In many medical instrumentation systems, there exists a long distance between manipulation platform and host unit. Wireless data transferring between the platform and the host could be a feasible way to set parameters. This paper introduces wireless transmitter and receiver circuit based on encoder chip PT2262 and decoder chip PT22720, and presents some typical applications in medical instrument development.

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of GenoType? M TBDRsl for the resistance to fluoroquinolones anti‐tuberculosis drugs .Methods Systematic and comprehensive literature was searched in PubMed ,Embase ,Web of Science ,CBM , CNKI ,VIP and Wanfang database .The relative studies of GenoType? MTBDRsl to fluoroquinolones anti‐tuberculosis drugs were included .After quality assessment ,Meta‐Disc1 .4 software was used to analyze the data .Results A total of 16 trials ,involving 1 766 participants ,were included .The results of Meta‐analysis showed that the weighted sensitivity ,specificity ,positive likelihood ra‐tio ,negative likelihood ratio ,diagnostic odds ratio ,and the area under summary receiver operation curve were 0 .83 ,0 .96 ,17 .50 , 0 .20 ,108 .46 and 0 .934 9 ,respectively .Conclusion GenoType? M TBDRsl assay for the resistance to fluoroquinolones anti‐tuber‐culosis drugs might be with high sensitivity and specificity ,which could be recommended as efficacy diagnostic tool .

Objective To compare the clinical utility of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and des-gammacarboxyprothrombin (DCP) in diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with a hepatic mass.Methods From January 2015 to May 2015,141 patients were diagnosed to have a liver tumor after imaging examinations in the Hepatobiliary Surgical General Hospital of PLA,Beijing,China.Preoperative AFP and DCP were measured using commercial assay kits.The reference standard was either pathologic or clinical diagnosis of HCC.The performance of AFP and DCP in diagnosing HCC was determined using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.Results Of 141 patients,98 were diagnosed to have HCC and 43 without.The levels of AFP were significantly higher in patients with HCC than those without [80.0(3.9-1 375.0) μg/L vs.2.1 (1.6-3.2) μg/L,Z =6.98,P ＜ 0.01].Similar results were observed in the levels of DCP [141.5 (24.0-978.0) AU/L vs.19.0 (14.0-25.5) AU/L,Z =5.18,P ＜ 0.01].Receiver operating curves (ROC) indicated the cut-off value with the best sensitivity and specificity was 3.6 μg/L for AFP and 35 AU/L for DCP.The difference in the area under ROC between AFP and DCP was not statistically significant (0.87 vs.0.78,Z =1.72,P =0.085).The sensitivity and specificity for detection of HCC in patients with a hepatic mass were 56.1％ and 95.4％ for AFP ＞ or =20 μg/L,69.4％ and 83.7％ for DCP ＞ or =40 AU/L,respectively.The level of AFP was associated with DCP in patients with HCC (x2 =9.12,P ＜ 0.01,r =0.292) and parallel testing of AFP and DCP gave an optimal sensitivity of 79.6％ with a specificity of 81.4％ in diagnosing HCC.Conclusions DCP is a useful biomarker and it gave an equal performance as AFP in diagnosing HCC in patients with a liver mass in this study.Parallel testing of AFP and DCP effectively increased the diagnostic sensitivity.Although the biomarkers only marginally improved the diagnostic results,it could be useful in diagnosing HCC in individuals who had atypical imaging results.

Beta-Elemene is an antitumor drug which is isolated from the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Curcumae Phaeocaulis Rhizoma, it is the main component of elemene which is extracted from the plant and delivered via blood circulation after intravenous injection. The antitumor effect of beta-elemene in vitro and in vivo was definite, and beta-elemene could improve the patient immunity and no sever side effect, drug resistance or bone marrow suppression were found during the clinical studies. And human serum albumin (HSA) is a primary extracellular protein which has a high concentration distribution in blood plasma and has many characteristic physiological functions. Therefore, the binding of beta-elemene to protein may be very important for absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination. Therefore, the study on the interaction of beta-elemene with drug-carrying protein is very important. In this work, molecular binding of beta-elemene to human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated by using spectrofluorometer. the binding constants suggested that a strong interaction and the formation of a complex between beta-elemene and HSA. This clearly implies that beta-elemene can be stored and removed by the proteins in the body. Furthermore, the fluorescence quenching results showed that the HSA fluorescence was quenched by beta-elemene through static quenching mechanism. Thermodynamic parameters showed that hydrophobic interactions play a role in the binding of beta-elemene to HSA. The negative deltaH(0) and positive deltaS(0) in case of beta-elemene therefore showed that electrostatic attraction play a role in the binding of beta-elemene to HSA.
Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Protein Binding ; Serum Albumin ; chemistry ; Sesquiterpenes ; chemistry ; Spectrometry, Fluorescence ; Thermodynamics

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Objective To observe the effects of purified product trihydroxybenzoic acid dimmer in different doses from Trapa manshurica Fler on apoptosis and cell cycle progression of liver cancer SMMC-7721 cells in vitro and explore its possible mechanism of inhibiting tumor growth. Methods The changes of apoptosis and cell cycle progression were measured with flow cytometry. Results The apoptotic percentages of the cells treated with the purified products with doses of 3.125, 6.250, 12.500 and 25.000 mg?L~ -1 increased significantly as compared with that in the control (P

This paper introduces a programming cardiac trigger apparatus used for the study of quantitative measurement of myocardial blood flow with myocardial contrast echocardiography.The design of hardware circuit based on MCU and the scheme of software based on Keil C51 are mainly discussed.With stable and reliable working,this apparatus provides a kind of technical support for the study of quantitative measurement of myocardial blood flow with continuous intravenous injection of sonicated microbubbles.

Objective To observe the effects of 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid dimmer (TAD) in different doses on apoptosis and cell cycle progression of liver cancer SMMC-7721 cells in vitro and explore its possible mechanism of inhibiting tumor growth.Methods The experiment was divided into 0,3.125,6.250,12.500 and 25.000 ?g TAD groups. Apoptosis was observed with JEM-1200EX transmission electron microscope (TEM).The changes of apoptosis and cell cycle progression were measured with flow cytometry.Results The typical features of apoptosis were found in tumor cells,the nuclei were broken to pieces,mitochondrion cristae were disrupted and vacuoles were showed in nucleus and cytoplasm in 25.000 ?g TAD group observed under TEM.Meantime,the apoptotic percentages of the cells treated with 3.125—25.000 ?g TAD were increased significantly as compared with control group (P

Objective To investigate the clinical manifesfations and diagnostic and therapeutic features of cholangiocarcinoma associated with hepatolithiasis.Methods The clinical data, the diagnotic and therapeutic featares of 54 cases of cholangiocacinoma associated with hepatolithiasis were retrospectively analyzed.Results The occurrence rate of hepatolithiasis concomitant with hepatocholangiocarcinoma was 11.8%.Due to a lack of specific clinical manifestations, the preoperative diagnosis of this condition was difficult. In this series, the (correct) diagnotic rate of hepatocholangiocarcinoma before operation was only 11.1%. The radical resection rate was 51.8%. Radical resection of the tumor had a better prognosis than that of non-resection of tumor.(Conclusions) Patients with long-term recurrent hepatolithiasis tended to have associated cholangiocarcinoma. Early diagnosis of the disease was difficult, and the treatment results and prognosis were poor. Therefore, (patients) with hepatolithiasis, espesially those with recurrent attacks, should undergo operation early. In cases diagnosed as hepatic cholangioearcinoma at operation, a radical resection should be performed, if possible, and a favorable outcome may be attained.

Objective To establish a reconstructed human epidermis model in vitro, and to study the process of re-epithelialization. Methods A dermal substrate devoid of epidermis was prepared; a 2 mm skin biopsy explant was transplanted onto the dermal substrates. Visualization of epidermal cell migration was carried out by fluorescence imaging. The proliferation and differentiation of the new epithelial cells were observed using histopathological and immunohistochemical staining (Ki67). EGF was added to the culture medium of the experimental samples but not to that of the controls. Results After 3 days of culture, re-epithelialization was observed on the surface of the dermal substrate. A complete structure resembling regular epidermis was noted in 10 days. As compared to control samples, EGF-treated samples had larger area of re-epithelialization (t= 3.02, P