Objective To explore resting state network in patients with hepatic cirrhosis using functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI).Methods 14 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and 14 healthy volunteers were included in this study.Modified Stroop task in Chinese character was used as target stimulus,block-design fMRI was used to acquire resource data.Group analysis(control epoch minus task epoch) was performed for both tasks in both groups.Results Comparing with controls,the patients with hepatic cirrhosis had abnormal deactivation mode.The absence of posterior cingulate cortex(PCC) and precuneus was present when performing incongruous word-reading task,deactivation of PCC,precuneus,and ventral medial prefrontal cortex were increased when performing incongruous color-naming task.Conclusion Cirrhosis patients have abnormal deactivation mode,the absence of PCC and precuneus is a sensitive not specific biomarker in detecting the brain changes of the patients with hepatic cirrhosis.

The effects of E-cadherin-transfected neural stem cells (NSCs) transplantation for spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats were investigated. Sixty SD rats were randomly divided into model control group, NSCs group, empty plasmid group and E-cadherin overexpression group (n=15 each). The animal SCI model was established by using the modified Allen's method. NSCs were cultured. Rats in NSCs group were subjected to NSCs transplantation. E-cadherin gene eucaryotic expression vector and pcDNA3.1-E-cadherin were respectively transfected into cultured NSCs, serving as empty plasmid group and E-cadherin overexpression group respectively. At 7th day after transplantation, neurological function of all rats was assessed by Tarlov score. After rats were sacrificed in each group, the number of BrdU and Nestin positive cells was counted by immunohistochemistry. Immumofluorescence method was used to detect the expression of neurofilament protein (NF) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). As compared with model control group, the Tarlov score and the number of of BrdU and Nestin positive cells, and the expression of NF and GFAP in NSCs group, empty plasmid group, and E-cadherin overexpression group were increased significantly (P<0.05), and those in the E-cadherin overexpression group were increased more significantly than the other transplantation groups (P<0.05). It was suggested that E-cadherin could be conductive to nerve regeneration and repair probably by promoting the proliferation and differentiation of NSCs.

Objective To investigate the effect of rocuronium on spectral entropy during induction of general anesthesia in patients of Uygur nstionality. Methods Forty ASA Ⅰ or Ⅱ patients (Uygur nationality) of both sexes, aged 20-50 yr, weighing 45-70 kg, undergoing elective surgery under general anesthesia, were divided into 2 groups ( n = 20 each): normal saline (NS) group and rocuronium group (group R). Anesthesia was induced with target-controlled infusion of propofol. The initial target plasma concentration wan net at 2 μg/ml. The concentration wan then increased by 0.5 μg/ml every 4 min until response entropy (RE) was decreased to 45 and maintained for 4 min. When the plasma concentration was equal to the effect-site concentration, iv rocuronium 0.6 mg/kg was injected in group R, while group NS received the equal volume of NS instead. Fentanyl 3 μg/kg was injected intravenously at 3 min after recuronium administration. The patients were tracheal intubated and mechanically ventilated. State entropy (SE) and RE were recorded immediately before induction (baseline, To), before rocuronium administration (T1), 2 main after rocuronium administration (T2) and at 0, 1, 2 and 3 min after intubation (T3-6). The difference between RE and SE wan calculated. Results The RE value at T3 and T4 and the difference between RE and SE at T2.5 were significantly lower in group R than in group NS ( P ＜ 0.05). Conclusion Rocuronium can decrease the RE value and degree of increase in the difference between RE and SE during induction of general anesthesia in patients of Uygur nationality, which may affect the accuracy of spectral entropy in monitoring the depth of anesthesia.

