Objective: This paper focuses on the most commonly used Guiding Catheter and conduct study on material selection, push force, torque and twist controllability. Methods:In contrast to the method used in our clinical surgery three foreign manufacturers of medical guidelines for catheter materials, testing foreign manufacturers’ products. Conclusions analyzing t foreign products their own characteristics, provide the technical basis for better medical research and clinical guidelines for catheter performance. Results: Three foreign guiding catheter manufacturers selected the same materials, after testing, the guiding catheter has the best maximum pushing force, can quickly reach the site of disease. Conclusion: The guiding catheter has the best torque control, can better use in distorted vessel;the guiding catheter has the best twist controllability, can deal with complex vascular anatomy.

Objective:To analyse pros and cons of Shikani laryngoscope anatomically during nasal intubation.Methods:60 pa-tients,with ASAⅠ -Ⅱ,aged 1 9 to 29 years old,undergoing titanium plate and titanium screw removal surgery after orthognathia, were randomly divided into Shikani group (S group,n =30)and HC video laryngoscope group (V group,n =30).Successful intuba-tion rate of the first attempt,total time cost,nasal bleeding rate and the incidence of postoperative airway complications were compared. Results:Compared with group V,the time cost of group S was significantly lower(P <0.05).But the rate of successful intubation for the first attempt,nasal bleeding rate and incidence of complications were the same in both groups(P >0.05).Conclusion:Shikani la-ryngoscope is faster,less invasive with easy maintenance in nasal intubation.

Objective To investigate the risk factors of pneumonia in patients with non ST segment elevation-acute cononary syndromes (NSTE-ACS).Methods A total of 183 cases with NSTE-ACS was divided into pneumonia and non-pneumonia groups.The possible risk factors were screened firstly,then nonconditional logistic model multivariate analysis was used to investigate risk factors including age,sex,weight,smoking,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),hypertention,diabetes,left ventricular failure,renal failure,low serum albumin,early revascularization and early rehabilitation exercise on the occurrence of pneumonia in NSTE-ACS.Results The differences were statistically significant in factors including age,smoking,COPD,diabetes,left ventricular failure,renal failure,low serum albumin,early revascularization,and early rehabilitation exercise between two groups (P ＜ 0.05).By analysis of logistic,risk factors on the occurrence of pneumonia in NSTE-ACS were age,smoking,COPD,diabetes,left ventricular failure,renal failure,and low serum albumin(P ＜0.05).Early revascularization and early rehabilitation exercise were the protective factors to avoid pneumonia.Conclusions Left ventricular failure,age,smoking,COPD,diabetes,renal failure,and low serum albumin were the risk factors of pneumonia occurred in NSTE-ACS,but early revascularization and early rehabilitation exercise were the protective factors to avoid pneumonia.Actively treating the risk factors and early initiating the protective factors can effectively reduce the incidence of pneumonia.

Esophageal variceal bleeding is a severe complication of cirrhotic portal hypertension and the main cause of mortality in patients. Studies revealed no significant differences in emergency hemostasis rate,fatality rate,and rebleeding rate between patients receiving endo-scopic treatment and vasoactive agents.The advances in emergency management of esophageal variceal bleeding,including endoscopic band ligation,sclerotherapy,and use of vasoactive agents,are reviewed,with emphasis on emergency endoscopic treatment and drug therapy for esophageal variceal bleeding.

Objective To investigate the significance of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γexpression in the lung tissue of rats with chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPAH). Methods Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into four groups (n=10 for each group):normal control group (NC), hypoxia control group-one-week (HC-1w), hypoxia control group-two-week (HC-2w) and hypoxia control group-three-week (HC-3w). Normal control group was raised under normal oxygen condition in ventilated animal cage for three weeks. The other HC groups were placed in a low oxygen chamber (O2 concentration of 10%) from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM (8 h/d) everyday by one week, two weeks and three weeks. The mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP), right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) were detected. The index of right ventricular hypertrophy RV/(LV+S) was measured by dissecting rat heart. The morphological changes of the small pul-monary arteries were observed by HE staining, and the percentage of vascular wall thickness (WT%) was calculated. The ex-pression level of PPARγprotein was detected by Westren blot assay. Results The mPAP, RVSP and RV/(LV+S) were sig-nificantly higher in HC groups than those of NC group (P<0.05). The morphology of pulmonary arteries showed vessel wall thickening and vessel lumina stenosis in HC groups compared with that of NC group. The PPARγexpression in lung tissue was significantly lower in HC groups than that of NC group, and the downward trend was more obvious with the extension of time. Conclusion PPARγplays an important role in the occurrence and development of chronic hypoxic pulmonary hyper-tension.

Parkinson’ s disease ( PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily characterized by resting tremor, muscular rigidity, akinesia and postural reflex impairment.Behavioral tests of PD in animal models are essential for under-standing the pathogenesis of PD as well as for the development and testing of potential therapeutics .Here we mainly use the 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced rat model, to introduce a review on the research progress in non-drug-induced be-havioral tests of motor function in PD rats.

Allergic rhinitis (AR)and bronchial asthma often coexist in the same individual,in which they influence development and severity of each other.Both domestic and foreign research has showed that Syn-ergistic treatment to children with AR and asthma could be achieved by inhaled corticosteroids(ICS),oral leu-kotriene receptor antagonist and subcutaneous /sublingual allergen specific immunotherapy;collaborative manage-ment will be realized by doctors'Comprehensive clinical assessment,children and caregivers'self-assessment and chronic disease management tools.Collaborative treatment and management is significant to children with both allergic rhinitis and asthma.In addition,it has an edge in improving compliance of children and their parents during the treatment,the quality of childrens'life,and reducing burden of the diseases.

BACKGROUND:Thinking from ovarian cancer stem cel theory shows that: in the tumor cels, there are a fraction of stem cels with self-renewing ability and multipotent differentiation, which are the root causes of ovarian cancer recurrence and drug resistance. Studies have shown that CD90 can be used as a surface marker of mesenchymal stem cels and stem cels of other cancers.
OBJECTIVE:To explore the biological features of CD90+ tumor cels from ovarian cancer tissues.
METHODS: Primary ovarian cancer cels were isolated from the abdominal dropsy of ovarian cancer patients to sort CD90+ and CD90- cels using flow cytometry. RT-PCR was used to detect expressions of stem cel-related genes and epithelial to mesenchymal transition-related genes. Cel invasion was observed by Transwel invasion assay, cel proliferation and differentiation observed by clone formation assay, stem cel potential observed by suspension sphere-forming assay, and tumor formation rate observed byin vivo tumorigenicity experiment.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Compared with the CD90- cels, the expressions of CD44, CD133, ALDH1, N-cad and Vimentine were significantly higher in the CD90+cels (P < 0.05), but the expression of E-cad was significantly decreased in the CD90+ cels (P < 0.05). Tumor formation rates of CD90- and CD90+ cels were increased significantly with the increase of seeded cel number, which was more obvious in CD90+ cels. The number of transmembrane cels, the number of cel clones and the number of suspended spheres were significantly higher in the CD90+ cels than the CD90- cels (P < 0.05). Experimental findings from this study show that CD90+ cels highly express epithelial to mesenchymal transition-related genes and stem cel-related genes, with higher invasion, proliferation and differentiation, in vivo tumorigenicity and potential of stem cels. CD90+ cel separation may be a new method to separate ovarian cancer stem cels.

Isocitrate dehydrogenases(IDHs)are considered as key enzymes in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Recurrent mutations in the IDH1 and IDH2 genes are recently found in several human cancers. Those point mutations specifically affect IDH1 and IDH2 active site arginine residues and confer a neomorphic enzyme function of directly catalyzing α-ketoglutarate(α-KG)to R-2-hydroxyglutarate(R-2-HG). R-2-HG can com-petitively inhibits α-KG-dependent enzymes and may therefore contribute to the occurrence and development of tumor. In addition,Mutation status of IDH1 and IDH2 are closely relative to the progress and prognosis of cer-tain tumor. Thus IDH1 and IDH2 are considered to be promising biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis and targeted therapy.

Objective To investigate the relationships between serum inflammatory mediators and myocardial injury in rats with sepsis.Methods Thirty male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into normal control group and sepsis (0,24,48,72 h) groups.The rats subjected to sepsis were induced with cecum ligation perforation (CLP).Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α),interleukin-6 (IL-6),cardiac troponin Ⅰ (cTnI) and B-type natriuretic peptide precursor (NT-proBNP) in the venous blood were measured at 0 h,24 h,48 h,and 72 h after CLP.The lactic acid (Lac) of the arterial blood,cardiac index (CI),acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) Ⅱ score were also determined simultaneously.Results The levels of TNF-α,IL-6,cTnI,NT-proBNP,and Lac in sepsis (24 h,48 h,and 72 h) groups were significantly elevated compared to normal control and sepsis (0 h) group.In addition,the number of sepsis (24 h,48 h,and 72 h) groups progressively increased (P ＜0.05).Conclusions It existed a close relationship between serum inflammatory mediators and myocardial injury,and made myocardium damage after CLP.