Objective:To determine the related substances in dienestrol tablets by HPLC. Methods:The separation was performed on a C18 column(250 mm × 4. 6 mm,5μm). The mobile phase consisted of methanol-acetonitrile(76∶24), the flow rate was set at 0. 8 ml·min-1 with the detection wavelength at 229 nm, and the sample size was 10 μl. Results:Under the established chromatographic conditions, the related substances and dienestrol were separated completely. The limit of detection was 2 ng. Conclusion:The method is simple, accurate, specific and sensitive in the determination of related substances in dienestrol tablets.

Objective To draw up a job self-regulation questionnaire for airline pilots and to evaluate its reliabilities and validities.Methods A job self-regulation questionnaire was developed based on documents and interviews.In order to examine the validity,208 airline pilots of CAAC were tested and 31 department leaders of them were interviewed.Results The self-regulation of airline pilot was composed of eight key dimensions,which had been examined in the confirmatory factor analysis.The Cronbach of full questionnaire was ?=0.743,and the reliability of each dimension was beyond Cronbach ?=0.516.Coefficient of stability of the questionnaire was beyond 0.606(P

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Intraoperative Complications ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Postoperative Complications ; Retrospective Studies ; Tracheotomy ; adverse effects ; methods ; Young Adult

BACKGROUND: Ascariasis is one of the most common human parasitic infections worldwide. In some rare cases, ascariasis may cause serious consequences even sudden death. This study was undertaken to review the life-threatening complications of ascariasis in trauma patients reported in the literature. DATA SOURCES: Relevant articles about ascariasis and trauma were searched from Pubmed, Google scholar, Scirus, and Wanfang databases. RESULTS: Twenty-four patients with ascariasis were collected from 21 articles searched. Most of these patients were from tropical and subtropical countries. Of the 24 patients, 12 were children. Their major complications occurred in the airway passage and digestive tract. There were 3 fatal cases in these patients. Twelve of the 24 patients described in 10 articles were reported in the last 10 years. CONCLUSIONS: Early diagnosis and prompt intervention are essential to minimize the high morbidity and mortality of these serious complications in trauma patients. Physicians should be aware of the possibility of Ascaris infection in a trauma patient from endemic area of ascariasis. History of Ascaris infection and routine examination of feces forAscaris eggs may be helpful to make a correct diagnosis.

Combining the speed of two-dimensional detection with the precision of three-dimensional detection, an automatic algorithm based on high resolution CT images is proposed to identify nodules in this paper. Nodule candidates are extracted by a two-dimensional convergence index (CI) filter, then a three-dimensional Hessian matrix detection filter is introduced to reduce false positive lung nodules, Experiments show that the algorithm is effective with a sensitivity of 90% and the false positive lung nodules per slice is 0.33.
Algorithms ; False Positive Reactions ; Humans ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Solitary Pulmonary Nodule ; diagnostic imaging ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; methods

OBJECTIVETo investigate the role of endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in erectile dysfunction (ED) induced by androgen deficiency.

METHODSWe randomly divided 30 eight-week-old healthy male SD rats into six groups: 2-week control (A), 4-week control (B), 2-week castration (C), 4-week castration (D), 2-week castration + androgen replacement (E), and 4-week castration + androgen replacement (F), those in groups E and F subcutaneously injected with testosterone propionate (TP) at the physiological dose of 3 mg/kg per day after castration, while those in the other groups with isodose oil instead. At 2 and 4 weeks after operation, we determined the level of serum testosterone (T) , intracavernous pressure (ICP) , mean carotid arterial pressure (MAP) of the rats, measured the concentration of H2S in the plasma and corpus cavernosum tissue, and detected the expressions of cystathionine-P3-synthase (CBS) and cystathionine-gamma-lyase (CSE) by immunohistochemistry and Western blot.

RESULTSThe serum T level was significantly lower in group C ([0.63 +/- 0.15] nmol/L) than in A ( [ 16.55 +/- 4.17] nmol/L) and E ( [ 18.99 +/- 4.62] nmol/L) (P <0.05), as well as in group D ([0.70 +/-0.22] nmol/L) than in B ([15.44 +/-5.18] nmol/L) and F ([20.99 +/-6.41] nmol/L) (P <0. 05) , and so were ICP/MAP after 5 and 7 V electrical stimulation of the pelvic ganglia (P <0. 05) , H2 S concentration (P <0.05), and the expressions of CBS and CSE (P <0.05). The expressions of CBS and CSE proteins were also significantly decreased in group C as compared with D (P <0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe reduced expressions of CBS and CSE may inhibit the H2 S signaling pathway, which might be one of the mechanisms underlying androgen deficiency-induced ED in rats.

Androgens ; deficiency ; Animals ; Cystathionine beta-Synthase ; metabolism ; Cystathionine gamma-Lyase ; metabolism ; Erectile Dysfunction ; metabolism ; Hydrogen Sulfide ; metabolism ; Male ; Orchiectomy ; Penis ; metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

