A total of 120 medical students were surveyed to investigate the current status of communication between medical students and old patients and the awareness of medical laws. The questionnaire shows many students don't have enough knowledge of communication skills and medical laws. Furthermore, the most important reason of the medical disputes is the lack of communication between doctors and patients so the cultivation of communication skills and legal knowledge should be strengthened.

Objective:To observe the stability of thymosin ?_1 microspheres under preparation conditions.Methods: Using HPLC method,we investigated the influence of different temperatures(-20 ℃, 6-8℃,60℃),sonification time(10-60 s) and pH values (pH 4.0,7.0 and 10.0) on thymosin ?_1 stability.Results: Under the conditions of frozen environment(-20℃) and refrigeration(6-8℃), thymosin ?_1 remained stable for 30 d.Thymosin ?_1 did not degrade in 60℃ water bath for 12 h or in phosphate buffer solution(PBS,pH 4.0) under 37℃ for 14 h.The sonification time within 60 s was found to be safe for the preparation.Conclusion: Thymosin ?_1 is stable under these preparation conditions.

Objective To investigate the relationship between post-stroke pathological laughing and crying and depression.Methods Among 276 stroke patients in hospital,28 patients with pathological laughing and crying were chosen as PLC group,and other 28 patients matched with gender and age but without PLC were choosen as the control group.All patients were investigated with Hamilton Depression Scale(HAMD),PLC scale and clinical features.Results There was no significantly difference(P>0.05)in total and factor scores of HAMD between these two groups.Conclusion The pathological laughing and crying and depression seem to result from different pathogenesis.

Laboratory animals and animal experiments are foundations and important support conditions for life sciences, especially for medical research. The animal experiments have drawn extensive attention from the society because of the ethical issue. This paper takes Wenzhou Medical University as an example to give a brief introduction to the ethical review about laboratory animals in the university so as to further draw attention and concerns from the public about the ethical issue of laboratory animals. We successively introduce its scientific projects, nurturing environment and ethical review of laboratory animals.
Animal Experimentation ; ethics ; Animals ; Animals, Laboratory ; Universities

Objective We tried to investigate the nutritional status and related factors in patients undergoing allogenetic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Methods A total of 75 patients were recruited from a class-three hospital in Suzhou.They were investigated with a basic information questionnaire and the Patient-Generated-Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA).The related factors influencing nutritional status were analyzed.Results The PAB level began to rise since conditioningregimen,and it rose to the highest level in the second week,then began to decline.The weight and the BMI had been declining in the four weeks since conditioning regimen.29.33％ of the patients were malnourished,the scored PG-SGA was (5.60±4.96),the percentage of patients with dietary problems was 33.3％ before conditioning regimen; 85.33％ of the patients were malnourished,the scored PG-SGA was (19.26±7.18),the percentage of patients with dietary problems was 93.2％ in the second week since conditioning regimen; 85.33％ of the patients were malnourished,the scored PG-SGA was (12.95±6.19),the percentage of patients with dietary problems was 75.8％ in the fourth week; Age is the main factor affecting the patients' albumin level in the second week.Conclusions The nutritional status of patients deteriorated and the percentage of patients with malnutrition increased during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Clinical staff should pay attention to the assessment of nutritional status,and give a reasonable nutritional support when necessary.

Objective To investigate the effects of sevoflurane postconditioning on myocardial ischemiareperfusion (I/R)-induced oncosis of cardiomyocytes and the role of mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP) in it.Methods Sixty male Sprague-Dawley rats,aged 3 months,weighing 280-360 g,were randomly divided into 5 groups (n =12 each):sham operation group (group S),group I/R,sevoflurane postconditioning group (group SP),sevoflurane postconditioning + atractyloside group (group SP + ATR) and atractyloside group (group ATR).Myocardial ischemia was induced by 30 min occlusion of left anterior descending branch (LAD) of coronary artery followed by 2 h reperfusion.2.5 ％ sevoflurane was inhaled for 5 min starting from 27 min of ischemia until 2 min after beginning of reperfusion in SP and SP + ATR groups,while 33 ％ oxygen was inhaled in the other groups.In SP + ATR and ATR groups,atractyloside 5 mg/kg was injected via the internal jugular vein at 15 min before ischemia.HR and systolic pressure were monitored and recorded and rate-pressure product (RPP) was calculated.At the end of reperfusion,the rats were sacrificed and the hearts removed for determination of myocardial infarct size.The myocardial ultrastrncture was observed by electron microscopy.The expression of Porimin (Pro-oncosis receptor inducing membrane injury) was measured by Western blot.Myocardial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) content was determined by spectrophotometry.Results Compared with group S,the myocardial infarct size was significantly enlarged,the expression of Porimin was up-regulated,and NAD+ content and RPP were decreased in the other four groups (P ＜ 0.05).Compared with groups I/R and SP + ATR,the infarct size was significantly decreased,the expression of Porimin was down-regulated,and NAD+ content was increased in group SP (P ＜ 0.05),and no significant change was found in the indices mentioned above in group ATR (P ＞0.05).Conclusion Sevoflurane postconditioning can mitigate myocardial I/R injury by inhibiting MPTP opening and reducing oncosis of cardiomyocytes.

Objective To investigate the immunoregulatory effects of bone marrow-derived mesenehy-real stem ceils (BMSCs) combined with leflunomide (LEF) on mice T-lymphocytes in vitro. Methods BMSCs from BALB/c mice were isolated and expanded. The purity of BMSCs was identified by flow cytometry (FCM). The BALB/c mice's spleen lymphocytes were isolated by using EZ-Sep<'TM> Mouse 1X. Under ConA stimulation, spleen lymphocytes were pretreated with LEF, then washed and co-cuhured with BMSCs. We set up four groups to investigate in this study: group A, spleen lymphocytes alone; group B, spleen lymphocytes with BM- SCs; group C, LEF-pretreated spleen lymphocytes alone and the group D, LEF-pretreated spleen lymphocytes with BMSCs. T-lymphocytes proliferation was assessed by MTT. FCM was used to analysis T-lymphocytes apoptosis and surface markers of CD69 and CD28. The mRNA expression of interleukin (IL)-2, IL-10 were detected by real-time RT-PCR. Results In vitro, the T-lymphocytes'values of A570 nm were significantly lower in group B and group C, compared with group A (group B vs group C vs group A, 0.578±0.042 vs 0.502± 0.040 vs 0.778±0.035, P<0.01), while the value of A<,570 nm>in group D was 0.218±0.033, which was also obviously lower than that in group B and group C (P<0.01). There were no suppressing effects on T-lympho-cytes'activation and expression of IL-2 had been observed. The proportion of apoptotic T-lymphocytes in group B and group D were (2.29±0.32)％ and (4.22±0.98)％, which was significandy lower than that in group A (8.08±1.20) (P<0.01). The expression of IL-10 in group B and C were also lower than that in group A (group B vs group C vs group A, 0.098±0.039 vs 0.054±0.022 vs 1.000, P<0.01 ). Either, the expression of IL-10 in group D was 0.023±0.015, which was obviously lower than that in group B and group C (P<0.01). Conclusion BMSCs combined with LEF show synergistic immunoregulatary effects on mice's T-lymphoeytes.

Objective To retrospectively review and compare the clinical results of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT) from HLA- matched sibling donors mobilized with different regimens. Methods Seventy-one patients with hematological malignant diseases received allo-PBSCT from HLA-matched sibling donors in our department. Among them, 24 received allografts mobilized with G-CSF (group G), and the remaining (47 cases) were mobilized with G-CSF and GM-CSF (group G+ M). CD34+ subsets and T cell subsets in the allografts were analyzed, and the time of hematopoietic reconstitution and the incidence of graft versus host diseases (GVHD) were compared. The adverse effects on the donors after mobilization were also observed. Results The enough targeted CD34+ cells in all donors were harvested by 1-3 aphereses. Ninety-six h after mobilization, WBC counts of the donors were significantly higher in group G than in group G + M [(49. 6± 19. 5) 109/L vs (25.4 ± 10. 4) 109/L, P＜0. 05]. Analysis of the CD34+ subsets showed that the percentage of cells with the CD34+/CD38- phenotype was significantly higher in group G + M than in group G [(37. 7 ± 5. 7) % vs (31.4 ± 4. 5) %, P＜0. 05]. There was no significant difference in T cells and subsets of grafts. There was no significant difference in the number of total CD34+ cells and CD34+ CD38- cells, and infusion of T cells between two groups. The days required for the recovery of neutrophils and platelets was inversely correlated with the infused CD34+ and CD34+ /CD38- cell number. There was no significant difference in incidence of acute and chronic GVHD between two recipient groups. Seventeen cases and 10 eases among 71 eases died of relapses of primarydiseases, and complications of transplantation such as severe GVHD and infections respectively.Fourteen cases in group G (58.3 %) and 31 cases in group G+ M (66.0 %) survived. The most common adverse events in the donors were bone pain and fever, which mostly occurred 36 h after mobilization and could be relieved by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Conclusion Two mobilization regimens showed equivalent clinical results. But the combined regimen of G-CSF and GM-CSF demonstrated a significantly greater mobilization of cells with the CD34+/CD38- phenotype.Meanwhile in allogeneic PBSCT, a greater number of total CD34+ cells and CD34+ CD38- cells infused may be associated with faster hematopoietic reconstitution of recipients.

