The quality of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) has been mainly evaluated based on chemical ingredients, yet recently more attentions have been paid on biological ingredients, especially for pill-based preparations. It is a key approach to establish a fast, accurate and systematic method of biological ingredient analysis for realization of modernization, industrialization and internationalization of TCMs. The biological ingredient analysis of TCM preparations could be abstracted as the identification of multiple species from a biological mixture. The metagenomic approach based on high-throughput-sequencing (HTS) and big-data-mining has been considered as one of the most effective methods for multiple species analysis of a biological mixture, which would also be helpful for the analysis of biological ingredients in TCMs. Simultaneous identification of diverse species, including the prescribed species, adulterants, toxic species, protected species and even the biological impurities introduced through production process, could be achieved by selecting appropriate DNA biomarkers, as well as applying large-scale sequence comparison and data mining. By this approach, it is prospective to offer an evaluation basis for the effectiveness, safety and legality of TCM preparations.
Biological Products ; chemistry ; Data Mining ; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Metagenomics ; methods

Objective To investigate the short-term and long-term effect of cornary-caval shunt accompanied by pericardial devascularization in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by portal hypertension.Methods Eleven patients with portal hypertension underwent cornary-caval shunt accompanied by partial pericardial devascularization were chosen.Of the 11 patients 6 applied autogenous splenic veins for graft and in 5 cases the coronary vein and inferior vena cava were anastomosed directly.Results Of the 11 patients,no operative mortality or early rebleeding.All patients were followed up from 5 months to 11 years with an average of 5 years and 3 months,of whom two died,others having no rebleeding or hepatic encephalopathy.Conclusion Cornary-caval shunt is a highly selective portosystemic shunt.Cornary-caval shunt accompanied by pericardial devascularization is a surgical treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by portal hypertension for its apparent regional antihypertensive effect,the normal blood flow of liver,and reduction of the incidence of rebleeding.

OBJECTIVE:To prepare Sophora alopecurodies suppository for treating prostatitis chronica and observe its clinical therapeutic effect METHODS:The content of the total alkaloid in the suppository was determined with acid dye spectrophotometry and the therapeutic effect was observed in comparison with qianliean suppository RESULTS:The linear range of TASa was 0 14～15 4?g/ml,standard oxymatriner's recovery was 101 2%,RSD=0 55% CONCLUSION:This suppository is simple in preparation,reliable in quality-control It is slight in irritation to rectum and effective in clinical use The preparation is worth popularizing in clinical practice

With the rapid development of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) technique,the accuracy of radiotherapy has improved,while the pretreatment dose verification has become more complex.Although the experimental measurements,a widely used way to perform dose verification,is accurate and effective,its time-consuming and labor-intensive is still a challenge for physicist.The independent dose verification method such as the depth dose-off axis ratios (OAR) empirical model,Clarkson integral model,convolution model and Monte Carlo model,could partially solve these problems effectively when the accuracy is ensured within a certain range.This approach could save physicists' time to conduct dose recalculation and plan check,and has become the hotspot in the world.This paper,therefore,mainly introduces the correction-based and the model-based independent dose verification methods,and briefly discusses the development of dose verification for IMRT plans.

The clincal experience of thirteen patients with proven acute osteomyelitis under twelve years of age treated by surgical exprolation such as immediate decompression followed by continuous suction-irrigation. Five patients of them who had short duration from the onset improved while three patients who had long duration from the onset had persisting inflammatory change of the bone in spite of the regimen. The causating organisms were mostly staphylococcus aureus in bacterial cultures. The combination of gentamycin, minocin and penclox were the antibiotics of choice. Early diagnosis and early operation is advocated to attain good results in the treatment of acute osteomyelitis in the children.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Child ; Decompression ; Early Diagnosis ; Gentamicins ; Humans ; Minocycline ; Osteomyelitis ; Staphylococcus aureus

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; diagnosis ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Larynx ; pathology

