Objective To establish a carotid artery stenosis model by endovascular technique suitable for neuro-interventional therapy.Methods Twelve dogs were anesthetized, the unilateral segments of the carotid arteries' tunica media and intima were damaged by a corneous guiding wire of home made. Twenty-four carotid artery stenosis models were thus created. DSA examination were performed on postprocedural weeks 2, 4, 8, 10 to estimate the changes of those stenotic carotid arteries. Results Twenty-four carotid artery stenosis models were successfully created in twelve dogs. Conclusions Canine carotid artery stenosis models can be created with the endovascular method having variation of pathologic characters and hemodynamic changes similar to human being. It is useful for further research involving the new technique and new material for interventional treatment.

Objective To investigate the relationship between recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) and personal behavior and life style.Method Seventy-two patients with RVVC and 72 normal healthy women were studied with questionnaire by case-control design.Results Analysis by univariate unconditional logistic regression showed that contraception (OR=0.266), frequently changing and washing one’s underpants (OR=0.378), vaginal douche (OR=1.881), sharing bath towel with others (OR=1.872), sharing underpants with others (OR=6.163) and cigarette smoking or passive smoking (OR=3.164) were significantly associated with RVVC at significance level of 0.05. Analysis by multivariate unconditional logistic regression showed that contraception (OR=0.219), frequency of sexual intercourse (OR=1.806), use of sanitary napkins without guaranteed quality (OR=1.844), self-vaignial douche (OR=1.911) and cigarette smoking or passive smoking (OR=2.875) were associated with RVVC at significance level of 0.15.Conclusions Poor personal hygiene and unhealthy life style were important factors attributed to RVVC. It is suggested to promote correct personal hygienic behavior and healthy life-style in women by health education in order to reduce RVVC.

The researches on attention provide a promising framework for studying bipolar disorder pathophysiology and treatment.Previous findings have shown the negative attention bias maybe a risk factor for bipolar disorder.The current review discusses this issue in several aspects,including attention bias toward emotional information in bipolar disorder is state or trait,and whether shows mood-congruent bias;the character of attention bias in the different episodes of bipolar disorder.The article also puts forward an intervention of attention bias modification for treating bipolar disorder.

Sera were collccted from mice immunized separately with schizonts, merozoitcs or different parasite stages, or from mice which had been recovered from Plasmodium yoelii yoelii infection. The effect of protection of cach serum against P. y. infection was assayed by passivc transfer technique. It was shown that only sera collected from mice which either had been trcated with chloroquine or had been naturally recovcred from P. y. infections can transfer certain dcgree of resistance to normal mice. The cffectivc sera delayed the appearance and the peak of parasitemia, and prolonged the survival time of the challenged mice. After these sera were fractionatcd by 50%(NH4)2SO4 precipitation, the prccipitated fraction showed similar degree of protection as the non-fractionated sera. Chloroquine-treated serum was shown to be able to inhibit the invasion of new erythrocytes by marozoite in vitro. 35S-methionine-labelcd antigens were precipitated by protective or non-protective sera and the bands were compared on SDS-PAGE and autoradiogram. Since thc antigcn bands of 245, 210, 190, 156 and 130 KD can only bc precipitated by protective sera but not by non-protectivc sera, it is possible that the protection of chloroquine-treated serum is induced by the specific antibodies against the above antigens.

The configuration of the air cleaner and operating principle of high-voltage static electrical field (HVEF) are introduced. The primary bactericidal mechanism and broad-spectrum effect are also mentioned.

Urinary tract infection (UTI)is a commonly encountered disease during routine clinical care. In the mean time, it is also a commonly encountered hospital acquired infection. UTI possesses various clinical symptoms, and usually the symptoms are atypical. The detection of leukocyturia and bacteriuria is an essential index for screening and confirmatory diagnosis of UTI. This article summarized the pathogenesis of UTI, diagnostic criteria, clinical significance and application evaluation of detection of the WBC and bacteria in urine.

Abdominal drainage is the most common technique applied in the abdominal surgery. According to the aim of drainage, it can be divided into curative drainage and preventive drainage, but there is no obvious difference between the 2 drainages. Abdominal drainage is not necessary after parenchymal viscera operation, but necessary after spleenectomy in preventing infection. For cavity viscera operation, abdominal drainage is applied according to the infectious condition, but scholars at home and abroad have different opinions on this point. Surgeons should pay attention to the placement of the drainage tube in patients who received preventive drainage.

Objective To understand the current status and the changes in main disability reasons in the elderly with physical disabilities during the past 20 years in China. Methods　The data of the elderly with physical disabilities aged 60 years and over that were from the national sample survey on disability in 1987 and 2006 were analyzed and compared by epidemiology methods. Results　In 2006.the main disability reasons in the elderly with physical disabilities aged 60 and over were disease factors,injury factors,other factors and congenital diseases and eccyliosis.The cause-specific disability prevalences were 5.262%,1.885%,1.000% and 0.200%respectively.Cerebrovaseular diseases showed the highest cause-specific disability prevalence of 2.552% in all the causes.Compared with the national sample survey in 1987,the cause-specific disability prevalences of disease factors and injury factors were obviously increased.The top five disability reasons in the elderly with physical disabilities aged 60 years and over in China were cerebrovascular diseases,arthropathy,miscellaneous traumas,other causes and unknown causes in the national sample survey in 2006;while vascular diseases,other traumas,other causes,unknown causes and pyogenic infection were the top five disability reasons in the national sample survey in 1987.The age-specific top five reasons were basically the same with the total top five disability reasons of the elderly with physical disabilities aged 60 years and over,and also the same relationship between sex-specific top five reasons and Iotal top five disability reasons in 1987 and 2006. Conclusions　Disease factors are the main disability reasons of the elderly with physical disabilities aged 60 years and over,and cerebrovascular diseases have the highest cause specific disability prevalence.The prevention and cure of cerebrovascular diseases,arthropathy and other traumas become the key points to prevent physical disability in the elderly.

Aim To study the protective effects of curcumin on myocardial reperfusion injury in rats.Methods Myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury model was established through occluding the left anterior descending branch of coronary artery for 60 min and removing the ligation later to reperfuse for 30 min in vivo.Different doses of curcumin were administered through intravenous injection 5 min before the onset of ischemia.The changes of hemodynamics were recorded and myocardial infarct sizes were measured.Results Curcumin(20,40 mg?kg~(-1))improved the hemodynamics during myocardial ischemia reperfusion in a dose-dependent manner,as shown by the significant increase in LVSP and?dp/dt_(max) and the decrease in LVEP.Moreover,curcumin reduced the myocardial infarct sizes.Conclusion Curcumin exerts protective effects on myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury.

AIM: In this article, gastrointestinal tumor-related historical archives of pathology in our hospital were reviewed in order to acknowledge gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). METHODS: These cases were rediagnosed correctly , these tissues were labeled with some antibodies such as CD117, CD34, ?-SMA, S-100, and their clinical characteristics were explored. RESULTS: CD117, CD34 were expressed widely in GISTs ,the percentage of positive expression was CD117 (50/56, 89.3%), CD34 (37/56, 66.1%), respectively, ?-SMA, S-100 were (17/56, 30.4%), (4/56, 7.1%), respectively, desmin was negative in these cases. Among them, 29 cases were benign and borderline, 27 cases were malignant. The percentage of occurring in stomach and intestine was 91.1%. CONCLUSION: CD117, CD34 are expressed significantly in GIST, these might be assistant markers for GIST diagnosis. GISTs mostly occurred in stomach and intestine.