Object　To determine the timing of NO expression in brain tissue after severely diffused brain injury．It would contribute to the understanding of the pathological and physiological functions of NO．Methods　On the basis of the Marmarou diffused brain injury model，the rat was killed at different hours afterward．and the NO expression in brain was measured by Griess reaction．Results　It was shown that NO in brain tissue increased quickly after trauma （5.20umol／100g），then decreased in 12h（1.96umol／100g）after　trauma，a secondary NO elevation appeared in 24h（2.31umol／100g） and 48h（2.69umol／100g） after DBI．Conclusion　It indicated that NO expression in brain tissue increased after trauma．As MCAO ischemia model，there was also NO increase at the intermediate and late stage，which might take part in the secondary pathological changes at late stage of cerebral injury．

Eighty -eight cases of sugar induced diarrhea in children were treated by TCM on the basis of differentiation of syndrome manifestation. Two types were differentiated, namely spleen jeopardized by damp - heat evils, deficient spleen immersed in dampness. Results showed that the cured rate was 62. 5%, with a total effective rate of 92. 1%.

A real-time monitoring reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay was developed for the sensitive and specific detection of prototypic,prevalent North American porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)strains.As a higher sensitivity and specificity method than reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR),the RT-LAMP method only used a turbidimeter,exhibited a detection limit corresponding to a 10-4 dilution of template RNA extracted from 250 μL of 105 of the 50% tissue culture infective dose (TCID50) of PRRSV containing cells,and no cross-reactivity was observed with other related viruses including porcine circovirus type 2,swine influenza virus,porcine rotavirus and classical swine fever virus.From forty-two field samples,33 samples in the RT-LAMP assay was detected positive,whereas three of which were not detected by RT-PCR.Furthermore,in 33 strains of PRRSV,an identical detection rate was observed with the RT-LAMP assay to what were isolated using porcine alveolar macrophages.These findings demonstrated that the RT-LAMP assay has potential clinical applications for the detection of highly pathogenic PRRSV isolates,especially in developing countries.

Objective: To study the protective effects and the mechanism of Salvia yunnanensis extract on hypoxia/reoxygenation injury in cultured rat H9c2 cardiomyocytes.Methods: The hypoxia/reoxygen (H/R) injury model was established in H9c2 cell strain with or without the extract of Salvia yunnanensis.The cultured H9c2 cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into 6 groups: the normal control (C) group, H/R group, H/R+verapamil (H/R+V) group, H/R+Salvia yunnanensis extract at low dose (H/R+L, 0.01 mg·L-1) group, medium dose (H/R+M, 0.1 mg·L-1) group and high dose (H/R+H, 1.0 mg·L-1) group.The cell viability was measured by MTT assay and the activity of malondialdehyde (MDA) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was measured by a detection kit.Fluorescence absorbance (A) value was measured by a fluoroscopy to show the intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels.Results: Compared with that in the model group, the survival rate of myocardial cells was significantly higher in Salvia yunnanensis extract at low, medium and high dose groups (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01), and the intracellular LDH leakage (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01), the content of MDA in cytoplasm (P＜0.01) and the intracellular ROS levels significantly decreased in Salvia yunnanensis extract at high dose group (P＜0.05).Conclusion: The extract of Salvia yunnanensis has protective effect on hypoxia/reoxygenation injury in cultured rat H9c2 cardiomyocytes, and the mechanism may be related to the reduction of lipid peroxides and removal of cell oxygen free radicals.

