Objective:To test the reliability of BMDC-NPTB-CR. Method: 182 elderlies were tested with the BMDC-NPTB-CR. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the scale were calculated. Result:70% of the items in BMDC-NPTB-CR were moderate in difficulty. The correlation between total score and subscores were in 0.50～0.88(P

To study the effects of Chinese herbal medicine Yinsiwei compound (YSW) on spatial learning and memory ability in rats with sporadic Alzheimer disease (SAD) and the ultrastructural basis of the hippocampal neurons.

Objective To establish rat models with Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease(SAD) induced by intracerebroventricular administration of streptozotocin(ic-STZ),and observe the effects of compound Jinsiwei(GETO) on learning and memorizing ability of rats.Methods To establish the Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease model by intracerebroventricular micro-injection of STZ bilaterally.GETO groups were treated with gastric perfusion of GETO in three different dosage for 3 months.Learning and memorizing ability of the rats were inspected through Morris water maze test.The effects of GETO and Donepezil were observed and compared.Results In place navigation test,the escape latency and swimming distance were significantly longer in the model group than that in the sham group(P

Objective　To explore the relationship between free fatty acid metabolites and the acute cerebral infarction based on tandem mass spectrometry.Methods　Collecting 460 objects admitted to the first affiliated hospital of jinzhou medical university from October 2019 to January 2020.According to the presence of new cerebral infarction in the head imaging examination，they were divided into two groups：acute cerebral infarction group and control group.The tandem mass spectrometry was used to detect plasma 25 free fatty acids metabolites.Orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA)，Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) and logistic regression were used to screen the differential metabolites.Results　There are 5 free fatty acid metabolites and the comprehensive indicators W significantly correlated with the incidence of cerebral infarction.The area under curve (AUC) of each metabolite for predicting cerebral infarction was as follows：W (0.917)，palmitic acid (0.892)，stearic acid (0.878)，linoleic acid (0.864)，oleic acid (0.840)，arachidonic acid (0.806).Conclusion　Linoleic acid，palmitic acid，stearic acid，arachidonic acid，oleic acid may be related to the occurrence and development of cerebral infarction，and the study of their metabolic processes may provide a basis for exploring the pathogenesis of cerebral infarction.

Objective To investigate the correlation between early serum β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) and cystatin-C (Cys-C) levels and post-stroke depression (PSD) in patients with acute cerebral infarction and their clinical significance. Methods Patients with acute cerebral infarction within 72 hours of the first onset were consecutively collected,and the diagnosis met the diagnostic criteria of the Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke 2018,all confirmed by head MRI DWI,with reference to the diagnostic criteria of PSD and the 24-item version of the Hamilton Depression Scale-24 (HAMD-24) scores were included in the patients. Scores≥8 were included in the study group (PSD group),and the PSD group was further divided into two subgroups,mild and moderate-severe,according to the HAMD score. Laboratory indicators such as serum β2-MG,Cys-C and biochemistry and clinical data were collected on admission. Results 64 of 174 patients with acute cerebral infarction were diagnosed with PSD,with an incidence of 37%. Compared with the control group,there were statistical differences in age,hypertension,high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C),serum creatinine (Scr),β2-MG and Cys-C in the study group,and the results of multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that age,β2-MG and Cys-C might be the most important factors. β2-MG and Cys-C may be independent risk factors for the occurrence of PSD;meanwhile,the levels of β2-MG and Cys-C were found to be positively correlated with the severity of PSD (P<0.01). The analysis of the role of serum β2-MG and Cys-C in the diagnosis of PSD by applying ROC curves showed that the AUC of β2-MG was 0.781,with a sensitivity of 0.672 and specificity of 0.909;the AUC of Cys-C was 0.785,with a sensitivity of 0.828 and specificity of 0.736;the AUC of the combined diagnosis was 0.815,with a sensitivity of 0.656 and specificity of 0.909.Conclusion Age,serum β2-MG and Cys-C may be independent risk factors for the occurrence of PSD,and serum β2-MG and Cys-C are associated with the severity of PSD;β2-MG and Cys-C may have some diagnostic value for the occurrence of PSD,and the combined diagnostic value of the two is higher.

