Malt is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. Vitamin B exercises for invigorating the spleen and relieving depression of the liver. Polysaccharides have the effect of lowering blood glucose. Enzymes have the effect of digestion and accumulation. Alkaloids are related to terminating lactation, Soothing the Liver and induced abortion. Dietary fiber helps to strengthen spleen. In this paper, the chemical composition and clinical application of malt were reviewed in order to provide reference for the development and application of malt related preparations.

Objective:To design and validate a high-quality rapid screening questionnaire based on the common medical history and clinical experience of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).Methods:A questionnaire was designed based on expert′s opinions, and the first-time patients who complained of dizziness and vertigo in the vertigo clinic of the First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from September 2020 to June 2021 were prospectively screened. Taking the displacement test as the gold standard, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested to evaluate its authenticity, reliability and benefit value. This study was divided into three steps. The first step was to conduct a pre-experiment and to adjust the questionnaire items; the second step was to determine the questionnaire items and the best cut-off value; the third step was to screen patients with the best cut-off value and to evaluate the quality of the questionnaire.Results:Seven items were finalized. The Cronbach′s coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.675, the content validity was 0.85, the KMO value of the construct validity was 0.648, and there were 4 factors with characteristic root>1, and the cumulative contribution rate was 76.309%. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was 0.938, and its optimal cut-off value was 4.5 points. At this point, the sensitivity was 88.89% and the specificity was 85.44%.Conclusion:The BPPV rapid screening questionnaire has high sensitivity and specificity, which can be used for clinical screening of BPPV patients.

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of intravenous thrombolytic therapy mode led by fast-track specialist nurses on patients with acute ischemic stroke(AIS).Methods This study involved 124 AIS patients who underwent intravenous thrombolytic therapy in the Department of Emergency of our hospital from March 2021 to February 2023.Among the patients,61 admitted between March 2021 and February 2022 received conventional AIS thrombolytic therapy were assigned to a control group.While the 63 patients who received AIS thrombolytic therapy under the specialist nurse-led intravenous thrombolytic therapy mode between March 2022 and February 2023 were assigned to an observation group.The two groups were compared in terms of the time from admission to completion of CT examination,time for signing the informed consent for thrombolytic therapy,door to needle time and percentage of DTN<60 minutes,as well as the post-thrombolysis scores according to the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale(NIHSS)and satisfaction to medical consultation.Results The observation group exhibited a significantly shorter time from admission to completion of CT examination,a shorter time for signing an informed consent for thrombolytic therapy,a shorter door to needle time and a higher percentage of DTN<60 minutes,all with significant difference in comparison with those in the control group.After thrombolysis,the NIHSS score of the observation group decreased more than that of the control group(P<0.05).The patients and their families in the observation group reported significantly higher satisfaction compared to those in the control group(both P<0.05).Conclusion The fast-track specialist nurse-led intravenous thrombolytic therapy mode demonstrates the superiority in reduction of the time from admission to completion of CT examination,time for signing an informed consent for thrombolytic therapy,door to needle time and the NIHSS scores,higher percentage of DTN<60 minutes as well as improvement of patient satisfaction.

In the 19th century, modern stomatology education were introduced into China with the impact of the west medicine and education. The apprenticeship of modern stomatology education were carried out by missionaries firstly, and then changed to dental schools established by the missionaries or foreigners, which was replaced partly by local Chinese dentists later and improved the development of modern Chinese stomatology education preliminarily.

Human fibroblast growth factor 21 (hFGF21) has become a candidate drug for regulating blood glucose and lipid metabolism. The poor stability and short half-life of hFGF21 resulted in low target tissue availability, which hampers its clinical application. In this study, the hFGF21 was fused with a recombinant human serum albumin (HSA), and the resulted fusion protein rHSA-hFGF21 was expressed in Pichia pastoris. After codon optimization, the recombinant gene fragment rHSA-hFGF21 was inserted into two different vectors (pPIC9k and pPICZαA) and transformed into three different strains (X33, GS115 and SMD1168), respectively. We investigated the rHSA-hFGF21 expression levels in three different strains and screened an engineered strain X33-pPIC9K-rHSA-hFGF21 with the highest expression level. To improve the production efficiency of rHSA-hFGF21, we optimized the shake flask fermentation conditions, such as the OD value, methanol concentration and induction time. After purification by hollow fiber membrane separation, Blue affinity chromatography and Q ion exchange chromatography, the purity of the rHSA-hFGF21 protein obtained was 98.18%. Compared to hFGF21, the biostabilities of rHSA-hFGF21, including their resistance to temperature and trypsinization were significantly enhanced, and its plasma half-life was extended by about 27.6 times. Moreover, the fusion protein rHSA-hFGF21 at medium and high concentration showed a better ability to promote glucose uptake after 24 h of stimulation in vitro. In vivo animal studies showed that rHSA-hFGF21 exhibited a better long-term hypoglycemic effect than hFGF21 in type 2 diabetic mice. Our results demonstrated a small-scale production of rHSA-hFGF21, which is important for large-scale production and clinical application in the future.
Animals ; Blood Glucose/metabolism* ; Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental ; Fibroblast Growth Factors ; Humans ; Hypoglycemic Agents/metabolism* ; Methanol/metabolism* ; Mice ; Pichia/metabolism* ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism* ; Saccharomycetales ; Serum Albumin/metabolism* ; Serum Albumin, Human/metabolism*

Objective:To observe the effects of the periodontal subgingival scaling in different stages of standardized residency training of stomatology general medicine.Methods:Thirty residents in Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine were recruited by stratified randomization and divided into three groups, including 1-month group, 3-month group and 6-month group. The residual ratio of clinical calculus was compared after periodontal subgingival scaling among groups. SPSS 23.0 was conducted for Kruskal-Wallis H test. Results:The mean residual ratio of clinical calculus in 3-month group and 6-month group were significantly lower than that in the 1-month group. In the 3-month group, the scaling could only achieve the effective results at the shallow pockets and anterior tooth area. Compared with the 1-month group, the 6-month group significantly decreased the residual ratio of clinical calculus for the sites with pocket depth of 4-6 mm, but there were still insufficiency to deal with the posterior tooth area.Conclusion:The 3-6 months residency training of periodontology could improve the effectiveness of the periodontal subgingival scaling. We should establish reasonable assessment and evaluation system according to different stages of residents, and the subgingival scaling training in the posterior areas and the distal interproximal sites should be reinforced in order to more effectively improve the quality of the standardized residency training.