[Objective]To explore the change and its significance of the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) messenger RNA and bone morphogenic protein-2(BMP-2) of the local femoral head in the nontraumatic osteonecrosis of femoral head(NONFH).[Method]Sixteen samples of femoral heads of NONFH were collected as the experimental group and fresh 10 samples of femoral heads of femoral neck fracture as control group,overall examples were collected from total articular replacement arthroplasty.The samples were splitted in coronal plane and get one bone block from necrosis area and another one from healthy area,make them into microtome section after the process of immobility and decalcification.Their pathological change was observed by using optical microscope and electron microscope and detect the expression of BMP-2 and VEGFmRNA in femoral head through making use of immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization technique.[Result]The organization structure of experimental group was disorganized,cracked and the bone trabecula was rarefactive and non-intact and there was a great number of empty lacuna in bone trabecula.While there was the reverse situation in the control group.The intensity and area of positive expression of BMP-2 and VEGFmRNA in femoral head of the experimental group were lower than that of control group obviously.The result showed statistical significance(P

Cell apoptosis is an important biological process. It plays an essential role on cell growth and response for outside stimulations. This review focused on the recent advancement of apoptotic signal transduction, enzymological mechanisms, the function of mitochondria in cell apoptosis as well as the regulation of genes.

The research of bone tissue engineering provides new thought and method to repair mass bone defect. Neovascularization plays a significant role in bone repair. This article reviews the advancements of the growth factors, seed cells and scaffolds in vascularization of tissue engineering bone, then raise the problems to solve and the prospect of future research.

Bone tissue engineering is one of the most clinical applicable research areas in tissue engineering. Seed cell is the first step and essential element of construction and application of tissue-engineered bone. In recent years, many inspiring achievements have been gained in the field of seed cell study. In this review, current status and the prospects of study of seed cell source in bone tissue engineering are reviewed.

Objective Using ?-cyanoacrylate to establish the orthotopic transplantation tumor model from the subcutaneous model of human hepatocellular carcinomas(HCC)in nude mice. Methods The subcutaneous animal tumor model was established by transplanting BEL-7402 cell into the subcutaneous of nude mice. Then the orthotopic transplantation tumor model was established by injecting the subcutaneous transplanted tumor into liver(indirect orthotopic model). Results Using ?-cyanoacrylate to establish the indirect orthotopic model successfully and the survival rates of the transplantation tumor were 95.8 %. Conclusion It was compared with the traditional methods that the indirect orthotopic transplantation tumor model by using ?-cyanoacrylate to establish is an easy method with high successful rate and easy to spread.

ObjectiveTo study the method of cell isolation,primary culture and identification of subchondral bone cell of osteoarthritis(OA) rabbits.Methods The rabbit instable knee joint models were made by modified Hulth modeling method.The osteoblasts were harvested from the subchondral bone of rabbits by collagenase and tissue explants attachment.The morphology observation and biological identification were performed by inverted microscope and immunocytochemistry staining,respectively.The proliferative activity of cells were detected by MTT and the expression of Ⅰ-collagen at gene level was detected.ResultsThe cells started to appeared on the 11th day after the attachment.The cells form were fusiformis and triangle,the nucleolus were clear.The cultured cells had typical osteoblast morphological characteristics.The cells obtained from subchondral bone of rabbits were identified to be osteoblast by immunocytochemistry staining.The proliferative activity of cells were equably proliferation which detected by MTT.ConclusionThe modified method provides better way to obtain ideal subchondral osteoblast and the co-culture method is suitable for the study of OA microenvironment,which can simulate interactions of the subchondral osteoblast,synovial cells and chondrocyte.

BACKGROUND: The Chinese medicine, Sheng-Ji Ointment, is utilized to cure bone defect due to infectious open fractures in the clinical field. So it was imagined that it was a new inductive factor of osteogenesis and its ingredients could acceleate the proliferation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) and induce them into osteoblasts. In our primary experiment, the Sheng-Ji liquor, which was extracted from the same Chinese herbs with Sheng-Ji Ointment, had been identified that it affected the proliferation of BMSCs with its different concentration.OBJECTTVE: To investigate the effect of Sheng-Ji liquor on the osteogenesis of in vitro cultured BMSCs from rabbit tibia.DESTGN: An observation in single kind of sample.SETTING: Orthopaedic Research Institute of Tianjin Hospital.MATERIALS: The experiment was carried out in the Tissue Engineering Laboratory of Tianjin Orthopadic Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine from October 2004 to December 2005. BMSCs were obtainedfrom male healthy Japanese long-eared rabbits of 3 months old, (3.5±0.5) kg. Sheng-Ji liquor (5×102 g/L) was extracted from the Chinese herbs with Sheng-Ji Ointment (Tianjin Factory of Chinese Crude-drug and Cut Crude-drug), including the crude drugs of angelica, rehmannia dride rhizome, carapax testudinis, corium elephatis and crinis carbonisatus.METHODS: The Sheng-Ji liquor was put to BMSCs in different concentrations of 25, 8.3, 5 g/L. Basic medium without Sheng-Ji liquor was taken as blank control, while the standard-controlled medium contained the ingredients of the following blank-controlled medium, dexamethasone 10-8 mol/L, vitamin C 0.05 g/L and β-sodium glycerophosphate 10 mmol/L. The BMSCs passaged in different conditions were seeded in plate and cultured for 2-3 weeks, then the mineralized nodes were observed under inverted fluorescence microscope, and the cell expressions were observed with acheomycin labeling and collegan Ⅰ immunohistochemical staining. The culture medium was collected to determine the contents of extracellular and intracellular alkaline phosphatase (ALP), osteocalcin (OCN) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), then the ratios of ALP/LDH and OCN/LDH were calculated.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: After 2 and 3-week culture, the mineralized nodes, results of acheomycin labeling and collegan Ⅰ immunohistochemical staining, and the ratios of ALP/LDH and OCN/LDH were observed.were prolonged, proliferated assembly and overlapped. The inter-cell limits disappeared gradually and sporadic cellular Results of acheomycin labeling and collegan Ⅰ immunohistochemical staining: There were positive cells and mineralized nodes in all of groups with Sheng-Ji liquor and standard-controlled group. BMSCs of the blank-controlled group were negative. The positive cells and mineralized nodes were green with yellowish color under irrigation of fluorescence; The results of immunocytochemistry for collagen Ⅰ were positive in all of groups with Sheng-Ji liquor and standard-controlled group. The result of blank-controlled group was negative. The positive induced BMSCs had the cytoplasm with granula of highest as compared with the other groups (P ＜ 0.05). The ratios of ALP/LDH and OCN/LDH in the other groups were close (P ＞ 0.05).

This article reviews the overview, impact and intervention measures of adult attachment of main caregivers of dementia patients, in order to provide a basis for my country to carry out targeted intervention measures to improve the health outcomes of the main caregivers.

To examine the role of nitric oxide in the beta-adrenergic vasodilation of epicardial coronary arteries in dogs, 12 dogs were instrumented for measurement of left anterior descending coronary artery diameter by transthoracic echocardiography before and after dobutamine (5 microg/kg/min IV) with and without intracoronary infusion of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) (1 mg/kg). In all 12 dogs, the diameter of left anterior descending coronary artery increased significantly from 2.35 +/- 0.25 mm to 2.59 +/- 0.24 mm (P<0.001) after dobutamine administration. In 6 of the 12 dogs, the percent change in left anterior descending coronary artery diameter induced by dobutamine decreased significantly from 12.5% +/- 8.6% to -1.5% +/- 5.4% (P<0.05) after the administration of intracoronary L-NMMA (1 mg/kg for 5 min) to block nitric oxide synthesis from L-arginine. The study demonstrated that nitric oxide formation contributes to the beta-adrenergic dilatory response of epicardial coronary arteries to dobutamine in dogs.
Adrenergic beta-Agonists ; pharmacology ; Animals ; Coronary Vessels ; physiology ; Dobutamine ; pharmacology ; Dogs ; Echocardiography ; Female ; Male ; Nitric Oxide ; physiology ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta ; physiology ; Vasodilation ; physiology ; omega-N-Methylarginine ; pharmacology

Objective:To investigate the application and problems existing in the implementation of the standard of "Assessment for Therapeutic Efficacy of Kashin-Beck Disease" (WS/T 79-2011, referred to as new standard), and to provide technical basis and suggestions for further improving the standard.Methods:In 2019, a questionnaire survey was conducted and analyzed in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region on basic information, standard implementation, publicity, training and application of scoring method of joint dysfunction index of Kashin-Beck disease prevention and control technicians.Results:One hundred and thirty-four questionnaires were distributed in this survey and 132 valid questionnaires were recovered, of which 88.64% (117/132) of Kashin-Beck disease prevention and control technicians received training in the new standard and 89.39% (118/132) used the new standard; 78.03% (103/132) thought that the standard terms were clear and easy to master; 71.97% (95/132) thought it was simple, convenient and easy to operate; 49.24% (65/132) thought that the standard evaluation results were consistent with the actual improvement of patients, and 50.75% (67/132) thought that it was generally consistent; 72.73% (96/132) thought that the design was scientific, reasonable and feasible. When using the scoring method of joint dysfunction index, more than 90% of the technicians thought that the five index terms of "joint rest pain", "joint movement pain", "morning stiffness", "maximum walking distance" and "limb activity ability" were easy to understand and ask questions. When patients with Kashin-Beck disease were investigated, the constituent ratios of easy to understand the five index terms were 96.21% (127/132), 83.33% (110/132), 90.15% (119/132), 78.79%(104/132), 90.15%(119/132) and the constituent ratios of easy to answer were 95.45% (126/132), 83.33% (110/132), 89.39% (118/132), 75.00% (99/132) and 89.39% (118/132), respectively.Conclusions:The new standard terms are clear, the design is scientific and reasonable, the operation is convenient and the feasibility is strong. The evaluation results are basically consistent with the actual improvement of patients. It is suggested to add objective evaluation indexes to the scoring method of joint dysfunction index.