Objective To explore prospectively the relationship between treatment of toxoplasmosis and pregnancy outcome. Methods Detected by ELISA and PCR,59 pregnant women and 91 women at reproductive age with infection were treated by oral spiramycin. Then their Tox-lgM and DNA negative conversing rates,intrauterine transmission rate and incidence of abnormal pregnancy outcome were studied in contrast to those of 60 women in pregnancy and 79 at childbearing age with infection but without management. Results In healing group,the seroconversion rate of Tox-lgM and Tox-DNA from positive to negative were 83.05% (49/59) in pregnant women and 70.33%(64/91) in women at childbearing age,respectively. The rates in control group were 35% (21/60) and 37.97% (30/79). The rates of intrauterine transmission and abnormal pregnancy outcomes of healing group were 8.4% (5/59) and 30% (15/50),respectively. While those of control group were 11.86% (7/59) and 40% (20/50) accordingly (? 2=11.4970,P

There were 48 strains of bacilli obtained from 20 Chinese traditional medicines. Twenty-five strains had antagonistic effect against at least one of ten plant pathogens. Seven strains had antibiosis to more than four pathogens and the best strain had antibiosis to nine pathogens. After physiological and biochemical experiments,eight strains of 25 antagonistic bacilli were proved to be Bacillus subtilis,three were Bacillus cereus,one were Bacillus natto and one were Bacillus licheniformis. At the same time,two kinds of Chinese traditional medicines,which probably had antibacterial effect,were found.

BACKGROUND:The biological substances fixed onto the implant surface, including specific proteins, enzymes, polypeptides, could promote the proliferation and differentiation of osteogenic cells in order to achieve a good osteogenic effect.
OBJECTIVE:To introduce the biological characteristics of the arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) peptides, cellbiological behavior and implant osseointegration in osteoporosis.
METHODS:Authors retrieved the relevant articles in PubMed database (January 1984 to January 2013), Wanfang database (January 2002 to December 2012) and CHKD database (January 2002 to December 2012) using the key words“RGD peptides, osteoporosis, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, osseointegration, osteoblast, induced differentiation”. Papers were included concerning the biological characteristics of RGD peptides, the biological behavior of cells and the bone-implant integration in osteoporosis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Osseointegration on the surface between implant and bone tissue can be further improved by grafting biological y active substance. Bionics modification, to simulate the extracellular matrix environment in vivo, can promote celladhesion and growth, which is an effective way to improve osseointegration and is also an important direction of research in the field of tissue engineering recently. The future research is focused on designing specific and efficient polypeptides and simple and effective fixation methods.

Objective This study has explored the role of antibody against annexin A2 in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Using purified recombinant annexin A2, IgG anti-annexin A2 antibody was measured by ELISA in 101 APS patients, 41 SLE patients with thrombosis, 124 SLE patients without thrombosis and 120 healthy controls. Results The positive rate of IgG anti-annexin A2 antibody in APS patients and SLE patients with thrombosis was 21.8%, 26.8%, respectively, they were all significantly higher than in SLE patients without thrombosis (6.5%). IgG anti-annexin A2 antibody was associated with thrombosis and/or pregnancy morbidity (P<0.01). Conclusion Anti-annexin A2 antibody is associated with thrombosis and/or pregnancy mnrbidity. It suggests that anti-annexin A2 antibody may be helpful in identifying in some potential AIRS.

In general,the students in Chinese medical universities have technophobia in nuclear medicine experiment,which gives reduction to the cognition and learning of the students.Based on the analysis of the students' psychology and learning,special countermeasures in teaching,therefore,should be used in the conquest of the students' psychological obstacle in order to improve teaching quality of nuclear medicine experiment.

On the basis of the Uncaria transcriptome, specific primers were designed for UrSTR. The full-length cDNA of UrSTR (GeneBank: OL310251) was 1 541 bp, encoding 345 amino acid residues, and the promoter region sequence of UrSTR (GeneBank: OL310252) was 1 179 bp. Phylogenetic tree is revealed that UrSTR had a closest relationship with STR from Ophiorrhiza pumila and Ophiorrhiza japonica. Localization of UrSTR protein is revealed located in the vacuole membrane. Plant-care analysis indicated that the promoter region sequence of UrSTR, covering multiple light, stress and hormone-response cis-regulatory elements, and verified transcriptional activity. The results of SDS-PAGE show that pET-28a-UrSTR recombinant protein was successfully expressed, and the size was anticipated. The UrSTR prokaryotic expression system needs to be optimized in the later stage. The research lays the foundation for further purification to study its structure and functional characterization of the UrSTR protein.

OBJECTIVETo provide application basis of the Forsythia suspensa by studying the difference of HPLC-FP of F. suspensa fructification (medicinal materials).

METHODComparative work was done on F. suspensa produced in different areas, on different parts of Forsythia suspensa, and on the pseudo preducts with methods of HPLC-FP.

RESULTDifferent FP characteristics were shown respectively by different samples, which were from different producing areas, from different parts, and the pseudo products including the fructification of Syringa reticulata var. and F. viridissimac.

CONCLUSIONThe FP can be used to distinguish the F. suspensa coming from different producing areas and different sources.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Chromatography, Paper ; methods ; Drug Contamination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Forsythia ; chemistry ; classification ; Fruit ; chemistry ; Peptide Mapping ; Plants, Medicinal ; chemistry ; Species Specificity

A kind of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) apparatus is developed to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT),which is based on the theory of occurrence and prevention of the DVT and AT89C52 micro-controller. This paper introduces its principle, composition of electromechanical system and the software design. The apparatus has showed its characteristics of easy operation, high intelligence and high reliability.
Equipment Design ; Physical Therapy Modalities ; instrumentation ; Software ; Thrombolytic Therapy ; instrumentation ; Venous Thrombosis ; prevention & control

Simvastatin is a hypolipidemic drug that inhibits hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMGCoA) reductase to control elevated cholesterol,or hypercholesterolemia.Previous studies have shown that simvastatin may attenuate inflammation in ischemia-reperfusion injury and sepsis.Herein,we hypothesized that simvastatin may prevent rats from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced septic shock.In our study,rats were divided into a saline group,an LPS group and an LPS plus simvastatin group.Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were pretreated with simvastatin (1 mg/kg) for 30 min before the addition of LPS (8 mg/kg),with variations in left ventricular pressure recorded throughout.Ninety min after LPS injection,whole blood was collected from the inferior vena cava,and neutrophils were separated from the whole blood using separating medium.The neutrophils were then lysed for Western blotting to detect the levels of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1).In addition,mesentery microcirculations of inlet diameter,outlet diameter and blood flow rate were measured in all three groups.The results indicated that simvastatin significantly promoted heart systolic function and increased the level ofuPA while simultaneously inhibited the expression of PAI-1 as compared with LPS group.Moreover,simvastatin reversed the LPS-induced inhibition of mesentery microcirculation.Taken together,it was suggested that simvastatin can effectively protect the rats from LPS-induced septic shock.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of several xenobiotic metabolism-associated CYP450 isoforms in the auto-activation of hepatic stellate cells(HSCs) invitro. METHODS HSCs were isolated from adult Wistar rats and cultured on plastic as an in vitroauto-activation model. Positive expression of α-smooth muscle actin(α-SMA)was used as an activated marker of HSCs and detected by immunocytochemical staining in HSCs cultured for 1,2,5 or 11 d. The expressions of CYP450 isoforms were analyzed by real-time RT-PCR in the HSCs. RESULTS The immunocytochemical stai-ning showed no α-SMA expression in HSCs cultured for 1 d,while its expression gradually increased during culture since day 2. ln terms of α-SMA expression,HSCs cultured for 1,2,5,and 11 d were classified as the quiescent,early,middle and later stages of activation,respectively. The RT-PCR results revealed that CYP1B1,CYP2B1/ 2,and CYP2E1 mRNA were expressed at high levels in the early stage of HSCs activation(at day 2),which were 2.1-,1.6-,and 23.9-fold those in the quiescent HSCs(day 1),respectively. Further study revealed that mRNA expressions of these up-regulated CYPs in the early stage of activation were diminished at the subsequent two stages. The levels of CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 mRNA decreased constantly throughtout the activation process. CONCLUSION Multiple xenobi-otic metabolism-associated CYP450 isoforms might be involved in the auto-activation of rat HSCs invitro.