Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia ; pathology ; Child, Preschool ; Humans ; Male

Age Determination by Skeleton ; Body Weight ; drug effects ; Child ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Estradiol ; blood ; Female ; Humans ; Puberty, Precocious ; blood ; drug therapy ; physiopathology ; Yin-Yang

Animals ; Brain Diseases ; parasitology ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Sparganosis ; Sparganum

Objective To explore the effects of microsurgical technique treatment on acknowledge ability ,activities of daily liv-ing ,cortex blood perfusion and neuropeptide levels of brain glioma patients .Methods Microsurgical technique treatment and tradi-tional operation were given to 87 brain glioma patients ,respectively .The acknowledge ability and activities of daily living were measured by HDS ,MMSE and ADL ;the cortex blood perfusion were revealed by PET ,and the neuropeptide levels including argi-nine vasopressin ,oxytocin ,β-endorphin ,somatostatin and neurotensin of patients from two different surgical groups were compared . Results As compared with the traditional operation ,the acknowledge ability and activities of daily living of patients from microsur-gical treatment group were significantly improved(P<0 .05) ,the cortex blood perfusion were statistically increased (P<0 .05) and the levels of five kinds of neuropeptide were all profoundly increased (P< 0 .05) .Conclusion Microsurgical technique treatment could improve the acknowledge ability and activities of daily living of brain glioma patients ,the mechanisms of which could be the increase of cortex blood perfusion and theincrease of neuropeptide levels .

Objective To investigate the changes of antibrain-antibody (AB-Ab) in blood serum and the effect of AB-Ab on blood-brain barrier (BBB) and cerebral edema after the traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rabbits.Methods Forty-five New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into control group (n =5),sham operation group (fenestration only without injury,n =15) and TBI group (severe lateral fluid percussion brain injury,n =15) according to the random number table.Sham and TBI animals were subdivided at postoperative 1,3,7 and 14 days.Level of AB-Ab,BBB permeability and brain water content were determined after operation.Results At each time point,serum AB-Ab level,BBB permeability and brain water content were higher in sham operation group and TBI group than in control group (P ＜0.05).At postoperative 3,7 and 14 days,serum AB-Ab level,BBB permeability and brain water content were higher in TBI group than in sham operation group (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Serum level of AB-Ab is significantly increased after TBI along with synchronous changes in BBB permeability and brain water content,indicating that AB-Ab may be associated with the increase of BBB permeability and brain edema.

Objective To observe the dynamic change of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in plasma of elderly patients with hy-pertensive intracerebral hemorrhage ,and to explore the relationship between BNP levels and cerebral edema .Methods 56 elderly patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage were recruited and divided into the operation group (n=26) and the non-opera-tion group(n=30) ,25 hypertensive patients were collected as the control group .ELISA was applied to detect the levels of plasma BNP at 6 ,24 ,72 ,168 h after the onset of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage .The non-invasion brain edema monitor was utilized to dynamically monitor the cerebral edema degrees .Results The plasma BNP levels in the operation group and the non-operation group at 6 ,24 ,72 ,168 h were higher than those in the control group ,the differences showed statistical difference (P<0 .05) ,but which at 168 h in the operation group was lower than that in the non-operation group ,cerebral edema appeared at 24 h in the two groups ,and reached the peak value at 72 h in the operation group and at68 h in the non-operation group;the changes of plasma BNP levels had positive correlation with cerebral edema degree (r=0 .685 ,P<0 .05) .Conclusion Dynamic monitoring of plasma BNP levels is an effective indicator for early diagnosis and monitoring of acute brain edema in elderly patients with hypertensive in-tracerebral hemorrhage .

Glucocorticoids (GC) exert a broad effect on the body and have been extensively used clinically.It is well known now that GC can act via both genomic and nongenomic mechanisms.Genomic effects of GC have been well reviewed elsewhere.Here we focus on the current understanding of nongenomic effects and discuss their biologic significance as well as the remaining problems in this field.

OBJECTIVETo explore the scavenging action of tenuigenin (TEN) on intracerebral amyloid β protein (Aβ) aggregation and the abnormal phosphorylated tau protein and its mechanism in Alzheimer's disease (AD) rats' brain.

METHODSAβ1-40 was injected into the right CA1 region hippocampus to establish the AD model. Successfully modeled rats were divided into the model group, the low, middle, high TEN group. Rats were administered with TEN (18.5, 37.0, 74.0 mg/kg) by gastrogavage. Besides, a sham-operation group was set up. Expression levels of Aβ1-40 and Tau p-Ser262 were detected by immunohistochemistry. Expression levels of ubiquitin (Ub) and Ub-protein ligase E3 were measured by Western blotting.The content of 26S proteasome was detected by ELISA.

RESULTSImmunohistochemical results showed that the number of Aβ and Tau p-Ser262 positively reacted neurons significantly increased in model group, when compared with the sham-operation group (P < 0.01). Results of Western blot showed expression levels of ubiquitinated protein were up-regulated and those of Ub-protein ligase E3 were down-regulated in the model group (P < 0.01). ELISA results showed that the content of 26S proteasome significantly decreased in AD rats' brain (P < 0.01). Compared with the model group, expression levels of Aβ1-40, Tau p-Ser262, and Ub significantly decreased; expression levels of Ub-protein ligase E3 apparently increased; the content of 26S proteasome significantly increased in each TEN treatment group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). Best effect was shown in 37.0 mg/kg and 74.0 mg/kg TEN groups.

CONCLUSIONSUb proteasome pathway (UPP) participated in the occurrence of AD. TEN could obviously reduce intracere- bral Aβ1-40 accumulation and abnormal tau phosphorylation.

Alzheimer Disease ; metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Animals ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; Hippocampus ; metabolism ; Neurons ; metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex ; metabolism ; Rats ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases ; metabolism ; Ubiquitins

Based on the structure and function of acupoint and in association of the definition and principle of sensor, the acupoint is the sensitive element, being sensitive to the physical stimulation with acupuncture and moxibustion and sensitively responded to the disorders; the acupoint is the sensing element, transforming the changes of the acupoint information via the complicated internet conduction, integration and regulation, so as to generate the effects on organic body; the acupoint is the conversion element, transforming every irritation into the bioelectric signal or optical signal so that the organic body could recognize it. Therefore, the acupoint is regarded as the sensor of information in the organic body.
Acupuncture Points ; Electrophysiological Phenomena ; Humans ; Meridians

OBJECTIVETo observe the effect of Compound Fructus Arctii Mixture (FAM, consisted of Fructus Arctii and ethanol extract of Radix Astragalus membranaceus) in treating diabetic nephropathy.

METHODSUsing FAM to treat 31 patients with diabetic nephropathy and controlled by 23 patients treated with Losartan, the therapeutic course was 3 months for both groups, changes of clinical symptoms, blood glucose, lipid metabolism and urinary albumin were observed and compared.

RESULTSThe total effective rate in the treated group was 80.6% while in the control group 65.2%. The symptoms, urinary protein and albumin as well as lipid metabolism in the treated group all significantly improved after treatment (P<0.05), but in the control group improvement only showed in urinary albumin level (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONFAM has the effects of reducing urinary protein in 24 hrs, lowering urinary albumin, improving blood glucose after meal and lipid metabolism.

Adult ; Albuminuria ; drug therapy ; Astragalus membranaceus ; Diabetic Nephropathies ; drug therapy ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; therapeutic use ; Female ; Furans ; therapeutic use ; Glucosides ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Losartan ; therapeutic use ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Phytotherapy