Acute pancreatitis happens rapidly and leads to patient's condition changing swiftly.Acute pancreatitis may be complicated by acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS),or even multiple organ dysfunction syndrome,and the mortality rate has been high.The mechanism of acute pancreatitis with complications of ALI and ARDS is intricate.It involves the uncontrolled inflammatory response,the damage and apoptosis of cell,the role of trypsin,the imbalance of coagulation and fibrinolysis,etc.These respects interrelate with each other,forming a complex network.Further study of mechanism of acute pancreatitis complicated with ALI and ARDS will supply more new target for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF), as one of the chronic and complex diseases, is with high incidence and mortality rate. It is also a difficult to treat disease in modern medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation and treatment embodies characteristics and advantages. In recent years, the collateral disease theory guiding the prevention and treatment of the chronic and complex diseases has become a hot point and frontier in medical research, and achieved certain effects. This article is to summary the structures and functions of pulmonary collaterals based on the collateral disease theory. Combined with clinical manifestations of IPF, we put forward Fei-Re Luo-Y u as the fundamental role in the pathogenesis of IPF in its acute phase to lay the theoretical foundation to the further exploration of syndrome prevention and differentiation on IPF in its acute exacerbation.

Objective To explore the methods to reduce the occlusion of perforating arteries after intracranial stenting of the vertebral artery. Methods Clinical data of 32 cases of Gateway-Wingspan stent implantation for intracranial branch of vertebral artery were retrospectively analyzed. The postoperative stricture and perfusion improvement situation were evaluated, the reason of perforating artery occlusion was analyzed. Results Thirty-two patients were implanted with 33 pieces of Wingspan stent and 1 piece of Apollo bracket. The operation success rate were 100%, and the stenosis rate reduced from (76.6±6.1)%to (27.9±5.2)%. After three months, the transcranial doppler sonography (TCD) and CT angiography were checked, showing no in-stent restenosis in all patients. Two patients occurred the perforating artery occlusion within 24 hours after operation. The possible reason was the change of stability of atherosclerotic plaque at the stenosis and the plaque displacement caused by the mechanical action of the balloon or stent, which may lead to medulla oblongata artery block. After drug and rehabilitation treatment, the symptoms in patients were improved significantly. Conclusion The perforating artery occlusion after stent implantation in intracranial branch of vertebral artery can be prevented by strict evaluation and preoperative preparation, the right selection of intraoperative balloon and stent, which still needs larger sample data to prove.

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is a multifunctional protein and regulates a wide variety of cellular bio-effects,such as proliferation,differentiation,migration and apoptosis.Studies have proven that TGF-β is one of the important cytokines that promote fibrosis,and it is confirmed to be closely related to the progression of tumor.Smad signaling is the major pathway in which TGF-β fulfills its functions.These years,it has been found that E3 ubiquitin ligases Arkadia can enhance the biological effect of TGF-β signal transduction pathway through Smad signaling pathway.Therefore,it is increasingly attracting public attention.This study will summarize the effects of Arkadia on TGF-β/Smad signal transduction pathway.

Objective:To establish a method to determine the metabolites in rat kidney tissues by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with chemometric techniques. Methods:Metabolites were separated and identiifed on HP-5MS column (30 m × 0.25 μm × 0.25 mm). The initial column temperature was 100℃lasting 3 min, and then programmed at 8℃/min to 300℃, maintaining at this temperature for 6 min. hTe internal standard was heptadecanoic acid. hTe grinded kidney tissue was exacted by methanol. hTe supernatant was dried by nitrogen. Atfer the oximation and derivation, the supernatant was analyzed by GC-MS. hTe overlapped peaks were resolved into pure chromatogram and mass spectra with chemometric techniques. Qualitative analysis was performed by comparing the obtained pure mass spectra with those in NIST mass spectra database and certiifcated by the standards and the references. hTe internal method was used for semi-quantitation. Results:A total of 53 compounds were identiifed. hTe main constitutions in the kidney tissue were amino acids, saccharides, fatty acids and urea. Conclusion:hTe combination of methods is rapid and accurate for the analysis of metabolites in the kidney tissue, which provides more information for further study of metabonomics in kidney tissues.

0.05). Conclusions One mechanism of SF pretreatment cardioprotective effect is mediated by bradykinin. The combined use of SF and CP doesn′t result in significant improvement, and thenefore is not advocated.

This article elaborated the theory of chronic and complex disease treatment based on collaterals. It put forward that complex virtual evil stasis was the common pathogenesis of chronic and complex disease treatment. Combined with articles published in recent 5 years, from the perspective of cytokines and genes, it summarized traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compound targets in chronic and complex disease treatment. It put forward the transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs), matrix metalloproteinases/tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (MMPs/TIMPs) were its high-frequency targets. It provided a basis for future experiment design on chronic and complex disease treatment based on collaterals as well as new drug development.

This study was aimed to discuss the anti-inflammatory and immunization properties ofRe-Du-Ning (RDN) injection in the treatment of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) with phlegm-heat stagnated in the lung syndrome. A total of 110 in-patients were collected from January 2012 to December 2013. Cases were randomly divided into the treatment group (basic treatment plan + 20 ml RDN injection + 250 mL of 5% GS injection, once a day, intravenous injection) and the control group (basic treatment plan + 20 ml of 0.9% NS injection + 250 mL of 5% GS injection, once a day, intravenous injection), with 55 cases in each group. The treatment course was 14 days. Observations were made on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptom score, clinical effect, blood routine examination, blood gas analysis and T lymphocyte subgroups before and after the treatment in both groups. The results showed that in the aspects of TCM symptom score and clinical effect, the posttreatment TCM symptom score and total integration in the treatment group were obviously improved compared to the control group except for shortness of breath, dry mouth and thirsty, flushing (P < 0.05). The total effective rate was obviously better than that of the control group. In the aspect of anti-inflammation, the total white blood cell (WBC) count and the normal neutrophil percentage of both pretreatment and posttreatment in the treatment group were obviously decreased compared to pretreatment (P < 0.05). However, there were no statistical differences on WBC count and normal neutrophil percentage compared to posttreatment in the control group. In the aspect of blood gas analysis, the posttreatment PaCO2 and PaO2 of the treatment group were obviously better than the control group (P < 0.05). In the aspect of immune regulation, the posttreatment T lymphocyte subgroups CD3+ and CD4+ of the treatment group were higher than the control group. The expression inhibition / cytotoxic lymphocyte (CD8+) was obviously lower than the control group (P < 0.05). The CD4+ / CD8+ was back to the normal reference level. It was concluded that in the treatment of AECOPD with phlegm-heat stagnated in the lung syndrome, on the basis of western medicine symptomatic treatment plan, RDN injection was assisted to clear heat, relieve toxin and remove phlegm. It can obviously improve patient’s clinical symptoms and increase the clinical therapeutic effects. The treatment was especially targeted to infection-induced respiratory failure patients combined low immunity with possible identified therapeutic effects.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is defined as a specific form of chronic and progressive fibrosing inter-stitial pneumonia. Till now, it is lack of effective and safe treatment. In recent years, more and more clinical trials of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been conducted with different evaluation criteria and indexes. The knowl-edge is disunity and unsystematic. From the perspective of combination of disease and TCM syndrome model, this ar-ticle summarized and organized the current data and medical standards, and then come up with the new evaluation system of clinical effect and describe important indexes and methods. This article was aimed to improve the clinical trial design and provide high quality evidences for evidence-based medicine.