Objective To evaluate the effect of a new schistosomiasis control strategy based on the infection source control in four-lake regions of Hubei Province. Methods The new strategy based on the infection source control included the safe water sup-ply,feces harmless treatment,replacing cattle with machine,captive livestock,chemotherapy,Oncomelania hupensis snail con-trol in susceptible areas,hardening ditches,etc,and the new control strategy was implemented for 7 years in 9 counties(cities or districts)of the four-lake regions. The schistosomiasis situations were investigated before and after the intervention of the new strat-egy. Results The coverage rates of feces harmless toilets(three format toilets),biogas digesters,and safe water supply were 42.00%,23.16% and 93.76%,respectively. The number of ditch hardening was 1 960;the area of eliminating snails was 1 378.42 hm2;the number of persons who received the health education was 3 524 818 accounting for 92.17%of the total popula-tion;the number of person-time of taking active protection measures was 516 636 963. The average annual decline rates of schisto-some infection were 24.42%and 38.38%in residents and cattle,respectively. The endemic villages decreased by 4.77%,the vil-lages with snails decreased by 7.05%,and the villages with snails accounted between 63.19%and 66.21%of the total endemic vil-lages. The area with snails decreased by 90.35%,and the advance schistosomiasis patients decreased by 5.55%,and the fatality rate of advanced schistosomiasis patients decreased by 1.24%. No acute schistosomiasis patients occurred. Type One and Two en-demic(heavy endemic)villages decreased to zero;Type Three endemic(moderate endemic)villages decreased by 10.22%;but Type Four endemic(mild endemic)villages increased by 66.38%;and Type Five endemic(no endemic for 5 years)villages de-creased by 0.22%. The standards of schistosomiasis transmission controlled have achieved on schedule. Conclusion The imple-mentation of the new schistosomiasis control strategy based on the infection source control in four-lake regions of Hubei Province can effectively control schistosomiasis.

Alcoholic liver disease ( ALD ) , a chronic progres-sive disease, threatens human health seriously. An increasing number of studies have shown that gut flora dysbiosis plays an important role in the development of ALD. Intestinal microbiota maintains a steady state under normal conditions, regulating gut flora normal physiological function. However, chronic alcohol consumption produces intestinal bacteria overgrowth and dysbio-sis, including the alteration of the composition of intestinal mi-croflora, the increment of gut permeability and bacterial translo-cation. Subsequently, the host immune is activated, promoting the production of inflammatory cytokines in liver, which plays a central role in the development of ALD. Notably, the supple-ment of prebiotics or probiotics reverses the intestinal flora disor-der,ameliorating the clinical symptoms effectively in ALD pa-tients. The evidence impies that the modulation of dysbiosis may be effective in the prevention and treatment of ALD. This review summarizes the research progress on the mechanism of the devel-opment of dysbiosis-mediated ALD, to provide a theoretical basis for the research on intestinal flora and ALD.

Objective To study the clinical characteristics,diagnosis and treatment of 8 children with primary ileum cecum malignant lymphoma.Methods Retrospective analysis on the clinical and pathology materials of 8 children with primary ileum cecum malignant lymphoma was performed.Results Primary ileum cecum malignant lymphom′s clinical experience had no characteristic,and radical operation was main treatment method.Chemothereapy got well to some extents.Pathology and immunity tissue chemical were B cell malignant lymphoma.Conclusions Child primary ileum cecum malignant lymphoma lack specific manifestations,and histopathology is main diagnosis methods.They have good response to binding treatment of early operation and chemothereapy.

Objective To study the protective effect of redix astragail on intestinal mucosa barrier in infant rabbits with intestinal ischemiareperfusion.Methods Twenty male infant rabbits were divided into 4 groups randomly:sham control group,intestinal ischemia reperfusion(IIR) group(model group),redix astragail group,control group.Redix astragail group and control group intraperitonerlly injected redix astragail 6 mg/(kg?d)or sodium chloride preoperative.Intestinal mucosa and blood plasma superoxide dismutase(SOD) activity,intestinal mucosa tissue degree of injury were observed in infant rabbits with IIR.Meanwhile,the effect of redix astragail on them was studied.Results After IIR,SOD activity in intestinal mucosa and blood plasma obviously decreased,and intestinal mucosa tissue morphous and intestinal mucosa barrier lesion were progressively aggravated.Redix astragail might increase blood plasma and intestinal tissue SDD activity significantly.Conclusion Redix astragail plays an important role in protecting intestinal mucosa barrier in infant rabbits with IIR.

Objective To explore the characteristic and clinical value of Somatosensory Evoked Potential SEP and event?related potential P300 in patients with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME), trying to provide neuroelectrophysiological evidence for the pathogenesis, diagnosis and antiepileptic drug efficacy of this disease . Methods 28 patients with JME and 30 healthy controls were enrolled in the research. They were applied the SEP and P300 before and after one year treatment. Results (1) The amplitude of SEP in patients with JME was significantly higher than those in the control group(P=0.000), the abnormal rate was 75%(21/28), while the latency of SEP was no significant difference (P>0.05); The latency of P300 in patients with JME was significantly longer (P = 0.000), 2 out of 28 cases were poorly differentiated, 9 cases were longer (11/28, 39%), while the P300 amplitude was no significant difference(P=0.110). (2) After treatment, the amplitude of SEP was significantly lower (P<0.05), the latency of P300 was significantly shorter (P=0.001). (3) The amplitude of SEP had a positively linear relationship with the latency of P300 (r = 0.818, P = 0.000). Conclusions The SEP amplitude was significantly higher in patients with JME, often accompanied by a huge SEP, so SEP can provide electrophysiological evidence for the pathogenesis and diagnosis of this disease.And P300 may give a chance to find the subclinical cognitive abnormalities and to intervent it early. The SEP had a positively linear relationship with the P300, simultaneously dynamic monitoring the change of SEP amplitude and P300 latency may become an objective evaluation for the antiepileptic drug efficacy.

Objective To study the relationship between hepatitis B virus(HBV)pre-S gene mutations and progression of liver disease.Methods The entire pre-S1,pre-S2 genes were amplified hy nested polymerase chain reaction(PCR)and the products were digested by NlaⅢ.The method for detecting pre-S2 start codon mutation was established based on the digested restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP).Pre-S gene deletion was revealed by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel(PAGE).Pre-C A1896 and basic core promoter T1762/A1764 mutations were identified by direct sequencing of PCR products.The 138 sera from patients with HBV-related disease,including asymp- tomatic carriers(ASC),chronic hepatitis(CH),liver cirrhosis(LC),hepatocarcinoma(HCC),were tested by these methods.Results The detection rate of pre-S deletion mutation was higher in patients with HCC(56.3%)and LC(42.9%)than those with CH(11.8%)and ASC(8.1%,P

Objective To investigate the synergistic anticancer effect of ATO combined with Rad001 on human ovarian cancer cells in vitro and the underlying mechanisms. Methods SKOV3 cells were treated with Rad001, ATO and a combination of Rad001 and ATO, respectively. Cell relative luminescence units, viability, and combination index were tested. The apoptosis was quantified by Flow cytometry. Autophagy and apoptosis associated proteins were measured with immunoblotting. Results Significant decrease in live cell number were observed in cells treated with combination of Rad001 and ATO , compared with single compound treatment (P <0.05). Moreover, a higher rates of autophagy as well as apoptosis were observed in the combination treatment compared with single compound treatment (P < 0.05). Conclusions combination of Rad001 and ATO can result in synergistic cytotoxicity through activation of the excessive autophagy and apoptotic pathway.

A new eremophilane derivative, (3aR,4R,5S,7S,7aS)-2-acetyl-7,7a-dihydroxy-3a,4-dimethyl-3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydro-3H-inden-5-yl acetate (1) and three known compounds, 10beta-hydroxy-eremophil-7 (11)-en-12,8alpha-olide(2), beta-sitosterol (3) and beta-daucosterol(4) have been isolated from Ligularia intermedia. The compounds were isolated by column chromatography on silica gel and Sephadex LH-20,and identified on the basis of spectral analyses (MS, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR).
Asteraceae ; chemistry ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; isolation & purification ; Molecular Structure ; Naphthalenes ; chemistry ; isolation & purification ; Sesquiterpenes

To reveal the underlying mechanism of doxorubicin induced hepatotoxicity, an NMR-based metabolomic approach combined with multivariate statistical analysis was used to observe its metabolic alternations of rat liver. Sixteen differential metabolites between model rats and normal rats were characterized as potential pathological biomarkers related to doxorubicin induced hepatotoxicity. Six pathways, including phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis, valine, leucine and isoleucine biosynthesis, phenylalanine metabolism, glycine, serine and threonine metabolism, alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism, and tyrosine metabolism were regarded as the targeted metabolic pathways according to Metabolic Pathway Analysis (MetPA). The results suggested that the metabolic perturbations in rats with doxorubicin induced hepatotoxicity were mainly involved in amino acid metabolism, lipid pathways, purine metabolism, energy metabolism, dysfunction of biotransformation and oxidative stress. The investigation revealed the effects of doxorubicin on liver in a holistic metabolic way, which laid a foundation for further studies on its toxicity mechanism.
Animals ; Biomarkers ; metabolism ; Doxorubicin ; toxicity ; Energy Metabolism ; Liver ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Metabolic Networks and Pathways ; Metabolomics ; Multivariate Analysis ; Oxidative Stress ; Rats

To investigate the distribution of the genes of two major metallo-beta-lactamases (MBL; i.e., IMP and VIM) and class 1 integrons (intI) in the clinical imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a total of 65 isolates, from a university hospital in Sichuan between December 2004 and April 2005 were screened for MBL genes by PCR using primers specific for bla ( IMP-1 ), bla ( VIM ) and bla ( VIM-2 ) genes. The MBL-positive isolates were further assessed for class 1 integrons by PCR using specific primers. The nucleotide sequences of several PCR products were also determined. The results revealed that the bla ( VIM ) gene was found in 81.5% (53/65) of all isolates, bla ( VIM-2 ) gene was found in only 1 isolate and the intI gene was observed in 45.3% (24/53) of bla ( VIM )-positive isolates. One isolate carried simultaneously both bla ( IMP-1 ) and intI genes, and to the best of our knowledge this is the first report of such isolate in southwest China. These observations highlight that the genes for VIM beta-lactamase and class 1 integrons were predominantly present among the imipenem-resistant P. aeruginosa tested, confirming the current widespread threat of imipenem-resistant, integron-borne P. aeruginosa.
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; China ; DNA Primers/chemistry ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ; Imipenem/*pharmacology ; Integrons ; Microbial Sensitivity Tests ; Models, Genetic ; Pseudomonas Infections/genetics ; Pseudomonas Infections/*microbiology ; Pseudomonas aeruginosa/*metabolism ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; beta-Lactamases/*metabolism