BACKGROUND:With the development of industrial society and traffic, the incidence of spinal cord injury has gradualy increased. In addition to radiological laboratory examinations, the neurophysiological test also becomes an effective way of auxiliary examination. Due to the high accuracy and easy operating, neurophysiological test is widely used and the evoked potentials play a role in this project. OBJECTIVE:To summarize the application of somatosensory evoked potentials and motor evoked potentials in rabbits of spinal cord injury. METHODS:A computer-based online research of CNKI and PubMed databases was performed with the key words of “spinal cord injury; evoked potentials; animal models” in Chinese and English. Finaly 33 articles were included in the analysis according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The operational approach, waveform analysis, application value, influencing factor of somatosensory evoked potentials and motor evoked potentials were determined in details, the correlation between evoked potentials and prognosis assessment in animals was also detected. Somatosensory evoked potentials is a good indicator for the evaluation of dorsal funiculus of spinal cord, it is easy to operate and reflects the changes of sensory functions. Motor evoked potentials can provide sensitive diagnosis of spinal cord diseases, and they wil be used as a means to assess the spinal cord injury during rehabilitation. The combination of the two can provide a more accurate result.

Some female spinal cord injured patients may present a raise of serum prolactin which is irrelevant with pregnancy, and re-sults in irregular menstruation and galactorrhea. Hyperprolactinemia may even happen in men after spinal cord injury. This kind of hyperpro-lactinemia does not relate with the level or severity of spinal cord injury, and maintains for various time. The hypersensitivity to thyrotro-pin-releasing hormone may relate to the elevatory serum prolactin and amenorrhea. In addition, there are some suspicious factors, such as chest wall injury, pituitary body contusion, enkephalins increasing, the stimulation of spinal neural pathways, stress, and so on. Bromocripti-ne has been tried for it.

Brain computer interface (BCI) is an interactive communication technology which can be achieved independent of human peripheral nerves and muscles.It provides a man-machine communication and control channel,without using muscular tissue,and makes the communication with outside world possible.This review describes the composition and working principle of the BCI system on the basis of the pervious research results.Then,it focuses on the comparative analysis of physiological parameter and the methods of feature extraction of visual evoked potential technology,spontaneous MU rhythm technology,slow cortical potential technology and so on.At last,the application of BCI technology and the prospect of its development are summarized.

Objective: To optimize the formula and preparation process of metronidazole thermosensitive in situ gel.Methods: The temperature of gelation and 24-h cumulative release were used as the evaluation indices, and the orthogonal tests were carried out to investigate the amounts of poloxamer 407 (P407), poloxamer 188 (P188), sodium alginate and polyethylene glycol 4000 (PEG 4000) to screen the best formula of thermosensitive in situ gel.The in vitro release of metronidazole thermosensitive in situ gel was determined by HPLC and compared with that of commercially available gel.Results: The optimum formula of thermosensitive in situ gel was P407 of 20%, P188 of 18%, sodium alginate of 0.1% and PEG 4000 of 1.5%.The release rate of metronidazole thermosensitive in situ gel was high, and the temperature of gelation was suitable.Compared with that of the commercially available gel, the vaginal retention of the in situ gel was significantly improved.Conclusion: The formula of the in situ gel is reasonable and the preparation process is feasible.

Patients with spinal cord injury would suffer many complications including hip abnormities. Few reports on spinal cord injury with hip dislocation had been published because of a lower incidence and difficulty to be found in clinical practice. This paper reviewed epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hip dislocation after spinal cord injury.

Objective To study the expression of VEGF, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in benign and malignant lesions of breast and their effects on breast carcinoma's invasiveness and metastasis. Methods VEGF,MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression was detected by SP method in 20 breast fibroadenoma and 12 normal breast specimens taken from non-cancerous regions adjacent to breast cancer tissue and 38 breast carcinomas. Results The expression rate of VEGF, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in breast carcinoma was remarkably higher than those in normal breast tissue and breast fibrogdenoma (63.2% vs 25.0% and 30. 0% ,78. 95% vs 33.3% and 35.0% and 71.1% vs 41.7% and 45.0% ,respectively; P ＜0.05). There was a correlation between VEGF, MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression and nodal metastasis ( P ＜0.05). High expression of VEGF, MMP-2 and MMP-9 was correlated with pathological grade ( P ＜ 0.05, respectively). The overexpression of VEGF was related with those of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in breast cancer( VEGF and MMP-2:rs =0.541, P ＜0.01 ;VEGF and M M P-9: rs = 0.11, P ＜ 0.01; MMP-2and M MP-9: rs= 0P ＜ 0.01 ). Conclusion VEGF,MMP-2 and MMP-9 overexpression is strongly related to the invasiveness and metastasis of breast carcinoma, which might be valuable in evaluating tumor invasion and metastasis.

The pharmaceutical ethynylestradiol (EE) is a potent endocrine modulator. Application enlargement of ethynylestradiol in clinics and abuse in livestock farming and fishing make it important to explore ethynylestradiol toxicological action on vertebrate embryonic development and to establish an in vivo method for EE toxicity detection efficiently and conveniently. In the present study, using a model animal zebrafish and 17alpha-ethynylestradiol as a representative compound, we have investigated EE2 teratogenicity, target tissues and target genes on zebrafish embryo. The results show that median teratogenesis concentration (TC50) of EE2 is 0.8 microg x mL(-1), and median lethal dose (LD50) is 3.3 microg x mL(-1). Targets of EE2 action were implicated in brain, eyes, heart, muscle, skeleton, pigment and viscera. Embryonic cardiac arrhythmia caused by EE2 is probably resulted from heart abnormal structure. The embryonic stage sensitive to EE2 mainly started at cleavage and last up to the organogenesis with time-accumulating effect. RT-PCR results indicate that EE2 treatment disturbed gene expression pattern at the early period of zebrafish embryonic development by suppressing transcription of gene boz that promotes brain development, upregulating genes for trunk and tail, such as ntl, spt, shh, and perturbing Nodal signal expression of TGFbeta superfamily, for example, cyc, sqt and oep. Using zebrafish, an efficient in vivo method for quick evaluation of EE toxicity on embryonic development has been developed.

[Objective]To analyze the clinical characteristics and treatment methods of upper-middle thoracic fractures with spinal cord injury.[Method]Forty patients with upper-middle thoracic fracture were retrospectively reviewed.Hanley-Eskay classification was used:compression fractures in 4,burst fractures in 11,fracture-dislocations in 23,and burst dislocation in 2 cases.Neurologicall function(according to the ASIA classification):A in 29,B in 3,C in 4,D in 0,and E for 4 cases.Four cases without spinal cord injury received conservative treatment.Thity-six cases with spinal cord injury underwent laminectomy and reduction followed by posterior fusion with bone graft and pedicular screw instrumentation.All 36 cases received early rehabilitation.[Result]All 40 cases were evaluated clinically,radiographically,and functionally during the follow-up(mean,32 months).Conservative group:one case developed delayed kyphosis deformity with neurological deficit and underwent anterior-posterior surgical treatment 16 months tater.Surgical group:the correction in 3 patients was not complete on radiographs after operation.No loose screw or breakage was found,and the grafted bone was completely fused.Among the patients with spinal cord injury,one case in ASIA A improved to ASIA B,one case in ASIA B improved to ASIA C,two cases in ASIA C improved to ASIA D.All of the 4 cases with hemorrhage less than 4 mm(MIRI) increased 1 grade of ASIA.Activities of daily living(ADL)scores were increased (average,22.53?6.25)at early rehabilitation in all cases.[Conclusion]The upper-middle thoracic fractures are involved in multipla spine vertebral levels,high dislocation incidence,serious spinal cord injury(most cases were complete injury),poor prognosis.Presence of hemorrhage less than 4 mm (MRI) was associated with good prognosis.Posterior approach decompression and reduction followed by fusion with bone grafting and pedicle screws instrumentation are ideal surgical methods for patients with fresh fractures.Early rehabilitation may improve daily life ability and prevent complications.

