Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of sequential type artificial liver with regional citrate anticoagulation in patients with hepatic failure at high risk of bleeding.Methods Fifteen patients with hepatic failure at high risk of bleeding treated with plasma exchange(PE)plus continuous veno -venous hemofiltration (CVVH)for 4h anticoagulation selected anticoagulant citrate dextrose solution A (ACD -A),blood flow velocity was setted to 100 -120mL/min.In the former,ACD -A solution was delivered pre -filter,with the rate adjusted to maintain a postfilter ionized calcium (iCa2 +)level between 0.35 -0.45mmol/L.Before the extracorporeal blood returned to the patients, 10% calcium gluconate was infused to maintain a systemic iCa2 + level between 0.90 -1.20mmol/L.Hypoxemia and hypocalcemia were correctted before treatment.Acid -base changes,serum sodium,total calcium -ionized calcium ratio were recorded at 2h,4h and 6h during the treatment.Effective therapeutic time (the therapy was completed successfully)also was recorded.Results The total 38 sessions were performed,effective performance was 35 sessions. 3 sessions were stopped because of high transmembrane pressure.Acid -base change,serum sodium had no significant changes.Serum iCa2 + concentration was detected 110 times,16 times were below 0.9mmol/L,the lowest concentration was 0.62mmol/L.Convulsion of the limbs appeared two times because of hypocalcemia.The total calcium -ionized calcium ratio above 2.5 appeared totally 6 times.The events improved after augmented substitution fluid.All events presented in advanced hepatic failure.Conclusion Under closely monitoring and application of preventive measures, regional citrate anticoagulation sequential type artificial liver is safe and efective for patients with hepatic failure at high risk of bleeding.The application in patients with advanced hepatic failure still is cautious.

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of interferon alpha (IFNα) combined with adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) for patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) non-responding to 24-week IFNα monotherapy.Methods Sixty CHB patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University during 2009 and 2012 were enrolled in the study.All patients recieved IFNα monotherapy for 24 weeks and had no response.The patients were randomly divided into 3 groups by number table with 20 cases in each group.The experimental group was treated with IFNα combined with ADV,the control group 1 continued IFNα monotherapy,and the control group 2 shifted to ADV monotherapy.Virological,serological and biochemical responses were compared,and adverse reactions were observed.SPSS 19.0 software was used for data analysis.Results After 24 weeks of treatment,there was no statistical difference in HBV DNA loads,ALT levels and titers of HBeAg and HBsAg among three groups (F =0.985,0.717,0.985 and 0.717,P ＞ 0.05).And no HBeAg seroconversion was observed.After 48 weeks of treatment,the experimental group had higher HBV DNA negative conversion rate,ALT normalization rate and HBeAg conversion rate than control group 1 (x2 =10.00,3.956 and 4.800,P ＜ 0.05),but no statistically significant difference was found in HBeAg negative conversion rate (x2 =0.693,P ＞ 0.05).There was no significant difference in HBV DNA and HBeAg negative conversion rates between experimental group and the control group 2 (x2 =1.026,1.905 and 0.156,P ＞0.05),but the HBeAg conversion rate in experimental group was significantly higher than that in control group 2 (x2 =4.800,P ＜ 0.05).No HBsAg negative or serological conversion was observed,and there was no significant difference in titers of HBsAg among three groups (F =1.935,P ＞ 0.05).No adverse reaction was observed.Conclusion For patients nonresponding to IFNα monotherapy,combination of IFNα and ADV can achieve higher ALT normalization rate,HBeAg conversion rate and HBV DNA negative conversion rate,and improve the overall efficacy of CHB antiviral therapy.

Objective To investigate the function and mechanism of embryonic stem cells against Lewis non-small cell lung cancer in vivo. Methods Based on the mouse Lewis non-small cell lung cancer model, we have tested some tumor growth indexes and investigated the immune response of embryonic stem cells against cancer cells. Results Compared with the mice in control group, mice in experimental group received obvious antitumor immunity, which means more activated lymphocytes and antitumor cytokines, resulted in the effective control and inhibition of tumor development. Conclusion Besides the antitumor effect in vitro, embryonic stem cells can also generates immune response in vivo, which could effectively inhibit and/or delay the development of cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of single leaf Asarum himalaicum on the renal function of rabbits. METHODS: Rabbits were divided into three groups. Asarum himalaicum, Asarum heterotropoides and normal saline were intravenously administered to the rabbits of one group respectively. The urine volume per minute, urine pH, urine glucose, protein and red blood cells, BUN, SCr, TXB2, 6-keto-PGF1alpha, TXB2/6-keto-PGF1alpha, endothelin, p-aminohippuric acid clearance rate and phenolsulfonphthalein excretion rate were tested before and after the administration. RESULTS: A certain dosage of single leaf Asarum himalaicum caused acute renal failure in rabbits. The indices tested were significantly different between rabbits administered Asarum himalaicum and normal saline. As compared with the rabbits administered Asarum heterotropoides, the results of indices tested decreased, but without statistical significance, except for SCr. CONCLUSION: The single leaf Asarum himalaicum can cause renal damage to rabbits. Its renal toxicity is lower that that of Asarum heterotropoides.

