Fifty-six cases of intractable hiccup in cancer patients treated with acupuncture in a treatment group were compared with 58 cases treated with routine western medicine in a control group. The result showed that the effective rate was 87.5% in the treatment group and 32.8% in the control group. Ridit was used for analysis. The effective rate in the treatment group was much higher than that in the control group (P＜0.01).

There were a lot of differences between the American and Chinese medical education.Students in American should obtain bachelor's degree of humanities or science before reciveing medical doctor's degree at graduation.High altitude militray medicine is a characteristic discipline of the third military medical university,aming at training general doctors for the plateau.During the designing of high altitude militray medicine curriculum and its teaching process,we actively learned from the advanced experiences of American based on the reality,optimizd currulum,improved teaching methods,greatly cultivated the students' protential in order to increase the qualify of high altitude militray medicine personnel.

Aim To observe the improvement of visual-auditory cognitive functions in the human entering high altitude by taking in tea polyphenols.Methods Thirty eight males living at 3 700 m high altitudes for 90 days constantly were randomly divided into two groups: ①group Ⅰ(placebo,40 mg/day); ②group Ⅱ(TP,300 mg/day).Cognitive functions were measured by integrated visual and auditory continuous performance test and the difference between groups was evaluated by the comparisons of post-treatment to pre-treatment.Results Compared with pre-treatment,PruA was significantly higher after taking in TP(P

BACKGROUND: The establishment of amniotic fluid derived stem cells (AFS) can provide an individual reserve for cell therapy in nerve degenerative diseases.OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of Noggin and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on AFS differentiation into neural cells.METHODS: Samples of amniotic fluid were obtained through amniocentesis by ultrasound from gestational age of 16-22 weeks for routine prenatal diagnosis. AFS were obtained from the 2~(nd) trimester amniotic fluid samples by immunomagnetic beads selection using CD117 antibody, and identified the surface antigen expression by flow cytometry after amplification. The 3~(rd) generation of AFS with good growth state were induced to differentiate into nerve cells, which were divided into the blank control,based-induced, Noggin-induced and bFGF-induced groups. The induced cell morphology was observed under inverted phase contrast microscopy, and the expression of nestin, β-Ⅲ tubulin and neurofilament in the induced cells was measured by using cell immunofluorescence detection.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Flow cytometry analysis indicated that most of AFS cells expressed CD44 and HLA-ABC, but negative for CD45 and HLA-DR. At 2 weeks after induction, the cell morphology exhibited significant changes with increased Nestin,β-Ⅲ tubulin and NF-positive rates in the bFGF-induced group. However, it had no significant difference in the Noggin-induced group and the based-induced group. It revealed that bFGF plays a vital role in the AFS differentiated into nerve cells.

Objective To investigate the current status of the willingness of organ donation among floating population in Guangdong Province and explore its influence factors.Methods The questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate general information of the floating population and their willingness of organ donation,knowledge of organ donation,attitude towards organ donation and death as well as the willingness of family discussion (organ donation),etc.The correlation analysis of variables and the willingness of organ donation in floating population was conducted by Spearman rank correlation,and the multivariate analysis was conducted by multiple linear regression model.Results Among the floating population,the people who were female,from city,owned an average monthly household income per capita of RMB 4 001 -5 000 yuan,got acquaintance with the organ donors or their families,got acquaintance with accepted the organ donors or their families had higher willingness of organ donation (all in P <0.05 ).Scores of the willingness of organ donation,knowledge of organ donation,attitude towards organ donation and the willingness of family discussion were 1.95 ± 0.91 ,5.02 ±2.40,92.00 ±1 6.78 and 3.98 ±1 .28 respectively.The willingness of family discussion,knowledge of organ donation and recognition of the value of organ donation showed positive correlation with the willingness of organ donation (P <0.05-0.01 ).The cause hindering organ donation and fear of death showed negative correlation with the willingness of organ donation (all in P <0.01 ).Five variables were integrated into the multiple linear regression analysis model,including willingness of family discussion,knowledge of organ donation,recognition of the value of organ donation, cause hindering organ donation and fear of death.Conclusions The willingness of organ donation among the floating population in Guangdong Province is on or below the medium level,and its influence factors include willingness of family discussion,knowledge of organ donation,recognition of the value of organ donation,cause hindering organ donation and fear of death.