BACKGROUND: To enhance peripheral nerve regeneration, the focus on the development of nerve conduits has been shifted from conventional conduits without internal structure to novel conduits with internal stuucture.Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of nerve conduits is necessary.OBJECTIVE: To review the application of tissue-engineered nerve conduits with internal structure in nerve regeneration.METHODS: A computer-based research of CNKI, WanFang, SinoMed and PubMed databases was performed to retrieve relevant literatures about the tissue-engineered nerve conduits with internal structure published from January 2009 to December 2015, using the keywords of nerve conduit/conduits/scaffolds/scaffold/channel/channels, internal scaffolds/scaffold, nerve regeneration/repair, hydrogel, acellularized/decellularized nerve in Chinese and English,respectively. Forty-seven eligible literatures were included for overview.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The novel nerve conduits with internal structure have many advantages over conventional conduits without internal structure, which can support, guide, promote peripheral nerve regeneration and functional recovery, especially, when modified with seed cells, neurotrophic factors or extracellular matrix, can achieve more effective results comparable to autologous nerve grafts.

Objective]To summarize professor SHEN Hong’s clinical experience in treating ulcerative colitis with enema prescription.[Method] By following the teacher clinic and sorting out the related cases, the author summarizes professor SHEN Hong’s academic experience of treatment of ulcerative colitis with enema prescription, and for proven cases. [Result]On the base of disease stage, Professor SHEN Hong uses the advantages of external therapy of Chinese medicine, and combines the syndrome differentiation and disease differentiation by the reference to the treatment of abscess,carbuncle. On the acute stage, he uses the elimination method to relieve heat and toxic material, cool blood and eliminate carbuncle. On the remission stage, he uses reinforcing method to support sore and drainage of pus and heal wound and promote tissue regeneration in case of recrudescence. Meantime, he focuses on the different locations of lesions by reasonable enema ways. The medication he uses is concise and the prescription changes flexibly with permitted addition and subtraction. The clinical curative effect is satisfactory. [Conclusion] Professor SHEN Hong’s experience is effective and worthy of inheritance and promotion.

Objective To observe the influences of infusion with normal saline (NS), Ringer solution and hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 sodium chloride on blood coagulation/fibrinolysis in rabbits with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by two-hit of oleic acid (OA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS).Methods According to random number table, 40 healthy adult male rabbits were divided into sham operation, model, NS, Ringer and colloid groups (8 rabbits in each group). The ARDS model was replicated by sequential injection of OA (0.1 mL/kg) and LPS (500μg/kg) into the ear marginal vein of rabbit. Immediately after injection of LPS, the NS, Ringer and colloid groups were treated by intravenous infusion of NS, lactate Ringer solution and hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 sodium chloride, respectively at a speed of 7 mL·kg-1·h-1 for 210 minutes. There was no liquid infusion in model and sham operation groups. At 30 minutes and 210 minutes after LPS injection, the arterial blood was collected and the partial pressure of arterial blood oxygen (PaO2) was measured and the oxygenation index (PaO2/FiO2) was calculated. At 5, 30, 120 and 210 minutes after LPS injection, venous blood was collected, and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), prothrombin time (PT), fibrinogen (Fib), antithrombase Ⅲ (AT-Ⅲ), serum procollagen peptide Ⅲ (PⅢP), tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) were measured, respectively. After the rabbits were killed by bloodletting at the end of experiment, the lung tissues were obtained, collagen Ⅰ and collagen Ⅲ in lung tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry staining, lung wet/dry weight ratio (W/D) and pathologic score of lung tissues were calculated.Results Compared with sham operation group, at 30 minutes and 210 minutes in model group the levels of PaO2/FiO2 were significantly decreased, and the lung W/D ratios as well as pathologic scores of pulmonary tissues were increased. In model group, the APTT began from 30 minutes while the PT began from 120 minutes to gradually prolong, and the value of Fib was progressively decreased; with a tendency of mild decline, the levels of AT-Ⅲ at all time-points were lower in model group than those in sham operation group (allP < 0.05). The levels of t-PA and PⅢP at all time-points were significantly higher, and the expression levels of collagen Ⅰ and collagen Ⅲ in model group were obviously more strengthened compared to those in sham operation group. Among the three infusion groups, the improvement degrees of PaO2/FiO2, lung W/D ratio and pathologic score of pulmonary tissues were the highest in NS group, lowest in colloid group, and no significant changes in Ringer group. APTT in NS group except 120 minutes was longer, the APTTs at 30 minutes and 210 minutes were shorter in NS group than those in model group (s: 30 minutes: 52.26±18.65 vs. 76.22±16.64, 120 minutes: 90.60±10.66 vs. 83.01±15.88, 210 minutes: 70.44±17.80 vs. 77.04±13.32, allP < 0.05); the prolongation of amplitudes of APTT in Ringer and colloid groups were greater than that in model group, particularly in colloid group, the greatest; the PT in three infusion groups were gradually prolonged, and at 120 minutes and 210 minutes were all longer than that in model group (allP < 0.05). The levels of Fib in those treatment groups were all gradually decreased, the amplitude descent of Fib in NS group was the smallest and that in colloid group, the biggest; the levels of AT-Ⅲ in three infusion groups and model group had similar decline tendency, the descending amplitude being the most significant in colloid group. The levels of t-PA at all time-points in the three treatment groups were lower than those in model group (allP < 0.05). The levels of PⅢP in serum at all time-points were lower in Ringer and NS groups than those in model group (μg/L: Ringer group: 5 minutes: 250.60±36.53 vs. 285.77±65.55, 30 minutes: 248.73±44.41 vs. 302.16±37.73, 120 minutes: 249.14±43.16 vs. 296.09±38.64, 210 minutes: 246.62±44.72 vs. 295.45±42.75; NS group: 5 minutes: 261.89±50.74 vs. 285.77±65.55, 30 minutes: 247.71±50.40 vs. 302.16±37.73, 120 minutes: 246.58±42.27 vs. 296.09±38.64, 210 minutes: 222.73±18.51 vs. 295.45±42.75, allP < 0.05), but there were no statistically significant differences between the colloid group and model group. The expression levels of collagen Ⅰ and collagen Ⅲ in all liquid infusion groups were lower than those in model group (P < 0.05 orP < 0.01), whereas in colloid group were higher than those in NS and Ringer groups (allP < 0.05).Conclusions The infusion of NS, lactate Ringer solution and hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 sodium chloride have different influences on the blood coagulation function in ARDS rabbits, among which the effect of NS is the least, while of the hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 sodium chloride appears the greatest. The infusion of these three liquids can all decrease the pulmonary fibrous tissue in rabbits with ARDS, and in the mean time can alleviate the lung tissue pathological lesion for a certain degree, the effect of NS and Ringer solution being greater than that of hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 sodium chloride.

Objective To assess radiation dose and image quality of chest CT examinations that acquired with Flash scan technique combined with iterative reconstruction.Methods Thirty continuous patients required no-contrast chest CT with Flash scan mode and contrast enhanced chest CT with conventional CT scan mode.For each examination,the images were reconstructed by filter back projection (FBP) and sinogram affirmed iterative reconstruction (SAFIRE).The volume CT dose index (CTDIvol),dose-length product (DLP),and effective dose (ED) were estimated.The image noise,signal to noise ratio (SNR),overall subjective image quality,and respiratory motion artifacts were evaluated blindly by two radiologists.Results For Flash scan and conventional scan,SAFIRE reduced the image noise 35％ and 16％,respectively;and increased SNR 21.9％ and 25％ compared to FBP,respectively (P ＜0.05).There was significant lower subjective image scores acquired by SAFIRE than by FBP.Flash scan reduced the CTDIvol (mGy) 40.9％,DLP 32.1％,and ED 26.9％ compared to conventional CT scan mode.The motion artifact scores were reduced significantly with Flash scan mode compared to conventional scan mode.Conclusions Flash scan technique of the chest can obtain image with minimum respiratory motion artifact due to dramatically increased scan speed,and when SAFIRE was combined with,it reduces significantly radiation dose and image noise.

Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture plus Chinese medication in treating postcholecystectomy syndrome (PCS).Method A hundred PCS patients were randomized into a treatment group of 52 cases and a control group of 48 cases. The treatment group was intervened by acupuncture at the back-Shu points and lower He-sea points plus Chinese medication, while the control group was by medication. The clinical efficacies were compared between the two groups.Result The total effective rate was 98.1% in the treatment group versus 85.4% in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion Acupuncture plus Chinese medication is an effective method in treating PCS.

