Humans ; Primary Myelofibrosis ; therapy

Stress ulceration are common occurrence in patients with severe traumatic brain injury, which can result in alimentary tract hemorrhage, perforation and obviously increase mortality. To prevent the occurrence of stress ulceration and control upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is meaningful for prognosis of critical disease. This article reviews pathogenesis of stress ulceration as well as the relationships preventive treatment, early enteral nutrition, hospital acquired pneumonia and related complications.

Cochlear Implants ; Congresses as Topic ; Hearing ; Hearing Aids ; Humans

OBJECTIVETo observe the effect of Yishen Zhongzi Pill (YZP) on the sperm motility of Shen-essence deficiency syndrome (SEDS) patients.

METHODSTotally 144 patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group (71 cases) and the control group (73 cases). Ten cases dropped out during the therapeutic course. A total of 134 patients completed this clinical study, 67 in each group. Patients in the treatment group took YZP (6 g each time, twice daily), while those in the control group took Wuzi Yanzong Pill (6 g each time, twice daily). The therapeutic course for all was one month. Changes of the sperm motility, clinical efficacy, and Chinese medical symptoms scores were observed between the two groups before and after treatment.

RESULTSCompared with before treatment in the same group, percentages of class a spermatozoa and class a + b spermatozoa were enhanced in the two groups after treatment (P <0. 01). Besides, they were higher in treatment group than in the control group (P <0. 05). The total effective rate of the treatment group was 77. 61 % (52/67 cases), while it was 58. 21 % (39/67 cases) in the control group. It was better in the treatment group than in the control group (Z= -2. 914, P =0. 004). Compared with before treatment in the same group, scores for Chinese medical symptoms decreased in the two groups (P <0. 01). The difference of pre-post integrals was higher in the treatment group than in the control group (P <0. 01).

CONCLUSIONYZP showed favorable effect in treating asthenospermia patients with SEDS and could effectively elevate the motility of sperm.

Asthenozoospermia ; therapy ; Biomedical Research ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Oils, Volatile ; Phytotherapy ; Sperm Motility ; Spermatozoa ; Syndrome

Female ; Humans ; Labyrinth Diseases ; Middle Aged ; Semicircular Canals ; Syndrome

Objective To observe the clinical curative effect of enteral nutrition (EN) liquid rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3PUFA) for patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and treated with mechanical ventilation.Methods A prospective study was conducted, 40 patients with ARDS admitted and treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) and respiratory department in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Huzhou from May 2007 to October 2016 were enrolled, and they were randomly divided into a study group and a control group, each group 20 cases. The same heat EN support of different prescriptions was given respectively in the two groups, nasal feeding with EN emulsion rich in ω-3PUFA (TPF-T) was applied in the study group, while in the control group, nasal feeding with EN suspension liquid of protein fiber type (TPF) was given, and the target energy established for the two groups was 104.0 - 125.5 kJ·kg-1·d-1. In the two groups, before and after treatment for 7 days, the changes of nutrition indexes [total protein (TP), albumin (ALB)], inflammatory index [C-reactive protein (CRP)], immune indexes (T cell subgroup CD4, CD8 and CD4/CD8), blood gas analysis indexes [arterial blood oxygen partial pressure (PaO2), oxygenation index (PaO2/FiO2)] and mechanical ventilation time, the length of stay in ICU and fatality rate were observed; the occurrences of false aspiration, feeding tube obstruction, high blood sugar, excessive water, diarrhea, constipation, etc. complications related to the process of the treatment were observed in the two groups. Results After treatment, the levels of TP, ALB, CD4, CD4/CD8, PaO2, PaO2/FiO2 in two groups were higher than those before treatment, the levels of CRP and CD8 were lower than those before treatment, and the improvement degrees of indexes in study group were superior to those in the control group [TP (g/L): 59.9±4.8 vs. 58.6±4.1, ALB (g/L): 31.9±3.4 vs. 31.1±4.4, CRP (mg/L): 25.8±18.5 vs. 38.1±24.9, CD4: 0.30±0.05 vs. 0.28±0.04, CD8: 0.21±0.03 vs. 0.19±0.04, CD4/CD8: 1.57±0.39 vs. 1.55±0.42, PaO2 (mmHg, 1 mmHg = 0.133 kPa): 152.7±15.8 vs. 140.6±22.2, PaO2/FiO2 (mmHg): 304.5±32.1 vs. 280.2±44.1]; the survival patient mechanical ventilation time (days: 7.1±2.2 vs. 9.2±3.5) and length of stay in ICU (days: 10.4±2.8 vs. 12.6±3.6) were significantly shorter in study group than those in control group (allP < 0.05), and fatality rate was 15.0%in both groups.Conclusion The EN liquid rich in ω-3PUFA is more beneficial to the recovery of respiratory function than EN of protein fiber type in patients with ARDS, and the former EN also can shorten the mechanical ventilation time and the length of stay in ICU.

