OBJECTIVE:To investigate the molecular mechanism of cerebral vasospasm (CVS) from the perspectives of the basic molecular biology of cerebrovascular regulation, vascular cell proliferation, inflammatory reactions of vascular cells, and gene activation.DATA SOURCE: By using the key words "subarachnoid hemorrhage","cerebral ischemia", "temporal", and "molecular biology", we retrieved the related articles between January 1998 and December 2004 in Medline,and the language was limited to English.STUDY SELECTION: All articles related to our study purpose were setal subjects. Exclusion criteria: Duplicated experiments. The rest of articles were searched for the full text.DATA EXTRACTION: Totally 20 articles related to the molecular mechanism of CVS induced by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with or without randomized studies were selected, and 14 of them accorded with the inclusion criteria. The other 6 papers of duplicated study were excluded.oxygen radicals damage both cerebral endothelial and smooth muscle cells through the following possible mechanism: increasing endothelial permeability, increasing intracellular calcium and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate levlarize and show impaired relaxation after SAH. This may be due to a depletion of the energy metabolism causing a dysfunction of ion pumps or inhibition of potassium channels, which leads to membrane depolarization gene activation can relieve CVS.CONCLUSION: The patbogenesis of SAH-induced CVS may be related to a number of pathological processes, including endothelial damage, smooth muscle cell contraction resulting from dysfunction of ion pumps or PKC activation, vascular cell proliferation, inflammatory reaction of the vascular wall, and gene activation.

BACKGROUND: After tooth extraction, residual ridge resorption is a complicate process, while stress is one of the main causes. Recent studies have demonstrated that osteopontin (OPN) is a kind of agent that is sensitive to mechanical stress.OBJECTIVE: To study the role of OPN in mediating mechanical stress effect on bone, and to investigate the relationship of OPN and bone rebuilding, action mechanism of OPN and cell surface receptor and the relationship of OPN and osteoblast and osteoclast, in order to reveal the molecule mechanism of residual ridge resorption mainly caused by stress, and also to be a basic theory for clinical molecule therapy or gene therapy.RETRIEVE STRATEGY: PubMed was searched from January 1985 to June 2007 for English literatures with the searching words of "OPN, mechanical stress and bone resorption" and China Journal Full-text Database was also searched from January 1995 to June 2007 for Chinese literatures with the searching words of "OFN, mechanical stress and bone resorption". Fifty-two literatures were retrieved. The data were primarily selected. Inclusive criteria: being relative to role of OPN in mediating mechanical stress effect on bone. Exclusive criteria: repetitive studies.LITERATURE EVALUATION: Among the 52 literatures, including 6 Chinese and 46 English, 5 were rejected for objective independent from this study, 13 for repetitive contents, and so 34 literatures were involved for further analysis on the role of OPN in mediating mechanical stress effect on bone, 6 being review and the others being clinical or basic studies.DATA SYNTHESIS: ①After tooth extraction, residual ridge resorption is a complicate process. It also influences the effect of artificial denture, while stress is the main cause. ② OPN is widely distributed throughout the body, and has many physiologic functions. Recent studies have demonstrated that OPN is a kind of agent that is sensitive to mechanical stress. ③Bone is a special kind of biological tissue, bone resorption and bone rebuilding both can take place when it is lack of mechanical stress (atrophy of disuse),or endures mechanical stress. ④Bone rebuilding can be seen as the results of these molecule events. OPN, as a main protein, participates in the bone resorption and bone rebuilding. ⑤These OPN can be seen as a chemotatic factor to guide prosoma osteoclast to migrate to the surface of the bone, and mediate it to combine with the integrin on the surface of osteoclast so to promote the resorption of bone. So, OPN is a necessary factor in mechanical stress induced bone loss. ⑥OPN is a signal of transmission between osteoblast and osteoclast. ⑦OPN can be seen as a long acting feedback inhibition signal to inhibit bone mineralization.CONCLUSION: OPN is a kind of agent that is sensitive to mechanical stress. It plays an important role in mediating mechanical stress effect on bone.

BACKGROUND: Most of anti-osteoporosis drugs can only inhibit bone resorption, but can not improve the bone formation. So far, Strontium ranelate is the only anti-osteoporosis drug that has a dual effect on bone resorption and bone formation. Through the retrieval of related studies, the present review article evaluates the current understanding of strontium ranelate effects on bone resorption based on the pharmacologic experiments, clinical studies, action mechanisms. Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) has been widely used on clinic; however, there are still few reports addressing rhBMP-2-induced osteogenesis in intervertebral disc.

