1.Biomechanical Analysis and Electromygraphy for Sternocleidomastoideus Contraction on Neck Flexion and Extention
Wei-qi MEI ; Hong-hua ZHU ; Zheng-tao ZHENG
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice 2012;18(12):1158-1159
Objective To investigate the effects of bilateral sternocleidomastoideus contraction on neck flexion and extension. Methods The electromyograms (EMG) signals of left sternocleidomastoideus of 24 healthy persons were recorded respectively when neck relaxation and flexion in the supine position, and neck relaxation and extension in the prone position. The biomechanical measurement and analysis were done using anatomical specimens and models. Results The sternocleidomastoideus registered electrical resting potential when neck relaxation in the supine position, and when neck relaxation and extension in the prone position; the motor unit action potential of sternocleidomastoideus raised the type of mixed phase when neck flexion in the supine position. Conclusion The contractions of bilateral sternocleidomastoideus can lead to the head and neck flexion while neck joints are not fixed, and the contractions of bilateral sternocleidomastoideus can lead to the head extension under the state of fixing neck joints below atlanto-occipital.
2.Continuous Improvement of Automated Pharmacies in Hospitals
Hua MEI ; Rongjie ZHENG ; Hongbin LIN ; Huiqin LU ; Xinchang ZHU
Modern Hospital 2017;17(5):682-685
Objective To adjust the layout of secondary medicine shelves in hospital pharmacy for outpatient services and optimize the varieties of automated equipment to improve working process and promote human-machine cooperation.Methods This article discussed the adjustment of the layout of secondary medicine shelves in hospital pharmacy for outpatient services and the optimization of varieties of automated equipment for storing by analyzing actual problems in automated system and clinical drug uses and the requirements of the automated equipment for drug storage respectively to improve working process and to adapt to the operation of outpatient pharmacy automated system.Results Dispensing efficiency of outpatient pharmacy automated system was improved, patients′ waiting time was significantly shortened, and the workload of pharmacists was decreased.Conclusion Optimization of hospital pharmacy drug delivery system and its operation can obviously improve work efficiency, shorten patients′ waiting time and reduce dispensing error, thus ensuring the safety of medication.
3.Effect of Magnesium Sulfate, Nifedipine Tablet Combined Salvia Injection on ET-1/NO, TXA2/PGI2 and Hemorheology of Preeclampsia Patients.
Xiao-ying ZHENG ; Jing YAO ; Jia-mei ZHU ; Mei LI ; Shu-qiong QIU ; Zhao-xia ZHU ; Ming ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2015;35(8):962-965
OBJECTIVETo observe the effect of magnesium sulfate, Nifedipine Tablet (NT) combined Salvia Injection (SI) on endothelin-1 (ET-1), nitric oxide (NO), thromboxane A2(TXA2), prostacyclin I2(PG2), and hemorheology of preeclampsia patients.
METHODSTotally 704 preeclampsia patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group and the control group, 352 cases in each group. All patients were treated with magnesium sulfate combined NT (on the first day: slow intravenous injection of magnesium sulfate 5 g + intravenous dripping of magnesium sulfate injection 10 g + oral administration of NT 30 mg; on the second and third day, intravenous dripping of magnesium sulfate injection 10 g + oral administration of NT 30 mg), while those in the treatment group were dripped with SI additionally at 20 mL per day for 3 consecutive days. Before and after treatment plasma levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1), nitric oxide (NO), TXA2, PGi2, and hemorheology indicators [such as high blood viscosity (HBV), low blood viscosity (LBV), plasma viscosity (PV), erythrocyte rigidity index (ERI), fibrinogen (FIB)] of two groups were detected.
RESULTSCompared with the same group before treatment, serum levels of ET-1, TXA2, HBV, LBV, PV, ERI, and FIB decreased in the two groups after treatment (P <0. 05), but levels of NO and PG2 increased (P <0. 05). Compared with the control group in the same period, levels of ET-1, TXA2, HBV, LBV, PV, ERI, and FIB decreased in the treatment group after treatment (P <0. 05), but levels of NO and PGI2 increased (P <0. 05).
CONCLUSIONMagnesium sulfate, NT combined SI could effectively regulate the balance of ET-1/NO and TXA2/PGI2, and improve hemorheology of preeclampsia patients.
Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Endothelin-1 ; metabolism ; Epoprostenol ; metabolism ; Female ; Hemorheology ; Humans ; Injections ; Magnesium Sulfate ; administration & dosage ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Nifedipine ; administration & dosage ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Nitric Oxide ; metabolism ; Pre-Eclampsia ; drug therapy ; Pregnancy ; Salvia ; Tablets ; Thromboxane A2 ; metabolism
5.Endophytic Fungi from Four Plant Species: Their Isolation and Antitumor Activity
Li MIAO ; Yuan-Yuan WANG ; Lei ZHU ; Zheng-Jun WU ; Ru-Mei ZHOU ;
Microbiology 1992;0(06):-
We isolated 61 endophyte isolates from the bark of 4 plants, Ginkgo biloba L, Albizzia julibrissin Durazz, Ailanthus sltissima (Mill) Swingle and Melia azedarach L. At the test concentration of 200 ?g/mL, higher than 50% of antitumor activities were demonstrated with crude extracts from 45.9% of fungal culture in MTT assay. Six isolates, YX5, YX17, YX36, KL1, CC1 and CC5, still showed higher cytotoxicity at 50 ?g/mL. No isolates from A. julibrissin had inhibitory effect towards EC109 at the test concentration of 50 ?g/mL; while about 15.8% of isolates from G. biloba were active. IC50 of the extract from the most active isolate YX5 against EC109, HONE1 and HeLa were 18.3 ?g/mL, 3.6 ?g/mL and 6.5 ?g/mL, respectively. Our results indicate that endophytes from G. biloba could be regarded as a potent source of antitumor drugs.
6.Comparison of blood pressure control in community hypertensive patients with different management methods
Mei ZHU ; Junling GAO ; Guiqin JIN ; Jianying ZHENG ; Qin HUANG ; Jueying CHEN ; Zhigang PAN
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2015;14(1):15-19
Objective To compare blood pressure control in community hypertensive patients with different management methods.Methods Two neighborhood committees in a community of Pudong were selected as study area using cluster sampling method.A total of 5 166 residents aged ≥35 y were screened for blood pressure; the subjects with high blood pressure and had antihypertensive medication in last 6 months were included,and patients with secondary hypertension was excluded.The patients who entered community hypertension management program and got medication from community were included in community group; those who did not enter in community management program and/or not get medication from community were included in non-community group.Self-designed questionnaire was used for investigation.The medication compliance,awareness of hypertension risk factors and high blood pressure control were compared between two groups.Results Among 5 166 residents 4 763 were surveyed for hypertension with a response rate of 92.2% and hypertension prevalence rate of 23.2% (1 105/4 763).Among 1 012 patients with drug treatment for more than 6 months,there were 878 cases in community (86.8%) and 134 cases (13.2%) in non-community group.There were no significant differences in gender,age,education,working condition between community group and non-community group (P > 0.05).44.3% (389/878) patients in community group had a history of high blood pressure > 10 y and that was 56.7% (76/134) in non-community group (P =0.011) ; 28.6% (251/878) patients in community group were at high risk for risk stratification and that in non-community group was 47.8% (64/134) (P <0.001).The awareness of hypertension risk factors in community group and non-community group was 83.9% and 95.5%,respectively (P < 0.001).The medication compliance and blood pressure control rates in two groups were 93.2 % and 84.3 % (P < 0.001),68.6% and 51.5 %,respectively (P < 0.001).Conclusion The outcomes of hypertension management in terms of medication compliance and blood pressure control in community group are better than those in non-community group.
7.Clinicopathologic analysis of 7 cases of primary cutaneous NK/T cell lymphoma, nasal type.
Dong-mei ZHOU ; Gang CHEN ; Xiong-wei ZHENG ; Chao LI ; Yin-zhu HE
Chinese Journal of Pathology 2011;40(11):772-773
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
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Cisplatin
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Dexamethasone
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Immunohistochemistry
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Lymphoma, Extranodal NK-T-Cell
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Lymphoma, Primary Cutaneous Anaplastic Large Cell
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Young Adult
8.Alteration of Plasma Neuropeptide Y in Patients with Essential Hypertension
Rumin ZHANG ; Mei GAO ; Zheng ZHANG ; Shifu WANG ; Li JIANG ; Huaiquan WANG ; Bin ZHU
Chinese Journal of Hypertension 2006;0(09):-
Objective To observe the change of plasma neuropeptide Y(NPY) concentration in patients with essential hypertension,and its relevance to target organ damage.Methods The plasma NPY concentration was determined by radioimmunoassay(RIA) in 115 patients with essential hypertension,including 45 patients with single target damage(left ventricle hypertrophy 21,stroke 13,nephropathy 11) and 19 patients with multiple target damage,with 30 normal as controls.Results 1) Plasma NPY concentration in patients with essential hypertension was significantly higher than normal controls(P0.05).Conclusion NPY may involve in the physiopathologic progress of essential hypertension and associate with the development of target organ damage.Evaluation of plasma NPY concentration may be valuable biomarker in estimation the severity of hypertension and target organ damage.
9.Targeting study of VEGFR-3 antibody loaded microbubble in vitro
Yang YANG ; Mei ZHU ; Zheng LIU ; Xiaofeng ZHANG ; Fei YAN ; Xiyan ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2015;(3):10-12,17
Objective To prepare targeted microbubbles which load anti-VEGFR-3 and observe the targeting effect in vitro.Methods Targeted microbubbles loaded VEGFR-3 antibody were prepared and the targeting effect in vitro were tested by direct and indirect methods.Direct method took off-line analysis by image analysis software IPP and statistical analysed with SPSS software package.Indirect method took direct observation the target binding effect after incubation and centrifugal sedimentation.Results Image software IPP results showed that the quantity of microbubbles in targeted-group was obviously more than ordinary group.The average microbubbles per field in targeted-group was (151 ±20).The average microbubbles per field in ordinary group was ( 12 ±4 ) microbubbles, the numbers of combined microbubbles between targeted-group and ordinary-group had significant differences ( t=19.19,P<0.01).The indirect method results showed that, compared with ordinary group, the microbubbles in targeted-group could combined with cell gradually.Conclusion Targeted microbubbles load anti-VEGFR-3 have a better contrast effect than common microbubbles.
10.Influence of community health education on quality of life and compliance in patients with coronary heart disease
Fang RUAN ; Rong LIANG ; Yan WANG ; Liguang ZHU ; Xiaochun ZENG ; Yunjuan LU ; Mei ZHENG ; Hong LI
Chinese Journal of cardiovascular Rehabilitation Medicine 2015;24(6):600-602,603
Objective:To explore influence of health education on quality of life and compliance in community pa‐tients with coronary heart disease (CHD) .Methods :A total of 83 community CHD patients were selected and ran‐domly divided into routine treatment group (n=38 ,received routine treatment of CHD ) and health education group (n=45 ,received CHD health education based on routine treatment ) .Score of Seattle angina questionnaire (SAQ) after intervention ,therapeutic compliance and incidence rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) with‐in six months were compared between two groups .Results:Compared with routine treatment group after interven‐tion ,there were significant rise in each item score and total score of SAQ [total score ,(54.3 ± 7.2) scores vs .(65.4 ± 7.5) scores] ,P<0.05 all;and therapeutic compliance also significantly rose (good rate ,52.6% vs .77.8% ) in health education group , P< 0.05. After six‐month follow‐up ,total incidence rate of MACE in health education group was significantly lower than that of routine treatment group (8.9% vs .26.3% ) , P< 0.05. Conclusion:Health education can significantly improve quality of life ,compliance and prognosis in community patients with cor‐onary heart disease ,which is worth clinical extending and use .