Hypoxia-inducible factor(HIF) plays a key role in the adaptation of tumour cells under hypoxic circumstance,there are some advances in the literatures regarding HIF as an important target for anticancer agents and gene therapy.In this review,the molecular mechanism and clinical significance of compounds targeting on hypoxia- inducing factor was summarized.

Objective To investigate the expression changes of stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) in vascular smooth muscle cells in balloon injury of carotid artery in rat in order to explore the proliferation mechanism of vascular smooth muscle cells. Methods A rat model of vascular restenosis induced by injury to the carotid arteries due to balloon dilatation was reproduced in present study. A total of 18 SD rats were randomly divided into 3 groups (6 each): control group, 7-day group and 14-day group after balloon injury to the carotid artery. The expression of STIM1 mRNA in vascular smooth muscle cells was assayed with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and the STIM1 protein was assessed by immunohistochemistry. The histopathology of the arteries was examined after by HE staining. Results Intima area/media area ratio (IA/MA) was significantly increased in 7-day group after balloon injury than in control group (P

Animals ; Cyanides ; toxicity ; Mice ; Random Allocation ; Toxicity Tests, Chronic

Objective:To study the distribution of flurbiprofen axetil ( FA) microemulsion in rats and evaluate the targeting prop-erty to traumatic inflammation tissue. Methods:Traumatic injury model rats were established by hip surgery on the rat right thigh mus-cle and randomly divided into 2 groups:microemulsion group and solution group. Serums and tissues of rats were collected at 15, 30, 60, 120 and 240min after administration (iv. 5 mg·kg-1). A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV detection was developed to study the concentration of flurbiprofen in biological samples. Results: The elimination of flurbiprofen axetil microe-mulsion from blood and tissues was slower than flurbiprofen solution. At each 5 time points, drug concentrations of microemulsion group in injury muscle were higher than in normal muscle (P<0. 05), while solution group had no significant difference(P>0. 05). Micro-emulsion group injury muscle Te(targeting efficiency) =12. 21%, and the solution group Te =3. 97%. The Re (relative uptake rate) of injury muscle was 4. 15. Conclusion:The flurbiprofen axetil microemulsion has the targeting property to traumatic injury tissues.

Objective To investigate the effects of B-type natriuretic peptides (BNP) on expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1(MCP-1) in rat peritoneal macrophages and to identify the inflammation-mediated effects of BNP in macrophages. Methods Peritoneal macrophages of primary culture were treated with BNP, BNP+HS-142-1, or BNP+TNF-?+HS-142-1. The protein expression of MCP-1 was measured by Western blot. Results BNP enhanced the MCP-1 protein expression in macrophages, and this effect could be abrogated by HS-142-1. In addition, BNP could inhibit TNF-? induced MCP-1 expression. Conclusion BNP can induce the MCP-1 protein expression in macrophages, suggesting BNP has a pro-inflammatory effect. However, BNP also can inhibit TNF-? induced MCP-1. These findings suggest that the effect of inflammation-mediated by BNP is biphasic though the mechanism is still unclear.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea ; etiology ; surgery ; Child ; Endoscopy ; adverse effects ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures ; adverse effects ; Paranasal Sinuses ; surgery ; Postoperative Complications ; surgery ; Young Adult

Objective To evaluate the precision of BREEZE~(TM) glucose monitor and correlation of glucose measurements between fingertip capillary whole blood glucose(CBG)using BREEZE~(TM) glucose monitor and venous plasma glucose(VPG)using autoanalyzer.Methods All samples of venous plasma and fingertip blood from 188 diabetes or non-diabetes patients were detected for glucose level at fasting,30,60 and 120 min postprandial.BREEZE~(TM) glucose monitor and autoanalyzer measured CBG and VPG respectively.Intra-and inter- coefficients of variations were determined using 10 BREEZE~(TM) glucose monitors with normal,slight high and high glucose levels for the three lots of strips.Results The correlation coefficients between CBG and VPG were all higher than 0.950 at fasting and different postprandial time.98.94% of all measurements were in the A zone when using error-grid analysis.The relevant differences between CBG and VPG were less than 5% at different blood glucose concentrations.The intra-and inter-coefficients of variations of blood glucose values at different blood glucose concentrations using different lots of strips were within 5%.Conclusion BREEZE~(TM) glucose monitor provides high accurate and precise glucose readings on fasting and different postprandial time points over a variety of blood glucose concentrations.

Resident standardization training is an important means of clinical physician training in our country. Critical care medicine has important status in the training process. It is the important link to ensure the quality of resident standardization training. Residents should grasp the identification and early detection of critical ill patients. Residents should also get the ability of general basic management for critical condition and the doctor-patient communication ability. In practice, we have explored the training mode of standardized training of resident doctors in critical care medicine by developing detailed training outline, a variety of teaching methods and emphasizing the cultivation of clinical work ability.

To establish a LC-MS/MS method to determine the concentrations of liquiritin, glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhetinic acid, amygdalin, amygdalin prunasin, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and methylephedrine of Maxing Shigan decoction in rat plasma, and study the differences on their pharmacokinetic process in normal rats and RSV pneumonia model rats. After normal rats and RSV pneumonia model rats were orally administered with Maxing Shigan decoction, the blood was collected from retinal vein plexus of different time points. Specifically, tetrahydropalmatine was taken as internal standard for determining ephedrine, while chloramphenicol was taken as internal standard for determining other components. After plasma samples were pre-treated as the above, the supernatant was dried with nitrogen blowing concentrator and then redissolved with methylalcohol. The chromatography was eluted with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid solution in a gradient manner. ESI sources were adopted to scan ingredients in ephedra in a positive ion scanning mode and other ingredientsin a negative ion scanning mode. The multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) method was developed the plasma concentration of each active component. The pharmacokinetic parameters of each group were calculated by using Win-Nonlin 4.1 software and put into the statistical analysis. The result showed the plasma concentration of the eight active ingredients, i.e., liquiritin, glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhetinic acid, amygdalin, amygdalin prunasin, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and methylephedrine within the ranges of 1.04-1040, 1.04-1040, 0.89-445, 1.05-4200, 1.25-2490, 0.3-480, 0.3-480, 0.3-480 microg x L(-1), with a good linearity and satisfactory precision, recovery and stability in the above ingredients. After modeling, except for glycyrrhetinic acid whose pharmacokinetic parameters were lacked due to the data missing, all of the rest components showed significant higher Cmax, AUC(0-1) and lower clearance rate (CL) than that of the normal group, indicating the increase in absorption in rats in the pathological state by reducing the clearance rate. The method is accurate and sensitive and so can be used to determine the plasma concentrations of the eight active ingredients in Maxing Shigan decoction. RSV pneumonia-infected rats absorbed more ingredients in Maxing Shigan decoction.
Animals ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Disease Models, Animal ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacokinetics ; Male ; Pneumonia, Viral ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Colitis, Ulcerative ; complications ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Psoriasis ; complications ; drug therapy ; Pyoderma Gangrenosum ; drug therapy ; etiology