OBJECTIVE To analyze the curative effect and bacterial clearance of meropenemagaint infections.METHODS To analyze 2732 cases with infection from more than 170 hospitals after meropenem.RESULTS The effectiveness ratio on various infections of blood,lungs treatmeot liver,gallbladder,and pancreas systems and on infections after transplantabions was 80.3%,87.1%,63.6% and 73.3%,respectively;the total clinical effectiveness ratio was 83.5%.The bacterial clearance ratio in various infections of blood,lungs liver,gallbladder,and pancreas systems and in infections after transplantations was 33.5%,66.2%,65.5% and 66.7%,respectively;the total bacterial clearance ratio was 52.7%.CONCLUSIONS Meropenem is effective against infection in clinical patients.The total clinical effectiveness ratio is 83.5%.The total bacterial clearance ratio is 52.7%.

To investigate the changes of inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA (iNOSmRNA) in pulmonary tissues of tail suspended rats during simulated weightlessness, experiments on 40 Spragno Dawley male rats were conducted. The rats were divided into 4 groups:suspended for 7d, and its control, suspended for 21d, and its control tail suspension(-30 ) was used as weightlessness simulation.The condition of iNOSmRNA in pulmonary tissues was examined by hybridization in situ.The results showed that the level of iNOSmRNA in pulmonary tissues of 7d tail suspended rats increased significantly( P

To investigate the changes of vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA (VEGFmRNA) in pulmonary tissues of tail suspended rats during simulated weightlessness,the experiments were conducted on 40 Spragno Dawley male rats,divided into 4 groups:suspended for 7d,control of 7d and suspended for 21d,control of 21d.Tail suspension(-30?) was used as weightlessness simulation.The condition of VEGFmRNA in pulmonary tissues was examined by hybridization in situ. The results showed that the level of VEGFmRNA in pulmonary tissues of 7d tail suspended rats increased significantly( P

To investigate the changes of cell apoptosis genes in pulmonary tissue of tail suspended rats during simulated weightlessness, 40 Spragno Dawley male rats were divided into 4 groups: suspended for 7d,control of 7d, suspended for 21d, and control of 21d.Tail suspension(-30?) was used as weightlessness simulation.The condition of bcl 2/bax in pulmonary tissues was detected by in situ hybridization. The results showed that the level of bcl 2 mRNA in pulmonary tissue of 7d tail suspended rats decreased significantly( P 0 05). The results also showed that the level of bax mRNA in pulmonary tissue of 7d tail suspended rats increased significantly( P 0 05).It can be concluded that there are certain changes of cell apoptosis genes in pulmonary tissue of 7d tail suspended rats during simulated weightlessness.

Objective To determine the aberrant methylation status of RASSF1A,p16 and DAPK gene promoter region in induced sputum from lung cancer patients and the value of their combined detection in diagnosing lung cancers. Methods Methylation-specific PCR (MSP) was used to detect the promoter methylation status of RASSF1A,p16, and DAPK genes in induced sputum and pathological tissues from 82 patients with lung cancers and 25 patients with pulmonary benign lesion.We also analyzed the relation between methylation status and clinical pathological data.Results The positive rates of promoter methylation of RASSF1A,p16, and DAPK genes in pathological tissues from patients with lung cancers were 63.4%,59.8%, and 58.5%, respectively,and those in induced sputum were 54.9%,48.8%,and 51.2%, respectively. The promoter methylation of RASSF1A,p16, and DAPK genes were not detected in patients with pulmonary benign lesion.There was a significant difference between the lung cancer group and pulmonary benign lesion group (P＜0.05). The methylation rate of RASSF1A gene was significantly lower in the middle and high differentiation and non-metastastic lymph node of lung cancer tissues than that in the poor differentiation and the metastatic lymph node of lung cancer tissues(P＜0.05), and was not correlated with age, sex, smoking index, clinical stage, and pathological types.The methylation rate of p16, and DAPK genes was not significantly correlated with all the above mentioned factors (P＞0.05). The methylation rate of joint detecting RASSF1A, p16, and DAPK genes was 73.2%. Conclusion Joint detection for promoter hypermethylation of RASSF1A, p16, and DAPK genes in induced sputum may be used as a simple and effective index of the diagnosis and prognose of lung cancers, and can improve the positive rate.

Objective To investigate the effects of dexamethasone on prevention of apoptosis in pulmonary tissues of rats after simulated weightlessness. Methods Tail suspension was used to simulate weightlessness. Thirty Sprague-Dawley male rats were divided randomly into 3 groups: control group, tail suspension for 7 days group, and dexamethasone treatment after suspension group. TUNEL technique was used to detect cell apoptosis in pulmonary tissues. Results The rate of apoptotic cells in the lung of rats suspended for 7 day was higher than that of control group(P

Objective To investigate the effects of dexamethasone on inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in pulmonary tissues of tail-suspended rats simulating weightlessness. Methods Twenty Sprague-Dawley male rats were randomly divided into 2 groups: tail-suspended for 7 days (n=10) without treatment and dexamethasone treatment group (n=10). Tail-suspension was used to simulate weightlessness. The expression of iNOS in the pulmonary tissue was examined by Western blot and immunohistochemistry. Results The results showed that the level of iNOS in the pulmonary tissue of treatment group was decreased significantly(P

Objective To study the effects of simulated weightlessness on eNOS expression in the pulmonary artery in rat, and to investigate the mechanism of changed reactivity of pulmonary artery during simulated weightlessness. Methods The experiments were conducted in 16 male Wistar rats, and they were divided into 2 groups: suspension group and control group, 8 rats for each. Tail-suspension (-30?) was carried out for 14d to simulate weightlessness. eNOS protein expression and NO content in pulmonary artery were determined using Western blot analysis and nitrate enzyme-reduction method, respectively. Results Compared with control group, eNOS expression in the rat pulmonary artery increased significantly during simulated weigtlessness. The relative optical density as a result of scanning was 247?2.60, and that of the control was 141?1.72. There were significant differences between the two groups (P

Ojective To study the endothelial mechanism of simulated weightlessness on the reactivity of pulmonary artery. Methods Experiments were conducted using 32 Wistar male rats, which were randomly divided into 2 groups: tail-suspended group and control group, 16 rats for each group. Tail-suspension for 14 days was used to simulate the effects of microgravity. The changes in responses of pulmonary artery to several vascular active agents were determined by using in vitro vessel rings perfusion technique. And the changes were determined again after the endothelium of pulmonary artery was removed. Results Compared with the control group, the contractile responses of pulmonary artery to potassium chloride (68mmol/L) and phenylephrine (PE, 10 -7 ~10 -5 mmol/L) were markedly diminished after 14 days tail-suspension, while the dilatory responses to acetylcholine (Ach, 10 -8 ~10 -6 mmol/L) were markedly enhanced. The vascular reactivity of endothelium-removed pulmonary artery rings to PE and sodium nitroprusside (SNP) did not change after 14 days tail-suspension. Conclusion The contractile responsiveness is attenuated and the dilatory responsiveness is enhanced in the rats' pulmonary arteries after simulated weightlessness. That the pulmonary artery endothelium changes in structure or function after simulated weightlessness might be an important cause of changing in the reactivity of pulmonary artery.

To study changes of lung function for 10 years in the elder patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) who have quitted smoking for more than 10 years, 45 elder patients with COPD who had quitted smoking for more than 10 years were selected, and 11 elder patients with COPD who had never smoked were enrolled too. Routine lung function tests were performed. Initial values of VC, FVC, FEV 1 , PEF, MMEF, and MVV were compared with those 10 years later, and it was found the difference was significant ( P