The study is designed to evaluate the protective effect of xanthan gum (XG) injection on cartilage injury in the rabbit osteoarthritis (OA) model induced by anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT), and to explore the effect of XG on the expression of caspase-3 and Bax protein in OA cartilage. Sixty male New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into 6 groups (n=10) according to random number table method, and one group was selected randomly as the normal control group (control) while the other 5 groups of right knee were used to establish the OA model with ACLT, which were then divided into model group (model), XG-0.6 mg·kg^-1, XG-1.2 mg·kg^-1, XG-2.4 mg·kg^-1 treatment group and sodium hyaluronate (SH-1.2 mg·kg^-1) treatment group according to drug intervention. The knee joint temperature and knee joint width of each group were measured in the course of treatment. After treatment, the macroscopic morphology of rabbit joints in each group was observed. The pathological morphology of articular cartilage of rabbits in each group was observed using HE staining. The expression of Bax and cleaved caspase-3 in the cartilage of rabbits were detected by Western blot. The result shows that XG inhibited the increase in knee joint temperature and knee width caused by OA in a dose-dependent manner. XG improved the morphological abnormalities and tissue injuries of the femoral condyle and tibial plateau caused by OA. Western blot result shows that, compared with the control group, the levels of Bax and cleaved caspase-3 in knee cartilage cells of model group and XG-0.6 mg·kg^-1 group were significantly increased (P<0.01). However, no significant difference was observed in the levels of Bax and cleaved caspase-3 between the model group and the XG-0.6 mg·kg^-1 group (P>0.05). These two groups are significantly higher than those of XG-1.2 mg·kg^-1 and XG-2.4 mg·kg^-1 (P<0.01) groups. Meanwhile, no significant difference was observed in the level of cleaved caspase-3 between the knee cartilage in XG-2.4 mg·kg^-1 and XG-1.2 mg·kg^-1 group (P>0.05). The level of Bax in knee cartilage in XG-2.4 mg·kg^-1 group was lower than that of XG-1.2 mg·kg^-1 group (P<0.05). In conclusion, XG effectively protected cartilage damage in OA, and inhibited the expression of Bax and caspase-3 protein in OA cartilage.

To investigate the correlation between cognitive function and the Chinese medicine syndrome characteristics of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI).

It is important to detect and prevent Alzheimer disease (AD) at its early stage. Constituting the early stage sign of AD, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) has drawn much attention. Studies have shown that donepezil could reduce the AD assessment scale-cognitive subscale (ADAS-Cog) score in MCI patients and improve the patient's attention and speed of response; however, it also has many side effects. Therefore, the authors aim to explore the effects of Chinese herbal medicine for treating aMCI.

AIM: To investigate the relationship between glucocorticoid (Gc) and injury of hippocampus neurons and the effect of Gc on dementia episode after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion. METHODS: The rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MACO) was established. Cortisol contents in hippocampus and plasma of the model rats were examined by means of the radioimmunoassay at 2 h, 6 h, 12 h, 24 h after reperfusion. RESULTS: The levels of cortisol content in model group were significantly higher than those in sham group and normal group both in hippocampus and plasma. The highest cortisol content was observed at 6 hours after reperfusion. HE staining showed that the impairment of hippocampus neurons was aggravated progressively with reperfusion interval elongating. CONCLUSION: The increased cortisol in hippocampus and plasma, after 2 h cerebral ischemia and 24 h reperfusion, could aggravate the injury of hippocampus neurons and lead to dementia post stroke.

BACKGROUND: The previous experiments have conformed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Jiannaaan, with the effects of tonifying kidney, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm, can inhibit the increased content of glucocorticoid (GC) in 2-24 hours after cerebral ischemic reperfusion (CIR), and reduce toxic effects of promoting nervous cell apoptosis induced by high GC. However, it is unclear whether this effect exists in GC receptor (GR).OBJECTIVE: To observe the intervention of TCM Jiannaoan on GR,further study protective mechanism of Jiannaoan power to hippocampal neurons after CIR, and perform positive control with compound almitrine.DESIGN: A randomized and controlled trial taken animals as subjects.SETTING: Center Laboratory of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.MATERIALS: The experiment was conducted at the Center Laboratory of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine between July 2002 and March 2003. Eighty male SD rats were randomized into 5 groups with 16 in each: Sham group, model group, treatment group, positive control group and antagonist group. And each group was divided into 4 subgroups: 2, 6,12 and 24 hours after CIR, with 4 rats at every time point.METHODS:①Administration: Except model group, rats in other 4 groups were administrated by intragastric infusion since 7 days before model establishment, once per day, with dose of 7 μL/g per day distilled water in sham group, 7.39 mg/kg per day compound almitrine in positive control group, 6.7 g/kg per day Jiannaoan crude drug (consisted of desertliving cistanche herb, tatarinowii sweetflag rhizome and rhubarb, etc) in treatment group and 10 g/kg per day GR antagonist mifepristone in antagonist group.② After 7-day administration, the CIR models were prepared on the experimental rats with middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) filament method, while the rats in sham group were sutured after common carotid artery detachment at anesthesia, without filament.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All the rats were executed to take out brains at different time points of reperfusion, and the change of GR protein expression was observed with immunohistochemical method then the amount of positive cells were calculated in 3×200 sight of CA2 region.RESULTS: Totally 80 rats were entered into the result analysis. Compared with uninjured side, the protein expression of GR in model group,treatment group, positive control group and antagonist group were significantly lower than that of sham group (P ＜ 0.05), in which GR expression of injured side was equal to that of uninjured side without significant difference. No obvious change was found in the protein expression of GR among treatment group, positive group and antagonist group at different time points of reperfusion, and no significant difference was found between above groups and model group (P ＞ 0.05).CONCLUSION: Jiannaoan power is selective for adjusting GR and content of GC: Jiannaoan can not adjust expression of GR, identical as compound almitrine; But Jiannaoan can protect the neurons through decreasing the content of GC in plasm and brain tissues after CIR.