1.Clinical Value of Combined Detection of GGT, Serum Lipids and hs-CRP in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
Journal of Medical Research 2017;46(4):143-145
Objective To investigate the value of combined detection of GGT,blood lipid and hs-CRP in patients with coronary heart disease.Methods Totally 134 patients with coronary heart disease and 38 patients without coronary heart disease were selected after coronary angiography.Coronary heart disease patients were divided into mild stenosis group (group A,n =40),Moderate stenosis group (group B,n =38) and severe stenosis group (group C,n =56) according to Gensini score.The age,sex,GGT,blood lipid and hs-CRP levels were detected in all groups,and t-he statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS 22.0 software.Results The level of GGT,TC,TG,LDL and hs-CRP in CHD group were all higher than those in non CHD group (P < 0.05).The level of HDL was lower than that in the non CHD group (P < 0.05).The level of GGT,TC,TG,LDL,hs-CRP in group B and C were higher than group A (P <0.05).The level of HDL in group B and C were lower than group A(P <0.05).The level of GGT,TC,TG,LDL,hs-CRP in group C were higher than group B (P < 0.05).Logistic regression analysis showed that serum GGT,TG,hs-CRP were independent risk factors for coronary heart disease (P < 0.05),HDL was an independent protective factor for coronary heart disease (P < 0.05).Conclusion The combined detection of GGT,blood lipid and hs-CRP has important value in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease.
2.Effects of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule on CXCL9 and IL-8 in Diabetic Model Rats
Zhongnan LI ; Yuanyuan XIONG ; Li LI ; Zhaohui FANG
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2014;(12):45-47
Objective To investigate the effects of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule on CXCL9 and IL-8 in type 2 diabetic model rats, and discuss the mechanism in TCM intervention in type 2 diabetes. Methods Fifty male SD rats were randomly divided into 5 groups:normal control group, high-dosage group of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule, low-dosage group of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule, pioglitazone group and model group. Normal control group was fed with basal diet, while the other groups were fed with high fat diet. A single intraperitoneal injection of STZ of 35 mg/kg was employed to establish the animal model of diabetes mellitus. When the diabetic rodent model was built, high-dosage group of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule and low-dosage group of Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule were treated with 1.08 g/(kg?d) and 0.54 g/(kg?d) by gavage, pioglitazone group was treated with 10 mg/(kg?d) by gavage, the blank group and the model group were treated with physiological saline 5 mL/(kg?d) by gavage for 8 weeks. CXCL9, IL-8 and blood glucose, and lipid in serum of rats were determined with double antibody sandwich method. Results Expressions of CXCL9 and IL-8 in model group increased significantly, compared with the normal control group (P<0.05, P<0.01). Expressions of CXCL9 and IL-8 in high and low dosage Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule group significantly decreased, the blood glucose and lipid also decreased, compared with model group (P<0.01). Conclusion Danzhi Jiangtang Capsule has inhibitory effects on the high expression of inflammatory factors in diabetes, and can also lower bloodglucose, and regulate blood lipid.
3.Endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor increase skeletal muscle con-tractility and mitochondria biosynthesis in 4-week running rats
Ni QIU ; Weijin FANG ; Cong LI ; Xiaomei LI ; Yan XIONG
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2016;32(7):1259-1265
[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To observe the effect of endogenous nitric oxide synthase ( NOS) inhibitor asymmetric dimeth-ylarginine ( ADMA ) and its signaling pathways on NO levels and skeletal muscle contractility in 4-week running rats. METHODS:The 4 weeks running rat model was established.The twitch tension, tetanic tension and the fatigue test of sole-us muscle induced by electrical stimulation ex vivo were detected.The ATP content, mitochondrial DNA levels and the mR-NA expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γcoactivator-1α(PGC-1α), nuclear respiratory factor (NRF) were measured to reflect the mitochondrial function and biosynthesis in the skeletal muscle.Serum ADMA concentration was detected by high performance liquid chromatography.The endogenous ADMA enzymes PRMT1 and 2 subtypes of ADMA me-tabolism enzyme DDAH, 3 subtypes of NOS protein expression in the skeletal muscle were determined by Western blot.NOS activity and nitric oxide ( NO) content were analyzed by colorimetric method.RESULTS: Compared with normal control group, the twitch tension, tetanic tension and the anti-fatigue capability of soleus muscle in running group were significantly enhanced, ATP content, mitochondrial DNA content and the mRNA expression of PGC-1αand NRF were significantly in-creased (P<0.01).In addition, the protein expression of constitute type NOS (cNOS) and NOS activity were significantly increased (P<0.01), but the increase in NO content was relatively smaller in soleus muscle in exercise group (P<0.05). Moreover, serum ADMA concentration in running group was increased, while the DDAH2 expression in skeletal muscle was decreased.CONCLUSION:Short-term endurance exercise enhances the twitch tension, tetanic tension and fatigue resist-
ance of soleus muscle.The mechanism may be that increased cNOS expression feedbacks to increase ADMA concentration, thus maintaining the increase in NO synthesis at a relatively low level, and resulting in promoting skeletal muscle mitochon-dria biosynthesis and mitochondrial function.
