OBJECTIVETo observe the efficacy of Xingnaojing Injection (XI) in treatment of sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE).

METHODSTotally 65 SAE patients were retrospectively analyzed at EICU from September 2010 to September 2013. They were assigned to the control group (32 cases) and the treatment group (33 cases) according to whether they received XI. Patients in the control group received anti-infection and symptomatic support, while those in the treatment group were intravenously injected with XI at 20 mL per day for additional 7-10 days. The fever clearance time, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), C-reactive protein (CRP), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and improvement of electroen-cephalogram (EEG) were observed in the two groups.

RESULTSCompared with the control group, the fever clearance time was shortened, CRP levels decreased, GCS score and efficacy of EEG was alleviated in the treatment group after treatment with statistical difference (P < 0.05). No adverse reaction occurred during medication.

CONCLUSIONX1 was safe and effective in treatment of SAE.

C-Reactive Protein ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Injections ; Phosphopyruvate Hydratase ; metabolism ; Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy ; drug therapy ; Treatment Outcome

Activins ; administration & dosage ; pharmacology ; Animals ; Animals, Newborn ; Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Cerebral Cortex ; drug effects ; pathology ; ultrastructure ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Female ; Hippocampus ; pathology ; ultrastructure ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain ; drug therapy ; pathology ; Injections, Intraperitoneal ; Male ; Microscopy, Electron ; Neuroprotective Agents ; administration & dosage ; pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Treatment Outcome

The treatments for insomnia after stroke were various in recent years, including acupuncture with its distinguishing feature. It’s reviewed and summarized that experimental researches on Chinese and English databases about acupuncture treatment of insomnia after stroke in recent 10 years. Clinicians had chosen different acupuncture therapies for insomnia after stroke according to yinyang, zangfu, meridians, opening and closing of qi activity. Although those acupuncture therapies had achieved obvious clinical effects, they were deficient in experimental design and methodology.

Objectives:To investigate the nutritional status of the maintenance hemodialysis(MHD) patients. Methods:The dietary investigation, anthropometry and biochemical tests were conducted in 46 MHD patients,including weight,triceps skinfold(TSF), arm muscle circumference(AMC), serum total protein(TP), albumin(Alb), prealbumin(PA), transferrin(TF) and ideal weight rate(IBW%).Then nutritional status was evaluated. Results:①The energy intake of most MHD patients was lower than 125.4 kJ/(kg?d) and the mean protein intake was nearly 1.0 g/(kg?d).②According to each single index,the incidence of malnutrition was:39.13% by IBW%, 71.74% by TSF, 58.70% by AMC, 30.43 % by Alb and 82.61% by TF respectively.Only 6.52% patients had all normal paremeters. Conclusions:Malnutrition incidence of MHD patients was as high as 93.48% in our study. The regular nutritional assessment and the nutritional advice are very important for the better clinical outcome in the MHD patients.

Objective To investigate the distribution of uranium in rats after inhalation with depleted uranium aerosols. Methods The depleted uranium aerosols were inhaled by Wistar rats. At 30, 90, 180, 270, 360, and 540 d after inhalation, the rata were sacrificed and tissue samples were collected. The contents of uranium in lung, kidney, liver, heart, brain, thighbone, spleen and thymus were measured by laser time-dependent spectroscopy analysis. Resulits The uranium contents of lung increased in the high-dosc and low-dose groups [(499833.3 ± 14214.8) ng/g and (25 424.0 ± 6193.4)ng/g, respectively] after inhalation, and significantly differed from the control (28.8 ± 13.9)ng/g, (P < 0.05).At 30 d after inhalation, the contents of uranium in lung, kidney and thighbone were higher than those of control, and then decreased time-dependently. At 60 d, the contents of uranium in liver, heart, brain, spleen and thymus were higher than those of control. Curve of the eontenta were biphasie, whieh went up first, reached at peak value and then went down. The contents of uranium were high in lung, thighbone, brain and thymus. Conclusions After inhalation of depleted uranium aerosols, lung and thighbone are the primary reservoirs for uranium redistributed, and accumulations in brain and thymus suggest other two organs for unanticipated injury by depleted uranium.

Objective To evaluate the effective of weight loss on blood glucose,lipid profile,and blood pressure in over-weight or obesity patients combined with impaired glucose tolerance(IGT).Methods Body weight of 91 over-weight or obesity IGT patients were managed by doctors and nurses.Body weight,waist circumference,blood glucose,lipid profile,blood pressure and liver function of the patients were compared at 3 months with baseline.Results After 3 months' intervention,the levels of body weight,waist circumference,fasting plasma glucose,postprandial glucose,systolic blood pressure,diastolic blood pressure,and glutamie oxalacetie transaminase (COT),instead of triglyeeride and hish-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C),were significantly reduced.Over weight or obesity IGT patients saw a 1.8 and 2.3 kg body weight loss,respectively.Decreased plasma glucose and blood pressure were found both in the over-weight group and in the obesity groups,but decreased waist circumference and GOT were found only in the over-weight patients.Conclusions Body-weight control may improve the blood glucose,blood pressure,central obesity,or fatty liver in over weight or obesity IGT patients.For those obesity patients,longer and stronger body weight control should be needed.

Abdominal Neoplasms ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; pathology ; secondary ; surgery ; Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Follicular ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; pathology ; surgery ; Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Interdigitating ; metabolism ; pathology ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors ; metabolism ; pathology ; Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous ; metabolism ; pathology ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ; Omentum ; Peritoneal Neoplasms ; secondary ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor ; metabolism ; Receptors, Complement 3b ; metabolism ; Receptors, Complement 3d ; metabolism

Objective:To explore the effect of group psychotherapy on damage of theory of mind (TOM) in patients with early-onset schizophrenia.Methods:Totally 60 patients with early-onset schizophrenia were included and divided into the intervention group (n ＝ 30) and the health education group (n ＝ 30).The patients in the intervention group were offered 10 twice a week 2-hour sessions of group psychotherapy,and those in the control were offered group health education twice a week.All participants completed baseline measures and post-intervention measures with the Eye Emotion Recognition and Theory of mind Picture-sequencing Task (TOM-PST).Results:Totally 23 patients in the intervention group and 29 patients in the health education group finished the post-intervention measures.After 5-week intervention,subscores of sad and fear and total score of emotion recognition,total score of TOM-PST,understanding first order error belief,second order error belief,third order error belief,sense of reality,detecting fraud compared to baseline had statistically significant difference in intervention group.In health education group,subscores of joy emotion recognition,understanding first order error belief,third order error belief,total score of TOM-PST compared to baseline had statstically significant difference.The patients with group psychotherapy got higher scores of total score of TOM-PST and understanding second order error belief and third order error belief than the health education group after 5-week intervention (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion:This study suggests the group psychotherapy could partially improve theory of mind with early-onset schizophrenia,and promote the recovery of social cognition.

