Objective To summarize clinical characteristics and treatment methods of cervical vertebrae injury in the elderly.MethodsThe data of 59 elderly patients with cervical vertebrae injury from 2002 to 2006 years were retrospectively reviewed.ResultsThe most common type of injuries was hyperextension injuries of cervical spine and cervial central cord syndrome.Traffic accident and falling injury were the most common reasons.Early operation and early rehabilitation could improve the ASIA 1 or 2 grade,and avoid complications of cord injury effectively.ConclusionThe key treatment point of cervical vertebrae injury in the elderly is how to get them leave bed in order to reduce the complications of cord injury,early operation and rehabilitation are good method to decrease the mortality and increase quality of life.

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of intravertebral augmentation which including transpedicular bone graft, transpediclebody augmenter and vertebroplasty in preventing the correction loss and implant failure of short-segment pedicle instrumentation for thoracolumbarfractures through meta-analysis. Methods Experimental studies (randomized controlled trails, non-randomized controlled trails)and observational studies (cohort studies, case control studies) related with application of posterior short-segment pedicle instrumentationwith intravertebral augmentation for thoracolumbar fractures were searched from Pubmed, EMBASE and CNKI according to the inclusionand exclusion criteria, and hand-searched in Chinese and English journals. RevMan 5.0.18 provided by Cochrane was used to analyse the data.Results 1 randomized controlled trail and 7 observational studies were included. There were 442 patients, in which 216 patients werewith and 226 patients without intravertebral augmentation. There was no significant difference in correction loss and risk of implant failurebetween these two groups. Conclusion Intravertebral augmentation does little about the risk of correction loss and implant failure associatedwith posterior short-segment pedicle instrumention for patients with thoraculumbar fractures.

Objective To investigate the effect of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on the synthesis of extracellular matrixc (ECM)and expression of chondromodulin in human intervertebral disc cells. Methods 4 intervertebral discs (IVDs) obtained from patients in thetreatment of disc degenerative disease were used for cell culture. The secondary generation of intervertebral disc cells were cultured for 7days, then different concentration of bFGF (0, 0.1 ng/ml, 1 ng/ml, 10 ng/ml)were added to the medium and treated for 72 hours. Real-timeRT-PCR was used to detect the change of Aggrecan and type Ⅱ collagen mRNA expression. The effect of FGF on the expression of ChM-1,a cartilage derived anti-angiogenic factor, was also used by means of Real-time RT-PCR and Western blot. Results Real-time RT-PCRshowed that bFGF can significantly inhibit the expression of Aggrecan and type Ⅱ collagen mRNA. Both Real-time RT-PCR and Westernblot showed that the expression of ChM-1 was down-regulated by administration of bFGF with dose-dependent way. Conclusion bFGFserves primarily as a catabolic factor and induce the angiogenesis in the process of intervertebral disc degeneration.

Alleles ; Animals ; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats ; genetics ; Embryonic Stem Cells ; metabolism ; Gene Knock-In Techniques ; methods ; Genes, Reporter ; genetics ; Genetic Engineering ; methods ; Genomics ; Mice

ObjectiveAnalyze the current situation, hotspots and development trends of sarcopenia animal model to provide research direction and basic information for sarcopenia animal model research. MethodsEnglish literature of research on animal models of sarcopenia was retrieved from the Web of Science core data (WOS) set from 1900-01-01 to 2022-12-31. Chinese literature related to animal models of sarcopenia was retrieved from CNKI database between 1915 and 2022. The bibliometric analysis software VOSviewer was used to explore the countries, orgonizations, authors, hotspots and frontier directions in these studies. ResultsA total of 2 819 articles on animal models of sarcopenia were retrieved from WOS core database. The first paper was published in 1995. The United States has the largest number of animal model studies of sarcopenia with 1 105 articles. The institution with the most published articles is the University of Florida in the United States, with 69 articles. The University of Hong Kong has the highest number of publications in China, with 20 articles. American author Van Remmen H, with 50 publications, is the author of the most articles. The journal with the largest number of articles published on animal models of sarcopenia is the American journal called FASEB Journal, with 196 articles. In total, 423 articles on animal models of sarcopenia were retrieved from the CNKI database. Author LI Zhuyi has published 19 articles, and is the author of the most articles in China. The keyword co-occurrence clustering analysis of WOS literature search found that the research focus on animal model of sarcopenia can be summarized as the correlation between sarcopenia and metabolism, cytology and regenerative medicine of sarcopenia animal models, the study of sarcopenia animal models in bone, muscle, nerve and exercise therapy. The retrieval results of CNKI database revealed that the most extensive research was about on the model of denervated sarcopenia, and researches on the effects of Chinese medicine on sarcopenia were also widely reported. Through reading the full articles or abstracts of the literature, the animal models of sacopenia mainly include natural aging model, genetic modification model, high-fat diet induction model, disuse model, hormone induction model and complex sarcopenia models of other diseases. ConclusionIn recent years, the study on animal model of sarcopenia has become a hotspot at home and abroad.The bibliometric analysis provides a basis for the research of animal models of sarcopenia in terms of research direction, hotspots, model animal selection, animal model making, and domestic and international communication and cooperation.

It is not fully clear why there is a higher contribution of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to the chimera produced by injection of PSCs into 4-cell or 8-cell stage embryos compared with blastocyst injection. Here, we show that not only embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but also induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can generate F0 nearly 100% donor cell-derived mice by 4-cell stage embryo injection, and the approach has a "dose effect". Through an analysis of the PSC-secreted proteins, Activin A was found to impede epiblast (EPI) lineage development while promoting trophectoderm (TE) differentiation, resulting in replacement of the EPI lineage of host embryos with PSCs. Interestingly, the injection of ESCs into blastocysts cultured with Activin A (cultured from 4-cell stage to early blastocyst at E3.5) could increase the contribution of ESCs to the chimera. The results indicated that PSCs secrete protein Activin A to improve their EPI competency after injection into recipient embryos through influencing the development of mouse early embryos. This result is useful for optimizing the chimera production system and for a deep understanding of PSCs effects on early embryo development.
Activins ; metabolism ; Animals ; Cells, Cultured ; Embryonic Development ; Germ Layers ; metabolism ; Mice ; Pluripotent Stem Cells ; cytology ; metabolism