OBJECTIVETo study the effect of different composition structures of total paeony glycoside (TPG) component and total phenolic acid of Ligusticum chuanxiong ( TLPA) on sodium dithionite (Na2S2O4) -induced human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) hypoxic injury. The baseline geometric proportion was used to design different components structure. And then the best structure of components by cell injury model were optimized.

METHODA HUVEC hypoxic injury model was established by being induced of Na2S2O4. Cell viability was measured by MTI colorimetric method, intracellular superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, malondialdehyde (MDA), lactate dehydrogenase( LDH) levels, nitric oxide (NO) contents were measured by kits. At last, Western blot analysis was used to detect the expression of two proteins, Bcl-2 and Bax.

RESULTCompared with the model group, TPG component, TLPA component at different composition structures can significantly increase SOD activity and decrease MDA, LDH, NO levels (P < 0.01, P < 0.05). Paeoniae Radix Rubra and Chuanxiong Rhizoma components can downregulate the expression of Bax protein and upregulate the expression of Bcl-2 protein. The ratio of Bcl-2 and Bax was significantly increased (P < 0 01, P < 0 05), it means that cell apoptosis was inhibited. The results indicate that among all the component composition structures, TPG and TLPA component at the proportion of 8: 2 had the best protection on hypoxic injury of endothelial cells.

CONCLUSIONTPG component and TLPA component can resist HUVEC hypoxia injury, the protective effect was the most evident under the structure of 8: 2, which may be due to the inhibition of intracellular lipid peroxidation and cell apoptosis.

Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; drug effects ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; analysis ; pharmacology ; Glycosides ; analysis ; pharmacology ; Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Humans ; Hydroxybenzoates ; analysis ; pharmacology ; Hypoxia ; drug therapy ; genetics ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; Malondialdehyde ; metabolism ; Oxygen ; metabolism ; Paeonia ; chemistry ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 ; genetics ; metabolism ; Rhizome ; chemistry

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Hematologic Tests ; Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis ; pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Portal Vein ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Severity of Illness Index ; Spleen ; blood supply ; pathology ; Splenic Vein ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color

OBJECTIVETo raise the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B.

METHODSThe correlation between the clinical features, biochemical tests (the serum total bilirubin-TBil, albumin-ALB, prothrobin activity-PTA, alanine aminotransferase-ALT, albumin/globulin-A/G, and r-globulin-r-G) and histopathological data in 202 patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) were studied.

RESULTSSome of presenting symptoms and signs were obviously associated with histological grade and stage. The grade of necroinflammatory activity of CHB was associated with the rising TBil, ALT, GGT and the declining ALB, A/G and PTA. The coincidence of clinical diagnosis and pathology was highest in mild chronic hepatitis, 63.8%~79.0%; then was in marked chronic hepatitis, 40.0%~62.5%. The coincidence was lowest in moderate chronic hepatitis, 10.0%~28.2%.

CONCLUSIONSGreat attention should be paid to the significance of symptoms and signs, meanwhile the standard of clinical diagnosis for moderate chronic hepatitis might be relaxed somewhat.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Alanine Transaminase ; blood ; Bilirubin ; blood ; Biomarkers ; analysis ; blood ; Clinical Medicine ; Female ; Hepatitis B, Chronic ; blood ; diagnosis ; pathology ; physiopathology ; Histological Techniques ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prothrombin ; analysis

OBJECTIVETo observe the efficacy of combination therapy of clomiphene and Chinese drugs for nourishing Shen and activating blood circulation (NSABC) in treating Stein-Leventhal syndrome caused sterility.

METHODSSixty-two patients with anovulation caused sterility were randomly divided into the treated group (n = 32) and the control group (n = 30). The treated grop was treated with the combination therapy and the control group treated by the same dosage of clomiphene alone.

RESULTSAfter treatment, when comparing with that before treatment, the endocrine hormones in the treated group improved significantly, showing a markedly decrease of androgen and luteotropic hormone, and increase of estrogen (P < 0.001). The periodic ovulation rate in the treated group reached 87%, the total pregnancy rate being 65.6%, with no occurrence of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) and luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome (LUFS), while in the control group, the periodic ovulation rate was 66%, the total pregnancy rate 36.6%, with LUFS occurred in 4 patients. Comparison of the therapeutic effects between the two groups showed significant difference (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe combination therapy of clomiphene and NSABC has a better therapeutic effect in treating Stein-Leventhal syndrome caused sterility than that of using clomiphene alone.

Adult ; Androgens ; blood ; Anovulation ; blood ; etiology ; Clomiphene ; therapeutic use ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Female ; Humans ; Infertility, Female ; blood ; drug therapy ; etiology ; Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome ; prevention & control ; Ovulation Induction ; Phytotherapy ; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome ; blood ; complications ; drug therapy ; Progestins ; blood

In the process of MPH graduates education in medical universities , there are three problems such as lack of initiative subjective of postgraduate, uneven level of tutors and monitoring defi-ciency of education. The main reasons are the low quality of MPH graduates, lack of quality consciousness for graduates education and graduates’ value tending to be utilitarian. Facing the problems, we suggest establishing guarantee mechanism for MPH graduate education quality, strengthening the tutors’ construc-tion and framing an eliminating system.

Objective To explore the effects of mouse nerve growth factor (mNGF) on expression of metallothionein I/II (MT I/II) and cytochrome C (Cyt C) in hippocampus of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced epileptic (EP) young rats. Methods Fif-ty SD rats aged 19 days were randomly divided into control group, EP group, mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups. Each group had 10 rats. Control group was injected with normal saline every day, and EP group was intraperitoneally injected with PTZ 40 mg/(kg·d) for 21 days in succession. The mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups were respectively intramuscularly injected with mNGF 500, 1 000, 2 000 AU/(kg·d) for 7 days in succession after PTZ injection. Changes of body weight, behav-ioral performance were recorded. The positive cells of MT I/II, Cyt C were examined by immunohistochemisty. The levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA in hippocampus were measured by real-time PCR. Results The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA in hippocampus had signiifcant differences among groups (F=15.98-105.76, P=0.000). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA of EP group were higher than those in control group, mNGF low, medium, and high dose groups (P<0.05). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells of mNGF low group were higher than those in mNGF high dose group (P<0.05). The levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA of mNGF low group were higher than those in mNGF medium and high dose groups (P<0.05). The number of MT I/II, Cyt C positive cells and the levels of MT I, Cyt C mRNA had no differences between mNGF medium and high dose groups (P>0.05). Conclusions As a stress protein, metallothionein is involved in the process of chronic epilepsy along with Cyt C. mNGF has neuroprotective effects on the hippocampus of epileptic rats in dose dependent manner.

Objective To study the biodistribution of 131 I-2'-deoxy-1-β-D-arabinofuranosy1-5-iodouracil (FIAU) in the rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model and the expression of thymidine kinase (TK) gene in brain tissue after gene-modified stem cell transplantation,and thus evaluate the possibility of further noninvasive monitoring of stem cell transplantation therapy in cerebral infarction.Methods Adenovirus recombinant Ad5-TK-intemal ribosome entry site-brain derived heurotrophic factor-enhanced green florecent protein(IRES-BDNF-EGFP) carrying TK-IRES-BDNF gene was prepared.Cerebral infarction model was established in rats by intraluminal middle cerebral artery occlusion with nylon monofilament.Gene modified bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were transplanted via intraparenchymal route,lateral ventricle,carotid artery and tail vein,respectively.The normal rats were used as controls.131 I- FAU was prepared to be the tracer for biodistribution study and the ％ ID/g was calculated based on measurement of the tissue radioactivity counts.The expression of TK gene was evaluated by quantitative real-time PCR (QR-PCR) and Western blot analysis.Data were analyzed with independent-samples t-test,one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test,and Pearson linear correlation test.Results The ％ ID/g of infarcted brain tissue in the intraparenchymal group was 0.124 ± 0.013,which was significantly higher than that in lateral ventricle group (0.052 ±0.004),carotid artery group (0.061 ±0.002),tail vein group (0.059 ±0.005) and control group (0.005 ±0.001) (t =2.913 - 5.652,all P＜0.05),while there were no statistically significant differences among the other route transplanted groups ( t =0.694 - 1.448,all P ＞ 0.05 ).The differences of ％ ID/g between the infarcted and contralateral sides of brain tissue in all transplanted groups were statistically significant (t =9.004 - 15.734,all P ＜ 0.05 ),while there was no statistically significant difference of this parameter between both sides of brain tissue in control group (t =1.511,P =0.182).The expression of TK gene in intraparenchymal group was significantly higher than other groups (t =7.482 -12.371,all P ＜0.05).The expression levels ofTK gene on QR-PCR showed a positive correlation with ％ID/g of the brain tissue ( r =0.971,P ＜ 0.001 ).Similarly,the ratio of TK/β-actin by the Western blot analysis correlated with the ％ ID/g ( r =0.899,P =0.002 ).Conclusion Intraparenchymal route may be the way of choice for cell transplantation therapy of cerebral infarction.If suitable radionuclide tracer is available,PET or SPECT may be potentially used for noninvasive monitoring of stem cell transplantation in cerebral infarction in vivo.

