BACKGROUND: There exists a close relationship between the expression of scavenger receptor(SR) and CD14 and the endotoxic lung injury. To further detect the expression of these two receptors and their relationship is helpful to disclose the receptor mechanism of lung inflammatory disequilibrium so as to provide a possible theoretical foundation for sepsis therapy.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of CD14 and SR in murine alveolar macrophages and their effect after trauma and traumatic endotoxin challenge.DESIGN: Randomized and controlled experimental study.SETTING: Fourth Laboratory(a state key laboratory), Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, the Research Institute of Field Surgery, Daping Hospital,the Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA.MATERIALS: The experiment was completed in the Research Institute of Field Surgery of Daping Hospital of the Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA from August 2001 to November 2001. Totally 63 Kunming mice with murine alveolar macrophages were used in the experiment.METHODS: The experimental animals were randomly divided into three groups including control group, trauma group and traumatic endotoxin challenge group. The model mice with both femur fracture and endotoxin challenge were used. Endotoxin at a dose of 5 mg/kg was injected one hour after fracture via tail vein and the dynamic expression of CD14 and SR in murine alveolar macrophages (AM) was detected.RESULTS: Six hours after trauma, the expression of CD14 and that of SR in AM showed the tendency of up-regulation and down-regulation respectively. Furthermore, the post-traumatic endotoxin challenge induced CD14up-regulation and SR down-regulation drastically. Correlation analysis indicated that CD14 and SR showed a significantly negative relationship.CONCLUSION: The study suggested that the dual modulation of CD14 and SR in AM is possibly related with the change of "self-control" to "out of control" of inflammatory reactions in the lungs after endotoxic challenge. The dual regulation of the effective antagonists CD14 and SR are helpful in further understanding lung injury and its repairing mechanism.

Objective To explore the relationship between job burnout feeling and sleep quality in psychiatric female medical staff.Methods 100 female medical staff were randomly selected from two mental hospitals in Wenzhou,and the Pittsburgh sleep quality index was used to evaluate and Maslach burnout inventory;and the relation-ship between sleep quality and job burnout was analyzed.Results Female psychiatric and medical personnel to the personality dimension score was (10.84 ±4.75)points,which was higher than Maslach norm (7.12 ±5.22)points;emotion exhaustion scores of (14.44 ±6.38)points,low achievement sense score of (15.07 ±6.89)points,below the Maslach often die emotion exhaustion scores of (22.19 ±9.53)points and low achievement sense scores (36.54 ± 7.34)points.The differences were statistically significant (t =-12.15,7.84,-31.15,all P <0.01).Job burnout and there were significant correlations between sleep quality and the emotional exhaustion and personification and PQSI seven dimensions and the total score was a positive correlation,low sense of achievement and PQSI total score and negatively correlated with seven dimensions.Conclusion Wenzhou psychiatric female medical staff burnout is significantly higher than the general population,there is a correlation between staff burnout and sleep quality,and the more serious burnout,poorer quality of sleep.Improving the quality of sleep of medical staff is one of the ways to relieve job burnout.

Objective To evaluate the feasibility, safety and clinical outcome of laparoscopic radical resection of rectal cancer in elderly patients with common chronic comorbidities. Methods The clinical data of 192 elderly patients with rectal cancer and common chronic comorbidities who were admitted to the Nanfang Hospital from January 2003 to December 2008 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were divided into laparoscope group (n=91) and open group (n = 101). The operative procedures, clinicopathological data and outcomes of the two groups were collected and compared. All data were analyzed using the t test and chi-square test, and the survival of patients was analyzed using the life table and Kaplan-Meier curves. Results The sphincter preservation rate,operation time, postoperative length of hospital stay, morbidity rate were 85.7% (78/91), (194 ± 61) minutes,(14 ±8)days, 24.2% (22/91) in the laparoscope group, and they were 85.1% (86/101), (187 ±58) minutes,(14 ±8)days and 28.7% (29/101) in the open group, with no significant difference between the two groups (x2=0.012, t=0.874,-0.265, x2 =0. 505 , P ＞ 0. 05) . The intraoperative blood loss was (108 ±78)ml in the laparoscope group, which was significantly less than (270 ± 600) ml in the open group (t =-2. 650, P ＜0.05). The time to first flatus, time to liquid diet, time to out-of-bed activity were (3 ± 1) days, (4 ± 2) days and (3 ± 1)days, which were significantly shorter than (4 ± 1)days, (5 ± 2)days and (5 ± 1)days in the open group,respectively (t =-4. 545,-4. 587,-13. 310, P ＜ 0.05). The length of rectum resected and the number of lymph node dissected were (18 ± 5)cm and 9 ± 7 in the laparoscope group, and (18 ± 5)cm and 9 ± 8 in the open group, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups (t = 1. 457, 0. 021, P ＞ 0.05), while the distance of distal resection margin to the tumors was (3.8 ± 1.5) cm, which was significantly longer than (3.1 ± 1.5) cm of the open group (t = 0. 283, P ＜ 0. 05). The 3-year cumulative survival rate, overall recurrence rate, local recurrence rate and distal metastasis rate in the laparoscope group were 76%, 12. 1% (11/91), 2.2% (2/91) and 9.9% (9/91), and they were 82%, 14.9% (15/101), 6.9% (7/101), 7.9% (8/101) in the open group, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups (U=2. 600, x2 =0. 312, 2.400,0. 230, P ＞ 0.05). There were no significant difference in the cumulative survival rate between patients in TNM stage Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ in the two groups (P ＞ 0.05). Conclusion Laparoscopic radical resection of rectal cancer is safe and feasible for elderly patients with common chronic comorbidities, and it has the advantages in quick recovery of patients after operaion.

In order to provide a new way and method for safety evaluation of Chinese materia medica (CMM) and also to provide a reference for conventional animal experiments, computer toxicity prediction technique and method were established to predict the cardiotoxicity of CMM. Mold2 software (version 2.0.0) was used to calculate molecular descriptors of 1034 chemical components. Then, the random forest (RF) method and the support vector machine (SVM) method were used to screen the descriptors. After that, boosting trees method, SVM, regularized discriminant analysis method and RF method were used to build up prediction model, respectively. Finally, the cardiotoxicity of chemical components was predicted by the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model with the best accuracy and Kappa value. The results showed that by comparing the accuracy and Kappa value of prediction model, it was found that the RF model was the optimal algorithm model with 86.3%accuracy and the Kappa value of 0. 725. Through the prediction research on chemical components of Chinese herbs with toxicity recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of People’s Republic of China (version2010),suchasEvodia rutaecarpa,North bean root,Murraya incense,some meaningful results had been received. It was concluded that QSAR model on prediction research of chemical components of Chinese herbs provided important references for further experimental studies and clinical researches.

Objective To study computer toxicity prediction technology and predict the acute toxicity of Chinese materia medica; To provide a new way and method for safety evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Methods First, Mold2 software (version 2.0.0) was used to calculate molecular descriptors of 7409 chemical components. After preliminary screening of molecular descriptors, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models were built up with Random Forest (RF) for screening the optimum prediction model. From the 83 kinds of toxic Chinese materia medica in Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2010 edition), acute toxicity of 60 kinds of Chinese materia medica reported from monomer structure (1692 chemical components) were under prediction.Results Totally 7409 pieces of data were obtained. When the descriptors were 52, RF modeling accuracy and Kappa were the highest, 0.712 and 0.436 respectively. Compound clusters were divided into 3 types according to optimum molecule descriptors (52). The accuracy and Kappa of the optimum model for the first type of compounds were 0.666 and 0.476 respectively; the accuracy and Kappa of the optimum model for the second type of compounds were 0.804 and 0.381 respectively; the accuracy and Kappa of the optimum model for the third type of compounds were 0.709 and 0.373 respectively. It was predicted that 60 kinds of Chinese materia medica containing 0 violent toxic compound, 2 high toxic compounds, 172 medium toxic compounds and 1518 low toxic compound.Conclusion QSAR model for prediction study on acute toxicity of chemical components of Chinese mareria medica can provide references combination medication and experimental studies.

Objective:To investigate any change in the effective connectivity between the bilateral anterior central gyruses after transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).Methods:Twenty-one healthy subjects were examined using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) before and after receiving continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS). The brain atlas of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was used for fine partitioning of the bilateral anterior central gyruses. Granger causality analysis was used to compare any changes in the effective connectivity between them.Results:After the cTBS inhibited the right M1 area, significant changes in effective connectivity among the sub-regions of the bilateral M1 area were observed. The effective connectivity of the right upper limb to the left upper limb and the left head to face were weakened, while that of the left upper limb to the right head, as well as of the face to the right upper limb was enhanced.Conclusion:For people whose right M1 area has been inhibited by cTBS, the effective connectivity changes in both upper limb functional areas of the M1 region reflect inter-hemispheric inhibition. Opposite changes were found in the trunk and upper limbs.

This paper summarizes the characteristics and development of adolescent hearing impairment, as well as influential factors, and relevant epidemiological studies. By thorough analysis of previously published research, it was clear thatDevelopment of adolescent hearing impairment occurs from high frequency to low frequency. The prevalence of high frequency hearing impairment is high. Noise was seen to be the most significant contributor, however,the ado-lescent ignores it. Targeting noise by educating people about its impact on health is vital in preventing hearing impair-ment in young people.

AIMTo investigate the antiarrhythmic effect of jumi (JM) extraction.

METHODSThe conventional antiarrhythmic methods were used.

RESULTSAdministration of JM extraction reduced the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation induced by chloroform in a dose-dependent manner in mice. Quinidine significantly decreased the number of ventricular premature beats and ventricular tachycardia, shortened the duration of arrhythmia in aconitine-treated rats. But JM extraction had no effect on aconitine-induced arrhythmia. Compared with control, arrhythmia score was lower in ischemia/reperfusion rats which pretreated with 2.0 g/kg of JM extraction.

CONCLUSIONJM extraction has obvious protection effects in chloroform- and ischemia-induced arrhythmia, but has no effect in aconitine-induced arrhythmia.

Animals ; Anti-Arrhythmia Agents ; therapeutic use ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; chemically induced ; drug therapy ; Female ; Male ; Mice ; Plant Extracts ; therapeutic use ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Objective To provide better emergency and patient services in well-equipped comprehensive hospitals, the organization and wisdom therapeutic strategy are of great importance for the recovery of injured patients from the earthquake zone. Method From 12 May 2008, following the 8.0 Magnitude earthquake in Wenchuan county of Sichuan Province, six Chongqing hospitals with third class in grade A were involved in the rescue of the injured patients with great effort. A total of 533 patients were retreated and followed up from quake zone. All the patients were scored with ISS and AIS system. The profiles of the patients examined, operated and clinical infection investigation were documented. Results Of 533 patients, the number of the patients whose ISS is below 16 is 456 (83.6%), the number between 16 and 25 is 65 (12.2%), and the humor above 25 is 12 (2.3%). The patients were classfled based on their fracture parts as follows: head and neck (n = 42), face (n = 7), chest (n = 114), abdominal and cavitas pelvis (n =81), limb and pelvis (n =314), body surface (n =205), with 180 single fracture site, 139 of them being two combined fracture sites, and 114 of them being above three combined fracture sites. Thirty-two of the patients were suffered from amputation. The number of patients suffered from crushing syndrome reached 21, with 281 surgical operations in hospitals. Seventy-nine patients were suffered from infections including 87.3% of pre-hespital infections. The results from bacteria culture and antibiotic susceptibility showed that the infected bacteria mainly involved in Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus anreus, Staphylococcus haemolyticns, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Baumanii, Aerobacter cloacae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, C type chain coccus, Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus. The antibiotic susceptibility to diverse bacteria has no obvious changes and exists partial overlapping, and infected patients should be given the treatment of cephalosporin, macrolide antibiotic and so on. Conclusions For the emergency conditions after the catastrophe, the comprehensive hospitals must be prepared to meet large quantities of severe trauma and infection therapy. The scientific selection of antibiotics in the combinative therapy is of great importance to the enhancement of early specific treatment, prevention of severe trauma complications and rehabilitation of patients.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the brain functional laterality in motor areas during motor execution systematically.

METHODSFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed combined with right hand sequential finger movement task to investigate brain activation pattern and laterality in 8 right-handed subjects. 3dDeconvolve program of AFNI was used to estimate the hemodynamic response function and to generate activation maps. Then the laterality index (LI) was calculated and tested statistically.

RESULTAll motor areas including the areas which were previously considered to be engage in movement preparation only were activated in movement execution. In the activation map, it appeared left lateralization in cerebra and right lateralization in cerebella. After further statistical test, it was found that in primary motor area (M1), supplementary motor area (SMA) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC), there were left lateralization. While in premotor cortex (PMC), cingulate gyrus and basal ganglia (BG), the lateralization tendency was not obvious. The activation in cerebella is characterized with right lateralization.

CONCLUSIONThough there are tiny differences among subjects, most of the motor areas appear lateralized activation. Past studies only observed laterality in several motor areas. It may be due to the difficulty of the task or the experimental design.

Adult ; Brain ; physiology ; Female ; Functional Laterality ; physiology ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Motor Cortex ; physiology