OBJECTIVETo evaluate the influence of naringin on PMMA-induced osteoclastic bone resorption using the mouse air sacs model.

METHODSTotal 48 female Balb/c mices with the age of 8 to 10 weeks were chosen in the study. Air were injected into the back in 32 mices and formed the air sacs, 6 d later, the skulls (originated from other 16 mices) were implanted to the air sacs. Thirty-two animals were divided into naringin treatment group (with 2 concentrations of 150 mg/kg and 30 mg/ kg) , DMSO group and PBS blank group, 8 animals in each group. Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) particles were injected into the air sacs in naringin treatment groups and DMSO group so as to irritate inflammatory reaction. Naringin with 2 concentrations of 150 mg/kg and 30 mg/kg were dissolved in DMSO of 0.2 ml, and were injected into air sacs, respectively. In PBS black group, no stimulation with PMMA particles, only injected PBS, and in DMSO group, injected DMSO without naringin. Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), Ca2+ release, modified Masson stain and histological analysis were performed on the 7th day after stimulation.

RESULTSCompared with DMSO group, naringin treatment group's cellular infiltration decreased (P < 0.01); concentration of 150 mg/kg was better than that of concentrations of 30 mg/kg (8.90 ± 1.75 vs 15.23 ± 1.86). Naringin can decrease calcium release in the lavage of the air sacs bone resorption model, especially obvious in naringin with concentration of 150 mg/kg. Naringin can ameliorate the inflammatory reaction and the subsequent bone resorption (including bone collagen loss, TRAP positive cells amount and so on) in air sacs with bone implant and PMMA particles. Naringin with concentration of 150 mg/kg appeared to be an optimal dosage to deliver the therapeutic effects.

CONCLUSIONNaringin inhibits PMMA-induced osteoclastogenesis and ameliorates the PMMA-associated inflammatory reaction and the subsequent bone resorption.

Animals ; Disease Models, Animal ; Female ; Flavanones ; therapeutic use ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Osteoclasts ; drug effects ; physiology ; Osteolysis ; chemically induced ; prevention & control ; Polymethyl Methacrylate ; toxicity

Objective To investigate the operative treatment of Sanders' type Ⅲ displaced intra-articular fractures of the calcaneus using a small dorsolateral incision.Methods From October 2006 to April 2012,90 patients with displaced intra-articular calcaneal fracture of sanders' type Ⅲ were treated by open reduction and internal fixation through a small dorsolateral incision at our department.The skin incision was made from the distal tip of the fibula to the base of the fourth metatarsal.They were 69 men and 21 women,aged from 17 to 61 years (average,39 years).On the right side were 49 cases and on the left side 41 cases.According to Sander's classification,26 fractures were of type Ⅲ AB,36 of type Ⅲ AC and 28 type Ⅲ BC.The displacements of articular facet were all larger than 1 mm.The foot functions were evaluated before and after operation by the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) scoring system.Results For each patient,4 to 6 calcaneal cannulated screws of 4.0 mm and 2 full threaded screws of 6.5 mm were used.No incision infection,skin necrosis or injury to the posterior tibial nerve or vessels occurred after surgery.Seventy-six patients were followed up for 10 to 56 months (average,20.5 months).Clinical union was achieved after 8 to 12 weeks (average,9.5 weeks).The lateral and axial X-ray films of the calcaneus at the last follow-up showed fine reduction and fixation of the fracture fragments and significant improvements in the length,width,height,and B(o)hler and Gissane angles of the calcaneus compared with the preoperation (P ＜ O.05).The ankle and hindfoot scored 70 to 100 AOFAS points at the last follow-up.Forty-five cases were excellent,24 good,5 fair and 2 poor (excellent to good rate of 90.8％).Follow-up observed no infection,nonunion or osteomyelitis.Conclusion Open reduction and internal fixation through a small dorsolateral incision is a good option for Sanders' type Ⅲ calcaneus fractures with a displacement of more than 1 mm,because it leads to minimal soft tissue damage,excellent exposure and convenience for later removal of internal fixators and subtalar arthrodesis.

