Fifty-seven rabbits were used for the experimental study of blood-brain barrier (BBB)permeability quantitatively in early stage of brain injury by a designated drop- ping weight method.Animals were divided into three groups:(1) control;(2)brain injury group; (3)therapeutic group.The brain injured animals were treated with antisodamine.Three different sizes of colloidal gold (OG)particles in diameter 5,10 and 15mu were given intravenously as tracers for quantitative investigation of BBB changes with light and electron microscope,respectively.In addition,brain water contents were de4rmined,The preliminary data indicated that the increase of BBB permeability began at 0.5h after trauma showing a few of 5 and 10 mu CG particles present in the endocytic pits and endothelial microvilli.Augmentation of BBB per meability reached its peak 6h after injury.Many 5,10 and 15mu CG tracers were seen penetrating the BBB through the openings at the tight junctions of endothelial cells or by vesicular transportation.The variation of brain water contents was closely correlated to the above mentioned BBB changes.The use of antisodamine resulted in a remarkable attanuation of BBB permeability and seemed advantageous in the treat- meat of cerebral edema after brain injury.

As a kind of progenitor cells, the neural stem cells (NSC) possess the potential abilities of both proliferation and differentiation, from which some neurons or glias can be produced. Therefore, the neural stem cells show broad application prospects and clinic utility value. In this paper, the biological characteristics, distributions, main differentiation mechanisms, some experimental skills and application in neurosurgery of the neural stem cells were discussed.

To study the toxicity of monoamine in high concentrations to neurons. Neurons were treated in vitro with different doses of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin for various lengths of time. The toxicity of these reagents on neurons was observed. Apoptosis of neurons was analyzed by agar electrophoresis, in situ DNA end labeling technique and flow cytometry. The results showed that a high concentration of monoamine could induce apoptosis of the culturing neurons. At 24h after treatment with dopamine or norepinephrine (80, 160 and 320?mol/L) as well as with 320?mol/L serotonin, apoptotic rates of neurons were significantly higher than that of the controls, respectively ( P

Objective To investigate the effect and mechanism of p38 MAPK inhibition in reducing the damage to rat's hippocampal neurons caused by kainic acid (KA) and observe the three-dimensional morphological changes on the cell surface. Methods The rat's hippocampal neurons cultured primarily for 10 days were pretreated with SB203580 (0.2 ?mol/L, a p38 MAPK inhibitor). Thirty minutes later, the hippocampal neurons were administered with KA at concentrations of 0, 25 and 250 ?mol/L for action for 10 and 100 minutes respectively. The cellular membrane structure was scanned and examined at nano-level by using atomic force microscope. Results Normal neurons displayed smooth membrane surface with homogeneous and regular undulation. In contrast, the neurons treated with KA showed coarse membrane surface with holes. Furthermore, the degree changes increased with the action time and the KA concentrations in a dose-effect dependent fashion. The above-mentioned changes were obviously mitigated by means of pretreatment with SB203580 (200 nmol/L). Conclusions Inhibition of p38 MAPK may, in certain degrees, protect the neurons against the impairments on cytomembrane resulted from the toxic effect of KA.

Objective To establish a Alzheimer dementia(AD) model in mice. Methods The C57BL/6 mice were lesioned with ibotenic acid in Nucleus basalis of Meynert(NBM). Behavioral tests by eight-arm radial maze were conducted 8 weeks, and immunohistochemical staining of choline acetyltransferase(ChAT), serotonin(5-HT), GAD(GABA), amyloid-?protein (AP) was conducted 12 weeks after NBM lesioning. Results In NBM lesioned mice, the ChAT-positive neurons, serotonin-positive neurons, and GAD-positive neurons in right NBM reduced, and ChAT-positive neurons reduced most evidently. At the same time, the ChAT-positive fibers in prefrontal and parietal cortices decreased significantly, serotonin-positive axons slightly, accompanied by heavily AP co-expression. On the contrary, there was no change of GAD-positive neurons in cortex. The working memory error increased significantly.Conclusion Ibotenic acid lesioning in NBM can provide as a model of AD in that it produces deafferentation of cholinergic system and recent memory disruption.

Aiming at present situation and difficult position of clinical medical education,and based on the demand goal of modern medicine,this paper put forward constucting the mul-ti-dimensional optimization training pattern for five-year system clinical medicine inter-disciplinary talents by renewing the education idea,adopting the curriculum reform,the quality regulation,the educational reform,the innovation of teaching methods,and the construction of community medi-cal service practice base and so on,which is of great significance to train the high quality tal-ented person with adaptability to social development.

This study was designed to explore the mechanism of signal transduction on BBB damage in brain injury. 75 male SD rats were randomly devided into 5 groups: control, sham operation, injury only, injury with Forskolin-treatment and H7 treatment.Evans blue permeation was observed qualitatively with an epifluo resence and mesured quantitatively with a spetrophotometer.The result shcwed that Evans blue significantly permeated in injuried group,and noticeably decereased in H7 treatment group and Forskolin treatment group. It indicated that Forskolin and H7 can effectively prevent BBB opening,and suggest that Forskoling and H7 may provide new ways on BBB protection.

In order to study the influence of high temperature and high humidity on the vital signs after craniocerebral missile wound(CMW), CMW was produced in 32 cats according to the method of Carey. Then they were placed in a cabin with respective environmental temperature and humidity of 25℃ and 50%,35℃ and 85%,38℃ and 90% or 40℃ and 95%(as group A, B, C, D).The vital signs and mortality rate were recorded. There were little changes in group A, a slow elevation in group B, but obvious changes in groups C and D. There was no death in groups A and B in 8 hours. All cats in group C died in 5 hours, and also in 2 5 hours in group D. The results suggested that an environment of high temperature and high humidity was detrimental to survival of cats inflicted with CMW, and measures should be taken to alleviate these detimental effects in the treatment of CMW.

To explore the role and changes of dopamine receptor activity and their subtypes during the onset process of Parkinson disease( PD ), on the basis of 6 hydroxydopamine lesioned PD rat model, radioligand binding assay (RLBA) and Scanchard drawing were used to measure the maximal binding capacity of receptor (Bmax) and equilibrium dissociation constant (KD) of D 1 and D 2 dopamine receptors in caudal putamen of the model and control rats at different time point. The results of RLBA study revealed D 2 dopamine receptor Bmax was significantly increased and KD was significantly decreased in the caudal putamen ipsilateral to the lesion in rat model, and the changes reached the peak in one month rat model group. In contrast, the caudal putamen D 1 receptors were far less affected, with no consistent changes in the same model groups as compared with the control, except that 2 weeks model group showed Bmax was slightly decreased while KD was slightly increased. The study confirms that D 2 dopamine receptor is upregulated in the caudal putamen ipsilateral to the lesion in PD rat model, and the affinity of the receptors is increased, but the activity of D 1 dopamine receptor is not significantly changed.

To investigate the feasibility of in vitro inducing differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) into neural stem cells and mature neural cells, and to offer reference for the application of BMSCs in the field of neuroscience, BMSCs were acquired from the marrow of dogs. Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), all trans retinoic acid (RA) and glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) etc were used as proliferation or differentiation factors. Immunocytochemistry was employed to identify the cells at every culture stage. When BMSCs were proliferatively cultured for 24～72h, cleavage phase and cluster like clones appeared. On the 3rd day, some of the BMSCs derived cells started to express neuron specific enolase (NSE) or glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). The same stage cells could be cloned, that is one of the characters of stem cells, when they were cultured in the proliferation medium. The neural cell modality like cells appeared on the 10th day after adding inducing factors into culture medium, which were proved by testing the express of NSE and GFAP. BMSCs can differentiate into neural stem cells and mature neural cells in vitro, and can be used as "seed cells" in the field of neuroscience.