After MC3T3-E1 cells were treated with 1,10,and 20 μmol/L glibenclamide for 48 h,the proliferation rate of cells was detected by CCK-8 assay.Flow cytometry was used to test cell apoptosis.The mRNA expressions of collagen I (COL-1) and osteopontin (OPN) were tested by realtime fluorescence quantitative PCR.Western blot was used to detect the expression levels of apoptosis-related proteins Bax and Bcl-2.The results showed that compared with the control group,the proliferation rate of MC3T3-E1 cells was gradually increased (P＜0.05),the apoptosis rate decreased (P ＜ 0.05),the expressions of COL-1 mRNA,OPN mRNA,and Bcl-2 protein were progressively raised (P＜0.05),and the expression of Bax protein were gradually decreased (P＜0.05) along with increasing concentration of glyburide.It suggested that glibenclamide could promote the proliferation and differentiation of MC3T3-E1 cells in high glucose and may inhibit apoptosis in a concentration-dependent manner within a certain range.

AIM: To investigate the effect of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ? (PPAR?) activator rosiglitazone on myocardial ischemic-reperfusion injury in rats. METHODS: Forty-two SD rats were randomly divided into three groups: sham group (n=14), I/R group (n=14) and I/R+rosiglitazone group (n=14). Myocardial infarct size was assessed by NBT staining. Plasma and myocardial angiotensin and aldosterone as well as plasma renin activity were detected by radioimmunoassay. RESULTS: Compared with I/R group, myocardial infarct size was reduced by 23.9% (P

[Summary] To investigate the effect of gliclazide on the proliferation and differentiation in MC3T3-E1 cells exposed to normal glucose concentration by applying CCK-8 and RT-PCR. Gliclazide improved the proliferation and stimulated COL-I, OPN and Runx2 mRNA expression in MC3T3-E1 cells, the best concentration of gliclazide was 20μmol/ L, the expression of COL-1 and OPN mRNA had a significant positive correlation with Runx2 binding activity.

Objective:To investigate the reliability of a tool based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the assessment of functioning despite disability.Methods:A total of 371 patients were assessed using a tool based on the ICF rehabilitation set combined with a numerical rating scale ranging from 0 to 10. The internal consistency, inter-rater reliability and intra-rater reliability were analyzed.Results:The scale′s Cronbach′s alpha coefficient was 0.89. The inter-rater correlation coefficient was 0.85, and the correlations among the items ranged from 0.78 to 0.94. The intra-rater correlation coefficient with the scale was 0.95, with the item correlations ranging from 0.72 to 0.97. Only item b230 Hearing function did not correlate well.Conclusions:The functioning assessment tool based on the ICF rehabilitation set when combined with a numerical rating scale has internal consistency, inter-rater reliability and intra-rater reliability sufficient for use in clinical practice.

Objective To investigate the clinical application effect of SPIDER limbs positioning device in arthroscopic surgery of beach chair position.Methods From August 2009 to August 2010 in our hospital 18 cases of patients with rotator cuff injury in shoulder were collected and treated with arthroscopic exploration and suturing operation,including 9 patients in the standard beach chair position under surgical operation,9 cases of beach chairs position combine with SPIDER Limb positioning device.Follow up on the preoperative position placement time,operating time,doctors' satisfaction of surgery posture and postoperative complications.Results The preoperative placement position time of standard beach chair with a mean (27 ± 6.7 ) min,beach chair position combined with SPIDER limb positioning device with a mean (31 ±7.9)min,the two groups were no significant differences ( t =- 1.158,P ＞ 0.05 ) ; the operation time of two groups were ( 78.2 ± 12.7 ) min and (66.2 ± 15.4) min,beach chair position combined with SPIDER limb positioning device group compared with the former was short,there was a between the two groups significant difference; doctors' surgery position satisfaction were 77.8％ and 88.9％ respectively,and there was no complications occurred related with posture.Conclusions SPIDER limb positioning device in the beach chair position in shoulder arthroscopy allows surgeon change positions of limbs during the operation in the sterile area.It has high satisfaction with the surgical posture,practicability,advanced and worthy of clinical application.

