Objective To investigante the effect on the count of intestinal mast cell in rats of botulinum toxin-A.Methods 40 Wistar rats of 8 weeks age were divided into four groups randomly and evenly.4 units,2 units,1 unit BTA was injected in every rat peritoneally in group A,B,C.D was control group.The samples of small intestine,ileocecal junction and distal colon was stained with toluidine blue improved staining method for mast cell at 4 weeks after injection.Results The counts of mast cell in all the samples in group A and B[small intestine (5.16?2.74) and (4.50?3.19);ileocecal junction (3.83?1.78) and (3.33?2.50);distal colon (7.00?2.53) and (7.50?3.29),respectively] were smaller than those of group D[(11.16?4.48),(8.50?3.04),(13.66?4.83),P

Objective To compare the clinical characteristics and therapeutic differences between the Chinese and American patients with Crohn′s disease. Methods 85 patients in the Chinese PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital) and 68 patients in the Cleveland Clinic Florida (CCF), USA with Crohn′s disease from 1985 to 2004 were studied retrospectively. The statistic data were analyzed with Chi-square tests. Results The ratio of male and female patients in 301 Hospital was 1.74∶1 and in CCF was 1∶1.43. The incidence of positive family history and extra intestinal manifestations in CCF were higher than in 301 Hospital (P

From November 1997 to August 2002, a total of 165 achalasia patients were treated with endoscopic injection of botulinum toxin A into the gastric cardia. The results showed that the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) pressure (41.76?22.00 vs 19.14?11.40 mmHg) and LES relax pressure (14.74?9.41 vs 8.51?7.85mmHg) were decreased significantly (both P

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics and the treatment of pancreatic encephalopathy (PE) and Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE). Method A retrospective study was conducted on 596 cases of acute pancreatitis. Results There were 93 cases of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP),among them encephalopathy was discovered in 10 patients (1.7%). All 6 patients of PE developed in SAP (6.5%);3 patients died (3% of SAP,50% of PE). Four cases of WE developed in AP (0.7%);2 patients died (0.3% of AP,50% of WE). Two patients of WE were treated with parenteral thiamine (vitamin B_ 1 ),and they survived. Conclusions PE occurred in early stage of SAP or recrudescence,while WE usually occurred in convalescent stage of SAP/AP. Long fasting,repeated vomiting,and total parenteral nutrition (TPN) without VitB_ 1 were main causes of VitB_ 1 deficiency,which might be the main causative factor in WE.

Objective To compare the effects of intrasphincteric injection of botulinum toxin or pneumatic dilation on the treatment of achalasia. Methods One hundred and eighteen patients with esopha-geal achalasia were randomly assigned into 2 groups. (1) Injection group; botulinum toxin 100iu was injected into the muscular layer around LES under endoscopies with each site 20iu. (2) Dilation group; Dilating the cardiac sphincter with Rigiflex dilation balloon under endoscopies. Esophageal manometry was performed before and one week after treatment. And clinical symptoms were observed. Results Before therapy the 3 kinetic parameters of both groups revealed no significant statistical difference, but after therapy in dilation group LESP decreased to (6.03?3.45) mm Hg, LESRP ( -0. 11 ?2. 34) mm Hg, LESRR increased to 92. 50% ? 13. 86% , with significant statistical difference as compared to the data before treatment. In injection group LESP decreased to (23. 16 ? 16. 17) mm Hg, LESRP and LESRR after therapy showed no statistical difference as compared to the corresponding data before therapy. The improvement of clinical symptoms in dilatation and injection groups graded as prominent effective, improved and failed were 45 ( 80. 36% ) , 11 (19.64% ) ,0 and 15(24.19% ) , 38(61.29% ) , 9( 14.52% ) respectively. Conclusion In the treatment of esophageal achalasia the short term effect of pneumatic dilatation is superior to intrasphincteric injection method, the improvement of clinical symptoms is closely related to the decrease of LESP and LESRP especially the later.

Data warehouse of Fuzhou General Hospital as the example, the basic conception and requirements of data warehouse are introduced in this paper. The design and construction of data warehouse are described from the aspects of subject determination, data preparation, model building, model evaluation and interpretation, and model application and consolidation. The main function of the data warehouse of Fuzhou General Hospital is also mentioned.

Objective: In recent years,botulinum toxin type A(BTX-A) has been investigated for the treatment of pain.This experiment was to investigate the antinociceptive effect of BTX-A intraperitoneal injection on visceral pain of rats and its effect on intestinal AChE and SP expression.Methods: 72 male adult Wistar rats were divided into four groups: BTX-A(2U,4U,and 6U) or vehicle(2ml) was injected intraperitoneally in B,C,D and A group.6 Rats of every group were challenged with acetic acid intraperitoneal injection after 1,4 and 8 weeks respectively.After abdominal writhing behaviors were monitored,the intestinal samples were immunohistochemical stained for AChE and SP examination.Results: At the end of one week,writhing test scores of rats in group C and D were decreased significantly compared with group A(P

BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease is complex and lack of specificity; meanwhile, it is related to diseased regions, areas,severity and complications in intestine. Otherwise, it is difficult to diagnose. The etiological factors are still unclear and radical therapy is lack recently. Therefore, clinical manifestations and therapeutic measures of Crohn' disease at home are different from those abroad.OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical characteristics and therapeutic differences between the Chinese and American patients with Crohn's disease.DESIGN: Retrospective case analysis.SETTING: Department of Digestion, General Hospital of Chinese PLA.PARTICIPANTS: A total of 85 Chinese patients with Crohn's disease were selected from General Hospital (the 301 Hospital) of Chinese PLA from 1985 to 2004; meanwhile, a total of 68 American patients with Corhn's disease were selected from Cleveland Clinic Florida (CCF) from 1985 to 2004. Diagnostic criteria were based on WHO standards and all patients were diagnosed according to endoscope, X-ray manifestations and pathological characteristics.METHODS: Clinical data, including age, sex, family history, external manifestations of intestine, diseased regions and characteristics, drug treatment and surgical therapy, were compared between Chinese and American patients.Otherwise, enumeration data were compared with Chi-square test.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Age, sex, family history, extra intestinal manifestations, diseased regions and characteristics, drug treatment and surgical therapy of Crohn's disease.RESULTS: ① General status and extra intestinal manifestations of intestine: The ratio of male and female patients in the 301 hospital was 1.74:1 and in CCF was 1:1.43. The incidences of positive family history and extra intestinal manifestations were 7% and 34%, which were higher in CCF than those in the 301 hospital (1%, 14%, x2=4.631 2, 8.315 0,P ＜ 0.05). ② Diseased regions and pathological characteristics: The terminal ileum was involved at most (69%) and no patients had perianal diseases in the 301 hospital and the main pathological characteristics were ulcer (66%) and obstruction (14%). Those were higher than those of patients in CCF (25%, 4%, x2=25.309 2, 4.024 6, P＜ 0.05).Compared with the 301 hospital, the patients in CCF had more pathological changes in colon and rectum and more perianal diseases and intra-abdominal fistulas were involved (51%). The incidences of perianal diseases and intra-abdominal fistulas were 51% and 9%, which were higher than those of patients in the 301 hospital (0, 6%, x2=38.429 0, 0.148 2, P ＜ 0.05). ③ Therapy: The main selections of medicine were sulfasalazine salicylazosulfapyridine (SASP, 54%), 5-aminosalicvlic acid (5-ASA, 19%) and metronidazole (21%) in 301 hospital, but in CCF, steroids (60%),azathioprine (34%) and infliximab (46%) were the main selections of medicine. Rates of surgical therapy were higher in CCF than those in the 301 hospital (96%, 49%, x2=36.145 9, P ＜ 0.01).CONCLUSION: There are significant differences in clinical characteristics and therapeutic measures between Chinese and American patients with Crohn's disease, which is one of the reasons for the two hospitals to take different treatments.

Objective:To investigate the impact of Notch signaling pathway on the migration of human hepatic carcinoma cells and the expression of E-cadherin and COX-2 in these cells.Methods:Cultured hepatic carcinoma cell lines (SMMC-7721,MHCC97H),and normal non tumor liver cell line (HL-7702) in vitro.Transwell cell was used to measure the cell's capacity of invasion and migration.Western blot was used to measure the expression level ofNotch1,E-cadherin,COX-2 protein.DAPT was used to block the Notch signaling pathway,and compared the ability of invasion and migration between hepatic carcinoma cell lines and normal non tumor liver cell line,and the change of expression level of E-cadherin and COX-2 protein in hepatic carcinoma cells.Results:The migration ability of SMMC-7721 cells and MHCC97H cells were higher than HL-7702 cells,the difference was statistically significant (P＜0.05);Compared to HL-7702 cells,the expression level of Notch1 and COX-2 in MHCC97H cells and SMMC-7721 cells significantly increased,the expression level of E-cadherin decreased significantly (P＜0.05);After DAPT treatment,the migration ability of SMMC-7721 cells,MHCC97H cells were weaker than the control group,the difference was statistically significant (P＜0.05);After DAPT treatment,the expression of COX-2 and Notch1 in SMMC-7721 and MHCC97H cells decreased significantly,while the expression of E-cadherin significantly increased (P＜0.05).Conclusion:Notch signaling pathway plays an important role in the process of liver cancer cell migration and invasion,and its mechanism is related to the expression of E-cadherin and COX-2.

This study investigated the tight junction (TJ) protein expression of the intestinal mucosa in a rat tail-suspension model under simulated weightlessness. Twenty-four Wistar rats were randomly divided into three groups: CON group (n=8), control; SUS-14 d group (n=8), tail-suspension for 14 days; SUS-21 d group (n=8), tail-suspension for 21 days. Occludin and Zonula Occluden-1 (ZO-1) expression levels were determined by immunohistochemical analysis and mRNA fluorescent quantitative PCR. Plasma levels of diamine oxidase (DAO) and d-lactate were determined using enzymatic spectrophotometry. Immunohistochemical results for occludin and ZO-1 showed disruption of the TJs in the intestinal mucosa in SUS-14 d and SUS-21 d groups. The expression levels of occludin and ZO-1 in SUS-21 d group were lower than those in SUS-14 d group, and significantly lower than those in CON group (Occldin: 0.86±0.02 vs 1.01±0.03 vs 1.63±0.03 and ZO-1: 0.82±0.01 vs 1.00±0.02 vs 1.55±0.01, P<0.01). Moreover, the levels of plasma DAO and d-lactate in SUS-21 d group were higher than those in SUS-14 d group, and significantly higher than those in CON group (DAO: 27.58±0.49 vs 20.74±0.49 vs 12.94±0.21 and d-lactate: 37.86±0.74 vs 28.26±1.01 vs 17.76±0.91, P<0.01). There were significant negative correlations between occludin or ZO-1 expression levels and DAO (r (2)=0.9014, r (2)=0.9355, P<0.01) or d-lactate levels (r (2)=0.8989, r (2)=0.9331, P<0.01). Occludin and Zo-1 were reduced in intestinal mucosa both in mRNA and protein levels in the rat tail-suspension model. The significant negative correlations between expression levels of TJs and plasma levels of DAO or d-lactate support the hypothesis that intestinal permeability is increased due to a decrease in TJ protein expression during tail-suspension from 14 days to 21 days.