BACKGROUND:There is a high prevalence of spinal tuberculosis in developing countries. Beside systematic chemotherapy, there are stil some patients who need surgical treatment at certain phase of systematic treatment. However, there is no standard method for surgical treatment of spinal tuberculosis yet. OBJECTIVE:To systematical y evaluate the effect of anterior approach and posterior approach through consulting the literatures on the comparison between anterior approach and posterior approach for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis. METHODS:The PubMed database, Medline database, Elseveir database, Wanfang database and CNKI database were searched with the key words of“thoracolumbar tuberculosis, control ed randomized trial, RCT, anterior, posterior”in Chinese and English. The randomized control ed trials on the comparison between anterior approach and posterior approach for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis were included. The operative time, intraoperative blood loss, correction degree of Cobb angle, loss of Cobb angle at final fol ow-up, al ograft fusion time, total hospital stay and the excellent and good rate of the effectiveness were compared by Revman5.1 software. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:A total of 1 438 articles were screened out, and final y 9 randomized control ed trials were included. The total number of patients was 692, in which 324 were treated with anterior approach and 368 were treated with posterior approach. The operative time of anterior approach of 46.25(40.23, 52.26) minutes was less than that of posterior approach;the intraoperative blood loss of anterior approach of 148.91(135.12, 1 625.70) mL less than that of posterior approach;the correct degree of Cobb angle of anterior approach of 2.40°(2.21°, 4.62°) was smal er than that of posterior approach;the loss of Cobb angle of anterior approach of 0.66°(0.41°, 0.91°) was larger than that of posterior approach;the total hospital stay of anterior approach of 0.34 (-0.32,1.01) days was less than that of posterior approach;the al ograft fusion time of anterior approach was less than that of posterior approach for 0.26 (0.18, 0.34) months;the number of cases with excellent and good effect of anterior approach was more than that of posterior approach for 1.18(-0.48, 2.85);there were significant differences in operative time, intraoperative blood loss, correct degree of Cobb angle, loss of Cobb angle at final fol ow-up and al ograft fusion time between anterior and posterior approaches (P<0.01). The results showed that there were significant differences in operative time, intraoperative blood loss, correct degree of Cobb angle, loss of Cobb angle at final fol ow-up and al ograft fusion time between anterior and posterior approaches for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis, but there were no significant differences in total hospital stay and surgical efficacy.

BACKGROUND:In order to promote the recovery of nerve function after peripheral nerve injury, we should try to accelerate the regeneration of injured nerve axons on one hand, and try to improve the accuracy of proximal and distal nerve docking on the other hand. OBJECTIVE:To explore the selective regeneration of nerve axons after peripheral nerve injury in models with crush injury and freeze injury. METHODS:Total y 110 healthy male Sprauge-Dawley rats, 8 weeks old, were selected and randomly divided into three groups. The rates received crush injury, freeze injury and normal control ed surgery on femoral nerve trunk. At 2, 3, 6 and 12 weeks after modeling, general behavioral examination was performed, and then pure blue and red fluorescence were used to label the wrong-way ingrowth saphenous nerve and correct ingrowth femoral nerve muscular branches respectively;retrograde labeling the motor neurons in order to observe the distribution and amount of tracer in spinal cord anterior horn;electrophysiological examination was performed at 8 weeks after modeling, and analyzed statistical y. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Rats from both crush injury group and freeze injury group displayed decreased motion radius of hind limbs after surgery, and the stretch function was limited;but with time prolonging, the functions were recovered. The motor evoked potentials could be observed at the quadriceps, and there was no significant difference between two groups (P>0.05). The number of neurons stained red in the spinal cord anterior horn was increased gradual y in both crush injury group and the freeze injury group under fluorescence microscope. The number of neurons stained red in the crush injury group was significantly higher than that in the freeze injury group (P<0.05), and the number of blue-stained and purple-stained neurons was decreased gradual y. The results suggest that keeping the perineurium intact can gain accurate docking in axon regeneration and the recovery of injured limb functions, even though the damaged range is large.

Objective To analyze the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype in the diseases associated with HPV infection and explore the role of HPV genotype in these diseases. Methods Retrospective analysis was carried out to compare HPV genotypes of 353 outpatients suffering the diseases associated with HPV infection including cervical caner,cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN),genital duc condyloma,and subclinical cervical human papillomavirus infection (SPI) in our department from January to October 2008. HybriMax were used to detect HPV genotype. The distribution data of HPV genotype were statistically analyzed. Results Totally 176 HPV positive females were found with a positive rate of 49.86%. HPV positive rate in cervical cancer was 100%,and all of them were high risk HPV. The positive rate was increased with the severity of CIN,and the higher histological-grade was,the higher HPV positive rate was (P

To investigate the plasma thioredoxin-interacting protein ( TXNIP ) levels in different glucose tolerance groups and discuss the relationship between TXNIP and insulin resistance/β-cell dysfunction in diabetes and prediabetes, and to investigate the potential relationship between TXNIP and interleukin-1β( IL-1β) . According to oral glucose tolerance test, 93 participants were divided into 3 groups:diabetes mellitus group, prediabetes group, and normal glucose tolerance group. Plasma TXNIP, IL-1β, and other biochemical indices were measured. The relationship between TXNIP and glucose, IL-1β, homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance ( HOMA-IR) , and homeostasis model assessment forβcell function ( HOMA-β) were analyzed by using multiple linear regression techniques and Pearson’s linear correlation analysis. Plasma TXNIP level was higher in prediabetes group compared with normal glucose tolerance group, but lower in prediabetes group compared with diabetes mellitus group[(355. 35±31. 88 vs 274. 36±33. 86, 426. 16±63. 15)pg/ml, P<0. 01 or P<0. 05]. TXNIP was positively correlated with IL-1βand HOMA-IR, but negatively correlated with HOMA-β. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that IL-1βexerted significant influence on TXNIP ( P<0. 05 ). Plasma TXNIP level is affected by blood glucose concentration. There is a close relationship between TXNIP and IL-1β. In prediabetes patient, the TXNIP levels have already been raised.

The abnormality of ubiquitin proteasome pathway is an important factor leading to the imbalance of protein homeostasis. In this process, the deubiquitinase responsible for removing the ubiquitin chain of protein substrate is very important. Its abnormal activity or expression can cause the functional changes of key oncogenic/tumor suppressor proteins, which directly or indirectly lead to the occurrence, development and malignant evolution of tumors. Based on this, the discovery and research of small molecule inhibitors targeting deubiquitinases have become a hot field of anti-tumor candidate drugs. This review will focus on the regulatory effect and mechanism of ubiquitin proteasome pathway, especially deubiquitinase on tumor, introduce the application of deubiquitinase small molecule inhibitors in tumor treatment, and discuss the research status and latest progress of small molecule inhibitors, so as to provide ideas for the research of new anti-tumor strategies based on deubiquitinase.

Evaluation of the permeability mainly focuses on intestinal absorption in biopharmaceutics classification system (BCS). It is more complicated that the absorption and metabolism under multicomponent environment in biopharmaceutics classification system of Chinese materia medica (CMMBCS) compared with single component environment, which needs suitable mathematical models to be described. Therefore, with full consideration of existing single component mathematical algorithm combining with the characteristics of intestinal absorption and metabolism, we explored and designed a new mathematical algorithm of intestinal absorption and metabolism of multicomponent drug. Then we put forward a new coefficient, P (influence), the relative change rate of the single component's intestinal absorption and metabolism under multicomponent environment compared with single component environment, which described the influences of intestinal absorption and metabolism of the component under multicomponent environment. Moreover, P (influence) highlights the distinctive characteristics of multicomponent drug's intestinal absorption and metabolism, and lays the foundation for the construction of CMMBCS.
Algorithms ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; pharmacokinetics ; Humans ; Intestinal Absorption ; Intestines ; chemistry ; metabolism ; Models, Theoretical ; Solubility

