Objective To develop a method for localizing a detecting capsule in the gastrointestinal tract.Methods A three-axis magnetic sensor was sealed in the detecting capsule.Three flat coils were fixed on patients' back.The coils were excited one by one to generate electromagnetic fields.The position and the orientation of the capsule could be determined by telemetering the signals from the magnetic sensor incorporated in the capsule.Results The telemetric localization system worked successfully.A localization model describing the relationship between the magnetic field strength and the position and orientation of the capsule,was correctly established basing on the principle of magnetic dipoles,and neural network algorithm was employed to solve a non-linear equation set.Conclusion The results showed that the localization method is feasible and the precision is higher than existing methods.The localization device can perform consecutive tracking and can be made into a portable type.After putting into practice,the device can also be used in food selection for astronauts by monitoring their gastrointestinal parameters in space.

For developing Digital Image Expert System in rhinoplasty, the accurate and reliable Digital Image Measuring System must be first set up, and the data from the Digital Image Measuring System must be reliable with the data measured by hand. The measuring system mainly consists of a computer with an image processing board, a TV camera and a head fixing device. Ten adults were selected randomly and some indexes of head and face were measured with the measuring system and by hand respectively. The reliability of the measuring system was confirmed by the statistical analysis of data measured. Finally, the results were also discussed.

Objective To study the pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, surgical treatment and preventive measures of esophagogastric-arterial fistula following resection for carcinoma of the esophagus and cardia. Methods The clinical data of 18 patients with esophagogastric-arterial fistula were retrospective analyzed. Results There were 14 patients of esophageal carcinoma and 4 patients of cardiac carcinoma.7 patients had supra-aortic esophagogastric anastomosis(2 near the apex of pleura) and 11 had anastomosis under the aortic arch. Fatal hemorrhage occurred postoperatively from 11 to 93 days. The interval between hemorrhage and death varied from being instant to 18 days.All patients died. Conclusion The surgical treatment provide an opportunity for those patients. Successful management is possible if early diagnosis is made and prompt surgical management is undertaken. Preventive measures of peptic ulcer and esophageal fistula can decrease occurrence of this complication.

The work of research and development of noninvasive monitoring system for human GI (gastrointestinal tract) has been very successful all over the world, and without questions, the system as such will extensively be applied in the future. However, the method for localization of the monitoring capsule in the system is not perfect. This paper reports the status quo of the research process for the capsule localization system, and analyzes their advantages and defects.
Biosensing Techniques ; Capsule Endoscopes ; Capsule Endoscopy ; methods ; trends ; Equipment Design ; Gastrointestinal Tract ; Humans

Objective To study the effect of integrin β1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide(ASODN)on the expression of F-actin in ECV-304 ceils exposed to infrasound,and to explore the pathway of infrasound signal transfer into the cells.Methods integrin β1 oligodeoxynucleotides were embedded in cationic liposome lipofectamine 2000 reagent and transfected into ECV-304 cells.Laser scanning confoeal microscopv was used to observe F-actin's expression when the cells were exposed to 16 Hz infrasound at 130 dB for 2 h.The cells' average fluorescence was examined using spectrofluorimetric quantification after immunofluorescent staining. Results Among the three false exposure groups,most fluorescein-labelled substances in the cells were in a diffuse state.There were few actin filaments,and they were tenuous and short, without direction.The cells' fluorescence intensities were almost the same.In a group exposed to infrasound,F-actin was thick and long with a longitudinal arrangement.Fluorescence intensities were strong.However,less F-actin expression was observed in the ceils of the ASODN group exposed to infrasound compared with the others similarly exposed.Correspondingly.F-actin expression in the ASODN group exposed to infrasound was almost the same as in the other exposed group.Conclusion F-actin expression can be increased in ECV-304 cells by infrasound exposure,but integrin β1 ASODN may partially inhibit its expression.The extraeellular matrix-integrin-cytoskeleton may be one of the transduetion pathways for infrasound signals into the cells.

Objective For providing experimental platform of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD),to establish a mouse model by haplo-identical spleen cell infusion.Methods The donor male mice (Balb/cH-2d) and the recipient (Balb/c C57BL/6) F1 H2-d/b (CB6F1) female mice were randomly divided into four groups:3 experimental groups injected with 3 107,6 107 and 9 107 spleen cells,respectively,while the control group received RPMI 1640 solution.H-2d and H-2b were checked to analyze the chimerism in bone marrow cells.Body mass,figure,cutaneous manifestation and survival of recipient mice were observed and scored every 3 days.Pathologic changes of target organs were observed and scored.Results Injection of 6 107 and 6 107 splenocytes in the recipient mice resulted in a chronic disease with a low level of parental cell engraftment steadily.As compared with 3 107 group,the incidence of cGVHD in 6 107 and 9 107 groups were significantly increased (P ＜0.01).But there was no significant difference between 6 107 and 9 107 groups (P＞0.05).Conclusion A murine model of cGVHD after haplo-identical spleen cell infusion of donor is successfully established by injection of 6 107 and 9 107 spleen cells.

Localization system was designed based on analytic equation of permanent magnetic field to localize the swallowing electrical capsule in the gastrointestinal. Algorithm was presented and experiment was made. Two three-axis magnetism sensors were mounted in the capsule. The non linear equations set of sensor's output and capsule's position and attitude was created according to space position and attitude relationship model. The equations set was resolved with numerical method. Comparison between the calculation value and expected value showed that this method was feasible.
Algorithms ; Biosensing Techniques ; instrumentation ; Capsules ; Electromagnetic Fields ; Electrons ; Gastrointestinal Diseases ; diagnosis ; Gastrointestinal Tract ; Humans

To investigate the security of semen biologically, 15 bull semen samples were collected (of which 5 exhibited clinical signs of Foot-and-mouth disease) and identified by RT-PCR and virus isolation. The results indicated that the semen of the infected bulls were contaminated by Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), but FMDV was not detected in semen samples from those bulls not showing clinical signs of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). This is the first report of the presence of FMDV in bull semen due to natural infection in China. The analysis of the partial sequence of the VP1 gene showed that the virus strain isolated from semen has 97.9% identity with the virus isolated from vesicular liquid of infected bulls showing typical signs of FMD and belonged to the same gene sub-group.