Objective:To study the genotype-by site distributions of SNP(single nucleotide polymorphisms)at the 5 sites in the 3 subtypes of beta adrenoreceptor(Beta-AR or B-AR).Methods:DNA was extracted from the peripheral venous blood of 338 subjects using Blood DNA Mini Kit.The 5 sites SNP in the 3 subtypes of Beta-AR were genotyped by PCR-RFLP(polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism) and allele specified PCR techniques.Results:The natural distribution characteristics for SNP at the 5 sites in the 3 subtypes of Beta-AR of 338 subjects were gotten.The predominant phenotypes are as follows:Beta1-AR wild homozygote Ser/Ser49(70%),Beta1-AR wild homozygote Arg/Arg389(63%),Beta2-AR heterozygote Arg/Gly16(80%),Beta2-AR heterozygote Gln/Glu27(50%),Beta3-AR wild homozygote Trp/Trp64(65%).Conclusion:It is heterogeneous in distribution in different styles for the genotype-by site distribution of SNP at the 5 sites in the 3 subtypes of Beta-AR,which is the basis for further investigating the relationship among the distribution,gene function and diseases.

Objective:As a branch of image processing,image mining is a subject for great concern.With the development of image acquisition and storage,human can gain a lot of useful image information,but lack of effective analytic technique,so it is a focus of image mining that how to obtain useful image information and make full use of image information.So this paper gives an overview of the research and applications of image mining.Method:Firstly,it presents the concept and primary frame of image mining and the major techniques of lower layer image mining and higher layer image mining.Then,it discusses some applications in the biomedical,DNA analysis,data analysis of medical imaging and forensic medicine and so on.Result:Image mining is that the technique which can mine to discover new and valuable knowledge from vast collection of image.Conclusion:This article expounds the related technologies about image mining by our study of the image mining areas integrating the usual methods of the methods.Then,it identifies some applications in medicine and future research directions of image mining.

Objective: To study the method of extracting somatosensory evoked potential better. Methods: This article com-pares an auto-reference, auto-correlative and adaptive interference cancellation theories and techniques (AAA-ICT) used to the single trial of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) with the traditional superposition averaging. Results: By the intensive study and analysis of the somatosensory evoked potentials from the 80 human subjects whose nervous systems are normal, We can find that the traditional superposition averaging method has its reasonable connotation on the extraction of SEP except the inevitable defects. Conclusions: Meanwhile the AAA-ICT avoids its defects. R implements another jump for the SEP extrac-tion method and has a good clinical application value.

OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of atropine on cardiac autonomic nervous system.METHODS:Using the computerized analysis system developed by our laboratory,the characteristic parameters of heart period signal(HPS)in volunteers were examined before and 1 hour after administrating atropine(0.04mg iv).RESULTS:Atropine could decrease the mean heart period,standard deviation of heart period,high frequency components and total power of HPS spectra,and increase heart rate,relative power of ultra-low frequency components significantly.CONCLUSION:(1)Atropine can decrease standard deviation of heart period or heart rate,which means decreasing irregularity of heart rate.It is the basic reasons why high frequency components of HPS spectra increases,and parasympathetic nervous activity decreases,(2)Atropine can decrease the tonus of parasympathetic nerves,increase the tonus of sympathetic nerves relatively,and decrease the tonus of autonomic nervous system that reveals the decrease of the total power of HPS significantly.

OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of Betoloc(metoprolol)on autonomic nervous system in the heart METHODS:Using the computerized analysis system developed by our laboratory,the characteristic parameters of heart period signal(HPS)from volunteers were examined before and 3 hours after administrating Betoloc(50mg,po ) RESULTS:Betoloc could increase the mean heart period,standard deviation of heart period,high frequency components and total power of HPS'spectra,and decrease heart rate,low frequency components significantly CONCLUSION:(1)Betoloc can increase standard deviation of heart period or heart rate,which means increasing irregularity of heart rate It is the basic reason of increasing high frequency components of HPS'spectra and is also the basic reason of increasing cholinergic nervous activity;(2)Betoloc can decrease tension of sympathetic nerves,increase tension of parasympathetic nerves,and increase tension of autonomic nervous system in the heart

Objective To study the distribution patterns of the SNPs for the 3 sites (Ⅱe105Val, Ala114Val and Asp147Tyr) of glutathione S-transferase pi (GST-pi) in epilepsy patients without definite etiological factors. Methods At the same time, the possible relationship of GST-pi gene mutation with the vulnerability of drug-resistant epilepsy, drug-responsive epilepsy and EEG feature were explored. The SNPs of GST-pi for healthy people, drug-responsive epilepsy patients and drug-resistant epilepsy patients were genotyped by sequence-specific primers (SSP)-based PCR technologies (PCR-SSP). Results In drugresponsive epilepsy group, the frequency for 3 sites of mutated SNP of GST-pi was 59.62%, 55.32% and 50.94%, while it was 58.33%, 51.19% and 45.92% in drug-resistant epilepsy group. The difference of genotype and allele between normal group and foregoing epilepsy group was significant ( P<0.01 ), but no difference was found between drug-respensive epilepsy group and drug-resistant epilepsy group ( P>0.05 ). There was a difference of genotype distribution between groups with typical and untypical epilepsy EEG ( F = 0.0294, 8.867 × 10-6, 1.366 × 10-5, P<0.05 ). Conclusions The results indicate that the SNPs of GST-pi are associated with an increased risk of epilepsy, but not associated with an increased risk of drugresistant epilepsy. The patients present EEG characteristic of typical epilepsy.

