It explores the disease range of Liuwei Dihuang Pill from formulae source,ancient clinical application,modern study and application angles,combining with modern diseases,to define its multi-system targets,main pharmaceutical function and effective components by seeking for common mechanism.

Object To investigate the structure, physicochemical properties and anticancer activity of three kind of glycyrrhizic acid aniline platinum complex compounds. Methods Using the FT IR methods, elementary analysis and X ray diffraction, the physicochemical properties of the tested drugs were determined; by means of MTT test the inhibitory effects of the drugs on human tumor cell growth were examined, with hematopoietic cell K 562 , melanoma cell LiBr and liver cancer cell 7721 as the model of anticancer activity. Results Experimental values of elemental analysis of three complex compounds tally with the theoretically calculative values. The infrared spectroscopy showed that the functional group location agreed with the structure. The X ray diffraction exhibited that this type of the compounds was monoclinic system. Conclusion The experimental results show that the anticancer activity of the test complex compounds is related to their concentration and ligands. Magnetic field treatment has significant influence on anticancer activity of this type of compounds.

Animals ; Blood Coagulation ; drug effects ; Blood Platelets ; drug effects ; Female ; Haplorhini ; Humans ; Interleukin-11 ; pharmacology ; Male ; Platelet Count ; Thrombopoietin ; pharmacology

Medicinal properties are specific attributes of traditional Chinese medicines(TCM). The medicinal property theory is an important principle for the compatibility of traditional Chinese medicines. In this paper, medicinal properties, flavors and meridian tropism were combined to represent TCM medicinal properties; and multiple medicinal properties were further combined into medicinal property combination modes. TCMs and medicinal property combination modes were divided according to their efficacies, which were regarded as the concept of inductive logic programming and finally got medicinal property combination and compatibility rules with different efficacies. These medicinal property combination and compatibility rules were used to form the theoretical model through the entity grammar system, realize the automatic reasoning process from the medicinal property combination and compatibility to the efficacies, verify the reasoning result and analyze their rationality and limitations, in order to provide new ideas for revealing the relations between the TCM compatibility rules and efficacies.
Drug Interactions ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; methods ; standards ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Meridians ; Models, Theoretical

Objective To explore the relationship between the levels of inflammatory factors and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Methods Fifty patients with T2DM were recruited and divided into T2DM with insulin resistance(IR) group(26 patients) and T2DM without insulin resistance (NIR) group (24 patients) according to insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR).Twenty-four healthy individuals conducting physical examination were recruited as the healthy control group.All participants underwent carotid ultrasound IMT to assess carotid intima-media thickness.The level of fasting plasma glucose (FPG),fasting insulin (FINS),blood lipids,high sensitivity C reactive protein (hs-CRP) and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α) were measured.Homeostasis model assessment (HOMA)index was used for quantitative analysis of HOMA-IR.Results The levels of HOMA-IR,hs-CRP,TNF-α and IMT in control group,NIR group and IR group increased gradually and were significantly different(HOMA-IR:(1.74 ±0.49) vs.(2.24 ±0.41) vs.(4.89 ±0.84) ;F =190.228,P ＜0.01) ;hs-CRP(mg/L):(1.75 ±0.83) vs.(3.08 ± 1.04) vs.(5.89 ± 1.17) ;F =106.523,P ＜ 0.01) ;TNF-α (ng/L):(15.25 ± 7.64) vs.(23.38 ± 8.82) vs.(47.42 ± 9.97) ;F =89.210,P＜0.01) ;IMT(mm):(0.69 ±0.31) vs.(1.07±0.32) vs.(1.49±0.43);F=30.942,P＜0.01).Correlation analysis showed that the level of hs-CRP was positively correlated with the levels of HOMA-IR and IMT (r =0.453 and 0.395 respectively,P ＜ 0.05) ;The level of TNF-α was positively correlated with the levels of HOMA-IR and IMT (r =0.428 and 0.376 respectively,P ＜ 0.05) ; The level of HOMA-IR was positively correlated with the level of IMT (r =0.403,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Inflammatory activity is found in patients with T2DM,which is significantly correlated with insulin resistance.Inflammatory factors and insulin resistance play an important role in the occurrence and development of carotid atherosclerosis in patients with T2DM.

