1.Dynamic changes of serum interleukin-18 level in patients with acute cerebral infarction
Li YUAN ; Zhi YANG ; Fan HUANG ; Hui ZHANG ; Xiuqin LIU
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2005;9(25):192-193
BACKGROUND: It has been proved that interleukin-18 (IL-18) involves in the development of acute cerebral infarction (ACI) and is positively correlated with the time of brain stroke onset, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), as well as neurological deficit and low-density value of brain CT.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the dynamic changes of serum IL-18 in the course of ACI.DESIGN: Verification analysis with patients as subjects and healthy volunteers as controls.SETTING: Department of neurology of a municipal hospital.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 46 inpatients (29 males and 17 females) with ACI were randomly selected from the Department of Neurology of People's Hospital, Maoming City, between December 2002 and January 2004.Meanwhile, 40 healthy controls (27 males and 13 females) were recruited from those who came to the hospital for routine physical examination. All the participants signed informed consent.METHODS: Fasting peripheral vein blood of 2 mL was collected from the patients on the 1st, 7rh, 14th and 21st days of ACI onset, and from healthy controls on the day of routine examination. The blood samples were centrifuged at 3 000 r/minute for 15 minutes at 4 ℃, and then the supernatant was collected for detecting IL-18 level by ELISA.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The serum IL-18 level of patients on the 1st, 7th 14th and 21st days of ACI onset and that of healthy controls on the day of routine examination.RFSULTS: Totally 46 patients and 40 healthy controls were enrolled in this study and all data were statistically analyzed. The level of serum IL-18 was significantly higher in the patients with ACI than in normal controls on the 1st and 7th days of onset [(178±41) ng/L, (104±34) ng/L, (65±14) ng/L, P < 0.01],but was similar on the 14th and 21st days [(88±36) ng/L, (72±33) ng/L,(65±14) ng/L, P> 0.05]. The level of serum IL-18 in ACI patients was significantly higher on the 1st day than on the 7th, 14th and 21 st days of the onset (P < 0.05-0.01); moreover, it was also significantly higher on the 7th day than on the 21st day of the onset (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: The level of IL-18 increases obviously on the 1st day of ACI onset, and gradually decreases with the extended course of disease and time of treatment.
2.Waste Air Treatment in a Biotrickling Filter: Biomass Accumulation and Control Measures
Shu-Jie HUANG ; Fan-Zhi CHEN ; Yong-Yan YOU ;
Microbiology 1992;0(02):-
Biotrickling filter often offers a cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional air pollutant control technologies,but major problems with clogging of the filters due to a high biomass accumulation will provent it from the industried uses.In this paper,the effect of the high biomass accumulation in an air pollution treatment with a biotrickling filter is discussed.Two parameters with specific surface area with biofilm growth(?_ f ) and the bed porosity with biofilm(?_ f )are used to analyse its principle of accumulation.Finally,some control measures including chemical methods,physical machine-made methods and other control methods are overviewed.
4.Effect of surfactants on the preparation of TiO_2 nanoparticle by Sol-gel method
Ya FU ; Yueshan HUANG ; Jie FAN ; Xiaoxing ZHI
Chinese Medical Equipment Journal 2004;0(08):-
Such parameters of TiO2 nanoparticle by Sol-gel method are analyzed through X-ray and SEM as the gelation time,crystal structure,particle size and morphology.
5.Trial study on design of irradiated fields of radiotherapy in cervical and upper thoracic esophageal cancer
Hui LIU ; Zhi-Fan ZENG ; Nian-Ji CUI ; Zhi-Chun HE ; Shao-Min HUANG ;
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 1992;0(04):-
Objective To compare three kinds of irradiation treatment plans for cervical and upper thoracic esophageal cancer,in order to arrived at proper decision for the patient.Methods From February 2001 to June 2004,43 such patients were studied with three different simulated treatment plans made including conformal plan,conventional four-field plan and conventional two-field plan for every one.All plans were evaluated with iso- dose curve and dose-volume histogram.Results GTV on 95% isodose curve was 99.5%,98.2% and 87.4% in conforaml plan,conventional four-field plan and conventional two-field plan,respectively;PTV_1 and PTV_2 on 95% isodose with 97.8%,97.2%,94.8% and 95.8%,86.6%,73.7%.The volume of>20 Gy dose of left lung accepted was 18.6%,17.2% and 32.3%,in conformal plan,conventional four-field plan and conventional two-field plan,respectively;the right lung received 20.5%,19.9% and 35.5%.Conclusions Conformal plan is the best in radiotherapy,as it can provide ideal dose distribution of irradiated target with adequate protection of the normal tissues.Conventional four-field plan,being easy to carry out,can replace the conformal plan in most situations.Conventional two-field has the most uneven dose distribution and largest lung volume irradiated.
6.Identification of phenylpropanoids in ciwujia injection by HPLC-MS.