5.Determination of stress leak point pressure in the diagnosis of female genuine stress urinary incontinence
Weibing LI ; Qiang FANG ; Junan YAN ; Bo SONG ; Enqing XIONG
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2005;9(38):161-163
BACKGROUND: Urinary incontinence can be divided into stress, urgent and mixed types, they can not be easily distinguished only basing on clinical experience, which often result in misdiagnose or improper treatment OBJECTIVE: To discuss the value of urodynamical inspection, especially stress leak point pressure (SLPP) determination in the diagnose of female stress urinary incontinence.DESIGN: Retrospective paralleled comparison observation.SETTING: Center of General Urology Department, Southern Hospital,Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA PARTICIPANTS: Totally 120 female patients who received medical treatment in the uropoiesis surgical department of the Southwest hospital due to urinary incontinence between January 1996 and May 2002 were enrolled in this experiment.gle was determined and considered as normal if it was <100° and abnormal if > 100°. Urethral tilt angle is judged as normal if < 45° and abnormal if >45°; Urethrovesical junction (when static state) was judged as normal if not tion: including fulling urinary bladder pressure measurement, static urethral Cystourethrography classification standard: type Ⅰ refers to posterior urethrovesical angle vanished with urethral tilt angle<45° and the biggest urethra closure pressure>20 cmH2O; type Ⅱ: refers to posterior urethrovesical angle vanished with urethral tilt angle>45° and the biggest urethra closure pressure<20 cmH2O; type Ⅲ refers to normal posterior urethrovesical angle with urethral tilt angle<45° and the biggest urethra closure pressure >20 cmH2O. SLPP classification standard: typeⅠ: SLPP >120 cmH2O; type Ⅱ: SLPP of 90- 120 cmH2O; type Ⅲ: SLPP < 60 cmH2O;type Ⅱ/Ⅲ: SLPP of 60 - 90 cmH2O.compared with that of cystourethrographic classification.RESETS: Totally120 patients all remained in the final result analysis.stress urinary incontinence, 64 cases as symptomatic stress urinary incontinence including 28 cases of unstable bladder and 36 cases of low compliclassification: of the 56 genuine stress urinary incontinence, 20 cases were diagnosed as type Ⅰ; 16 cases as type Ⅱ and 10 cases as type Ⅱ/Ⅲ; 10cases as type Ⅲ. Two classification was proved of 100% consistency in type Ⅰ and Ⅲ, and 94.1% and 90.1% in type Ⅱ and type Ⅱ/Ⅲ respectively, difference was not remarkable (P>0.05).CONCLUSION: SLPP determination can be used to make accurate classification of female genuine stress urinary incontinence, possessing important instructive significance for the treatment.
