1.Regulation of Tumor Immune Homeostasis by Programmed Cell Death and Intervention Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine Under Theory of Regulating Qi and Resolving Toxins
Bingwei YANG ; Xue CHEN ; Chenglei WANG ; Haoyu ZHAI ; Weidong LI ; Baojin HUA
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(7):212-220
Tumor immune homeostasis is a dynamic equilibrium state in which the body removes abnormal mutated cells in time to prevent tumor development without damaging other normal cells under the surveillance of the immune system. It is an important concept to understand the process of tumor development. Programmed cell death (PCD) is a kind of regulable cell death including various forms such as apoptosis, autophagy, pyroptosis, necrosis, and ferroptosis. It is regarded as an important way for the body to remove abnormal or mutated cells. In recent years, modern research has found that PCD has a bi-directional regulatory effect on carcinogenesis and tumor development. In the early stage of tumor formation, PCD can control tumor development in time by playing a specific immune clearance role, while in the later tumorigenic stage, PCD can promote the growth and development of tumor cells by forming a tumor-specific microenvironment, resulting in carcinogenic effects. Therefore, PCD is regarded as an important way to maintain tumor immune homeostasis. Based on the idea of ''supporting the vital Qi and cultivating the root'' by professors Yu Guiqing and Piao Bingkui, the team proposed the theory of ''regulating Qi and resolving toxins'' and applied it to clinical tumor prevention and treatment. Based on the theory of ''regulating Qi and resolving toxins'', the research summarized the current progress of modern medical research on mechanisms related to PCD to explore the role of PCD in the regulation of tumor immune homeostasis. The article believed that the harmonious state of Qi movement was the basic condition for normal PCD to maintain tumor immune homeostasis, while the disorder of Qi movement and the evolution of tumor toxicity were the core processes of abnormal PCD and disorder of tumor immunity homeostasis, which led to the escape and development of tumor cells. Therefore, under the guidance of ''regulating Qi and removing toxins'', the idea of full-cycle prevention and treatment of tumors was proposed summarily. In the early stage of tumor formation, the method of ''regulating Qi movement and strengthening vital Qi'' was applied to reestablish tumor immune homeostasis and to promote the elimination of abnormal cells. In the late tumorigenic stage, the method of ''resolving toxins and dispelling evils'' was applied to reverse the specific microenvironment of tumors and inhibit the development of tumor cells, with a view to providing new theoretical support for the prevention and treatment of tumors through traditional Chinese medicine.
2.Regulation of Tumor Immune Homeostasis by Programmed Cell Death and Intervention Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine Under Theory of Regulating Qi and Resolving Toxins
Bingwei YANG ; Xue CHEN ; Chenglei WANG ; Haoyu ZHAI ; Weidong LI ; Baojin HUA
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(7):212-220
Tumor immune homeostasis is a dynamic equilibrium state in which the body removes abnormal mutated cells in time to prevent tumor development without damaging other normal cells under the surveillance of the immune system. It is an important concept to understand the process of tumor development. Programmed cell death (PCD) is a kind of regulable cell death including various forms such as apoptosis, autophagy, pyroptosis, necrosis, and ferroptosis. It is regarded as an important way for the body to remove abnormal or mutated cells. In recent years, modern research has found that PCD has a bi-directional regulatory effect on carcinogenesis and tumor development. In the early stage of tumor formation, PCD can control tumor development in time by playing a specific immune clearance role, while in the later tumorigenic stage, PCD can promote the growth and development of tumor cells by forming a tumor-specific microenvironment, resulting in carcinogenic effects. Therefore, PCD is regarded as an important way to maintain tumor immune homeostasis. Based on the idea of ''supporting the vital Qi and cultivating the root'' by professors Yu Guiqing and Piao Bingkui, the team proposed the theory of ''regulating Qi and resolving toxins'' and applied it to clinical tumor prevention and treatment. Based on the theory of ''regulating Qi and resolving toxins'', the research summarized the current progress of modern medical research on mechanisms related to PCD to explore the role of PCD in the regulation of tumor immune homeostasis. The article believed that the harmonious state of Qi movement was the basic condition for normal PCD to maintain tumor immune homeostasis, while the disorder of Qi movement and the evolution of tumor toxicity were the core processes of abnormal PCD and disorder of tumor immunity homeostasis, which led to the escape and development of tumor cells. Therefore, under the guidance of ''regulating Qi and removing toxins'', the idea of full-cycle prevention and treatment of tumors was proposed summarily. In the early stage of tumor formation, the method of ''regulating Qi movement and strengthening vital Qi'' was applied to reestablish tumor immune homeostasis and to promote the elimination of abnormal cells. In the late tumorigenic stage, the method of ''resolving toxins and dispelling evils'' was applied to reverse the specific microenvironment of tumors and inhibit the development of tumor cells, with a view to providing new theoretical support for the prevention and treatment of tumors through traditional Chinese medicine.
