Objective To investigate continuous infusion and inermittent injection of cisatra-curium for deep neuromuscular blockade during laparoscopic surgery and to compare the effectiveness and safety.Methods Sixty ASA Ⅰ or Ⅱ patients,aged from 18 to 65,undergoing selective laparo-scopic gastrointestinal surgery with general anesthesia were randomly divided into 2 groups:group A (n =30)received cisatracurium 0.1 5 mg/kg for intubation,and then continuous infusion of cisatra-curium with micropump at an original rate of 0.2 mg·kg-1 ·h-1 when post tetanic count (PTC)≥3;group B(n =30)was given cisatracurium 0.1 5 mg/kg for intubation,and then intermittent infusion of cisatracurium of 0.05 mg/kg when PTC≥ 3.The cisatracurium consumption,duration of neuro-muscular blocking agent used in group A from induction to the end of infusion and in group B from in-duction to the last infusion,satisfaction of neuromuscular blockade (grade 0-10)of the surgeons,the time of T1 recovered to 25%,75%,TOFr recovered to 0.7,0.9,fulfillment of tongue depressor test,the incidence of hyoxemia after extubation,pneumonia,atelectasis were recorded.Results In comparison with group B,the cisatracurium consumption in group A was significantly more (P <0.05),and the satisfaction of the surgeons was significantly higher at the beginning,1 h,2 h of the operation (P <0.05).The satisfaction of the surgeons respectively showing no significant differences between the two groups at the end of the operation.Recovery index (T1 from 25% to 75%),time of TOFr recovery to 0.7,0.9 in group A was increased,but not statistically.Two patients (7.1%)in group A had hyoxemia after extubation while 1 (4.2%)in group B,the incidence rate was not signifi-cant;3 patients (10.7%)in group A was unable to perform sustained tongue depressor test while 4 (1 6.7%)in group B,the incidence was not significant;all of the patients did not suffer pneumonia and atelectasis.Conclusion Continuous infusion cisatracurium during laparoscopic procedures for deep neuromuscular blockade is effective and safe.The dose of cisatracurium is bigger,and muscular relax-ation would be deeper compared to intermittent infusion.Continuous infusion may prolong the working time of muscle relaxant,but have on influence on the residual effect of muscle relaxant.

Objective To explore the change of serum Apelin level and its relationship with insulin resistance (IR) in infertility patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Methods Ninety-eight infertility patients with PCOS (PCOS group) and 72 infertility patients without PCOS (non-PCOS group) visiting our hospital for the first time from January 2011 to June 2012 were selected. The BMI , serum Apelin level (detected by ELISA), fasting blood glucose (FPG, detected by glucose oxidase method), fasting insulin (Fins, detected by chemiluminescence), and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) of the two groups were detected. Results The serum Apelin level and HOMA-IR in PCOS patients were higher than those in non-PCOS patients (3.28 ± 1.24 vs. 1.94 ± 0.78, P < 0.05; 3.84 ± 1.23 vs. 2.14 ± 0.77,P < 0.05). Pearson correlation analysis showed that serum Apelin level was positively correlated with HOMA-IR in PCOS patients (r=0.65, P<0.01). Conclusions The serum Apelin level in infertility patients with PCOS increased evidently, and was positively correlated with HOMA-IR; which indicated that Apelin may involve in the development of IR in infertility patients with PCOS.

Alzheimer''s disease (AD) has brought to us huge medical and economic burdens, and so discovery of its therapeutic drugs is of great significance.In this paper, we utilized knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models to explore drug repurposing for AD on the publicly available drug repurposing knowledge graph (DRKG).Specifically, we applied four KGE models, namely TransE, DistMult, ComplEx, and RotatE, to learn the embedding vectors of entities and relations on DRKG.By using three classical knowledge graph evaluation metrics, we then evaluated and compared the performance of these models as well as the quality of the learned embedded vectors.Based on our results, we selected the RotatE model for link prediction and identified 16 drugs that might be repurposed for the treatment of AD.Previous studies have confirmed the potential therapeutic effects of 12 drugs against AD, i.e., glutathione, haloperidol, capsaicin, quercetin, estradiol, glucose, disulfire, adenosine, paroxetine, paclitaxel, glybride and amitriptyline.Our study demonstrates that drug repurposing based on KGE may provide new ideas and methods for AD drug discovery.Moreover, the RotatE model effectively integrates multi-source information of DRKG, enabling promising AD drug repurposing.The source code of this paper is available at https://github.com/LuYF-Lemon-love/AD-KGE.