Jing HUANG ; Qing SHAO ; Yan-Hua XIANG ; Zhi-Wei GE ; Xiao-Hui FAN
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2014;39(13):2513-2520
There are reports about the chemical compounds of Ciwujia herbs, but with no study report about the chemical material basis of Ciwujia injection (CWJI). In this study, LC-MS(n) and LC-Q-TOF-MS techniques were adopted for a qualitative analysis on phenylpropanoids in CWJI. The Ultmate XB-C18 column (4.6 mm x 250 mm, 5 microm) was adopted and eluted with the mobile phase of 0.5% formic acid-water and acetonitrile, with the flow rate at 0.8 mL x min(-1) and the column temperature at 20 degrees C. Based on the data of high-resolution and multi-stage MS, control products and literatures, altogether 54 phenylpropanoids were identified in Ciwujia Injection, including 34 phenylpropanoids, 16 ligans and 4 coumarins. Among them, 28 were reported for the first time in Ciwujia, and 14 compound structures were identified in comparison with the control products. The method established in this study could be used to simply and rapidly identify phenylpropanoids in CWJI. The findings provide scientific data for defining the chemical material basis of CWJI.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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methods
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Drugs, Chinese Herbal
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chemistry
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isolation & purification
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Eleutherococcus
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chemistry
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Mass Spectrometry
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methods
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Molecular Structure
8.Enhanced Stability of Plasmid pcDNA3.1+ within Salmonella typhimurium by Downregulation of the Ampicillin Resistance Gene Expression
Xiao-Ming ZHANG ; Xin-An JIAO ; Li-Hua TANG ; Zhi-Ming PAN ; Jin- HUANG ; Xiu-Fan LIU ;
Microbiology 1992;0(05):-
The high-copy-number plasmid pcDNA3.1+ is unstable within S almonella typhimurium. A novel plasmid pmcDNA3.1+ was constructed by removin g the promoter sequence of ampicillin resistance gene (bla gene) in plasmid pcDNA3.1+. In contrast to pcDNA3.1+, pmcDNA3.1+ was stable within Salmonel la typhimurium SL7207 in LB medium with or without ampicillin. Further experi ments showed the ?-lactamase activity of Salmonella typhimurium SL7207(pmc DNA3.1+) was apparently lowered than that of Salmonella typhimurium SL7207( pcDNA3.1+) and the high ampicillin concentration was maintained longer in LB me dium culturing Salmonella typhimurium SL7207(pmcDNA3.1+). When mice were a dministered with Salmonella typhimurium SL7207(pmcDNA3.1+) intraperitoneall y, more than 95% of Salmonella cells separated from the spleen still harbore d the plasmid pmcDNA3.1+ 7 days later; but 99% of Salmonella cells lost the plasmid pcDNA3.1+ at day 3 in mice innoculated with Salmonella typhimurium SL7207(pcDNA3.1+). By lowering the expression of bla gene, the rapid deco mposition of ampicillin in LB medium was avoided and the metabolic pressure was relieved for the host cells. This method offers a solution for the problem of t he instability of high-copy-number plasmid within Salmonella typhimurium.
9.Rapid simultaneous determination of ten major flavonoids in Tetrastigma hemsleyanum by UPLC-MS/MS.
Wen XU ; Zhi-Qin FU ; Jing LIN ; Xue-Cheng HUANG ; Hong-Min YU ; Ze-Hao HUANG ; Shi-Ming FAN
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2014;49(12):1711-1717
In this study, a rapid and sensitive analytical method was developed for the determination of 10 major compounds (procyanidin B1, catechin, procyanidin B2, rutin, isoquercitrin, kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, astragalin, quercitrin, quercetin, and kaempferol) in Tetrastigma hemsleyanum by using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) in multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. UPLC-MS/MS assay with negative ion mode was performed on a Waters CORTECS C18 (2.1 mm x 100 mm, 1.6 μm) with the mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile (A) and 0.1% aqueous formic acid (B) in gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.25 mL · min(-1) and the column temperature was set at 45 °C. Under the optimized chromatographic conditions, good separation for 10 target compounds were obtained including chiral isomer procyanidins B1 and B2 were completely separated within 8.5 min. Satisfactory linearity was achieved with wide linear range and fine determination coefficient (r > 0.996 6), the overall recoveries were ranged from 95.44%-110.40% with the RSD ranging from 2.37%-8.69%. It is the first report about simultaneous analysis of 10 major flavonoids components in Tetrastigma hemsleyanum by using UPLC-MS/MS method, which affords highly sensitive, specific, speedy and efficient method for quality control of Tetrastigma hemsleyanum
Acetonitriles
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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Flavonoids
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chemistry
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Kaempferols
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Quercetin
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analogs & derivatives
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Rutin
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Tandem Mass Spectrometry
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Vitaceae
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chemistry
10.Clinical application and design of rotating auxiliary spring for rotated tooth in edgewise technique.
Xu-sheng FAN ; Zhi-hua LI ; Chong HUANG
West China Journal of Stomatology 2007;25(6):614-615
The structural theory and fabrication of a self-designed rotating auxiliary spring in edgewise technique were described. Rotating auxiliary spring was applied to correct rotated tooth in clinic. It indicated that rotating auxiliary spring was an easy-fabricated, convenient-manipulated device, and could produce an effective treatment results in correcting rotated tooth, especially in the final adjustment stage.
Humans
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Malocclusion
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Tooth Movement Techniques