The tissue chip is a special tissue section,which has several tens to thousands mini tissues of regular arrangement on the one glass slide.According to the deficiencies in experimental teaching section of morphology at present,the author introduced the characteristics and values of the tissue chip and explored its application prospect in experimental teaching of morphology.

BACKGROUND: Joint instability may be a key agent contributing to the progress of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Neurac technique is a new modality focused on activating neuromuscular function and improving joint stability. Neurac technique may be helpful for delayed diagnosed DDH.OBJECTIVE: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of Neurac training on DDH patients.METHODS: A female patient of 23 years old with delayed diagnosed DDH received Neurac training for 14 days was retrospective analyzed.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The pain was relieved at 14 day after treatment. The Harris scoring showed that the hip function was improved. At 6 months follow-up, the results indicated that the remission was kept fine. Patient with delayed diagnosed DDH may get fine remission of pain and function through Neurac treatments. The effectiveness can last for a long time.

BACKGROUND: Many factors can lead to a large area of skin defects, and tissue-engineered artificial skil transplantation composed by seeding cel s and scaffold materials can be used for skin defect repair. OBJECTIVE: To construct the skin implantation scaffold based on human epidermal stem cel s combined with acel ular dermal matrix in nude mice. METHODS: Human epidermal stem cel s from children’s foreskin were isolated and cultured, and the skin of nude mice was obtained to prepare acel ular dermal matrix scaffold. Then, the human epidermal stem cel s were cultured on the acel ular dermal matrix scaffold to construct artificial skin. Ten Sprague-Dawley rats were equivalently randomly divided into two groups: rats treated by human epidermal stem cel s combined with acel ular dermal matrix scaffold as combined group, and those treated by simple acel ular dermal scaffold as acel ular dermal scaffold group after skin defect models were prepared. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The artificial skin was milky white, soft and elastic, not easy to break, and has good flexibility, and good plasticity, and could be processed into different shapes. No obvious exudation appeared in the rat wound of two groups after repair. At 2 weeks after modeling, the transplanted skin showed good growth and skin wound healed gradual y in the combined group. In contrast, scar healing and two animals with transplant failure occurred in the acel ular dermal scaffold group. These results show that human epidermal stem cel s combined with acel ular dermal materials in nude mice can construct the tissue-engineered skin, which exerts good repair effects for skin defects in animals.

Objective To investigate the bacteriological features and the epidemiology of methicillin－ resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients with impetigo, and provide evidence for selection of appropriate agents for treating impetigo and its complications. Methods Two hundred and forty－ six out- patients with impetigo were surveyed. Cultures were obtained from impetiginous lesions. Antibiotic susceptibility tests on 212 S.aureus isolates were performed by standard agar dilution testing (MIC). Results In a total of 246 isolates, 87.0％ yielded S.aureus alone, 2.0％ S.aureus and Group A beta－ hemolytic streptococcus (GABHS), 1.6％ GABHS alone, 4.1％ Staphylococcus epidermidis. Fifteen antimicrobial agents were used in the susceptibility tests. One hundred percent of S. aureus isolates were resistant to penicillin, 87.7％ were resistant to erythromycin, followed by clindamycin (75.5％ ), tetracycline (63.2％ ), chloramphenicol (54.2％ ), ampicillin－ sulbactam (44.8％ ), oxacillin (30.2％ ), ciprofloxacin (12.8％ ), cefotaxime (0.9％ ), fusidic acid (0.9％ ) and gentamicin (0.9％ ). None of the S.aureus isolates was resistant to vancomycin, cefazolin, cefuroxime and mupirocin. Sixty- four MRSA strains were isolated. No vancomycin resistant S.aureus strain was found. Conclusions Penicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol and ampicillin－ sulbactam prove to be no longer the appropriate therapeutic agents. Cephalosporin, mupirocin and fusidic acid might be the good choice for treatment of impetigo in our region.

Objective To research the relationship between high temperature and population death in a district in Nanjing. Methods Using Microsoft Excel 2000 and SAS 8.0 software, firstly, respectively analyzed the impact of daily highest and lowest temperature from 1994 to 2002 on daily death in summer and winter, then studied the relationship between daily highest temperature and total death, age-specific and sex-specific death in summer of 1998 based on the study of the climate characteristic of Nanjing. Results In summer, the highest temperature which could reach to 40.7℃ emerged mostly in July and August, and when the highest temperature was higher than 35℃, mortality increased obviously as the temperature increasing. The relative humidity was more than 70% in most time of the year round. In summer of 1998, the excessive death on hot days accounted for 11.3% in which the old people occupied the majority, and two death peak appeared in July and August, the former higher than the latter. Conclusion The high temperature and high humidity may obviously increase mortality, especially in the old people, in Nanjing.

