1.Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis assisted in clinical diagnosis by chest CT pulmonary angiography: three cases report
Dengmei TIAN ; Jianhua YOU ; Jiong HU ; Ling WANG
Chinese Journal of Hematology 2025;46(10):972-976
Chest CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) has certain auxiliary diagnostic value for the clinical diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) . Three patients with hematological malignancies were reported, including 2 ones after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and 1 ones after chemotherapy for refractory recurrent leukemia. Each patient was treated with antibiotics for at least 48 hours after the onset of fever, they all underwent chest high-resolution CT (HRCT) scans without fever resolution. CT revealed at least one dense pulmonary consolidation shadow with a diameter greater than 10 mm, and subsequently a CTPA examination was performed to observe the effect of CTPA imaging signs for the diagnosis of IPA. There were 2 patients with positive vascular occlusion sign (VOS) and 1 patient with negative VOS detected by CTPA. Among them, 2 patients with positive VOS were diagnosed with possible IPA and received with diagnosis-driven antifungal treatment, which improved their conditions. One patient with negative VOS sign was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma involving the lungs. After receiving anti-lymphoma treatment, the lesions significantly reduced in size. The vascular occlusion sign detected by CTPA is relatively characteristic. For high-risk IPA patients, it helps to improve the specificity of imaging diagnosis and guide clinical treatment decisions.
2.From"insufficiency of ZhiYi"to anxiety onset:a preliminary construction of the emotion-pathogenesis hypothesis based on body-spirit integration theory
Mingzhou GAO ; Minghui HU ; Hongwei DONG ; You LI ; Yue ZHAO ; Xinyu WANG ; Zifa LI ; Xiwen GENG ; Sheng WEI ; Hao ZHANG
Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica 2025;33(9):1320-1328
Anxiety is a major emotional disorder manifested in the individual's expectation of future threats.The incidence rate of anxiety is about 7.3%,with the highest lifetime prevalence rate among mental health conditions.The mechanism of anxiety overlaps with depression,and anxiety is a typical symptom of various mental diseases or emotional disorders in traditional Chinese medicine.The high rates of comorbidity and disability pose serious threats to people's health.Animal models are important tools for studying anxiety and are of great use for deciphering the pathogenesis of anxiety and for developing drugs.The traditional paradigm of stress-induced anxiety,however,is relatively limited.Based on traditional theory combined with clinical and animal experimental data,we propose a new hypothesis of"insufficiency of ZhiYi'causing anxiety,defined as"an anxiety state induced by the inability of an individual to meet their own needs,limited or lacking after multiple attempts,rendered hindered and powerless by an inability to meet their desires".This hypothesis is more in line with the typical manifestations of despair,lack of pleasure,and social withdrawal in clinical patients,and is supported by traditional theory and experimental data showing"hunger but unable to eat,food but unable to obtain,and gain but not full".Based on this,the established modeling paradigm is easy to apply,with good repeatability and low cost,and can be used to establish anxiety models in rats and mice,to provide a theoretical and model basis for the development and pharmacological evaluation of anti-anxiety drugs.
3.The basic logic and optimization path of family health education from the perspective of empowerment theory
Rui-ke YOU ; Yang ZHAO ; Hu-feng WANG
Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2025;18(9):8-14
Under the background of the in-depth advancement of the Healthy China strategy,as the basic unit of health education,how to activate the health education function of the family has become an important issue in current health governance.From the perspective of empowerment theory,this article sorts out the basic logic of health education carried out by families through case studies,systematically analyzes the functional positioning of the empowerment subjects(dominant type,executive type,and supplementary type),and reveals how these empowerment subjects support and promote the implementation of family health education through formal and informal empowerment methods.And explore the empowerment mechanism of family health education from"empowerment conditions-empowerment process-empowerment results",and deeply analyze the influence of the combination mode of empowerment subjects on the empowerment mechanism.The research suggests that at the institutional level,a collaborative mechanism among three types of empowerment subjects should be established.At the practical level,it is necessary to ensure the implementation of empowerment,stimulate the initiative within families,and promote an optimized path for the precise matching of health education content with the differentiated needs of families.The research provides new perspectives and strategies for health education at the family level,which is of great theoretical and practical significance for promoting the practice of health education.
4.Expert Consensus on the Ethical Requirements for Generative AI-Assisted Academic Writing
You-Quan BU ; Yong-Fu CAO ; Zeng-Yi CHANG ; Hong-Yu CHEN ; Xiao-Wei CHEN ; Yuan-Yuan CHEN ; Zhu-Cheng CHEN ; Rui DENG ; Jie DING ; Zhong-Kai FAN ; Guo-Quan GAO ; Xu GAO ; Lan HU ; Xiao-Qing HU ; Hong-Ti JIA ; Ying KONG ; En-Min LI ; Ling LI ; Yu-Hua LI ; Jun-Rong LIU ; Zhi-Qiang LIU ; Ya-Ping LUO ; Xue-Mei LV ; Yan-Xi PEI ; Xiao-Zhong PENG ; Qi-Qun TANG ; You WAN ; Yong WANG ; Ming-Xu WANG ; Xian WANG ; Guang-Kuan XIE ; Jun XIE ; Xiao-Hua YAN ; Mei YIN ; Zhong-Shan YU ; Chun-Yan ZHOU ; Rui-Fang ZHU
Chinese Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2025;41(6):826-832
With the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence(GAI)technologies,their widespread application in academic research and writing is continuously expanding the boundaries of sci-entific inquiry.However,this trend has also raised a series of ethical and regulatory challenges,inclu-ding issues related to authorship,content authenticity,citation accuracy,and accountability.In light of the growing involvement of AI in generating academic content,establishing an open,controllable,and trustworthy ethical governance framework has become a key task for safeguarding research integrity and maintaining trust within the academic community.This expert consensus outlines ethical requirements across key stages of AI-assisted academic writing-including topic selection,data management,citation practices,and authorship attribution.It aims to clarify the boundaries and ethical obligations surrounding AI use in academic writing,ensuring that technological tools enhance efficiency without compromising in-tegrity.The goal is to provide guidance and institutional support for building a responsible and sustainable research ecosystem.
5.From"insufficiency of ZhiYi"to anxiety onset:a preliminary construction of the emotion-pathogenesis hypothesis based on body-spirit integration theory
Mingzhou GAO ; Minghui HU ; Hongwei DONG ; You LI ; Yue ZHAO ; Xinyu WANG ; Zifa LI ; Xiwen GENG ; Sheng WEI ; Hao ZHANG
Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica 2025;33(9):1320-1328
Anxiety is a major emotional disorder manifested in the individual's expectation of future threats.The incidence rate of anxiety is about 7.3%,with the highest lifetime prevalence rate among mental health conditions.The mechanism of anxiety overlaps with depression,and anxiety is a typical symptom of various mental diseases or emotional disorders in traditional Chinese medicine.The high rates of comorbidity and disability pose serious threats to people's health.Animal models are important tools for studying anxiety and are of great use for deciphering the pathogenesis of anxiety and for developing drugs.The traditional paradigm of stress-induced anxiety,however,is relatively limited.Based on traditional theory combined with clinical and animal experimental data,we propose a new hypothesis of"insufficiency of ZhiYi'causing anxiety,defined as"an anxiety state induced by the inability of an individual to meet their own needs,limited or lacking after multiple attempts,rendered hindered and powerless by an inability to meet their desires".This hypothesis is more in line with the typical manifestations of despair,lack of pleasure,and social withdrawal in clinical patients,and is supported by traditional theory and experimental data showing"hunger but unable to eat,food but unable to obtain,and gain but not full".Based on this,the established modeling paradigm is easy to apply,with good repeatability and low cost,and can be used to establish anxiety models in rats and mice,to provide a theoretical and model basis for the development and pharmacological evaluation of anti-anxiety drugs.
6.The basic logic and optimization path of family health education from the perspective of empowerment theory
Rui-ke YOU ; Yang ZHAO ; Hu-feng WANG
Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2025;18(9):8-14
Under the background of the in-depth advancement of the Healthy China strategy,as the basic unit of health education,how to activate the health education function of the family has become an important issue in current health governance.From the perspective of empowerment theory,this article sorts out the basic logic of health education carried out by families through case studies,systematically analyzes the functional positioning of the empowerment subjects(dominant type,executive type,and supplementary type),and reveals how these empowerment subjects support and promote the implementation of family health education through formal and informal empowerment methods.And explore the empowerment mechanism of family health education from"empowerment conditions-empowerment process-empowerment results",and deeply analyze the influence of the combination mode of empowerment subjects on the empowerment mechanism.The research suggests that at the institutional level,a collaborative mechanism among three types of empowerment subjects should be established.At the practical level,it is necessary to ensure the implementation of empowerment,stimulate the initiative within families,and promote an optimized path for the precise matching of health education content with the differentiated needs of families.The research provides new perspectives and strategies for health education at the family level,which is of great theoretical and practical significance for promoting the practice of health education.
7.Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis assisted in clinical diagnosis by chest CT pulmonary angiography: three cases report
Dengmei TIAN ; Jianhua YOU ; Jiong HU ; Ling WANG
Chinese Journal of Hematology 2025;46(10):972-976
Chest CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) has certain auxiliary diagnostic value for the clinical diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) . Three patients with hematological malignancies were reported, including 2 ones after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and 1 ones after chemotherapy for refractory recurrent leukemia. Each patient was treated with antibiotics for at least 48 hours after the onset of fever, they all underwent chest high-resolution CT (HRCT) scans without fever resolution. CT revealed at least one dense pulmonary consolidation shadow with a diameter greater than 10 mm, and subsequently a CTPA examination was performed to observe the effect of CTPA imaging signs for the diagnosis of IPA. There were 2 patients with positive vascular occlusion sign (VOS) and 1 patient with negative VOS detected by CTPA. Among them, 2 patients with positive VOS were diagnosed with possible IPA and received with diagnosis-driven antifungal treatment, which improved their conditions. One patient with negative VOS sign was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma involving the lungs. After receiving anti-lymphoma treatment, the lesions significantly reduced in size. The vascular occlusion sign detected by CTPA is relatively characteristic. For high-risk IPA patients, it helps to improve the specificity of imaging diagnosis and guide clinical treatment decisions.
8.3-Bromopyruvic acid alleviates hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in rats by inhibiting glycolysis
Wenjie CAO ; Caicha YU ; Man HUANG ; Yuan CHENG ; Yunna TIAN ; Jun-peng XU ; Chengyuan TANG ; Liyi YOU ; Chun HU ; Wantie WANG
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2025;41(6):1200-1206
AIM:This study aimed to confirm the glycolytic inhibitory activity of 3-bromopyruvic acid(3BP)and to assess whether this inhibition could ameliorate hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats.METHODS:PAH model rats were generated from normal SD rats via exposure to normal pressure and hypoxia.Intervention groups I and II(6 rats per group)were then intraperitoneally injected with 3BP(15 mg/kg),and the normal and hypoxia groups(6 rats per group)were given the same amount of normal saline for a total of 21 d.The average pulmonary artery pressure of the rats in each group was measured via right heart catheterisation,and hilar tissue measurements.The right ventricle(RV),left ventricle,and interventricular septum(LV+S)were weighed,and the ratio of RV/(LV+S)was calculated as an index of right ventricular hypertrophy.Right lower lung tissues were fixed in 4%paraformaldehyde-PBS buffer,sec-tioned in conventional paraffin(5 μm thick),stained with HE and Masson,photographed under a microscope.Then the thickness ratio of the tunica media and the area ratio of collagen fibres were calculated.The expression of pyruvate kinase isozyme type M2(PKM2),nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor protein 3(NLRP3),and pyruvate de-hydrogenase(PDH)proteins in the hilar tissues of each group were detected by western blot,whereas interleukin-1β(IL-1β)and IL-18 contents were detected using ELISA,and lactic acid content was detected using a lactic acid kit.RE-SULTS:The results showed that 3-brpa effectively inhibited glycolysis and significantly improved hypoxia-induced pulmo-nary hypertension in rats.Compared with the hypoxia group,in intervention group II,PKM2 expression was decreased(P<0.05),PDH expression increased significantly(P<0.01),and NLRP3 expression was decreased(P<0.05).The IL-18 and IL-1β contents decreased(P<0.05 or P<0.01,respectively).Pulmonary hemodynamic indexes showed that the pro-portion of the right ventricle and the mean pressure of the pulmonary artery decreased(P<0.05 or P<0.01,respectively).The HE and Masson staining results showed that the thickness ratio of the tunica media and the area ratio of collagen fibres decreased significantly(P<0.01).Lactic acid content was significantly decreased(P<0.01).CONCLUSION:This study showed that 3BP can inhibit glycolysis and alleviate hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats.
9.Cost-effectiveness of Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Intravascular Ultrasound to Guide Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Results From the FLAVOUR Study
Doyeon HWANG ; Hea-Lim KIM ; Jane KO ; HyunJin CHOI ; Hanna JEONG ; Sun-ae JANG ; Xinyang HU ; Jeehoon KANG ; Jinlong ZHANG ; Jun JIANG ; Joo-Yong HAHN ; Chang-Wook NAM ; Joon-Hyung DOH ; Bong-Ki LEE ; Weon KIM ; Jinyu HUANG ; Fan JIANG ; Hao ZHOU ; Peng CHEN ; Lijiang TANG ; Wenbing JIANG ; Xiaomin CHEN ; Wenming HE ; Sung Gyun AHN ; Ung KIM ; You-Jeong KI ; Eun-Seok SHIN ; Hyo-Soo KIM ; Seung-Jea TAHK ; JianAn WANG ; Tae-Jin LEE ; Bon-Kwon KOO ;
Korean Circulation Journal 2025;55(1):34-46
Background and Objectives:
The Fractional Flow Reserve and Intravascular UltrasoundGuided Intervention Strategy for Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Intermediate Stenosis (FLAVOUR) trial demonstrated non-inferiority of fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compared with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided PCI. We sought to investigate the cost-effectiveness of FFR-guided PCI compared to IVUS-guided PCI in Korea.
