Objective To explore the effect of out-hospital health education on quality of life of heart failure patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Methods 60 cases of heart failure patients with dilated cardiomyopathy were selected and divided into follow-up group and control group with 30 cases in each group. The follow-up group accepted out-hospital health education, while the control group only accepted conventional in-hospital health education. Then World Health Organization Quality Of Life-Brief (WHOQOF-BRIEF) was used to evaluate their quality of life 6 months after discharge. Results The score of WHOQOF-BRIEF was higher in the follow-up group than in the control group (P<0.05). The satisfactory degree of nurse-patient relationship was better in the follow-up group than in the control group (P<0.05).Conclusion Out-hospital health education can improve the quality of life of heart failure patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

OBJECTIVE: Epileptic attack can cause neuronal damage and increase the risk of potential seizure. Analysis of the possible mechanism of neuronal damage following epileptic seizure may provide evidences for implementing preventive measures against brain damage due to epileptic seizures.DATA SOURCES: A computer-based search of the related publications in PubMed database between June 1995 and June 2004 with different combinations of the key words of "epilepsy", "neuron damage", "necrosis"and "apoptosis", limiting the results to the language of English.STUDY SELECTION: The retrieved articles were examined at first to select reports of experimental study on human and animals related to epilepsy and the subsequent neuronal damages, and their full-text publications were obtained with the other unrelated articles excluded.DATA EXTRACTION: Eighteen articles documenting randomized controlled experiment immediately related to neuronal damage after epilepsy seizure, 4 reporting non-randomized controlled experiments related to central neuronal excitatory toxic damage, and 3 concerning neuronal damage were collected for this review.DATA SYNTHESIS: In the 14 randomized controlled experiments, chemical or electric methods were used to induce epilepsy in the animal models in which the ultrastructural changes of the neurons and cell organelles were observed and the expression of apoptosis-related factors determined.In the 4 non-randomized controlled experiments, central neuronal ischemic and hypoxic models were adopted for observing the expression of various apoptotic factors in the neurons due to different damages with the assistance of electron microscope, to provide direct evidences for the mechanism of central neuronal excitatory toxic damage. The other three related literatures introduced the pathways of neuronal damages and the expression of the related factors.CONCLUSION: Neuronal death after epileptic seizure is correlated with the severity of the damage and mitochondrial functional status, and the mitochondria constitute the control center for neuronal survival. The release of cytochrome C and the activation of caspases are the final common pathway of neuronal damage.

In this study, the implementation methods for the several functions are explored on RayStation 4.0 Platform. Those functions are passing the information such as ROI names to a plan prescription Word file. passing the file to RayStation for plan evaluation; passing the evaluation result to form an evaluated report file. The result shows the RayStation scripts can exchange data with Word, as well as control the running of Word and the content of a Word file. Consequently, it's feasible for scripts to inactive with third party softwares upgrade the performance of RayStation itself.
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0.05) . Significant decreases of contents of 14 kinds of macro-elements and trace elements in purified water were found compared with those in water samples after activated carbon filtration (t = 2.496 9-5.261 7, F2 and showed significant dose-response relationship respectively (r = 0.980, P

Objective:To observe the effects of the Increasing-Energy and Renewing-Wisdom granule on vascular dementia(VD) patients. Methods:42 VD patients were divided randomly into 2 groups. The patients in treatment group administered the Iincreasing-Energy and Renewing-Wisdom granule. The patients in control group administered piracetam. All the patients were treated for 3 months. Results: The patients' scores of HDS, MMSE, Wechsler (order), MQ in the treatment group were higher than those before the study (P

Objective To observe the mitochondrion and nucleus ultrastructural damage and caspase-3 expression in hippocampal CA_3 neurons during kainic acid(KA) induced status epilepticus(SE) in rats.Methods SE was induced for 2 h with KA in adult male Wistar rats.3,12 and 24 h later the rats were killed and the hippocampal CA_3 subareas were taken out to make brain sections.The neuronal damage on the whole with light microscope and the ultrastructure of mitochondrion and nucleus with electron microscope.Caspase-3 expression of the same area was examined with immunohistochemical staining.Results 24 h after SE,by the light microscope examination,the KA group showed that the neurons put scattered disorder and nucleus shrink firmly.3 h after SE,electron microscope examination showed swelling cristae and ruptured membrane of mitochondria.The change of nucleus were significant margination of chromatin 24 h after SE.Compared to normal control group,the caspase-3 expression increased 12 h after SE,the average number of positive cell and the gray scale were obviously higher(all(P