During the period of January 2006 to December 2012 at our department,retrospective analyses of epidemiological and clinical data were performed for 199 newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS inpatients and outpatients.The male-to-female ratio was 3.78∶ 1.Their age range was 20-40 years.Migrant workers accounted for a large proportion of infection.Sexual contact was a major route of transmission and it accounted for 88.4％.Most of them had non-marital sexual contact.And all infected marital sexual contacts were women.Asymptomatic patients accounted for 55.8％.Pulmonary infection was the most common clinical manifestation.There were more males than females locally.Most of them were young and middleaged.Sexual contact was a major route of transmission.Out-of-town migrant population was important for transmission.

[Objective]To investigate the effect of cryopreservation on the antigenicity of vascularized bone allotransplantation,and to observe the patency of the pedicle and the osteosis of bone allografts,in order to find out the dose of immunosuppressive agent.[Method]Forty-eight New Zealand rabbits were involved in the study.Of them 16 rabbits served as donors,and 32 hosts.Allotransplantation of cryopreserved radius diaphysis with the vascular pedicles were implanted to 8 rabbits and immunosuppressive agent(CsA 10 mg/kg/d) was administrated 4 weeks after transplantation(group A),similar cryopreserved grafts with the vascular pedicles were implanted to 8 rabbits and immunosuppressive agent(CsA 5mg/kg/d) was administrated 4 weeks after transplantation(group B),similar cryopreserved grafts with the vascular pedicles were implanted to 8 rabbits and immunosuppressive agent(CsA 2 mg/kg/d) was administrated 4 weeks after transplantation(group C),allotransplantation of cryopreserved radius diaphysis with a vascular pedicle was performed in 8 rabbits(group D),and 16 donors were group E.Immunological analysis was performed at 1 weeks.Radiography was taken for each graft at 2,4,8,12 weeks.And 12 weeks after operation,the patency of the pedicle was observed through ink infusing and histological studies were performed.[Result]There was no difference of IFN-? between group A and group B.However,the levels of IFN-? in groups A and B were lower than that in group C.[Conclusion]Cryopreservation could reduce the antigenicity of vascularized allotransplant graft.After transplantation,the reject response is decreased,patency and osteosis of bone allografts are better,and the dose of immunosuppressive agent are decreased.

Objective To investigate the mechanism that bFGF promotes the regeneration of injured optic nerve and induces dedifferentiation of glial cells in it. Methods Fifty-five adult male SD rats were randomly divided into 3 groups as normal control group, injury group and bFGF group. At day 7 post operation, optic nerves from injury group and bFGF group were detected by gene chip and real-time PCR. At day 7, 14 post operation, optic nerves were harvested and detected by HE staining and immunohistochemistry. Results Compared with the injury group, there were 645 genes expression up-regulated and 458 genes down-regulated including genes related neural stem cell or precursor cell neural development, proliferation, apoptosis, chromatin configuration, transcription regulation, signal transduction, neural growth and so on in the bFGF group. There were bigger nuclei, more cells, more immunoreactivity of nestin, extracellular signal-regulated kinase(Erk1/2), glial fibrillary acidic protein(GFAP), and myelin basic protein(MBP) in the distal optic nerves and more immunoreactivity of neurofilament(NF) in the proximal optic nerves in the bFGF group than that in the injury group.Conclusion bFGF could promote the proliferation of neuroglia cells, dedifferentiation of neural glias and improve the microenvironment to favour the regeneration of injured optic nerve.

