Objective: ITS2 barcoding was used to discriminate Zanthoxyli Radix and its adulterants to ensure the quality and clinical safety of this Chinese materia medica. Methods: The internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) regions were amplified and sequenced bi-directionally. Then the obtained sequences were assembled using the CodonCode Aligner. The ITS2 regions were obtained using the hidden Markov model (HMM)-based annotation methods. The genetic distances of the ITS2 regions were computed in accordance with the kimura 2-parameter (K2P) model and Neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic trees were constructed using MEGA5.0. Results: The length of ITS2 sequences of the plants in Zanthoxyli Radix and its adulterants were between 224 and 227 bp. Their mean intraspecific genetic distance (K2P distance) was lower than their mean interspecific genetic distance with the adulterants. The NJ trees showed that the roots of Zanthoxyli Radix could be easily distinguished from its adulterants. Conclusion: ITS2 barcode could be used to identify the roots of Zanthoxyli Radix and its adulterants effectively, and provide the important molecular evidence for the authentication of germplasm resources.

Objective To investigate the relationship of MTP gene variation with type 2 diabetic angiopathy. Methods PCR and restriction-fragment-length polymorphism(PCR-RFLP) analysis and gene sequencing were used to investigate the influence of a common MTP gene polymorphism in promoter region on diabetic macroangiopathy. Results (1) A single nucleotide mutation of G→T was detected at 493 bp of upstream from the transcriptional start point.There was a significant difference in genotype frequency(χ2=9.162,P=0.01) and T allele frequency(χ2=10.322,P=0.001) between macroangiopathy group and non-macroangiopathy group.(2) MTP-493 TT group had the significantly higher serum levels of TC, TG, LDL-C, VLDL-C and lower HDL-C than other genotype groups.(3) Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that T allele, age, disease duration, diastolic blood pressure and total cholesterol were independent risk factors against type 2 diabetic macroangiopathy.The HDL-C level was negatively related with diabetic macroangiopathy. Conclusions MTP-493 TT genotype may be deeply involved in production of atherogenic dyslipidemia and associated with development of macroangiopathy in type 2 diabetic subjects.

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases in premature infants, especially in very low birth weight infants.Lung immaturity, inflammatory injury, oxidative stress and abnormal repair after injury are the important factors.Leukotriene is an inflammatory mediator of 5-lipoxygenase pathway and participates in the occurrence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Montelukast, as a leukotriene receptor antagonist, may play a role in the treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia through anti-inflammation, anti-oxidation and anti-fibrosis.This article will review the potential mechanism and related clinical researches of montelukast which is used in treating bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Carbon monoxide(CO)has a significant anti-inflammatory action.Carbon monoxide releasing molecule(CORM),as a new donor of CO,is used widely in biological study.The article reviewed the antiinflammatory action of CO and the progress of CORM.

The pancreas located behind the peritoneum is a parenchymatous organ with a deep anatomical position and the surgical procedure for pancreatic diseases is complicated.And the pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is the most challenging operation in the field of pancreatic surgery even the abdominal surgery due to its large extent of resection and complexity of digestive tract reconstruction.Surgeons should select the most reasonable reconstruction methods on the basis of specific operative situation and surgical proficiency in order to ensure the quality of PD as well as prevent the postoperative complications.

Objective To explore the intervention in patients with advanced lung cancer in chemotherapy effect in psychology. Methods According to the routine nursing care of 40 cases of patients with advanced lung cancer chemotherapy, and classified as the control group, the other 40 patients in the control group based on the nursing for patients with psychological intervention, and classified as the observation group, two groups of patients in our hospital from January 2015 to January 2017. Results The intervention of patients before, there were no significant difference between the two groups of patients' quality of life and life ability score, after grouping after intervention in observation group were significantly better than the control group patients were compared between the two groups; for the intervention of the satisfaction rate of visible, The proportion of patients in the observation group 97.5% was significantly higher than the control group of 72.5% patients, showed significant differences between the two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion The psychological intervention analysis find application in patients with advanced lung cancer in chemotherapy, the chemotherapy effect can help to reflect, consolidate the therapeutic effect, improve the quality of life of patients, improve the patients for nursing recognition, therefore it is worthy of reference.

Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide,and in Asian countries like Japan,Korea and China,it remains the top killing cancer.As most cases of gastric cancer are in the advanced stage of the disease when they are first diagnosed,patients receiving conventional therapies including surgery,chemotherapy and radiotherapy have poor prognosis.An emerging modality called tumor molecular targeted therapy provides promise and insight to combat this malignancy.This article discusses the molecular basis of gastric cancer targeted therapy from the perspectives of screening and application of target molecules,modulation of tumor microenvironment and antitumor immunotherapy.

In the situation of global completion, collaborative innovation is becoming increasingly important because its advantage in risk avoiding and innovation efficiency. In order to explore the model of collaborative innovation and its evolution in traditional Chinese medicine of China, the cooperation in traditional Chinese medicine patents of China from 1985 to 2013 has been analyzed by using the method of scientometrics and social network analysis. It is proved that, though the number of grated cooperative patents has increased sharply during the last thirty years, the degree of cooperation innovation in traditional Chinese medicine of China is still not high. Moreover, in spite of the individual subject' s leading role in the past domestic collaborative innovation in traditional Chinese medicine of China, the institutions have been more and more powerful and achieved great improvement. At last, core institutions, represented by universities have played an important role in the collaborative innovation of domestic institutions, because they are key links between many institutions and promote the transferring and diffusion of knowledge.
Biomedical Research ; China ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; psychology ; trends ; Nonprescription Drugs

Adult ; China ; epidemiology ; Extraction and Processing Industry ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Exposure ; Pneumoconiosis ; epidemiology ; Young Adult

Objective To investigate the effects ofviaminate on the proliferation and differentiation of HaCaT cells,a human keratinocyte cell line.Methods Cultured HaCaT cells were treated with various concentrations (2,5,10,15,20,25 and 30?g/mL) of viaminate for various durations.The cell proliferation was assessed by MTT method,the changes of cell cycle and apoptosis rate by flow cytometry,the changes of keratin 10 and involucrin mRNA expressions by semi-quantitative reverse transcription PCR.Results The proliferation of HaCaT cells was inhibited by the treatment with viaminate of≥2?g/mL for 48 h,and the inhibition rate was raised with the increase of treatment time and dosage.The viaminate of 30?g/mL inhibited the proliferation of HaCaT cells by 57.67% and 82.00% at 48 and 72 h after the incubation respectively,and elevated the mRNA expression of involucrin from 40.80% to 156.12%,decreased the mRNA expression of keratin 10 from 96.46% to 14.60%.The mRNA expression of involucrin increased with the elevation of viarninate dosage.Under the treatment with viaminate for 48 h,the cell population at G_1 phase significantly increased,that at S and G_2 phases decreased;the switching of G_1 to G_2 was inhibited;but the cell apoptosis was not affected.Conclusion Viaminate could inhibit the proliferation and induce the differentiation of keratinocytes.