Objective To evaluate the efficacy of calcium(Ca)and magnesium(Mg)infusions in pre- vention of oxaliplatin-induced acute neurotoxicity.Methods Fourty-two patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma were eligible for the study:21 were assigned to the Ca/Mg ann and 21 to the control arm.The Ca/ Mg arm and the control arm were comparable for patients'characteristics.Chemotherapy regimen were al- most the same in both arms.Chemotherapy regimen consisted of oxaliplatin 130 mg/m~2 on day 1,given as a 3-hour infusion in 500 ml of 5% glucose,concurrent with rahitrexed 3 mg/m~2 as a 15-minute intravenous (Ⅳ)infusion or calcium folinate(CF)200 mg?m~(-2)?d~(-1),days 1～5,5-Fluorouracil(5-Fu)500 mg?m~(-2)?d~(-1),days 1～5.Therapy was repeated every 3 weeks.The treatment consisted of Ca gluconate and Mg sulfate,1 g each, delivered i.v.over 15 min just before the oxaliplatin infusion and repeated at the same dose after the comple- tion of the oxaliplatin infusion.A specific neurotoxicity scale was used for oxaliplatin-related neurotoxicity. Results Ten patients(47.62%)had acute neurotoxicity in the Ca/Mg arm compared with 19 patients (90.48%)in the control arm(P0.05).Conclusion Ca/Mg infusions seem to reduce incidence and intensity of oxaliplatin-induced acute neurotoxicity,and they do not reduce the clinical activity of oxaliplatin,but dosage and administration schedule could be optimized.

OBJECTIVETo study on extraction technics and variety trends of the flavonoids in Sarcandrae glabra.

METHODBy using S. glabra in Guizhou as materials and the experiment of L9 (3(4)) by ethanol as extracting way, The variety trends of the flavonoids from S. glabra are studied under the optimum extracting conditions during different raw stored times, different gathering season, different S. glabra position.

RESULTThe flavonoid's contains was more low when the raw material was stored more long and descended average 24.74% annually. The flavonoid's contains had the tallest in 10-12 month by gathering indifferent season. The flavonoids contains were the tallest in the leaf of S. glabra in Guizhou than in the root and stem, and the contains were the lowest in stem.

CONCLUSIONThe optimum conditions of extracting flavonoids from S. glabra are obtained when the condition is 60% of density of ethanol at 10 times of volume, 80 degrees C of extracting temperature, 3 h of extracting hours, 3 times of extracting number of times in 10-12 month, in the leaf, the raw material was stored more shortest, the flavonoid's contains had the tallest.

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OBJECTIVEA method for separation and purification of flavonoids from C. indicum with macroporous resin was studied.

METHODBy using C. indicum in Guizhou as the materials and with the content and recovery rate of flavonoids as indexes, the static and dynamic adsorption tests were employed to investigated effects and affective factors of separation and purification of flavonoids from C. indicum with macroporous resin.

RESULTResults show that the static adsorption capacity of AB-8 type resin was 114.65 mg x g(-1), the static elution ratio were 94.9%, the dynamic adsorption capacity of AB-8 type resin was 94.5 mg x g(-1), the recovery rate was more than 92.6% and the purity of flavonoids was more than 90%. AB-8 type resin is the best for separating and purificating C. indicum in flavonoids.

CONCLUSIONThe optimum conditions is AB-8 type macroporous resin, 70% alcohol as the eluant and 2 to approximately 3 times volume of the resin as the eluant volume, the ratio of flavonoids to the volume of the resin as 1:10.6, concentration of flavonoids of sample as 19.8 mg x mL(-1) and current velocity as 2 to approximately 3 mL x min(-1), pH value of sample as 4 to approximately 5. [Key words]' macroporous resin; Chrysanthemum indicum; flavonoids; separation; purification

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AIM:To investigate the differences among Lenstar 900, A-scan ultrasound and keratometer in measurement of axial length ( AL ) , anterior chamber depth ( ACD ) and corneal curvature ( K1 , K2 , Km ) , and evaluate the consistency of the instruments, with the purpose providing references for the clinical application of Lenstar 900.
METHODS: In this study we picked up 36 patients ( 50 eyes ) underwent cataract surgery, and lens nucleus hardness were under level IV. Before the operation, AL, ACD and K1 , K2 , Km were measured by Lenstar 900, A-scan ultrasound and keratometer respectively. The differences between the results were compared by the paired t-test. The correlation of the results was analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis, and the consistency was measured by Bland-Ahamn method.
RESULTS: The mean AL and ACD values measured by Lenstar 900 and A-scan ultrasound had no significantly statistic differences (P>0. 05). The K1, K2, Km measured by Lenstar 900 and keratometer were not significantly statistical different (P>0. 05). The results measured by these three instruments had close linearity correlation ( r>0.9, P<0. 01). The consistency of the results was well in Bland-Ahamn analysis.
CONCLUSION:The preoperatively biometric result of Lenstar 900, A - scan ultrasound and keratometer in patients with cataract are all reliable, and they can be substituted by each other. However, Lenstar 900 can not only measure AL, ACD and corneal curvature at the same time, but also cornal thickness, lens thickness, white to white, pupil size, optical axis eccentricity, retinal thickness and so on. It has a number of advantages such as non-touching, convenient and efficient, and can be recommended to use widely.

The number of people with physical disabilities is increasing year by year, and the trend of population aging is more and more serious. In order to improve the quality of the life, a control system of accessible home environment for the patients with serious disabilities was developed to control the home electrical devices with the voice of the patients. The control system includes a central control platform, a speech recognition module, a terminal operation module, etc. The system combines the speech recognition control technology and wireless information transmission technology with the embedded mobile computing technology, and interconnects the lamp, electronic locks, alarms, TV and other electrical devices in the home environment as a whole system through a wireless network node. The experimental results showed that speech recognition success rate was more than 84% in the home environment.
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Salsola collina is widely distributed in droughty and semi-droughty area, which is used as a kind of folk remedy in traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of hypertension. The study is on the chemical constituents of this herb from its aerial parts to obtain its active constituents. Dried and crushed aerial parts of this herb were extracted three times with 95% EtOH at reflux. The ethanol extracts were combined and concentrated under reduced pressure at 70 ℃ to yield residue, which was suspended in water and successively partitioned with light petroleum, chloroform and n-butanol. The chloroform and n-butanol fractions were treated by various chromatographic techniques, such as silica gel, C18 reversed-phase silica gel and macroporous resin column chromatography. Compounds were elucidated by their physicochemical properties and spectroscopic analysis. In the course of our study on searching biological active components from this herb, a new alkaloid together with three known alkaloids were isolated and identified as N-transferuloyl-3-methyldopamine (1), 3-[4-(β-D-glucopyranosyloxy)-3- methoxyphenyl]-N-[2-(4-hydroxyl-3-methoxyphenyl)ethyl]-2-propenamide (2), salsoline A (3), salsoline B (4). Compound 4 is a new compound and named as salsoline B, while compound 2 was obtained in Salsola collina for the first time.

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