Objective To probe into the application feature and use tendency of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) injections in our hospital;To evaluate rational drug use and provide reference for related researches. Methods TCM injections in our hospital during 2010-2012 were analyzed by employing the analytic method of defined daily dose, with a purpose to evaluate frequency of drug use and rationality of medication expenses. Results From 2010 to 2012, drug possession rate of TCM injections in our hospital was 4.07%-4.47%;the amount of medication accounted for 10.50%to 12.69%of the amount of all drugs;the annual growth rate increased significantly, among which TCM injections used for removing blood stasis took the lead;frequency of drug use rose annually;medication synchrony in 3 years indicated that daily expensesof Shenkang Injection, Aidi Injection, salvianolateinjection, safflor yellow sodium chloride injection and other TCM injections were on the high side. Conclusion From 2010 to 2012, TCM injections in the clinical application in our hospital were of relatively high frequency, and the TCM injections used for removing blood stasis took the lead. Daily expenses of TCM injections drugs were on the high side and there may be unreasonable application.

Objective To investigate the radiation doses in different areas around the operation table during intervention procedure and to study the effect of X-ray protection equipments.Methods A total of 37 procedures(12 diagnostic cardiac angiographies and 25 percutaneous coronary intervention therapy) were investigated.The detection of X-ray was carried out in 2 separate groups.The first group included the operators,assistants and nurses.There were 6 detecting points on each person resulting in a total of 18 detecting points.The second group consisted of 10 detecting points on different areas of the patients and the protecting lead shields around.The measurement of X-ray doses was performed by the specialist from the radiation protection agency.Results The doses of X-ray was directly proportional to the duration of exposure.The X-ray doses varied among the 28 detecting points.The highest amount of radiation were detected on the left arm of the operator and on the left axilla and the back of the patients.Above 90% of radiation could be protected by lead shields and lead clothes.Conclusion Lead protective products available at precent are efficient in protecting radiation exposure during cardiovascular intervention procedures.More attention still need to be paid to certain highly exposed areas.

AIM: To prepare and evaluate the biocompatibility of a thermosensitive hydrogel poly-(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-hydroxymethylacrylamide) (P-NIPAAm-co-NHMPA) in vivo so as to appraise its safety as a medical implant in clinical use. METHODS: The experiments were carried out in the Central Laboratory, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology(HUST) and the Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Wuhan University between January and October in 2007. ① Preparation of thermosensitive hydrogel P-NIPAAm-co-NHMPA: Taking ammonium persulfate and tetramethyl ethylene diamine as oxidation-reduction initiation system, while N, N'-methylene bisacrylamide as cross-linking agent, P-NIPAAm-co-NHMPA was prepared with the addition of NHMPA in reaction system. Low critical solution temperature was determined by shrinking tests. ②A series of biocompatibility tests such as sensitization test, acute systemic toxicity test, genetic toxicity test and implantation test were conducted to evaluate the safety of the implant. RESULTS: ①Synthesized hydrogel showed thermosensitive character as expected, and the low critical solution temperature was 38 ℃.②In sensitization test, there was no sensitization proved in the material; in acute systemic toxicity test, the symptom of toxicity was not found; the genetic toxicity test suggested no teratogenic or mutagenic effects; in vivo implantation test showed that the inflammation around the material was mild and limited. CONCLUSION: Thermosensitive hydrogel P-NIPAAm-co-NHMPA has good biocompatibility and is a potential medical implant.

