Diabetic nephropathy （DN） is a renal disorder induced by prolonged hyperglycemia， with major pathological features including persistent albuminuria， progressive decline in glomerular filtration rate， and elevated arterial blood pressure. As one of the most common and severe microvascular complications of diabetes， the pathogenesis of DN is complex and multifactorial. Without timely and effective treatment， DN may eventually progress to end-stage renal disease （ESRD）. Currently available therapeutic options are often associated with significant adverse effects and high costs， and a large number of patients still progress to ESRD due to delayed treatment. Therefore， there is an urgent need for safer and more effective treatment strategies to improve the living standards and enhance the survival and quality of life of patients with DN. Modern studies have demonstrated that the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase （PI3K）/protein kinase B （Akt） signaling pathway plays a critical role in oxidative stress， inflammatory responses， autophagy， and glycolysis， and is closely associated with the pathophysiological progression of DN. In recent years， traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） has achieved remarkable progress in the prevention and treatment of DN， supported by rich clinical experience and confirmed therapeutic efficacy. With its characteristics of multi-target， multi-component， and multi-pathway actions， along with minimal side effects， TCM can delay the progression of DN and alleviate patient symptoms. Among these mechanisms， the regulation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway has gradually become a research hotspot. This paper systematically reviews the role and mechanisms of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in the onset and progression of DN based on extensive literature research， summarizes the latest research advances on the precise modulation of the PI3K/Akt pathway by Chinese medicine monomers， active constituents， Chinese patent medicines， and herbal compound formulas in the treatment of DN， aiming to provide a strong theoretical reference for the development of clinically effective agents for DN prevention and treatment.

Diabetic nephropathy （DN） is a renal disorder induced by prolonged hyperglycemia， with major pathological features including persistent albuminuria， progressive decline in glomerular filtration rate， and elevated arterial blood pressure. As one of the most common and severe microvascular complications of diabetes， the pathogenesis of DN is complex and multifactorial. Without timely and effective treatment， DN may eventually progress to end-stage renal disease （ESRD）. Currently available therapeutic options are often associated with significant adverse effects and high costs， and a large number of patients still progress to ESRD due to delayed treatment. Therefore， there is an urgent need for safer and more effective treatment strategies to improve the living standards and enhance the survival and quality of life of patients with DN. Modern studies have demonstrated that the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase （PI3K）/protein kinase B （Akt） signaling pathway plays a critical role in oxidative stress， inflammatory responses， autophagy， and glycolysis， and is closely associated with the pathophysiological progression of DN. In recent years， traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） has achieved remarkable progress in the prevention and treatment of DN， supported by rich clinical experience and confirmed therapeutic efficacy. With its characteristics of multi-target， multi-component， and multi-pathway actions， along with minimal side effects， TCM can delay the progression of DN and alleviate patient symptoms. Among these mechanisms， the regulation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway has gradually become a research hotspot. This paper systematically reviews the role and mechanisms of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in the onset and progression of DN based on extensive literature research， summarizes the latest research advances on the precise modulation of the PI3K/Akt pathway by Chinese medicine monomers， active constituents， Chinese patent medicines， and herbal compound formulas in the treatment of DN， aiming to provide a strong theoretical reference for the development of clinically effective agents for DN prevention and treatment.

Objective:To investigate effects of the ROCK1 gene on proliferation and migration of and related molecular expression in keloid fibroblasts.Methods:Immunohistochemical technique was used to detect ROCK1 protein expression in human keloids and normal skin tissues, and Western blot analysis was performed to detect the expression of ROCK1, transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) and E-cadherin in keloid tissues. In vitro cultured human keloid fibroblasts (HKFs) were divided into 4 groups: ROCK1 gene overexpression control group (ROCK1 NC group) transfected with ROCK1 gene overexpression control vectors, ROCK1 gene overexpression group (ROCK1 OE group) transfected with ROCK1 gene overexpression vectors, ROCK1 gene knockdown control group (sh NC group) transfected with ROCK1 gene knockdown control vectors, and ROCK1 gene knockdown group (shROCK1 group) transfected with ROCK1 gene knockdown vectors. Cell counting kit-8 (CCK8) assay was performed to evaluate the effect of ROCK1 gene on the survival rate of HKFs, Transwell assay to evaluate the effect on the migration of HKFs, and real-time fluorescence-based quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot analysis were conducted to determine the mRNA and protein expression of ROCK1, TGF-β1 and E-cadherin, respectively. Results:Immunohistochemical study showed that ROCK1 protein expression decreased significantly in the human keloid tissues compared with the normal tissues ( t = 6.47, P = 0.003) ; Western blot analysis showed that the expression levels of ROCK1 and E-cadherin significantly decreased ( t = 14.02, 162.20, respectively, both P < 0.001), while TGF-β1 expression significantly increased ( t = 76.01, P < 0.001) in the keloid tissues compared with the expression levels of corresponding proteins in the normal tissues. CCK8 assay showed that the cell activity was significantly lower in the ROCK1 OE group than in the ROCK1 NC group after 24-hour transfection ( t = 3.25, 3.78, P = 0.031, 0.019, respectively), and significantly higher in the shROCK1 group than in the sh NC group ( t = 3.12, 2.79, P = 0.036, 0.049, respectively). Transwell assay showed that the number of migratory cells was significantly lower in the ROCK1 OE group than in the ROCK1 NC group ( t = 5.17, P = 0.004), and significantly higher in the shROCK1 group than in the sh NC group ( t = 9.28, P < 0.001). Compared with the ROCK1 NC group, the ROCK1 OE group showed significantly increased mRNA and protein expression levels of ROCK1 and E-cadherin ( P < 0.05 or < 0.001), but decreased mRNA and protein expression levels of TGF-β1 (both P < 0.001) ; compared with the sh NC group, the shROCK1 group showed significantly decreased mRNA and protein expression levels of ROCK1 and E-cadherin ( P < 0.05 or < 0.001), but significantly increased mRNA and protein expression levels of TGF-β1 ( P = 0.005 or < 0.001) . Conclusions:The ROCK1 gene can inhibit the proliferation and migration of HKFs. Overexpression of the ROCK1 gene can down-regulate the TGF-β1 gene expression and up-regulate the E-cadherin gene expression in HKFs.

