1.Analysis of the treatment response and prognosis of severe hand-foot-mouth disease
Yueyan MAO ; Jianhua YAO ; Lanfang CAO ; Qili WANG ; Lihua CHEN ; Mingqiang SI
Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases 2009;27(1):35-38
Objective To investigate the significance of early diagnosis and intervention in cases with severe hand-foot-mouth disease. Methods Nine severe cases were chosen from 220 hospitalized children with hand-foot-mouth disease for retrospective analysis, including onset, disease progression, the blood and cerebrospinal fluid tests, electroencephalogram data, patients' treatment responses and prognosis. Pearson X2 test and t test were utilized for statistical analysis. Results All cases showed nervous systems involved symptom, including meningeal irritation sign and (or) other pathological signs of nervous system (9 cases), drowsy (7 cases), trembling (6 cases), voiding dysfunction (3 cases), hypersensitivity(3 cases), autonomic nervous system disorders (2 cases), ataxia (1 case), left leg mild paralysis (1 case) and early stage of pulmonary edema (1 case). Early intervention, such as high dose gamma globulin, methylprednisolone, mannitol treatment restriction of fluid input, started before the development of heart and lung failure. No case died but one patient with encephalomyelitis showed hobbling left leg, which didn't recover until 6 weeks later. One case with brainstem encephalitis still showed abnormal electroencephalogram after 8 weeks follow-up but without clinical symptom. Conclusions Enterovirus 71 can cause severe hand-foot-mouth disease complicated by encephalitis, meningitis and pulmonary edema. Early active intervention before the development of neurogenic pulmonary edema can improve the prognosis and reduce the mortality.
2.Exploring the Effect of Medication-Containing Serum of Pingwei Capsules (平胃胶囊) on MNNG-Induced Inflammatory Cancer Transformation of Human Gastric Mucosal Epithelial Cells Based on Raf/MEK/ERK Pathway
Xia WANG ; Lijuan WANG ; Xiaoying NIU ; Zekun FAN ; Yuanyuan NIU ; Lanfang MAO ; Longde WANG
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(10):1056-1062
ObjectiveTo explore the possible mechanism of Pingwei Capsules (平胃胶囊) for chronic atrophic gastritis from rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma / mitogen-activated protein kinase /extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (Raf/MEK/ERK) pathway that influences the activation of fibrosarcoma protein/mitogen. MethodsFifteen SD rats were randomly divided into 5 rats in the blank group and 10 rats in Pingwei Capsules group. The rats in the blank group were given 1 ml/100 g of saline by gavage, and the rats in Pingwei Capsules group were given 0.63 g/(kg·d) of Pingwei Capsule suspension by gavage, and serum was collected for 3 consecutive days. N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) was used to induce human gastric mucosal epithelial cells GES-1 to establish a precancerous lesion cell model. The successful cells were divided into control group (10% fetal bovine serum), blank serum group (10% fetal bovine serum plus 10% blank serum), and medication-containing serum group (serum with medication of Pingwei Capsule), and the volume fraction and time of intervention of Pingwei Capsule-containing serum were screened by CCK-8 assay. Human gastric mucosal epithelial cells GES-1 were divided into normal group, model group, blank serum group, medication-containing serum group, U0126 group, and combined group, with 6 replicate wells in each group. After successful modelling of the cells in all groups except the blank group, an equal volume of fetal bovine serum was added to the normal and model groups, an equal volume of blank serum was added to the blank serum group, a screening volume fraction of Pingwei Capsule-containing serum was added to Pingwei Capsule group, a 10 μmol/L mitogen-activated extracellular signal regulated kinase 1 (MEK1) inhibitor U0126 was administered in the U0126 group, an equal dose of Pingwei Capsule-containing serum plus 10 μmol/L of U0126 was administered to the combined group. After the selected incubation time, the level of interleukin 6 (IL-6) was detected in the cells by ELISA, the expression of IL-6 and MEK1 was detected by immunofluorescence, and the expression of IL-6, Raf, MEK1, and ERK mRNA was detected by RT-qPCR, and the expression of IL-6, Raf, MEK1, and ERK mRNA in the cells was detected by Western blot. ResultsThe 5.35% volume fraction, 48 h intervention of Pingwei Capsule-containing serum was selected for subsequent experiments. Compared with the normal group, the IL-6 content in cell supernatants and the expression of IL-6, Raf, MEK1, ERK mRNA and ERK1/2 proteins in cells increased in the model group and blank serum group (P<0.01). Compared with the model group, all of the above indexes were improved in medication-containing serum group, U0126 group, and combined group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). Compared with medication-containing serum group, the expression of IL-6, MEK1 expression, the expression of IL-6, Raf, MEK1 and ERK mRNA, and the expression of IL-6, Raf, MEK1 and ERK1/2 proteins reduced in the cells of combined group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). Compared with the U0126 group, IL-6 expression reduced and IL-6, MEK1 and ERK1/2 protein expression reduced in cells of combined group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). ConclusionThe Pingwei Capsule-containing serum may play a role in the treatment of chronic atrophic gastritis by improving the inflammation-cancer transformation of GES-1 cells through inhibiting the Raf/MEK/ERK pathway.
3.Research Progress of Digestive System Disease and Syndrome Combined Animal Model and Traditional Chinese Medicine Target Intervention: A Review
Wenjuan XU ; Longde WANG ; Yuanyuan NIU ; Lanfang MAO ; Xiaojuan DU ; Ping ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2022;28(19):258-266
Reflux esophagitis (liver-stomach disharmony, Spittoon-Qi interties, Qi and blood stasis syndrome, turbid poison intrinsic) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (liver depression, spleen deficiency, phlegm and blood stasis syndrome, hot and humid embodiment, phlegmy wet resistance) and functional dyspepsia (liver depression syndrome, liver stomach with spleen deficient, spleen deficiency cold syndrome, in a word, fever) is a common disease and frequently encountered disease of digestive system. The course of disease is prolonged and the prevalence is high. The successful establishment of animal model combining disease and syndrome is the premise of exploring the mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) effect and the foundation of the development of new preparations. At the same time, mastering the complex relationship network among disease, syndrome and prescription is the prerequisite of effective treatment. When the same syndrome occurs between different diseases, the concept of "treating different diseases with the same treatment" in TCM suggests that methods can be cross-referenced for the shortage of some syndrome models. TCM intervention of digestive diseases has the characteristics of multi-path, multi-target, multi-dimension and multi-level. Therefore, this article through the literature review, summarizes the reflux esophagitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and functional dyspepsia is a common disease such as the combined operation method of the model and the intervention mechanism of TCM, so as to diseases of the digestive system of different syndrome types provides the theory basis for the objective of research, and the basic research of TCM prescription and achievements provide methodological guidance.