Scaffold is one of the key elements required for tissue engineering. Porous scaffolds have several special advantages for muscle tissue engineering, and they are beneficial to cell survival, myogenic differentiation, and vascular ingrowth. The performance of porous scaffolds is closely related to the property of the biomaterials used. Additionally, the pore size and porosity may affect cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation. This review focuses on the application of porous scaffolds in muscle tissue engineering, including their categories, application, and advantages.
Biocompatible Materials ; Cell Adhesion ; Humans ; Muscles ; physiology ; Porosity ; Tissue Engineering ; Tissue Scaffolds

Analgesics, Opioid ; poisoning ; Diphenoxylate ; poisoning ; Humans ; Naloxone ; therapeutic use ; Narcotic Antagonists ; therapeutic use ; Poisoning ; drug therapy

Objective To examine the impact of oncology nurses' compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue on doctor-patient relationship satisfaction.Methods Questionnaire survey was conducted by 388 oncology nurses,the questionnaires include Professional Quality of Life Scale and DoctorPatient Relationship Satisfaction Scale.Results The total scores of compassion satisfaction was 34.22±7.19,the total scores of secondary traumatic was 26.32±6.12,the total scores of job burnout was 25.13±6.08,the total scores of doctor-patient relationship satisfaction was 4.24±0.75.Pearson correlation analysis showed that doctor-patient relationship satisfaction score was positively correlated with oncology nurses' compassion satisfaction (r=0.468,P ＜ 0.05),negatioely correlated with nurses' compassion fatigue factor scores (r=-0.182,-0.531).Regression analysis showed that compassion satisfaction,secondary traumatic,job burnout and night shift frequency were influencing factors of doctor-patient relationship satisfaction,which could explain29.2％ of the variance.Conclusions Improvement of the oncology nurses' compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue can improve the doctor-patient relationship satisfaction and the quality of nursing service,and create a harmonious medical environment.

Case discussion is an effective approach,which combines basic theory with clinical medicine.It can evoke students' interest and cultivate their creative thinking capacity.Moreover,it can improve teachers' general ability in teaching pathophysiolo- gy.In this article,we discuss the application of case discussion in pathophysiology teaching.

BACKGROUND: Adipocytes are derived from preadipocytes, which are induced by mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. This study explored the mechanism of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation into adipocytes and provided a new thinking for preventing and treating obesity.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the isolation and culture of BMSCs from rabbits in vitro, and the method of differentiating into adipocytes.DESIGN: An observational controlled in vitro experiment.SETTING: Department of Histology and Embryology, Binzhou Medical College, and Yunnan Pharmacological Laboratories of Natural Products.MATERIALS: Totally 12 healthy Japanese rabbits aged 6-8 weeks of 200 to 300g of either sex were provided by Experimental Animal Center of Kunming Medical College. Dexamethasone, 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine and insulin (Sigma, USA) and indomethacin (ALEXIS, USA) were used in this study.METHODS: Experiments were performed at the Yunnan Pharmacological Laboratories of Natural Products between July 2004 and January 2005. BMSCs were harvested from the femurs, tibias and humerus bones of the rabbits, and then purified and proliferated. After primary culture, the subcultured cells were cultured in media including 1μmol/L dexamethasone, 0.5mmol/L 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, 10mg/L insulin and 0.2mmol/L indomethacin. The disposal was accorded with the animal ethical standards.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Growth curve of the third passage of cells was evaluated by modified MTT method. Salmon pink lipid drop appeared after Oil Red O staining under a light microscope.RESULTS: After 72 hours of adipocyte induction, lipid droplet appeared in BMSCs. With the prolongation of induction time, lipid vacuoles were found and cells changed from fusiform to round or polygon. At week 3, approximately 80% BMSCs were induced into adipocytes as detected by Oil Red O.CONCLUSION: Rabbit BMSCs isolated and cultured in vitro can be induced into adipocytes in the media containing 1μmol/L dexamethasone, 0.5mmol/L 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, 10mg/L insulin and 0.2mmol/L indomethacin.

Objective To explore the expressions of autophagy-related gene Beclin-1 and LC3 in adriamycin induced eardiomyopathy rats,to prnve that autophagy might take part in the development of adriamycin induced eardiomyopathy in rats,so as to provide experimental and theoretical evidence for preventing and treating adriamycin induced cardiomyopathy.Methods Forty-five male SD rats were randomly divided into 3 groups,control groups,ADR group and ADR+3-MA group.The model of adriamycin induced cardiomyopathy rats was established.The tissue sample taken from the left ventricle wall was checked for the morphons of autophagosome by electron microscope. The expressions of Beelin-1 and LC3 of myocardium were detected.Results The morphons of autophagosome in ADR group was significantly increased compared with that in control and ADR +3-MA groups. The expression of Beclin-1 in myocardium of ADR group was significantly inereased compared with that in control and ADR +3-MA groups (P < 0.05).The level of LC3 in myocardium of ADR group was significantly increased compared with that in control and ADR+3-MA groups (P < 0.05).Conclusions Autophagy plays an important role in adriamycin induced cardiomyopathy.

Objective To investigate the value of nuchal translucency(NT) thickening in the fetal chromosome abnormality screening.Methods The 14 881 pregnant women received NT measurement in 11-13 +6 weeks at Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital from January 2010 to August 2012.The 118 fetuses whose NT≥2.5 mm were recruited.One hundred and eight (91.5％,108/118)of them accepted invasive procedure and karyotype analysis.Results (1) Chromosome karyotype analysis:113 singleton pregnancies (95.8％) and 5 twin pregnancies (4.2％) whose NT thickened from 2.5 mm to 11.0 mm were advised karyotype analysis.The 108 pregnant women accepted karyotype analysis.Among them,88 had normal chromosome karyotype,and 20 had chromosome abnormalities.The detection rate was 18.5 ％ (20/108).(2) The sensitivity,specificity,false positive rate,false negative rate,total consistent rate,positive predictive value and negative predictive value of prenatal screening of chromosome abnormalities for NT ≥ 2.5 mm were 44％,99％,1％,56％,99％,19％ and 100％,respectively.(3) Among the 88 fetuses who had normal karyotype,72 (82％) had isolated thickened NT,while 16 (18％) had fetal structural malformation or intrauterine demise.(4) Among the 10 pregnant women who did not accept fetal karyotype analysis,8 terminated pregnancy because of fetal structural malformation,and the other 2 fetuses died in uterus.(5)All of the 5 twin pregnancies were dichorionic twins,and one of the twins had thickened NT.Among the 5 twin pregnancies,one fetus was trisomy 21 and others had normal karyotype.3 twin pregnancies who had normal chromosomes gave live birth.And the other had a gastroschisis and exstrophy deformity fetuse.This fetuse died in uterus and remaining fetuse had full-term live birth.(6) 35 (29.7％) pregnant women received second trimester Down's syndrome serum screening.One was high risk and was proved a trisomy 21 pregnancy.Thirty-four were low risk and had normal chromosome karyotype.Conclusion NT thickening may indicate fetal chromosome abnormalities or other structural malformations.It is a useful prenatal screening indicator.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of NF-κB on cardiomyopathy induced by doxorubicin(Dox) in rats and the effect of melatonin(MT). METHODS Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: normal control group; Dox model group; Dox+MT group. The content of nitric oxide (NO) and the activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in cardiac tissues were examined by spectrophotography method; the activity of NF-κB in myocardial cell was observed by immunohistochemistry method; the apoptosis information of myocardial cell was detected by TUNEL method. RESULTS There was significant difference in activity of NF-κB between normal control and the Dox model group. MT could inhibit the activation of NF-κB(P＜0.05). There was significant difference in the content of NO and the activity of iNOS between normal control and Dox model group, MT could decrease content of NO and the activity of iNOS(P＜0.05); apoptotic rate in Dox model group was significantly increased compared with that in normal control group, MT could significantly decrease myocardial cell apoptosis (P＜0.05). CONCLUSION The activation of NF-κB plays an important role in cardiomyopathy induced by Dox, NF-κB seems to increase the activity of iNOS, and then significantly increase the content of NO in cardiac muscle; NF-κB possibly enhances myocardial cell apoptosis in cardiomyopathy induced by Dox. MT may inhibit the activation of NF-κB, and prevent excessive oxidative stress and suppress myocardial cell apoptosis, MT has protective effect against cardiomyopathy induced by Dox.

China ; epidemiology ; Humans ; Occupational Diseases ; epidemiology

By using the pharmacophore model of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists as a starting point, the experiment stud- ies the method of traditional Chinese medicine formula design for anti-hypertensive. Pharmacophore models were generated by 3D-QSAR pharmacophore (Hypogen) program of the DS3.5, based on the training set composed of 33 mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. The best pharmacophore model consisted of two Hydrogen-bond acceptors, three Hydrophobic and four excluded volumes. Its correlation coefficient of training set and test set, N, and CAI value were 0.9534, 0.6748, 2.878, and 1.119. According to the database screening, 1700 active compounds from 86 source plant were obtained. Because of lacking of available anti-hypertensive medi cation strategy in traditional theory, this article takes advantage of patent retrieval in world traditional medicine patent database, in order to design drug formula. Finally, two formulae was obtained for antihypertensive.
Antihypertensive Agents ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Databases, Factual ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Models, Molecular