Objective:To explore the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) system based on deep learning in evaluating bone age of children with abnormal growth and development.Methods:The positive X-ray films of the left wrist of children with abnormal growth and development who were treated at the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University from January 2020 to December 2021 were collected retrospectively. A total of 717 children were collected, including 266 males and 451 females, aged 2-18 (11±3) years. Based on Tanner Whitehouse 3 (TW 3)-RUS (radius, ulna, short bone) and TW3-Carpal (carpal bone) method, bone age was measured by 3 senior radiologists, and the mean value was taken as reference standard. The bone ages were independently evaluated by the AI system (Dr.Wise bone age prediction software) and two junior radiologists (physicians 1 and 2). The accuracy within 0.5 year, the accuracy within 1 year, the mean absolute error (MAE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) between the evaluation results and the reference standard were analyzed. Paired sample t-test was used to compare MAE between AI system and junior physicians. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to evaluate the consistency between AI system, junior physician and reference standard. The Bland-Altman diagram was drawn and the 95% consistency limit was calculated between AI system and reference standard. Results:For TW3-RUS bone age, compared with the reference standard, the accuracy within 0.5 year of AI system, physician 1 and physician 2 was 75.3% (540/717), 62.1% (445/717) and 66.2% (475/717), respectively. The accuracy within 1 year was 96.9% (695/717), 86.3% (619/717) and 89.1% (639/717), respectively. MAE was 0.360, 0.565 and 0.496 years, and RMSE was 0.469, 0.634 and 0.572 years, respectively. For TW3-Carpal bone age, compared with the reference standard, the accuracy within 0.5 year of AI system, physician 1 and physician 2 was 80.9% (580/717), 65.1% (467/717) and 71.7% (514/717), respectively. The accuracy within 1 year was 96.0% (688/717), 87.3% (626/717) and 90.4% (648/717), respectively. MAE was 0.330, 0.527 and 0.455 years, and RMSE was 0.458, 0.612, 0.538 years, respectively. Based on TW3-RUS and TW3-Carpal bone age, the MAE of AI system were lower than those of physician 1 and physician 2, and the differences were statistically significant ( P all<0.001). The evaluation results of AI, physician 1 and physician 2 were in good agreement with the reference standard (ICC all>0.950). The Bland-Altman analysis showed that the 95% agreement limits of AI system for assessing TW3-RUS and TW3-Carpal bone age were -0.75-1.02 years and-0.86-0.91 years, respectively. Conclusion:The accuracy of AI system in evaluating the bone age of children with abnormal growth and development is close to that of senior doctors, better than that of junior doctors, and in good agreement with senior doctors.

Objective:To characterize the histopathological subtypes and their clinicopathological parameters of gender and onset age by common, rare and sparse primary esophageal malignant tumors (PEMT).Methods:A total of 272 437 patients with PEMT were enrolled in this study, and all of the patients were received radical surgery. The clinicopathological information of the patients was obtained from the database established by the State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention & Treatment from September 1973 to December 2020, which included the clinical treatment, pathological diagnosis and follow-up information of esophagus and gastric cardia cancers. All patients were diagnosed and classified by the criteria of esophageal tumor histopathological diagnosis and classification (2019) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The esophageal tumors, which were not included in the WHO classification, were analyzed separately according to the postoperative pathological diagnosis. The χ 2 test was performed by the SPSS 25.0 software on count data, and the test standard α=0.05. Results:A total of 32 histopathological types were identified in the enrolled PEMT patients, of which 10 subtypes were not included in the WHO classification. According to the frequency, PEMT were divided into common (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, ESCC, accounting for 97.1%), rare (esophageal adenocarcinoma, EAC, accounting for 2.3%) and sparse (mainly esophageal small cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, etc., accounting for 0.6%). All the common, rare, and sparse types occurred predominantly in male patients, and the gender difference of rare type was most significant (EAC, male∶ female, 2.67∶1), followed with common type (ESCC, male∶ female, 1.78∶1) and sparse type (male∶ female, 1.71∶1). The common type (ESCC) mainly occurred in the middle thoracic segment (65.2%), while the rare type (EAC) mainly occurred in the lower thoracic segment (56.8%). Among the sparse type, malignant melanoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma were both predominantly located in the lower thoracic segment (51.7%, 66.7%), and the others were mainly in the middle thoracic segment.Conclusion:ESCC is the most common type among the 32 histopathological types of PEMT, followed by EAC as the rare type, and esophageal small cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma as the major sparse type, and all of which are mainly occur in male patients. The common type of ESCC mainly occur in the middle thoracic segment, while the rare type of EAC mainly in the lower thoracic segment. The mainly sparse type of malignant melanoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma predominately occur in the lower thoracic segment, and the remaining sparse types mainly occur in the middle thoracic segment.

