32 patients with old atlantoaxial dislocation with bulb-spinal cord compression were treated surgically from 1971 to 1989. Their diagnoses were confimed mainly by X-ray examination and measurement. The average time of follow-up after operation was 6 years. The rate fo excellence and good was 87.5% per cent. The causes of atlantoaxial dislocation, operative techniques involved and results are discussed. The authors think that the key to the increase of the therapeutic effects is early diagnosis and surgical treatment before the irreverisible changes of bulb-spinal cord compression occur.

Abstract Objective:To explore homology in mage-A family and find some common epitopes recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocyte(CTL) to oppose tumor escape.Methods:The amino acid sequence,differents open reading frame(ORF) and the known CTL epitope of themember of MAGE-A family,were analyzed using DNAstar software, and phylogenetic tree is also constructed. Results: MAGE-A family shareidentity nucleotide 57.6% - 98.0%,the phylogenetic tree showed that they are derived from a common ancestor at different time, as well asfound some CTL epitopes high similarity. Conclusion: MAGE-A family come from common an ancestor, but they bave many differences in thepattern of expression in tumor.This study can help to find the best CTL epitope vaccine to cure tumor.

Lymphocytes from thymus, spleen, macrophages and endothelial cells w.ere incubated with the fluorescent probe of 911-FITC and the colouring method with flow cytometry and fluorescent microscope was reviewed in this paper. The results indicated that 911-FITC could specifically bind to lymphocytes, macrophages and endothelial cells. These findings suggested that 911 could play a immunomodulatory effect by direct combination with immu-nocytes.

Objective To contrast the effects of anti-hypoxia and immunoregulation of two kinds of craft prepared Liuwei Dihuang Oral Liquid. Method Mice were divided randomly into 7 groups:control group and two preparation craft Liuwei Dihuang Oral Liquid (6, 3, 1.5 g/kg). The animals were intragastric administration with drugs for 14 d. The dead time, carbon clearance rate and index of thymus and spleen in each groups were observed and measured. Results Compared with the control group, two craft prepared Liuwei Dihuang Oral Liquid significantly prolonged survival time and increased mono-macrophage capability of carbon clearance (P

More and more interest has been put on the investigations of saccharides recent years. Saccharides have a vast number of bioactivities and the immunomodulating effect of saccharides is one of the important mechanisms via which saccharides exert their bioactivities. Saccharides exert their bioactivities mainly by interacting with all kinds of saccharide receptors on cells, followed by a series of signal transduction process. In the present paper, numerous saccharide receptors and the characters of the mutual interaction between saccharides and their receptors are summarized.

This study was aimed to investigate effect on the expression of cell inflammatory factor IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-6 of modified San-Jia-San (SJS) decoction on cultured hippocampal neurons injury induced by β-amyloid 25-35 protein (Aβ25-35). Primary cultured hippocampal neurons were divided into the normal group, model group, huperzine A group, low-dose SJS group, middle-dose SJS group, and high-dose SJS group. After selective culture for 7~10 days and the absorption of culture fluid, the blank culture fluid, normal cerebrospinal fluid (normal saline group), huperzine A cerebrospinal fluid, and low-, middle- and high-dose SJS cerebrospinal fluid were added, respectively. The culture fluid was added up to an equivalent medium. The incubation was 2 h under the temperature of 37℃. Ex-cept the normal group, Aβ25-35 dealt with aging (the final concentration was 5 μmol/L) was added to other groups to establish AD cell model. An equivalent amount of culture fluid was added to the normal group. After 24 h of incuba-tion, the cell culture supernatant was collected. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used in the content detection of IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-6. The results showed that modified SJS decoction can decrease the content of IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-6 in the cell culture supernatant. It was concluded that the modified SJS decoction can effectively inhibit the expression of cell inflammatory factor IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-6. It had certain anti-inflammatory effect to protect hippocampal neurons.