Objective To explore the expression and relationship with the clinical pathological features of CD34,CD117,smooth muscle actin(SMA),S -100 protein in gastrointestinal stromal tumor.Methods 60 cases of resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumor specimens were collected,all cases were confirmed by postoperative patholo-gy,explored the expression of CD34,CD117,SMA,S -100 protein expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumor with immunohistochemical method,analyzed the relationship with the clinical pathological features of CD34,CD117,SMA, S -100 protein.Results CD34 positive signal located in the cytoplasm,CD117 positive signal mainly located in cyto-plasm,a few located in the cell membrane,nuclear yellow particles diffuse distribution in cells,SMA and S -100 pro-tein located in the cytoplasm of focal or scattered point positive expression of CD34,CD117,SMA,S -100 protein pos-itive expression rate in gastrointestinal stromal tumor tissue were 88.33% (53 /60),95.00% (57 /60),43.33%(26 /60)and 6.67% (4 /60);CD34 positive expression rate was related to area (χ2 =9.093,P <0.05),S -100 protein positive expression rate related to the histological type (χ2 =10.447,P <0.05).Conclusion CD34,CD117 in gastrointestinal stromal tumor tissue in the positive expression rate is very high,detection jointed with CD34,CD117 can improve the gastrointestinal stromal tumor diagnosis accuracy.

Nowdays, Chinese medicine training has two modes, apprentice education and college education. The two modes showed the differences in the source of students, teaching content, methods and effect of the education. The two models should be combined to cultivate excellent talents of Chinese Medicine. Additionally, different training should be conducted according to different goals. This article focused on the traning mode of Chinesae medicine talents at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in recent years, put forward some issues in future education and provided some promoting strategies to combine traditional apprentice education and college education.

OBJECTIVETo compare the difference in the clinical efficacy on type M prostatitis between the combined therapy of acupuncture and isolated-ginger moxibustion and tamsulosin.

METHODSOne hundred and ten patients of type III prostatitis were randomized into an acupuncture and moxibustion group and a tamsulosin group, 55 cases in each one. In the acupuncture and moxibustion group, acupuncture and isolated-ginger moxibustion were adopted. Two groups of acupoints were selected, named (1) Guanyuan (CV 4), Qugu (CV 2) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6); (2) Yaoyangguan (GV 3), Pangguangshu (BL 28) and Zhibian (BL 54). The two groups of points were used by acupuncture alternatively and only one group was selected a day. Isolated-ginger moxibustion was applied to Guanyuan (CV 4) and Zhibian (BL 54), once a day, 10 treatments made one session, and totally 3 sessions were required. In the tamsulosin group, tamsulosin was prescribed for oral administration, 0.2 mg, twice a day for 1 month. The National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) score and expressed prostatic secretion (EPS) score were observed in the patients of the two groups.

RESULTSNIH-CPSI and EPS scores after treatment were all reduced apparently as compared with those before treatment in the two groups (all P < 0.05). The improvements in the acupuncture and moxibustion group were more obvious than those in the tamsulosin group (all P < 0.05). In 3 months follow-up, NIH-CPSI score in the acupuncture and moxibustion group was reduced apparently as compared with the tamsulosin group (P < 0.05). The curative rate and total effective, rate were 20.0% (11/55) and 85.5% (47/55) in the acupuncture and moxibustion group, and were 3.6% (2/55) and 61.8% (34/55) in the tamsulosin group respectively (both P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe combined therapy of acupuncture and isolated-ginger moxibustion achieves the good effect of relieving the symptoms of type III prostatitis and recovery of EPS, better than those treated with tamsulosin. This combined therapy spresents the better long-term efficacy.

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Ginger ; chemistry ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Moxibustion ; Prostatitis ; therapy ; Young Adult

Objective To study the antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from children with infectious skin diseases in Beijing area and to investigate the prevalance of community acquired methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA).Methods S.aureus was isolated from 600 outpatients with infectious skin diseases in Beijing Children's ospital.The susceptibility of these isolates to 14 antimi crobial agents was determined by agar dilution method according to the guidelines from Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).Results Totally，451 S.aureus strains were isolated.Of them,93.8% were resistant to penicillin,87.6% to erythromycin,71.6% to lindamycin,37.3% to etracycline,13.3% to chloramphenicol,6.4% to gentamicin,1.6%to oxacillin,2.2% to ciprofloxacin,0.4% to cefazolin,0.2% to cefuroxime and mupirocin.No resistance was found to vancomycin,ceffriaxone or fusidic acid.Conclusions The results suggest that penicillin and erythromycin are no longer the appropriate agents for the treatment of S.aureus.The prevalance of MRSA iS 1.6% in children with infectious skin diseases in Beijing area.Oxacillin and cephalosporin are recommended for systemic treatment of community acquired MRSA,and mupirocin or fusidic acid for its topical treatment.