Objective To study the influence of comprehensive intervention before total hip re-placement on patients' postoperative rehabilitation. Methods Eighty patients underwent total hip joint replacement were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group. Psychological inter-vention,urination exercise and rehabilitation education and practice were performed before operation in the experimental group.Tbe control group had none of the education and exercise besides of routine instruction. Postoperative rehabilitative exercise was the same in the two groups. Posoperative psychological state, the first urination and clinical rehabilitation at the end of the first and third months were evaluated. Re-suits The psychological state after operation in the experimental group was significantly better than the control group (P＜0.05).The first urination of the experimental group was significantly better than the con-trol group (P＜0.01). Completion of rehabilitation exercise at the end of the 4th week of the experimental group was more than the control group(P＜0.05). The functional score of the replacement hip of the exper-imental group was higher than the control group the end of first and third months(P＜0.05) after operation.Conclusions comprehensive intervention before operation can raise the efficacy of rehabilitation training and reduce complications after operation and so can make the patients recover more quickly.

Objective To investigate the value of CT,MRI,MRCP in diagnosing biliary obstruction. Methods 30 patients with biliary obstructive diseases confirmed by pathology or clinical data were examined by CT,MRI,MRCP.Results The accuracy of location of obstructive level with CT,MRI,MRCP were 86.7%,93.3%,100% respectively.The accuracy of quality of biliary obstruction with CT,MRI,CT+MRI+MRCP were 80%,73%,90% respectively.Conclusion The combination of CT,MRI,MRCP can increase the accuracy of diagnosis of location and quality of the diseases.

ObjectiveTo study the clinical characteristics of the temperature instability in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). MethodsThe clinical characteristics of one case of PWS with recurrent fever were retrospectively analyzed.ResultsA 5-month-old boy who had such clinical characteristics as low central muscle tension, sucking weakness, feeding dififculties, cryptorchidism and white skin was diagnosed as PWS by chromosomal microarray analysis and methylation-speciifc PCR. In the course of the disease, the infant presented recurrent fever. The pathogenic bacteria culture and virus antibody detection showed negative, and the treatment of reducing fever, anti-infection and immune support were ineffective.ConclusionsThe cause of the recurrent fever is unknown and central fever is suspected. Whether the temperature instability is the clinical feature of PWS still needs a lot of clinical researches.

Objective To investigate the effect of the psychological behavior intervention on the mental status and clinical symptom of patients with functional constipation. Methods All of 78 patients with functional constipation diagnosed by Rome m diagnostic code were randomly divided into study group (n =40) and control group (n = 38). The psychological behavior intervention was used in the study group, the caccagogue and symptomatic treatment was used in the control group. The self-rating anxiety scale(SAS),self-rating depressive scale (SDS) was analyzed and the improving of clinical symptom, adverse effect was compared before and after 4 weeks of treatment respectively. Results The scores of SAS and SDS in the study group significantly decreased after treatment [ (36.25±8.61 )scores vs (42.97±9.25 )scores, P<0.01 ;(38.81±6.53)scores vs (43.36±7.18 )scores ,P < 0.01].There was significant difference between the two groups after treatment (P <0.05).The effective rate of study group was higher than that of control group .(97.50% vs 84.21%,P <0.05). The rate of celiodynia, diarrhea and the recrudescence after the course of treatment in control group was 23.68%, 15.79% and 89.47% respectively, while this numerus in study group was 5.00%,2.50% and 5.00%. Conclusions Psychological behavior intervention plays an important role in the treatment of functional constipation. It can improve the mental status, clinical symptom, and decrease the adverse effect.

The vascular depression is a subtype of depression.It has its specificity in clinical features,imaging,and treatment outcome etc.This article reviews the advances in research on the aspects of risk factors,pathogenesis,diagnosis,clinical features,and outcomes of vascular depression,particularly the vascular risk factors,steady-state changes in the neurovascular unit,immune cytokine activation,imaging characteristics of white matter damage and treatment of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as well as its correlation with dementia and cardiocerebrovascular diseases.

