Objective This study was performed to explore the use of intramuscular low-dose Zoletil(1.5 mg/kg)combined with isoflurane inhalation for tracheal intubation in miniature pigs while preserving spontaneous respiration by determining the 50％and 95％minimum alveolar concentrations effective inhaled(MAC EI50 and MAC EI95).The goal was to establish a safe anesthetic method for tracheal intubation in miniature pigs in which intubation is difficult.Methods Forty-four Bama miniature pigs underwent general anesthesia.Following sedation with an intramuscular injection of sufentanil,anesthetic induction was performed using mask inhalation of isoflurane with monitoring of the heart rate,blood pressure,respiration,body temperature,oxygen saturation,end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration,and end-tidal isoflurane concentration.The initial end-tidal isoflurane concentration was set at 2.0％.The tracheal intubation conditions and outcomes were evaluated using Cooper's scoring system,and the dose-response relationship was calculated using Dixon's up-and-down method.Probit regression was employed to calculate the MAC EI50 and MAC EI95 along with their 95％confidence intervals(CI).Results In tracheal intubation using direct laryngoscopy with induction by low-dose sufentanil combined with isoflurane inhalation in miniature pigs,the MAC EI50 was 3.10％(95％CI,2.79％～3.56％)and the MAC EI95 was 3.77％(95％CI,3.41％～6.42％).With proper monitoring and airway management planning in place,alveolar isoflurane concentrations ranging from 3.10％to 3.75％were able to maintain stable vital signs in the miniature pigs.Conclusions The use of Zoletil combined with isoflurane inhalation for tracheal intubation in miniature pigs,aimed at preserving spontaneous breathing,is a preferable and safe anesthetic method for oral airway management in miniature pigs with significant potential for widespread application.

Objective:To assess the efficacy and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GIST)after preoperative targeted therapy us-ing the Choi criteria compared to pathological effects,and to observe the consistency between them.Methods:The clinicopathological data of 37 patients,who underwent preoperative treatment with targeted imatinib therapy for GIST,were retrospectively analyzed.Survival ana-lysis of the Choi criteria and pathological effects was conducted using the Kaplan-Meier method and Log-rank test.The consistency between the Choi criteria and the pathological effects was assessed using Spearman's correlation and Kappa tests.Results:The median preoperative treatment duration for the 37 patients was 10 months(range,2-36 months).According to the Choi criteria,there were no cases of complete response(CR),26 cases of partial response(PR),five cases of stable disease(SD),and six progressive disease(PD)cases.The difference in overall survival(OS)between the effective group(CR+PR)and the ineffective group(SD+PD)was statistically significant(P<0.01).Pathologic-al effects were evaluated as one complete effect,11 high effects,18 partial effects,and seven zero effect cases.The OS significantly differed between the effective(full effect+high effect+partial effect)and ineffective(zero effect)groups was statistically significant(P<0.01).The Choi showed moderate consistency with the pathological effects(r=0.592,P<0.01)with a(κappa=0.566).Conclusions:The Choi criteria were moderately correlated and consistent with the pathological effects.Both can be used to evaluate the efficacy and prognosis of preoperative targeted therapy for GIST.The combined use of these two criteria has better clinical application value than that of either alone.

Recent studies have shown that changes in the gut and skin microbiome can directly affect the occurrence of acne. Regulating the skin and gut microbiome has brought new directions for the treatment of acne, and the most direct way to achieve this goal is to restore the balance of the microbiome through the use of probiotics. This review summarizes the relationship between acne and microbiome, and research progress in probiotics for the treatment of acne.