Breast cancer ranks among the most prevalent malignancies in women. Specific aspects of both breast cancer cells and the bone microenvironment contribute to the development of bone metastases. Breast cancers express chemokine receptors, integrins, cadherins, and bone-resorbing and bone-forming factors that contribute to the successful and preferential spread of tumor from breast to bone. Bone is rich in growth factors and cell types that make it a favorable environment for breast cancer cell growth. Once breast cancer cells enter the bone, breast cancer cells can secrete factors that act on bone cells and other cells within the bone, causing them to secrete factors that act on adjacent cancer cells. The steps in the metastatic cascade and the vicious cycle within bone offer unique targets for adjuvant treatments to treat and cure bone metastasis.

Objective To observe the clinical effect of GSS pedicle screw system and interbody autogenous iliac bone graft fusion in the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis.Methods Twenty-one lumbar spondylolisthesis patients was treated by GSS pedicle screw system and interbody autogenous iliac bone graft fusion.Followed up and analyzed the clinical therapeutic efficacy,rate of detachment and reduction,interbody fusion and intervertebral height change.Results Postoperative rate of detachment and reduction had significant difference compared with preoperative [(6.41 ± 6.90)％ vs.(36.75 ± 7.11)％,(86.75 ± 24.40)％ vs.0](q =19.60,19.72,P＜ 0.01).Final follow-up rate of detachment and reduction had no significant difference compared with postoperative (q =0.70,0.96,P ＞ 0.05).Postoperative intervertebral height had significant difference compared with preoperative[L4-5:(7.6 ± 1.3) mm vs.(5.2 ± 0.8) mm; L5S1:(8.4 ± 2.2) mm vs.(6.5 ± 1.5) mm] (q =6.64,3.83,P ＜ 0.01).Final follow-up intervertebral height had no significant difference compared with postoperative (q =2.48,2.42,P ＞ 0.05).All patients were bony fusion,rate of fusion was 100.00％(21/21).In accordance with the Japan institute of orthopaedics (JOA) low back pain surgery standards,the scores of 6 months,1 year,2 years significant increased compared with preoperative [(20.50 ± 3.83),(23.58 ± 3.60),(24.91 ± 2.90) scores vs.(9.67 ± 4.45) scores] (F =71.92,q =13.28,17.06,18.69,P ＜ 0.01).No complication of internal fixation for fracture or looseness.Conclusions The clinical effect of GSS pedicle screw system and interbody autogenous iliac bone graft fusion in the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis is good.It has advantages of bone graft area and bone mass,rate of fusion.It is one of better methods in the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis.

ABCG2 is a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family.The overexpression of ABCG2 is identified as one of the important mechanisms that limiting cellular accumulation of various compounds.With regard to its broad substrate spectrum including various anticancer drugs and environmental carcinogens,the function of ABCG2 is associated with multidrug resistance (MDR) and tumor development.ABCG2 as a target site to reverse MDR has been widely concered.

Objective　The conditional hierarchical clustering for 1-dimensional(1-d) ordinal data was discussed.Methods　Because the individuals are ordered in 1-d,the conditional matrix was constructed with all elements in the second-diagonal are 1 and the others are 0.Distance matrix of individuals defined by some particular definition.Then the conditional-distance matrix was made for the hierarchical clustering by connecting the conditional matrix and distance matrix.This method was called 1-dimentsional conditional hierarchical clustering.An example was illustrated by this method and a Monte Carol study showed that method was feasible and robust.Results　Compared with the least-squares partition,this method is easy to understand,easy to practice and easy to compute.It also can give us a stable result.Conclusion　Because of the austere theory,the simple thought and the convenient application,it's a good method for the 1-d ordinal data.

Objective To introduce direct digital dual energy subtraction radiography and explore it's clinical application.Methods The cases acquired separately by direct digital conventional radiography and direct digital dual energy subtraction radiography were compared.Results The detection rate,sensitivity and accuracy of calcifications in lungs,pulmonary nodules,stones in urinary system,calcifications of coronary artery and cardiovalvular were improved by using direct digital dual energy subtraction radiography.Conclusion Direct digital dual energy subtraction radiography is more valuable in clinical applications.