Animals ; Cerebral Cortex ; metabolism ; Disease Models, Animal ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred Strains ; Morphine Dependence ; metabolism ; Neurotrophin 3 ; metabolism ; Prosencephalon ; metabolism

Objective To report two cases of familial Gitelman syndrome and literature review regarding the updates of relevant genes,classification,treatment,and prognosis.Methods The clinical data of two sisters with Gitelman syndrome were retrospectively analyzed.Results Their blood pressures were within normal range.Hypokalaemic alkalosis,hypomagnesemia,and hypocalciuria were corrected almost completely after three days of intravenous magnesium and potassium infusion,spirolactone and indometacin.However,the maintenance of normal potassium was unsuccessful over one year.Conclusion Hypokalaemic alkalosis,hypomagnesemia,and hypocalciuria were normalized in Gitelman syndrome.There was some debate in regard to using PGE2 synthetase inhibitors.Tolerance of long-term medication will be the big challenge for curative effect.

Objective:To explore the relationship between iodine and hypothyroidism.Methods:Patients with primary hypothyroidism (hypothyroidism group) and healthy people (control group) from Linfen City who first came to the Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Treatment in 2017 and 2018 were selected as the research subjects. One random urine sample and fasting venous blood sample were collected from the research subjects. The levels of urinary iodine, blood iodine and serum total triiodothyronine (TT 3), total thyroxine (TT 4), free triiodothyronine (FT 3), free thyroxine (FT 4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), anti-thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb) were detected. According to the results of TSH level, hypothyroidism group was divided into hypothyroidism Ⅰ group (TSH≥10.00 mU/L) and hypothyroidism Ⅱ group (4.20 mU/L < TSH < 10.00 mU/L), and they were compared with control group (0.27 mU/L≤TSH≤4.20 mU/L). Results:A total of 97, 96 and 175 research subjects were included in hypothyroidism Ⅰ group, hypothyroidism Ⅱ group and control group, respectively. There was no significant difference in urinary iodine levels among the three groups ( H = 0.631, P > 0.05). The blood iodine levels [(40.70 ± 21.08), (58.59 ± 14.55), (59.50 ± 11.89) μg/L] in the three groups were significantly different ( F = 50.559, P < 0.01), and the blood iodine level in hypothyroidismⅠgroup was lower than that in hypothyroidism Ⅱ group and control group ( P < 0.01). The levels of TT 3 [median (interquartile range): 1.59 (0.99, 2.05), 2.25 (1.98, 2.59), 2.14 (1.89, 2.49) nmol/L], TT 4 [35.18 (16.06, 70.23), 105.68 (83.38, 133.19), 107.18 (89.92, 128.30) nmol/L], FT 3 [3.48 (1.94, 4.52), 5.01 (4.57, 5.50), 5.02 (4.64, 5.55) pmol/L] and FT 4 [7.14 (3.12, 10.76), 15.31 (13.87, 17.11), 16.69 (14.87, 18.20) pmol/L] in the three groups were significantly different ( H = 66.197, 142.461, 94.508, 166.557, P < 0.01). After further pairwise comparison, the levels of TT 3, TT 4, FT 3, and FT 4 in hypothyroidism Ⅰ group were significantly lower than those in hypothyroidism Ⅱ group and control group ( P < 0.01). The levels of TgAb and TPOAb in the three groups were significantly different ( H = 85.507, 101.726, P < 0.01). After further pairwise comparison, the levels of TgAb and TPOAb in hypothyroidismⅠgroup were significantly higher than those in hypothyroidism Ⅱ group and control group ( P < 0.01); and the levels of TgAb and TPOAb in hypothyroidism Ⅱ group were significantly higher than those in control group ( P < 0.01). The correlation analysis showed that urinary iodine was positively correlated with blood iodine ( r = 0.170, P < 0.05); blood iodine was positively correlated with TT 3, TT 4, FT 3, and FT 4 levels ( r s = 0.484, 0.594, 0.383, 0.509, P < 0.01), and it was negatively correlated with TSH level ( r s = - 0.373, P < 0.01). Conclusion:Hypothyroidism patients with TSH≥10.00 mU/L may have low blood iodine level.