The revolution in information processing, particularly the digitizing of medicine, has changed the medical study, work and management. This paper reports a method to design a system for computer-aided image diagnosis and study. Combined with some good idea of graph-text system and picture archives communicate system (PACS), the system was realized and used for "prescription through computer", "managing images" and "reading images under computer and helping the diagnosis". Also typical examples were constructed in a database and used to teach the beginners. The system was developed by the visual developing tools based on object oriented programming (OOP) and was carried into operation on the Windows 9X platform. The system possesses friendly man-machine interface.
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted ; Diagnostic Imaging ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Radiology Information Systems ; Software

The autonomic nervous function, blood pressure, coordinate motor and blood alcohol Concentration (BAG) of twenty-one healthy Han volunteers were examined before and after alcohol intake. The purpose was to assess the acute effects of low and moderate doses of alcohol on their coordinate motor and autonomic nervous function. The results showed that after alcohol intake the subjects' heart rate increased and the total power value (TPV) decreased significantly. After the intake of alcohol at low dose, the parasympathetic nervous function of the subjects lying supoine was inhibited significantly. After the intake of alcohol at moderate dose, both the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous functions were inhibited. After the intake of alcohol at low dose, both the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure of the subjects standing up-right were decreased and the diastolic pressure of those lying supine were also decreased. After the intake of alcohol at moderate dose, the systolic and diastolic pressures of the subjects, either lying supine or standing up-right, were decreased. Some subjects showed ataxia after the intake of alcohol at low dose ,and some showed aggravated ataxia after intake of alcohol at moderate dose of alcohol. There was no relationship of BAG with the degree of changes in autonomic nervous function, blood pressure and ataxia. The results indicated that ataxia was induced to come on and the autonomic nervous function was inhibited in some subjects who had taken low and moderate doses of alcohol ,and the cardiovascular regulation was affected too. These suggested that the increase of alcohol intake is adverse to human body's adaptation to the sharp change of circumstance.
Adult ; Alcohol Drinking ; Autonomic Nervous System ; drug effects ; physiology ; Blood Pressure ; drug effects ; China ; ethnology ; Electrocardiography ; drug effects ; Ethanol ; administration & dosage ; adverse effects ; Female ; Gait Ataxia ; chemically induced ; Heart Rate ; drug effects ; Humans ; Male

This study was aimed to shed light on the association of beta-adrenoceptor (beta-AR, includeing three subgroups: beta1, beta2 and beta3)gene polymorphism with resting heart rate (RHR). The RHRs of 150 healthy subjects (male 80; female 70) in the supine were detected by computerized system for analyzing the electrocardiosignals. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and allele specific-PCR techniques were used to determine Ser49Gly and Arg389Gly polymorphism of beta1-adrenoceptor gene; Arg16Gly and Gln27Glu polymorphism of beta2-adrenoceptor gene and Trp64Arg polymorphism of beta3-adrenoceptor gene; in these subjects. The results were as follows: The Arg389Gly polymorphism of beta1-adrenoceptor gene is significantly associated with RHR (P<0. 05), and the difference among three RHRs in male group is significantly higher than in group female group (P=0.0030 vs 0.0045). Individuals with Gly/Gly genotype have the highest RHR (male: 80.98+/-3.09; female: 84.23+/-6.28). No significant association was found among Ser49Gly, Arg16Gly, Gln27Glu and Trp64Arg polymorphism with RHR respectively (P> 0.05). RHR is associated with genotype. Arg389Gly polymorphism of beta1-adrenoceptor gene is significantly associated with RHRs, and the higher significant difference among male's RHRs,when compared with that among female's, suggests that male's RHRs be more influenced by genotype. Thus the clinical phenomenon of "the correlation of heart rate and mortality in male is higher than that in female" could be explained at the gene level.
Electrocardiography ; Female ; Heart Rate ; physiology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta ; genetics ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

This study was directed at extracting the rabbit somatosensory evoked potential (SEP), locating and analyzing the waveform of rabbit SEP. The rabbit was narcotized and stimulated by 0.5 Hz electric pulse. Potential of scalp was sampled at 3.764 Hz. Rabbit somatosensory evoked potential was extracted by one-dimension multi-resolution analysis, and continuous wavelet transform (CWT) was employed to locate and analyze the wave of SEP. The study results showed that Single-trail SEP can be extracted by Daubechies wavelet, when wavelet transform result of single-trail was compared with the result of averaged SEP. Wave component of SEP can be located precisely through the method of continuous wavelet transform. Frequency feature of SEP can also be analyzed by CWT. The technique of continuous wavelet transform, which can project a one-dimension signal into a two-dimension time-frequency space, shows good application prospect of processing medical electronic signal.
Algorithms ; Animals ; Electric Stimulation ; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory ; physiology ; Fourier Analysis ; Rabbits ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted