This article reviewed the advances in studies on intestinal absorption characteristics of zinc and possible mechanisms.It has set a foundation for elucidating important functions of zinc absorption in maintaining zinc homeostasis in the body of animals.

Acupuncture Therapy ; Fingers ; blood supply ; Gangrene ; therapy ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neck Injuries ; therapy ; Young Adult

Objective To discuss the possibility and efficiency by using Six Sigma method.Methods By using"five steps" of Six Sigma,management of medical consumable materials storehouse was improved continuously.Such Sigma levels before and after the implementation in 6 months were compared as satisfaction for medical service,supply punctuality,rate of high-quality products,and the realization of"Zero Storage".Results All Sigma levels were raised.Conclusion The method of Six Sigma fits for the storehouse management of medical materials and can improve the management quality.

OBJECTIVE To understand the situation of hand hygiene in our hospital to explore effective measures for implementation.METHODS 258 medical personnel,were investigated for the hand-washing,before and after the implementation of the hands of our health system to compare the nosocomial infection rate.RESULTS The low rate 35.02%~49.42% of medical personnel washed their hands before the normal operation in and out the Ⅱ area.Hand-washing compliance rate was only 54.17%;and after the implementation of our health system in hand,nosocomial infection rate decreased 30%.CONCLUSIONS Washing hands is important to prevent nosocomial infection,Medical personnel generally do not have a strong sense and we should start and strengthen the supervision and improve the supporting facilities to ensure the compliance of medical staff.

Objective To evaluatethe application value of APACHE Ⅱ on the prognoses in prediction of pin hole multi-directional intracranial hematoma aspiration to cure severe cerebral hemorrhage.Methods APACHE Ⅱ scoring system was conducted in randomly collected 58 severe cerebral hemorrhage patients' data (30 patients underwent surgical treatment,28 patients underwent conservative treatment)to evaluate the disease severity,prognosis and effect of the pin hole multi-directional intracranial hematoma aspiration.Results The APACHE Ⅱ score of treatment group on the first day was 28.00 ± 1.92 and the predicted mortality was 0.86 ±0.03.The score was decreased obviously on the tenth day(8.20 ± 0.76)and the predicted mortality was 0.57 ± 0.05.The actual mortality was 33.33％.Conclusion APACHE Ⅱ scoring system is suitable for judging the disease severity and predicting the prognosis of severe cerebral hemorrhage patients,it proves that surgical treatment effect of the pin hole multi-directional intracranial hematoma aspiration is remarkable.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the major complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which results in a high risk of mortality. Thus, the cardiovascular safety of new anti-diabetic agents has become an important prob?lem with wide concern. There are two classes of incretine-based medications: glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor (DPP-4I). It has been demonstrated that GLP-1RA and DPP-4I possesse beneficial actions in both animal models of cardiovascular dysfunction and patients with ischemic heart diseases. However, their effects on the cardiovascular system in diabetic patients with heart diseases are still uncertain. Here, we sys?tematically reviewed the effects of GLP-1RA and DPP-4I on cardiovascular system to provide more evidence of incretin-based therapy application for diabetes and complications.

Breast cancer is regarded as a heterogenous disease classified into different molecular subtypes,resulting in different biologic behavior and sensitivity to treatment respectively.Molecular biology typing that based gene expression profiles and biological characteristics of breast cancer can reflect the biological behavior of tumors exactly,which has important clinical significance.

Autoimmune diseases are characterized by the presence of various autoantibodies and may cause injuries to multiple organs,with kidney as the most common and important organ involved.Autoantibodies are of great importance in the diagnosis,treatment and prognosis of autoimmune renal diseases.Lupus nephritis,anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitis and antiglomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease are the most common autoimmune renal diseases.Anti-C1q antibody,ANCA and anti-GBM antibody play important roles in those diseases,respectively.Appropriate and steady detecting methods are crucial to clinicians,and the results should also be interpreted with great cautions.

Arsenic trioxide (As2O3)is the main component of traditional Chinese medicine arsenic,which was initially used in the treatment of blood system diseases.In recent years,studies have found that it also has a good effect on a variety of solid tumors,especially gastric cancer.It has been confirmed that As2O3 can inhibit proliferation and metastasis of gastric cancer cells,induce apoptosis and protective autophagy,inhibite lymphatic formation and angiogenesis,affect the expression of telomere-related proteins in gastric cancer cells.