Defensins, a family of 3-4 KD cationic peptides, have been found recently in the cytoplasmicgranules of human, rabbit, guinea pig and rat polymorphonuclear neutrophils and rabbit alveolarmacrophages. The defence roles of these molecules, such as antimicrobial activity, viral inactiva-tion, tumor cell cytotoxicity, chemotactic and opsonic actions, etc. have been adequately studied.In order to investgate the role of Defensins in the neutrphil-mediated pathological process ofsome diseases, we isolated and purified human neutrophil Defensins. By using Sephadex G100and Bio-gel P10 gel filtration chromatography, the purified molecules were obtained. The puritywas identified by AU-PAGE,SDS-PAGE, and amino acid composition analysis. In vitro fugicidalactivity of the purified human neutrophil Defensins against Candida albicans was also examined.When incubated with 33 Mol concentration of human Defensins, more than 90% of Candida,al-bicans were killed in the methylene blue assay system.

Notch signal pathway is closely related to the organism's development and a variety of cancers. Current models available for screening modulators of Notch signal pathway all use mouse Notch protein as substrates and those models which use human Notch protein have not been reported. To make the screen results much more reliable, the authors cloned a truncated form of human Notch1 called N100, and built the screening models for the use of it instead of mouse Notch protein. The models included an in vitro screening model based on the purified gamma-secretase enzyme and a cell model using luciferase reporter system. The screening models then have been verified by the known modulators of Notch signal pathway and the IC50 values have been obtained. The verified models can be used to screen modulators of human Notch signaling pathway effectively and it can lay the foundation for finding new modulators of this kind effectively.
Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases ; Animals ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; methods ; Humans ; Luciferases ; Mice ; Receptors, Notch ; antagonists & inhibitors ; Signal Transduction

Antirheumatic Agents ; therapeutic use ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; drug therapy ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Etanercept ; Female ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G ; therapeutic use ; Male ; Methotrexate ; therapeutic use ; Phytotherapy ; Prednisone ; therapeutic use ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor ; therapeutic use

[Objective] This paper sums up professor Qi Xianghua's five psychological disorders of TCM scholar thought and clinical experience in diagnos-ing and treating insomnia. [Methods] By the pulse diagnosis, discern the five kings of psychological disorders, including irritable, anxiety, palpitation due to fright, depressed, and an medical record of professor Qi Xianghua is cited.[Results] The syndrome differentiation should be based on the five kings of psy-chological disorders.[Conclusions] Professor Qi Xianghua's five psychological disorders of TCM on treating insomnia are worth to extend and apply.

Case teaching is one of the important means to improve teaching effect in the process of pharmacology teaching. According to the teaching object, teaching objectives and requirements to build one useful teaching case library about pharmacology, which can be used and shared for a long time, is the premise of case teaching in pharmacology. According to the actual situation of case teach-ing in our university, this study researched and explored the background of case library building, the basic principles of case compilation, the establishment of team, the teacher-led and the student-oriented processes of case building, and the process of sorting and summarizing cases in the case library build-ing, which promotes the reform in the pharmacology case teaching, improves teaching quality, and also provides a reference for other universities or schools and disciplines on teaching case library building.

In recent years,the effects of ultrasound combined with microbubble contrast agent in treatment of tumors has been become a new research hot point,which may have great potential in tumor treatment.Low-power ultrasound radiating microbubble embolization angiogenesis therapeutics has been widely used in tumor treatment.Among them the following foundation research aspects can make great breakthrough,such as : target drug delivery,target gene therapy,increasing high-intensity focused ultrosound therapy efficiency etc.

Intestinal microflora is a general term for microbial communities that reside in the human intestine. In recent years, the research on diseases related to intestinal microbiota has developed rapidly. It is found that intestinal microbiota is closely related to digestive tract diseases, metabolic diseases, immune diseases, mental diseases, and lung diseases. Intestinal dysbacteriosis, mucosal barrier damaging and local immune dysfunction may be involved in a variety of disease processes. In addition, respiratory diseases such as asthma and pneumonia seriously affect human health. The intestinal microbiota is crucial in regulating immune response of lung to pathological mechanism of diseases including asthma, pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis. Therefore, it may be a new direction for the treatment of lung diseases by understanding intestinal microbiota in lung diseases, and identifying, describing and manipulating immunity network of pulmonary disease.

Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of trastuzumab combined with docetaxel chemotherapy in the treatment of stage Ⅲ breast cancer.Methods 150 cases of stage Ⅲ breast cancer patients from October 2013 to September 2015 in our hospital were selected and randomly divided into experimental group and control group,75 cases in each group,the control group were treated with cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin treatment,experimental group were treated with trastuzumab combined with docetaxel chemotherapy.To 21 days for a course of treatment,all patients were treated three courses.The levels of serum C reactive protein(C-reactive protein,CRP),the total effective rate and the incidence of adverse reactions in two groups before and after treatment were compared.Results After treatment,the level of serum CRP in the two groups decreased significantly,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05),the CRP levels of serum in experimental group was significantly lower than the control group,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05),the clinical total effective rate is higher,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05),the incidence rate of adverse reaction was lower,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion Trastuzumab combined with docetaxel chemotherapy can effectively reduce the inflammatory response in patients with stage Ⅲ breast cancer,improve clinical efficacy,and effectively reduce the adverse reactions of patients.

Objective To explore effect of clinical pathway in turnout gene therapy's health education,to promote turnout sufferer's acknowledge of gene therapy,thus to better cooperate the treatment.Methods To apply the clinical pathway to the in-patient health education,to explain and evaluate to the turnout gene therapy's sufferer.Resuits The sufferers'acknowledge of tumour gene therapy promoted and their cognition of the therapy's side effect promoted,so they can better regard gene therapy.Simultaneously the relationship of nurse-sufferer improve and the nurse's ability of health education improved.Conclusion Clinical pathway has good using value in the health educadon of promoting turnout gene therapy's sufferer's acknowledge.

BACKGROUND: The filling compactness can not be guaranteed due to apparatus retention in traditional lateral condensation.The warm gutter filling can achieve good results because of the easy changeable of gutta-percha in softening states.OBJECTIVE: To compare the warm gutta-percha fillings (Obtura Ⅱ and BeeFill 2 in1 filling) and cold lateral compacted gutta-percha with the bypassing root canal preparation in the intracanal separated instrument of oval canal.METHODS: Firstlythe 60 oval root canals of fiat mandibular central incisors were randomly divided into three groups, with 20 teeth in each group. After that, the root canal was filled with BeeFill 2 in1, Obtura Ⅱ condensation, and lateral condensation.The percentage of void at 5-mm to root tip versus cress section area was observed under a scanning electron microscope.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Under in vitro condition, the difference of percentage of void area versus root canal area between the Obtura Ⅱ condensation group and the lateral condensation group had significance (P=0.013), and the similar difference could be found between the BeeFill 2 in1 condensation group and the lateral condensation group (P=0.014), but the difference had no significance between the BeeFill 2 in1 condensation group and the Obtura Ⅱ condensation group (P=0.088).The results revealed that the root canal can be sealed accurately when establish hypass root next to the separated instrument and filled with BeeFill 2 in1 warm gutter filling.