Objective:To explore the mechanism of motor imagery training (MIT) combined with conventional rehabilitation to promote the functional recovery of upper limbs in stroke survivors. To explore the brain network reorganization resulting when motor imagery training (MIT) is combined with conventional rehabilitation to promote the motor recovery of stroke survivors.Methods:Fourteen hemiplegic patients were recruited as the MIT group. They underwent 4 weeks of MIT (30 min/day, 5 days/week) along with conventional rehabilitation treatment. The upper limb section of the Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA-UE) and the modified Barthel Index (MBI) were used to assess all of the patients, and resting-state fMRI was performed before and after the treatment. Twenty-eight age- and sex-matched healthy subjects also received one-time resting-state fMRI scanning. Granger causal analysis was performed in the MIT group to calculate the changes in effective connection between the ipsilesional primary motor cortex and the whole brain before and after the treatment, and the results were compared with the healthy control group.Results:After the treatment, the average FMA-UE and MBI of the MIT group had increased significantly. Before the intervention, the effective connection mode of the ipsilesional M1 area in the MIT group was significantly different from that of the healthy controls. The causal flow from the ipsilesional M1 area to the bilateral prefrontal cortex had increased abnormally and the causal flow from the contralesional primary motor cortex, the inferior parietal lobule and the cerebellum to the ipsilesional M1 area had decreased significantly. After the treatment, the effective connection pattern of the stroke survivors was nearly normal, and the causal influence from contralesional motor imagery-related brain areas (the superior parietal lobule, inferior parietal lobule, thalamus and the fusiform gyrus) to the ipsilesional M1 area was enhanced. Effective connection from the ipsilesional M1 area to the contralesional cerebellum before the intervention was positively correlated with the improvement in FMA-UE scores, and the effective connection from the contralesional middle frontal gyrus to the ipsilesional M1 area was correlated negatively.Conclusions:The neural mechanism of MIT's effectiveness when it is combined with conventional rehabilitation might be related to the reorganization of effective connections. That would include enhanced causal flow between motor imagery-related brain areas and the contralesional cerebellum and ipsilesional M1 area. Down-regulation of the effective connection from the contralesional middle frontal gyrus to the ipsilesional M1 area also occurs.

Objective To measure the efficacy of combining motor imagery training ( MIT) with convention-al therapy in improving stroke patients′upper-extremity function. And to seek a cortical reorganization mechanism as-sociated with the improvement using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging ( rs-fMRI) . Methods Ten stroke survivors were selected as an experimental group. They were given motor imagery training for four weeks ( 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week) and conventional rehabilitation therapy ( 40 minutes a day, 5 days a week) . Another 10 healthy counterparts were the control group. Before and after the four weeks of treatment, both groups were as-sessed using the upper extremity Fugl-Meyer assessment ( FMA-UE) and the modified Barthel index ( MBI) . Moreo-ver, rs-fMRI was conducted to assess functional connectivity between cortical regions and the ipsilesional primary mo-tor cortex ( M1) before and after the intervention. The laterality index ( LI) of the primary motor or sensory cortex was also calculated. Results After the intervention, the average FMA-UE and MBI scores of the experimental group had increased significantly. After MIT and conventional therapy there was increased functional connectivity between the ip-silesional and contralesional M1 areas, and between the ipsilesional M1 and contralesional primary sensory cortex ( S1) and frontal lobe, the functional connection between the ipsilesional M1 and the ipsilesional paracentral lobule and the anterior cingutate was also increased. More specifically, the LI relating M1 and S1 decreased after the inter-vention, tending toward the normal level. LIMI decreased significantly. Conclusion The 4-week regimen of motor imagery training and conventional therapy resulted in functional improvement in the upper limbs and greater ability in the activities of daily living. The observed improvements may be due to cortical reorganization, including better func-tional connectivity between the bilateral M1 areas and increased connectivity between the ipsilesional M1 area and some non-motor areas. There is some recovery of symmetry in the bilateral primary motor cortex.

Objective To investigate the relationship between disrupted corticospinal tract (CST) and motor recovery after stroke by using diffusion tensor tracking (DTT). Methods From March, 2012 to June, 2013, 15 chronic stroke patients with left subcortical lesions and 15 age- and sex- matched healthy subjects were performed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) examination. The CST was tracked by DTT technique, and the damaged values of the CST caused by the stroke lesions were quantified using a CST template generated from healthy controls. Furthermore, the correlations of the damaged values of the CST with Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) were performed. Results The range of the damaged values of CST in stroke patients was 0.00% to 29.6%. There were very strong negative correlation between the damaged values of the CST and FMA scores (the wrist, r = -0.660; hand, r = -0.813; wrist plus hand, r = -0.795, respectively, P < 0.01). It also showed strong negative correlation between the damaged values of the CST and FMA scores (upper limb, r = -0.614; upper limb plus lower limb, r = -0.563, respectively, P < 0.05). Whereas, there was no correlation between the damaged values of the CST and FMA scores of lower limb (r = -0.270, P = 0.331). In addition, the lesion volumes of stroke and FMA scores were not significantly correlated (P > 0.05). Conclusion The severity of motor deficit after stroke was closely related to the overlap of lesions with CST. The damaged values of the CST based on DTT may be used as a potential biomarker to assess motor impairments of upper limbs, especially hand and wrist in stroke patients.

