IL-8 is a cytokine which belongs to the chemotactic superfamily.It is one of the major mediators in the inflammatory response.In recent years,it was found that it had multiple functions,such as chemoattractant,potent angiogenic,and so on.The cytokine is believed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammation,tumor progress and immune disease.In this review,the properties of IL-8 and highlight its roles on inflammation and tumor progress were surveied.

Independent component analysis (ICA) aims at decomposing an observed random vector into statistically independent variables. Fast independent component analysis (FastICA) algorithm and its variants are catching more attention because of their simplicity and convergence speed. In this paper, a novel method referred to robust independent component analysis (RobustICA), based on normalized kurtosis and optimal step-size, is analyzed in detail. When applied to fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) extraction and compared with FastICA, it gave decent results and showed prosperous future usages.
Algorithms ; Electrocardiography ; Female ; Fetal Heart ; physiology ; Fetal Monitoring ; Fetus ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Principal Component Analysis ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

OBJECTIVE: To understand the research on the development and application of non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices.DATA SOURCES: Using the key terms of "inter-spinous and low back pain", relevant articles on non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices and low back pain in English were retrieved from Medline between January 1966 and October 2004 and the Ovid database between January 2003 and June 2007.STUDY SELECTION: Titles and most abstracts of all articles on the types of non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices and action mechanisms of non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices were selected. Duplicated researches and meta analytic papers were excluded.DATA EXTRACTION: A total of 351 articles met the inclusion criteria and 322 were excluded. Among them, 29 papers were analyzed. The major exclusion factor was duplicate studies.DATA SYNTHESIS: Non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices can improve mechanism of low back pain and cause certain effects on the biodynamic environment of degenerative lumbar vertebrae, such as relieving loading of the posterior border of the anulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc and opening the intervertebral foramen. At present,non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices, such as X-STOP, Wallis and DLAM, have been tested for a long time;therefore, the effects of their effectiveness, utility and risk of complications will be proved by clinical experiments as soon as possible.CONCLUSION: Non-fusion inter-spinous stabilization devices have good effects on the treatment of degenerative low back pain originating in the anulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc and can reduce complications caused by the fusion technique.

Objective:To determine the diagnostic performance of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) in patients with recurrent or residual prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. Methods:Studies were systematically searched in the PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane library, SCI, CBM, CNKI, VIP, WanFang, and other databases. Additional studies were manually searched using the references of the retrieved articles. The retrieved deadline time was June 6th, 2013. Studies were eligible for inclusion based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the qualities of the studies were reviewed based on the QUADAS criteria. The Meta Disc 1.4 software was used for meta-analysis, and a summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve was constructed. The patient-based pooled weighted estimates of the sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic odds radio, and 95%confidence interval were calculated. Results:Among the 118 eligible studies, 7 articles (12 studies) were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled weighted estimates of the sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the curve were 0.88 (95%confidence interval:0.84 and 0.91), 0.87 (95%confidence interval:0.81 and 0.92), and 0.939 1, respectively. The pooled diagnostic radio (dOR) was 50.4 (95%confidence interval:26.0 and 97.6) and Q*was 0.876 4. Conclusion:DCE-MRI has high sensitivity and specificity in the evaluation of locally recurrent or residual prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, in which the diagnostic efficiency of DCE-MRI combined with magnetic resonance spectroscopy is much better.

It is one of the common problems faced by many medical schools how to carry out the hidden curriculum in humanities education of medical education.This article approaches the composition and connotation of the curriculum in order to improve the relevance and effectiveness of the humanities education of medical education

Objective To compare the status of nurses′cognition on children′s pain between the pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and common wards .Methods Surveys were completed by the pediatric nurses through the WeChat platform ,3 283 quali‐fied surveys from department of nursing of 11 three level of first‐class hospital in central China ,were sent back and analyzed . Results There was no statistical difference in the age ,marital status ,professional title ,highest academic qualifications ,and the dis‐tribution of professional nursing service life between PICU nurses and common ward nurses(P>0 .05) .Statistical differences were found among the sex ,the positions ,the experiences of nursing and the pediatric nursing (P< 0 .05) .Significant differences were found between the total score of the PNKAS of the PICU nurses and that of common ward nurses(P<0 .05) .Among the four di‐mensionalities ,statistical difference was only found in the item of pharmacological analgesia between PICU nurses and common ward nurses (P<0 .05) .There were no statistical difference on the correct ratio of the top three correct answers and the top three wrong answers between PICU nurses and common ward nurses(P>0 .05) .Conclusion The knowledge of the PICU nurses and common ward nurses were both not optimistic .Specific training should be provided according to the different status of the PICU nurses and common ward nurses ,so that better pain management would be provided to the pediatric children .

