Objective To observe the effect of selenium on the ACTH positive cells in the pars distalis of pituitary of rat with colon mucosa cancer induced by azoxymethane(AOM).Methods Twenty 3 weeks old Sprague Dawley male rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: the normal control group;the experimental control group;the selenium before AOM induced colon mucosa cancer group;the selenium after AOM induced colon mucosa cancer group.To induce rat colon mucosa cancer,3 weeks old SD male rats received(i.p.) injections of AOM at a dose of 15mg/kg once a week for two weeks.Selenium(Na_2SeO_3,4mg/L) began to be provided in the drinking water before and after AOM administration,and lasted for the whole experiment period.The rat pituitary tissues were excised from the 34 weeks old rats.The morphological changes of the ACTH positive cells in the pars distalis of pituitary were observed using immunohistochemical methods,and then the results were analyzed by image analysis system.Results Aberrant crypt foci(ACF) and aberrant crypt(AC) were showed in the colon mucosa of rats that received two weekly i.p.injections of AOM by light microscopy with methylene blue staining.The ACTH positive cells in the experimental group rat displayed a significant increase compared with those in the normal control group rat(P

AIM: To explore the pathogenic mechanism of high altitude pulmonary edema(HAPE). METHODS: Haemodynamic changes and effects of 100 percent oxygen breathing were measured by Swan-Ganz thermistor catheters, high altitude healthy volunteers were served as controls. RESULTS: The important features of haemodynamic changes in HAPE: (1)Pulmonary arterial pressure was raised; (2)Pulmonary arterial resistance and cardiac output were raised; (3)Pulmonary artery wedge pressures and right atrial pressure were normal; (4)Pulmonary arterial pressure and resistance were induced by oxygen breathing. CONCLUSIONS: The normal pulmonary artery wedge pressures with a high cardiac output indicated that HAPE was recognized as a form of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. The pulmonary hypertension may play an important role in the development of HAPE.

Placido disk is widely used in corneal topography. In order to solve the problem that the convex of the corneal can not be precisely located in the Placido corneal topography system, an algorithm of corneal reconstruction based on the Placido disk was introduced. The key of this method is the calculation of radius of corneal convex by using the innermost ring data. Based on image analysis result, we precisely calculated the radius of corneal convex iteratively by connecting the convex and the first ring using a circle, and then calculated the location of all the reflect point and its power. At last we created the pseudo color map of the human corneal. The corneal was simulated by using standard steel sphere, and the calculating errors of the result were all below 0.25D. It showed that the algorithm used in this work could get relatively accurate powers and would have fair stability.
Algorithms ; Cornea ; pathology ; Corneal Topography ; methods ; standards ; Corneal Wavefront Aberration ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted