AIM: To study the effects of fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) on adriamycin (ADR)-induced calcium and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+-ATPase activity in cardiomyocytes of rats. METHODS: Rats were treated with ADR by intraperitoneal injection (2 5 mg?kg -1 body weight) once every two days for 11 days, and then ADR-treated rats were intervened by FDP at different dosages (ip) once every other day for 41 days. Enzyme linked immune absorption assay (ELISA) was employed to detect froponin I (CTnI). CK-MB was examined by monoclonal antibody. Intracellular free calcium concentration was measured on fluorescent spectrophotometry and SRCa 2+-ATPase activity was examined by inorganic phosphate. RESULTS: FDP (300, 600, 1 200 mg?kg -1) significantly reduced the levels of CTnI and CK-MB in serum. Decreased calcium and increased SRCa 2+-ATPase activity in cardiomyocytes were also observed when ADR-treated rats were intervened by FDP (P

Objective To explore the diagnostic value of transbronchial lung biopsy(TBLB), CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy and sputum cytology for unknown lung mass. Methods The clinical data of 101 inpatients with unknown lung mass were retrospectively analyzed. Results Among the 101 cases, 73 cases underwent fibrous bronchoscopic examination, 18 cases underwent CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy, and 10 cases underwent both of them.The diagnostic coincident rate of the two methods was 70%. 54 cases were diagnosed lung carcinoma by pathology. The sensitivity and specificity of TBLB for diagnosing central type of tumor were 88% and 100%, respectiely, and those for diagnosing peripheral type of tumor were 43% and 100%, respectively. The sensitivity of CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy was 80%,while the specificity was 100%. Complication frequency in the CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy was 22%, and much higher than that (12%) in the TBLB. Only 30% cases underwent sputum cytology examination, and the positive rat was 6%. Conclusion Sputum cytologic examination is a convenient and cheap method, but its diagnostic rate is relatively low. TBLB was the first choice for examining central type of lung mass. For the peripheral type of lung mass, examination method was selected based on the location and size of the mass.

Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture-moxibustion in treating chronic non-bacterial prostatitis (CNBP), and its effect on the inflammatory cytokines in prostatic fluid. Methods A hundred CNBP patients were randomized into a treatment group and a control group, 50 in each group. The control group was intervened by oral administration of Tamsulosin Hydrochloride sustained-release capsules, while the treatment group was additionally treated with acupuncture-moxibustion. After 28-day treatment, changes of IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IFN-γ, COX-2, PGE2, TNF-α, MIP-2, and iNOS contents were observed, and the clinical efficacies were compared. Results The IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IFN-γ, COX-2, PGE2, TNF-α, MIP-2, and iNOS contents were significantly changed after intervention in both groups (P<0.05). The contents of IL-6, IL-8, IFN-γ, COX-2, PGE2, TNF-α, MIP-2, and iNOS contents in the treatment group were significantly different from those in the control group after intervention (P<0.05). The total effective rate was 89.4% in the treatment group versus 78.3% in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusions Acupuncture-moxibustion is an effective method in treating CNBP, and can improve the associated indexes of prostatic fluid.

Child ; Child Day Care Centers ; Child, Preschool ; China ; epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic ; epidemiology ; prevention & control ; Male ; Nematode Infections ; epidemiology ; prevention & control ; Prevalence

Objective: To investigate the perioperative complications of balloon expandable stent and self-expanding stent (Wingspan stent) in the treatment of patients with symptomatic basilar artery stenosis. Methods: Sixty-two patients with symptomatic basilar artery stenosis admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University from November 2006 to June 2011 were analyzed retrospectively. Twenty-four of them were treated with the balloon expandable stent and 38 were treated with the self-expanding stent. The residual stenosis rate and perioperative complications in patients of both groups were observed. Results: Circled digit oneEndovascular stenting was performed successfully in all the 62 patients. Among them, the stenotic rate from 83 ± 8% decreased to 10 ± 5% immediately after procedure in the balloon expandable stent group. The stenotic rate from 81 ± 11% decreased to 17 ± 10% immediately after procedure in the self-expanding stent group. Circled digit twoSeven (29.2%) of the 24 patients had perioperative complications in the balloon expandable stent group and 4 (10.5%) in the self-expanding stent group. The difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.061). However, if excluding the surgical factors, only comparing the stent-related ischemic complications, it showed that the incidence of complications (2/38, 5.3%) in the self-expanding stent group was significantly lower than that (7/24, 29.2%) in the balloon expandable stent group. The difference was statistically significant (P = 0.022). Observing from the pathological standpoint, it showed that the patients of Mori C type has higher incidence of complications. Conclusion: Compared to the balloon expandable stent, the self-expanding stent has a lower incidence of perioperative complications in the treatment of symptomatic basilar arterial stenosis, but the postoperative residual stenosis of the self-expanding stent is higher.

