Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of Foley catheter (FC) and prostaglandins (PG) for cervical ripening used in labor induction of late pregnant women with unfavorable cervix. Methods Several databases including Cochrane Library,Embase,PubMed,Elsevier,Wanfang Medical Database, CNKI, VIP were searched for collecting the related literatures according to criteria for inclusion and exclusion.Meta analysis was performed by applying software Review Manager 5.2. Results Thirty randomized controlled trials were included.The FC group presented significantly lower risk of excessive uterine contraction [OR= 0.38,95%CI(0.19,0.75),P<0.05] than the PG group.There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of Cesarean section rate, vaginal delivery rate, Bishop score improvement, duration of induction to delivery, neonatal birth weight, or in neonatal outcome. Conclusion This study shows that FC has good promoting effect of cervical maturity and maternal￣ neonatal outcomes, and rarely produces excessive uterine contraction.It is safe and equally effective as PG does.The approach is easy to operate and worth to apply in clinical use.

Purpose Heart damage occurs frequently in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE), and most of the patients have no obvious symptoms. In this study, three-dimensional speckle tracking imaging (3D-STI) was used to assess the systolic function of left ventricle, for early diagnosis of cardiac function changes in patients with mild SLE. Materials and Methods Thirty-six patients with clinical diagnosed mild SLE were enrolled and 40 healthy volunteers were selected as control group. All the participants underwent both conventional echocardiographic and 3D-STI examinations, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDd), left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVEDs), interventricular septal depth (IVSd), left ventricular posterior wall depth (LVPWd), left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), left ventricular end-systolic volume (LVESV), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS), left ventricular global circumferential strain (GCS), left ventricular global radial strain (GRS) and left ventricular global area strain (GAS) were compared between the two groups. Results The GLS, GCS, GRS and GAS of the study group were all lower than the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups on LVEDd, LVEDs, IVSd, LVPWd, LVEDV, LVESV and LVEF (P>0.05). Conclusion 3D-STI is able to make an objective evaluation of the left ventricular systolic function for patients with mild SLE, and provide help for clinical cardiac function monitoring.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the value of 24 h dynamic electrocardiogram (DCG) and treadmill exercise testing(TET) in diagnosing coronary heart disease(CHD),and analyze relevant index between coronary arteriography(CAG) and treadmill exercise testing.MethodsOne hundred and forty-nine borderline cases of coronary heart disease were enrolled.Every patient was examined by DCG,TET,and CAG,compared the diagnostic value of TET combined with DCG and TET or DCG alone,and record the increased heart rate during the first minute( △ HRl min) of TET and systolic blood pressure(SBP) recovery.The patients were divided into a CHD group and a non-CHD group according to the results of coronary angiography.ResultsThe sensitivity rate was 78.57％ and specific rate was 70.77％ by means of TET.The sensitivity rate was 61.90％ and specific rate was 66.15％ by means of DCG.The sensitivity rate was 95.23％ ,specific rate was 55.38％,positive predictive value was 73.39％ and negative predictive value was 90.00％ by parallel way of DCG and TET,its sensitivity rate (95.23％) and negative predictive value (90.00％ ) were more than those of DCG or TET alone.The sensitivity rate was 52.38％,specific rate was 95.38％,positive predictive value was 93.62％ and negative predictive value was 60.78％ by serial way of DCG and TET,its specific rate (95.38％) and positive predictive value (93.62％ ) were more than those of DCG or TET alone.The number of men in the CHD group was higher than the number of women.Ratio of systolic blood pressure recovery(rSBPR) in the CHD group was significantly higher than that in the non-CHD group ( P ＜ 0.01 ).Conclusion It can obviously enhance the sensitivity rate and specific rate if combined TET with DCG.Patients with CHD have a delayed decline in SBP during recovery which can be one of the indexes to estimate the extent of myocardial ischemia and coronary artery lesion.

Objective: To determine the role of intensity of plum-blossom needle tapping in treating alopecia areata.Methods: The BALB/c mice were randomized into a normal group, a control group, a roller-needle (RN) group, a mild plum-blossom needle (MP) group, and a heavy plum-blossom needle (HP) group. An area of hair was removed by external application of 8% sodium sulfide on BALB/c mice. The hair regrowth, hair follicle changes, and local inflammatory factor changes after cutaneous acupuncture were observed.Results: After treated with sodium sulfide, the hair was completely removed, the local hair follicles reached the catagen phase, and the expressions of interleukin (IL)-1α, IL-1β, IL-2, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interferon (IFN)-γ, and IL-17 were increased. Mice intervened by RN achieved the same hair growth rating as the controls but with thicker hair shafts; mice in the MP group had incomplete and uneven hair growth but thicker hair shafts; mice in the HP group didn't show hair growth. Pathological analysis revealed significant inflammatory infiltration into the local follicle bulbs and increased catagen-phase follicles in the control group, while RN and MP groups showed significantly increased anagen-phase follicles, coarser individual hairs, and obvious hair shafts. Meanwhile, most of the hair follicles in the HP group were in telogen phase and showed obvious surrounding inflammatory infiltration. RN, MP, and HP significantly down-regulated the increased IL-2, IL-1α, IL-1β, TNF-α, and IFN-γ levels (P<0.05), but didn't notably affect the increased CD34 expression (P>0.05).Conclusion: Cutaneous acupuncture with heavy stimulation intensity can inhibit hair growth in hair removal mice, while RN, with the lightest stimulation intensity, is unlikely to affect hair growth but may make hair shafts thicker and follicles larger.

Objective To investigate the expression of specific marker molecules in hair-inducing activity of long-term cultured human dermal papilla cells (HDPCs) in vitro.Methods After dissected and cultured the HDPCs in vitro,the cells of passages 1 to 8 were used for experiments.The growth appearances of HDPCs in different passages were observed under inverted microscope.To detect the expression of specific marker molecules of long-term cultured HDPCs,the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity of the HDPCs was examined,and the specific genes ALP and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) expression levels of HDPCs were determined by real-time quantitative PCR.Results After long-term cultured in vitro,the ALP and IGF-1 expression levels of HDPCs gradually decreased in different passages,as well as the display of the aggregated and cartouche growth.The ALP and IGF-1 expression levels of HDPCs in passage 1 was the highest,they were almost about 6.8-fold and 3.5-fold higher than the HDPCs in passage 8.The ALP staining of the HDPCs in passage 1 and passage 2 were evident,but the cells' ALP staining gradually became much weaker than the cells in the previous passages after the long-term cultured in vitro.Conclusions The expression levels of specific marker molecules ALP and IGF-1 of the HDPCs decrease gradually after long-term cultured in vitro,and the higher passage HDPCs lost the special aggregated and cartouche growth appearance,and hence lead to the loss of hair-inducing activity of HDPCs.

Objective To investigate the expression patterns of major bone growth factors and bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2) in the distracted calluses following transfected gene during mandibular distraction osteogenesis in a rabbit model.Methods Bilateral mandibular osteotomies were performed in New-Zeland rabbits.After a latency of 3 days,the mandibles were elongated using distractors for 7 days.After the completion of distraction,the rabbits were randomly divided into 5 groups.Three animals each were sacrificed at the end of the delay phase,at 7,14,and 28 days after completion of distraction,respectively.The lengthened mandibles were harvested and processed for immunohistochemical detection of BMP2 expression,the mean optic densities and integral optical density of BMP2 positive cells were measured by computerized image analyzer.Results Elevated cellular expression of BMP2,in the distraction gap,was observed following mandibular distraction.BMP2 staining was mainly located in inflammatory cells,and the connective tissues arrounding the new bone.Their strongest expression was the 7th day,some of those growth factors expressed weakly or negatively.Conclusions Electroporation-mediated gene transfection can promote BMP2 expression effectively,which plays an important role in cell differentiation and proliferation during distraction osteo genesis.The BMP2 stimulates extracellular matrix synthesis,induces the proliferation and differentiation of fibroblasts and osteoblasts,which then promotes the new bone formation and repair.

A 32-year old male who had liver cirrhosis accompanying with chronic renal insufficiency (uremia) was suffered from homochronous allograft transplantation of liver-kidney. The blood and other tissue typing were in concord between the donor and recipient. The liver transplantation took typical orthotopic transplantation technique while the kidney transplantation took general operation method to place the transplanted kidney at the recipient's right lilac fossa. Daclizumab was taken for the immunity induction treatment before transplantation while the trigeminy of tacrolimus+mycophemocate mofeil+methylprednisolone were taken as immunosuppressant after transplantation. The transplanted liver and kidney recovered well which could work at once without any serious complications after transplantation, suggesting that combined liver-kidney transplantation was an effective treatment method for homochronous function failure of liver and kidney characterizing by perfect tissue typing, excellent operation skill, reasonable usage of immunosuppresant being the key point of success for transplantation.

