Malaria remains a serious public health problem,especially in developing countries. With the deepening of the un-derstanding of vivax malaria,Plasmodium vivax is also attracting more and more attention. An effective drug treatment is the foun-dation of controlling or even eliminating malaria. In recent years,more and more reports of chloroquine-resistance Plasmodium vivax have been reported. Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance has been a focus problem in vivax malaria prevention and treat-ment. In this paper,the research progress on distribution situation,detection methods and molecular markers of Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance is summarized.

Objective To observe changes of thyroid weight and function after 131 I therapy in Graves′ diseaseandtooptimiseradiationdose for treatment of Graves′ disease. Methods From 1995 to 1998, 103 patients with Graves′ disease were selected (nodule was not found by palpation and nuclear scintigraphy). The mean age was 43 (range 27～64) years. Thyroid weight was estimated by nuclear scintigraph (SC) and ultrasound (US). Thyroid function was determined by serum TT 3, TT 4, FT 3, FT 4 and TSH levels. Results The oral dose of 131 I was (188.7?144.3)MBq. If the dose was larger than 555.0 MBq, it was divided into two doses orally. The thyroid weight of the patients before 131 I therapy was (54.8?32.3)g (SC) and (49.3?27.7)g (US), there was no significant difference between SC and US. The thyroid weight in 90 patients was significantly decreased from (51.5?23.4)g to (27.0?13.9)g by SC, and from (47.2?23.7)g to (20.6?8.4)g by US 6～7 months after 131 I treatment. Reduction of thyroid weight was correlated with that before therapy (determined by US) (r=0.49, P

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Costimulatory signals have become a hot field in immunological researches. As co-inhibitory molecules, programmed death-1 ( PD-1) and its ligands (PD-1/PD-L) have been demonstrated to play an important role in autoimmune disease, organ transplant rejection, microorganism infection, tumor immune escapes etc. . In recent years,some studies about PD-1/PD-L pathway in ophthalmology have been curried out and reported. Some changes were found in PD-1/PD-L pathway, such as ocular immunologic diseases, ocular infectious diseases, ocular tumors, immune privilege in ocular tissues and so on. Through the research on PD-1/PD-L pathway,we can further understand the pathogenesis of some ocular diseases and find new methods for their prevention and treatments. This article reviewed the recent advances in PD-1/PD-L pathway in ophthalmological physiopathology.

Objectives:To detect the relationship between cerebrovascular function and the disease term in type 2 diabetes. Methods:A total of 38 type 2 diabetes patients and 17 health control subjects entered the study. Patients were divided into two groups: those with long term diabetes and those with short term diabetes. Mean blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery(MCA),internal carotid artery(ICA), anterior cerebral artery(ACA),basilar artery(BA) and pulsatility index(PI) were measured with a transcranial Doppler probe and the breathlolding index(BHI) were calculated. Results:V MCA and V BA in the long term DM group was significantly greater than those in the short term group and the control group( P

One hundred forty-four residents registered at department of anesthesia of West China Hospital from 1999 to 2010.The duration of residency training is 5 years (3 + 2).The residents enrolled during 1999-2002 were on the staff.They were assigned to work at this hospital after graduation from medical school and became staff anesthesiologist of this hospital after 5 year training.The residents enrolled during 2003-2010 were trainees and not on the staff.They had to apply for a job as anesthesiologist somewhere after 5 year training.After 3 year training the residents are qualified to undergo subspecialty training.Thirty-nine of the 144 residents dropped out of the training program.The reasons for their withdrawing from the program included finding a regular job,failing the qualifying examination,changing profession studying abroad and death.In order to reduce dropout rate,correct public opinion on the importance of residency training,raising the quality of the residents and improving income of the residents are needed.

Objective To investigate the possible association between vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), endostatin (ES) and type 2 diabetic nephropathy. Methods The level of serum VEGF and ES were measured by ELISA in eighty type 2 diabetic patients including thirty subjects without diabetic nephropathy , twenty with microalbuminuria and thirty with macroalbuminuria, and the correlation was analyzed. Results The level of serum VEGF and ES in patients with macroalbuminuria were both significantly higher than that of patients with and without microalbuminuria (P < 0.05). The level of serum VEGF and ES in patients with microalbuminuria were significantly higher than that of patients without diabetic nephropathy (P<0.05). Both VEGF and ES level were positively correlated with the level of microalbuminuria (mAlb) (r=0.226, P<0.01; r=0.491, P<0.01), and negatively correlated with the level of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (r=-0.237, P<0.05;r=-0.620, P<0.01). There was a significantly positive correlation between VEGF and ES in patients with microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria (r1=0.633, P1<0.01; r2=0.532, P2<0.05). However, there was no correlation between VEGF and ES in patients without diabetic nephropathy (r3=0.175, P3>0.05). Conclusion The levels of VEGF and ES in type 2 diabetic nephropathy had varying degree of increasing in different diabetic nephropathy stage , and closely related to mAlb and eGFR. Disequilibrium of VEGF and ES may speed up the progression of diabetic nephropathy.

