Objective To investigate academic thoughts of physicians in the treatment of dryness syndrome in Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. [Methods] With learning the ancient medical works, etiology-pathogenesis and principle-method-recipe-medicines of dryness syndrome were analyzed, and characteristic of the treatment of dryness syndrome was summarized. [Results] Liu Wansu summarized that blood exhaustion and body fluid deficiency were the pathology of dryness syndrome, and zang and fu organs and skin dry manifestation were the clinical symptoms, and he proposed 11 prescriptions. Yu Jiayan put forward the name of autumn-dryness disease, summarized clinical characteristics was thirsty. He proposed the rule to treat the dryness syndrome from lung and liver, and also created Qingzao Jiufei decoction to treat the warm and dryness pathogen attacking lung syndrome. Fei Boxiong raised dryness syndrome could be divided into warm dryness and cool dryness, treated from five zang organs, and emphasized the application of harmonization method to mild treatment. Ye Tianshi raised dryness syndrome could be divided into internal injury and exogenous disease, to treat upper dryness from QI and lower from blood based on Wei qi camp blood and Sanjiao syndrome differentiation . Wu Jutong treated autumn-dryness in Sanjiao syndrome differentiation, and pointed out the progression of autumn-dryness could be along upper jiao, middle jiao and lower jiao. He created Xingsu powder, Sangxing decoction and Shashen Maidong decoction. [Conclusion] There were al kinds of innovation of syndrome differentiation and treatment of dryness syndrome in Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is instructive to diagnosis and treatment for later physician.

According to the method of puncturing the twelve Jing (well) acupoints to treat hemiplegia followYinbai (SP 1), Dadun (LR 1), Shangyang (LI 1) and Guanchong (TE 1), combining with selected acupoints according to the presenting syndromes, to treat 114 cases of hemiplegia following a stroke, the total effective rate was 91.1%.

砄bjective:To elucidate the effects of gradually induced occlusal disorder on the expression of TGF ?1 in temporomandibular condyle of monkey. Methods:In a monkey after extraction of right upper first molar and left lower first molar, a fixed orthodontic appliance was used to cause the adjacent teeth inclined to the space and to occlude with opposite in coordinately. Another monkey was used as the control.8 months later, the animals were sacrificed and bilateral temporomandibular condyles were examined with histologic and immunohistochemical methods.Results:In the animal with teeth extraction, degenerative changes were found in anterior medial part of condyles, the thickness of condylar cartilage decreased significantly, especially in the anterior parts of medial and central thirds, and also the intermediate part of medial third ( P

Objective To assess the effect of smoking and body mass index(BMI) on lung cancer incidence density in male workers.Methods Risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in baseline were surveyed in 1974,1979 and 1980 for 5 137 men aged more than 18 years old from Beijing Capital Steel and Iron Company.Follow-up was carried out to 2001;all diseases were identified by uniform standard.Cox proportional hazards model was used to analyze the relationship between smoking,BMI and lung cancer.Results During mean follow-ups of 20.8 years,106 cases of lung cancer occurred.The crude incident rates of lung cancer were 102.2 cases per 100 000 person-years.After adjustment for age,BMI and other established risk factors,cigarettes consumption of greater than 20 cigarettes/day versus no smoking was associated with a relative risk of lung cancer of 3.45(95% confidence interval(CI): 1.58～7.53).In categories of BMI of less than 18.5(underweight),18.5～24.9(normal weight) and more than 25 kg/m2(overweight and obesity),adjusting for age and other covariables,all workers and smoking workers both showed decreasing tendencies in relative risks of lung cancer in higher BMI groups.The pattern was similar after excluding the early 5-year lung cancer patients.Grouping in smoking and BMI levels,compared with underweight smokers,the relative risks for lung cancer of normal-weight nonsmokers and nonsmokers with overweight and obesity,as well as smokers with overweight and obesity were 0.25(95% CI: 0.08～0.84),0.16(95% CI: 0.04～0.74) and 0.23(95% CI: 0.07～0.77),respectively.Smokers with underweight had higher risk for lung cancer.Conclusion Smoking and underweight increased the risk of lung cancer.Keeping normal weight and giving up tobacco were important for the prevention of lung cancer.

