The morphology and anatomy of two genera, five species and one variety ofEquisetaceae produced in Shandong Province were studied under light and scanning electron microscope.There are remarkble differences between Equisetum L. and Hippochatete Milde in the type of stomas, at-tachments on the surface of stoma guard cells and the number of epithelial layers; and the presence of lat-eral xylem in all vasular bundle of Equisetaceae from Shandong. The results showed that they can be identi-fied taxonomically according to their inner structual and epidermal characteristics of stem between differentgenera, but with little difference among species of same genus.

BACKGROUND: Clinical studies have discovered heart rate variability (HRV) is closely correlated with autonomic nervous system, sub-health and sudden death. Medical studies have summarized some chaotic medical science and homeostasis relevance theory. But so far the combination could still not systematically explain the clinical manifestation or summarize the diagnostic standards for sub-health and effective index to prevent sudden death. OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the correlation among autonomic nervous system, sub-health and sudden death by using chaotic medicine and homeostasis, so as to provide theoretical basis for evaluating sub-healthy state using HRV and preventing sudden death HRV. RETRIEVAL STRATEGY: A computer-based online search of Pubmed was undertaken to identify the articles published in English between January 1995 and June 2007 with the keywords of "chaotic medicine, heart rate variability (HRV), Sudden death, Sub-health, homeostasis". Meanwhile, the Weblog and CNKI database were searched for relevant articles dated from January 1995 and June 2007 with the same keywords in Chinese. Fifty-six papers were searched. After the first trial, only articles ①closely correlated with chaotic medical science, sudden death and sub-health, and ②published recently or in authority magazine in same field were selected. Repetitive studies were excluded. LITERATURE EVALUATION: The review articles, basic and clinical experiments about chaotic medical science, HRV, sudden death, sub-health, and homeostasis as well as articles published in related weblogs were selected. DATA SYNTHESIS: ①In any individual composed of multi-cells and multi-system, there are at least three-level chaotic system: overall chaotic system, cardiovascular chaotic system maintaining the blood pressure and cell chaotic system. Healthy state is that the three chaotic systems are in normal condition. Disease and sub-healthy state is the sub-stable state of chaotic system caused by the overstress of central nervous system, overexcitation of autonomic nerves and HRV decrease when there is some cell or cardiovascular system malfunction, and the information is feedback to central nervous system. ②Based on the theory about chaotic medicine and homeostasis, there are four states in individual chaotic motion: health, disease, sub-health, and homeostasis border before sudden death. The health is the homeostasis of body; disease and sub-health are the sub-homeostasis and may develop from healthy state because various factors; they may transform each other and both of them may lead to sudden death for unsteady. ③The extreme tension of central nervous system and over-excitation of autonomic nerves result in the destabilizing overall chaotic motion. Stimulation induces system destabilizing and sudden death because the patient cannot maintain arterial blood pressure. CONCLUSION: Long-term healthy state is unpredictable, but we can forecast 1-2 days situations by short-term HRV testing for 512 times in the early morning of every day, and judge the healthy state after sleep, and the change tendency of healthy state. Accordingly, we could predict person is in healthy state, sub-healthy state or unsteady border state that could cause sudden death.

Purpose: There is no appropriate instrument or devices and corresponding technological specification for measurement of output dose and dose disdribution in stereotactic radiothrapy. Small field of the stereotatic radiotherapy can't be measured by normal ionization chamber for its characteristics.A practible instrument and method were developed for dose measurement in stereotactic irradiation.Materials and Methods:A diode detector with 1mm sensitivety volume and a 0.3cc graphite chamber developed by us are used to measure the dose output & dose distribution in warious phantom for the beams used in stereotactic irradiation.Results:The dose outputs and dose ditributions measured by SCD-61 diode developed by us were tested and verified by TLD dosemeter,and the results show tha there is a 5% consistency for the value at the focus point.Conclusion: the diameter of the detector used for measurement must be smaller than the halt size of the radiation beams to be measured. A diode detector with 1mm sensitivity volume is the best choice for the dosimetric measurements for smaller beams used in stereotactic irradiation.

Objective: The activity of nitric oxide synthase(NOS)in nasal mucosa of normal guinea pigs was compared with that of allergic rhinitis(AR)guinea pigs to investigate the relationship between NOS and AR. Methods: Localization of NOS in nasal mucosa of normal and AR guinea pigs was examined by means of NADPH diaphorase (NADPH d) histochemical stain. Results: Nasal mucosa of both normal and AR groups was positive for NADPH d, though the AR group reacted more strongly. Reaction was localized to the cytoplasm of glandular cell, epithelium and vascular endothelium. Conclusion: There is distribution of NOS in nasal mucosa of normal guinea pigs. The activity of NOS in guinea pig AR model was significantly stronger than that in normal group. NOS is related to AR. [

Objective: To investigate the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis at cell level by determing basophil histamine releasability in guinea pigs and attempt to find an objective way for the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis. Methods: A model of allergic rhinitis was established after healthy guinea pigs were randomly divided into 2 groups. The basophil histamine releasability to the stimulant of concanavalin A between normal and experimental guinea pigs was compared by means of fluorometric assay of histamine. Results: Basophil histamine release to various concentrations of concanavalin A in allergic rhinitis group was significantly enhanced as compared with that in normal control ( P

Objective: To investigate the influence of histamine content in nasal mucosa on blood flow. Methods: Sixty guinea pigs were randomly devided into control group and allergized group and guinea pigs were sacrificed before nasal challenge with allergen and immediately after nasal challenge, at 24, 48, 72 h. The content of histamine in nasal mucosa was examined. Nasal mucosa blood flow was examined in all guinea pigs before sacrifice. The data were analyzed using linear correlation and linear regression. Results: As compared with normal guinea pigs, the content of histamine and blood flow in nasal mucosa of allergic rhinitis guinea pigs were significantly increased before challengd with allergen( P