Objective To investigate oxidative damage effect of the serum of severe preeclamptic patients on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).Methods (1) HUVEC were randomly divided into 4 groups according to the following:blank group as control,normal group added 20％ normal sera of pregnant women,group PE added 20％ sera of severe preeclamptic patients,and group PE + Cat added 20％ sera of severe preeclamptic patients plus 3 x 103 U/ml catalase.After cultured for 24 hours,the injury morphology and APO2.7 expression of HUVEC were detected by transmission electron microscopy and flow cytometry respectively.(2) Under the real-time scanning by laser scanning confocal microscopy,HUVEC were randomly divided into 4 groups according to the following:control group added 100 μmol/L H2O2 as positive control,normal group,group PE,and group PE + Cat.HUVEC of each group was scanned for 120 seconds to determine levels of reactive oxidative species (ROS),calcium homeostasis,and mitochondria membrane potential.Results (1) Obvious injury morphology of HUVEC was observed in group PE,and it was obviously improved by catalase in group PE + Cat.Percentage of HUVEC expressed APO2.7 was (37.8 ± 1.1) ％ in group PE,which was significantly higher than (13.4 ± 1.1) ％ in blank group or (13.5 ± 1.5) ％ in normal group,but significantly lower than (19.2 ± 1.6) ％ in group PE + Cat (all P ＜ 0.01).(2) The fluorescence intensity curves of intracellular ROS and calcium showed slowly rising in group PE,but no obvious changes in normal group and PE + Cat.The values of ROS and calcium in group PE (12.0±1.3,4.1 ±0.7) were higher than those in normal group (1.1 ±0.4,0.6 ±0.4),but lower than those in group PE + Cat (1.5 ± 0.5,0.9 ± 0.5 ; all P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion The serum of severe preeclamptic patients caused oxidative damage on HUVEC by increasing intracellular ROS generation,calcium overload,and decreasing mitochondrial membrane potential.

A rapid detection method of active pharmaceutical ingredients( API) in weak API signal drugs by surface enhanced Raman scattering ( SERS) technology combined with paper substrate was established in this work. By soaking the filter paper in silver nanoparticles solution ( Ag NPs) to synthesize Ag NPs-paper as the substrate, and then the sample solution was dropping on the substrate with SERS detection. On the basis of strengthen ability of Ag NPs-paper, result of SERS detection and optimal preparation conditions, the fast identification method of weak API signal drugs was established. In this case, the SERS spectra of weak API signal drugs and their standards SERS spectra were obtained, where the correlation coefficient of weak API signal drug SERS spectra and its standard was more than 0. 9. The result showed that by this method, the low content API in weak API signal drugs could be well investigated, and the deficiencies of the normal Raman spectroscopy efficiently was also overcome. In conclusion, the synthesize method of Ag NPs-paper was simple, and the strengthen effect of this Ag NPs-paper on the intensity was obviously observed. Paper substrate-SERS method was simple, rapid and sensitive, and could be used to detect weak API signal drugs, presenting broad application prospects in the rapid detection of weak API signal drugs.

Objective To explore the effect of GAS MAN assisted instruction on theory learning of volatile anesthetics in anesthesiology residency training.Methods A total of 32 residents in the first stage of anesthesiology training were enrolled and randomly assigned to either study(S) or control (C) group.Theory-test l(Test-1) was conducted for all residents after the lecture-based learning (LBL).Next,reference book self-reading strategy was used in both groups while computer-based simulation(CBS) using GAS MAN was only developed in S group.Then,theory-test 2(Test-2)was conducted for residents in both groups and residents in S group completed the questionnaire smvey.In addition,thirty-four resident teachers observed the CBS courses and completed the questionnaire smvey.Results The mean scores of Test-1 did not differ significantly between the two groups(P=0.64).However,the mean Test-2 score of S group(81.3 ± 13.6) was significantly higher than that of C group(61.3 ± 15.4) (P=0.001).100％(16/16) residents believed that CBS was beneficial to the theoretical study of volatile anesthetics,93.8％(15/16) residents considered GAS MAN could help understand the concepts and improve efficiency during self-learning.97.1％ (33/34) and 91.2％ (31/34)resident teachers agreed that CBS was helpful for analyzing complex concepts and improving study effectiveness,respectively.Conclusions CBS using GAS MAN improves theory knowledge and study effectiveness for anesthesia residents.Both residents and resident teachers find GAS MAN highly ac ceptable.Therefore,GAS MAN has the potential to be the assistant teaching tool for LBL in anesthesiology residency-training program.