Objective To introduce a new method for correction of epicanthal folds, which could avoid obvious scar in medial canthus. Methods First, through upper and lower palpebral margin incisions, the connective and orbicularis oculi muscle dense fibers underlying epicanthal folds as well as the superficial head of medial canthal ligament were thoroughly released and excised. After repositioning the medial canthus, the redundant skin tissue was removed and then the incisions closed. Results 122 epicanthoplasties had been performed. Postsurgical scars were invisible in all cases. All patients were satisfied with operation results. No recurrence of epicanthal fold was observed. Conclusions The introduced method has advantages in avoiding scar formation and is an especially suitable approach for epicanthoplasty in Asian patients.

BACKGROUND: In many parts of the body, muscle diastolic and contractive activities can promote the body's energy metabolism. Furthermore, the muscles also play an irreplaceable role in maintaining body posture and joint stability. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the rules of muscle function and aging changes, to search for research related to the trainability of old muscle function, and to provide references for muscular anti-aging research in field of sports medicine. METHODS: Taking senescence, aging, muscle function, exercise, training in English as the search terms, Pubmed database from January 2000 to May 2009 was retrieved; Taking aging, muscle function, training in Chinese as the search terms, CNKI database from January 2000 to May 2009 was searched. Literatures were limited to English and Chinese languages. Inclusive criteria: research closely related to the trainability of motor function and muscle metabolic function in the elderly; Exclusive criteria: obsolete and lack of credibility of the literature. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Totally 67 literatures were screened out by computer, according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, 31 documents of which were involved in the analysis. Based on the recent research On muscle function, the muscle function can be summarized into three aspects: motor function, metabolic function and maintenance function. The elderly muscle aging is mainly showed in these 3 aspects. How to reconstruct these functions through resistance training? The concerning data were summarized in this paper, to verify the trainability of ageing's muscle motor and metabolism functions, but no study indicates that the maintenance function can be reconstructed, and deserves further studies of sports science.

Objective To investigate the inhibitory effects of combined treatment of nimesulide, a selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) on gastric cancer cell lines and its pos-sible mechanisms. Methods The human gastric cancer cell lines MKN45 and MKN28 were used in the study. After 48 hours treatment with nimesulide or 5-FU alone or in combination, the cells growth was determined by MTT assay. Flow cytometry and FITC-Annexin-V/PI kit were used to determine the effect of drugs on the cell cycle and the apoptosis of gastric cancer cells. The expression of COX-2 mRNA was detected by RT-PCR. The expressions of apoptosis-associated protein Bax and Bcl-2 were detected by Western blotting. Results Different level of COX-2 mRNA expression was observed in MKN45 and MKN28 cell lines. Treatment of the two cell lines with nimesulide in combination with 5-FU can significantly reduce the expression of COX-2 mRNA. Nimesulide could inhibit the growth and induce apoptosis of gastric cells. Combined treatment of nimesulide with 5-FU resulted in a synergistic effect of inhibiting growth and inducing apoptosis. The synergistic inhibiting effect on cell growth was irrespective of treatment sequence, but the highest cytotoxity was obtained when the cell lines were treated with two drugs simultaneously. Treatment with 5-FU enhanced expression of the pro-apoptotic gene Bax, while nimesulide reduced expression of the anti-apoptotic gene Bcl-2, resulting in a significantly higher ratio of Bax-to-Bcl-2. Conclusions The combined treatment of nimesulide with 5-FU results in synergistic inhibiting effect on growth of gastric cancer cell lines, and inducing apoptosis by enhanced Bax-to-Bcl-2 ratio and suppression of COX-2 mRNA expression may be the mechanisms.

OBJECTIVE:To observe the clinical efficacy of compound glycyrrhizin combining desloratadine in the treat?ment of chronic urticaria.METHODS:103patients with chronic urticaria were randomly divided into treatment group which were treated with compound glycyrrhizin plus desloratadine and controlled group which were treated with single desloratadine.The courses of treatment for both groups were2weeks.RESULTS:The total effective rates of the treatment group and the controlled group were96.15%and82.35%,respectively.There were significant differences between the2groups(P

Objective To approach the status of leprosy disabilities in newly detected cases in recent 10 years in China and provide the scientific basis for formulating the preventive strategies. Methods Based upon the individual records from the National Leprosy Recording and Reporting System in National Center for STD and Leprosy Control, 22 437 leprosy cases detected during 1989－ 1998 in China were analyzed in terms of leprosy disability. Results The proportion of disabilities in newly detected leprosy cases in 1989 in whole country was 46.49％ and decreased to 32.31％ in 1998, and the proportions of cases with grade II disabilities were 25.55％ (1989) and 20.23％ (1998). There were 18 provinces where disability rate was more than 40％ . Out of patients with disabilities, those with grades I and II disabilities and with deformities (loss of eyebrow, facial paralysis or saddle nose) accounted for 37.86％ , 60.64％ and 1.5％ , respectively. There were 25 provinces where grade II disabilities accounted for more than 50％ of all patients with disabilities. The disability rates in patients aged under 15 years, 15－ 65 years and over 65 years were 24％ , 39.85％ and 53.33％ . The patients with a delay in detection of 2 years had a disability rate of 29.85％ , and those with a delay of more than 2 years and 5 years had the rates of 48.82％ and 61.17％ , respectively. The disability rate was 52.9％ in patients with leprosy reactions and 46.1％ in patients with a damage of more than 3 nerves. The grade II disability rate in paucibacillary patients(28.99％ ) was significantly higher than that in multibacillary ones (22.04％ ). Conclusion Disability rate of leprosy in newly detected cases is still high although it has decreased in the recent 10 years. The rate is associated with delay in detection, leprosy reaction and leprosy type. It suggests that early detection of leprosy patients, regular treatment with multidrug therapy, and management of leprosy reactions will be the effective measures to prevent disabilities of leprosy.

Objective This study was designed to evaluate the change in coagulation and platelet function during cardiac surgery using SONOCLOT(SCT), a new coagulation and platelet function analyser which can analyse the whole process of coagulation including platelet function , fibrin formation and fibrinolysis with only 0 4ml of whole blood Methods Thirty ASA Ⅱ Ⅲpatients scheduled for cardiac surgery were studied 15 patients underwent valve replacement (group V) and another 15 patients coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, groupC) under combined intravenous and inhalation anesthesia Anesthesia was induced with midazolam 0 05mg?kg -1 ,fentanyl 5 10?g kg -1 or propofol 1 1 5mg?kg -1 and vecuronium 0 1 0 2mg?kg -1 and maintained with isoflurane(0 8 1 5MAC) supplemented with intermittent boluses of propofol and fentanyl ECG,SpO 2, P ET CO 2, BP, CVP, PAP, HCT and T were monitored during operation And dopamine, adrenaline, nitroglycerin, milrinone and other vasoactive drugs were used to maintain hemodynamic stability Blood samples were taken before anesthesia (T 1), after induction (T 2), after heparinization 3mg? kg -1 ( T 3) and 5min after protamine administration (T 4) for determination of ACT, clot rate and platelet function using SONOCLOT analysis Platelet counts were checked at T 1 and T 4 Results CPB time was less than 2h in all 30 patients Clot rate was significantly faster at T 2 than at T 1(P

OBJECTIVE:To set up a HPLC method for the determination of the contents of notoginsenoside R1,ginsenoside Rg1 and Rb1 in Sanqishangyao tablets.METHODS:It was performed on VP-ODS (150mm?4.6mm,5?m),and the mobile phase was acetonitrile-water with gradient elution system(0～20min(20∶80),20～26min(40∶60),26～35min(20∶80)).The flow rate was 1.0mL?min-1 and the column temperature was room temperature.The detection wavelength was 203nm.RESULTS:The liner range of notoginsenoside R1 was 0.261～7.83?g(r=0.999 9)and the average recovery was (101.12?2.03)%(RSD=2.1%).The liner range of ginsenoside Rg1 was 0.602 5～18.075?g(r=0.999 7)and the average recovery rate was (97.22?3.33)%(RSD=1.9%).The liner range of ginsenoside Rb1 was 0.537 5～16.125?g(r=0.999 6)and the average recovery rate was(100.71?2.4)%(RSD=1.6%).CONCLUSION:The method is suitable for the content determination of notoginsenoside R1,ginsenoside Rg1 and Rb1 in Sanqishangyao Tablets.

