Histone methyltransferase modulates heterochromatin formation,genomic imprinting and genetic transcription by regulating the combination of histones and DNA.As encoding genes of histone methyltransferase,mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) genes are found to have close relationship with tumors.Recently,MLL2,a member of this family,has been found highly expressed anomalously in breast cancer,colorectal cancer and lymphoma.Whether MLL2 participates in the progression of cancer,the time phase of its participation and its specific role are still remained to further study.

Objective To find out about the current situation of mental health institutions in Guangdong. Methods An investigation via self-made questionnaires was made on the current situation of 62 mental health institutions in the province and a comparison was made of 22 mental hospitals between now and four years ago. Results Throughout the province, there were 9901 psychiatric beds, 1236 psychiatric doctors and 1909 psychiatric nurses, averaging respectively 1.16 beds, 0.15 doctors and 0.22 nurses per 10 thousand people. The bed utilization ratio was mostly 82.00% and only 12.00% of the mental health institutions adopted open management. A comparison of the 22 mental hospitals between now and 4 years ago showed that the numbers of hospital beds, doctors, doctors with associate senior professional tides and above, ECG machines, computers, hospital total income per year, and monthly charges for hospitalization had increased while the area of workplaces, the bed utilization ratio, the average number of daily outpatient visits, the average number of daily outpatient psychological consultations, and equipment other than ECG machines and computers remained unchanged and government funding had decreased. Couclusion The major problems with the mental health institutions in the province are shortage and lack of balance in the allocation of mental health resources, backwardness in the modes of management, difficulty in internal development, and reduction of government input.

BACKGROUND: The pathway of cholinergic nerve also with rich opium receptor in the septum-hippocampus areas is an important part for spatial learning memory. There is study that naloxone, an antagonist of opium receptor, can relieve the inhibition of activity of cholinergic neuron caused by opioid peptides in the medial septum and hippocampus, promote the release of acetylcholine (Ach)into synaptic cleft, and improve the impairment of spatial memory.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the intervention effect of naloxone on impairment of spatial working memory of rats induced by scopolamine, a blocker of cholinergic muscarinic receptor.DESIGN: A randomized and controlled trial taking experimental animals as subjects.SETTING: Geriatric Department of Wuzhongpei Memorial Hospital at Shunde District of Foshan City.MATERIALS: The experiment was completed from 2003 to 2004 at the Experimental Animal Center of Medical School of Shantou University. A total of 21 SD rats of clean grade were at random divided into three groups:normal group, scopolamine group and naloxone group (scopolamine and naloxone), with 7 in each group. Build up of Morris water maze: A circular rubber pool, 2 m diameter and 55 cm height, with 30 cm depth of water at20℃-22℃, was built up. At the center of its southeast quadrant, a cylinder platform installed, which was 12 cm in diameter and 1.5 cm below the water surface, the only place for rats to escape death. The water of the pool was covered with bits of white polythene. In the house, there were light tubes, windows and tables in fixed place served as the outside cues of the pool. On the four walls of the pool, there were several randomly-hung and eye-catching markers as inside cues.METHODS: Medicines were intraperitoneally given 30 minutes before the experiment for rats in each group, scopolamine 0.4 mg/kg and naloxone 3mg/kg in two treatment groups, the equal volume saline in normal group.Then escape latencies of rats were recorded for two successive trials through a delayed-matching\task in self-made Morris water maze. After the Morris water maze examination, all rats were put to death, the tissue of left brain was selected, conventionally treated and sliced. The expression level of cholinacetyltranslase (ChAT) in areas of hippocampus and prefrontal lobe were quantitatively assayed by immunohistochemistry and the computerized image technique. At the same time, the tissue of right brain in two rats of each group was selected, the hippocampus was immediately freed, and the change of CAI region of the hippocampus observed with electron microscope.trastructure of CA1 region of hippocampus in rats.cies of two successive trials were very significantly different in normal group[(46.4±17.7)vs (13.4±8.2)s, t =7.32, P＜ 0.01], and significantly different in naloxone treatment group[ (27.9±14.3)vs (9.0±3.8)s, t=3.19, P＜ 0.05], but not pression of ChAT in pyramidal cells in CA1 and CA3 regions of hippocampus and in neurons of prefrontal cortex of three groups was not different statisticalhippocampus in all groups was normal; However, the ultrastructure of the neuron synapsis was abnormal obviously in scopolamine group: The synaptic vesicles were markedly different in size; the vesicles obviously gathered in the part of presynaptic membrane with an enhanced density, and large and sparse in the distal part. Both presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes were indistinct and fused, synaptic cleft not clear, and postsynaptic dense materials not homogeneous, indistinct and without clear borderline.CONCLUSION: Scopolamine could impair the power of spatial working memory in rats. Naloxone could promote great release of Achin neuron synaptic vesicles into synaptic clefts, and increase the density of postsynaptic dense materials, relieve the inhibition of opioid peptide to cholinergic neuron activity in the medial septum and hippocampus, and could improve space memory injury.