[Objective]To compare the neurological improvement of the patients with spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality (SCIWORA)after primary treatment including operation via anterior/posterior approach and conservative management,and to discuss about evaluating standard for this kind of patients.[Method]Eighty adult cervical SCIWORA patients,72 males and 8 females with an average age of 52.7 years(34 to 74 years)and a follow up period of 53 weeks (48 to 60 weeks),were retrospectively studied. They were divided into the anterior operated,posterior operated and conservative treated groups. The motor and sensory scores and impairment scale of each patient were obtained at least three times by international standard for the neurological classification of spinal cord injury (ASIA standard),and those of their first and final visits to the hospital were retrieved and analyzed. Mann-Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test were used in statistic study.[Result]All the patients achieved an average increase of 2 to 5 points of motor scores (P

Objective To explore the clinical effect of three-dimensional (3D) laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of gastric cancer.Methods The retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted.The clinical data of 65 patients with gastric cancer who underwent 3D laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of gastric cancer in the People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University from January 2015 to July 2016 were collected.There were the same surgical procedure and postoperative treatment between 3D and two-dimensional (2D) laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of gastric cancer.Observation indicators:(1) surgical situations:operation time,volume of intraoperative blood loss,number of lymph node dissected;(2) postoperative recovery situations:time to anal exsufflation,time for semiliquid diet intake,duration of hospital stay,treatment expenses and postoperative complications;(3) postoperative pathological situations:pathological classification of gastric cancer,T stage,lymph node metastasis,TNM stage,surgical margin;(4) follow-up situations.The follow-up using outpatient examination and telephone interview was performed to detect patients' survival and tumor metastasis and recurrence up to July 2016.Measurement data with normal distribution were represented as x±s.Measurement data with skewed distribution were described as M (range).Results (1) Surgical situations:all the 65 patients underwent successful 3D laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of gastric cancer and D2 lymph node dissection,without the occurrence of conversion to open surgery,intraoperative complications and perioperative death.Operation time,volume of intraoperative blood loss and number of lymph node dissected were (200± 55) minutes,(110± 80) mL and 32±7,respectively.(2) Postoperative recovery situations:time to anal exsufflation,time for semiliquid diet intake,duration of hospital stay and treatment expenses were (3.1 ± 1.0) days,(5.3 ± 1.6) days,(9.4± 3.0) days and (8.1 ± 1.3) × 104 yuan,respectively.Of 65 patients,5 had postoperative complications.One patient with anastomotic leakage underwent percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and abdominal drainage again and then was cured.One patient with peritoneal effusion and infection was cured after catheter drainage under CT guided.One patient with delayed gastric emptying was cured after symptomatic treatment.One patient with chylous fistula was cured after short-term fast and total parenteral nutrition treatment.One patient with pulmonary infection was cured after antibiotic therapy.(3) Postoperative pathological situations:① Pathological classification of gastric cancer:high-and moderate-differentiated adenocarcinoma was detected in 30 patients,poor-differentiated adenocarcinoma in 20 patients,signet ring cell carcinoma in 11 patients,mucinous adenocarcinoma in 3 patients and papillary adenocarcinoma in 1 patient.② T stage:27,15 and 23 patients were in T1,T2 and T3 stages.③ Twenty-five patients had lymph node metastases and 40 had no lymph node metastasis.④ TNM stage:19,17,15,12 and 2 patients were in Ⅰ A,Ⅰ B,Ⅱ,Ⅲ A and Ⅲ B,respectively.R0 resection was performed to all the 65 patients,with negative surgical margin under the microscope.(4) Follow-up situations:of 65 patients,61 were followed up for 3-18 months,with a median time of 9 months.During the follow-up,there was no occurrence of surgeryrelated complications,tumor metastasis and recurrence and death.Conclusion The 3D laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of gastric cancer is safe and feasible,with a good short-term outcome.