Objective To describe status of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and its trajectory during three different time node for the operation, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy among breast cancer patients. Methods The convenience sampling method was used for 242 cases diagnosed with breast cancer which prepared for breast cancer resection, prepared to be treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and conformed to the sample standard from a tumor hospital and two affiliated hospital of medical college from February 2014 to November 2015 in a city. The follow-up survey of CRF was conducted respectively in the three different point-in-time for one week after the operation, at the end of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Results After the operation mean rating for general fatigue was mild (2.59±2.41) points, and approximately 76.0% (184/242) patients experienced fatigue to low- grade degree; After the chemotherapy fatigue was significantly increased (6.57 ± 2.43) points, and 75.2% (182/242) patients accounted for severe fatigue; After the radiotherapy mean rating for fatigue was moderate (4.38 ± 2.46) points, and 57.0%(138/242) patients suffered to moderate fatigue. During the whole treatment period the level for general fatigue and four dimensions of fatigue were in the unstable state ofwaveof fluctuations with mild, severe, moderate, and fatigue were statistically different in three different stages of treatment ( F= 43.16,P=0.000). The age and operation method were associated with CRF in thephaseofoperation(age t=7.365, P=0.003; operation method t=5.166, P=0.009), chemotherapy (age t=9.835, P=0.000; operation method t=3.313, P=0.025) and radiotherapy (age t=9.014, P=0.000;operation method t=10.392, P=0.000). Conclusions There is a certain difference with CRF of breast cancer patients at different stage of rehabilitation treatment. There are two factors that could affect CRF such as age and operation method in the whole rehabilitation treatmentperiod.

Extramural vascular invasion(EMVI)was defined as the presence of tumor cells within an endotheliumlined vessel beyond the muscularis propria.High-resolution MRI had 100％sensitivity and 89％specificity in identification of large(caliber greater than 3 mm)EMVI with histopathology as reference.EMVI detected by both histopathology and MRI was significantly associated with local recurrence,distance metastasis and tumor-related death in rectal cancer,which was also identified as an independent prognostic factor for 3-year tumor-free survival and overall survival.EMVI could be used as one of the risk factors,which would allow stratification of patients with rectal cancer to receive neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy(neoCRT).Moreover,EMVI detected by high-resolution MRI was identified as an independent predictor for response to neoCRT.Tumor regression grading scale defined by high-resolution MRI could be used to evaluate EMVI regression after neoCRT.

Objective To explore the clinical application of two endometrial mechanical stimulation methods in patients with repeated implantation failure (RIF) in frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycle. Methods A total of 127 women with RIF who planned to perform FET again were included. They were separated into 3 groups: Group A (45 cases) with endometrial scratching and group B (42 cycles) with endometrial sucking within menstrual period in FET cycle, while in control group C (40 cases), no endometrial mechanical stimulation was performed. The outcomes of pregnancy were compared. Results The endometrial types of endometrial scratching group were mainly type A. The embryo implantation rate and clinical pregnancy rate in group A (27.27%, 46.67%) were significantly higher than those in group B (12.75 %, 21.43%) and group C (11.46%, 20.0%) (P <0.05). Conclusion The endometrial mechanical stimulation can improve the endometrial receptivity, compare with endometrial sucking, endometrial scratching can improve the clinical pregnancy rate of RIF patients more obviously.

Schizophrenia is a common but complex mental disorder affected by multiple factors. Forensic psychiatric assessment of schizophrenia involves evaluations on many aspects, but there is no effective biological identification index for schizophrenia. Researches indicate that dysfunction of dopaminergic neurotransmission plays an important role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Our study reviews the classification, genetic structure of dopamine receptors and the recent pertinent studies between the dopamine receptors and schizophrenia and its forensic significance.