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.

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

Regeneration ; Tissue Engineering ; Vocal Cords

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

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

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.

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 investigate and dispose an outbreak of seasonal influenza in hospital,so as to provide reference for the prevention and control of influenza outbreak in hospital.Methods Eight cases of influenza-like in-fection occurred in the department of neurosurgery at a hospital between July 29 and August 7,2014,epidemiologi-cal investigation was conducted,throat swabs of infected persons were collected for laboratory detection.Results Of 8 infected persons,6 were health care workers (HCWs)in department of neurosurgery,1 was a family member of HCW,and 1 was a patient,the major symptoms of the infected persons were low-grade fever,sore throat,and ma-laise,there were 67 patients and HCWs in this department,the attack rate of influenza was 11.94%,there was no similar infection in other departments of the hospital during the same period.The throat swabs from 6 infected HCWs were positive in influenza virus nucleic acid detection.Office for healthcare-associated infection (HAI)man-agement participated the investigation,after active isolation and antiviral treatment,the outbreak was effectively controlled.Conclusion This HAI outbreak is a seasonal influenza H3 outbreak,ventilation and environmental dis-infection in wards should be strengthened when central air conditioning is running,anti-influenza vaccination among HCWs should be performed during the epidemic season of influenza,and surveillance should be strengthened to pre-vent influenza outbreak in hospital.

Objective To establish a quality standard of Hovenia dulics Thunb. Method The presence of quercetin was identified and assayed by TLC and HPLC, respectively. Result Linearity of marker was obtained over the range of 1.32 ～ 5.28 ?g (r =0.9999). The average recovery rate was 98.78% (RSD=1.08%). Conclusion TLC is specific. The method of quality is accurate, reappearance, simple, rapid, and suitable for the quality control of Hovenia dulcis Thunb.