Objective: Serum pleiotrophin(PTN) is closely related to tumor,particularly to lung cancer.Many studies focused on PTN recently.This study is to evaluate the diagnostic value of PTN,Cyfra21-l and CEA tests independently or in a combined style in lung cancer.Methods: Sixty-one patients with lung cancer and 17 patients with benign lung lesion disease all received PTN,Cyfra21-l and CEA tests before the treatment.They were compared with pathological results,and then we calculated the diagnostic value of each method and the combined styles.Results: The sensitivity of PTN together with Cyfra21-l and CEA tests is 95.08% and it is the highest among the methods.Conclusion: PTN together with Cyfra21-l and CEA tests has a important diagnostic value through mutual complementation in detecting lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: Status epilepticus can result in neuronal injury.OBJECTIVE: To observe the mitochondrial ultrastructural damage and the changes of Fas, Bax and Caspase-3 expressions in hippocampal CA3 neurons of rats of different kindling, so as to provide theoretical evidence for the neuronal injury after epilepsy.DESIGN: A randomized c ntrol animal experiment.SETTINGS: Department of Neurology and Department of Anesthesiology,Qilu Hospital of Shandong University.MATERIALS: The experiments were carried out in the pathological laboratory of Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences between March and July2005. Totally 150 adult male SD rats of 260-300 g were provided by the experimental animal center of Shandong University (SCXK20030004), they were raised at room temperature and were free to the access of food and water.METHODS: The adult male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were divided into intraperitoneal injection of kainic acid group and caudal venous injection of kainic acid group respectively ac cording to the method of random number table, and the rats were administrated by kainic acid injected intraperitoneally (12 mg/kg) and via caudal vein (10 mg/kg) respectively. Each group was divided into 5 subgroups, which were 3, 6, 24, 48 and 72 hours after status epilepticus groups respectively. Twelve successfully induced rats were selected from each subgroup, hippocampi were removed at different time points after the termination of status epilepticus, 2 were used for examination under electron microscope, 5 for the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection of Fas and Bax, and 5 for the immunohistochemical assay of Caspase-3. Another 12 rats were used as normal controls without any treatment. The materials were taken at24 hours after corresponding status epilepticus in the control group, and the specific distributions were the same as those in the subgroups. The mitochondrial structure was observed under electron microscope, the levels of Fas and Bax mRNA were detected with semi-quantitative RT-PCR, and the expression of Caspase-3 protein was determined with the immunohistochemical assay.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Results of ultrathin section under transmission electron mcroscope; ② RT-PCR results; ③ Immunohistochemical results.RESULTS: Totally 132 rats were involved in the analysis of results. ①Mitochondrial structure under electron microscope: In the intraperitoneal injection group, the mitochondria swelled, and the neurons showed characters of apoptosis. In the caudal venous injection group, the mitochondria swelled, and accompanied by the membranous collapse, and the neurons manifested the necrosis. ② No expression of Fas and Bax was detected in the control group and caudal venous injection. In the intraperitoneal injection group, Fas expression appeared at 6 hours after status epilepticus, increased at 24 hours, reached the peak value at 48 hours, and lasted till 72 hours. ③ The Caspase-3 expressions began to increase 6 hours after status epilepticus in both the intraperitoneal injection group and caudal venous injection group(10.27±0.34, 15.21±0.34; P ＜ 0.001), and reached the peak values at 24 hours (25.36±0.47, 28.23±0.47; P ＜ 0.001); The higher expression of Caspase-3 lasted till 72 hours in the intraperitoneal injection group, but sharply decreased in the caudal venous injection group.CONCLUSION: Two different methods of administration result in different severity of mitochondrial damage and different expressions of Fas, Bax and Caspase-3, which further determines the molecular mechanisms of neuronal death.

AIM: To study the difference in glucose and lactate levels between brain extracellular fluid (ECF) and plasma in rabbits in the different blood glucose levels. METHODS: Using intracerebral microdialysis technology, brain ECF levels of glucose and lactate were measured in every 10 min under basal conditions and during a hyperglycemia-hypoglycemia clamp study. RESULTS: Under basal condition, brain ECF glucose levels were markedly lower than ambient plasma levels (30% of plasma), whereas ECF lactate levels were substantially higher (165% of plasma). During the hyperglycemia-hypoglycemia clamps, the relationship between plasma and ECF levels of glucose remained similar, but changes in ECF glucose lagged about 30 min. There were no substantially changes in ECF levels of lactate during dynamical study. CONCLUSION: There are striking differences in glucose and lactate levels between brain ECF and plasma. Lactate may involve in the metabolic process of central nervous system.

AIM: To observe the changes of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca~(2+)-ATPase (SERCA), phospholamban (PLB) during heart failure after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in rats and the effect of carvedilol. METHODS: Rats were randomly assigned to normal control group, sham-operation group, AMI group and carvedilol (CAR) group. 6 weeks later, in vivo hemodynamic, morphometry and SERCA, PLB mRNA and protein expression of myocytes were measured in all animals. RESULTS: In comparison with sham-operation group, LV end diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and weight of ventricles were increased, while maximal rate of rise and fall (?dp/dt) of LV pressure were decreased in AMI group. After treatment with carvedilol, these parameters were all improved. The mRNA and protein expression of SERCA were downregulated (P0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The changes of SERCA and PLB may be the important mechanism of contractile dysfunction in heart failure after AMI. Carvedilol is effective in preventing LV dysfunction after AMI. The molecular mechanism may be related with normalization of SERCA expression.