The theory of ascending and descending activities of qi is one basic theory that guides diagnosis and treatment of disease clinically. It has been esteemed by ancient physicians throughout their academic thinking and clinical diagnosis. As a kind of unbalanced disease in the whole body, the basic internal mechanism of tumor formation may be caused by unbalanced ascending and descending activities of qi. Better clinical efficacy is liable to get by applying the theory of ascending and descending activities of qi in cancer treatment. Therefore, we hope to provide a reference for clinicians from the following aspects: historical status and academic value of the theory of ascending and descending activities of qi, case examples and classical prescriptions.
Humans ; Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Qi

As a characteristic tumor therapy in China, Chinese medicine (CM) plays an important position in comprehensive treatment of tumor. It's a critical issue of objective realization, analysis and evaluation of CM safety for scientific decision-making in tumor safe medication and it also is a pivotal issue which affects the international communication. The safety evaluation of CM includes three phases: pre-clinical safety evaluation, clinical trials (micro-dose studies and traditional clinical trials) and post-marketing CM safety assessment. The key point of evaluation should be distinguished among different stages and various types of CM (such as classic formulas, Chinese herbal extracts, etc). Emphasis should be given to chronic toxicity when evaluating oral Chinese herbal , microdose studies and quality control must be underlined while injection is evaluated and more attention should be pay to the dose-effect relationship and time-effect relationship when turned to toxic Chinese medicine , and so as for the toxicity grading study. Moreover, we should constantly improve CM safety assessment method in various stages of tumor treatment, such as introducing the concept of syndrome classification theory, bringing in metabonomics and real-world research method which are similar to the CM therapeutic concept. Most importantly, we must keep its own feature of CM theory when we learn the concept of safety evaluation from abroad. Actively exploring the anti-tumor medicine safety evaluation methods and strategies is of great significance for clinical and experimental research, and it can provide supportability platform to CM's international communication.
Animals ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; adverse effects ; methods ; Neoplasms ; therapy ; Safety

Information Services ; Information Systems ; standards ; Public Health ; statistics & numerical data ; Public Health Informatics

For a long period of time, silk fibroin has been applied in biomedical areas. Along with the development of biotechnology, new functions of silk fibroin are being found and developed. From the suture of surgery to the therapeutic drug and the ordinary tissue engineering frame to high grade frame with drug buffer system, exploitation of silk fibroin is constantly introduced with something new from the old ones. In our review, we summarize the applications of silk fibroin in tissue engineering, drug buffer system and medical care.
Fibroins ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Tissue Engineering

BACKGROUND:As the complexity of human anatomic structure,the abnormity of tissue shape and the difference among individuals,the structure of multifractal is adapted.OBJECTIVE:To investigate medical image segmentation based on multifractal.METHODS:Image segmentation was performed by algorithm based on capacity measurement and probability measure.The experimental images were segmented using traditional region growing,max capacity measurement,sum capacity measurement,and probability measure.Following adding noise,the images were identically segmented and compared.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In the two algorithms based on multifractal,the key of the algorithm based on capacity measurement is that appropriate measure μα is defined,and the key of the algorithm based on probability measure is that appropriate normalized probability Pi is defined.The different measures (probability) and thresholds bring greater effect.The method based on probability measure is sensitive to noises,but after filtration noise,segmentation effect is greater for the images whose pixels vary comparatively great and very complicated.The results show that it is feasible that appropriate measure (probability) and threshold is chosen based on medical image segmentation.Especially greater advantage exists for the distinction of texture and edge in the complicated image processing,which can reserve details while precisely dividing.It has very significant practical significance.At the same time,multifractal can also be characteristics of images,which provide powerful data for feature extraction.

Objective To investigate the effects of recombinant human growth hormone on prognosis,pulmonary function and immune function in the patients with pulmonary exogenous respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).Methods Eighty-four cases of ARDS were selected and divided into the observation group (n=42) and control group (n=42) according to the random number table.The control group was treated with the routine therapy according to the ARDS Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines,while on this basis the observation group used recombinant human growth hormone for conducting treatment.The treatment time lasted for 7 d.The clinical effects and improvement situation of immune function before and after treatment were recorded in the two groups.Results The Murray acute lung injury score,and acute physiology and chronic health status score (APACHE Ⅱ) after treatment in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (P<0.05).The mechanical ventilation time and ICU stay of observation group were shorter than those of the control group(P<0.05).The mortality rate of the observation group was lower than that of the control group(P<0.05).The levels of vital capacity (VC),total lung volume (TLC),forced expiratory vital capacity (FVC),forced expiratory volume of vital capacity (FEV1),forced expiratory vital capacity 1 second (FEV1/FVC) and carbon monoxide (DLCO) after treatment in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.05).The levels of CD3+,CD4+ and CD4+/CD8+ after treatment in the observation group were higher than those in the control group (P<0.05).The levels of interleukin-6(IL-6),interleukin-8 (IL-8) and tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-α) after treatment in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (P<0.05).Conclusion Recombinant human growth hormone can effectively improve the pulmonary function in the patients with pulmonary exogenous ARDS,improves the immune function and is conducive to the prognosis of patients.

2?mol/L) was obvious and the inhibitive degree was nearly 100% when the concentrations of arsenic trioxide and cisplatin were 12?mol/L and 4?mol/L. 2.Higher concentrations of arsenic trioxide and cisplatin perturbed cell through S-phase and up-regulated p53 gene expressions.Conclusions The inhibitive effect of arsenic trioxide combined with cisplatin was more obvious than either one used separately; the apoptosis mechanism of ovarian cancer cell line HO-8910 is related with perturbing of S phase and up-regulating of p53 gene expression.

Objective To explore if the day surgery for cataract is safe and should be popularized. Methods From September to October in 2015, among the patients who received the ultrasonic phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation in the cataract department of Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital, according to the admission time, one hundred and three patients were chosen respectively from the day ward(the experimental group)and the traditional ward(the control group)based on the purposive sampling. The average time of waiting for admission, the falls events before admission, the awareness about postoperative considerations, the postoperative complications and the infection rate between the two groups were compared. Results The average time of waiting for admission in the experimental group was much shorter than that in the control group, (6.36 ± 4.02) days vs. (21.35 ± 18.58) days. The difference was significant (Z=-8.386, P<0.01). The rate of falls before admission in the experimental group was lower than that in the control group and the difference was significant, 9.71%(10/103) vs. 20.39%(21/103),χ2=4.595, P<0.05. No infection happened in both groups. Conclusions The day surgery model doesn′t increase the risk and is as safe as the traditional surgery model. It should be extended as it also has the advantages of shorter hospital stay, less medical resource consumption and less hospitalization expenses, besides, it saves time and labor. What′s more, the mean waiting time for hospitalization for day surgery is shorter. It means the patients can receive the operation as soon as possible, which ensures the patients′safety, and reduce the unsafe factor in their life, bring the benefit to the society.

Objective To observe the effect of miR-132 transfection on proliferation and apoptosis of pancreatic cancer SW1990,and to explore the underlying mechanism.Methods The expression of miR-132 in the pancreatic cancer tissue and the adjacent tissues in 28 pancreatic cancer patients were detected by realtime quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).miR-132 was transfected into SW1990 cells by using liposome method,untransfected cells and cells with missense miR-132 transfection were used as black control and negative control.The proliferation and apoptosis was detected by CCK-8 assay and DAPI staining.The transfected cells were implanted in nude mice as xenograft tumor,and TUNEL was used to detect the apoptosis; immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of Ki-67 and mucin-4 protein in the xenograft tumors and mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK protein in transfected cells.Results The expression levels of miR-132 in pancreatic cancer tissue and adjacent tissues were 0.46 ± 0.11 and 1.24 ± 0.36,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).The expression level of miR-132 in transfected SW1990 cells was 2.95 ± 0.46,which were significantly higher than those in negative control (0.84 ± 0.17) ; the survival rate of transfected cells at 48,72,96 h was 56.5％,44.7％,37.4％ of negative control cells.The apoptosis rate in transfected cells was 41.6％,and the corresponding value was 5.7％ in negative control,and the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).The expression levels of mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK in nagative control were 2.94 ± 0.42,1.75 ± 0.37 and 2.74 ± 0.24,and the corresponding values in transfected cells were 0.76 ± 0.14,0.34 ± 0.04 and 0.27 ± 0.03,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).In vivo,the growth of xenograft tumors in transfected nude mice was significantly inhibited [(0.23 ± 0.05) vs (0.59 ± 0.13) g,P ＜ 0.05],the apoptosis of xenograft tumor cells was significant increased [(21.7 ± 4.7) ％ vs (5.2 ± 0.7) ％,P ＜0.05].The expressions of mucin-4 and Ki-67 protein in nagative control was 281.34 ± 36.62 and 148.05 ± 21.34,and the corresponding values in transfection group were 64.35 ± 7.16 and 30.75 ± 4.61,and the difference was statistically significant (P ＜0.05).Conclusions miR-132 transfection has an effect of inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis on SW1990 cells,and the mechanism may be down-regulation of mucin-4,HER-2,p-FAK protein rxpression.

China ; epidemiology ; Databases, Bibliographic ; Humans ; Lead Poisoning ; epidemiology ; Occupational Exposure ; Workplace