Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was used to treat 49 cases of restless legs syndrome. Yanglingquan (GB 34), Jinggu(BL 64), Chengshan (BL 57), Chengjin (BL 56) and Shangqiu (SP 5) were the main acupoints; Ganshu (BL 18), Shenshu (BL 23) and Taixi ( KI 3)were matched to the type of deficiency of liver and kidney yin; Xuehai (SP 10) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6) were matched to the type of cold-dampness entering interior. Chengshan (BL 57) and Chengjin (BL 56) were needled. After the arrival of qi, warm needling was done. Bilateral cases disappeared and the clinical symptoms of 1 case disappeared partly.

Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a high spatial resolution,three-dimensional,and gradient echo magnetic resonance technique.Recent studies have shown that SWI can be used to detect the intra-arterial thrombi,assess the viability of the ischemic brain tissue,and predict the short-and long-term outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke.This article reviews the application of SWI in these fields.

Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare stroke type,accounting for 0.5％ to 1％ of all strokes.The correct diagnosis of CVST depends on neuroimaging examination.This article reviews the imaging diagnosis of CVST.

The clinical examination results of 310 patients with advanced schistosomiasis were analyzed,the results showed that the conditions of most of the cases were severe.which should be paid aRenfion to.

Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) can differentiate into mature endothelial cells and participate in postnatal vascular regeneration and impaired endothelium repair.Rearches in recent years on use of EPCs as seed cells in promoting angiogenesis,maintaining the integrity of endothelial function and constructing tissue engineered blood vessels are reviewed.

In this article, we summarize the main policy on encouraging nongovernmental investors to establish medical institutions in Wenzhou , Zhejiang Province.Based on the survey of private medical institutions in Wenzhou , we find that there are still many issues that should be resolved in terms of nongovernmental investors establishing pri -vate hospitals , such as the difficulty in implementing construction projects , spending too long time applying for the medical insurance unit , the complicated application procedures of incentive funds , the unequal status with public health hospitals in financing and the development of human resource for health , and the low-level administration and social reputation.Therefore , for promoting the sustainable development of private health hospitals , it is of great im-portance to have a breakthrough in the implementation of the policy ,such as supporting policies reform , financing and talent support , strengthening supervision , and so on.

Investigations and interviews on six county (city)-level public hospitals practicing the drug zero price margin policy discovered increases on average outpatient expense per visit,average outpatient drug expense per visit,ratio of outpatient drug expense,average drug expense per hospital discharge,and ratio of drug expense upon discharge as well as the total ratio of drug expenses.An analysis of the poor performance of the policy results in the following recommendations.A better performance of this policy calls for support of such reforms as drug supply manner,drug price control,doctors' incentives for over-prescription and payment manner at public hospitals.Only with these support can this policy reach its expected outcomes of alleviating the drug expense burden of the people.

Long noncoding RNAs ( lncRNAs ) are transcribed RNA molecules greater than 200 nucleotides in length. In recent years, studies have shown that lncRNAs have many important bi-ological functions. With the development of modern biological technology, lncRNAs transcripts can be easily detected and pre-dicted. However, unlike protein-coding genes whose sequence motifs usually have indicative function, lncRNA sequence infor-mation is currently uninformative for function prediction. Thus, how to decode the function of lncRNAs has gradually become a hot issue in genome research. The paper summarizes the studies regarding the methods to probe the function of lncRNAs.

BACKGROUND:Fewer ethical issues exist in adult stem cells, and some operating technologies are relatively mature. Therefore, to construct tissue-engineered salivary glands using adult stem cells is very attractive and seductive with an extremely important application prospect. OBJECTIVE:To establish a rat model of salivary gland injury by ligation of the main excretory duct of the submandibular gland and to explore the existing feasibility and location of adult stem cells in the injured models. METHODS:The main excretory duct of the right submandibular glands was ligated in Sprague-Dawley rats. After 1 week, rats were kil ed to remove the bilateral glands that were then subject to hematoxylin-eosin staining, PAS glycogen staining and immunohistochemical staining for determination of CK-19, Bcl-2, Ki-67. After that, we compared the normal submandibular gland with the damaged model after ligation of main excretory duct. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The rats showed differences in the volume and mass of the affected and normal submandibular glands. The normal submandibular gland was oval, ruddy, smooth, soft with an intact envelop. After ligation, the injured submandibular gland appeared to have atrophy with dark red in color, irregular morphology, envelop congestion, and rough texture;the surrounding vessels showed compensatory expansion. PAS-positive gland cells disappeared, CK-19-postive smal duct epithelial cells proliferated, and laminin-positive cells that were rarely found in the normal gland existed around the duct. In addition, Bcl-2/Ki-67 positive cells were both increased. These findings indicate that stem/progenitor cells may be located in the periductal area of the submandibular gland;and the model of submandibular gland injury established by ligation of the main excretory duct is effective to activate stem/progenitor cells in the submandibular gland.

Objective To investigate the relationship between mRNA expression of DMBT1 in breast cancer tissues and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with breast cancer.Methods 60 cases of breast cancer tissues,30 cases of breast paracancerous hyperplasia tissues and 30 cases of breast paracancerous normal tissues were selected,then reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were performed to detect the differential expression of DMBT1 in mRNA levels.Furthermore,its relationship with clinicopathological characteristics of patients with breast cancer was analyzed.Results 44 out of 60 breast cancer tissues were detected no or low expression of DMBT1 (73.3％),and 16 out of 60 cases were found normal expression of DMBT1(26.7％).There were statistically significant differences between paracancerous normal tissues and breast cancer tissues,also between paracancerous hyperplasia tissues and breast cancer tissues (x2 =11.72,P =0.000 62 ; x2 =15.99,P =0.000 06).No significant difference was found between the low expression of DMBT1 with the age of patients (x2 =1.733,P =0.188),the size of tumor (x2 =0.776,P =0.378) and the histological grade of tissues (x2 =1.000,P =0.316).However,the loss rates of DMBT1 mRNA expression in patients with lymph node metastasis and clinical stage Ⅲ were higher than that in patients without metastasis and clinicalⅠ-Ⅱstage (x2 =4.885,P =0.026 ; x2 =4.600,P =0.032).Conclusion Low expression of DMBT1 mRNA is closely associated with the metastasis and clinical stage of breast cancer.