Objective To observe the efficacy of Shenling Baizhu powder combined with Erchentang in treatment of senile pneumonia, and its influence on serum procalcitonin. Methods With randomized controlled trial, 100 patients were randomly divided into two groups. The control group (49 cases) was treated by routine western medicine, and the treatment group (51 cases) was treated by Shenling Baizhu powder combined with Erchentang additionally. The treatment course was 1 week, and the therapeutic effect was observed after two courses. The improvement time of clinical symptoms and signs, and the change of serum procalcitonin were detected. Results Clinical efficacy of the two groups had no significant difference (P>0.05). The improvement time of signs and symptoms in treatment group was better than that in control group (P<0.05). The serum procalcitonin improved in treatment group was better than that in control group (P<0.05). Conclusion Shenling Baizhu powder combined with Erchentang has obvious anti-infection effect, and can improve symptoms and signs of senile pneumonia rapidly.

Objective To investigate the effect of blastocyst quality on the strategy of single blastocyst transfer in frozen-thawed cycles. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed in Reproductive Medicine Center, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on clinical data of single frozen-thawed blastocyst transfer cycles from January 2008 to December 2013. All cycles were divided into four groups (AA, AB/BA, BB, BC/CB) according to the blastocyst score, then the clinical outcomes were compared between groups. And on this basis, the clinical outcomes were further explored when the group of outcomes with single blastocyst transfer wasn′t ideal, which would diverted to transfer two blastocyst. Results In single frozen blastocyst transfer cycles, the clinical pregnancy rate of each group with the blastocyst scored AA, AB/BA, BB, BC/CB were 61.4%(470/765), 51.2%(330/645), 40.5%(407/1 005), 22.9%(60/262), live births rate in each group were 52.2%(399/765), 41.2%(266/645), 30.4%(306/1 005), 13.7%(36/262), and the abortion rate were 13.6%(64/470), 16.7%(55/330), 21.4%(87/407), 35.0%(21/60), separately. This showed that the clinical pregnancy rate and live births rate decreased significantly with the decline of blastocyst quality (P<0.01), but the abortion rate showed significant upward trend (P<0.01). When single blastocyst scored≥BB grade transferred, an acceptable clinical pregnancy rate (>40%) and live births rate (>30%) could be obtained, however, the clinical pregnancy rate of 22.9% and live births rate of 13.7%could only be acquired when blastocyst scored BC/CB only transferred one embryo, which significant lower than those of each group scored ≥BB grade (P<0.01). So, after that, the blastocyst scored BC/CB were further divided into two groups (single blastocyst transferred versus two blastocyst transferred) to investigate, then the result showed that the clinical pregnancy rate [22.9%versus 38.5%(67/174), P<0.01] and live births rate [13.7%versus 30.5%(16/67), P<0.01] were significantly increased in the group of two blastocyst transferred compared with the group of one blastocyst transferred, and the abortion rate was also significantly decreased from 35.0%to 17.9%(12/67;P<0.05). So when two blastocyst scored BC/CB were transferred, the clinical outcomes were similar to the group of one blastocyst scored BB transferred (P>0.05). Conclusions Of single blastocyst transfer in frozen-thawed cycles, the clinical pregnancy rate and liver births rate showed significant upward trend, but the abortion rate showed significant downward trend, with the decline of blastocyst quality. When the blastocyst scored ≥BB grade, the single blastocyst transfer could be considered to be performed.

Aim To study the effect of emodin in Po-lygonum multiflorum on the expression of CYP450 isoenzymes in L02 hepatocytes and explore its mecha-nism of cytotoxicity. Methods L02 cells were treated with different concentrations of emodin. Cell viability was examined by MTS assay kit, and cell membrane injury was examined by detecting the release rate of lactate dehydrogenase( LDH) . The expression of cyto-chrome P450 mRNA was detected by real time PCR. Results The result of MTS assay showed that L02 cells viability was significantly reduced following expo-sure to emodin in a concentration and time dependent manner. The LDH release rate of L02 cells significant-ly increased after exposure to emodin for 48 h com-pared with the control group. On the mRNA level, compared with the control group,emodin had inductive effects on mRNA of each CYP450 enzyme, while had significant inductive effects on mRNA of CYP1 A1 and CYP1 B1 in a concentration and time dependent man-ner. Conclusion Emodin in Polygonum multiflorum may generate significant liver injury in L02 cells and has inductive effects on CYP450 enzyme activity.

The aim of this study was to report a successful pregnancy using completely immotile frozen-thawed spermatozoa selected by laser. A single laser shot was used to detect the presence of viable immotile spermatozoa in fresh and frozen-thawed testicular spermatozoa. The viability rate was 55.8% after the laser detection, and cryopreservation was carried out immediately. The thawing test was performed on the day of oocyte pick-up, and no motile sperm were observed after extending the culture for another 4 hours, while a survival rate of 39.8% was detected using the laser. In all, five mature oocytes were injected, resulting in four cases of normal fertilization (80%) on day 1. Further, two high-quality day 3 embryos were transferred, which resulted in a singleton pregnancy. Our study demonstrates that completely immotile spermatozoa are worth cryopreserving for further intracytoplasmic sperm injection, which provides a new insight into male fertility preservation in cases of completely immotile spermatozoa.
Cryopreservation ; Embryonic Structures ; Fertility Preservation ; Fertilization ; Humans ; Male ; Oocytes ; Pregnancy* ; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic ; Spermatozoa* ; Survival Rate

Objective : To investigate the role of Epac1 / CaMK Ⅱ signaling pathway in myocardial ischemia reper- fusion injury (MIRI) in mice，and to investigate the protective effect of vitexin ( VT) on acute MIRI． Methods: C57 / BL mice were randomly divided into 5 groups : Sham surgery group ( Sham) ，ischemia reperfusion group ( I / R) ，and ischemia reperfusion + vitexin group ( function 3，6，12 mg / kg groups) ．Ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD coronary artery) in mice resulted in ischemia of part of the heart tissue for 30min and reperfusion of the blood for 120min．Mouse myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury ( MIRI) model was established．In the sham operation group，only the LAD was not ligated．Serum LDH levels of mice were detected．Hema- toxylin-eosin (H＆E) staining was performed on the left ventricular myocardium of mice to observe the histopatho- logical changes．The expression level of Epac1 in myocardial tissue was observed by immunohistochemistry．The protein expressions of Epac1，Rap1，CaMK Ⅱ and ERK / p-ERK were determined by Western Blot. Results : Compared with Sham group，serum LDH level of mice in I / R group was significantly increased，protein expressions of Epac1， Rap1 and CaMK Ⅱ in myocardial tissue were significantly up-regulated，and ERK1 /2 phosphorylation level was decreased．Compared with I / R group，vitexin (3，6，12 mg / kg) pretreatment group decreased serum LDH level，inhib- ited Epac1，Rap1 and CaMK Ⅱ protein expression in mouse myocardial tissue，and promoted ERK1 /2 phosphoryla- tion(P＜0. 05 or P＜0. 01) ．The histopathological results showed that the myocardial fibers in the I / R group were disordered and broken，with increased gaps and obvious inflammatory cell infiltration．In the vitexin treatment group，the myocardial fibers were arranged more neatly and inflammatory cells were infiltrated less. Conclusion Vitexin may regulate Epac1 / CaMK Ⅱ signaling pathway，down-regulate CaMK Ⅱ protein expression，increase ERK phosphorylation，and effectively reduce MIRI.