Objective To study the effect of mild hypothermia on MBP level in the CSF of TBI patients.Methods We investigated 36 patients with severe traumatic brain injury and randomized them into two groups,mild hypothermia treatment group and normathermia treatment group.The MBP levels in CSF and ICP and GOS scores in different time-points were evaluated.Results There was no significant difference between the two groups in the MBP level on the 1st day after treatment(P ＞ 0.05).The MBP levels in mild hypothermia group decreased greater than that in the control group on the 7th and 14th day after treatment(P ＜ 0.05).ICP decreased more in mild hypothermia group than in the control group(P ＜ 0.05)on the 7th and 14th day after treatment.Moreover,patients in mild hypothermia treatment group have better outcome than those in the control group(P ＜ 0.05),but there was no significant difference in the death rate between the two groups.Conclusion Mild hypothermia may provide neuroprotection by reducing MBP degradation and stabilizing medullary sheath,thus improving the prognosis of TBI patients.

Air Pollutants, Occupational ; adverse effects ; analysis ; Dust ; analysis ; Environmental Monitoring ; instrumentation ; methods ; Humans ; Industry ; Inhalation Exposure ; statistics & numerical data ; Maximum Allowable Concentration ; Occupational Exposure ; statistics & numerical data ; Quartz

Objective To study the effect of mild hypothermia on β2- microglobulin (MG) level in cerebrospinam(CSF) of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients.Methods Thirty-six severe TBI patients were divided into two groups randomly,mild hypothermia treatment group and normathermia treatment group,and the β2- MG level and GOS score in CSF of these patients in different time- point were evaluated.Results β2-MG level increased at first,then decreased gradually,and MBP level in mild hypothermia group decreased greater than the control group( P ＜ 0.05 ),moreover,patients in mild hypothermia treatment group had better outcome than the control group( P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Mild hypothermia may act as neuroprotection by inhibiting inflammatory response or improving immune regulation.

Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Carcinoma in Situ ; virology ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; virology ; Female ; Human papillomavirus 16 ; isolation & purification ; Human papillomavirus 18 ; isolation & purification ; Humans ; Microarray Analysis ; methods ; Middle Aged ; Papillomaviridae ; isolation & purification ; Papillomavirus Infections ; diagnosis ; Paraffin Embedding ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; methods ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ; virology

Objective: To observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in uterine tissues of rats with primary dysmenorrhea (PD), thus to explore the possible mechanism of EA for PD. Methods: Fifty female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into a normal group, a model group, an EA at non-acupoint group, an EA at acupoint group and a Western medicine group, with 10 rats in each group. Except for the normal group, rats in the other four groups were treated with estradiol benzoate combined with oxytocin for 11 d to establish PD rat models. From day 1 of the modeling, rats in the normal group and the model group were only properly grasped without any intervention; Guanyuan (CV 4) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6) were selected for EA treatment in the EA at acupoint group; rats in the EA at non-acupoint group were treated with EA at 5 mm away from the acupoints selected above; rats in the Western medicine group were treated with ibuprofen via gavage. Rats in each group were treated for 10-day successively. On the 11th day, except for the normal group, rats in the other groups were intraperitoneally injected with oxytocin (2 U/rat), and the writhing number within 30 min in each group was compared; the pathological changes in rat uteruses were observed by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining, and the pathological damage scores were evaluated. Protein expression levels of NF-κB p65, phospho-NF-κB p65, NLRP3, cysteine aspastic acid-specific protease 1 (caspase-1), interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18 were detected by Western blot. Results: Compared with the normal group, the writhing number increased significantly (P<0.05), and the extensive exfoliation of the endometrium, severe edema, and histopathological score all increased significantly in the model group (P<0.05) as well as the protein levels of NLRP3, caspase-1, IL-1β and IL-18, and the ratio of phospho-NF-κB p65/NF-κB p65 in rat uterine tissues (all P<0.05); compared with the model group, the numbers of writhing reaction decreased within 30 min (P<0.05), the endometrial exfoliation was rare, the edema degree was mild, and the histopathological scores decreased significantly (all P<0.05) in the EA at acupoint group and the Western medicine group; compared with the model group, the phospho-NF-κB p65/NF-κB p65 ratio and the NLRP3, caspase-1, IL-1β and IL-18 protein levels of rat uterine tissues in the EA at acupoint group were significantly lower (P<0.05); compared with the model group, the caspase-1, IL-1β and IL-18 protein levels of the rat uterine tissues decreased significantly (all P<0.05), and the differences in the NLRP3 and phospho-NF-κB p65/NF-κB p65 levels were statistically insignificant (all P>0.05) in the Western medicine group; compared with the Western medicine group, the phospho-NF-κB p65/NF-κB p65 ratio, also the NLRP3, IL-1β and IL-18 protein levels of the uterine tissues decreased significantly in the EA at acupoint group (all P<0.05), while the difference in the caspase-1 level was statistically insignificant (P>0.05); there were no significant differences between the EA at non-acupoint group and the model group in any indicators (all P>0.05). Conclusion: EA at acupoints significantly improves the pain and pathological damages of PD rats. The mechanism may be related to the reduced uterine inflammation via inhibiting NF-κB phosphorylation and NLRP3 activation in uteruses of PD rats.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the effect and mechanism of Bufei Qingyu Granule (BQG) in mollifying the skin of scleroderma model mice.

METHODSScleroderma model induced with bleomycin in BALB/C mice 8-weeks old were administered with different dose of BQG for 26 days. The pathological changes of the mice skin were observed.

RESULTSTreatment with low, medium and high dose of BQG showed a tendency to ameliorate the thickened dermis in scleroderma mice but without statistical significance. Medium and high dose of BQG reduced the perivasculitis of dermis and alleviated the reduction or deletion of accessory structure, such as hair follicle and sweat gland. And the spleen index was lower markedly in mice treated with BQG of any dose than that in the untreated model mice (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONBQG could ameliorate the sclerosed skin in model mice and prevent the occurrence of splenomegaly.

Animals ; Bleomycin ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Phytotherapy ; Random Allocation ; Scleroderma, Localized ; chemically induced ; drug therapy ; Skin ; drug effects ; pathology ; Time Factors

To investigate the effect of Jiawei Foshou San and its various combined administration on hepatic P450 enzyme activity and hepatocyte morphology in rats. Rats were orally administered with drugs for four weeks and then sacrificed to prepare liver microsomes. The liver microsomes were incubated with the cocktail method; The metabolites were determined with the rapid liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to investigate the hepatocyte P450 enzyme activity. In addition, the hepatic pathological changes were observed by using the hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining. Compared with the control group, the enzyme activity of CYP1A2 and CYP3A4 in the Jiawei Foshou san group showed a significant rise (P < 0.05); the enzyme activity of CYP1A2, CYP2C9, CYP2D6, CYP2E1 and CYP3A4 in the ferulic acid + ligustrazine group and the ligustrazine + tetrahydropalmatine group showed a significant rise (P < 0.05) ; the enzyme activity of CYP1A2, CYP2D6 and CYP2E1 in the ligustrazine group showed a significant rise (P < 0.05); the enzyme activity of CYP3A4 in the ferulic acid group showed a significant reduction (P < 0.05). After the administration with various drugs, the hepatocyte morphologies in the ferulic acid group and the ligustrazine group were normal. The pathological changes were observed in the tetrahydropalmatine group, such as unclear boundary of hepatic lobules, disordered hepatic cell arrangement, blurred edge, anisokaryosis and infiltration of inflammatory cells. The ferulic acid + tetrahydropalmatine group, the ligustrazine + tetrahydropalmatine group and the Jiawei Foshou San group also showed inflammatory infiltration, but with less pathological changes, particularly the Jiawei Foshou San group. The study result shows that Jiawei Foshou San can induce the enzyme activity of CYP1A2 and CYP3A4, and ligustrazine may be the effective substance for inducing CYP1A2. Its combination with ferulic acid and ligustrazine can significantly reduce the liver toxicity of tetrahydropalmatine.
Animals ; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; Female ; Hepatocytes ; drug effects ; enzymology ; Microsomes, Liver ; drug effects ; enzymology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Adolescent ; Bacteria ; isolation & purification ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Respiratory Tract Infections ; microbiology

Adult ; Aged ; Alleles ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Female ; Gene Frequency ; HLA-DQ Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-DQ beta-Chains ; HLA-DR Antigens ; genetics ; HLA-DRB1 Chains ; Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary ; genetics ; immunology ; Male ; Middle Aged