Objective:To detect the expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha in (TNF alpha) breast cacner and its relationship with imaging features.Methods:Using immunofluorescence and flow cytometry to detect the expression of TNF-α in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7.Collect 82 patients with mammary gland disease,which was confirmed by pathological tissue,its pathological data,imaging data,and by immunohistochemistry to detect the expression of TNF-α in breast tissues,and analyze and the relationship between its expression and the pathological features and imaging characteristics.Results:TNF-α high expression in MDA-MB-231,the expression of TNF-oα in malignant breast tumor tissue significantly higher than that in benign tumor,the expression quantity associated with lymph node metastasis,TNM stages,strengthen uniform in MRI,the boundary and the shape of the X-ray Mammography (P=0.01),and color flow signal strength in ultrasound (P＜0.05).Conclusions:TNF alpha in breast tumor tissue was unusually high expression,and is closely related to some of the imaging features of breast tumor.

Objective To assess any differences in brain activation during active,passive and imaginary movement of the hands using blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),and to provide references for the cortical reorganization in patients with brain injuries.Methods Twenty healthy,righthanded,adult volunteers were studied,fMRI was performed during active,passive and imaginary fist clutching.Whole brain analysis and group analysis were applied to get the voxels,the volume of activation,the peak t-score and its coordinates.Results Active and passive movement both produced significant activation in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex,the contralateral supplementary motor area and the ipsilateral cerebellum.The sensorimotor cortex was the most frequently and most strongly activated brain area.Imaginary movement produced significant bilateral activation in the supplementary motor area.Conclusions Active and passive movement induce similar brain activation patterns.This indicates that passive might replace active movement when observing activation of the brain's cortex during the rehabilitation of patients with hemiplegia.

Objective To detect the expression of Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) and NF-κB in renal tissue of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) rats model,and to investigate the effect of rituximab (RTX) on the expression of RKIP in the renal tissue of DKD rats. Methods SD rats were randomly divided into normal group (N),DKD model group (M) and RTX treatment group (D).Blood glucose and 24-hour urine protein of rats were determined in three groups.RKIP protein and NF-κB protein were determined by immunohistochemistry staining. RKIP protein expression was detected by Western blotting. Results Compared with N group,blood glucose,24-hour urine protein and NF-κB expression in M group increased significantly (all P＜ 0.01),the expression of RKIP in M group decreased significantly (P＜0.05).Compared with M group,the expression of RKIP increased significantly in D group (P＜0.05),and 24-hour urine protein and NF-κB expression decreased in D group (all P＜0.05).NF-κB protein expression was negatively correlated with RKIP expression in M group. Conclusions The NF-κB pathway regulated by RKIP plays an important role in the development and pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.Rituximab may have a role in treatment of DKD.

Objective To assess differences in brain activation between active and passive movement of the right hand using blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI). Methods Nine healthy adult right handed volunteers were studied. fMRI was performed with active and passive finger-to-finger movement. Results Right hand active and passive movement produced significant activation in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex ( SMC ), the contralateral premotor cortex ( PMC ), bilaterally in the supplementary motor area (SMA) and in the ipsilateral cerebellum. The activated brain areas were centered on the contralateral SMC and PMC and located more forward during active movement than during passive movement. The contralateral SMC was the most strongly and the most frequently activated brain area. The contralateral posterior parietal cortex (PPC) was less relevant to the hand movements. Unlike active movement, passivemovement activated more areas in the posterior central gyrus than in the anterior central gyrus. Conclusions Both active and passive movement significantly activate the brain areas which are responsible for hand movement, but there are some differences in the locations of the cortex areas activated and in the incidence activation except in the contralateral SMC.