Objective: To observe the effect of puncturing Juliao (GB 29) in treating carpal joint sprain. Methods: 99 cases were randomly divided into 3 groups, treatment, control 1 and control 2 groups, 33 cases for each group. Cases in treatment group were treated by acupuncture on Juliao (GB 29); patients in control 1 group were treated by acupuncture at Sanyinjiao (SP 6), and patients in control 2 group were treated by local application. The clinical effect was compared among three groups after the treatment. Results: The effective rate in the treatment group is 96.9%, which is over and above 84.8% in control 1 group and 75.8% in control 2 group (both P＜0.05). Conclusion: Acupuncture at Juliao (GB 29) has a precise curative effect in treating sprain of carpal joint. It is more effective than acupuncture at Sanyinjiao (SP 6) and local application.

Plasma thyroid hormones were measured in 8 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The results showed that plasma TT_3 and FT_3 levels were decreased and plasma rT_3 level tended to increase in these patients. These findings are in accord with the diagnosis of low T_3 syndrome.

Objective To improve the understanding of clinical features,pathological changes and therapy in patients of severe primary hypothyroidism accompanied with myoapthy.Methods Clinical features and prognosis of five cases of primary hypothyroidism accompanied with severe myopathy admitted to the hospital during March 1996 to November 2003 were anaylzed retrospectively by medical records combined with review of relevant literatures.Results Prominent clinical manifestations of the five patients were muscular damage,symmetrical proximal weakness of the muscles(myasthenia),shortness of breath,chest pain,dysphagia,and significant increase in activity of serum creatine phosphokinase(2 885~10 450(U/L).)Conclusions Patients of primary hypothynoidism with muscular damage should be diffrentiated from those of polymyositis and better effectiveness can be achieved for its related myopathy by timely thyroid hormone replacement therapy.

Accidents, Occupational ; Acute Disease ; Adult ; Ethylene Oxide ; poisoning ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Operating Rooms ; Young Adult

Base Sequence ; Hepacivirus ; drug effects ; genetics ; Hepatitis C ; drug therapy ; virology ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligonucleotides ; therapeutic use ; Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotides ; therapeutic use

Abdominal Pain ; Cough ; Humans

Manganese ; blood ; Spectrophotometry, Atomic ; methods

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia ; etiology ; pathology ; prevention & control ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Inflammation ; complications ; Lung ; pathology ; Respiration, Artificial ; adverse effects

Cancer stem cells are a new field with the gradual deep understanding of the stem cell research. Although its history is not long, the rapid development showed a good potential prospect. The existence of cancer stem cells and its use as tumor formation, growth and metastasis-based approach has been widely recognized. In theory, cancer stem cells derived from normal stem cells can transform. Cancer-causing factors can also be derived-from the dedifferentiation induced cells. Because it contains all-round, multi-and single stem cell, with the proliferation and differentiation potential of different directions, it is possible to explain the heterogeneity of tumor cells, and reasons for hypoxic environment, anti-cancer drugs and radiation resilience. In this area, it has been made a lot of progress in recent years. However, there are still some problems to be solved. Such as the identification of cancer stem cells, biological function and mechanism.

Oncogene-induced senenscence(OIS) is defined as a stable proliferative arrest of normal cells upon overexpression of aberrant proliferative signals of oncogenes through MAPK and PI3K pathway.The molecular mechanism of OIS is related to the formation of heterochromatin and DNA-damage check-point response.The markers of OIS includ senescence-associated ?-galactosidase and senescence-associated heterochromatin foci.With the growing recognization of OIS,the new models of tumor progression are emerging.The further investigation on the mechanism of OIS is of great significance to understanding of the tumorigenesis and provide new ideas and methods of cancer treatment.