Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; therapy ; Humans ; Integrative Medicine

Objective To evaluate the effect of live combined bifidobacterium, lactobacillus and enterococcus capsules for colitis in rats induced by trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS), so as to explore a new therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Methods 50 female adult Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 5 groups i. e. normal control group(G1) ,untreated TNBS-induced colitis(G2) ,TNBS-induced colitis treated with live combined bifidobacterium, lactobacillus and enterococcus (G3), TNBS-induced colitis treated with olsalazine (G4) and TNBS-induced colitis treated with both live combined bifidobacterium, lactobacillus and enterococcus and olsalazine at the same dose and duration (G5). Each group received its respective treatment. Serum levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), TNFα and IL-10 were measured with ELISA, colonic myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity was determined with spectrophotometric method, histopathologic picture of the colon of each rat was studied with microscope and colonic mucosa damage index(CMDI) was recorded. Results Serum CRP,TNFα,IL-10,CMDI and colonic MPO in G1 were significantly lower than those in G2 (P < 0. 001) with normal colonic architecture. G2 exhibited the most severe colonic inflammation and the highest levels of CRP,TNFα, IL-10, CMDI and colonic MPO with stastical significance. Treatment groups G3, G4 and G5 showed more obvious colonic inflammatory remission and lower levels of serum CRP,TNFα , IL-10 and colonic MPO, G5 being most notable when compared to G2 with stastical significance. In G2, serum levels of CRP, TNFα, IL-10 and colonic MPO activity each correlated positively with CMDI (P < 0. 001). Conclusions Live combined bifidobacterium, lactobacillus and enterococcus can effectively ameliorate colitis in rats induced by TNBS; the underlying mechanism may possibly be associated with the serum levels of cytokines.

Objective To discuss the clinical feature of chronic pain of aged people and strategies and effect of its self-management as well as their relationship.Methods Investigation with questionnaires wag carried out in 243 aged people who were above 65 years old to understand the clinical feature of chronic pain and strategies of its self-management.The results underwent analysis.Results Non-narcotic analgesics,physical exercise,cold and heat therapy and spiritual activity were used most frequently in selfmanagement of pain.No statistical difference existed in the use of self-management strategies between people in different age groups.Effect of self-management strategies was negatively correlated with degree of pain,interrupting with daily life and anxiety,but Wag positively correlated with self-efficacy score.Conclusions Aged people ale willing to attemp various strategies to cope with chronic pain.We should pain attention to the standardization of physical exercise,confrontation of anxiety and improvement of self-efficacy to improve the effect of self-management.

OBJECTIVE: To study the sedative and antistress action of Shenqiwuweizi capsule. METHODS: The sedative and hypnotic experiments were made to observe the action of Shenqiwuweizi capsule on the mice's sleep induced by pentobarbital sodium at subthreshold dosage or hypnotic dosage. The swimming and hypoxia tolerance experiment were performed to observe the effects of Shenqiwuweizi capsule on the swimming time and hypoxia tolerance time in mice. RESULTS: Shenqiwuweizi capsule could obviously prolong the sleeping time of mice induced by pentobarbital sodium, increase the number of sleeping animals caused by pentobarbital sodium at subthreshold dosage, and significantly prolong the time of swimming and hypoxia tolerance in mice. CONCLUSION: Shenqiwuweizi capsule had sedative and anti-stress action.

Objective:To explore the correlation between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and deep infection after spinal internal fixation surgery and analysis of pathogenic bacteria.Methods:One hundred and eighty-four patients who underwent spinal internal fixation with HBV infection in Xiaogan First People′s Hospital of Hubei Province from January 2013 to January 2019 were selected as the HBV infection group, and 184 patients who underwent spinal internal fixation with non-HBV infection were selected as the non-HBV infection group. The incidence of deep infection and the distribution of pathogenic bacteria were compared between 2 groups. The influencing factors of postoperative deep infection and HBV reactivation in patients with HBV infection were analyzed by single factor analysis and multi-factor Logistics regression analysis.Results:The incidence of deep infection after spinal internal fixation surgery in HBV infection group was significantly higher than that in non-HBV infection group: 19.57% (36/184) vs. 9.24% (17/184), and there was statistical difference ( P<0.01). The pathogenic bacteria of deep infection in both groups were mainly acinetobacter bausinensis, klebsiella pneumoniae, staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis. There was no statistically significant difference in the distribution of pathogenic bacteria between 2 groups ( P>0.05). The deep infection incidences in age ≥ 65 years, operation time ≥ 3 h, intraoperative blood loss ≥ 1000 ml, CD 4+/CD 8+<1.4, total lymphocyte count<0.7 × 10 9/L, liver function abnormalities (AST>40 U/L or ALT>50 U/L), HBV-DNA (+) patients with HBV infection were significantly higher: 27.16%(22/81) vs. 13.59%(14/103), 28.77%(21/73) vs. 13.51%(15/111), 31.15%(19/61) vs. 13.82%(17/123), 29.69%(19/64) vs. 14.17%(17/120), 27.78% (20/72) vs. 14.29%(16/112), 7/18 vs. 17.47%(29/166), 30.43%(21/69) vs. 13.04%(15/115), and there were statistical differences ( P<0.05 or <0.01). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that intraoperative blood loss (≥ 1 000 ml), CD 4+/CD 8+(<1.4), total lymphocyte count (<0.7 × 10 9/L), and HBV-DNA (+) were independent risk factors for deep infection after spinal internal fixation in patients with HBV infection ( P<0.01 or <0.05). The HBV reactivation incidence in age ≥ 65 years, operation time ≥ 3 h, intraoperative blood loss ≥ 1 000 ml, liver function abnormalities, HBV-DNA (+), postoperative deep infection patients with HBV infection were significantly increased: 33.33% (27/81) vs. 18.45% (19/103), 34.25% (25/73) vs. 18.92% (21/111), 34.43% (21/61) vs. 20.33% (25/123), 8/18 vs. 22.89% (38/166), 34.78% (24/69) vs. 19.13% (22/115), 41.67% (15/36) vs. 20.95% (31/148), and there were statistical differences ( P<0.05). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that intraoperative blood loss (≥ 1 000 ml), HBV-DNA (+) and postoperative deep infection were independent risk factors for HBV reactivation after spinal internal fixation in patients with HBV infection ( P<0.05 or <0.01). Conclusions:HBV infection significantly increases the incidence of deep infection after spinal internal fixation surgery, and the independent risk factors are intraoperative blood loss (≥1 000 ml), CD 4+/CD 8+ (<1.4), total lymphocyte count (<0.7 × 10 9/L), and HBV-DNA (+). Spinal internal fixation surgery can cause HBV reactivation, and its independent risk factors are intraoperative blood loss (≥ 1 000 ml), HBV-DNA (+) and postoperative deep infection.

Objective To evaluate the safety to perform 23G vitrectomy with scleral incisions at 5.0 mm behind the limbus.Methods This is a prospective uncontrolled case study.The data of 140 consecutive primary 23G vitrectomy patients (145 eyes) were enrolled in this study.There were 56 males (59 eyes) and 84 females (86 eyes),with the mean age of (56.34 ± 9.98) years and axial length of (23.99± 2.57) mm.There were 139 phakic eye and 6 aphakic eyes.All the eyes received 23G pars plana vitrectomy with scleral incisions at 5.0 mm behind the limbus.To measure the normal Chinese adult parameters of anteroposterior axis of the eyeball,lens thickness and scleral distances from the limbus to the plane passing through the lens posterior apex,the head CT scans of 105 patients without eye diseases in our hospital were studied during the same period of time for these vitrectomy surgeries.Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between age,anteroposterior axis of eyeball,lens thickness and scleral distances from the limbus to the plane passing through the lens posterior apex.Results Surgical related complications included retinal tears close to the scleral incision sites (3/145 eyes,2.1％) and lens injury (3/121 eyes,2.5％).No other surgical complications occurred,such as retinal hemorrhage,supra-choroidal expulsive hemorrhage and iatrogenic retinal detachment.Based on CT images,the average scleral distance from limbus to the plane passing through the lens posterior apex,anteroposterior axis of eyeball and lens thickness was (6.72± 0.81),(24.39± 0.97),(4.22 ± 0.47) mm,respectively.The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that age and lens thickness had statistically significant correlation (r=0.328 9,P=0.000 6).Conclusion Primary 23G pars plana vitrectomy with incisions at 5.0 mm posterior to the limbus is safe.

Objective To investigate the correlation between α1-adrenergic receptor and the pathological behavior of cholangiocarcinoma, and the effects of norepinephrine (NE) on the proliferation of cholangiocarcinoma cell line QBC939. Methods Thirty-six samples of cholangiocarcinoma were resected in Southwest Hospital from August 2002 to March 2008. The expression of α1-adrenergic receptor in the 36 samples of cholangiocarcinoma tissue and 4 samples of normal bile duct tissue were detected by SABC technique. The proliferation of cholangio-carcinoma cell line QBC939 was detected after processing the cells with NE, phentolamine and prazosin. All the data were analyzed by chi-square test. Results The high positive expression rate of α1-adrenergic receptor was 68% (17/25) in patients with lymph node metastasis, which was significantly higher than 9% (1/11) in patients without lymph node metastasis (χ2=10.604, P<0.05). The high positive expression rate of α1-adrenergic receptor was 85% (11/13) in patients with middle and low positioned cholangiocarcinoma, which was significantly higher than 30% (7/23) in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma (χ2=9.753, P<0.05). NE promoted the proliferation of cholangiocarcinoma cell line QBC939 by stimulating the expression of α1-adrenergic receptor, and in a concentration-dependent manner. The proliferative effect was weakened as time passed by, and it was eliminated by phentolamine and prazosin. Conclusions The expression of α1-adrenergic receptor is diverse due to lymph node metastasis and the location of the tumor, α1-adrenergic receptor with high expression may play an important role in the proliferation and metastasis of cholangiocarcinoma.

