Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture at phenomaxillary ganglia in treating dry eye syndrome (DES). Methods Totally 148 DES patients were randomized into a treatment group of 72 cases and a control group of 76 cases. The treatment group was intervened by acupuncture at phenomaxillary ganglia plus Jingming (BL 1), Sibai (ST 2), and Taiyang (EX-HN 5), while the control group was by using eye drops of artificial tears. The DES symptoms score and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were observed before and after intervention, and the clinical efficacies were compared. Results The total effective rate was 90.3%in the treatment group versus 68.4%in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.01). The DES and VAS scores were significantly changed after intervention in both groups (P<0.01). The changes of DES and VAS scores in the treatment group after intervention were significantly different from those in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusions Acupuncture at phenomaxillary ganglia can go deep and directly reach the affected area, and thus is an effective method in treating DES.

Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease.Detection and evaluation of airway inflammation has important clinical significance in asthma diagnosis and severity judgement.It is also important to select drugs,dosage,and withdrawal time for patients whose symptoms have been controlled.So,it is necessary to find the technology which can response to airway inflammation to guide the asthma diagnosis and therapy.At present,many inflammatory biomarkers have been researched including exhaled nitric oxide,leukotrienes,exhaled breath condensate determination,Periosrin,YKL-40 etc.This review summarizes the biological characteristics and clinical application of inflammatory markers in asthma.

Objective To summarize nursing measures of one liver cancer patient with hand-foot syndrome by onral intake of Nexavar. Methods Care focused on close observation of disease condition changes,strengthening skin care,psychological support,life care,health education and dietary care. Results The patient was discharged crred after two-week treatment.Through intensive care,the patient was discharged from hospital after 2 weeks. Conclusions To teach patients self-observation and prevention measures of hand-foot syndrome can ensure early detection,early treatment and early recovery of them.

Wnt signaling pathways is a hot focus in recent years,which plays important regulatory roles in cell proliferation,differentiation and migration.Wnt signaling pathways include classical Wnt signaling pathways and non classical Wnt signaling pathways.Wnt11 is a very important signal molecule in the nonclassical WNT signaling pathways and kidney development,which plays a positive regulatory effect in the development of kidney and become silent in mature kidney.Studies have shown that Wnt11 re-express in the renal fibrosis.This paper discusses the function of the Wnt11 in kidney development and the relationship between Wnt11 and renal fibrosis.

Regulatory T cells are a group of subgroup T cells with special immune regulating function,which participate in keeping immune homeostasis and play important roles in preventing autoimmune diseases.However,regulatory T cells also promote tumor immune evasion.The highly increase of its expression will significantly reduce the smvival rate of cancer patients.Gastric cancer with high mortality is difficult to detect in early stage.China is one of the high-prevalence gastric cancer countrys.This article mainly introduced the sources,classification and immune phenotype of regulatory T cells and its function mechanism to explore its relationship with gastric cancer in order to discover the new strategy of tumor immunotherapy.

Objective To study the applied value of MR DWI and ADC value of in the hepatic lesions.Methods 36 cases ofhepatocellular carcinoma,15 cases of metastases,33 cases of hepatic cavemous hemangioma and 12 cases of cyst were examined by DWI andconventional MRI,then the ADC values were measured.Results The average ADC values of hepatic lesions were as follows:cyst was(2.90?0.68)?10~(-3)mm~2/s,hemangioma was(2.01?0.53)?10~(-3)mm~2/s,metastases was(1.57?0.42)?10~(-3)mm~2/s,hepatocellular carcinoma was(1.20?0.32)?10~(-3)mm~2/s.The ADC values of benign lesions were higher than those of malignant(P

The effects of radix hedysari polysaccharide (RHPS)and Astragli polysac-charide(APS)on immune function was studied in normal mice and in themice whose immune function had been suppressed by the use ofcyclophosphamide(CY)or prednisolone(PDS).RHPS or APS 500mg,1000mg/kg ip qd?6d to mice,could increase spleen weight(p

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OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety of endovascular stent implantation in treating carotid artery stenosis and analyze the stenosis rate and hemodynamics following stent implantation.METHODS:Self-control experiments concerning endovascular stent implantation for carotid artery stenosis were searched in CNKI published between 2000 and 2008 with the of "carotid artery stenosis,endovascular stent implantation".The data of each experiment were extracted and analyzed.RESULTS:A total of 17 experiments involving 522 cases of carotid artery stenosis were accorded with the inclusion criteria.The stenosis rate was reduced after endovascular stent implantation.Follow-up results show that the stent has good appearance with no deformation,and the blood flow is patent in the stent,with no relapse of re-stenosis.In addition,stent implantation promotes recovery of blood flow at stenosis site,improves distal blood flow rate,attenuates blood perfusion and hemodynamic impairment and reduce stroke incidence.CONCLUSION:Endovascular stent implantation has high success rate in treating carotid artery stenosis with favorable clinical outcome.However,other effective indexes and its safety need further evaluation.

0.05).Conclusion:Balofloxacin is as effective and well-tolerated as levofloxacin for the treatment of bacterial infections in urinary system respiratory tract.