The anatomy of the trunks and branches of anterior inferior cerebellar artery(AICA) was studied and its surgical importance especially in the operation for acoustic neuroma(AN), was discussed.15 fresh adult cadavers were perfused with ABS via internal carotid artery and vertebral artery and then dissected under operation microscope in detail. AICA was constantly present in all specimens. The incidence of labyrinthine artery(LA), recurrent perforating artery(RPA), subarcuate artery(SA),and cerebellar subarcuate artery (Cer.SA) was 100%,86.7%,80% and 16.7%, respectively. 97.1% of LA entering the internal auditory meatus (IAM) were located under the facial vestibulocochlear nerve complex, 56.7% of RPA passed between it ,and 75% of SA was located posteroinferiorly to it .60.7% of the loop of AICA was situated close to the IAM, and 53.6% of them lay between the Ⅶ and Ⅷ cranial nerves. These data may be helpful in microneurosurgical operation and radiography.

Objective To evaluate the neuroprotective benefits of histone deacetylases (HDAC)inhibitor MS-275 in rats with moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI).Methods Sixty-eight adult male SD rats were assigned to sham injury + placebo treatment (control group),TBI + placebo treatment (injury group),TBI + MS-275 (15 mg/kg) treatment (treatment group Ⅰ) and TBI + MS-275 (45 mg/kg)treatment (treatment group Ⅱ) according to the random number table.An experimental model of moderate TBI in the rat was induced using a lateral fluid percussion device.MS-275 was dissolved in DMSO and administered (15 and 45 mg/kg) intraperitoneally in seven consecutive days(once a day).The first administration was done in 30 minutes postinjury.Alteration in body weight of rats in each group was recorded after injury.Spatial learning and memory retention in rats was assessed using the Morris Water Maze in days 10-14 after TBI.Brain tissues were sectioned to measure acetyl-histone H3 and neuronal survivals in the hippocampus CA2-3 region using immunohistochemistry and cresyl-violet staining techniques.Results TBI rats showed significant body weight loss in 3 days postinjury as compared with the controls (P ＜0.05) and then gradually gained the body weight in 4-5 days postinjury.No significant difference in actual body weight loss after injury was found among injury group and treatment groups (F =0.149,P ＞0.05).Behavioral result revealed that the animals in treatment groups had significant improvement in cognitive performance as compared with injury group (P ＜ 0.01).Immunohistochemical results presented a markedly increased level of acetyl-histone H3 in both treatment groups,with no significant difference as compared with control group and a trend of increase in the survived neurons in the CA2-3 hippocampus in 14 days postinjury (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions MS-275 achieves visible improvement of acetyl-histone H3 level and cognitive performance in the acute phase of TBI.Simultaneously,this treatment has an ameliorative effect on pathological changes associated with TBI as well and provides a neuroprotective effect against TBI.

A middle-aged male patient initially appeared scattered erythema with pruritus all over the body without obvious cause. According to the skin manifestations of the patient, combined with pathological diagnosis, direct immunofluorescence examination, and different serum autoantibody spectrum, the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of the patient was made by clinicians. The diagnosis of dermatitis herpetiformis was confirmed by the use of autoantibodies in the absence of any apparent history of pasta discomfort. With targeted treatment, the patient′s symptoms and laboratory indicators improved significantly.

The Omicron family of SARS-CoV-2 variants are currently driving the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we analyzed the clinical laboratory test results of 9911 Omicron BA.2.2 sublineages-infected symptomatic patients without earlier infection histories during a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Shanghai in spring 2022. Compared to an earlier patient cohort infected by SARS-CoV-2 prototype strains in 2020, BA.2.2 infection led to distinct fluctuations of pathophysiological markers in the peripheral blood. In particular, severe/critical cases of COVID-19 post BA.2.2 infection were associated with less pro-inflammatory macrophage activation and stronger interferon alpha response in the bronchoalveolar microenvironment. Importantly, the abnormal biomarkers were significantly subdued in individuals who had been immunized by 2 or 3 doses of SARS-CoV-2 prototype-inactivated vaccines, supporting the estimation of an overall 96.02% of protection rate against severe/critical disease in the 4854 cases in our BA.2.2 patient cohort with traceable vaccination records. Furthermore, even though age was a critical risk factor of the severity of COVID-19 post BA.2.2 infection, vaccination-elicited protection against severe/critical COVID-19 reached 90.15% in patients aged ≽ 60 years old. Together, our study delineates the pathophysiological features of Omicron BA.2.2 sublineages and demonstrates significant protection conferred by prior prototype-based inactivated vaccines.
Humans ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; COVID-19/prevention & control* ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Pandemics/prevention & control* ; China/epidemiology* ; Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control* ; Vaccination