Objective To clarify the relationship between ABO blood group and the development of duodenal ulcer(DU)in aspects of gastric acia and Hp infection.Methods The blood group of ABO was determined in 80 patients who were diagnosed as DU and received 24-hour gastric pH monitoring between 1995 and 2003.These results were compared with the expected frequency in the 1061 healthy controls in Beijing.The prevalence Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection rate was determined by rapid urinase test,biopsy and 13C breath test.Results Blood type O was present in 56.3% of the patients with DU,which was significantly higher than the expected rate (28.7%) in healthy population (? 2=26.69,P0.05).Conclusion Blood group O doesn’t cause the disease by affecting Hp infection rate or stronger gastric acid secretion,it maybe another independent risk factor for DU.The onset age in blood group O is not different from that in other types.The mechanism needs to be explored.

Objective To study the effect of the combination of rivaroxaban and Xuesaitong injection on deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of lower extremity after spinal surgery.Methods The clinical data of 90 patients undergoing spinal surgery from May 2013 to May 2015 were retrospective analyzed.The patients were divided into two groups randomly: the treatment group and control group.Forty-five patients in treatment group were treated with rivaroxaban and Xueshuantong injection from 1 st day after surgery to one week after off-bed activity, and forty-five patients in control group were treated with rivaroxaban alone.The vessels of lower extremity were detected by doppler ultrasonography pre-surgery, 7-10d and 3 months post-surgery, then the rates of DVT and pulmonary embolism were statistically analysed.Results The DVT rate in treatment group was 8.89%(4 cases), which was significantly lower than 24.4% (11 cases) in control group (P<0.05).Conclusion The anticogulant effect of the combination of rivaroxaban and Xuesaitong injection is stronger than rivaroxaban alone.

Choristoma ; Humans ; Infant ; Jaw Diseases ; Male ; Palate, Soft

BackgroundThe study of the molecular mechanism of visual plasticity is helpful for the explaining and prevention of strabismus and amblyopia.The effect and significance of NogoA in the strabismus and amblyopia formation are attracting more attention.ObjectiveThe present study was to investigate the expression of NogoA in 21a area of visual cortex in strabismic-induced amblyopia cats and explore the possible molecular mechanism of strabismic-induced amblyopia.MethodsSixteen 4-week old clean cats were randomizedly divided into normal group and strabismic-induced amblyopia group and eight for each group.The strabismic-induced amblyopia models were created by cutting off the external rectus in 8 cats.Pattern visual evoked potentials ( P-VEP ) were recorded 1 week after operation and compared with normal cats,and depression of amplitude and prolongation of implied time of P100 wave were as the successful criterion of model.The 200 ml paraformaldehyde was infused via heart to fax the brain under the deep anesthesia and then the cats were sacrificed and the brain cortex sections were prepared.The morphology of 21a zone of cat visual cortex was examined by haematoxylin and eosin staining,and the expressions of NogoA in 21a area of visual cortex were detected by immunohistochemistry with a monoclonal antiNogoA antibody.The use of the animals complied with the Regulations for the Administration of Affair Concerning Experimental Animals by State Science and Technology Commission.ResultsThe implied time and amplitude ratio of VEP P100 wave were (98.10±7.07)ms and (0.83±0.14) in normal group,and those in strabismic-induced amblyopia group were (108.50±6.95 )ms and (0.35 ±0.09 ),showing significant differences between two groups (t=4.450,P=0.005 ; t =5.970,P =0.005 ).The numbers of neurons were similar in 21a area of visual cortex between the two groups,but the volume of the neurons was lessen in strabismic-induced amblyopia group.The positive cell densities for NogoA were ( 387.37±2.01 ) cells/mm2,( 354.58± 1.85 ) cells/mm2 and ( 289.68± 1.81 ) cells/mm2 in layer Ⅱ/Ⅲ,Ⅳ and V/V[ respectively in strabismic-induced amblyopia group,and those in normal group were ( 161.39± 1.98 ) cells/mm2,( 128.93 ± 1.26 ) cells/mm2 and ( 96.25 ± 1.49 ) cells/mm2,indicating a significant increase in model cats ( t =- 160.400,- 201.890,- 164.740,P =0.000 ).Conclusions NogoA may play an important role in the regulation of the sensitive developmental period of visual sense and its plasticity.

Studying the essence of syndromes (Zheng) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a fundamental challenge in basic theoretical research of TCM. The relationship between any given syndrome and biochemical indicators is one of the important aspects of the study. As the indexes selected in each study are specific to a particular Western medical disease diagnosis, and the disease factor is inevitably introduced into the study, the effect of disease factor on the index changes cannot be assessed effectively by traditional data processing methods. This is known as "the same syndrome with different reasons", which has resulted in confusion in TCM research. This study aimed at providing a mathematical tool to address this issue. Based on information theory and the residual-split method, the syndrome information, which was covered in the index variation, was quantitatively calculated in this paper as an independent part of the disease factor. A mathematical model capable of objectively assessing and statistically testing the effect of the syndrome factor on the index changes was established. Applying this model to literature data of studies on the relationship between cyclic nucleotides and yang-deficiency syndrome showed following results. First, the values of yang-deficiency syndrome information were negative for cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) while positive for cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in all included literature. This indicated that the group of yang-deficiency syndrome was correlated with an obvious trend of reduced cAMP levels and increased cGMP levels. Second, the statistical test results of yang-deficiency syndrome information of the two indexes were different among the literature included. The quality of original data was considered as a possible reason. Third, the significant differences between the yang-deficiency group of a specific disease and the normal group may, in some cases, be caused by a disease factor rather than a syndrome factor. The mathematical model provided a reasonable mathematical tool for the analysis of disease factor and syndrome factor in clinical research of TCM, suggesting that the mathematical model may give rise to innovative ideas and methods in the study of syndromes.

Objective To apply the six sigma(6σ) quality management method to quantitatively analyze the quality control data of the detection items from different groups and conduct the comparison for analyzing the evaluation performance and improving the laboratory quality .Methods The data of the internal quality control and the external quality assessment were collected from35 de‐tection items in the clinical chemistry laboratory group and the hematology laboratory group during 2013 ,the σ value of every item was calculated and the analytical performance of the detection item was analyzed .Results Among 23 clinical detection items in the biochemistry group ,there were 10 items of σ ≥ 6 ,6 items of 5 ≤ σ < 6 ,3 items of 4 ≤ σ < 5 ,3 items of 3 ≤ σ < 4 and 1 item of σ < 3 , the average σ was 5 .962 .Among 12 clinical detection items in the hematology group ,there were 8 items of σ ≥ 6 ,2 items of 5 ≤ σ <6 ,2 items of 4 ≤ σ < 5 ,the average σ value was 7 .38 .The detection items in which the analytic performance did not reach 6σ in the biochemistry group accounted for 37% of the total items ,which in the hematology group accounted for 11% ,the differences in theσ quality level of detection items between the biochemistry group and the hematology group had statistical significance(P< 0 .05) , the differences in the σ quality level of detection items between the matched reagent and the non‐matched reagent had statistical sig‐nificance (P< 0 .05) .Conclusion The 6σ quality management method can be used used in the quality evaluation of clinical detection items and can be widely used in the quality management of clinical laboratory .

The properties of Chinese materia medica are believed to be the summarization of the effects of biological performance on the various body states. Systemic discussion of chemical-factor elements, body-condition elements, biological-performance elements and their interrelationships is needed for research into the properties of Chinese materia medica. Following the practical characteristics of Chinese medicine, the three-element mathematical model was formed by introducing some mathematical concepts and methods and was used to study the cold or hot property of Chinese medicine, and to investigate the difference in biological performances of the two properties.

The theory of four properties (Qi) and five tastes (Wei) is the core of the property theory of Chinese materia medica. It is known that Qi and Wei are associated with the pharmacological effects (Xiao) of herbs. This study took records of all 365 Chinese herbs in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica (Shennong Ben Cao Jing) as the data resource and established a three-dimensional data cube, in the purpose of finding out and analyzing the frequent patterns and valued association rules of Qi, Wei and Xiao based on Apriori algorithm. The results of this study may give rise to innovative ideas and methods in research of traditional Chinese materia medica.

Objective To investigate the inhibitory effects of a recombinant adenovirus vector ex-pressing human IFN-λ1 ( r-Ad-hIFN-λ1) on the growth of orthotopic gastric cancer and to analyze its possi-ble mechanism in a nude mice model of orthotopic human gastric carcinoma .Methods Orthotopic trans-plantation was performed to establish the nude mice model of orthotopic gastric cancer .Thirty mice were ran-domly divided into three groups including PBS control group , Ad-Lac Z empty vector group and r-Ad-hIFN-λ1 experiment group .The mice in each group were given the corresponding interventions once a week for three times.The sizes of tumor were detected by using B-mode ultrasound at different time points to draw growth curves .The expression of IFN-λ1 at mRNA level in skeletal muscle tissues was analyzed by RT-PCR.Western blot assay and immunohistochemical staining were used to detect IFN-λ1 protein in gastric tumor samples .The apoptosis of cells in paraffin-embedded tumor tissues was detected by TUNEL .The per-centages of natural killer ( NK) cells in spleen tissues were analyzed by flow cytometry .Results Compared with control group and empty vector group , the mice in r-Ad-hIFN-λ1 experiment group showed the smallest tumor size [(331.25±6.00) mm3, (322.92±5.92) mm3 vs (248.39±7.60) mm3; P<0.05].hIFN-λ1 was transfected into skeletal muscle successfully and expressed in gastric cancer tissue .Highly expressed hIFN-λ1 was observed in cytoplasm of tumor cells from experiment group by immunohistochemical staining . The apoptotic index of tumor tissues for experiment group was 0.700±0.059 which was significant different from that of control group (0.271±0.026, P<0.05) and empty vector group (0.333±0.028, P<0.05). The percentage of NK cells in spleens from mice in experiment group [(26.49±1.89)%] was significantly higher than that of control group [(13.94 ±1.31)%, P<0.05)] and empty vector group [(19.12 ±1.69)%, P<0.05)].Conclusion Transfection of r-Ad-hIFN-λ1 and expression of hIFN-λin skeletal muscle could significantly inhibit the growth of gastric cancer by inducing tumor cells ′apoptosis and enhan-cing NK cells.

Hydrocortisone-induced yang-deficiency animal model has now become the generally accepted model of yang deficiency. However, assessing the most appropriate dose of hydrocortisone is a long-term challenge. For analyzing the modeling dose, the authors have built several kinds of yang-deficiency models induced by hydrocortisone at different doses, and analyzed the experimental data with various mathematical statistical methods. In order to discuss the effects of the modeling dose on the basis of previous research, the authors introduced Ridit analysis.