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

Renal fibrosis is the final common pathway for all kinds of chronic kidney diseases to end-stage renal diseases. Angiotensin Ⅱ plays an important role in the process of renal fibrosis. How to block angiotensin Ⅱ has been a focus of nephrology. This article reviewed the progress in traditional Chinese medicine against renal fibrosis with angiotensin Ⅱ as research target.

In this paper, the authors analyzed the current problems in domestic hospital nursing human re-source such as widespread erosion, nursing staff slack and others. From the characteristics of nursing ethics and be-havior dynamic analysis, suggest to establish a focus on the humanities concern nursing ethics culture of the people-oriented, fundamentally effectively motivate nurses, specific include: respecting nurses and ethical personality differences;to establish a trust mechanism for nursing staff;meet the needs of nursing staff learning;to establish a nursing staff self management team, thus improve hospital nursing ethics management work, for the nursing staff to provide a stable and efficient working and living environment.

Objective To discuss the clinical efficacy and mechanism research progress of acupuncture-moxibustion in treating toothache, for providing better treatment methods and clinical evidence.Method Taking “toothache”, “acupuncture”, “moxibustion”, “acupoint” as the key terms, clinical research literatures about acupuncture-moxibustion in treating toothache during the recent 10 years were retrieved by using computer, and were then arranged and analyzed.Result There is a variety of acupuncture-moxibustion methods in treating toothache, and the methods are effective.Conclusion Acupuncture-moxibustion therapy is effective in treating toothache, and deserves a large-sample multi-centered randomized research.

[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To explore the effects of transcription factor HOXB7 silencing on the viability , invasion and migration of SGC-7901 cells.METHODS:The siRNA was designed to specifically interfere the expression of HOXB7.To assess the silence efficiency of the siRNA , the expression of HOXB7 at mRNA and protein levels was detected by real-time PCR and Western blot in the SGC-7901 cells transfected with siRNA .The cell viability was measured by MTT assay .Cell cycle-related proteins such as cyclin D 1 and CDK4 were determined by Western blot .Transwell assay was performed to an-alyze the migration ability of the SGC-7901 cells.The mRNA and protein levels of the tumor invasion-and metastasis-relat-ed molecules, such as VEGF, PTEN and p-AKT, were also detected by real-time PCR and Western blot .RESULTS:The expression of HOXB7 at mRNA and protein levels was higher in the gastric carcinoma tissues than that in the normal gastric tissues.The expression of HOXB7 at mRNA and protein levels was knockdown by siRNA .After silencing of HOXB7 gene expression, the viability of the SGC-7901 cells decreased, the expression of cyclin D1, CDK4 and VEGF was down-regula-ted, and the phosphorylation level of AKT was also obviously decreased .CONCLUSION:HOXB7 effectively promotes the viability, invasion and migration of gastric carcinoma cells by up-regulating the expression of cyclinD 1, CDK4 and VEGF, and increasing the phosphorylation level of AKT to inhibit PTEN function .

By reviewing the latest published papers on palliative care, the article discussed the development and research progress of palliative care for people with advanced cancer, so as to provide reference for the development of palliative care specialty. According to the analysis, it suggested that by means of striving for more government support in both economic and education, raising funds through various channels, perfecting the social insurance system and volunteer′s regimen, promoting group working model, establishing standardized policies and regulations, increasing the publicity of palliative care, palliative care would move forward to a professional and normalized road, so that the people with incurable disease will receive better palliative care to improve the quality of life to the most.

OBJECTIVE:To observe clinical efficacy and safety of salmeterol and fluticasone propionate in the treatment of mod-erate and severe bronchial asthma. METHODS:98 patients with moderate and severe bronchial asthma were selected from our hospi-tal were included in the study and were randomly divided into control group(49 cases,3 cases withdrew from the test and 46 cases completed the test)and observation group(49 cases,2 cases withdrew from the test and 47 cases completed the test). Control group was given Budesonide aerosol preparation,1 dose,bid;observation group was given Salmeterol and fluticasone propionate inhala-tion,1 dose,bid. The treatment course lasted for 2 months. Clinical efficacy,lung function indexes,the time of clinical symptom disappearance,FEV1,PD20,ACT score,asthma attack times within half an year,EO%and ECP in serum and sputum,and the oc-currence of ADR were compared between 2 groups. RESULTS:After treatment,total effective rate of observation group was signifi-cantly higher than that of control group(95.73% vs. 76.09%);FVC,FEV1 and PEF and other indexes of 2 groups were increased significantly,and the observation group was significantly higher than the control group;the disappearance time of pulmonary rales, wheezing,dyspnea and cough in observation group were significantly shorter than in control group;PD20 and ACT score of 2 groups were significantly increased,ACT score of observation group was significantly higher than that of control group;EO% and ECP in serum and sputum of observation group were significantly lower than those of control group,there was statistical significance (P<0.05). Asthma attack times within half an year in observation was less than control group,there was no statistical significance (P>0.05). All ADRs disappeared after drug withdrawal. CONCLUSIONS:Therapeutic efficacy of salmeterol and fluticasone propio-nate is better than budesonide in the treatment of moderate and severe bronchial asthma,and can effectively improve lung function, shorten the time of clinical symptoms disapperance and reduce the level of inflammatory factor with and good safety.

Inflammatory bowel disease( IBD)is a chronic and nonspecific intestinal inflammatory disease caused by multiple factors such as environment,genetic susceptibility and immune disturbance. Autophagy plays an important role in cellular homeostasis and immune. Autophagy abnormalities may be involved in the pathogenesis of IBD. Genome-wide association studies(GWAS)have provided compelling evidence that autophagy related genes,including ATG16L1,IRGM and NOD2,are significantly associated with IBD. This article reviewed the abnormal autophagy in pathogenesis of IBD.

The aim of the study was to optimize the coating formulation of sustained release pellets of loxoprofen sodium by the central composite design-response surface methodology(RSM plus CCD).In the formulation design using RSM plus CCD,independent variables were the ratio of HPMC to EC(X_1) in the sustained coating formulation and polymer load(weight gain,X_2) were selected as in dependent variables,and in vitro accumulated releases from the pellets at 1,4,and 8 h were dependent variables.Multilinear,two and three order quadratic models were used to estimate the relationship between the dependent and the independent variables,and to delineate RSM and overlay contour plots in order to select the optimal formulations in compliance to the hypothesized in vitro releases (%) at 1,4,and 8 h.The results showed that the relationship between dependent and independent variables was best fitted to three-order quadratic equation.The regression equation generated for the hypothesized in vitro cumulative releases(%) at 1,4,and 8 h were Q_(1h) =227.699 2-30.785 9X_1-43.395 4X_2 + 0.917 4X_1~2 +1.820 3X_2~2 +6.803 9X_1X_2-0.131 5X_1~2X_2-0.268 2X_1X_2~2,Q_(4h) =408.254 0-47.427 8X_1-75.229 2X_2 +3.304 0X_2~2 +12.357 3X_1X_2-0.111 8X_1~2X_2-0.5425X_1X_2~2,Q_(8h) =303.539 0-30.417 6X_1-45.114 0X_2 +2.064 4X_2~2 +6.865 0X_1X_2-0.3341X_1X_2~2,respectively.In the optimized coating formulation,the ratio of HPMC to EC was 4.0% and the polymer load 9.0%.Bias between observed and predicted values in vitro accumulated releases were negligible,indicating the high predictability of the selected models.Therefore,RSM plus CCD is applicable in the optimization of the coating formulation of loxoprofen sodium sustained-release pellets.