Objective To observe therapeutic effects of acupoint catgut embedding therapy on ulcerative colitis.Methods 55 cases of ulcerative colitis were randomly recruited into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group was treated with catgut embedding, and the control group was treated with oral administration of salicylazosul fapyridine. Results The therapeutic effect of the treatment group was better than those of the control group (P=0.002＜0.05). Conclusion Acupoint catgut embedding therapy has a better therapeutic effect on ulcerative colitis.

Animals ; Guinea Pigs ; Heart Ventricles ; drug effects ; physiopathology ; Male ; Stilbenes ; pharmacology

Objective To analyze the causes for diffuse bone marrow uptake of 18F-FDG on PET/CT scans. Methods Sixty-six patients with diffuse bone marrow uptake on whole-body FDG-PET/CT imaging were enrolled for this study. Seventy-nine healthy subjects ( with no history of tumor or recent fever) were selected as normal control. The SUVmax and SUVmean were measured in bone marrow and mediastinum in both groups. The maximum (bone marrow SUVmax/ mediastinum SUVmax) and mean value ratios (bone marrow SUVmean/ mediastinum SUVmean) were calculated. Statistical analysis was performed by one-factor variance analysis. Results With diffuse bone marrow uptake pattern of 18F-FDG, 27 were caused by injection of hematopoietic growth factor, 21 by hematopathy and 18 due to fever. SUVmeanof those three causes were 3.076±1.955, 3.633±2.405 and 2.546±0.791 respectively, each was significantly different from that of the control group (1.026±0.190; F =34.465, P<0.001). Conclusion Diffuse bone marrow uptake on FDG-PET/CT are caused by both benign and malignant reasons.

Objective To investigate the effect of perfusion index of the injection flow rate of contrast medium on magnetic resonance image dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE-MRI) of prostate cancer with different pathological grades. Methods Seventy patients with PCa、cardiac, normal renal function is and BMI≤25 kg/m2 were enrolled. The 2.5 mL/s, 5.0 mL/s dynamic enhanced injection velocity contrast agent was used for 35 patients and the reast 35 patients, respectively. All data was transferred to GE Advanced Workstation 4.3, and the indexes of the peripheral prostate cancerous zone were calculated by Functool2 of signal intensity time (SI-T), The time to minimum (Tmax), the whole enhancement degree (SImax%) and the maximum slope (Rmax) were calculated. The effect of different injection velocity on the dynamic enhanced perfusion index was analyzed. Results Tmax of pa-tients received 2.5 mL/s, 5.0 mL/s contrast agent injection velocity in the low risk group (Gleason score 2 to 6)、medium risk group (7 Gleason score) and high risk group (Gleason score 8 to 10) were (19.89 ± 2.76) s and (15.42 ± 1.68) s, (16.91 ± 2.34) s and (12.88 ± 1.73) s, (14.13 ± 1.81) s and (10.2 ± 1.42) s, with signifi-cant differences (t = 4.61, 3.1, 3.25, P < 0.01). The average SImax% of PCa in the two groups were (1.45 ± 0.17)%and (1.51 ± 0.27)%, (1.62 ± 0.12)%and (1.84 ± 0.18)%, (1.86 ± 0.16)% and (2.11 ± 0.28)%, Two groups of SImax% were statistically significant difference (t = -2.44, -4.55, -5.16, P < 0.05), respectively. The average Rmax of PCa of the two groups were (6.29 ± 2.62)% and (7.64 ± 4.09)%,(8.92 ± 4.21)% and (10.24 ± 9.09)%, (10.85 ± 2.89)% and (12.43 ± 3.51)%, with significant difference (t = -4.07,-3.85, -8.68, P <0.01). Tmax was shorter, SImax% and Rmax were higher of prostate cancer patients received 5.0 mL/s contrast agent injection velocity than those received 2.5 mL/s contrast agent injection velocity. Conclusion The dynamic enhancement perfusion index of prostate cancer patients received 5.0 mL/s contrast agent injection velocity is more sensitive than that of patients received 2.5 mL/s contrast agent injection velocity , which can improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer.