Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Aged ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Middle Aged ; Periarthritis ; therapy ; Phlebotomy ; Shoulder Joint

AIM: To observe the influence of rofecoxib, a non steroidal anti inflammatory drug, administrated for a long term on the knee joints cartilage of rats. METHODS: An experimental model of osteoarthritis of left knee in the early stage was induced by cutting achilles tendon in rats, the right knee providing a control. The rats of one group were given rofecoxib orally, and the rats in another group were given saline as a control. After 100 days, the histopathology, ultrastructure, and histochemistry changes on the knee joints cartilage were monitored. RESULTS and CONCLUSION: Rofecoxib, administrated for 100 days, had no harmful influence on chondrocyte and collagen, and could increase proteoglycan of cartilage in some degree in rats.

Hospital culture plays a more and more important role,among various factors that influence employee satisfaction.Study on hospital culture is gradually growing out of a pure conceptual research and emerging into an area of correlation analysis. Our studies on the hospital culture developments and employee satisfaction in a tertiary hospital,analyzed the correlations between hospital culture and employee satisfaction and its impact,with recommendations for reform strategies.

The article dicusses the status and roles of libraries in building a harmonious socialist society and probes into the main ways of building harmonious college libraries.

Comparative Genomic Hybridization ; methods ; DNA ; Gene Expression Profiling ; methods ; Genetics, Medical ; methods ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; methods

Acupressure ; Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Child ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Spasm ; therapy ; Stomach Diseases ; therapy ; Young Adult

Enteral Nutrition ; Humans ; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Practice Guidelines as Topic

Congresses as Topic ; Nutritional Sciences

Child ; Humans ; Metabolomics ; Pediatrics ; methods