ObjectiveTo explore the difference in quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal cancer between those who knew cancer diagnosis and those who did not.Methods 130 patients with recently diagnosed gastrointestinal cancer in 4 general hospitals in Tangshan were interviewed. Patients were categorized into two groups:one group was those who knew their diagnosis(n=62) and the other group was those who did not ( n =68).The Chinese version of European Organization for Research and Treatment (EORTC) quality of life (QOL)questionnaire (QLQ-C30) was used.ResultsThe comparison of quality of life between patients who knew their diagnosis and those who did not indicated that the score of global quality of life and other functional scales including physical,emotional,role and cognitive functioning did not show significant difference(P ＞ 0.05 ).Compared with those who did not know cancer diagnosis,patients who were aware of diagnosis showed a significant lower degree of social functioning ( (45.8 ± 24.2 ) vs ( 73.0 ± 16.2 ) ),a significant higher degree of fatigue ( ( 55.8 ±26.2) vs (41.8 ±10.2) ) and financial difficulties ((38.2 ±35.1) vs (12.00 ±10.0) ) (P＜0.01).In multiple regression analysis,physical functioning and symptom of fatigue had statistically significant differences (P＜ 0.05 ).ConclusionThe knowledge of cancer diagnosis does not contribute to the quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal cancer.

Objective: To investigate the killing activity of cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells after incubation with autologous tumor cell lysate-pulsed dendritic cells (Ag-DC) and to evaluate the immune functions of patients, the clinical efficacy and side effect of Ag-DC in combination with CIK on hepatocellular carcinoma. Methods: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from 24 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, and cultured with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-4 to produce dendritic cells (DCs). The DCs were pulsed with autologous tumor cell lysate. T lymphocytes from PBMC were cultured with interferon-Y (IFN-γ), IL-2, CD3-moAb, and IL-1α to prepare CIK. The killing effect of CIK on SMMC-7721 was investigated after CIK was incubated with Ag-DC. After immunotherapy with Ag-DC and CIK, immunolog-ic and clinical responses of the 24 patients were evaluated. Results: The killing effect of CIK was remarkably improved after CIK was incubated with Ag-DC. The immunotherapy with DC and CIK alleviated symptoms and improved the immune functions of the patients. Except for transient fever and chill, no remarkable adverse events were observed. Conclusion: Ag-DC in combination with CIK shows short-term efficacy on hepatocellular carcinoma through inducing specific anti-tumor immunity and can be an effective adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective To explore the clinical characteristics of mycoplasma pneumonia with pulmonary atelectasis and lavage interventional effect through fiberoptic bronchoscopy in children.Methods During Jun 2012 to Apr 2013,fifty-three children diagnosed of mycoplasma pneumonia with pulmonary atelectasis who received fiberoptic bronchoscopy were enrolled as the experimental group.Thirty-five children diagnosed of mycoplasma pneumonia without pulmonary atelectasis were chosen as control group.According to the lavage interventional time of fiberoptic bronchoscopy,we divided the patients in the experimental group into two groups,the early group and late group.Clinical data and laboratory finds were collected and analyzed.Results The duration of fever,hospital stay and C-reactive protein (CRP) of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group (P ＜ 0.05).The location of pulmonary atelectasis in the experimental group were usually in the right middle lobe (18 cases,33.9％).Under fiberoptic bronchoscope,all patients had obviously bronchial mucosa congestive edema.Some of them had follicular hyperplasia (9 cases,17.0％),mucosal erosion (3 cases,5.7％),mucus plug formation (7 cases,13.2％) and poor ventilation of segmental bronchi (4 cases,7.5 ％).Neutrophils (43 cases,81.1％) increased and phagocytic cells (31 cases,58.5％) dereased obviously in bronchoalevolar lavage fluid.After treatment in the experimental group,52 children (98.1％) got complete recruitment of atelectasis.The average duration of fever and hospital stay of the early group were significantly shoter than those of late group (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Children diagnosed of mycoplasma pneumonia with pulmonary atelectasis had longer fever duration and higher CRP level.Bronchoscopic interventional therapy promoted the recovery of pulmonary atelectasis.Using bronchoscop early in shorten the duration of fever and hospitalization in children diagnosed of mycoplasm pneumonia with pulmonary atelectasis.