Objective To investigate the correlation of extent and pattern of computed tomography ( CT) enhancement of tumor lesions and histological types in advanced gastric carcinoma .Methods A total of 121 ca-ses of advanced gastric carcinoma were included in this study .Tri-phase enchanced 64-slice spiral CT scan-ning was performed before operation for every patient .We judged the extent lesions′of and pattern of enhance-ment using axial images combined with reconstruction of VR ,MPR and MIP.Then the radiographic result of every subject was compared with its corresponding postoperative histological type after operation .Results In the pres-ent study,the correlation of extent of CT enhancement of tumor lesions and histological types were as follows :ade-nocarcinoma patients were mostly with moderate enhancement ( n=57,61.3%),mucinous adenocarcinoma pa-tients were mostly with mild enhancement (n=7,46.7%).While obvious enhancement were mostly observed in patients with signet ring cell carcinoma(n=8,61.5%).The correlation of pattern of CT enhancement of tumor lesions and histological types were as follows:adenocarcinoma patients were mostly with well -distributed en-hancement(n=58,62.4%),while endothecium obvious enhancement were mostly seen in patients with mucinous adenocarcinoma(n=13,86.7%)and signet ring cell carcinoma (n=7,58.3%).Conclusions There are signif-icant correlation between advanced gastric carcinoma′s tri-phases enhancement characteristics with 64-slice spiral CT and its histological types .Judging histological type using 64-slice spiral CT before operation is useful for formulating and optimizing the therapeutic regimen for gastric cancer patients ,and it is significant for observing the tumors′biological behavior and judging the curative effect .

Objective·To explore the effects of the cancer-testis antigen(CTA)family member CT63 on proliferation,differentiation,and tumorigenicity of chronic myeloid leukemia(CML)cells,and uncover the underlying molecular mechanisms.Methods·The link between CT63 expression and the prognosis of myeloid leukemia patients was analyzed using bioinformatics methods(TCGA database).A K562 cell line with CT63 knockdown was established.The knockdown efficiency of CT63 was confirmed by qRT-PCR and Western blotting.Live-cell imaging and CCK-8 methods were adopted to evaluate the inhibitory effect of CT63 knockdown in CML cells.A subcutaneous tumorigenesis assay in nude mice was conducted to examine the effects of CT63 on tumorigenesis,tumor growth,and differentiation of K562 cells in vivo.Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate(PMA)-induced monocyte/macrophage differentiation experiment was carried out to investigate the role of CT63 in the differentiation of K562 cells in vitro.Mitochondrial function was assessed to determine the impact of CT63 on CML cells both in vivo and in vitro.Results·The Kaplan-Meier survival curve indicated that low expression levels of CT63 were correlated with longer survival in patients with myeloid leukemia.Down-regulation of CT63 in K562 cells inhibited proliferation and promoted differentiation.Live-cell imaging and CCK-8 assays displayed that knockdown of CT63 inhibited cell proliferation and extended cell doubling time in K562 cells.In the subcutaneous xenotransplantation model,down-regulation of CT63 inhibited tumor growth in nude mice.K562 cells expressing lower levels of CT63 were more prone to differentiate into monocyte/macrophage both in vivo and in vitro under PMA exposure condition.Knockdown of CT63 suppressed the activity of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex Ⅳ.This led to decreased expression of mitochondrial markers,including cytochrome C oxidase Ⅳ(COX Ⅳ),pyruvate dehydrogenase,succinate dehydrogenase A(SDHA),and voltage-dependent anion channel(VDAC),thus affecting the mitochondrial metabolic activity of K562 cells.Conclusion·CT63 is related to the prognosis of myeloid leukemia patients.CT63 plays an important role in promoting proliferation and inhibiting differentiation of K562 cells in vivo and in vitro.CT63 serves as a switch to regulate the balance between proliferation and differentiation of CML cells via the modulation of mitochondrial activity.

Objective:To investigate the current situation and influencing factors of patients′ satisfaction with nursing humanistic care, and to provide reference for improving the quality of such care provided by hospitals.Methods:From July to August 2022, outpatients and inpatients in 30 provinces were selected by multi-stage stratified sampling as the survey objects. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on an online platform, using the general information questionnaire and Chinese version of methodist health care system nurse caring instrument revised by the research group. The latter instrument consists of 12 dimensions. namely care coordination, competence, teaching/learning, emotional support, respect for individuality, physical comfort, availability, helping/trusting relationship, patient/family engagement, physical environment, spiritual environment and outcomes. Descriptive analysis was performed on the data collected by the questionnaires, and independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the influencing factors of patient satisfaction. Results:A total of 107 hospitals were selected for questionnaire survey, including 86 tertiary hospitals and 21 secondary hospitals, and 29 108 valid questionnaires were recovered. The patient satisfaction with nursing humanistic care scored (5.40±0.86); the top three dimensions were competence (5.50±0.89), emotional support (5.47±0.88) and helping/trusting relationship (5.46±0.86); the lowest scoring dimensions were teaching/learning (5.38±1.01), spiritual environment (5.36±1.04) and patient/family engagement (5.11±1.28). Differences with gender, age, marital status, child status, educational level, occupation, place of residence, economic region, per capita monthly income of the family, type of medical insurance, medical department visited and surgery or not presented significant differences on the patient satisfaction with nursing humanistic care scores ( P<0.05). Conclusions:The satisfaction of patients with hospital′s nursing humanistic care in China was at the middle to upper level. In the future, health education for patients should be strengthened, and a mode of family-engaged nursing humanistic care should be constructed in line with the Chinese cultural background. In the process of nursing services, the particularity of patient groups should be considered to better meet their needs.