Objective To study the relationship between ATP level changes detected by hepatic 31P MRS with the pathologic changes of liver in rabbits and to investigate the diagnostic value of ATP level changes in acute hepatic radiation injury. Methods A total of 30 rabbits received different radiation doses ( ranging from 5,10,20 Gy) to establish acute hepatic injury models. Blood hepatic function tests, 31P MRS and pathological examinations were carried out 24 h after irradiation The degree of injury was evaluated according to hepatocyte pathology. Ten healthy rabbits served as controls. The MR examination was performed on a 1.5 T imager using a 1H-31P surface coil with 2D chemical shift imaging technique. The relative quantities of phosphomonoesters (PME), phosphodiesters (PDE), inorganic phosphate (Pi) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) were measured. Analysis of variance was used to compare the results of 31P MRS and histopathology under various acute hepatic radiation injuries, and SNK was used further to conduct comparison between each other if there was significant difference. Results The ATP relative quantification in control( n= 10), mild ( n = 12), moderate ( n = 11 ), and severe ( n = 7 ) injury groups according to pathological grading were 1.83 ± 0. 33, 1.58 ± 0. 25, 1.32 ± 0. 07 and 1.02 ± 0. 18, with significant differences among them (F =22. 878 ,P ＜0. 01 ), and it decreased progressively with the increased degree of injury. The PDE index showed no significant trend for the evaluation of hepatic radiation injury. The area under the peak of β-ATP decreased with the increased severity of radiation injury. Conclusions The relative quantification of hepatic ATP levels can reflect the pathological severity of acute hepatic radiation injury. The decreasing hepatic ATP levels may be used as biomarker of acute liver injury following radiation.

ObjectiveTo explore the expression and clinical significance of Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac-1) protein and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) in breast cancer and their relationship with tumor stage, node metastasis status and hormone receptor status. MethodsImmunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of Rac-1 and HIF-1α protein in 139 specimens of breast cancer,combined with their clinical pathological characteristics and hormone receptor status for statistical analysis.Results The expression of Rac-1 and HIF-1α in breast cancer tissue were 64.75 ％ and 65.47 ％,respectively.The levels were related with the stage of TNM and histological grade (P ＜ 0.05,P ＜ 0.01).There was no significant correlation between these two proteins'expression and the age of patient,primary pathological location, histologic type and menstruation status of breast cancer patients(P ＞ 0.05). The expression of Rac-1 and HIF-1α had no statistical significance between triple negative breast cancer(TNBC)and non-triple negative breast cancer (NTNBC) patients (x2 =1.1229,x2 =0.1786,P ＞ 0.05); The expression level of Rac-1 was positively correlated with HIF-1α in these breast cancer specimens (rs =0.414,P ＜ 0.01).ConclusionThe expression of Rac-1 is positively correlated with HIF-1α level in breast cancer.The relationship between Rac-1 and HIF-1α might be as a new important marker to estimate the invasion,metastasis extent and prognosis in breast cancer.Blocking the regulation between Rac-1 and HIF-1α might be a new treatment target in breast cancer.

The low butanol concentration of acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation causes uneconomical product recovery. In this work, the effect of small molecule non-ionic surfactants on butanol fermentation was evaluated, using laboratory stocks of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Non-ionic surfactants substantially increased butanol production when additive amount was higher than 1% (W/W). Butanol concentration reached 16.9 g/L with 5% (W/W) Tween 80 and 100 g/L glucose in a 5 L fermenter. It was found that surfactants micelle solubilization capacity to butanol was very limited, indicating that butanol could hardly enter the surfactants micelle. Butanol production improvement was probably caused by cell surface hydrophobicity change due to surfactants adsorption.
Acetone ; chemistry ; Bioreactors ; Butanols ; chemistry ; Clostridium acetobutylicum ; metabolism ; Ethanol ; chemistry ; Fermentation ; Surface-Active Agents ; chemistry

