BACKGROUND: Blood-letting puncture on 12-well points of hand is a kind of effective emergent approaches on cerebral apoplexy. It is testified in animal experiment that bleeding on 12-well points of hand can dilate cerebral vessels, enhance blood flow in brain, improve acute anoxic state in ischemic brain tissue and relieve acid toxin due to accumulation of lactate.OBJECTIVE: To explore the effects and mechanism of blood-letting puncture of 12-well points of hand nitric oxide (NO) contents and nitricoxide synthase (NOS) activity after cerebral ischemia in rats.DESIGN: Randomized controlled animal experiment was designed.SETTING: Department of Physiology of Medical Institute of Xianning College.MATERIALS: The experiment was performed in Department of Physiology of Medical Institute of Xianning College from March 2003 to February 2004. Totally 84 Wistar rats were employed in the experiment, aged of 2 or 3 months, of either sex, body weighted (230±20) g and provided from Experimental Animal Center of Medical Institute of Xianning College.METHODS: Totally 84 rats were randomized into sham operation group,ischemia group and ischemia + bleeding group, 28 rats in each one. Modified Longa method [3] was applied to prepare the model of embolism of cerebral middle artery in rat. In ischemia + bleeding group, after cerebral ischemia, blood-letting puncture was applied with three-edged needle on Shaoshang (LU11), Shangyang (LI1), Zhongchong (PC9), Guanchong (TE1),Shoochong (HT9) and Shaoze (SI1) in sequence firstly on the left foreleg,and then on the right one, corresponding to the analogy of 12-well points of hand of human. One blood drop was just required. NO content and NOS activity were assayed in 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours of ischemia in brain tissue successively in each group.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: NO content and NOS activity in brain tissue in each group.RESULTS: ① NO content in 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours of ischemia in ischemia group was (116.16±26.63), (118.94±24.47),(115.65±25.29) and (108.87±26.52) μmol/L successively and NOS ac tivity was (507.22±92.52), (502.08±92.52), (510.71±96.63) and (495.29-±88.41) μkat/L, which was higher significantly than the sham operation group (t=2.474-4.731, P ＜ 0.05 or 0.001). ② In ischemia + bleeding group,, NO content was (91.8±11.51), (93.55±13.88), (92.52±11.62) and (84.3±11.51) μmol/L successively and NOS activity was (337.6±88.41),(340.99±96.63), (344.48±84.3) and (337.6±90.46) μkat/L, indicating significant difference in comparison with ischemia group (t=2.199-3.507,P ＜ 0.05-0.01).CONCLUSION: Blood-letting puncture on 12-well points of hand inhibits the increased NO content and NOS activity in ischemic brain tissue and alleviates the injury of free radical to brain tissue so that the focal brain ischemia of rats is protected.

Angelica ; chemistry ; Animals ; Animals, Newborn ; Cell Count ; Female ; Fetal Hypoxia ; pathology ; Hippocampus ; cytology ; drug effects ; Male ; Neuroglia ; cytology ; Neurons ; cytology ; Pregnancy ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

The influence of Chang-Bai Xin kui(长白新圭) on the acid ?-naPhthyl acetate esterase(ANAE) positive lymphocytes was studied by using ANAE as a cytochemical marker.S180 cells ef ascites tumor were inoculated into the mice in experimental and control group. 3 days later, 0.8mg/0.2ml of Chang-Bai Xin Kni was injected peritoneally into the mice in experimental group everyday in 7 days. Eaeh of the two groups has its own self control.The experimental results show that there is no significant differences in total numbar of ANAE positive lymphoctes between the two groups and all self-controls.But after 7 days of injecting the drug, the granular pattern and scattered granular pattern of lymphoctes were increased significantly(P

Objective:To investigate the feasibility of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI)parameters in differentiating musculoskeletal tumors with different behaviours of pathological findings before therapy.Methods:A total of 34 subjects of musculoskeletal tumors were in-volved in this retrospective analysis.DCE-MRI was performed using a fat-saturated 3 D VIBE (volumetric interpolated breath-hold exam)imaging sequence with following parameters:FA,10 degree;TR/TE, 5.6/2.4 ms;slice thickness,4.0 mm with no intersection gap;field of view,310 mm ×213 mm;ma-trix,256 ×178;voxel size,1 .2 mm ×1 .2 mm ×4.0 mm;parallel imaging acceleration factor.The ac-tuation time for the DCE-MRI sequence was 255 s with a temporal resolution of 5 s and 40 image vo-lumes.Using pathological results as a gold standard,tumors were divided into benign,borderline and malignant tumors.Toft’s model was used for calculation of Ktrans (volume transfer constant),Ve (extra-vascular extracellular space distribute volume per unit tissue volume)and Kep(microvascular permeability reflux constant).Those parameters were compared between the lesions and the control tissues using paired t-tests.The one-way analysis of variance was used to assess the difference among benign,border-line and malignant tumors.P values <0.05 difference was statistically significant.Results:Based on the WHO Classification of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone(2012)criteria,34 patients were divided into three groups:1 1 for benign tumors,12 for borderline tumors,and 1 1 for malignancies.Compared with control tissues,Ktrans and Kepshowed no difference,but Ve was increased in benign tumors,Kep showed no diffe-rence,butKtransandVewereincreasedinborderlinetumors, Ktrans,KepandVewereincreasedin malignant tumors.Ktrans(P<0.001 )and Kep (P<0.01 )were significantly higher in malignant tumors than in benign and borderline tumors,but did not show any difference between benign tumors and border-line tumors.Ve was significantly higher in malignant tumors than in benign (P<0.05),but did not show any difference between malignant and borderline tumors,benign tumors and borderline tumors (P >0.05 ).Conclusion:DCE-MRI technique is useful to evaluate the pathological behaviour of musculoske-letal tumors.The quantitative analysis of DCE parameters in conjunction with conventional MR images can improve the accuracy of musculoskeletal tumor qualitative analysis.

