As the specific endangered medicinal plant in Xinjiang, resources and distribution of Ferula sinkiangen-sis are important for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of Chinese medicine resources. The spa-tial distribution and resources of F. sinkiangensis were researched based on low altitude remote sensing and sample investigation. The results showed that the optimum working time for F. sinkiangensis monitoring by low altitude remote sensing was the nearby 5 hills, which covered about 0.88 km2. It was suggested that the fence area should be expanded for protection. According to the results of low altitude remote sensing, the amount of F. sinkiangensis in yellow (diameter exceeding 0.3 m) was about 3 191. However, the sample investigation on amount of F. sinkiangensis in yellow (diameter exceeding 0.3 m) was about 2 752. The error between them was 14%. The monitoring time and range for F. sinkiangensis by low altitude remote sensing were also ensured. It was concluded that low altitude re-mote sensing had the advantage of quickly receiving distribution situation of F. sinkiangensis, which can effectively evaluate dynamic changes of F. sinkiangensis in Xinjiang.

Objective To explore the changes of resting state default mode network (DMN) in patients with chronic pain caused by cervical spondylosis (CPCS). Methods 8 healthy controls and 10 patients accepted functional MRI scanning. Surface based DMN was extracted with independent component analysis (ICA). The functional connectivity of the components of DMN were discriminated with support vector machine (SVM) algorithm from the patients to the controls. Results The DMN connectivity was different in the patients from the controls in some of the component areas. Conclusion DMN of CPCS patients is disorder in multiple brain areas, which may be involved with dysfunction of perception processing, emotion and memory.

Objective To investigate the inter-hemispheric resting-state functional connectivity and its relation with cognitive function in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) based on voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC). Methods A total of 52 patients with ESRD (ESRD group), admitted to our hospital from July 2018 to January 2019, were enrolled; 36 age-, gender-, and education level-matched healthy controls (HCs group) were collected at the same time period. The cognitive function of all subjects was assessed by Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Trail Making Test (TMT)-A, TMT-B and Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT). The rs-fMRI and 3D-T1WI data were acquired from all subjects; after image preprocessing, VMHC values between brain hemispheres were calculated and the regions with significantly different VMHC values were obtained. The correlations between VMHC values in significant regions and cognitive scale scores were analyzed. Results MMSE, MoCA and SDMT scores of ESRD patients were significantly lower than those of the HCs group (P<0.05), and ESRD patients took longer time to complete TMT-A and TMT-B tests than the HCs group (P<0.05). As compared with that of the HCs group, significant decrease of VMHC values of ESRD patients was found in the hippocampus, lingual gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, caudate nucleus and anterior cingulate gyrus (P<0.01, AlphaSim correction); the VMHC values of the anterior cingulate gyrus and hippocampus were positively correlated with MMSE and MoCA scores (P<0. 05). Conclusion Significant abnormal inter-hemisphere functional connectivity is found in patients with ESRD, which is associated with cognitive function.

According to the survey on 7 medicinal material markets, 15 factories of Chinese materia medica slices, 27 medicine shops and 110 samples collected, this report anglyzed and summarized, the sources, provenances, characters of crude drugs, characters of decocting slices and merchandise circulation of Epimedium material drugs and decoction pieces.
Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; analysis ; economics ; standards ; Epimedium ; chemistry ; Marketing ; Materia Medica ; analysis ; economics ; standards ; Product Surveillance, Postmarketing ; Quality Control

Objective:To summary the clinical features of 8 cases with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) complicated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Methods:This study was conducted retrospectively from January 2007 to November 2018. Eight patients with AS complicated with SLE who were admitted to Foshan Hospital of TCM were analyzed. Bath ankylosing spondylitis disease activity index (BASDAI) was compared using t-test. Results:Four patients were female. The mean age was (31±14) years, ranged from 16 to 59 years. The average disease duration of AS was (27±30) months(ranging from 4 to 144 months). The average disease of duration SLE was (69±51) months (ranging from 1 to 80 months). All patients was human lymphocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 positive. SLE-related organ involvement included kidney in 5 cases, leukocytopenia in 8 cases, arthralgia in 6 cases, nervous system in 1 case and skin rash in 3 cases. Renal biopsy were performed in 3 patients. And 2 cases were class Ⅲ+Ⅴ lupus nephritis, another one was class Ⅳ+Ⅴ lupus nephritis.Conclusion:AS may complicated with SLE. Some drugs may be able to active the potential SLE, which should be differentiated from drug-related lupus.

Acupuncture and Tuina are the main non-drug therapies for low back pain, which are recommended by the guidelines. Acupuncture and Tuina can alleviate pain, which is regarded as conditional specific outcome, and improve mental, emotional problems, as non-conditional specific outcomes. There are some problems of the outcome assessment of acupuncture and Tuina treatment for pain such as insufficient evaluation of specific effect and unclear evaluation of characteristic outcome. Therefore, the key to above problems is to construct a Specific ouTcomE Assessment Modal of acupuncture and Tuina treatment for pain (STEAM-A&T) based on the qualitive and quantitative methods. By describing the experience, narrative expression, feelings and needs of patients who receiving acupuncture and Tuina treatment, the item banks of acupuncture and Tuina treatment effect are constructed, and the characteristic outcome of acupuncture and Tuina for pain will be screened, and then the relationship model among outcomes is constructed and optimized, which reflected the characteristics of acupuncture and Tuina for pain from multiple dimensions, multiple levels and multiple views. We reveal the relationship between the outcome of acupuncture and Tuina for pain. It will provide a new theory and methods for the construction of specific outcome assessment modal of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The theory of “diagnosing diseases with sinews” means that through the diagnosis and examination of the channel sinews at the site of the lesion， the surplus and deficit state of qi and blood in the channel sinews， vessles and channels， and the degree of damage to the organism caused by the disease and evils， can be determined， forming the three elements （the nature of the disease， the location of the disease， and the disease tendency） of the disease diagnosis can be closely integrated to form the trinity of diagnostic modes， which is “examining the disease nature by sinews， identifying the pattern by sinews， and determining the tendency by sinews”. For intractable facial paralysis， the method of “diagnosing diseases with sinews” can be adopted， in which the morphological changes of the channel sinews are judged through diagnosis by observation， the traditional Chinese patterns are identified through diagnosis by palpation， and the points of meridian tendons and the circulation of tendon and treatment lines are determined through diagnosis by circulation. The “diagnosing diseases with sinews” not only helps to accurately determine the disease condition， patterns and development trend， but also helps to adopt targeted treatment for the disease and prevent the disease from spreading， and providing ideas and methods for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of intractable facial paralysis.

Flash radiotherapy is a kind of radiotherapy method using ultra-high dose rate radiation. Compared with the traditional dose rate radiotherapy, it has unique radiobiological advantages. In this paper, the principle of flash radiotherapy, the process and results of biological experiments are summarized. At the same time, the advantages and challenges of flash radiotherapy are analyzed, and the future clinical application is prospected.
Radiotherapy/methods* ; Radiotherapy Dosage ; Technology