To develop a new temperature control moxibustion device so as to improve the clinical therapeutic effect of moxibustion. According to the thermal effect of moxibustion, with the designs such as the modern electronic equipment (temperature control system) adopted and in combination of smoke filtration device and oxygen mask device, a new temperature control moxibustion device was developed. The new temperature control moxibustion device may achieve the automatic regulation of temperature and distance and avoid the pollution and irritation of smoke and flavor, etc. As a result, the traditional moxibustion therapy can better play its efficacy and display its safety and convenience in practice.
Equipment Design ; Humans ; Moxibustion ; instrumentation ; methods ; Temperature

Objective To investigate the incidence and pregnancy outcomes of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) in pregnant women in Beijing.Methods A retrospective multicenter study of 18 534 cases delivered in Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital,Beijing Friendship Hospital,Daxing MCH Hospital and Tongzhou MCH Hospital from January 2011 to December 2011,was conducted.Results Among 18 534 cases,PROM occurred in 4 504 cases (24.30％),including 3 910 cases of in term PROM (21.10％) and 594 cases of preterm PROM (3.20％).The incidence of premature delivery was 6.17％ (1 144/18 534),and among 1 144 cases of premature delivery 547 cases were PROM (47.81％);the incidence of PROM was 22.75％ (3 957/17 390) in term delivery.The overall cesarean section (CS) rate was 48.50％ (8 989/18 534) and that in pregnant women with PROM was 35.55％ (1 601/4 504),but the CS rate in pregnant women without PROM was 52.66％ (7 388/14 030).The rate of postpartum hemorrhage was 13.12％ (210/1 601)in CS cases and 4.17％ (121/2 903) in vaginal delivery cases (x2 =121.361,P=0.000).The mean hospital stay for PROM was (5.3±2.9) d in CS cases and (4.3±2.3) d in vaginal delivery cases (t =-12.136,P =0.000).Conclusions Without severe maternal or fetal complications,the incidence of PROM is relatively high in Beijing region and PROM may not increase the maternal or fetal complications.Vaginal delivery is the main mode of delivery for PROM.Cesarean section may not cause less neonatal complications,but may lead to more postpartum hemorrhage and longer hospital stay.

A rapid headspace gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometric ( HS-GC/MS ) method was established for the analysis of volatile fatty acids ( VFAs ) in the feces. Feces were suspended by 6%phosphoric acid aqueous solution (1:2 m/V) and sealed in the headspace bottle for HS-GC/MS analysis. The HS-GC/MS method was optimized as follows: agitator temperature ( temp. ):80 ℃, syringe temp.:80 ℃, sample incubation time: 30 min, injection: 1 mL without split-flow. The chromatographic separation was performed on a DB-FFAP capillary column (30m×0. 25 mm×0. 25 μm) with injection port temp.:250 ℃. The temperature program ( initial temp. at 50 ℃ within first 1 min, and raised to 200 ℃ by 10 ℃/min) was employed by fixing the flow of carrier gas (high purity helium) at 1. 0 mL/min. The electron energy at -70 eV for electron impact ( EI ) ionization, ion source temp.: 250 ℃, transfer line temp.:280 ℃, the voltage of electron multiplier at 0. 95 kV. The spectra were recorded in the range of m/z 33-200 for full scan. The established HS-GC/MS method could be applied to analyze VGAs in the feces from human and rat appropriately. There are nine VFAs identified in the feces from human, and eight VFAs detected in the feces from rat by retrieving the NIST library, comparing with the standards and analyzing the MS data. Furthermore, the relative percentage contents of acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid accounted for roughly 85% of all VFAs by area normalization. The method is simple and sensitive, and it can be used to rapidly detect VFAs in the feces from human and rat.

To investigate the protection effect of DNA vaccine in mammalian and avian systems, the DNA vaccine was inoculated in both BALB/c mice and SPF chickens immunized with DNA vaccines encoding hemagglutinin (HA) from A/Goose/GuangDong/1/96 (H5N1) virus. The mice and chickens were immunized twice, 3 weeks apart, by electroporation into muscles or intramuscular injection. Two weeks after the second immunization, the mice and chickens were challenged with a lethal dose of homologous virus. The mice and chickens immunized by electroporation obtained completely protection against the virus, and could effectively inhibited viruses to replicating in mouse lung and chicken cloaca. At the same time, these protections were companied by high levels specific antibody to H5N1 AIV, while the blank plasmid controls experience 100 percent mortality following challenge. Furthermore, in the experiment of mice by eletroporation,stronger obviously CTL activity were observed after challenge. Thus, the cellular immune responses of the mice immunized by electroporation were exhibited. These results strongly demonstrate that HA DNA vaccines provide effective protection against influenza virus infection in mammalian and avian, and suggest that electroporation is one of the efficient gene delivery systems for the transfer of influenza DNA vaccine in both humoral immunity and cellular immunity.

OBJECTIVETo study the chemical constituents from the seeds of Notopterygium franchetii.

METHODEthanol extracts of seeds N. franchetii were separated and purified by such methods as normal and reversed phase column chromatographies and thin-layer chromatography and structurally elucidated by MS and NMR evidences.

RESULTTwenty nine compounds were separated, they were isoimperatorin (1), [3-sitosterol (2), phellopterin (3), bergapten (4), N-tetra, hexa, octacosanoylanthranilic acid (5-7), daucosterol (8), oxypeucedanin hydrate (9), umbelliferone (10), demethylfuropinnarin (11), (2S, 3S, 4R, 8E)-2-[(2'R)- 2'-hydroxydoco, trico, tetraco, entaco, hexaco sanosylamino] -octadecene-1, 3, 4-triol (12-16), (-)-oxypeucedanin (17), diosmetin (18), bergaptol-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (19), nodakenin (20), 1'-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(2R, 3S)-3-hydroxynodakenetin (21), uracil (22), decuroside V (23), 8-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-5-hydroxypsoralen (24), 8-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-5-methoxylpsoralen (25), diosmin (26), alaschanioside C (27), kynurenic acid (28) and mannitol (29).

CONCLUSIONAll of these compounds were separated from the seeds of N. franchetii for the first time. Of them, 18, 22, 26 and 29 were firstly obtained from genus Notopterygium.

Apiaceae ; chemistry ; Chromatography, Thin Layer ; Coumarins ; chemistry ; Diosmin ; chemistry ; Flavonoids ; chemistry ; Furocoumarins ; chemistry ; Glucosides ; chemistry ; Kynurenic Acid ; chemistry ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Mannitol ; chemistry ; Methoxsalen ; analogs & derivatives ; chemistry ; Seeds ; chemistry ; Sitosterols ; chemistry ; Uracil ; chemistry

The central nervous system (CNS) plays a key regulatory role in glucose homeostasis. In particular, the brain is important in initiating and coordinating protective counterregulatory responses when blood glucose levels fall. This may due to the metabolic dependency of the CNS on glucose, and protection of food supply to the brain. In healthy subjects, blood glucose is normally maintained within a relatively narrow range. Hypoglycemia in diabetic patients can increase the risk of complications, such as heart disease and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The clinical research finds that the use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a positive effect on the treatment of hypoglycemia. Here the authors reviewed the current understanding of sensing and counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia, and discuss combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine and the theory of iatrogenic hypoglycemia in diabetes treatment. Furthermore, the authors clarify the feasibility of treating hypoglycemia on the basis of TCM theory and CNS and have an insight on its clinical practice.

A type of entomopathogenic fungus of soil in Citrus grandis 'tomentosa' production base was isolated and identified with morphological and molecular biological methods, including pathogenesis, spore characteristic and ITS sequence analysis were conducted. The results showed that eighteen entomopathogenic fungi strains were isolated from the Tenebrio molitor infected in the soil samples, which were identified as Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae. Based on results above, we concluded that there was quantity of Metarhizium resources in this area. These provided the useful information for controlling some pests of C. grandis by using these strains of fungus.
Animals ; Citrus ; parasitology ; Metarhizium ; isolation & purification ; physiology ; Pest Control, Biological ; methods ; Soil Microbiology

Objective:To screen the ultrasound markers of predictive value at 11-13 + 6 weeks for selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR) in monochorionic (MC) twins. Methods:A retrospective analysis of MC twin pregnancies collected prospectively from June 2020 to December 2021 at Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, with standardized ultrasound examinations performed at 11-13 + 6 weeks.According to the expert consensus on the diagnostic criteria for sFGR, collected MC twin pregnancies were divided into sFGR group and control group (normal MC twin group). Maternal age, maternal history, mode of conception, the incidence of increased nuchal translucency (NT) thickness, NT discordance, crown-rump length (CRL) discordance, abnormal ductus venous Doppler waveform and abnormal umbilical cord insertion position were compared between the two groups, and those markers that differed between groups were further analyzed for screening early ultrasound markers that could be used to predict sFGR. Results:A total of 106 cases were included in the analysis, 30 cases in sFGR group and 76 cases in control group. ①Compared with control group, sFGR group had a higher incidence of low fetal birth weight (below the 10th and 3rd percentile) in both surviving cases, large birth weight discordance and a higher incidence of birth weight inconsistency (difference >25%) ( P<0.001). ②Compared with control group, the CRL discordance was larger in sFGR group [7.8% (3.8%, 9.2%) versus 3.8% (1.5%, 7.2%)] and the incidence of abnormal cord insertion position (33.3% versus 6.6%) was higher, the differences were statistically significant ( P=0.004 and <0.001, respectively), whereas the differences of NT discordance, incidence of increased NT and abnormal ductus venous Doppler waveform were not statistically significant (all P values >0.05). ③CRL discordance was a risk factor for sFGR ( OR=1.136, 95% CI=1.021-1.264), with an area under the ROC curve of 0.682 (95% CI=0.576-0.787) for predicting sFGR, the sensitivity and specificity were 0.567 and 0.737 at a cut-off value of 6.5%. Abnormal umbilical cord insertion position was a risk factor for sFGR ( OR=7.100, 95% CI=2.176-23.167) with a sensitivity of 0.333 and specificity of 0.934 for predicting sFGR. Conclusions:CRL discordance and abnormal cord insertion position are risk factors for the development of sFGR and are of value in predicting sFGR in MC twins.

