To evaluate the role of nitric oxide in local function of endometrium, the pattern of expression of endothelial and inducible nitric oxide synthases in the human endometrium at proliferative and secretory phases and decidua was studied by using immunocytochemistry. Results showed: (1) At the proliferative phase, the eNOS immunostaining was confined to vascular endothelial, whereas the iNOS was not detected in any composition of endometrium. (2) At the secretory phase, surface epithelium and grandular epithelium showed positive staining for both eNOS and iNOS. The stroma remained uniformly negative throughout the menstrual cycle. (3) In the decidua, the expression of both isoforms was increased, while moderate iNOS immunoreactivity was observed in decidualized stromal cells. It was demonstrated that the expression of eNOS and iNOS was elevated at the secretory phase and in decidua, indicating the increased production of NO at these phases. The increasing of NO might take part in implantation through dilating the vessels and relaxing the smooth muscles and in menstration through promoting apoptosis.

To evaluate the role of nitric oxide in the embryo implantation in mice, three experiments were carried out using the mice implantation model. In the experimentⅠand experimentⅡ, NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), the non-specific NOS inhibitor, was administered intraperitoneally at doses of 0.5 mg-5 mg on the day 3 of pregnancy and at dose of 3 mg on different days of pregnancy (day 1-6) . In the experiment Ⅲ, L-aragnine, a donor of NO, was co-administered with L-NAME to evaluate the effect of L-aragnine on L-NAME, and the embryo development was assessed. In all these three experiments, the endometrium was histologically examined. Results showed compared with the control groups intraperitoneal administration of a dose of L-NAME between 1 and 5 mg on the day 3 of pregnancy led to the decrease in the number of implantation sites (P<0.05), and 4 to 5 mg of L-NAME caused inhibition of implantation completely. L-NAME resulted in failure of pregnancy when administrated at 3 mg between day 3 and 5 of pregnancy. The characteristic vascular permeability changes and decidualization in the endometrium were significantly attenuated and embryo growth was retarded. The L-NAME-mediated effects were significantly reversed when L-aragnine was co-administered with L-NAME. This study demonstrated that NO promoted the implantation in mice through regulating the permeability and decidulization of endometrium and the development of embryo.

BACKGROUND: Tissue engineering has a promising prospect in corneal transplantation. Scaffolds are always restricting the development of tissue-engineered cornea. OBJECTIVE: To analyze application of different seed cells and scaffolds, and to summarize the progress of tissue-engineered cornea in recent years.METHODS: First author searched literature from CNKI (2000/2010-10) and PubMed database (2000/2010-10). The key words are tissue engineering, corneal transplantation in Chinese or English. A total of 223 literatures were seized by computers, according to the inclusion criteria, papers concerning the advance, application and reconstruction of tissue-engineered cornea were analyzed. Finally, 33 papers were included for further analysis. The present study was to analyze the seed cells, scaffolds, organ building and clinical applications of tissue-engineered cornea and investigate the development direction in the future. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The results show that seed cells and scaffolds are the focus of the studies now. Corneal transplantation has a high success rate in organ transplantation since the immune privilege of eye and avascular cornea, and it will be able to be a tissue engineering organ that can be largely built, easy to transplant. Reconstruction of cornea has reached first base, but every kind of scaffold has certain drawbacks, so the next goal is to find an ideal scaffold material.

MicroRNAs are a class of small (-22nt) non-coding RNAs that bind to the 3' untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of their target mRNAs in a complementary or partially complementary manner via the seed sequence in their 5'-region to regulate biological effect. MicroRNAs also expressin malignant tumors and have close relations with occurrence, development and other biological characteristics of tumor. The effect of radiotherapy and the prognosis of cancer patients are limited and influenced by radioresistant all the time. In recent years, the application of microRNAs to improve the radiation sensitivity of tumor cells is a new field in tumor biotherapy. This paper mainly reviews the identification of related microRNAs participating in and regulating the formation of radiosensitivity/radioresistent, and the research progress of their possible mechanisms.
Humans ; MicroRNAs ; metabolism ; therapeutic use ; Neoplasms ; metabolism ; radiotherapy ; Prognosis ; RNA, Messenger ; metabolism ; Radiation Tolerance

The incidence of invasive candida infection in critically ill patients is rising year by year. It's clinical manifestation lacks specificity which is easy to result in missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis.Tradi-tional diagnosis methods need very long time and have low positive rate,which are easy to delay treatment,so early diagnosis is particularly important.1 ,3-β-D-glucan,mannan and antibodies,anti-enolase antibodies,can-dida score and colonization index may be helpful to make early diagnosis.

