Cytokine storm plays an important role in the pathogenesis of liver failure.It is closely related to hepatocyte necrosis in the clini-cal course and the prognosis of this disease.With Kupffer cells as a clue,it is elucidated that related cells and cytokines influence each other and jointly function in the development and progression of liver failure,leading to serious liver tissue damage and necrosis.Cytokine -based research can help improve early diagnosis,disease assessment,and individualized treatment for liver failure.

In this paper, we studied the kinetics of nitochondrial lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and solubilized mitochondrial LDH in the rat liver. The apparent Km values of mitochondrial LDH and solubilized mitochondrial LDH for substrate pyruvate were 50.0 ?mol/L and 33.8 ?mol/L, and those for NADH were 35.3?mol/L and 21.4 ?mol/L, respectively. The apparent Km values of mitochondrial LDH were greater than those of solubilized nitochondrial LDH. The mitochondrial LDH in the rat liver was mainly LDH-5, which could be solubilized by 0.15 mol/L NaQ solution.

In this paper, the effect of asolectin liposome on the activity of rabbit skeletal muscle lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is reported. The results suggested that asolectin liposome could inhibit LDH activity, KC1 could restore the enzyme activity, and NAD+ and NADH could protect the enzyme from being inhibited by asolectin liposome.

Objective In order to overcome the problems that bone rongeur and Kirschner forcep's less function and easy damage, trivial and inefficient, bulky volume, bone and needle broken edge is not neat,needle tail easy spatter wounding and other defects, integrated"U"shaped cutting edge rongeurs of pruning finger-toe and bending-truncating pin is desigened. Methods Pruning-truncating rongeurs set the trimming, bending and shearing,straight and twisting, loading and unloading, filing and stripping, string devices, aintenance functions and other functions in one, compare with bone rongeurs in clinical application. Results Pruning-truncating rongeurs are molding once, manipulation convenient, light and safe, anti damage and maintenance free, cost-effective. Conclusion Pruning-truncating rongeurs are highly integrated and portable anti-lost, preparation instrument swift, man-machine coordination, sharp instrument injury prevention, to improve the operation efficiency.

BACKGROUND:To construct tissue engineering cartilage would open up a novel way for the repair of cartilage damage in avoidance of the disadvantages of traditional therapeutic method.OBJECTIVE: To probe the techniques for the isolation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow, as well as the in vitro differentiation into chondrocytic phenotype in a specific culture fluid.DESIGN:A complete randomized experimentSETTING:The Department of Traumatic Orthopedics and Hand Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, and Teaching and Research Faculty of Histology and Embryology of Guangxi Medical University.METHODS: The experiment was carried out at Guangxi Medical University between August 2002 and April 2003. Twenty SD neonatal weaning rats were selected. Bone marrow was aspirated from the bones of rat limbs and was isolated by gradient centrifugation in Percoll, and MSCs could be obtained in combination with adherent screening method, which were then cultured in DMEM-LG with 15% fatal bovine serum (FBS) in the incubator of 37℃ with 5% CO2 for 10-14 days. The passage cells were induced in DMEM-HG with 15% FBS (containing TGF-β1 10 μg/L, 10-7 mol/L dexamethasone, 50 mg/L VitC).MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES :The morphology, growth, as well as proliferation and specific expression of chondrogenic matrix of in vitro cultured MSCs due to specific induction.RESULTS: Totally 20 SD rats were observed and analyzed with no loss SCs grew in visible symmetric colonies, displaying a long-spindle shape,and the morphological characteristics of marrow-derived MSCs had no obvious changes during passage-culture, but its proliferation time was found from a shuttle fibroblastic appearance to polygonal shape, displaying posiHC staining of type Ⅱ collagen of cartilage specific matrix.bronectin adherent screening technique is a convenient, effective and practical method to separate and collect MSCs from rat bone marrows in chondrogenic phenotype when induced by a specific medium and can secrete cartilage specific matrix, and they can be the optimal seed cells for cartilage tissue engineering.

BACKGROUND:The low output of seed cells and long cycle of traditional ceils culture methods in tendon animal models(rabbits and chicken) restrict the researches of tendon tissue engineering study.OBJECTIVE:To establish an ideal culture protocol of tail tendon in SD rats,to get more seed cells within less time for subsequent engineered tendon construction research.DESIGN,TIME AND SETTING:Controlled observation was performed in the National Key Laboratory of Biotherapy,Department of Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering,Sichuan University between February and November in 2006.MATERIALS:Rat tail tendon cells were harvested from 2 SD rats,aged 7-10 days;human prepuce fibroblasts were offered by National Key Laboratory of Biotherapy,Department of Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering,Sichuan University.METHODS:Tail tendon of SD rats was draw off and cut into pieces,which were then cultured in 10% fetal bovine serum+DFculture medium for getting primary tendoncyte by using suspension tissue culture method. The third generation cells were processed into immuocytochemistry stain with collagen type Ⅰ and Ⅲ,while human prepuce fibroblasts served as controls.Absorbance of stain result was measured by image-pro plus 5.02 for statistical analysis.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Immuocytochemistry stain and absorbance measurement of SD rat tail tendon cells.RESULTS:The second generation of SD rat tail tendon cells were positive for type Ⅰ collagen stain,and negative for type Ⅲ collagen stain;human fibroblast were positive for both Ⅰ and Ⅲ collagen. In the rat tail tendon cells and human flbroblasts,the absorbance value of type Ⅰ collagen expression was dramatically higher than of type Ⅲ collagen(P＜0.05). There was no significant differences addressing the absorbance of type Ⅲ collagen expression between type Ⅰ and Ⅲ collagen of SD rat tail tendon cells and blank control group (P＞0.05).CONCLUSION:Cells cultured from SD rat tail tendon have biological characteristic of tendon cells. Tissue piece suspensionculture can obtain a quantity of primary or subcuitured cells of rat tail tendon within a short time.