BACKGROUND:During the restoration of residual molar crown, a little part of tooth is still remained commonly. After the restoration, with various forces, stress distribution affects directly the results after restoration. Finite element method is gradually applied in stress analysis on artificial tooth.OBJECTIVE: To establish the three-dimensional (3-D) finite element model of post-inlay restoration of the first residual mandibular molar crown so as to provide experimental data for improving model establishment of complicated teeth and analysis on the property of stress distribution of restoring methods.DESIGN: Repeated observation and measurement were given.SETTING: Department of Stomatology and Department of Radiology of First Hospital affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University;Department of Solid Mechanics,College of Traffics and Communications, South China University of Technology; Department of Restoration of Guanghua College of Stomatology.MATERIALS: The experiment was performed in Department of Solid Mechanics, College of Traffics and Communications of South China University of Technology from November 2003 to December 2004. Six first mandibular molars on the right side with normal morphology in vitro were collected, and Toshiba Xpress/SX spiral CT machine, image photo synthesis software and finite element analysis software ANSYS were applied in the experiment.METHODS: 1 of the 6 first mandibular molars on the right side with normal morphology in vitro was selected for pulpectomy, which was the best in density and near to clinical requirement in morphology. With pulpectomy, the prosthesis of braking-lock post-inlay restoration was prepared. Spiral CT-cross scanning was performed in premolar crown before the restoration, the residual crown with post-inlay in main root canal after restoration and the residual crown with braking-lock second post-inlay restoration. With image photosynthesis software, 3-D digital model of residual tooth and metal part was established and the entire tooth model was prepared after adhesion of two parts. In order to provide better boundary conditions of simulated natural tooth in practice, alveolar bone was considered. Under Mesh order in ANSYS software, automatic mesh generation was performed in the model directly.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Establishment of 3-D finite element models of residual tooth before restoration, post inlay, and alveolar bone and tooth after restoration and the results of mesh generation.RESULTS: By establishing 3-D finite element models of residual tooth before restoration, post inlay, alveolar bone and tooth after restoration and automatic mesh generation, there were altogether 117720 units and 20988nodes. Good geometric similarity presents between the construction model of 3-D finite element model and solid tissue.CONCLUSION: Combination of 3-D finite-element model with spiral Ctcross technology establishes complex dental models, simulates practical conditions authentically and is good in operation.

Objective To investigate the diagnosis value of mucin 7 in plasma and urine in the detection of bladder cancer.Methods Expression of mucin 7 was detected quantitatively in plasma and urine from 23 patients with bladder cancer and 23 patients as control group by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) from November 2012 to September 2013.There were 15 were male and 8 were female in the 23 bladder cancer patients,aged from 41 to 95 years,with an average of 64 years.Of the 23 bladder cancer pathology,12 with high grade,11 with low grade,11 with invasive disease and 12 with noninvasive disease.There were 19 males and 4 females in the 23 patients in control group,aged from 28 to 85 years,with an average of 61 years.Results The amount of mucin 7 in plasma was significantly higher in bladder cancer group than that in control group [(7.43±4.54) ng/ml versus (4.55±.1.98) ng/ml,P=0.017].While there was no significant difference in urine between the two groups [(12.44±7.1 1) ng/ml versus (11.96±8.41)ng/ml,P=0.840].There was no significant differences in the amount of mucin 7 had in different grades and stages of bladder cancer (P＞0.05).Conclusions Expression of mucin 7 in plasma of patients with bladder cancer is significantly higher than that in control group.Mucin 7 expression has no significant correlation with the grading and staging of bladder cancer.Detecting mucin 7 expression quantitatively with ELISA for diagnosis of bladder cancer is a method with certain value.

Objective To observe the nursing efficacy of cluster-based care for bronchial asthma.Methods 100 cases with bronchial asthma were randomly divided into the study group and the control group with 50 patients in each group.The control group received usual care,and the study group received cluster-based care model.Curative effect,the total of the cases received inhalation therapy correctly,compliance of inhalation therapy,degree of satisfaction to nursing services in the two groups were compared.Results The curative effect in the study group were better significantly than the control group (86％ vs 58％).The cases received inhalation therapy correctly in the study group were more than the control group (92％ vs 72％).The compliance of inhalation therapy in the study group was significantly higher than the control group(90％ vs 80％).The degree of satisfaction to nursing services in the study group were significantly higher than the control group (98％ vs 86％).Conclusions Cluster-based care had good effect on patients with bronchial asthma.

Chlorella is nutritious and has been used as a functional food much earlier than the other microalgae. C. pyrenoidosa, the potential microalgae which is currently cultured and developed for the new strategic industry of biofuels production and biological CO2 fixation, is a new resource food announced by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China late 2012. Accumulation of high value-added substances in C. pyrenoidosa during the cultivation for lipid makes it possible to reduce the costs for C. pyrenoidosa-based biofuels production. Among these potential substances, hot water extract of Chlorella (CE), commercially known as "Chlorella growth factor", is the unique one that makes Chlorella more precious than the other algae, and the market price of CE is high. It is believed that CE is effective in growth promotion and immunoregulation. However, there is no systematic analysis on the research status of CE and its bioactivity. The present report summarized recent research progress of CE and its bioactivity. Generally, besides the main effect on immunoregulation and tumor inhibition, CE was efficient in improving metabolic syndrome, scavenging for free radicals, protecting against ultraviolet damage, chelating heavy metals, and protecting liver and bowel. Several major challenges in CE research as well as its prospects were also analysed in the present report.
Biofuels ; Chlorella ; chemistry ; Humans ; Lipids ; chemistry ; Plant Extracts ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Water

OBJECTIVE To find out the status about detection and drug resistance of Ureaplasma urealyticum(Uu) and Mycoplasma hominis(Mh) of urogenital tract infection in Shaoxing area of Zhejiang Province.METHODS The detections and drug sensitive tests of Uu and Mh adopting the reagent boxes produced by bioMerieux Company in France were made.RESULTS In 2678 samples of suspicious urogenital tract infection patients,980 samples cultured of mycoplasma were positive,and the positive rate was 36.6%.Among these cases,763 samples(28.5%) were Uu positive;116 samples(4.3%) were Mh positive.In the drug sensitive test,Uu and Mh were most sensitive to PRI,JOS,DOX and TET.To CFLX,OFL,ERY,CM and AM,they had the highest level of drug resistance.CONCLUSIONS The clinical therapy of mycoplasma infection ought to choose the appropriate antibiotics based on the results of the drug sensitive test of the laboratory.

Surgery remains an important therapeutic method for localized esophageal cancer, but the 5?year survival rate of patients undergoing surgical resection alone is only 20%?25%. Early studies show that postoperative radiotherapy reduced regional recurrence rate, but did not increase the survival rate. Most recent studies show that stage Ⅲ or lymph node?positive patients can obtain survival benefit from postoperative radiotherapy, and patients in pT2?3 N0 M0 stage may also benefit from postoperative radiotherapy. The recommended radiotherapy target volumes include bilateral supraclavicular areas, superior mediastinum, subcarinal area, and tumor bed. It is recommended in most studies that regional lymph nodes in the upper abdomen should be included in patients with lower?segment lesions. The locally advanced patients may benefit more from postoperative radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy. The significance of postoperative radiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, target volume design, and combined chemotherapy need individualized consideration and more clinical evidence.

Objective To investigate the value of neuronavigation system in resection of pituitary adenoma through the endonasal transsphenoidal approach. Methods Twenty-one patients with pituitary adenomas underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or CT scans studies. The image datasets were transported into the neuronavigation system. The anatomic information of approach was reconstructed for three-dimensional visualization and the best approach was designed. The midline structure and internal carotid artery were displayed in real-time intraoperatively, the anterior-wall of sphenoidal sinus and the floor of sella were accurately opened and the tumor was resected guiding by neuronavigation system. Results All the operations were smoothly and accurately performed under the neuronavigation by transsphenoidal approach. No injury occurred in the internal carotid artery and cavernous sinus. After surgery, 13 patients got better vision and visual field. Postoperative transient diabetes insipidus was found in 11 cases, and CSF leak in 1 and serious hyponatremia in 2 cases. Total tumor removal was achieved in 17 patients and subtotal removal in 2 cases during operations, which were confirmed by postoperative MRI. Three-month follow-up data showed only one recurrence case (subtotal tumor removal), the recurrence rate was 4.8%. Conclusion Neuronavigation system provided real-time localization with three-dimensional anatomic information of the endonasal transsphenoidal approach during pituitary adenomas surgery. As a result, the approach proceeds more smoothly and accurately, the tumor can be resected more completely, the surgical injury and complications can also be reduced.