Objective To probe into the significance and role of double testing of blood for virus markers.Methods The data on the results of routine blood testing at some blood centers in China from July to December,1999 were gathered and analysed.The blood donors with inconsistent results during the double testing were followed up and their blood samples were collected at least half a year later.Nucleic acid amplification testing(NAT) was performed on the samples.Results Only 0.63% of the donors showed inconsistent results during the double testing.Most of the positive results were false positive.Conclusion The double testing currently implemented does not help significantly improve the quality of the blood supply.It is important to enhance blood safety further by improvement of quality of the reagents and introduction of NAT.

OBJECTIVETo explore the mechanism of hypoxic environment lessening in the course of scar maturation.

METHODSThe expression of hypoxia inducible factor 1alpha (HIF-1alpha) and p53 in granulation of burn wound, burn scars of different stages, and normal skin was detected with immunohistochemical staining. The expressions were quantified by the weight method. The relationship between HIF-1alpha and p53 was investigated.

RESULTSWith the scar maturation, the expression of HIF-1alpha gradually decreased while the expression of p53 gradually increased within one year. There was a negative correlation between HIF-1alpha and p53 (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONp53 plays an important role in scar maturation. Associated with p53, HIF-1alpha may induce apoptosis, which decreases oxygen consumption and lightens hypoxia in the scar maturation.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Apoptosis ; Cell Hypoxia ; Child ; Cicatrix ; metabolism ; pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Hypoxia ; metabolism ; pathology ; Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit ; metabolism ; Male ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 ; metabolism ; Young Adult

Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Stomach Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; methods

In order to profoundly understand the clinical and laboratorial characteristics and inducing factors of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis syndrome (HLH), 28 HLH patients received from 2004 to 2009 years in our hospital were analyzed retrospectively. The results indicated that all of the patients had a history with prolonged fever (more than 1 week), pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, elevated ferritin level, hypofibrinogen, and hemophagocytosis in bone marrow. HLH was the first characteristic sign of malignant lymphoma in 9 patients; 1 patient had a clinical manifestation similar to fulminant hepatic failure; severe psycho-abnormality occurred in 1 HLH patient and pronounced hemophagocytosis were detected in his cerebrospinal fluid; 1 patient was eventually diagnosed as having HLH by the findings in a lymph node biopsy showing obvious hemophagocytosis. Additionally, the analysis of underlying factors in 28 patients with HLH indicated 11 patients with EB virus-associated HLH, 11 with lymphoma-associated HLH, 2 with Leishmania-associated HLH, and 3 with autoimmune disease-associated HLH. It is concluded that HLH disease is characterised with high heterogenicity in both clinical features and inducing factors; in addition, the patients from a pasturing area should be paid attention to parasite infection such as leishmania.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Autoimmune Diseases ; complications ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Herpesvirus 4, Human ; isolation & purification ; Humans ; Leishmania ; isolation & purification ; Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic ; complications ; diagnosis ; parasitology ; virology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Young Adult

Chemical constituents were investigated on the ethyl acetate extract of Salvia chinensis. Compounds were separated and purified by various chromatograhic techniques including silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 and reversed-phase HPLC. Their structures were identified by spectroscopic data analysis. Eleven compounds were isolated and purified and their structures were identified as oresbiusin A(1), ethyl dihydrocaffeate (2), ethyl rosmarinate (3), rosmarinic acid (4), methyl rosmarinate (5), bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (6), salvianol acid C (7), methyl salvianol acid C (8), methyl salvianolate A (9), dimethyl lithospermate B (10), and salvianolic acid A(11). Except for rosmarinic acid, the remaining compounds were isolated from S. chinensis for the first time.
Caffeic Acids ; chemistry ; Cinnamates ; chemistry ; Depsides ; chemistry ; Dextrans ; chemistry ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Lactates ; chemistry ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Structure ; Salvia ; chemistry

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Calcaneus ; injuries ; surgery ; Female ; Humans ; Intra-Articular Fractures ; physiopathology ; surgery ; Male ; Middle Aged

Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a key role in many physiological processes of plants, and it was also applied to fields of medicinal plant biotechnology. The article presents a review of some recent application of ABA in enhancing the production of secondary metabolites of medicinal plants, improving the in vitro conservation in medicinal plant tissue culture system.
Abscisic Acid ; metabolism ; Cell Culture Techniques ; Plant Growth Regulators ; metabolism ; Plants, Medicinal ; growth & development ; metabolism

Objective　To investigate the effects of anti-VEGF antibody on angiogenesis and on the proliferation and apoptosis of the osteosarcoma OS-732 cells and the vascular endothelial cells. Methods　The effects of polyclonal antibody against VEGF on OS-732 induced angiogenesis were observed by a stero-microscope and light microscope in a tumor model of the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). Furtheremore, the proliferation and apoptosis of tumor cells and vascular endothelial cells were examined by TdT-mediated dUTP nick and labelling (TUNEL) and immunohistochemical staining by using monoclonal antibody for proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Results　The number of both the newly formed vessels in the tumor and the tumor population were significantly decreased in the anti-VEGF antibody group as compared with that of the PBS control group. The apoptotic index for tumor cell was higher in the anti-VEGF antibody treated group than that in the negative control group, but the proliferation index was not significantly different between them. At the same time, increased apoptotic cells and decreased proliferation in vascular endothelial cells were also noted. Conclusion　VEGF antibody can inhibit the neovascularization of OS-732, probabaly by the mechanism of inhibi-ting the proliferation and promoting the apoptosis of vascular endothelial cells, further, might be contributive to the apoptosis of tumor cells and result in suppression of tumor growth.

Objective To explore the methods of early etiological diagnosis and principles of endovascular embolization in Hunt-Hess Ⅳ—Ⅴ grade subarachnoid hemorrhage(SAH),and to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy.Methods Thirty-one patients underwent imaging examinations such as CT and DSA to make the early diagnosis of SAH.Meanwhile,Guglielmi detachable microcoil(GDC)was used to applying aneurysmal intracapsular embolization in the ruptured aneurysms,and efficient symptomatic treatment was adopted early postoperatively.The results were tested by ?~2 test.Results All 31 cases were diagnosed early and operated successfully.Among them,the aneurysm lumen was 100% occluded in 26 cases,95% occluded in 3 cases;90% occluded in 2 cases.There were 5 cases complicating with cerebral vasospasm.One case recurrent was cured with secondary complementary GDC embolization.Nine cases(29.0%)had permanent sequelae associated with SAH.According to the Glasgow prognosis score, the therapeutic efficacy was as following:6 patients were in grade Ⅰ,9 in grade Ⅱ,4 in grade m,2 in grade Ⅳ,and 10 in grade Ⅴ;10 patients died,and the morality rate was 32.3%.None of them exhibited re-bleeding with follow-up period of 3 to 68 months postoperatively.Morality rates were significantly different between the group with aneurysmal diameter of 11—25 mm and the group of 5—10 mm(?~2=6.60,P