[Objective]To discuss the clinical effect of Fanggan decoction on H1N1 Influenza virus.[Method]Randomly divided 95 cases into 2 groups,treatment group 48 and control one 47.Treatment group takes Fanggan decoction,the control one uses reducing fever tablet or anti-virus drugs if needed.[Result]The effective rate was 89.6% for treatment group and 85.1% for the control one.The treatment group was better than the control one on the reducing fever time,cough duration and cold symptom time.[Conclusion]Fanggan decoction has a good effect on H1N1 influenza virus.It also can be one of the therapies to relieve influenza patients in Zhejiang Province.

Objective: To understand the morphologic foundation for differences in drug-resistance, virulence and immunity between chloroquine-sensitive (N) and chloroquine-resistant (RC) strains of Plasmodium berghei. Methods: The RC strain and the N strain were compared concerning the formation and morphologic features of digestive vacuoles and haemozoin with transmission electron microscope. Results: There was a single large digestive vacuole and multiple micro-single-mem-braned vacuole-like structures in the trophozoites of the N strain, and haemozoins centralized and fused during their schizo-gony were situated under the plasma membrane. Whereas there were few digestive vacuoles in the trophozoites of the RC strain, but with multiple micro-single-membraned vacuole-like structures instead. The RC strain formed obviously less hemo-zoins than that of the N strain and the hemozoins were not centralized and fused during the schizogony. Conclusion: The RC strain forms multiple single-membraned food vacuole-like structures in the trophozoites, and has different mechanism for detoxifying free heme with N strain and the features may be the foundation for the difference in drug-resistance, virulence, immunity between RC strain and N strain of Plasmodium berghei.

Codon usage bias is an important characteristic of genetic information transfer in organisms. Analysis of codon usage bias of different species is important for understanding the rules on genetic information transfer. The previous method for analysis of codon usage bias is mainly based on genomic data. However, this method is greatly limited, because the genome sequences of higher organisms are still not available up to now. In this study, we found that we could obtain the same optimal codons of Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis: Fr.) P. Karst based on its whole genomic data or large-scale transcriptomic data from its liquid-cultured hyphae, primordium and fruiting body, separately. This result indicated the feasibility to understand the codon usage bias based on the large-scale transcriptomic data. By calculating the proportion of rare codons of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 26 terpene synthases (TS) of G. lucidum, we found that the rare codons of S. cerevisiae have a higher proportion in TS genes, while the rare codons of E. coli have relatively lower, suggesting that the TS genes of G. lucidum are possibly more difficult to be expressed in S. cerevisiae than in E. coli. Chemical synthesis of TS genes according to the yeast optimal codons will be an effective way to solve the problem on the mismatch of gene codon bias between the foreign genes and the host strain.

Objective To investigate the correlation of the initial arterial lactate (Lac) and 6-h lactate clearance rate (LCR) with prognosis in patients with acute paraquat poisoning (APP).Methods The included 132 APP patients (70 males and 62 females,age ranging 15-71,30 (18) [M (IQR)]treated at a single center between January 2009 and December 2013.Patients were divided into two groups:group A,survivors ＞ 28 days after admission (n =64); and group B,those died ≤ 28 days after admission (n =68).The prognostic values of arterial Lac and 6-h LCR during the acute stage of poisoning were evaluated.Results Paraquat dose ranged from 5-200 mL,20 mL (37.25 mL) [M (IQR)].The average time from poisoning to arrival at the emergency department was ranging 4-312 h,6 h (8.75h) [M (IQR)].Total mortality was 51.51％.There were no differences in age,gender,and length of time elapsed from poisoning to diagnosis between two groups.Survivors had a significantly lower dose of paraquat ingested compared with nonsurvivors (P ＜ 0.05).An ROC curve analysis determined that the dose had an area of 0.86 (95％ CI:0.80-0.92) and the volume cut-off point was 27.5 mL to predict the prognosis in patients with acute paraquat poisoning (75％ sensitivity,85.9％ specificity,Youden index 0.609).The initial arterial lactate level was higher in nonsurvivors than that in survivors.The ROC curve analysis indicated that the initial arterial lactate level had an area of 0.99 (95％ CI:0.99-1.00) and the concentration cut-off point was 5.050 mmoL/L to predicti prognosis in patients with acute paraquat poisoning (sensitivity 98.5％,specificity 100％,Youden index 0.985).The 6 h LCR was lower in nonsurvivors than that in survivors.ROC curve analysis showed that the 6-h LCR had an area of 0.99 (95 ％ CI:0.97-1.00) and the concentration cut-off point was 17.28％ to predict prognosis in APP patients (sensitivity 100％,specificity 97.1％,Youden index 0.971).Conclusions In the early stages of APP,initial arterial Lac and 6-h LCR are closely related to prognosis and may serve as prognostic factors.

The antitumor activities of artemisinin and its derivatives has become a hot topic in recent years.Artemisinin and its derivatives have been reported to exert antitumor effects mainly by blocking the cell cycle, promoting tumor cell apoptosis, inhibiting angiogenesis and so on.Also, their influence on signaling pathways has attracted considerable interest of many scholars.Currently, in order to discover some compounds with better therapeutic potentials, many studies dedicated to the synthesis and development of new artemisinin derivatives.In addition, the effects of artemisinin and its derivatives on multi-drug resistantace in tumor cells also become a trend of the future research.In this paper, we review the research advances in the antitumor activities of artemisinin and its derivatives during the past five years to provide a reference for future study .

AIM: To investigate the apoptosis of endothelial cells (EC) induced by oxysterols and to examine the effect of amlodipine on the apoptosis induced by oxysterols.METHODS: Light microscope, electron microscope, DNA agarose gel electrophoresis and flow cytometry were used to detect the apoptosis of EC.RESULTS: The characteristic morphological features of apoptosis were observed under light and electron microscope; DNA electrophoresis showed"DNA Ladder"; Flow cytometry showed the sub-G1 peak, apoptotic rate is 32.25% and 23.04% in Triol-treated and 25-OH-treated groups, respectively. While treated EC with amlodipine at the same time, the apoptotic rate decreased significantly. CONCLUSION: Both Triol and 25-OH can induce apoptosis of EC, which can be inhibited by amlodipine.

[Objective] To investigate the effects of Yiqi Huoxue Tablet (YHT, mainly composed of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Herba Leonuri, Rhizoma Chuanxiong , Radix Astragali ) on expression of platelet membrane adhesion molecules (PMAM) in whole blood of rats with cerebral infarction. [Methods] Flow cytometry was used to detect the expression of PMAM (CD^ and CDg2P) in whole blood of cerebral infarction groups and a normal group was established to serve as control. [Results] The expression of PMAM were increased in cerebral infarction groups and YHT could decrease PMAM expression ( P

[Objective] To observe the apoptosis of cortical cells and expression of related gene bcl-2 in hippocampal gyrus and frontal lobe of rats with incomplete cerebral ischemia (ICI) and to investigate the effects of Yiqi Huoxue Tablet (YHT, mainly composed of Radix Astragali , Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Herba Leonuri, Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii, Scorpio, etc) . [ Methods ] Rats were randomized into six groups: model group, mimic operation group, nimodipine group and low-dose, moderate-dose and high-dose YHT groups. Flow cytometry was used to detect the apoptotic rate and bcl-2 protein content in cortical cells. Histological changes were also observed under light microscope. [Results] Early apoptotic changes were found in the model group and the apoptotic rate and bcl-2 protein content were higher than those in the mimic operation group; after treatment of YHT, the apoptotic rate in frontal lobe was decreased as compared with that in the model group and that in hippocampal gyrus remained higher than that in the mimic operation group and bcl-2 protein content was reduced to the level of the mimic operation group. [ Conclusion ] ICI is related to the apoptosis of nerve cells and YHT has been proved an effectual drug for the apoptosis.

Objective The volatile oil was further purified to get the patchouli alcohol by molecular distillation taking patchouli oil which contained 23.97% of patchouli alcohol as raw material.Methods The best process parameters,including temperature,feed rate,and scraping rate,of molecular distillation technique for separating patchouli oil were studied by orthogonal test.The content was detected by GC under the conditions of elastic quartz capillary column HP-5,detector temperature 280 ℃,gasification temperature 280 ℃,distributary refer 20∶1.The effects of evaporation temperature on content and extraction rate of the patchouli oil had been investigated and the difference between the molecular and vapor distillations was studied.Results Content and extraction rate of patchouli alcohol under the best evaporation temperature 65 ℃ by molecular distillation reached to 40.71% and 76.55%,respectively.Conclusion The molecular distillation technique that could get the product with higher purity and extracting rate than that by vapor distillation in patchouli oil purification has a very good prospect in industry.

AIM: To investigate the effects of oxysterols on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) expression in vascular smooth muscle cells. METHODS: Rabbit aortic vascular smooth muscle cells were cultured in vitro and incubated with cholesterol, Triol and 25-hydroxycholesterol (25-OH), respectively. Slot blot was used to detect the mRNA expression level of TIMP-1 in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs); meanwhile the protein expression level of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 was detected by immunohistology. RESULTS: Triol and 25-OH inhibited the expression of TIMP-1 compared with control and cholesterol, but have no effect on expression of MMP-9. CONCLUSION: Both Triol and 25-OH downregulated TIMP-1 expression in VSMCs .