AIM: To analyze curative effect of four regulating-intestines prescriptions (Wumei Wan, Baitouweng Tang, Shenling Baizhu San and Tongxie Yao-fang) on the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC) through summing up the previous animal experimental results.METHODS: We collected the conclusions in the papers related to four regulating-intestines prescriptions for the treatment of UC which were published recently, made comparisons from the aspectsof symptoms, physical sign, pathological change, cytokine and its protein expression, blood adhesion molecule, cell apoptosis and controlling gene and analyzed the pathogenesis of UC and action mechanism of four regulating-intestines prescriptions. Four regulating-intestines prescriptions included Wumei Wan,Baitouweng Tang, Shenling Baizhu San and Tongxie Yaofang. Wumei Wan is from Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, which consists of dark plum, asarum herb, dried ginger, Chinese goldthread, Chinese angelica root, aconite root, pricklyash peel, cassia twig,ginseng (sun-dried ginseng) and bark of cork tree and has marked effect in treating colic caused by ascariasis and persistent dysentery. Baitouweng Tang, from Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases, consists of medicinal herbs such as pulsatilla root, Chinese goldthread, bark of cork tree and ash bark, which has functions of clearing away the heat-evil, expelling superficial evils and relieving dysentery. In addition, it has marked effect in treating heat-type dysentery. Shenling Baizhu San, from Prescriptions of Peaceful benevolent Dispensary, consists of medicinal herbs such as pulp of lotus seed, coix seed, amomum fruit, balloon flower root, white hyacinth bean, poria, ginseng (sun-dried ginseng), glycyrrhiza, bighead atractylodes and rhizoma dioscoreae, which has the nature of replenishing qi to invigorate the spleen and eliminate wetness to arrest diarrhea and has marked effect on treating diarrhea due to the hypofunction of spleen. Tongxie Yao-fang which is from The Complete Works of Zhang Jingyue consists of four herbals of agehead atractylodes, root of herbaceous peony, dried tangerine peel and ledebouriella root and has the functions of soothing liver and invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea, and has marked effect on treating liver sthenia and deficient spleen, borborygmus and abdominal pain and diarrhea.RFSULTS: ① Because UC is a chronic protracted dysentery with deficiency of vital energy and existing of evil energy, the vital energy will be harmed if its treatment is specialized in removing and dissolving the stagnation, evil energy will continue to exist and stagnation will continue to accumulate if its treatment is specialized in strengthening vital energy and inducing astringency. Only supporting healthy energy and expelling evil energy is the correct therapy method. This is in accordance with the main treatment of Wumei Wan ②Eliminating dampness and pathogenic heat from the blood to treat diarrhea is the main treatment method of Baitouweng Tang, and this is incompletely suitable for the treatment of UC.③Shenling Baizhu San had the effect on soothing liver and invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea, and this is also incompletely suitable for the treatment of UC. ④ The prescription of Tongxie Yaofang is used for treating diarrhea caused by deficient spleen and liver sthenia, and spleen controlled by liver, and abnormal ascent and descent. It accords with main pathogenesis of UC, deficient spleen, excessive dampness of deficient spleen and it is weaker in invigorating the spleen in catabasis of UC than Shenling Baizhu San. Therefore, Wumei Wan has the best curative effect,Baitouweng Tang the second, Shengling Baizhu San the third and Tongxie Yaofang a little poor.CONCLUSION: UC belongs to recurrent dysentery, and its pathogenesis is in accordance with the main treatment of Wumei Wan, but not the other three prescriptions, so Wumei Wan is the most efficient prescription in treating ulcerative colitis. Diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of signs and symptoms of TCM is the premise of obtaining the best curative effect. Modeling of animal tests must be consistent with the type of syndrome of the traditional Chinese medicine. Ating ulcerative colitis (UC) from aspects such as symptom, physical sign, pathological changes, adherence factor, cytokine and its protein expression, apoptosis and its controlling gene by means of modeling, which proves their functions and effects are different and their curative effect are also different due to their different ingredient though they all have the functions of treating. Results of this test show Wumei Wan has the best curative effect, Baitouweng Tang the second, Shenling Baizhu San the third and Tongxie Yaofang a little poor[1-11] Mechanism of four regulating-intestines prescription in the treatment of ulcerative colitis is discussed from the viewpoints of traditional Chinese medicine as follows.

Objective To explore influence of JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway on the apoptosis of HCC cells.Methods DNA-vector-based RNAi approach silence was used to down-regulate STAT3 expression in Bel-7402 cells.According to the STAT3 cDNA sequence in the GeneBank database,the plasmid pGCsi.U6/neoRFP-STAT3 that was designed for expression of STAT3 siRNA was constructed and synthesized,and then transfected into the Bel-7402 cells with iipofectamine 2000.The apoptotic rate was measured with flow cytometry (FCM) and annexinV/PI apoptosis detection kit staining.The mitochondrial membrane potential (BΨm) was visualized by the JC-1 fluorescence staining and the inverted fluorescence microscope.Moreover,the expression of caspase-3 protein was analyzed by Western blotting.Results The apoptotic ratio of STAT3-siRNA group was (38.82 ± 0.88) ％,which was significantly higher than that in other group [control group (9.22 ± 0.38) ％,scramble-siRNA group (16.47 ± 1.04) ％,P ＜ 0.05].The mitochondrial membrane potential of STAT3-siRNA group observed by the JC-1 fluorescence staining was decreased significantly[(91.33 ± 1.78) ％] and [(89.90 ± 1.92) ％ vs (59.06 ± 1.89) ％,P ＜ 0.05].The Western blot results showed that the protein expression of active caspase-3 in STAT3-siRNA group was significantly higher than other groups (0.48 ± 0.05 vs 0.22 ± 0.04 and 0.26 ± 0.06,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions STAT3 gene silencing significantly improves the apoptotic effect in the Bel-7402 ceils.

OBJECTIVE To monitor the distrubution and the change in drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria from lower respiratory tract in patients with comprehensive intensive care to use the antibiotic properly in the clinics.METHODS All lower respiratory infection cases admited to the ICU in 2005-2006 were reviewed,and the distribution of pathogenic bactieria and their drug resistance profile were analyzed.RESULTS 89.3% pathogenic bacteria were Gram-negative ones,among them Pseudomonas aeruginosa(47.6%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae(21.2%) were prevailed.Staphylococcus aureus(6.2%) was the most prominent Gram-positive bacteria,MRSA showed increasing trend.Fungi accounted for 5.8%.All pathogenic bacteria showed high resistance to the antibiotics.CONCLUSIONS The pathogenic bacteria and their resistance to the antibiotics are highly changed at ICU.Intensive observations from the clinicians are recommanded so as to make the antibiotics effective.