Animals ; Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic ; therapeutic use ; Disease Models, Animal ; Doxorubicin ; toxicity ; Immunotherapy ; Interleukin-18 ; immunology ; pharmacology ; Male ; Mice ; Nephrosis, Lipoid ; chemically induced ; pathology ; therapy

Objective To investigate quitting motivation of smoking patients with mild and moder-ate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD) and evaluate the effects of smoking cessation methods based on cognitive intervention.Methods A total of 102 smoking patients with mild and moderate COPD from the outpatient department was divided into 4 blocks according to their intention of quitting smoking.Pa-tients in each block were randomly divided into intervention and control groups.Results ⑴All the re-spondents were at an average age of (61.3 ±12.3) years old.The sex ratio of men to women was 99∶3. The average smoking index (bag/year) in all the respondents was (39.81 ±11.53).The average daily smoking was (14.22 ±2.30) packs.The respondents with a lower degrees accounted for 55.9%and the respondents with high nicotine dependence 49.0%.A total of 39 people (38.2%) hoped to give up smok-ing, 20 people (19.6%) strongly hoped to give up smoking.⑵The main reasons for smoking included en-joyment (7.02), dependence (6.88), and calm (6.55).⑶There were statistically significant difference in the half-year continuous abstinence rates (χ2 =4.993, P =0.025) and in June quit rates (χ2 =6.668, P =0.010) between the intervention (58.82%) and control (33.33%) groups.The weight gain had sig-nificant difference between the intervention and control groups at the 3rd month ( t =2.65, P <0.01) or 6th month ( t =2.07, P <0.05) after quitting smoking.Conclusions The quitting motivation of smoking patients with mild and moderate COPD is not strong, while the smoking cessation methods based on cogni-tive intervention are effective for those patients.

Background Investigating the association of blue light-induced damage of retinal pigmenepithelial (RPE) cellwith intracellulaCa2+ conteniimportanfounderstanding the mechanism of retinal disorders.Objective Thistudy wato establish blue light-induced damage model of human RPE celland explore the relationship between the damage of RPE cell and intracellulaCa2+ content.MethodHuman RPE cellwere cultured and passaged.Cell vitality waassayed by trypan blue staining.Fourth-generation cellwere used in these experiments.The cellwere exposed to blue lighwith an intensity of (2000±500)lx fo3,6,9 o12 hours,and the rate of apoptosiwaassayed by TUNEL to assesthe optimal irradiation time focellcultured.The cellwere then randomized into the withouirradiation group,irradiation only group,nifedipine group,ligh+ nifedipine group,(-) BayK8644 group and ligh+ (-) BayK8644 group.The laseconfocal microscope waused to determine the fluorescence intensity of intracellulafree Ca2+ aan excitation wavelength of 488 nm and an emission wavelength of 505 nm.The cell imagewere analyzed using computesoftware.The differenceof fluorescence intensity among the differengroupwere compared by one-way analysiof variance.ResultTrypan blue staining showed thathe viability of RPE cellwamore than 90％ afteculturing and passaging.No apoptoticell waseen aftelighexposure fo3 hours.However,differennumberof apoptoticellappeared aftelighexposure fo6,9 and 12 hours.The fluorescence intensity of intracellulafree Ca2+ in the nifedipine group wasignificantly lowethan thaof the withouirradiation group othe ligh+ nifedipine group(both aP=0.000).Lasescanning confocal microscopy showed thathe fluorescence intensitieof intracellulafree Ca2+ in the irradiation only group,(-) BayK8644 group,ligh+ (-)BayK8644 group were highethan thaof the withouirradiation group,with statistical significancebetween them(all P=0.000).No significandifferencewere found in the fluorescence intensity of intracellulafree Ca2+ between the ligh+ nifedipine group and withouirradiation group awell abetween the (-)BayK8644 group and the ligh+(-) BayK8644 group(P =0.339,P =0.410).ConclusionThe optical conditionfoblue light-induced RPE cell damage were exposure of blue-ligha(2000± 500) lx fo6 hourand culturing the cellfo24 hours.Blue lighexposure can induce damage of human RPE cellprobably by triggering the increase of intracellulafree Ca2+ concentration.