Objective To investigate the effects of traditional Chinese medicine colquhounia root tablet on the expression of tight junction protein claudin-2 and ZO-1 in bronchial epithelium tissues of rats with acute lung injury (ALI), and to study the mechanism of protective effect of colquhounia root tablet on ALI. Methods Twenty-four healthy male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into control group, ALI group and colquhounia root tablet pretreatment group, with 8 rats in each group. The model of ALI was reproduced by intravenous injection of oleic acid 0.04 mL/kg, and the rats in cont rol group were given the same amount of normal saline (NS) instead. The rats in colquhounia root tablet pretreatment group were intragastric administrated with colquhounia root tablet of 600 mg·kg-1·d-1 (2 mL) for 10 days before model reproduction, and the rats in control group and ALI group were given the same amount of NS. At 4 hours after model reproduction, the blood was drawn from abdominal aorta, and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was collected for determination of protein content in plasma and BALF, and the lung permeability index (LPI) was calculated. The rats were sacrificed to collect lung tissues for determination of lung wet/dry weight ratio (W/D), the changes in pathology of lung tissue were observed after hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining with light microscope, and lung injury score (LIS) was evaluated. The immunohistochemic al staining was used to detect the expression and localization of claudin-2 and ZO-1 in bronchial epithelium tissues. The protein expressions of claudin-2 and ZO-1 in bronchial epithelium tissues were determined by Western Blot. Results Compared with control group, the lung injury in ALI group was more obvious including cellular edema and structural disorder of intercellular connection by optical microscope, and LIS, W/D ratio, and LPI were significantly increased (LIS: 3.81±0.42 vs. 0.40±0.08, W/D: 7.68±0.64 vs. 4.44±0.39, LPI: 0.89±0.15 vs. 0.38±0.05, all P < 0.01). Claudin-2 and ZO-1 were mainly expressed in the bronchial epithelium cell, and the expression degrees were significantly weakened in ALI group as compared with control group. It was shown by Western Blot results that compared with control group, the protein expressions of claudin-2 and ZO-1 were significantly down-regulated in ALI group [claudin-2 protein (gray value): 0.43±0.31 vs. 2.16±1.33, ZO-1 protein (gray value): 1.25±0.41 vs. 2.82±0.76, both P < 0.01]. Compared with ALI group, colquhounia root pretreatment could effectively diminish the degree of ALI (LIS: 1.22±0.39 vs. 3.81±0.42, W/D: 4.62±0.84 vs. 7.68±0.64, LPI: 0.46±0.07 vs. 0.89±0.15, all P < 0.01), and the protein expressions of claudin-2 and ZO-1 were significantly up-regulated [claudin-2 protein (gray value): 2.98±0.91 vs. 0.43±0.31, ZO-1 protein (gray value): 2.35±0.51 vs. 1.25±0.41, both P < 0.01]. Conclusion Administration of colquhounia root table could attenuate lung injury induced by oleic acid with improving epithelial barrier function via up-regulate the expression claudin-2 and ZO-1, which play a protective effect on the lung of rats with ALI.

OBJECTIVETo establish an animal model of acute blunt scrotal trauma (BST) and evaluate the types of lesion by conventional ultrasonography (CUS) and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS).

METHODSWe made acute BST models in 21 healthy male New Zealand rabbits by striking 3 - 12 times the unilateral testes randomly selected with a 0. 5 kg iron ball falling freely from a 30 cm height. Then we evaluated the lesion types in the models by CUS and CEUS and verified our evaluation against pathological results.

RESULTSAcute BST models were successfully established in all the 21 animals, including contusion in 10, hematoma in 6, and rupture in 5, all confirmed by pathology. CUS clearly manifested the morphology, internal echoes, and blood flow of the testes, but had a low rate of accurate diagnosis in testicular contusion for over 6 hours as well as in complex lesions. CEUS revealed an earlier perfusion of the contrast agent and shorter arriving time (AT) and time to peak intensity ( TP) in testicular contusion than in the control testes (P <0.05) , but showed no statistically significant difference between the two groups in the half time of descending peak intensity (P>0.05). For testicular hematoma, contrast agent clearly presented its outline and a delayed low enhancement in the surrounding tissue, with significant differences from the control in AT and TTP. In severe testis rupture, occasional outflow but no perfusion of contrast agent was observed.

CONCLUSIONBST models can be established in rabbits by repeated strikes of the unilateral testes lesion of contrast agent was observed. with a freely falling iron ball. Simple contusion injury can be induced by less than 6 strikes, while complex injuries can be inflicted by more than 10. Combined application of CUS and CEUS can improve the accuracy of diagnosis of different types of lesion.

Acute Disease ; Animals ; Disease Models, Animal ; Male ; Rabbits ; Scrotum ; diagnostic imaging ; injuries ; Ultrasonography ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating ; diagnostic imaging