Objective: To observe the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on endothelial function in menopausal women. Methods: A total of 30 menopausal women were treated with 2.5 mg of Tibolone (Livial) daily. At the same time, 30 women with natural menopause without any treatment served as the control group. Endothelium-dependent (EDD), endothelium-independent (NID) vasodilatation function, and estradiol (E2) were examined by the non-invasive high-resolution ultrasonography before the treatment and at 12th, 24th, 36th and 48th week of treatment, respectively. Results: After hormone treatment, E 2 increased significantly and EDD was improved significantly (P<0.05), and E2 was positively related with EDD (r=0.8092, P<0.001). No change of EDD was observed in the control group whereas a significant increase was observed in the treatment group. Conclusion: Endothelium-dependent vasodilatation dysfunction is prominent in menopausal women. Tibolone can help improve the condition.

Objective: To observe the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on endothelial function in menopausal women. Methods: A total of 30 menopausal women were treated with 2.5 mg of Tibolone (Livial) daily. At the same time, 30 women with natural menopause without any treatment served as the control group. Endothelium-dependent (EDD), endothelium-independent (NID) vasodilatation function, and estradiol (E2) were examined by the non-invasive high-resolution ultrasonography before the treatment and at 12th, 24th, 36th and 48th week of treatment, respectively. Results: After hormone treatment, E 2 increased significantly and EDD was improved significantly (P<0.05), and E2 was positively related with EDD (r=0.8092, P<0.001). No change of EDD was observed in the control group whereas a significant increase was observed in the treatment group. Conclusion: Endothelium-dependent vasodilatation dysfunction is prominent in menopausal women. Tibolone can help improve the condition.

Objective:The stimulative effects of clonidine on release of enkephalin and substance P from periaqueductal gray was studied to analyse the analgesic neurotransmitters related to alpha 2 adrenoceptor activation. Method: Twenty SD rats were allocated in pairs to receiving intraperitoneal clonidine 40?g in clonidine group or normal saline in control group. Immunohistochemical technique was used to measure the contents of enkephalin and substance P in slice of rat midbrain. Result:The immunoreaction of enkephalin from slice of rat midbrain was decreased significantly in clonidine group compared with control group(P

Primary open angle glaucoma ( POAG) is one of the eye diseases which can lead to blindness. The early symptom of POAG is unconspicuous, however, it will result in irreversible optic never damage and visual field defect with the disease progress. As an index for diagnosing and evaluating the therapeutic effect of POAG, intraocular pressure ( IOP ) is simple and important. Clinically, although some treated patients have a target IOP at clinic time, the optic never damage still get worse. Researches indicate that higher nocturnal IOP and 24h IOP variation and lower nocturnal ocular perfusion pressure ( OPP) may be the reasons for this phenomenon. The following essay will give an overview of POAG,IOP and OPP according to the relevant literatures so that we can have a better understanding.

Nano science, info science and life science are three major scientific fields in the 21st century. Because of the special physical and chemical character, the nanomaterials has been applied in many fields, and brings enormous progress to people's life. A new problem has turned to be the focus of people's attention, that is, whether nanomaterials may bring about harms to the organism and environment. This paper elaborates the background of biological safety of nanomaterials, the characteristic of the nanomaterials in environment, it emphases on the routes of exposure to the nanomaterials and its adverse affects to the organism and environment, finally shortage of the researches on this field was analyzed.

Objective To study the relationship between the retinal arteriosclerosis prevalence and related factors in in-service teachers from 3 universities. Methods The medical report of in-service teachers from 3 universities from July to October, 2012 were analyzed. Results and Conclusion 2680 cases were included, in which 520 cases (19.4%) were diagnosed as retinal arteriosclerosis. Retinal arteriosclerosis prevalence increased with age and cardiovascular risk factors. In the multi-factor logistic regression analysis, gender, age, hypertension,hyperlipidemia, impaired fasting glucose regulation, diabetes, hyperuricemia are independent risk factors for retinal arteriosclerosis

Animals ; Arginine ; pharmacology ; Blood Pressure ; drug effects ; Hypertension ; etiology ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; Male ; Oxidative Stress ; drug effects ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Adolescent ; Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic ; immunology ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; diagnosis ; immunology ; Male ; Nucleosomes ; immunology

OBJECTIVETo understand epidemiological features of pulmonary tuberculosis in urban Giangzhou and tendency of its registered cases.

METHODSRegistered data of pulmonary tuberculosis cases in urban Guangzhou during 1994 to 2000 were collected and analyzed comprehensively with method of descriptive epidemiology.

RESULTSIncidence of recently smear-positive registered rate (IRSPRR) increased from 16.68 per 100,000 in 1994 to 26.27 per 100,000 in 2000, with an average annual increase of 7.86%. The highest standardized IRSPRR was 33.70 per 100,000 in Fangcun District. Average IRSPRR was 30.50 per 100,000 in males and 11.60 per 100,000 in females. IRSPRR increased with age, with a peak of 61.22 per 100,000 at age over 70, double as that at age of 50 - 69. Recently smear-positive registered case of pulmonary tuberculosis was highest in unemployment population, reaching 2529, accounting for 35.12% of the total. And, smear-positive registered rate decreased from 8.37 per 100,000 to 5.34 per 100,000, with an average annual reduction of 6.96%. Mortality of pulmonary tuberculosis decreased from 6.84 per 100,000 to 4.41 per 100,000.

CONCLUSIONSIt is necessary to keep in minds that highly prevalent area was extended from tuberculous epidemics. It is possible that unemployment people would be fallen into high-risk population. Potential source of infection should be found out as soon as possible.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; China ; epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Registries ; statistics & numerical data ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; epidemiology

Animals ; Brain ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Calmodulin ; metabolism ; Female ; Lead ; toxicity ; Male ; Maternal Exposure ; Pregnancy ; Protein Kinase C ; metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar