1. Application of medical failure mode and effect analysis in blood sample management in phase I clinical trials
Yan SONG ; Linyan GAO ; Yanping ZHANG ; Xiang LI ; Lan ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2021;26(9):1031-1036
AIM: To explore the application effect of medical failure mode and effect analysis in the blood sample management of phase I clinical trials, and to provide a basis for improving the quality of blood sample management. METHODS: Convenient sampling was used to draw blood samples from healthy subjects in phase I clinical trials as the research objects. According to whether the medical failure mode and effect analysis method was implemented, they were divided into 3 080 control groups and 3 064 observation groups. The unqualified rate of blood samples, the number of unqualified items, the satisfaction of subjects and the passing rate of the researcher's examination between the two groups were compared. RESULTS: The unqualified rate of blood samples in the control group was 1.95%, and the unqualified rate of blood samples in the observation group was 0.59%. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). The number of unqualified items in the blood samples of the observation group was lower than that of the control group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). The satisfaction of subjects in the observation group and the passing rate of the investigator were higher than those in the control group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: The implementation of medical failure mode and effect analysis not only provides qualified biological samples for the detection and analysis of drug concentration in clinical trials, but also enhances the standardization and specialization of researchers, and contributes to the improvement of the overall quality of clinical trials.
2. Progress in drug prevention and treatment of migraine
Xinyi YANG ; Jing ZHANG ; Nanyang LI ; Haijing YANG ; Xiaomeng MAO
Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2020;25(12):1429-1435
Migraine is a common nervous system disease, which could seriously affect the quality of life. However, the medical treatment of migraine cannot meet the clinical needs at present. With the deepening of research, serotonin 1F receptor agonists and drugs targeting CGRP are more and more developed and marketed. In this paper, the mechanism of action, safety and efficacy, metabolic characteristics of these drugs were systematically evaluated to provide a more scientific basis for clinical prevention and treatment of migraine.
3.A New Carotid Artery Transplantation Model of Rats
GAO SIHAI ; LI PING ; ZHAO JINPING ; ZHANG YUNFENG ; SUN YU
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) 2009;29(1):131-133
To establish a murine carotid artery transplantation model for the study of the chronic re-jection,80 rats were divided into two groups,an allotransplant (ACI-Lewis) group and an isotrans-plant (Lewis-Lewis) group (control group).The donor carotid artery and the recipient carotid artery were anastomosed by using a polyethylene cuff (internal diameter:0.7 mm,length:3 mm).The pathological changes of carotid artery transplant were observed 14,28 and 56 days after the trans-plantation.The results showed that the model was successfully established in 95% of the animals.The chronic rejection-associated arteriosclerosis was induced 28 days after the transplantation.The new chronic rejection model of carotid artery by using cuff technique caused fewer traumas and was easy to make.The pathological changes of the transplant mimicked the chronic rejection-associated arteriosclerosis found in human transplant.
4. Brief analysis on the measures for the management of instruments and equipment in phase drug clinical trials
Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2020;25(8):890-894
AIM: To discuss the standardized management methods of drug clinical trial instruments and equipment based on the analysis of current situation of the management in drug clinical trial instruments and equipment in institutions. METHODS: Through literature searching and our experience, we analyzed the nowadays problems in management of instruments and equipment, established and improved the management system, refined the standard operating procedures, promoted information management, and strengthened the construction of professional team of instrument and equipment management or database. RESULTS: The implementation of dedicated management ensured the whole implementation management, reduced the frequency in management problems, and improved the professional level of instrument and equipment management. CONCLUSION: The construction of standardized instrument and equipment management system is the premise of standardized development of drug clinical trials, which improves the management level of drug clinical trial instruments and equipment, ensures the authenticity and accuracy of trial data, and effectively enhances the quality of following drug clinical trials.
5.Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Occasional Drug Craving and Non-Craving
Ayesha NIDA ; Arsalan HAIDER ; Xiang-Yang ZHANG
Psychiatry Investigation 2024;21(9):947-957
Objective:
The rate of drug craving not only in Pakistan is escalating rapidly, but also from a wide range of cultures and geographically have been impacted by the drug problem. Recently, drug cravings among young Pakistani school and college students have significantly increased, particularly illegal substances like hashish, heroin, and ecstasy.