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture, Ear ; Adult ; Dizziness ; therapy ; Headache ; therapy ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Moxibustion ; Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal ; therapy

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical manifestation, diagnosis, treatment of parathyroid occupying lesions. METHOD: The clinical data of 26 patients with parathyroid occupying lesions between January 2003 and October 2012 at Dalian Central Hospital were retrospectively analyzed. RESULT: There were 2 cases of parathyroid cancer, 11 cases of parathyroid adenoma, 13 cases of parathyroid cysts in this study. All the cases,except 13 cases of cysts, are accompanied by symptoms of hyperparathyroidism. The symptoms were as follows:26 cases of neck lump, 11 cases of osteoporosis/osteitis fibrosa cystica,9 cases of urinary symptom, 8 cases of digestive symptom. Serum calciumion level and serum parathyroid hormone(PTH) level were examined qualitatively before operation. Ultrasonography, CT, MRI were used in diagnosing and locating parathyroid occupying lesion before operation. 2 cases of parathyroid cancer, 11 cases of parathyroid adenoma and 13 cases of parathyroid cysts with preoperative and postoperative diagnosis coincidence rate was 0 (0/2), 91% (10/11), 69% (9/13). All patients were treated with operation. 2 cases of parathyroid cancer survived with out recurrence during follow up for 17 months and 27 months after operation. 11 cases of parathyroid adenoma and 13 cases of parathyroid cysts were treated with operation,achieved complete remission and the outcome was no recurrence. CONCLUSION There lack of specific clinical symptoms of parathyroid occupying lesions,neck lump are common manifestations. Examination of serum calcium and PTH level together with ultrasonography, CT, MRI, 99mTc-MIBI is helpful to diagnose parathyroid occupying lesions. Parathyroid cancer preoperative diagnosis is difficult . Parathyroid occupying lesions determine the diagnosis depends on pathology. Surgery should be done as primary treatment.
Adenoma ; blood ; complications ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Adult ; Aged ; Biomarkers, Tumor ; Cysts ; blood ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperparathyroidism ; etiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ; Parathyroid Hormone ; blood ; Parathyroid Neoplasms ; blood ; complications ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Retrospective Studies

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants, whose carcinogenicity is determinated.The mechanism of their carcinogenicity: PAHs are able to combine with aryl hydrocarbon hydrocarbon receptor ( AhR ) , resulting in some toxicity and carcinogenicity.AhR is a ligand-dependent activation transcription factor, which is activated by a large variety of ligands, regulating the expression of a series of gene involved in metabolism, and participating in important biological processes, such as singal transduction, cell proliferation,differentiation and apoptosis,and so on.Besides, it's closely related with the tumor development.Thus, it will provide a new approach for cancer prevention and treatment to study the role of PAHs and AhR in the development of tumor.

Objective To compare success rate of intubation and safety of two types of video laryngoscopes during anesthesia in uvulopalatopharyngoplasty surgery (UPPP) for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients. Methods UPPP surgery were operated to 60 patients between January and October of 2013 and those patients were randomly divided into McGrath MAC video laryngoscope group (M group), GlideScope video laryngoscope (G group), and SHUCMAN direct la-ryngoscopy (S group), with 20 patients per group. Mallampati classification scores, Cormack-Lehane grade, intubation suc-cess rate, pre-intubation vs post-intubation heart rate and blood pressure changes were recorded and compared. Results Mallampati classification scores were not significantly different between these three groups, and Cormack-Lehane grade be-tween M group and G group were also not statistically different. M and G group had distinct advantages in Cormack-Lehane grade, success rate in intubation, heart rate, blood pressure at completion of intubation (T3) and 1 minute after intubation (T4), and the differences are statistically significant (P < 0.05). Blood pressure changes were stabler in G group than M group. Conclusion The two video laryngoscopes used in anesthesia intubation during UPPP surgery can both effectively re-veal the structure of the throat, but also work with high success rate and safety. What’s more, in this study the McGrath MAC video laryngoscope was shown to be superior to GlideScope video laryngoscope.