Titanium & titanium alloy are popular in dentistry as dental material because of their good mechanical properties and extremely good biocompatibility. The bonding strength between the titanium and the resin agent is the decisive factor in evaluating the success of resin-bonded restoration. Appropriate surface treatment on the titanium is an effective way to reinforce the bending strength. The purpose of this review is to summarise the relevant studies and introduce some latest findings.

Biomarkers ; Heart Diseases ; diagnosis ; metabolism ; Humans ; Natriuretic Peptide, Brain ; metabolism ; physiology ; Nerve Tissue Proteins ; metabolism ; physiology ; Peptide Fragments ; metabolism ; physiology

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous laser hypothermia in the treatment of lumbar discogenic pain. Methods From June 2006 to March 2008,35 patients with lumbar discogenic pain were treated by low-frequency laser hypothermia in our hospital with 1 second impulse time,1 second interval time,3.5 w power,and 30 minutes duration. The effectiveness of the therapy was evaluated afterwards. Results Among the cases,15 patients were treated by one operation,20 patients received a second therapy,and 6 underwent the therapy for totally 3 time; the treatment was effective in 32 cases (excellent in 7,good in 24,and fair in 1). The therapy is ineffective in 2 cases. One case was converted to open surgery for unsatisfying outcomes of the laser hypothermia. The total effective rate was 91.4%(32/35),and fineness rate was 88.6%(31/35). Conclusions Percutaneous laser hypothermia is an effective treatment for lumbar discogenic pain. The indications for the procedure should be selected strictly.

Objective To study the mental status and its influencing factors of patients with rheumatic disease. Methods Three hundreds and eighty-one patients with rheumatic diseases were assessed with the self-rating anxiety scale, self-rating depressive scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire symptom checklist-90, and demographic characteristics questionnaire. The comparison among groups were tested by t tests, Spearman's correlation analysis. Results Patients with anxiety symptoms accounted for 35.96%, and pre-valence rate of depression was 48.03%. The gender (r=0.87, OR=2.34) and duration (r=0.006, OR=1.006) were the risk factors and the C4 (r=-2.63, OR=0.07) was the protective factor. In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, depression was related to education (Z=2.228, P=0.026), disease duration (Z=-2.015,P=0.044), IgG level (t=-2.266, P=0.027), T cell subsets CD8 (Z=1.981, P=0.047) and CD3 (Z=1.967, P=0.049). Anxiety was related to education (Z=2.452, P=0.014), duration (Z=-2.054, P=0.04), complement C3 (t=2.035, P=0.045), C4 (Z=-2.204, P=0.028) and IgG level (t=-2.126, P=0.036). The value of CRP(Z=-1.984, P=0.047) and IgM (t=2.243, P=0.028) of rheumatoid arthritis patients were higher in the depression group. The depression group was different in disease duration (Z=-2.631, P=0.009), gender ( χ2=4.415, P=0.042), ESR (Z=2.17, P=0.023) and CD3 cell (Z=2.023, P=0.043) in Sj?gren's syndrome patients. Correlation analysis showed positive correlation between the score of SDS, SAS and the P value (r=0.21, P=0.01) (r=0.14, P=0.007) N dimension (r=0.52, P=0.01) (r=0.55, P=0.007) of EPQ. There were negative correlation between the score of SDS, SAS and the E dimension (r=-0.23, P=0.01) (r=-0.14, P=0.006) of EPQ. Conclusion The prevalence of depres-sion and anxiety is higher in patients with depressive and anxious symptoms. They are in older age, female gender, poor education, longer duration, lower complement and lower T cell subsets when compared with those patients without depression and anxiety. Patients who have an introverted, instable, nervous temperament are more likely to be depressed and anxious. Psychological assessment intervention and therapy should be carried out as early as possible.

OBJECTIVE:To discuss the pathways to enhance core competitiveness by the implementation of the Good Supply Practice(GSP)management in Medicine Chain Drug Stores.METHODS:To analysis from sequentiae several aspects: consummate the quality system,create the brand value and conversion the management philosophy in drug retail trade.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:Through the implementation of the GSP to create efficiency with management,create brands with quality and offer best after-sale service and customer service so as to enhance enterprises' core competitiveness.

