Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Metrorrhagia ; therapy ; Middle Aged

Bacterial Infections ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Biomarkers ; analysis ; Clinical Trials as Topic ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Neonatology ; Research Report

Objective To study the change in blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability in dog with craniocerebral gunshot injury and its significance. Methods Twelve dogs were randomly divided into control group, 15min ofter penetrating craniocerebral injury (PCI) group, 1h after PCI group and 6h after PCI group (n=3). The injury was produced by a small-calibre rifle made in Germany (type 5.56mm, weight of bullet 2.57g). Lanthanum nitrate was infused through the heart. The changes in BBB permeability were observed under electronic microscope. Results In 15min PCI group and 1h PCI group, changes in BBB permeability was observed, with manifestation of opening of tight junctions, with lanthanum nitrate particles passing through BBB into the brain tissues. These changes were more marked in 1h PCI group. Comparing with the above two groups, even more lanthanum nitrate particles were found in the brain tissue in the 6h group (P

Objective To study the gene expression and the expression change rule of c-fos in the canines posterior to craniocerebral gunshot wounds in order to provide the experimental base for further understanding of the mechanism of gunshot craniocerebral injury. Methods Using the canine model of penetrating craniocerebral injury made by the bullets of the small-calibre rifle made in Germany, the c-fos expressions in the control cerebral tissues and the contusion and concussion areas of the trajectory and the brain stem neurons at different time points after trauma were observed by immunohistochemical method. Results Feeble c-fos expression was detected in the control group. After craniocerebral gunshot wounds, the c-fos expression increased in the contusion and concussion areas of the trajectory and in the brain stem at the 30th minutes, reached the peak at the 2nd hour and began to decrease at the 3rd hour. The c-fos expression in the concussion area was much more significant than that in the contusion area ( P

Objective To investigate the exposure level of VOCs in different population and the health effects. Methods In 2005, a questionnaire survey relating to inhalation exposure assessment of VOCs and housing decoration characteristics was carried out in 200 newly decorated apartments (628 residents), 30 house decoration workers and 20 painting workers of an automobile manufacture factory. Indoor concentrations of formaldehyde, BTEX-compounds and TVOC were measured in typical apartments, offices, houses in where the decoration workers were operating, the painting workshops, and public indoor environments. Average daily exposure doses and potential doses for common people at home (non-occupational exposure group) and workers in occupational environments (occupational exposure group) to formaldehyde and BTEX-compounds and TVOC were estimated by combining the survey results with monitoring data. Results The percentages of whom having different discomfortable symptoms in the workers in the painting workshop were higher than that in common people (P

OBJECTIVE:To establish HPLC fingerprint sectrum of Rhaponticum uniflorum. METHODS:HPLC was performed on the column of Hypersil-ODS with mobile phase of 0.3% phosphoric acid-acetonitrile(gradient elution) at flow rate of 1.0 ml/min,detection wavelength was 220 nm,column temperature was 30 ℃ and volume injection was 10 μl. The luteolin was refer-ence,17 batches of R. uniflorum from different production places was analyzed and similarity evaluation system for chromatograph-ic fingerprint of TCM (2004 A edition)was adopted for the similarity analysis. RESULTS:There were totally 11 common peaks with similarity degree≥0.900 of 17 batches. According to the verification,the fingerprint spectrum and reference fingerprint spec-trum of R. uniflorum had good consistency. CONCLUSIONS:The established method is specific and stable,and can provide refer-ence for the identification and quality control of R. uniflorum.

OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for simultaneous determination of luteolin and apigenin in Mongolian medicine Scabiosa atropurea. METHODS:HPLC was performed on the column of Diamond C18 with mobile phase of acetonitrile-0.4%phos-phoric acid(34∶66,V/V)at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min,the detection wavelength was 350 nm,column temperature was 30 ℃,and the injection volume was 10 μl. RESULTS:The linear range was 66-396 ng for luteolin(r=0.999 8)and 93-558 ng for apigenin (r=0.999 6);RSDs of precision,stability and reproducibility tests were lower than 2%;recoveries were 98.15%-101.79%(RSD=1.42%,n=6) and 98.66%-104.05%(RSD=1.81%,n=6),respectively. CONCLUSIONS:The method is simple with good precise,stability and reproducibility,and can be used for the simultaneous determination of luteolin and apigenin in Mongo-lian medicine S. atropurea.

Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Leukopenia ; complications ; congenital ; diagnosis ; Male

Aluminum Compounds ; toxicity ; Animals ; Animals, Newborn ; Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Cells, Cultured ; Cerebral Cortex ; cytology ; drug effects ; Chlorides ; toxicity ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Neurons ; cytology ; drug effects ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar

Fast pyrolysis experiments of corn stalk were performed to investigate the optimal pyrolysis conditions of temperature and bed material for maximum bio-oil production under flue gas atmosphere. Under the optimized pyrolysis conditions, furfural residue, xylose residue and kelp seaweed were pyrolyzed to examine their yield distributions of products, and the physical characteristics of bio-oil were studied. The best flow rate of the flue gas at selected temperature is obtained, and the pyrolysis temperature at 500 degrees C and dolomite as bed material could give a maximum bio-oil yield. The highest bio-oil yield of 43.3% (W/W) was achieved from corn stalk under the optimal conditions. Two main fractions were recovered from the stratified bio-oils: light oils and heavy oils. The physical properties of heavy oils from all feedstocks varied little. The calorific values of heavy oils were much higher than that of light oils. The pyrolysis gas could be used as a gaseous fuel due to a relatively high calorific value of 6.5-8.5 MJ/m3.
Biofuels ; Biomass ; Bioreactors ; Furaldehyde ; chemistry ; Hot Temperature ; Kelp ; Temperature ; Xylose ; chemistry ; Zea mays