There is a close relationship between high trans fatty acids intake and occurrence of metabolic syndrome. Trans fatty acids intake may lead to metabolic disorders. It affects lipid level, induces visceral obesity and insulin resistance, triggers systemic inflammation, and significantly increases cardiometabolic risks. If the chain of trans fatty acids-metabolic syndrome-cardiovascular disease is understood, a new effective way to prevent metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular events may be provided.

Cardiovascular System ; drug effects ; Humans ; Trans Fatty Acids ; adverse effects

Objective To study the relationship of expression of central cortex glucocorticoid receptor (GR) at protein level with GR expression in the liver at protein level and with changes of serum cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) following severe closed traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mice. Methods Severe TBI was established in awake mice by using a BIM-Ⅲ biomechanical machine. At 0.5, 2, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours after TBI, the total cytosolic GR in the cortex and liver were detected with Western blotting. Levels of serum ACTH and cortisol were measured by ELISA technique and radio-immunological assay (RIA) respectively. Results The expression of GR both in the cortex and liver were obviously down-regulated at protein levels at 2-72 hours after TBI and increased slowly eight hours after injury. The GR in the liver showed no recovery at 72 hours after injury and that in the cortex was decreased continually at 24 hours after injury. Serum ACTH and cortisol levels were increased markedly compared with control group, when there were two different peaks in the observation curve.Conclusion There is glucocorticoid resistance both in the central and peripheral tissues after severe closed TBI in the awake mice, which changes in a time-dependent manner.

Literatures of study on acupoint functional effect of encephalic region with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are collected from the database of China National Knowledge Information (CNKI) and Wan fang database. Analysis and comments are made respectively from the status quo of studies on combination of single acupoint, two acupoints and multiple acupoints under both physiological and pathological conditions. The results show that the corresponding encephalic regions can be specifically activated by acupuncture. And different regions can be activated by different acupoints. However, studies on single acupoint, two acupoints and three acupoints are the major researches carried out at present. It is still lack of observation on effect of commonly-used combinations in clinic. Moreover, the reliability of the research results are also affected by disunity of operations protocol, reinforcing or reducing manipulations, intensity or depth of stimulation and duration of needling retention. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a unified and standard operation protocol to strictly control the bias factors which may affect the result of research in the future, and take patients as the study target as much as possible, so as to further explore the central effect mechanism.
Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Brain ; diagnostic imaging ; physiology ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Radiography

Background Recent studies have confirmed that sulforaphane (SFN) can activate multiple pathways,and promote the expression of the antioxidants in cells.Thioredoxin (Trx) plays an important role in maintaining the intracellular redox in the steady state.Objective This study was to investigate the effect and mechanism of SFN on Trx expression in bovine trabecular meshwork cells (BTMCs) cultured in vitro.Methods BTMCs were cultured in vitro and identified by morphological evaluation.The third generation of BTMCs were cultured in the medium with 0,10,20 and 30 μmol/L SFN for 30 minutes.Real-time PCR was applied to measure the expression of Trx mRNA in BTMCs.The BTMCs were randomly divided into normal control group,LY294002 group,U0126 group,SFN group,LY294002 +SFN group and U0126+SFN group.The expressions of Nrf2 protein and Trx protein in each group were measured by Western blot.Results The BTMCs was successfully cultured in vitro.The expressions of Trx mRNA were significantly different among the different concentrationss of SFN treatment (F=88.090,P＜0.01).The expressions of Trx protein and Nrf2 protein in the LY294002 +SFN group,U0126 +SFN group and SFN group were significantly higher than those in the normal control group (all at P ＜ 0.01).The expressions of Trx protein and Nrf2 protein in the LY294002+SFN group and U0126+SFN group were significantly higher than those in the SFN group (all at P＜0.01).Conelusions SFN can activate Nrf2 by phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/extracellular regulated protein kinases 1/2 (ERK1/2) signaling pathways,which can increase the expression level of Trx in BTMCs cultured in vitro.

