TCM believes renal deficiency is a major cause to climacteric syndrome,thus invigorating the kidney is considered to be the most basic treatment of this disease.This article makes an overview on the treatments of climacteric syndrome with kidney-invigorating Chinese medicine

Arrhythmia is a common complication of cardiovascular diseases and a risk factor for human health. Especially, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation may not only exacerbate original heart diseases, but also cause cardiac sudden death which has been an mportant death reason in China. However, anti-arrhythmic drugs nowadays cannot effectively treat these arrhythmias, with an efficiency of only 30%-60%, which indicates that our knowledge about arrhythmias is limited. Hence, to explore the potential mechanism, look for novel targets, and develop drugs with multiple-channel action are the focus of the research direction. Recent studies displayed that the atrial-specific potassium channels such as IKur and IKAch were involved in atrial fibrillation, which provided a prospective target for atrial fibrillation treatment. Calcium leak, gap junction protein and autoantibody against ICaL channel were shown to participate in arrhythmogenesis. These findings provided a theoretical basis for the development of more effective anti-arrhythmic drugs. Remarkably, as a kind of mportant RNA regulating gene expression, microRNA (miRNA) was shown to possess anti-arrhythmic activities which may prevent cardiac sudden death. miR-1, miR-133 and miR-590 regulated the arrhythmia in various types of animal models. Because of the multiple-gene regulation actions of miRNA, it has the potential to be developed as novel anti-arrhythmic target.

Objectives: To observe the changes of cerebral blood flow parameters showed by perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (PWI) in patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and to investigate the correlation between cerebral hemodynamics and cerebral vasospasm ( CVS ). Methods: A total of 38 patients with aSAH ( ≤7 d) were selected for cerebral angiography. The severity of CVS was observed and PWI was performed. The parameters of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) , regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV) , mean transit time (MTT) , and time to peak (TTP) were collected in the territories of anterior cerebral artery, middle cerebral artery, and basal ganglia. The correlation between these parameters and CVS was analyzed. Results: DSA showed that 28 of the 38 patients had vasospasm at least in one branch, 9 of them had mild vasospasm; 10 had moderate vasospasm, and 9 had severe vasospasm; 10 did not find any CVS. Circled digit twoAs compared with the control group,the rCBF and rCBV in ACA, MCA, and BSGL territories in the severe vasospasm group were decreased, and there were significant differences ( P < 0.05 to P < 0.01 ) , while the rCBF and rCBV in all the blood supply territories in the non-, mild, moderate, and severe vasospasm groups had a tendency of reduction, however, the degrees of reduction were different. As compared with the control group, the TTP and MTT had an increasing tendency in the ACA, MCA and BSGL territories in the mild, moderate, and severe vasospasm groups; among them, there was significant difference between the moderate and severe vasospasm groups ( P < 0. 05 to P < 0.01). Circled digit threeThe severity of CVS was negatively correlated with rCBF and rCBV, and it was positively correlated with TTP and MTT. Conclusions: PWI may quantitatively provide the information of cerebral blood flow perfusion. Among the parameters of rCBF, rCBV, TTP, and MTT in all the blood supply territories collected by PWI, the parameters of TTP and MTT had better consistency with the severity of CVS.

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OBJECTIVETo evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Shengji Ointment (SO) (by external use) in treating infective ulcer patients with yang syndrome (YS).

METHODSA multicenter, stratified, randomized controlled clinical study was used in this study. A random digit table was formed in the ratio of 3:1,440 infective ulcer patients of YS from 5 centers were recruited, 330 in the treatment group (external use of SO, exchange once every 24 h) and 110 in the control group (external use of Votalin, exchange once every 24 h). The therapeutic course consisted of 21 days. The ulcer area, wound depth, pain degree were observed before treatment at day 3, 7, 14, and 21, and safety indices monitored at the same time.

RESULTSThe ulcer area was significantly reduced in the treatment group after 21-day medication, obviously superior to that of the control group (P = 0.002). Ulcer areas at different time points were analyzed. From the 7th day of medication the reduced area was obviously less in the treatment than in the control group (P = 0.002). Besides, the longer the more obvious difference. Compared with the control group, the healing rate of ulcer area, the pain disappearance rate, and the healing rate of ulcer depth were all obviously improved in the treatment group (all P < 0.01). No adverse event occurred in the two groups.

CONCLUSIONSExternal use of SO was safe and effective in treating infective ulcer patients with YS. It could accelerate wound healing with better analgesic effect.

Objective To study the characteristics of the deficits of switching function in video game addicts .Methods A total of 21 game addicts and 21 normal participants were performed a classic task switch task ,then the switching cost between two groups was compared .Results The results showed that the switching cost was significant greater for game addicts (372 ms) than that for health participants(180 ms) ,t=3 .63 ,P<0 .05 .Conclusion The present study suggested that the switching function was impaired to a certain extent for video game addicts ,and it might be one of the cognitive mechanisms for causing the game addicts .

Exhaled gaseous signal molecules such as nitric oxide(NO),carbon monoxide(CO) and hydrogen sulfide(H2S) can be measured with a non-invasive technique.The fraction of NO level in exhaled gaseous of patients with airway inflammatory illness(such as bronchial asthma) significantly increases.No in exhaled gaseous is one of the markers in the diagnosis of asthma,and it is also a marker of anti-inflammatory response for patients with asthma.The fraction of CO level in exhaled gaseous of patients with bronchial asthma is also si-gnificantly elevated.Both NO and CO in exhaled gaseous in other airway inflammatory illness,such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,chronic bronchitis and cystic fibrosis are also evidently changed.Measuring exhaled gaseous signal molecules can provide important basis for the diagnosis and treatment of airway inflammatory illness.

Objective:To analyze the therapeutic effect and safety of finasteride on aged patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH)complicated benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).Methods:A total of 84 aged ISH + BPH pa-tients admitted from Jun 2011 to May 2013 were selected.According to medication plan,they were divided into fin-asteride group (n=44)and routine treatment group (n=40,only received routine treatment because they cannot use finasteride).Course of treatment was all six months.International prostate symptom score (IPSS),quality of life (QOL) questionnaire score,prostate-specific antigen (PSA),incidence rate of acute urinary retention,maximum u-rinary flow rate (Qmax),postvoid residual urine (PRV),prostate volume (PV)and incidence rate of adverse reac-tions were compared between two groups.Results:Compared with routine treatment group,there were significant reductions in IPSS [(13.2±2.4)scores vs.(9.4±1.1)scores],PRV [(21.4±4.6)ml vs.(9.0±2.3)ml],PV [(36.8±3.8)ml vs.(29.5±3.0)ml],PSA [(2.45±0.74)μg/L vs.(1.26±0.48)μg/L]and incidence rate of acute urinary retention (17.50% vs.9.09%),P<0.05 or <0.01,and significant increase in Qmax [(10.2±2.4) ml vs.(13.7±3.8)ml]and QOL score [(3.1±1.0)scores vs.(4.7±1.5)scores]in finasteride group (P<0.05). There were no significant difference in incidence rates of adverse reactions between two groups,P>0.05 all.Con-clusion:Therapeutic effect of finasteride is significant and adverse reactions don’ t increase significantly in aged pa-tients with isolated systolic hypertension complicated benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Biliary tract carcinoma is a rare cancer with poor prognosis.Although having limited clinical benefit,chemotherapy represents the cornerstone of management for patients with inoperable and postoperative recurrence of cholangiocarcinoma.Substantial breakthroughs in the study of chemotherapy for treatment in advanced cholangiocarcinoma are rare due to the heterogeneity of cholangiocarcinoma,the use of various chemotherapeutic agents and the small size of existing patient cohorts.Currently,no standard chemotherapeutic strategies exist for cholangiocarcinoma,though some combinatorial stratagies,such as gemcitabine plus cisplatin,have proven to prolong survival significantly.Still,further studies are needed to improve the treatment of patients with biliary tract cancer.