Methods:
We recruited 338 students and gathered demographic and drug-craving data through a survey. To assess the study variables, we used the parental acceptance-rejection short version, peer pressure questionnaire, and adult personality assessment scale.
Results:
The prevalence rate of occasional drug craving was 44.1% (tobacco, 39.9%; heroin, 1.8%; ice, 0.6%; and others), and 55.9% have never tried them. Initially, drug craving at the first onset at the age of 14 in friend gatherings (15.7%) in stressful situations (11.2%), high-income families, particularly in joint family systems with paternal rejection, peer enforcement, and maladjustment had a higher risk than affectionate parents and conventional peers. Stepwise binary logistic regression analysis disclosed that age, socioeconomic status, father affection, hostility, rejection, negligence, peer influences, and psychosocial adjustment, mother hostility were independently associated with occasional drug cravings.
Conclusion
Findings suggested the high prevalence of occasional drug cravings in Pakistani students in the capital territory. Furthermore, the demographic and other social and clinical aspects could be linked. This study carried out theoretical significance in understanding the predictors of occasional drug craving and psychological adjustment, highlighting the peer and parent’s roles and the educational institutions.
6.Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Occasional Drug Craving and Non-Craving
Ayesha NIDA ; Arsalan HAIDER ; Xiang-Yang ZHANG
Psychiatry Investigation 2024;21(9):947-957
Objective:
The rate of drug craving not only in Pakistan is escalating rapidly, but also from a wide range of cultures and geographically have been impacted by the drug problem. Recently, drug cravings among young Pakistani school and college students have significantly increased, particularly illegal substances like hashish, heroin, and ecstasy.
Methods:
We recruited 338 students and gathered demographic and drug-craving data through a survey. To assess the study variables, we used the parental acceptance-rejection short version, peer pressure questionnaire, and adult personality assessment scale.
Results:
The prevalence rate of occasional drug craving was 44.1% (tobacco, 39.9%; heroin, 1.8%; ice, 0.6%; and others), and 55.9% have never tried them. Initially, drug craving at the first onset at the age of 14 in friend gatherings (15.7%) in stressful situations (11.2%), high-income families, particularly in joint family systems with paternal rejection, peer enforcement, and maladjustment had a higher risk than affectionate parents and conventional peers. Stepwise binary logistic regression analysis disclosed that age, socioeconomic status, father affection, hostility, rejection, negligence, peer influences, and psychosocial adjustment, mother hostility were independently associated with occasional drug cravings.
Conclusion
Findings suggested the high prevalence of occasional drug cravings in Pakistani students in the capital territory. Furthermore, the demographic and other social and clinical aspects could be linked. This study carried out theoretical significance in understanding the predictors of occasional drug craving and psychological adjustment, highlighting the peer and parent’s roles and the educational institutions.
7.Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Occasional Drug Craving and Non-Craving
Ayesha NIDA ; Arsalan HAIDER ; Xiang-Yang ZHANG
Psychiatry Investigation 2024;21(9):947-957
Objective:
The rate of drug craving not only in Pakistan is escalating rapidly, but also from a wide range of cultures and geographically have been impacted by the drug problem. Recently, drug cravings among young Pakistani school and college students have significantly increased, particularly illegal substances like hashish, heroin, and ecstasy.
Methods:
We recruited 338 students and gathered demographic and drug-craving data through a survey. To assess the study variables, we used the parental acceptance-rejection short version, peer pressure questionnaire, and adult personality assessment scale.
Results:
The prevalence rate of occasional drug craving was 44.1% (tobacco, 39.9%; heroin, 1.8%; ice, 0.6%; and others), and 55.9% have never tried them. Initially, drug craving at the first onset at the age of 14 in friend gatherings (15.7%) in stressful situations (11.2%), high-income families, particularly in joint family systems with paternal rejection, peer enforcement, and maladjustment had a higher risk than affectionate parents and conventional peers. Stepwise binary logistic regression analysis disclosed that age, socioeconomic status, father affection, hostility, rejection, negligence, peer influences, and psychosocial adjustment, mother hostility were independently associated with occasional drug cravings.
Conclusion
Findings suggested the high prevalence of occasional drug cravings in Pakistani students in the capital territory. Furthermore, the demographic and other social and clinical aspects could be linked. This study carried out theoretical significance in understanding the predictors of occasional drug craving and psychological adjustment, highlighting the peer and parent’s roles and the educational institutions.