BACKGROUND: Allicin has been proved to influence the proliferation and apoptosis of LM-8 cells.OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of allicin on the expression of apoptosis protein Bcl-2 and Bax in C3H mouse osteosarcoma cell line LM-8, and the correlation of the morphological changes of LM-8 cells with the changes of Bcl-2 and Bax.DESIGN: Randomized grouping, non-blind, cell level, in vitro study.SETTING: The experiment was carded out from September 2006 to May 2007 at the Center Laboratory of Union Hospital,Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology.MATERIALS: Osteosarcoma cell line LM-8 was purchased from the Animal Center of the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese PLA. Allicin presented by Wuhan Huihai Co., was a sulphide isolated from garlic corn. Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) from Dojindo Laboratories; Bcl-2 antibody, Bax antibody and SP immunohistochemistry kit from Fuzhou Maixin Biotech Co.METHODS: LM-8 cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 culture medium, then cell climbing films were made, and SP immunocyte-histochemistry was used to detect the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax protein. Inverted microscope was performed to observe the morphologic changes of LM-8 cells before and after adding with 5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 mg/L allicin. Serial subcultivated LM-8 cells were adjusted to 7.5× 107 L-1 in concentration, added to 96-pore culture plate, and treated with allicin at a serial concentration of 1.0, 5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 mg/L. Additionally blank culture medium pores without cells and allicin and pores without allicin were taken as control groups. The 96-pore culture plate was maintained for 24, 48 and 72 hours, and then fetched. CCK-8 was added to determine the optical density value. The inhibition rate of LM-8 cell growth was also calculated. LM-8 cells were treated with different concentrations of allicin (5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 rag/L) for 24, 48 and72 hours, and then we carried out an apoptosis analysis by flow cytometry.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Expression of Bcl-2 and Bax protein in LM-8 cells; cell morphous, cell proliferation,and cell apoptosis.RESULTS: ①Expression of Bcl-2 and Bax protein: Allicin could lower the expression of Bcl-2 protein and enhance the expression of Bax. The positive expression of Bcl-2, Bax and Bcl-2/Bax expression all showed significant differences compared with control group (P ＜ 0.01).②LM-8 cell morphous: LM-8 Cells treated with allicin presented typical apoptosis changes under microscope.③LM-8 cell proliferation: Allicin could inhibit the growth of osteosarcoma cell line LM-8, when concentration of allicin added from 1.0 mg/L to 15.0 mg/L, the inhibition rate of LM-8 cells at 72 hours increased from (23.87±3.26)% to (58.32±5.38)%, and 50% inhibiting concentration was 11.09 mg/L.④LM-8 cell apoptosis: After 72 hours with treatment of allicin of 5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 mg/L in concentration, apoptosis rate of LM-8 cells revealed a dose-dependent relationship (P ＜ 0.05).CONCLUSION: ①Allicin can inhibit the proliferation of LM-8 cells in a dose-time-dependent manner.②Allicin can induce the apoptosis of LM-8 cells in a dose-dependent manner.③Allicin can inhibit LM-8 cell proliferation and induce LM-8 cell apoptosis, which is related to down-regulate Bcl-2 protein expression and up-regulate Bax protein expression.

BACKGROUND: Thermosensitive hydrogel materials present stability at human body temperature, which is necessary for its application as a medical implant, thus the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of thermosensitive hydrogel should be beyond the human body temperature by adjustment.OBJECTIVE: To prepare a thermosensitive hydrogel poly-N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-hydroxymethylacrylamide P(NIPAAm-co-NHMPA) with over 37 ℃ LCST, and primarily appraise its safety as a medical implant in vivo.DESIGN: Random, non-blind, group control, animal experimental study.SETTING: Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology(HUST).MATERIALS: The experiments were carried out in the Central Laboratory, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, HUST and the Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymer Materials of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Wuhan University between January and October in 2007. NIPAAm monomer and NHMPA monomer were purchased from Aldrich Company, crosslinking agent N, N'-methylene bisacrylamide from Fluka Company, and initiator ammonium persulfate and accelerating agent tetramethyl ethylene diamine from Sigma Company.METHODS: ①Taking ammonium persulfate and tetramethyl ethylene diamine as oxidation-reduction initiation system, while N, N'-methylene bisacrylamide as cross-linking agent, P-NIPAAm-co-NHMPA was prepared with the addition of NHMPA in the reaction system. LCST was determined by shrinking tests.②A series of biocompatibility tests such as sensitization test, acute systemic toxicity test, genetic toxicity test and implantation test were conducted in several experimental animals to evaluate the safety of the implant. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The erythema and edema of stimulated lesions were recorded in sensitization test; the general state of each animal in acute systemic toxicity test were recorded 4, 24, 48 and 72 hours after injection; in genetic toxicity test, mouse bone marrow polychromatic erythrocyte (PEC) micronucleus was counted six hours after injection under microscope; sections after implantation were observed under light microscope.RESULTS: ①Synthesized hydrogel showed thermosensitive character and the LCST was 38 ℃.②In sensitization test, there was no erythema and edema occurred after leaching liquor and saline were injected; acute systemic toxicity test result revealed no symptom of toxicity; the genetic toxicity test suggested no difference of PEC frequency between experimental group and negative control group; in vivo implantation test, the inflammation around the material was mild and limited.CONCLUSION:P(NIPAAm-co-NHMPA) shows good biocompatibility and can be potentially used as an implant material.