BACKGROUND: Studies have found that chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans degradation with chondroitinase canpromote the migration of Müller cells on the retina, but whether it could promote the migration of adipose-derivedmesenchymal stem cells in retinal degeneration rats is unclear.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans degradation with chondroitinase on adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell treatment for retinal degeneration in rats.METHODS: Human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and cultured. A retinal degeneration ratmodel was established followed by administration of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells+chondroitinase into thesubretinal space. The migration of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells and retinal cell apoptosis in rats aftertransplantation were observed.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells could be successfully cultured.The labeling rate of BrdU to the human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells was more than 90.0%. At 7 days aftermodeling, the outer nuclear layer of the retina was collapsed, and a large amount of photoreceptor cells were dissected.The outer nuclear layer was attached to the Bruch''s membrane, and the retina was arched. The central retina andperipheral retina were damaged. In normal rats, the retinal layers were clear, and the photoreceptor cells arrangedregularly; and the retinal pigment epithelium was complete. The migration rate of adipose-derived mesenchymal stemcells in adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells+chondroitinase group was higher than that in adipose-derivedmesenchymal stem cells group (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the apoptotic rate of retinal cellsbetween the two groups (P > 0.05). These experimental findings show that chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans degradationwith chondroitinase can enhance the migration ability of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells on the retina.

This study is to investigate the effect of baicalin (BL) against oxidative injury stress of SH-SY5Y cells induced by H2O2 and the possible mechanism. SH-SY5Y cells were pre-incubated with baicalin (25, 50, and 100 micromol x L(-1)) for 12 h prior to exposure to H2O2 (150 micromol x L(-1)) for 24 h. The viability of SH-SY5Y cells was measured by MTT assay. The contents of LDH and NO were determined. The percentage of apoptotic cells was assessed by flow cytometry (FCM). The content of Caspase-3 was tested by immunofluorescence histochemical method. BL at 50 and 100 micromol x L(-1) separately increased the cell viability and up-regulated SIRT1, reduced the contents of LDH, NO, Caspase-3 and the apoptotic percentage of SH-SY5Y cells. This study results suggest that baicalin could inhibit the H2O2-induced neuronal apoptosis. The further mechanism studies show that baicalin inhibit apoptosis via reducing Caspase-3 expression and up-regulating SIRT1.

Objective To study the effect of powder of Chinese Angelica and Peony (DSS) on hippocampus proteome of senescence accelerated mice (SAM). Methods Thirty female mice aged 12 months were used in our study, including 10 SAM-resistance/1 (SAMR1) and 20 SAM-prone/8 (SAMP8). The difference of hippocampus proteome among SAMP8, SAMR1, SAMP8 treated with DSS intragastrically at dose of 3.2 g/kg once a day for 30 d (SAMP8+DSS), was analyzed by two dimensional polyacryalmide gel electrophoresis (2DE). Results Compared with SAMR1, the expressions of 13 proteins in hippocampus of SAMP8 were up-regulated and that of 9 proteins were down-regulated significantly. Compared with SAMP8, the expressions of 21 proteins in hippocampus of SAMP8+DSS were up-regulated and that of 14 proteins were down-regulated significantly. Using MALDI-TOF-MS, the proteins with significant changes in expressions were identified by peptide fingerprinting map and the results were searched in MASCOT database, and sorted into 5 function groups including mitochondria-associated proteins, energy metabolism proteins, synaptic plasticity formation proteins, cytoskeletal proteins and others proteins. Conclusion The effects of DSS on hippocampus proteome of senescence accelerated mice were probably exerted via multi-target and multi-pathway mechanism.

ObjectiveTo explore the effects of Shenlongjiannao capsule on the learning and memory of the cerebral ischaemia model rat as well as reactive nitrogen intermediates in the cerebral cortex.MethodsThe cerebral ischaemia animal model was established by two-vessel occlusion. 50 rats were randomly divided into 5 groups: control group with sham operation, model group, positive control group with pisacetam, Shenlongjiannao capsule groups (low and high dosage). After four weeks, the learning and memory function was tested with Morris water maze, and the contents of nitric oxide(NO) and inducible nitric-oxide synthsae(iNOS) in cerebral cortex were measured.ResultsAfter treatment, the learning and memory ability improved significently and the contents of NO and iNOS in cerebral cortex decreased in Shenlongjiannao capsule groups.ConclusionShenlonjiannao capsule can improve the learning and memory of rats with cerebral ischaemia by lowering the activity of NO and iNOS in the cerebral cortex.