Objective To explore the role of halofuginone in immune regulation,observe the effects of halofuginone on maturation of dendritic cells and immune tolerance during homograft heart transplantation of rats,in order to provide new ways and means to treat transplantation tolerance and to explore its possible mechanism.Methods Rat bone marrow derived dendritic cells were isolated and the effects of halofuginone in LPS-treated DCs were investigated by flow cytometry;heart transplantation model of rats were established and the effect of halofuginone stimulated dendritic cells in the immune tolerance by pathological analysis and mixed lymphocyte reaction were observed.Results Flow cytometry results show that the expression of cell surface CD80 CD86,OX62 antigens were not high in control group,their expression increased significantly when stimulated by LPS for 24h,and decreased when stimulated by both Changshan ketone and LPS for 24h,and even lower than their expression levels in blank group,which showed that Changshan ketone has the ability to inhibit the maturation of dendritic cells induced by LPS.In rat heart transplantation model,dendritic cells stimulated with Changshan were injected into recipient rats in vivo,and receptor of rat transplantation rejection decreased significantly,which showed that dendritic cells stimulated with Changshan ketone may be used as a new method for cell therapy in treatment of transplant rejection.Conclusion This study systematically observes that halofuginone can inhibit the maturation of rat bone marrow-derived dendritic cells and lymphocyte proliferation for the first time in vivo and in vitro.

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test is the base of genetic epidemiology. The new methods for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test involve: X chromosome-linked single nucleotide polymorphism Hardy-Weinberg test, inbreeding coefficient(F) test, an incomplete enumeration algorithm for an exact test of Hardy-Weinberg proportions with multiple alleles, and graphical tests for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium based on the ternary plot. It is necessary to conduct Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test in genetic epidemiology studies and adjust the associations as deviation of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium occurs.

Objective:To investigate the protective effect of resveratrol on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced cell injury in human periodontal ligament cells(hPDLCs).Methods:hPDLCs were cultured and identified.The cultured hPDLCs were divided into 5 groups:control group and LPS(10 μg/ml) + RES(0/30,60 and 90 μmol/L respectively) groups.The cell proliferation was detected by MTI assay.The secretion of TNF-α and IL-6 of hPDLCs was detected by ELISA kit.The expression of TLR4/NF-κB mRNA and protein was determined by PCR and Western blot analyses,respectively.Results:The cultured cells were negative for cytokeratin and positive for vimentin staining.Compared with the control group,cell proliferation was decreased,the secretion of TNF-α/IL-6 levels and the expression of TLR4/NF-κB mRNA and protein were increased after treatment with LPS.Whereas,with 30-90 μmol/L resveratrol pretreatment,the proliferation ability of hPDLCs was enhanced(P ＜ 0.05),the secretion levels of TNF-α and IL-6 and the expression of TLR4/NF-κB mRNA and protein were reduced (P ＜ 0.01) in a dose-dependent manner.Conclusion:Resveratrol may attenuate LPSinduced cell injury by inhibiting TLR4/NF-κB pathway in hPDLCs.

To analyze the EBM present situation of the medical staffs and to discuss the measures to raise the ability of EBM so as to promote the performance of EBM.

The idea of evidence-based medicine(EBM) has brought profound changes to clinical medicine.During clinical medicine teaching,a new method should be used that is based on the nature of evidence-based medicine.All of this is required by the trend of the times and objective reality.

This paper insists that the existing students appraising in teacher evaluation mechanism fails to be emphasized and the ignorance of teaching or research function will violate the essence of colleges and universities.The authors also propose that two different evaluation systems with different focuses respectively should be set up,by references and reflections from that of the United States'.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate three therapeutic schemes for sudden deafness with cost-effectiveness analysis for guiding rational use of drugs. METHODS:Using pharmacoeconomic cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate 61 patients with 62ears of sudden deafness treated by Salvia Miltiorrhiza(groups A), Salvia Miltiorrhiza and cerebroprotein hydrolysate(groups B) or cerebroprotein hydrolysate(groups C) . RESULTS: The effective rates of three groups were 73.9%, 75.0% and 80.0% respectively without significant difference among them(P ＞ 0.05) . The average drug costs for one patient in three groups were 617.89 yuan, 2 651.29 yuan and 2 647.99 yuan respectively. The costs for 1% increase of effective rate in three groups were 8.36 yuan, 35.35 yuan and 33.10 yuan respectively. CONCLUSION: Salvia Miltiorrhiza scheme is the most rational one for sudden deafness.

ObjectiveTo get to know the status of health statistics postgraduate teaching and requirements during the study, and provide a basis to improve medical statistics teaching. MethodsPostgraduate students of 2008 grade of Dalian Medical University were selected randomly and filled in the self-designed questionnaire. Results52.6％ of the students considered that medical statistics was more important than other courses. 72.6％ of the students thought that medical statistics was difficult. Up to 30％of the students couldn't master and apply superior statistical analysis technique. ConclusionThe results of the survey offered basis and direction for enhancing the teaching quality and improving teaching methods.