The laccase (PpLAC) gene family members in peach fruit were identified and the relationship between their expression pattern and chilling induced browning were investigated. The study was performed using two varieties of peaches with different chilling tolerance, treated with or without exogenous γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) during cold storage. Twenty-six genes were screened from the peach fruit genome. These genes were distributed on 6 chromosomes and each contained 5-7 exons. The PpLAC gene family members shared relatively similar gene structure and conserved motifs, and they were classified into 7 subgroups based on the cluster analysis. Transcriptome sequencing revealed that the expression levels of PpLAC7 and PpLAC9 exhibited an increasing pattern under low temperature storage, and displayed a similar trend with the browning index of peach fruit. Notably, GABA treatment reduced the degree of browning and inhibited the expression of PpLAC7 and PpLAC9. These results suggested that PpLAC7 and PpLAC9 might be involved in the browning of peach fruit during cold storage.
Food Storage ; Fruit/genetics* ; Laccase/genetics* ; Prunus persica/genetics*

Children are a high-risk group of burn, and burn pain is a special type of pain. Because children of different ages have different cognitive ability and behavioral response to pain, thus it is particularly difficult to effectively evaluate the pain. It is very important for medical staff to understand the pain of children, to define the adverse reactions of pain, to evaluate and take appropriate pain intervention measures in time and effectively. In this paper, different evaluation methods of burn pain in children and non-drug intervention related measures were reviewed in order to provide references for clinical practice.

Pain is one of the most common complications of burn patients. Burn from onset to rehabilitation is a long and complex process, during which dressing change, debridement, operation, and rehabilitation may cause different degrees of pain to the patients. As one of the means of non-pharmaceutical pain management, the interventional effect of virtual reality technology has gradually been recognized by more and more researchers. This paper reviewed the definition, the interventional mechanisms, and the interventional effect on burn pain of virtual reality technology, to provide a reference for clinical application of virtual reality technology in pain management of burn patients.

Objective To understand the utilization of spare time among medical college freshmen at different academic levels and to explore the factors that affect undergraduates' utilization of spare time and their solutions.Methods The questionnaire is designed by myself,including after-school time planning,arrangement purpose,arrangement content and time allocation,etc.392 freshmen with three different educational levels were selected by cluster sampling.The questionnaires were issued and recovered in anonymous way.Data was recorded and collated by EpiData software,and descriptive analysis and chisquare test was used by SPSS 19.0.Results There are basic or frequent arrangements in spare time for 40.5％ (155 people) of medical students.For 61.5％ (236 people) of medical students,relaxation is the purpose in arranging their activity in spare time.Medical students who surf the Internet,read books and sleep in spare time account for 28.7％ (110 people),28.5％ (109 people) and 22.3％ (85 people) respectively.60.5％ (232 people) of medical students chat and play games on the Internet.There are significant differences among the three groups of different academic levels in the purposes of arrangements,activity contents,internet surfing time and attitude of part-time job (P＜0.05).Conclusion There are deficiencies in the utilization of spare time among medical college freshmen,and different academic levels are probably one of the influential factors that affect college students' utilization of spare time.

BACKGROUND:Heat Induction Typodont System (HITS) and Double-Slot Lingual Bracket System are patented products of the research group.It is very important to explore a good control of anterior tooth torque on the micro-implant-double-slot lingual bracket system.OBJECTIVE:To provide the experimental basis for force system applied for controlling the anterior tooth torque in lingual orthodontics through Typodont experiment based on the HITS.METHODS:Sixteen Class Ⅱ1 maxillary Typodont models without first premolar were made.Micro-implants were implanted in the lingual region of posterior teeth and labial region of anterior teeth.The direction of the retracting force was adjusted by changing the position of the lingual micro-implant (with a distance of 4,8 mm from the alveolar crest) and the length of the hook (4,8 mm).And lingual retracting force (150,300 g) and labial intruding force (50,100 g) were loaded.The tooth movement by HITS was simulated and the models were scanned before and after force loading.Then the three-dimensional images were reconstructed by Mimics 17.0.Factorial variance analysis was adopted to compare the anterior movement changes under different loading modes.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:When the length of the hook was 4 mm/8 mm and the lingual micro-implant was 6 mm/10 mm from the alveolar crest,the displacement difference between the incisal edge and the root of the anterior teeth was smaller than other groups.The optimal mechanics was 150 g for the lingual retracting force and 100 g for the labial intruding force.It could provide a satisfactory control to the anterior teeth torque when retracting force and labial intruding force were loaded at the same time during the space closing phase of lingual treatment.This study based on HITS provided a scientific basis for the clinical application of micro-implant-double-slot lingual bracket system in space closing phase.

Objective To compare the effects of electroacupuncture at points Shangjuxu(ST37), Zusanli(ST36), Xiajuxu(ST39) and Yanglingquan(GB34) on colonic expressions of interleukin-1b (IL-1b) and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor a7 mRNA (nAchRa7mRNA) in ulcerative colitis rats and investigate if large intestine lower He-Sea point Shangjuxu has relative specificity to fu organ diseases. Method Seventy healthy SD rats were randomized into blank, model, Shangjuxu, Zusanli, Xiajuxu, Yanglingquan and Chengjin groups, 10 rats, half male and half female, each. A rat model of ulcerative colitis was made by induction of 2-4-6 three nitrobenzene sulfonic acid/ethanol solution enema in every group except the blank group. After successful model making and ten days of treatment, rat colonic mucosal ulcers and inflammation were observed macroscopically, colonic IL-1bcontent was measured by ELISA and the expression of nAchRa7mRNA was determined by RT-PCR. Result Compared with the model group, colonic lesions were reduced in varying degrees, colonic IL-1b content was significantly lower and the expression of nAchRa7mRNA was higher in every acupoint group (P<0.05, P<0.01);the colonic ulcer score was lower in the Shangjuxu and Zusanli groups (P<0.05, P<0.01). Compared with the Shangjuxu group, colonic expression of nAchRa7mRNA was lower in the other four acupoint groups (P<0.01); colonic mucosal ulcers and inflammatory lesions were more severe and the colonic ulcer score and the IL-1bcontent were higher in the Xiajuxu, Yanglingquan and Chengjin groups (P<0.05, P<0.01). Conclusion The mechanism of electroacupuncture treatment for ulcerative colitis may be that it regulates abnormal immunologic function by modulating IL-1b and nAchRa7mRNA and reduces mucosal lesions. The overall therapeutic effect of Shangjuxu is better than those of Zusanli, Xiajuxu, Yanglingquan and Chengjin, indicating that Shangjuxu has relative specificity to fu organ large intestine.

OBJECTIVETo observe the influence of electroacupuncture (EA) at lower-sea points of stomach, large intestine, small intestine and gallbladder on interleukin-1β (IL-1β), high mobility group protein 1 (HMGB 1) and alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAchR α7) in rats with acute gastric mucosal lesion (AGML), so as to explore whether there is relative specificity in treating gastric viscera disease by stimulating Zusanli (ST 36).

METHODSSixty healthy SD rats were randomly assigned into a blank group, a model group, a Zusanli group, a Shangjuxu group, a Xiajuxu group and a Yanglingquan group, ten rats in each one (half male and half female). The WRS method was applied to induce the AGML model except the rats in the blank group. The rats in the blank group were treated with routine diet; the rats in the model group were treated with immobilization at rat platform, 30 min per time; the rats in the Zusanli group, Shangjuxu group, Xiajuxu group and Yanglingquan group were treated with acupuncture and connected with EA device (dilatational wave 10 Hz/50 Hz, positive electrode on the left side and negative electrode on the right side, intensity was appropriate when rat hind leg slightly shook), 30 min per time. The treatment was given once a day. After consecutive 10-day treatment, the gastric tissue was collected and the damage of gastric mucosa was evaluated; ELISA method was applied to measure the content of serum IL-1β and tissue HMGB 1; the Western blot method was applied to measure the expression of nAchR α7 receptor.

RESULTS(1) Compared with the model group, the ulcer index (UI) of gastric mucosa, serum IL-1β and tissue HMGB 1 were lower, and the expression of nAchR α7 was increased in the remaining groups (<0.05,<0.01). (2) Compared with the Zusanli group, the UI of gastric tissue, serum IL-1β and tissue HMGB 1 were higher in the Shangjuxu group, Xiajuxu group and Yanglingquan group (<0.05,<0.01), and the expression of nAchRα7 was reduced in the Yanglingquan group (<0.01).

