Objective To investigate the effect of long-term intraocular retention of domestic perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) on morphology and histology of ocular tissues. Methods A total of 18 New-Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into 3 experimental groups, whose left eyes underwent intraocular injection with 0.3, 0.6, and 1.0 ml PFCL, respectively. All of the right eyes of the rabbits were in the control group. The morphological, electrophysiological and histological changes of the ocular tissue were observed 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the injection. Results No clinically significant retinopathy but only mild morphological changes were found in group 1 and 2, while obvious morphological and histological changes were found in group 3. Mild morphological and histological changes were found in all of the rabbits 4-8 weeks after the injection while significant ones were found 8-12 weeks after the injection. The results of electroretinography indicated a statistically significant decline of amplitude of b wave in group 3. Conclusions Long-term intraocular retention of few PFCL may cause mild histological changes but not affect the clinical function. Plentiful PFCL remains in eyes may lead to toxic reaction to the ocular tissue.

Objective To evaluate effection of the myocardial protective in treatment of coenzyme complex to the VR patients .Methods Eighty patients who need to VR were divided into control group ( n=40) and coenzyme complex group ( n =40) with double -blind.The automatic recovery rate of heart beats after cardiac resuscitation , the changes of postoperative arrhythmia rate , postoperative serum CK-MB, cTnI in 12h in two groups were recorded .Results The automatic recovery rate of heart beats was higher in coenzyme complex group than that in control group , (85%vs 67%, P <0.05).The changes of postopera-tive arrhythmia rate (26%vs 38%), serum CK-MB, cTnI at clamp off of aorta, end of operation,6hour of postoperation and 12 hour of postoperation were lower in coenzyme complex group than those in control group respectively ( all P <0.05 ) .Conclusion Coenzyme complex shows positive protection of myocardial in the VR patients.

Objective To investigate the effects of minocycline on cell viability and neurite outgrowth of pheochromocytoma cells (PC12) after oxygen‐glucose deprivation(OGD) injury .Methods PC12 cells were exposed to OGD insult for 2 ,4 ,6 ,8 h to estab‐lish a cerebral ischemia model in vitro .High‐differentiated PC12 cells were cultivated and randomly divided into three groups :con‐trol group ,OGD group and various doses of minocycline(0 .1 ,1 .0 ,10 .0 μM) treated group .24 h after OGD‐reperfusion ,PC12 cells viability was assessed by CCK‐8 assay ,the neurite was labeled with MAP‐2 by immunofluorescence and neurite length was meas‐ured by the Image‐Pro Plus 7 .0 software ,GAP‐43 protein expression was determined by Western blotting .Results Compared to the OGD groups ,minocycline induced a concentration‐dependent increase in cells viability [(46 .1 ± 2 .9)% vs .(77 .0 ± 2 .5)% ,P<0.01],improvedneuriteoutgrowthandincreasedtheexpressionofGAP‐43proteininPC12cellsafterOGDinjury([(0.34±0.04) vs .(2 .11 ± 0 .10) ,P<0 .01] .Conclusion Minocycline could protect against oxygen glucose deprivation injury and promote neurite outgrowth .This finding suggests minocycline may be a novel therapy for cerebral ischemia .

Feature extraction of event-related potentials (ERP) plays an important part in both basic and clinical researches for cerebral neurophysiology. ICA is a method for separating blind signals based on signal statistic characteristics. In this paper, the fundamental principle, the discrimination condition and the practical algorithm of Independent Component Analysis are discussed. Then, a fast Independent Component Analysis algorithm (Fast ICA) is introduced. But like Fast ICA, its convergence is dependent on initial weight. We bring in a revision factor into the algorithm; thus the new algorithm could implement convergence on a largescale. In this paper, the revision factor is calculated by gradient. By modifying kernel iterate course, several iterations of Fast ICA are merged into one iteration of Modified Fast ICA, so the convergence of ICA will be accelerated. Finally, Modified ICA is applied to ERP extraction. The simulation shows that the convergence speed can be increased by using the improved algorithm.
Algorithms ; Brain ; physiology ; Electroencephalography ; methods ; Evoked Potentials ; Humans ; Principal Component Analysis ; methods ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

Objective To explore the effectiveness of 125I seed implantation for gastric cancer and to determine whether the therapy could increase the survival rate.Methods Seventy-six gastric cancer patients in stage Ⅱ or Ⅲ were involved and randomly divided into treatment group (n =42) and control group (n =34)by simple random sampling method.The patients in the control group underwent D2 or D3 surgery and the patients in treatment group underwent D2 or D3 surgery plus interstitial implantation of 125I seeds.All patients signed the informed consents.Treatment results were evaluated as CR,PR,NC and PD.CR and PR were considered as effective and the effective rate was calculated.All patients were followed up and the three-or five-year survival rate was calculated,the complications were examined.x2 test was used to compare the significant difference between the two groups.Results The total effective rate in control group was 50.00％ (17/34),lower than that of treatment group (73.81％,31/42; x2 =4.578,P＜0.05).In the treatment group,the three-year and five-year survival rates were 61.90％(26/42) and 42.86％(18/42) respectively,and the corresponding rates in the control group were 11.76％(4/34) and 0(0/34) respectively (x2=19.771,19.094,both P＜0.001).Both of the two groups had few severe side effects.Conclusion Radical surgery plus 1~Iseed implantation is effective and safe for the treatment of stage Ⅱ or Ⅲ gastric cancer and can further improvelong-term survival.

BACKGROUND:Col agen/bioactive glass composite materials possess excellent osteogenic potential and biocompatibility, but its application in bone tissue engineering is limited by mechanical property and degradation. OBJECTIVE:To construct col agen/bioactive glass/chitosan composite scaffolds with good mechanical property, anti-degradation ability and bone repair property.
METHODS:Bioactive glass/col agen composite scaffolds with chitosan as dispersant were prepared by lyophylization. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, and dynamic biomechanical testing were used to characterize the structure and properties of the composite scaffolds. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Results show that charge-attractions in pre-prepared bioactive glass/chitosan solution increased the homogeneity of bioactive glass dispersed in col agen gel and the compressive modulus and strength increased significantly due to the homogeneity and intermolecular interactions between chitosan and col agen. The enzymatic degradation rate and mineralization activity in the simulated body fluid were also lower because of a high degree of embedment of bioactive glass in col agen/chitosan matrix, and entanglement of col agen in chitosan at molecular level, which decreased the exposure of bioactive glass to the simulated body fluid, and col agen to enzyme solution.

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of port vein chemotherapy after simultaneous colorectal and liver resection.Methods 18 patients underwent carcinoectomy operation of colon or radical colorectal resection and irregular resection of hepatic metastases simultaneously in a single operation,and were given port vein chemotherapy in and after the operation.Result The survival rate at 1 year and 3 year were 83.3% and 55.6% respectively.Conclusion Patients underwent simultaneously colorectal and liver metastasis resection,port vein chemotherapy can improve response rate and prolong median survival to hepatic metastases of colorectal cancer.

Objective To investigate the mechanical prosperity and degradation rate of the scaffolds with compounding collagen and the nano sol-gel derived bioactive glass were studied,and provide the theoretical basis for the further application of collagen based scaffolds.Method The scaffold with compounding collagen and the nano sol-gel derived bioactive glass(58S)were prepared using the freeze-drying techniques with the bioactive glass as phase addition.By affecting the aggregation state of the collagen fibers with adjusting the supplementation of bioactive glass to change the microstructures of the compound scaffolds and finatly the compound scaffolds with different mechanical properties were prepared.Results (1)As the aggregation state of the collagen fibers changes,the scaffolds with the coarser collagen fibers is prepared with the diameters 400-600 nm approximately.The coarser collagen fibers will play an important role in improving the mechanical property and slowing down the degradation rate of the collagen based scaffolds.(2)The interactions between bioactive glass and collagen are studied by FTIR and Raman technologies.When the quality of content of collagen in the compound scaffolds is lower than 20%,the secondary structure of collagen is damaged severely.Conclusion The composite scaffolds with the mass ratio of collagen to bioactive glass 40:60 has the best performance in mechanical property and degradation,which will be helpful for further applications.

Objective Leucine-rich repeat transmembrane neuronal protein 2 (LRRTM2) localizes to excitatory glutamatergic synapses,and triggers the formation of excitatory synapses.This study aims to investigate the expression of LRRTM2 protein in the temporal lobe tissue of SD rats induced by lithiumpilocarpine,and explore its roles in epilepsy.Methods Fifty-six Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were induced by lithium-pilocarpine and randomly divided into 6h,24h,72h,7d,14d,30d and 60d subgroups.Eight SD rats were treated with normal saline instead of pilocarpine as controls. Expression of LRRTM2 protein was accessed by immunohistochemistry,immunofluorcscence and Western blot analysis. Results LRRTM2 protein mainly expressed in neurons of temporal lobe,gradually decreased in acute phase,and then up-regulated in latent and chronic periods.The immunohistochemistry A values in model rats from 6 h,24h,72h,7d,14d,30d and 60d subgroups were 0.286 ±0.012,0.227 ± 0.008,0.425 ± 0.015,0.509 ±0.019,0.579 ± 0.018,0.488 ± 0.018 and 0.566 ± 0.014,respectively,compared to 0.330 ±0.016 in control group ( t =3.965,11.987,9.131,14.121,20.452,12.929 and 22.786,all P＜0.05). Gray value ratios of LRRTM2/β-actin in different groups of model rats were 0.0354 ± 0.0043,0.0174 ± 0.0026,0.0685 ± 0.0064,0.0957 ± 0.0125,0.1044 ± 0.0103,0.0910 ± 0.0108,and 0.1012 ±0.0063,respectively,which were significant differences from control group (0.0471 ± 0.0033,t=4.354,14.191,5.989,7.541,10.565,7.730and15.316,allP＜0.05).Conclusions LRRTM2 protein gradually increases in the neurons of temporal lobe of SD rats treated by lithium-pilocarpine in silence and chronic phases,which indicates that it may play an important role in cpileptogenesis.

An improved edge detection algorithm is proposed in this paper for the medical images with strong noises and fuzzy edges. The algorithm modified the combination of morphological operations, so that the unclear edges of the images are avoided. In this paper is also introduced the algorithm of multi-structure elements which can reserve integrated edges from different directions of the images. Furthermore, the contrast enhancement and morphological filter processing are implemented. This method can detect the edges efficiently, keep the detected edges smooth and obtain coherent image edges. Experiments demonstrate that this edge detector has a better performance of noise reduction and keeps the edges more accurate than do the traditional edge detectors; thus its practicality is enhanced.
Algorithms ; Humans ; Image Enhancement ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; methods ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed