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Objective To find out the distribution characteristics of drinking water with high arsenic in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan. Methods General investigation plus sampling survey was adopted in the city of Dali and 11 counties. The arsenic content in water was tested by half-quantitative fast reagent-box method. The water samples exceeding the standard(≥0.03 mg/L) were re-tested by silver diethyldithiocarbamate eolorimetric method or mercury-atomic fluorescence spectrometric method. Population and children exposed by high-arsenic were statistically analyzed. Results Arsenic content in 15 180 samples from 2639 villages are screened, of which 14 976 samples were less than 0.01 mg/L, reaching 98.66% (14 976/15 180); 110 samples was no less than 0.05 mg/L, only accounting for 0.72%(110/15 180). Water sources with excessive arsenic was found in 29 villages, in a percentage of 1.1% of all covered villages(29/2639). The samples were constituted of 10 399 portions of well water(well was less than 10 m deep), 3903 from spring, 93 from river water, 69 from hot spring water, 26 from reservoir water and 690 from surface water. And for the samples which arsenic content were ≥0.05 mg/L, 89 samples(0.86%, 89/10 399) were from well water, 15 from spring water(0.38%, 15/3903) and 6 from spring water(8.70%, 6/69). A total of 1 561 553 individuals were investigated, in a percentage of 67.83%(1 561 553/2 302 156) of the whole population, among those 420 513 were children, rating 26.93% of the investigated population(420 513/1 561 553); 27 865 were exposed to arsenic, accounting for 1.78% of the investigated population 27 865/1 561 553; 8993 children were exposed, rating 2.14% of the investigated population(8993/420 513). Conclusions There exists high-arsenic water resources in Dali Prefecture, Yunan, so the local inhabitants are in the danger of high-arsenic exposure. Urgent attention shall be paid for the endemic arsenic including investigation, prevention and control.

This study aimed at exploring the application of microtox technology to the evaluation of comprehensive toxicity of Sheng Mai injections.Characteristic parameters of vibrio fischeri (CS234) were measured by methodology inspection under different conditions to optimize the reaction condition with reliable technology.It was the first experiment to accomplish the comprehensive toxicity of Sheng Mai injections from various manufacturers using vibrio fischeri under the target condition.It was found that parameters of the optimum condition contained 0.9 mL recovery liquid volume in each freeze-dried vial and 50 μ L bacteria suspension of each sample,being included in 2 mL solution in aggregate under 10 mins' detection time after adding bacteria suspension with the favorable pH value ranging from 5 to 10 and luminous intensity from 0.8 to 1.2 million within 10 mins.The relative standard deviation values of replication experiment and precision test were all below 15％.Under this optimum detection condition,it was found that the EC50 values were 22.10％,34.10％ and 46.04％,respectively,presenting significant statistical differences (P＜0.05).These results demonstrated that the growth of biological detection standards of Sheng Mai injection was highlighted a long way to go.Besides,the microtox-based fast test for the evaluation of the comprehensive toxicity of Sheng Mai injection showed a prospective application to controlling the quality of different products from manufacturers.

In this research,we chiefly explored a new fast test method--microtox technology to evaluate the comprehensive toxicity of Shen Mai injection.We investigated characteristic parameters of vibrio fischeri (CS234) under different conditions in the pursuit of the optimum test parameters of the reliable method;and then locked the best parameters for Shen Mai injection assay with the products from different manufacturers by microtox fast test.As a result,the optimum reaction condition included 0.9 mL recovery liquid in each freeze-dried vial and 50 μL bacteria suspension of each sample within 2 mL solution in aggregate with 10-mins detection after adding bacteria suspension which pH value ranging from 5 to 10 and luminous intensity from 0.8 to 1.2 million in 10 mins.The relative standard deviation values of replication experiment and precision test were all below 15％.Under this optimum detection condition,it was found that the EC50 values were 35.60％,92.34％ and 146.57％,differing among the samples from three representative drug manufacturers,respectively (P ＜ 0.01).In conclusion,the concentration-effect relationship of Shen Mai injection existed in the toxicity assessment of vibrio fischeri with various ECs0 values from the three manufacturers.These results suggested that biological detection standards of Shen Mai injection presented great growth potential.Microtox-based fast test in the evaluation of comprehensive toxicity of ShenMai injection showed favorable application prospects over controlling the quality of different sources of products.

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Objective To study exogenous expression and subcellular localization of wild type (WT ) and mu-tant PAX3 proteins in vitro by generating their expression plasmids for further study of pathogenesis of Waarden-burg syndrome (WS) .Methods The plasmids pECE-PAX3 and pcDNA3 .0-HA were ligased after they were cut by double enzyme digestion using molecular cloning technique to generate recombinant eukaryotic expression plasmid pcDNA3 .0-PAX3-HA ,which was as a template to generate expression plasmids pcDNA 3 .0 -H80D -HA and pcDNA3 .0-H186fs-HA of novel mutations H80D and H186fs of PAX3 gene .All constructs were verified by di-rect nucleotide sequencing .NIH3T3 cells were transfected transiently with the expression plasmids of PAX3 ,H80D and H186fs respectively .The exogenous expression of WT PAX3 protein and mutant H80D ,H186fs proteins were analysed using Western blot assay ,while their subcellular distribution were observed using immunofluorescence as-say .Results The DNA sequences of expression plasmids of PAX3 and its mutant H80D ,H186fs were correct . Both WT and mutant PAX3 proteins were detected at the expected size .WT PAX3 and H80D proteins were only lo-calized in the nucleus ,whereas H186fs protein showed aberrant localization in both cytoplasm and nucleus .Conclu-sion We successfully generated the recombinant eukaryotic expression plasmids of PAX 3 gene and its mutants and drew preliminary conlusion of gene mutation having effect on subcellular distribution of WT PAX 3 proteins in vitro , which lays experimental basis for further study of the moceluar mechanism of WS caused by PAX3 gene mutations in China .

Objective: To explore automatic breast full volume imaging (ABVS) and color doppler ultrasound (CDFI) for breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) in the evaluation of curative effect. Methods:The application of a CDFI and ABVS 42 cases of breast cancer patients receiving NCT lesions imaging characteristics before and after observation and analysis. Results:ABVS from coronal distribution and audio-visual change according to the primary tumor, and CDFI images showing the primary tumors and blood flow changes within all have significant difference in patients with complete remission after NCT (P<0.01);ABVS from coronal distri-bution and audio-visual change according to the primary tumor, and CDFI showed lesions in blood flow changes, etc. in patients with the absence of change and easing some lesions have no significant difference (P>0.05). Conclusion:We use ABVS and CDFI for breast cancer before and after the NCT curative effect evaluation of great clinical significance and value.

Objective To study the changes of soluble intercelluar adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) in serum of neonates with hy-poxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE),and significance of changes of serum sICAM-1 in HIE pathogenesis. Methods There were 17 controls of neonates and their sICAM-1 concentrations in serum were detected with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) at the critical stage and at the beginning of convalescent stage in 36 cases of HIE neonates and 17 normal neonates. The data were analyzed with analysis of variance, Newman-Keuls q test. Results The concentrations of sICAM-l[(216.64?85.32)?g/L] at the critical stage of 36 cases HIE neonates were significantly higher than those [(6. 16?4.05) ?g/L ] of control group (q = 17. 42 P

The article has reviewed theShengyang-Yiweidecoction for the disease of digestive system, such as diarrhea-predominant pattern irritable bowel syndrome(D-IBS), chronic gastritis, diabetic gastric paralysis (DGP), ulcerative colitis (UC) and chronic diarrhea. Recently,Shengyang-Yiwei decoction was also used in some other diseases, such as diseases of urinary system, diseases of nervous system, orthopedic diseases, gynecological diseases and so on. This review aimed to provide reference and evidence for the clinic application ofShengyang-Yiwei decoction.

By means of comparing biomasses of biodegradation fungi,Fusarium sp.HG-P-01 for ?-cypermethrin,a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide used widely in China,in five different media,the Czapek-Dox medium was selected as the best medium for mycelia growth.Furthermore,an experiment of central composite rotatable design(CCRD) was used to optimize the content of nutrient components.The optimal composition of C,N and P in media for HG-P-01 were 20.94 g/L,1.82 g/L and 1.66 g/L,respec-tively,in which an expectant or real rate of ?-cypermethrin-degradation got to 96.34% or 93.78% by HPLC for a concentration of 50 mg/L after 24 h treatment.The predicted value in degradation rate model was con-sistent with that from HPLC method.