OBJECTIVEThe effect of Kou Yan Qing Ke Li on the prevention and treatment of radiation-induced oral mucositis was investigated in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

METHODSSixty patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma to be treated with radiotherapy were randomized into two groups: the experimental and control groups. The experimental group (30 patients) was treated with Kou Yan Qing Ke Li during the full course of radiotherapy. The control group (30 patients) rinsed their mouths in the same way with mouth washes containing 0.9% sodium chloride injection, lidocaine, dexamethasone, vitamin B2 and B2 gargle liquid mixture, when grade 2 and above radiation-induced oral mucositis appeared in the process of radiation. Radiation-induced oral mucositis was assessed according to the radiation therapy oncology group criteria. The time of occurrence and degree of pain grade were compared between the two groups.

RESULTSThe first onset of oral mucositis in the experimental group (12.40 d ± 2.74 d) was later than that in the control group (9.46 d ± 1.39 d) (t = 5.241, P < 0.001), whereas the grade of pain and acute radiation mucositis was lower in the experimental group than that in the control group. The difference was statistically significant.

CONCLUSIONKou Yan Qing Ke Li could delay the time of occurrence of radiation-induced oral mucositis, reduce the severity of radiation stomatitis, alleviate the pain of patients, improve the clinical symptoms of patients, and effectively prevent and treat radiation-induced oral mucositis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Objective:To develop an interface program between a hospital inspection information system and Hospital Information System(HIS). Such interface program not only guarantees the safety and independence of HIS, but achieves interoperability between HIS and other third-party system.Methods: The interface program between the inspection information system and HIS conforming to hospital demands is developed by using Visual Studio 2008 development platform and WebServices+XML technology.Results: The interface between the inspection information system and HIS operates stably, reliably and efficiently, avoiding manually input information errors, reducing the amount of registration work, and raising work efficiency.Conclusion:WebServices+XML technology is utilized to develop an interface characterized by safety, stability and reliable performance, realizing resource sharing among information systems in the hospital. Besides, the interface can be expanded in the future to adapt to other third-party system, achieving customization.

Adult ; Carcinogens ; Epoxy Compounds ; poisoning ; Female ; Humans ; Lymphocytes ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Male ; Multivariate Analysis ; Mutation ; drug effects ; Occupational Exposure ; analysis ; Regression Analysis ; Sister Chromatid Exchange ; drug effects

Objective To investigate the numbers and the expression of MHC-Ⅰpositive cells in hu- man ovarian epithelial carcinoma tissues and provide the experimental data in the futher biological therapy of ovarian carcinoma.Methods Thirty one samples of ovarian epithelial carcinoma were analysed with flow cy- tometry for MHC classⅠexpression.Results The number of MHC classⅠcells(25.22?21.23,4.37?3.63)was fewer in ovarian epithelial carcinoma than that in normal ovarian tissues(43.56?18.47,7.43?5.87),and was related with pathologic grades(P

This paper is aim to investigate the pharmacokinetics and absolute bioavailability of neoline in Beagle dogs, and provide a theoretical basis for further study. Ethyl acetate was used for liquid-liquid extracting after 10% ammonia alkalizing. The method of UPLC-Q-TOF-MS was established for the determination of neoline plasma concentrations. Beagle dogs were orally or intravenously administered with neoline for pharmacokinetic and absolute bioavailability study. Good linear relationship of neoline was found over the range of 0.1-4 mg x L(-1) (R2 = 0.9982) and 2-100 microg x L(-1) (R2 = 0.9945). Intra-and inter-day precision, expressed as the relativestandard (RSD) were less than 5.0%. Accuracy, expressed as the relative error (RE) was within 90.0%-115%. The recovery of neoline in dog plasma was more than 80%. After 6 mg x kg(-1) for ig and 1 mg x kg(-1) for iv administration of neoline, the main pharmacokinetic parameters were analyzed with Winnonlin software. t(1/2) were (313.88 +/- 63.18), (236.33 +/- 229.84) min, and AUC(0-infinity) were (58,027.40 +/- 14,132.69), (473,578.02 +/- 82,333.08) min x microg x L(-1) for ig and iv administration respectively. The absolute bioavail ability was (73.15 +/- 10.29) %. The method of UPLC-Q-TOF-MS described in the report was sensitive, reliable and specific, and suitable for pharmacokinetic study of neoline in Beagle dog. The high absolute bioavailability of neoline in dog suggested good absorption of neline which was worth of further investigation.
Aconitine ; analogs & derivatives ; chemistry ; pharmacokinetics ; Animals ; Biological Availability ; Dogs ; Drug Stability ; Female ; Male

Objective To analyze the etiologies,clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with acute renal failure(ARF)admitted to the hospital at high altitude.Method This retrospective study included clinical data of patients with acute renal failure in the General Hospital of Tibet Military Command from May 2001 to April,2006.Results There were 85 male patients and 63 female patients with mean age(42.4?18.1)years old.Among 148 patients with acquired ARF,52.7% was iatrogenic or nosoeomal origin, demonstrating a trend of increasing.The ARF included pre-renal(n=48,32.4%),renal parenchymal(n= 90,60.8%)and post-renal(n=10,6.8%)in origin.Acute high altitude sickness(n=20)was the major causes of pre-renal ARF.Renal parenchymal ARF could be classified into glomerular vascular lesions(n=24), acute tubular necrosis(n=53),acute interstitial nephritides(n=12),and contusion of unitesticle(n=1).of 90 cases of renal parenchymal ARF,39 patients(43.3%)were induced by medicines.Lithiasis was the major causes of post-renal ARF.The mortality of ARF in our study was 42.6%.The mortality of patients contracted ARF in hospital was much higher than that of patients community ARF in community(55.1 vs 23.6%;P=0.01). There was no significant differences of the mortality between the patients with and without dialysis treatment. Univariate analysis showed that prognosis was correlated with age,the presence of hematuria and oliguria or anuria Hb,and the number of organ system failures.The logistic regression showed that age,Hb and the number of organ system dysfunction were the predictors of mortality.Conlusions The major causes of ARF at high altitude were acute high altitude sickness and the use of medicines with nephrotoxicity.The morbility and mortality of nosocomisl ARF increased significantly.Prevention of MODS is a key management to decrease mortality in severe ARF.

Objective To assess left ventricular synchronicity in patients with metabolic syndrome(MS)by tissue Doppler imaging.Methods Twenty-two patients with MS and left ventricular hypertrophy(LVH)(MS-LVH group),69 patients with MS and non-LVH(MS-NLVH group)and 33 healthy subjects(control group) were included.Left ventricular(LV)systolic and diastolic synchronicity were determined by measuring the maximal difference in time to peak myocardial systolic contraction(Ts-diff)and time to peak myocardial early diastolic relaxation(Te-diff),and the standard deviation of time to peak myocardial systolic contraction(Ts-SD)and early diastolic relaxation(Te-SD)with 6 basal and 6 middle LV segments.Results Compared with control group,patients with MS in MS-NLVH and MS-LVH group showed significantly prolonged Ts-diff,Ts-SD,Te-diff and Te-SD.Furthermore,Te-diff and Te-SD were much more prolonged in MS-LVH group than in MS-NLVH group.Conclusions Patients with MS have impaired L V systolic and diastolic synchronicity.LVH impacts the LV diastolic synchronicity much more obviously than systolic synchronicity in the patients with MS and LVH.

Objective To establish a method of quantiying trace α-galactosidase from Bacteroides fragilis in enzymatic conversion of blood group B to O red blood cells ( B-ECO RBCs) .Methods BALB/c mice were immunized with purified recombinant B.fragilisα-galactosidase ( the purity>90%) to prepare monoclonal antibodies.The ascites were prepared using hybridoma cell lines stably secreting antibody and purified by HiTrap rProtein A column.The antibody titer and spe-cificity were detected by ELISA and Western blotting, respectively.Purified monoclonal antibody and rabbit polyclonal an-tibody were applied to detect residual enzyme in B-ECO RBCs and the washing solution was analyzed by indirect ELISA. Results A high titer and purity antibody was obtained.Western blotting showed that the antibody specifically reacted with B.fragilisα-galactosidase.Moreover, indirect ELISA was sensitive enough to detect the minimal amount of residualα-gal-actosidase at the concentration of 1 ng/ml.After four repeat washing cycles with 1∶4 ( v/v) phosphate-buffered saline, the amount of residual enzyme in B-ECO RBCs was less than 10 ng/ml.Conclusion An effective method of detecting the min-imal amount of residual α-galactosidase in blood conversion is established for safety evaluation of universal RBCs prepara-tion by enzymatic treatment.