CONCLUSIONS(1) EA at digestive system-related lower-sea points, through IL-1β, HMGB 1 and nAchR α7, could regulate immune response, lighten inflammatory reaction and reduce mucosal injury, which could realize the intervention effect on AGML rats. (2) From the comparison, it is concluded the intervention effect of Zusanli group is superior to the other groups, partly indicating the relative specificity between Zusanli and stomach.

Farnesoid X receptor ( FXR) plays a key role in me-tabolism of substance, such as bile acid, lipid, glucose,( etc) . Newly published credible discoveries have claimed that as a reg-ulatory hub in metabolism, FXR is closely linked with diverse chronic liver diseases, including viral hepatitis, alcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatic fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. This review summarizes the roles and mechanisms of FXR during the courses of chronic liver dis-eases, aiming at providing novel insights and therapeutic target for antifibrotic research and drug development.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship between changes in high-risk populations and screening detected nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) during the three-year follow-up of high-risk and moderate-risk groups at initial EB virus serology screening.

METHODSWe tested EB virus VCA-IgA and EBNA1-IgA antibody to identify the probability of suffering from NPC of the crowd. The high-risk and moderate-risk groups at initial screening in one county during 2009 to 2010 were followed-up once a year with EB virus serology testing. All the high-risk people during initial screening and follow-up were conducted with nasopharyngeal fiber endoscopy. Through the follow-up of three years, we analyzed changes in the number of high-risk group, detection rate of NPC in high-risk group, and tumor staging. Firstly detected NPC by screening was defined as screening group, and detected by following-up was defined as following-up group.

RESULTSA total of 404 participants were at high-risk and 1 041 participants were at moderate-risk group, 1 445 persons were in the group. All 404 persons were at high-risk at initial screening, the number of high-risk people during follow-up decreased from 371 to 187, 853 people of the all high-risk group were conducted with nasopharyngeal fiber endoscopy, and 38 cases of NPC were detected. NPC detection rate of high-risk group was 6.2% (25/404), 3.2% (12/371), 0.5% (1/188) and 0 (0/187) during the initial screening and three years follow-up respectively. The cumulative incidence of NPC in the high-risk and moderate-risk group were 7.7% (31/404) ,0.8% (8/1 041) . The early diagnosis rate of NPC in screening group and following-up group was 80% (20/25)and 11/13, respectively. With the primary tumor, the rate of T1 in screening group was higher than following-up group (80% to 38%, 20/25 to 5/13; P = 0.028). However, compared with following-up group, the rate of regional lymph node metastasis in screening group was higher (19/25 to 5/13; P = 0.035 ).

CONCLUSIONAlong with the high detection rate of early staging NPC in screening group and following-up group, the detection of NPC in high risk people is mainly at initial screening and the first year following-up and NPC detection rate thereafter is dropping significantly.

Antibodies, Viral ; Antigens, Viral ; Capsid Proteins ; Carcinoma ; Early Detection of Cancer ; Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigens ; Follow-Up Studies ; Herpesvirus 4, Human ; Humans ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ; Neoplasm Staging ; Risk Factors

Objective There are a few reports on rats with spontaneous congenital cataract in China .The purpose of this study was to investigate the morphological changes of lens in rats with spontaneous congenital cataract . Methods 24 d, 1-year rats with cataract and microphthalmos cataract and normal rats (n=5) were selected as research objects .Their lens were observed by a slit lamp microscope and taken photos in front of them , followed by examination through light micrograph and transmission electron micros-copy. Results Rats with microphthalmos cataract showed narrowed palpebral fissure and broaden nucleus while rats with cataract showed normal palpebral fissure and narrowed nucleus .As for 24 d,1-year rats with microphthalmos cataract , the fibers of their lens showed derangement and vacuole-like degeneration by light microscope , in addition, the abnormal connection between fiber cells were observed by electron microscopy .As for 1-year normal rats , the fibers were in consistent structure and regular arrangement without cell ingredient . Conclusion The appearance and morphological changes of the lens in rats with spontaneous congenital cataracts are in consistence with the pathological changes of cataracts , which is appli-cable in further research on the pathogenesis of cataract .