Objective:To study the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme(ACE),extracellular signal-regulated kinase(ERK),and the changes of atrial fibrosis in patients with rheumatic heart disease(RHD) and atrial fibrillation(AF) treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor(ACEI).Methods:Atrial tissues were obtained from the right appendage during open surgery in 35 patients with RHD.The mRNA of ACE and ERK2 were semi-qualified by reverse transcription-ploymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) and normalized to the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase(GAPDH).Western blotting analysis was employed to examine the expressions of ACE and phosphorylated ERK(pERK).Atrial collagen volume fraction(CVF) was detected by Masson's stain.Results:The mRNA of ACE and ERK2 or the protein of ACE and pERK were significantly increased,and CVF was significantly increased in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation(CAF) compared with sinus rhythm group(SR)( P 0.05).Conclusion:The expressions of ACE,ERK2 and pERK increase,and fibrosis is more severe in RHD patients with CAF as compared with those with SR.Compared with CAF patients treated without ACEI,the expressions of ERK2 and pERK significantly decrease( P 0.05)in CAF patients treated with ACEI.This suggests that the increasing expression of ERK2 and pERK resulting from local renal angiotensin-converting enzyme system activation mediates the development of atrial fibrosis,and ACEI may contribute to lesser atrial fibrosis in RHD patients with AF.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive disorder characterized by abnormally elevated blood pressure of the pulmonary circulation. PH progresses rapidly to right ventricular (RV) failure and even death without treatment. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an accurate and reproducible tool for the assessment of RV morphology and function, which plays an important role in the prognosis of patients with PH. The aim of this study is to review the clinical application and research progress of CMR in evaluation of PH.

According to the sera aquaporin-4 antibody (AQP4), neuromyelitis optica (NMO) can be classified into two types as AQP4 antibody positive (AQP4+) and negative (AQP4-). However, the NMO patients with AQP4- are prone to delayed treatment, and may have a different pathogenesis compared to that in patients with AQP4+. Scientific researches and the clinical trials on NMO with AQP4- will deepen the understanding of NMO pathogenesis and help to make an early accurate diagnosis and rational therapy for NMO with AQP4-. This review aims to summarize the progress in clinic diagnosis for NMO patients with AQP4-.

Acupuncture scientization was a consensus of most of acupuncture scholars who had long-term perspectives in the 20th century, among them Ms. ZHULian was the important one. Ms. ZHU Lian built a systemic new acupuncture" academic structure in practice and theory aspects. At the same time, as the main architect of Institute of Acupuncture-moxibustion of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ms. ZHU Lian was the first one who began to carry out the acupuncture clinical trail and laboratory experiment in modern way, which meant "acupuncture therapy" was transformed into "acupuncture science" by Ms. ZHULian's endeavor.
Acupuncture ; education ; history ; standards ; Acupuncture Therapy ; history ; methods ; standards ; China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Science ; history

Five flavors are basic nature of Chinese medicine. But the labeling of Chinese medicine flavors was in a chaos. Song Jin and Yuan dynasty is a transconformation stage of labeling Chinese medicine flavors. In this article the author put forward that the determination of Chinese medicine flavor shifted from tasting of early and middle age of Northern Song dynasty to categorical analogizing and functional analogizing in the late age of Northern Song dynasty. The latter method had a flourished development in Southern Song, Jin and Yuan dynasty. This regularity conclusion has provided a reference for the standardizing Chinese medicine flavors.
History, Medieval ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; history ; Taste

The acupuncture medical literature during the Republic of China is divided into four categories, including theoretical literature, acupuncture channels and acupoints drawing literature, translations, and teaching materials and medical cases. It is found that the theoretical literature focuses on inheriting the traditional theories as well as combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The drawings are becoming more and more precise, and in these drawing works anatomy begins to appear at that time. Translations are the achievements of communication between TCM and Western medicine, which promote the scientization of acupuncture greatly. Teaching materials are also influenced by Western medicine, presenting a rough frame of modern acupuncture disciplinary system. As important clinic data, medical cases have great clinical value. Overall, acupuncture medical literature during the Republic of China is widely published, which is influenced greatly by the Western medicine and presents a significant tendency of scientization.
Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; history ; Books ; history ; China ; History, 20th Century ; Humans ; Translations

