Literatures at home and abroad were collected and pharmacology studies of berberine on treatment of digestive diseases were summarized. Berberine has still huge potential for treatment of peptic ulcer, gastritis, enteritis and other applications, and it has promising prospect in development and utilization.

OBJECTIVE:To study relative bioavailability of dauricine self-microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) in rats. METHODS:12 rats were randomly divided into dauricine SMEDDS group (20 mg/kg) and dauricine solution group (50 mg/kg),6 rats in each group. They were given relevant medicine intragastrically. Then,0.3 ml plasma was collected from orbital venous plexus before medication and 0.167,0.333,0.5,0.75,1,2,4,8,12,24,36 h after medication. The plasma concentration of da- uricine was determined by HPLC-MS/MS,and DAS 3.0 was used to calculate pharmacokinetic parameters and evaluate the relative bioavailability of dauricine with dauricine SMEDDS. RESULTS:The linear range of dauricine in plasma were 2.12-424 ng/ml (r=0.999 9);RSDs of intra-day and inter-day were all lower than 10%. Pharmacokinetic parameters of dauricine solution and dau-ricine SMEDDS were that cmax were(126.3±37.4)ng/ml and(179.6±51.5)ng/ml;t1/2 were(11.48±4.58)and(21.79±6.59)h;AUC0-t were (1 963.5±638.3)ng·h/ml and(2 535.8±739.5)ng·h/ml;AUC0-∞ were(2 256.3±703.5)ng·h/ml and(2 854.6± 768.7)ng·h/ml,respectively. The relative bioavailability of dauricine SMEDDS were 323% and 316% by calculating with AUC0-t and AUC0-∞,respectively. CONCLUSIONS:Intragastric administration of dauricine SMEDDS can improve relative bioavailability of dauricine significantly.

Objective To analyze the demands of Chongqing municipal medical and health institutions at grass-roots level for the graduates of clinical medicine,pharmacy and medical laboratory science and biotechnology.Methods The Chongqing medical and health institutions at grass-roots level served as the objects and their professionals and administrators were randomly performed the talents demands investigation by adopting the questionnaire investigation as the principal thing assisted by the interview on the spot or informal discussion.Results In the aspect of talents demands,the demands for internist,general practitioner and clinical examination staff were greater,which reached to 36.54％,30.77％and 78.10％respectively;in the aspect of professional knowledge demands,the demands for clinical diagnosis,general practice,clinical medication,clinical laboratory and blood test were greater.Con clusion The school talents cultivation does not understand the true requirements of medical and health institutions at grass-roots level and is inconsistent with the practical demands.

OBJECTIVE：To study the anti-tumor effect of artemether （ARM）self-microemulsifying drug delivery system （SMEDDS） on human glioma subcutaneously transplanted model mice. METHODS ：Human glioma cell line SHG 44 was inoculated and passed on to establish subcutaneous transplanted tumor model of nude mice. At the 5th，10th，15th，20th and 25th day after inoculation ，the tumor tissue volume was measured and the growth curve was drawn to confirm the initial stage of rapid tumor proliferation. Thirty nude mice was collected to establish subeutaneously transplanted tumor nude model ，and then divided into control group （normal saline ），ARM suspension group [ 60 mg/（kg·d）]，ARM-SMEDDS low-dose ，medium-dose and high-dose groups [ 10，20，30 mg/（kg·d）] at the initial stage of rapid tumor proliferation. They were given normal saline and relevant solution intragastrically once a day ，for consecutive 30 d. The weight change and general sibuation of mice were recorded. The change of tumor volume was determined and relative tumor proliferation rate was calculated. RESULTS ：The subcutaneously transplanted tumor tissue entered the initial stage of rapid tumor proliferation from the 10th day after transplantation. The general situation was normal ，and there was no obvious abnormal reaction in mice of each group during treatment. Since 10th day of administration，tumor tissue volume of mice in ARM-SMEDDS groups were shortened significantly than control group （P＜0.05）. At 15th day of administration ，tumor volume of mice in ARM-SMEDDS groups were shortened significantly than ARM suspension group（P＜0.05）. After last administration ，relative tumor proliferation rates of mice in ARM-SMEDDS groups were decreased significantly，compared with ARM suspension group （P＜0.05）. CONCLUSIONS ：ARM-SMEDDS show significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of human glioma ，and are better than suspension with higher dosage.