The causes of "Plateau Phenomenon"in College English learning are analyzed on the basis of the investigation and the study of the Learning Curve.Some solutions to cope with the stagnation are also suggested.It's worth attention that Learning Strategy can be a vital factor to overcome the"Plateau Phenomenon."

In recent years,a variety of new therapeutic drugs have shown a certain effect on T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma(T-NHL) ,such as nucleoside analogues,BCR / ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor,L-asparaginase,protease inhibitor,cytokines,and monoclonal antibodies.

Adult ; Benzene ; toxicity ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Occupational Exposure ; T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory ; drug effects ; Young Adult

The antifungal susceptibility testing is playing important roles which include: understanding the susceptibility of the fungus to the antifungal agents and monitoring the resistance during therapy.Our purpose in this editorial is to tell the readers the proper application of MIC detection;to emphasize the clinical relevance of the in vitro susceptibility,and especially,to introduce the recent clinical study data which give the detailed explanation on the clinical relevance of MIC.

The introduction of lipid-formula Amphotericin B,Voriconazole,and Echinocandins,including Caspofungin and Micafungin,reflect the trend that the antifungal drugs are being developed along to a direction with high effect,broad spectrum,and low toxicity.These drugs undoubtedly provide novel useful approaches to the treatment of invasive fungal infections.Compared to the traditional antifungal drug,such as amphotericin B and Fluconazole,these drugs have the character of good effect and low adverse effect,which will be very important to prophylaxis and treatment for systemic fungal infections.The information concerning for these issues is being reviewed in this paper.

Objective To evaluate the value of carcino embryonic antigen(CEA),carbohydrate antigen 19,cytokeratin(CYFRA21-1),squamous cell cancer antigen(SCC) and neuron specific enolase(NSE) for the evaluation of chemotherapy response in the patients with advanced lung cancer.Methods One hundred and thirty-six patients with advanced lung cancer(lung cancer group) and 40 patients with lung benign disease(control group) were collected.The lung cancer group was treated with at least two courses of chemotherapy.The CYFRA21-1,SCC,CEA and NSE levels before chemotherapy were compared among the lung cancer group,control group and the patients with different pathological types.The above mentioned tumor markers levels before and after chemotherapy were compared among the patients with different curative effects in the lung cancer group.Results The levels of serum NSE,CYFRA21-1,CEA and SCC before treatment in the lung cancer group were higher than those in the control group(P<0.01);the serum CEA level of the squamous carcinoma group was higher than that of the adenocarcinoma group and the small cell carcinoma group(P<0.01),and the serum NSE level of the small cell carcinoma group was higher than that of the adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma group(P<0.01),and the levels of CYFRA21-1 and SCC of the squamouscarcinoma group were higher than those of the adenocarcinoma and small cell groups(P<0.01).The serum CEA level of patial remission(PR) patients in adenocarcinoma group was significantly decreased(P<0.01),the serum SCC level of PR patients in the squamous cell carcinoma group was significantly decreased(P<0.05),and the serum NSE level of PR patients in small cell carcinoma group was significantly decreased after chemotherapy(P<0.01).The difference of serum NSE,CYFRA21-1 and SCC after chemotherapy in stnble and prosgoressive patients of various groups were not statistically significant(P>0.05).Conclusion CEA,CYFRA21-1,SCC and NSE can be used as the effective evaluation indexes of chemotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma,lung squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma,but which has little significance in the patients without effect of chemotherapy.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Amanita ; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury ; etiology ; therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mushroom Poisoning ; therapy ; Retrospective Studies ; Young Adult

Objective:To evaluate the role of beta-2-microglobulin in the development of eqidemic encephalitis B.Methods:Forty-eight cases of epidemic encephalitis B children were divided into medium and severe types and beta-2-microglobulin was measured in their serum and cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) by radio-immunoassay(RIA).Twelve cases of control study was taken simultaneously.Results:At initial period,the serum and CSF concentrations of beta-2-microglobulin in forty-eight cases of epidemic encephalitis B patients were higher than that of the controls( P

· AIM: To study the expression of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) receptor protein in human lens epithelial cells (HLECs). METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the level of bFGF receptor protein and image analysis was adopted to perform the relative quantitative analysis on it. · RESULTS: There was bFGF receptor protein in HLECs accordingl to both qualitative and quantitative analysis. · CONCLUSION: bFGF receptor protein exists in HLECs and it is the material foundation for bFGF to improve the proliferation of HLECs.

BACKGROUND: The active ingredients of Chinese herbs, such as hongjingtian (rhodiola root, Radix Rhodiolae), srenshen (ginseng, Radix Ginseng), and danggui (Chinese angelica root, Radix Angelicae Sinensis),were found to be effective to inhibit the hypoxia injury.OBJECTIVE: To observe the protecting effect of xionggui diwan (Dripping Pills) on the hippocampal neurons from hypoxia by whole-cell recording patch-clamp technique.DESIGN: An auto-control observation on cells.SETTING: The 88 Hospital of Chinese PLA and Academy of Military Medical Science of Chinese PLA.MATERIALS: The experiment was performed during March to August 2002 in the Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology of Academy of Military Medical Sciences of Chinese PLA. The neonatal Wistar rats, clean degree, were used. The hippocampal neuron cells out of 9 rats were cultured and divided into the control groups of before and after hypoxia-oxygenation,and xionggui diwan 1 × 10-6 mol/L and 10 × 10-6 mol/L groups. (Xionggui diwan was provided by the 88 Hospital of Chinese PLA and its active ingredient was the volatile ingredient of chuanxiong and danggui.)METHODS: While hypoxia-reoxygenation groups were not given any medicine intervention as control, the treatment of xionggui diwan 1×10-6mol/L was subdivided into xionggui diwan 1 × 10-6 mol/L + non-hypoxia and xionggui diwan 1 × 10-6 mol/L + hypoxia groups, and the treatment of xionggui diwan 10 × 10-6 mol/L was subdivided into xionggui diwan 10 × 10-6 mol/L + non-hypoxia and xionggui diwan 10 × 10-6 mol/L + hypoxia groups. The patch-clamp technique was performed to determine the Na+ and K+ currents of rat hippocampal neurons cultured in vitro before and after hypoxia-reoxygenation.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The Na+ and K+ current amplitude of rat hippocampal neurons cultured in vitro.RESULTS:① The Na+ current amplitude of hippocampal neurons: After hypoxia-reoxygenation, it was significantly lower than that before [(-3.8±1.0, -10.3±0.5) nA, t=3.49, P ＜ 0.01]. ② The K+ current amplitude of hippocampal neurons: After hypoxia-reoxygenation, the activation thresholdof K+ current was changed from -40 mV to -20 mV.③The Na+ and K+ currents of hippocampal neurons before and after hypoxia-reoxygenation with xionggui diwan pretreatment: Before hypoxia-reoxygenation, the ampli tudes of Ⅰ Na and J K of hippocampal neurons at the threshold point were very similar, without significant difference. After hypoxia-reoxygenation,those amplitudes of xionggui diwan 10.0 × 10-6 mol/L group were higher than that of xiongguidiwan 1.0 × 10-6 mol/L group [(-58.5±1.9, -6.9±1.4,-3.8±1.0) nA, t=7.51,P ＜ 0.05].CONCLUSION: It was suggested that xionggui diwan propect the function of hippocampal neurons from hypoxia.