3.Exploring the “Inflammation-Cancer” Transformation of Ulcerative Colitis and Its Prevention and Treatment Based on the Method of Regulating Qi and Resolving Toxins
Bingwei YANG ; Xue CHEN ; Chenglei WANG ; Weidong LI ; Baojin HUA
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(5):469-473
Based on the method of regulating qi and resolving toxins, this paper discussed the core pathogenesis of “inflammation-cancer” transformation of ulcerative colitis. It is believed that the disorder of qi movement, endogenous pathogenic factors of “heat, stasis and dampness” are cemented in the large intestine, and the pathogenic factors are too excessive to be solved, which will become toxic after a long time and lead to cancerous changes. Clinical prevention and treatment applies the method of regulating qi and resolving toxins, and the method of regulating qi was proposed as clearing internal qi, regulating blood qi and strengthening spleen qi, so as to clear heat, dissipate blood stasis and dissolve dampness; different methods of regulating qi and resolving toxins were flexibly combined according to the pathogenic characteristics of different stages of toxicity, in order to interrupt the process of “inflammation-cancer” transformation of ulcerative colitis.
4.Study on the Medication Law of Postoperative Treatment of Colorectal Cancer by Piao Bingkui Based on Data Mining
Xin CHEN ; Feibiao XIE ; Runshun ZHANG ; Jin GAO ; Huibo YU ; Susu MA ; Honggang ZHENG ; Baojin HUA
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;31(10):24-30
Objective To study the medication law of postoperative treatment of colorectal cancer by national TCM doctor Professor Piao Bingkui.Methods Professor Piao Bingkui's electronic medical records and paper medical records of colorectal cancer postoperative patients at Guang'anmen Hospital,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Beijing Yiqingtang Chinese Medicine Clinic were collected and organized from their outpatients from January 1st,2002 to February 28th,2022.R4.2.1 was used to study the prescriptions,including high-frequency drugs,drug types,properties of Chinese materia medica,yin yang and five elements and dosage of drugs,as well as the law of multi-drug association in postoperative patients with colorectal cancer.Results Totally 642 colorectal postoperative cancer patients were included,involving 2 226 prescriptions,180 kinds of Chinese materia medica,and a total frequency of 39 988 times.The high-frequency drugs were Astragali Radix,fried Aurantii Fructus with wheat bran,Dioscoreae Rhizoma,etc.The main drugs in terms of efficacy were tonics for tonifying deficiency,disinfectants,etc.;the main properties were warm and neutral,the main tastes were sweet,pungent and bitter,and the main meridians were spleen meridians and stomach meridians.Ascending medicines were often used,and the drug were basically non-toxic.The frequency of using yang tonifying medicine was high,and the five elements were commonly used as local medicines;the dosage was mostly 10,15 and 20 g.The complex network analysis and clustering analysis of the association between multiple drugs found that Professor Piao Bingkui's basic prescription for treating colorectal cancer included Astragali Radix,fried Aurantii Fructus with wheat bran,Dioscoreae Rhizoma,salt Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus,Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium,Smilacis Glabrae Rhizoma,Pseudostellariae Radix,and fried Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma with wheat bran.Conclusion In the treatment of colorectal cancer,Professor Piao Bingkui focuses on reinforcing the healthy qi,nourishing spleen and stomach function,combined with detoxication method and clearing heat,expelling phlegm and dampness,guiding stagnation and dispelling stasis methods,making syndrome differentiation as well as tonifying and benefiting qi,regulating qi movement,so as to realize the"treating middle-energizer as balance"and achieve mild level when treating colorectal cancer.
