OBJECTIVE:To observe the acute toxic effect of Compound SH Chinese medicine on mice and its effects on the indexes of liver and kidney in rabbits.METHODS:By Bliss method,KM mice(trial group)were selected and intragastrically administered with different concentration of compound SH Chinese medicine.Then the mice were followed for 14 days with toxic reaction,death,and autopsy conditions of the mice recorded.The rabbits(control group)were fed with 3% compound SH Chinese medicine-containing animal feed,from which tissue and blood samples were taken at 35 days for observation and analysis.RESULTS:Medial lethal dose(LD50)of compound SH Chinese medicine for KM mice was 409.88 g?kg-1(95% confidence interval,350.80～478.91 g?kg-1).The trial group showed clear microscopic structure of the tissues,showing no significant differences as compared with control group.And no significant differences were between the two groups in biochemical indicators of liver and kidney.CONCLUSION:Compound SH Chinese medicine has a big safety margin,and its LD50 is 40 times that of curative dose for mice;moreover,it has no significant influence on morphology and function of organs such as heart,liver,spleen,lung,kidney etc in animals,suggesting it has no acute and subacute toxicity.

OBJECTIVE: To examine and determine the contents of endothelin (ET) and nitric oxide (NO) in plasma, and to observe the effects of gastrodin injection on blood pressure, ET and NO levels in old patients with refractory hypertension. METHODS: A total of 63 old patients with refractory hypertension, 30 patients with common hypertension and 30 healthy people were included. The contents of ET and NO in plasma of patients in different groups and healthy people were examined and analyzed. The old patients with refractory hypertension were randomly divided into two groups: gastrodin-treated and routine treatment groups. Besides conventional hypotensive drugs, intravenous drip infusion of 1 000 mg gastrodin was administered to the patients in gastrodin-treated group for two courses (4 weeks), while the patients in routine treatment group were treated only with conventional hypotensive drugs. The changes of blood pressure, ET and NO levels before and after treatment in different groups were measured. RESULTS: The plasma level of ET in refractory hypertension group was higher than that in common hypertension group (t=3.27, P=0.008), while the level of NO was lower (t=-3.81, P=0.002). The systolic pressure and pulse pressure difference in gastrodin-treated group were decreased significantly after one course of treatment (t=1.85, P=0.03; t=1.74, P=0.04). The level of ET in gastrodin-treated group decreased gradually after treatment, but there were no significant difference between before treatment and two courses of treatment, while the level of NO in gastrodin-treated group was increased after treatment (t=-2.70; P=0.04). CONCLUSION: Gastrodin injection is beneficial to old patients with refractory hypertension, and can improve the balance of ET and NO levels in plasma.

Objective To investigate the relationships among cerebellar mutism (CM), relapsed medulloblastoma (MB) and the primary tumor location.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted in 114 children over 3 years old with MB from November 2011 to April 2015.ResultsThe median onset age was 84.7 months (36.4 to 184.7 months) in 114 children with MB (77 boys and 37 girls), of whom there were 48 cases of recurrence. There were twenty two cases of CM and the overall incidence of CM was 19.3% (22/114). The incidence of CM was 19.7% (13/66) in non-recurrent cases and 18.8% (9/48) in recur-rent cases, and there was no signiifcant difference between two groups (P=0.899). The incidence of CM was 17.6% (9/51) in cas-es with primary tumor in the fourth ventricle, 7.1% (1/14) in cases with primary tumor in the cerebellar vermis, 21.4% (3/14) in cases with primary tumor in both fourth ventricle and cerebellar vermis, 45.5% (5/11) in cases with primary tumor in fourth ven-tricle and other parts of the brain, and 50.0% (4/8) in cases with primary tumor in cerebellar vermis and other parts of the brain. No CM incidence was observed in cases with primary tumor in central nerve system except for the fourth ventricle and cerebellar vermis. The incidence of CM between the cases with fourth ventricle/cerebellar vermis involvement and those without fourth ventricle/ cerebellar vermis involvement had signiifcant difference (P=0.039). ConclusionsThere is no relationship between CM and relapsed MB. Children with MB whose primary tumor is located in the fourth ventricle and/or the cerebellar vermis is susceptible to CM.

Group A β-hemolytic streptococcus (GAS),namely Streptococcus pyogenes,is one of the most im-portant human pathogen.GAS can cause skin and mucous membrane superficial infectious diseases,life -threatening invasive disease,toxin -mediated diseases and immune -related diseases.Antibiotic is an effective mean to control GAS infection.The β-lactam antibiotics remain the first -choice treatment for GAS infection and the macrolides are often recommended as a replacement therapy for β-lactam antibiotics allergic patients or a means to blocking GAS exotoxin product.But with the widespread use of macrolides autibiotics,macrolide -resistant GAS spread in the world. This paper will elaborate the situation of macrolide -resistant clones.