In order to established a method for simultaneous determination of isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol in Lysimachia clethroides, the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([HMIM]PF6) methanol was used as the ultrasound-assisted extraction solvent combing with RP-HPLC. A Purospher star RP-C1 column was used with the mobile phase of aceto- nitrile, methanol and 0. 4% phosphate acid by gradient elution at the detection wavelength of 360 nm. The flow rate was 0.7 mL x min(-1), and the column temperature was the room temperature. Under the optimized conditions, the linear ranges were 2.54 x 10(-2)-2. 54, 2.50 x 10(-2)- 2.50, 1.54 x 10(-3)-0.154, 1.49 x 10(-3)-0.149 microg for isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol, respectively. The average recoveries of the four constituents were 101.1%, 98.90%, 101.0%, 101.6%, respectively. The method was green, simple, rapid and accurate, and provided a valid method for analysis of isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol in L. clethroides.
Chemical Fractionation ; instrumentation ; methods ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; analysis ; isolation & purification ; Flavonoids ; analysis ; isolation & purification ; Ionic Liquids ; chemistry ; Primulaceae ; chemistry

To study the protective effect and the mechanism of asiatic acid (AA) from Potentilla chinensis on alcohol hepatic injury in rats. Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into six groups: the normal control group, the AA control group (8 mg · kg(-1) AA), the model group (5.0-9.0 g · kg(-1) alcohol) and high, medium and low-dose AA-treated groups (alcohol + 8, 4, 2 mg · kg(-1) AA). Each group was orally administered with the corresponding drugs once a day for 24 weeks. Approximately 1. 5 hours after the final administration, all rats were killed, and their blood samples and hepatic tissues were collected. The AST and ALT in rat serum and the contents of MPO, TNF-α, IL-1β, SOD, GSH-Px, GSH-Rd and MDA in hepatic tissues were detected. The expressions of NF-κB, TLR4, CD14, MyD88, TRIF and protein expression in hepatic tissues were measured by western blot. The pathological changes in liver tissues were observed by histological examination. The results showed that compared with the model group, the AA-treated groups showed significant decreases in serum ALT, AST and MDA and increases in the activities of SOD, GSH-Px, GSH-Rd and MPO. Moreover, AA markedly inhibited the expressions of TNF-α, IL-1β, TLR4, CD14, MyD88 and NF-κB. The histological examination showed alleviated hepatic issue ijury to varying degrees. In short, asiatic acid (AA) from P. chinensis could protect alcohol-induced hepatic injury in rats. Its mechanism may be related to the inhibition of NF-κB inactivation and the reduction of inflammatory response.
Animals ; Liver ; drug effects ; pathology ; Liver Diseases, Alcoholic ; prevention & control ; Male ; NF-kappa B ; physiology ; Pentacyclic Triterpenes ; pharmacology ; Potentilla ; chemistry ; Protective Agents ; pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Toll-Like Receptor 4 ; antagonists & inhibitors

Objective To explore the relationship between the catch-up situation of physical development and neuropsychological development in 2-year-old SGA children. Methods A longitudinal follow-up observation was conducted in 185 SGA children who were recruited between January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017.The height, weight, head circumference and other physical development indicators were measured by unified methods at the age of 24 months.Gesell development scale was used to evaluate the neuropsychological development of catch-up and non-catch-up children. Results In 179 out of 185 SGA children who received physical development examination 56.98%(102/179) had achieved catch-up growth.The rate of abnormal/suspected-abnormal neuropsychological development in the full-term SGA children without Shanghai household registration was higher(P < 0.05).After adjusting the factors of household registration and gestational age, there was no significant difference in neuropsychological development between the catch-up and non-catch-up children(P>0.05). Conclusion SGA children, whose physical development did not reach the catch-up growth at the age of 2 years are not obviously backward in neuropsychological development.Catch-up growth for the children with intrauterine growth retardation mainly shows the positive significance in height and weight.The significance of catch-up growth in neuropsychological development remains to be studied.