8.Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Occasional Drug Craving and Non-Craving
Ayesha NIDA ; Arsalan HAIDER ; Xiang-Yang ZHANG
Psychiatry Investigation 2024;21(9):947-957
Objective:
The rate of drug craving not only in Pakistan is escalating rapidly, but also from a wide range of cultures and geographically have been impacted by the drug problem. Recently, drug cravings among young Pakistani school and college students have significantly increased, particularly illegal substances like hashish, heroin, and ecstasy.
Methods:
We recruited 338 students and gathered demographic and drug-craving data through a survey. To assess the study variables, we used the parental acceptance-rejection short version, peer pressure questionnaire, and adult personality assessment scale.
Results:
The prevalence rate of occasional drug craving was 44.1% (tobacco, 39.9%; heroin, 1.8%; ice, 0.6%; and others), and 55.9% have never tried them. Initially, drug craving at the first onset at the age of 14 in friend gatherings (15.7%) in stressful situations (11.2%), high-income families, particularly in joint family systems with paternal rejection, peer enforcement, and maladjustment had a higher risk than affectionate parents and conventional peers. Stepwise binary logistic regression analysis disclosed that age, socioeconomic status, father affection, hostility, rejection, negligence, peer influences, and psychosocial adjustment, mother hostility were independently associated with occasional drug cravings.
Conclusion
Findings suggested the high prevalence of occasional drug cravings in Pakistani students in the capital territory. Furthermore, the demographic and other social and clinical aspects could be linked. This study carried out theoretical significance in understanding the predictors of occasional drug craving and psychological adjustment, highlighting the peer and parent’s roles and the educational institutions.
9. Clinical application and research progress of inhaled methoxyflurane
Jingyi DAI ; Jingjing WANG ; Jing ZHANG ; Jicheng YU ; Nanyang LI ; Zhiwei HUANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2022;27(7):808-813
As a fluorinated hydrocarbon anesthetic, methoxyflurane may cause serious adverse reactions such as renal damage under anesthetic doses, but its analgesic effect at sub-anaesthetic doses is safe, high tolerability, and short-term acute Good choice for analgesia. This article describes the pharmacokinetics, clinical validity, adverse reactions and clinical application of methoxyflurane, and explores the feasibility of methoxyflurane as an analgesic in clinical application. Methoxyflurane is convenient to use as an inhaled analgesic. It can provide patients with emergency analgesia without intravenous administration. It is a good choice for emergency analgesia in pre-hospital and emergency settings.
10. Study on improvement of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by regulating CDKN1A by Yiqi-Bushen-Tiaozhi formula
Jun-Bin YAN ; Yun-Meng NIE ; Ting-Ting ZHANG ; Su-Mei XU ; Zhi-Yun CHEN
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2022;38(2):311-318
Aim To screen the mechanism of Yiqi- Bushen-Tiaozhi formula ( YBTF) in treating non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ( NASH) by network pharmacology analysis and to verify it by animal experiments. Methods TCMSP database and HPLC-MS analysis were used to mine the active ingredients and targets of YBTF; GSE89632 dataset was used to screen the differential expressed genes ( DEGs) between the normal and the NASH groups; GeneCards and DisGeNET databases were used to screen NASH-related disease genes. The intersection genes of the three are the target genes of YBTF treatment of NASH. The intersection gene of the three sets of genes was the target gene of YBTF in treating NASH. GO, KEGG, DO enrichment analysis, protein-protein interaction network, and network topology analysis were used to identify the hub genes of YBTF in the treatment of NASH. Molecular docking was used to judge whether cmcial target genes, active ingredients could be combined and exer ted a curative effect; Oil red 0 and HE staining were used to determine whether YBTF could treat NASH mice; (3-galactosidase ( SA- (3-Gal) test was used to determine whether NASH mice had hepatocyte senescence and whether YBTF improved senescence; West-ern blot. Quantitative Real-time PGR ( qRT-PCR) combined with sequencing results were used to verify whether YBTF could regulate the expression of the essential target genes screened from the protein and RNA levels. Results YBTF could improve cellular aging and treat NASH through CDKN1A. Conclusion The rational application of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) network pharmacology and experiments can provide new ideas and directions for studying the mechanism of YBTF.