Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and its receptors may be the pivotal stimulants in the process of growth and metastasis of a neoplasm. They boost the genesis of the blood vessels of brain glioma. Their expression is correlated with the grading of glioma. They are ideal targets in the treatment of inhibiting the growth of the blood vessels of brain glioma.

As an important acupoints beyond meridians, Huatuo spine points are used extensively. Its localization generally is considered on the back waist where is under the both sides of the spinous processes (0.5 inch) from the first thoracic vertebral to the fifth lumbar. Furthermore, Huatuo spine points include 17 points on the right side and 17 points on the left. Through a large number of clinical observations and literature’s searching, the writer considers that the Huatuo spine points are an integrated, independent region that is combined pass through the Bladder meridian and the Du meridian. Therefore, acupuncture the region may depend on the specific conditions.

Objective To study the effect ofQianzheng powder through point directional transdermal drug delivery technique for the patients with urge incontinence(UI) after stroke.Methods Seventy patients with UI after stroke were randomly divided into treatment group and control group(each group 35 patients). Qianzheng powder through point directional transdermal drug delivery was given to the treatment group, but the tolterodine through mouth was given to the control group. The urinary diary and bladder function at baseline and after 2 weeks' treatment were observed.Results After treatment, the total effect rate(88.2%vs. 63.6%,χ2=5.575) in the treatment group were better than that in the control group (P<0.01).The duration of voided (17.05 ± 6.21 times/48 hvs. 28.63 ± 9.62 times/48 h,t=5.872), the times of urinary incontinence (2.08 ± 1.24 times/48 hvs. 7.19 ± 2.46 times/48 h,t=10.784), the average voided volume (282.38 ± 14.32 mlvs. 185.82 ± 15.43 ml,t=26.561), the times of nocturia (1.38 ± 0.34 times per nightvs. 2.45 ± 1.56 times per night,t=3.906), the initial Sensory capacity of bladder (246.76 ± 21.95 mlvs. 176.43 ± 20.64 ml,t=13.502), the maximum capacity of bladder (495.80 ± 26.72 mlvs. 295.81 ± 28.46 ml,t=29.663), the residual urine volume (12.25 ± 6.83 ml vs. 33.63 ± 7.25 ml,t=12.428) in the treatment group showed significantly more improvement than those in the  control group (P<0.01).Conclusions TheQianzheng powder by point directional transdermal drug delivery could reduce the symptoms of urinary incontinence, and improve the life quality of patients with UI after stroke.

The acupuncture manipulation is an important factor for achieving a good therapeutic effect in acupuncture practice.The authors review recent studies on acupuncture manipulation and its qualification from a) differences of the therapeutic effects of acupuncture manipulation,b) quantification of acupuncture manipulations,and c) instruments for delivering and sampling the analogued parameters of different acupuncture manipulations,computer analysis software,etc.Most studies revealed that different acupuncture manipulations had different clinical efficacies.Meanwhile,researches on the quantification of acupuncture manipulations and some related instruments also have made a bigger progress.Nevertheless,there still exist many problems,such as difficulties of various acupuncture techniques in unification in clinic,stronger personal subjectivity in performing manipulations,etc.We should overcome these problems and conduct more researches,so as to raise the clinical curative effect further.

Objective: To explore the changes of activity of antioxidases in hippocampus of the rats with multi-infarct dementia and the intervention effects of acupuncture.Method: The multi-infarct dementia model was made by injected emboli into the internal carotid artery.The demented rats were allocated to 3 groups randomly: model,acup and sham-acup;meanwhile normal and sham-operated rats were used as control.The parameters of oxidative stress were assessed by measuring the malondialdehyde(MDA),superoxide dismutase(SOD),catalase(CAT) and glutathione peroxidase(GSH-Px) levels in hippocampus after acupuncture treatment.Result: Compared to normal group,MDA levels of hippocampus in model animals increased significantly,while SOD and GSH-Px decreased much more;No significant difference was observed in CAT among groups.Interestingly,the acupuncture treatment could significantly improve all those indexes.Conclusion: SOD/GSH-Px pathway may be playing a major role in combating oxidative stress in the brain of MID rats,the CAT activity not the key enzyme.Acupuncture treatment could increase the activity of antioxidase SOD/GSH-Px,alleviate the injury of free radical and maintain the oxidant-antioxidant balance to a great extent.This may be one of the mechanisms of its therapeutic effect.

