Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is the endothelial cell-specific mitogen, facili-tates endothelial cell proliferation, increases vascular permeability and accelerates the formation of new blood vessels role. Angiogenesis is an important physiological and pathological significance of the process. In the human wound healing, inflammation, organ regeneration and tumor growth and metastasis, vascular prolifer-ative diseases, angiogenesis is an important role. Therapeutic angiogenesis is the use of inducible factor or vascular endothelial progenitor ceils, simulates in vivo angiogenesis mechanism, promotes angiogenesis and improves the collateral circulation. In this paper, VEGF and therapeutic ansiogenesis research progress were reviewed.

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic non-specific intestinal tract inflammation,currently,its etiology and pathogenesis are not clear.The current conventional treatments include salicylic acid drugs, steroids, immunosuppressive agents, biological agents and surgery, but the prognosis is still not very optimistic.In recent years, a variety of other treatment options have emerged, such as anti-cytokine antibody, anti-chemokine antibodies.Clinicians pay more attention to treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease(IBD) is characterized by chronic non-specific inflammatory dis ease.The inflammation caused by abnormal immune response in intestinal mucosa exerts an important role in the pathogenesis of IBD.T helper 17 cells(Th17)are involved in the development of chronic inflammation and auto immune disease,whereas regulatory T cells can inhibit the function of autoimmune,and thus the balance of Th17/Treg balance plays an important role in intestinal homeostasis.Various strategies can be done to modulate Th17/Treg balance,such as antigen-presenting cells,microoganisms,some key molecules,natural compounds,proving a promising therapeutic method for IBD.

Objective To discussing the methods used in creating non linear developable biomechanical models of skeletal muscle.Methods One of the basic tools of the analytical approach in analytical mechanics, the principle of virtual work for deformable systems, was used to create the model. By means of method of Lagrange multipliers, the problems of constraints, such as the incompressibility of skeletal muscle, were effectively tackled. Results and Conclusion The biomechanical models of skeletal muscle has been developed. The program of this model can be used to obtain nodal displacement coordinates of given nodal coordinates and parameters.

Animals ; Brain ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Brain Ischemia ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Male ; Malondialdehyde ; metabolism ; Phytotherapy ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Reperfusion Injury ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; Superoxide Dismutase ; metabolism

Objective To evaluate the effect of selective decontamination of digestive tract(SDD)on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia by Meta-analysis based on theory and method of evidence-based medicine.Methods Six medical databases (PubMed,Excerpta Medica Database [EMBASE],China Biology Medicine disc[CBMdi-sc],China National Knowledge Infrastructure[CNKI],VIP database,from 1995 to 2014,and Cochrane Library of issue 12,2014 )were searched,literatures were selected,data were extracted,Meta-analysis was performed by using RevMan 5.3 software.Results 13 literatures were included (2 676 patients were involved),Meta-analysis revealed that the incidence of VAP in treatment and control group was 20.68% and 35.99% respectively (OR and 95%CI ,0.40 [0.28,0.56],P <0.001 ),the mortality rate of patients with mechanical ventilation in treatment group and control group were 20.60% and 20.03% respectively (OR and 95%CI ,0.99 [0.81 ,1 .20],P =0.91 ). Conclusion SDD can reduce the incidence of VAP in patients with mechanical ventilation,but can’t reduce mortali-ty rate.

Professor XIA Shouren is a famous acupuncture master in China and has devoted his life to clinical practice, teaching and scientific study of TCM. In his 50 years of medical career, he has studied Chinese and western medicine, innovated ancient masters' experiences, adhered to the theory of "less but highly-effective needling", specified at genjie points and deeply explored the specificity of acupoints. Additionally, the acupuncture stfudy has been firstly conducted in the diagnosis and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in China and his own unique academic thought has been formed. Professor XIA Shouren makes the contribution to the theory, practice and inheritance of acupuncture and moxibustion.
Acupuncture ; education ; history ; Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; history ; China ; History, 20th Century ; Humans ; Male

BACKGROUND: Cytokine abnormality, nerve function abnormality and hormone levels may contribute to osteoporosis occurrence following spinal cord injury (SCI), many papers are about cytokine and hormone, but fewer is related to abnormal nerve function on bone accommodation.OBJECTIVE: To innovatively apply blood biochemistry and immunohistochemistry on the observation of change of calcitonin gene-related peptide distributing in trabecular bone of SCI rats, and to analyze its significance in the osteoporosis. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: Randomized control animal trials were performed from September 2008 to December 2008 at the laboratory of Orthopedic Institute in the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese PLA,MATERIALS: Forty-eight Sprague Dawley rats aged 3 months, weighing (210:1:16) g, were divided into SCI group and control group equally. METHODS: Rats in the SCI group underwent spinal cord transection at the tenth thoracic vertebrae. Control rats underwent laminectomy without any spinal cord lesion. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Each 8 rats were sacrificed at 1, 3, 6 weeks postoperatively. The serum concentrations of bone-specific alkaline phosphotase and serum cross-linked N-telopeptide of type Ⅰ collagen were determined. The stain intensity of calcitonin gene-related peptide in trabacular bone was determined with use of quantitative immunohistochemistry technique and computer image analysis system.RESULTS: The cross-linked N-telopeptida of type Ⅰ collagen significantly increased in SCI group at defferent interval compared with control group (P <0.05 or 0.01 ), serum concentrations of bone-specific alkaline phosphotase was lower than control group,without significant difference (P > 0.05). Immunoreactivity of calcitonin gene-related peptide in trabecular bone was strongly positive in control group, while weakened in SCI group (P < 0.05 or 0.01).CONCLUSION: Reduced calcitonin gene-related peptide in trabecular bone of SCI rats may be related to the occurrence of osteoporosis following SCI.

Objective To study the efficacy and adverse reactions of the treatment on different types of infantile hemangiomas (IH) with different doses of propranolol .Methods One hundred and fifty cases of IH without contraindications were randomly treated with different doses of propranolol (low dose group:1 mg?kg -1 ?d-1 ;high dose group:2 mg?kg -1 ?d-1 ) under ECG monitoring inferior half an hour to breastfeeding taking ,and stay in hospital for observation for 6 to 24 hours after the treatment . The patients returned to the hospital for review every month(ECG and blood RT ;lung function in necessary) .Results The curative effect is better on strawberry IH than that on flat IH ,also better on deeply IH than that on superficial IH .The adverse reactions oc‐curred relatively slight in the low dose group and there was no significantly statistical differences on the treatment effects between the both groups(P>0 .05) .Conclusion It is safe and effective to treat IH with propranolol .

Objective To evaluate the utility of the Chinese version of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale(EPDS)when being used in puerperas in Chengdu.Methods Following translation and back translation,the EPDS was commented by six experts,then a prospective cohort of 732 women completed the EPDS and the Beck depression inventory(BDI)three to fourteen days after siring birth.Rusuits The concordance rates of translation and back translation were all 100%;the content validity ratio of the EPDS was 0.9333;the Cronbaeh's alpha coefficient of the EPDS was 0.76,the cumulative variance contribution of the two factors was 44.979%,and the spearman correlation coefficient between the EPDS and BDI was 0.584,＜0.01.Conclusions The EPDS possesses good cknical pefformanee,is very concise,easy to read and understand and well accepted by mainland Chinese puerperas and researchers.It is a good instrument for screening for postnatal depression in puerperas of Chengdu.