Objective To detect the effect ofXuebijing injection on the serum soluble CD40 ligand (soluble CD40 ligand, sCD40L), lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 (lipoprotein-phospholipase A2, Lp-PLA2) of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).Methods A total of 120 patients with ACS were randomized divided into the control group and treatment group, 60 in each group.The control group received the routine treatment of Western medicine, and the treatment group receivedXuebijing injectionbased on the intervention of control group. Both groups were treated for 2 weeks. ELISA method was used to detect serum sCD40L, Lp-PLA and IL-6, TNF-α and CRP.Results After treatment, the serum sCD40L(320.62 ± 35.81 pg/Lvs. 401.70 ± 4.84 pg/L, t=10.435), Lp-PLA2 (203.62 ± 33.13μg/L vs. 296.45 ± 4.422μg/L,t=12.831) level was significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.01); The serum CRP (3.10 ± 2.00 mg/Lvs.4.74 ± 2.04 mg/L,t=4.006), IL-6 (2.10 ± 1.20 pg/Lvs.3.14 ± 1.40 pg/L,t=3.781), TNF (2.81 ± 1.50 pg/Lvs. 3.70 ± 1.70 pg/L,t=3.075) level was significantly lower than thosein the control group (P<0.01 orP<0.05). Compared with the control group, the effect rate (68.3%vs. 50.0%,χ2=4.174) of the treatment group was significantly higher (P=0.041).ConclusionXuebijing injection can improve the therapeutic effectof ACS patients, and reduce CD40L, Lp-PLA2 levels.

Objective To explore the clinical value and the correlation of parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin in hemodialysis patients.Methods According to the dialysis duration of hemodialysis patients,they are divided into the four groups,Ⅰ (dialysis time ＜2 years),Ⅱ (dialysis time 2-5 years),Ⅲ(dialysis time ＞5-10 years),Ⅳ (dialysis time ＞ 10 years),50 cases were randomly selected from each group,50 cases of healthy people were taken as a control group,to detect the contents of PTH and N-MID in serum and analyze the results.Results The content of PTH in hemodialysis patients of Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ group were (170.9 ± 45.9) ng/L,(405.4 ± 65.3) ng/L,(717.1 ± 199.6) rng/L,(1 555.6 ± 417.8) ng/L,the content of N-MID were (79.23 ± 31.62) μg/L,(140.22 ± 50.98) μg/L,(496.11 ± 159.49)μg/L,(617.9 ± 386.18)μg/L,the content of PTH and N-MID in control group were (6.85 ± 3.74) ng/L,(16.6 ± 8.57) μg/L,PTH and N-MID levels of the four hemodialysis patients groups were significantly higher than those of normal control group,the differences had statistically significance(PTH levels of the four groups compared with the control group:group Ⅰ compared with the control group,t =25.199,P ＜0.01 ;group Ⅱ compared with the control group,t =43.091,P ＜0.01 ;group Ⅲ compared with the control group,t =25.402,P ＜0.01 ;group Ⅳ compared with the control group,t =26.211,P ＜0.01 ;N-MID levels of the four groups compared with the control group:group Ⅰ compared with the control group,t =13.518,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅱ compared with the control group,t =16.909,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅲ compared with the control group,t =21.229,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅳ compared with the control group,t =11.007,P ＜ 0.01),the content of PTH and N-MID in Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ groups had statistically significance (four groups of PTH levels compare to each other:group Ⅰ compared with group Ⅱ,t =20.774,P ＜0.01 ;group Ⅰ compared with group Ⅲ,t =18.858,P＜0.01;group Ⅰ compared with group Ⅳ,t =23.295,P＜0.01;groupⅡ compared with group Ⅲ,t =10.495,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅱ compared with group Ⅳ,t =19.233,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅲ compared with group Ⅳ,t =12.805,P ＜ 0.01 ; Four groups of N-MID levels compare to each other:group Ⅰ compared with groupⅡ,t=7.189,P ＜0.01;group Ⅰ compared with group Ⅲ,t =18.130,P ＜0.01 ;group Ⅰ compared with group Ⅳ,t =9.830,P ＜ 0.01 ;group Ⅱ compared with group Ⅲ,t =15.029,P ＜ 0.01 ;group Ⅱ compared with group Ⅳ,t =8.671,P ＜ 0.01 ; group Ⅲ compared with group Ⅳ,t =2.061,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion PTH levels were positively correlated with N-MID content in hemodialysis patients,high PTH hemodialysis patients should prevent osteoporosis early and to take appropriate treatment.

