Acrylonitrile ; toxicity ; Animals ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred Strains ; Testis ; drug effects ; pathology

Forty cases of low back pain due to climacteric osteoporosis were treated by needling Fengchi (GB 20), Dazhui (GV 14), Geshu (BL 17), Tianzong (SI 11) and Ashi points, as well as oral Chinese herbs. Results showed cure in 25 cases, improvement in 9 cases and failure in 6 cases, with the total effective rate of 85.0%.

OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for the innovation of chronic disease management mode by combing internet big data with foreign and domestic chronic disease management experience. METHODS:Innovative strategies for chronic disease man-agement in internet big data era were explored from respective of pharmacists,based on national condition,referring to internation-al chronic disease management. RESULTS:The development of internet big data era brought thinking of pharmacists about new type chronic disease management mode. Pharmacists established chronic disease patients medication safety management center based on big data platform,and provided full-range and multi-level pharmaceutical care,including real-time intervention,personal-ized pharmaceutical care,human concern and timeless and spaceless patient education,clinical evidence-based medicine. CONCLU-SIONS:Big data-based chronic disease management mode could reduce the risk of drug use,promote rational drug use,and open a new era of“patient-centered”pharmaceutical care conception and pharmacist’s function transformation.

The RECK protein is highly expressed in normal cells and tissues,however,down-regulated in transformed cells or tumor tissues.Subsequent functional studies have demonstrated that RECK owns the tumor suppressor activity.Hence,it is urgent and important to unmask the mechanisms involved in regulation of RECK expression.Epigenetic regulation plays a vital role in modulating gene expression,besides,multiple research also suggested the involvement of epigenetic regulation in RECK expression.The epigenetic regulation mechanisms of controlling the gene expression currently known will be reviewed in this paper.

Objective To assess the survival of patients receiving high intensity focused ultrasound(HIFU) and investigate the prognostic factors for primary hepatocellular carcinoma(PHCC) victims with HIFU application.Methods One hundred and eighty-seven patients with PHCC undergoing HIFU treatment in our department were enrolled into this study from June 2004 to June 2007.Among them,101 patients were males and 86 were females(mean age: 47.7 years old,range: 19-79 years old).The average tumor size was 5.7 cm(range: 0.5-18.0 cm).Of these 187 patients,numbers according to Child-Pugh grade of A,B and C were 104,52 and 31,respectively.According to TNM system,45,111 and 31 patients were in stage Ⅱb,Ⅲa and Ⅲb respectively.Kaplan-Meier model and log-rank test were used in univariate analysis and Cox regression model was used in multivariate analysis to identify prognostic factors for survival.Results Survival period was(17.3?2.5) months after HIFU treatment of PHCC.The overall survival rate of 3-month,6-month,1-year and 2-year were 79.1%,60.1%,35.7%,and 29.3%,respectively.It was significant that tumor number(P=0.02),size(P=0.04),AFP(P=0.04),Child-Pugh grade(P=0.00),TNM stage(P=0.01),tumor metastasis(P=0.03) before HIFU,and tumor recurrence after HIFU(P=0.02) and standard treatment(P=0.02) were prognostic factors by single factor analysis.The following factors were identified as independent prognostic factors for overall survival by multivariate model: standard treatment protocol(P=0.000),and TNM stage(P=0.004) and Child-Pugh grade(P=0.009) before HIFU.Conclusion It is used for improving overall survival rate to found PHCC early,protect liver function,examine comprehensively before HIFU treatment,focus on standard treatment and auxiliary treatment.

Echinocandins ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Lipopeptides ; Mycoses ; drug therapy ; Sepsis ; drug therapy ; microbiology

Aged ; Humans ; Kallikreins ; analysis ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prognosis ; Prostate-Specific Antigen ; analysis ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; diagnosis

Objective To approach the clinical characteristics of extrapulmonary complication induced by mycoplasma pneumoniae(MP) infection and infectious mononucleosis syndrome. Methods The MP-IgM(+), EBV- IgM(+) were determined by enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay.There were 18 cases infected with MP and infectous mononucleosis syndrome with abnormal fever,cervix lyphadenectasis,pharyngitis,liver and spleen intumescence,lung infection, and so on.They were analyzed by reviewing.Results There were 8 cases(44.4%) with extrapulmonary complication, among them 3 cases(16.6%) with liver injury,1 case (5.56%) with heart injury,2 cases(11.1%) with both heart and liver injuries,1 case(5.56%) with urinary system injury (nephritis), 1 case (5.56%) with nervous system injury (encephalitis).The complication usually arised 1 week after primary affection, but had no typical clinical symptoms.There was only 1 case with encephalitis who expressed the symptom of nervous system symptom firstly, and was clinically dia- gnosed by assistant examinations. All the cases recovered after 3 weeks′ treatment with macrolides, 5-7 days with ganciclovir, and also with regular complication and support treatments.Conclusions The incidence of extrapulmonary complication induced by MP infection and infectous mononucleosis syndrome is higher than that by the single infection, and its clinical symptom isn′t obvious and is easy to be covered by original illness. And a few showing the extrapulmonary as the first symptom is easily mistakenly diagnosed .As a result, the prognosis is favorable if we make subsidiary inspection and diagnosis as soon as possible and give it with regular treatment.

Berberine is the major component of Coptidis Rhizoma and it has been used as anti-infection, anti-inflammation drug for gastrointestinal diseases. In recent years, evidence showed that it could regulate glucose and lipid metabolism. Moreover, its activity had been tested by clinical trials and animal researches. The mechanisms of berberine in diabetes include: improving the function of beta-cell; prompting insulin secretion and islets regeneration, lowing lipid level, regulating glucose and lipid metabolic by influence transcriptional factors expression such as PPARgamma, C/EBPalpha, SREBP-1c, LXR, having the activities of anti-oxidation and inhibiting reductase to repress oxidative stress state and regulate metabolic signal pathway. Although numbers of data supported that berberine could improving insulin resistance by clinical trials and animal studies, the large scale, multicenter clinical trials are needed to evaluate the effects of berberine for diabetes and its complications in the time of evidence-based medicine.
Animals ; Berberine ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ; drug therapy ; genetics ; metabolism ; Glucose ; metabolism ; Humans ; Hypoglycemic Agents ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Insulin ; metabolism ; Lipid Metabolism ; drug effects

Objective:To construct recombinant retrovirus expressing human bone morphogenetic protein-7 gene BMP7 and to discuss its apoptosis-inducing activities and the mechanism in liver cancer cell line HepG2. Methods:BMP7 gene was amplified and reconstructed with retroviral plasmid pLP-LNCX by loxP homologous recombination,and then the plasmid pLP-LNCX-BMP7 (pLLBMP7) was transferred into packing cell line PT67 and the supernatant was collected to assay viral titer. MTT assay was adopted to observe HepG2 cells amplification. 48h after pLLBMP7 infection agarose electrophoresis and flow cytometry were used to verify apoptosis of tumor cells,and then the expression of BMP7,caspase-3 and bcl-2 proteins were detected by Western blotting. Results:Recombinant retrovirus pLLBMP7 was justified and transformed into PT67 package cell with supernatant viral titer amounted to 5?109 pfu/ml. In MTT assay retrovirus group had no evident difference from controls in cellular inhibition 72h later (35.1% vs. 5.3%,68.5% vs.18.3%,p