5.Relationship Between Metabolic Remodeling of Endothelial Cells and Tumor Angiogenesis Based on "Yin Fire" Theory and Intervention of Chinese Medicine
Yi LI ; Xiaoxiao ZHANG ; Bo PANG ; Baojin HUA ; Zhengtao CHEN ; Xue PAN ; Chuanlong ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2023;29(15):165-171
Endothelial cells in the inner wall of blood vessels respond to physical and chemical signals of the body by regulating vascular homeostasis, vascular tension, cell adhesion, cell proliferation, coagulation resistance and inflammatory factors, to maintain the stability of blood vessels. Angiogenesis is the key condition for tumor evolution, and the pathological mode of tumor angiogenesis provides nutrients and oxygen for tumor growth and promotes its proliferation. In recent years, endothelial cells have participated in tumor vascular infiltration and driven angiogenesis, which is considered to be the point link in tumor metastasis. By regulating metabolic remodeling, vascular endothelial cells provide the materials and energy needed in the process of tumor angiogenesis, and their abnormal metabolic characteristics facilitate their adaption to the changes of tumor microenvironment, which is often regarded as an important basis for tumor angiogenesis. The ''Yin fire'' theory in traditional Chinese medicine, originating from Huangdi's Internal Classic (Huang Di Nei Jing), originally meant Yin deficiency generates internal heat, and belonged to the category of fire of internal injury. After the deduction and changes by physicians over the ages, the pathogenesis of ''spleen and stomach Qi deficiency-Yin fire rising-Qi and fire disharmony'' was gradually formed. The pathogenesis of metabolic remodeling of endothelial cells manifests the pathological characterization of Yin fire in an objective way, which is consistent with the disease state of uncontrolled and hyperactive tumor neovascularization. Changes in spleen and stomach Qi deficiency as well as imbalance of Qi movement lead to the failure of water and food in distribution, and thus metabolic disorders occur. Long term retention turns in phlegm and blood stasis, which combat with blood vessels, and result in abnormal local environment (formation of tumor microenvironment), adverse pulse channel (imbalance of endothelial cell metabolism), and tumor neovascularization. Under the guidance of ''Yin fire'' syndrome elements and by focusing on the correlation between Qi and fire, prescriptions are made based on the treatment method of ''strengthening the body and regulating Qi'' to regulate the metabolic function of endothelial cells, thus achieving a relatively balanced state of the body and inhibiting tumor angiogenesis. As a result, this study, centering on the metabolic remodeling of endothelial cells and ''Yin fire'' theory, elucidated the academic ideas, with the purpose of providing some theoretical support for the intervention of tumor vascularization by Chinese medicine.
6.Efficacy and influencing factors of sequential and concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer in elderly patients
Zihong WANG ; Wenzhang CHEN ; Baojin SUN
Chinese Journal of Postgraduates of Medicine 2023;46(2):119-123
Objective:To explore the efficacy of sequential and concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the elderly, and to analyze the influencing factors of prognosis and outcome.Methods:The clinical data of 195 elderly patients with advanced NSCLC admitted to Beijing Shijingshan Hospitaland and Beijing Shijitan Hospital from March 2015 to March 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. They were divided into the concurrent chemoradiotherapy (100 cases) and the sequential chemoradiotherapy (95 cases) according to different chemoradiotherapy regiments. The short-term efficacy, 3-year survival, influencing factors of prognosis and toxic and adverse effects of the two groups were compared.Results:The objective response rate in the concurrent chemoradiotherapy group was significantly higher than that in the sequential chemoradiotherapy group: 61.00%(61/100) vs. 44.21%(42/95), there was statistically difference ( χ2 = 5.51, P<0.05). The 2-year and 3-year survival rate in the concurrent chemoradiotherapy group were 52.00% and 23.00%, which were significantly higher than those in the sequential chemoradiotherapy group: 32.60%, 11.60%, there were statistically differences ( P<0.05). Multivariate analysis results showed that smoking, Karnofsky score<70, TNM stage Ⅲb, short-term efficacy and treatment methods/sequential chemoradiotherapy were independent risk factors ( P<0.05). The incidence of radiation esophagitis, bone marrow suppression and lung function damage in the concurrent chemoradiotherapy group were higher than those in the sequential chemoradiotherapy group: 45.00%(45/100) vs. 27.37% (26/95), 36.00%(36/100) vs. 22.11%(21/95), 48.00%(48/100) vs. 26.32%(25/95), there were statistically differences ( χ2 = 6.54, 4.55, 9.78; P<0.05). Conclusions:Concurrent chemoradiotherapy can improve the short-term efficacy, and improve the 2-year and 3-year survival rates in advanced NSCLC in elderly patients, but the adverse effects are significantly enhanced.