Objective:To investigate effects of bone-resorptive lesion on stress distribution of femoral head and on progression in patients with osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH).Methods:From April 2014 to September 2018, a total of 155 femoral heads from 94 patients diagnosed with ARCO stage II and III ONFH were retrospectively reviewed, including 77 males and 17 females with aged 39.90±10.45 years old (ranged from 18-64 years). The hips were divided into two groups according to whether there were bone-resorptive lesions. Further, we compared whether there was statistical difference between the two groups in staging. Then, a case of ARCO II hip joint without bone-resorptive lesion was selected from the included patients. Six femoral head with different diameters of spherical bone-resorptive lesion of 5 mm, 7 mm, 10 mm, 14 mm, 18 mm, and 23 mm were simulated. The influence of bone-resorptive lesion on the stress distribution of necrotic area and a spherical shell extending 1 mm radially around the bone-resorptive lesion was investigated by finite element method in slow walking conditions.Results:Of the 155 ONFH hips, 67 hips are complicated by bone-resorptive lesions, of which 17 were ARCO II, 50 were ARCO III. A total of 88 hips did not contain bone-resorptive lesions, of which 58 were ARCO II, ARCO III 30 cases. The proportion of ARCO stage II in the group with bone-resorptive lesions was significantly higher than that in the group without bone-resorptive lesions (χ 2=25.03, P=0.000). The finite element stress distribution cloud diagram showed that there was a stress concentration area around the bone-resorptive lesions. The maximum von Mises stress around bone-resorptive lesions in the models that contained a synthetic bone-resorptive lesions were significantly higher than those reported in the matched, non-synthetic bone-resorptive lesions finite element models ( t=3.139, P=0.026). The values for maximum von Mises stress around bone-resorptive lesions were 6.94±1.78 MPa and 5.01±0.35 MPa for the group with synthetic bone-resorptive lesions and the group non-synthetic bone-resorptive lesions, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the diameter of bone-resorptive lesions and the maximum and mean von Mises stress of necrotic areas as well as the maximum von Mises stress around bone-resorptive lesions. Conclusion:Bone-resorptive lesions can increase the maximum stress and average stress in the necrotic area. The larger the bone-resorptive lesion, the more the stress increases. There is a stress concentration area around the bone-resorptive lesions, which may accelerate the collapse of the femoral head.

Objective: A second generation CAR-NK-92 cell line expressing CD19 was constructed to investigate its specific killing effect on CD19 positive non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells. Methods: First, build CD19-CAR gene expression vector and packaged slow virus particles, then the infection rate was detected by flow cytometry after infected NK-92 cells and positive cells were further separated. Finally, detected the expression of CD19-CAR in NK-92 cells by Western blotting. U-266 with CD19 negative myeloma cells,ARH77 and HS-Sultan with CD19 positive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cells as target cells, and CD19CAR-NK-92 as effector cells, then the killing rate was calculated by the absolute number of tumor cells alive in the cell killing experiment. Results: Construct lentivirus vector pLVX-CD19-CAR and packaged virus particles successfully, the purity of CD19-CAR-NK-92 cells also was over 90% after infected with NK-92 cells; and Western blotting analysis showed that CD19-CAR had been successfully expressed in NK-92 cell. The killing effect of CD19CAR-NK-92 onARH-77 ([70.10±1.86]% vs [1.95±0.63]%, P<0.01) and HS-Sultan ([74.98±1.60]% vs [0.58±1.49]%, P< 0.01) cells was significantly higher than the empty vector control group of ZsGreen-NK-92, but there was no difference in killing U266 (P>0.05). Conclusion: The NK-92 cell lines expressing CD19CAR were successfully constructed, and also has specific killing effects on CD19 positive non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells.