Laboratory animal practitioners refer to various personnel engaged in work related to laboratory animals or animal experiments. Their development not only affects the occupational health and safety of practitioners but also directly impacts the development level of laboratory animal science and the accuracy of animal experiment results. This article reviews the training requirements for laboratory animal practitioners stipulated by national standards, regulations, normative documents, and management policies in Sichuan Province. It analyzes the scale and training status of laboratory animal practitioners in Sichuan Province, compiles statistics on the changes in the scale of laboratory animal practitioners in Sichuan Province from 2015 to 2024, and examines the number of practitioners in four categories (scientific researchers, management personnel, animal keepers, and other personnel) and three different educational levels (postgraduate degree, bachelor's degree, and below bachelor's degree). It summarizes the possible reasons for the changes in personnel structure from 2015 to 2024, namely the continuous refinement of the division of labor in laboratory animal-related work and the continuous development of disciplines such as life sciences, medicine, and pharmacy. The article analyzes the current training status of laboratory animal practitioners in Sichuan Province from three aspects, including training organizations, the training system, and training methods for laboratory animal practitioners in Sichuan Province. It provides a detailed analysis of the series of training sessions on laboratory animal-related topics organized by the Office of the Laboratory Animal Management Committee of Sichuan Province and the Sichuan Laboratory Animal Society since 2019. It concludes that there are advantages such as an increasing proportion of highly educated personnel and a relatively well-established training system, and discusses issues such as inadequate top-level design and insufficient attention from some units. Finally, it proposes corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, including strengthening the assessment of practitioner training, formulating training plans for laboratory animal practitioners, and compiling specialized training materials. This article can provide a reference for the development and training of laboratory animal practitioners.

The zebrafish model has attracted much attention due to its strong reproductive ability, short research cycle, and ease of maintenance. It has always been an important vertebrate model system, often used to carry out human disease research. Its motor behavior features have the advantages of being simpler, more intuitive, and quantifiable. In recent years, it has received widespread attention in the study of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)for the treatment of sleep disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, fatigue, epilepsy, and other diseases. This paper reviews the characteristics of zebrafish motor behavior and its applications in the pharmacodynamic verification and mechanism research of TCM extracts, active ingredients, and TCM compounds, as well as in active ingredient screening and safety evaluation. The paper also analyzes its advantages and disadvantages, with the aim of improving the breadth and depth of zebrafish and its motor behavior applications in the field of TCM research.
Zebrafish/physiology* ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use* ; Disease Models, Animal ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods* ; Animals ; Sleep Wake Disorders/physiopathology* ; Epilepsy/physiopathology* ; Neurodegenerative Diseases/physiopathology* ; Fatigue/physiopathology* ; Behavior, Animal/physiology* ; Motor Activity/physiology*

To determine the optimal cultivation duration and harvest period for cultivated Notopterygium incisum and promote its industrial development, this study established a characteristic chromatographic profile of cultivated N. incisum and employed chemometrics combined with entropy-weighted grey correlation analysis to assess differences in agronomic traits and quality indicators across different cultivation years and harvest periods. By comparing with reference substances, ten common peaks were identified, including chlorogenic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, marmesinin, nodakenin, isochlorogenic acid B, notopterol, phenethyl ferulate, isoimperatorin, and falcarindiol. The similarity between the characteristic chromatographic profiles of N. incisum at different cultivation years and the reference profile was all above 0.932. Principal component analysis(PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis(OPLS-DA) revealed that the quality of 1-to 3-year-old cultivated N. incisum was highly dispersed and unstable, whereas the quality of 4-year-old cultivated N. incisum remained relatively stable across different harvest periods. This suggests that the accumulation of relevant compounds in the medicinal material had reached a plateau, confirming that the optimal cultivation period for N. incisum is four years. Entropy-weighted grey correlation analysis indicated that the quality of 4-year-old cultivated N. incisum across different harvest periods ranked from highest to lowest as follows: November, December, October, August, July, and September, demonstrating that November is the optimal harvest time. The findings of this study establish the suitable cultivation duration and optimal harvest period for N. incisum, providing a scientific basis for cultivation guidance and quality standardization.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods* ; Apiaceae/chemistry* ; Entropy ; Chemometrics/methods* ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal/chemistry* ; Principal Component Analysis ; Quality Control

OBJECTIVE: Burning solid cooking fuel contributes to household air pollution and is associated with frailty. However, how solid cooking fuel use contributes to the development of frailty has not been well illustrated. METHODS: This study recruited 8,947 participants aged ≥ 45 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, 2011-2018. Group-based trajectory modeling was employed to identify frailty trajectories. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the association between solid cooking fuel use and frailty trajectories. Population-attributable fractions were used to estimate the frailty burden from solid fuel use. RESULTS: We identified three frailty trajectories: low-stable ( n = 5,789), moderate-increasing ( n = 2,603), and fast-increasing ( n = 555). Solid fuel use was associated with higher odds of being in the moderate-increasing ( OR: 1.24, 95% CI: 1.08-1.42) and fast-increasing ( OR: 1.48, 95% CI: 1.14-1.92) trajectories. These associations were strengthened by longer solid fuel use ( P for trend < 0.001). Switching to clean fuel significantly reduced the risk of being in these trajectories compared with persistent solid fuel users. Without solid fuel, 8% of moderate- and 19% of fast-increasing trajectories demonstrated frailty development like the low-stable group. CONCLUSION Solid cooking fuel use is associated with frailty trajectories in middle-aged and older Chinese populations.
Humans ; China/epidemiology* ; Cooking ; Male ; Female ; Middle Aged ; Aged ; Air Pollution, Indoor/adverse effects* ; Frailty/etiology* ; Longitudinal Studies ; Cohort Studies

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the interplay between the life-course body mass index (BMI) trajectories and insulin resistance (IR) on incident diabetes. METHODS: This longitudinal cohort included 2,336 participants who had BMI repeatedly measured 3-8 times between 1989 and 2009, as well as glucose and insulin measured in 2009. BMI trajectories were identified using a latent class growth mixed model. The interplay between BMI trajectories and IR on diabetes was explored using the four-way effect decomposition method. Logistic regression and mediation models were used to estimate the interaction and mediation effects, respectively. RESULTS: Three distinct BMI trajectory groups were identified: low-stable ( n = 1,625), medium-increasing ( n = 613), and high-increasing ( n = 98). Both interaction and mediation effects of BMI trajectories and IR on incident diabetes were significant ( P < 0.05). The proportion of incident diabetes was higher in the IR-obesity than in the insulin-sensitivity (IS) obesity group (18.9% vs. 5.8%, P < 0.001). After adjusting for covariates, the odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) of the IR, IS-obesity, and IR-obesity groups vs. the normal group were 3.22 (2.05, 5.16), 2.05 (1.00, 3.97), and 7.98 (5.19, 12.62), respectively. IR mediated 10.7% of the total effect of BMI trajectories on incident diabetes ( P < 0.001). CONCLUSION We found strong interactions and weak mediation effects of IR on the relationship between life-course BMI trajectories and incident diabetes. IS-obesity is associated with a lower risk of incident diabetes than IR-obesity.
Humans ; Insulin Resistance ; Body Mass Index ; Male ; Female ; Middle Aged ; China/epidemiology* ; Adult ; Longitudinal Studies ; Incidence ; Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology* ; Aged ; Obesity/epidemiology* ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology* ; East Asian People

Objective:To study the effect of angiopoietin-1(Ang-1)and tyrosine kinase receptor 2(Tie2)inhibitor on glucose transportation in the human umbilical vein endothelial cells(HUVECs)cultured under high glucose conditions,and to clarify its mechanism.Methods:The HUVECs were cultured in high glucose(30 mmol·L?1)in vitro and treated with 0,200,500,1 000,and 2 000 μg·L?1 Ang-1 and 0,2 500,5 000,and 7 500 nmol·L?1 Tie2 inhibitor;cell counting kit-8(CCK-8)method was used to detect the cell activity to screen the optimal concentrations of Ang-1 and Tie2 inhibitor.Glucose kit was used to detect the glucose level in the supernatant of the HUVECs after Ang-1 intervention.The HUVECs were randomly divided into blank control group(NG group),high glucose group(HG group),HG+Tie2 inhibitor group(HG+In-Tie2 group),HG+Ang-1 group,HG+Ang-1+Tie2 inhibitor group(HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group),and HG+Ang-1+phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase(PI3K)inhibitor group(HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group).5-Ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine(EdU)method was used to detect the proliferation activities of the cells in various groups;YO-PRO-1/PI method was used to detect the apoptotic rates of the cells in various groups;real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR(RT-qPCR)method was used to detect the expression levels of Ang-1 mRNA and Tie2 mRNA in the cells in various groups;Western blotting method was used to detect the expression levels of Tie2,glucose transporter 1(GLUT1),and glucose transporter 4(GLUT4)proteins and the ratios of phosphorylated PI3K(p-PI3K)/PI3K and phosphorylated protein kinase B(p-AKT)/AKT in the cells in various groups.Results:The CCK-8 assay results showed that compared with 0 μg·L?1 Ang-1 group,the activity of the HUVECs was significantly increased after treated with 200 μg·L?1 Ang-1 for 48 h(P<0.01);compared with 0 nmol·L?1 Tie2 inhibitor group,the activity of the HUVECs was significantly decreased after treated with 2 500、5 000 and 7 500 nmol·L?1 Tie2 inhibitor(P<0.01);the optimal concentrations of Ang-1 and Tie2 inhibitor were 200 μg·L?1 and 2 500 nmol·L?1,respectively.Compared with NG group,the glucose level in the supernatant of the HUVECs in HG group was significantly increased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the glucose level in the supernatant of the HUVECs in Ang-1 group was significantly decreased(P<0.01).The EdU assay results showed that compared with NG group,the proliferation activity of the HUVECs in HG group was significantly decreased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the proliferation activity of the HUVECs in HG+In-Tie2 group was significantly decreased(P<0.01),and the proliferation activity of the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1 group was significantly increased(P<0.01);compared with HG+Ang-1 group,the proliferation activities of the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group and HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01).The YO-PRO-1/PI assay results showed that compared with NG group,the apoptotic rate of the HUVECs in HG group was significantly increased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the apoptotic rate of the HUVECs in HG+In-Tie2 group was significantly increased(P<0.01),and the apoptotic rate of the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1 group was significantly decreased(P<0.01);compared with HG+Ang-1 group,the apoptotic rates of the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group and HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group were significantly increased(P<0.01).The RT-qPCR results showed that compared with NG group,the expression levels of Ang-1 mRNA and Tie2 mRNA in the HUVECs in HG group and HG+In-Tie2 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the expression levels of Ang-1 mRNA and Tie2 mRNA in HG+In-Tie2 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01),and the expression levels of Ang-1 mRNA and Tie2 mRNA in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1 group were significantly increased(P<0.05);compared with HG+Ang-1 group,the expression levels of Ang-1 mRNA and Tie2 mRNA in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group and HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group were significantly decreased(P<0.05 or P<0.01).The Western blotting results showed that compared with NG group,the expression level of Tie2 protein in the HUVECs in HG group was significantly decreased(P<0.01),and the expression levels of GLUT1 and GLUT4 proteins were significantly increased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the expression levels of Tie2,GLUT1,and GLUT4 proteins in the HUVECs in HG+In-Tie2 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01),the expression level of Tie2 protein in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1 group was significantly increased(P<0.01),and the expression levels of GLUT1 and GLUT4 proteins were significantly decreased(P<0.01);compared with HG+Ang-1 group,the expression levels of Tie2,GLUT1,and GLUT4 proteins in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group and HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01).Compared with NG group,the p-PI3K/PI3K and p-AKT/AKT ratios in the HUVECs in HG group were significantly increased(P<0.01);compared with HG group,the p-PI3K/PI3K and p-AKT/AKT ratios in the HUVECs in HG+In-Tie2 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01),and the p-PI3K/PI3K and p-AKT/AKT ratios in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01);compared with HG+Ang-1 group,the p-PI3K/PI3K and p-AKT/AKT ratios in the HUVECs in HG+Ang-1+In-Tie2 group and HG+Ang-1+LY294002 group were significantly decreased(P<0.01).Conclusion:Ang-1 down-regulates the expressions of GLUT1 and GLUT4 in the HUVECs cultured under high glucose conditions;the binding of Ang-1 to Tie2 may down-regulate GLUT1 and GLUT4 via the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway to participate in the glucose transportation in the HUVECs cultured under high glucose conditions.

To the testing requirements of space product before its delivery to the spacecraft,it is necessary to carry out desktop tests on these products to verify whether their full performance,functions and interfaces are normal.A test system for multi-interface products is proposed to simulate the external environment,providing consistent electrical interfaces and information with the spacecraft,including power supply interfaces,telemetry data downlink,command uplink and other functions.The build test system adopts a B/S architecture with a web server as the computing center and a desktop browser for login,and uses a server operation mode with a separated interface machine,which is flexible and efficient.It is shown that the build system is simple to operate,efficient and reliable,and easy to maintain.It has been stably applied in the testing of relevant equipment on spacecraft.

Objective To investigate the mechanism by which Senegenin(SEN)alleviates microglial inflammatory response through the nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2(Nrf2)/NOD-like receptor protein 3(NLRP3)pathway.Methods BV2 mouse microglia cells were randomly divided into control group,model group,SEN group and MCC950 group.Cells in control group were not treated,and cells in model group were added with 1 μg/ml lipopolysaccharide(LPS);Cells in SEN group were added with 1 μg/ml LPS+4 μmol/L SEN,and cells in MCC950 group were added with 1 μg/ml LPS+10 μmol/L MCC950 for 24 hours.CCK-8 method was used to detect the effect of different concentrations of SEN on the viability of BV2 cells.Griess method was used to determine the release amount of nitric oxide(NO)in the supernatant.Real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR was used to determine the mRNA expression levels of NLRP3,lymphocyte apoptosis-associated spect-like protein containing a CARD(ASC),caspase-1,interleukin(IL)-1β and IL-18 mRNA.Immunofluorescence staining was used to detect the expression levels of ASC,IL-1β,Nrf2 and heme oxygenase-1(HO-1).Western blotting was used to detect the expression levels of NLRP3,caspase-1,ASC,IL-1β,IL-18,Nrf2,HO-1,nuclear factor kappa B(NF-κB)and inducible nitric oxide synthase(iNOS).Results The results of CCK-8 method showed that there was no significant difference in the viability of BV2 cells treated with 2～20 μmol/L SEN compared with control group(P>0.05).Compared with control group,the viability of BV2 cells in model group decreased significantly(P<0.05).Compared with model group,the viability of BV2 cells in 4 μmol/L SEN group was significantly restored(P<0.05).Compared with control group,the results of Griess method showed that the release amount of NO in cells of model group increased significantly(P<0.05);the results of real-time PCR showed that the expression levels of NLRP3,ASC,caspase-1,IL-1β and IL-18 mRNA in cells of model group increased significantly(P<0.05);the results of Western blotting showed that the protein expression levels of NLRP3,ASC,caspase-1,IL-1β and IL-18 proteins in cells of model group increased significantly(P<0.05),and the immunofluorescence staining results showed that the expression levels of iNOS and NF-κB protein in cells of model group increased,and the expression levels of Nrf2 and HO-1 decreased,with statistically significant differences(P<0.05).Compared with model group,the release amount of NO in cells of SEN group and MCC950 group decreased,and the expression levels of NLRP3,ASC,caspase-1,IL-1β and IL-18 mRNA and proteins decreased,with statistically significant differences(P<0.05);in the SEN group,the expression levels of iNOS and NF-κB decreased,and immunofluorescence staining showed that Nrf2 was translocated into the nucleus,and the expression levels of Nrf2 and HO-1 proteins increased significantly,with statistically significant differences(P<0.05).Conclusions SEN could alleviate the inflammatory response of mouse microglia cells induced by LPS and inhibit the activation and expression of NLRP3 inflammasome,with an effect comparable to that of the inflammasome inhibitor MCC950.The mechanism may be related to the regulation of the expression of upstream factors Nrf2 and HO-1.

Objective To comparatively analyze the clinical characteristics of primary bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia(PBMAH)and adrenal cortisol-producing Adenoma(CPA),and enhance the understanding of two diseases.Methods The clinical data of 85 PBMAH patients(PBMAH group)and 195 CPA patients(CPA group)diagnosed at Department of Endocrinology,the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital,from September 2014 to August 2024 were retrospectively analyzed.The demographic characteristics,comorbidities,biochemical indicators,adrenocorticotropic hormone-cortisol(ACTH-F)levels,and adrenal imaging features and treatment conditions were compared between the two groups.Results(1)General characteristics:Compared with CPA group,PBMAH group had older age at diagnosis and a higher proportion of male patients.(2)Clinical characteristics:Compared with CPA group,PBMAH group had a longer disease duration,a higher proportion of subclinical Cushing's syndrome(CS),and a higher proportion of hypertension,impaired glucose tolerance/diabetes,bone mass reduction or osteoporosis,with higher serum potassium levels,and the differences were statistically significant(P<0.01).(3)Hormone levels:Both PBMAH and CPA groups showed ACTH-F rhythm disorder,significantly increased cortisol levels and suppressed ACTH.Compared with PBMAH group,CPA group had stronger autonomous cortisol secretion ability,manifested by increased midnight serum cortisol(F0:00),16:00 serum cortisol(F16:00),24-hour urinary free cortisol(24 h UFC)levels and lower 8:00 serum ACTH(ACTH8:00)and 16:00 serum ACTH(ACTH16:00)(P<0.01).After low-dose dexamethasone suppression test(LDDST),CPA group showed lower suppression rates of ACTH and cortisol,and higher proportions of paradoxical elevation in serum cortisol and 24 h UFC compared with PBMAH(P<0.01).Conclusions PBMAH has a longer disease course and higher proportions of comorbid metabolic disorders than CPA,mostly manifested as subclinical Cushing's syndrome.CPA has stronger autonomous cortisol secretion ability,with cortisol less likely to be suppressed after LDDST and more obvious paradoxical elevation of cortisol and 24 h UFC.