Objective To evaluate the effect of sevoflurane on liver injury in a pig model of hemorrhagic shock.Methods Twenty-four Bama miniature pigs of both sexes,weighing 20-25 kg,aged 3-5 months,were equally randomized into 3 groups using a random number table:sham operation group (group S);hemorrhagic shock group (group HS);sevoflurane group (group Sev).Hemorrhagic shock was induced by withdrawing 40％ of blood volume from the right femoral artery within 15 min (30 ml/kg) in HS and Sev groups.The animals inhaled 2％ sevoflurane for 30 min after establishment of the model in group Sev.Before hemorrhagic shock (T0),and at 30,60,90,120,180 and 240 min after hemorrhagic shock (T1-6),blood samples were collected from the femoral artery for determination of plasma alaninc aminotransferase (ALT) and betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase (BHMT) concentrations (by enzymelinked immunosorbent assay).After blood sampling at T6,the animals were sacrificed,and the right lobes of livers were removed for examination of the pathological changes with light microscope.Results Compared with group S,the plasma ALT concentrations were significantly increased at T4-6,the plasma BHMT concentrations were significantly increased at T3-6 (P＜0.05),and significant liver pathological changes were observed in HS and Sev groups.Compared with group HS,the plasma ALT concentrations were significantly decreased at T4-6,the plasma BHMT concentrations were significantly decreased at T3-6 (P＜0.05),and the liver pathological changes were significantly attenuated in group Sev.Conclusion Sevoflurane can mitigate liver injury in a pig model of hemorrhagic shock.

Objective To discuss the MRI features and pathogenic mechanisms of lung cancer intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISCM). Methods Four cases with clinically and 3 cases pathologically proved lung cancer ISCM were analyzed retrospectively. Turbo spin-echo sequence T 1 and T 2 weighted images were acquired in all patients. T 1 weighted images were obtained after intravenous administration of Gd-DTPA in all patients. Results A total of 7 ISCM were displayed by MR studies. The tumor occurred in thoracic cord (3/7) and in medullary cone (4/7). The tumor involved the central aspect of the cord. The lung cancer ISCM showed hypointensity (n=1) or isointensity (n=6) on T 1WI and hyperintensity on T 2WI. The extensive cord enlargement with cyst formation or syringomyelia was common. On contrast study, all tumors showed marked homogenous enhancement with clear borders. Conclusion The lung cancer ISCM usually presented as solitary lesions with marked contrast enhancement. The extensive cord enlargement was common in all patients. Because of the limitation in the evaluation of lung cancer ISCM on MRI, definite diagnosis of lung cancer ISCM depended on combination of clinical and MRI data.

Objective Measuring the displacement and deformation of the fifth screw under different tensile force before or after adultal internal fixation with compressing steel plate for femoral fractuer by digital speckle correlation method.And analysis of the displacement and deformation after reducing the number of screws.Aimed at providing a theoretical basis for clinical femoral internal fixation with compressing steel plate about the number of screws. Methods Taking the antisepsis femoral specimen of grown-ups, embedding and fixing with tooth powder after removing the soft tissue, producing a fixed model in the 1/2 femur.Fixing steel plate below the lateral femur subperiosteal with five screws through the fourth floor of cortical bone on both sides of the fractures, samples were divided into 10 states, group A-J were measured by orders, under the rally of 400 N,500N , measuring the displayment of the fifth screw with CSS-44100-e-universal test machine for loading rally experiment ,and automatic data processing. Results For analysis of variance, the mean displacement measurements of the fifth screw under rally of 400N,500N, B-J group and A group have significant differences(P<0.05). The mean deformation measurements of the fifth screw under rally of 400N,500N, group A and group F-J group have significant differences(P<0.05);group A and B-E group have no significant differences.Conclusion In a certain range, the fracture displacement and the numuber of the screws show negative correlation. The screws near the fracture line for femoral compression plate internal fixation of femoral fractuer is easily broken because of the too large deformation.

To screen interaction proteins of CVB3 VP3 from cDNA library of human heart ,yeast two hybridization was conducted in this study .The bait plasmid pGBKT7-VP3 was constructed ,VP3 fusion protein and its self-activation in AH109 yeast cells was then detected .The positive clones were confirmed by PCR amplification of cDNA inserts ,Alu I digesting ,DNA sequencing ,and Blasting were used to sort positive colonies to eliminate duplicates .Positive clones were confirmed by one-to-one yeast two hybridization ,and them were sequenced and analyzed for homology .Theα-galactosidase assay was performed to detect the interaction strength .Totally ,10 positive proteins interacting with VP3 of CVB3 were obtained by homology analy-sis,namely,EIF4A2,HADHB,GAPDH,ASPG,ACTA1,TNNI3,CKM,LMOD3,ERGIC1,and ALDH2.The strength of interactions between VP3 and 10 candidate proteins were proved byα-galactosidase assay .This study will contribute to explore the CVB3 VP3 function on molecular level and provides some new clues to explain the pathogenic mechanism of myo-carditis and cardiomyopathy .

