Sleep disorders are common diseases with various dys-function during sleep-wake process, including difficulty falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at inappropriate times, excessive total sleep time, or abnormal behaviors associated with sleep. Sleep disorders can lead to the deposition of amyloid beta protein ( Aβ) by affecting the normal metabolism of amyloid beta protein in the brain. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease ( AD) often suffer from sleep disorders, and its pathology always results in more se-vere sleep disorders, which leads to a risk of cognitive impair-ment and hypofunction. Sleep disorders could interact closely with AD, forming a positive feedback loop, which causes serious damage to the body health. This review summarized the current research about sleep disorder in the onset of AD and the current status of medication.

This study is to investigate the sedative and hypnotic effects of a novel compound H1208. The sedative activity of H1208 was investigated by recording the spontaneous locomotor activity of mice. The hypnotic property was evaluated by the latency and duration of sleep (loss of righting reflex) in mice and the effect of hypnotics on sleep pattern of electroencephalogram were studied in conscious, freely moving mice with chronically implanted electrodes. The brain monoamine neurotransmitters levels in mice were measured by high performance liquid chromatography-electrochemical detection. The spontaneous locomotor activity was decreased by 56.7% and 80.2% in H1208 (5 and 25 mg x kg(-1), ip) treated mice, respectively. The loss of righting reflex was directly induced in mice after H1208 (60 mg x kg(-1), ip) administration. The non-rapid eye movement sleep increased significantly by 131% and 259%, respectively, within 3 hours after H1208 (30 and 60 mg x kg(-1), ip) administration. However, the rapid eye movement sleep decreased significantly. The contents of DA in the striatum and cortex and 5-HT in the cortex decreased significantly. These results demonstrated that H1208 has potent sedative and hypnotic effects, which may be closely related to the decreased contents of DA and 5-HT in mouse brain.

A series of isoindoline derivatives were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their double inhibitory activities. All of them were new compounds, and their structures were confirmed by 1H NMR and HR-MS. Preliminary in vitro pharmacological tests showed that all compounds exhibited 5-HT or NE reuptake inhibition activity. Among the tested compounds, compound I-3 exhibited potent inhibitory activity against 5-HT and NE reuptake in vitro, and exhibited potent antidepressant activity in vivo. These compounds designed can be further optimized for finding more potent 5-HT/NE dual reuptake inhibitors and antidepressant candidates as well.

Objective To study the nutritional risks in elderly patients with prostate cancer and explore its related factors.Methods 346 elderly patients with prostate cancer in Wuhan area from May 2013 to May 2014 were chosen as the objects in this study.Nutritional risk screening 2002 was used to evaluate nutritional risk.The sleep quality,anxiety,lower urinary tract symptoms,differentiation and other data of patients were collected.The influencing factors for nutritional risk in the patients were analyzed.Results The ratio of nutritional risk in elderly advanced prostate cancer patients was 35.3％ (122/346).The nutritional risk was increased with age (P＜0.05).The prostate cancer patients with nutritional risk had a higher international prostate symptom score (IPSS) (P＜ 0.05).Monovariate factor analysis showed that sleep quality,operation,pathology staging,radiotherapy,chemotherapy,lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were the impact factors for nutritional status in elderly patients with prostate cancer (P＜0.05).Logistic regression analysis showed that age (OR=0.29),sleep quality (OR=0.25) were the protective factors for the nutritional status,while surgery (OR=12.67),pathological staging (OR=1.65),radiotherapy (OR=2.65),SPSS (OR=1.55),chemotherapy (OR=1.85) were the risk factors for nutritional status (P＜ 0.05).Conclusions The incidence of nutritional risk is high in elderly prostate cancer patients.Age,sleep quality are the protective factors,and operation,pathology staging,SPSS,chemotherapy,and radiotherapy are the risk factors for nutritional status.

