Regeneration ; Tissue Engineering ; Vocal Cords

Cellular autophagy is a major degradative pathway for clearance of aggregate-prone proteins and damaged organelles. It plays an important role in regulating cellular homeostasis, cell growth and development, and disease development. Dysfunctional autophagy contributes to the pathology of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, in which specific pathological protein accumulation occurs. A growing body of evidence suggests that resveratrol plays a significantly role in the regulation of autophagy and clearance of pathological proteins. Resveratrol is a potential drug for neurodegenerative diseases therapy. This review focuses on the effects of resveratrol on cellular autophagy and clinical application in the control of neurodegenerative diseases.
Alzheimer Disease ; Autophagy ; Humans ; Huntington Disease ; Neurodegenerative Diseases ; drug therapy ; Parkinson Disease ; Stilbenes ; pharmacology

Cellular autophagy is a major degradative pathway for clearance of aggregate-prone proteins and damaged organelles. It plays an important role in regulating cellular homeostasis, cell growth and development, and disease development. Dysfunctional autophagy contributes to the pathology of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, in which specific pathological protein accumulation occurs. A growing body of evidence suggests that resveratrol plays a significantly role in the regulation of autophagy and clearance of pathological proteins. Resveratrol is a potential drug for neurodegenerative diseases therapy. This review focuses on the effects of resveratrol on cellular autophagy and clinical application in the control of neurodegenerative diseases.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Myelodysplastic Syndromes ; diagnosis ; epidemiology ; Prognosis ; Young Adult

Based on collecting data at home and abroad, we combined clinical practice of scientific researches. We also summarized key points for design and evaluation of clinical studies in treating children's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Chinese medical new drugs from objective and design, selection of diagnostic criteria, recruitment and dropping-out of subjects, effectiveness evaluation, safety evaluation, drug combination, and quality control, and so on. We hope to provide reference for design and evaluation of clinical studies by Chinese medical new drugs.
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity ; drug therapy ; Biomedical Research ; Child ; Clinical Studies as Topic ; Data Collection ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Humans

Child ; Child, Preschool ; Endoscopy, Digestive System ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Peptic Ulcer

Purpose: To observe the regulative effect of acupoint application of abnormai lipid metabolism in type Ⅱ diabetes. Methods: Thirty patients with type Ⅱ diabetes were treated by acupoint application and routine hypoglycemic agents. Meanwhile, another 30 patients with type Ⅱ diabetes were treated by routine hypoglycemic agents only. A difference in the blood-lipid level between pretreatment and post-treatment was observed in the two groups. Results: Differences in cholesterol,triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein between pre-treatment and posttreatment in treatment group were significantly different from those in control group(P＜0.01).Conclusion: Acupoint application has a good lowering effect on high blood lipid and can effectively alleviate the disorder of lipid metabolism in diabetics.

Objective To compare the clinical outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with different disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) by analysing the clinical data and improve the understanding of different DMARDs.Methods The clinical data of RA patients who were treated and followed-up during Jan.1999 to Mar.2003 in Peking Union Medical College Hospital were retrospectively reviewed.The clinical efficacy and radiotogical changes were compared between patients treated with one DMARD only,2 DMARDs combination and 3 DMARDs combination.The short-term and long-term effects among different dosage regimens in the three groups,and the long-term results of different duration of DMARD treatment were also compared.Resuits Three hundred and twenty-night patients had their clinical and follow-up data available for analysis.Among them,256 patients had DMARDs as their initial treatment.Some of the patients showed eorticosteroid in their treatment regimen while some patients did not have steroid.The clinical effectiveness had no significant difference between patients who had corticosteroid or not.Patients treated with 2 or more DMARDs combination had more improvement in ESR,CRP level,morning stiffness and number of swollen and tender joints compared with one DMARD alone.There was no significant difference in adverse reactions between the 3 groups treated with DMARDs.Conclusion DMARDs combination treatment can significantly and rapidly improve the symptoms and lab parameters in RA.

Objective To investigate the systemic stress responses after laparoscopic resection in colorectal cancer patients.Methods Sixty patients were randomized into the laparoscopic resection group (30 cases) and open resection group (30 cases) from October 2001 to September 2002 in our hospital.Analgesic dosages, recovery time of intestinal peristalsis, postoperative temperatures, C reactive protein(CRP), IL 6 and white blood cell (WBC) counts were recorded after operation. Results The changes of postoperative temperatures and WBC counts showed no significant difference between two groups.But in the laparoscopic resection group, the recovery time of intestinal peristalsis, postoperative analgesic dosages, CRP and IL 6 significantly decreased ( P

Objective To evaluate the value of the use of fibrin glue in radical mastectorny for breast cancer. Method 52 patients with breast cancer were divided randomly into two groups. In one group (27 patients) fibrin glue was used during radical mastectomy, while in the other group (25 patients), fibrin glue was not used. The volume of drainage on the first postoperative day and total volume of drainage after the operation were collected and measured. The fluid accumulation underneath the flap was also observed. Result In patients with the use of fibrin glue, the amount of drainage was much less compared with those without the use of fibrin glue. Having marked diversity ( P