Objective To investigate the dose-effect relationship of donor antigenic specificity CD4~+ CD25~+ Treg cells prolonging the survival of rat kidney allograft.Methods Sixty allograft kid- ney transplantation animal models were established with SD rats as donors and Wistar rats as recipi- ents.CD4~+ CD25~+ T cells were sorted from Wistar rats'spleens by way of MACS and the phenotypes of donor antigenic specificity were induced in vitro.According to the quantities of prepared CD4~+ CD25~+ T cells injected through tail vein in kidney transplantation,models were divided into four ex- perimental groups:2?10~5(group I),5?10~5(groupⅡ),1?10~6(groupⅢ),2?10~6(groupⅣ).The models which had no injection served as control group(n=12).The survival of the transplanted kid- ney was observed.The levels of blood serum creatinine were determined and the histopathological changes in the transplanted kidney were observed at day 4,9 and 15.The results of histopathology were evaluated according to the standard of Banff Schema and the semi-quantitative scores were gained by way of Watanabe.The reaction indexes of receptor spleen cells to the donor antigens were tested by way of MTT at day 15.Results The mean survival time of transplanted kidneys was the highest in groupⅢ[(31.4?4.6)days]and lowest in the control group[(11.7?6.2)days].There was signif- icant difference between groupⅢand control group in levels of serum cre'atinine(P

Aim To study the application status of odds ratio for medical animal experiments.Methods Odds ratio and seven kinds of animal models were used as retrieval strategy to search medical animal experiment related papers in several Chinese and English databases.Papers relating to each kind of animal model and using odds ratio in abstract and text were counted. Data from different databases were compared. Calculation of odds ratio was exemplified and the significance of different odds ratio values was illustrated in this paper.Results Few medical animal experiments cited odds ratio as statistics.Conclusions The importance of odds ratio has not been fully recognized in Chinese references.

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Objective To explore the relationship between the protective effect of hydrogen sulfide (H2 S ) postconditioning against myocardial hypoxia-reoxygenation and the dynamics of actin. Methods Adult rat cardiomyocytes were isolated and the same hatch cells were divided into 4 groups (n =3):normal group (group N),hypoxia-reoxygenation group (group HR),ischemia postconditioning group (group IPTC)and H2 S postconditioning group (group S).The four groups were divided into two sub-groups with or without cytochalasin D (CyD).At the end of reoxygenation,F-actin/G-actin,intracellular calcium ion concentration (Ca2+ )and pH value were detected with laser scanning confocal microscopy, meanwhile the level of p-p38MAPK was detected with Western blot.Results The fluorescence intensity of F-actin/G-actin of group HR,group IPTC and group S were significantly higher than that of group N (P <0.05).The fluorescence intensity of Ca2+ of group HR was higher than that of group N,group IPTC and group S (P <0.05);The intensity of Ca2+ of all group with CyD treatment was higher than those without (P <0.05);The fluorescence intensity of pHi of group N and group HR with CyD treatment was higher than those without;The fluorescence intensity of pHi of group IPTC and group S was lower than those without;The flu-orescence intensity of pHi of group HR was lower than that of group N,group IPTC and group S (P <0.05), respectively;the pHi of group N and group HR sub-group with CyD treatment was higher than those without correspondingly (P <0.05),however,the pHi of IPTC and S sub-groups were lower than their corresponding groups (P <0.05).The level of p-p38MAPK in group HR was significantly higher than those of other groups (P <0.05);there was no difference among groups N,IPTC and S.Conclusion Hydrogen sulfide postcondi-tioning could promote F-actin to remodel and stabilize the cellular environment.Hypoxia-reoxygenation pro-motes the phosphorylation level of p38MAPK,which could be surpressed by H2 S postconditioning.