Objective To find a grading method for assisting in evaluating hypoxia degree of patients with pulmonary heart disease non-invasively. Methods To design a quantitative method to score degree of hypoxia of 67 patients with pulmonary heart disease by using acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) as a frame and to make comparative analysis between the grading result and artery blood gas to find the correlation. Results There was a negative correlation between evaluation mark and pH、PaO2、SaO2 and a positive correlation between the evaluation mark and PaCO2, according to statistics. Conclusions Although the grading table of hypoxia evaluation can not substitute blood gas analysis, acting as a non-invasive method to assist in evaluating the hypoxia degree of patients with pulmonary heart disease, it can not only relieve patients' repeated punctuation pain, but also achieve the goal of estimating hypoxia.Consequently the non-invasive method to evaluate hypoxia is of clinical value.

BACKGROUND:Extracel ular vesicles (EVs) are a kind of subcel ular component produced by paracine mechanism including exosomes, microparticles and microvesicles, which have become hotspots in recent years. OBJECTIVE:To review the research status and progress of EVs, especial y in the studies about definition, secreting mechanism, isolation and identification, biological characteristics and functions in diseases as wel as in biomedical research. METHODS:The first author retrieved PubMed and CNKI databases for relative articles published from July 2006 to August 2016. The keywords were“extracel ular vesicles, exosome, microvesicle, microparticle”in English and Chinese, respectively.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:A total of 44 eligible literatures are enrol ed. Almost al cel s can secrete EVs, which contain a variety of metrocyte-derived bioactive molecules, such as lipids, proteins, mRNAs, microRNA, lncRNA, cicrRNA, and non-coding RNA. These bioactive molecules are encapsulated in EVs or binding with the membrane. EVs are described to be involved in inflammation, immunity, signal transduction, cel survival and apoptosis, angiogenesis, thrombogenesis, and autophagy, which are of great significance to the maintenance of homeostasis and disease progression. Special EVs may be used as new biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of many diseases and serve as novel tools in the fields of antitumor therapy, regenerative medicine, immunoregulation and vaccination and drug delivery. But the molecular mechanisms regulating the secretion of EVs and the specific pathways activated upon EVs interaction with the target cel are not ful y understood. Based on miRNA, lncRNA and circRNA are attracting researchers’ attention.

OBJECTIVE:To determine the content of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in Astragalus membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu province,i.e. Pb,Cd,Cu,As,Hg. METHODS:Wet digestion pretreatment was carried out for samples and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) was used for the determination of heavy metal elements. RESULTS:The contents of 5 kinds of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus from Longxi of Gansu Province were lower than the limit. CONCLUSION:AAS method can accurately determine the content of heavy metal elements in A. membranaceus.

Thirty percent TBSA full thickness burns due to napalm was inflicted to the rats and the pathological changes of the thyroid were studied under optical and electron microscopy and with peroxidase histochemistry for 15 days. The alterations of serum T3 and T4 levels accompaniying the pathological changes were also observed dynamically.It was found that the pathological changes of the thyroid could be distinguished into three phases as follows.1. The phase of injury inhibition. This phase existed from the 2nd to the 24th hour postburn and was characterized by marked damage on the follicular epithelium.2. The phase of structural and functional recovery. This phase entended from the 3rd to the 6th day postburn. In this phase, the damages on the thyroid became abated and its damaged structure showed a tendency to recover.3. The phase of active function. It extended from the 10th to the 15th day postburn. The organelles to synthesize and release thyroid hormone were fonud well developed.The alteration of T4 run parallelly to the pathological changes of the thyroid in all the stages, while T3 level was continously inhibited because of the lower serum concentration of T4, the metabolic disturbance of T4 deiodination, and the inhibition of thyroid secretion in the early postburn stage and the metabolic disturbance of T4 deiodination in the middle and late postburn stages. In the early postburn stage, the inhibition of thyroid peroxidase was an important factor of functional inhibition of the thyroid.

Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the digestive system.Most of the patients with gastric cancer have advanced disease at the time of diagnosis.Chemotherapy is still the mainstay of treatment for advanced gastric cancer,but efficacy of chemotherapy was modest.Molecular targeted therapies have emerged as a novel approach to the treatment of both hematological and solid tumors in recent years.The understanding of molecular biological mechanisms underlying the formation,progression and metastasis in advanced gastric cancer has enabled us to use the new approach to treat this disease in clinical practice.These therapeutic strategies include targeting EGFR signal transduction pathway,anti-angiogenesis,targeting NF-?B signal transduction pathway and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors.In this review,a brief introduction of the current status of the molecular targeted therapies in the treatment of gastric cancer was presented.Bevacizumab,anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody targeting the angiogenesis pathway has been approved for the treatment of colorectal cancer by FDA,has been reported to show effectiveness in metastatic gastric cancer when combined with cytotoxic agents.Inhibition of NF-?B signal transduction pathway such as PS-341(proteasome inhibitor,bortezomib) approved for the treatment of refractory or recurrent multiple myeloma by FDA has also been used to combine with chemotherapy for gastric cancer.There are also encouraging reports on the combination of standard chemotherapy with Cetuximab,Matuzumab,Gefitinib,Erlotinib and Trastuzumab which target the EGFR and HER2 signal transduction pathways.Flavopiridol is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor with low molecullar weight that aims at the regulatory process of the cell cycle but this needs further clinical trial.

