Forty-eight patients with essential hypertension or coronary disease in cardiac function NYHA class I underwent a routine electrocardiography and a cotour Dopper echocardiography were studied,and by multiple stepwise regression analysis irwas found that significant partial correlations exist between PTFVl and left atrial dimensionas wee as E peak,Macruz index and A peak.Macruz index≥1.6 gave a sensitivity of 71%VS accuracy 64% for A peak increase(>70 cm/s),of 61% vs 58% for A/E>1 respectively,.These results suggest that electrocardiographlic indexes of abnormality of left atriun combined with Colour Doppler echocardiograpby may be more helpful to predict wkether the latent left ventricutar diastolic dysfunction or decrease of diastolic reserve was present or absent in patients with essential hypertension or coronary artery disease in normal clinical cardiac function.

To investigate the effect of arginine vasopression (AVP) on the secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) by vascular endothelial cell (VEC). VEC of human greater omentum artery were isolated and cultured. The concentrations of VEGF and activity of protein kinase C (PKC) in the culture medium were measured. Results indicated that after the cells were incubated with 1?10 -9～1?10 -7mol/L AVP for 6 hours, the concentration of VEGF and activity of PKC were markedly increased compared to control (P

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An extracellular proteinase from Candida albicans WD27 was purified by (NH4)2SO4 fractionation and DEAE-Sephacel ion-exchange chromatography with 25.4 fold and 5.2% yield. This enzyme appeared to be aspartic proteinase since the enzyme activity could be inhibited by pepstatin which was specific inhibitor of this class of proteinase. The enzyme had an acidic proteolytic activity profile with the optimum pH of 4.0. The optimum temperature of the enzyme activity was 37℃. The proteinase had a broad substrate specificity with the highest susceptibility to bovine hemoglobin. The Km for bovine hemoglobin was determined to be 0.814mmol/L.

OBJECTIVE To probe into the impact factors of the nosocomial respiratory tract infections after the operations with tracheal intubation under general anesthesia in order to establish the prevention and treatment strategies and provide the scientific basis.METHODS By descriptive epidemiological method and case-control study method,80 cases with nosocomial respiratory tract infections in nearly 3 years who had tracheal intubation under general anesthesia were selected,and another 180 patients with non-nosocomial respiratory tract infections with tracheal intubation under general anesthesia were selected as the control.RESULTS The incidence of the nosocomial infections from 5923 patients of the operation with tracheal intubation under general anesthesia from 2005 to 2007 accounted for 10.1%.The incidence of the respiratory tract infections of operations under general anesthesia accounted for 5.25%.The nosocomial respiratory tract infection from the tracheal intubation under general anesthesia toped the list and accounted for 52.0%.It showed seven impact factors on the nosocomial respiratory tract infection after the operation with tracheal intubation under general anesthesia by the multi-factorial Logistic regression,respectively,with significant differences(P1).CONCLUSIONS There are many impact factors that the nosocomial respiratory tract infection(especially lower respiratory tract infection) resulting from the operation with tracheal intubation under general anesthesia.The study shows the main risk factors: age,the complications of the disease,surgical condition,the ventilation time of tracheal intubationunder the anesthesia,post-operative recovery time,smoking status,the time that the operated patients start coughing after the operation.Therefore,the prevention is especially important.

With homology cloning approaches coupling with RACE (rapid-amplification of cDNA ends) techniques, the full-length coding sequence of pathogenesis-related protein PR10-1 with differential expression was cloned from the total RNA of the root of Panax notoginseng, and its function was explored furtherly. As a result, the longest 465 bp ORF (named as PnPR10-1 with the Accession No. KJ741402 in GenBank) was detected from the cloned sequence with full-length of cDNA of 863 bp. The corresponding peptide encoded consisted of 155 amino acids, contained some domains such as Bet-v-I, and showed high similarity with that from Panax ginseng by analysis of phylogenetic trees created from the alignments. Real-time quantitative PCR showed that the expression of PnPR10-1 gene was constitutive in different tissues of 1-3 year old plant, suggesting that it might be involved in growth, development, and secondary metabolism; yet it was up-regulated significantly with the infection of Fusarium oxysporum in root, suggesting that it might be involved in defense against many diseases including root rot in P. notoginseng.
Amino Acid Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA, Complementary ; Genes, Plant ; Glycoside Hydrolases ; genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Open Reading Frames ; Panax notoginseng ; genetics ; Phylogeny ; Plant Proteins ; genetics ; Plant Roots