Objective To analyze the alterative characteristics of the extravascular lung water (EVLW ) in the patients with septic shock and clarify its value on the prognosis of these patients.Methods By the methods of retrospective analysis,according to the ultimate survival,21 patients with septic shock were divided into survivor group (10 cases) and non-survivor group (11 cases).The clinical features of the patients were observed and hemodynamic monitoring was made with PiCCO monitor.The EVLW was measured and the relationship between the EVLW and the prognosis of patients was analyzed.Results On the first,second and third day,EVLW was (12.7 ±1.8),(11.3 ±1.3),(10.1 ±1.3) ml/kg in survivor group,and (14.4 ± 1.0),(14.6 ± 1.4),(14.6 ±1.3) ml/kg in non-survivor group respectively,and there were statistical differences between two groups (P <0.05).However,on the second day after the intensive therapy,EVLW in survivor group dropped significantly(P＜0.05),but the non-survivor group only declined slightly,and compared with the result of the first day,there was no obvious difference (P >0.05).Conclusions The EVLW in the patients with septic shock increases significantly.The dynamic changes of the EVLW may be one of the factors for predicting the prognosis of patients with septic shock.

Objective The study was conducted to investigate the acute phase of convulsion related problem on the clinical manifestations,imaging and electroencephalograph (EEG) examination of purulent meningitis.Methods Cluster sampling method was employed to select children in our hospital,a total of 301 cases with purulent meningitis was analyzed retrospectively.Among them,62 cases had convulsion.The incidence of convulsion in the acute phase of the purulent meningitis,risk factors,and prognosis were analyzed.Results The convulsion incidence rate of acute purulent meningitis was 20.60％.The partial seizure was eight cases (12.90％).The secondarily generalized seizure following partial seizure was 15 cases (24.19％).The generalized seizure was 32 cases (51.61％).The convulsive status was 7 cases (11.29％).The EEG abnormality was significantly different between the convulsion group and the no convulsion group (P ＜ 0.05).The incidence of brain organic damage was significantly different between two groups (P ＜0.05).The multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis showed,cause of disease,first symptom,disturbance of consciousness,obvious signs,and cerebrospinal fluid culture with convulsion were the relevant factors (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions The most common seizure of purulent meningitis was the generalized seizure.Brain organic damage easily resulted in convulsion of purulent meningitis.The days of hospitalization,cause of disease,first symptom,disturbance of consciousness,obvious signs,and cerebrospinal fluid culture with convulsion were the positively relevant factors.Those positively relevant factors in combination of the clinical manifestations,imaging,and EEG examination in children would play an important role in diagnosis,treatment,and prognosis evaluation of convulsion derived from purulent meningitis.Moreover,convulsion affects the disease recovery in children with purulent meningitis.

Objective To analyze the potential etiologies and risk factors of childhood stroke. Methods This study retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 159 children who were admitted from Jan.2006 to Jan.2014. Results The 159 children were composed of 100 boys and 59 girls , with median onset age of 1.8 years (ranged from 1 day to 12 years old) and median peak age of 0.9 years (ranged from 3 months to 2.8 years old). Their initial symptoms included limb hemiplegia,language dififculties and convulsion. The common causes included infections found in 46 cases (central nervous system infection in 32 cases, respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infection in 14 case), head injury in 42 cases, vitamin K deifciency in 29 cases, Moyamoya disease in 8 cases, heart diseases in 11 cases, spontaneous hemorrhage in 11 cases and 12 cases of unknown reason. Infectious diseases were the most common cause of children acute ischemic stroke in toddler period;and vitamin K1 deifciency were the most common cause of children hemorrhage stroke in infancy. The most common region of infarction is basal ganglia and middle cerebral artery in neuronal imaging. The median age at the time of diagnosis was 1.4 days. The median time of inhospital was 28 days. The median apex time was 4.3 days. Conclusions Among 159 cases, acute ischemic stroke is much more common than hemorrhagic stroke in children stroke, and the major risk factors are infections and head injury;Vitamin K1 deifciency is a major risk factor in infants with hemorrhagic stroke.

[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To study the effect of thrombopoietin ( TPO) on chemical hypoxia-induced apoptosis of the Rattus norvegicus adrenal pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells.METHODS:The cultured PC12 cells were randomly divided into normal control group, cobalt chloride ( CoCl2 ) group, CoCl2 +TPO group and TPO group.The cell viability was mea-sured by MTT assay.The effect of TPO on CoCl2-induced cell apoptosis was analyzed by flow cytometry with Annexin V/PI double staining.The intracellular reactive oxygen species ( ROS) were detected by fluorescence microscopy, and the chan-ges of the mitochondrial membrane potential ( MMT) were determined by flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy.RE-SULTS:Chemical oxygen agent CoCl2 significantly inhibited the growth of PC12 cells (P<0.01).The apoptotic rate in CoCl2 group was obviously higher than that in control group ( P<0.05) , while the apoptotic rate in CoCl2 +TPO group was obviously lower than that in CoCl2 group (P<0.05).TPO decreased the production of ROS, and inhibited the decrease in MMP induced by CoCl2(P<0.01).CONCLUSION: TPO has a protective effect against CoCl2-induced apoptosis of PC12 cells by decreasing the production of ROS and inhibiting the decrease in MMP.