OBJECTIVE:To establish the quality standard of Alyxia sinensis.METHODS:The characteristic study,microscopic identification and TLC identification of Alyxia sinensis were performed,and the content of Ursolic acid in which was determined by HPLC.RESULTS:The chief characteristics of Alyxia sinensis have been summarized.The linear range of Ursolic acid was 0.053～10.600 ?g(r=0.999 9) with its average recovery at 101.45%(RSD=1.72,n=9).CONCLUSION:The established standard can be used for the quality control of Alyxia sinensis.

Adenocarcinoma ; metabolism ; pathology ; Atrophy ; Biomarkers ; metabolism ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Humans ; Male ; Prostate ; pathology ; Prostatic Diseases ; metabolism ; pathology ; Prostatic Hyperplasia ; metabolism ; pathology ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; metabolism ; pathology ; Prostatitis ; metabolism ; pathology ; Xanthomatosis ; metabolism ; pathology

Objective To investigate the expression patterns of serine proteases Adsp1 and Adsp3 in the main tissue of Anopheles dirus and the effects of blood feeding and Plasmodium infection on the transcript abundance of Adsp1 and Adsp3 from Anopheles dirus haemocytes. Methods Haemocytes were collected by centrifugation. The midguts and salivary glands were dissected from 50 adult female Anopheles dirus of 3-5 d old for the extraction of total RNA for amplification by RT PCR. Anopheles dirus of 3-5 d old were divided into normal group (N), blood feeding group (B), and Plasmodium yoelii infection group (I). Haemocytes of 50 adult female Anopheles dirus from each group after blood feeding were also collected, and the total RNA was isolated at 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 11 d, respectively. Then, the same volume (10 ?l) of total RNA was analyzed by semi quantitative RT PCR with Ads7 as the internal control. Agarose gel analysis was performed on PCR products from each group. Results Expression of both Adsp1 and Adsp3 mRNA was found in the haemocytes and salivary glands, but not in the midguts. Semi quantitative RT PCR indicated that transcript abundance of AdsP1 and AdsP3 from Anopheles dirus haemocytes was enhanced after blood feeding and Plasmodium yoelii infection, especially during melanotic encapsulation of Plasmodium yoelii . Conclusion AdsP1 and AdsP3 may be involved in the melanotic encapsulation response of Plasmodium yoelii by Anopheles dirus , and may be the prophenoloxidase activating enzyme of Anopheles dirus .

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of pentoxifyline (PTX) on the treatment of collagen-induced arthritis in rats. Methods Wistar rat arthritis model was induced by bovine Ⅱ collagen (BⅡC) . The rats were randomly divided into four groups including normal control group, CIA control group treated with normal saline, indometaein group and PTX group. The body weight, the hind paw volumes, the arthritic index of all rats at different time points were observed and measured. At the end of the experiment, the radiographic changes and the synovial pathology score of rat ankle joints were evaluated to analyze the treatment role of PTX on CIA inflammation. Results The collagen-induced arthritis model was induced successfully at 11~13 days after first immunization with type Ⅱ collagen. After administration, the rat weights of PTX group were higher than that of CIA group (P<0.01) and no significant difference was found between PTX group and normal control group since week three. The degree of swelling of ankle joints in PTX group was decreased since the 17th day. At week five, the volumes of hind paw in PTX group and indometacin group was not different from that in normal control group (P>0.05). Compared with CIA group, the degree of synovial swelling of PTX group and indometacin group was decreased, synovial proliferation and inflammatory cell infiltrations was mild, and vascular hyperplasia and pannus was significantly declined. No cartilage erosion and necrosis was found. The pathological score of PTX group and indometacin group was significantly decreased(P<0.01). The parenchyma of ankle joint was swollen and no osteoporosis and bone erosion was found in PTX group and indometacin group. Conclusion PTX can ameliorate the symptoms and inhibit the swollen of rat arthritis. It is effective and with good safety profile.

Objective To investigate the role of myeloid dendritic cells(mDC)in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS),and to study the mechanism of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α blocker on the treatment of AS by counting the number of mDC before and after the treatment.Methods Peripheral blood from 21 AS patients treated with 50 mg rhTNFR-Fc and 15 AS patients treated with placebo were investigated at week 0,week 2 and week 6 in a randomized,double-blind,placebo-controlled trial.Three-color flow cytometry analysis was used to investigate the change of the number of mDC before and after the treatment.And their correlation with the clinical parameters was analyzed.Results MHC Class Ⅰ positive mDC(Lin-/CD11c+/HLA-abc+)in AS patients was slightly less than in healthy controls (not statistically significant).No significant change in MHC Class Ⅰ mDC number was observed after drug treatment.The number of MHC Class Ⅱ mDC cells was not correlated with clinical parameters.Conclusion The treatment with rhTNFR-Fc in AS induces a significant upregnlation of MHC-Ⅱ DC.