Objective To investigate the effect of songling xuemaikang(SL-xmk)pretreatment on the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9(MMP-9)after focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion in rats.Methods A total of 45 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly allocated into SL-xmk pretreatment,sham operation,and normal saline control group.Preventive gavage was per-formed for 8 weeks in rats using SL-xmk(937.50 mg/kg)suspension in the SLxmk pretreatment group(n = 15);the preventive gavage was performed in rats using the equal volume of normal saline in the sham operation(n = 15)and normal saline control(n = 15)groups.At the end of the pretreatment process,a model of middle cerebral artery occlusion(MCAO)in rats was induced by suture method for 2 hours and reperfusion for 24 hours.The effects of SL-xmk pretreatment on the neurologic deficit scores after transient MCAO,brain water content,and infarct volume in rats were observed.Immunohistochemical staining was used to detect the MMP-9 immunoreactive positive cells in ischemic brain tissue.Results The neurologjc deficit scores(1.21 ± 0.25 vs.2.37 ± 0.35,P = 0.000),the brain water content (76.24% ± 7.09% vs.88.78% ± 6.57%,P = 0.000),the percentage of infarct volume (22.62% ±2.17% vs.27.84% ±3.43%,P =0.000),and the numbers of MMP-9 positive cells(16.20 ± 2.17/mm vs.20.60 ± 2.71/mm,P = 0.000)were all significantly lower than those in the control group.Conclusions SL-xmk pretreatment may significantly inhibit the expression of MMP-9 in the brain tissue of focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion rats and reduce brain water content and infarct volume.

Objective To explore the correlation of CT perfusion imaging with microvessel density (MVD) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE).Methods Multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging was performed in 27 patients with HAE.Time-density curves(TDC) of the HAE peripheral area was drawn from the region of interest (ROI) with perfusion functional software.CT perfusion parameters including blood flow ( BF ),blood volume ( BV ),mean transit time(MTT) and permeability surface area product (PS) were calculated.MVD and VEGF expression of pathological specimens were examined by immunohistochemical staining with anti-CD34,anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody.The CT perfusion parameters,MVD and VEGF were compared in different types of TDC with t test.The correlation of CT perfusion parameters with MVD and VEGF were analyzed with Spearman test.Results In this group,21 cases which TDC lower than that of the liver were classified as type Ⅰ,the others 6 cases TDC higher than the liver were of type Ⅱ TDC.TDC perfusion parameters of the two types were as follows,BF:( 111.7 + 27.6),( 158.9 + 39.5 ) ml · 100 g- 1 · min - 1,BV:( 15.1 + 6.2),(26.8+8.4) ml/100 g,MTT:(7.0+4.4),(7.7+3.1) s,PS:(51.7 +17.3),(51.0+20.5) ml·100 g-1 · min-1.The significant differences of BF,BV and MVD[ (20.5 +5.4)/HP,(37.2 ±7.5)/HP,respectively ] were found between two types ( t =- 7.897,- 18.783,- 5.223,P ＜ 0.05,respectively).There were no significant differences in MTT,PS and VEGF expression(2.1 ± 1.0,3.2 ± 1.0,respectively)between two types of TDC(P ＞0.05).The correlation was found between the MVD and BF and BV in the type Ⅱ TDC group( r =0.789 and 0.878,respectively) and no correlation was found between MVD and each CT perfusion parameters in the type Ⅰ TDC group ( P ＞ 0.05 ).There was no correlation between the VEGF expression and CT perfusion parameters in two types of TDC ( P ＞ 0.05 ).Conclusion CT perfusion imaging with different type of TDC reflected different situation of angiogenesis in HAE peripheral area,which could be a potential technique to illustrate the microcirculation of this disease.