Objective: To compare the in uence of various processing methods on AFB1 content in TCM cut crude drug. Methods: ELISA was used to determine the AFB1 content. Results: Heating processing method can decrease the content of AFB1 in TCM cut crude drug. However, it cannot make AFB1 content meet the scope of security when the AFB1 content in TCM cut crude drug was too high. Various heating processing methods had di erent e ect on the content of AFB1. Conclusion: Heating processing method had certain in uence on the content of AFB1. It was necessary to establish limitation standard of the AFB1 content. The AFB1 content limit in the less oil-bearing fruit TCM cut crude drug shouldn,t be higher than 5?g/kg and in the more oil-bearing seed TCM cut crude drug it shouldn't be higher than 20?g/kg. This was the same limit as the national food standards

Objective To investigate ultrahistopathological features of symmetrical acrokeratoderma.Methods Biopsy specimens were obtained from skin lesions and perilesional normalappearing skin of 6 patients with symmetrical acrokeratoderma,as well as from normal skin of 3 healthy volunteers.Then,these skin specimens were subjected to transmission electron microscopy (TEM).Results TEM showed obviously thickened stratum corneum,irregular morphology of keratinocytes and discontinuous cornified envelope.Aggregation and abnormal arrangement of keratin filaments occurred in all epidermal layers.Many vacuoles of different sizes were observed in the transitional zone between the stratum corneum and stratum granulosum.Hypogranulosis,abnormal shape and different sizes of keratohyalin granules,and reduction of membrane-coating granules were found in the stratum granulosum.Increased melanocytes with a large number of stage Ⅳ melanosomes in the cytoplasm were observed in the basal layers.Moreover,there was infiltration of a few lymphocytes in the superficial dermis.Perilesional normal-appearing skin tissues showed similar but milder ultrastructural changes.Conclusion Abnormal metabolism of keratins,epidermal differentiation complex proteins and lipids may exist in skin lesions of symmetrical acrokeratoderma,which may contribute to epidermal thickening and impairment of skin barrier function.