Objective To set up the experimental animal model of the filial rats exposed clozapine in the pregnant clay and expect to know what is the effect on the offspring exposed the antipsychiatrie in gestation.Methods Female Wister rats were divided into both the control group (n=17)and elozapine group (n=2.5) which were intraperitoneally injected saline and clozapine respectively from pregnant day 6 to day 15,and their pup rats were examined development indexes such as the physical growth ,neural reflex,neural behavior and the expression of MAPK44/42 in brain in neonatal stage.Results it was shown that clozapine- exposed in pregnant day lead to the retardation of the weight of filial rats in earlier age such as postnatal day 4 (PND4) and PND7(F=12.56/7.51,P=0.001/0.008).As for neural reflex,the time of cliff avoidance of rats was significantly delayed in PND 3 and day 9 (F=4.969/4.348 ; P=0.03/0.041),and the ratio of positive response of air righting decreased compared with the control group in PND13 and PND15 (F=7.959/6.475,P=0.007/0.016).There was no difference between two groups on the behavior of the filial rats in the open field of filial rats.The expression of PhoMAPK44/42 in hippocampi of exposed-clozapine offspring in PND15 was significantly lower than the control' s(F=18.729/23.824,P=0.001) ,however,no difference was demonstrated on the expression of MAPK44/42 in hippocamaias well as the expression of both Pho-MAPK44/42 and MAPK44/42 in forehead cortex in two groups.Conclusion The resuits suggest the aberration of both physical and mental development of filial rats exposed clozapine in gestation.

Objective To study the clinical effects of vacuum-compression therapy for ischemic disease of the extremities. Methods A total of 40 cases of peripheral arterial disorders, including 23 thromboangiitis obliterans (31 limbs) and 17 arteriosclerosis obliterans (23 limit), were treated by a self-made vacuum-compression therapeutic apparatus. Results The effective rate in thromboangiltis obliterans and arteriosclerosis obliterans groups was 96.77% and 92.23%, respectively. The cuffs on the apparatus were improved to eliminate discomfort in the patients during treatment. "Rebound symptom" was observed during treatment, which had not been reported previously. Conclusion Vacuum-compression therapy has a good prospect for treating ischemia of the extremities.

Objective To evaluate the clinical effects of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NC-PAP) and surfactant administration in preterm infants with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome(NRDS) Methods A prospective randomized study was conducted, in which infants <32 weeks' gestation with NRDS were random-ized to the aurfactant-NCPAP (S-N) group or the surfactant-mechanical ventialtion (S-M) group. Results At 7 days after birth, 1 infant (6.25%) in the S-N group and 8 infants (47.00%) in the S-M group were still undergo-ing mechanical ventilation. The duration of oxygen therapy, NCPAP and mechanical ventilation,the need for a sec-ond dose of surfactant, and the days of staying in the intensive care unit were significantly greater in the S-M group. Conclusions The immediate application of NCPAP after surfactant administration for infants with NRDS is safe and beneficial.

Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is highly expressed in most epithelial tumors, and FAP inhibitors (FAPIs) have been used in tumor diagnosis and treatment. Taking FAP as the target, new kinds of tumor imaging and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals can be developed. FAPIs have been used in the preclinical and clinical researches as the carrier of tumor imaging and treatment. This article reviews the research progress of FAPIs in nuclear medicine imaging and treatment.

Objective To study the effects of MMP-9 (Matrix Metalloproteinase-9, MMP-9) in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) by localizing the expression of MMP-9 in the aneurysmal tissues. Methods By means of immunohistochemistry, the frozen sections (5 μm) with aneurysmal tissues (n = 10) were incubated with MMP-9 antibody-added agents, then the sections were stained and observed under the microscope to localize the expression of MMP-9, which displayed a brown precipitate within the arterial walls. The normal arterial wall tissues(n= 10)and the diseased arterial wall tissues from the arterial occlusive diseases (AODs) (n= 15) were also immunized exactly the same way as control. Results A quantity of positive granules which appeared within the aortic media showed the strong expression of MMP-9 in the AAAs, with the positive rate reaching 95%(19/20), while no expression of MMP-9 was observed in the normal artery. However, the scattered distributed positive granules were scen within the arterial wall of some cases of the AODs, implying the weak positive expression of MMP-9 in this disease with the positive rate of 26.7%(4/15). There was a significant difference of the expression of MMP-9 within the arterial wall between the AAAs and AODs(P＜0. 01). Conclusion High expression of MMP-9 within the aortic media faciliatates the degradation of collagen and elastin fibres and subsequent dilation of the aortic artery , thus playing an important role in the pathogenesis of AAAs. To refrain MMP-9 from enhanced expressing within the aortic wall is of clinical significance in the prevention and treatment of AAAs.

