Objective To investigate the clinical effects of Xuebijing injection on immune function of patients with acute exacer-bation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(AECOPD) .Methods 103 patients with AECOPD were divided into 3 groups ,in-cluding control group(33 cases) ,the treatment group 1(36 cases) and treatment group 2(34 cases) .The conventional treatments of COPD including anti-infection ,relieving cough ,expectorant ,antispasmodic ,anti-asthmatic and aerosol therapy were adopted in all patients ,based on the similar conventional therapy in the control group ,50 mL Xuebijing injection with NS 250 mL(1/d ,course of 7 d) were added in the treatment group 1 ,and 100 mL Xuebijing injection with NS 250 mL (1/d ,course of 7 d)were added in the treatment group 2 .Serum CD3 ,CD4 ,CD8 ,CD4/CD8 and IgA ,IgG ,IgM were tested before treatment as well as 4 days and 8 days after treatment .The condition changes in all patients were evaluated .Results After 8 days of treatment ,the total treatment effi-ciency and serum CD3 ,CD4 ,CD4/CD8 ,IgA were significantly changed in the two treatment groups compared with the control group(P<0 .05) ,but serum CD8 ,IgG ,IgM showed no significant difference(P>0 .05);After 4 days of treatment ,the total efficien-cy and serum CD4 ,CD4/CD8 were significantly changed in the treatment group 2 which injection dose was increased compared with the control group(P<0 .05) .The total treatment efficiency and immune function showed no significant difference between the two treatment groups(P>0 .05) .Conclusion Xuebijing injection can improve the immune function and treatment efficiency of AECO-PD patients .Appropriately increase the dose can achieve better clinical results in a short period .In conclusion ,Xuebijing injection is a feasible and effective method for the clinical treatment of AECOPD .

Objectives To study the impacts of air temperature and the other weather factors on the daily mortality of the residents in cities for targeting the preventive measures to decrease the excess mortality induced by climate change.Methods The daily mortality and weather surveillance data were provided by Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention and China Meteorological Bureau respectively.The correlation between the weather factors(temperature,humidity,air pressure,rainfall,wind speed) and the daily mortality of residents in a county of Chongqing were analyzed by using the Poisson GAM of time series(increased by 1℃ for air temperate,decreased by 1% for relative humidity and one unit for air pollution index) adjusting for the secular trend,seasonal trend,short-term fluctuation and day of week.Results The excess mortality increased to 12% as the temperature increased 1℃.The excess mortality increased to 4% and 0.6% respectively as the relative humidity decreased 1% and the air pollution index increased one unit.Conclusion High temperature,with humidity and air pollution,will cause increased excess mortality of residents in this county

Objective To compare the intensity of cognitive impairment and the level of pathological lesion in hippocampus induced by ischemia or chronic stress for a more valuable guidance in the treatment of post-stroke cognitive impairment(PSCI).Methods Forty male adult SD rats were divided medially into 4 groups:control,stress,ischemia and ischemia plus stress.Animals in 3 treatment groups were subjected respectively to an operation of modified selective middle cerebral artery occlusion or a procedure of continuous 3-week chronic unpredictable mild stress or a combined program of the two treatments.Morris water maze was employed to assess hippocampus-dependent learning and memory function and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF)expression was detected by immunohistochemical staining in CA3 area and the mRNA amplification through semi-quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR).Results Both chronic stressors and ischemia could significantly decrease the learning and memory function in rats like the escape latency in the performance of the Morris water maze test compared with the controL The stress group was related preferentially to a more severe deterioration in the learning function but not statistically in the memory loss as compared to ischemia group.The cognitive function decreased more markedly in rats when suffered the chronic unpredictable mild stresses plus ischemia,In comparison to control,ischemia significantly increased BDNF+ cells in hippocampal CA3 area (27.0 ±2.5 vs 20.1 ±2.1),while stress markedly reduced the expression of BDNF(15.2 ± 1.8 vs 20.1 ±2.1).Their combined effects still statistically led to a reduction in BDNF expression(8.2 ± 1.5,F =52.87,P ＜0.05).The same tendency was found in BDNF mRNA expression.Conclusions Stress may preferentially and powerfully influence hippocampus-dependent cognitive function compared with ischemia and the combination of focal ischemia and stress leads to the most impairments in cognition and hippocampal BDNF expression.Data suggest that more attention should be given to the strategies to increase the resistance to psychosocial stressors and decrease the depressed symptoms for a full PSCI recovery.

Objective To understand the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes and its associated factors among rural resi-dents in Chongqing ,in order to provide the evidence for conducting non-communicable disease prevention and control in rural area . Methods Rural residents aged above 18 years old were sampled by multi-stage stratified random sampling .The resident sampled was interviewed with the structured questionnaire by face-to-face and examined body weight ,height ,blood pressure ,waist circum-ference .The blood sample was taken to test fasting glucose ,2 h glucose .The associated factors of hypertension and diabetes were i-dentified by Chi-square test and the independent factors of hypertension and diabetes were identified by Logistic regression .Results A total of 2 406 rural residents were interviewed .The amount of salt in taking and oil in taking per person per day self-reported was 6 .7 g and 44 .4 g .The proportion of smoking among rural residents was 21 .0% .The proportion of alcohol use in the past 12 months was 22 .4% .32 .6% of interviewees participated in the regular physical activity .The proportion of overweight and obesity a-mong rural residents was 25 .4% and 6 .2% .The prevalence of hypertension and diabetes was 22 .0% and 9 .4% .The independent factor of hypertension was age(OR = 1 .83 ,95% CI :1 .68 - 1 .98) ,education level(OR = 0 .67 ,95% CI :0 .55 - 0 .82) ,body index(OR= 1 .68 ,95% CI :1 .44 - 1 .96) ,blood glucose(OR = 0 .60 ,95% CI :0 .51 - 0 .70) .The independent factor of diabetes was age(OR =1 .33 ,95% CI :1 .20 - 1 .48) ,gender(OR = 1 .48 ,95% CI :1 .11 - 1 .98) ,education level(OR = 0 .77 ,95% CI :0 .60 - 0 .98) ,body in-dex(OR = 1 .40 ,95% CI :1 .16 - 1 .70) and blood pressure(OR = 0 .77 ,95% CI :0 .64 - 0 .93) .Conclusion The prevalence of hyper-tension and diabetes was high .The risk factors such as unhealthy diet ,physical inactivity ,smoking ,harmful alcohol use ,overweight and obesity is common among rural residents .It should be attached an importance on non-communicable disease prevention and con-trol in rural area .

Objective:To determine expression levels of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in patients with acute cerebral infarction and their clinical significance.Methods:A total of 80 patients with acute cerebral infarction in Chongqing Cancer Hospital from January 2014 to February 2016 were enrolled as an observation group.Another 80 healthy people served as a control group.The expression levels of UCH-L1 and GFAP in the 2 groups were detected.Results:Sensibility and specificity for UCH-L1 and GFAP were 75.0％,87.5％ and 81.3％,90.0％,respectively.Receiver operating characteristic curve areas of UCH-L1 and GFAP were 0.670 and 0.757,respectively.There were no significant significance in age,gender,drinking,smoke,diabetes,and hyperlipidemia in the 2 groups (P＞0.05).High blood pressure rate in the observation group was higher than that in the control group (P＜0.05).Spearson/Pearson analysis showed that serum UCH-L1 and GFAP levels were positively correlated with hypertension,but they were negatively correlated with sex,age,diabetes,hyperlipidemia,alcohol consumption,smoking,and other factors.General data at different time in the observation group was not statistically different (P＞0.05).The expression levels of UCH-L1 and GFAP in the observation group was higher than that in the control group (P＜0.05).UCH-L1 and GFAP levels at different time in the 2 groups were not statistically different (P＞0.05).UCH-L1 and GFAP levels in the light,medium,and heavy groups were higher than those in the control group (P＜0.05),while UCH-L1 and GFAP levels in the medium and heavy groups were higher than those in the light group (P＜0.05).There was significant difference between levels of UCH-L1 or GFAP and infarction size at different time in the observation group (P＜0.05).The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that the levels of serum UCH-L1 and GFAP were positively correlated (r=0.634,P=0.001).Conclusion:The levels of serum UCH-L1 and GFAP are significantly increased at the early stage of acute cerebral infarction,and they have a certain correlation with the severity of cerebral infarction,which can provide a basis for early clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Objective To analyze the change trends of death situation caused by cerebral apoplexy and myocardial infarction in Chongqing from 2006 to 2010 .Methods All death cases of cerebral apoplexy and myocardial infarction from the five years of 2006 to 2010 were extracted from the direct network report system covering the whole crowd death causes in Chongqing and performed the statistical analysis .Results The constituent ratio of cerebral apoplexy death was increased from 13 .94% to 16 .71% in these five years ,while which of myocardial infarction death in all death causes was stabilized around 4% .The sex ratio of male to female for cerebral apoplexy was descended from 1 .76∶1 .00 to 1 .43∶1 .00 in these five years ,while which for myocardial infarction was dropped from 1 .44∶1 .00 to 1 .30∶1 .00 ;which of cerebral apoplexy and myocardial infarction below 75 years old tended to de-cline ,while which above 75 years old tended to rise .Conclusion The cerebral apoplexy harm to Chongqing people′s life is increas-ing ,while the harm caused by myocardial infarction changes little ;the constituent ratio of female death caused by cerebral apoplexy and myocardial infarction is rising ;the cerebral apoplexy and myocardial infarction damage to old people above 75 years old is grea-ter ,and this damage still continues to grow .

Objective To understand the prevalence of diabetes and its influencing factors among rural residents in Fengdu coun-ty of Chongqing and to provide the suggestion for diabetes prevention and control.Methods Rural residents aged above 18 years old were sampled by stratified clustered random sampling.The data was entered by software Epi data3.02 and analyzed by SPSS 16.0.The rate was compared by Chi-square test.The influencing factors of diabetes was identified by multivariate logistic regres-sion.Results A total of 623 rural residents was investigated.The average age was (51.3±1.4)years old.The rate of smoking at present was 20.2% and the rate of smoking at present among male rural residents was 53.0%.The rate of passive smoking was 38.2%.The rate of drinking alcohol in the past 12 months was 22.8%.And its rate of male residents was 41.7%.The awareness rate of height,body weight,waist circumference,blood pressure and blood glucose was 9.5%,13.6%,1.9%,50.1% and 12.4%respectively.The crude and adjusted prevalence of obesity,hypertension and diabetes was 11.4% and 8.3%,52.5% and 28.4%, 12.0% and 9.3%.The result of multivariate logistic regression indicated that whether parents had diabetes(OR=0.20,95%CI :0. 04-0.94)and whether participants was diagnosed to be hypertension (OR=2.31,95%CI :1.19-4.49)was the independent fac-tor of diabetes.Conclusion The prevalence of diabetes among rural residents in Fengdu county of Chongqing was high.The risk factors such as smoking,alcohol use and unbalance diet was common.It should be strengthened to conduct the comprehensive ine-trevention for diabetes in rural area.

China ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Ovarian Neoplasms ; epidemiology ; Registries

Objective To investigate the prevalence of smoking, smoking cessation, passive smoking and awareness of the dangers of tobacco in population in Chongqing and provide evidence for developing prevention and control measures.Methods A total of 5 400 residents aged ≥ 18 years were selected from 9 districts/counties in Chongqing through stratified multi-stage cluster sampling and face-to-face interviews were conducted among them.Indicators as current smoking rates, smoking cessation rates and passive smoking rates were calculated by the weight of age proportions from 2010 population census.The analytical method was based on complex sampling design.Results The current smoking rate of the residents aged ≥ 18 years was 27.4％ (male: 53.5％ and female: 1.1％), which was highest in age group 40-50 years (58.4％) for males.The current smoking rate among rural residents was higher than that in urban residents.The prevalence of daily cigarette smoking was 27.5％, which was significantly higher in southeastern Chongqing.The rate of passive smoking was 52.4％.Among daily smokers, the mean number of cigarettes smoked was 17.5 per day (men: 17.6 per day;women: 13.5 per day).The daily smoked cigarette number in males was higher in age group 40-50 years (20.1 per day) and those with junior middle school education level (18.9 per day).The proportion of the current smokers who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day (the rate of heavy smoker) was higher in males than in females and in rural residents than in urban residents.The proportion of heavy smokers was 59.3％, which was highest in age group 40-50 years (66.8％),followed by those with junior middle school educational level (65.2％).The average age of smokers when they stared to smoke was 20.8 years old, which was low in males and rural residents.About 80.2％ of the smokers stared to smoke under 25 years old, and 70.3％ of the smokers stared to smoke between 15 and 25 years old.The overall rate of smoking cessation was 20.1％ and the successful smoking cessation rate was 13.7％.The two rates increased with age, the successful smoking cessation rate was lowest in age group 18-40 years (4.8％).The awareness of the tobacco risk related knowledge seemed poor among the residents, only 19.6％ of the residents were aware that smoking could cause serious diseases (stoke, heart disease and lung cancer).21.9％ of the residents were aware that passive smoking could cause serious diseases (heart disease, lung disease and lung cancer).Conclusion Current prevalence of smoking in males in Chongqing remains at a high level,indicating that the publicity programs on the tobacco risk related knowledge needs to be strengthened and the tobacco control needs more efforts.The tobacco control in Chongqing is still facing serious challenge.

OBJECTIVETo study the effects of extremely low frequency magnetic fields(ELF MF) on the amount and localization of connexin 43(Cx43) gap-junction protein in the Chinese hamster lung(CHL) cells, and to explore the mechanism of ELF MF suppression on gap-junctional intercellular communication(GJIC).

METHODSThe cells were irradiated for 24 h with 50 Hz sinusoidal magnetic field at 0.8 mT without or with 12-O-tetrade-canoylphorbol-3-acetate(TPA), 5 ng/ml for 1 h. The localization of Cx43 proteins were performed by indirect immunofluorescence histochemical analysis and detected by confocal microscopy. The second experiment was conducted to examine the quantity of Cx43 proteins level in nuclei or cytoplasm and detected by Western blotting analysis.

RESULTSThe cells exposed to TPA for 1 h displayed less bright labelled spots in the regions of intercellular junction than the normal cells. Most of Cx43 labelled spots occurred in the cytoplasm and aggregated near the nuclei. At the same time, the amount of Cx43 protein in cytoplasm were increased[(2.03 +/- 0.89) in ELF group, (2.43 +/- 0.82) in TPA group] as compared to normal control(1.04 +/- 0.17) (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONInhibition on GJIC function by ELF MF alone or combined with TPA may be related with the shift of Cx43 from the regions of intercellular junction to the cytoplasm.

Animals ; Cell Communication ; radiation effects ; Connexin 43 ; biosynthesis ; Cricetinae ; Cricetulus ; Cytoplasm ; metabolism ; Electromagnetic Fields ; adverse effects ; Gap Junctions ; radiation effects ; Lung ; metabolism ; radiation effects ; Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate ; pharmacology