Specialists in the south of the five ridges think that bubonic plague is caused by blood stasis due to noxious heat;they exactly use Wang Qingren' Decoction of Detoxification and Promoting Blood Flow modified for detoxification,clearing heat and removing blood stasis.Peach Seed and Safflower are principal drugs of this decoction;using Rhinoceros Horn,Antelope Horn and Tibet Safflower to clear noxious heat for protecting the heart.The key to make curative effect is that this decoction needs to be obeyed urgently frequently and modified according sighs.They have found the substitutes of precious Rhinoceros Horn,Antelope Horn and Tibet Safflower.

Specialists in the south of the five Ridges LUO Zhi-yuan think that upper-jiao syndrome of bubonic plague appears in the second and third days,middle-jiao syndrome in the period of the third to the sixth days,and lower-jiao syndrome appears at the seventh day.Upper-jiao syndrome of bubonic plague is the most complicated,including the severe syndrome,the critical syndrome,the deadly syndrome.They summarize the six symptoms and signs in middle-jiao of bubonic plague,including "extreme heat and thirst,black and prickly tongue,abdominal distention and pain,stercoroma and delirium,heat accumulation with watery diarrhea,cold feeling of the whole body and hidden pulse",and the four symptoms and signs in middle-jiao,including "pain,distention,stercoroma,heat accumulation with watery diarrhea".They also pointed out that preserving body fluid is key for treating lower-jiao syndrome of bubonic plague.

Objective To obtain an easy and high efficient method for gene transfer to cochlear hair cells ,by comparing three mediating green fluorescent protein (GFP) methods (electroporation ,adenovector and lentivirus vector) .Methods Cochlear sensory epithelium was dissected from anaesthetized P2 mice .Sensory epithelia were transferred onto poly -L -lysine treated cover slides and cultured overnight .Gene transfer was performed by elec‐troporation in medium containing pGPHI/GFP/Neo plasmid or by incubation with diluted recombined adenovirus/lentivirus vector .After 48 hours ,green fluorescence was checked under fluorescence microscope .To confirm the ef‐ficiency of exogenous gene transfer ,real-time PCR was performed using specific primers .Results The transfec‐tion efficiencies of electroporation and lentivirus vector mediated gene transfer were very low .Both immunofluores‐cence and real - time PCR results showed that the transfection efficiency of adenovirus mediated GFP and Bmi1 transfer were relatively higher .The proportion of GFP positive cells in outer hair cells and inner hair cells of middle turn were 90 .0% ± 4 .1% and 5% ± 0 .4% ,respectively .Conclusion Adenovector is more efficient for exogenous gene transfer to cochlear hair cells ,thus adenovector is a good carrier for gene transfer to cochlear hair cells .

A case of mercury-induced Baboon syndrome is reported.A 31-year-old female presented with a 2-3 day history of pruritic symmetric erythematous papules on both axillas,popliteal fossa,buttocks and groins.The patient was exposed to a broken mercury thermometer two days before the onset of the eruption.Patch testing showed that the patient was sensitive to ammoniated mercury,mercury,mercuric chloride and mercurochrome.The mercury levels in serum and full blood reached the up limit of normal value three days after the onset,and gradually decreased over time.The patient was diagnosed with Baboon syn- drome caused by mercury according to the clinical manifestation and results from laboratory studies.

Objective To learn the current status of job burnout and influencing factors for nurses from infectious disease hospital.Methods The Chinese version MBI -HSS was used to survey 218 nurses from infectious disease hospital,and linear regression was used to analyze the influencing facters of job burnout.Results A total of 210 questionairs were cocleted.The incidence of severe occupational job burnout was 22.38%,and the score of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP),personal accomplishment (PA)was(22.82 ±9.98),(6.48 ±5.20),and (35.20 ±8.82), respectively.Regression analysis demonstrated that the main influencing factors were entering the isolation ward, opportunity for infectious diseases ,disinfection damage,fear of occupational exposure and concern on family infection(P <0.05).Conclusion The status of job burnout of nurses in infectious disease hospital is not optimistic.There is a positive relationship with the working environment,occupational exposure.Managers need to explore an effective way to ease the job burnout of nurses,and to stabilize the nursing team.

