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Objective To verify the effectiveness of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with multi-layer electrodes in gastric emptying measurement by simulation experiments using EIT with three-layer electrodes.Methods Firstly,EIT system with three-layer electrodes and gastric emptying measurement simulation equipment was designed and constructed to simulate gastric emptying process and obtain EIT reconstruction images.Secondly,the region where the electrical characteristic of gastric changes was selected as region of interest.Finally,the relative impedance change rate in region of interest for every image obtained from all three layers was consecutively recorded,then the gastric emptying curve was formed and gastric emptying time was calculated.Results There are obvious differences among the sharp of impedance change curves of interested region for three layers,and the gastric emptying time and process of each layer is also different from one another.It is suggested that the passing path and emptying manner of food in gastric emptying process reflected by EIT images varied from layer to layer.Therefore,the necessity and feasibility of using EIT with three-layer electrodes in gastric emptying measurement study is verified.Conclusions EIT with three-layer electrodes can provide more abundant information of gastric motility function associated with gastric emptying pathology and physiology state.It is likely to be a noninvasive,convenient and effective imaging method for the detection and evaluation research on gastric emptying and gastric motility.

Objective Practical electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system with certain measurement resolution (MR) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) differs a lot from ideal simulation conditions in EIT methodology research. The aim of this paper was to study the impact of practical system with different MR and SNR on EIT. Methods Based on the ideal simulation boundary voltages of adjacent excitation and adjacent measurement pattern, practical systems whose MR were 0.1 mV and 0.01 mV, SNR ranged from 40-80 dB and no noises were simulated, simulation study for three imaging models A, B and C with different positions in the to-be imaged field under practical system conditions above was carried out using the combined Tikhonov-NOSER regularization algorithm, and error of reconstruction (ER) function and structure similarity (SSIM) function were adopted for quantitative evaluation of image effect. Results There are differences between images obtained under different MR and SNR for different image models. In order to obtain images for three models, SNR of system should be at least 40-50 dB when MR was 0.01 mV. For the goal to obtain high quality images of A, B and C, SNR should be 80, 70 and 60 dB respectively. When MR was 0.1 mV, SNR for obtaining images of A, B, C were 60, 50 and 40 dB. Moreover, the improvement of images with increasing SNR under MR of 0.1 mV was not as obvious as that of MR at 0.01 mV. Conclusions Blind pursuit of single high SNR is of no help to improve system performance and image reconstruction effect except increasing the difficulties in hardware design. The extremity SNR is 50-60 dB for system with MR of 0.01 mV and 60-70 dB for system with MR of 0.1 mV.

Objective To investigate the effects of target-controlled confusion of propofol with different concentrations on ventricular repolarization after prophylactic infusion of cefuroxime sodium. Methods Sixty ASA physical status Ⅰ or Ⅱ female patients,aged 18-65 years,undergoing elective gynecological surgery were randomly divided into three groups:group P2 (n =20)with TCI 2 μg/ml, group P3 (n =1 9)with TCI 3 μg/ml and group P4 (n =20)with TCI 4 μg/ml.Firstly,they were re-hydrated;secondly,the patients in groups P2,P3 and P4 were intravenous infused with cefuroxime sodium 2.5 g (in 100 ml normal saline)and then target-controlled infused of propofol 2 μg/ml,3μg/ml and 4 μg/ml in target plasma concentration,respectively.At three pionts of time:after rehy-dration before intravenous antibiotics (T0 ),after intravenous antibiotics before TCI of propofol (T1 ), after TCI of propofol (T2 ),QT interval,QTc interval,Tp-e interval were measured and recorded, respectively.Results Compared with T0 ,QTc [(469.9 ± 34.0)ms vs.(451.2 ± 24.9)ms],Tp-e [(107±25)ms vs.(94±20)ms]and Tp-e/QT (0.260±0.058 vs.0.236±0.043)in group P4 were sig-nificantly prolonged at T1 (P < 0.05 ).Compared with T1 ,QTc of groups P2 [(437.4 ± 24.4)ms vs. (453.3±28.0)ms]and P4 [(438.8±29.9)ms vs.(469.9±34.0)ms]were shortened significantly at T2 (P <0.05).Conclusion Propofol could improve ventricular reporlarization heterogeneity caused by cefu-roxime sodium.

A strain NK13 was screened for a certain extent asymmetric hydrolyze the rac-ketoprofen chloroethyl ester and identified as Bacillus megaterium. For the preparation of gene libraries, a positive clones was obtained from the tributyrin flat. The sequence of this esterase gene had been analysised, and contained the whole ORF of an esterase gene with the length of 933bp. The esterase gene of NK13 was compared with the esterase genes of GenBank and the result showed that the esterase gene of NK13 was a novel gene(GenBank accession nember DQ196347).The new esterase gene was inserted into the plasmid pET21b+, then the recombinant plasmid transformed E.coli BL21. After being induced by IPTG, it was expressed in the host strain. SDS-PAGE analysis showed that the relative molecular mass of the esterase was about 34kDa. The result of TLC and HPLC showed that the recombinant strain had higher conversion ration than templet strain. 47.4%of the rac-ketoprofen Chloroethl ester was hydrolyzed to ketoprofen by the recombinant strain in 45min. The (S)- ketoprofen enantiomeric excess, in the later,was 55.46%, which indicated that the esterase could hydrolyze (S)-ketoprofen chloroethyl ester firstly.

The nitrite-reducing activity of aerobic denitrifying bacterial strain N6-1 was studied. It showed that the nitrite-reducing activity reached the highest at 30℃, 120 r/min, pH 8.5 and C/N ratio 12, using CH3COONa and NaNO2 as the sole carbon source and nitrogen source, respectively. When the initial NaNO2 concentration was 2 g/L, NO2--N was reduced completely after 20 hours cultivation with the reducing rate of 20.3 mg/L?h. There would be no effect on its nitrite-reducing activity in the present of 1.5% NaCl or 1% peptone. The cell concentration could reach 1.2?1011 CFU/mL after 24 hours cultivation in 10 L fermentor.

The ergosterols were produced from corn straw hydrolysates fermented by ergosterol yeast,which was obtained from protoplast electrofusion.The effects on the yield of ergosterol were studied in the condition of shaker,such as initial sugar concentration,nitrogen source,pH value and fermentation time.The technical conditions were optimized according to the DPS center-united experimental design principles and the method of response surface analysis with four factors and three levels.The results indicated that the four factors had significant correlation to ergosterol accumulation.The biomass and the ergosterol content could be up to 8.67g/L and 2.37% respectively after cultivated for 32h under optimal technical condition.The structure of ergosterol crystal was characterized by UV,IR and SEM.A new approach of biomass source application was presented.

Objective To study the infrared charts of three groups of winter swimming, normal constitution and HIV/AIDS, explore the characteristics of the thermal difference (△t) data of automatic thermal analysis (ATA) for reviewing the conditions of human healthy qi by applying ATA technique, and analyse the conclusion combined with TCM theory.Methods The cross-section research of the three groups was designed for observing △t data of Governor Vessel (GV), Conception Vessel (CV), Shenque (CV8), kidney, life gate, triple energizer, five zang-viscera and six bowels. The data were computed mathematically by using single factor variance analysis.Results The relative △t of GV in the three groups showed a descending order, and pairwise comparison had statistical significance respectively (P<0.01). The relative △t of CV8 and life gate was higher significantly in the groups of normal constitution and swimming than that in the group of HIV/AIDS, and △t of CV was higher significantly in the group of HIV/AIDS than that in the groups of normal constitution and swimming. The relative △t of kidney in the three groups showed a descending order, and pairwise comparison had statistical significance respectively (P<0.01).Conclusion The changes of △t of GV, CV, CV8, kidney, life gate, triple energizer, five zang-viscera and six bowels express the conditions of human healthy qi in this experiment, which is in accordance with the explanation of healthy qi in TCM theory.

Objective To assess the therapeutic effect of radioactive seed 125I brachytherapy combined with GP chemotherapy regimen (gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2, cisplatin 75 mg/m2) for inoperabale stage Ⅲ non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Thirty-nine documented inoperable stage Ⅲ NSCLC patients, enrolled between January 2005 and June 2008 for the study group, were treated with the combination of 125I brachytherapy and GP regimen. The brachytherapy methods were conducted according to TPS and each patient was treated under those patients were treated with standard GP regimen. Chest CT scans were performed every three months post-procedurally, until disease progression or recurrence. The follow-up time was up to twenty four months after treatment. In the control group, equal amount of Ⅲ stage NSCLC patients were treated with standard GP regimen alone. Chi-square test and survival analysis with Kaplan-Meier and Log-rank were used to compare the differences of recent (3 months after therapy)efficiency, survival rate, survival time between two groups. Results The re-cent effective rates of the study group (71.8%, 28/39) and control group (61.5%, 24/39) were not statistical different (χ2=0.93, P>0.05), yet the tumor CR rates in two groups showed significant disparity (χ2=4.48, P<0.05). The one-year survival rates of the study group and the control were 79.5% (31/39), 66.7%(26/39) respectively, with no significant difference (χ2=1.57, P>0.05). However, singificant differences (χ2=4.07, 4.63,both P<0.05) were found in 2-year survival rate and median survival time, with 41.0% (16/39) vs 23.1% (9/39) and 18.9±2.7 months vs 14.2±0.7 months. Conclusions 125I brachytherapy combined with GP regimen chemotherapy could be an effective treatment method and could improve the tumor CR rate and survival rate for patients with inoperable stage Ⅲ NSCLC.

Objective To evaluate the clinical value of color doppler flow image (CDFI) and three-dimension color power angiography(3D-CPA) in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Methods A total of 62 pathologically confirmed thyroid nodules of 30 patients were analyzed. All the patients underwent ultrasound examination and operation in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University between January, 2008 and May, 2009. Both CDFI and 3D-CPA were performed before the operation. All the nodules were divided into three groups including nodular goiters, thyroid adenomas and thyroid cancers according to the pathological results. The hemodynamic features and the vascular morphology characteristics of nodules in different groups were compared. Results 3D-CPA showed that blood vessels of nodular goiters commonly distributed surrounding the mass and the inner vessels were thin and regular, thyroid adenomas were bulb-shaped and netted structure, and malignant thyroid nodules displayed distorted and irregular distributed vessels. Peak systolic velocity (PSV)of the three groups were (39.43±11.17a), (46.39±12.98) and (65.17±9.23)cm/s, respectively. Resistance index(RI) of the three groups were (0.32±0.08), (0.41±0.06) and (0.69±0.07)cm/s, respectively. Both PSV and RI in malignant thyroid nodules were higher than in nodular goiters and in thyroid adenomas and the difference were statistical significant (all P < 0.05). The blood flow grade of malignant nodules was also higher in malignant nodules than in other two groups(χ2 = 17.11, 12.79, 23.05, 15.41, P< 0.01). Conclusions CDFI and 3D-CPA could visually demonstrate the characteristic and distribution of the inner and outer blood vessels, display the vessels structures, and they are benefit the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules.