Objective To examine the impact of note-taking habits on academic scores of junior middle school students.Methods A sample of 412 junior middle school students were applied a self-developed note-taking habits inventory (NTHI) ,and the impact of note-taking habits on academic scores was examined by using bivariate correlation and linear regression analysis.Results Girls got significantly higher NTHI scores than boys [(3.67±0.55)vs(3.19±0.80),P＜0.01] ,and students from key classes got significantly higher NTHI scores than those of typical classes[(3.56±0.64)vs (3.37±0.75),P＜ 0.05].Total academic scores of Chinese,mathmatics and English was found significantly and positively related to total NTHI scores and the five subscales(r=0.280,P＜0.01 ;r=0.293,P＜ 0.01 ;r=0.126,P＜0.05 ;r=0.255,P＜0.01 ;r=0.239,P＜0.01 ;r=0.280,P ＜ 0.01).Attitude towards note-taking,full note-making and immediate note-rewriting showed direct and significant influence on total academic score of Chinese,mathmatics and English.Full note-making,attitude towards notetaking and immediate note-rewriting showed direct and significant influence on score of Chinese.So did of active note-making,immediate note-rewriting,full note-making and attitude towards note-taking on mathmatice scores,attitude towards note-taking and full note-making on score of Chinese.Conclusion Note-taking habits could be direct predictor of their academic scores for junior middle school students.

Objective To investigate the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic acupoint stimulation on hemiplegic patients.Methods60 hemiplegic patients were assigned to treatment group and control group(30 cases for each group). Both groups received rehabilitation therapy. Meanwhile, the treatment group received repetitive transcranial magnetic acupoint stimulation. Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Barthel Index(BI) were used to measure the outcome.ResultsThe scores of FMA and BI increased significantly in both groups after treatment. However, these scores in treatment group improved more compared with those of control group(P<0.05).ConclusionRepetitive transcranial magnetic acupoint stimulation is helpful to improve the motor function, and ability of daily living of hemiplegic patients.

AIM: To promote the quality standard of Senbei Beigua Oral Thick Paste (Fructus Cucurbitae, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Adepophorae, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens) . METHODS: Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, Fructus Cucurbitae were identified by TLC. Peimine content was determined by TLCS. RESULTS: The study showed that spots of samples on TLC can be well separated and the method had strong specificity. The quantification method had a good linear at the range of 0.326-1.194 ?g. The average recovery was 96.8% and RSD was 0.87%. CONCLUSION: The methods for identification and quantification are simple, accurate and reproducible. It can be used for quality control of Senbeibeigua Oral Thick Paste.

Spinal cord injury often resulted in disability. It is important to establish an ideal animal model to study spinal cord injury, its pathogenesis, regeneration and repair, etc. This article reviewed the establishment of models, including animals, method, characteristics, and discussed the frequently used models.

Objective To evaluate the expression of Sp3 gene of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in Guizhou and the relationship between Sp3 gene expression and immunological function. Methods Two pairs of primers were used to amplify cDNAs generated from 31 MS patients and 30 healthy controls. The serum levels of sIL-2R were measured in 27 patients with MS and 30 healthy controls by sandwiched ELISA. Results The deficient expression of Sp3 gene in MS patients was significantly higher than that in control (41.9% ( 12/31 ) vs 6. 7% (2/30) ,x2 =7. 133 ,P =0. 008). The sIL-2R levels in MS patients were significantly higher than those in control (( 2788.5 ± 1079. 8 ), ( 1270. 7 ± 489. 4) μg/L, t = 6. 170, P = 0. 001 ). The concentration of sIL-2R in MS with negative ((3364.0 ± 1252.3) μg/L) and positive((2450.0 ± 827.0) μg/L) expression of Sp3 gene were significantly increased compared with control (F = 32. 059, P < 0. 05 ). The sIL-2R levels were significantly rising in MS patients with negative expression of Sp3 gene compared with MS patients with positive expression of Sp3 gene ( q = 4. 213, P < 0. 05 ). Conclusions A remarkable deficient expression of Sp3 gene in PBMC has been found in MS patients in Guizhou. sIL-2R may take part in the process of MS. The expression of Sp3 gene is not affected by immune state, however, MS patients with Sp3 deficient expression tend to have a more serious impairment in immunological functions.

Objective To evaluate the performance of parallel test in detecting malaria infection for returned person from malaria endemic area.Methods The blood samples of 484 returnees from malaria endemic area were analyzed and detected by thick blood smear,rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and nest PCR in four companies involving the African labor dispatching.Results The sensitivi ty of thick blood smear and RDT was 0.628 and 0.744 respectively,which of the parallel test was 0.930.On the other hand,the area under the curve (AUC) of parallel test was 0.930 (95％CI:0.895-0.986),which was higher than thick blood smear[0.814 (95％CI:0.724-0.904)]and RDT[0.847 (95％CI:0.769-0.926)].Conclusion Thick blood smear and RDT,which consist of parallel test,could improve the detection sensitivity and accuracy for returnees from malaria epidemical area effectively.This approach is worthy of popularization and application.

Objective To understand the relation between smoking and serum uric acid level and to investigate whether the ser-um uric acid has the correlation with the gender,age and smoking history.Methods The data of the gender,age,blood uric acid in1 847 individuals aged 20-80 years with the healthy physical examination and without underlying diseases were performed the statisti-cal analysis.Results With male and female as the research objects,the serum uric acid level of smokers were higher than that of non-smokers and occasional smokers,the difference was statistically significant;the serum uric acid level had no statistically signifi-cant difference between smokers and occasional smokers;the serum uric acid level had no statistically significant difference among non-smoking,occasional smoking and smoking groups for males as the research objects alone;to divide the male subjects into groups according to age,the serum uric acid level of non-smokers,occasional smokers and smokers were not statistically significant among all age groups;serum uric acid level showed the increasing trend with the increase of smoking history,but there was no statistically significant difference.Conclusion The serum uric acid level of smokers is significantly higher than that of non-smokers and occa-sional smokers with male and female as the research objects;the difference in serum uric acid level between smokers and occasional smokers has no statistical significance;excluding the gender factor interference,the serum uric acid level of males is not affected by smoking or age;serum uric acid mean value demonstrates the increasing trend with the increase of smoking history.

Objective To study the effects of Danshen Shujingwan on cervical cord compression in rats. Methods 60 healthy male SD rats of 8 weeks old were randomly divided into 6 groups: sham group (N group), model group (M group), DSW groups of high, medium and low dosages, and group treated with Jingfukang (J group), with 10 rats in each. The cervical cord compression models were established by transplanted silica gel. From 7 d after model establishments, the rats were respectively treated with drug by gavage for 30 d. They were observed pathologically. Results The extent and scope of damage were less in the treatment groups than in the model group (P<0.001), while the number of normal neurons remained more in the treatment groups (P<0.01).Conclusion DSW can decrease the damage after cervical spinal cord compression, protect the neurons from injuring.

Objective To investigate the expression of caspase-10 in differentiated thyroid carcinoma and association with its development and metastasis. Methods Thyroid samples from 37 patients in a period from January 2006 to December 2007, with differentiated thyroid carcinoma were retrospectively analyzed for caspase-10 by immunohistocbemistry(streptavidin-perosidase, S-P), compared to control group of 46 cases with nodtdar goiter. The relationship between the expression of caspase-10 and the clinical pathologic characteristics of thyroid carcinoma were also explored simultaneously. Results caspase-10 were observed as brown or yellow particles located in the cytoplasm or cell membrane of nodular goiter but there were no significant evidence for its positive expression in thyroid carcinoma, caspase-10 expression was markedly down-regulated in differentiated thyroid carcinoma(29.73%,11/37) compared with benign nodules(71.74%,33/46, χ2=14.528, P<0.01). The positive expression in 18 cases with lymph node metastasis(11.11%,2/18) was significantly lower than those in 19 patients without lymph node metastasis(47.37%,9/19; χ2=4.210, P<0.01). There was no significant correlation(P> 0.05) between the expression of caspase-10 and the clinical pathologic characteristics including male, age, TNM stage and pathologic type. Conclusion Down-regulation of caspase-10 may play a critical role in carcinogenesis and development of differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Some of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) contain arsenide, such as realgar. The total amount of arsenic in the TCM exceeds the limits according to related regulations. But the roles of arsenic in TCM or its side-effects depend on its species existed in those therapies, not the total amount of arsenic. Therefore, in recent years, the analysis of arsenic in TCM focuses on the species of arsenic. The present paper summarized some methods and techniques in the speciation analysis of arsenic in TCM, in order that optimal methods can be chosen and the roles of arsenic could be evaluated properly.
Arsenicals ; analysis ; Chromatography ; methods ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; methods ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Electrophoresis, Capillary ; methods ; Materia Medica ; chemistry ; Plants, Medicinal ; chemistry ; Spectrophotometry, Atomic ; methods