Objective:To solve the problems in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning, such as large labor cost and high dependence on the experience of physicists and great inconsistency in the quality of plan, and to discuss an unsupervised automatic treatment planning procedure of IMRT.Methods:The eclipse scripting application programming interface (ESAPI) within the Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) 15.6 and optimization parameters tree search algorithm (OPTSA) were used to emulate and realize the whole planning process. Interacted with the TPS through ESAPI, relevant dosimetric parameters were input and output. The OPTSA evaluated the plan qualities based on dosimetric parameters of the targets and organs at risk (OARs) and iteratively adjusted the optimization objective parameters to achieve a progressively improving IMRT plan. In order to verify the effectiveness of the automatic planning, twenty historical rectum cancer cases were selected from the clinical database, and the dose distribution and specific dosimetric parameters were compared between the plans generated by the OPTSA and the manual plans under the same constraints.Results:All the auto plans have met clinical requirements. Furthermore, 90% and 10% of the auto plans were deemed as clinically improved and equally compared with the manual plans, respectively. The average CI for the PTV was 0.88 and 0.80 for the auto and manual plans respectively. Compared with the manual plans, the mean doses of all the OARs in the auto plans were reduced by 11% in average. The average elapsed time of automatic planning and manual planning was (28.15±3.61) and (36.7±4.6) min, respectively.Conclusions:The plans created by the proposed algorithm have been shown to be at least as good as the manual plans. In addition, this method can shorten the labor time in plan designing while ensuring the plan quality and consistency of the plan.

Objective To compare the treatment effects of gastric bypass (GBP) and biliopancrtic diversion (BPD) in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus rats,and investigate the mechanism.Methods Forty GK rats with diabetes mellitus were randomly allocated into four groups:GBP group; BPD group; food restriction group ( FR group) and control group with 10 rats in each group.Rats in GBP group and BPD group received GBP and BPD procedures respectively.Rats in FR group were fed with basic feed of 15 g and free access to water.There was no food restriction in rats in control group.The operation time,mortality was recorded.The fasting body weight was measured every week.The plasma glucose,insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1),and leptin concentrations,were measured before treatment and 1,2,3,4,8,16 week after treatment.Results The mean operation time was (25 ± 4) min in GBP group and (35 ± 6) min in BPD group; one rat died in GBP group and 3 rats died in BPD group,and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.01 ).The levels of plasma glucose,IGF-1 and leptin were not statistically significant among these groups before treatment.There was no significant difference in plasma glucose and leptin concentrations in the control group.The levels of plasma glucose and leptin in rats in FR group began to decrease 2 weeks later,at the 4th week,the levels of plasma glucose and leptin was significantly lower than that before treatment,and it lasted for the 16 th week,but the level of IGF-1 were significantly different.The levels of plasma glucose and leptin in rats in GBP group and BPD group began to decrease and IGF-1 began to increase 2 weeks after operation,and it lasted for the 16th week,[plasma glucose:(6.8 ± 1.0),(6.3 ± 0.8 ) mmol/L vs.(13.9±2.6),(14.1 ±2.6)mmol/L; leptin:(16.1±3.3),(17.2±3.2)pg/ml vs.(29.4±3.9)pg/ml,(29.4±3.9); IGF-1:(166.1±8.3),(142.2±8.2)ng/L vs.(119.4±8.8),(109.8±7.9)ng/L,P＜0.01],but the levels of plasma glucose and leptin was not statistically different between the two groups.The level of IGF-1 in GBP group was significantly higher than that in BPD group (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Both GBP and BPD can effectively control plasma glucose concentration for rats with diabetes.The possible mechanism is related to decreased leptin and increased IGF-1.Group GBP had a better outcome in operation time,mortality and increasing IGF-1 than those in group BPD.

Objective To evaluate the dosimetric errors of organs-at-risk (OARs) induced by the optimal auto-segmentation using Mim Maestro based on dose calculation and measurement.Methods The Mim atlas library composed of 240 nasopharyngeal carcinoma,breast cancer,and rectal cancer patients that were retrospectively selected was used for the auto-segmentation of OARs on the CT images of corresponding regions in 76 patients.Relative to the manual contouring,one optimal case was selected from each site based on conformity index (CI),mean distance to conformity (MDC),relative volume difference (Dv％),DICE,sensitivity index (Se.Idx),and inclusion index (Inc.Idx).Treatment plans were made to satisfy the DVH constraints of OARs based on auto-contours,and then the dose errors to the actual organs were evaluated in terms of calculation and measurement.The paired t-test (normal distribution) or rank sum test (non-normal distribution).Results Significant differences were observed in the 76 patients between the manual and automated segmentation (P＜0.05).For the optimal cases,the DICE index of various OARs ranged from 0.43 to O.98,and 73％(16/22) of DICE values were higher than 0.70.The calculated dose errors to various OARs were (-1.15±15.94)％(95％ CI:-8.21％ to 5.92％) (mean dose) and (-6.53±21.13)％ (95％ CI:-15.90％ to 2.84％) (maximum dose).The measured dose errors were (-2.43± 24.52)％ (95％ CI:-13.30％ to 8.44％)(mean dose) and (-3.38±20.87)％(95％ CI:-12.63％ to 5.87％)(maximum dose).Conclusion Without human interference,even the optimal auto-segmentation results are not clinically acceptable for treatment planning.

Objective To quantify the correlations between Elekta XVI cone beam CT dose and various scanning protocols,providing mathematical models to assess the protocol-dependency of imaging dose during imnage guided radiotherapy.Methods Based on standard protocols and various combinations of kVp and mA on an XVI mounted on an Elekta Versa HD accelerator,the air KERMA was measured at various positions in a standard PTW CTDI body phantom using calibrated PTW 30009 kV chamber and UNIDOS webline electrometer.Weighted CT dose index (CTDIw) was computed thereafter.SigmaPlot 10.0 was used to fit the measurements against mA and/or kVp yielding empirical functions.Results Under standard protocols,the CTDIw of Varian OBI was only 11.23％ (chest) and 9.15％ (pelvis) of Elekta XVI.Using the default and other 4 investigated kVp values,the central and peripheral KERMA were both proportional to mA,and vet the slope value a varied dramatically from 0.479 to 6.679.Major affecting factors included kVp settings,measurement locations,and dosimetric mnetrics,etc.None linear regressions were used to fit kVp against KERMA at various locations and CTDIw (R2 ＞ 0.997).The differences between all coefficients were statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).The impact of changing both mA and kVp on the dose to phantom center can be described as mGy =(5.917-0.197 ×kVp+0.002 × kVp2-5.063 × 10-6 × kVp3) × mA.Conclusions Imaging dose of Elekta XVI is strongly dependent on scanning paraneters.The proposed mathematical models can be used as efficient and robust indicators of such dependency.

