Objective To investigate the treatment effect of Xunjing Tongbian Guasha technique in skin itching of blood deficiency and wind-dryness type uremia.Methods Eighty patients with blood deficiency and wind-dryness type uremia skin itching treated in this hospital were selected as the study subjects and divided into the control group and experiment group by using the random number table method,40 cases in each group.The control group adopted the simple conventional treatment regimen and the experimental group a-dopted the combined intervention of Tongbian Guasha on the basis of the control group.The itching VAS score,PSOI score and QOL-BRIEF score were compared between the two groups.Results After treatment,the itching VAS score in the experiment group was lower than that in the control group(P＜0.05);after treatment,the each dimensional scores of PSQI in the two groups were lower than those before treatment in the same group,moreover the scores in each dimension in the experiment group were lower than those in the control group(P＜0.05).The each dimensional scores of QOL-BRIEF after treatment in the two groups were higher than those before treatment in the same group,moreover the each dimensional scores in the experiment group were higher than those in the control group(P＜0.05).Conclusion Xunjing Tongbian Guasha tech-nique could effectively relieve the itching symptoms of the patients with blood deficiency wind-dryness type uremia and improve the quality of sleep and life.

Objective To search for the differences of serum proteins expression in ulcerative colitis (UC) by proteomics method and to preliminary explore the potential biological markers of ulcerative colitis. Method The serum of 30 ulcerative colitis patients and 30 healthy individuals were collected. The equal amounts of proteins in pooled serum were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and then compared and analyzed by image analysis software to recognize the differences of protein expression. Some spots of proteins with different expression were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS).Result There was no statistic significant in age, weight index, smoking and alcohol taking between UC group and control (P ＞ 0.05 respectively). Thirty-nine proteins with significant different expression between UC patients and healthy individuals were preliminary screened out. Nine of those spots were selected, after analyzed by MALDI-TOF-MS, it was found that the expression of haptoglobin, heat shock factor protein 2, receptor tyrosine kinase, aldehyde reductase,apolipoproteinC-Ⅲ, pericentriol material 1 increased in ulcerative colitis patients, keratinl, filamin A interacting protein 1 and tropomyosin 3 decreased. Conclusions With proteomics 2-DE and spectrometry methods, nine UC associated serum proteins were screened out and identified, which provide new molecular markers for the research of UC biological behavior.

Objective To retrospectively investigate the characteristics of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)in last 10 years in Kunming city. Methods Four hundred and thirty consecutive patients with IBD, who had hospitalized in 7 hospitals between January 1998 to March 2007, were investigated. Among them, 379 patinets had ulcerative colitis (UC) and 51 had Crohn's disease (CD). The patients who received coloscopy, histopathological and bariam enema examination accunted for 98.2%, 56.2% and 2.6% in UC group,respectively, and 72.5%,78.4% and 31.4% in CD group,respectively. The gender, age, occupation and the clinical manifestation of the patients, and the results of the colonoscopy and pathological examination were analyzed. Results Most of the UC patients were aged 30 to 39 years and 50 to 59 years with average age of (46.9±15.8) years, whereas CD patients were aged 20 to 29 years with average age of (41.6±17.2)years. The male and urban patients were predominat in both UC and CD groups. Mental workers were common in UC group. The symptoms of diarrhea (302,79.7%), abdominal pain (285,75.2%) and bloody stools (290,76.5%) were major events in UC patients, and those of abdominal pain (44,86.3%), diarrhea (28,54.9%) and weight loss (28,54.9%) were major events in CD patients. The coincidence ratio among colonoseopy, histopathology and bariam enema examinations was 88.4 % ( 329/372 ), 24.4 % ( 52/213 ) and 4/10 in UC patients, respectively, and 86.5%(32/37), 27.5%(11/40) and 75%(12/16) in CD patients, respectively. All of the UC patients were in active stage of disease,including 38.3 % in mild,42.2% in moderate and 19.5% in severe. In CD group, 7.8% was in relief stage and 92.2% in active stage,including 15.7% in mild,43.1% in morderate and 41.2% in severe.Conclusion The understanding of prevalence and clinical characteristics of IBD in last 10 years in Kunming city will be helpful in diagnosis and treatment of the disease.