Apathy is a common neuropsychiatric complication after stroke,the identification of apathy after stroke and its related factors and providing an effective intervention on it may contribute to the rehabilitation in patients with stroke.This article reviews the incidence of apathy after stroke,pathophysiological mechanisms,diagnostic evaluation and treatment.

Objective To study the gastroscopic and pathohistologic mucosal changes in children′s chronic gastritis and to improve the diagnosis of the chronic gastritis in children.Methods Two thousand four hundred and forty children with upper-abdominal symptoms who were examined by gastroscopic observation were collected,and samples of gastric mucosa were examined by the same pathohistologist.And then the pathohistologic changes were analysed.Results All the 2440 children had different mucosal inflammation confirmed by gastroscope,and the pathologic results show that there were 2132 cases of chronic superficial gastritis(90.03%) and 76 cases of chronic atrophic gastritis(3.21%).Among 2440 cases,80 cases with intestinal metaplasia(3.37%),972 cases with lymphoid follicles(41.05%),409 cases with active inflammation(17.28%),902 cases with helicobacter pylori(Hp) infection(38.09%).Moderate and severe inflammatory were more predominant in patients with Hp infection,especially with lymphoid follicles or active gastritis,and the percentage of them were 50.79%,68.73%,73.53%,respectively.Conclusions Major chornic gastritis in children are chronic superficial gastritis,and the pathohistological changes are different from the adults.It also shows that there is a close relationship between gastric mucosal inflammation and Hp.

Objective To study the relationship between the expression level of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) protein and telomerase activity as well as its clinical significance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods Immunohistochemical SP method was employed to detect hTERT protein expression in 52 cases of HCC and paired adjacent tumor tissues, and telomerase activity was examined in these samples with telomeric repeat amplification-ELISA. Results The positive rates of hTERT protein expression and telomerase activity in HCC were 86.5%(45/52) and 80.8%(42/52), respectively, which were significantly higher compared with the adjacent tumor tissues(P

Background and purpose:Aberrant expressions of microRNAs (miRNA, miR)are reported in various cancers and may associate with cancer occurrence, development, invasion and metastasis, thereby functioning as either tumor suppressors or oncogenes. This study attempted to observe the expression of miR-214 in pancreatic cancer and to explore its clinical signiifcance.Methods:Real-time PCR was used to detect the miR-214 expressions between pancreatic cancer tissues and matched adjacent tissues. The correlations of miR-214 expression with clinic-pathological features and clinical prognosis were analyzed.Results:MiR-214 expression was up-regulated in 69.4%(25/36) of tumor tissue specimens. The relative expression level of miR-214 was signiifcantly higher in tumor tissues than in matched adjacent tissues (3.45vs 1.52,P<0.01). Higher miR-214 level was strongly associated with T3-T4 stage (P=0.018). The Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that patients with higher expression of miR-214 had a shorter survival time (P=0.032).Conclusion:The expression of miR-214 is associated with clinic-pathological features and patient’s clinical prognosis, so it may be used as a potential diagnostic biomarker and a prognostic predictor in patients with pancreatic cancer.

Anti-Asthmatic Agents ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Antineoplastic Agents ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions ; Humans ; Lung Diseases ; chemically induced ; Pneumoconiosis ; drug therapy

Natural products especially flavonoids are being explored for their therapeutic potentials in reducing bone loss and maintaining bone health. The present study is to investigate the effects of isoquercitrin from Craibiodendron yunnanense with different concentrations at 1 x 10(-4), 1 x 10(-5), 1 x 10(-6), 1 x 10(-7) mol x L(-1) on proliferation, differentiation and mineralization of MC3T3-E1. Cell proliferation was assessed by CCK-8 kit at 1, 3, 5 and 7 days of culture. Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity were performed qualitatively and quantitatively on day 7, and alizarin red S staining was employed to access the mineralization of cells on day 21. The osteogenic markers ALP, collagen type I (COL 1A1), runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx-2) and Osterix were detected to analysis early osteogenic differentiation of cells on day 3 by RT-PCR. The results showed that isoquercitrin had a dose-dependent effect on the proliferation, osteogenic differentiation, mineralization and gene expression of MC3T3-E1 in the range from 1 x 10(-7) to 1 x 10(-5) mol x L(-1). At concentrations above 1 x 10(-4) mol x L(-1) isoquercitrin showed cytotoxicity, while 1 x 10(-6) mol x L(-1) is the optimal concentration of isoquercitrin to improve the osteoblastic activity. All these results implied that isoquercitrin might be the major composition of traditional Chinese medicine C. yunnanense to treat bone fractures.
Alkaline Phosphatase ; metabolism ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Collagen Type I ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; Ericaceae ; chemistry ; Mice ; Osteoblasts ; cytology ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Osteogenesis ; drug effects ; Quercetin ; analogs & derivatives ; pharmacology

Objective To investigate and analyse the current situation and the factors impacting nursing soft skills in order to provide targeted advice to improve students′ nursing soft skills .Methods Totally 1 000 student nurses were investigated by the nursing soft skills scale and the self‐designed questionnaire .Results First ,there was no differences between the nursing soft skill of students and the national new nurses(P> 0 .05) .But the students′ organizational management and cognitive skills were lower than that of national new nurses(P< 0 .05) .Second ,class leader ,familiarity and fancy for nursing science were the main factors impac‐ting nursing soft skills(P< 0 .05) .Third ,the students′ organizational management and cognitive skills had an increasing trend fol‐lowing the extent of familiarity and fancy for nursing science(P< 0 .05) .Conclusion Education management institution and nursing schools should try to make some reform mearsure to improve students′ nursing soft skills .

Objective To investigate the distribution of breast invasive ductal carcinoma with different molecular subtypes ,and to study the relationship between molecular subtypes and clinical pathological features in Xinjiang area .Methods A total of 621 patients with IDC from January 2013 to January 2014 was classified into Luminal A type,Luminal B type,HER-2 overexpression type and Basal -like type,different molecular subtypes according to the estrogen receptor(ER),progesterone receptor(PR),epidermal growth factor receptor -2(HER-2) and Ki-67,and compared the statistics combining with the clinical pathological characteristics of IDC .Re-sults The result showed that Luminal B type accounted for 53.1%,Luminal A type,HER-2 overexpression type and Basal-like type accounted for 14.5%,15.9%,16.4%,respectively.There were significant differences between the molecular subtypes and tumor size ,histological grade ,tumor pathological stage ,the expression of ER , PR and HER-2(P<0.05 for all).There were no correlations between the molecular subtypes and age ,as well as lymph node metastasis(P>0.05).Conclusion There is a close relationship between invasive ductal carcino-ma of different molecular subtypes and clinical pathological characteristics .The molecular subtypes are beneficial to treatment guidelines for clinical individual .

Objective To explore the effect of continuing care on the intermittent catheterization compliance of patients with neurogenic bladder. Methods From January to December, 2015, 60 patients with neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury receiving intermittent cathe-terization were randomly assigned to control group (n=30) and intervention group (n=30). The control group received routine discharge in-struction, while the intervention group received continuing care in addition. The intermittent catheterization compliance, residual urine vol-ume, urinary tract infection and quality of life were assessed at discharge and three months after intervention. Results After intervention, the intermittent catheterization compliance was better in the intervention group than in the control group (χ2=7.500, P=0.006). The residual urine volume significantly decreased in both groups (t>12.040, P<0.001), and was less in the intervention group than in the control group (t=-2.190, P=0.032), as well as the urinary tract infection rate (χ2=10.800, P=0.001). The score of quality of life increased significantly after intervention in both groups (t>4.572, P<0.001), and was higher in the intervention group than in the control group (t>5.505, P<0.001). Con-clusion Continuing care could improve the intermittent catheterization compliance, reduce the residual urine volume and the urinary tract in-fection rate, and improve the quality of life in patients with neurogenic bladder after discharge.

Objective To explore the relationship of serum parathyriod hormone ( PTH) level with renal ane-mia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).Methods Serum levels of PTH,Hb,Hct,BUN,Cr were observed in 126 patients with CKD at stages 3-5,the changes of 42 patients in maintenance hemodialysis(MHD) with recombi-nant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) and calcitriol-1.25(OH)2D3 treatment for three months were determined. Results The serum PTH level was significantly increased in CKD patients at stage 3 and more in CKD patients at stage 4 and 5.There were positive relationship between blood PTH and BUN ,Cr(P<0.01),but a negative relation-ship between PTH and Ccr,Hb(P <0.01).42 patients of MHD treated with rhEPO,1.25(OH)2D3 after three months,according to the changes of HCT ,the effective rate was 73.8% and the ineffective rate was 26.2%.The PTH,Hb,HCT of the effective group had statistically significant differences compared with the ineffective group ( all P<0.01).Hb and Hct significantly increased and PTH significantly decreased in the effective group .Conclusion CKD patients had decreased renal function ,elevated blood PTH .High serum PTH might aggravate renal anemia and fail to respond to rhEPO.The high serum PTH corrected by using 1.25(OH)2D3 might improve renal anemia,with high plasma PTH correcting .