【Objective】To explore the correlation of antisperm immune infertility(AII) in females with chronic genital tract inflammation and to observe the therapeutic effect of Chinese medicine of Qingshi Huayu Mixture(QHM) and Yishen Huoxie Prescription Ⅰ(YHPⅠ) for AII.【Methods】Fifty-eight AII patients were screened from 200 infertility patients,and were randomized into three groups.Group A(N=18) was treated with YHPⅠ,group B(N=20) with QHM and group C(N=20) with western medicine.Three months constituted one treatment course.The incidence of positive antisperm antibody(AsAb+)combined with chronic genital tract inflammation,therapeutic effect,pregnancy rate,the content of serum AsAb,as well as the changes of lymphocyte subtypes,natural killer(NK) and interleukin 6(IL-6) were observed.The correlation of the above indexes with serum AsAb content was also analyzed.【Results】(1) The incidence of positive antisperm antibody(AsAb+)combined with chronic genital tract inflammation: There were 96(48%)with AsAb+ in 200 patients,and 62(64.58%) with AsAb+ in 122 combined with chronic genital tract inflammation;there were 34(35.42%)AsAb+ patients in 78 without inflammation,the difference of AsAb+ incidence was significant between the inflammation patients and the non-inflammation patients(P0.05).There were 2 in 5 cured patients of group A,2 in 7 of group B and 1 in 7 of group C being pregnancy.(3) Content of serum AsAb: serum AsAb content was decreased in the three groups after treatment,the difference being significant as compared with that before treatment(P0.05).(4) The changes of lymphocyte subtypes,NK and IL-6: CD8+ was increased,CD4+/CD8+ and NK were decreased in groups A and B,the differences being significant as compared with those before treatment and those in group C after treatment(P

Objective To study on the thermic effect of food (TEF) of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD).Methods Basal energy expenditure (BEE) of 12 male cases and resting energy expenditure (REE) of 11 male cases of COPD were detected by indirect calorimetry with metabolic cart. There were no significant difference in sex, age, height and body weight between two groups' e.g:TEF=REE-BEE.Results BEE and REE were 1114?208kcal/d,1433?136kcal/d respectively, the latter was higher 28% than BEE.Conclusion TEF increases significantly which may contributes to malnutrition and non-response to nutritional support in patients with COPD.

BACKGROUND:Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field and its experimental safety covers a wide scope along with the increase in accidents of tissue engineering laboratories, the safety management in tissue engineering laboratories in universities has become an important public health problem. OBJECTIVE:To enhance the safety management strategies for tissue engineering laboratories in chinese universities and improve the safety management system. METHODS:PubMed, Elseveir, WanFang and CNKI databases were retrieved for the literatures concerning the biosafety, safety management of hazardous chemicals, waste, medical information, instrument operation and human body mechanics in tissue engineering laboratories, and then the status of laboratory management was analyzed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The status of safety management in tissue engineering laboratories in China is analyzed based on the technique characters and regulations on safety management. Management strategies for laboratory safety have been proposed according to the differences in relevant laboratory safety management between China and the US, such as regular training on laboratory safety, improving the safety consciousness of experimental staff, constructing the strict system access to laboratory, improving safety facilities, standardizing the experimental safety manual and appointing specialized safety management committee. Comprehensive and systematical regulations on laboratory safety management will ensure the smooth running of tissue engineering laboratories in universities, thus accelerating the development of tissue engineering.

Objective To study the immune enhancing effect of arginine on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) complicated with malnutrition.Methods Thirty cases with COPD accompanied by malnutrition received nutritional support of total calorie intake of 1 5 times of resting energy expenditure (REE).Group A(n=12) received oral administration of 30g L-arginine per day as supplementation;Group B(n=18) were control subjects.Results The nutritional parameters such as TSF(triceps skinfold) thickness,PAlb(prealbumin),CHI(creatine height index) were markedly improved in Group A than Group B,TNF-?,CD 8 decreased and IL-2,NO(nitric oxide),IgG and CD 4 increased significantly in Group A(P

Adolescent ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Occupational Exposure ; Organotin Compounds ; poisoning ; Poisoning ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Retrospective Studies ; Young Adult

Objective To explore the effect of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture on the biomechanics of medial collateral ligament (MCL). Methods Six fresh human knee joints were fixed on the self-made fixture and flexed 90°. ACL was divided into a normal group, an anteromedi-al bundle(AMB) break group, and an ACL complete break group. 800N burden was loaded, and the MCL strain data were compared among the 3 groups. Results The MCL strain was significantly increased in the AMB break group and the ACL complete break group than that in the normal group (P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the MCL strain between the AMB break group and the ACL complete break group (P>0.05). Conclusion ACL rupture may cause significant changes in the MCL biomechanics, but the effect of AMB break and ACL complete break on MCL has no significant difference.

BACKGROUND: Microglia is the immune effect cell in central nervous system, if it is activated, it will release neuron poisoning factors and inflammatory factors, and bring fatal injury.OBJECTIVE: To investigated the effect of focal cerebral reperfusion on activation of microglia and the effect of the regulation of electroacupuncturing Shuigou and Baihui.DESIGN: A randomized and controlled study.SETTING: The department of Physioltherapy, the 458 Hospital of Chinese PLA; Dongfang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Tongji University; The department of Histology-embryology, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.MATERIALS: This experiment was processed at Histology-embryology Center of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in March 2002. Total 80 Wistar rats were randomly divided into 8 groups with 10 in each group.METHODS: ① Normal control group: The rats were not given any treatment and killed next day. ② Sham operation group: Only artery was separated, no suture inserted, killed next day. ③ 6, 12 and 24-hour reperfusion groups: The rats' right middle cerebral artery (MCA) ischemia-reperfusion model was made by embolus suture technique, then the rat was killed after 30 minutes' occlusion at MCA and reperfusing respectively 6, 12, 24hours. ④ 6-hour reperfusion + electroacupuncture group: Electroacupuncture was carried out immediately after the model was made, then the rat was killedafter 30 minutes' occlusion at MCA and reperfusion 6 hours (The frequency was 4 Hz-16 Hz. Stimulus intensity increased 1 V per 10minutes and the final intensity was 3V. The stimulus was lasted 30 minutes). ⑤ 12-hour reperfusion + electroacupuncture B group: Electroacupuncture was carried out immediately after the model was made and 8 hours later, then the rat was killed after 30 minutes' occlusion at MCA and reperfusion 12 hours. ⑥ 24-hour reperfusion + electroacupuncture group: Electroacupuncture was carried out immediately after the model was made and 8, 16 hours later, then the rat was killed after 30 minutes' occlusion at MCA and reperfusion 24 hours.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: To calculate numbers of microglia and to observe its morphological changes.RESULTS: Data of totally 67 rats was entered the results analysis. No microglia was seen in the normal and sham operation groups. Large quantity of microglia was activated at the border of ischemic area in 6, 12 and 24reperfusion group, their quantity was largely increased, reaching apex at reperfusion 12 hours [(35.38±1.77), (54.25±1.67), (49.29±2.21)/200sights]. The quantity in every 6, 12 and 24 reperfusion + electroacupuncture group was less than that in model group [(32.11±2.80), (50.88±2.64),(45.45±3.95)/200 sights, P ＜ 0.05].CONCLUSION: The microglia in brain is activated after the cerebral ischemia-reperfusion and induces toxic effect on neurons. The electroacupuncture can decrease activation of microglia so as to protect the neurons.

Our laboratory isolated three defensin molecules from the circulating neutrophils of healthydonors.The three molecule mixture was conjugated with BSA and immunized New Zealand rab-bit.ELISA showed that the rabbit antisera was of a very high titters,which were specific for hu-man defensins.Immunoperoxidase staining with this rabbit antisera indicated that normal humanneutrophils,acute myeloid leukemia cell lines KG1 and HL-60 were highly positive.In con-trast,normal mononuclear leukocytes,erythrocytes,erythroleukemia cell line K562 were all neg-ative,even rabbit and guinea pig neutrophils had no response to this rabbit anti-human de-fensins antisera.Our preliminary experiments suggested that the rabbit antisera was highly spe-cific for human defensins.Probably,defensin is a differentiation antigen of granunocyte lineage,and antibody against human defensins would be a candidate immunological reagent specific for a-cute myeloid leukemia.Further work for this should be done.

Bronchi ; cytology ; Cell Culture Techniques ; Cells, Cultured ; Humans ; Myocytes, Smooth Muscle ; cytology

OBJECTIVE:To isolate and purify three principal degraded impurities of mitiglinide calcium (impurity A,B,C) and identify their structures,establish HPLC method for content determination of impurity A,B,C. METHODS:Mitiglinide calci-um was used as raw material and reacted with acid;3 impurities were then separated by HPLC and their structures were elucidated by IR,MS,1H NMR,13C NMR,LC-ESI-MS and ORD. 3 impurities of 3 batches of mitiglinide calcium were determined,and the determination was performed on Agilent Extend-C18 column with mobile phase consisted of 0.01 mol/L sodium acetate solution-ace-tonitrile-triethylamine(60:40:0.1,pH=3.0)at the flow rate of 1.0 ml/min. The detection wavelength was set at 210 nm and sam-ple size was 20 μl. The response tests of 3 impurities and mitiglinide calcium were conducted. RESULTS:After treated with acid, impurity A,B,C had been obtained,and their purity were 99.05%,98.87%,99.98%,respectively after isolation and purifica-tion;after identifying the structure, 3 impurities were S-2-bezylsuccinic acid, S-2-bezylsuccinic acid-4-methyl ester, methyl (2S)-2-benzyl-3-(cis-hexahydroisoindolin-2-ylcarbonyl) propionate;methodological study of content determination of impurities were all up to the requirement. The linear range of impurity A,B,C were 0.387 5-3.875,0.395-3.95 and 0.392 5-3.925 μg/ml(all r were 1.000 0). The response value of impurity A,B,C and mitiglinide calcium were 2.316 1,2.636 1,2.617 8 and 2.620 4,re-spectively. CONCLUSIONS:The structures of 3 principal degraded impurities of mitiglinide calcium have been identified and con-firmed;the content of them can be determined by HPLC main component self-comparison method.