Objective To investigate the effects of small volume resuscitation on hemodynamics and visceral perfusion in dog model of hemorrhagic shock. Methods Twenty-four dogs were hemorrhaged to hold mean arterial blood pressure at 45-55 nun Hg for 45 minutes, and then eight dogs were resuscitated with 6 ml/kg of hypertonic saline (HS group) solution and the other eight resuscitated with 6 ml/kg of hypertonic saline-hydroxyethyl starch (HSS group) solution. The rest eight dogs were set as control and resuscitated with normal saline (NS). Hemodynamics and gastrointestinal intramucosal pH (pHi) were detected after fluid resuscitation. Results (1) All three kinds of solutions could improve early hemodynamics and visceral perfusion. But 30 minutes after fluid resuscitation, the hemodynamics of dogs in HS group, HSS group and NS group began to decrease, with more obvious decrease HS group and NS group compared with HSS group. (2) pHi of three groups began to decrease 120 minutes after fluid resuscitation, but the level of arterial lactate remained unchanged. Conclusions (1) HS has the similar effect as NS in aspect of resuscitation, and HSS is better than HS and NS.(2) pHi is an ideal marker in monitoring the visceral perfusion and has higher sensitivity than arterial lactate.

Objective To explore the HLA-A2 restriction and immunogenicity of 5 previously identified HCV-speeific CTL epitopes. Methods Based on T2 cell, to explore the HLA-A2 restriction of previously identified HCV-specific CTL epitopes by MHC-peptide complex stabilization assay;To detect pep-tide-specific CTL in HLA-A2~+ PBMC stimulated by HLA-A2-restricted peptides by intracellular cytokine staining(ICS) and ELISPOT; To explore the cytotoxicity of peptide-specific CTL to same peptide-loaded T2 cells (target cells) by CTL cytotoxicity test. Results Among 5 previously identified CTL epitopes NS4b_78 (SMMAFSAAL) and NS5a_367 (TVSSALAEL) have high-affinity for HLA-A2 molecules(FI 1) ;ELISPOT results shown that NS4b_78(SMMAFSAAL) and NSSa_367(TVSSALAEL) induced high levels of IFN-γ-se-creting cells [(60±6) SFC/10~4 PBMC vs (4±1 ) SFC/10~4 PBMC, P < 0.01 ; (10 ± 3 ) SFC/10~4 PBMC vs (2±1 ) SFC/10~4 PBMC, P <0.01, respectively] ;ICS results indicated that there were high percentages of CD8~+ IFN-γ~+ T cells in total CD8~+T cells stimulated by these peptides [(2.33 ±0.22 ) % vs (0.05±0.01)%, P <0.001 ; (0.36±0.06)% vs (0.03±0.01)%, P <0.001, respectively]. Furthermore,peptide-specific CTL could effectively kill same peptide-loadcd T2 cells. Conclusion NS4b_78 (SMMAF-SAAL) and NSSa_367 (TVSSALAEL) were identified as HLA-A2-restricted CTL epitopes which could in-duce immune response in vitro.

Objective This study aims to investigate the association of apoB/apoA-1 ratio with insulin resistance (IR) in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) . Methods A total of 224 patients with NAFLD and 166 healthy subjects were enrolled as NAFLD group and control group. Weight, height and blood pressure were recorded. Serum levels of fasting blood glucose (FPG), insulin (Fins), lipids, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were measured. Homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) indices were calculated. Results Compared with control group, NAFLD group had higher apoB/apoA-1 ratio (0.76 ± 0.28 vs 0.61 ± 0.26) and HOMA-IR (2.43 ± 1.68 vs 1.86 ± 1.61) . Spearman correlation analysis showed that in NAFLD group, HOMA-IR positively correlated with age, body mass index (BMI), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), apoB/apoA-1 ratio (r =0.34, P < 0. 05) and HbA1c, and negatively correlated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) . Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that apoB/apoA-1 ratio was still associated with HOMA-IR in NAFLD group after adjustment for age and BMI. Conclusion The apoB/apoA-1 ratio is closely associated with IR in patients with NAFLD. ApoB/apoA-1 ratio may play a role in the development of IR in NAFLD.