Warming yang, which is one of the treatment principles of traditional Chinese Medicine, is very important in treating chronic heart failure, especially late-stage heart failure. It has been proved in many experiments and clinical trials that warming yang can improve the hemodynamic parameters. The treatment strategy for heart failure has changed from short-term correction of hemodynamic parameters to long-term rehabilitation approaches. We discussed the possible negative-effects of warming yang on neuroendocrine responses and myocardial remodeling. The potential beneficial effects of treatment for nourishing yin or nourishing yin combined with warming yang on heart failure were also explored.

Agenesis of Corpus Callosum ; Chromosomes, Human, X ; Gene Deletion ; Glycerol Kinase ; genetics ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Syndrome

Objective:To understand the effect and existing problems of teaching reform about primary health care demands in local medical universities and colleges.Methods:With sampling survey method,150 students from Xi'an Medical College were investigated using questionnaires.Results:Totally 93.1％ of the freshmen approved of setting up the courses,72.6％ of the students thought that nursing ethics and skills were equally important,43.2％ of the students thought learning this course made themselves have a new understanding of nursing ethics.Totally 84.2％ of the students were satisfied with the teacher's teaching process,while 69％ of the students were not satisfied with the existing teaching materials.Conclusion:The teaching method oriented by practical problems and the teachers' own efforts are prerequisites for students' acceptance of this course.Content setting based on post needs is an important link of nursing ethics teaching effect.Setting up sustainable teaching time is the basis of the teaching effect.High quality teaching materials are necessary conditions to achieve the teaching orderly.

This article elucidates the relationship between the human susceptibility to obesity and gene polymorphisms such as peroxisome proliferators-activated receptors(PPARs)and PPAR?coactivator-1,along with milestones in the formation and development of capacity for fat deposition during evolutionary history of human.An biological evolutionary analysis,identifying factors favoring the energy stores,may be helpful to the development of preventive public health strategies.

Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Laryngeal Neoplasms ; Neurilemmoma

Pediatrics internship is a bridge that brings medical theory into clinical reality.Cultivate systematic clinical thinking during internship is the key to the growth of clinical doctors.Good outcome has been achieved among these eight-year medical students by using teaching methods such as case discussions,lectures,teacher instructions,which can cultivate proper clinical thinking and make students more active.

Objective To investigate the effect of different sex hormones on insulin-stimulated glucose uptake on cultrured 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and adipocytes.Methods We treated cultured 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and adipocytes with different concentrations of 17?-Estradiol or testosterone and the effects were assessed as 2-deoxy glucose uptake.Results After incubation with 17?-Estradiol or testosterone,the ability of insulin-stimulated glucose transport was statistically significantly reduced.Dosage response study demonstrated that(10~(-7) mol/L) testosterone or(10~(-8) mol/L) 17?-Estradiol can induce insulin resistance(P

This study was aimed to explore factors related to microalbuminuria of early stage of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Through epidemiologic survey, syndrome data of patients with early stage of DN were collected. The analysis was made on relationship between MAU (strain) of early stage of DN patients and the influencing factors (variable) with logistic regression analysis. The influencing factors were investigated in the early stage of DN patients in MAU. The epidemiological study showed a close relationship between factors such as active living style, easy irritability, drinking, old age, long disease course, phlegm and dampness body constitution, qi-stagnation body constitution, purple or dark tongue, thin and rapid pulse, yin deficiency and heat pattern, qi-yin deficiency pattern, cold and dampness pattern with the incidence of early stage of DN. It was concluded that there were 114 cases of early stage of DN with MAU of 20-52 μg·mL-1. The risk factors contained easy irritability, qi-stagnation body constitution, purple or dark tongue, yin deficiency and heat pattern, qi-yin deficiency pattern, as well as cold and dampness pattern. The protective factor contained active living style. There were 95 cases of early stage of DN with MAU of 53-199 μg·mL-1. The risk factors contained drinking, old age, long disease course, phlegm and dampness body constitution, as well as thin and rapid pulse.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of moxibustion with different doses for knee osteoarthritis (KOA), and explore the correlation between moxibustion dose and clinical efficacy. Methods: Sixty-eight patients with KOA who met the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into a 20-minute moxibustion group and a 40-minute moxibustion group by the random number table method, with 34 cases in each group. Dubi (ST 35), Neixiyan (EX-LE 4) and Heding (EX-LE 2) were used for moxibustion in the two groups. Each treatment lasted 20 min or 40 min for each point in the 20-minute moxibustion group and 40-minute moxibustion group, separately; the treatment was given 3 times a week and lasted for 4 weeks. The visual analog scale (VAS), Western Ontario and McMaster University osteoarthritis index (WOMAC) and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptom scores were evaluated before and after treatment to compare the efficacy between different moxibustion doses for KOA. Results: After treatment, the total effective rate was 87.5％ in the 40-minute moxibustion group, versus 70.0％ in the 20-minute moxibustion group, and the difference in the total effective rate between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). After treatment, the VAS scores, the total WOMAC scores and the component scores of pain, stiffness and dysfunction, and the TCM symptom scores in both groups all changed significantly when compared with those before treatment (all P<0.05). After treatment, the between-group differences in the VAS score, the total WOMAC score and the component scores of pain and dysfunction, and the TCM symptom score were statistically significant (all P<0.05), while the difference in the stiffness score in WOMAC showed no statistical significance (P>0.05). Conclusion: Either 20-minute moxibustion or 40-minute moxibustion can relieve pain, improve stiffness, dysfunction, and TCM symptoms for KOA; and 40-minute moxibustion is better in relieving pain, improving dysfunction and TCM symptoms.

Cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) is a bacterial second messenger of growing recognition involved in the regulation of a number of complex physiological processes. In combinations to the related progress of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causing agent of bacterial blight of rice in our lab, this review describes (1) the biosynthesis and hydrolysis of c-di-GMP and several mechanisms of regulation of c-di-GMP metabo-lism, (2) the contribution of c-di-GMP to regulating virulence, motility and biofilm formation, processes that affect pathogenesis of many bacteria, and (3) ways in which c-di-GMP may mediate these regulatory effects.