Objective:To describe the electroclinical features of the coexistence of epilepsy and narcolepsy.Methods:The electroencephalography database was searched using the terms “epilepsy” and “narcolepsy” over a four-year period from January 2016 to December 2019 in the Xijing Hospital. The clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of patients with coexistence of epilepsy and narcolepsy were studied.Results:Five patients with comorbidity for epilepsy and narcolepsy were found, of which three patients were female, two patients were male. The age at epilepsy onset and narcolepsy onset was 2-12 years and 8-17 years, respectively. There were two patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, one with sleep-related hypermoter epilepsy, one with epilepsy with retardation of brain development, one with symptomatic epilepsy with cognitive decline. All the patients had narcolepsy with cataplexy, which followed the onset of epilepsy by three months to eight years. All the patients accepted 24 h video electroencephalography monitoring and multiple sleep latency test. Interictal epileptic discharges were found, mean sleep latency was<8 min, and two or more sleep onset rapid eye movement periods were recorded. Duloxetine hydrochloride can effectively improve the drowsiness and catalepsy symptoms of narcolepsy, and seizures did not worsen in patients using duloxetine hydrochloride.Conclusions:Both generalized and focal epilepsy can occur in narcolepsy with cataplexy. Duloxetine hydrochloride may be safe and effective in treating narcolepsy in patients with epilepsy.

Objective To analyze the constituent of the 32 kD protein band and its expression in schizophrenia se?rum. Methods Sixty schizophrenia patients and 58 health controls were recruited. The serum samples were collected and precipitated with 7%PEG. The sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was used to ob?tain the abnormal 32 kD proteins band in patients. This protein band was cut and then analyzed using mass spectrometric technique. Results The 32 kD protein band was present in 38 schizophrenia patients but not in control and positive rate was 63.33%. The mass spectrometric analysis showed that 32 kD protein band contained 14 proteins ranging from 30 kD to 35 kD, including 6 high-frequency proteins (cDNA coded protein 1 and 2, Apolin protein A-1, Isoform 2 of ficolin-2, Complement factor H and clusterin) and 8 low-frequency proteins (IgG H chain, zinc-alphg-2-glycoprotein, fermitin,family apolin protein L-1, isoform 10 of collectin-1, purine nucleoside, anne xin and cDNA coded protein 3). Three cD?NA coded unknown proteins were highly similar to complement C4-B, β2-glycoprotein and erythrocyte band 7 integral membrane protein. Conclusion There is a unknown specific 32 kD protein that is consisted mainly of fourteen proteins in serum of schizophrenia.

Objective To compare the difference of the positive rates between real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM methods in diagnosis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) cases.Method 138 serum samples from 78 suspected acute SFTS patients were collected continuously in our hospital,2014.And 91 serum samples from 49 confirmed cases were detected by real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM,simultaneously.The results were analyzed by Software SPSS17.0.Result 138 serum samples were detected by the real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM methods,and the positive rate was 51.45％,43.48％ respectively.There was significant difference between their positive rates (P ＜ 0.05).The courses of disease influenced the positive rates notablely in 49 confirmed cases between the real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM assays.When the serum samples were collected within 8 days onset of illness to be detected,the positive rate of real-time RT-PCR method was higher than that of ELISA-IgM method.While the positive rate of ELISA-IgM showed a rising tendency along with the course extension.Conclusion Real-time RT-PCR would be the first choice for the early diagnosis of suspected SFTS cases.While ELISA-IgM methods could be the necessary supplemental assay and it would be the important diagnostic method as the extension of the course of SFTS.

