Objective To analyze the situation of medical social support and self-perceived burden in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) in Chengdu,explore the influence of medical social support for patients with family oxygen cure.Methods A convenient sampling was conducted in 4 hospitals in Chengdu,and selected totally 124 elderly patients with COPD in January 2013 as the research object.Results Those patients' average daily life ability score was (20.19 ± 7.10) points,42 cases' daily life ability was normal,44 had deficiency in daily life,38 had obvious flaws;16 cases received medical social support condition at a critical level,66 at a general level,42 in good condition;the difference of the ability of daily life between actual support and other supports was statistically significant (P＜ 0.05);the difference in patients with self-perceived burden and medical social support was not statistically significant (P ＞0.05).Patients with long term oxygen therapy had higher self-pereeived burden than patients without oxygen therapy at home [(18.65±3.97) points vs.(17.69±6.24) points,t=6.015,P＜0.05],but patients with long term oxygen therapy had better medical and social support condition than those without oxygen therapy at home [(282.11±37.47) points vs.(262.26±61.14) points,t=6.624,P＜0.05].Conclusions The level of medical and social support in elderly patients with COPD need improve.Nurses need to provide better guidance for patients with long term oxygen therapy,ensure them obtain adequate information,improve their emotional support and social interaction,enhance their medical social support condition.

Objective Analysis and evaluation of cystatin C (Cysc) ,N‐acetyl‐beta‐D‐glucosaminidase (NAG) ,β2‐microglobulin (β2‐MG) ,blood urea nitrogen(BUN) ,serum creatinine(Scr) five biological parameters in the diagnosis of early renal damage caused by the diseases of Systemic lupus eythematosus ,diabetes or high blood pressure .Methods Collecting 61 patients with high blood pressure ,62 patients with systemic lupus eythematosus (SLE) ,59 patients with diabetes ,56 cases of healthy controls .Cysc was e‐valuated by immune transmission turbidimetric method ,latex enhanced immune turbidimetric method was used to detectβ2‐MG ,u‐sing two point method to determine NAG ,enzymatic assay Scr ,UV‐GLDH method was used to measure serum BUN ,and using the statistical method to analyze the data .Results There was no significant difference between healthy controls and patients group (P>0 .05) in BUN and Src levels .However ,there were significant differences in Cysc ,urineβ2‐MG and NAG concentrations (P<0 .01) .Under ROC curve ,the largest square of diagnosis indexes for early renal damage caused by SLE ,diabetes ,high blood pres‐sure were blood NAG ,urineβ2‐MG and Cysc .Compared to a single parameter ,the rate of joint detection in the diagnosis of early re‐nal damage is high ,a joint detection of Cysc ,β2‐MG and urine NAG could enhance the positive rate to 88 .7% ,which was signifi‐cantly higher than the joint detection with two indexes (77 .4% ,70 .9% or 66 .1% ) .Conclusion The most sensitive and specific in‐dex in the diagnosis of early renal damage caused by SLE ,diabetes ,high blood pressure were blood respectively NAG ,urine beta 2‐MG and Cysc .Joint detection has higher detection rate ,sensitivity ,specificity ,and has important clinical value in the early diagnosis of patients with renal damage ,which is suitable for clinical application .

Objective To screen and isolate the radioresistance related genes of IRM-2 mice.Methods cDNA library of IRM-2 mice was constructed by SMART technique.Total RNA was isolated from spleens of IRM-2 male mice.The first-strand cDNA was synthesized by using PowerScript reverse transeriptase,and double-strand cDNA was synthesized and amplified by long PCR.The PCR products were purified,digested with restriction enzyme Sfi I.The ds-cDNA fragment lessthan 500 bp was fractionated and ligated to the Sfi I-digested pDNR-LIB vector.The ligation mixture was transformed into E.coil DH5α by electroporution transformation to generate the unamplified cDNA library.The quality of cDNA library was identified by PCR technique.130 clones from cDNA library were sequenced and compared with GenBank database.Results The cDNA library contained 2.25 x 106 independent clones with an average insert size of 1.2 kb.The ratio of recombination and full-length was 95% and 55%,respectively.21 pieces of EST sequences from cDNA library were not the same as the known mice genes and registered into GenBank EST database,with registered number DW474856-DW474876.Conclusions cDNA library of IRM-2 mice has been constructed successfully.21 pieces of EST implies that radioresistance correlative genes may be in IRM-2 mice,which will lay a foundation for isolating and identifying radioresistance related genes in further study.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of brain-targeted rapamycin (T-Rap) in treatment of epilepsy in rats. METHODS: Rapamycin nanoparticles targeting brain were prepared. The epilepsy model was induced by injection of pilocarpine in rats. The rats with pilocarpine-induced epilepsy were treated with rapamycin (Rap group) or brain-targeted rapamycin (T-Rap group). Seizure activity was observed by electroencephalography; the effect on mTOR signaling pathway was detected by Western blot; neuronal death and moss fiber sprouting were analyzed by Fluoro-Jade B (FJB) and Timm's staining, respectively. RESULTS: Electroencephalography showed that both preparation of rapamycin significantly reduced the frequency of spontaneous seizures in rats, and the effect of T-Rap was stronger than that of conventional rapamycin (<0.05). Western blot showed that the phosphorylation levels of S6K and S6 in T-Rap group were lower than those in Rap group (all <0.05), indicating that T-Rap had a stronger inhibitory effect on mTOR signaling pathway. FJB staining showed that T-Rap significantly decreased neuronal death, but there was no significant difference as compared with Rap group. Timm's staining showed that both preparations of rapamycin significantly reduced the germination of mossy fibers, while the effect of T-Rap was more pronounced than Rap group (<0.05). The inhibition of body weight gain of T-Rap group was less than that of Rap group (<0.05). CONCLUSIONS T-Rap has a better therapeutic effect on epilepsy than conventional rapamycin with a less adverse effects in rats.
Animals ; Brain ; drug effects ; Disease Models, Animal ; Epilepsy ; chemically induced ; drug therapy ; Neurons ; drug effects ; Pilocarpine ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Signal Transduction ; drug effects ; Sirolimus ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Treatment Outcome