BACKGROUND :Although the conventional 20 G pars plana vitrectomy can improve the prognosis of vitreous-retina diseases,but it would also cause serious operation related injury and much complications.OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the practicability and safety of 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy system (TSV25G) in the macular surgery, so as to elicit the preliminary clinical experience of mimimally invasive vitrectomy system.DESIGN:Case analysisSETTING: Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force; Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Sino Japen Friendship Hospital; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Department of Ophthalmology,Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong PARTICIPANTS: From July 2003 to July 2004, 16 patients with macular diseases were admitted to the Department of Ophthalmology in the General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force and taken as subjects (n=16), they were confirmed as epiretinal membrane in 9 eyes, idiopathic macular hole in 3 eyes, traumatic macular hole in 2 eyes and vitreo-macu lar tractional syndrome in 2 eyes. The course of disease ranged from 3 to 36 months with eyesight varied between 0.06 and 0.4.METHODS: 16 eyes underwent preoperative ophthalmic evaluation in cluding visual acuity measurement, Amsler chart test, slit lamp microscopy,.indirect ophthalmoscopy tonometry and optical coherence tomography (OCT). For the macular hole patients OCT was performed. 25-gauge Transconjunctival Sutureless Vitrectomy System (TSV25G) was used to carry on minimally invasive surgery under anesthesia state, the surgical parameter was set as: high speed cutter with rate of 1500 cuts per minute,BSS bottle was hang at height of 40-50 cm, the maximum aspiration of TSV25G was 550 mm Hg with the intraocular pressure remained at around 29-35 mmHg during the operation. Three-beveled trocar were used to make three-transeonjunctival incision on sclera of about 0.5 mm long respectively in the infratemporal, superotemporal, and supraotemporal quan drants, meanwhile a transconjunctival cannula was placed. One end of the infusion tube was inserted into the infratemporal cannula to establish infusion with the other two cannulas used for the intraocular operation with 25-gauge vitreous cutter and other instruments, such as vitreoectomy and membrane dislocation. The surgery was terminated by removing the cannula except for ceaseless leak, the conjunctival and scleral incision were not sutured. Patients received follow-up examination for 1-12 months postoperatively.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:①The operative time and the time for the establishment of three access. ② Changes of intraocular pressure after operation. ③ The effusion from the puncture after the intraocular perfor mance. ④ The postoperative vision, operative complication and the sealing of the holes.RESULTS:All of the 16 patients completed the vitrectomy; and entered the data analysis.①16 patients complete the vitrectomy with the operative time of 28-56 minutes (the mean of 37 minutes). The average time for the establishment of three access and closing was 84 s and 32 s respectively.②The average preoperative intraocular pressure was 16.4 mm Hg,comparing with 13.5,15.5,17.9 mm Hg at postoperative 1 day, 1 w and 1 m. ③Water leakage were found in 4 wounds of three patients after operation, 3 wounds were sealed after injecting 1-2 mL disinfected air into the eyes, the other one sutured with 6-0 absorbable suture. ④The mean time of inpatients were 5 days postoperatively. The visual acuity improved in 14 patients by the average of three lines, amongst which visual acuity was found improved to above 0.8 in 5 patients and the visual distortion disappeared in 8 eyes and attenuated in 3 eyes. But still there were 2 cases without improvement.No surgical complications were noted and macular hole gained clinical sealing in totally 5 eyes.CONCLUSION: TSV25G system can simplify the surgical procedure with many other advantages such as decreasing the operation related injury and complications, as well as shortening operative time, which benefits the rapid rehabilitation.

The research status is reviewed on taxonomic position, ecology, biological active matter and artificial cultivation of Shiraia bambusicola. Following problems are presented: whether there are new species and host specificity of Shiraia bambusicola. Since the artificial cultivation of stroma of Shiraia bambusicola has not been success, Shiraia bambusicola is in situation of emerge of itself and perish of itself so that it is not beneficial to resource protection and continual utilization of this medicinal fungus. It is pointed out that molecular biology of Shiraia bambusicola should be further researched and technology of artificial cultivation of Shiraia bambusicola should be explored in order to exploit and usage of Shiraia bambusicola.

Objective To investigate the value of ~1H-MRS in the diagnosis and prognosis of diffuse axonal injury(DAI).Methods A prospective imaging study was performed in 63 patients with craniocerebral injury admitted from October 2002 to April 2004.Sixty-three patients were divided into DAI group(27 cases)and Non-DAI group(36 cases)according to the result of the MRI.Then,the ratio of NAA/Cr,Cho/Cr,mINs/Cr,and GIx/Cr at basal ganglia and genu and splenium of corpus callosum was quantified using ~1H-MRS and compared between DAI group and Non-DAI group.Twenty healthy persons were served as control group.The relation between ~1H-MRS indexes and period of primary uneonciousness post-injury was analyzed.Results The results of NAA/Cr and Cho/Cr at genu and splenium of corpus callosum and basal ganglia of control group were 1.19?0.18,1.21?0.24;1.89?0.17,1.84?0.14; 1.57?0.16,1.85?0.25,which of DAI group were 0.83?0.24,2.92?0.78;1.25?0.35,2.54? 0.42;1.33?0.17,2.38?0.44,and those of Non-DAI group were 1.11?0.23,1.61?0.33;1.61? 0.22,1.93?0.26;1.49?0.23,1.89?0.29.The differences between them were statistically significant (P

Objective To evaluate the effects of different doses of lidocaine on suppressing fentanyl-induced cough and determine a safe suppressing dose.Methods Two hundred patients undergoing general anesthesia were randomized to four groups evenly.The following medications were given within ten seconds:normal saline 10ml (groupⅠ,control group),lidocaine 1 mg/kg (groupⅡ),lidoeaine 1.5 mg/kg(groupⅢ),lidocaine 2mg/kg (groupⅣ).Toxic symptoms of lidocaine were recorded within lmin after the administration of lidocaine,then fentanyl 3?g/ kg was given intravenously within 5 seconds.Cough incidence and cough grade were recorded within 2rain after the administration of fentanyl.Systolic blood pressure (SBP),diastolic blood pressure (DBP),heart rates (HR),and satu- ration of pulse oximeter(SpO2) were recorded during different time points of induction,all recorded data were anal- ysed by the statistical software,P value