Objective To make use of the characteristics of presenting and processing tumor antigen of dendritic cells to enhance killing capability of CTLs against autologous renal cell carcinoma. Methods Autologous dendritic cells were obtained by culturing bone marrow cell from patient with RCC in the presence of granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor(GM CSF) and IL 4. Dendritic cells were loaded with tumor cell lysate and co cultured with autologous PBMCs from patient to induce generation of tumor specific cytotoxic T cells(CTL). Killing activity and cytokine release of the CTL and the population of CTL were measured by cytotoxic assay and ELISA and FACS analyses. Results Immune response of DC Tuly induced CTL was demonstrated by the following facts:(1)the growth expansion of CTL enhanced 43 folds on day 16;(2)up regulation of the CD3 + and CD8 + population in CTL;(3)the cytotoxicity of specific CTL against autologous RCC was highly enhanced as compared with allogenic RCC and heterogenous tumor( P

Rho(Ras homologue) family play an import ant role in intracellular signal-transduction pathways. Not until recently have they been found to overexpress in many kinds of tumors such as testicular germ cell tumor,colorectal tumor,breast cancer,ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and prostate cancer and been linked to the tumorigenesis and metastasis. So the members of the Rho family of small guanosine triphosphatases would be new marker s for tumor diagnosis、new markers for the prediction of metastatic potential an d new important prognostic factors. Moreover,they have the potential as therape utic targets for the prevention of cancer invasion and metastasis. In this artic le, we review the recent progress in this field.

AIM: To explore the possible role of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) in the effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 and its novel analogues on a human osteosarcoma cell line (HOS-8603) proliferation. METHODS: Detecting the VDR mRNA and protein expression in HOS-8603 cells by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunohistochemical analysis, respectively. Using the method of transient transfection of a reporter gene (DR3-tk-CAT) for VDR to detect its function. The cell VDRas3 which stably expressed VDR antisense mRNA was used to observe the effect of 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 on the proliferation of HOS-8603 cells and the induction of p21 mRNA, one of the VDR target genes, when the VDR in the cells was blocked. RESULTS: HOS-8603 cells expressed the vitamin D receptor which functioned as a hormone-dependent transcriptional factor. When VDR in the HOS-8603 cells decreased, the cells lost the responsiveness to 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 irrespective of either the induction of p21 gene expression or the cell proliferation. CONCLUSION: The effect of 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 on the proliferation of the human osteosarcoma cell line HOS-8603 was mediated by its nuclear receptor VDR.

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Objective To evaluate the effect of remote limb ischemic postconditioning (RLIP) combined with electro-acupuncture postconditioning (EAP) on focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats.Methods Seventy male Sprague-lDawley rats,weighing 220-250 g,were randomly assigned into 5 groups (n =14 each) using a random number table:sham operation group (group S),group I/R,RLIP group,EAP group and RLIP combined with EAP group (group RLIP +EAP).Focal cerebral I/R was induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO).MCAO was maintained for 120 min.The animals were subjected to 3 cycles of 15 min ischemia of bilateral hind limbs followed by 30 s reperfusion starting from onset of reperfusion.Dazhui and Baihui acupoints were stimulated with electric stimulator (frequency 15 Hz/2 Hz,intensity 1 mA) for 30 min starting from onset of reperfusion.Neurological deficit scores (NDSs) were evaluated at 24 h of reperfusion.The animals were then sacrificed and brains were removed to measure the infarct size and for microscopic examination of pathological changes in hippocampal CA1 region.The number of survival neurons was counted.The apoptosis in neurons was determined by TUNEL.Apoptosis index was calculated.Results Compared with group S,the NDSs,percentage of cerebral infarct size and AI were significantly increased,and the number of survival neurons was decreased in the other four groups.Compared with group I/R,the NDSs,percentage of cerebral infarct size and AI were significantly decreased,and the number of survival neurons was increased in EAP,RLIP and RLIP+EAP groups.Compared with RLIP and EAP groups,the NDSs,percentage of cerebral infarct size and AI were significantly decreased,and the number of survival neurons was increased in group RLIP+ EAP.Conclusion The combination of RLIP and EAP provides better efficacy than either alone in attenuating focal cerebral I/R injury in rats.