ObjectiveTo observe the clinical efficacy of microinvasive thread embedding plusShe Gan Ma Huangdecoction based on ordinary Western medications in treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (cold-phlegm obstructing the lung). MethodThe treatment group was intervened by microinvasive thread embedding plusShe Gan Ma Huangdecoction based on ordinary Western medications, while the control group was by the Western medications alone.ResultThe markedly effective rate and total effective rate were respectively 10.0% and 93.3% in the treatment group;the pulmonary function showed significant improvements in both groups.ConclusionMicroinvasive thread embedding plusShe Gan Ma Huangdecoction based on Western medications can produce a more significant therapeutic efficacy than dry Western medicationsin treating COPD (cold-phlegm obstructing the lung) in acute attack stage, and it can simultaneously improve the pulmonary function.

Increased research and exploitation of the low-temperature enzymes of antarctic microorganisms have occurred over recent years. There are a lot of study on protease, lipase and amylase, and so on. In antarctic microorganisms while some peculiar enzymes of antarctic microorganisms are still less researched. The recent development of the peculiar enzymes of the antarctic microorganisms was reviewed in this article. The properties of chitinase, dehydrogenas,?-galactosidase,RNA polymerase,DEAD-box RNA Helicase and metalloprotease etc. were introduced in detail, and the prospects of their application were also discussed.

Spinal cord injury(SCI) is a serious nervous system trauma,which may consequently lead to various degrees of paralysis and toilet obstacles,and its disability and the high cost heavily burdened the families and community.Therefore,the research on spinal cord tissue regeneration and the repair after injury has important practical significance.A large number of experimental studies have shown that neurotrophic factor plays an important role in the nerve tissue repair process.This article reviews new research progress about the effects of neurotrophic factor in this field.

OBJECTIVE: There are some people in population susceptible to acute mountain sickness. Therefore, it is important to analyse, assess and integrate certain research results to build prediction system and mathematics model in order to predict those susceptible people when army goes to tableland.DATA SOURCES: Computer was used to search databases such as Medline, PubMed and PML to find articles regarding prediction of people susceptible to acute mountain sickness from January 1970 to December 2002 with the search words "acute mountain sickness, susceptible population,prediction" . The language was limited to English. At the same time, Chinese Journal Full-text Database, Chinainfo and CBMdisc were searched to find articles from January 1970 to August 2004 by the Chinese language of "acute mountain sickness, susceptible population and prediction". The research targets are susceptible people to acute mountain sickness. At last,trace-back method was used to supplement some literature and monographs.DATA SELECTION: After systematically analyzed and concluded the literature information and screened researches without conducting experiment, full text of the rest literature was searched and used as selective criteria if it could be used as prediction indicator of susceptible people to acute mountain sickness.DATA EXTRACTION: Totally there were 19 prediction indicators generalized. After conducting systemic analysis, Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) to the indicators, 13 were selected while the other 6 were excluded.DATA SYNTHESIS: The indicators were classified according to nervous-humoral regulation ability, oxygen capture ability of respiratory system,anti-anoxia ability of central nervous system, mental health and health service ability. Based on these, system analysis, Delphi method and AHP method were used to screen prediction indicators, establish indictor system, confirm the weighted indicators and weighted indicator system as well as standardize the prediction indicators.CONCLUSION: According to the principle of prediction model and model methods, weighted linear synthesis method was used to build the predictive mathematic model. The project of susceptible population prediction of acute mountain sickness in army when entering tableland urgently was proposed combining the health service ability of army.

Objective To investigate the association of the SNP in miRNA146A with genetic prediposion and earlier recurrence after resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Methods In the casecontrol study including 173 HCC cases,DNA were exacted from cancer tissue embedded with paraffin and were amplificated by PCR,SNP was explored in gene sequence of miRNA146a (385 base pair including extron).The outcome were analyzed with genetic prediposion and clinical features.Result Only hsa-mir-146a rs2910164 was found.The genetype frequence of C/C 、G/G and C/G at rs2910164 gene locus were separately 61 (35.3％),21 (15％) and 86(49.7％) in cases.Compared to G/G genetype,C/C and C/G genetype were danger factor to onset risk of HCC (OR =3.086,95％ CI:1.289-7.390) ; C/G was danger factor to earlier recurrence after resection(OR =8.179,95％ CI:2.248-29.759).Conclusion rs2910164 may be associated with genetic prediposion and earlier recurrence after resection of HCC in Jiangxi hans

BACKGROUND:With elevated medical levels, limb salvage surgery for limb malignant tumor is valuable day by day. At present, the limb salvage surgery has substituted amputation and becomes mainstream and development direction of present surgical treatment of limb tumors. However, so far, there are no unified surgical indications for proximal femur tumor, which are controversial. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy of artificial total hip arthroplasty combined with extended resection of tumor sections for proximal femoral bone tumors. METHODS:Patients with proximal femoral bone tumors in the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University were selected and divided into control group and observation group, with 30 patients in each group. According to the disease, lesion curettage, aneurysm wal inactivation, autologous and (or) al ogeneic bone, mixed bone graft and bone graft fixation were selected to treat the control group. The observation group patients received extended resection of tumor sections and total hip arthroplasty. The operative time, intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay and joint function of two groups were compared. 2 years later, patients were revisited. Metastasis and recurrence rate, death rate and quality of life of two groups were compared. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:There was no significant difference in intraoperative blood loss and surgery time between the two groups (P>0.05). However, hospital stay of patients in the observation group was shorter than the control group. The excellent and good rate of recovery of joint function (83%) was higher in the observation group than in the control group (53%). The metastasis and recurrence rate within 2 years after surgery (7%) and death rate (3%) were lower in the observation group than in the control group (30%, 23%). Various indicators of quality of life of patients in the observation group were significantly better than the control group (P<0.05). These results confirmed that artificial total hip arthroplasty in the treatment of proximal femur tumors is safe and effective.

Objective To evaluate the clinical significance of K-ras mutation in plasma cell-free DNA from patients with colorec-tal carcinoma .Methods Plasma cell-free DNA in 212 patients with colorectal carcinoma were extracted and identified by Globin gene .K-ras mutation was amplified by RE-PCR and compared with results of pathological biopsy samples DNA .Results Plasma cell-free DNA were successfully obtained from 212 cases .But no plasma cell-free DNA were found in normal control .Out of 212 ca-ses ,34 cases showed K-ras mutation(16 .00% )in cell-free DNA ,and 33 cases showed positive in pathological biopsy samples DNA (15 .57% ) .It was found two kinds of K-ras mutation on code 12-GGT to GAT ;GGT to GTT .K-ras mutation was not related to tumors′position(χ2 =3 .34 ,P=0 .61);to differentiation degree(χ2 =2 .38 ,P=0 .29);to Dukes staging(χ2 = 2 .84 ,P=0 .38);to lymphoid nodes′metastasis(χ2 =0 .98 ,P=0 .37);to age(χ2 =1 .86 ,P=0 .39) .Conclusion Tumor-derived DNA can be detected in plasma of underlying cancer patients .For colorectal carcinoma patients ,detecting K-ras mutation of plasma cell-free DNA have the same clinical significance as biopsy samples .Moreover ,it′s more convenient and non-invasive .

By using electron microscopy histochemical method, light microscopy histochemical method and microspectrophoto meter, we studied the ACP activity of the principal cell of epididymal duct in the postnatal 10-90 days rats. The results revealed that ACP activity increased with the increase days. We also observed the following phenomena: in the postnatal 10 days rats the ACP activity was only localized on GERL and vesicles around GERL; by in the postnatal 19 days rats, the ACP activity was localized on lysosome; and 35 days later, the ACP was also localized on the saccules on the forming face of Golgi complex. The significance of the above changes in ACP activity of the principal cell of epididymal duct in postnatal rats was discussed in this paper.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common digestive system neoplasms in China. Recently, the morbidity and mortality rates of CRC continue to increase with the improvement of people's living standard and the change of the dietary structure. It was accepted that the etiology of colorectal cancer is a multi-factor and multi-step process. However, the mechanism of CRC is still unclear. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of -21 nucleotide non-coding RNAs and function as a negative regulator of gene expression after transcription, participating in tumor angiogenesis, tumor cell proliferation and invasion. MicroRNA-21 (miR-21), as an important oncogenic RNA, plays a vital role in the development and progression of CRC. This review summarizes the advances in research on miR-21 in colorectal cancer.