Dental Amalgam ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Dental Caries ; therapy ; Dentists ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Dissent and Disputes ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Humans ; Impetigo ; etiology ; Liability, Legal ; Psoriasis ; etiology

Bile Duct Neoplasms ; pathology ; surgery ; Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic ; Cholangiocarcinoma ; pathology ; surgery ; Humans

Antiviral Agents ; therapeutic use ; Hepatitis C ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis ; drug therapy ; virology

China ; epidemiology ; Data Collection ; standards ; Humans ; Occupational Diseases ; chemically induced ; epidemiology ; Occupational Exposure ; statistics & numerical data ; Occupational Health ; statistics & numerical data ; Occupational Medicine ; legislation & jurisprudence

Objective The Hilbert- Huang transformation (HHT) method was introduced to process the bio-impedance gastric motility signals from subjects.Methods Nonlinear and non-stationary original gastric motility series were decomposed into a number of intrinsic mode function (1MF) components by the empirical mode decomposition method (EMD).Hilbert transformation was carried out then and instantaneous frequency was extracted effectively.Gastric motility signal among 0.03-0.06 Hz was reconstructed from the IMF.Results The results suggested that HHT was a new and applicable time series analysis method based on mode decomposition and could extract impedance signal and remove the disturbances such as blood flow and breathing.Conclusion The new adaptive mode decomposition-based signal processing method provides a new method to investigate clinical gastric motility information.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; diagnosis ; genetics ; therapy ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Electrocardiography ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Syndrome

Objective To investigate the effect of reinforcing spleen and kidney method on adriamycin-induced CKD in rats and to explore its possible mechanism.Methods Totally 36 Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into a Adriamycin-induced model group and a control group.The model group was further divided into five groups:the Adriamycin-induced model control group,bennazepril-treated group,and TCM treated low,moderate,and high dose groups.The level of serum creatinine,urea nitrogen,24hours urine protein and urine creatinine were measured at 14,28,42 days after establishing the model rats.And the protein expression of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21cip1 (p21)were detected by immunohistochemistry.Results The proteinuria was observed on the seventh day after injection of adriamycin in adriamycin nephropathy model group,and reached summit on the fourteenth day.Both TCM treated groups and benazepril group reduced the level of urine protein within 24 hours (P＜0.05),the reduction was most remarkable in the TCM high dose group.The expression of p21 and TGF-β1 (p21 288627.66±97021.65,TGF-β1 98405.14± 19216.89) in kidney increased in the model groups,while the TCM treated high dose group (p21 518886.35±6810.89,TGF-β1 222012.95± 50484.73) was significantly lower than the model control group (P＜ 0.05).Conclusion Reinforcing spleen and kidney method could decrease the level of urine protein within 24 hours by regulating the expression of p21 and TGF-β1,so thus to protect renal function and delay progress of kidney disease.

Objective To understand the body burden of PAES in the children aged 10-12 years,living in city and countryside and estimate the potential hazard of PAEs for the children. Methods The reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was employed to determine the serum level of three kinds PAEs (DEP,DBP and DEHP) in two groups of children,including 36 city children and 38 countryside children in Jan. 2007. Results In the city children,the average serum level (median) of PAEs was 0.002 6 mg/L for DEP,0.035 9 mg/L for DBP and 0.106 25 mg/L for DEHP. In the countryside children,the serum level of PAEs was 0.000 0 mg/L for DEP,0.040 6 mg/L for DBP and 0.052 45 mg/L for DEHP. The differences of average levels of DEP and DEHP between the two groups were significant (P

One hundred and twenty cases of osteosarcoma were reported.Re-examination of all the tissue specimens revealed that typical neoplastic osteoid was found only in 83% of the cases.It is now generally accepted that the demonstration of osteoid is not essential for the diagnosis,but the microscopic features of sarcomatous stroma,pheomorphism of osteoblasts,anaplastic giant cells,chondrosarcomatous and fihrosarcomatous tissue are of diagnostic importance.The differential diagnosis between neoplastid osteoid and pseudo-osteoid(fibrillar hyalin-ized collagen)were discussed.Forty-eight surgical specimens were stained with polyclonal actin,monoclonal BMP,vi-mentin,collagen type IV and UEA-1 with immunohistochemical ABC.It was found that when there was combined positive expression of monoclonal BMP,vimentin,collagen type IV,UEA-1 and polyclonal actin,or monoclonal BMP,vimentin UEA-1 and/or polyclonal actin,or monoclonal BMP,vimentin and/or polyclonal actin,it was of diagnostic value.However,the five markers were of no value to distinguish fibrillar hyalinized collagen from osteoid stroma.It is believed that the appropriate combination of the immunohistochemical markers is imperative to promote the accuracy of the pathological diagnosis of osteosarcoma and its differential diagnosis.

Oncomodulin(OM) is a kind of Ca-bind protein(CABP),and it belongs to the tropon in C super family.It different from other CABP because of its special domain(CD domain) which could bind with Ca2+.Multiple functions of OM have been determined during the study of its construction and distribution.It plays very important role in adjusting cell electric activity,regulating cell signal conduction passageway and cell cycle.In recent years,the study on OM promoting axon regeneration is emerging,especially in the regeneration of optical nerve.It offers a basis for solving the regeneration of spinal cord and cranial nerve.The concept,construction and distribution,action mechanism and its relationship with regeneration of optical nerve were reviewed in this article.