Objective:To investigate the association between rs1042713 polymorphisms of ADRB2 gene and the susceptibility of asthma in Chinese Population by meta-analysis.Methods: The Pubmed database,Emabase database,Web of Knowledge database, CNKI database,Wanfang database and Weipu database were searched for all publications about the susceptibility of asthma and the rs1042713 polymorphisms of ADRB2 gene in Chinese Population.The article which met the inclusion criteria were assessed by the STA-TA12.0 software.Results:12 studies were included,with 2 193 asthmatic patients and 2 033 controls.All the included articles were satisfied to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.The results of Meta-analysis was showed that the risk of asthma of the mutations G carriers ( GG +GA) on ADRB2 gene rs1042713 loci in Chinese people compared with the wild-type homozygotes( AA) was not significantly in-creased overall(OR=1.08,95% CI=0.82-1.44).However,subgroup analysis showed that the risk of G carriers of children had a relatively higher incidence(OR=1.69,95% CI 0.99-2.87),while the risk of adult-onset have a relatively lower incidence(OR=0.88,95%CI 0.68-1.15).Conclusion:The ADRB2 gene rs1042713 polymorphisms have a certain correlation with the susceptibility of asthma in Chinese children,the mutant gene G carriers may relatively increase the risk of asthma in childhood.

Objective To investigate the application of capillary electrophoresis by dried filter blood paper for screening of α-thalassemia in neonates .Methods The hemoglobin (Hb) of 46 718 cases of neonatal dried heel blood spots were analyzed by the capillary electrophoresis and the content of HbA ,HbF ,HbA2 and abnormal Hb were detected ,the phenotype cases which was screened positive were recalled for genetic analysis .Results A total of 2 598 cases of Bart hemoglobin (Hb Bart′s) positive were detected in 46 718 cases of neonatal heel blood dried blood spots .The screening positive rate was 5 .56% (2 598/46 718) .A total of 477 cases of α-thalassemia gene carriers were confirmed by genetic analysis in the 544 cases which were recalled .The coincidence rate of Hb Bart′s screening and genetic diagnosis was 87 .68% (477/544) .By analyzing the relationship between the clinical pheno-types and the content of Hb Bart′s ,we found the Hb Bart′s content gradually increased with the severity of clinical phenotype ,and the difference was statistically significant (P= 0 .000) .Conclusion There is a good consistency between the capillary electrophore-sis of dried filter blood paper and the genetic analysis .It could be determined α-thalassemia clinical type according to the Hb Bart′s content .

To establish a method of directional differentiation and efficient production of neurons from embryonic stem cells (ES cells) in vitro, based on the 4-/4+ protocol described by Bain, a new method was established to induce ES cells differentiating into neurons by means of three-step differentiation using all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) combined with astrocyte-conditioned medium (ACM) in Vitro. The totipotency of ES cells was identified by observation of cells' morphology and formations of teratoma in immunocompromised mice. The cells' differentiation was evaluated continuously by the detection of the specific cellular markers of neural stem cells, neurons and astrocytes, including nestin, NSE and GFAP using immunohistochemistry assay. The NSE positive cells' ratio of the differentiated cells was determined by flow cytometry. It was found that the transparent circular clusters surrounding embryoid bodies induced with combining induction protocol formed just after 24 h and gradually enlarged later. This phenomenon could not be observed in EBs induced only by ATRA. The NSE positive cells' ratio in the cells induced with ATRA and ACM was higher than that of the cells induced by ATRA at different time points of differentiation, and finally reached up to 73.5% among the total differentiated population. It was concluded that ES cells could be induced into neurons with high purity and yield by means of inducing method combining with ATRA and ACM.
Astrocytes/*cytology ; Cell Differentiation ; Cells, Cultured ; Embryo, Mammalian ; Neurons/*cytology ; Stem Cells/*cytology ; Tretinoin/pharmacology