Objective To investigate clinical effect of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH)for inter-venting central precocious puberty in children,to provide reference for clinical treatment.Methods 80 patients with growth deceleration slows CCP were selected,when height growth rate below 4cm/year,40 patients on the basis of joint GnRHa used rhGH treatment were selected as the observation group,and the remaining 40 patients refused to use rhGH,continued to use of GnRHa treatment were selected as the control group.After treatment predicted height,height,bone age,growth rate and other indicators were compared.Results In observation group,the actual height Ht, predicted height PAH,the growth rate Gv,serum insulin -like growth factor -1 (IGF -1 )after treatment were (1 44.48 ±6.59)cm,(1 54.94 ±4.52)cm,(4.43 ±0.64)cm/6months,(1 32.25 ±8.84)ng/mL,compared to before treatment,the differences were statistically significant (t =6.548,P <0.01 ;t =5.734,P <0.01 ;t =28.869,P <0.01 ;t =20.65,P <0.01 ),compared with the control group,the differences were significant (t =3.943,P <0.01 ;t =4.759,P <0.01 ;t =28.247,P <0.01 ;t =20.882,P <0.01 ),there were no differences in other indices;hor-mones FSH,LH and other indicators of the two groups before and after treatment,and blood sugar,thyroid indicators showed no abnormality.Conclusion Recombinant human growth hormone in the treatment of central precocious puberty deceleration in children does not increase bone age,which will help improve the growth rate and predicted height,which worthy of clinical application.

Objective To study the influence of theaflavin on the expressions of TLR4 and release of TNF-αand IL-6 in primari-ly cultured rat airway epithelial cells .Methods Lipopolysacchride(LPS) was adopted to establish the in vitro inflammatory injury model of rat airway epithelial cell ,the TNF-αand IL-6 secreted by the airway epithelial cells and the TLR4 protein level in the air-way epithelial cells were detected with ELISA and the expressions of TLR4 mRNA was detected with RT-PCR .Results LPS sig-nificantly induced the airway epithelial cells to secrete TNF-αand IL-6 ,and enhanced the TLR4 mRNA and TLR4 protein expres-sion(P<0 .01) .Theaflavin could inhibit LPS induced TNF-αand IL-6 secretion and TLR4 gene expression(P<0 .05) ,which was related with the theaflavin concentration (P<0 .05) .Conclusion In rat airway epithelial cell culture ,the anti-inflammatory effect of theaflavin may be decrease the release of inflammatory cytokines via inhibiting TLR 4 gene expression and LPS/TLR4 signal trans-duction pathway .

Objective To investigate the relationship between serum uric acid level and atrial fibrillation in patients with coronary heart disease.Methods Two hundred and forty-seven inpatients with coronary heart disease were selected.All the patients were divided into simple coronary heart disease group (90 cases),coronary heart disease with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation group (85 cases) and coronary heart disease with continuous/permanent atrial fibrillation group (72 cases).The age,history of cardiovascular events,uric acid,echocardiographic characteristics and drug-taking history were carefully recorded.The risk factors of atrial fibrillation in patients with coronary heart disease were analyzed by Logistic regression.Results The level of history of smoking,diastolic blood pressure,body mass index,total cholesterol,high density lipoprotein cholesterol,low density lipoprotein cholesterol,creatinine,fasting plasma glucose,postprandial 2 h plasma glucose,interventricular septal thickness,carotid intima-media thickness and drug-taking history among the 3 groups showed no statistical differences (P ＞ 0.05).The age,systolic blood pressure,uric acid,left atrial diameter (LAD),left ventricular end diastolic diameter (LVEDD) in coronary heart disease with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation group and coronary heart disease with continuous/permanent atrial fibrillation group were significantly higher than those in simple coronary heart disease group,the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was significantly lower than that in simple coronary heart disease group,and there were statistical differences (P ＜ 0.01 or ＜ 0.05).The result of Logistic regression analysis showed high uric acid,high age,expanded LAD and LVEDD were the independent risk factors of atrial fibrillation in patients with coronary heart disease,and uric acid showed the most significant correlation (P =0.001,OR =1.061,95％ CI 1.026-1.096).Conclusion High serum uric acid level maybe a risk factor of atrial fibrillation in patients with coronary heart disease.