1.Discussion on the Payment Mechanism for Medical Establishment
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 1996;0(01):-
There are some issues with the payment mechanism in the hospital at present.For instant, lacking of the government subsidy,collecting money depending on drug and the price is unreasonable.All of these issues restrict the development of health care system,and influence the health care delivery and the cost control.The article suggests the following working must be well done:to strengthen the regionol plan- ning in order to prefer the rural area;defining the accountability.of the government for health care;dividing treatment and selling drug into two groups;reforming the price of health care service.
2.Oleanolic acid induced autophagic cell death in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via PI3K/Akt/mTOR and ROS-dependent pathway.
Yang SHI ; Qingwei SONG ; Dianhe HU ; Xiaohu ZHUANG ; Shengcai YU ; Dacai TENG
The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 2016;20(3):237-243
Oleanolic acid (OA) has a wide variety of bioactivities such as hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity and is used for medicinal purposes in many Asian countries. In the present study, the effect of OA on induction of autophagy in human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 and SMC7721 cells and the related mechanisms were investigated. MTT assay showed that OA significantly inhibited HepG2 and SMC7721 cells growth. OA treatment enhanced formation of autophagic vacuoles as revealed by monodansylcadaverine (MDC) staining. At the same time, increasing punctuate distribution of microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3) and an increasing ratio of LC3-II to LC3-I were also triggered by OA incubation. In addition, OA-induced cell death was signifi cantly inhibited by autophagy inhibitors 3-methyladenine (3-MA) and chloroquine (CQ) pretreatment. And we found out that OA can suppress the PI3K/Akt1/mTOR signaling pathway. Furthermore, our data suggested that OA-triggered autophagy was ROS-dependent as demonstrated by elevated cellular ROS levels by OA treatment. When ROS was cleared by N-acetylcysteine (NAC), OA-induced LC3-II convertsion and cell death were all reversed. Taken together, our results suggest that OA exerts anticancer eff ect via autophagic cell death in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Acetylcysteine
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Asian Continental Ancestry Group
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Autophagy*
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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular*
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Cell Death
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Chloroquine
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Humans
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Microtubule-Associated Proteins
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Oleanolic Acid*
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Vacuoles