Objective To find a grading method for assisting in evaluating hypoxia degree of patients with pulmonary heart disease non-invasively. Methods To design a quantitative method to score degree of hypoxia of 67 patients with pulmonary heart disease by using acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) as a frame and to make comparative analysis between the grading result and artery blood gas to find the correlation. Results There was a negative correlation between evaluation mark and pH、PaO2、SaO2 and a positive correlation between the evaluation mark and PaCO2, according to statistics. Conclusions Although the grading table of hypoxia evaluation can not substitute blood gas analysis, acting as a non-invasive method to assist in evaluating the hypoxia degree of patients with pulmonary heart disease, it can not only relieve patients' repeated punctuation pain, but also achieve the goal of estimating hypoxia.Consequently the non-invasive method to evaluate hypoxia is of clinical value.

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Objective To investigate the expression of nm23,integrin ? 5? 1 and VEGF in breast cancer(BC),and the effect of the expression on the development of BC. Methods The expression of nm23, integrin ? 5? 1 and VEGF in 51 patients with breast cancer were examined by immunohistochemistry,and their correlatios were ananlyzed. Results The low expression of nm23 in BC tissue was associated with lymph nodes metastasis. The low expression of integrin ? 5? 1 and the high expression of VEGF in BC tissues were associated with the lymph nodes metastasis and low differentiation of the tumor.The expression of nm23 and integrin ? 5? 1 in breast cancer tissues had positive correlation(P

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice.However,the therapeutic effects of traditional antiarrhythmic medicines are far from satisfactory,because of the high rate of arrhythmia recurrence and the potential proarrhythmia effect.Recently,with the further investigation of the mechanisms that initiate and perpetuate atrial fibrillation,and the support of extensive data from clinical trials and animal experiments,thera-peutics based on anti-inflammation,antioxidation,regulation on renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system(RAAS)and gap junction may be new therapeutic targets for the treatment of arrhythmia.In this paper,the potential molecular mechanisms involved in these processes and several clinical trials about some non-traditional antiarrhythmic medi-cines were reviewed,in order to propose a new idea about the development of antiarrhythmic medicines.

Objective To study the clinical diagnostic value of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) ,cytokeratin(CK)19-2G2 and EB virus capsid antigen Ig (EB-VCA-Ig) combined detection for nasopharyngeal carcinoma .Methods Serum CEA ,CK19-2G2 and EB-VCA-Ig of 82 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (malignant group) ,65 patients with benign nasopharyngeal diseases (benign group) and 58 healthy people(control group) were detected .Chemiluminescence was employed to detect CEA and CK19-2G2 ,and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) was used to assay EB-VCA-Ig .Results Serum CK19-2G2 and EB-VCA-Ig concen-trations of patients in malignant group were higher than those in the benign group and control group ,respectively (P<0 .05) .The sensitivity and specificity of individual CK 19-2G2 detection for nasopharyngeal carcinoma were 48 .78% ,and 83 .74% ,respectively , those of CEA and EB-VCA-Ig combined detection were 53 .44% and 86 .99% ,respectively ,and those of three indicators combined detection were 71 .95% and 80 .49% ,respectively .Three indicators combined detection significantly increased the positive detection rates in patients with early and advanced stages .Conclusion CEA ,CK19-2G2 and EB-VCA-Ig combined detection possesses impor-tant value for nasopharyngeal carcinoma diagnosis .

Thirty percent TBSA full thickness burns due to napalm was inflicted to the rats and the pathological changes of the thyroid were studied under optical and electron microscopy and with peroxidase histochemistry for 15 days. The alterations of serum T3 and T4 levels accompaniying the pathological changes were also observed dynamically.It was found that the pathological changes of the thyroid could be distinguished into three phases as follows.1. The phase of injury inhibition. This phase existed from the 2nd to the 24th hour postburn and was characterized by marked damage on the follicular epithelium.2. The phase of structural and functional recovery. This phase entended from the 3rd to the 6th day postburn. In this phase, the damages on the thyroid became abated and its damaged structure showed a tendency to recover.3. The phase of active function. It extended from the 10th to the 15th day postburn. The organelles to synthesize and release thyroid hormone were fonud well developed.The alteration of T4 run parallelly to the pathological changes of the thyroid in all the stages, while T3 level was continously inhibited because of the lower serum concentration of T4, the metabolic disturbance of T4 deiodination, and the inhibition of thyroid secretion in the early postburn stage and the metabolic disturbance of T4 deiodination in the middle and late postburn stages. In the early postburn stage, the inhibition of thyroid peroxidase was an important factor of functional inhibition of the thyroid.