Objective To analyze the current status and influencing factors of occupational health literacy(OHL) among workers in automobile manufacturing industry in Beijing City. Methods A total of 1 639 frontline workers from 15 automobile manufacturing enterprises in Beijing City were selected using stratified cluster sampling method. The National Occupational Health Literacy Monitoring for Key Groups Questionnaire was used to investigate the OHL of the workers. Results The overall awareness of OHL was 60.5% in these 1 639 automobile manufacturing workers. The awareness of OHL in the four dimensions, from high to low, were basic knowledge of occupational health protection, info of healthy working style and behaviors, legal knowledge of occupational health and basic skills of occupational health protection (82.1% vs 73.2% vs 57.5% vs 43.3%, P<0.01). The multivariate logistic regression analysis results showed that gender, marriage status, education level, personal monthly income and enterprise scale were influencing factors of OHL of automobile manufacturing workers (all P<0.05). Conclusion The OHL awareness among workers of automobile manufacturing industry in Beijing City, especially the basic skills of occupational health protection and the legal knowledge of occupational health, needs to be improved. It is essential to focus on promotion and intervention of occupational health in female workers, those with low education levels, low-income levels, and workers in small- and medium-sized enterprises.

AlM: To examine the retinal nerve fiber layer ( RNFL ) changes in early primary open angle glaucoma ( POAG ) by comparing the superior half of the optic disc with the inferior disc half.METHODS: lt was a clinical observational study. The study included 30 patients ( 39 eyes ) with POAG and 20 normal subjects ( 40 eyes ) . Visual field was tested by Zeiss Humphrey750 and the optic disc topographic parameters and RNFL thickness were measured by Zeiss Cirru HD-OCT. Collecting information included visual field mean defect ( MD ) , glaucoma hemifield test ( GHT ) , intraocular pressure ( lOP ) , C/D ratio and RNFL thickness. Data were analyzed by statistic software SPSS18. 0. The differences between two groups were assessed using t test.RESULTS: The differences of superior RNFL minus inferior RNFL thichness on the corresponding clock-hour locations were caculated in two groups. There was a significant difference in superonasal- inferonasal RNFL thickness between two groups (t=2. 526, P=0. 014), and there were no significant differences in the others ( all P>0. 05).CONCLUSlON: The asymmetry of optic disc hemifield RNFL is found in early primary open angle glaucoma patients. The superonasal RNFL ( 1 o’clock for right eye, and 11 o’clock for left eye ) is more fragile to loss than inferonasal RNFL (5 o’clock for right eye, and 7 o’clock for left eye) .

Fibroblast growth factor -21 (FGF-21) is a recently discovered metabolic regulation factor, regulating glucose and lipid metabolism and increasing insulin sensitivity. FGF-21 is expected to be a potential anti-diabetic drug. Expression of FGF-21 as inclusion bodies has advantages for high yield and purity, but the bioactivity of the protein is almost totally lost after denature and renature. That is why FGF-21 is currently expressed in soluble form. As a result, the yield is considerably low. In this study, we used SUMO vector to express SUMO-human FGF-21 (SUMO-hFGF-21) in form of inclusion body. We optimized the culture conditions to increase the yield of the bioactive human fibroblast growth factor-21. We applied the hollow fiber membrane filtration column to enrich the bacteria, wash, denature and renature inclusion bodies. After affinity and gel filtration chromatography, we examined the hypoglycemic activity of FGF-21 by the glucose uptake assay in HepG2 cells. We also detected the blood glucose concentration of type 2 diabetic db/db model mice after short or long-term treatment. The results show that the yield of ihFGF-21 was 4 times higher than that of shFGF-21. The yield was 20 mg/L for ihFGF-21 vs. 6 mg/L for shFGF-21. The purity of ihFGF-21 was above 95%, while shFGF-21 was 90%. Compared with the traditional method of extracting inclusion bodies, the production cycle was about three times shortened by application of hollow fiber membrane filtration column technology, but the bioactivity did not significantly differ. This method provides an efficient and cost-effective strategy to the pilot and industrial production of hFGF-21.
Animals ; Bacteria ; metabolism ; Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental ; drug therapy ; Disease Models, Animal ; Fibroblast Growth Factors ; biosynthesis ; Genetic Vectors ; Glucose ; metabolism ; Hep G2 Cells ; Humans ; Hypoglycemic Agents ; isolation & purification ; Inclusion Bodies ; metabolism ; Mice ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; biosynthesis ; Small Ubiquitin-Related Modifier Proteins ; biosynthesis

Objective To identify the success rate of peripheral indwelling needle puncture in pediatric patients, and analyze its influencing factors. Methods A survey was conducted in a sample of 902 pediatric patients.Personal information table of pediatric patients who receive infusionwas adopted to collect data. Results The success rate of first puncture was 85.37%(770/902), the success rate of two punctures was 95.34%(860/902). The success rate was affected by several factors, such as department, ages of the patients, condition of the veins, years of working as a nurse(OR=1.128, 2.308, 2.351, P <0.05). Conclusions Success rate of peripheral indwelling needle puncture in children still can be improved. When formulate management program, the influencing factors should be considered for management standard.