6.A survey on procrastination in medical students and path analysis on its influencing factors
Junduan WU ; Feng XIONG ; Shoucai FANG ; Zhongbao ZUO ; Li YANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2015;24(3):244-246
Objective To understand the situation of procrastination and its influencing factors in medical students.Methods The general procrastination scale (GPS),general self-efficacy scale (GSES),achievement motivation scale(AMS),self-esteem scale (SES),self-rating depression scale (SDS) and self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) were applied to 531 medical students,and the influence factors were analyzed with correlation analyses,hierarchical regression and path analysis of SPSS 16.0 and Amos 5.0.Results (1) The scale score of procrastination was between 31-93 and the average score was 55.54±9.68.96.1% students showed different degree procrastination,with the moderate-severe degree ones accounted for 45.3%.(2)Procrastination was positively correlated to anxiety(r=0.331) and depression(r=0.415),but negatively correlated with self-efficacy(r=-0.247) and selfesteem(r=-0.328).(3)The hierarchical regression revealed that self-efficacy,self-esteem,and depression could significantly predict procrastination,which increased the explained variance 6.1%,6.1% and 6.3% respectively.(4) Path analysis showed that the self-esteem had direct effect on procrastination (path coefficient 0.12);self-efficacy had indirect effect on procrastination through self-esteem (path coefficient 0.21).Depression had direct effect on procrastination (path coefficient 0.34) and indirect effect to the procrastination through the self-esteem (path coefficient 0.50).All the fitting indices reached statistical standards.Conclusion Procrastination was common in medical students and self-efficacy,self-esteem,depression had direct or indirect effect on it.
7.Effects of cold exposure on cardiovascular function and skeletal muscle contraction in rats
Xiaomei LI ; Cheng HUANG ; Yulian HE ; Weijin FANG ; Yan XIONG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2014;16(11):1477-1482
Objective To investigate the effects of cold exposure with different time courses on cardiovascular function and skeletal muscle contraction in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats.Methods The male SD rats were randomly divided into control,12-h cold,24-h cold,and 48-h cold groups.The rats in all cold group were maintained in 4 ℃ environment for indicated time and allowed free access to standard rat chow and water ad libitum.After the animal model was established,the heart,thoracic aorta,soleus,and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) were rapidly isolated from rats under anesthesia and then fixed into the respective organ perfusion system that was connected to physiological recorders and data acquisition system.Lanendorff heart persusion was used to detect some parameters of cardiac function,such as coronary flow (CF),mean left ventricular systolic pressure (mLVSP),mean left ventricular diastolic pressure (mLVDP) and maximum ascending and declining rate of left ventricular pressure (± dp/dt max) ; and then the heart was suffered from 30 min ischemia followed by 60 min reperfusion,the changes of above cardiac function indexes were recorded again.Organ bath method was employed to detect contraction response to potassium chloride (KCl) or phenylephrine (PE) and endothelium-dependent relation responses to acetylcholine (ACh) of aortic rings.The twitch tension,titanic tension,and fatigue test of soleus and EDL were examined by electrical stimulation to reflect contractive function of skeletal muscle.Results The coronary flow (CF) were significantly reduced in 24-h and 48-h cold groups compared to control group [(9.0 ± 1.7) ml/g and (9.8 ± 1.3) ml/g vs (11.6 ± 1.2) ml/g,P < 0.05] ; 48-h cold exposure also showed significantly increased mLVSP (P <0.01) and mLVP (P < 0.05) of rats.After ischemia-reperfusion,the heart re-beat time was shorter in all cold exposure groups (all P < 0.01),mLVP and mLVDP were higher in 24-h and 48-h cold group than control group (all P < 0.01).The contraction of aortic rings responses to 60 mmol/L KCl [(0.63 ±0.13) g and (0.79 ±0.11)g vs (1.28±0.17)g,P <0.01] and 1 μmol/L PE [(0.62 ±0.18)g and (0.68 ±0.13)g vs (1.25 ± 0.18)g,P < 0.01] were decreased while the endothelium-dependent relaxation responses to low concentration ACh (3 × 10-8 ~ 3 × 10-7) were increased in 24-h and 48-h cold groups relative to control group (all P < 0.05).The 48-h cold also reduced titanic tension of SOL and EDL in comparison with control [(4.14 ± 0.62) N/cm2 vs (5.50 ± 0.75) N/cm2,P < 0.05 and (3.00 ± 0.57) N/ cm2 vs (4.70 ± 0.85) N/cm2,P < 0.01].Conclusions 24 ~ 48 h cold exposure could reduce CF but enhance the tolerance of heart from rats to ischemia reperfusion injury and also decrease the contraction of aortic rings response to KCl or PE but increase the sensitive responses to ACh of aortic rings from rats.The 48-h cold could decrease the contraction of skeletal muscle elicited by electrical stimulation.
8.Effects of fasting on skeletal muscle contraction and cardiovascular function in rats
Xiaomei LI ; Yulian HE ; Cheng HUANG ; Weijin FANG ; Yan XIONG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2014;16(10):1303-1308
Objective To investigate the effects of fasting with different time courses on the contraction of skeletal muscle and cardiovascular function in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats.Methods The healthy and male SD rats were randomly divided into (1) control,(2) 12 h fasting,(3) 24 h fasting,and (4) 48 h fasting groups.After animal models of fasting with different time courses were established,the heart,thoracic aorta,soleus,and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) were rapidly isolated from rats under anesthesia and then fixed into the respective organ perfusion system that was connected to physiological recorders and data acquisition system.Langendorff heart perfusion was used to detect some parameters of cardiac function,including left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP),left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP),and maximum ascending and declining rate of left ventricular pressure (± dP/dt max).Then,the heart was suffered from 30 min ischemia followed by 60 min reperfusion,the changes in above cardiac function parameters were recorded again.The contraction response to potassium chloride or phenylephrine and endothelium-dependent relation responses to acetylcholine (ACh) of aortic rings were measured with organ bath.The changes of twitch tension and titanic tension of soleus and EDL were examined to reflect contractive function of skeletal muscle.Results The + dP/dt max was significantly reduced in 24 h and 48 h fasting groups compared to the control (P < 0.01).After ischemia-reperfusion,the heart re-beat time was significantly longer [(24.3 ± 7.0)min vs (14.0 ± 2.9)min,P <0.05],both mLVDP and mLVP were significantly higher in 48 h and 24 h fasting groups than control group (P < 0.05),and those changes did not normalized until re-perfusion 60 min.The 48 h fasting increased significantly endothelium-dependent relaxation of aortic rings response to low concentration acetylcholine (P < 0.05),but did not affect the maximum relaxation of aortic rings response to high concentration acetylcholine and contraction of aortic rings responses to potassium chloride and phenylephrine.The 48 h fasting also enhanced significantly titanic tension of soleus compared to the control [(7.01 ± 1.22) N/cm2 vs (5.5 ± 0.75) N/cm2 for48 h-Fasting vs Control,P <0.05].Conclusions The 24 ~48 h fasting may induce inhibition of cardiac function,while fasting 48 h can increase the sensitivity of aortic rings responses to ACh and contraction function of soleus in healthy and male rats.
9.Study on Nuclear Factor-?B Activation in Skin Lesions of Systemic Lupus Eryt hematosus
Chunhong FANG ; Hong LIANG ; Jianjun LI ; Hongxin XU ; Layuan XIONG
Chinese Journal of Dermatology 1994;0(06):-
Objective To examine whether activation of nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) exists in skin lesions of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE ) and its association with disease activity. Methods The skin lesions were inves tigated histopathologically in patients with SLE, and NF-?B activation was ass essed by immunohistochemical analysis semi quantitatively. Results Expression o f NF-?B was found on skin lesions in 14 of 15 patients with SLE, including 8 s trong positive (), 3 moderate positive (), and 3 mild positive (+). Brown-coloured particles were mainly distributed in keratinocytes, especially in prick le cells and granular layer cells, as well as in mononuclear cells of dermis. Th ere was no correlation between NF-?B activation and disease activity. However, NF-?B was not detected in skin lesions of all patients with non-SLE and heal thy controls. Conclusions NF-?B activation may be associated with the developm ent of skin lesions in patients with SLE,and not with disease activity.
10.Association between genetic polymorphism of CYP3A4, CYP2D6 and response to methadone maintenance treatment
Jianli DUAN ; Rui LUO ; Xingli LI ; Jianzhong HU ; Fang XIONG
Chinese Journal of Infection Control 2017;16(8):760-763
Objective To explore the association between the genetic polymorphism of CYP3A4,CYP2D6 and response to methadone maintenance treatment(MMT)among heroin-dependent patients.Methods Patients undergoing MMT in 6 MMT clinics were randomly selected,information about general socia-demographic characteristics,drug abuse history,and MMT data of patients were collected,genotypes of peripheral blood CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 polymorphic loci were detected.Results A total of 820 patients were enrolled in the study,210 cases were with good response and 610 cases with poor response to MMT.Difference in age between different response groups was statistically significant(P<0.05).Distribution of genotype frequency and allele frequency of CYP3A4 rs2242480 and CYP2D6 rs16947 between good response and poor response groups was not significantly different(both P>0.05).Conclusion The association between CYP3A4 rs2242480,CYP2D6 rs16947 and response to MMT has not yet found in heroin-dependent patients.