BACKGROUND:At present, there is no relevant systematic research about the effects of ankle-foot orthoses on lower limb muscles. OBJECTIVE:To extract the main features of the surface electromyography signals of the lower limbs from normal people with ankle-foot orthoses and to analyze the effects of the fixed ankle-foot orthoses on lower limb muscle fatigue. METHODS:Each of five male healthy young adults was respectively required to walk with and without special ankle-foot orthoses for three times. (1) Group 1, walking in a nature gait without orthoses. (2) Group 2, walking in a natural gait with ankle-foot orthoses (the ankle center was packaged over 1.0 cm by the orthoses that was recorded 1.0 cm); wearing the same orthoses but 1.0 cm in the ankle was removed and the ankle plastic edge was just through the ankle center to colect the data (recorded as 0 cm); after 1.0 cm was removed again in the ankle, walking in a natural gait (recorded as-1.0 cm). (3) Group 3, wearing 1.5 cm heel-height ankle-foot orthoses and walking in a natural gait; wearing the same orthoses but with 1.0 cm and 2.0 cm heel-height and walking in a natural gait. During walking, surface electromyography signals were colected from the biceps femoris muscle, rectus femoris muscle, tibialis anterior muscle, and gastrocnemius of the lower limbs. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: (1) Without orthoses, the surface electromyography signals were the weakest. (2) For any muscle, the electrical activity of subjects without orthoses was weaker than that of subjects wearing orthoses at different hardness. (3) For the biceps femoris muscle, the integral electrical value without orthoses was very close to that wearing orthoses with normal heel height. Meanwhile, these two values were lower than that wearing orthoses with abnormal heel height. These findings indicate that the fixed plastic ankle-foot orthoses could cause the fatigue of the biceps femoris muscle, rectus femoris muscle, tibialis anterior muscle, and gastrocnemius; and the orthoses with abnormal heel height can further increase the fatigue of the biceps femoris muscle.

Objective To explore the clinical manifestation and laboratory examination of chronic diarrhea in children with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS) and analyze the reasons that causes the chronic diarrhea in children.Methods Clinical data of 7 patients (male 4 cases,famale 3 cases)with AIDS with manifestation of chronic diarrhea among the 17 cases were diagnosed as AIDS in Beijing children′s hospital from Jan.1999 to Dec.2006.The time of diarrhea,degree of dinrrhea,characteristic of stool,accompaniment symptom,laboratory examination were retrospectively analyzed.Results The average onset age was 6 years old(from 2-9 years old).The average time of diarrhea was 6 months(from 1-16 months).Four cases main complained with chronic diarrhea,3 cases came to the hospital because of fever,cough and wasting;6 cases with diarrhea,7 cases with malnutrition and anemia,5 cases accompanied hypokalemia and metabolic acidosis,6 cases had delay in growth and development,2 cases with abnormal stool routine exam,1 case with positive stool culture of fungi.All patients were with lower CD4,5 cases with lower CD4/CD8.Conclusions Chronic diarrhea is a common symptom in children with AIDS,and usually accompanied by obvious delay in growth and development,malnutrition and anemia,the reasons that causes the chronic diarrhea are consi-dered to be related with both the opportunistic infection and HIV infection.

C erbB 2 is overexpressed in 20%～30% of human breast cancers,this oncoprotein plays an important role in predicting response to chemotherapy in breast cancer.Overexpression of c erbB 2 in breast cancer is associated with resistance or sensitivity to certain chemo therapeutic drugs, c erbB 2 can be expected to be a biological marker to direct chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the variance of antimicrobial resistance of Klebsiella.spp isolated in our hospital during the recent 5 years.METHODS:Disk diffusion test was used to study the anti microbial resistance.The results were evaluated based on the criteria recommended by American Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.The data analysis was performed using WHONET-5software.RESULTS:Atotal of 840 strains of Klebsiella.spp were collected fromour hospital during2003～2007,of which,59.3% were fromrespiratory secretion speci men,12.0%fromblood speci men,and10.1% from secretions.The detection rate of ESBLs-producing Klebsiella.spp was from51.0% to65.1%.No I mipenem-and Meropenem-resistant Klebsiella.spp strain was detected.Susceptibility test showed that Klebsiella.spp-producing ESBLs was multiple resistant,and the anti microbial resistance of Klebsiella.spp has increased year on year.CONCLUSION:Monitoring of the drug resistance of Klebsiella.spp should be strengthened.The variation of the anti microbial resistance of Klebsiella.spp should be noted so as to direct rational drug use in the clinic and prevent spreading of drug resistant strains.

AIM:To explore whether A3 adenosine receptor plays a role in the modulation of vascular reactivity after hemorrhagic shock in rat,and to find out the prospective drug target to restore the decreased vascular reactivity following hemorrhagic shock. METHODS:The hemorrhagic shock (40 mmHg) model was established in rat,and the reactivity of superior mesenteric artery (SMA) to norepinephrine (NE) was observed. A3AR expression at protein level and mRNA level were measured by Western blotting and RT-PCR respectively. RESULTS:The vascular reactivity of SMA to NE after hemorrhagic shock (40 mmHg) was decreased significantly in a biphasic response manner. The expression of A3AR mRNA in SMA after hemorrhagic shock decreased without significant difference. The expression of A3AR protein has a slight increase without statistical difference after 30 min of hemorrhagic shock and then has a significant decrease (especially at 2 h and 4 h after hemorrhagic shock). The usage of IB-MECA,a selective A3AR agonist,significantly increased the responsiveness of SMA to NE in hemorrhagic shock in rat. MRS1523,the selective A3AR antagonist,significantly abolished the restoration of the vascular reactivity to NE by IB-MECA in hemorrhagic shock in rat. CONCLUSION:A3AR plays a role in the modulation of vascular responsiveness to NE in hemorrhagic shock in rat,and the selective agonist of A3AR could restore the reactivity of SMA to NE in hemorrhagic shock in rat.

Objective: To study the treatment of complicated and giant carotid body tumor. Methods: A giant carotid body tumor was dissected 2 years ago. The external carotid artery was embolized by means of catheterization before surgical intervention, and techniques of internal shunting and autogenous blood transfusion was used during the operation. Results: The tumor was resected completely without cerebral vessel disorders and major cephalic nerve injuries. Conclusion: The application of radial intervention of external carotid artery, shunting of internal carotid artery and autogenous blood transfusion are helpful to the treatment of giant and re operative carotid body tumor.

The therapeutic effects and mechanisms of traditional Chinese kidney-tonifying drugs in treating osteoporosis have become the focus under study. Pharmacological studies have shown that traditional Chinese kidney-tonifying drugs are promoters for the proliferation of osteoblasts, inhibitors for the activity of osteoclasts, regulators for the estrogen level and its receptor, plays important roles in promoting osteogenesis and suppressing adipogenesis of marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), modulating the function of OPG/RANK/RANKL system and the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus, as well as antioxidation. The anti-osteoporotic active ingredients and pharmacological action mechanism of traditional Chinese kidney-tonifying drugs are summarized from the perspective of molecular and cell biology in this paper, so as to provide references for the study of their mechanism of anti-osteoporosis and for the development of traditional Chinese kidney-tonifying and bone-strengthening drugs.
Animals ; Bone and Bones ; drug effects ; physiopathology ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; Humans ; Kidney ; drug effects ; physiopathology ; Osteoporosis ; drug therapy ; physiopathology

Objective To investigate the roles of interleukin(IL)-25,eosinophils in the occurrence of bronchial asthma.Methods Selected 30 cases of acute episode of asthma(asthma group),and ease a group of 23 cases of asthma treatment(remission group),20 cases of the normal control group.Using the method of gradient ultrasonic atomizing inhalation of Hyperosmotic saline collection of induced sputum specimens,by ELISA method for the determination IL-25 level in induced sputum,count of eosinophils,analysis of correlation between them.Results Group IL-25 in induced sputum of asthma and eosinophil levels[(313.12±75.64)ng/L vs(236.43±57.90)ng/L]were sig-nificandy higher than the control group[(0.386±0.267) × 109/L vs(0.005±0.002) × 109/L],and significantly higher than acute stage in remission stage[(268.63 + 40.19) ng/L,(0.120 + 0.016) × 109/L](P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion IL-25 has an important role in asthma development.It provides a new way of thinking for monitoring and treatment.

Objective To study the incidence of malposition of catheter at different body positions during the operation of peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC),and then select the optimum position to increase the success rate of insertion. Methods 155 patients were randomly divided into the horizontal position group (55 cases),the semi-reclining position group (49 cases) and the sitting position group (51cases).They all used chest X-ray to conffirm the position of top end of the catheter after insertion and then comparing the incidence rate of malposition of catheter among three groups. Results After insertion,11 patients' catheters were found malposition.Among them,8 patients were in the semi-reclining position group (incidence rate 16.3％),2 patients were in the horizontal position group (incidence rate 3.6％) and only one patient was in the sitting position group (incidence rate 1.9％ ).Incidence rate of catheter malposition in the semi-reclining position group was significantly higher than other two groups. Conclusions The best position for PICC is the horizontal position.If the patient has expiratory dyspnea or need to adjust the malposition catheter,sitting position can be used.Semi-reclining position should be avoided in the operation of PICC.

Objective To explore the effect of probiotics on patients with severe acute pancreatitis.Methods Randomized controlled trials of probiotics in patients with severe acute pancreatitis were searched in Cochrane Library(2010),Medline(1966 to September 2010),China Academic Literature Full-text Database,Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database and WanFang Database between 1966 and September 2010.Evaluation of literature quality and data extraction were independently completed by two researchers.Data were analyzed with RevMan4.3 software.Results A total of 313 papers had been searched.After excluded duplicated and low-level paper,six articles were included in this study.The result showed that the infection rate(OR=0.88,95％CI[0.56,1.38])and mortality rate(OR=1.44,95％CI[0.78,2.64])of patients with severe acute pancreatitis in intervention group were not lower than control group,however the length of stay in hospital was shorter in intervention group than control group(WMD=-4.69,95％ CI[-7.73,-1.65]).There was no significant difference between intervention group and control group in systemic inflammatory response syndrome(OR =1.33,95 ％ CI[0.63,2.83]),multiple organ failure (OR=1.50,95 ％ CI[0.89,2.52])and transfering to surgery department for further treatment(OR=0.92,95％CI[0.56,1.51]).Conclusion So far the studies indicated that probiotics could not lower the infection rate and mortality rate in patients with severe acute pancreatitis.Large sample and highquality randomized controlled trials are needed for further evaluation.