Retained deciduous teeth are defined as the succedaneous permanent teeth have erupted while the primary teeth were retained, or the permanent teeth unerupted while the primary teeth remained in the permanent dentition. One case of multiple retained deciduous teeth was reported.
Dentition, Permanent ; Humans ; Male ; Tooth Eruption ; Tooth, Deciduous

Ultrafine powder and cell wall-broken powder of herbal medicine lack of the morphological characters and microscopic identification features. This makes it hard to identify herb's authenticity with traditional methods. We tested ITS2 sequence as DNA barcode in identification of herbal medicine in ultrafine powder and cell wall-broken powder in this study. We extracted genomic DNAs of 93 samples of 31 representative herbal medicines (28 species), which include whole plant, roots and bulbs, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds. The ITS2 sequences were amplified and sequenced bidirectionally. The ITS2 sequences were identified using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) method in the GenBank database and DNA barcoding system to identify the herbal medicine. The genetic distance was analyzed using the Kimura 2-parameter (K2P) model and the Neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic tree was constructed using MEGA 6.0. The results showed that DNA can be extracted successfully from 93 samples and high quality ITS2 sequences can be amplified. All 31 herbal medicines can get correct identification via BLAST method. The ITS2 sequences of raw material medicines, ultrafine powder and cell wall-broken powder have same sequence in 26 herbal medicines, while the ITS2 sequences in other 5 herbal medicines exhibited variation. The maximum intraspecific genetic-distances of each species were all less than the minimum interspecific genetic distances. ITS2 sequences of each species are all converged to their standard DNA barcodes using NJ method. Therefore, using ITS2 barcode can accurately and effectively distinguish ultrafine powder and cell wall-broken powder of herbal medicine. It provides a new molecular method to identify ultrafine powder and cell wall-broken powder of herbal medicine in the quality control and market supervision.

Objective:To obtain purified recombinant Litopenaeus vannamei allergen protein Lit v 1.2.Methods: The target gene of Lit v 1.2 was inserted into clone vector pGEM-T and then ligated to the expression vector pET 44a.The pET44a-Liv 1.2 was transformed into Rosetta and screened by ampicillin resistance .The recombinant protein was expressed by IPTG induction .The protein was purified by 6-His tag affinity chromatography and the purification was analyzed by SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis .Results:The ex-pression plasmid pET44a-Lit v 1.2 was constructed.SDS-PAGE showed that expressed Lit v 1.2 was efficient and soluble in E.coli Rosetta.The protein molecular weight was consistent with the theoretical value .The highly purified target protein was obtained.Conclusion:In this study ,we successfully gained highly purified recombinant allergen protein Lit v 1.2 which was expressed in prokaryotic system and purified by affinity chromatography column .The purified Lit v 1.2 protein will facilitate us to further study its role in immunological responses .

Objective To evaluate the relationship between Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) accompanying renal impairment and helicobater pylori(Hp) infection.Methods This study consisted of 304 patients with HSP.The patients were divided into 2 groups(group A and group B) based on Hp infection or not(91 cases in group A and 213 cases in group B).Compared with the rates of accompanying renal impairment in 2 groups.And observed the recovery from renal impairment between the patients who were turned into negative(group C)and patients still were positive after the anti-Hp therapy(group D).Numeration data were analyzed by ?2 test.Results Group A which was with Hp infected,the accompanying renal impairment ratio was 65.9%.Group B which was without Hp infected,the ratio was 35.2%.There was significant difference between 2 groups(?2=24.378 P

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between Parkinson’s disease and pancreatic cancer in Taiwan. Methods: This was a case-control study using claim data of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program. There were 13,861 subjects aged 20- 84 with newly diagnosed pancreatic cancer as cases and 55,444 randomly selected subjects without pancreatic cancer as controls from 1998 to 2011. Cases and controls were matched by sex, age and index year of diagnosing pancreatic cancer. The association of pancreatic cancer with Parkinson’s disease was evaluated by the multivariable logistic regression model to estimate the adjusted odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Results: After adjusting for confounding factors including acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus, biliary stone, alcoholism, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, the multivariable logistic regression analysis showed the adjusted OR of pancreatic cancer was 0.82 for subjects with Parkinson’s disease (95% CI 0.55, 1.21), as compared with subjects without Parkinson’s disease. Conclusion: No association is detected between Parkinson’s disease and pancreatic cancer.
Parkinson Disease ; Pancreatic Neoplasms