Objective To prepare the PLGA nanoparticles( NPs) loading tetrandrine, investigate in vitro drug release behavior. Methods Tetrandrine loaded PLGA NPs were prepared by the emulsion solvent diffusion method and the preparation process was optimized by changing the stabilizer concentration and emulsion energy. The drug loading and entrapment efficiency were studied to evaluate the drug-loading property.The influence of particles size and pH value of release media on drug release behavior was investigated. Results Nanoparticles in the mean size of(203.4±2.8)nm had spherical shape and showed negative surface charge.Drug loading and entrapment efficiency was(2.17±0.10)% and(67.88±4.27)%, respectively.Tet-PLGA NPs retarded drug release in vitro, the cumulative release percentage was increased with the particle size increasing and it in acidic release medium showed a higher drug release amount. Conclusion Tetrandrine loaded PLGA nanoparticles have good entrapment efficiency, uniform particle size and can retard drug release in vitro.

Objective To explore the diagnosis and treatment of isolated dissection of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA).Methods From Feb 2006 to July 2010,15 patients with isolated SMA dissection were treated in our center,there were 13 males,2 females,the mean age was(53 ± 8) years (range 43 -63).Among them,1 was caused by trauma,14 had unknown etiology,and 9 cases had a history of hypertension.Diagnosis was made by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) in all cases.Management strategies inlcuded placement of self-expanding bare stent,medical treatment,and transperitoneal SMA fenestration.Results Endovascular stenting was attempted in 14 cases,with a success in 5 and a failure in 9 cases who were then given medical treatment with antiplatelet agents.One case with critical intestinal ischemia underwent open exploration and SMA fenestration.Blood vessel patency resumed.Follow-up with duplex and CT was accomplished in 13 cases,time ranging from 12 to 60 months (mean 28 ± 14mos).There was no recurrent abdominal pain or chronic intestinal ischemia developed during the follow-up.In medically treated patients,there was no aneurismal enlargement of SMA,while in the endovasculartreatmentgroup,allstentsremainedpatentthroughoutthefollow-up.Conclusions Endovascular treatment of isolated dissection of SMA appears to be feasible and effective,despite its relatively low technical success rate.For asymptomatic patients,medical treatment is the treatment of choice.In case of critical intestinal ischemia and with a suspected intestinal gangrene,emergency surgical exploration and fenestration should be performed.

Objective To evaluate the association of Smad2/3,Smad4 and P-Smad3 protein expressions in tissue with liver fibrosis in patients with chronic HBV infections.Methods Liver biopsy was performed to determine the liver fibrosis grades in 131 cases of chronic HBV infections.Immunohistochemistry and semiquantitative analysis were applied to detect the expression of Smad2/3,Smad4 and P-Smad3 proteins in liver tissues.Results Smad2/3,Smad4 and P-Smad3 were detected mainly in fibrous septum,portal areas,myofibroblasts,sinus and cytoplasm in the liver tissue.The expression of Smad2/3,Smad4 and P-Smad3 was increased with the development of fibrosis ( r =0.81,0.58and 0.68,P =0.000),and a strong positive correlation was observed among three proteins (r =0.75,0.87and 0.84,P =0.000).Conclusion The expression of Smad2/3,Smad4 and P-Smad3 is correlated with liver fibrosis in chronic HBV infection,which suggests that the up-regulation of Smad proteins may be involved in the progression of liver fibrosis.

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Purpose:To investigate the possible causes, diagnosis, and treatment of functional delayed gastric emptying (FDGE) after colonic operation.Methods:The clinical data of 6 patients with coon cancer from 1995 to 2000 were retrospectively analysed.Results:FDGE occurred in all of the 6 patients 4 to 6 days after surgery and the clinical symptoms disppeared gradually with medical therapy.Conclusions:The causes of FDGE are due to many factors such as mental stress, asleep, inutration, low albumine, ertent of lymphadectomy and the combined organ resection. An upper gastrointestional radiography is the main method of diagnosis of FDGE and gastrointestinal motility can return spontaneously after a long period of medical therapy with some prokinetic drugs. [

Objective Some blood donors were negative for the surface antigen but positive for the core antibody,leading to acute hepatitis.This study was to determine the seroprevalence of the hepatitis B core antibody in voluntary blood donors.Methods A total of 9100 donor samples were screened for hepatitis B surface antigen and Hepatitis B core antibody with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).The samples which were positive for the core antibody were subjected to real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the hepatitis B DNA detection.Results Among the 9100 donors,911 (10.01％) donors were positive for the core antibody.The hepatitis B surface antigen was positive in 199 (2.19％) donors.Among the 911 donors who were positive for the core antibody,820 (90.01％) donors were negative for the HB-sAg,and 35 donors were positive for hepatitis B DNA.Conclusions If a routine screening of the sera for the core antibody is not done,the HBV DNA viraemia may not be identified.The absence of the surface antigen in the blood of apparently healthy individuals may not be sufficient to ensure the lack of the circulating virus.It is necessary to attach importance to the blood donors screening HBsAg-negative population further serological testing,suspicious specimens should detect HBV DNA.