Acupuncture has a definite curative in treating pain.Pain is a subjective feeling,which is not easy to be measured because of lack of quantifiable index.Besides,because evaluation measures for acupuncture analgesia are not unanimous,it is lack of comparability among the different clinical researches.The author summarized the clinical evaluation measures of acupuncture analgesia which are used in clinical commonly,and considered that the clinical study on acupuncture analgesia should be globally evaluated from the extent of pain,complication symptoms and life quality on the basis of determining the nature and xing quantity of the subjective index.

Objective To evaluate clinical significance of the CEA, CA19-9, CA242, AFP, CA724,SCC, TPA, TPS combined detection for the clinical diagnosis of gastrointestial cancer. Methods 373 cases of upper digestive tract malignant tumor patient and 50 cases of healthy serum sample were detected for eight markers, evaluating the relationship between the level of markers and illness. Results 8 marker diagnostic positive rates were: CEA 26.80 %, CA19-9 27.34 %, CA242 34.14 %, AFP 2.84 %, SCC 19.72 %, CA724 12.13 %, TPA 34.15 %, TPS 30.89 %. The total positive rate of joint detection of 8 markers was 89.05 %.Preoperative CEA, CA242, SCC-positive patients had a shorter survival time. CA242 and CA19-9 levels with upper gastrointestinal malignancies were positively correlated. Conclusion The combined detection of a number of markers in different pathological type and clinical staging is statistically significant, and the positive rate is much higher than any single marker test results. CA19-9 and CA242 may be the best combination of monitoring the disease. CA724, CA242 and SCC can be as adverse prognostic indicators for cardia, stomach,esophageal malignant tumors, respectively.

Objective To evaluate the serum changes in glioma patients, and in relations with clinicopathalogy parameters response to treatment and survival in patients with glioma via the examination of the significance of serum VEGF, Flt-1 and KDR levels. Methods Serum VEGF,Flt-1 and KDR levels were analyzed in patients of glioma before and after treatment, and patients with brain metastasis, as well as in healthy controls. Serum VEGF, Flt-1 and KDR levels were assessed by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay(ELISA) and the data were processed by SPSS 11.5 for t-test and relevant analyses. Results Serum VEGF, Flt-1 and KDR levels were higher in patients with glioma than in healthy control (P =0.001, P =0.043 and P =0.045 respectively). Significant difference on levels of VEGF was found (P =0.032) comparing glioma group with brain metastasis group. The pretherapeutic serum levels of VEGF and Flt-1 were significantly different with disease recurrence or persistence after treatment (P =0.026 and P =0.038). There was significant correlation between the serum levels of VEGF correlated and that of Flt-1 and KDR (r =0.456 P

[ Abstract] Ischemic brain injury is closely associated w ith oxidative stress, neuron loss, and inflammatory reaction. The thioredoxin system is an important antioxidant system in human body. It plays the important roles in the process of fighting against oxidative stress damage, inhibiting apoptosis and inflammation. In recent years, the roles of thioredoxin system in cerebral ischemia have attracted more and more attention. This article review s the roles of thioredoxin in cerebral ischemia.

Migraine is the most common type of primary headache.The ideal animal models of migraine should be able to well replicate the key pathophysiological mechanism of migraine.According to the different pathogeneses,this article reviews the advances in research on the animal models of migraine from the aspect of making methods,determination criterion,advantages and disadvantages,and the scope of application,