Endoscopic activity has been used as an endpoint in treatment of Crohn's disease (CD).Simplified Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) is a simple and easy-to-use endoscopic scoring system for CD, however, studies evaluating the correlation between SES-CD and noninvasive inflammatory markers are scarce.Aims: To investigate the correlation between SES-CD and clinical and laboratory inflammatory markers for identifying a noninvasive surrogate marker for endoscopic activity of CD.Methods: Forty-two patients with CD were enrolled for detecting laboratory inflammatory markers including leukocyte and platelet count, C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), hemoglobin (Hb), albumin (Alb) and fecal calprotectin (FC);SES-CD and Crohn' disease activity index (CDAI) were assessed.Predictive performance of these markers for endoscopic activity of CD was analyzed by ROC curve, and the correlation of SES-CD with all these markers was evaluated.Results: The platelet count, CRP, ESR, FC and SES-CD were significantly higher in active CD than in inactive CD, while Hb and Alb were significantly lower in active CD (P all <0.05).In all the noninvasive markers, only CDAI and FC had an area under the curve (AUC) greater than 0.9 for predicting CD endoscopic activity.Taken 150 as the cut-off value of CDAI and 50 μg/g (the upper limit of normal, ULN) as the cut-off value of FC, the sensitivity of CDAI and FC were 58.8% and 100%, and the specificity were 100% and 60.0%, respectively.SES-CD had moderate correlation with CDAI, platelet count, CRP, ESR, Alb and FC, respectively (P all <0.05).Conclusions: SES-CD is correlated moderately with the clinical and laboratory inflammatory markers, however, when taken the ULN as cut-off value the conventional inflammatory markers such as CDAI, CRP and ESR are hard to predict sensitively and accurately the endoscopic activity of CD;while FC has fairly high accuracy and sensitivity and can be used as a noninvasive surrogate marker for evaluating endoscopic activity of CD.

Objective To determine the impact of fluorine and aluminum,and both action combined on the number of rat osteoclasts and bone resorption cultured in vitro and to explore its mechanisms.Methods The osteoclasts and bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) isolated from long bone of new born rats were cultured,respectively,in TC199 medium (containing 10％ fetal bovine serum) with fluoride,aluminum and fluoride combined with aluminum.The osteoclasts were inoculated in 96-well culture plate and ivory slice,BMSCs in 6-well culture plate,and culture medium was changed after 2 hours incubation.The cells were divided into control group,fluoride group,aluminum group and fluoride combined with aluminum group; the doses of sodium fluoride were 0,1.0 × 10-4,0,1.0 × 10-4 mol/L and the doses of aluminum chloride were 0,0,1.0 × 10-5,1.0 × 10-5 mol/L,respectively.Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) staining positive cells were counted under light microscope after TRAP staining on the 5th day and the pit formed in ivory slices were measured by histomorphometry after staining with toludine blue.The expression of osteoprotegerin(OPG) and receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL) was detected by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR in BMSCs after 8 h treatment.Results ① Fluoride,aluminum and the interactive effects of fluoride and aluminum all had impact on the numbers of osteoclasts (F =7.15,6.56 and 7.98,respectively,all P ＜ 0.05).The numbers of osteoclasts in fluoride group,aluminum group and fluoride combined with aluminum group[(136.9 ± 22.99),(135.4 ± 23.5),(163.0 ± 24.4) per well] were higher than that in the control group[(92.5 ± 22.1) per well,all P ＜ 0.05].② Fluoride,aluminum and the interactive effects of fluoride and aluminum all had impact on the resorption pit area on ivory slices(F =10.47,12.64,14.29,respectively,all P ＜ 0.05).The resorption pit area on ivory slices in fluoride group,aluminum group and fluoride combined with aluminum group[(0.242 ± 0.031),(0.293 ± 0.026),(0.333 ± 0.016)mm2 per slice] was higher than that in the control group [(0.088 ± 0.030)mm2 per slice,all P ＜ 0.05].③Fluoride,aluminum and the interactive effects of fluoride and aluminum all had impact on the expression ratios of RANKL/OPG in BMSCs (F =8.15,15.38,23.59,respectively,all P ＜ 0.05).The expression ratios of RANKL/OPG in BMSCs in fluoride group,aluminum group and fluoride combined with aluminum group [(193.98 ± 137.93)％,(326.11 ± 176.78)％,(599.84 ± 275.82)％] were higher than that in the control group[(100.00 ± 56.02)％,all P ＜ 0.05].Conclusions Both fluoride and aluminum can cause increase in the number of osteoclasts in vitro and promote cell differentiation and bone resorption activity,which may be related to increased expression ratio of RANKL/OPG mRNA in BMSCs.The stimulating effects of fluoride on osteoclasts differentiation and bone resorption is enhanced by aluminum.