OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for identification and determination of illegal adding of chemical substance glibenclamide in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)for health care,and to provide the reference for the governmental de?partment of drug surveillance and drug inspection.METHODS:TLC and HPLC were employed to isolate and analyze the ex?tract from Qiaoqi capsule suspected of illegal addition of glibenclamide.Glibenclamide was identified by HPLC-DAD spec?trography and ESI-MS technology,and the content determination was made by HPLC.RESULTS:Both capsule sample A and B were detected to contain glibenclamide,the concentrations of which were1.51mg per capsule and0.55mg per capsule respectively.CONCLUSION:The established method is specific,sensitive,and convenient,and can be used efficiently for con?trol and surveillance of illegal adding of chemical substance glibenclamide in TCM for health care.

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【Objective】To observe the influence of hot-needle therapy and herbal medicine fuming-washing combined with western medicine for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis(RA).【Methods】One hundred and twenty-eight RA patients were equally randomized into two groups: group A received hot-needle therapy and herbal medicine fuming-washing combined with western medicine of meloxicam,salazosulfamide,and methotrexate,and group B was treated with western medicine only.The treatment lasted one month.Symptoms and signs of early morning stiffness time,grip strength,joints with tenderness count,tenderness index,auricular rest pain,swollen joints count,swelling index as well as the evaluation by the patients themselves and the doctors were observed before and after treatment.Meanwhile,the changes of rheumatoid factor(RF),C-reactive protein(CRP),erythrocyte sedimentation rate(ESR),the white blood cell(WBC) count and platelet(PLT) count were evaluated before and after treatment.【Results】The total effective rate in group A was 78.1%,which was superior to 53.1% in group B(P

Objective To explore the clinical effect of IPL combined with tranexamic acid in the treatment of chloasma.Methods 50 patientss with chloasma were selected,and they were randomly divided into two groups by odd-and-even grouping method.The control group received IPL treatment,the study group was given photorejuvenation combined with tranexamic acid treatment.The MASI score,clinical efficacy and adverse reactions were compared between the two groups.Results The MASI score[(8.71 ± 0.82) points] and the total effective rate (92.00％) of the study group were significantly better than those of the control group [(11.35 ± 1.03) points,68.00％,t =3.10,x2 =4.39,all P ＜ 0.05].The incidence rate of adverse reaction betweem the two groups (16.00％,16.00％) had no significant difference (x2 =0.00,P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Photorejuvenation combined with tranexamic acid has significant clinical effect in the treatment of chloasma.

Objective To investigate the expression of microRNA-451 (miR-451) in female invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and its roles in tumor cell invasion.Methods Forty five IDC tissues and matched tumor adjacent tissues were collected between January and December in 2014.The expressions of miR-451 in tissues were detected by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR).The relationship between long noncoding RNA taurine regulated genes 1 (lncRNA-TUG1) and clinical features was analyzed by student-t test.miR-451 mimics was transfected into MDA-MB-231 cells.Transwell assay was used to measure cell invasion ability.The expression of c-myc,a potential target of miR-451,and its downstream genes,matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 were detected by qRT-PCR and Western-blot.Resuts The expression of miR-451 was significantly lower in IDC tissues than in matched tumor adjacent tissues (P ＜ 0.05).Low expression of miR-451 was positively associated with lymphatic metastasis (P ＜ 0.05) and advanced tumor node metastasis (TNM) stage (P ＜ 0.05).Up-regulation of miR-451 in MDA-MB-231 cells could significantly suppress cell invasion ability (P ＜0.05).c-myc expression was down-regulatedwhen miR-451 was transfected (P ＜0.05).As downstream genes of c-myc,the expressions of MMP-2 and MMP-9 were suppressed.Conclusions miR-451 is down-regulated in IDC tissues and associated with cell invasion.miR-451 might inhibit IDC progression by inhibiting c-myc/MMP axis.

OBJECTIVE: To improve superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIO-NP) stability, biocompatibility and tumor-targeting and evaluate their tumor targeting in vitro. METHODS: The folic acid-carboxymethylchitosan-superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (FA-OCMCS-SPIO-NPs) were synthesized by "three-steps": at first, superparamagnetic oxide iron nanoparticles were synthesized by coprecipitation, then, O-carboxymethyl chitosan and folic acid were successfully immobilized on the surface of SPIO-NPs in turn. The fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-Ray diffraction were used to confirm their synthesis, meanwhile, transmission electron microscope (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), Zeta-potential measurement and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) were applied to characterize their physicochemical properies. Ferrozine assay and Prussian blue staining were used to evaluate their tumor targeting in vitro. RESULTS: X-Ray diffraction showed the crystalline powder of FA-CMCS-SPIO-NPs agree with the standard Fe3O4, Fourier transform infrared results showed O-carboxymethylchitosan and folic acid were covalently modified on the surface of SPIO-NPs successfully, TEM showed all synthesized SPIO-NPs were almost spherical or ellipsoidal. Their sizes were less then 20 nm, dynamic light scattering (DLS), Zeta-potential results demonstrate the intensity particle size distributions of FA-OCMCS-SPIO-NPs were (41.4±0.132)nm, Zeta potential were (-21.36±15)mV. The surface modification may lead to decrese of magnetisms Ferrozine assay and Prussian blue staining results showed FA-OCMCS-SPIO-NPs had good tumor targeting and the tumor targeting had good relations with the amount of FR on surface of tumor cells. CONCLUSION: FA-OCMCS-SPIO-NPs with strong superparamagnetic property, excellent stability, and good folate receptor targeting is successfully synthesized, which demonstrated the potential for tumor MRI diagnose and therapy.

Aim To investigate the effects of Jar-TTA in dual inhibition of glycolysis/oxidative phosphoryla-tion in human esophageal cancer cells and explore the related molecular mechanism. Methods The effect of Jar-TTA on the esophageal cancer cell EC 109 and KYSE-150 viability was examined using MTT assay. The effect of Jar-TTA in apoptosis morphology and mitochondrial membrane potential ( MMP) was observed by a fluorescence microscopy. The apoptosis of cell lines treated with Jar-TTA, the quantitative analysis of MMP falling, as well as the glucose uptake was ana-lyzed by flow cytometry. The mitochondrial OXPHOS and glycolysis of EC 109 cells in response to Jar-TTA were analyzed using a Seahorse XFp extracellular flux analyzer by real-time measurements of the oxygen consumption rate (OCR, indicative of mitochondrial OXPHOS) and extracellular acidification rate(ECAR, indicative of glycolysis). The expression of the proteins related with glycolysis were detected by Western blot. Results Jar-TTA caused strong antiproliferation in EC 109 and KYSE-150 cells in a concentration-dependent manner. 2 , 4 and 8 jimol • L"1 Jar-TTA treat-ments of EC 109 cells for 24 h resulted in a significant increase of early apoptosis population up to (27. 9 ± 6. 1)%, (71.1 ±9.3)% and (65. 0 ±9.5)%, respectively , compared to control treated cells (5. 6 ± 3.2)%. The mitochondrial OXPHOS and glycolysis were significantly inhibited in EC 109 incubated by 4 and 8 p,mol • L"1 Jar-TTA for 2 h. In addition, Jar-TTA induced the drop of MiMP. Furthermore, the glucose uptake and the expression of GLUT4 and LDHA were distinctly inhibited in EC 109 treated by Jar-TTA. Conclusions Jar-TTA induces apoptosis of human e-sophageal cancer cells through dual inhibition of glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation, which is related with the drop of MMP collapse, the decrease of glucose uptake and the down-regulation of GLUT4 and LDHA in EC 109 treated by Jar-TTA.

Circulating tumor cells(CTCs)are essential for establishing recurrence and metastasis in malignant tumors.Detecting CTCs can help for early detection of the cancer metastases and recurrences,and also can help for evaluating prognostic and guiding treatment.CTCs detection technique mainly include screening and separation technology which contains immune magnetic separation technology and reverse transcriptasepolymerase chain reaction and so on.With the development of technique,there is a new technique named ctcchip contains both screening and separation functions.

BACKGROUND:Compared with single or composite biomolecular materials, decellulazied matrices are more biomimetic to natural ectocytic surroundings. So cel-secreted extracellular matrix is paid more and more attention in the field of tissue engineering, and the composition of these matrices are influenced by decellulezired preparation methods more or less. But there are few studies about the biological effect of different decellulazried methods on the extracellular matrix. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the composition of cel-secreted extracellular matrices in vitro by different decellularizing methods and their effects as surface modification on cytobiological reaction. METHODS:After the treatment of different decellularizing methods (freeze/thaw cycles, trypsin, weak alkal, detergents), the extracellular matrix was obtained and grouped into four kinds. The biological composition of the extracellular matrix was determined by ELISA assay. Then osteoblasts were seeded onto the four kinds of extracellular matrix surfaces. cells cultured normal y served as controls. The effect of extracellular matrix coatings on cellgrowth and differentiation were determined by MTT test and alkaline phosphatase activity test. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The residual components were the most in the freeze-thaw group, fol owed by the detergent and weak alkal groups, and the least in the trypsin group. Compared with the control group, the absorbance value of cells were lower in the freeze-thaw and detergent groups at days 3, 5, 7 after inoculation (both P<0.05);the alkaline phosphatase activity was lower in the trypsin group at days 5, 7 after inoculation (P<0.05), in the weak alkal group at 7 days after inoculation (P<0.05), and in the detergent group at days 3, 5, 7 after inoculation (P<0.05). Therefore, we can harvest more extracellular matrices by the freeze-thaw method, and the extracellular matrix coating synthesized by the freeze-thaw method is more helpful for cellgrowth than others.

Objective To explore the pathogenic bacteria and immunologic mechanism of recurrent respiratory tract infection(RRI) in children.Methods The observation group included 50 children with RRI,26 cases were boys and 24 cases were girls, in Department of Respiratory Medicine of Wuhan Children′s Hospital were enrolled from Apr.2007 to Apr.2008.These children were divided into 3 subset groups:28 cases in 6 months-2 years old group,15 cases in 3-5 years old group,and 7 cases in 6-12 years old group.The healthy control group included 50 healthy children aged 6 months -12 years.The specimens were gathered on the next morning after the children entered hospital.The secretions of noses and pharynxes were gathered with clean and aseptic tampon from children with upper respiratory tract infection and placed in aseptic vessel,and were immediately detected with the pathogenic bacteria.The secretions of lower respiratory tract were gathered with suction method from children with lower respiratory tract infection and placed in aseptic vessel, and were immediately detected with the pathogenic bacteria,the number of superinfection with some kind of pathogenic bacteria was calculated.The children in observation group and healthy control group were exsanguinated of vein when the children were hungry to detect the cellular immunity(CD3+,CD4+,CD8+,CD4+/CD8+) and humoral immunity(IgA,IgM,IgG,C3,C4).Results Three hundred and two specimens in 6 months-2 years old group were detected,and 135 pathogenic bacteria were separated,the ratio of positive was 42.2%,and the number of superinfection was 25.One hundred and thirty-seven specimens in 3-5 years old group were detected,and 47 pathogenic bacteria were separated,the ratio of positive was 34.3%,and the number of superinfection was 7.Fifty-four specimens in 6-12 years old group were detected,and 16 pathogenic bacteria were separated,the ratio of positive was 29.6%,and the number of superinfection was 2.The top 5 kinds of bacteria that those children with RRI were easily infected were Ps.aeruginosa,K.pneumoniae,S.aurens,E.coli and streptococcus pneumoniae.The CD3+,CD8+ and CD4+/CD8+ of cellular immunity in the observation group were obviously lower than those in the healthy control group(Pa