New registry classifications of chemical drugs redefined the concepts of new drugs and generic drugs. New drugs emphasize the international innovation including innovate new drugs and modified new drugs. Modified new drugs are improvement of drugs already on the market to achieve superior efficacy. With the advantages of high success rate,high return,low risk and long life cycle,modified new drugs have become the mainstream of new drugs research and development in the world. Modified new drugs R&D in China should be based on clinical demand and focused on the differentiation research in order to obtain new preparations with signif-icant clinical advantages to better serve the clinical practise. This paper states the concept and characteristics of modified new drugs in China,makes case analysis and shares the development history of blockbuster modified new drugs in the world,clarifies the opportuni-ties and challenges and provides ideas for the future development of modified new drugs in China.

Ursolic acid, a pentacyclic triterpene compound, naturally occurs in a large variety of plants, has at-tracted considerable interest owing to its significant biological activities. In recent years, more and more scientists have been working on the structural modification at the C-3 position , C_(12)-C_(13) double bond or C-28 position of ur-solic acid in order to improve their biological activities. Herein a brief introduction of the recent progresses on the chemical structural modification and the structure-activity relationship of ursolic acid and its derivatives are re-viewed.

Objective:To study the clinical efficacy of acupuncture for ischemic stroke and its effect on ET-1 levels in IS cases.Method:The 63 cases were randomized into a treatment group (31 cases),receiving acupuncture and routine method,and control group (32 cases),receiving routine method alone.Seven days constitute a course of treatment,a 2-day interval between two courses.The clinical efficacy and ET-1 level in two groups were compared after four weeks.Result:The total effective rate in the treatment group and control group were 96.8% and 75% respectively,with a statistical significance (P＜0.05);the ET-1 level in blood plasma also with a statistical significance after the treatment (P＜0.05);the pre-treatment and post-treatment ET-1 level in the treatment group showed a statistical significance (P＜0.01),whereas the control group didn't.Conclusion:Acupuncture is effective for ischemic stroke and can lower the ET-1 level in ischemic stroke cases.

Objective: To review the clinical effect of early enteral nutrition in patients with carcinoma of esophagus after operation.Methods: Nutrient canal was indwelt through Fresubin(TP) was given through the nasal-intestinal tube in 120 cases with carcinoma of esophagus after operation.Results: The complications such as anastomotic leakage,lung infection and incisional infection in the patients receiving early enteral nutrition were much less than those in control group.No death occurred.The time for bowel function recovery was much shorter.Conclusion: Early enteral nutrition can promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function,improve the nutrition,decrease the occurrence of complications and raise the successful rate of operation in operative patients with esophagus carcinoma.

In this paper, we propose an image-based key frame gating method to reduce motion artifacts in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) longitudinal cuts. The artifacts are mainly caused by the periodic relative displacement between blood vessels and the IVUS catheter due to cardiac motion. The method is achieved in four steps as following. Firstly, we convert IVUS image sequences to polar coordinates to cut down the amount of calculation. Secondly, we extracted a one-dimensional signal cluster reflecting cardiac motion by spectral analysis and filtering techniques. Thirdly, we designed a Butterworth band-pass filter for filtering the one-dimensional signal clusters. Fourthly, we retrieved the extremes of the filtered signal clusters to seek key frames to compose key-frames gated sequences. Experimental results showed that our algorithm was fast and the average frame processing time was 17ms. Observing the longitudinal viewpictures, we found that comparing to the original ones, the gated sequences had similar trend, less saw tooth shape, and good continuity. We selected 12 groups of clinical IVUS sequences [images (876 +/- 65 frames), coronary segments length (14.61 +/- 1.08 mm)] to calculate vessel volume, lumen volume, mean plaque burden of the original and gated sequences. Statistical results showed that, on one hand, both vessel volume and lumen volume measured of the gated sequences were significantly smaller than those of the original ones, and there was no significant difference on mean plaque burden between original and gated sequences, which met the need of the clinical diagnosis and treatment. On the other hand, variances of vessel area and lumen area of the gated sequences were significantly smaller than those of the original sequences, indicating that the gated sequences would be more stable than the original ones.
Algorithms ; Artifacts ; Heart ; Humans ; Motion ; Ultrasonography, Interventional

Objective The survival and prognosis factors of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients after radical resection was investigated.Methods 1923 patients of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after radical resection were included in our study from January 1th 2000 to January 1th 2010 in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital,1 670 male and 253 female.the age in the majority with 40 to 59 years old(1 076/1 923,56.0％).Eighteen prognosis factors were collected.A multivariate analysis of these selected variables was performed using Cox proportional model and prognosis index.We used life table for accumulated survival rate.Results The accumulated survival rate for all patients were 82％,48％ and 35％ in 1 year,3 years and 5 years,respectively.Median survival time was 35.42 months.The significant prognosis factors included body mass index,length of tumor,depth of invasion,differentiation degree,lymph node metastatic degree and region,complication of surgery.Conclusion The prognosis of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma was affected by multi-factors and prognosis index can predict survival condition.

