Objective To detect the serum concentration of procollagen type Ⅲ aminoterminal peptide (PⅢP) and laminin(LN) in patients with congestive heart failure(CHF),in order to explore the value in diagnosis of myocardial fibrosis.Methods In 44 patients with CHF and 30 healthy controls,serum concentration of PⅢP and LN were measured by competitive radioimmunoassay.Results Serum concentration of PⅢP in patients with CHF significantly increased,as compared with normal controls(5 5?1 1)?g/L vs (3 8?1 5)?g/L(P

Acupuncture is a traditional empirical medicine, and evidence-based medicine(EBM) is a new medical method and development of the empirical medicine. Since 1990s, Chinese acupuncture workers began to absorb and use the methods and principles of EBM to guide acupuncture clinical research and practice. Now more and more domestic acupuncture clinicians use and follow the methods and principles of EBM. On the systemic review of acupuncture-associated articles in Cochrane library, previously effective acupuncture therapy lacks adequate evidences, which may be related to the low quality of randomized controlled trials(RCTs). In the future, only developing specialized team of acupuncture clinical research and clinical research center can radically elevate the levels of acupuncture clinical research and evaluation. Meanwhile, developing China's evidence-based acupuncture should base itself on the characteristics of acupuncture, such as emphasis on original research in ancient books,high-quality single RCTs and systemic review of non-randomized researches.

Objective To explore the correlation factors for surgical treatment in lumbar spinal tuberculosis.Methods A total of 46 patients with lumbar spinal tuberculosis who underwent surgical treatment were analyzed.The possible correlation between the clinicopathologic features and clinical outcome were analyzed by Logistic regression analysis.Results Nine patients failed in surgical treatment.Multiple analysis showed that the number of infected vertebrae (OR =6.44,95％ CI:2.47-19.92) and internal fixation (OR =10.76,95％ CI:3.50-18.74) had significant correlation with the clinical outcome.Conclusions Surgical treatment for lumbar spinal tuberculosis has a favorable outcome in patients.The number of infected vertebrae and internal fixation are significant risk factors for poor outcome.

Exosome is a self-secreted phospholipid bilayer nanovesicles, and has shown great potential in drug delivery field due to the important advantages of low immunogenicity and homologous targeting. Phototherapy, mainly includes photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy (PTT), utilize light to activate photoactive drug for tumor cell killing. The advanced therapeutic strategy shows low toxic side-effect and non-invasion precise advantages, and thus has made great progress in tumor treatment over the past few years. Therefore, using exosomes as a drug delivery system to deliver phototherapeutic agents can improve therapeutic performances with a reduced side-effect, and further enhance their application potential for clinical tumor therapy. This review focus on the rising cross-subjects field involving exosomes and phototherapy, and mainly introduce the research progress and relative case of exosomes-based delivery system for cancer phototherapy. Additionally, the advantages and challenges of exosome-based phototherapy are also discussed and proposed.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; immunology ; HIV Infections ; immunology ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; T-Lymphocytes ; physiology

Objective:To observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods:A total of 30 eligible cases were treated by needling Shenting (GV 24), Baihui (GV 20), Dazhui (GV 14), Fengfu (GV 16), Mingmen (GV 1) and Yongquan (KI 1). Upon arrival of qi, the G6805-II electric stimulator was connected to Shenting (GV 24) and Baihui (GV 20) (one pair), to Dazhui (GV 14) and Fengfu (GV 16) (one pair) and to bilateral Yongquan (KI 1) (one pair) for 25 min, using continuous wave at the frequency of 2-100 Hz and voltage of 2-4 V. With a tolerable intensity, the EA was conducted once a day for 10 d (one treatment course). There was a 3-day interval between two courses. After three courses, the therapeutic efficacies were evaluated using the mini-mental state examination (MMSE), revised Hasegawa dementia scale (HDS-R), activities of daily living (ADL) and neurological function defect scale (NFDS). Results:After EA treatment, the MMSE and HDS-R scores were significantly increased (P<0.01) and the ADL and NFDS scores were significantly decreased (P<0.01). Conclusion:EA is effective for AD and can improve the overall intelligence and repair neurologic deficits in AD patients.

Enterprise and competent department in China start to explore evaluation method and technique,as revaluation of Chinese patent medicine has been paid high attention in recent years.However,many problems of Chinese patent medicine standard itself commonly have been neglected in the revaluation of curative effect.This review comprehensively analyzed problems have to be faced in the revaluation of the curative effect of Chinese patent medicine,such as excessive broad expressions of function and indication,obscure definition of indication,identification between function and indication,correspondence of diseases and syndromes between Chinese and western medicine,feasibility of clinical trials,with the provision of general methods and solutions.

Objective To determine the evaluating prognostic value of plasma Nt-proBNP in patients with congestive heart failure.Methods 107 patients with congestive heart failure were included in this study,followed the degree of rehospitalization and mortality rate of the cured patients after left hospital.The plasma concentrations of Nt-proBNP were measured by enzymelinked immunozorbent assay(ELISA).Results Concentrations of Nt-proB-NP of Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ classincation were(1129.8±383.2),(5849.7±567.6),(9506.3±492.4)ng/L in NYHA functional classification respectively(P＜0.01);the plasma level of Nt-proBNP had significant positive correlation with NYHA functional classification(r=0.759,P＜0.01).The degree of rehospitalization were(0.85±0.96),(1.98±0.86),(2.58±0.91)respectively(P＜0.01);mortality rate were 8.3%,12.5%,45.2%respectively(P＜0.01).Conclusion Plasma Nt-proBNP level may be the more important clinic value in evaluating prognosis in patients with congestive heart failure.

Objective To study the effects of enteral immunonutrition on immune function in patients with multiple trauma. Method A total of 32 patients with multiple trauma admitted to general ICU in ChangZheng hospital, Shanghai from March 2007 to May 2008 were randomly (random number) divided into two groups,enteral immunonutrition group (EIN group, n = 16)and the general formula enteral nutrition group (EN group, n = 16).Two groups of patients on the third day after injury began to accept the EIN and the general formula EN which respectively support at least 14 days. The patients peripheral blood lymphocyte count (TLC), immunoglobulin (IgG,IgM, IgA) ,and T-lymphocyte subsets (CD3, CD4, CD8, CD4/CD8) were detected on the day of the group formation, the seventh and the fortteenth day of the nutritional support. Results TLC, IgG, IgM, IgA, CD4 and CD4/CD8 ratio were significantly higher in EIN Group on the 7th and 14th day than that on the first day ( P ＜0.05), and extended with the EIN and sustained increase. All immunization indicators of EN group on the 7th day were no significant changes compared with the day of the group formation, and on the 14 th day TLC, IgG, IgM,IgA, CD4 and CD4/CD8 ratio were significantly higher than that on the day of the group formation ( P ＜ 0.05),but were significantly lower than that in the EIN group on the 14th day ( P ＜ 0.05). Conclusions Compared with the general formula EN, EIN is more helpful to restore and increase the humoral and cellular immune function in early post-multitraumatic phase.

Objective To explore the mechanism of Xiaoying decoction on experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT) rats in view of regulatory T cells and Th17 cells.Methods SD rats were divided into five groups,normal control group,model control group,tripterygium glycoside group,Xiaoying decoction low and high dose groups.Except for normal control group,the other groups were established the model of EAT.Rats in the Xiaoying decoction low,and high dose groups were given Xiaoying decoction of 17.24 and 68.95 g·kg-1;rats in the tripterygium glycoside group were given tripterygium glycoside 6.25 mg·kg-1.The serum free triiodothyronine(FT3),free thyrocyte(FT4) and thyroglobulin antibody were detected by RIA method.Thyrocyte morphology was observed under optical microscope.The expression levels of Foxp3 mRNA and IL-17 mRNA were detected by real-time PCR.The changes of Treg cells and Th17 cells were analyzed by flow cytometry.Results Compared with the normal control group,FT3,FT4 and TgAb were increased in the model control group (P ＜0.01,P ＜0.01,P ＜0.05).Compared with the model control group,FT3,FT4 and TgAb were decreased in tripterygium glycoside group and Xiaoying decoction high dose group (P ＜ 0.05).The infiltration score in the normal control group,model control group,tripterygium glycoside group,Xiaoying decoction low and high dose groups were 0,4,4,3.5,2.Compared with model control group,the infiltration was improved (P ＜0.01).Foxp3 mRNA expression was decreased while IL-17 mRNA increased in the model control group as compared with the normal control group(P ＜ 0.01).In contrast,the expression of Foxp3 mRNA was increased and IL-17 mRNA expression was decreased in Xiaoying decoction low and high dose groups,tripterygium glycoside group as compared with the model control group (P ＜0.05).Compared with the normal control group,rats in the model control group had fewer Treg cells and more Th17 cells (P ＜0.01).Compared with the model control group,the percentage of Treg cells was elevated and Th17 cells was reduced in tripterygium glycoside group and Xiaoying decoction high dose groups (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion The therapeutic mechanism of Xiaoying decoction on EAT rats may be related to changing the percentage of regulatory T cells and Th17 cells with up-regulating the expression of Foxp3 mRNA and down-regulating the expression of IL17mRNA.