Objective To explore the effects of andrographolide(AP),extracted from the traditional Chinese herb Andrographlis paniculata(AP),on injury induced by radiation exposure.Methods Sixty male rats were randomly divided into 4 equal groups and irradiated with 60Co γ-rays at the doses of 1,2,and 4 Gy,respectively:low dose AP group(intragnstrically administered with AP at the dose of 100 ms/kg daily for 10 d before irradiation),and high dose AP group(intragastrically administered with AP at the dose of 200 ms/kg daily for 10 d before irradiation),model group(administered with the same volume of normal saline instead of AP for 10 d before irradiation),and control group(irradiated only at 3 different doses).One day after irradiation all rats were killed with their livers being fixed to make paraffin section.The morphological feature was observed under light microscope after HE staining,and the cell apoptosis was detected by TUNEL technology.Results Compared to the control and model groups,the pathological changes of liver were significantly gentler in the AP treatment groups.The apoptosis rates of the liver cells of all the AP sub-groups were significantly lower than those of the control and model subgroup(t=2.19-4.80.P<0.05).Conclusions AP might have prevention effect against radiation exposure.

Objective To investigate the expression of activated ERK (p-ERK) and activated p38 (p-p38) in the keratinocytes of condyloma acuminata (CA) lesions. Methods Fifty cases of HPV 6/11 CA were diagnosed by in situ hybridization. The expression and distribution of p-ERK and p-p38 in CA lesions and 25 normal human skins (foreskins) were detected by immunohistochemistry technique (En Vision). Results ①The results showed that the expression of p-ERK and p-p38 in keratinocytes of CA lesions were significantly higher than those in normal epidermis (P

Abstract: Objective To investigate the feasibility of kurtosis in evaluating high frequency hearing loss (HFHL) caused by Methods - complex noise. A total of 273 noise exposed workers in three metal tool manufacturing enterprises were chosen as studysubjectsusingajudgementsamplingmethod.Thenoiseintensityandkurtosisintheworkplacewasmeasured.Cumulative noiseexposure(CNE)wascalculatedfromnoiseintensityandworkingageandtheCNEwasadjustedusingkurtosis(CNE′).CNEResultsandCNE′wereusedtoevaluatetheriskofHFHL,andtheeffectsofthetwomethodswerecompared.ThemedianandMPP25,75percentiles[(25,75)]ofnoiseexposedintensityinthestudysubjectswas91.9(88.3,97.3)dB(A),andtheincidenceofMPPnoiseexposureexceededthenationaloccupationalexposurelimitaccountedfor81.0%.The(25,75)ofthekurtosiswas8.3 (7.9, 27.3), and kurtosis>4.0 accounted for 100.0%. The detection rate of HFHL was 39.6% (108/273). The detection rate of P - - HFHL increased with the increase of CNE and CNE′ (all <0.01). The goodness of fit of CNE′ in assessing the risk of HFHL Conclusion detectionwasbetterthanthatofCNE(coefficientsofdeterminationwere0.91and0.83,respectively). Kurtosiscan beusedasanauxiliaryparametertoadjusttheCNEandthenappliedtoevaluatetheriskofHFHLcausedbycomplexnoise.Keywords:Hearingloss;Noise;Strength;Kurtosis;Cumulativenoiseexposure;Riskassessment