AIM: To investigate the concentration of bufadienolides in Liushen Pill from two enterprises. METHODS: Four kinds of bufadienolides were simultaneously determined by using HPLC with DAD detector. RESULTS: Recoveries obtained from the four kinds of bufadienolides were higher than 96%,the linearity was in the range of 1 ?g/mL-100 ?g/mL.The concentration of bufadienolides in Liushen Pill was significantly higher than that in other related TCM compatibilities. CONCLUSION: The well-distributed compatibility in Liushen Pill has an influence on the solubilization of bufadienolides,may be in relation to eahancing to release.

FPGA is a kind of powerful programmable chip used in the development of digital system, and it has such advantages as large capacity, reliability and easy modification. The design of FPGA system is mainly through software method which is easy to grasp. Compared with legacy discrete circuit or ASIC, more and more FPGAs are adopted in digital systems for low cost and fast speed. On the other hand, digital system plays an important role in control system of medical equipments, so FPGA is expected to be widely used in almost all fields of medical equipment.

Kawasakd disease(KD) or incomplete KD(IKD) is a systemic vasculitis predominantly affecting young children.Clinical manifestations include fever with no obvious origin,skin damage,abnormalities of mucous membrane and lymph nodes.The disease is often accompanied by serious cardiovascular complications such as coronary artery aneurysm,therefore it attracts more and more attention.But arthritis or arthralgia complicates over one-third of KD or IKD patients.So early-onset arthritis is often indistinguishable from early juvenile idiopathic arthritis,especially systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis(SoJIA).KD and SoJIA are considered to be different diagnoses for children with long-term fever,rash,swollen lymph nodes,and more importantly,the treatment procedures are very different,but it is difficult to completely distinguish the two diseases,especially the IKD and early SoJIA.So in this paper,we will summarize the relationship between KD and arthritis in children,which aims to remind clinicians to pay attention for the diagnosis of KD and IKD.We suggest that physicians should be alert of the fact that they must individualize every patient's management,rather than merely care by the guidelines,which will delay the treatment.

Objective To evaluate the academic level and the popularity of Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics from the point view of citation. Methods According to the information of Chinese Medical Citation Index (CMCI), the amount and distribution of the original articles in Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics cited by the journals included by CMCI were statistically analyzed. The data analysis included the percentage of cited articles, the number of citation of a single article, authors of most cited articles, geological regions of cited articles, citing journals, the self citing rate and years of citation. Results The percentage of cited papers (663 articles, 3728 times) in all published 1 182 articles in Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics from 2005 to 2009 was an average of 56.09%. The average time of original articles cited by other researchers was 5.62. The highest one was citated by 104 times. 210 articles (31.68% of total papers) were cited 5 or more times, and the all cited times from them were 2835 (76.04% of total cited times). 663 cited articles were written by 485 authors from different countries. The most frequently cited author wrote 12 papers. The number of authors with one paper cited was 386 (79.58% of total authors). The cited authors are from the mainland, HongKong, and Taiwan in China, as well as USA, Canada, France. Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin are leading cities in orthopaedic research. Beijing was the first place (32.16% of total authors). There were 445 citing journals. There was 217 items self cited; the self- citing rate is 0.058. Conclusion Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics has provided high quality articles and has a strong influence in the field of medical research. It has been become an important resource for orthopaedic researchers and a vital medical journal in China.

BACKGROUND:Mesenchymal stem cells from transgenic animals carry green fluorescent protein that can be stably expressed in viable cells and can be used to rapidly screen modified cells in comparison with traditional virus and plasmids. OBJECTIVE:To study the biological features of bone marrow derived stromal cells from transgenic rats with green fluorescent protein gene. METHODS:Bone marrows were isolated from the bilateral long bones of 2-week-old transgenic rats with green fluorescent protein gene, and cultivated in conditioned culture medium to obtain bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells with green fluorescent protein gene. The passage 5 bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells with green fluorescent protein gene were analyzed by flow cytometry to detect cellsurface molecules, and were induced in calcium or adipogenic induction medium. After calcium induction, the alizarin red staining was performed to test the formation of calcium concentration. After adipogenic induction, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were detected with oil red O staining. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, stably expressing green fluorescent protein gene, were obtained successful y from the transgenic rat with green fluorescent protein gene. The cells expressed CD90, CD105 strongly, but did not express or weakly expressed CD14 andCD45. After 3 weeks of calcium induction, jacinth calcium salts could be detected in the cells by alizarin red staining. At 3 weeks of adipogenic induction, the cells showed positive oil red O staining. The green fluorescent protein gene, as report gene, exerts no effect on the cellsurface molecules and multilineage potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, which can be used as an efficient tracer.

Objective To set up a method for determining the content of anthraquinone in Liuwei Nengxiaosan.Methods The chromatogram column was Eclipse XDB C18 (150 mm×4.6 mm, 5μm), the mobile phase composition was methanol-0.1% orthphosphoric acid (88∶12), the detection wavelength was at 254 nm, the column temperature was 30℃, the flow rate was 1.0 mL/min. Results The linear range of aloe emodin, rhein, emodin, chrysophanol and physcion was 0.076-0.380μg (r=0.999 6), 0.068-0.340μg (r=0.999 8), 0.076-0.380μg (r=0.999 9), 0.070-0.349μg (r=0.999 9), 0.071-0.355μg (r=0.999 7), respectively. The average recovery rate respectively was 97.88% (RSD=0.72%), 97.52% (RSD=0.96%), 98.79% (RSD=0.95%), 97.77% (RSD=1.18%), 96.34% (RSD=2.00%).Conclusion The method is highly effective, quick and sensitive, suitable for quality control of Tibet traditional medicine Liuwei Nengxiaosan.

Objective To investigate the changes of platelet activating factor ( PAF) in serum from patients with hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy .Methods The specimens from 138 women were obtained at Department of Obstetrics , Xinhua Hospital , School of Medicine , Shanghai Jiaotong Uni-versity, between June 2008 and March 2010.They were divided into two groups:women( n =63) with hy-pertensive disorder complicating pregnancy and normal pregnant women ( n =75 ) ( control group ) .All of them delivered until maturity .ELISA was used to detect the levels of PAF in those women's serum and in the umbilical cord serum .Results The levels of PAF in hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy group (27.46 ±13.37 ) ng/ml were no significantly different from the control group (25.48 ±11.05 ) ng/ml( P >0.05 ) .With the hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy more deteriorative , the levels of women ser-um PAF would be higher .The levels of women's serum PAF in hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy group were significantly higher than the umbilical cord serum [0.00(0.00-8.83) ng/mL]( P <0.05). The levels of women's serum PAF in control group were also significantly higher than the umbilical cord ser -um[0.00(0.00-7.80)ng/mL]( P <0.05).Conclusion There are some relationships between PAF and hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy .

Objective To study the clinical effect of treating mild and moderate hypertension in the elderly with flavored liuwei dihuang decoction.Methods From January 2016 to January 2017,120 cases of elderly patients of mild and moderate hypertension with the diagnosis and treatment in our hospital are divided into two groups, the control group was treated with nifedipine zyban, and the observation group was treated with flavored liuwei dihuang decoction;Record two groups of patients with various experiment data, make an analysis of the relevant data obtained and discuss the clinical effect of flavored liuwei dihuang decoction to treat the mild and moderate elderly hypertension.Results The clinical results of the treatment of observation group were better than that of the control group.The patients had fewer adverse reactions, and the differences between two groups were statistically significant (P< 0.05).Conclusion The treatment which using the flavored liuwei dihuang decoction in the mild and moderate elderly hypertension receives significant improvement in the clinical symptoms and little adverse reactions.It is worth using widely in clinical practice.