Objective To investigate the relation of DNA content and SPF to the clinicopathological characteristic in lung cancer.Methods Fresh specimens taken from 56 patients with lung cancer and 36 patients with non-malignant pulmonary lesions were measured for DNA index(DI),S-phase fraction(SPF) by using FACSCalibur 4200 flow cytometry.Results ① DNA index(DI) of lung cancer was 1.18?0.33,0.99?0.07 in lung cancer and non-malignant groups,respectively.The percentage of heteroploid was 78.6% in lung cancer,(5.6%) in non-malignant.DI and the positive rate of heteroploid were significantly higher in lung cancer groups than that in non-malignant group(P0.05);③ It was demonstrated that SPF was significant higher in lung cancer groups than that in non-malignant group. The SPF of heteroploid tumors was higher than that of diploid tumors(P

0.1 mV. The rabbits were randomly divided into 4 equal groups of 12 animals in each group: Ⅰ control group in which normal saline 0.2-0.3 ml?kg-1 was injected through epidural catheter; Ⅱ epidural group in which 1% lidocaine 2-3 mg?kg-1 was injected epidurally; Ⅲ propofol group in which propofol was infused iv at 20 mg ? kg-1 ?h-1 for 30 min; Ⅳ combined epidural-propofol group in which epidural 1% lidocaine and propofol iv were both administered. Blood samples were taken before and 4 h, 8 h after ligation for determination of serum concentrations of myocardial troponin I (cTn I ) and MDA and serum SOD activity.The myocardial tissue was taken from the infarct area for determination of the apoptotic myocyte count (TUNEL) and p53 and Bcl-2 protein expressions (LSAB) . Results In control group serum cTn I and MDA increased and SOD decreased significantly after ligation of LAD. Thoracic epidural anesthesia, propofol iv infusion and especially the combination of them suppressed the increase in serum cTn I and MDA and decrease in serum SOD induced by ligation of LAD.In epidural-propofol group and propofol group the apoptotic myocytes count and p53 protein expression significantly decreased, the Bcl-2 protein expression increased as compared with those in control group. Conclusion Thoracic epidural anesthesia combined with propofol can significantly protect myocardium from injury induced by myocardial infarction. This action is mediated by the depression of myocyte apoptosis and the generation of oxygen-derived free radicals.

As an important inflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNT-α) plays an important role in the process of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion. The discussion of the dynamic changes, the mechanism of neurotoxicity and antagonizing the therapeutic effect of TNF-α in the process of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury will provide theoretical basis for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases.

Non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been extensively applied in patients with hematologic malignancies who are ineligible for conventional hematopoietic stem cell transplantation because of age or medical comorbidities. Non-myeloablative regimens lead to an initial state of mixed hematopoietic chimerism which can produce a marked effect of graft versus tumor to treat the diseases. Compared with the conventional hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has a lower transplant-related mortality and incidence rate of graft-versus-host disease. The improvement of non-myeloablative regimens and the prophylaxis of diseases associated with transplantation can improve the therapeutic efficacy. Though many therapies have been introduced and proved to be successful in animal models, we still need to investigate the research trend and the problem on human body.

Objective:To explore the protective effect of biochanin A(Bioch A) on lipopolysaccharide(LPS) -induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration. Method:An in vitro model of LPS-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration was used to investigate the protective effect of Bioch A on dopaminergic neurons against LPS-induced neurotoxicity by measuring [3H] DA uptake and counting TH-immunoreactive cells. Microglia were visualized by staining for the CR3 complement receptor with monoclonal antibody OX-42. The production of nitric oxide(NO) was determined by measuring the accumulated levels of nitrite in the culture supernatant with the Griess reagent,and release of tumor necrosis factor-?(TNF-?) was measured by immunosorbent assay. The production of superoxide was determined by measuring the superoxide dismutase(SOD) -inhibitable reduction of cytochrome C. Results:BiochA dose-dependently attenuated LPS-induced decrease in dopamine(DA) uptake and the number of dopaminergic neurons in rat mesencephalic neuron-glia cultures. BiochA also significantly inhibited LPS-induced activation of microglia and production of TNF-?,NO and superoxide in rat mesencephalic neuron-glia cultures and microglia-enriched cultures. Conclusion:Biochanin A may protect dopaminergic neurons from LPS-induced injury and its effectiveness in inhibiting microglia activation may underlie one of the mechanisms.