1.From "Treating Different Diseases in the Same Way" to "Treating the Disease with Same Mechanism in the Same Way":Life Network Mechanisms and Systems Medicine Interpretation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Holism
Huanhuan LIU ; Shuxin DONG ; Junlong SHEN ; Jie LI
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2026;67(13):1359-1364
Under the background of the medical model shifting from biomedicine to systems medicine, the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) concept of "treating different diseases in the same way" demonstrates unique scientific value. From the perspective of systems biology, this study proposes that "treating different diseases in the same way" is essentially "treating the disease with same mechanism in the same way"; that is, different diseases share common pathological links at levels such as neuro-endocrine-immune network homeostasis, inflammatory signaling pathways, or gut microecology. Through the application of the "same formulas" and "same medicinals", TCM intervenes in these shared network nodes. On this basis, the modern medical value of the "treating different diseases in the same way" concept is elucidated from three dimensions including "network causality" in epistemology, "systemic modulation" in methodology, and "comorbidity management" in practice. It reveals that as a life network regulation concept based on holism, "treating different diseases in the same way" provides novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for complex chronic diseases and multimorbidity.
2.Research on the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge System Based on the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2026;67(14):1469-1473
Based on the punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) in paleontology, an analytical framework is constructed to systematically elucidate the intrinsic evolution patterns and underlying dynamic mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) knowledge system. It further develops a dual-wheel driven model of inheritance and innovation, consisting of three parts, the wheel of inheritance, the axis of innovation, and the environmental field. As a typical complex adaptive system (CAS), TCM's equilibrium phase is jointly sustained by multiple stabilizing mechanisms, including scholarly annotation, state authority, cultural orthodoxy, and the apprenticeship system, which ensures the resilient inheritance of core knowledge. Its brief disruptive phase is triggered by critical internal and external junctures such as technological revolutions, ideological liberations, and policy transformations, propelling adaptive innovation within the TCM knowledge system. Inheritance and innovation form a dual-wheel drive dialectical unity, jointly advancing the spiral evolution of TCM knowledge system through cycles of "equilibrium-punctuated disruption-re-equilibrium", and offering insights for the contemporary inheritance and innovative development of TCM knowledge system.
3.Research on the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge System Based on the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2026;67(14):1469-1473
Based on the punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) in paleontology, an analytical framework is constructed to systematically elucidate the intrinsic evolution patterns and underlying dynamic mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) knowledge system. It further develops a dual-wheel driven model of inheritance and innovation, consisting of three parts, the wheel of inheritance, the axis of innovation, and the environmental field. As a typical complex adaptive system (CAS), TCM's equilibrium phase is jointly sustained by multiple stabilizing mechanisms, including scholarly annotation, state authority, cultural orthodoxy, and the apprenticeship system, which ensures the resilient inheritance of core knowledge. Its brief disruptive phase is triggered by critical internal and external junctures such as technological revolutions, ideological liberations, and policy transformations, propelling adaptive innovation within the TCM knowledge system. Inheritance and innovation form a dual-wheel drive dialectical unity, jointly advancing the spiral evolution of TCM knowledge system through cycles of "equilibrium-punctuated disruption-re-equilibrium", and offering insights for the contemporary inheritance and innovative development of TCM knowledge system.
4.Research on the Mental Model of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its Reshaping Strategies Under the Theoretical Paradigm of The Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor (《黄帝内经》)
Yaoyao HUANG ; Jie LI ; Junlong SHEN
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;66(7):663-668
The Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor (《黄帝内经》) constructs its theoretical system under the influence of the holistic, symbolic, and holographic mental models of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It lays the theoretical foundation of TCM and provides a paradigm for TCM theory construction, serving as an original academic gene and theoretical source for the inheritance and innovation of modern TCM. Based on the theoretical paradigms derived from The Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor, the holistic mental model, the symbolic mental model, and the holographic mental model in shaping nature-human medicine theory, imagery-based theory, and fractal theory, this study revealed that TCM theory relies on the cognitive framework of traditional cultural mental models. On this basis, we proposed that the modern TCM mental model should return to its roots while fostering innovation, integrating tradition with modernity by combining macroscopic with microscopic perspectives, scientific with humanistic cognition, as well as evidence-based research with digital and artificial intelligence technologies. Furthermore, with a future-oriented approach, this paper discussed on the strategies for reshaping the modern TCM mental model from three dimensions of TCM diagnosis and treatment, TCM education, and TCM research, which could not only preserve the traditional clinical thinking characteristics of TCM, but also innovate modern TCM practice.
5.Discussion on the Quantitative Evaluation of the Inheritance and Innovation Level of Modern TCM Academic Achievements Empowered by Digital Intelligence
Journal of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;41(9):1240-1250
The traditional evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)academic achievements mostly relies on superficial da-ta such as citation measurement,which cannot fully reveal the inheritance and innovation level of TCM academic achievements,cultur-al thoughts and the deep value of overall medical science.Therefore,this paper explores a new evaluation model of TCM academic a-chievements based on digital intelligence technology,broadens the vision of TCM academic achievement evaluation,and through multi-source data fusion and text semantic analysis,from the dimension of"knowledge element",finely evaluates TCM academic thoughts,improves the scientific nature of TCM academic achievement evaluation,better reveals the inheritance context and innovation of TCM academic achievements,enables TCM academic achievements to better guide the high-quality development of TCM health service in-dustry,and enhances its competitiveness in Chinese-style health medicine under globalization.
6.MiR-362-3p regulates the proliferation,migration and invasion of esophageal cancer cells by targeting dual specificity phosphatase 10
Yong JIA ; Junlong SHEN ; Chao FAN ; Junqi WANG
Journal of Clinical Surgery 2025;33(3):256-260
Objective To investigate the effects of miR-362-3p on the proliferation,migration and invasion of esophageal cancer EC9706 cells and its molecular mechanism.Methods The cancerous tissues and adjacent tissues of 30 patients with esophageal cancer from January 2018 to January 2020 were selected,and human normal esophageal epithelial cells HET-1 A and esophageal cancer cells EC9706,TE10,KYSE-140,KYSE-150 were cultured in vitro.Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR(RT-qPCR)was used to detect the expression levels of miR-362-3p and dual specificity phosphatase 10(DUSP10)mRNA in tissues and cells.EC9706 cells were divided into NC group(normally cultured),miR-NC group(transfected miR-362-3p mimic NC)and miR-362-3p group(transfected miR-362-3p mimic),si-NC group(transfected with DUSP10 siRNA NC),si-DUSP10 group(transfected with DUSP10 siRNA),miR-362-3p+pcDNA group(co-transfected with miR-362-3p mimic and pcDNA3.1-DUSP10 NC)and miR-362-3p+pcDNA-DUSP10 group(co-transfected with miR-362-3p mimic and pcDNA3.1-DUSP10).The expression levels of miR-362-3p and DUSP10 mRNA in each group were detected by RT-qPCR.Cell proliferation activity was detected by MTT assay.Cell migration and invasion were detected by Transwell assay.The expressions of DUSP10,CyclinD1,p21,matrix metalloproteinase(MMP)-2 and MMP-9 were detected by Western blot.Dual luciferase reporter gene assay was used to detect the targeting relationship between miR-362-3p and DUSP10.Results The expression of miR-362-3p was high and DUSP10 was low in esophageal cancer tissues and cells.Overexpression of miR-362-3p or knockdown of DUSP10 expression significantly reduced the activity,migration and invasion number and the expression of CyclinD1,MMP-2 and MMP-9,and significantly increased the expression of p21 in EC9706 cells(P<0.05).miR-362-3p targeted the expression of DUSP10(P<0.05).And up-regulation of DUSP10 expression partially reversed the effects of overexpression of miR-362-3p on the proliferation,migration and invasion of EC9706 cells(P<0.05).Conclusion miR-362-3p can inhibit the proliferation,migration and invasion of EC9706 cells by down-regulating the expression of DUSP10.
7.Discussion on the Quantitative Evaluation of the Inheritance and Innovation Level of Modern TCM Academic Achievements Empowered by Digital Intelligence
Journal of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;41(9):1240-1250
The traditional evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)academic achievements mostly relies on superficial da-ta such as citation measurement,which cannot fully reveal the inheritance and innovation level of TCM academic achievements,cultur-al thoughts and the deep value of overall medical science.Therefore,this paper explores a new evaluation model of TCM academic a-chievements based on digital intelligence technology,broadens the vision of TCM academic achievement evaluation,and through multi-source data fusion and text semantic analysis,from the dimension of"knowledge element",finely evaluates TCM academic thoughts,improves the scientific nature of TCM academic achievement evaluation,better reveals the inheritance context and innovation of TCM academic achievements,enables TCM academic achievements to better guide the high-quality development of TCM health service in-dustry,and enhances its competitiveness in Chinese-style health medicine under globalization.
8.MiR-362-3p regulates the proliferation,migration and invasion of esophageal cancer cells by targeting dual specificity phosphatase 10
Yong JIA ; Junlong SHEN ; Chao FAN ; Junqi WANG
Journal of Clinical Surgery 2025;33(3):256-260
Objective To investigate the effects of miR-362-3p on the proliferation,migration and invasion of esophageal cancer EC9706 cells and its molecular mechanism.Methods The cancerous tissues and adjacent tissues of 30 patients with esophageal cancer from January 2018 to January 2020 were selected,and human normal esophageal epithelial cells HET-1 A and esophageal cancer cells EC9706,TE10,KYSE-140,KYSE-150 were cultured in vitro.Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR(RT-qPCR)was used to detect the expression levels of miR-362-3p and dual specificity phosphatase 10(DUSP10)mRNA in tissues and cells.EC9706 cells were divided into NC group(normally cultured),miR-NC group(transfected miR-362-3p mimic NC)and miR-362-3p group(transfected miR-362-3p mimic),si-NC group(transfected with DUSP10 siRNA NC),si-DUSP10 group(transfected with DUSP10 siRNA),miR-362-3p+pcDNA group(co-transfected with miR-362-3p mimic and pcDNA3.1-DUSP10 NC)and miR-362-3p+pcDNA-DUSP10 group(co-transfected with miR-362-3p mimic and pcDNA3.1-DUSP10).The expression levels of miR-362-3p and DUSP10 mRNA in each group were detected by RT-qPCR.Cell proliferation activity was detected by MTT assay.Cell migration and invasion were detected by Transwell assay.The expressions of DUSP10,CyclinD1,p21,matrix metalloproteinase(MMP)-2 and MMP-9 were detected by Western blot.Dual luciferase reporter gene assay was used to detect the targeting relationship between miR-362-3p and DUSP10.Results The expression of miR-362-3p was high and DUSP10 was low in esophageal cancer tissues and cells.Overexpression of miR-362-3p or knockdown of DUSP10 expression significantly reduced the activity,migration and invasion number and the expression of CyclinD1,MMP-2 and MMP-9,and significantly increased the expression of p21 in EC9706 cells(P<0.05).miR-362-3p targeted the expression of DUSP10(P<0.05).And up-regulation of DUSP10 expression partially reversed the effects of overexpression of miR-362-3p on the proliferation,migration and invasion of EC9706 cells(P<0.05).Conclusion miR-362-3p can inhibit the proliferation,migration and invasion of EC9706 cells by down-regulating the expression of DUSP10.
9.Exploring the Cultural Origins and Developmental Patterns of Academic Schools in Traditional Chinese Medicine from a Constructivist Perspective
Xin LIN ; Zhaojuan WANG ; Jie LI ; Junlong SHEN
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(8):769-774
Using constructivism theory, this study explored the relationship between the "origin" and "flow" of academic schools in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), clarified the developmental patterns of schools, and provided insights for the modernization, inheritance, and innovation of current schools. Academic schools originate from different cultural sources, and their differentiation and development are similar to the replication, spread and variation of biological "genes". The theoretical characteristics of constructivism align well with the principles of formation and differentiation of academic schools. The construction of academic thoughts and core diagnostic and therapeutic concepts within each school can be seen as a multilevel unity of self-construction, mutual construction among individuals, and social construction. Firstly, individual medical practitioners choose and inherit from the origins of TCM, integrating personalized understanding, which then differentiates into various schools in the history of academia. Secondly, during the process of cultural inheritance, medical practitioners from different times and regions gradually form academic schools and local medical schools through the method of "tailoring strategies to three categories of etiological factors" and mutual construction among individuals. Finally, in the context of the scientific, standardized, and intelligent development of modern medicine, the further evolution of academic schools needs to follow the evolutionary laws of traditional medicine, combine with the health needs of the new era, adopt a social construction approach, facilitate multi-party participation in the inheritance and innovation of academic thoughts and clinical experiences, and utilize the internet and intelligent technology means to empower modern development.
10.Analysis of disease characteristics and hospitalization burden of elderly patients with cerebrovascular disease based on home page of medical records
Haibo ZHANG ; Jiadong XIE ; Jiayi HE ; Si LI ; Lei ZHANG ; Yan CHEN ; Junlong SHEN ; Yufeng ZHAO ; Jun ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2023;42(5):519-524
Objective:To analyze the disease characteristics and hospitalization burden of elderly inpatients with cerebrovascular disease, so as to provide basis for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of elderly patients with multiple chronic conditions.Methods:The data of the first page of medical records of elderly inpatients with cerebrovascular disease from 2015 to 2020 in a comprehensive tertiary hospital in Jiangsu Province were retrospectively collected.Descriptive analysis, variance analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were carried out for the research objects using SPSS statistics and Python complex network methods.Results:A total of 14 657 elderly inpatients with cerebrovascular disease were included.From 2015 to 2020, the number of hospitalizations increased from 1 268 to 4 733, the average number of hospitalizations increased from 2.0 to 2.9, the average length of stay decreased from 11.9 days to 9.1 days, and the average number of illnesses increased from 1.9 to 4.9.The five most common comorbidities associated with cerebrovascular diseases were hypertension, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, other types of heart disease and other respiratory diseases.From 2015 to 2020, the average hospitalization costs of elderly cerebrovascular inpatients decreased from 20588.1 Chinese yuan(CYN)to 15580.9 Chinese yuan(CYN). The hospitalization cost was mainly composed of drug cost(46.6%), diagnosis cost(28.2%)and treatment cost(20.2%). There were significant differences in the average hospitalization expenses among patients with different gender, age, number of admissions, length of stay and number of diseases( P<0.05 for all). Gender, age, number of hospitalizations and length of stay had an impact on hospitalization expenses. Conclusions:The number of inpatients, comorbidities, and hospitalized times of elderly patients with cerebrovascular disease showed an increasing trend, while the number of hospitalization days and the average hospitalization cost showed a downward trend.Comorbidities associated with cerebrovascular diseases should be one of the concerns of chronic disease management in the elderly.

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