Purpose: To observe the clinical therapeutic effect in the treatment of enuresis by ginger-partitioned moxibustion plus cupping therapy. Methods: Ginger-par -titioned moxibustion was applied on Guanyuan (CV 4)and bilateral Zusanli (ST 36) and cupping therapy was applied on Shenque (CV 8) in the treatment of 82 cases of enuresis, in comparison with 76 cases treated by Chinese herbal medicine. Results: The effective rate was 84.1% in the treatment by ginger-partitioned moxibustion plus cupping therapy and was 64.5% in the treatment by Chinese herbal medicine. Conclusion: Ginger-partitio -ned moxibustion plus cupping therapy was better than Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of enuresis (P ＜0.05).

In the treatment of 80 cases of the patients with deficient and cold pattern in the spleen and stomach by external application of herbal paste on the acupoints, the results showed remarkable effect in 52 cases, improvement in 24 cases, failure in 4 cases and the total effective rate in 95.0%. Remarkable therapeutic effects were achieved in three different diseases of same pattern. External application of herbal paste on the acupoints is definitely effective for stomachache in deficient and cold pattern of the spleen and stomach.

Background and purpose:Fallopian tube carcinosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor that is prone to metastasis and recurrence. Patients with the malignancy often have poor prognosis. This paper retrospectively analyzed the clinical manifestation, pathology, treatment and prognosis of fallopian tube carcinosarcoma.Methods:The clinical manifestations, pathological features, treatment and survival time of 7 cases of fallopian tube carcinosarcoma were retrospectively analyzed.Results:The most common symptoms of 7 cases of fallopian tube carcinosarcoma were irregular vaginal bleeding (4/7, 57.1%). Among 7 cases, one case was stageⅠa, 1 stageⅡa, 1 stageⅡb, 1 stageⅢb, and 3 stageⅢc. Four cases (57.1%) were heterologous and found to have cartilage components whereas 3 cases (42.9%) were homologous. Seven cases were performed with tumor volume reduction surgery, and 6 cases with chemotherapy, while no one received radiotherapy. Five patients survived and 2 were dead. The survival time of 3 patients was more than 5 years. The longest survival time to the end of the follow-up was 114 months.Conclusion:The pathological examination is the diagnostic means of fallopian tube carcinosarcoma. The prognosis of the patients with the pathological characteristics of the homologous is better than that of the heterologous. Satisfactory reduction of tumor, postoperative chemotherapy with adequate TP regimen, combined with systemic chemotherapy and intraperitoneal chemotherapy may be an effective treatment for fallopian tube carcinosarcoma.

Experimental membranous glomerulonephritis(MGN) in Japanese white rabbits was induced by administration of C-BSA according to Border's method. The results showed that the lipid peroxides(LPO) content in plasma and renal cortex were significantly increased compared with that in the controls. On the other hand, the activities of superoxide dismutase(SOD) and glutathione peroxidase(GSH-px) in whole blood and renal cortex were significantly reduced compared with that in the controls. The results suggested that experimental MGN existed a mechanism of cellular injury manifested as lipid peroxidation in biomembrane, and such injury might be related to toxic effects of reactive oxygen on biomembrane. Tetramethylpyrazine was used to treat experimental MON. The results showed that the drug might have reduced the amount of proteinuria and the extent of lipid peroxidative injury. At the same time, the drug might haod raised the activities of SOD and GSH-px, and improved the lesion ot some extent. It is suggested that tetramethylpyrazine had the effect of anti-lipid peroxidative injury.

Myocardial hypertrophy is an independent risk factor for cardiac events. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK), including extracellular signal-regulated kinases, C-jun N-terminal kinases and P38-MAPK, are the common intracellular pathway of transducing hypertrophic signs. All three MAPK subfamilies play an important role in development of myocardial hypertrophy.