Objective To explore the effects of pretreatment with different doses of curcumm on the expression of p-CREB and PGC-1α in hippocampus after global cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury in rats.Methods Three hundred male SD rats weighing 200-250 g were randomly divided 5 groups ( n = 60 each): sham operation group (group S), IR group, low, median and high dose curcumin group (group LC, MC, HC). Global cerebral ischemia was produced by occlusion of 4 vessels (cauterization of bilateral vertebral arteries and 15 min occlusion of bilateral common carotid arteries) according to the method described by Finkbeiner. Bilateral common carotid arteries were only exposed but not ligated in group S. Intraperitoneal curcumin 30, 100 and 300 mg/kg were injected at 1 h before ischemia in group LC, MC and HC respectively. Equal volume of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) was injected intraperitoneally in group S and IR. The rats were killed at 2, 6, 24 and 72 h and 7 d after reperfusion (12 at each time point). Brains were immediately removed and hippocampus was isolated. The number of apoptosis neurons was counted using TUNEL. The expression of p-CREB and PG C-1α protein in hippocampus was detected by Western blot. Results The number of apoptosis neurons, p-CREB and PG C-1α protein expression were significantly higher at each time point in the other 4 groups than in group S ( P ＜ 0.05). The number of apoptosis neurons was significantly lower at T2-4 in group LC and MC, while p-CREB and PG C-Ⅰα protein expression wes significantly higher at T1-4 in group LC, MC and HC than in group IR (P ＜ 0.05). The number of apoptosis neurons was significantly higher, while p-CREB and PGC-1α protein expression was significantly lower at T2-4 in group LC and HC than in group MC ( P ＜ 0.05). Conclusion Curcumin can inhibit neuronal apoptosis in hippocampus and reduce global cerebral IR injury by up-regulating p-CREB and PG C-1α expression in rats and the effect was dose-related.

Objective:To investigate the safety and effect of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and sorafenib on large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treatment.Methods:From Jan 2012 to Dec 2017, 36 patients (Male: 33, Female: 3, average age: 51.8) with large HCC lesions(5-7 cm) received TACE plus with RFA and sorafenib in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Efficacy was evaluated after TACE. Each patient was received follow-up after RFA procedure. The occurrence rate of complications and overall survival (OS) were recorded. Log-rank univariate analysis was used to analyze the OS data.Results:The median TACE time was 4, and the RFA time was (1.7±0.7) . Mean duration time of sorafenib administration was (37.7±28.8) months. Adverse events of sorafenib: 26(72.2%) hand-foot skin reaction, 6(16.7%) hypertension, 22(61.1%) diarrhea, 17(47.2%) alopecia, 3(8.3%) oral ulcer and 1(2.8%) gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Median OS was 63.0 months, and 1-year, 3-year and 5-year survival rate was 100%, 72.7% and 52.6%. The cumulative survival rate of patients taking whole course of sorafenib ( n=21) was better than that of patients taking remedial ( n=15); the cumulative survival rate of patients with alpha fetal protein (AFP) <200 μg/L ( n=26) before treatment was better than ≥200 μg/L ( n=10); the cumulative survival rate of patients with good TACE response ( n=19) was better than that of patients with no response ( n=17), and the differences were statistically significant (all P<0.05). Conclusions:TACE plus with RFA and sorafenib are safe and effective for large HCC patients with 5-7 cm lesions and this treatment might improve OS. The whole-course sorafenib, lower base AFP value (<200 μg/L) and good TACE response were considered as the good factors for the combination therapy in large HCC patients.

OBJECTIVEExtraction of cepstral coefficients combined with Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is used to propose a biometric method based on heart sound signal.

METHODSFirstly, the original heart sounds signal was preprocessed by wavelet denoising. Then, Linear Prediction Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC) and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) are compared to extract representative features and develops hidden Markov model (HMM) for signal classification. At last, the experiment collects 100 heart sounds from 50 people to test the proposed algorithm.

RESULTSThe comparative experiments prove that LPCC is more suitable than MFCC for heart sound biometric, and by wavelet denoising in each piece of heart sound signal, the system achieves higher recognition rate than traditional GMM.