Objective To understand the molecular epidemiology of norovirus from 5 outbreaks of gastroenteritis during Dec.2012 to Jan.2013 in Guangzhou.Methods Epidemiologic data and specimens were collected from 5 gastroenteritis outbreaks in Guangzhou.274 specimens were detected for norovirus by RT-PCR methods and PCR products were sequenced.Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis were performed by using Clustal X 1.83 and MEGA 5.05 programs.Statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS 17.0 program.Results The total positive rate of norovirus was 20.07％ (55/274).The positive rate was 8.70％ (2/23) in University A,36.36％ (8/22) in Kindergarten B,36.07％ (22/61) in University C,100％ (5/5) in community health service center D,11.04％ (18/163) in University E.The positive rate was 100％ (6/6) among age group ≥ 60 years old,47.37％ (9/19) among 10-19 age group and 36.36％ (8/22) among age group ＜ 10 years old.Phylogenetic analysis showed that 33 samples were infected by the new variant-Sydney 2012 of norovirus GⅡ.4.Conclusion Norovirus was one of the main pathogens causing acute gastroenteritis outbreaks and GⅡ.4 Sydney 2012 variant was identified as the predominant strain in Guangzhou.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the correlation between Shigella flexneri multi-drug resistance and drug resistance gene cassette of integrons.

METHODAll 79 strains of Shigella flexneri were isolated from the feces of children ranged in age from 6 months to 14 years in some hospitals of Jinan, between May 2009 and April 2012.The resistance was detected by Kirby Bauer agar diffusion method, 1, 2 and 3 integron gene was amplified by PCR, the variable region of positive strains treated with enzyme digestion and determined by Series Analysis.

RESULTAmong 79 Shigella flexneri strains, the resistance rate was 91% (72/79) to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, streptomycin, 70% (55/79) to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, 30% (24/79), 23% (18/79), 33% (26/79) and 32% (25/79) to cefotaxime, ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin.All 79 strains were susceptible to cefoxitin, imipenem, cefoperazone/sulbactam. The common drug resistance pattern is ampicillin tetracycline-chloramphenicol-streptomycin, accounted for 91% (72/79); 91% (72/79) strains carried integrons of class 1, 86% (68/79) strains carried integrons of class 2, No intI3 was detected. The resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol of atypical class 1 integron positive strains was significantly higher than the negative strains (χ² = 35.96, P<0.01). The sequencing results:dfrV was detected in class 1 integron variable regions of 9 strains, dfrA17-aadA5 in 2 strains, blaOXA-30-aadA1 in 70 strains, 2 strains were not detected resistance gene cassette, all resistance gene cassettes were dfrA1-sat1-aadA1 in class 2 integron variable regions.

CONCLUSIONThe muti-drug resistance of Shigella flexneri in Jinan was closely associated with integrons.

Adolescent ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; pharmacology ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial ; genetics ; Dysentery, Bacillary ; microbiology ; Feces ; microbiology ; Humans ; Infant ; Integrons ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Shigella flexneri ; drug effects ; genetics

Objective: To analyze variations of TYR and P genes among 14 patients with clinically diagnosed oculocutaneous albinism. Methods: Potential variations of the TYR and P genes were detected by Sanger sequencing. Novel variations were predicted with bioinformatics software including SIFT and PolyPhen-2. Results: No variation was found in the TYR gene, while 9 types of variations were found in the P gene among the 14 patients, which included c. 803-3C>G (7/26), c. 1327G>A (p.Val443Ile) (5/26), c. 632C>T (p.Pro211Leu) (4/26), c. 1832T>C (p.Leu611Pro) (3/26), c. 1349C>A (p.Thr450Lys) (2/26), c. 2363C>T (p.Ser788Leu) (2/26), c. 2228C>T (p.Pro743Leu) (1/26), c. 1525A>G(p.Thr509Ala) (1/26), and c. 1349C>T(p.Thr450Met) (1/26). Only 1 heterozygous variation was detected in 2 families. c. 2363C>T (p.Ser788Leu), c. 1832T>C (p.Leu611Pro) and c. 1525A>G (p.Thr509Ala) were not reported previously and predicted as "harmful" to the protein function. Conclusion The main type of ocular albinism is oculocutaneous albinism type Ⅱ in Liuzhou region, where the most common variations of the P gene were c. 803-3C>G and c. 1327G>A (p.Val443Ile). Above finding has enriched the variation spectrum of the P gene.