Objective: To observe the changes of Cajal interstitial cells(CIC) in the intestine of rats with liver cirrhosis,so as to study the mechanism of gastrointestinal dysfunction.Methods: Twenty Wistar rats were equally randomized into control group and cirrhosis model group.Cirrhosis model was established by CCl_(4) in rats.The intestinal motility changes were assayed using Dextran blue-2000 as an indicator.Immunohistochemical staining was used to investigate the distribution of c-kit positive CIC in jejunum of rats.Meanwhile,the ultrastructure of CIC was observed by electron microscope.Results: Compared with control group,the intestinal motility and the c-kit positive CIC in jejunum were both markedly decreased in model group(both P

Interstitial cells of Cajal(ICC) were recognized as a pacemaker with spontaneous electrical activity, producing and conducting slow wave , ICC plays an important role in the regulation of gastrointestinal motor and the changes of ICC is related to gastrointestinal motility disease. Further investigation of ICC has important significance in realizing the physiology of gastrointestinal motor and the mechanisms of gastrointestinal motility disease, and providing support for intervention of some disease.

To study the effect of pericarpium arecae on gastric electro arrhythmia in rats and its mechanisms, 30 Wistars were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, model group and pericarpium arecae plus model group.The frequency of slow wave, coefficient of variation (CV) and abnormal rhythm index (ARI) were recorded and analyzed by computer, meanwhile the cholinergic and nitrigic nerves in antral myoenteric plexus were observed with histochemical staining. The results showed that, compared with control group, the CV and ARI in model group markedly increased ( P 0 05) after treatment with pericarpium arecae; the density of cholinergic nerves markedly decreased( P 0 05) after treatment with pericarpium arecae. It suggested that pericarpium arecae has regulative effect on the gastric electro arrhythmia in rats, and the increased cholinergic nerves and decreased nitrigic nerves in antral myoenteric plexus may be its underlying mechanisms.

Objective To investigate the changes in gastrointestinal motility and cholinergic nervous system in the gastric antrum and intestine of rats with cirrhosis. Methods 20 Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group and cirrhosis model group. The changes in gastrointestinal motility of rats were assessed by Dextran blue-2000 as an indicator; the cholinergic nerves in antro-jejunal myoenteric plexus were observed with acetylcholinesterase histochemical staining and analysed with a computer. Results Compare with control group, the gastrointestinal motility of rats was markedly retarded (P

Objective To observe the effect of Rhizome Atractylodis Macrocephalae (RAM) on electrogastric arrhythmia in rats and its mechanisms. Methods A total of 30 Wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, model group and RAM plus model group. The frequency of slow wave(FSW), coefficient of variation(CV) and abnormal rhythm index(ARI) were recorded and analyzed by computer. The substance P(SP), vasoactive intestinal peptide(VIP) and nitric oxide synthase(NOS) nerves in antral myenteric plexus were observed by immunohistochemical staining. Results Compared with those of the control group, the CV and ARI in model group markedly increased( P 0.05). The denites of SP nerves markedly decreased( P 0.05). Conclusion RAM has regulative effect on the electrogastric arrhythmia in rats and the mechanisms may be related with the increased SP nerves and decreased VIP and NOS nerves in antral myenteric plexus.

Objective　To study the mechanisms of Pericarpium Arecae. Methods　A total of Wistar rats were randomly divided into Pericarpium Arecae group and control group, Pericarpium Arecae decoction or distilled water were given respectively. Changes of gastrointestinal motility rats were assayed by Dextran blue-2000 after 1 and 6 hours. The distributions of SP and VIP in antrum and jejunum were investigated by immunohistochemistry assay. Results　The gastrointestinal motility of rats was markedly enhanced (P<0.01 or P<0.05). The expressions of SP increased significantly (P<0.01 or P<0.05) and the expressions of VIP decreased significantly (P<0.01 or P<0.05) in antrum and jejunum of rats at 1 and 6 h after Pericarpium Arecae decoction was given. The changes were more obvious at 1 h than at 6 h. Conclusion　The kinetogenic effect of Pericarpium Arecae is closely correlated to the increase of SP expression and the decrease of VIP expression in gastrointestinal tract.

The goal of treatment of metabolic syndrome is the prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular events. A series of novel tetrahydrocoptisine quaternary ammonium compounds were prepared to evaluate their action of hypoglycemia and hypolipidemia for finding the therapeutic agents of metabolic syndrome. Starting from the coptisine hydrochloride (2), fifteen target compounds were synthesized by reduction and substitution of the 7-N position. All of the target compounds were characterized by 1H NMR and HR-MS. Their hypoglycemic activities were evaluated in HepG2 cell and hypolipidemic activities of compounds with better hypoglycemic activity were tested further in vivo. Results indicated that compounds 5, 7, 8 and 9 exhibited better hypoglycemic activities in vitro and compounds 5 and 8 exhibited good hypolipidemic activities in high-fat-diet (HFD) induced hyperlipidemia mice and (or) hamsters. However, the activity is not as good as simvastatin.

