Objective To observe the therapeutic effects of aqueous extract of ginger on vascular dementia(VD) in rats.Methods Male SD rats were randomly divided into sham-operation group, model contral group, huperzine A group and three ginger aqueous extract groups for high, middle and low dosage. The VD rat model was established by bilateral corotid ligation and repeated cerebral ischemia reperfusion. Spatial learning and memory abilities in both place navigation test and spatial prob test were evaluated with Morris water maze. The activitie of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in cortex and striatum tissue and SOD and MDA content in brain tissue was detected by spectrophotometry.Results Compared with sham-operation group, the rats in model control group exhibited serious learning and memory deficits in both place navigation test and spatial prob test and decreased significantly AChE activity in striatum tissue. Aqueous extract of ginger could not only improve the learning and memory abilities in both place navigation test and spatial prob test, but also increase AChE activity and the ratio of SOD/MDA and decrease MDA content in brain tissue. Conclusion Aqueous extract of ginger has obvious effects on improving learning and momery abilities of rats with VD. Increasing the function of cholinergic neuron and inhibiting AChE activity are likely to be the partial mechanism.

BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine has certain value and significance in the treatment of ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases by regulating the ischemia-hypoxia microenvironment and improving the survival rate and differentiation rate of stem cells. OBJECTIVE: To sort out and analyze the research progress of traditional Chinese medicine on regulating ischemia-hypoxia microenvironment intervention on proliferation, differentiation, aging and autophagy of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in recent years. METHODS: The full-text database of Chinese journals, PubMed and Wanfang were retrieved with the keywords of “bone mesenchymal stem cells, ischemia-hypoxia microenvironment, proliferation, differentiation, aging” in English or “bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, ischemia and hypoxia, proliferation, differentiation, aging” in Chinese for articles regarding effects of ischemia and hypoxia microenvironment on survival rate and differentiation rate of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells published from 2002 to 2019. Fifty-five articles were selected for review, including 22 Chinese articles and 33 English articles. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The ischemia-hypoxia microenvironment is the important reason for the low survival rate and differentiation rate of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. There are many adverse reactions in the intervention of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells with gene modification or cell molecules and drugs, which have become difficult problems to be solved in modern medicine. Exploring the internal relationship between microenvironment and stem cells using single or active components of traditional Chinese medicine combined with RNA transcriptomics is a new way to improve the viability of stem cells.

This paper is to report the study of the microscopic and macroscopic he-morrheological changes and the conditions of the nail-fold microcirculation in 30 patients with severe viral hepatitis. Normal 'individuals, patients with acute icteric hepatitis, and those with chronic active hepatitis were employed as the controls.The changes observed in the patients with severe viral hepatitis were as follows: The reduced viscosity of the whole blood and the plasma viscosity increased markedly, the dispersion rate of the blood viscosity values increased as the clinical state of the patient became more severe, and the factors increasing the blood viscosity (namely, increase of the amount of immune globulin, pro-longation of the electrophoretic time of RBC, increase of RBC sedimentation rate), and the factors decreasing the blood viscosity (namely, decreases of he-matocrit reading, fibrinogen, and the aggregation ratio of platelets) existed simultaneously. The changes of the flow condition and velocity of the nail-fold microcirculation were in close correlation with the increase of blood viscosity and the severity of the disease.The causes and the mechanism of the above-mentioned changes were discussed.

Objectives To detect the loss of heterozygosity(LOH)frequencies of microsatellite loci D9S171and D9S1604in p16gene of psoriatic keratinocytes,and to study the correlation between mi-crosatellite LOH of p16gene and the development of psoriasis.Methods By the use of polymerase chain reaction(PCR)-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis-silver staining,LOH was detected with23sam-ples of keratinocytes from psoriatic lesions and non-lesion skin.Results LOH was identified at loci D9S171and D9S1604in5and10out of23keratinocyte samples from LOH-exhibited psoriatic lesions,and in2and3of keratinocyte samples from psoriatic non-lesion skin,respectively.The frequency of LOH at D9S1604was significantly higher in psoriatic lesion samples than that in psoriatic non-lesion skin(P

Objective To evaluate the overall effectiveness of microsurgery for elderly pituitary adenomas,and to select the optimal surgical approaches for this type of tumor. Methods Microsurgical operation was performed on 190 patients with elderly pituitary ademomas,and these patients were retrospectively analysed. The 190 cases were divided into transsphenoidal group and transcranial group with a comparison analysis of respective removal percentage,postoperative complication and follow-up. Results In the transsphenoidal group with 158 cases,total removal were performed in 112 cases (71.0%),subtotal removal in 30 cases,partial removal in 16 cases. In the transcranial group with 32 cases,total removal were performed in 8 cases (25.0%),subtotal removal in 16 cases,partial removal in 8 cases. Conclusions Transsphenoidal approach was characterized by shorter hospitalization period,less therapeutic charges and better postoperative quality of life and it should be of choice for the treatment of the elderly pituitary adenomas.

Objective:To compare the histological differences between magnetic anastomosis and traditional suture in canine portal vein (PV) .Methods:Eighteen healthy Chinese garden dogs, either gender, 8-12 months and weighing 13.5-18.9 kg, were randomly divided into magnetic compressive anastomats (MCA) group ( n=9) and hand-sewing (HS) group ( n=9) for PV reconstruction. The time of PV anastomosis was compared between the two groups. HE and Masson staining were performed immediately and at 4, 8, 12 and 24 weeks after operation. The ultrastructure of the anastomosis was observed using scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Results:All dogs survived. The PV anastomosis time was significantly shorter in MCA group (3.58±2.75) min than that HS group (12.89±3.12) min, P<0.01. In MCA group, the vascular wall of anastomotic stoma was well aligned immediately after operation, and the shrinkage was obvious in HS group by gross eyes. At 24 weeks, electron microscope scanning showed the re-endothelialization was smooth and endothelial cells arranged regularly at the anastomotic site of the MCA group, whereas different-sized and irregularly aligned endothelial cells and large collagenous fibers arranged in disorder were present at the HS anastomotic stoma. Representative HE and Masson staining confirmed that the magnetic device was associated with decreased infiltration of inflammatory cells and deposition of fibrotic collagen at 24 weeks explanted anastomotic stomas compared with the HS group. Conclusions:Compared with the HS, MCA produced shorter anastomosis time, smooth anastomotic intima, light fibrous tissue hyperplasia, no foreign body residue, mild inflammatory reaction and reliable technique for canines PV anastomosis.

Purpose To clarify the morphologic changes and significance of interstitial cells of Cajal-like cells in the bladder of diabetic guinea pig.Methods The experimental guinea pigs were induced by a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin(STZ).The diabetic guinea pig model, who were made succesful for 4 weeks, were detected through the urodynamic evaluation.The distribution of ICCs-like cells in the detrusor, which were taken from these guinea pigs,were quantitatively analyzed after frozen section and indirect immunofluorescence methods and observed by electron microscopy.Results In the diabetic group, the maximum detrusor pressure was signifently lower than controls (P＜0.01), maximum bladder capacity, compliance, residual volume and leak point pressures was significently higer than controls (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01);In detrusor, compared with control, the ICCs-like cells of diabetes group showed significently decreased in quantity. In diabetic bladder, the quantity of gap junctions between ICCs-like cells and cells around,such as smoth muscle cells,terminal nerves and other ICCs-like cells,decreased significently.And more cavities and less organoids occurred in cytoplasm of diabetic ICCs-like cells. Mitochondria became swollen or even disapeared, accompanied with swollen endocytoplasmic reticulum.Conclusion The decrease and injures of ICCs-like cells in bladder may be one of the mechanisms resulting in urodynamic changes of diabetic cystopathy.

Objective To screen the peripheral blood circRNA differently expressed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to explore the pathogenetic role of peripheral blood cicRNA in RA by analyzing the data with bioinformatics.Methods The study was performed in 3 RA cases and 3 healthy controls,using circRNA microarrays to screen the circRNA in peripheral blood of patients with RA.The data were normalized and analyzed by R soft package,screening by fold change and P value and searching the differently expressed circRNAs between the two samples by t test.Bioinformatics was performed to analyze the differently expressed circRNAs.Results The results from circRNA microarrays revealed that 36 circRNAs were significantly al-tered in RA patients (P ＜0.05) compared with the control group.Among them,22 were significantly up-regulated,and the other 14 were down-regulated.The GO analysis of the genes involved in the circRNA showed that these genes participated in the progress of biological regulation,cell differentiation,and metabolism.We predicted the target miRNA of all the differently expressed circRNAs,among the results there was a miRNA (hsa-miR-125a-3p) targeted by a circRNA(hsa_circ_0005397) experimentally confirmed by other studies.The relationships among circRNA-miRNA-Gene were predicted by Cytoscape software.Conclusion There are many differently expressed cireRNAs in peripheral blood of patients with RA,and the circRNAs maybe involved in the regulatory mechanisms of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Objective To describe common dermoscopic features of primary cutaneous amyloidosis (PCA),and to explore the application value of dermoscopy in assisting the diagnosis of PCA.Methods Seventeen patients with PCA were collected from Department of Dermatology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital between April 2014 and December 2016.A total of 45 skin lesions were subjected to dermoscopy,and their dermoscopic features were analyzed.Results The common dermoscopic features of PCA included central hubs,which could be white,brown or scar-like areas,various pigment structures and shiny white streaks.Dermoscopy showed that central hubs could be observed in all the lesions (100％),while white center hubs alone were observed in 14 (31％) lichenoid lesions,both white center hubs and scar -like areas in 5 (11％) lichenoid lesions,brown center hubs alone in 8 (18％) macular lesions,both white and brown center hubs in 6 (13％) lichenoid lesions and 17 (38％) macular lesions.All the lesions showed various pigment structures.Shiny white streaks were observed in 4 (9％) lichenoid lesions.Conclusion Dermoscopy has good application value in assisting the diagnosis of PCA.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)has been classified as mild,moderate,or severe,on the basis of the Glasgow coma scale (GCS)score.Mild TBI is estimated to account for 90% of all cases of TBI, and it has become a serious public health problem,with morbidity increasing year by year.At present,there is a lack of accepted uniform definition of mild TBI.Clinically,mild TBI and concussion are interchangeable terms.In recent years,advances in brain imaging,biomarkers determination,and neuropathology have encouraged people to revise and update their knowledge about mild TBI.In view of the high prevalence of mild TBI in the emergency and community,and the absence of the data concerning the long-term effects of mild TBI, further research is needed about how to reduce morbidity and costs, alleviate delayed consequences,and develop evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes.