AIM: The expression of the Fas Antigen and induction of apoptosis by anti-Fas antibody in esoinophils in vitro were investigated. METHODS: Purified eosinophils from health donors were cultured for 72 h in the presence of human IL-5 and with or without anti-Fas monclonal antibody (MoAb) at various concentrations (1-1000 ?g/L). The expression of the Fas antigen on eosinophils was determined by immunocytochemistry. The changes of eosinophils viability and apoptosis were also studied. RESULTS: The Fas antigen was expressed on freshly isolated eosinophils, which had no significant changes after culture in the presence or absence of IL-5. The anti-Fas MoAb at different concentration suppressed significantly the IL-5-mediated eosinophils survival (78%?9%). When eosinophils were cultured in the presence of IL-5 (1?10 4 U/L) with anti-Fas MoAb (1 000 ?g/L), the percentage of alive cell decreased to 30%?12%( P

Graduation project is key link in the cultivation of innovative talents for college teaching work,which is the need of the era.Thus,this paper introduced the current development of biomedical engineering at home and abroad,and the achievement of the graduation project of our university at present.Then,the necessity of the teaching reform and innovation of graduation project are analyzed.The methods for the teaching reform and innovation of graduation project are introduced including the choice of projects,the adjustment of the project schedule,reinforcing the practice of projects and improving the ability to apply knowledge,the assessment criteria of grades for the project,etc.

Objective To further assess the therapeutic effect and safety of Xiaoke Pill (XP) in treating type 2 diabetes mellitus with qi and yin deficiency. Methods A multicentre randomized controlled trial was adopted. Three hundred and four cases were treated with XP and one hundred and one cases treated with glibenclamide troche served as control. Results In XP treatment group, the remarkably effective rate in relieving symptoms was 45. 07 % and the effective rate was 48. 68 % , the differences being significant as compared with that in the control group ( P

Objective To evaluate the clinical effect and safety of Yinao Capsul es for neurasthenia with the syndrome of liver-kidney deficiency and Qi-yin de ficiency. Methods A multi-center,randomized,single-blind and positive drug p arallel controlled trial was adopted. Three hundred and forty-two cases in the treatment group were treated with Yinao Capsules,and 111 cases in the control g roup were treated with Naolinsu Capsules. Results Yinao Capsules had a total eff ective rate of 93.6 %and the markedly effective rate of 52.1 %. Compared with Naolinsu Capsules,Yinao Capsules showed a better clinical effect (P

Motion artifact is a significant source of noise in ambulatory physiologic signals and can affect the diagnoses seriously. To cope with this problem, we adopted certain methods for removing motion artifact from ECG signals via synchronous acquisition of the elector/skin impedance as the reference signal of adaptive filter. The results demonstrated that 3rd order RLS adaptive filter can remove the baseline shift effectively with an exciting current of 120 Hz and 50 microA. Such system was implemented to investigate the utility of ambulatory heart rate monitoring, which provides convenient and reliable monitoring services for patients.
Algorithms ; Artifacts ; Electric Impedance ; Electrocardiography ; methods ; Humans ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

BACKGROUND:After entering the aging society, improving the balance function to prevent fals and reduce incidence of fractures in the elderly has received widespread attentions in al aspects. OBJECTIVE: To design a training program for the elderly, involving static stretching and strength exercise of lower limb, in order to study the combined effect on the balance function of the elderly. METHODS: Static stretching and strength training of the lower limbs were carried out in 28 elderly persons who met the inclusion criteria for 3 months, three times a week, once for 60 minutes. Before and after exercise training, the static balance ability with foot standing, eyes open and eyes closed was evaluated using the PRO-KIN balance instrument; the dynamic balance ability and lower limb strength were evaluated using treadmil test with eyes closed and chair-stand test. Evaluation results before and after exercise were compared and anayzed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In the eyes open state, the average X-axis coordinate and exercise-induced elipse area at the center of pressure were significant different before and after exercise (P < 0.01); the mean velocities at the left and right direction were of significant difference before and after exercise (P < 0.05); the results of treadmil test with eyes closed and chair-stand test also presented very significant differences before and after exercise (P < 0.01). Static stretching combined with lower limb strength exercise can effectively improve the balance function and lower limb strength of the elderly, which can be used as an effective exercise way to prevent the fals in the elderly.

Objective To investigate the clinicopathological significances of LDHA/mutant p53 co-expres-sion in gliomas. Methods According to the 2016 WHO CNS,archived 68 gliomas were collected and analyzed retrospectively. The co-expression of LDHA/mutant p53 was detected by immunohistochemical staining. Results High expression of LDHA alone was always found in high grade gliomas(48.5%). Mutant p53 high expression was usually observed in glioblastomas (26.5%). There was a close relationship between co-expression of LDHA/mutant p53 in glioblastoma(27.9%,P = 0.005),or gliomas with high histological grading(27.9%,P = 0.002). Conclusions Co-expression of LDHA/mutant p53 in tumor cells might be a specific immunohistochemical pheno-type of gliomas,and may help for distinguishing glioblastoma and other high grade gliomas from low grade gliomas.

