1.Effects of agmatine on permeability of blood-brain barrier and expression of aquaporin 4 and matrix metalloproteinase 9
Xinmiao XU ; Yongjun JIN ; Wei GUO ; Pengjuan CAO ; Tiantian QU ; Meizi YANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2015;24(3):204-207
Objective To investigate the protection of agmatine on blood brain barrier (BBB) permeability and the effect on the expression of aquaporin 4 (AQP4) and matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) in ischemic reperfusion injury rats.Methods Sixty healthy male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into normal control group (NC),model group and agmatine group,and there were 20 rats in each group.Normal control group was treated with intraperitoneal injection of saline in 2 hours after incision and suture of skin.Model group was treated with intraperitoneal injection of saline in 2 hours after the establishment of middle cerebral artery occulation (MCAO) model.Agmatine group was treated with intraperitoneal injection of agmatine (AGM) in 2 hours after the establishment of MCAO model.The damage of blood brain barrier was detected by measuring the permeability of blood brain barrier.The infarct size of brain was observed with TTC staining.The morphological changes of neurons were observed with electron microscope.The expressions of AQP4 and MMP9 were detected using immunohistochemical method.Results The permeability of BBB of agmatine treatment group (0.31±0.10) decreased significantly compared with the model group (0.46±0.09) (P<0.05),but was still significantly higher than the normal control group (0.24±0.12) (P<0.05).There was no infarction area in normal control group and the infarction areas of agmatine group decreased obviously compared with the model group.Compared with model group,the number of neurons with morphological changes reduced significantly and the degree of pathological changes of neurons was obviously improved in agmatine group.Compared with normal control group,the expression of AQP4 and MMP9 in ischemic penumbra of left cerebral hemisphere parietal cortex in the rats of model group and agmatine group increased significantly(P<0.05).And the expression of AQP4 and MMP9 in model group was significantly higher than that of agmatine group(P<0.05).Conclusion Agmatine has a protective effect on BBB with ischemia-reperfusion injury due to its down-regulation the expression of AQP-4 and MMP-9.
2.The influence of the life quality by the cognitive,behavioral,psychological intervention to the spouses of breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
Xiuying TANG ; Feng LUO ; Guo SHI ; Pengjuan JIN ; Ling ZHANG ; Hongyuan LI
Chongqing Medicine 2014;(22):2848-2849,2852
Objective To explore the influence of life quality for the breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy after the cog-nitive ,behavioral and psychological intervention to their spouse .Methods 120 breast cancer patients received standardized chemo-therapy and their spouses ,and divided into control and intervention groups .The intervention group receive the routine care and health guidance .Before and after chemotherapy ,the life quality of patients was investigated .The data was analyzed statistically .Re-sults The result by the breast cancer patients Quality of Life Questionnaire in Chinese (FACT-B) show that ,the scores of the con-trol and intervention groups in the physiological status ,social/family status ,emotional status ,functional status ,additional attention andtotalscorewere(18.77±4.18,16.48±4.60,17.35±4.41,16.04±4.80,20.81±6.02,89.45±6.34 ;22.46±3.57,19.03± 4 .83 ,18 .58 ± 3 .96 ,18 .59 ± 4 .48 ,24 .73 ± 5 .63 ,103 .39 ± 8 .91) .The scores of intervention groups was increased significantly than the control group .The data was analyzed statistically .Conclusion The quality of life of patients was improved by the cognitive ,be-havioral and psychological guidance and intervention to the spouse of breast cancer chemotherapy patients.