BACKGROUND:Implanted site and direction of miniscrew implants, post-implantation movement of implants, contact between tooth and implant after tooth movement al can cause root damage.
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the changes of the root surface, periodontal tissue and osteoprotegerin expression in the periodontal tissue at periods of time after miniscrew implant loading.
METHODTwo beagle dogs were selected. For each dog, miniscrews were implanted into the labial alveolar bone near the roots of the maxil ary second, third, and fourth premolars and the maxil ary second, third, and fourth premolars and first molar. Fourteen miniscrew implants were in one dog, including six in the maxil ary and eight in the mandible;two miniscrews of the maxil ary acted as control group with no loading, and the rest miniscrews were as experimental group under orthodontics force. Two weeks after miniscrew implantation, 150 g force was loaded between two miniscrews with nickel-titanium closed-coil springs. The dogs were sacrificed after miniscrews loading 4 and 8 weeks respectively, the teeth were cut completely with alveolar bone tissue and decalcified to make the histological specimen. The histological changes of the root and periodontal tissue were observed by hematoxylin-eosin staining and expression of osteoprotegrin in the periodontal ligament was also inspected by using immunohistochemistry.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:When the miniscrews were adjacent to the roots, absorption lacuna occurred in the alveolar bone;after horizontal force was loaded opposite to the roots, alveolar resorption became much more animate. When the miniscrews contacted with the pericementum, some areas of the cement absorbed seriously and even reached the dentin;when sustaining pressure from the miniscrews, the whole layer of the cement absorbed and the dentin was exposed and began to be absorbed. The osteoprotegrin in the periodontal ligament of control group expressed sharply and its expression was notable at 8 weeks;while the osteoprotegrin of experimental group weakly expressed at 8 weeks, and there was significant divergence between control group and experimental group at 8 weeks (P<0.01). The roots and periodontal tissue were al damaged variously after miniscrew implantation adjacent to the roots. When horizontal orthodontic force was loaded opposite to the roots, the expression of osteoprotegrin was influenced slightly;as the loading period prolonged, pressure dramatical y restrained the expression of osteoprotegrin. When discovering the miniscrew implant adjacent to roors, the miniscrew implant anchorage should not be used to load orthodontical force opposite to the roots but ought to be removed in order to leave the root repair autonomously and avoid further damage.

Objective To understand the death level and main death causes among residents in the Wansheng Economic De‐velopment Zone to provide the basis for comprehensive prevention and control .Methods According to the ICD‐10 international classification of diseases ,the death causes were classified and coded for statistically analyzing the crude mortality rate ,standardized mortality rate and the death causes constituents in this surveyed population .Results The crude mortality rate of residents in Wan‐sheng Economic Development Zone during 2014 was 650 .57/100 000 and the standardized mortality rate was 413 .35/100 000 .The sequence of death causes was circulatory system disease ,respiratory system disease ,tumor ,injury and poisoning and digestive sys‐tem diseases .The death number for these 5 kinds of death causes accounted for 93 .21% of the total death number .The top five of potential life loss years were injury and poisoning ,tumor ,circulatory system disease ,respiratory system disease and digestive system diseases .The rates of potential years of life loss were 13 .76‰ ,10 .19‰ ,8 .35‰ ,4 .84‰ and 2 .69‰ respectively .Conclusion Chronic noncommunicable diseases ,injury and poisoning become the main causes of death in the Wansheng Economic Development Zone and disease burden .

Objective: To develop an HPLC-DAD method for the simultaneous determination of five active flavonoids (quercetin, kaempferol, apigenin, 3-methoxyl-quercetin, nobiletin) in Centipeda minima (L.) A.Br.et Aschers.Methods: The chromatographic separation was performed on a Diamonsil C18 column (200 mm×4.6 mm,5 μm) with the mobile phase of 0.1% phosphoric acid-acetonitrile with gradient elution at the flow rate of 0.8 ml·min-1.The detection wavelength was set at 360nm,and the column temperature was maintained at 30 ℃.Results: Quercetin, kaempferol, 3-methoxyl-quercetin, apigenin and nobiletin was linear within the range of 0.002 3-0.093 0 μg·μl-1(r=0.999 5) , 0.002 2-0.087 0 μg·μl-1(r=0.999 6),0.002 0-0.079 0 μg·μl-1(r=0.999 8), 0.000 9-0.037 0 μg·μl-1(r=0.999 8) and 0.000 8-0.031 0 μg·μl-1 (r=0.999 9), respectively.The average recovery was 97.66%(RSD=1.17%), 98.33%(RSD=1.16%), 98.63%(RSD=1.10%), 98.40%(RSD=1.52%) and 98.10%(RSD=1.36%)(n=6) , respectively.Conclusion: The method is convenient, accurate and reproducible, which can be used for the quality control of Centipeda minima (L.) A.Br.et Aschers.

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To construct recombinant reporter plasmids containing different Alpha gene segments and Alpha1-TFEB fusion gene and to evaluate the promoter activity of the Alpha gene. Methods:Promoter regions of the Alpha gene were predicted using a software Primer 0.5. Five Alpha gene segments with different lengths and a normal TFEB gene promoter (pTFEB) were amplified via polymerase chain reaction, and recombinant reporter plasmids containing different Alpha gene segments and a normal TFEB gene pro-moter were constructed. Liposome transfection was used to transfect these vectors into the human embryo kidney 293T cells. The pro-moter activity of the Alpha gene was evaluated via luciferase assay. Meanwhile, the recombinant Alpha1-TFEB plasmid was construct-ed and transfected into the 293T cells. The TFEB expression of the recombinant Alpha1-TFEB plasmid was then detected via Western blot. Results: Recombinant reporter plasmids containing different Alpha gene segments and pTFEB were constructed successfully. Compared with the luciferase activity of pGL3-Basic, that of the groups with Alpha1, Alpha2, Alpha3, Alpha4 and Alpha5 significantly increased (P<0.01). The luciferase activity also increased significantly in the groups with Alpha1, Alpha2 and Alpha5 compared with that of the pTFEB group (P<0.01). The TFEB expression of the pGL3-Enhancer-Alpha1-TFEB was significantly higher compared with that of the pGL3-Enhancer group. Conclusion:In t(6;11) translocation RCC, the Alpha gene has a strong promoter activity and it en-hances TFEB expression. The strongest promoter activity region is in Alpha5 with a sequence from 643 bp to 693 bp.

Objective To study the relationship between the cancer patients'right to know the true diagnosis and their satisfaction degree with nursing service. Methods We randomly selected 746 patients from the tumor center, the circulation department,the respiration department and surgery department.Questionnaires were designed according to patients'right to know the true diagnosis and the results were analyzed. Results Cancer patients who don't know the true diagnosis wanted to acquire the true information about their diseases but nurses were supposed to keep secret of the actual diagnosis.This contradiction led to the impediment of communication between patients andf nurses compared with other department(P<0.05). Conclusion The right to know their true diagnosis proved to be important for cancer patients in that it could increase the compliance of patients and promote communications so that patients would accept nursing service and the satisfaction degree with nursing service would improved.

Objective To evaluated a new automate ultra sonographic system for detecting benign and malignant breast tumors in three-dimensions.Methods A magnetic sensor to track the probe in a real time during scanning and a series of sequential cross-sectional images,together with information giving precise location and the direction of movement of the probe,were fed into the computer.Fuzzy logic was used to classify tumor, boundary, and normal breast tissue in order to extract an image of the tumor and its margin through three-dimensional (3D) transformation. Results The difference between the surface roughness of benign and malignant tumors was found by comparing their computer -rendered surface images.The values of the S/V ratio of surface area (S 3) divided by volume (V 2) of malignant tumors were larger than those of benign tumors. Mean ratio was 3.43 in benign tumors, 9.08 in malignant tumors.T-test results showed these differences between benign and malignant tumors to be significant(P

Objective To observe the relationship between the expression of GFAP and iNOS the post-traumatic intervals after experimental cerebral contusion,in order to attempt to find out a method of timing wound age of brain contusion in the forensic prediction of injury time.Methods After setting up an model of experimental focal cerebral contusion in rats,immunohistochemical method was applied to observing the changes of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) staining combined with histology method in rats.The immunostaining results were measured quantitatively with computer imaging analysis system.Results (1) At 3h after injury,GFAP-positive astrocytes around the wounded area were definitely detected.The intensity and the area of GFAP-positive cells increased following the post-traumatic intervals.The intensity peaked dually at 1d and 5d,respectively,followed by reduction at 3d,which revealed two-peak waveforms,The area of GFAP positive cells enhanced significantly at 3h and gradually increased with prolonging survival time,and reached a peak at 7d after injury.(2) At 12h after injury,the iNOS isoform was present and iNOS positive staining cells were noted.The intensity and the area of iNOS positive cells increased following the post-traumatic intervals.The area of positive reached maximal level at 1-3days,gradually subsided after 5d,and maintain a higher lever up to 7d post-injury;but the intensity of individual positive cell gradually increased with prolonging survival time,reached a peak at 5d and gradually subsided after 5d,but the level was still higher than the initial interval.Conclusions Expression of GFAP and iNOS is correlated with post-traumatic intervals after cerebral contusion in rats,suggesting that the expression of iNOS and GFAP may be served as the markers for timing of brain contusion in forensic practice.

Objective To explore how to improve the diagnosis and surgical treatment of primary gallbladder carcinoma. Methods The clinical data of 59 patients with primary gallbladder carcinoma underwent operative treatment in our hospital from January 1985 to December 1999 were retrospectively analyzed. Results There were 22 males and 37 females in this series (M:F=1:1.68). 59%(35/59) patients were complicated by gallstone. Right upper quadrant abdominal pain, jaundice and abdominal mass were the major clinical manifestations. 34 cases underwent cholecystectomy with 57%(34/59) resection rate. Pathological examination showed that gallbladder carcinomas accounted for 94%. Postoperative 1-,3-,5-year survival rates were 36%(21/59), 20%(12/59)and 10%(6/59), respectively. The postoperative survival rate of the early stage patients was higher than that of the advanced patients(P