Objective To sonographically measure nuchal skin thickness(NT) and biparietal diameter/femur length (BPD/FL) for normal fetuses between 10 and 24 gestational weeks,screen abnormal cases then to culture fetal cells and chromosome analysis, diagnosis aneuploid chromosome deformed fetuses Methods Ultrosonic estimation of fetal gestation according to gestational sac or CRL or BPD/Fl and AC, measuring NT, BPD/Fl of 100 cases per gestational weeks, drawing normal curve of NT, making curve of 90 th and 10 th NT and BPD/Fl. Restropectively analysis 5 cases trisomy 21.Results The average of NT was 1 76mm between 10 and 13 gestational weeks. The average of NT was 3 52mm between14 and 24 gestational weeks. The value of 50th was 2 40～1 40 between14 and 24 gestational weeks.Conclusions If the value of NT is more than 90 percent of normal fetuses, and if BPD/FL ratio is morn than 90 percent of normal fetuses,the sensitivity of trisome 21 should increase.Combining factors as elderly and high risk parturition, the sensitivity of trisomy 21 is much more increasing.

Objective To investigate the relationship between the gene polymorphism of the inducible costimulatory molecules (ICOS),CD_(28),CD_(24) and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis(MS). Methods 83 patients with MS and 110 controls selected from healthy individuals and hospital staff in Chinese Han people with non-autoimmune diseases were studied by detecting genotype of the 3 genes using PCR-RFLP method. Results The frequency of ICOS-2394 TT genotypes was significantly higher in MS patients than in controls (MS 33.7%vs controls 10.9%, P

BACKGROUND: At present, common therapies of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) are uvulo-palato-pharyngoplasty and nasal continuous positive airway pressure (N-CPAP). The effective rate of surgical treatment was 50% and the prostecdtive efficacy is decreased gradually. As to treatment with breathing machine, some of the patients can not adapt to it.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of auricular acupoint pressing therapy on clinical indexes of patients with OSAS and its clinical effect,and analyze the possible mechanism.DESIGN: Randomized control observation.SETTING: Department of Acupuncture and Department of Respiration,Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University.PARTICIPANTS: Forty-five outpatients with OSAS between April 2001 and April 2004, who were diagnosed as OSAS in the room of sleep-monitoring of Department of Respiration, were selected from the Clinic of Respiration, Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, including 44 males and one female. All subjects were randomly divided into treatment group (n=30) and control group (n=15).METHODS: ①Patients in the treatment group were treated by auricular acupoint pressing therapy, acupoint-locating: shenmen, sympathesis, subcortex, heart, lung, spleen, kidney, anterior ear lobe. Each acupoint was pressed about 10-20 times with 3-5 times every day and 10 days as onecourse. Patients in the control group were treated with placebo and orally took 100 mg of Vitamin C three times a day. Patients in both groups were detected by 7hour nocturnal polysomnography before treatment and 10 days after the treatment, and the curative effects were evaluated.②Criteria of the curative effects on clinical symptoms: Effective: clinical symptoms such as dizzy,somnolence, oppressed chest and obstructing etc. were significantly ameliorated with nocturnal times decreased from 4-5 times to once or none and awake times decreased from 4-5 to once or none. Valid: clinical symptoms were improved. Invalid: no amelioration was found in clinicalsymptoms.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Changes of clinical symptoms before and after the treatment and hypopnea index (HI), apnea index (AI), apnea hypopnea index (AHI), minimum blood oxygen saturation as well as the longest apnea time detected by polysomnography were observed.RESULTS: A total of 45 patients with OSAS were involved in the analysis of results, and no one withdrew from the study.①The clinical symptoms in auricular acupoint treatment group were significantly ameliorated than control group. In the treatment group, 17 patients were effective (56.7%), 12 patients were valid and one patient was invalid. The clinical symptoms in the control group were not improved before and after the treatment, and there were significant differences between the treatment group and control group (P ＜ 0.05). ②Comparison in each inspecting indexes by polysomnogram: those in the auricular pressing therapy group were remarkably different from those in the control group after treatment (P ＜ 0.001). There was no significant difference in all indexes of the control group between and after the treatment (P ＞ 0.05).③The differences in AI, HI, AHI, minimum blood oxygen saturation as well as the longest apnea time of the auricular pressing treatment group after the treatment were markedly different from those before treatment [(65.25±7.44), (53.69±10.80) times/hour; (72.40±7.92), (59.22±10.55) times/hour; (9.46±2.6), (6.5±2.9) times/hour; (73.3±4.8)%,(77.67±3.78)%; (90.16±33), (45.33±24.69) s,P ＜ 0.001]. Among them, the maximum decrease of AI was 19.3 times/hour, the maximum decrease of AHI was 17.8 times/hour, the maximum decrease of HI was 12.9 times/hour and the maximum increase of blood oxygen saturation was 7% CONCLUSION: Auricular acupoint pressing therapy, in the treatment of OSAS, can significantly ameliorate the AI, HI; AHI, minimum blood oxygen saturation as well as the longest apnea time with better curative effects.

AIM: Using simvastatin and vitamine E (Vit-E) treatment to coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with low HDL, to investigate the relationship between Ox-LDL, platelet activation and HDL. METHODS: 40 CAD patients with low HDL were divided into two groups (A and B): A group oral simvastatin, B group oral simvastatin and Vit-E. The level of serum Ox-LDL, TXB 2 and GMP-140 were measured before and after treatment. The relationship between Ox-LDL, TXB 2, GMP-140 and HDL were analysed. RESULTS:The level of serum HDL was significantly increased in A and B group after treatment and attained normal level. The level of serum Ox-LDL, TXB 2 and GMP-140 were decreased significantly after simvastatin and Vit-E treatment and neared normal. CONCLUSIONS:This study confirmed that HDL can effectively refrain LDL oxidation. It also revealed that Vit-E and simvastatin treatment were more effectively refrained platelet activation by increasement of HDL and decreasement of Ox-LDL.

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is one of the most important pathogens in shrimp farm throughout the world. Many researches on WSSV have been done, but no efficient approach has been gained to protect and cure the disease. In this study, we constructed a single-chain fragment variable (scFv) antibody library displayed on phage using spleen cells from mice immunized with denatured WSSV. After several rounds of panning respectively against purified intact WSSV virions and purified VP28 expressed in Escherichia coli, five novel scFv antibodies specifically against WSSV were selected, one of which, clone P75E8, recognized a linear epitope. The location in virions of the epitopes recognized by the five scFv clones was determined by immunoelectron microscopy. This study provides a new way to obtain more different antibodies specifically binding to WSSV, and especially provides a new strategy to obtain scFvs against linear epitopes.
Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antibodies, Viral ; immunology ; Antibody Specificity ; immunology ; Antigens, Viral ; immunology ; Epitopes ; immunology ; Immunoglobulin Fragments ; genetics ; immunology ; Immunoglobulin Variable Region ; genetics ; immunology ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Penaeidae ; virology ; Peptide Library ; White spot syndrome virus 1 ; immunology

In this study, we explored the rationality of processing methods and mechanism of Aconiti Lateralis Radix (Fuzi) through comparing the chemical contents of diester alkaloids (DAs) and monoester alkaloids (MAs) in the raw material of Fuzi and its processed products. The results showed that the toxicity potency of MAs is at least lower than 1/64 to 1/180 of the toxicity potency of DAs. The contents of DAs in processed Fuzi decreased to 1/76.5 to 1/38.3 of the value of raw Fuzi. The contents of MAs in processed Fuzi significantly increased by 4.6 to 5.2 fold or basically the same as that of the raw Fuzi. The values of MAs/DAs of processed Fuzi were enhanced by 30 to 390 fold of the raw Fuzi. It was found that the contents of DAs were insignificantly different between "Wu dan fu pian" (steaming or stir-frying without Danba) and "Dan fu pian" (steaming or stir-frying with Danba). The result suggested that the abilities of "eliminating toxicity" of different processing methods were equivalent at all. In contrast, the contents of MAs contained in "Wu dan fu pian" were of 5.3 to 8.7 fold higher than the values in "Dan fu pian". This result suggested the processing method by steaming or stir-frying without Danba might have better effect for "conserving property" than the method processed with Danba stipulated by China Pharmacopoeia. We believe that the new processing method without Danba can be recommended in further application due to it offers a simple procedure and it will not introduce inorganic impurities in the products.

The prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs are growing important in recent years, and faced with new developments and opportunities. The author analyzed the importance of formulate national processing procedures of prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs combined actual work, proposed the overall objectives and tasks for the formulation, and emphasized to need to correctly deal with several important factors during the process of formulate "National processing procedures of prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs", unified the national standards of prepared slices, solved the real problems that the prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs industry faced.
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical ; methods ; standards ; China ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; standards

OBJECTIVE: To study the expression of Eotaxin and Eotaxin-2 in nasal polyposis and nasal polyp and explore the different mechanism between polyposis and polyp. METHOD: Fifteen cases of nasal polyposis, thirteen cases of polyp and eight cases of normal middle turbinate were studied with immunohistochemical SP method to detect the expression of Eotaxin and Eotaxin-2. RESULT: There were significant differences between either two groups about the expression of Eotaxin-2 (P < 0.05). The expression of Eotaxin in nasal polyposis and polyp were dramatically higher than in controls (P < 0.05), the expression of Eotaxin between nasal polyposis and polyp was no remarkable difference (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION Both of Eotaxin and Eotaxin-2 likely play key roles in the inflammatory reaction process of nasal polyposis and polyp. The different expression of Eotaxin-2 between nasal polyposis and polyp demonstrates it may be one of the main causes in the different mechanism of the two diseases.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Chemokine CCL11 ; metabolism ; Chemokine CCL24 ; metabolism ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nasal Polyps ; metabolism ; pathology ; Young Adult

Objective: To understand indoor air quality in middle and primary schools of Hangzhou in autumn and winter seasons, and to provide references of promoting indoor air quality of schools. Methods: Totally 33 classrooms of 11 schools in urban area were selected into study during Sept.2018 to Jan.2019. Daily measurements of PM2.5 and CO2 were performed in selected classes during school working time by air quality monitors. Totally, monitoring data of 35 964 hours were analyzed using univariate and multiplicity analysis for PM2.5 and CO2 level, variability and possible influence factors. Results: In autumn and winter, hourly average values of classroom PM2.5 and CO2 concentration level in Hangzhou were between 35.30 to 74.65 μg/m3 and between 949.17 to 2 029.98 mg/m3, respectively. The concentration levels of PM2.5 and CO2 were higher with the temperature(F=1 412.84, 775.66, P<0.01). No statistical significance was be found for the difference of PM2.5 concentration among monitoring times. Wave changes in CO2 were observed with time variation PM2.5 and CO2 concentration level of 68.42% monitoring times was complied with standards. School type and temperature correlated with PM2.5 concentration level. The PM2.5 concentration level in senior high school was higher than that in junior high school, while the value in primary school was the minimum(β=0.44, P<0.01). And the PM2.5 concentration increased with the temperature decreased(β=8.31, P<0.01). School type, temperature and monitoring time correlated with CO2 concentration level. CO2 concentration increased with the increase of grade, decrease in temperature and later time during the day(β=213.64, 162.38, P<0.01). The CO2 concentration level in later monitoring time was lower than that in earlier monitoring time(β=-16.28, P<0.01). Conclusion Classroom CO2 concentration level in Hangzhou was closed to that in European schools, while PM2.5 concentration level was much higher. Comparing with other cities in China, classroom PM2.5 and CO2 concentration level in Hangzhou is better. The results highlighted that school location, design and routine management should be advanced consideration for good air quality in classroom.

Objective:To investigate the efficacy of pixel 2 940 nm erbium laser combined with vitamin B12 in the treatment of acne sunken scar.Methods:From July 2017 to June 2019, 96 patients with acne sunken scar were treated in the Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the Second People＇s Hospital of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. They were randomly divided into two groups with 48 cases in each group. The control group was treated with routine therapy and the observation group was treated with pixel 2 940 nm erbium laser combined with vitamin B12. The therapeutic effects, acne scar weight score (ECCA), skin condition and adverse reactions were compared between the two groups.Results:The total effective rate of the control group was 77.08% (37/48), which was lower than that of the observation group 91.67% (44/48) ( P<0.05); The incidence of adverse reactions, pore and amethyst in ECCA score of the control group were (18.14±9.33), 18.75% (9/48), (32.25±8.41) and (18.24±5.12), which were higher than those of the observation group (26.45±12.60), 4.17% (2/48), (28.24±7.52) and (15.63±4.34) ( P<0.05), respectively. Conclusions:Pixel 2 940 nm erbium laser combined with vitamin B12 is effective in the treatment of acne sunken scar, with less adverse reactions and high safety. It is worthy of clinical application.