Objective To study the selective tumoricidal effect of adenovirus (Ad)-mediated fusion gene system driven by kinase domain-containing (KDR) promoter on human stomach adenocarcinoma SCG7901 cells, and to observe its apoptosis induction effect. Methods Both the AdEasy-KDR-CDglyTK cells with KDR-expressing SCG7901 cells and non KDR-expressing HepG2 cells were reconstructed, and then they were treated with the pro-drugs 5-FC and/or GCV at different concentrations. The killing effects of the transfection on the cells were evaluated. Flow cytometry was employed to determine the cell cycle distribution, and Hooechest/PI stain and electron microscopy performed to observe the pathological changes of cells. Results The green fluorescent protein (GFP) was observed in 95% of the infected SCG7901 and HepG2 cells when the multiple of infection (MOI) of the Ads was 100. No significant difference on the growth feature was found among the transfected SCG7901, HepG2 and untransfected SCG7901 and HepG2 cells. The infected cells exhibited different sensitivities to the two pro-drugs: SCG7901 cells infected with rAd were highly sensitive to the pro-drugs, while the infected HepG2 cells were not (P

Purpose:To assess the effect of surgery combined with intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) in the treatment of rectal carcinoma.Methods:97 patients with rectal carcinoma underwent IORT with 10～30Gy by 9～16MeV elect ro n beam to the tumor bed and local lymphatic regions. Another 122 patients treate d by surgery alone served as control.Results:Surgery combined w ith IORT did not improve the 5-year survival rate and local recurrence rate in the stage Dukes A patients. IORT have increased the 3-year and the 5-year surv ival rates in the stage Dukes B patients to 19.9%?27.2%, decreased their local recurrence rates to 19%?20.2%(P

Aim To study the protective effect of caffeic acid on brain damage induced by chronic aluminum overload in rats.Methods The brain injury model of rats was established via intragastric administration of aluminum gluconate(element aluminum 200 mg?kg-1) once a day,5 d a week for 20 weeks.The 5-LO inhibitor caffeic acid(30 mg?kg-1,10 mg?kg-1) was intragastrically administered 1 h after aluminum administration.Pathomorphological changes of hippocampal neuron and the spatial learning and memory function were observed.The MAO-B,AChE and SOD activities,and the MDA contents of brain tissue in rats were measured.Results Chronic aluminum overload could markedly induce spatial learning and memory function impairment,and hippocampal neuronal injury in rats.The MAO-B and AChE activities,and the MDA content significantly increased,while SOD activities significantly decreased in chronic aluminum overload rats.The administration of the caffeic acid can significantly prevent rats from learning and memory function impairments and hippocampal neuronal death,and blunted the decrease of SOD activities and increased MDA contents induced by chronic aluminum overload in rats.Caffeic acid also obviously decreased the MAO-B activities and AChE activities of chronic aluminum overload rats.Conclusion Administration of caffeic acid can prevent the rat brain from damage induced by chronic aluminum overload.

OBJECTIVE To study the epidemiology and the sensitivity to antibiotics of bacteremia in intensive care unit,and provide the reference for the clinical antimicrobial agents usage. METHODS 465 cases of bacteremia from Jan 2005 to Dec 2007 in the First Affiliated Hospital,Medical College of Zhejiang University were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Totally 1465 strains of pathogens were isolated in three years,and the positive rates were 22.6%.From them 155 strains were fungi(10.6%),611 strains were Gram-positive bacteria(57.9%) and 392 strains were Gram-negative bacteria(37.1%).G + strains mainly included coagulase-negative Staphylococcus(CNS,43.0%) and Staphylococcus aureus(2.1%);the sensitive antibiotics were vancomycin and teicoplanin.G-strains mainly included Acinetobacter baumannii(8.6%);Stenotrophomonas maltophilia(6.6%);Pseudomonas(5.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae(5.3%),the sensitive antibiotics were cefoperazone/sulbactam. CONCLUSIONS The positive rates of blood culture are higher in intensive care unit than in others.We should pay more attention to CNS for its high infection rate.The sensitive antibiotics of G + are vancomycin and teicoplanin.The sensitive antibiotics of G-are cefoperazone/sulbactum.Antimicrobial therapy should be conducted according to susceptibility test.The candidemia caused by non-Candida albicans(NCA) is increaseing in recent 3 year.

The effects of different methods of psychological treatment in psychological rehabilitation of breast cancer patients were reviewed. Group psychotherapy is the best choice of breast cancer patients for psychological rehabilitation.