In Japan, acupuncture and massage does not belong to medical treatment, but a behavior similar to it.Acupuncture and massage along with Chinese medical science suffered tremendous impact since Japan's Meij Restoration.This paper made a summary on the history, development, academy, and current educational situation of Japanese acupuncture and massage industry.

Anti-Arrhythmia Agents ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; drug therapy ; Humans

Objective To observe the influence of Dunhuang Nourishing Cream on the contents of SOD, GSH-PX and MDA in skin of aged rats. Methods Female SD rats of SPF level were divided into 6 groups:high, moderate and low dose groups of Dunhuang Nourishing Cream, model contrasting group, positive contrasting group and blank contrasting group. After removed the hair on the back, the drug groups were applied with Dunhuang Nourishing Cream, the model group was applied with the matrix of Dunhuang Nourishing Cream and the positive group was applied with vitamin E. After 30 days, the contents of SOD, GSH-PX and MDA in the skin were tested with the method of biochemistry analysis. Results Compared with the model group, the contents of SOD, GSH-PX and MDA in the high, moderate and low dose groups had significant difference (P

OBJECTIVE:To establish a HPLC method for the determination of cilostazol in human plasma.METHODS:C18 was the chromatographic column,MeOH-0.03mol/L ammonium acetate (62∶38,V/V)was the mobile phase with a flow rate at 0.8 ml/min and detection wavelength at 257 nm,acetic ether was used as the extraction solvent.RESULTS:Good linear relationship was achieved when the detection concentration range of cilostazol was 10.0～1 500.0 ng/ml(r=0.9 999),the average recovery rates for the high,medium and low concentrations of cilostazol were 99.82%,97.30%and 97.14%,respectively,both the intra-day and inter-day RSD were lower than 6%.CONCLUSION:This method is sensitive,accurate,simple and fast,which can be used as the clinical monitoring of blood concentration of cilostazol and its pharmacokinetics study.

To prepare sustained phenylpropanolamine*HCl (PPA*HCl)-resin complexes and to study the factors influencing the in vitro dissolution of it. METHOD: The sustainedPPA*HCl-resin complexes were prepared by coating the complexes with different kinds of ethylcellulose (EC) as coating embranes. The factors influencing the release rate of PPA*HCl from the complexes, such as resin particle size, the viscosity and thickness of coating membrane, the dispersion medium of EC (water or alcohol) as well as thepH and ion strength of dissolution medium were studied in detail. RESULTS: Thefactors above all influenced the dissolution of the complexes to ifferent extent. When prepared by EC 200 Pa*s (150 g*kg-1), the dissolution of the coated complexes in 0.1 mol*L-1 HCl accorded with the requirements of sustained PPA*HCl capsulesof USP ⅩⅩⅢ. ONCLUSION: The sustained PPA*HCl can be prepared by coating the drug-resin complexes with EC.

OBJECTIVE: To observe the mouse nerve growth factor on early intervention in rats with acute carbon monoxide intoxication delayed encephalopathy control effects, and preliminarily discuss the pathogenesis of delayed encephalopathy. METHODS: Ninety-two weight only 180-230 g, male Wistar rats were randomly divided into two experimental groups (n=40), and a healthy control group (n=12), namely the CO poisoning group (COP) of the group; mouse nerve growth factor (NGF plays group); healthy controls (NC group). Experimental group was according to 150 mL·kg-1 intraperitoneal injections of CO in the preparation of animal model of acute carbon monoxide poisoning, in the control group rats were injected with equal volume of air. NGF group rats were injected within 30 min after poisoning muscle injection of mouse nerve growth factor, once a day, every time 18 μg·kg-1, total 7 days; Control group and the COP were given intramuscular isodose physiological saline. NGF group rats were treated with 18 μg·kg-1·d-1 NGF (total 7 times); NC group and COP group treated with the same dose saline. 90 min, 7 day, 14 day and 21 day groups of rats serum myelin basic protein (MBP) levels were monitored. The routine preparation of brain tissue frozen pathology slice, line HE and MBP immunohistochemical staining. Animal intelligence is assessed by Morris water maze experiment, in the 120 s in rats to determine correctly through the platform number less than 3 times DEACMP. RESULTS: All rats showed typical toxic after CO poisoning. Experimental group rats died 29, including COP death cases in the group, the model NGF group of 15, 14, mortality rates were 37.50%, 35.00% respectively. Morris water maze experiment results showed that the COP in the group 8 rats were judged to be delayed encephalopathy; model NGF group has 5 only be judged to be delayed encephalopathy; COP group rats serum MBP content increased significantly, model NGF group close to normal.Differences were obvious in poisoning after 7 days, 14 days.Pathological examination showed the COP group delayed encephalopathy rats in poisoning 90 min-21 d in hippocampus, subcortical neurons damage, such as myelin basic protein depigmentation pathological changes.The above pathological changes can be observed in each group, the COP group rats lesion severity is heavy, model NGF group was lighter. CONCLUSION: Mouse nerve growth factor can significantly reduce the incidence of delayed encephalopathy in rats, but can't reduce the mortality. Myelin basic protein (MBP) in the pathogenesis of delayed encephalopathy may play an important role.