Objective To investigate the clinical diagnostic evidences of pleural tuberculosis (PT).Methods One hundred and eighty patients with pleural effussion, whom were admited into our hospital from December 2007 to December 2009 ,were enrolled into this study. The clinical data of patients confirmed with PT ( n = 90) or Non-PT ( n = 90) were analyzed retrospectively. The likelihood ratios( LR), sensitivity, specificity,positive predictive value,and nagative predictive value of six indices including pleural ADA, IFN-γ, sIL-2R ,TB-antibody in blood and pleural effusion, age and fever status were calculated. Results The variable with the hightest LR+ was ADA optimal threshold, followed by TB-antibody, IFN-γ, age, sIL-2R, fever status, If all six variables reached the optimal threshold,the probabilities of PT exceeded 99.9%. However,if all variables didn't reached the optimal threshold, the probabilities of PT were less than 1%. Among all the six variables, any four or over four variables reached the optimal threshold, the probabilities of PT exceeded 97%. Conclusion The combination use of these six variables can aid the clinical analysis, early detection, and therapy instruction,complication prevention of PT.

AIM: To explore the effect of protein kinase C-?(PKC-?) in U937 cell line inhibited by short hairpin RNA(shRNA) on the transcription of vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) mRNA induced by stromal cell-derived factor-1(SDF-1).METHODS: 64 bp reverse repeated motifs of PKC-? target sequence were synthesized and inserted into the plasmid to construct the plasmid expressing shRNA-PKC-?(pSIRENp) and the pSIRENp plasmid was transfected into U937 cell line.The expression of PKC-? and VEGF mRNA was detected by RT-PCR.RESULTS: The recombinant plasmid pSIRENp was successfully constructed and it nearly completely suppressed the PKC-? expression in U937 cell line.After transfection,both basical and VEGF mRNA induced by SDF-1 significantly reduced compared to control.CONCLUSION: The results shows that the short hairpin RNA of PKC? efficiently reduces its expression in U937 cells and PKC-? may be involved in the regulation of VEGF mRNA expression.

Primary tracheal tumor is an uncommon disease in clinical oncology .It tends to be misdiag-nosed in very early stage ,as well as lack of standards for staging and treatment nowdays .The main strategy for the treatment of primary tracheal tumors is surgical comprehensive treatments .But as the huge development of modern radiotherapy technology the past a few years ,radiotherapy could play more and more important roles in the treat-ment of tracheal tumors.Meanwhile,the application of tracheal scaffold have provided the patients with tracheal tumors some new choices on the treatments .Yet,there are no guildline for the standard of the surgery ,the dose of the radiotherapy and the definition for the tumor target volumes .Here,we give a review on the latest process and research on the treatment of primary tracheal tumors .

Objective To explore the use of lamivudine alone induced the poor response,especially the related factors of the occurrence of YMDD.Methods Retrospective analysis of 160 cases of the poor answering cases after lamivudine treatment,the baseline parameter values,the time appearing to the poor answering and the HBVDNA load in treatment were analyzed,to study their relationship with poor response.Results The lamivudine prolonged,the poor response to the probability gradually increase.The mutation rate in the 12nd month was 19.67％ and in the 36th month was 49.18％ ( P ＜ 0.05 ).Response to the many reasons,the YMDD mutation is the more common one.The relationship among HBVDNA load,ALT level on baseline and the rate of poor response emergence,the YMDD mutation rate was clear.By comparison in groups,the difference was significant (P＜0.05).Conclusion The lower baselins of ALT level,the higher of HBVDNA load,the greater probability of the poor response and the YMDD mutation.

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) monitoring in the patients after cardiac operation.Methods Fifty patients after cardiac operation were randomly selected into this study.After the patients entered ICU 2 h,ScvO2,mixed venous oxygen saturation (S(v)vO2),lactate (Lac) were detected at the same time and oxygen extraction rate (O2ER) was calculated.Fifty patients were divided into three groups according to the level of ScvO2,group A (ScvO2 ＜0.65,23 patients),group B (ScvO2 0.65-0.75,18 patients),group C (ScvO2 ＞ 0.75,9 patients).The correlation among ScvO2,S(v)vO2,O2ER were analyzed.The correlation between ScvO2 and Lac in each group were calculated.The level of Lac in three groups were compared.The incidence rate of complications,ventilator time and ICU stay time were compared.Results The level of ScvO2,S（v）O2,O2ER,Lac in 50patients were 0.656 ±0.086,0.639 ±0.081,0.356 ±0.084,(2.6 ± 1.3) mmol/L.The level of ScvO2 had significantly positive correlation with S(v)O2 (r =0.688,P ＜ 0.01),and had significantly negative correlation with O2ER (r =-0.640,P ＜0.01).In group A,the level of Lac had significantly negative correlation with ScvO2 (r =-0.772,P ＜ 0.01).In group C,the level of Lac had significantly positive correlation with ScvO2 (r =0.717,P ＜ 0.05).In group B,the level of Lac had no significant correlation with ScvO2 (r =-0.358,P ＞0.05).The level of Lac in group A and group C was significantly higher than that in group B [(2.0 ± 0.9),(4.8 ±2.1) mmol/L vs.(1.6 ±0.5) mmol/L] (P ＜0.05 or ＜0.01).The incidence rate of hyoxemia,low cardiac output syndrome and renal functional lesion in group A were significantly higher than those in group B (P ＜ 0.05).The incidence rate of liver functional lesion and renal functional lesion in group C were significantly higher than those in group B (P ＜ 0.05).The ventilator time and ICU stay time in group A andgroup C were significantly longer than those in group B (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions ScvO2 is an ideal index to judge oxygen equilibrium in early period after cardiac operation.The lower and supranormal ScvO2 both suggest tissue hypoxia,resulting in increased postoperative complications and prolonged treatment.

Background and purpose:Indensity modulated radiotherapy(IMRT) is an advanced method in radiotherapy field.Divect machine optimization technique is an good aritmetic for IMRT optimization.The purpose of this study was to compare the dosimetric differences between traditional technique and direct machine parameter optimization(DMPO) technique in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC) using step and shoot IMRT.Methods:Eleven patients of(NPC) were treated with step and shoot IMRT in Cancer Hospital,Fudan University from Feb.2005 to May 2006.Their plans(original plan,defined as treat) were archived for comparing with four kinds of IMRT plans(defined as DMPO100,DMPO90,DMPO80,DMPO70) with different predefined maximum number of segments(100,90,80,70,respectively),which were designed to use direct machine parameter optimization(DMPO) technique.We compared the total monitor units(MU),total segments,dose distribution and conformity index among the plans.Results:All the plans showed similar target coverage.Compared with traditional technique,IMRT plans with DMPO technique showed higher conformity index,and had similar uniformity except plan DMPO70.The dose distributions of DMPO100 and DMPO90 were similar or superior to the original plan(treat) in terms of critical organs.Without sacrificing plan quality,the total segments were about half of traditional plan if DMPO technique was used for planning.Moreover,the total monitor units(MUs) and the radiation time were decreased.Conclusions:Compared with traditional technique,plans designed with DMPO technique show sharp decrease in total segments without sacrificing plans quality in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC).The DMPO technique can also decrease the total MUs and radiation time.

[Objective]To assess the influence of three-dimensional computed tomography (3D CT) reconstruction on preoperative fracture classification of intraarticular fractures by comparing 3D CT and 2D CT in preoperative fracture classification of tibial plateau fractures and acetabular fractures.[Method]A retrospective study was performed to evaluate 28 tibial plateau fractures and 19 acetabular fractures.Four attending traumatic orthopaedic surgeons used 3D CT and 2D CT respectively to evaluate fractures and rendered fracture classification.Test of agreement was performed to evaluate interobserver and intraobserver agreement about fracture classification.[Result]With the use of 3D CT images,interobserver and intraobserver reliability for fracture classification increased to perfect agreement.[Conclusion]3D CT could improve the reliability of preoperative fracture classification for tibial plateau fractures and acetabular fractures.3D CT is helpful and worthwhile for preoperative evaluation for fracture classification of intraarticular fractures.

AIM:To establish a HPLC method for determinaton of sodium ferulate (SF) in Beagle dog plasma and to study the pharmacokinetics of SF tablets. METHODS: Sodium ferulate in plasma was extracted with ether,separated on a Kromasil C_ 18 column (150 mm?4.6 mm,5 ?m) and the peak height ratio of sodium ferulate to the internal standard tinidazole was measured.Plasma concentration of SF was determined using acetonitrile-water-acetic acid(20∶79.2∶0.8) as the mobile phase and the flow rate was 0.8 ml/min.SF was detected at 320 nm. RESULTS: SF and the internal standard were separated completely under the condition described above.SF was linear in the range of 0.02～50 ?g/ml(r=0.9995).The accuracy,precision and sensitivity were eligible for analyse of bio-pharmic samples. CONCLUSION:A sensitive and accurate HPLC method for the quantitative determination of SF in the plasma of Beagle dog is developed and it is applicable to the determination in plasma and pharmacokinetic study of SF.