Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is an independent risk factor of stroke. About two-thirds patients with TIA will reoccur TIA or stroke. To predict the risk of stroke after the onset of TIA may identify the prognosis of patients, so as to have an intervention for the high-risk patients as early as possible. This article reviews the various risk assessment tools for stroke after TIA, in order to provide ideas for the prognostic assessment of TIA.

Objective:To evaluate the implementation effects of critical illness insurance of New Cooperative Medical System(NCMS) on the occurrence rate and economic burden of major disease expenditure.Methods:Based on the peasant household data of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS) in 2014.the two-part model was applied to analyze the changes in major disease occurrence and burden after the implement of insurance.Results:NCMS critical illness insurance did not reduce the occurrence of critical disease expenditure,but signally cut down the economic burden of serious illness peasants in central and eastern China.Conclusion:The implementation effect of NCMS critical illness insurance was well in central and eastern China,but was poor in western China;the prevention and health care system of NCMS should be built,while the implementation plans and compensation level of critical illness insurance should be improved in western region.

Objective:To establish a Crownpak CR( +)-HPLC method for the determination of the content and related substance of valacyclovir hydrochloride dispersible tablets. Methods: A Crownpak CR( +) [4. 0 mm × 150 mm,5 μm,DAICEL CROWNPAK CR( +)] column was used,and the mobile phase was 0. 1% perchloric acid in water. The flow rate was 0. 75 ml·min-1 and the de-tection wavelength was 255 nm. Results: A good linear range of valacyclovir hydrochloride was 11. 25-180. 00 μg · ml-1 ( r =1. 000 0), and the average recovery was 99. 0%(RSD=0. 8%, n=9). A good linear range of alacyclovir was 0. 2-50μg·ml-1(r=1. 000 0), and the average recovery was 99. 3%(RSD=0. 6%, n=9). The content of the tablets from two pharmaceutical companies was 92. 7% and 97. 4%, respectively, that of acyclovir calculated by an external standard method was 0. 5% and 0. 4%, respectively, and that of D-valacyclovir calculated by a self-control method was 0. 9%. Conclusion:The method can effectively separate valacyclovir and D-valacyclovir, which is simple, accurate and reliable, and suitable for the quantity control of valacyclovir hydrochloride.

Objective To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of adverse reaction induced by Chinese activating blood herbal injection. Methods Domestic medicinal periodicals issued during 1972-2011 were searched, and 566 adverse drug reaction (ADR) cases were analyzed by database establishment and statistic method. Results Totally 566 ADR cases involving 16 different kinds of traditional Chinese medicine injection were collected, and 139 cases were related to Fufang Danshen Injection. The incidence of ADR was 51.77%(293 cases) in the male and 48.23%(273 cases) in the female. Average age of patients was (55.01±16.07) years old. The incidence of circulation system damage (206 cases, 23.22%) dominated in ADRs. The number of ADR which occurred within half an hour was 357 cases (64.79%) and the original disease most were cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (384 cases, 67.84%). Conclusion ADR induced by Chinese activating blood herbal injection are commonly seen in middle-aged and elderly people, and often involved circulation system.

RNA-seq can help us quickly obtain the whole transcriptome sequences of species under different conditions. Many Unigenes that are assembled by raw reads always do not contain complete open reading frame (ORF). In addition, it also has some redundancy in transcriptome library. Some Unigenes in the library, although belong to one transcript, cannot be assembled without overlapping. We found five incomplete Unigenes annotated ammonium transporter (AMT) from Salicornia europaea transcriptome, in which two Unigenes (Uni4 and Uni5) had identical expression patterns across four transcriptomes. The two Unigenes may come from one transcript. Analyzing the Unigene position of transcript by NCBI blastx, we found that Uni4 and Uni5 respectively located in 5' end and 3' end compared with the reference transcript, and an unknown gap of 120 bp may exist in a hypothetic transcript to which Uni4 and Uni5 both belong. To verify the hypothesis, single forward primer and single reverse primers were respectively designed on Uni4 and Uni5, and a fragment with about 800 bp was generated by PCR. Then it was sequenced and aligned with Uni4 and Uni5. Finally, we assembled a sequence with 1 667 bp, which contains a complete ORF (1 482 bp, coding 494 amino acids). It belongs to amt1 subfamily and was named Seamt1 via the phylogenetic analysis. It was pointed by bioinformatics tools that SeAMT1 protein conformed to the AMT characteristics of other species. This work clustered expression pattern to explore the Unigenes of one transcript, and the feasibility of this method was validated through the other two groups of Unigenes. The handy method will benefit extension and assembling of Unigene in transcriptome, it also helps achieve the complete ORF and gene function.
Ammonium Compounds ; Chenopodiaceae ; genetics ; Computational Biology ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Genes, Plant ; Membrane Transport Proteins ; genetics ; Molecular Sequence Annotation ; Open Reading Frames ; Phylogeny ; Plant Proteins ; genetics ; Transcriptome

Objective To investigate the effect of low sound pressure level infrasound on che-mokine-mediated inflammatory response in spinal cord in rats with neuropathic pain.Methods Seven-ty-two healthy male SD rats were randomly divided into sham operation group (group Sham),neuro-pathic pain group (group NP)and low sound pressure level infrasound intervention group (group LNP),24 in each.The sciatic nerve injury models were established.3 d after the model constructed, the rats in group LNP started to receive low sound pressure level infrasound therapy,4 h per day, continued for 21 d.1 d before surgery (T0 )and 3 d after surgery (T1 ),all rats were detected me-chanical paw withdrawal threshold (MWT).Respectively,after treated for 7 d (T2 ),14 d (T3 )and 21 d (T4 ),eight rats were randomly selected from each group and their MWT was measured.The ex-pressions of MCP-1 mRNA,CCR2 mRNA,TNF-αmRNA,IL-1βmRNA,and IL-6 mRNA in spinal cord in rats were detected using quantitative PCR,the expressions of MCP-1 protein and CCR2 protein in spinal cord in rats were detected by using Western blot.Results MWT in groups NP and LNP at T1-T4 was lower than that of group Sham,and that in group LNP at T3-T4 were higher than that of group NP,respectively (P <0.05).Compared with group Sham,the relative expression levels of MCP-1 mRNA,CCR2 mRNA,TNF-αmRNA,IL-1βmRNA,and IL-6 mRNA in spinal cord tis-sues in groups NP and LNP at T2-T4 were increased (P <0.05);compared with group NP,the rela-tive expression levels of MCP-1 mRNA,CCR2 mRNA,TNF-αmRNA,IL-1βmRNA,and IL-6 mR-NA in spinal cord were decreased in group LNP at T3-T4 (P <0.05 ).Western blot analysis showedthat the relative expression levels of MCP-1 protein and CCR2 proteinin spinal cord in groups NP and LNP at T2-T4 were higher than that of group Sham,while relative expression levels of MCP-1 protein and CCR2 proteinin spinal cord in group LNP at T3-T4 were lower than that of group NP. Conclusion The low sound pressure level infrasound could effectively reduce neuropathic pain in rats, possibly via inhibiting chemokine-mediated cascade inflammatory reaction.

Objective To investigate the relationship between admission blood glucose and in-hospital adverse events of elderly patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction(NSTEMI) combined with multi-organ dysfunction in emergency department,and to assess the prognostic value.Methods Fifty-one geriatric patients with NSTEMI combined with multi-organ dysfunction were selected and divided into the experimental group (26 cases) and control group (25 cases),depending on whether they had adverse events in hospital.After the propensity score matching was used to reduce confounding effects,the difference in admission blood glucose between the two groups was compared.According to the ROC curve,the predictive value of immediate admission blood glucose to the incidence of adverse events during hospitalization was detected.Results After propensity score matching,admission blood glucose of the experimental group ((10.35±4.06) mmol/L) was higher than that of the control group ((7.05±2.45) mmol/L),and this difference was statistically significant (t=2.869,P<0.01).The area under the ROC curve for adverse events during hospitalization was 0.758 (P<0.01),and it may reach the best prognostic value when we choose 8.025mmol/L as the critical value.Under this condition,the sensitivity was 0.765 and specificity was 0.765.Conclusion For geriatric patients with NSTEMI combined with multi-organ dysfunction in emergency department,admission blood glucose is a risk factor for in-hospital adverse event,and the risk is high when admission blood glucose is over 8.025mmol/L.

Objective To investigate the effects of valproic acid ( VPA) on cell proliferation and cell cycle in human pancreatic cancer cell line PaTu8988 in vitro. Methods PaTu8988 cells were treated with VPA in concentration of 0, 0.2, 1.0 or 5.0 mmol/L for 24 h and 48 h respectively. Cell viability was measured by WST-8 assay. Cell cycles were detected by flow cytometery. Dimethyl sulfoxide added to the medium was used as blank control group, while PBS added to the medium was used as PBS group. Results After VPA treatment for 24 h, the inhibition rate of VPA 5.0 mmol/L group was 18.9% , which was significantly higher than those in control group, PBS group and VPA 0.2, 1.0 mmol/L group (0, 4.4% , 6.8%, 6.1% , P <0.05). After 48 h, the inhibition rates of VPA 1.0, 5.0 mmol/L were 12.9%, 25.9% , which was significantly higher than those in control group, PBS group and VPA 0.2 mmol/L group (0, 6.2% , 4.6% , P <0.01). After VPA treatment for 24 h, the proportions of G2 phase cell in VPA 1.0, 5.0 mmol/L group were ( 26.57 ± 1.88) % , ( 34.11 ± 4.74 ) % , which was significantly higher than those in PBS group, control group, VPA 0.2 mmol/L group [(10.72 ± 2.02)% , ( 13.53 ± 2.28)% , (13.81 ±2.40)%, P <0.01 ], the changes 48 h after VPA treatment was consistent with the changes 24 h after VPA treatment. Conclusions VPA may significantly suppress the cell proliferation of human pancreatic cancer cell line PaTu8988, and induce cell cycle arrest in G2 phase in a time and dose-dependent manner.

Objective To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) induced by Chinese herbal injection for tonify, and provide reference for safety evaluation and rational use. Methods The ADR cases that issued on the domestic medicinal periodicals from 1972 to 2011 in China were collected comprehensively to build a database, and analyzed by statistic methods. Results Totally 233 ADR cases involving 7 different kinds of Chinese herbal injection for tonify were collected, in which 86 cases weighted the most were related to Huangqi Injection. Chinese herbal injection for tonify may induce multiple systematic ADRs. The incidence of respiratory damage was 27.0%(80 cases), which was dominated in the ADRs. The incidence of ADRs had no difference between the genders (male was 117 cases, 50.2%, and female was 116 cases, 49.8%), and the average age of patients was (51.40±16.67) years old. ADRs often occurred within half an hour after the start of infusion (64.5%). The diseases of patients mostly were cancer (19.3%), coronary heart disease (15.9%), and hypertension (6.0%), etc. Only 76 cases mentioned the combination therapy, which mainly combined with the drugs of antibiotics, other traditional Chinese medicines and vitamin. Conclusion ADRs of Chinese herbal injection for tonify are always induced by drug combinations, inappropriate medication, and other factors. To use Chinese herbal injection more rational and enhance prevention awareness may be the key to reduce the occurrence of ADRs.

Objective To examine the plasma β-catenin and DKK1 levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to explore their relationship with bone and joint damage in RA.Methods One hundred and thirteen patients with RA and 120 healthy individuals were recruited into this research.Bone mineral density (BMD) in the femur and lumbar spine were measured with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).Radiographs for two hands were evaluated according to the Sharp's method.Serum levels of β-catenin and DKK1 in all patients with RA and healthy controls were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).The 2-tailed independent samples t test was used for measurement data.Chi-square test was used for the enumeration data.Correlation analysis,linear regression and Logistic regression analysis were used as appropriate statistical analysis.Results ① Significantly higher serum levels of DKK1 were observed in RA patients than that in healthy controls [(8±7) vs(6±4) μg/ml,t=2.552,P=0.012],while there was no sinnificant difference with regard to the levels of β-catenin between the two groups.② Compared to control groups,patients with RA had lower BMDs at femur and lumbar spine (P＜0.01).Furthermore,incidence of osteoporosis (OP) in RA (31.9％,36/113) was remarkablely higher than that in healthy subjects (15.0％,18/120) (x2=9.290,P=0.002).③ There were obvious discrepancies in age,swollen joint count (SJC),swollen joint count index (SJI),alkaline phosphatase (AKP),joint narrowing space score,joint erosion score,Sharp score between patients with osteoporosis and without osteoporosis (P＜0.05).④ In RA group,DKK1 level was posi-tively related with plasma erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR),28-jonit disease activity score (DAS28),AKP,joint narrowing space score (P＜0.05).Serum β-catenin level was associated with ESR,AKP in RA (P＜0.05).⑤ Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that in the RA group,disease duration (b=0.709,t=9.560,P＜0.01,95％CI:2.154-3.286),HAQ (b=0.151,t=2.052,P=0.043,95％CI:0.234-15.243),DKK1(b=0.286,t=2.057,P=0.043,95％CI:0.034-2.028)were the contributors for joint space narrow score(R2=0.580,F=24.745,P＜0.01).⑥ Multiple Logistic regression analysis showed that the Sharp score (OR=1.018,P＜0.01,95％CI:1.008-1.028) was the risk factor for the occurrence of osteoporosis at femur in RA,while age (OR=1.087,P=0.012,95％CI 1.019-1.159) was the risk factor for osteoporosis at lumbar spine.Conclusion Serum DKK1 levels in RA increase significantly,while there is no apparent alteration in plasma β-catenin.Serum DKK1 is correlated with disease activity and joint space narrow score.