Objective:To explore the mechanism for immunomodulatory activity of Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) with peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMC)-derived plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) from healthy volunteers.Methods:Healthy volunteers-derived pDCs were sorted by flow cytometry,then incubated with APS (0m50,100,200 mg/L ).After 24 hours,the concentration of IFN-?,TNF-?,IL-6 was detected using ELISA.After 5 days,the cultured cells were collected and analyzed by flow cytometry,light microscope and electron microscope scanning.Results:APS-treated pDCs secreted higher level of IFN-?,TNF-?,IL-6.APS could promote differentiation of pDCs to dendritic cells (DCs) which displayed more matured morphology and immunophenotypes compared to the untreated-pDCs.Conclusion:APS could increase the immune function of pDCs,promote differentiation and maturation of pDCs.

OBJECTIVE:To optimize the toxicity attenuation processing technology of Amorphophallus sinensis Belval.. METH-ODS:With the overall score of taste stimulation and rabbit eye irritation of A. sinensis Belval. as the index,and based on the sin-gle factor method,orthogonal test was designed to investigate the the influences of the amount of saturated calcium hydroxide solu-tion,heating time and heating temperature on the processing effect,and verification tests as well as irratation comparison before and after processing were conducted. RESULTS:The amount of saturated calcium hydroxide solution and heating temperature had significant influence on the processing effect. The optimal processing technology was to add saturated calcium hydroxide solution 30 times as much as the amount of medicinal materials at 100 ℃ and heat it for 30 min. The verification tests showed overall scores of 8.05,8.44 and 8.37(RSD=2.5%,n=3). The average overall scores before and after processing were 0.12 and 8.54(n=10)re-spectively. CONCLUSIONS:The medicinal materials processed by the optimal technology have lower stimulation and irritation. The optimal technology is stable and reliable.

Objective To observe the effect of Sox9 gene overexpressian on chondrogenesis of esenchymal stem ceils (MSCs) in vitro. Methods Rabbit MSCs were obtained and purified by gradient centrifuge and adhesion culture in vitro. MSCs were transfected by recombinant Sox9 plasmid. RT-PCR and Western blot analysis were used for transfection confirmation. Chondrogenic molecules such as type I1 collagen,aggrecan and Sox9 were detected by immunohistology, RT-PCR and western blot. Cell proliferation was tested by MTT assay. Results MSCs were successfully transfected with Sox9 gene and verified by RT-PCR and Western blot analysis. The overexpression of Sox9 had no effect on the proliferation of MSCs. Transfeeted cells expressed more chondrogenic markers than the control groups. Conclusion Sox9 gene overexpression can enhance chondrogenic differentiation of MSCs.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the writing quality of Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions and the medication status in our hospital to promote standard prescription writing and rational administration.METHODS:A total of 11 018 Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions were randomly sampled from outpatient dispensary of traditional Chinese medicine in our hospital in 2006 to find out the non-standard and irrational prescriptions with age and sex,clinical diagnosis,dosage form,specification,usage,and the consumption sum of drugs as main indexes.RESULTS:Of the total Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions,27.85%(3 068)were non-standard in writing,of which,0.47% were without items of age and sex,5.59% without clinical diagnosis,2.72% without dosage form,1.39% without usage,23.64% were unclear in specification and dosage;the prescriptions in which only one drug was prescribed accounted for 90.86%;30.51% were prescriptions for special group;and 5.92% had a prescription consumption sum of no less than 200 yuan(≥200 yuan).CONCLUSION:The quality of Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions in our hospital remains to be further improved.

Objective To evaluate the imaging features of acute necrotizing encephalopathy caused by children A H1N1 influenza.Methods CT and MRI brain imaging data of three children acute necrotizing encephalopathy caused by A H1N1 influenza virus and proved by clinical and laboratory investigation were analyzed.All the three children got CT and MRI scan because of coma while in hospital.Results All cases represented multifocal damage,and some were symmetrical.Bilateral thalamencephalons were involved in the all cases.Bilateral grey and white matters of frontal lobe,temporal lobe,parietal lobe and occipital lobe,and hippocampi,putamina,external capsule,brain stem,bilateral cerebellum,could be seen multifocal damage,and some were symmetrical.All the cases showed brain swelling in varying degrees.These region presented low density in CT,hypointensity on T1 weighted series and hyperintensity on T2 weighted series and FLAIR series in MRI.Conclusion The imaging features of acute necrotizing encephalopathy caused by children A H1N1 influenza represented multifocal and symmetrical damage and brain swelling.It may be characteristic that bilateral thalamencephaloas were involved.The patient was serious,and fatality rate was high.So we should pay much attention to acute necrotizing encephalopathy caused by children A H1 N1 influenza.