Objective To compare the anesthetic effect of different inserting time on patients under propofol combined sufentanil anesthesia in gastroscopy.Methods A total of 120 out-patients aged 18-60 years underwent gastroscopy were randomly divided into two groups (A and B,60 cases each).They received sufentanil 0.1μg/kg combined with propofol 1.5 mg/kg intravenously.Gastros-copy was inserted into patients’mouth immediately when the patients’consciousness lost and eyelash reflex disappeared (group A)or 30 s later (group B).When necessary (cough or movement),addi-tional propofol 0.5 mg/kg was added to enhance and maintain anesthesia.HR,BP and SpO2 were re-corded before induction (T0 ),before inserting (T1 ),gastroscopy passing through throat (T2 )and after procedure (T3 ).We observed and recorded cough,hiccup,body movement,recovery time and total dosage of propofol.Results Compared with T0 ,MAP (T1 )of both groups were lower (P <0.05).There was no statistic different in MAP on T2 and T3 .There was no statistic different in HR, MAP and SpO2 on T0-T3 between two groups.The incidence of cough and body movement were lower in group B than in group A (P <0.05).Group B had shorter recovery time and less propofol usage than group A (P <0.05).Conclusion Inserting gastroscopy 30 s after consciousness and eyelash re-flex disappear in propofol combined sufentanil anesthesia can reduce the incidence of cough and move-ment,reduce propofol consumption,and shorten recovery time but without respiratory and haemody-namic adverse effects.

Objective microRNA (miRNA) are a class of small molecule non-coding single-stranded RNA,and about 22 nucleotides (nt);lncRNA is a class of non-coding RNA long chain that longer than 200 nt,both of miRNA and lncRNA can regulate many kinds of genes' expression under different levels.This paper reviewed relationship of miRNA/lncRNAexpression level and depressive disorder,and to explore theirpredictive effects of antidepressantpharmacodynamics.Methods By retrieving literature in database of PubMed,ScienceDirect in February,March 2015 using microRNA,lncRNA,depressive disorder,antidepressants,biological markers as searching words and (depressive disorder OR antidepressant) and all field:miRNA/lncRNA as index strategy,based on literature retrieving,we acquired 87 articles and totally enrolled 50 close related articles as reviewing materials by literature screening.Results Existing studies suggested that miRNA and lncRNA may be involved in pathophysiology of depression,and miRNA may play a key role in antidepressant treatment.miRNA or lncRNA as biomarkers may be associated with depression.Conclusion Researches on miRNA or lncRNA shed light on pathological mechanism of depressive disorder and antidepressantpharmacodynamics.miRNAcan function in synaptic plasticity,sensitivity of stress reaction,production of neuron and brain-derived neurotropic factor,recovery of neural function after antidepressant treatment,while lncRNA has regulatory effects on chromosome remodeling,histone modification,Transcriptioninterference andactivation.