Bilateral sequential cataract surgery is very common in clinical,but the ophthalmologists often ignore how to choose the timing of operation and whether the first eye can be used to improve the intraocular lens (IOL) power calculation for the second one.Despite the refinements in IOL selection with the use of third-generation IOL formulas,5％ of eyes still result in a postoperative refractive surprise of ± 1.00 D or more.This paper introduced the methods of using refraction error of the first eye to improve the IOL power calculation for the second eye,and the refractive error of the second eye can be improved by modifying the IOL power to correct up to 50％ of the error from the first eye in details.Because of the variation of the postoperative refractive surprise within a month,the interval of three to four weeks between two eyes cataract surgery is highly recommended.These conclusions may provide the advantageous guidance for us in the selection of IOL in bilateral cataract surgery.

The antimicrobial peptide magainin II is expressed in the skin of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, and exhibits a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity as well as tumoricidal properties at low concentrations. In addition, magaininII plays a synergistic role during antimicrobial and tumoricidal processes with another antimicrobial peptide PGLa that is also expressed in Xenopus laevis. The optimized cDNA sequence of magainin II and magainin II-PGLa hybrid peptide according to E. coli or Pichia pastoris codon usage frequency were synthesized and sub-cloned into prokaryotic expression vector pGEX and Pichia pastoris secreted expression vector pPIC9k. The resulting recombinant plasmids were named as pGEX-magainin II and pPIC9k-magainin II-PGLa. The GST-magainin II fusion protein was highly expressed in E. coli. Furthermore, magainin II was successfully purified by digestion with PreScission Protease to cleave the GST tag. Additionally, our data obtained from the ELISA revealed that magainin II -PGLa hybrid peptide was successfully expressed in Pichia pastoris. These experiments establish a useful system for further studies of these antimicrobial peptides.
Animals ; Escherichia coli ; metabolism ; Genetic Vectors ; Magainins ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; Peptides ; genetics ; metabolism ; Pichia ; metabolism ; Plasmids ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; Xenopus Proteins ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; Xenopus laevis

Lactoferrin has antitumoral activity. Lactoferrin exerts anti-carcinogenic effects via its ability to modulate host immunity, suppress proliferation, induce apoptosis, block cell cycle, inhibit angiogenesis, regulate carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes and sequester iron, etc. Safety and no toxicity of lactoferrin provide a new selection for cancer treatment.

Small molecule inhibitors of Bcl-2 are a novel class of anticancer drugs that target anti-apoptotic proteins. In recent years,small molecule inhibitors such as ABT-737 ,ABT-263, gossypol, apogossypol,TW-37,obatoclax, HAl4-1 have attracted much reseach attention. Preclinical trials have shown that the inhibitors have cancer killing effect on some tumors when used alone and exhibit striking synergistic effect when combined with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy.

Objective To observe the clinical curative effect of chronic heart failure (CHF) treated by noninvasive positive pressure ventilation ( NPPV). Methods 48 cases of CHF were randomly assigned to conventional drug treatment under oxygen (control group, n = 24) and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation ( NPPV) under the conventional therapy group (observation group, n =24). The plasma N-brain natriuretic peptide( proN-BNP) and cardiac function changes in two groups before and after treatment were observed. Results The total effective rate 92% in observation group was significantly higher than 66% in control group ( x2 =3. 7851, P ＜ 0. 05 ) ; The plasma proNBNP、respiratory rate and heart rate after treatment in two groups were lower than before treatment(t = 2.787,2.815, 2. 856,2.789,2.804,2.840,all P＜0.01) ;The plasma proN-BNPand heart rate in observation group after treatment were lower than the control group(t =2.123,2.221,all P ＜0.05). Conclusion Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation could significantly improve heart function,reduce plasma proN-BNP and enharce curative effect.

ObjectiveTo explore the application of enlargement of plastic surgery for dural closure with radial neuro-patch in standardize large decompressive craniectomy (SLDC).MethodsTwenty-one patients (observation group) who needed a SLDC for various reasons were treated with radial incision in dura to release the high intracranial pressure and enlargement of plastic surgery for dural closure with radial neuropatch from March 2009 to June 2010.The neuro-patch were used as the dural substitutes.Twenty-one patients were treated with SLDC only for the similar reasons (control group).General healing effects were compared betweentwo groups.ResultsIn 6 hours and 72 hours after surgery,the rate of obvious effectiveness in observation group was significantly higher than that in control group [33.33％(7/21 ) vs.14.29％(3/21 ),33.33％(7/21 ) vs.19.05％(4/21 ) 、61.90％( 13/21 ) vs.28.57％(6/21 ),61.90％( 13/21 ) vs.38.10％(8/21 )](P ＜ 0.05).The rate of intracranial infection,cerebrospinal leak and epilepsy in observation group [0,0,4.76％ ( 1/21 )]was significantly lower than that in control group [14.29％ (3/21),14.29％ (3/21),19.05％ (4/21)](P ＜0.05).The rate of subcutaneous or subdural cerebrospinal fluid accumulation,cenencephalocele,cerebral ventricular malformation,brain hernia through the skull window had no significant difference between two groups [19.05％(4/21 ),0,4.76％( 1/21 ),0 in observation group;23.81％(5/21 ),9.52％(2/21 ),9.52％(2/21 ),4.76％( 1/21 ) in control group) (P ＞ 0.05 ).After followed up of 6-12 months,the rate of the well general outcome in observation group was significantly better than that in control group [85.71％ ( 18/21 ) vs.71.43％ ( 15/21 )](P ＜ 0.05 ).The rate of moderate-critical function handicapped in control group was significantly higher than that in observation group [23.81％(5/21 ) vs.9.52％(2/21 )](P＜0.05 ).ConclusionsThe SLDC is effective for decreasing the intracranial pressure,and the enlargement of plastic surgery for dural closure with radial neuro-patch can improve the efficiency and decrease the incidence of complicating diseases.This therapy can improve the patients' general quality of survival and is worth to be popularized in clinic.

Based on TCM relative diagnostic theory and clinical experience,the author put forward that atrophic glossitis is caused by yin deficiency and should be treated from yin deficiency.During the past long-term clinical practice,the treatment from Yin deficiency has been proved a sound effect in the therapy of atrophic glossitis.

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Spinal cord injury is a common clinical disease .Cell apoptosis is one of important pathogeneses for spinal cord in-jury, and apoptotic gene plays a very important role in apoptosis on spinal cord injury .Chinese medicine for blood-activating and stasis-dissolving has a good therapeutic effect for spinal cord injury by reducing inflammation , inhibiting apoptosis and improving microcircu-lation.In this paper, we review the research of chinese medicine for activating blood and resolving stasis during the regulation of apoto -sis gene in spinal cord injury based on related documents in the recent five years .

AIM:To explore the role of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) in anti-inflammation of glucocorticoids (GCs) at physiological concentrations .METHODS: MTT assay was used to measure the viability of BV-2 cells, which were processed by hydrocortisone at different concentrations .On the basis of inflammatory model induced by LPS in BV-2 cells, experimental groups were divided as follows:(1) control;(2) LPS;(3) GCs+LPS;(4) methyl-lycaconitine ( MLA)+GCs+LPS.The levels of TNF-αand IL-1βin the cell supernatants were detected by ELISA .RE-SULTS:Hydrocortisone at concentrations of 2 000 and 1 000 nmol/L decreased the cell viability to (76.9 ±5.5)% and (90.8 ±7.3)%, respectively, indicating the cellular injury by GCs at over-physiological doses.LPS significantly induced the releases of TNF-αand IL-1βin a time-and dose-dependent manner in BV-2 cells.Hydrocortisone at physiological con-centrations (500 and 250 nmol/L) reduced the releases of TNF-αand IL-1βin BV-2 cells stimulated by LPS, and MLA at concentration of 10 nmol/L antagonized the anti-inflammatory effect of GCs .CONCLUSION:α7nAChR is involved in the anti-inflammatory effect of the physiological concentrations of GCs .