The occurrence of acute hypotensive episodes (AHE) in intensive care units (ICU) seriously endangers the lives of patients, and the treatment is mainly depended on the expert experience of doctors. In this paper, a model for predicting the occurrence of AHE in ICU has been developed using the theory of medical Informatics. We analyzed the trend and characteristics of the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) between the patients who were suffering AHE and those who were not, and extracted the median, mean and other statistical parameters for learning and training based on support vector machine (SVM), then developed a predicting model. On this basis, we also compared different models consisted of different kernel functions. Experiments demonstrated that this approach performed well on classification and prediction, which would contribute to forecast the occurrence of AHE.
Acute Disease ; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted ; methods ; Forecasting ; Humans ; Hypotension ; diagnosis ; Intensive Care Units ; Models, Cardiovascular ; Support Vector Machine

Objective To investigate the value of CT guided 125 I seed implantation combined with chemotherapy in the treat-ment of unresectable non-small cell lung cancer .Methods The related data of 42 cases of middle and advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated in this hospital from January 2012 to December 2016 were retrospectively analyzed .The group A (23 cases) received the 125I seed implantation combined with chemotherapy ,while the group B(19 cases) adopted the simple chemotherapy .All cases conducted the chest CT re-examination at 1 ,2 ,6 months after treatment .The curative effects and complications were compared be-tween the two groups .Results The total effect rate (RR) at 1 ,2 ,6 months had statistical difference between the two groups (P<0 .05) .The adverse reactions in the group A were small ,large amounts of pneumothorax (26 .1% ,6/23) ,bone marrow suppression (26 .1% ,6/23) ,nausea and vomiting(30 .4% ,7/23) ,which in the group B were d 5 .3% (1/19) in the group B were bone marrow suppression (36 .8% ,7/19) ,nausea and vomiting (26 .3% ,5/19) .No severe complications were observed .The occurrence rate of adverse reactions had no statistical difference between the two groups (P>0 .05) .The adverse reactions were improved after symp-tomatic treatment .Conclusion CT guided 125 I seed implantation combined with chemotherapy has higher effective rate and more significant effect in treating unresectable non-small cell lung cancer .

Objective:To compare the effects of citrate and heparin anticoagulation on coagulation function and efficacy in children with septic shock undergoing continuous blood purification (CBP), and to provide guidance for CBP anticoagulation in children with septic shock.Methods:A case control study was conducted. Thirty-seven children with septic shock admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of the First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University from July 2019 to September 2022 were enrolled as the research subjects. The patients were divided into citrate local anticoagulation group and heparin systemic anticoagulation group according to different anticoagulation methods. The baseline data, the level of coagulation indicators [prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), thrombin time (TT), fibrinogen (Fib), D-dimer] before treatment and 1 day after weaning from CBP, serum inflammatory mediators [interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), hypersensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), procalcitonin (PCT)], bleeding complications during CBP and 7-day mortality were collected.Results:A total of 37 cases were enrolled finally, including 17 cases with citric acid local anticoagulation and 20 cases with heparin systemic anticoagulation. There was no statistically significant difference in general data such as gender, age, and body weight of children between the two groups. There were no statistically significant differences in baseline levels of coagulation indicators and inflammatory mediators before treatment of children between the two groups. One day after weaning from CBP, both groups showed varying degrees of improvement in coagulation indicators compared with those before treatment. Compared with before treatment, the PT of the heparin systemic anticoagulation group was significantly shortened after 1 day of weaning (s: 11.82±2.05 vs. 13.64±2.54), APTT and TT were significantly prolonged [APTT (s): 51.54±12.69 vs. 35.53±10.79, TT (s): 21.95±4.74 vs. 19.30±3.33], D-dimer level was significantly reduced (mg/L: 1.92±1.58 vs. 4.94±3.94), with statistically significant differences (all P < 0.05). While in the citrate local anticoagulation group, only APTT was significantly prolonged after treatment compared with that before treatment (s: 49.28±10.32 vs. 34.34±10.32, P < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences in other coagulation indicators compared with before treatment. Compared with the citric acid local anticoagulation group, the PT of the heparin systemic anticoagulation group was significantly shortened after treatment (s: 11.82±2.05 vs. 13.61±3.05, P < 0.05), and the D-dimer level was significantly reduced (mg/L: 1.92±1.58 vs. 3.77±2.38, P < 0.01). The levels of inflammatory mediators in both groups were significantly reduced 1 day after CBP weaning compared with those before treatment [citric acid local anticoagulation group: hs-CRP (mg/L) was 12.53±5.44 vs. 22.65±7.27, PCT (μg/L) was 1.86±1.20 vs. 3.30±2.34, IL-6 (ng/L) was 148.48±34.83 vs. 202.32±48.62, TNF-α (ng/L) was 21.38±7.71 vs. 55.14±15.07; heparin systemic anticoagulation group: hs-CRP (mg/L) was 11.82±4.93 vs. 21.62±8.35, PCT (μg/L) was 1.90±1.08 vs. 3.18±1.97, IL-6 (ng/L) was 143.81±33.41 vs. 194.02±46.89, TNF-α (ng/L) was 22.44±8.17 vs. 56.17±16.92, all P < 0.05]. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups (all P > 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in bleeding complication during CBP and 7-day mortality in children between the citrate local anticoagulation group and the heparin systemic anticoagulation group (5.9% vs. 30.0%, 17.6% vs. 20.0%, both P > 0.05). Conclusions:Heparin for systemic anticoagulation and regional citrate anticoagulation can significantly reduce the levels of IL-6, TNF-α, hs-CRP and PCT in children with septic shock, and relieve inflammatory storm. Compared with citric acid local anticoagulation, heparin systemic anticoagulation can shorten the PT and reduce the level of D-dimer in children with septic shock, which may benefit in the prevention and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).