Methods:
A 2-part cost-effectiveness model, composed of a short-term decision tree model and a long-term Markov model, was developed for patients who underwent PCI to treat intermediate stenosis (40% to 70% stenosis by visual estimation on coronary angiography).The lifetime healthcare costs and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) were estimated from the healthcare system perspective. Transition probabilities were mainly referred from the FLAVOUR trial, and healthcare costs were mainly obtained through analysis of Korean National Health Insurance claims data. Health utilities were mainly obtained from the Seattle Angina Questionnaire responses of FLAVOUR trial participants mapped to EQ-5D.
Results:
From the Korean healthcare system perspective, the base-case analysis showed that FFR-guided PCI was 2,451 U.S. dollar lower in lifetime healthcare costs and 0.178 higher in QALYs compared to IVUS-guided PCI. FFR-guided PCI remained more likely to be cost-effective over a wide range of willingness-to-pay thresholds in the probabilistic sensitivity analysis.
Conclusions
Based on the results from the FLAVOUR trial, FFR-guided PCI is projected to decrease lifetime healthcare costs and increase QALYs compared with IVUS-guided PCI in intermediate coronary lesion, and it is a dominant strategy in Korea.
10.Phase changes and quantity-quality transfer of raw material, calcined decoction pieces, and standard decoction of Ostreae Concha (Ostrea rivularis).
Hong-Yi ZHANG ; Jing-Wei ZHOU ; Jia-Wen LIU ; Wen-Bo FEI ; Shi-Ru HUANG ; Yu-Mei CHEN ; Chong-Yang LI ; Fei-Fei LI ; Qiao-Ling MA ; Fu WANG ; Yuan HU ; You-Ping LIU ; Shi-Lin CHEN ; Lin CHEN ; Hong-Ping CHEN
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2025;50(5):1209-1223
The phase changes and quantity-quality transfer of 17 batches of Ostreae Concha(Ostrea rivularis) during the raw material-calcined decoction pieces-standard decoction process were analyzed. The content of calcium carbonate(CaCO_3), the main component, was determined by chemical titration, and the extract yield and transfer rate were calculated. The CaCO_3 content in the raw material, calcined decoction pieces, and standard decoction was 94.39%-98.80%, 95.03%-99.22%, and 84.58%-90.47%, respectively. The process of raw material to calcined decoction pieces showed the yield range of 96.85% to 98.55% and the CaCO_3 transfer rate range of 96.92% to 99.27%. The process of calcined decoction pieces to standard decoction showed the extract yield range of 2.86% to 5.48% and the CaCO_3 transfer rate range of 2.59% to 5.13%. The results of X-ray fluorescence(XRF) assay showed that the raw material, calcined decoction pieces, and standard decoction mainly contained Ca, Na, Mg, Si, Br, Cl, Al, Fe, Cr, Mn, and K. The chemometric results showed an increase in the relative content of Cr, Fe, and Si from raw material to calcined decoction pieces and an increase in the relative content of Mg, Al, Br, K, Cl, and Na from calcined decoction pieces to standard decoction. X-ray diffraction(XRD) was employed to establish XRD characteristic patterns of the raw material, calcined decoction pieces, and standard decoction. The XRD results showed that the main phase of all three was calcite, and no transformation of crystalline form or generation of new phase was observed. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR) was employed to establish the FTIR characteristic spectra of the raw material, calcined decoction pieces, and standard decoction. The FTIR results showed that the raw material had internal vibrations of O-H, C-H, C=O, C-O, and CO■ groups. Due to the loss of organic matter components after calcination, no information about the vibrations of C-H, C=O, and C-O groups was observed in the spectra of calcined decoction pieces and standard decoction. In summary, this study elucidated the quantity-quality transfer and phase changes in the raw material-calcined decoction pieces-standard decoction process by determining the CaCO_3 content, calculating the extract yield and transfer rate, and comparing the element changes, FTIR characteristic spectra, and XRD characteristic pattern. The results were reasonable and reliable, laying a foundation for the subsequent process research and quality control of the formula granules of calcined Ostreae Concha(O. rivularis Gould), and providing ideas and methods for the quality control of the whole process of raw material-decoction pieces-standard decoction-formula granules of Ostreae Concha and other testacean traditional Chinese medicine.
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