Objective To investigate the effect of nimodipine (ND) injecting into cisterna magna on the mitochondrial pathway in hippocampus in rabbit model of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Methods Eighteen New Zealand white rabbits were randomly allocated to Sham group, SAH group and ND group, six in each group. All the animals underwent operation under anaesthesia. One mL/kg autologous non-heparinized arterial blood was injected into cisterna magna in SAH group and ND group, and the same dosage of saline was injected into cisterna magna in Sham group. Thirty minutes after injection, 1 mg/kg nimodipine was injected into cisterna magna in ND group, and equal-volume of saline was injected into cisterna magna in Sham group and SAH group. All the animals were assessed for the grade of food intake and neurological impairment, and rats were killed 72 hours after SAH. Their hippocampus were processed for detecting the expressions of Bcl-2, Bax, Caspase-3 and Cyt-C mRNA by qRT-PCR. The protein expressions of Caspase-3 and Cyt-C were detected by Western blot assay. Results Compared with the Sham group, there were lower grade of food intake, varying degrees of neurological impairment and lower ratio of Bcl-2/Bax, while the mRNA levels of Bcl-2, Bax, Caspase-3 and Cyt-C and protein levels of Caspase-3 and Cyt-C showed elevated expressions in SAH group and ND group (P<0.05). Compared with SAH group, there were no significant differences in the score of food intake and neurological impairment in the ND group ( P>0.05). There were higher ratio of Bcl-2/Bax and expression levels of Bcl-2 mRNA and lower expression levels of Bax mRNA, Caspase-3 and Cyt-C mRNA and proteins in ND group than those in SAH group (P<0.05). Conclusion Nimodipine plays a protective role in inhibiting the activity of mitochondrial pathway in hippocampus after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of trastuzumab combined with vinorelbine therapy in the treatment of advanced breast cancer with human epithelial growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2) positive.Methods From April 2010 to April 2013,91 advanced breast cancer patients who failed in the paclitaxel therapy received trastuzumab plus vinorelbine (45 cases,vinorelbine group) or capecitabine (46 cases,capecitabine group).The treatment efficacy,toxic effects and 3-year survival rate in two groups were compared.Results The clinical benefit rate in two groups had no significant difference (P ＞ 0.05),but objective response rates in vinorelbine group was higher than that in capecitabine group:44.44％(20/45) vs.23.91％(11/46),and there was significant difference (P =0.039).The toxic effects in two groups had no significant difference (P ＞ 0.05).The 3-year survival rate in two groups had no significant difference (P =0.252).Conclusions In the treatment of HER-2 positive advanced breast cancer,trastuzumab plus vinorelbine or capecitabine shows no significant differences in adverse reaction or in 3-year survival rate.However,trastuzumab plus vinorelbine shows better objective response rate compared with trastuzumab plus capecitabine.

Objective To evaluate diagnostic procedures and clinical outcomes of vascular prosthetic and stent graft infection. Methods Clinical data of 15 cases suffering from vascular graft infection between 1985 and 2005 were retrospectively analyzed. Results The rate of vascular graft infection was 1. 14% among our series of 1316 cases of revascularizations. Vascular graft infection occurred within 4 months after graft implantation in 13 cases (86. 7% ). Graft infection developed after 4 months postoperatively in the other 2 cases ( 13. 3% ). Clinical manifestations included wound infection with vascular graft exposure, inguinal swelling or fistula, fever or sepsis, anastomotic hemorrhage, pulse loss of vascular graft or distal lower extremity and gangrene of distal lower extremity. Surgical treatment included en bloc removal of the infected graft and surrounding infected tissue, drainage and local irrigation with antibiotic solution, graft en bloc removal and primary amputation; Graft en bloc removal, drainage and revascularization with a saphenous vein or a new prosthetic graft; Aggressive debridement and local irrigation with antibiotic solution. Four patients died and the others recovered successfully. Conclusion The infection of a vascular graft is a rare complication in vascular surgery. Early diagnosis and aggressive surgical management can improve its prognosis.

Objective To observe ultramicro pathologic change of rabbit brain central damaged tissue and peripheral tissue after LOT, to evaluate the changed structure of blood brain barrier (BBB) of peripheral tissue in acute stage. Method Seventy Newzealand rabbits were randomly screened from Zhejiang University Animal Experiment Center. By stereotaxic technique, semiconductor surgica laser fibers were inserted into right frontal lobes and heat treated to randomly build LITT Group A (2 W, 600 s, n = 20) and LITT Group B (15 W, 100 s, n = 20) brain damaged models successfully. Other 15 nomal rabbits were randomly distributed as mannitol perfusion group and fake operation group. The ultramicro structures in central thermodamaged tissue were observed with transmission electro microscope after LITT 3 h,6 h,12 h,24 h. In peripheral tissue, ultramicro morphologic changes of brain vessels and BBB were evaluated. S100B protein in serum and BBB indexe were measured at different stages post LITT. Experimental data were treated as one-factor analysis of variance and q test. Results The brain damage center connected the tip of laser fiber and turn into thermodamage tissue. The main structure changes were cytoclasis, damnification of cell membrum, swelling of cell organelle such as mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulurn,disappearance of mitochondrion and sparseness of cytoplasm in local tissure. Heat energy conducted to damage peripheral tissue, some cells occured apoptosis in different stage. In acute stage after LITT, contracted capillary vessel, oncreted red cell, swell endothelium cell, broken base membrum, wide around clearance and destroyed aperture structure were identified. The levels of serum S100B and BBB indexe dramatically rised. The opening time of BBB in peripheral tissue was longer than mannital perfusion group. However at 24 h post LITT, they began to recover in Group A. The difference of serum S100B and BBB indexe between Group A and Group B has statistical significance ( P =0.0087). Conclusions With semiconductor laser heat treatment and stereotaxic techniqe, definite cells cytoclasis, cell membrance structures and chondriosome damage could be performed obviously in rabbit brain thermotherapy point. Apoptosis could be found in peripheral tissue, BBB could be opened in an acute stage. The opening time course of BBB was shortened in those LITT cases with small power. It shew us a new method to perform a safe and exact damage zone of brain for functional neurosurgery.