1.From tradition to modernity: the integrated development of medical humanities and narrative medicine
Xiaoxiong ZHU ; Lijia DU ; Yingru LIU ; Xiaoying ZHANG ; Jia NA ; Zhifen YANG
Chinese Medical Ethics 2026;39(2):201-206
Medical humanities consistently run through the entire process of medical development and educational reform. However, with the increasingly prominent dominance of evidence-based medicine in clinical practice, the medical humanities have gradually been weakened in both medical education and clinical practice. Narrative medicine, through telling and listening to patients’ stories, enhances healthcare professionals’ empathy, fosters doctor–patient communication, and facilitates a return to the humanistic essence of medical education and clinical practice. By sorting out and reviewing related literature and developmental trends both at home and abroad, this paper pointed out the existing structural problem of an imbalance between technological priority and humanistic care in medical education, focusing on how to achieve an effective integration of medical humanities and narrative medicine in medical education. This paper also systematically analyzed the significance of both medical humanities and narrative medicine in the medical education system and proposed promoting the deep embedding of narrative medicine in medical education from three entry points, namely, curriculum integration, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the construction of teaching evaluation systems. The aim was to provide theoretical support and practical experience for medical education reform, foster the coordinated development of professional competence and humanistic spirit among medical talents, and truly achieve the goal of cultivating well-rounded medical talents.
2.The current status and influencing factors analysis of frailty in peritoneal dialysis patients at home
Lei ZHANG ; Fang NIE ; Wenjun PENG ; Liqun GUO ; Shan LIU ; Xinyue HUANG ; Zhifen FENG
Chinese Journal of Nursing 2025;60(11):1366-1372
Objective To investigate the current situation of frailty in patients with home peritoneal dialysis and analyze its influencing factors,so as to provide bases for early identification of high-risk groups and targeted clinical intervention.Methods From October to December 2024,205 home-based peritoneal dialysis patients under long-term follow-up at a tertiary A hospital in Zhongshan,Guangdong Province,were selected by convenience sampling.The General Information Questionnaire,Fried Phenotype Scale,Nutritional Risk Screening Tool,Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale,and Social Support Rating Scale were used to investigate the influencing factors of frailty in home-based peritoneal dialysis patients by ordinal logistic regression analysis.Results A total of 201 valid questionnaires were collected.The prevalence of frailty among home-based peritoneal dialysis patients was 24.3%,while 39.3%were in the pre-frailty stage,and 36.3%showed no frailty.0rdinal logistic regression analysis revealed that age,residence location,primary disease,sleep status,serum albumin concentration,and exercise self-efficacy level were influencing factors of frailty in the home peritoneal dialysis patients(P<0.05).Conclusion The incidence of frailty in patients with home peritoneal dialysis is higher,and patients with advanced age,living in rural areas,other types of primary diseases,insomnia,low serum albumin concentration and low exercise self-efficacy are more likely to develop frailty.Specialist doctors and nurses of peritoneal dialysis should pay attention to the early screening of frailty in patients with peritoneal dialysis at home,and take personalized intervention measures to prevent or delay the occurrence of frailty according to the relevant risk factors.
3.The current status and influencing factors analysis of frailty in peritoneal dialysis patients at home
Lei ZHANG ; Fang NIE ; Wenjun PENG ; Liqun GUO ; Shan LIU ; Xinyue HUANG ; Zhifen FENG
Chinese Journal of Nursing 2025;60(11):1366-1372
Objective To investigate the current situation of frailty in patients with home peritoneal dialysis and analyze its influencing factors,so as to provide bases for early identification of high-risk groups and targeted clinical intervention.Methods From October to December 2024,205 home-based peritoneal dialysis patients under long-term follow-up at a tertiary A hospital in Zhongshan,Guangdong Province,were selected by convenience sampling.The General Information Questionnaire,Fried Phenotype Scale,Nutritional Risk Screening Tool,Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale,and Social Support Rating Scale were used to investigate the influencing factors of frailty in home-based peritoneal dialysis patients by ordinal logistic regression analysis.Results A total of 201 valid questionnaires were collected.The prevalence of frailty among home-based peritoneal dialysis patients was 24.3%,while 39.3%were in the pre-frailty stage,and 36.3%showed no frailty.0rdinal logistic regression analysis revealed that age,residence location,primary disease,sleep status,serum albumin concentration,and exercise self-efficacy level were influencing factors of frailty in the home peritoneal dialysis patients(P<0.05).Conclusion The incidence of frailty in patients with home peritoneal dialysis is higher,and patients with advanced age,living in rural areas,other types of primary diseases,insomnia,low serum albumin concentration and low exercise self-efficacy are more likely to develop frailty.Specialist doctors and nurses of peritoneal dialysis should pay attention to the early screening of frailty in patients with peritoneal dialysis at home,and take personalized intervention measures to prevent or delay the occurrence of frailty according to the relevant risk factors.
4.Ginsenoside Re Inhibition via RhoA/MAPK on Angiotensin Ⅱ-Induced Proliferation,Migration,and Phenotypic Transformation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Weiwei HU ; Xiaoling WANG ; Xiaorong LI ; Chunhui TIAN ; Zhifen LIU
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;27(5):1417-1425
Objective To investigate the effect of ginsenoside Re on angiotensin Ⅱ(Ang Ⅱ)-induced proliferation,migration,and phenotype transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells(VSMCs)by regulating the Ras homologous gene family member A(RhoA)/mitogen activated protein kinase(MAPK)pathway.Methods MOVAS cells were divided into control group,Ang Ⅱ group,ginsenoside Re low dose group,ginsenoside Re medium dose group,ginsenoside Re high dose group,andginsenoside Re high dose+RhoA activator(U46619)group.MOVAS cell proliferation was detected by CCK-8.MOVAS cell migration was detected by scratch assay.Immunocytochemistry was used to detect the positive expression of α-smooth muscle actin(α-SMA)and osteopontin(OPN)proteins in MOVAS cells.qRT-PCR was used to detect the mRNA expression of PCNA,MMP-9,and MMP-2 in MOVAS cells.Western blot was used to detect RhoA,phosphorylated extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2(p-ERK1/2),phosphorylated stress activated protein kinase 1(p-JNK1),and p-P38 protein in MOVAS cells.Results Compared with the control group,the OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression,RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,p-P38 protein expression of MOVAS cells in the Ang II group increased,while the positive expression of α-SMA protein decreased significantly(P<0.05).Compared with the Ang Ⅱ group,the OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression,and RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,and p-P38 proteins of MOVAS cells in the low,medium,and high dose groups of ginsenoside Re decreased,while the positive expression of α-SMA protein increased.The trend was most significant in the high dose group of ginsenoside Re(P<0.05).Compared with ginsenoside Re high-dose group,OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression and RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,p-P38 protein in ginsenoside Re high-dose+U46619 group increased,the positive expression of α-SMA protein decreased significantly(P<0.05).Conclusion Ginsenoside Re may inhibit the proliferation,migration,and phenotype transformation of Ang Ⅱ in MOVAS cells by suppressing the RhoA/MAPK pathway.
5.Research progress on the mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine monomers acting on myelosuppression after chemotherapy based on the four properties theory
Sihan ZHANG ; Tingting WANG ; Zhifen ZHAO ; Hanyu KANG ; Jiaqi JI ; Ziqiang GUO ; Tong LIU ; Shiqing JIANG
China Pharmacy 2025;36(18):2341-2347
Chemotherapy is an important treatment for tumors, but most patients experience varying degrees of chemotherapy- induced myelosuppression. Four properties theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has unique advantages in improving chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression. The monomers from TCM with different properties and flavors, such as cold-natured (e.g. Scutellaria baicalensis, Rhus chinensis), cool-natured (e.g. Ligustrum lucidum, Ophiopogon japonicus), warm-natured (e.g. Panax ginseng, Epimedium brevicornu, Curcuma longa, Angelica sinensis), hot-natured (e.g. Cinnamomum cassia, Aconitum carmichaeli), and neutral-natured (e. g. donkey-hide gelatin, Lycium barbarum, Rhodiola rosea, fungi), can exert anti- myelosuppressive effects by reducing damage to hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, improving the bone marrow hematopoietic microenvironment, inhibiting the oxidative stress response, regulating signaling pathways, so as to ultimately repaire inflammatory damage and improve hematopoietic function, thereby playing an anti-myelosuppressive role.
6.Research progress of transcranial magnetic stimulation in treating different symptom groups of depression
Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Dan QIAO ; Gaizhi LI ; Yiran LI ; Zhifen LIU
Chinese Journal of Psychiatry 2025;58(1):59-68
Depressive disorder is one of the common mental diseases, which seriously affects the daily work and life of patients. In recent years, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment has shown satisfactory effects in the clinical application of depression. However, depressive disorder involves complex symptoms, including functional impairment in different dimensions such as emotion, cognition, body and behavior, which leads to significant individual differences in the efficacy of TMS intervention. Therefore, with different symptoms as the starting point, this article systematically reviewed the clinical studies of TMS treatment for different symptom groups of depressive disorder, in order to provide scientific reference for individualized treatment of depressive disorder using TMS treatment.
7.Ginsenoside Re Inhibition via RhoA/MAPK on Angiotensin Ⅱ-Induced Proliferation,Migration,and Phenotypic Transformation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Weiwei HU ; Xiaoling WANG ; Xiaorong LI ; Chunhui TIAN ; Zhifen LIU
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;27(5):1417-1425
Objective To investigate the effect of ginsenoside Re on angiotensin Ⅱ(Ang Ⅱ)-induced proliferation,migration,and phenotype transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells(VSMCs)by regulating the Ras homologous gene family member A(RhoA)/mitogen activated protein kinase(MAPK)pathway.Methods MOVAS cells were divided into control group,Ang Ⅱ group,ginsenoside Re low dose group,ginsenoside Re medium dose group,ginsenoside Re high dose group,andginsenoside Re high dose+RhoA activator(U46619)group.MOVAS cell proliferation was detected by CCK-8.MOVAS cell migration was detected by scratch assay.Immunocytochemistry was used to detect the positive expression of α-smooth muscle actin(α-SMA)and osteopontin(OPN)proteins in MOVAS cells.qRT-PCR was used to detect the mRNA expression of PCNA,MMP-9,and MMP-2 in MOVAS cells.Western blot was used to detect RhoA,phosphorylated extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2(p-ERK1/2),phosphorylated stress activated protein kinase 1(p-JNK1),and p-P38 protein in MOVAS cells.Results Compared with the control group,the OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression,RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,p-P38 protein expression of MOVAS cells in the Ang II group increased,while the positive expression of α-SMA protein decreased significantly(P<0.05).Compared with the Ang Ⅱ group,the OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression,and RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,and p-P38 proteins of MOVAS cells in the low,medium,and high dose groups of ginsenoside Re decreased,while the positive expression of α-SMA protein increased.The trend was most significant in the high dose group of ginsenoside Re(P<0.05).Compared with ginsenoside Re high-dose group,OD450 value,scratch healing rate,OPN protein positive expression,PCNA,MMP-9,MMP-2 mRNA expression and RhoA,p-ERK1/2,p-JNK1,p-P38 protein in ginsenoside Re high-dose+U46619 group increased,the positive expression of α-SMA protein decreased significantly(P<0.05).Conclusion Ginsenoside Re may inhibit the proliferation,migration,and phenotype transformation of Ang Ⅱ in MOVAS cells by suppressing the RhoA/MAPK pathway.
8.Research progress of transcranial magnetic stimulation in treating different symptom groups of depression
Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Dan QIAO ; Gaizhi LI ; Yiran LI ; Zhifen LIU
Chinese Journal of Psychiatry 2025;58(1):59-68
Depressive disorder is one of the common mental diseases, which seriously affects the daily work and life of patients. In recent years, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment has shown satisfactory effects in the clinical application of depression. However, depressive disorder involves complex symptoms, including functional impairment in different dimensions such as emotion, cognition, body and behavior, which leads to significant individual differences in the efficacy of TMS intervention. Therefore, with different symptoms as the starting point, this article systematically reviewed the clinical studies of TMS treatment for different symptom groups of depressive disorder, in order to provide scientific reference for individualized treatment of depressive disorder using TMS treatment.
9.Research progress of cognitive impairment in patients with attenuated psychosis syndrome
Yue LI ; Wentao ZHAO ; Xiao WANG ; Zhifen LIU ; Yong XU ; Sha LIU
Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2024;50(6):375-380
Attenuated psychosis syndrome(APS)is a clinical disorder associated with a high risk of psychosis.Patients during this period typically exhibit multidimensional neurocognitive and social cognitive impairment.Cognitive impairment in APS patients is associated with structural and functional abnormalities in the frontal,temporal and subcortical brain regions.At present,drug therapy,psychotherapy,nutritional therapy and computer cognitive training are mainly used to improve the cognitive function of APS patients.In the future,we could comprehensively utilize brain imaging,electrophysiology,and molecular imaging to deeply explore the neuropathological mechanism of APS cognitive impairment,and combine computer,virtual reality,and artificial intelligence to develop new cognitive function intervention procedures,in order to achieve APS precise prevention and treatment.
10.Study on the application value of telmisartan combined with calcium dobesilate in patients with non-dipper hypertension complicated with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Weiwei HU ; Xiaorong LI ; Chunhui TIAN ; Zhifen LIU ; Junqi YING ; Chunyan GAO
Chinese Journal of Diabetes 2024;32(5):331-335
Objective To explore the application value of telmisartan combined with calcium dobesilate in patients with non-dipper hypertension complicated with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM).Methods A total of 260 patients with non-dipper hypertension complicated with T2DM in the endocrinology department of our hospital were selected in this study from January 2021 to December 2022.All the patients were randomly divided into telmisartan group(Tel,n=110)and telmisartan+calcium dobesilate group(Tel+Cal-dob,n=150).The blood pressure level,blood pressure rhythm changes,brachial flow mediated dilatation(FMD),carotid radial pulse wave velocity(crPWV),vasomotor factors[nitric oxide(NO),endothelin-1(ET-1),vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF)]and the incidence of adverse reactions were compared between the two groups.Results There was no significant difference in general data and biochemical indexes between the two groups(P>0.05).After 3,6 and 12 months of treatment,the FMD and NO were higher,while the dSBP,dDBP,24 hSBP,24 hDBP,nSBP,nDBP,crPWV,ET-1 and VEGF were lower than before treatment in both groups(P<0.05).After 3,6 and 12 months of treatment,the FMD and NO were higher,while dSBP,dDBP,24 hSBP,24 hDBP,nSBP,nDBP,crPWV,ET-1 and VEGF were lower in Tel+Cal-dob group than in Tel group(P<0.05).After 3,6 and 12 months of treatment,the conversion rates of dipper blood pressure were higher in Tel+Cal-dob groupthan in Tel group(P<0.05).There was no significant difference in the incidence of adverse effects between the two groups(P>0.05).Conclusion Telmisartan combined with calcium dobesilate is effective in the treatment of patients with non-dipper hypertension complicated with T2DM.

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