A male patient, 55 years old, suffered from intermittent sound,voice depression and shortness of breath for one year,and from dysphagia for 3-4 months. Through fiber laryngoscopy,we could see tumor in the left posterior aryepiglottic fold. The tumor's surface was smooth. A portion of the tumor protruded to the laryngeal cavity and the aryepiglottic fold external,it also covered most of the glottis. Bilateral vocal cord were smooth and had good mobility. Throat CT demonstrated an irregular soft tissue mass on the left side of the aryepiglottic fold in supraglottic area with obscure normal boundary from adjacent structure. The left side of pyriform sinus became shallow without obvious bone destruction. The pathological report showed pleomorphic adenoma. The diagnosis was laryngeal pleomorphic adenoma.
Adenoma, Pleomorphic ; Humans ; Laryngeal Neoplasms ; Male ; Middle Aged

Blood Group Incompatibility ; complications ; Erythroblastosis, Fetal ; etiology ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; MNSs Blood-Group System ; immunology ; Male

Objective The aim of this study was to observe the effects of whole-body vertical vibration, treadmill exercise, genistein administration and estrogen injection on the uterus weight index and uterus histology as well as the ex-pression of glycogen synthase kinase ( GSK-3β) protein in the uterus of ovariectomized osteoporotic rats.Methods Sev-enty-two healthy 3-month old female SD rats were randomly divided into two groups by body weight:sham-operation group (Sham) and ovariectomized group (OVX).At 10 weeks after OVX operation, the OVX rats were randomly divided into the following five groups by body weight: OVX group, whole-body vertical vibration group (WBVV), treadmill exercise group ( TX) , genistein group ( G) and 17β-estrogen group ( E2 ) .Then they were treated with different methods according to the experiment design.At the end of experiment, the uterus weight was measured with an electronic balance.The uterus histology was observed with HE staining and the expressions of GSK-3βand P-GSK-3βproteins were detected by Western blot.Results Apart from E2 treatment, all the other three treatments did not increase the uterus weight and the thickness of endometrium compared with that in the OVX rats.Apart from genistein treatment, all the other three treatments increased the ratio of protein expression of P-GSK-3βto GSK-3βcompared with that in the OVX rats.Conclusions Both whole-body vertical vibration and treadmill exercise can stimulate the phosphorylation of GSK-3βin the uterus of OVX osteoporotic rats.However, genistein has no such stimulation effect.

BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is a bone metabolic disease that affects women more than men. Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis is becoming a serious medical problem because of the aging of the population. OBJECTIVE:To explore the effects of lithium chloride treatment on bone microarchitecture and bone marrow stromal cel differentiation of ovariectomized osteoporosis rats. METHODS:After ovariectomy, 28 of 30 healthy female Sprague-Dawley rats, 3 months old, were randomly divided into the folowing three groups: ovariectomizedin vivo group (9 rats), ovariectomizedin vitro group (10 rats), and lithium chloride group (9 rats). At the 11th week postoperatively, rats in the lithium chloride were intragastricaly injected with lithium chloride at a dose of 15 mg/kg, three times per week. After 8 weeks of treatment, the bone microarchitectures of the rat left femur in the ovariectomizedin vivo group and lithium chloride group were detected by micro-CT. The bone marrow mesenchymal stem cels were freshly isolated from the bone marrow of the bilateral femurs and tibia of rats in the ovariectomizedin vitro group. After 24 hours of inoculation, the cels were cultured in lithium chloride and divided into 0 mmol/L (control), 1 mmol/L and 5 mmol/L groups. At 6 and 8 days of culture, the medium was changed and lithium chloride with the corresponding concentrations was added. At 10 days of culture, western blot assay was adopted to detect protein expression of Runx-2, SP7 and PPARγ2. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) Compared with the ovariectomizedin vivo group, the volume density of trabecular bone, number of trabecular bone, and bone volume fraction in the lithium chloride group were significantly increased and the separation of trabecular bone was significantly decreased. However, no differences were seen in the thickness of trabecular bone and structure model index. (2) Lithium chloride at 1 and 5 mmol/L could increase the protein expression of Sp7 and Runx-2 in bone marrow stromal cels, but decrease the protein expression ofPPARγ2. These results indicate that lithium chloride may improve the microarchitecture of the trabeculr bone in ovariectomized osteoporosis rats through stimulating the osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cels.

OBJECTIVE: To Study the personality characteristics in patients with sudden deafness. METHOD: Thirty-eight sudden deafness patients and 45 healthy volunteers were assessed by Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ). RESULT: The standard scores of P, E, N dimensions of patients with sudden deafness were greater than healthy volunteers. The standard score in L dimensions of patients with sudden deafness was less than healthy volunteers. The difference of the standard score of P dimension revealed statistical significance (P < 0.05). The difference of the standard score of N dimension revealed statistical significance (P < 0.01). The difference of the standard scores of E, L dimensions revealed no statistical significance (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION Sudden deafness patients have emotional instability and psychoticism personality characteristics.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Case-Control Studies ; Female ; Hearing Loss, Sudden ; psychology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Personality ; Young Adult

Objective · To explore the effects of brisk walking on blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and autonomic nerve activity of male elderly with hypertension in community-based health centers in Shanghai. Methods · A total of 630 elderly men received brisk walking treatment (>10000 steps/d) voluntarily, who were selected from six community-based health centers in Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Among them, 210 people stick to training for 12 weeks. According to whether suffering from hypertension, the people were assigned to hypertension intervened group (intervention group, n=110) and normal intervened group (control group 1, n=100). Blood pressure, BMI, heart rate and autonomic nerve activity before and after the training were compared. Results · After 12 weeks of training, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and sympathetic nerve activity of intervention group were significantly lower than those before the training (P<0.05). SBP was also significantly lower than control group 2 (P<0.05). However, heart rate, BMI, parasympathetic nerve activity and baroreceptor reflex sensitivity did not change significantly after the training (P>0.05). Conclusion · Brisk walking treatment lasting for 12 weeks can decrease blood pressure and sympathetic nerve activity in elderly men with hypertension. It is worthy to be popularized in the community.

Objective To explore the effect of the improved abdominal rotation card method in insulin injection. Methods A total of 100 hospitalized diabetes patients were randomly divided into control group (n=50) and observational group (n=50) according to the random number method. In the control group, insulin was injected to the subcutaneous tissue of abdomen with traditional method annular rotating method. Insulin was injected using improved abdominal rotation card method in the observational group. Compare accuracy and mastery rate of injection site rotation between the two groups. Compare fasting blood glucose (FBG), postprandial 2H blood glucose (PBG), HbA1c, the incidence of hypoglycemia and endermic induration between the two groups after three months. Results The nurses in the observation group had higher accuracy rate of the injection site rotation compared to the control group [98.6%(690/700) vs. 38.6%(270/700),χ2=584.66, P<0.01]. Mastery rate of the injection site rotation for the patients in the observation group were significantly higher than the control group [70.0% (35/50) vs. 20.0% (10/50), χ2=25.74, P < 0.01]. The incidence of endermic induration were significantly lower in observation group compared to the control group [2.0% (1/50) vs.16.0% (8/50), χ2=5.98, P < 0.01]. The incidence of hypoglycemia were significantly lower in observation group compared to the control group [4.0%(2/50) vs. 16.0%(8/50),χ2=4.00, P<0.01]. Conclusions The new abdominal rotation method in insulin injection can be a safe and effective therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Objective To investigate the effect of reformative ventilation method (head-high leg-low 30°-declivate prone position ) in the ventilation of acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ) patients, and compared with normal prone position ventilation. Methods Forty-four patients of ARDS underwent ventilation were divided into prone position group (22 cases) and reformative prone position group (22cases) by random digits talle. Continuous 30° semireclining position was kept in normal time. The patients of the two groups underwent different prone position ventilation 4 hours every day,and indexes of hemodynamics and respiration before,during and after prone position ventilation were recorded and analyzed. Results After prone position ventilation, oxygenation index of two groups improved similarly (P ＞ 0.05 ). In prone position group, lung compliance decreased [2 h, ( 25.6 ± 5.8 ) ml/cm H2O ( 1 cm H2O = 0.098 kPa) vs. ( 37.2 ± 20.5 )ml/cm H2O] ,average airway pressure increased [2 h, ( 18.5 ± 3.9) cm H2O vs. ( 15.6 ± 5.3 )cm H2O] ,heart rate increased [2 h, ( 112.0 ± 16.2 ) beats/min vs. ( 102.0 ± 11.3 ) beats/min], mean arterial blood pressure decreased [2 h, (86.0 ± 6.7) mm Hg ( 1 mm Hg = 0.133 kPa) vs. (93.5 ± 7.5 ) mm Hg] ,central venous pressure increased[2 h, ( 15.5 ± 3.3 ) cm H2O vs. ( 12.6 ± 4.3 ) cm H2O]. These changes persistently existed during prone position ventilation (P ＜ 0.05 ),and they disappeared in 1 hour when recovered to 30 °semireclining position. Conclusion Reformative prone position ventilation not only has same effect on improving oxygenation index, but also obviates adverse effect on lung compliance and hemodynamics.

Aged ; Cytoplasm ; Cytoplasmic Granules ; Female ; Humans ; Multiple Myeloma ; pathology ; Plasma Cells ; pathology

Objective To study the vulnerability of astrocytes bearing mutant SOD1 under the oxidative stress.Methods The cytotoxicity of the serum deprived astrocytes was measured by MTT.The level of ROS was shown by fluorescence of DCF through confocal microscopy.The expression of Nrf2,HO1 and NQO1 in the different cells was detected by Western blot.Results The level of cellular toxicity was higher in the astrocytes bearing mutant SOD1 exposed to the oxidative stress than the astrocytes hearing wild type SOD1.In the astrocytes bearing mutant SOD1,the expression of Nrf2,HO1 and NQO1 decreased.In the presence of mutant SOD1,an unexpected 44 per-cent decrease of Nrf2 was detected.This was associated with a decreases in multiple downstream phase Ⅱ detoxif-ying enzymes and antioxidant enzymes,known as NQO1 and HO1.Furthermore,our results showed that the ex-pression of NQO1 increased 1.5 and 2.5-fold by EGCG at 5 and 10 μmol/L.EGCG also elevated the expression of total Nrf2.Confocal microscopy showed that EGCG caused Nrf2 translocation from the cytoplasm to the nucleus.Conclusion Decrease in Nrf2 expression is the mechanism to explain the vulnerability of astrocytes bearing mutant SOD1 and EGCG strengthened antioxidation function by upregulating the activity of Nrf2.