The experiment was conducted between February 2004 and May 2006 at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. Forty hybrid pigs were used in the experiment, 20 were used as donors and the other 20 were used as recipients. Donor operation: Abdominal aorta was lavaged in situ with 500 mL 4℃ heparinized saline (lavage pressure 7.8-9.8 kPa), intestinal canal cut from donor was conserved in 4℃ physiological saline.Recipient operation: Orthotopic small intestine transplantation and heterotopic small intestine transplantation were conducted according to exploring results, and abdominal cavity was washed with 40-45℃ physiological saline until the flush out liquid became warm.Periprocedural management: Preoperative discussion and postoperative discussion were done, and body temperature of pigs was monitoring and controlled. Early-stage feeding was used, 4 pigs could drink water freely after transplantation and took food normally at the second day, while other 16 pigs began to drink water 2 days after transplantation. Evaluation after the operation: No experimental animal had anastomotic leakage after taking food. Sixteen pigs survived over 7 days, average 9 days, the longest over 14 days. The success rate of the small intestine transplantation is 80% (16/20). Failure reasons: One with phlebothrombesis, one with blood loss and two with unknown reasons. Results showed that experience of periprocedural management had got relatively satisfactory effects through a great quantity of small intestine transplantation practices.

OBJECTIVETo study the gene expression profiles of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells and tendon cells.

METHODSTotal RNA extracted from human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells and tendon cells underwent reverse transcription, and the products were labeled with alpha-(32)P dCTP. The cDNA probes of total RNA were hybridized to cDNA microarray with 1176 genes, and then the signals were analyzed by Atlas Image analysis software Version 1.01a.

RESULTSFifteen genes associated with cell proliferation and signal transduction were up-regulated, and one gene that takes part in cell-to-cell adhesion was down-regulated in tendon cells.

CONCLUSIONThe 15 up-regulated and one down-regulated genes may be beneficial to the orientational differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into tendon cells.

Objective:To recognize virus electron microscopic (EM) images automatically with deep learning techniques and to select an appropriate network for virus EM image classification.Methods:Multiple classic convolutional neural networks, such as AlexNet, VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, SqueezeNet, MobileNet, and ShuffleNet, were used to classify the seven classes of virus electron microscope images by increasing the network depth increasing the network depth and adjusting the learning rate, adjusting the learning rate, batch size and other parameters.Results:Overall, DenseNet169 achieved the best performance with 91.9% accuracy, 90.1% sensitivity and 98.6% specificity. In particular, the model performed best in parvovirus recognition. The precision, sensitivity, specificity, and F1 of papilloma virus, herpes virus, pox virus and rotavirus, were above 90%, even close to 100%, but the precision of adenoviruses and the sensitivity of polyomaviruses were not satisfied, leading to corresponding low F1 value. At the same time, Lightweight network ShuffleNet outperformed AlexNet and VGG deep networks with fewer parameters and fewer FLOPs and could achieve comparable result to ResNet with about 15 times fewer parameters and 90 times fewer FLOPs; Compared with DenseNet, Shufflenet sacrificed recognition performance in the acceptable range to achieve about 10 times fewer parameters and 80 times fewer FLOPs.Conclusions:Deep networks DenseNet169 could realize automatic recognition of virus electron microscopic images with the optimal performance and lightweight networks shuffleNet_v2_x0_5 could achieve suboptimal performcane with fewer parameters and FLOPs. In practical applications, tradeoffs can be made between deep networks and lightweight networks based on specific conditions.

Objective Apply modified bilateral carotid artery ligation to establish a VD rat model to observe changes in cerebral blood flow and expression of angiogenic proteins.Methods Thirty-six SD male rats were randomly divided into a sham group(n = 18)and model group(n = 18).In the sham group,only the bilateral carotid artery was isolated without ligation,whereas in the model group,the bilateral carotid artery was ligated to establish the VD model.The Morris water maze behavior test was applied before and 14 days after modeling.Variation in cerebral blood flow was detected by laser speckle contrast imaging.Protein expression of HIF-1α,VEGF,and HO-1 was detected by Western Blot.IL-4 and IL-10 contents were measured by ELISA.Results At 14 days after modeling,escape latency was significantly prolonged and the frequency of crossing the platform had significantly decreased in the model group compared with the sham group(P<0.05).At 2 hours,3 days,and 7 days after modeling,cerebral blood flow in the model group was significantly lower than that in the sham group(P<0.05).At 14 and 21 days after modeling,no significant difference was found in cerebral blood flow between sham and model groups(P>0.05).In the model group,cerebral blood flow was decreased to a minimum at 2 hours after modeling(P<0.05)and then began to recover.The peak of recovery occurred at 3～7 days after modeling and returned to the level before modeling on day 14 after modeling.At postoperative day 21,expression of HIF-1α,VEGF,and HO-1 proteins in the hippocampus of the model group was increased remarkably(P<0.05)and the serum contents of IL-4 and IL-10 in the model group were significantly increased compared with those in the sham group(P<0.05).Conclusions The variation in cerebral blood flow in the VD rat model established by the modified bilateral carotid artery ligation was dependent on time.At postoperative day 21,HIF-1α,VEGF,and HO-1 in the hippocampus were increased significantly,which was accompanied by increased levels of IL-4 and IL-10.

AIM:To investigate the effects of exercise preconditioning(EP)combined with electroacupunc-ture(EA)on learning and memory ability of rats with vascular dementia(VD),and to explore role of hippocampal ferrop-tosis in this process.METHODS:Seventy-two male SD rats were randomly divided into non-EP group and EP group,with 36 rats in each group.The rats were subjected to EP,and subsequently to establish the VD model.The rats from non-EP group were randomly divided into sham group,model group(VD group)and VD-EA group,each with 12 rats,while those in EP group were randomly divided into EP-sham group,EP-VD group and EP-VD-EA group,each with 12 rats.All rats in EP group underwent 4 weeks of swimming exercise training,5 d per week,30 min per day.At the end of the 4th week,the rats in VD,EP-VD,EP-VD-EA and VD-EA groups were used to induce the VD model,and the rats in sham and EP-sham groups received a sham surgery to simulate the VD model.On the 7th day after successful modeling,the rats in EP-VD-EA and VD-EA groups were treated with EA for 4 weeks,6 d per week,30 min per day.At the end of the inter-vention,the learning and memory ability of the rats was evaluated using Morris water maze.Neuron morphology in the CA1 area of rat hippocampus was observed through Nissl staining.Ferrous ion(Fe2+),malondialdehyde(MDA)and re-duced glutathione(GSH)contents in the rat hippocampal tissues were quantified using the colorimetric assay.The expres-sion levels of ferroptosis-related proteins,nuclear factor E2-related factor 2(Nrf2)and glutathione peroxidase 4(GPX4),in the hippocampal tissues were quantified by Western blot method.RESULTS:Compared with sham group,the rats in VD group exhibited longer mean evasion latency and decreased number of traversals across the plateau(P<0.01).The neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus were loose and disorganized,exhibiting an irregular cellular morphology.The hippocampal Fe2+and MDA content was elevated,and the GSH content was reduced(P<0.01).The protein levels of hippocampal Nrf2 and GPX4 were decreased(P<0.01).Compared with VD group,the rats in EP-VD,EP-VD-EA and VD-EA groups showed a shorter average escape latency and an increased number of traversals across the plateau(P<0.05).Neurons in the hippocampal CA1 area were more neatly arranged,showing regular cellular morphology.The hip-pocampal Fe2+and MDA contents of the rats in EP-VD group were significantly reduced(P<0.01),while the GSH content was elevated(P<0.05).Hippocampal Fe2+and MDA contents were significantly reduced and GSH contents were signifi-cantly increased in EP-EA and EA groups(P<0.01).The protein levels of hippocampal Nrf2 and GPX4 in EP-VD,EP-VD-EA and VD-EA groups were significantly increased(P<0.01).CONCLUSION:Exercise preconditioning combined with EA improves learning and memory ability in VD rats by reducing hippocampal intra-neuronal iron overload,maintain-ing organismal redox homeostasis,and inhibiting ferroptosis.

Inflammation, abnormal cholesterol metabolism, and macrophage infiltration are involved in the destruction of the extracellular matrix of the nucleus pulposus (NP), culminating in intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). Whether nimbolide (Nim), a natural extract, can alleviate IDD is unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that Nim promotes cholesterol efflux and inhibits the activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways by activating sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) in nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) during inflammation. Thus, Nim balanced matrix anabolism and catabolism of NPCs. However, the inhibition of SIRT1 significantly attenuated the effects of Nim. We also found that Nim promoted the expression of SIRT1 in RAW 264.7, which enhanced the proportion of M2 macrophages by facilitating cholesterol homeostasis reprogramming and impeded M1-like macrophages polarization by blocking the activation of inflammatory signaling. Based on these results, Nim can improve the microenvironment and facilitate matrix metabolism equilibrium in NPCs. Furthermore, in vivo treatment with Nim delayed IDD progression by boosting SIRT1 expression, modulating macrophage polarization and preserving the extracellular matrix. In conclusion, Nim may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for treating IDD.