Objective To investigate the changing characteristics of muscle mass by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in middle aged and elderly people with different ages.Methods This study included 343 healthy people aged 50-89 years (178 males and 165 females).Subjects were divided into 4 groups:aged 50-59,60-69,70-79,and 80-89 years group.Fat-free body mass (FFM),the appendicular lean body mass (aLM),trunk lean mass (tLM) were measured by DEXA.The aLM/body weight (Wt％) and aLM index (ASMI) were calculated by DEXA.Results The tLM in both gender was decreased in aged 80-89 years group than in aged 50-59 years group [male (10.6± 1.8) kg vs.(18.4±2.9) kg,female (7.1±1.2) kg vs.(14.8±2.1) kg,F=5.7 and 7.8,P＜ 0.01].The average ASMI in both gender was decreased in aged 70-79 and 80-89 years groups than in aged 50-59 years groups [male (5.5±0.4) kg/m2,(4.9±0.7) kg/m2 vs.(6.1±0.5) kg/m2,female (4.3±0.4) kg/m2,(3.9±0.5) kg/m2 vs.(4.8±0.6) kg/m2,F=24.9 and 9.6,both P＜0.01].The quality of muscle mass was decreased with aging in the elderly.Conclusions Ageing is an important risk factor for sarcopenia in the elderly.DEXA can be used to evaluate the muscle mass in middle aged and the elderly,and ASMI can be used as a reliable measurement index.

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of gastric cracks by investigating the relationship between stomach cracks under gastroscopy and H.pylori infection as well as its pathological manifestation,in order to improve the detection rate of H.pylori.Methods Gastroscopy patients were enrolled as our subjects excluding those with tumors,major diseases and under 18 years old.Mucosal biopsies were obtained from the lesser curvature of antrum and the greater curvature of body in each patient,then by HE staining,pathological and HP examination.The information including the pathological diagnosis,HP antibody,rapid urease test,endoscopic diagnosis and endoscopic gastric body cracking phenomenon were collected from all patient.H.pylori positivity was defined as a patient who showed two or more positive results in the Rapid Urea's Test,pathohistological examination and H.pylori antibody detection.Results (1) 437 patients with gastroscopy were included between December 2009 and December 2011,among whom 210 were male and 227 were female.There were 32 cases with gastric ulcer,59 cases with duodenal ulcer,51 cases with duodenitis,62 cases with reflux esophagitis,and 276 cases with chronic gastritis.(2) H.pylori distribution in stoma of all patients:160 of 437 patients(36.61％) are H.pylori positive,of which 68.75％ (110/160) was found H.pylori positive in both of gastric antrum and body,25.63％ (41/160) was H.pylori positive only in antrum,and 3.13％ (5/160) was H.pylori positive only in the body of stomach.(3)Relationship between the presence of cracks in gastric body and H.pylori infection:the H.pylori positivity was 62.58％ (97/155) and 22.34％ (63/282) respectively in the group with or without the presence of cracks in body.Cracks in gastric body examined by gastroscopy was related to H.pylori infection(x2 =69.788,P =0.000).(4) Relationship between the presence of cracks in gastric body and patho-histology:the presence of cracks in gastric body was related with severity of gastric inflammation by Wilcoxon rank sum test (P ＜ 0.0001),while there was no relationship between gastric body cracks and atrophy,intestinal metaplasia and atypical hyperplasia(P ＞ 0.05).(5) Relationship between the presence of cracks in gastric body and diseases:the presence of cracks in body was related with duodenitis,bile reflux under gastroscopy while there was no difference among in gastric body and gastric ulcer,esophagitis and chronic gastritis in terms of cracking appearance (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Our finding showed that cracking appearance in the gastric body is related with severity of inflammation in gastric mucosa bile reflux and duodenitis,suggesting that it can be one of the gastroscopic manifestations of more severe gastritis.

Objective To investigate the effects of Mandarin speech rate on Mandarin acceptable noise level test in normal hearing adults.Methods Using the national Putonghua proficiency test material to produce 0.8 times,1.0 times and 1.2 times speed rate of ANL test materials.ANL tests were measured for 58 normal hearing a-dults using different peed matetrials.For each case,the most comfortable loudness(MCL)and background noise lev-el(BNL)were found.The ANL was then computed by subtracting the mean BNL from MCL.ResuIts Statistic anal-ysis indicated that there were no significant differences of the ANL(P>0.05)among the differenct speed materials, there were no correlation between MCL-ANL (P>0.05),negatively correlation between BNL-ANL(P<0.05)a-mong the differenct speed materials.ConcIusion Mandarin speech speed does not effect ANL test,the more the in-dividual’s ability to accept the background noise,the smaller the value of ANL.

Objective To study different test positions on vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) in youth ,and to find a suitable position and provide a guidance for clinical practice .Methods Thirty normal young vol-unteers were tested by vestibular evoked myogenic potentials ,using three different positions :supine with the head held straight up(SHU),supine with the head held up and turned away from the test ear(SHT),sitting with the head turned away from the test(SIT) ,the derivation rate ,latency and amplitude were analyzed .Results The deri-vation rate of SHU ,SHT and SIT were 100% ,100% and 63 .3% ,respectively .The derivation rate ,p13 ,n23 la-tency and p13 n23 inter-latency between SHU and SIT ,and between SHT and SIT had statistical differences (P<0 .05) .No statistical significant differences were found in derivation rate ,p13 ,n23 latency and p13n23 inter-latency between SHU and SHT (P>0 .05) .The amplitude was significantly different among the three positions (P<0 .05) . No statistical significant difference were found in derivation rate ,p13 ,n23 latency ,p13 n23 inter -latency and am-plitude between men and women of the three positions (P> 0 .05) .Conclusion The derivation rate of SHT was 100% with maximum amplitude .SHT is the most recommended position for clinical test in youth .The derivation rate of SHU was 100% ,and no statistical significant difference were found in p13 ,n23 latency and p13n23 inter-la-tency between SHU and SHT (P>0 .05) .SHU can be used in clinical test .SIT is not recommended for using in clinical test .Gender does not affect VEM Ps test .

Objective To analyze the molecular biological characteristics of Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) causing children tonsillitis in Yangfangdian community Haidian district,Beijing between 2011 and 2013.Methods From Apr.2011 to Apr.2013,there were 94 children with tonsillitis treated in outpatient of Beijing Shijitan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University,and 17 strains GAS were isolated from these pediatrician outpatients.Their encoding mature M protein gene (emm gene),7 pairs of alleles housekeeping gene (gki,gtr,murI,mutS,recP,xpt and yqiL),superantigen speA and speC genes,macrolide-resistance genes ermB,mefA and ermRT were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).The PCR amplified products of emm gene and 7 pairs of alleles housekeeping gene were sequenced.The emm gene sequences were stored in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database.The emm types of GAS were identified.The 7 pairs of alleles housekeeping gene sequences of GAS were sent to the multilocus sequence typing (MLST) website for their iso-allelic sequences to identify their sequence types (ST).The PCR amplified products of superantigen gene speA and speC,macrolide-resistance genes ermB,mefA and ermRT were performed with agar gel electrophoresis.The corresponding qualitative results were obtained.Results Five emm-types were discovered:emm12.0 (76.4％),emm1.0 (5.9％),emm89.0 (5.9％),emm75.0 (5.9％) and emm22.0 (5.9％) ;emm12.0 and its subtype strains had the same allelic profiles which belonged to ST36 type; emm1.0 strain belonged to ST28 ; emm89.0 strain belonged to ST101 ; emm75.0 strain belonged to ST49 ; emm22.0 strain belonged to ST46 ; 94.1％ (16/17) strains carried macrolide-resistance gene ermB.None carried macrolide-resistance genes mefA and ermRT.None carried superantigen speA gene.100.0％ (17/17 cases) carried superantigen speC gene.Conclusions emm12.0 (ST36) strain was the most common type of GAS causing the children tonsillitis in Yangfangdian community Haidian District,Beijing between 2011 and 2013.These strains mainly carry macrolide-resistance ermB and superantigen speC gene.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of pharmaceutical intervention after discharge on medication compliance and prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) in primary hospital.METHODS:One hundred and eighty patients with coronary artery disease selected from our hospital after PCI during Jan.2012 to May 2015 were divided into test group and control group according to whether the patients received pharmaceutical intervention after discharge,with 90 cases in each group.Control group received conventional pharmaceutical care and discharge education.Test group additionally received pharmaceutical intervention (pharmaceutical service files,telephone follow-up,patient education,etc.) after discharge.Medication compliance and occurrence of cardiovascular events were compared between 2 groups in 1 year after discharge.RESULTS:Within 1 year after discharge,the proportion of patients showing good compliance in test group was higher than control group,the proportion of patients showing partial and non compliance in test group were lower than control group;the inci dence of heart failure and repeated revascularization,hospitalization mortality and total mortality of test group were significantly lower than control group,with statistical significance (P＜0.05).CONCLUSIONS:Pharmaceutical intervention after discharge can improve the medication compliance of coronary artery disease patients after PCI in primary hospital,reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular events and improve the clinical prognosis.