Humans ; Liver Diseases ; Practice Guidelines as Topic ; Prognosis

Objective To analyze nucleic acid sequence homology of the 6 kb(pYC) plasmid of Yersina. pestis (Y. pestis) isolated from Yurman by searching GenBank. Method The search of sequence similarity was accomplished with BLAST. Results The pYC plasmid sequence had high homology with some genes in nueleotide sequence, such as: 97.1% homology with Shigella sonnei pKYM, 92.1% homology with Haemophilus influenzae(H. influenzae) gene, Salmonella typhi (S. typhi) gene LT2 and plMVSI with 88.2% and 87.2% of homology respectively, Escherichia coli(E, coli) O157:H7 and K-12, ECOR31 with 81.4%, 81.4% and 84.7% of homology respectively. This plasmid ORFs could code for some proteins which were similar with others in GenBank, such as: ORFi and H. paragallinarum replication protein B(47.2%), ORF4 and E. coli hypothetical protein(52.7%), ORF5 and Y. pseudotuberculosis Tile (48.3%), ORF6 and E. coil Pilx5/VirB5-1ike protein (42.3%), Y. enterocolitica TriD protein(38.5%), ORFIO and S. typhimurium LT2, E. coli O157:H7 hypothetical protein(83.1% and 81.9%, respectively), ORF11 and E. coli, damage-inducible protein J(81.4%). Conclusions The pYC plasmid sequence has high homology with a few bacterial genes of Enterobacteriaceac. This plasmid may code for some proteins that are similar with hypothetical protein, damnge-indncible protein, TriD and TilE protein, Pilx5/VirB5-hke protein of Escherichia or Yersinia.

Objective To explore the value of real-time tissue elastography (RTE) with tissue dispersion quantitative analysis technique for assessment of liver fibrosis stage.Methods 51 rats were injected 6％ thioacetamide to induce liver fibrosis model,and 9 rats were injected saline as control group.In modeling 4 weeks,8 weeks,12 weeks respectively,14 rats in group of liver fibrosis model and 3 rats in control group were randomly selected to RTE.All the rats underwent tissue dispersion quantitative analysis,to obtain 12 quantitative parameters of elasticity,which included average relative strain value (MEAN),standard deviation of relative strain value (SD),area ratio of low-strain region (％ AREA),complexity (COMP),kurtosis (KURT),skewness (SKEW),contrast (CONT),entropy (ENT),inverse difference moment (IDM),angular second moment (ASM),correlation (CORR) and liver elasticity index (LF index).Subsequently,rats were sacrificed and their livers were taken for pathology analysis.Liver fibrosis model group was divided into S0,S1,S2,S3,S4 group.The 12 quantitative parameters of elasticity were compared with each group.Results 49 rats were successfully modeled,and 42 rats were analyzed.Except COMP,KURT,CORR,the other quantitative parameters had statistically differences (P ＜ 0.05).The other 9 parameters were correlated with liver fibrosis stage.Among these parameters,MEAN,％ AREA and LF index had higher related coefficient(r =-0.831,0.882,0.866).The ROC curve was made by MEAN,LF index and ％AREA to estimate the fibrosis stage,when S≥S1,S≥S2,S≥S3,S =S4,the areas under the ROCcurve were 0.884,0.925,0.934,0.962 (MEAN);0.917,0.958,0.984,0.962 (％AREA);0.917,0.948,0.966,0.967 (LF index),respectively.Conclusions As a non-invasive examination,RTE dispersion quantitative analysis technology can be used to quantitatively assess liver fibrosis.

Objective To investigate the morphological changes in the sciatic nerve and the dorsal root ganglions (DRGs) and also gene expression in DRGs after non-freezing cold injury, and to explore the molecular mechanism of peripheral nerve cold injury and regeneration. Methods Twenty-four male Wistar rats were used. The sciatic nerve on one side was cooled to 4℃ for 2 h, and the sciatic nerve on the opposite side was exposed, but without cooling. Sciatic nerves and L4, L5 and L6 DRGs from both sides were harvested at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd week after cooling. Any pathological changes were observed using light and electron microscopy. Laser capture microdissection (LCM) was used to investigate the DRG neurons' gene expression. The array result was verified with RT-PCR for eight genes. Results Large fiber degeneration was obvious by the 7th day after cooling. Myelinated fiber regeneration had begun by the 14th day, so this time was chosen to explore the neurons' gene expression. Ninety-six genes and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were up-regulated greater than 2 fold. Their proteins' functions were classified as adaptive response to external stimulus, apoptosis regulation, cell adhesion, immune and inflammation response,nerve regeneration, pain associated molecules, microtubule cytoskeleton, ion-channels, neurotransmitters and receptors, and neuropeptides. Conclusions A complex molecular mechanism is involved in cold injury and regeneration of the sciatic nerve, and many genes are involved. Large scale microarray analysis is a potent means to screen out related genes, thus suggesting future repair strategies.