Cough is a common respiratory symptom in children.To evaluate severity of cough and the quality-of-life in children with chronic cough,cough scores,generic questionnaires and cough-specific health-related quality of life questionnaires have been developed.Different questionnaires have their own particular features,recently the validity and reliability of the cough-specific health-related quality of life questionnaires are supposed to be high in assessing quality of life,and have been proved to be quite valid and reliable tools.Studies have shown that chronic cough not only affects physical status in children,but also seriously affects their psychological health,social activities and family life negatively.Therefore,evaluating severity of cough and impacting on quality of life contributes to the clinical development of appropriate interventions.

BACKGROUND:Some Chinese herbal ingredients produce the analogical and pharmacological effects equivalent to growth factors, which can promote cel proliferation as wel as tissue and organ recovery and regeneration. Additional y, they possess low price and relative stable physicochemical property. Thus, the applications of traditional Chinese medicine in tissue engineering has attracted more attentions of researchers al over the world. OBJECTIVE:To review the application of the traditional Chinese medicine in stem cel proliferation and tissue engineering. METHODS:A computer-based retrieval of PubMed and CNKI databases was performed for articles concerning the application of traditional Chinese medicine in stem cel proliferation and tissue engineering published from 1978 to 2015. The keywords were“the traditional Chinese medicine, tissue engineering, application, stem cel , anti-inflammatory, cross linking, surface modification, osteoblast, blood vessel”in English and Chinese, respectively. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Natural medicine and the traditional Chinese medicine are expected to be applied in tissue engineering as a surrogate of growth factor and antibiotics, which exert anti-inflammatory, angiogenesis, surface modification, anticoagulation and cross-linking roles as wel as promote proliferation and differentiation of stem cel s in tissue engineering.

Objective] To analyse the course of treatment based on differentiation of signs of Hashimoto thyroiditis combined with many diseases, offering treating thought and medication experiences. [Method] Trace back and state the relative documents about the general conditions, diagnosis and therapy, symptoms-pointed treatment of 1 case of Hashimoto thyroiditis combined with many diseases, introducing Pro. Wumin's clinical experience in treating the patient. [Result] The patient was early or late diagnosed as fatness, hyperlipemia, hyperinsulinemia, sub-clinical Hypothyrea, thyroid nodule and type-2 diabetes, Pro. Wumin combined TCM with WM, the patient was control ed the diseases and kept stable. [Conclusion] Combination of TCM and WM treating Hashimoto thyroiditis accompanied with diseases above has good cure effect, the patient is satisfied with the improvement and result.

Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a common form of secondary endocrine hypertension,which is characterized by hypertension,hypokelamia,myathenia,elevated serum aldosterone concentration and suppressed plasma renin activity.Besides,accumulating research evidences showed that parathyroid hormone (PTH) level was elevated in patients with primary aldosteronism,accompanied by secondary hyperparathyroidism.This review systemically introduces the interaction between aldosterone and PTH in PA patients.

The overexpression of EGFR and the typeⅠcAMPdependent protein kinase(PKAⅠ) has been found in most cancer tissue and tumour cells.The blockade of EGFR activation by using anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies(MAbs) and inhibition of PKAⅠ expression by specific pharmacological agents such as the selective cAMP analogue 8-Cl-cAMP has been proposed as a potential anticancer therapy.We have shown that an interaction between EGFR and PKAⅠ occurs through direct binding of the RⅠsubunit to the Grb2 adaptor protein.We have demonstrated that the functional interaction between the EGFR and the PKAⅠ pathways could have potential therapeutic implications.In fact,the combined interference with both EGFR and PKAⅠ with specific pharmacological agents,has a cooperative antiproliferative effect on human cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo.Studies on the antitumor activity of this combination are under human clinical trial evaluation.

Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of intramuscular injection botulinum toxin A (CBTX-A) made in China. Methods 43 post-stroke patents with upper extremity refractory spasticity were recruited in the study. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: injection combined with rehabilitation therapy (treatment group) and simple rehabilitation therapy (control group). CBTX-A was injected to the biceps brachii. The efficacy was assessed by modified Ashworth scale (MAS), range of motion (ROM),Fugl-Meyer Assessment-upper limb (FMA-upper limb) and motor-Functional Independence Measure-upper limb (mot-FIM-upper limb) at the baseline,2-week,4-week,8-week and 12- week after treatment by a physical therapist who was blind so as to which treatment they received. Results In the treatment group,85.7%(18/21) patients were benefited from the CBTX-A injection. Both groups improved on MAS,ROM,FMA-upper and mot-FIM-upper post-treatment. The score of MAS of treatment group were respectively 1.74?0.41,1.62?0.35,1.60?0.41 at weeks 2,4,8,while that of control group were respectively 2.50?0.51,2.27?0.53,2.18?0.55. The differences were significant(P0.05). After treatment,the ROM of treatment group were respectively 57.81?57.60,66.43?64.38,68.14?65.99 at 4,8, 12-week, and that of control group were respectively 27.91?30. 13,30.73?34.03, 33.73?34.50. The differences were significant (P0.05). Conclusion The result of the present study indicates CBTX-A injection combined with rehabilitation therapy decreases in local spasticity,enlarges the ROM of elbow joint. It is efficient,safe and well-tolerated. CBTX-A injection provides an additional alternative procedure for treatment of adult acquired refractory focal spasticity.

Autoimmune disease is an own organization inflammatory lesions,mainly caused by destroying the adaptive immune tolerance mechanism of differentiatingself andnon-self,whose character is appearing the autoantibodies and self-reactive T cells in the body.Autoinflammatory disease is a group of genetic,recurrent and noninvasive inflammatory disease,whose characteristics are fever,rash,joint pain,arthritis,ophthalmic pathological changes and increasing of acute phase proteins,and it can affect many organ systems.These diseases are different in the mode of onset and clinical manifestations,but also can have similar and overlapped symptoms and signs,and often confused with other systemic diseases.Therefore,clinical misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses easily occur.To understand correctly and master the laboratory examination characteristics and its clinical is essential,which has significant value in the clinical diagnosis,differential diagnosis,evaluation and treatment of these diseases.

Electrical potential difference (PD) was measured across the wall of reverted small intestinal saes of mice. The effect of glycyrrhizic acid on transmural potential related to Na+ and glucose transport were investigated. It was found that both zhigancao (100g/L ) and glycyrrhizic acid (2. 5mmol/L ) decreased the PD (P＜0.01).According to the theory of active transport of glucose, we inferred that zhigancao and glycyrrhizic acid possibly produce an inhibitiory effect on Na+. K+-ATP ase,resulted in a blocking effect on sodium channel.

Purpose:To eveluate the effect of liver function after TIPSS.Materials and methds:Ananalysis of 17 cases with laboratory data to study the liver function changes after TIPSS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunts).Results:There were 35 percent of cases whose liver function were worse than before,the others showed no change or better after TIPSS. Couclusion:It was important to choose the cases strictly before TIPSS so as to reduce the compli- cation and improve the survival rates.Although some cases liver function went worse after TIPSS but only temporarily.TIPSS can reduce bleeding retes effectively,thus simultaneously seve the lives.It is worthy to extend this procedue.