BACKGROUND: Fish oil is one of mainly natural resources of n-3 fatty acids, which can inhibit cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and prolong the survival of cardiac allograft. But, the mechanism is unclear. Recent in vitro data suggested that n-3 fatty acids could inhibit the release of inflammatory transmitter by the activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-y (PPARy). OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that n-3 fatty acids from fish oil ameliorates CAV development via activating PPARy. METHODS: A total of 6 Lewis rats and 18 Fisher344 rats were randomly selected as heart donors. An additional 24 Lewis rats were randomly and equally divided into 4 groups. In isograft group, heart transplantation was performed among Lewis rats, without any drug. In low-dose fish oil-treated group, F344→Lewis transplantation was performed. At 1 day following surgery, 0.03 mL/kg fish oil was treated by gavage for 8 weeks. In high-dose fish oil-treated group, F344→Lewis transplantation was conducted. At 1 day following surgery, 0.06 mL/kg fish oil was treated by gavage for 8 weeks. In control group, F344→Lawis transplantation was conducted. Cyclosporine A was administrated by gavage for 8 weeks. In the low-dose and high-dose fish oil-treated groups, cyclosporine A (1.5 mg/kg) was given daily by intramuscular injection for 2 weeks following surgery. CAV was evaluated by histological examination. Activity of nuclear factor (NF) k-B and PPARy was assessed in homogenate. Contents of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and interferon-inducible protein 10 were measured by enzyme-labeled immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Chemokine receptor CCR2 and CXCR3 expression was determined by real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: All 24 receptor Lewis rats were survived following surgery. The donor heart could regularly beat at 8 weeks following transplantation. Compared with the isograft group, severe CAV was detected in the control group al 8 weeks. Compared with the control group, CAV was significantly relieved, the activity of PPARy was significantly elevated, the activity of NF k-B was significantly decreased, levels of intragraft monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and interferon-inducible protein-10 were significantly reduced in the low-dose and high-dose fish oil-treated groups (P < 0.001, P < 0.05), especially in the high-dose fish oil-treated group (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in expression of chemokine receptors CXCR3 in the low-dose and high-dose fish oil-treated groups and control group. Our results demonstrated that n-3 fatty acids from fish oil can attenuate CAV development, possibly through activating PPARy and subsequently inhibiting the NF-kB activation, the chemokines secretion and its receptor expression in a dose-dependent fashion in rat models.

Objective To analyze the resting-state functional connectivity of the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus in normal subjects with functional MRI and to investigate its preliminary application in post-stroke aphasia.Methods Eleven male patients with post-stroke aphasia and 11 male normal subjects were recruited in this study.Resting-state fMRI data were obtained with GE 1.5 T Twin speed MR Scanner.The fMRI data were processed with SPM2, AFNI and Matlab programs.Based on the results of previous fMRI study with category member generation task , the region of interest ( ROI ) was created in the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus The time course correlations between the ROI and other voxels within whole brain were analyzed.Intra-and inter-group analysis was performed with single sample t-test and two sample t-test.Results Brain regions showed positive resting-state functional connectivity with the ROI in normal subjects including left inferior/middle frontal gyrus , left premotor cortex , left precuneus , left insula , left putamen, right inferior frontal gyrus, right cerebellum and bilateral inferior parietal lobules (voxels 33-809, t=5.80-23.55,P<0.005,uncorrected).Brain regions functionally connected with the ROI in patients with post-stroke aphasia included left inferior/middle frontal gyrus , left premotor cortex , left precuneus , left inferior parietal lobules and right inferior frontal gyrus ( voxels 34-833, t =5.08-20.34, P<0.005, uncorrected ).The left fusiform gyrus was the only region showed significantly decreased functional connectivity with the ROI in the patients group (voxels 84,t=6.25,P<0.005, uncorrected).Conclusions The neural network related to language output exists in normal subjects at the resting-state.Resting-state functional connectivity can be used to investigate the neural mechanism of development and restoration of post-stroke aphasia.