OBJECTIVEUsing regional assignment to forked method to study lumbar intervertebral disc hemiation (bugle, hernia, prolapse) dependablity and reason of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation and asymptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.

METHODSFrom March 2005 to October 2006, 120 patients of match condition from orthopaedics dept and rehabilitative dept of the Boai hospital of Longyan were studied. All patients were equally divided into two groups according to whether or not accompany with symptom of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. There was not statistical difference in sex, age, course of disease, segment of intervertebral disc between two groups. Sixty patients of symptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation were equally divided into three groups according to (bugle, hernia, prolapse) image on CT. Sixty patients of asymptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation were equally divided into three groups according to (bugle, hernia, prolapse) image on CT. The age was 20-59 years old with an average of 38.5 years. Using regional assignment to give a mark respectively for every group. The sagittal diameter index (SI), anterior diastema of flaval ligaments, the width of superior outlet of latero-crypt, anteroposterior diameter of dura sac were respectively measured by sliding caliper. CT value and protrusible areas were respectively evaluated by computer tomography. Adopting mean value to measure three times.

RESULTS(1) There were not statistical difference in SI, CT value, hernia areas, anteroposterior diameter of dura sac between two groups (symptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation and asymptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation). There were statistical difference in the width of superior outlet of latero-crypt, anterior diastema of flaval ligaments between two groups (symptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation and asymptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation). (2) There were statistical difference in protrusible type,protrusible segment between two groups (symptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation and asymptomatic lumbar intervertebral disc herniation).

CONCLUSIONThere were not necessary relationship between in protrusible size, location, type, compression degree and clinical symptom. This paper may support the mechanism of lumbar intervertebral dise herniation that associated with the following the three aspects: (1) spinal reserve capacity (SRC); (2) involved nerve roots escaping from herniated disc compression and its elastic lengthening function; (3) hypoxia symptosis and anti-ischemia injury compensation of involved nerve roots.

Adult ; Female ; Hernia ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc Displacement ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Lumbar Vertebrae ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prolapse ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Glucagon regulates glucolipid metabolism and body weight through binding to and activating glucagon receptor ( GCGR ), which is predominantly expressed in liver and pancreas. In the diabetic state, inappropriately increased glucagon secretion leads to elevated hepatic glucose output, while GCGR blockage restores blood glucose homeostasis. Various approaches including GCGR monoclonal antibodies ( mAbs ), antagonists, antisense oligonucleotides, and gene knockout can block GCGR signaling. It has shown that GCGR mAbs improve hyperglycemia in diabetic mice and humans without severe adverse effects, since they can specifically antagonize the action of glucagon. Therefore, GCGR signaling plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and GCGR mAbs represent innovative approaches in the management of diabetes.

Adult ; Carrier State ; blood ; immunology ; virology ; Female ; Hepatitis B Surface Antigens ; blood ; Humans ; Hypertension, Portal ; blood ; virology