Investigation on the plant origin and Pharmacognosy of Aiye grown in Gansu revealed that 12 species of the Artemisia genus were used either as or adultered with Aiye, instead of the genuine drug. Morphological and histological indentifications were presented to distinguish the faked drug.

BACKGROUND: Previous results of our study show that oyster extract has some protective effects on apoptosis of the neuroepithelium in neural tube defects induced by hyperthermia in vivo.It remains unclear whether the extraet also protects in vitro cultured neural stem cells.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the protective effect of oyster extract on apoptosis of cerebral neural stem cells induced by hyperthermia.METHODS: The cerebral neural stem cells of embryonic mice of 13 days were cultured in vitro.Nestin expression was detected by immunofluorescence method to identify neural stem cells.The neural stem cells of passage 3 were divided randomly into 4groups: hyperthermia control group and oyster treated Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ groups(mass concentration 2.5,5,10 g/L oyster extract solution).In addition,culture solution control group(no cells),and culture solution+oyster extract control group(no cells)were designed.All oyster extract groups and control groups were treated by hyperthermia over 39 ℃.The survival rate and the vitality of neural stem cells were detected by trypan blue staining and MTT assay.Western-blotting was employed to explore the expression of p53 in cerebral neural stem cells of each group.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The survival rate and the value of MTT assay in oyster treated groups Ⅱ and Ⅲ were significantly greater than hyperthermia control group(P < 0.05),but the expression of p53 in oyster treated groups Ⅱ and Ⅲ were weaker than hyperthermia control group.Oyster extract plays an important protective role in the apoptosis of neural stem cells induced by hyperthermia.

Objective To investigate the role of nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 1 (NOD1) in inducing insulin resistance in differentiated human adipocytes.Methods Human preadipocytes obtained via liposuction were induced to differentiate into mature adipocytes.iE-DAP,a specific ligand for NOD1,was administered to human adipocytes in culture.NF-κB transcriptional activity and proinflammatory cytokines production were determined by luciferase assay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.Glucose uptake in adipocytes was measured by 2-deoxy-D-[3 H] glucose uptake (P＜0.05).The expression of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase p85 (PI-3K p85),insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) and Akt phosphorylations were detected by Western blotting.Results NF-κB transcriptional activity and cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-6,IL-8,and monocyte chemotactic protein 1 secretion were markedly increased after stimulation with iE-DAP (P＜0.05 or P＜0.01).Insulin-induced glucose uptake was decreased with the activation of NOD1 in a dose-and time-dependent fashion.NOD1 activation weakened insulin signal transduction as being revealed by increasing IRS-1 Ser307phosphorylation,reducing protein expression of PI-3K p85,and attenuating insulin-induced phosphorylation of Akt on Ser473 and Thr308in human adipocytes.Conclusion These results indicate that NOD1 activation induces inflammatory response and insulin resistance via IRS-1/PI3-K/Akt signaling pathway in human adipocytes.

ObjectiveTo explore relationship between psychological resilience and life events of Tibetan nursing students receiving free vocational nursing education.Method The questionnaire of Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90)and ASLEC were used in the survey among 120 nursing students to investigate the psychological resilience and life events and SPSS 17.0 was used to look into the correlations between them.Results The scores on psychological resilience of Tibetan nursing students was higher than the norm (P<0.05).There were negative correlations between life events and psychological resilience(P<0.05).Their psychological resilience was positively related to personal relations and health conditions(P<0.05)but negatively to learning pressure,punishment and losses (P<0.05).Conclusion The school and hospital should make teaching measures to psychologically support them in daily life to strengthen the abilities to handle failure and adjust to the society.

OBJECTIVE:To optimize the formulation of Compound pearl powder effervescent granule and study its release behavior in vitro. METHODS:The contents of anhydrous citric acid,sodium bicarbonate,and lactose in the formulation were optimized by uniform design method with the consumption of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid(EDTA) as index meanwhile giving consideration to the foaming height and pH of the solution. The dissolution of calcium carbonate in Compound pearl powder effervescent granule,self-made calcium carbonate tablets and self-made pearl power in distilled water and hydrochloric acid were investigated. RESULTS:The optimized formulation of the Compound pearl powder effervescent granule was stated as follows:10.0 g anhydrous citric acid,2.5 g sodium bicarbonate,and 5.0 g lactose. There were significant differences across the 3 different preparations in dissolution rates. CONCLUSION:The prepared Compound pearl powder effervescent granule is characterized by fast and complete drug release. Its solution is acid and indicated for specific population.

Objective: To analyze the expression of CMTM1-v17 in normal prostate tissue and prostate carcinoma originated cell lines, and study its impact on the transactivation of androgen receptor and the possible mechanism. Methods: The expression of CMTM1-v17 in normal prostate tissue was analyzed with immunohistochemistry method. In immounocytochemistry was used to analyze the expression of CMTM1-v17 in prostate carcinoma originated cell lines. Luciferase assay was used to study the impact of CMTM1-v17 on the transactivation of AR and its mechanism. Results: The results of immunohistochemistry showed that CMTM1-v17 was highly expressed in prostate. In prostate cancer originated cell lines, CMTM1-v17 could also be detected in prostate cancer originated cell lines PC3, Du145 and LNCaP. And the results of luciferase implied that the relative luciferase activity of the PC3 cells transfected with 1 ?g and 2 ?g pCDI-CMTM1-v17 plasmids separately were 70.8 and 34.7, compared with the control set as 100. When trichostatin A, the inhibitor for histone deacetylase, was used, the repression of androgen receptor could be recovered with trichostatin A treatment,for the relative luciferase activity of the PC3 cells transfected with 1 ?g and 2 ?g pCDI-CMTM1-v17 plasmids and treated with 100 nmol/L trichostatin A rebound to 90.9 and 86.4. Conclusion: CMTM1-v17 is highly expressed in both normal prostate and prostate carcinoma originated cell lines. It may recruit histone deacetylas to inhibit the function of androgen receptor.

A method was developed for the determination of four sulfa antibiotics in groundwater, soil and excreta using solid phase micro extraction disks coupled with high performance liquid chromatography. The influence of eluent, different solid phase micro extraction membranes on the recovery of sulfa antibiotics in groundwater was investigated and it was found that when using the mixture of methyl alcohol and 1 . 0% formic acid as eluent, HLB ( divinyl benzene-N-vinyl pyrrolidone polymer ) as extraction membranes, an optimal enrichment effect was obtained. Different pretreatment methods for the 3 kinds of samples abovementioned were also examined. It was found that the signal response values obtained by using mixture of methyl alcohol and 1 . 0% formic acid as base solution of standard or sample solution was higher 8-10 times than that by using methyl alcohol only. Under the optimal conditions, good linear relationships were obtained in the sulfa antibiotics concentrations of 0 . 005-10 . 0 mg/L with the correlation coefficients>0 . 9999;The detection limits of sulfathiazole ( ST ) , sulfadiazine ( SM ) , sulfamethazine ( SM2 ) , sulfamethoxazole ( SMX ) were 1 . 08 , 3. 56, 4. 63 and 1. 84 ng/L(S/N=3), respectively. The enrichment factors for four sulfa antibiotics were 4000 times with solid phase micro extraction disks. The RSD of matrix spiked samples were 0. 1%-0. 4%(n=7). The proposed method was applied to the determination of the four sulfa antibiotics in groundwater, soil and excreta with spiked recoveries of the four sulfa antibiotics in the range of 69 . 80%-117 . 60%.

Glucokinase (GK) is a new target for the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In order to find a structure-simplified small molecule GK activator, 19 salicylic acid derivatives were designed and synthesized based on new lead compound (1). Experimental results showed that the potency of compound 8h is superior to control RO-28-0450 in GK activation.

BACKGROUND:In mass spectrometry analysis, the same protein in different samples labeled with isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation presents the same mass-to-charge ratio, while in the tandem mass spectrometry analysis, the ion signal shows different mass-to-charge ratio (114-121). Thus the quantitative information of the related proteins can be obtained. OBJECTIVE:To establish the protein spectrum of spinal cord tissue differences proteins after acute spinal cord injury, and to explore the spinal differential protein expression on the molecular level using isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation combined with LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry technique. METHODS:Eight Sprague Dawley rats were selected to establish the acute spinal cord injury models using Al en’s method. The rats were randomly divided into 0 hour spinal cord injury group and 8 hours spinal cord injury group, four rats in each group. The spinal cord tissues were col ected after injury, and the spinal cord tissue differences proteins were analyzed with isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation technique after acute spinal cord injury. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Total y 220 differential y expressed proteins were identified in this research, the number of up-regulation proteins was 116 and the number of down-regulation proteins was 104. There were 12 differential proteins related to neural regeneration, and among the 12 proteins, there were seven up-regulation proteins and five down-regulation proteins. The various identified differential proteins and significantly expressed nerve growth factors in this experiment can be used as the biomarkers of acute spinal cord injury or used as the strong evidence for the clinical management and monitoring of the injury process and target therapy of acute spinal cord injury, as wel as the effect evaluation.