ObjectiveTo evaluate two "up and down stair" methods used by hemiplegic patients.Methods40 cases with hemiplegia were randomly divided into two groups with 20 cases in each group. Patients in the group A went upstairs with health leg and downstairs with affected leg, while, patients in the group B upstairs with affected leg, downstairs with health leg, and then up and down stairs with health and affected leg alternated. Effects of two training menthods were compared.ResultsEach of two training methods had its advantage and disadvantage, but motor function and mobile ability of patients in the group B were better than patients in the group A (P<0.05).ConclusionHemiplegic patients Should choose different training method of up and down stairs according to his status, and not always choose the method of going upstairs with health leg and downstairs with affected leg.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the correlation between the pathogeneses of diarrhea-pre- dominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS) complicated functional dyspepsia (FD) patients of Gan-stagnation Pi-deficiency Syndrome (GSPDS) and symptoms, psychological states, and gastrointestinal hormones.

METHODSA total of 111 patients with confirmed D-IBS complicated FD of GSPDS were recruited as the treated group by using Rome III standard and Chinese medical syndrome standard. And 30 healthy volunteers were recruited as the control group. The general condition, scoring for digestive symptoms, and the distribution of GSPDS subtype of all subjects were recorded by a questionnaire, and assessed by Symptom Checklist (SCL-90; a software for psychological test developed by Beijing Huicheng Adult Cor- poration). Meanwhile, plasma levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), somatostatin (SS), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), endothelin (ET), interleukin 10 (IL-10), and interleukin 12 (IL-12) were measured in all subjects.

RESULTS(1) The subtype of D-IBS complicated FD of GSPDS was dominant in Pi-qi deficiency type (51/111,45.9%),Pi yang deficiency type (34/111,30.6%), and GSPDS. There was no statistical difference in the scoring of digestive symptoms among the 3 subtypes (P >0.05). (2) Compared with the control group, the anxiety factor score and the total score significantly increased in all three subtypes of D-IBS complicated FD of GSPDS, and the depression score of Pi yang deficiency type and Gan-depression type also significantly increased (P <0.05, P <0.01); the depression score of Gan-depression type was significantly higher than that of the Pi-qi deficiency type (P <0.01). Plasma 5-HT levels were obviously lower in D-IBS complicated FD patients of GSPDS accompanied with anxiety or depression than in those with no obvious psychological abnormalities, and VIP and IL-10 levels were significantly lower than those in the control group (P <0.05). Plasma VIP levels were also obviously lower in D-IBS complicated FD patients of GSPDS accompanied with anxiety or depression than in those with no obvious psychological abnormalities (P <0.01), and SS levels were significantly lower than those in the control group (P <0.05). There was no statistical difference in plasma ET or IL-12 levels in each patient group, when compared with the control group (P >0.05). (3) Compared with the.control group, plasma 5-HT levels significantly increased, plasma VIP and IL-10 levels significantly decreased in ach subtype of D-IBS complicated FD patients of GSPDS (P <0.05, P <0.01), and no significant change of SS, ET, or IL-12 occurred (P >0.05). Besides, plasma 5-HT levels were significantly higher in Gan-depression type than in Pi yang deficiency type, VIP levels were lower in Gan-depression type than in Pi-qi deficiency type (all P <0.05).

CONCLUSIONSGan stagnation and Pi deficiency were dominant in D-IBS complicated FD patients of GSPDS. Psychological abnormalities, increased plasma 5-HT levels, and decreased plasma VIP levels were closely correlated with Gan stagnation subtype, which provided some reference for looking for objective indicators of Chinese medical syndromes in treating D-IBS complicated FD patients of GSPDS.

Adult ; Case-Control Studies ; Diarrhea ; etiology ; Dyspepsia ; blood ; complications ; psychology ; Gastrointestinal Hormones ; blood ; Humans ; Irritable Bowel Syndrome ; blood ; complications ; psychology ; Psychological Tests ; Qi ; Serotonin ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Yang Deficiency

A possible ?-Galactosidase gene(pwtsA) was discovered from soil metagenomic DNA of Taishan Mountain.PwtsA gene was inserted into the expression vector pET30a and transferred into E.coli BL21(DE3).Recombinant protein PWTSA was expressed as a soluble form at high level through IPTG induction,with a molecular mass of 57 kD analyzed by SDS-PAGE.PWTSA can produce o-nitrophenol from o-nitrophenol-?-D-galactopyranoside(ONPG),and its specific activity was determined as 13.6 U/mg.The enzymatic studies demonstrated that the recombinant protein PWTSA was a thermostable ?-Galactosidase,its optimum temperature and pH were 85?C～95?C and 6.5 respectively.In standard assays,the Km for ONPG was 0.83 mmol/L.

Acupuncture Therapy ; instrumentation ; Acupuncture, Ear ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Muscle, Skeletal ; injuries ; Muscular Diseases ; therapy ; Thigh ; injuries ; Young Adult