Objective To approach the mechanisms and myocardial protective effect of Qishen Yiqi dropping pills on rats with myocardial infarction. Methods Sixty clean healthy male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into sham operation group, model group and observation group (each n = 20). The rat model of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was established by ligation of left anterior descent (LAD) branch of coronary artery. After modeling, the rats in observation group were given 0.135 g/kg of Qishen Yiqi dropping pills, and sham operation group and model group were administered the same amount of normal saline, once a day for consecutive 28 days. At the end of treatment, the levels of serum inflammatory factors of leukotriene B4 (LTB4), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); the changes of the indexes of hemodynamic [left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP), left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), the maximal rate of increase/decrease in left ventricular pressure (±dp/dt max)], the ratio of the heart weight/body weight, and the ratio of the left ventricular weight/heart weight (LVW/HW), the myocardial infarction area, myocardial histopathological changes were observed in the three groups; myocardial tissues inflammatory related factors [the mRNA and protein expressions of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX)], and the expression levels of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smads signal transduction pathway related protein (TGF-β1, Smad2/3, Collagen Ⅰ, Collagen Ⅲ ) and cell apoptosis related factors (Bcl-2, Bax) protein were measured. Results Compared with the sham operation group, levels of serum inflammatory factors, the index of LVEDP, the ratio of the heart weight/body weight, LVW/HW, myocardial infarction area, the mRNA and protein expression levels of inflammatory factors in myocardium, the expression levels of TGF-β/Smads signal transduction pathway related protein and the cell apoptosis related factors protein in model group were all significantly elevated, while LVSP and ±dp/dt max were obviously decreased in model group. Compared with the model group, the levels of inflammatory factor in serum [LTB4 (ng/L): 370.11±46.98 vs. 633.23±83.37, PGE2 (ng/L):48.75±26.35 vs. 131.25±29.75, TNF-α (μg/L): 177.28±22.65 vs. 248.47±16.21, IL-6 (μg/L): 493.22±165.99 vs. 638.41±191.66], LVEDP [mmHg (1 mmHg = 0.133 kPa): -2.03±2.98 vs. 7.03±1.39], the ratio of the heart weight/body weight [(6.53±0.11)% vs. (7.14±0.24)%], LVW/HW (0.26±0.01 vs. 0.32±0.02), myocardial infarction area [(27.21±2.87)% vs. (44.98±1.52)%], mRNA and protein expression of myocardial inflammatory factors, the expression of TGF-β/Smads signal transduction pathway related protein, and the protein expression of Bax were all significantly decreased in observation group (all P < 0.05), LVSP (mmHg: 129.01±11.93 vs. 108.11±12.69), the +dp/dt max (mmHg/s: 3101.3±378.6 vs. 2105.3±245.9), the -dp/dt max (mmHg/s: 2612.4±249.7 vs. 1654.4±188.1), while the protein expression of Bcl-2 in observation group were obviously increased (all P < 0.05). It was demonstrated by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining that there were no obvious pathological changes in the sham operation group; obvious infiltration of inflammatory factors in myocardium was shown in model group; pathological changes in the observation group were significantly improved as compared with those in the model group. It was shown by Masson staining that there were slight hyperplasia of myocardial fibers and no obvious pathological changes in the sham operation group. Severe collagen hyperplasia was found in model group, and the degree of fibrosis in the observation group was significantly improved. Conclusions Qishen Yiqi dropping pills can reduce the degree of myocardial fibrosis and inhibit the ventricular remodeling via TGF-β/Smads signal transduction pathway. The dropping pills can also suppress the release of inflammatory factors by reducing cPLA2 to decrease the inflammatory response and inhibit apoptosis and alleviate myocardial injury by up-regulating the expression of Bcl-2 and down-regulating the expression of Bax.

Objective:To search for a method for analyzing medical service quality of different disease entities using the first page data of medical records.Methods: Based on documents review and real data analysis,the basic principles,methods and steps of disease entity dividing and selecting,evaluation index selecting,and calculating were introduced.Special attention was paid to certain problems in the discussion.Results: When the inpatients of selected disease entities covered 60% of total hospitalized patients,the medical quality information included exceeded 80% of the total information.For 97.66% disease entities,their inpatient cost and length of hospital stay were logarithmic-normally distributed.Conclusion: Dividing disease entities by fixed digits of ICD-9 code is easily performable.This method should be used when the disease entities include about 60% of total inpatients,and geometric mean should be used in calculating average length of hospital stay and average cost.