Calcitonin ; blood ; Fluorine ; adverse effects ; Humans ; Occupational Exposure ; adverse effects ; Osteocalcin ; blood

OBJECTIVE Identify the effect of Brandt-Daroff exercises for positional vertigo with atypical positioning nystagmus.METHODS 11 cases of positional vertigo during 2006～2007 with atypical positioning nystagmus when carrying Dix-Hallpike and roll test,the nystagmus had the follwing characters:poly-positions,atypical direction,long lasting(more than 3 mins),no fatigue.After ruling out centrul neural system disorders,the patients were instructed to do Brandt-Daroff exercises 2-3 times/day,and 6-10 times every time.RESULTS After doing the exercises for 3-4 days,the vertigo of all the 11 cases were all relieved.After 1-2 weeks,10 cases were cured,syptom of the other 1 was relieved significantly,and the nystagmus was alleviated.CONCLUSION Cases with atypical positioning nystagmus may present a different kind of BPPV related with the otolith and vestibular nerve disease.Brandt-Daroff exercises was a good method for the atypical positioning nystagmus cases.

Adult ; Bronchoalveolar Lavage ; adverse effects ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pneumoconiosis ; therapy ; Tachycardia, Sinus ; etiology

The effect of addition nucleotides on heparinase production by Flavobacterium heparinum was reseached. The result indicated that addition of nucleotides cause different effects on heparinase production depend on its addi ng mode, single kind of nucleotide would restrain, but multiplex promote. The s trongest promotion happened when the propotion of nucleotides was consistent wit h the nucleic acids of heparinase mRNA. HPLC result confined the entrance of nu cleoides to the bactera cell. And it also suggested the synthesis metabolic of nucleic acids in F.heparinum was imbalance, there always be higher lever of purin nucleoides. L-Asp was added to medium culture to enhance pyridine nucle oides thynesis in order to improve the enzyme production ,which has been affecte d by the imbalance of nucleoides.

Objective To observe the time characteristics of acute aortic dissection (AAD) in Urumqi and its peripheral areas in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and to explore the effect of meteorological conditions on the onset of AAD.Methods Retrospective analysis of the related data of the adult AAD patients diagnosed by imaging examination, and admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from March 2010 to July 2016 was performed. The onset time, the contemporaneous meteorological data, including daily minimum, average, and the highest temperature, daily average air pressure, daily average relative humidity, daily precipitation, daily average wind speed, daily maximum wind speed, and sunshine duration per day were collected. Analysis of concentrated distribution trend of the AAD onset was done by circular distribution statistics. Meteorological conditions were compared between the AAD day and no AAD day. The changes of air temperature 5 days before onset were observed.Results A total of 379 patients were enrolled, with 307 male and 72 female. The ratio of male to female was 4.19:1, the average age was 52.27±12.18; and the underlying diseases was hypertension (about 58.05%); the incidence sites were Urumqi and Changji city. ① The incidence of AAD in Urumqi and its peripheral areas had clear concentrated trend, and the peak period of AAD corresponded to January 1st to 2nd (homogeneity testr = 0.104,r0.05 = 0.009,P < 0.05). ② The minimum, mean and maximal atmospheric temperatures on the AAD day were lower than no AAD day [℃: 4.10 (-9.55, 14.60) vs. 7.75 (-6.70, 16.20), 14.10 (-1.50, 25.00) vs. 17.50 (0.60, 26.78), 8.50 (-6.22, 19.45) vs. 12.10 (-3.60, 20.90), allP < 0.05], sunshine duration was significantly shorter than no AAD day [hours: 8.50 (4.60, 10.70) vs. 8.90 (5.50, 11.50), P< 0.01], and atmospheric pressure were higher than no AAD day [kPa: 91.24 (90.66, 91.75) vs. 91.12 (90.62, 91.61), 19.11 (18.99, 19.22) vs. 19.09 (18.98, 19.19), bothP < 0.05]; there were no significant differences in the incidence of daytime temperature difference, average relative humidity, precipitation, average wind speed, and maximum wind speed between the two groups. ③ the peak period of AAD occurrence was December (38 cases), which was followed by January (36 cases); and there were 26 cases of each month in May, June, July, and September, which were lower than the rest of months. It was shown by the temperature distribution that the minimum average temperature was in January (-12.46 ℃), followed by December (-9.03 ℃); the maximum average temperature was in July [(24.59±3.21)℃], followed by August [(23.14±3.64)℃]. ④ The patients was sorted according to the quartile of daily mean temperature, into < -5.2 ℃, -5.2-10.7 ℃, 10.7-20.4 ℃, and > 20.4 ℃ groups, and each group had 104, 99, 98, 78 cases of AAD, respectively. The number of AAD in lowest temperature group was 1.33 times of the highest temperature group. In the 45-59 and 60-74 years, the number of AAD in lowest temperature group was higher than that in the highest temperature group (50 vs. 36, 26 vs. 13). In patients with hypertension, the number of AAD in lowest temperature group was higher than that in the highest temperature group (60 vs. 44). ⑤ The maximum air temperature, mean air temperature of the day from 5 days before to the onset day of AAD, and the lowest temperature from 3 days before to the onset day of AAD display slowly decrease trends, but there was no significant difference in daily temperature.Conclusions The incidence of AAD in Urumqi and its peripheral areas was concentrated from January 1st to 2nd of each year. When the temperature was lower than -5.2 ℃, AAD were more likely to attack. The 5 days changes of temperature and daily temperature before the attack were relevant with onset of AAD. It was speculated that the weather conditions such as air temperature may affect patient who has a past history of cardiovascular disease to attack AAD.

Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Larynx ; abnormalities ; Male ; Respiratory System Abnormalities ; diagnosis ; therapy

Objective To explore the relationship among the prevertebral soft tissue swelling, surgical extent, surgical segments, and complications and to investigate the clinical significance of lateral radiographs for evaluating the postoperative prevertebral soft tissue swelling. Methods 123 patients who underwent anterior cervical fusion with plate augmentation for cervical spondylosis were included in this study. The postoperative prevertebral soft tissue swelling was measured by lateral radiographs. The data were analysed according to surgical extent and surgical segments. Patients were divided into the swelling group (61cases, >9. 98 mm) and the non-swelling group (62 cases, <9. 98 mm) based on the degree of prevertebral soft tissue swelling. The incidences of complications, such as dyspnea and dysphagia, were ana-lysed. Results The rate of dyspnea was 21. 3% in swelling group, which was higher than 8. 1% in non-swelling group (P<0. 05). The rate of dysphagia was 83. 6% in swelling group, which was higher than 25. 8% in non-swelling group (P<0. 05). In addition, postoperative prevertebral soft tissue swelling was 8. 29 mm averagely after one-level fusion, which was less than that after two or more levels fusion (11. 55 mm and 10. 40 mm) (P<0. 05). Postoperative prevertebral soft tissue swelling was 10. 94 mm after high-level fusion (above C4), which was more than that low-level fusion (below C5) (8. 63 mm) (P<0. 05). Conclusion After anterior cervical fusion for cervical spondylosis, when the degree of prevertebral soft tissue swelling is greater the incidences of complications such as dyspnea and dysphagia might be higher. In addition, prevertebral soft tissue swelling increments are significantly greater in patients who had undergone multi-level or high-level fusion ( above C5 ) . Evaluation of prevertebral soft tissue swelling using lateral radiographs is a clinically meaningful procedure.

Objective To observe the growth and proliferation capabilities of MPCs in primary OA articular cartilage and their differen-tiation properties into chondrocytes by applying related genes SOX6 and SOX9, so as to provide theoretical evidence in preventing and curing primary OA. Methods SOX6 and SOX9 genes were respectively ligated into adenovirus shuttle plasmids pAdTrack-CMV-SOX6 and pAdTrack-CMV-SOX9, then the recombinant plasmids were used to infect MPCs derived from primary OA articular cartilage. TB and the ex-pressions of collagen type Ⅱ protein and mRNA in differentiated MPCs were compared between the infected group and the uninfected group. Results Either SOX6 gene or SOX9 gene could stably infect MPCs from primary OA cartilage. TB and collagen typeⅡwere strongly posi-tive in the SOX6-infected or SOX9-infected MPCs, while they were weekly positive in the uninfected MPCs. Collagen typeⅡmRNA expres-sion in SOX6-infected MPCs derived from primary OA cartilage was 3. 8 times of that in uninfected cells (P<0. 01), and that in SOX9-in-fected MPCs was 5. 15 times of that in the uninfected cells (P<0. 01). Conclusion The stable transfection of SOX6 and SOX9 genes into MPCs derived from primary OA cartilage could significantly promote chondrogenic differentiation of MPCs. There must be feasible methods of gene technology to promote cell proliferation and differentiation of MPCs for repairing articular cartilage injury.

Objective To observe the regulatory effect of bFGF and TGF-β1 for the proliferation of mesenchymal progenitor cells ( MPCs) derived from primary osteoarthritis cartilage, and to provide theoretical evidence in preventing and curing primary OA. Methods Different concentrations of bFGF and TGF-β1 ( alone or combined) were used to treat primary OA cartilage and their effects on proliferation of MPCs were tested by MTT method. Results Either bFGF (10. 0~50. 0 ng/mL) or TGF-β1 (0. 1 ~1. 0 ng/mL) alone can significantly promote the proliferation of MPCs derived from primary OA cartilage (P<0. 05). But with their increased concentration,the proliferation rate was of no significant changes (P>0. 05). The combination of 10. 0 ng/mL bFGF and 1. 0 ng/mL TGF-β1 significantly increased the prolifer-ation of MPCs from primary OA (P<0. 05). Conclusion Both bFGF and TGF-β11 play important roles in the proliferation of MPCs in primary OA cartilage,and they can increase the proliferation in different degree with different concentrations. There must be feasible methods of gene technology to promote cell proliferation and differentiation of MPCs for repairing articular car-tilage injury.