1.Mechanisms of Intestinal Microecology in Hyperuricemia and Traditional Chinese Medicine Intervention:A Review
Mingyuan FAN ; Jiuzhu YUAN ; Hongyan XIE ; Sai ZHANG ; Qiyuan YAO ; Luqi HE ; Qingqing FU ; Hong GAO
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(5):329-338
In recent years, hyperuricemia (HUA) has shown a rapidly increasing incidence and tends to occur in increasingly young people, with a wide range of cardiac, renal, joint, and cancerous hazards and all-cause mortality associations. Western medicine treatment has limitations such as large liver and kidney damage, medication restriction, and easy recurrence. The intestine is the major extra-renal excretion pathway for uric acid (UA), and the intestinal microecology can be regulated to promote UA degradation. It offers great potential to develop UA-lowering strategies that target the intestinal microecology, which are promising to provide safer and more effective therapeutic approaches. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can treat HUA via multiple targets and multiple pathways from a holistic view, with low toxicity and side effects. Studies have shown that intestinal microecology is a crucial target for TCM in the treatment of HUA. However, its specific mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated. Focusing on the key role of intestinal microecology in HUA, this review explores the relationship between intestinal microecology and HUA in terms of intestinal flora, intestinal metabolites, intestinal UA transporters, and intestinal barriers. Furthermore, we summarize the research progress in TCM treatment of HUA by targeting the intestinal microecology, with the aim of providing references for the development of TCM intervention strategies for HUA and the direction of future research.
2.Effects of a health management model based on the integrated theory of health behavior change on body mass index, blood lipids, quality of life, and self-management ability in elderly community-dwelling patients with chronic coronary syndrome
Mingyuan FU ; Xinying LIU ; Xiaoyi YU ; Caiying GE ; Min KONG
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2025;24(12):1496-1502
Objective:To evaluate the effect of a health management model based on the Integrated Theory of Health Behavior Change (ITHBC) on body mass index (BMI), blood lipids, quality of life, and self-management ability in elderly community-dwelling patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS).Methods:This randomized controlled trial enrolled elderly CCS patients attending the general outpatient clinic at Fangzhuang Community Health Service Center of Fengtai District, Beijing, between March 2023 and May 2024. Participants were randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. The control group received routine care, while the intervention group received ITHBC-based health management for 12 months. Primary endpoints included BMI, blood lipid profiles (total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)), quality of life (assessed across 5 domains: disease perception, physical limitation, angina stability, angina frequency, and treatment satisfaction), and patient self-management ability (assessed across 7 domains: symptom management, harmful habit management, emergency management, disease knowledge management, daily life management, treatment adherence management, and emotional cognition management).Results:A total of 140 patients were enrolled, with the age of 71.0(67.0, 75.0) years; 85 (60.71%) were male. Seventy patients were assigned to each group. At the 12-month follow-up, levels of TC, TG, and LDL-C in the intervention group were significantly lower than those in the control group (all P<0.05). No statistically significant differences were observed in BMI or HDL-C levels between the two groups (all P>0.05). Regarding quality of life, the intervention group had a significantly lower score in the disease perception domain than the control group ( P=0.007). No significant intergroup differences were found in the scores for physical limitation, angina stability, angina frequency, or treatment satisfaction (all P>0.05). For self-management ability, the symptom management score was significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group ( P=0.030). No significant differences were observed between the groups in the remaining self-management domains (all P>0.05). Conclusions:The ITHBC-based health management model can improve blood lipid management in elderly community-dwelling CCS patients, with superior effects compared to routine care, although it doesn′t significantly improve BMI. The model also shows potential to improve patients′ quality of life and self-management ability; however, its effects in these areas are not significantly superior to those of routine care.
3.Effects of a health management model based on the integrated theory of health behavior change on body mass index, blood lipids, quality of life, and self-management ability in elderly community-dwelling patients with chronic coronary syndrome
Mingyuan FU ; Xinying LIU ; Xiaoyi YU ; Caiying GE ; Min KONG
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2025;24(12):1496-1502
Objective:To evaluate the effect of a health management model based on the Integrated Theory of Health Behavior Change (ITHBC) on body mass index (BMI), blood lipids, quality of life, and self-management ability in elderly community-dwelling patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS).Methods:This randomized controlled trial enrolled elderly CCS patients attending the general outpatient clinic at Fangzhuang Community Health Service Center of Fengtai District, Beijing, between March 2023 and May 2024. Participants were randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. The control group received routine care, while the intervention group received ITHBC-based health management for 12 months. Primary endpoints included BMI, blood lipid profiles (total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)), quality of life (assessed across 5 domains: disease perception, physical limitation, angina stability, angina frequency, and treatment satisfaction), and patient self-management ability (assessed across 7 domains: symptom management, harmful habit management, emergency management, disease knowledge management, daily life management, treatment adherence management, and emotional cognition management).Results:A total of 140 patients were enrolled, with the age of 71.0(67.0, 75.0) years; 85 (60.71%) were male. Seventy patients were assigned to each group. At the 12-month follow-up, levels of TC, TG, and LDL-C in the intervention group were significantly lower than those in the control group (all P<0.05). No statistically significant differences were observed in BMI or HDL-C levels between the two groups (all P>0.05). Regarding quality of life, the intervention group had a significantly lower score in the disease perception domain than the control group ( P=0.007). No significant intergroup differences were found in the scores for physical limitation, angina stability, angina frequency, or treatment satisfaction (all P>0.05). For self-management ability, the symptom management score was significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group ( P=0.030). No significant differences were observed between the groups in the remaining self-management domains (all P>0.05). Conclusions:The ITHBC-based health management model can improve blood lipid management in elderly community-dwelling CCS patients, with superior effects compared to routine care, although it doesn′t significantly improve BMI. The model also shows potential to improve patients′ quality of life and self-management ability; however, its effects in these areas are not significantly superior to those of routine care.
4.Exploring the effect and mechanism of α-Linolenic acid on neuroin-flammation based on network pharmacology and in vitro experi-ments
Tao ZHANG ; Ruowei WANG ; Jialin FU ; Yue GAO ; Mingyuan HU ; Zhengmei FANG ; Yan CHEN ; Yingshui YAO
Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2024;29(10):1110-1119
AIM:To explore the core target and mechanism of α-Linolenic acid(ALA)in improving neuroinflammation through network pharmacology combined with in vitro experiments.METHODS:Pharmacological studies have shown that ALA has anti-inflammatory,antioxidant,and neuroprotec-tive properties.The targets of α-Linolenic acid were obtained from PharmMapper and Swiss Tar-get Prediction databases,the targets of neuroin-flammation were searched from GeneCards,TTD and OMIM databases,and the potential targets of ALA and neuroinflammation were obtained from Wayne diagram.Protein interaction network(pro-tein-protein interaction,PPI)of potential targets was constructed by STRING website,and the core targets in PPI were screened by Cytoscape 3.8.0 software.At the same time,potential targets are imported into DAVID database,GO and KEGG data were obtained and the results were visualized.Autodock vina and Pymol software were used to dock the selected core targets with ALA and visual-ize the results.An in vitro model of neuroinflamma-tion was constructed,and cell growth status,oxida-tive stress,and migration or repairing capacity were determined by CCK-8 analysis,SOD,MDA and cell scratches,and the expression of IL-6,iba 1,COX-2(PTGS2),and iNOS proteins was determined by ELISA or Western blot experiments.RESULTS:Network pharmacology analysis revealed 46 poten-tial targets of ALA for neuroinflammation,and 10 core targets,including IL-6 and PTGS 2.With 232 entries enriched by GO enrichment analysis and 70 signaling pathways enriched by KEGG enrichment analysis,molecular docking showed that ALA can form hydrogen bonding with COX-2.Experiments showed that ALA could improve cell viability,allevi-ate cell oxidative stress levels,and promote cell mi-gration and motor repair in an in vitro model of neuroinflammation.CONCLUSIONS:ALA may im-prove neuroinflammation by alleviating oxidative stress and inhibiting IL-6 and COX-2 protein expres-sion.
5. Influence of traditional Chinese medicine culture on the humanistic quality of students in colleges or universities of traditional Chinese medicine
Hewei LI ; Mingyuan JIAO ; Qifan WANG ; Yu FU ; Congyue WANG ; Peng XIAO
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2019;18(12):1275-1279
As the reserve force of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), students in TCM colleges or universities play an important role in promoting the development of TCM. However, these students have disadvantages in humanistic quality, such as the lack of humanistic knowledge, awareness of the fear of life, and the inadequacy of professional morality, which may affect their future job performance. In view of the present situation of the humanistic quality of students in TCM colleges or universities, we analyzed the factors affecting their humanistic quality and proposed to build a platform to exchange TCM culture, enrich teachers' knowledge of TCM culture and cultivate the professional ethics of students in TCM colleges or universities, in combination with the core values of TCM culture such as profoundness, reality, benevolence, effectiveness, so as to improve students' overall humanistic quality.
6.Cloning and Sequence Analysis of a Novel Stage-Specific cDNA from Adult Trichinella spiralis
Baoquan FU ; Feng WANG ; Xiuping WU ; Tingxian NIU ; Qiang LU ; Mingyuan LIU ; Boireau PASCAL
Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases 1987;0(03):-
Objective To clone a stage-specific novel cDNA from 5 day-old adult worm (ADS) of Trichinella spiralis. Methods The cDNA library of AD5 was screened by an AD5 stage-specific cDNA probe labeled with digoxigenin (DIG). The positive clones were sequenced and analysed. Results The positive clone contained a cDNA insert of 1 132 bp in length with a full length open reading frame (ORF) of 1 032 bp. The cDNA encoded a polypeptide of 343 amino acid residues(aa) with a molecular weight of 35.1 kDa and an isoelectric point (IP) of 4.8. InterProScan analysis showed that the 117 - 120 aa (SGYG) was a glycosaminoglycan attachment site, 27- 86 aa was nematode cuticle collagen N-terminal domain and 153-228 aa was collagen repeat (G-x-y) domain. Signal PV2.0 analysis indicated that the region of 1-43 aa was a singal peptide. Blastn homology analysis in Genbank revealed that the cDNA had no obvious homology to any other known gene sequence. Blastp analysis revealed high homology to cuticle collagen with identities more than 40 % . Conclusion A novel ADS stage-specific cDNA encoding a full length ORF was cloned and sequence analysis showed this gene encoded cuticle collagen of Trichinella spiralis.
7.Detection of Anti-Trichinella spiralis Antibody by Indirect ELISA Using Recombinant Protein as Antigen
Tingxian NIU ; Feifei PAN ; Mingyuan LIU ; Qiang LU ; Baoquan FU ; Boireau PASCAL
Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases 1987;0(03):-
Objective To study the specificity, sensitivity of diagnostic antigen for Trichinella spiralis(T. s). Methods T668 recombinant protein from highly efficient expression of newborn larvae stage-specific gene of T. s in E. coli as diagnostic antigen. By using negative and positive sera from rabbit, pig, human as the first antibody, and goat-anti-rabbit IgG, goat-anti-pig IgG, goat-anti-human IgG labeled with HRP as the secondary antibody, indirect ELISA method was established for detecting anti-T.s antibody, while excretory-secretory (ES) antigen of T.s muscle larvae was used as control. Results Sera from rabbit, pig and human were detected by T668 recombinant protein as antigen, which showed a positive rate of 100% with 0.016 ?g/well. There was no difference on the results between the T668 recombinant antigen and the ES antigen for diagnosing T. s-infection. Conclusion The T668 recombinant antigen is promising in substituting ES antigen in the detection of anti-T. s antibody.

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