Medical teaching for foreign students has been carried out in our university recently.Combining the teaching experience of dermatology and venereology,analyzing relative teaching problems and proposing corresponding countermeasures,this paper tries to explore more efficient English teaching methods for foreign students.

OBJECTIVE:To determine the content of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in Astragalus membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu province,i.e. Pb,Cd,Cu,As,Hg. METHODS:Wet digestion pretreatment was carried out for samples and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) was used for the determination of heavy metal elements. RESULTS:The contents of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu Province were lower than the limit. CONCLUSION:AAS method can accurately determine the content of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus.

Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the digestive system.Most of the patients with gastric cancer have advanced disease at the time of diagnosis.Chemotherapy is still the mainstay of treatment for advanced gastric cancer,but efficacy of chemotherapy was modest.Molecular targeted therapies have emerged as a novel approach to the treatment of both hematological and solid tumors in recent years.The understanding of molecular biological mechanisms underlying the formation,progression and metastasis in advanced gastric cancer has enabled us to use the new approach to treat this disease in clinical practice.These therapeutic strategies include targeting EGFR signal transduction pathway,anti-angiogenesis,targeting NF-?B signal transduction pathway and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors.In this review,a brief introduction of the current status of the molecular targeted therapies in the treatment of gastric cancer was presented.Bevacizumab,anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody targeting the angiogenesis pathway has been approved for the treatment of colorectal cancer by FDA,has been reported to show effectiveness in metastatic gastric cancer when combined with cytotoxic agents.Inhibition of NF-?B signal transduction pathway such as PS-341(proteasome inhibitor,bortezomib) approved for the treatment of refractory or recurrent multiple myeloma by FDA has also been used to combine with chemotherapy for gastric cancer.There are also encouraging reports on the combination of standard chemotherapy with Cetuximab,Matuzumab,Gefitinib,Erlotinib and Trastuzumab which target the EGFR and HER2 signal transduction pathways.Flavopiridol is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor with low molecullar weight that aims at the regulatory process of the cell cycle but this needs further clinical trial.

Objective To study the effect of Danxuan Koukang(DXKK) drug serum on proliferation and proliferating cell nuclear antigen(PCNA) production of human oral mucosal fibroblasts(FB) induced by areca nut extract(ANE).Methods Human oral mucosal FB were cultured in vitro,100 ?g/mL ANE was used as inducement and 10% DXKK drug serum as intervenor.The cell proliferation rates were measured by MTT assay,PCNA productions were examined by immunocytechemistry.Results MTT assay showed OD value in DXKK groups were significantly decreased compared with the induced group(P

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Annexin A1 (ANXA1) is a kind of endogenous scaffold protein. Previous research showed that ANXA1 could increase markedly with multiple increase of drug resistance in K562/imatinib cell lines in vitro. Here the stable transfection cell strains K562-pEGFP-N1 which was the native control and K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 which can stably express ANXA1 were established using the Lipofectamine 2000 in order to find whether ANXA1 involved in the drug resistance. Cell growth inhibition experiment via MTT and cell proliferation experiment via MTS showed that K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain was more sensitive to imatinib than the K562-pEGFP-N1 cell strain, and however the ability of proliferation of K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain did not change compared with the negative control. Western blotting results showed that the expression of proteins in Annexin family did not change; drug resistance proteins, Bcr-Abl/p-Bcr-Abl (Tyr245), Src family kinase for example, did not change; proteins related with cell proliferation and cell cycle, such as ERK1/2MAPK, p-38MAPK, CDK1 and Wee 1, did not change either in the K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain compared with the negative control. The co-immunoprecipitation result showed that the interaction between ANXA1 and beta-actin in the K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain increased markedly. The deduction was that ANXA1 may make the K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain more sensitive to imatinib due to the increased uptake of imatinib via the increase of ANXA1 and the interaction between ANXA1 and beta-actin in the K562-pEGFP-N1-ANXA1 cell strain in vitro.

Objective To establish the determination method of baicalin in the children's YifeiPingchuan mixture by RP-HPLC.Methods A Kromasil C18 column was used with methanol-(0.4％)phosphoric acid-triethylamine (45 ∶ 55 ∶ 2 drops) as mobile phase with a column temperature of 28 ℃.The flow rate was 1.0 ml/min.The detection wavelength was set at 277 nm.Results The linear range of baicalin was 0.040～1.000 μg (r=0.9999) with a average recovery of 99.82 and RSD of 1.01％.Conclusion The method for quantification of baicalin was sensitive,accurate,and convenient,which can also be used as one of basis of quality standard for Yifei-Pingchuan mixture.

Objective To explore the predictive value of cholinesterase (ChE) in the prognosis of gerontal patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Methods The clinical data of 124 elderly patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome collected from September 2009 through September 2010 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were divided into death group and survival group according to the outcome of patients. The cholinesterase ( ChE), albumin, D-Dime, lactic acid and C-reactive protein (CRP) were detected, and the APACHE Ⅱ and GCS scores were documented in the first 24 hours in the ICU. Results There were no significant differences in age, gender, APACHE Ⅱ score and GCS score of patients between death group and survival group ( all P ＞ 0. 05 ), but there were significant differences in lactic acid, D-Dime, albumin, CRP and ChE between two groups ( theP values were 0.011,0.011, 0. 007,0. 008, 0. 000, respectively) . The results of multiple factors regression analysis showed that age, gender,lactic acid, D-Dime, albumin, CRP, APACHE Ⅱ score, and GCS score were not the independent risk factors of prognosis of gerontal patients with SIRS ( the P = 0. 401, 0. 165, 0. 446, 0. 841,0. 615, 0. 120,0. 502, 0. 184, respectively) except ChE ( P = 0. 000) . The receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) of ChE in the gerontal patients with SIRS showed the area under curve (AUC) = 0.797, SE =0.04, P=0. 000, and the ChE = 103.00 U/L could be a diagnosis point with sensitivity = 0.793, 1-specificity = 0. 258. The correlation analysis showed that the APACHE Ⅱ score, CRP, and albumin were poorly correlated with ChE ( Kendall coefficients were 0. 061, 0. 231, and -0. 090, and theP = 0. 161,0. 000, and 0. 069, respectively ) . Conclusions ChE maybe played a important role in the gerontal patients with SIRS, and could be a predictive index for the prognosis of gerontal patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Through the analysis on different development paths of western and Chinese medical ethics, this article proposed to construct the Chinese medical ethical review system. Although the medical ethical review system was originated in western countries, due to different origins of medical ethical thoughts, different cultures and beliefs among races, as well as different medical and science development models, the application of western medical eth-ical review system should not be mechanically used in China. The application should follow the idea of har-monization with differences. This article discussed on current status and significance of the construction of an ethical review platform which is suitable to the national conditions of China. It was also emphasized on the im-portance of ethics training among researchers.

The paper gives an account of the basic concept of supply chain management, puts forward the overall framework of supply chain management in the hospitals department of clinical laboratory, and sets forth the specific process of implementation: analyzing the hospitals environment of market competition and identifying medical market opportunities; defining clinical and patient value; specifying competition strategies; analyzing the entity competitive power; establishing the management procedure of the department of clinical laboratory; implementing various testing steps; evaluating testing quality and performance; and seeking feedback and improvement.