Objective Compared with haloperidol treatment,naloxone and naloxone combined haloperidol treatments were assessed in their efficacy and safety for excited type delirium in elderly.Methods The elderly patients with delirium were divided into haloperidol treatment (H),naloxone treatment (N) and combined treatment (C) in a prospective randomized controlled design.Delirium score scale (DSS) was used before and after treatments respectively.Clinical global impression scale-severity of illness (CGI-SI) score was evaluated daily to assess the onset time and improvement of delirium.Agitation-calmness evaluation scale (ACES) observed calmness effect in agitated patients before and after every medication intervention.Treatment emergent symptom scale (TESS) assessed side effects of all medications.Results The duration of three groups(H(4.0 ±2.9)d,N(4.2± 3.5) d,C (3.2 ± 3.2) d) had no significant difference (P ＞ 0.05) by multiple comparison.Compared the onset time of three groups (H (2.4 ± 1.6) d,N (2.4 ± 1.4) d,C (1.3 ± 0.9) d),the combined group was faster than the other two groups (all P ＜ 0.05),no significant difference between the two groups(P ＞ 0.05).DSS scores had no significant differences (P＞ 0.05) in three groups before treatment,so did CGI-SI scores.In the end,DSS scores were(H:18.8 ± 11.5,N:27.7 ± 7.2,C:29.5 ± 5.6) respectively.Statistically naloxone group and combined group with no significant difference (P ＞ 0.05),were better than the haloperidol group (all P ＜ 0.01) in recovery.At the same time CGI-SI scores were (H:3.3 ± 1.5,N:2.5 ± 1.5,C:1.8 ± 0.9) respectively.Statistically combined group was better than the haloperidol group (P ＜ 0.01),and no significant difference with naloxone group (P ＞ 0.05).Three groups had no significant difference in ACES scores (P ＞ 0.05) before and after medication interventions(H:5.9 ± 1.6,N:6.2 ± 1.8,C:6.4 ± 1.6) (P ＞ 0.05).Haloperidol group had 4 cases of extrapyramidal symptom evaluated by TESS and combined group had 2 cases.Two groups had no significant difference (Chisquare test P ＞ 0.05) in extrapyramidal symptom incidence.The naloxone group showed no side effects.Conclusion Naloxone combined haloperidol is slight better than naloxone,more than haloperidol in terms of efficacy.Haloperidol equally with combined medication showed more side effects than naloxone.

Objective To investigate the relationship between Trp64Arg mutation in β3-adrenerglc receptor (β3-AR) gene and the incidence of metabolic syndrome (MS). Methods A seven-year follow-up study was conducted in 386 simple obese subjects and 175 normal weight subjects in whom geno-typing of Trp64Arg mutation in β3-AR gene was examined in 2000. Results There were no differences between a Trp64Trp homozygote group and a Trp64Arg heterozygote group of whether obese or normal weight subjects with respect to adiposity, blood pressure, lipid profile, fasting blood glucose and fasting insulin in the baseline. The results of follow-up indicated that the incidence of MS in the Trp64Arg heterozygote group was higher than that in the Trp64Trp homozygote group of obese males (54. 76% vs 40. 85% ,P <0. 05) but not in the group of obese females. The incidences of MS both in the Trp64Trp homozygote group and Trp64Arg heterozygote group were higher in obese males than in obese females (40. 85% vs 18. 27% and 54. 76% vs 21.28% ,all P <0. 01 ) . No significant differences were found in incidences of MS both in the Trp64Trp homozygote group and Trp64Arg heterozygote group of normal weight subjects whether the comparison was made between males and females respectively or between males and females. The overall incidence of MS in the obese subjects were significantly increased than that in the normal weight subjects whether there was genevariant or not(31.30% vs 6. 03% and 42. 75% vs 12. 73%, all P <0. 01 ). Logistic analysis showed thatβ3-AR gene variant was associated with increased incidence of MS in males. Conclusion β3-AR gene Trp64Arg mutation is an independent risk factor for the incidence of MS in males.Conclusion β3-AR gene Trp64Arg mutation is an independent risk factor for the incidence of MS in males.