Objective The rapid development of radiation equipment has put forward higher requirements for protective facil -ities.The aim of this study was to research the radiation protection status of treatment equipment room in thirty -three medical units from East China area , and to put forward corresponding countermeasures to improve the level of radiation protection . Methods The li-cense and archival of X-ray machine, CT, gamma knife, accelerator, after loading therapy machine were surveyed in the thirty-three medical units .The engine room size , wall thickness , lead equivalent of protection doors , and leakage level of equipment were detec-ted.All the data were evaluated and analyzed on the basis of the corresponding national standards . Results ①The inspection pass rates of radiation treatment equipments in the first class hospitals were afterloader (100%), X-ray apparatus(99%), gastrointestinal machine(98%), CT(98%), medical processing accelerator (98%), gamma knife(97%), DSA(94%), PET-CT(94%), ECT (90%), dental engine(84%)and molybdenum target drone (84%).The inspection pass rates of radiation treatment equipments in other class hospitals were medical processing accelerator (100%), X-ray apparatus(91%), CT(89%), gastrointestinal machine (80%), DSA(80%) and (80%) gamma knife.②The qualified rates of the leakage radiation levels of radiation therapy , diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine were 100%, 99% and 97%. Conclusion The radiation protection of treatment equipments and facilities in thirty-three medical units from East China area needs to be strengthened . We should strengthen supervision , implement the rules and regulations , strictly perform the regulation of radiation protection evalua-tion, and strengthen the training of radiation protection regulations and skills .

To study the mechanism of liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in rats with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and the therapeutic effects of the extract mixture of Dangyao (Swertia pseudochinensis Hara) and Shuifeiji (Silybum marianum Gaertn) on NAFLD rats with liver injury.

Objective To investigate the accuracy of CTVision image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods 10 lung SBRT patients were imaged with CTVision before and after irradiation for acquiring and analyzing the three-dimensional set-up error data sets in our department from October 2010 to May 2012.Gross tumor volumes (GTVs) were contoured on pre-and post-SBRT CT sets and combined for generating internal gross tumor volumes (IGTVs).Planning target volume (PTV) margin was calculated,and IGTVs and PTVs were compared for off-line verification of accuracy of SBRT.A paired t-test statistical analysis was conducted with the datasets using SPSS 17.0.Results 80 CT image sets were totally obtained.Setup errors was significant difference before and after radiotherapy in the left-right,superior-inferior and anterior-posterior directions,that were (-0.10±1.30) mmand (-0.15±1.31) mm (P=0.720),(0.18±1.32) mm and (0.18±1.43) mm (P =1.000) and (-0.08 ± 1.19) mm and (-0.13 ± 1.18) mm (P =0.750),respectively.IGTVs of ten patients were smaller than corresponding PTVs (13.53 cm3 and 37.84 cm3,P =0.000).Conclusion Accuracy and safety of SBRT could be verified by imaging with CTVision before and after delivery for non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: Both MRI and transcranial Doppler can be used for ultra-early assessment of acute cerebral infarction (ACI), the former is considered as a reliable diagnostic means mainly for the morphological changes of ACI, however the latter is often used before obvious morphological changes appeared, but their combined diagnostic value is still uncertain. OBJECrIVE: To investigate the value of combined MRI and transcranial Doppler in ultra-early assessment of highly suspected ACI.DESIGN: Case analysis and double-blind design.SETTING: MRI Department of Daqing Oil-field General Hospital and Department of Clinical Epidemiology of West China School, and Medical-Economic Department of Public Health College, Sichuan University.PARTICIPANTS: From May 2000 to July 2001, totally 225 highly suspected ACI patients with stoke-like onset, 121 males and 104 females,aged of 33-86 years old with the means of (62±12), within 12 hours after onset, informed of the experiment, were selected from Daqing Oil-field General Hospital.METHODS: All cases subjected to transcranial Dopller examination and following MRI examination with interval of no more than 1 hour, then received follow-up MRI examination at 15 days later (as golden diagnostic standards for CI). MRI was performed to detect the position, morphology,size and signal of pathological changes. Transcranial Doppler was used to determine the blood flow velocity, peak value of systolic and diastolic stage, frequency spectrum and sound spectrum of blood flow of bilateral cerebral anterior, middle and posterior arteries, internal carotid artery and basal vertebral artery.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy in the diagnosis of ACI with MRI, transcranial Doppler and the combination of MRI and transcranial Doppler.RESULTS: Totally 225 cases were selected, and 5 excluded for not accordant to the inclusion standards, finally 220 statistical analyzed. The diagnostic sensitivity of MRI was 79.3%,. specificity of 98.4% and accuracy of 90.5%, comparing to corresponding 80.4%, 81.3% and 80.9% of transcranial Doppler, and 96.7%, 80.5%, 87.3% of the combination of MRI and transcranial Doppler.CONCLUSION: The combination of MRI and transcranial Doppler can be used to make rapid and accurate assessment of ACI due to higher sensitivity and specificity.