Objective To explore the changes of indicators for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and parenteral nutrition (PN) combining enteral nutrition (EN) support in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), and to analyze the treatment effects of two groups. Methods 29 patients with SAP were randomly divided into two groups: TPN group (n=14) and PN+EN group (n=15). Nonoperative treatment were applied to the two groups. The changes of indicators and therapeutic outcome of two groups were recorded after nutrition support 14 days. Results After 14 days nutritional support, serum albumin (ALB), total serum protein (TSP), blood calcium, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (ALT), glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (AST) in each group increased significantly (P<0.05). While blood glucose, serum amylase, leucocyte count decreased significantly (P<0.05). However, there were no significant difference between two groups except leucocyte count in all laboratory tests. The leucocyte count in the PN+EN group was significantly lower than that in the TPN group (P<0.05). In both group there was no difference found in serum total bilirubin (TB) before and after nutrition support (P>0.05). The APACHE II scores, average hospital days, average hospital charges, incidence of infection and mortality rate in the PN+EN group were significantly lower than that in the TPN group (P<0.05). ConclusionsPN combining EN support was superior to TPN in the treatment of patients with SAP.

Objective To investigate the effect of nimesulide,a selective cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor,on the chemoprevention of N-ethyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (ENNG)-induced gastric cancer in rat model. Methods Ninety-six male Wistar rats were randomized to drink the solution of ENNG (group M), ENNG/low dose nimesulide (group MN_L), ENNG/ high dose nimesulide (group MN_H), low dose nimesulide (group N_L), high dose nimesulide (group N_H) or water (group P). Eighty-nine(92.7%) rats completed the study and were sacrificed at (28?2) weeks. The animals were assessed for the presence of gastric cancer, COX-2 expression and precancerous changes in gastric mucosa. Results The incidence of gastric carcinoma in group M was 56.3% (9 /16), significantly higher than 7.4%(1/14)in MN_L group and 6.3%(1/16)in MN_H group( P

Objective To compare the effect of intracoronary versus intravenous administration of tiroifban for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods A search was retrieved from Pubmed, EMbase, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Chinese Journal Full-text Database (CNKI), Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP), Cochrane Library to systematically collect the randomized controlled trials of intracoronary versus intravenous administration of tirofiban for the patients with ACS undergoing PCI. The data was extracted from the included studies and analyzed by Cochrane Collaboration's RevMan5.2 software. Results Twenty-five studies involving 2516 patients met the inclusion criteria. The results of meta-analysis showed that thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) grade 3 lfow (RR 1.15, 95%CI 1.07-1.23, P=0.0001) were signiifcantly more often achieved in the patients by intracoronary administration of tiroifban (IC group) than those by intravenous strategy (IV group). Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) values in a week after PCI which were evaluated by Cardiac Ultrasound were statistically significant between the two groups (WMD 2.69, 95%CI 0.14-5.25, P=0.04). LVEF values in IC group were increased by an average of 2.69% compared with group IV. Intracoronary administration resulted in a reduced incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) at 30-day follow-up (RR 0.51, 95%CI 0.38-0.69, P < 0.0001). However, the incidence of bleeding complications was not statistically signiifcant between the two groups (RR 0.95, 95% CI 0.76-1.19, P=0.64). Conclusions Compared with intravenous strategy, intracoronary administration of tiroifban can be more effective in increasing coronary blood lfow and microvascular perfusion, more signiifcantly in reducing the incidence of MACE at 30-day follow-up and improving the prognosis after PCI without increasing the risk of bleeding.