Objective To observe the clinical effect of Chi nese herbs Biejia Ruangan pill(BRP)on fibrosis in chronic hepatic B.Methods Ninety -eight patients with liver fibrosis of chronic hepatitis B were ra ndomly divided into two groups of BRP ,treatment group and co ntrol group,in which clinical manif estation scoring,liver function an d serum marker of hepatic fibrosis were obse rved.Results BRP could obviously improve the clin ical manifestation scoring,liver function and serum marker of hepatic fibrosis as compared with the contro l group.Conclusion Chinese herbs BRP could treat liver fibrosis of chronic hepatitis B effectively.

Purpose To observe the effect of paeonol on inflammatory factors after focal cerebral ischemiareperfusion injury in rats and its possible mechanism of paeonol.Methods Focal cerebral ischemic model was established by MCAO in rats.After 2 hours of cerebral ischemia and 22 hours of reperfusion,the expression of TNF-α and IL-1β in brain was determined by immunohistochemistry.The content of TNF-α and IL-1β in serum was measured by ELISA.Results Compared with model group,the levels of TNF-α and IL-1β in brain and serum in rats in the paeonol groups were obviously decreased.Conclusion Paeonol could relieve brain damage induced by focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion,which may be related to inhibiting the production of inflammatory factors.

A questionnaire survey on the awareness and knowledge about stroke was conducted in 392 residents of Fangzhuang community.The results showed residents in Fangzhuang had high awareness rate about stroke,the rates of knowing early symptoms of stroke were from 57.91％ to 79.08％.83.16％ (326) of residents knew to dial 120 or 999 at emergency.The community doctors were thought as the main resource of gaining the knowledge of stroke (78.32％ ).The results indicate that Fangzhuang community health service center plays an important role in health education and guidance for emergent management of stroke in the community.

The effect of fish oil on the basal left ventricular function and changes of left ventricular function induced by isoprenaline (ISO) was demonstrated in the study. The determination of cardiac performance in vivo showed that supplementation with fish oil (EPA and DMA,70%, 1. 4 mL/kg) had no significant effect on basal cardiac performance,while it could significantly inhibit the gains of +dp/dtmax,Vpm and HR induced by ISCK10 6 mol/L, 10 3 mol/L, 10 4 mol/L) introvenously. The result suggest that supplementation with fish oil have some effects on the function of B-adrenoceptors on rat myocardial membrane.

BACKGROUND:Due to the much higher requirement of biocompatibility and anticoagulant of smal-diameter vascular grafts than those of large-diameter ones, in situ blood vessel regeneration occurs as a new research direction. OBJECTIVE:To summarize the recent research development of electrospun smal-diameter scaffolds and to explore the application of in situ blood vessel regeneration and the development tendency. METHODS:The first author retrieved China National Knowledge Infrastructure database, Wanfang data and ISI Web of Knowledge foreign database to retrieve literatures addressing the fabrication of electrospun smal-diameter nanofibrous vascular grafts, surface modification and mimicking extracel ular matrix, as wel as the evaluation of biocompatibility and security after grafting. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Electrospun smal-diameter nanofibrous vascular grafts have emerged as promising candidates in vascular tissue engineering. By using both natural and synthetic polymers, the scaffolds can achieve a good balance between mechanical property and biocompatibility. Meanwhile, the fabrication of multi-layered vascular scaffolds, functional surface modification and mimicking extracel ular matrix structural y and functional y are now becoming attractive research directions. However, at current stage, electrospun vascular scaffolds used clinical y are basical y formed by synthetic materials, which have limited biocompatibility and anticoagulant activity. In this case, more efforts should be paid to find an optimal ratio between natural and synthetic materials for the improvement of biocompatibility and anticoagulant ability of smal-diameter vascular grafts.

It is reported that lipid-regulators including statins, nicotinic acid and fibrates can induce severe adverse reactions such as myopathy, even rhabdomyolysis which endangers the patient's life. The authors have discussed the relationship between lipid-regulators and myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, how those drugs cause these adverse reactions and the major factors for myopathy and rhabdomyolysis in order to deepen the knowledge, prevent the happenness of these diseases and develop the more effective and safer lipid-regulators.

Objective Effects of Weiyanxiao on basal gastric- acid secretion in anesthetized rats were investigated.Methods pH value of gastric perfusate in rat models of gastric perfusion were detected with a precise acidity meter to evaluated the effects of Weiyanxiao on basal gastric- acid secretion and gastrin- induced acid secretion.Results Small- dose Weiyanxiao (12.3 g/kg) had no significant influence on basal gastric- acid secretion and has slight inhibition on high- level gastric- acid secretion induced by gastrin ;large- dose Weiyanxiao (24.6g/kg) could restrain basal gastric- acid secretion (P

Objective To explore the influence of tetrahydroxystilbene glucoside ( TSG ) on the neuron proliferation in epileptic rats and the related mechanisms.Methods 54 healthy SD male rats were randomly divided into three groups: sham-operated group, epilepsy group and epilepsy with TSG treatment group.The epilepsy group was established by stereotactic brain trace injection with kainic acid ( KA ) . TSG solution ( 3 mg/kg ) was injected intraperitoneally at 6 hours after the epilepsy group established, and then q.d.for consecutive 42 days.The sham-operated group and epilepsy group were injected with normal saline.The influence of TSG on cell proliferation of rat hippocampal dentate gyrus BrdU-positive granular cells was observed by immunohistochemistry.Results Compare with the epilepsy group, the amount of glial fibrillary acid protein ( GFAP)-positive astrocytes was significantly reduced and dentate gyrus BrdU-positive cells were significantly increased in the TSG group ( P <0.01 ) .Conclusions Tetrahydroxystilbene glucoside ( TSG) promotes neurogenesis of neural stem cells and neurons, and inhibits the growth of hippocampal dentate gyrus astrocytes in epilepsy rats.

Effects of fish oil on B-adrenoceptors as well as the activity of adenylate cyclase (AC) on rat myocardial membrane were investigated. Supplementation with fish oil had no significant effect on basal activity of AC on myocardial membrane, whereas it could markedly inhibit the AC activity stimulated by isoproterenol (ISO). Radioligand binding assays showed that supplementation with fish oil had no effect on Bmax, and Kd, compared with saline control. However, supplementation with sheep oil could markedly reduce both the Ka and Bmax, compared with saline control. And the Ka value of sheep oil group was greatly decreased than that of fish oil group. The results suggested that supplementation with fish oil affected mainly on the activation of AC and not on B-adrenoceptor itself.

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of mydriasis induced by intracameral injection of 1% lidocaine instead of topical mydriatics and postoperative recovery of pupil diameter in phacoemulsification surgery through a prospectively controlled clinical trial. Design Randomized clinical trial. Participants 34 patients (36 eyes) in study group,46 patients (50 eyes) in control group. Methods The study group comprised 34 patients (36 eyes),who were given intracamerally 0.5 ml unpreserved lidocaine 1% without using mydriatic eyedrops preoperatively. 46 patients (50 eyes),pupil dilated with topical mydriatics,Mydrin-p ( Tropicamid,Phenylephrine Eye Drops),were studied for comparison. As for the study group,baseline pupil diameters were recorded before the surgery,and 90 seconds after the injection of 1% lidocaine. As for the control group pupil,diameters were recorded when the surgery began. Pupil diameters at 1h,2h,4h,8h,12h,and 24h postoperatively were recorded respectively for both groups. Corneal edema and vision recovery were recorded postoperatively. Main outcome measures Pupil diameter. Results The mean baseline pupil size of the study group was 2.0611?0.1016mm,and maximum mean pupil size obtained at 90 seconds after the injection was 6.0972?0.1566mm. At the beginning of the surgery the mean pupil diameter of the control group was 7.6100?0.0799mm which was larger than 6.0972?0.1566mm (P=0.000). 75.0% eyes in the lidocaine group returned to normal size with brisk light reflex,while only 22.0% in the control group did. The time required for return to normal pupil size was significantly different between the two groups (P=0.000). Conclusions Intracameral injection of 1% unpreserved lidocaine can provide adequate pupil dilation and get rapid recovery of pupil size after surgery,though not as large as that of topical mydriatics for phacoemulsification. (Ophthalmol CHN ,2006,15: 205-208)