AIM: To analyze the application on frequency domain optical coherence tomography ( OCT ) technology of pathologic myopia optic disc neurosensory retinal thickness changes and its relationship with axis oculi, sex and age, and help for the early diagnosis of pathological myopia and primary open angle glaucoma.
METHODS:Collected 96 eyes of normal eyes ( axis oculi 23-24mm) and 153 eyes of pathologic myopia eyes ( axis oculi 25-27mm 80 eyes, >27mm 73 eyes). We measured the thickness of nerve fiber layer of the optic disc by OCT and analyzed their relationship with axis oculi, sex and age with multiple linear regression analysis.
RESULTS: The observation group showed significant smaller average thickness of peripapillary, superior, inferior, nasal than the control group ( P<0. 05 ); the difference in the temporal quadrant between the groups were no statistically significant differences (P>0. 05); The partial correlation coefficient of peripapillary average thickness of nerve fiber layer and axis oculi was -1. 31, gender was 5. 21, age was -0. 12.
CONCLUSION:The thickness of nerve fiber layer of the optic disc in the pathologic myopia eyes are decreased than normal eyes, axis oculi, sex and age are influenced factors. The pathologic myopia patients should use different index combined with optic nerve fiber layer thickness decreased to help for the diagnosis of early primary open angle glaucoma.

Adult ; Antigens, CD20 ; metabolism ; Brain ; pathology ; Brain Neoplasms ; immunology ; pathology ; CD3 Complex ; metabolism ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Humans ; Leukocyte Common Antigens ; metabolism ; Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis ; immunology ; pathology ; Male

Objective To study the expressions of α1-AT and VEGF-C in human bronchoalveolarcarcinorrm, and the relation of the expression to the patholo~cM differentiation and clinical stage. Methods All 49 Darffin embedding samples of patients with bronchoalveolar carcinoma were studied. α1-AT and VEGF-C were detected by immunohistochemical SP method.Automated image analyzer was used to quantify α1-AT and VEGF-C expressions.Results The immunohistochemical positive stainings of α1-AT and VEGF-C in brown or dark brown were located in cytopla8m.The expression levels of α1-AT and VEGF-C were not related with the gender,age,tumor position and size,and histology subtypos(P＞0.05).It Was found that the expression of α1-AT in patients with local lymph node metastasis was significantly lower than those without node metastasis(P＜0.001).It was found that the expression of VEGF-C in patients with local node metastasis significantly higher than th08e without node metastasis(P＜0.001).There Was a negative correlation between the expression level of α1-AT and the expression level of VEGF-C in bronchoalveolar carcinoma(r=-0.324,P＜0.05).Conclusion α1-AT and VEGF-C could be secreted by bronehoalveolar carcinoma.Bronehoalveolar carcinoma with lower α1-AT expression and higher VEGF-C expression is more likely to have lymph node metastasis.Lower α1-AT expression and higher VEGF-C expression can participate in the mechanism of lymph node metastasis in carcinoma together.

Objective To observe the application effect of Yunnan baiyao powder and alcohol with VitB12 on exosmosis of vincristin. Methods The 40 patients with exosmosis of vincristin were randomly divided into the treatment group(22 cases)and the control group( 18 cases).The treatment group was given the Yunnan baiyao powder and alcohol with VitB12,the control group was given magnesium sulfate for hydropathic compress.The effective rate and red swelling and ulcer of the skin in the two groups were evaluated. Results The effective rate of the treatment group was higher than that of the control group,red swelling and the diameter of the ulcer of the skin on the fifth and seventh day were shorter than the control group. Conclusions The Yunnan baiyao powder and alcohol with VitB12 are effective in treatment of the exosmosis induced by vincristin.

Objective To investigate whether radial augmentation index (AI) associates with cardiovascular risk as well as arterial stiffness.MethodsA total of 4985 subjects, 2417 men and 2568 women, aged 18-96 (50.9 ± 14.7)years,were recruited.AI was measured in the left radial artery using tonometry Colin HEM-9000AI.Carotid-femoral PWV (CFPWV) and carotid-radial PWV (CRPWV) were examined by automatic pulse wave velocity (PWV) measuring system.Framingham risk score and Chinese ischemic cardiovascular disease risk score were applied upon subjects without cardiovascular disease to calculate individual cardiovascular risk respectively.ResultsRadial AI (rAI) was significantly higher in women than in men[(83.18 ± 12.36)％ vs (71.93 ± 15.22)％, P ＜0.01].Simple correlation analysis showed rAI was significantly correlated to two cardiovascular risk scores or CFPWV and CRPWV.After adjusted for multi-factors, rAI was still significantly correlated to Framing, ham risk score or Chinese ischemic cardiovascular disease risk score (r = 0.17 and 0.12) in men respectively (P ＜ 0.05), while r were 0.09 and 0.08 in women respectively (P ＜ 0.05).In multivariate analysis, there was a significant association between CFPWV and rAI (r = 0.14 in men, r = 0.10 in women, P ＜ 0.01), whereas the relation ship between CRPWV and rAI was not found.The relationship between rAI and cardiovascular risk or PWV became weaker for those aged above 50 years.ConclusionAugmentation index might be a useful marker of cardiovascular risk and arterial stiffness, which could be more feasible for younger subjects as a tool for risk differentiation.