Objective:To study the effects of different doses of atorvastatin combined with valsartan on blood pressure variability (BPV) and circadian rhythm in patients with hypertension.Methods:Eighty patients with grade 2 and grade 3 hypertension from March 2018 to March 2019 in Hefei First People′s Hospital were divided into low-dose group (20 mg/d atorvastatin combined with valsartan) and high-dose group (40 mg/d atorvastatin combined with valsartan) according to the random number table method. The efficacy after 8 weeks of treatment was compared between the two groups. The BPV, circadian rhythm, vascular endothelial factors [nitric oxide (NO), endothelin (ET)], serum disease-related factors [human cartilage glycoprotein (YKL-40), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1(sICAM-1), folate] and blood lipids [total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)] were recorded before treatment and 8 weeks after treatment, and the occurrence of adverse reactions during medicine was counted in the two group.Results:After 8 weeks of treatment, the total effective rate was 97.50%(39/40) in low-dose group and was 92.50%(37/40) in high-dose group, and there was no significant difference in the total effective rate between the two groups ( P>0.05). After 8 weeks of treatment, the 24 h SBPV, daytime SBPV, nighttime SBPV, 24 h DBPV, daytime DBPV and circadian rhythm in the two groups were significantly decreased compared with those before treatment, and the 24 h SBPV, daytime SBPV, daytime DBPV and circadian rhythm in high-dose group were significantly lower than those in low-dose group: (9.53 ± 1.73)% vs. (10.89 ± 1.98)%, (9.14 ± 1.90)% vs. (10.33 ± 2.07)%, (11.56 ± 2.78)% vs. (13.06 ± 3.16)%, (4.78 ± 1.56)% vs. (5.70 ± 1.81)%( P<0.05). After 8 weeks of treatment, the levels of NO, folate and HDL-C in the two groups were significantly increased compared with those before treatment, and the levels with in high-dose group were significantly higher than those in low-dose group: (67.16 ± 13.14) μmol/L vs.(60.53 ± 12.50) μmol/L, (14.94 ± 2.07) mmol/L vs.(13.83 ± 2.28) mmol/L, (1.42 ± 0.15) mmol/L vs. (1.31 ± 0.18)mmol/L ( P<0.05). The levels of ET, YKL-40, sICAM-1, TC, TG and LDL-C in the two groups were significantly decreased compared with those before treatment, and the levels in high-dose group were significantly lower than those in low-dose group: (33.63 ± 5.15) ng/L vs. (37.44 ± 5.13) ng/L, (32.68 ± 6.16) μg/L vs. (36.94 ± 6.03) μg/L, (203.78 ± 41.19) ng/L vs. (249.93 ± 50.81) ng/L, (6.78 ± 1.03) mmol/L vs. (7.38 ± 1.30) mmol/L, (2.88 ± 0.61) mmol/L vs. (3.39 ± 0.85) mmol/L, (3.14 ± 1.05) mmol/L vs. (3.85 ± 1.44) mmol/L ( P<0.05). Conclusions:Different doses of atorvastatin combined with valsartan are effective in the treatment of hypertension, but high dose of atorvastatin combined with valsartan has better effects on blood pressure variability and circadian rhythm, and can effectively improve vascular endothelial function.

Objective:To evaluate the clinical effects of posterior reduction in the treatment of acute severe traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis.Methods:A retrospective study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 12 patients with acute severe traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis who had been treated by posterior reduction at Department of Spinal Surgery, Zhengzhou Orthopaedic Hospital from June 2010 to December 2018. There were 7 males and 5 females with an age of (25.7±1.8) years. The spondylolisthesis was at L4 in 4 cases and at L5 in 8 cases, and grade Ⅲ in 7 cases, grade Ⅳ in 4 cases and grade Ⅴ in 1 case according to the Meyerding classification. By the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) grading, the preoperative neurological function was at level B in 6 cases, at level C in 4 cases, and at level D in 2 cases. All the 12 patients underwent posterior reduction and internal fixation with pedicle screws, as well as intervertebral bone graft fusion. Operation time and intraoperative blood loss were recorded. Clinical efficacy was evaluated by visual analogue scale (VAS) and Oswestry disability index (ODI) before and after surgery, and neurological function was evaluated by ASIA grading. X-ray, CT plain scan and reconstruction were used to observe internal fixation and bone grafting.Results:All patients were followed up for (18.5±2.1) months. The operation time was (165.7±42.3) min and the blood loss (497.7±75.3) mL. The VAS pain scores [(2.7±0.3) points and (1.8±0.2) points] and ODIs (18.2%±2.3% and 14.5%±2.6%) at 2 weeks after operation and at the last follow-up were significantly lower than the preoperational values [(8.5±0.6) points and 72.3%±12.3%] ( P<0.05), but there was no statistically significant difference between 2 weeks after operation and the last follow-up ( P>0.05). At the last follow-up, X-rays and CT scans showed good fixation and adequate bone grafting; the spondylolisthesis was grade 0 in 10 cases and grade I in 2 cases; the ASIA level of neurological function was C in 2 cases, D in 3 cases, and E in 7 cases. Healing of surgical incision was delayed in 2 patients but responded to symptomatic treatment. Follow-ups observed no such complications as loosening or pulling out of internal fixation. Conclusion:In the treatment of acute severe traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis, posterior reduction can effectively restore the spondylolisthesis sequence and restore spinal stability, leading to satisfactory curative outcomes.