically significant (χ2 =4.28,P<0.05).The multi-variate logistic regression analysis showed that sex,course of disease,degree of culture,social support and self rated health status of five variables on COPD depression effects were statistically significant ( OR=0.413,1.534,2.651, 1.673,2.442,all P <0.05).Conclusion There is higher incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with COPD.Gender,COPD duration,education,social support and self rated health status are the important factors influen-cing the anxiety and depression of the patients.

Objective To systematically assess the values of B-ultrasound(US),computed tomography(CT),magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography(MRCP)and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)in diagnosing cholangiocarcinoma(CCA).Methods All published literatures on bile duct cancer were collected from the literature databases of PubMed,Medline,Embase,CNKI and Wanfang.Then the patients with bile duct cancer suspected by US,CT,MRCP and ERCP were performed the systematic review.The evaluation indicators included sensitivity and specificity.The summary receiver operating characteristic(SROC)curve was adopted to obtain the area under the curve(AUC)and Q values.The diagnostic values of 4 kinds of method were analyzed.Results Forty-four articles were included,involving 4 364 patients.The pooled sensitivities of US,CT and MRCP were 0.75,0.82 and 0.85 respectively,the specificities were 0.72,0.80 and 0.87 respectively(sensitivity and specificity of ERCP cytology and image were 0.62,0.98;0.88,0.84),the Q values were 0.690 8,0.787 8 and 0.841 7(0.846 1,0.833 2 in ERCP cytology and image).Conclusion The accuracy of CT,MRCP and ERCP for diagnosing bile duct cancer is similar and higher than that of US,which is an effective assisted examination method when compared with US.The pooled specificity of ERCP cytology is obviously higher than that of other examination method and has high clinical diagnostic value in the patients with highly suspected bile duct malignant tumor.

OBJECTIVE: To observe the effect and mechanism of Bauhinia championii flavones (BCF) on anti-hypoxia/reoxygenation injury in cardiomyocytes via inhibiting necroptosis. METHODS: The cardiomyocytes hypoxia/reoxygenation injury model was developed and pretreated with Bauhinia championii flavones. ELISA was used to evaluate the contents of TNF-α, and the activities of T-AOC were determined by ultraviolet spectrophotometric method. The protein expression of RIPK3 was observed by Western-blotting, and the necroptosis rate was determined by using Annex v-FITC/PI double staining. RESULTS: Compared with model group, Bauhinia championii flavones pretreatment alleviated cardiomyocytes injury, increased T-AOC level, decreased the activity of TNF-α, down-regulated the expression of RIPK3, and inhibited cardiomyocytes necroptosis (P<0.05). It had synergistic effect when combined BCF with necrostatin-1 (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: BCF can inhibit necroptosis and has protective effects on hypoxia/reoxygenation injury, which are associated with increasing the level of T-AOC, down-regulating TNF-α and RIPK3, and decreasing the cardiomyocytes necroptosis rate.

Aim To study the effects of Bauhinia championii flavones ( BCF ) on adjusting autophagy a-gainst myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury. Meth-ods 120 SD rats were randomly divided into control, model, 3-MA (15 mg·kg-1 ) and BCF (10, 20 mg ·kg-1) groups (n=8). 30min. ischemia, ischemia/reperfusion 1h. or 3h, while myocardial ischemia reperfusion model was established by ligating left ante-rior descending coronary artery. The contents of crea-tine kinase-MB ( CK-MB) , inducible nitric oxide syn-thase ( iNOS ) and total antioxidative capacity ( T-AOC ) in serum were determined according to the ultra-violet spectrophotometer colorimetric method. The pro-tein expression of LC3-Ⅱ, Beclin-1 and mTOR was observed by Western blot. Results Compared with model group, BCF dose-dependently improved T-AOC, decreased CK-MB and iNOS ( P < 0. 05 ) . Meanwhile, BCF down-regulated the protein expression of LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 , and up-regulated mTOR pro-tein expression ( P < 0. 05 ) . Compared with 3-MA group, BCF reduced the contents of CK-MB and iN-OS, increased the level of T-AOC. It raised LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 protein expression at 30min. of ischemia, and then declined the protein expression of LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 . BCF descended the protein expression of mTOR all over the time ( P <0. 05 ) . Conclusion Autophagy occurs in ischemia then improves in ische-mia/reperfusion period. BCF could promote the occur-ring of autophagy at 30min. of ischemia in the short term and inhibit the excessive expression of autophagy with the increase of time in reperfusion period. BCF pretreatment reduce myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury may by promoting the occurrence of autophagy during ischemia period and inhibit them in reperfusion.

Objective To explore the natural forgetters' episode memory and personality characteristics.Methods Situational Self-Awareness Scale(SSAS),Russell Loneliness Scale and Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory(ZTPI)are used upon 127 natural forgetters and subjects of control group.in which 90 subjects participate tions,natural forgetters performance worse than subjects of control group(t=1.76 one-tail,P＜0.05),but subjects getters score lower in the SSAS and the future subscale of ZTPI(t1=1.73,P＜0.05 one-tail;t 2=2.70,P＜0.05),and tend to endorse in the present fatalistic subscale of ZTPI(t=2.19,P＜0.05),but don't feel more lonely.Conclusion Natural forgetters episodic memory is selectively micro-injured under the enactment conditions,which is different from the aging impairment mode of selective source memory,and they have some special personality characteristics.

Gene targeted mutagenesis and replacement can be used to modify gene sequence in genomic background without position effect or insertion inactivation in transgenic plants. Targeted mutagenesis organism has little biosafety concerns free of transgenes or marker genes. Gene targeted mutagenesis and replacement in high plants now appears to be a potential tool for gene functional analysis in situ, crops genetic improvement and molecular design. Zinc finger nuclease(ZFN)is most important and would be widely used in gene targeted mutagenesis and replacement through introducing double-strand breaks in genome. Strategies for gene targeted mutagenesis and replacement in plants is discussed. ZFN is described in detail from its structure, operation model and application in plants. Developmental prospect of ZFN in plant gene targeted mutagenesis and replacement is also discussed.

Objective To observe the effects of CO2 pneumoperitoneum on the enteric motor function and acetylcholine esterase(AchE) neuron and nitric oxide synthase(NOS) neuron in the enteric nervous system,and explore the neuromechanism of the CO2 pneumoperitoneum on renteric motor function.Methods Thirty-six Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into experiment group(n=24) and control group(n=12).The experiment group was divided into two subgroups namely pneumoperitoneum 30min group and pneumoperitoneum 60min group(12 each) based on the maintenance time of pneumoperitoneum.Rats in each group were gavaged with medicinal carbon powder,and then the transmission of carbon powder in small intestine was determined.The spreading specimens of intestinal myenteric plexus of small intestine were prepared and the stained AchE and NOS neurons were observed and compared.Results The propellant velocity of carbon powder was slower in pneumoperitoneum 60min group than that in pneumoperitoneum 30min group and control group(28.55%?3.45% vs 45.90%?6.30%,48.25%?5.28%,P0.05).The number of positive expression of AchE neurons in intestinal myenteric plexus decreased in pneumoperitoneum 60min group compared with that in pneumoperitoneum 30min group and control group(48.00?3.16 vs 58.82?4.62,61.83?4.17,P0.05).The number of positive expression of NOS neurons in intestinal myenteric plexus increased in pneumoperitoneum 60min group compared with that in pneumoperitoneum 30min group and control group(42.17?4.45 vs 32.50?4.34,30.83?3.6,P0.05).Conclusions Prolonged CO2 pneumoperitoneum can affect or damage cholinergic neurons and nitroxidergic neurons in the enteric nervous system to some extent,and it may be the underlying mechanism of the intestinal motor dysfunction after operation.

Objective To investigate the relationship between serum uric acid (UA)levels and Parkinson's disease (PD) risk under specific lifestyle exposures.Methods Case-control study was used.Three hundred and ninety-seven PD cases and the same number of controls with matched age and gender were selected.Demographic and exposure information was collected by face-to-face interview,and blood biochemistry studies tested.Logistic regression model was used to analyze the association of PD risk with UA levels or enviromental factors.Results The highest value of UA levels was associated with a decreased PD risk compared to the lowest value (OR =0.39,95％ CI 0.25-0.63) in both male and female groups.This association was significant among nonsmokers (OR =0.52,95％ CI 0.32-0.76),nondrinkers (OR =0.4,95％ CI 0.34-0.70),and persons taking exercise more than 1 houre a day (OR =0.51,95％ CI 0.35-0.74).But no significant association was affected in the subjects with smoking or drinking history and those with less exercise (＜ 1 hour a day).Conclusion We confirmed that higher UA levels were associated with lower PD risk in Chinese population,and some lifestyles may modify the protection effect of serum UA.

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