Objective To investigate the effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) combined with norepinephrine (NE) on L-type calcium current (LCa-l) in rat ventricular myocytes. Methods Ventricular myocytes were isolated from SD rats (weighing 260-280 g) by retrograde perfusion of the heart via the aorta with an enzyme-containing solution as previously described. Whole-cell patch-clamp recording was made using Axopatch 200B amplifier. The cells were perfused for 1 min with Tyrode solution containing CGRP 1 × 10-7 mol/L (group CGRP) , NE 1 × 10-6 mol/L (group NE), or CGRP 1 × 10-7 mol/L + NE 1 × 10-6 mol/L (group CN) and again washed with Tyrode solution. ICa-L was recorded 1 min before and 1 min after the cells were perfused and 1 min after the cells were washed. I-V curve of ICa-L was made after the cells were perfused with solution containing CGRP or NE alone. Results CGRP significantly inhibited the peak of ICa-L, while NE significantly promoted the peak of ICa-L(P < 0.05) . The peak of ICa-L was significantly decreased 1 min after the cells were perfused in group CGRP,while increased 1 min after the cells were perfused in group NE compared with group CN ( P < 0.05). CGRP made the I-V curve of ICa-L move up-ward, while NE made the I-V curve of ICa-L move down-ward. Conclusion CGRP can weaken the promotion of ICa-L induced by NE in rat ventricular myocytes.

Two cases of special intracranial otogenic complications were analyzed in the aspects of clinical characteristics, diagnosis and therapy. We concluded that for patients with huge cholesteatoma which damaged the bone of skull base, or chronic otitis media patients with sharp deterioration in symptoms, accompanied by headache and fever, we should promptly do the enhanced magnetic resonance to avoid the missed diagnosis of intracranial complications.
Cholesteatoma ; diagnosis ; physiopathology ; Chronic Disease ; Headache ; Humans ; Otitis Media ; diagnosis ; physiopathology ; Skull Base ; pathology

Objective To evaluate the role of the mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium (mitoKATP) channel in reduction of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury by calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in rats in an in vitro experiment.Methods Healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats,weighing 250-300 g,were used in this study.After the animals were anesthetized,their hearts were immediately removed and retrogradely perfused with oxygenated K-H solution at 37 ℃ in a Langendorff apparatus.Twenty-four isolated rat hearts were assigned into 4 groups (n =6 each) using a random number table:control group (C group),I/R group,CGRP group and 5-hydroxydecanoate (5-HD) group.The hearts were first perfused with K-H solution for 30 min in the three groups.The hearts were continuously perfused with K-H solution for 150 min in group C.The hearts were subjected to ischemia for 30 min followed by 120 min of reperfusion to establish the model of myocardial I/R injury.In group CGRP,after the hearts were perfused with K-H solution for 10 min,10-8 mol/L CGRP was infused for 20 min at a rate of 0.5 ml/min via the aorta,and then the model of myocardial I/R injury was established.In 5-HD group,specific mito-KATP channel blocker 5-HD 100 μmol/L was infused for 10 min at a rate of 0.5 ml/nin via the aorta,and the other treatments were similar to those previously described in CGRP group.At the end of equilibration and 30,60,90 and 120 min of reperfusion,heart rate (HR),left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP),left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and the maximum rate of increase or decrease in left ventricular pressure (±dp/dtmax) were recorded.The myocardial infarct size was measured by 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining at 120 min of reperfusion.Results Compared with C group,HR,LVSP and ±dp/dtmax were significantly decreased and LVEDP was increased during reperfusion,and the percentage of myocardial infarct size was increased at 120 min of reperfusion in the other three groups (P＜0.05).Compared with I/R group,HR,LVSP and ±dp/dtmax were significantly increased and LVEDP was decreased during reperfusion,and the percentage of nyocardial infarct size was decreased at 120 min of reperfusion in CGRP group (P＜0.05).Compared with CGRP group,HR,LVSP and ±dp/dtmax were significantly decreased and LVEDP was increased during reperfusion,and the percentage of myocardial infarct size was increased at 120 min of reperfusion in 5-HD group (P＜0.05).Conclusion Opening of mito-KATP channels is involved in CGRP-iuduced reduction of myocardial I/R injury in rats in an in vitro experiment.

0.05). In the xenogeneic fresh nerve graft group, the xenogeneic nerve segment was rejected and absorbed by the recipient. CONCLUSION Xenogeneic acellular nerve could sustain facial nerve regeneration, and may be a substitute to autograft for repairing facial nerve defects.

OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical efficacy of mouse nerve growth factor (NGF) in the treatment of sudden deafness. METHOD: A retrospective analysis was performed on 115 cases of hospitalized patients who were suffered from sudden deafness. Patients were divided into two groups according to treatment medicine. Control group: patients were treated with intravenous vasodilators, energy mixture, steroid pulse therapy, and methylcobalamin neurotrophic therapy. NGF group: intramuscular NGF treatment was added on the basis of conventional therapy mentioned above. Both treatments lasted 14 days, the total efficiency were compared. Patients were further divided into sub-groups according to age, duration and the level of pre-treatment PTA, and the treatment efficiency was further compared. By SPSS 11.0 statistical analysis, a P < 0.05 was considered as statistical significant difference. RESULT: (1) The total efficiency of NGF group was significantly higher than control group. (2) Regard of age, the efficiency of NGF treatment group was significantly higher than control group. (3) For the patients whose duration were less than 7 d, or the PTA < or = 60 dBHL, the efficiency of NGF group were significantly higher. For the patients whose duration were more than 7 d, or the PTA>60 dBHL, the efficiency of NGF therapy was not superior to the traditional treatment. CONCLUSION NGF can significantly improve the symptom of patients with short duration or low PTA. For this kind of patients, NGF adjuvant therapy should be recommended. For the patients with longer duration and higher level of PTA, NGF therapy is not advocated. NGF treatment should not be in consideration of the age.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Hearing Loss, Sudden ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nerve Growth Factor ; therapeutic use ; Retrospective Studies ; Treatment Outcome ; Young Adult

Objective To observe the effects of in vitro isolated Schwann cells co-cultured with chemically acellular nerve allografts on improving repair of large facial nerve defects. Methods A total of 30 Wistar rats were equally randomized into three groups, ie, experimental group, allograft group and autograft group. Nerve defect of 12 mm in length was made in the left inferior buccal branch of facial nerve and repaired with acellular nerve allograft implanted with Schwann cells, acellular nerve allograft and fresh tibial nerve autograft respectively. At the 5th month postoperatively, the function and morpholo-gy of the regenerated nerves were observed by electrophysiological method, methylene blue staining and transmission electron microscope. Results In experimental group, the recovery rate (operation side/normal side) of amplitude of nerve-muscle action potential was (35.8±2.5)%, the lantency recovery rate (normal side/operation side) (65.8±2.9)%, the number of the regenerated axon 1 570±188 and the myelin thickness (0.383±0.031) μm. The results in the experimental group were significantly supe-rior to those in the acellular nerve allograft group (P < 0.05), with similar results to fresh nerve autograft group (P > 0.05). Conclusion Transplantation of Schwarm cells in acellular nerve allograft can im-prove repair of large facial nerve defects.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical value of sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinoma patients with clinically negative neck (cN0) by methylene blue method, radiolabeled tracer method and combination of these two methods. METHOD: Thirty-three patients with cN0 laryngeal carcinoma and six patients with cN0 hypopharyngeal carcinoma underwent SLN detection using both of methylene blue and radiolabeled tracer method. All these patients were accepted received the injection of radioactive isotope 99 Tc(m)-sulfur colloid (SC) and methylene blue into the carcinoma before surgery, then all these patients underwent intraopertive lymphatic mapping with a handheld gamma-detecting probe and blue-dyed SLN. After the mapping of SLN, selected neck dissections and tumor resections were peformed. The results of SLN detection by radiolabeled tracer, dye and combination of both methods were compared. RESULT: The detection rate of SLN by radiolabeled tracer, methylene blue and combined method were 89.7%, 79.5%, 92.3% respectively. The number of detected SLN was significantly different between radiolabeled tracer method and combined method, and also between methylene blue method and combined method. The detection rate of methylene blue and radiolabeled tracer method were significantly different from combined method (P < 0.05). Nine patients were found to have lymph node metastasis by final pathological examination. The accuracy and negative rate of SLN detection of the combined method were 97.2% and 11.1%. CONCLUSION The combined method using radiolabeled tracer and methylene blue can improve the detection rate and accuracy of sentinel lymph node detection. Furthermore, sentinel lymph node detection can accurately represent the cervical lymph node status in cN0 laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinoma.
Carcinoma ; pathology ; secondary ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; pathology ; secondary ; Female ; Head and Neck Neoplasms ; pathology ; secondary ; Humans ; Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms ; pathology ; Laryngeal Neoplasms ; Larynx ; Lymph Nodes ; pathology ; Lymphatic Metastasis ; Male ; Methylene Blue ; Neck Dissection ; Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck ; Staining and Labeling

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the relationship between surgical margin and recurrence of nasal basal cell carcinoma. METHOD: Twenty-six cases of nasal basal cell carcinoma were analyzed. Mohs microsurgical operation was used in 15 cases and conventional operation was used in 11 cases. RESULT: Twenty-six cases of the tumors were resected and the wound defect was repaired concurrently. Two cases with tumor recurrence were subjected secondary resection and then no recurrence occurred. CONCLUSION Intraoperation frozen section can help guide the surgical margin. Skin tissue was saved and the repair was facilitated, it also help save the skin tissue , facilitate the repair, reduce the recurrence rate but increased the operation cost and time.
Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Carcinoma, Basal Cell ; surgery ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nose Neoplasms ; surgery ; Treatment Outcome

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of heparanase in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the relationship between the expression of it and clinically pathological features of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. METHOD: The expression of heparanase protein in 70 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinomas and 10 cases of normal nasopharyngeal tissues was detected by immunohistochemical staining. The date of expression combined clinical features, which included clinical stage, cervical lymph node metastasis rate, the rate of metastasis and recurrence, combination of, the 5-year survival rate, and other analysis, was analyzed. RESULT: The positive rate of heparanase protein in cancerous tissues was 52.9% (37/70), while it was 0% in normal nasopharyngeal tissues. The positive rates of heparanase protein in patients were 30.0% (6/20) in stage I, 45.80% (11/24) in stage II, 70.6% (12/17) in stage III, 88.9% (8/9) in stage IV respectively. Heparanase positive tumors were associated with a higher incidence of lymph node metastasis (67.4%, 31/46) than heparanase negative ones (25.0%, 6/24). The rate of distant metastasis and regional recurrence in the heparanase positive group was 48.6% (18/37), but only 15.2% (5/ 33) in the heparanase negative group. The cumulative survival of patients in the heparanase negative group at 5 years was 78.8% (26/33), but only 24.3% (9/37) in the heparanase positive group. The clinical stage of disease, lymph node metastasis, the rate of distant metastasis and regional recurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma were correlated with positive expression of heparanase protein. CONCLUSION: The expression of HPA was associated with invasion and metastasis and prognosis of nasopharyngeal cancer, and it may be a new target for the anti-treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer. (P < 0.01), and heparanase expression level inversely correlated with the patient survival (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION Heparanase may play important roles in the invasive infiltration, metastasis, and prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, clearly indicating that heparanase is a possible target for anticancer drug development.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Case-Control Studies ; Female ; Glucuronidase ; metabolism ; Humans ; Lymphatic Metastasis ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; Neoplasm Staging ; Prognosis ; Survival Rate ; Young Adult

Objective:To screen risk factors for delirium and its duration in intensive care unit (ICU)patients.Methods:1 200 patients admitted to ICU of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from May 2017 to May 2019 were enrolled. The gender, age, anesthesia mode, duration of mechanical ventilation and hypoxia, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) score, sedative drug use, and length of ICU stay were recorded. The occurrence and duration of ICU delirium were recorded. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the factors with statistical significance differences between the groups for screening the risk factors for delirium and its duration in ICU patients.Results:397 of 1 200 patients developed delirium, the incidence of ICU delirium was 33.1%. The duration of delirium in 189 patients (47.6%) was 1.0 day, and the duration of delirium in 397 delirium patients was 2.0 (1.5, 2.5) days. ① Analysis of risk factors for delirium: univariate analysis showed that there was no significant difference in the incidence of ICU delirium among patients with different genders or ages. The incidence of ICU delirium in patients with duration of mechanical ventilation or hypoxia 4-9 days and ≥ 10 days was higher than that in patients with ≤ 3 days. The incidence of ICU delirium of general anesthesia and internal medicine patients was higher than that of patients with lumbar anesthesia. The incidence of ICU delirium in patients with APACHEⅡ score ≥ 20 was higher than that in patients with ≤ 10 and 11-19. The patients with length of ICU stay > 9 days had a higher ICU delirium incidence than those ≤ 8 days. Increased incidence of ICU delirium in sedative patients was found as compared with those who did not use sedatives. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that APACHEⅡ score [odds ratio ( OR) = 5.491, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was 4.361-6.913, P < 0.001], the length of ICU stay ( OR = 2.679, 95% CI was 1.822-3.941, P < 0.001) and the use of sedatives ( OR = 2.479, 95% CI was 1.821-3.374, P < 0.001) were risk factors for ICU delirium. ② Analysis of risk factors of ICU delirium duration: univariate analysis showed that there was no significant difference in ICU delirium duration in patients with different genders or ages. The duration of ICU delirium in patients with duration of mechanical ventilation or hypoxia ≥ 10 days was longer than that in patients with ≤ 3 days and 4-9 days. The duration of ICU delirium in general anesthesia and non-surgical patients was higher than that in patients with spinal anesthesia. The ICU delirium duration in patients with APACHEⅡ score ≥ 20 was longer than that in patients with ≤ 10 and 11-19. The duration of ICU delirium in patients with the length of ICU stay > 9 days was longer than that in patients with ≤ 8 days. The duration of ICU delirium in patients on sedatives was longer than those not taking sedatives. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the duration of ICU delirium increased by an average of 0.061 days (β = 0.061, 95% CI was 0.032-0.090, P < 0.001) for each additional day of hypoxia (hypoxia duration was divided into three grades of ≤ 3, 4-9 and ≥ 10 days). For every one increase in APACHE Ⅱ score (APACHE Ⅱ score was divided into three grades of ≤ 10, 11-19 and ≥ 20), duration of ICU delirium extended an average of 0.058 days (β = 0.058, 95% CI was 0.048-0.068, P < 0.001). ICU delirium duration increased by an average of 0.065 days in patients with length of ICU stay > 9 days as compared with those ≤ 8 days (β = 0.065, 95% CI was 0.056-0.075, P < 0.001). On average, the duration of ICU delirium was prolonged by 0.362 days in patients on sedatives as compared with those who did not use sedatives (β = 0.362, 95% CI was 0.234-0.490, P < 0.001). Conclusions:APACHEⅡ score, the length of ICU stay and the use of sedatives were common risk factors for ICU delirium and its duration. The hypoxic duration was risk factors for ICU delirium duration.