Objective To reduce immunogenicity of porcine skin by removingα-Gal epitopes expressed in cell surface and extracellular matrix using recombinant α-galactosidase produced by Bacteroides fragilis.Methods The porcine skin was harvested from healthy 2-month-old pigs without any skin disorders before being sterilized by iodine and 75%alcohol, respectively.Enzymatic removal of α-Gal antigen was followed by washing with PBS.The α-Gal antigen in the prepared porcine skin was measured with immunofluorostaining of cryosections and the residual enzyme was measured with a double-antibody sandwich ELISA method.Enzymatic removal procedures were optimized by detecting residual enzyme and the effi-cacy ofα-Gal removal under different enzymatic and washing conditions.Results Efficient enzymatic and washing methods were established to removeα-Gal antigen.Theα-Gal removal efficacy was above 90% and residual enzyme was undetect-able (αprescribed minimum ofα-galactosidase detection with indirect ELISA was 1 ng/ml) .Conclusion It is feasible to efficiently removeα-Gal antigen under these enzymatic and washing conditions, and a method of producing low-immunoge-nicity pig skin dressing for burn is established.

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair (LIHR) in elderly patients.Methods The retrospective cohort study was adopted.The clinical data of 3 203 patients with inguinal hernias (3 847 sides) who were adnitted to the Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine between January 2001 and December 2013 were collected.Of 3 203 patients,979 (1 107 sides) with age ＜ 60 years and 2 224 (2 740 sides) with age ≥ 60 years were respectively allocated into the under 60 years group and 60 years or older group.The surgical procedures including transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach,total extraperitoneal (TEP) approach and intraperitoneal onlay mesh (IPOM) approach were selected and performed by doctors in the same team.There were light-weight and heavy-weight patches.Observation indicators included (1) overall operation situations,(2) surgical comparison between the 2 groups,(3)comparison of postoperative indicators between the 2 groups,(4) follow-up.Follow-up using telephone interview and outpatient examination was performed to detect the recovery time of non-restricted activity,recurrence of hernia and complications.Measurement data with normal distribution were represented as ~ ± s and comparison between groups was done by the t test.Comparisons of count data were analyzed using the chi-square test or Fisher exact probability.Ranked data were compared by the nonparametric rank sum test.Results (1) Overall operation situations:3 203 patients with inguinal hernias (3 847 sides) underwent LIHR,including 1 475 (1 677 sides) using TAPP approach,1 718 (2 154 sides) using TEP approach and 10 (16 sides) using IPOM approach (6 using TAPP and IOPM approaches in each side).The light-weight patch was used in 2 206 sides and heavy-weight patch was used in 1 641 sides.Operation time was (31 ± 12) minutes in all 3 203 patients,(27 ±9)minutes in 2 559 patients with unilateral hernia and (44 ± 12)minutes in 644 patients with bilateral hernia,respectively.Duration of postoperative hospital stay was (1.5 ± 1.2) days.(2) Surgical comparison between the 2 groups:TAPP approach,TEP approach,IPOM approach,light-weight patch and heavy-weight patch were performed to 567,538,2,751,356 sides in the under 60 years group and 1 110,1 616,14,1 455,1 285 sides in the 60 years or older group,respectively,with statistically significant differences in above indicators between the 2 groups (X2 =37.976,70.022,P ＜ 0.05).Operation time in unilateral hernia and bilateral hernia and total operation time were (27 ± 9)minutes,(42 ± 10)minutes,(29 ± 10)minutes in the under 60 years group and (27 ± 10)minutes,(44 ± 12)minutes,(3 1 ± 13)minutes in the 60 years or older group,respectively,with no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (t =-0.106,-1.768,-4.445,P ＞ 0.05).(3) Comparison of postoperative indicators between the 2 groups:the pain score at postoperative day 1 and duration of postoperative hospital stay were 2.4 ± 1.1,(1.5 ± 1.1) days in the under 60 years group and 2.3 ± 1.0,(1.5 ± 1.3) days in the 60 years or older group,respectively,with no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (t =1.419,-0.126,P ＞0.05).(4) Follow-up:all the patients were followed up for 23-60 months,with a median time of 43 months.Cases with non-restricted activity recovery at postoperative week 2 and 4 were 973,978 in the under 60 years group and 2 208,2 222 in the 60 years or older group,respectively,showing no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (X2=0.113,P ＞0.05).The recurrence of hernia,severe complications,serum tumescence,paresthesia and enteroparalysis were detected in 1,0,49,5,1 sides in the under 60 years group and 11,3,132,16,2 sides in the 60 years or older group,respectively,with no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (x2=1.556,0.269,0.254,P ＞ 0.05).The urinary retention in the under 60 years group and 60 years or older group was respectively detected in 6 and 44 sides,showing a statistically significant difference between 2 groups (x2=6.956,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion LIHR is safe and effective in elderly patients,and it can achieve good clinical efficacy under selecting reasonable operation procedures and patches.