AIM: To investigate the comparison of different types of catheter treatment of anastomotic ring canalicular effect.
METHODS:Retrospective analysis. A total of 114 cases 114 eyes were randomly selected between May 2013 to May 2015 jointly admitted to Huizhou Huizhou City People's Hospital and the Central People's Hospital of canalicular patients in accordance with the agreement of the annular catheterization divided into three groups, group A of annular nasal lacrimal duct catheterization in 36 eyes, group B for the whole nasal lacrimal annular catheterization in 33 eyes, group C between the upper annular tears point catheterization 45 eyes. Through the A, B, C three groups after 1, 3wk, 1, 3mo and 1y follow-up were analyzed to compare.
RESULTS:Group A of 31 eyes were cured, improved in 2 eyes, 3 eyes, the effective rate was 91. 7%;group B, 27 cases were cured, improved in 3 eyes, 3 eyes, the effective rate was 90. 9%;group C, 40 cases were cured, improved in 2 eyes, 3 eyes, the effective rate was 93. 3%. A, B, C three groups efficiency pointless difference (P=0. 124). Eye Effect: A, B, C meaningful difference among the three groups(F=36. 578; P=0.002), Group A scored the highest score of a minimum group C, respectively( 3. 5±0. 8 ) and ( 2. 3±0. 7 ); comparison meaningless difference between group a and group B( t=0. 086, P>0. 05 ); Group A and C and comparison of differences between group C and group B have the significance ( t = 15. 241, t = 17. 472; P<0. 05 ). Nasal influence: A, B, C meaningful difference among the three groups(F=778. 581;P=0. 001), the highest score in group B, group C minimum scores were(6. 6±0.8) and ( 0. 9 ± 0. 7 ); A, B, C three groups comparison of differences twenty-two have significance(t=17. 262; t=18.247; t = 16. 647; P<0. 05). Shape Effect: A, B, C difference among the three groups of meaningful ( F=481. 113;P=0. 002), Group A scored the highest score of a minimum group C, respectively(5. 8±0. 9) and(1. 2±0.6);Compare the difference between Groups B and C meaningless ( t = 0. 087, P > 0. 05 ); comparing the differences between the Groups A and B and between Group A and C were significance(t=26. 362, t=27. 532; P<0. 05 ). Unplug risk: A, B, C meaningful difference among the three groups(F=751. 121;P=0. 003), Group A scored the highest score of a minimum group C, respectively(6. 5±0. 7 ) and ( 1. 5±0. 7 ); A, B, C three groups comparison of differences twenty - two have significance(t=19. 642; t=20. 153; t=18. 345; P<0. 05). Group A had 8 patients had lower eyelid eversion, 5 cases of inferior lacrimal point expansion, 13 cases of sneezing, itchy nose, runny nose syndrome. Group B had 20 cases of varying degrees of now sneezing, itchy nose, runny nose syndrome. Group C had no serious complications.
CONCLUSION: Similar to A, B, C three groups of treatment efficacy, patient lacrimal functional recovery is safe and effective, which the group C treatment, during treatment and less material and fewer postoperative complications in patients, it is worth promotion.

Objective To observe the expressions of antimicrobial peptides LL-37,human beta defensin2 (HBD-2) and HBD-3 in the lesions of lupus vulgaris and tuberculosis verrucosa cutis,and to speculate the pathogenesis of cutaneous tuberculosis.Methods Tissue specimens were collected from the lesions of 18 patients with lupus vulgaris or tuberculosis verrucosa cutis and 15 patients with psoriasis,as well as from the normal skin of 10 healthy controls.The specimens were embedded by paraffin and subjected to an immunohistochemical analysis for the detection of antimicrobial peptides LL-37,HBD-2 and HBD-3.Statistical analysis was performed by using the SPSS 13.0 software package,and t test was carried out to compare the expressions of LL-37,HBD-2 and HBD-3 between these groups.Results LL-37 and HBD-2 were observed mainly in the upper and middle layer of the epidermis,appendages and vascular endothelial cells in cutaneous tuberculosis lesions.The expression levels of LL-37 and HBD-2 were significantly higher in tuberculosis lesions than in the normal skin (t =2.632,2.399,both P ＜ 0.05).Psoriatic and tuberculosis lesions shared a similar expression pattern for LL-37 and HBD-2.HBD-3 was absent in the lesions of cutaneous tuberculosis,but present in both psoriatic lesions and normal skin.Conclusions Both LL-37 and HBD-2 may participate in the immune response in cutaneous tuberculosis,while the absence of HBD-3 may contribute to the pathogenesis of cutaneous tuberculosis.