CONCLUSIONThose results show that this method can effectively improve the recognition performance of the system and achieve a satisfactory effect.

Algorithms ; Biometry ; Heart ; physiology ; Humans ; Markov Chains ; Models, Biological ; Phonocardiography ; methods ; Wavelet Analysis

Objective To explore a promising system for tumor CD 44 receptor-targeted imaging and to investigate their physic-chemical properties and targeting effect on CD 44 abundant cancer cells in vitro.Methods The superparamagnetic iron oxide ( SPIO) nanoparticles were prepared by a coprecipitation in alkaline media starting from a mixed of the ferrous and ferric solution.And then the surface of the SPIO nanoparticles were modified with APTMS by a reaction with the hydroxyl groups.Finally, the hyaluronan-modified SPIO ( SPIO-HA) nanoparticles were prepared.Control and experimental groups were established after adding SPIO or SPIO-HA as agents respectively.Transmission electron microscopy ( TEM) and particle size analyzer were used to measure these nanoparticle sizes and the hydrodynamic diameters.Thermogravimetric analysis ( TGA) was carried out to evaluate the HA-content on the surface of SPIO-HA.The MRI T2 ralaxivities (1/T2 ) of the two groups at different Fe concentrations (0.09, 0.18, 0.27, 0.36, 0.45 mmol/L ) were measured on a 3.0T MR system.HepG2 cells and HL7702 cells were used for assessment of cells viability by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium ( MTT ) assay.Prussian blue staining , immunoassay fluorescence image and flow cytometry were carried out to determine the targeted cellular uptake of SPIO-HA nanoparticles.MRI were performed to show the MR T 2 value changes after incubating with HepG2 cancer cells by using T 2 WI sequences at a clinical 3.0 T MR system.One-way analysis of variance was performed to determine significant changes in MR T 2 values of blank control , SPIO-HA and SPIO groups.Results The SPIO-HA and SPIO NPs were fairly homogeneous with an average core size of 18.2 and 22.4 nm, hydrodynamic diameter of 91.1 and 103.2 nm, Zeta potential of (-45.00 ±0.86) mV and (-18.50 ±0.73) mV, and magnetic relaxivity of 0.212 ×106 M-1 · s-1 and 0.191 ×106 M-1 · s-1.Based on the TGA data , HA accounted for 24%weight of each SPIO-HA.The internalization of the SPIO-HA was confirmed by prussian blue staining , while the cells showed no obvious blue stains with SPIO , incubation of SPIO-HA with tumor cells led to blue color inside the cells.After that, we examined cancer cell binding of FITC-SPIO-HA by immunoassay fluorescence image and flow cytometry.The green fluorescence resulting from FITC-SPIO-HA was observed inside the cells in both the cytoplasm and the plasmalemma.Tumor cells treated with SPIO-HA exhibited higher fluorescence signals with 7.97-fold enhancement observed for HepG 2 cells over control particles.In vitro MR, mean T2 values of blank control , SPIO and SPIO-HA groups were ( 115.20 ±0.36 ), ( 115.07 ±0.81 ) and ( 21.67 ±0.21 ) ms, respectively.There was significant difference among those three groups (F=31 703.339,P<0.01), MR T2 values of HepG2 cells treated with the SPIO-HA NPs were lower than blank and SPIO group.In comparison, SPIO did not generate any MRI signal changes compared with blank group.Conclusion The tumor CD44 receptor-targeted MR molecular probe SPIO-HA had a good physic-chemical property and well targeted HepG2 cells.

ObjectiveTo study the effect of menbranous milkvetch root parenteral solution on insulin resistance of gerontism cerebral infarction in recovery stage.Methods66 patients with gerontism cerebral infarction were randomly divided into therapy group(33 cases) which received membranous milkvetch root parenteral solution and control group(33 cases).Both groups adopted routine treatment at the same time, the period was 20 days. Insulin(Ins), free blood sugar(FBS), total cholesterol(CH), triglyceride(TG), hemorheology and insulin resistance(indicating by index of insulin sensitive) of blood on empty stomach were evalutated before and after treatment. ResultsAfter treatment there was decrease in CH, FBS, FINS in therapy group than in control group(P<0.01 or P<0.05); the clinical effect in therapy group was better than in control group(P<0.01).ConclusionMembranous milkvetch root parenteral solution can significantly decrease insulin resistance, blood lipin, blood viscosity in recovery stage of gerontism cerebral infarction, and improve clinical efficiency.