7.Introduction to the International Guide for Animal Research Reporting ARRIVE 2.0, and Its Implementation Plan in the Journal
Junyan ZHANG ; Xiaoyu LIU ; Yao LI ; Guoyuan CHEN ; Xiao LU ; Yu BAI ; Xuancheng LU ; Wanyong PANG ; Baojin WU
Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine 2023;43(1):86-94
Animal experiments play an important role in the process of biomedical research, and is a necessary way to transform basic medicine into clinical medicine. The standardization of animal experimental studies and reports determines the reliability and reproducibility of research results, and is also the key to transforming the results of animal experiments into clinical trials. In view of how to design and implement animal experiments, write animal experiment reports, and publish relevant academic papers in a more standardized way, LACM (Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine) has launched a new column of comparative medical research and reporting standards from 2023, focusing on the introduction and interpretation of international general norms related to laboratory animal and comparative medicine, such as ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments). This article focuses on the development and application, basic content and priority of ARRIVE 2.0, as well as the scheme of implementing ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines in international biomedical journals, and explains the current situation and future plans of LACM following ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines. The research and report of animal experimental medicine following the ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines and other international norms is one of the important driving forces to promote the high-quality development of experimental animal science and biomedicine in China, and also a powerful means to implement the 3R principle and improve the welfare of laboratory animals. Through this article, we hope the majority of scientific researchers and editors will attach great importance and actively implement these international standards.
8.Application analysis of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire in adolescents
Yanping WEI ; Baojin CUI ; Jiang XUE ; Shulin CHEN ; Zejun HUANG
Sichuan Mental Health 2023;36(2):149-155
ObjectiveTo investigate the measurement invariance and the score distribution characters of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and to test its feasibility in comparing depression among adolescents of different sexes and ages. MethodsFrom September 2018 to May 2019, 12 241 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years old across 22 primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou were included based on cluster sampling method, and they were investigated by PHQ-9. The measurement invariance was tested by multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. Poisson regression analysis and Logistic regression analysis were adopted to explore the score distribution of PHQ-9 by sex and age. ResultsThe configural, metric, scalar and strict invariances (χ2=2 492.527, df=79, P<0.01, RMSEA=0.071, SRMR=0.031, CFI=0.942, TLI=0.947, ΔCFI=0.004, ΔTLI=0.002 compared with the scalar model) of PHQ-9 across sex were all acceptable, and the configural, metric and scalar invariances (χ2=3 311.991, df=414, P<0.01, RMSEA=0.076, SRMR=0.055, CFI=0.928, TLI=0.937, ΔCFI=0.010, ΔTLI=0.002 compared with the metric model) across age were acceptable. The detection rate of mild depressive symptoms in girls was higher than that in boys (52.99% vs. 46.65%, χ2=48.344, P<0.01). The PHQ-9 total scores of girls aged 13 to 17 were higher than those of boys (D=0.092~0.144, P<0.01). There was an interaction between sex and age (χ2=32.800, df=1, P<0.01, OR=0.895). Except low self-evaluation and suicide or self-injury, the detection rate of assessed symptom on each item of girls was higher than that of boys (P<0.05). ConclusionIt is discovered that PHQ-9 has measurement equivalence across sex and age in adolescents, and girls and older adolescents scored higher in PHQ-9.
9.Clinical study on structural chest zones of gynecomastia
Lingfeng CHEN ; Baojin WU ; Sida PAN ; Zhaoping ZHOU ; Xinjie TANG ; Ronghu KE
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2020;36(12):1355-1359
Objective:To discuss the clinical significance of structural chest zones for gynecomastia.Methods:A total of 687 gynecomastia patients, aged from 14 to 45 years old, with an average age of 27.0, were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University from January 2012 to December 2018. Simon classification was used to record. Conduct Simon classification according to the preoperative measurement of the chest. Surgical area design, photo analysis, breast ultrasound examination and Derriford appearance scale evaluation were conducted as well. Six zones can be divided as follows: zone 0 nipple-areola zone, zone 1 gynecomastia zone, zone 2 accessory-breast zone, zone 3 lateral-roll zone, zone 4 IMF(inframammary fold) zone, zone T relative-contraindication zone. Positive and lateral images of the chest were taken before and one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation, and the preoperative and postoperative changes of each structural zone were compared. At the follow-up of 12 months after the operation, patients’ satisfaction was counted.Results:687 patients, according to Simon classification, were divided toⅠ degreein 65 cases, Ⅱa degree in 257 cases, Ⅱb degreein 194 cases, Ⅲ degree in 171 cases. Before operation, except for Simon Ⅰ degree in 65 cases showed just raised to 0 zone, most of the rest of the patients contains 1 zone raised, 2-4 zones come in different patients. After liposuction and glandular stripping were performed in different zones, postoperative follow-up was conducted one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation. The dynamic observation was made of the change process of chest shape shaping during the follow-up, whether there were postoperative complications, poor local shape, or bad regional shape. Evaluation results of patient satisfaction 12 months after surgery: among the 687 patients, there were 634 patients with 10 points of satisfaction, and 53 patients with 8-9 points, including 48 patients of zone 0 and zone 1, three patients of zone 3, and 2 patients of zone 4.Conclusions:The structural chest zones of gynecomastia provides plastic surgeons and male patients with simple, intuitive, and highly recognized preoperative evaluation, which can provide appropriate, simplified, and accurate guidance for the selection of surgical methods.
10.Clinical study on structural chest zones of gynecomastia
Lingfeng CHEN ; Baojin WU ; Sida PAN ; Zhaoping ZHOU ; Xinjie TANG ; Ronghu KE
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2020;36(12):1355-1359
Objective:To discuss the clinical significance of structural chest zones for gynecomastia.Methods:A total of 687 gynecomastia patients, aged from 14 to 45 years old, with an average age of 27.0, were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University from January 2012 to December 2018. Simon classification was used to record. Conduct Simon classification according to the preoperative measurement of the chest. Surgical area design, photo analysis, breast ultrasound examination and Derriford appearance scale evaluation were conducted as well. Six zones can be divided as follows: zone 0 nipple-areola zone, zone 1 gynecomastia zone, zone 2 accessory-breast zone, zone 3 lateral-roll zone, zone 4 IMF(inframammary fold) zone, zone T relative-contraindication zone. Positive and lateral images of the chest were taken before and one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation, and the preoperative and postoperative changes of each structural zone were compared. At the follow-up of 12 months after the operation, patients’ satisfaction was counted.Results:687 patients, according to Simon classification, were divided toⅠ degreein 65 cases, Ⅱa degree in 257 cases, Ⅱb degreein 194 cases, Ⅲ degree in 171 cases. Before operation, except for Simon Ⅰ degree in 65 cases showed just raised to 0 zone, most of the rest of the patients contains 1 zone raised, 2-4 zones come in different patients. After liposuction and glandular stripping were performed in different zones, postoperative follow-up was conducted one week, one month, three months, six months, and 12 months after the operation. The dynamic observation was made of the change process of chest shape shaping during the follow-up, whether there were postoperative complications, poor local shape, or bad regional shape. Evaluation results of patient satisfaction 12 months after surgery: among the 687 patients, there were 634 patients with 10 points of satisfaction, and 53 patients with 8-9 points, including 48 patients of zone 0 and zone 1, three patients of zone 3, and 2 patients of zone 4.Conclusions:The structural chest zones of gynecomastia provides plastic surgeons and male patients with simple, intuitive, and highly recognized preoperative evaluation, which can provide appropriate, simplified, and accurate guidance for the selection of surgical methods.

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