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is an important basis for the diagnosis of arrhythmia and myocardial infarction. In order to further improve the classification effect of arrhythmia and myocardial infarction, an ECG classification algorithm based on Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT) and multimodal image fusion was proposed. Through Gramian summation angular field (GASF), Gramian difference angular field (GADF) and recurrence plot (RP), the one-dimensional ECG signal was converted into three different modes of two-dimensional images, and fused into a multimodal fusion image containing more features. The CvT-13 model could take into account local and global information when processing the fused image, thus effectively improving the classification performance. On the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset and the PTB myocardial infarction dataset, the algorithm achieved a combined accuracy of 99.9% for the classification of five arrhythmias and 99.8% for the classification of myocardial infarction. The experiments show that the high-precision computer-assisted intelligent classification method is superior and can effectively improve the diagnostic efficiency of arrhythmia as well as myocardial infarction and other cardiac diseases.
Humans ; Electrocardiography ; Heart Diseases ; Myocardial Infarction/diagnostic imaging* ; Algorithms ; Electric Power Supplies

Objectives: To understand the status of studies about influenza economic burden in mainland China and summarize their major results. Methods: The words of influenza, flu, cost, economic, burden, effectiveness, benefit, utility, China, and Chinese, were used as search keywords. Journal papers published during 2000-2018 were searched from Chinese electronic databases (CNKI and Wanfang) and English electronic databases (PubMed, Web of science, EconLit and Cochrane Library). The language of literature was restricted to Chinese and English. A total of 23 effective documents were included, and the descriptive characteristics, research indexes and methods included in the literature were analyzed. The monetary unit used in this review is Chinese Yuan (CNY). Results: The 23 study sites were mainly in the relatively developed and populous regions. The total cost per capita of laboratory-confirmed influenza,of all age-group was reported in 6 literatures, and only 4 literatures reported it in out-patients (range: 768.0-999.9 CNY), Only one study reported this indicator in inpatients (9 832.0 CNY). One literature reported the total cost per capita of influenza-like illness,, which was 205.1 CNY. And one literature reported that the direct medical cost of inpatients per capita in children under 5 years of age was 6 072.0 CNY while two literature reported this index for the elderly over 60 years of age, ranging from 14 250.0 to 19 349.1 CNY. Four articles reported the economic burden of influenza in urban and rural areas, one of which showed that the related expenses of urban influenza inpatients accounted for 31% of the average annual income, while which for the rural flow was 113%. Conclusion The average economic burden of lab-confirmed influenza case is higher than that of influenza-like illness, and there are differences in outpatient indirect expenses and inpatients direct medical expenses. The direct medical burden for the hospitalized 60-years-and-beyond influenza case group is heavier thar other age group. By region, the influenza associated individual economic burden in rural area is higher than that of urban area..

Objective: To systematically review the mortality burden study of influenza in mainland China. Method: "influenza", "flu", "H1N1", "pandemic", "mortality", "death", "fatality", "burden", "China" and "Chinese" were used as keywords, and a systematic literature search was conducted to identify articles in three English databases (PubMed, Web of Science and Embase) and three Chinese database (CNKI, WanFang and VIP) during 1990-2018 (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The language of literature was restricted to Chinese and English. The inclusion criteria were human-oriented researches with method based on population, and research indexes included mortality and excess mortality. The exclusion criteria were non-primary research materials, predictive research and research on the burden of avian influenza related deaths. A total of 17 literatures were included, and the basic information to descriptive characteristics, methodology of modeling and the corresponding results were extracted. Results: All the 17 studies adopted indirect statistical models, with 14 of which adopted the regression model, and all the research index was excess mortality. All causes (16 studies), respiratory and circulatory diseases (14 studies) and pneumonia and influenza (10 studies) were the main causes of death associated with influenza. Influenza associated mortality burden in the elderly was higher, with the lowest excess mortality rates of all causes, respiratory and circulatory diseases, pneumonia and influenza being 49.57, 30.80 and 0.69 per 100 000 people, and the highest rates being 228.16, 170.20 and 30.35 per 100 000 people, respectively. In the non-elderly, the corresponding lowest rates were -0.27, -0.08 and 0.04 per 100 000 people respectively, and the highest rates were 3.63, 2.6 and 0.91 per 100 000 people, respectively. The influenza-related excess mortality was higher in the north, with a minimum of 7.8 per 100 000 and a maximum of 18.0 per 100 000, and slightly lower in the south, with a minimum of 6.11 per 100 000 and a maximum of 18.7 per 100 000. There were also differences in deaths caused by different influenza virus subtypes, with influenza A(H3N2) and influenza B virus possibly posing a heavier mortality burden. Conclusions Studies on influenza mortality burden is mainly based on indirect model and urban level in China. The mortality burden of influenza in the elderly, the northern and subtype A(H3N2) and B were more severe.