The concept of white matter dementia was first introduced by Filley in 1988.It was found following behavioral neurologica researches that patients with this type of dementia manifested the dysfunctions of sustained attention,memory retrievial,frontal lobe and visualspatial function.They also had psychiatric manifestations but language and extrapyramidal function remained normal.10 diseases of white matter disorders are listed for understanding the clinical characteristics of this type of dementia.

Paeoniflorin in antiaging Preparation was qualitatively identified with chemical and TLC methods and quantitatively determined with HPLC. The results showed both tne chemical and TLC method gave fast and accurate results and HPLC was an excellent for quantitative determination with an average recovery of 100.72% and coefficient of variation 1.22%, which is suitable for the quality control of the preparation.

‘Typhoid fever and Miscellaneous Diseases’is well known as‘the origin of prescription’. Prescriptions in this book are reliable, exquisite and rigorous, can cure hard diseases using very few kinds of TCM. The principle of‘corresponding prescription to symptom’makes proved cases simple but highly effective to complex illnesses. This thesis introduced four proved cases of remedying miscellaneous internal medicine diseases under the guidance of determination of treatment based on syndrome differentiation, principle of correspondence of prescription and syndrome, the author used classic prescriptions, such as Wuzhuyu Decoction, Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Decoction, Guizhi and Houpo Xizi Decoction and Dachaihu Decocion.

Cyclooxygenase-2(COX-2)is an inducible enzyme that regulates prostaglandin synthesis and is overexpressed at sites of inflammation and in several epithelial cancers.Data indicate that COX-2 is involved in the regulation of apoptosis,angiogenesis,and immune response.The biological function of COX-2 appears to be associated with tumorigenesis.Recently, multiple studies have shown that COX-2 plays a critical role not only in maintenance of the endometrium during the menstrual cycle,but also in the progression of endometrial cancer.This review outlines the status of COX-2 expression and its association with clinicopathologic features and clinical outcome in endometrial cancer.

Aim To investigate the mechanism of platelet-activating factor(PAF) induced injury on the cultured rat pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells(RPMVEC),and the interfering action of breviscapine. Methods RPMVEC were isolated from Wistar rat and cultured in vitro, the effects of PAF on morphology,monolayer permeability and F-actin of RPMVEC were observed, F-actin expression was evaluated by flow cytometry. Results PAF in the concentration over 0.1 mg?L -1 induced detachment and rupture of RPMVEC within 48 h. 10 mg?L -1 of PAF increased permeability of RPMVEC monolayer and induced depolymerization of F-actin within 120 min.Breviscapine inhibited these effects of PAF. Conclusion ①The detachment and rupture of RPMVEC induced by PAF depends on the exposed concentration and time.②The increased permeability of RPMVEC monolayer induced by PAF is significantly correlated with the depolymerization of F-actin. ③The increased permeability of RPMVEC monolayer and depolymerization of F-actin induced by PAF can be markedly inhibited by breviscapine, which exerts protective action on RPMVEC injury induced by PAF.

Acute pancreatitis can lead to dysfunction of gut mucosa barrier, translocation of intestinal bacteria, damage of immune function. Immune nutrition substances such as glutamine, arginine, -3 polyun-saturated fatty acids (-3 PUFAs),dietary fiber (DF) can prevent dysfunction of gut mucosa barrier and translocation of intestinal bacteria, enhance the immune function, promote the recovery of acute pancreatitis. The article reviewed domestic and. overseas documents to on the contribution of immune function to acute pancreatitis.

The study of peptide drugs has been an important direction in research and development of new drugs. However, lots of natural macromolecular peptides are limited in clinical use by their metabolic instability and low bioavailability. In recent years, the active small peptidomimetics open up a new hotspot of peptide drug development with the characteristics of low molecular weight, high bioactivity and structural modification. Many peptidomimetics are on the market or on the clinical study. This paper elaborated the small peptidomimetics approved by American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2005 to 2014, and reviewed their researching status with source, synthetic method, chemical structure, marketing time, indication, clinical efficacy and safety. Research prospects in this field were discussed.

Inflammasomes are multi-protein complexes that trigger the activation of caspase-1 and the maturation of interleukin-1β ( IL-1β) , which are critical for inflammation and control of pathogen infection. Inflammasomes are involved in and regulate diversified diseases due to its capability to sense multiple danger signals. In this review, we present the activation and regulation mechanisms for different inflammasomes and discuss how genetic mutations in inflammasome-related genes or abnormal activity of in-flammasomes lead to diseases. Insights into the role of inflammasome in various human diseases will provide sound theoretical basis and effective treatment strategy for these disease.

This study examined the inhibitory effect of topical cyclosporine (CsA) treatment on conjunctiva epithelial apoptosis in a murine model of xerophthalamia. Dry eye was induced in 3 groups of C57BL6 mice by subcutaneous injection of scopolamine (t.i.d) and exposure to an air draft and low-humidity environment for 16 h each day for 12 days. The dry eye control group received no topical treatment; another group received 1 microL of 0.05% CsA topically (t.i.d, dry eye+CsA); and the third group received 1 microL of the castor oil vehicle of CsA topically (t.i.d, dry eye + vehicle). Normal mice were used as untreated controls. Twelve days later, the mice were killed, and their conjunctivas were excised. The number of the conjunctival goblet cells was counted in tissue sections stained with periodic acid Schiff (PAS) reagent. Their conjunctiva epithelium had been investigated by immuno-histochemical staining to detect the goblet cells and the expression of Caspase-3, Bax and bcl-2. Our results showed that compared with dry eye control and dry eye mice + vehicle groups, the number of conjunctival epithelial goblet cells was significantly greater in the untreated controls and dry eye mice receiving CsA (P < 0.01 for both groups). There was no significant difference in the number of conjunctival epithelial goblet cells between the dry eye control and dry eye+vehicle group. It was also true of the number of conjunctival epithelial goblet cells when comparison was made between the normal group and the dry eye+CsA group. Expressions of Caspas-3 and Bax were increased and ex-pression of bcl-2 was decreased in conjunctival epithelial cells in dry eye control and dry eye mice+vehicle groups. There was a significant positive correlation between goblet cell number and the number of cells that expressed bcl-2, and a negative correlation between goblet cells and Caspase-3 and Bax expression. It is concluded that the topical use of CsA could significantly reduce conjunctival epithelial apoptosis and protect goblet cell against the loss in experimental murine xerophathalamia. Inhibition of apoptosis appears to be a key mechanism responsible for the therapeutic effect of CsA on xerophthalamia.

18F-FDG PET has been widely used in myocardial oncology and inflammatory imaging.Suppression of physiological uptake in heart is required for accurate diagnosis of some thoracic diseases,cardiac inflammatory diseases and coronary atherosclerosis.There is no unified criteria to reduce myocardial 18F-FDG uptake.This review summarizes the research progress of inhibiting physiological myocardial 18F-FDG uptake by controlling diet,mediating blood glucose and applying drugs.