1.Primary culture of rat retinal and visual cortical neurons:Methodological characteristics
Di ZHANG ; Xiaoying WU ; Shuangzhen LIU
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2010;14(14):2647-2651
BACKGROUND:Primary culture of neurons is an important way to study the structure and functions of the nervous system.It is also important to explore pathomechanism and medicine reaction of some ophthalmology diseases.OBJECTIVE:To explore an optimal way to the separation and culture of retinal and visual cortical neurons in new-bom rats through comparative observation of different primary culture methods.METHODS:Retinal and visual cortical neurons isolated from new-born rats were firstly cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% new-born calf serum and 10% F12 nutrient mixtures,followed by maintaining culture in Neurobasal medium containing 2% B27 serum-free supplements.Nissls staining was performed for neuron identification.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Cultured neurons grew well with plump cell bodies and long processes.Nissls staining showed that the purity of retinal neurons was greater than 90% and the proportion of visual cortical neurons was higher than 50%.The results suggested that there are some differences in culturing methods and growth characteristics of retinal and visual cortical neurons of new-born rats,accordingly,different culture methods are required to obtain high purity neurons.
2.Clinical Observation on Orthokeratology Applied to Therapy Myopia
Xiaoying WU ; Shuangzhen LIU ; Peigang HUANG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2001;0(04):-
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of orthokeratology (Ortho-k) in treatment of myopia. Method Using Better Vision Contact lenses to treat 98 patients with myopia(192 eyes). The visual, the diopter of myopia and the corneal curvature were observed.Results Three monthes after treatment the myopia degree was reduced by-5 75D,astigmatism with rale was decreased by-2 75D,respectively,96 47% of low myopia (≤-3 00D),64 49% moderate-high myopia (-3 00D~-7 25D) were recovered to emmetropia. A positive correlation was found between the spherical equivalent and the corneal curvature (?=0 993,P
3.Evaluation of effect of continuous care provided by midwife groups to pregnant women
Mingfang XU ; Jinmei TU ; Suhong WU ; Yao LIU ; Xiaoqin LIANG ; Caixia ZHENG ; Shuangzhen WU
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2011;27(14):46-48
Objective To investigate the effect of continuous care provided by midwife group personnel to pregnant women.Methods 100 cases of pregnant women were screened out and divided into the study group and the control group with 50 patients in each group randomly.The study group received continuous care provided by midwife group personnel,the control group received traditional nursing.Effect of different nursing measures on mothers and neonates were compared.Results Antenatal cognition and rate of natural delivery of the study group were higher than the control group.The rate of neonatal asphyxia and postpartum depression occurred in the study group were lower than the control group,Maternal and family sarisfaction and rates of breasffeeding of the study group were higher than the control group.Conclusions Continuoas care provided by midwife group personnel can increase antenatal cognition and rate of natural delivery,maternal and family satisfaction.breast feeding rates and the overall quality of nursing staff,reduce rate of neonatal asphyxia with few postpartum depression,then improve the quality of perinatal care.