BACKGROUND:Extracel ular vesicles (EVs) are a kind of subcel ular component produced by paracine mechanism including exosomes, microparticles and microvesicles, which have become hotspots in recent years. OBJECTIVE:To review the research status and progress of EVs, especial y in the studies about definition, secreting mechanism, isolation and identification, biological characteristics and functions in diseases as wel as in biomedical research. METHODS:The first author retrieved PubMed and CNKI databases for relative articles published from July 2006 to August 2016. The keywords were“extracel ular vesicles, exosome, microvesicle, microparticle”in English and Chinese, respectively.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:A total of 44 eligible literatures are enrol ed. Almost al cel s can secrete EVs, which contain a variety of metrocyte-derived bioactive molecules, such as lipids, proteins, mRNAs, microRNA, lncRNA, cicrRNA, and non-coding RNA. These bioactive molecules are encapsulated in EVs or binding with the membrane. EVs are described to be involved in inflammation, immunity, signal transduction, cel survival and apoptosis, angiogenesis, thrombogenesis, and autophagy, which are of great significance to the maintenance of homeostasis and disease progression. Special EVs may be used as new biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of many diseases and serve as novel tools in the fields of antitumor therapy, regenerative medicine, immunoregulation and vaccination and drug delivery. But the molecular mechanisms regulating the secretion of EVs and the specific pathways activated upon EVs interaction with the target cel are not ful y understood. Based on miRNA, lncRNA and circRNA are attracting researchers’ attention.

OBJECTIVE:To determine the content of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in Astragalus membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu province,i.e. Pb,Cd,Cu,As,Hg. METHODS:Wet digestion pretreatment was carried out for samples and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) was used for the determination of heavy metal elements. RESULTS:The contents of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu Province were lower than the limit. CONCLUSION:AAS method can accurately determine the content of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus.

Animal model of aged rat nephrotoxicity was induced by i. p. administrationof gentamycin in a dose of 140mg/kg/day. Part of those rats were treated with CordycepsSinensis(CS), Epimedium(Ep) and Astragalus Membranaccus (AM) in form of decoc-tion per Os and others seryed as control. The results were summarized as. 1. The nephro-toxicity of gentamycin was aggrevated with age. CS, Ep and AM are effective drugs inpreventing the tdeular damage caused by gentamycin in rats. The pathological changes ofrenal tuoules of the rat groups which treated with CS, Ep and AM were less severe thanthat of the control. 2. CS, Ep and AM could prevent the decline of renal cortical Na~+-K~+-ATPase activity of aged rat induced by gentamycin.

Objective:To explore the protective effect of biochanin A(Bioch A) on lipopolysaccharide(LPS) -induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration. Method:An in vitro model of LPS-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration was used to investigate the protective effect of Bioch A on dopaminergic neurons against LPS-induced neurotoxicity by measuring [3H] DA uptake and counting TH-immunoreactive cells. Microglia were visualized by staining for the CR3 complement receptor with monoclonal antibody OX-42. The production of nitric oxide(NO) was determined by measuring the accumulated levels of nitrite in the culture supernatant with the Griess reagent,and release of tumor necrosis factor-?(TNF-?) was measured by immunosorbent assay. The production of superoxide was determined by measuring the superoxide dismutase(SOD) -inhibitable reduction of cytochrome C. Results:BiochA dose-dependently attenuated LPS-induced decrease in dopamine(DA) uptake and the number of dopaminergic neurons in rat mesencephalic neuron-glia cultures. BiochA also significantly inhibited LPS-induced activation of microglia and production of TNF-?,NO and superoxide in rat mesencephalic neuron-glia cultures and microglia-enriched cultures. Conclusion:Biochanin A may protect dopaminergic neurons from LPS-induced injury and its effectiveness in inhibiting microglia activation may underlie one of the mechanisms.