By summarizing PUBMED documents of the recent 10 years,which focus on the overseas acupuncture treatment of cancer,the author analyzed the overseas status of acupuncture treatment on cancer,searched the priorities and problems,and advocated advices for domestic researches of clinical and fundamental acupuncture treatment on cancer.

This article reviewed development and current situation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM) in developed countries such as european countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia and the United States of recent years. The items included in this study were the situation of medical treatment, construction of medical institutions and associations, medical cost and the insurance. The article also made a suggestion on the development of TCM in China in order to ensure her leading role in the field of traditional medicine in the world.

Objective To invosfigate the state of the nursin workforce and supply the evidences for nursing workforce optimization.Methods With questionnaires to survey 25 hospitals in Wuhan,stratified sampling and convenience sampling were used.Results Naming workforce allocation was shortage in Wuhan at present,the age,professional rifle and education background structurewas reasonable. Conclusions We should innovate the mind.pay more attention to nursing,enforce the management on nurse's career planning,provide educational training for nurses continuously,make good plan on nurs human resource,avoid nursing resource waste in order to keep on the hospital's development continually,healthily and harmoniously.

This article is basing on the literatures of Pubmed database, collecting and analyzing recent-year abroad researches that related on Chinese anti-neoplasms herbs and botanicals.

OBJECTIVETo study the effects of astaxanthin on renal fibrosis and apoptosis induced by partial unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) in rats.

METHODSNinety-six male adult SD rats were randomized into 6 equal groups, namely the blank control group, sham-operated group, UUO group, and astaxanthin group at high, medium, and low doses. Left ureteral ligation was performed in UUO and astaxanthin groups, and two days before the operation, the rats in astaxanthin groups were lavaged with 25, 50, or 100 mg/kg astaxanthin daily for 14 days, while the same volume of saline was given to rats in UUO group and sham-operated group. Renal pathological in the rats was observed with HE staining, and the expression levels of TGF-β1, SGK1, and CTGF in the left kidney were detected immunohistochemically; the expression level of Bcl-2 and Bax were detected using Bcl-2 and Bax detection kits.

RESULTSCompared to UUO group, high- and medium-dose astaxanthin groups showed obviously ameliorated renal pathologies and reduced expressions of TGF-β1, SGK1, and CTGF in the left kidney with lessened renal cell apoptosis.

CONCLUSIONAstaxanthin can reduce UUO-induced renal fibrosis and renal cell apoptosis, demonstrating the renoprotective effect of astaxanthin against renal fibrosis.

Animals ; Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Connective Tissue Growth Factor ; metabolism ; Fibrosis ; Immediate-Early Proteins ; metabolism ; Kidney ; drug effects ; metabolism ; pathology ; Kidney Diseases ; metabolism ; pathology ; Male ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases ; metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 ; metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Transforming Growth Factor beta1 ; metabolism ; Ureteral Obstruction ; metabolism ; pathology ; Xanthophylls ; pharmacology ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein ; metabolism