Blood Pressure ; Humans

Candidiasis ; drug therapy ; immunology ; metabolism ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 ; complications ; drug therapy ; immunology ; therapy ; Humans ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; drug therapy ; immunology ; metabolism ; Mycoses ; complications ; immunology ; therapy ; Paraneoplastic Syndromes ; drug therapy ; immunology ; metabolism ; Pemphigus ; drug therapy ; immunology ; metabolism

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Fingers ; physiopathology ; Humans ; Male ; Thumb ; physiopathology ; Trigger Finger Disorder ; physiopathology ; therapy

The mechanism of complex unfolding process of Pseudomonas aeruginosa apoazurin is an arguing problem. Recent published results indicated that this problem could be resolved by hypothesizing two native conformations coexisting in solution.Urea-induced unfolding of apoazurin was investigated further using intrinsinc fluorescence and CD spectra. Equilibrium unfolding curves in urea could be depicted with an apparent two-state transition, but a biphase kinetic process. The fast unfolding process is finished within a few seconds as monitored by stopped-flow fluorescence intensity, whereas the slow process requires several hours for as well as the circular dichroism spectra just after manual mixing of protein and denaturant could be simulated by superposition of the spectra of the native and fully unfolded protein with the same coefficient of 0.37. This strongly suggests the three-state mechanism with a partially unfolded intermediate on its pathway is inadequate. The hypothesis of two native conformations coexistence is a reasonable selection.

Seventy C57BL/6 mice were divided into control group,lard group,lard transferred into safflower oil group,and safflower oil group.After 20 weeks,the white adipose tissues were taken to analyse the gene differentiational expression prolife.The results showed that body weight,blood glucose and lipids,and insulin levels in lard group were higher than those in control group( all P＜0.05 ),which were decreased after lard was transferred into safflower oil for 10 weeks( all P＜0.05 ).Safflower oil regulated some of the orexigenic genes,anorectic genes,and the genes involved in energy expenditure in adipose tissues such as opioid receptor,glucagon,and PPARα.

Objective We discussed the application and clinical effect of serf nursing education in patients with infectious tuberculosis. Methods We divided 140 patients with infectious tuberculosis into the test group and the control group with 70 cases in each group. The control group adopted health education. The test group received individual and selective self nursing education, including serf mastering of tuberculosis, self monitoring of illness, completion of ther therapeutic process by oneself, serf management of diet, self regulation andf control of motion and education of self nursing technique. The intervention continued for 3 months. Pulmonary tuberculosis specific knowledge inventory, therapeutic compliance investigation inventory and general questionnaire on living (GQOL) were adopted in the two groups and the results were compared. Results The therapeutic compliance and life quality of the test group were evidently higher than those of the control group after self nursing education (P<0.01). The mastering of tuberculosis knowledge of the test group was also superior than that of the control group (P<0.01). Conclusions Self nursing education could increase the therapeutic compliance as well as the life quality of patients.

Taking into account the near infrared spectra(NIR) on numerous predictor variables with serious collinearity and having nonlinear quantitative relationship with the chemical compositions, a novel nonlinear partial least squares(PLS) approach, termed as Spline-PPLS, was constructed by combining the penalized partial least squares(PPLS) regression with B-splines transformation. Firstly, the observed spectral predictors were considered as discrete observations of curves of the wavelength and were nonlinearly transformed using B-spline basis functions. The choice of the degree of the polynomial pieces and of the number of knots was performed using the cross-validation strategy. Then, the PPLS algorithm was performed on the high dimensional transformed data matrix to build the calibration model by imposing a penalty term to the optimization criterion of PLS. The roughness penalty term indeed controlled the curvature of the functions and its smoothing parameter could also be obtained by the cross-validation. Finally, the proposed Spline-PPLS approach was applied to the wheat NIR diffuse reflectance spectra reconstruction and quantitative analysis. The result indicates that the Spline-PPLS approach not only can yield high accuracy reconstructing spectrum, but also improves the model prediction accuracy in the case of nonlinear relationships.

China ; Environmental Exposure ; prevention & control ; standards ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Occupational Exposure ; standards ; Seasons ; Temperature ; Workplace ; legislation & jurisprudence ; standards

Cardiovascular Diseases ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Renin ; antagonists & inhibitors

Professor FU Zhonghua's unique clinical experience of Fu's subcutaneous needling (FSN) for cervical spondylosis (CS) is discussed in this paper, which is analyzed from the aspects of recognition of CS pathogenesis, treatment mechanism of FSN, advantage indications of FSN for CS and examples of medical cases. Professor FU introduced the theory of myofascial trigger points (MTrP) into the field of the management of CS. The site of neck MTrP should be carefully examined, and FSN needles for single use are used to sweep the affected area or subcutaneous layer of adjacent upper limb. This method can rapidly improve ischemia and hypoxia state of the relevant muscles and prompt the self-recovery of neck muscles. During FSN treatment, reperfusion approach is recommended to adopt to improve the qi and blood circulation and recovery of neck function.
Acupuncture Analgesia ; Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Myofascial Pain Syndromes ; physiopathology ; therapy ; Neck Muscles ; physiopathology ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Spondylosis ; physiopathology ; therapy ; Trigger Points ; Young Adult