Objective To research the most commonly used five method to evaluated the difficulty airway , and compare which methods were more suited for the pregnant woman in general anesthesia. Methods 214 patients with full-term pregnancy who requested emergency or elective caesarean-section were assigned. During the pre-anesthetic visit,we evaluated patients from Mallampati score, thyromental distance, body mass index (BMI), inter-incisor gap, and upper lip bite test. After endotracheal intubation ,patients were divided into 2 groups based on Cormack classification. Results Five ways sensitivity descending order were upper lip bite test (79.5%)、Mallampati score (76.9%)、BMI (56.4%)、inter-incisor gap (51.3%)、thyromental distance (35.9%); specificity descending order were upper lip bite test (93.1%)、Mallampati scores (86.3%)、inter-incisor gap (85.1%)、thyromental distance (76.6%)、BMI (62.3%). Conclusions In pregnant women ,Mallampati score and the upper lip bite test are the better indicators to predict difficult airway.

Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia ; pathology ; Forehead ; pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Parotid Gland ; pathology

Objective To compare the effects of different doses of amino acids and fat emulsions in parenteral nutrition on the incidence of complications and prognosis in very low birth weight infants (VLBWI). Methods The clinical data of 328 VLBWI who received nutrition support therapy for at least 5 days starting in 72 h after birth during January 2005 to December 2014 , were retrospectively analyzed. According to the dosage in parenteral nutrition, patients were divided into low-dose group and high-dose group. The incidence of complications and prognosis between two groups were compared. Results There were 204 cases in low-dose group and 124 cases in high-dose group. Compared with the low-dose group, the incidence of complications was lower in high-dose group during hospitalization and the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage was reduced most;the incidence of developmental retardation was lower at discharge;the overall incidence of metabolic complications of parenteral nutrition was higher, among which the incidence of high blood glucose, electrolyte disturbance and cholestasis were increased and the incidence of hypoglycemia was lower, and the differences were all statistically signiifcant (P??0 . 05 ). Conclutsions VLBWI can tolerate early aggressive parenteral nutrition which can reduce the incidence of extrauterine growth retardation and premature complications.

Fifty Cases of chronic B—hepatitis were treated withTCM based on differentiation of syndromes and com-pared with a control group of 50 cases treated withwestern remedies.Results showed that for the treatinggroup,the rate of negative return of HBeAg was64%,and the rate of positive return of HBe was 48%,while that of the control group were 20% and 10% re-spectively.

Objective To explore the features of high-frequency ultrasonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC).Methods The CEUS data and ultrasound data of 147 PTMCS which were reconfirmed by pathology were analyzed retrospectively,and the CEUS and ultrasonic characteristics of them were summarized.Results Among 147 nodules,144 (97.9％) nodules were hypoechoic,and 3 nodules were isoechoic.Vague edge was found in 136(92.5％) PTMCs,and 126(85.7％) PTMCs were irregular in shape.Totally 92(62.6％) PTMCs were A/T ＞ 1,microcalcifications were found in 81 (55.1％) PTMCs.Besides,26(74.2％) PTMCs were found microcalcification in 35 PTMCs combined with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT),while 55 (49.1％) PTMCs were found microcalcification in 112 PTMCs combined with HT.There were significant differences between them (P ＜ 0.05).The blood distribution of 129 (87.8％) nodules was type Ⅱ.The contrast-enhanced pattern of 147 (100.0％) PTMCs showed in-homogeneous enhancement in 144 (97.9％) nodules,hypoenhancement in 136(92.5％) nodules,and all the nodules without amicula.Conclusions The typical PTMCs are hypoechoic,irregular shapeand vague edge,usually were found as A/T ＞ 1,microcalcification,and type Ⅱ blood distribution.With the method of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography,these nodules usually without amicula showed inhomogeneous and hypoenhancement.The incidence of microcalcification is more common when patients with Hashimoto's disease coexisting PTMC.