Objective: To analyze the influence of reproductive health education in middle school on self efficacy and intention of condom use among college freshmen, so as to provide evidence for fertility protection related intervention and policy making. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among college freshmen in Beijing by hierarchical cluster sampling method. A total of 3 001 students were surveyed. The difference was compared by using χ 2 test and ANOVA. Multivariate linear and Logistic regression model was used to analyze the influencing factors associated with condom use self efficacy and condom use intention. Results: The overall rate that reproductive health education received before college among freshmen in Beijing was 65.11%. The college freshmen from urban areas reported more adequate reproductive health education (71.11%) than those from non urban areas before college (59.36%)( P <0.05). The total scores of UNGASS (4.22±0.90 vs 4.05±0.98), condom use self efficacy (24.64±5.34 vs 23.09±4.93) and the intention of condom use (82.44% vs 70.88%) of college freshmen received reproductive health education in middle school were higher than those of college students without pre college reproductive health education( P <0.01). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the score of condom use self efficacy of college students received pre college reproductive health education was higher than those without pre college reproductive health education( β =1.21, 95% CI =0.79-1.63, P <0.01). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that reproductive health, the intention of condom use of college freshmen who received pre college reproductive health education was higher than that of college freshmen without reproductive health education( OR =1.63, 95% CI =1.33-2.01, P <0.01). Conclusion Reproductive health education in middle school can improve college freshmen s self efficacy and intention of condom use, contribute to the implementation of safe sex, and is of great significance to the protection of college students fertility.

Objective:To explore the application effect of chain pain management model in perioperative nursing of children with traumatic fractures.Methods:Using the convenient sampling method, a total of 174 children with traumatic fractures and 174 caregivers who were treated in Henan Children's Hospital from May 2020 to May 2021 and underwent surgical treatment were selected as the research subjects. Among them, 85 children and 85 caregivers from May to November 2020 were used as the control group, and they were given the conventional pain management model for intervention. A total of 89 children and 89 caregivers from December 2020 to May 2021 were selected as the experimental group, and they were given chain pain management model for intervention. The perioperative pain, psychological stress status and nursing satisfaction of caregivers were compared between the two groups.Results:At 24 hours after admission and 24 hours after operation, score of FLACC Pain Assessment Scale of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.05) . At discharge, the Short-term Response Scale of Stress Disorder in the experimental group was lower than that in the control group, and the satisfaction score of caregivers in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:The application of chain pain management model in perioperative nursing of children with traumatic fractures can reduce perioperative pain, improve the psychological stress state of children and improve satisfaction of caregivers with nursing work, which has certain clinical application value.

Objective:To explore the treatment of levator complex in conjoint fascial sheath suspension correction on severe ptosis, and to seek a reliable and less complications operation.Methods:From October 2016 to February 2020, 40 eyes of 24 patients with severe ptosis (6 males and 18 females, aged from 10 to 73 years, with an average of 34.4 years) were divided into study group and control group. 20 eyes in study group were treated with combined fascia sheath suspension and levator palpebrae muscle complex tension-free shortening correction, while 20 eyes in control group were treated with combined fascia sheath suspension and levator palpebrae muscle complex tension-free shortening correction The effects and complications of the two groups were compared.Results:Follow-up studies were conducted at 1 week, 3 month and 6 months after operation. There was no significant difference between the two methods at different time points after operation, and the incidence of complications in the study group was less than that in the control group at 1 week after operation.Conclusions:Combined with fascial sheath suspension and levator palpebrae muscle complex tension-free shortening in the treatment of severe blepharoptosis has less complications and reliable curative effect in the early postoperative period, but it still needs to be improved to obtain more lasting curative effect.

ZNF804A rs1344706 has been identified as one of the risk genes for schizophrenia. However, the neural mechanisms underlying this association are unknown. Given that ZNF804A upregulates the expression of COMT, we hypothesized that ZNF804A may influence brain activity by interacting with COMT. Here, we genotyped ZNF804A rs1344706 and COMT rs4680 in 218 healthy Chinese participants. Amplitudes of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFFs) were applied to analyze the main and interaction effects of ZNF804A rs1344706 and COMT rs4680. The ALFFs of the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex showed a significant ZNF804A rs1344706 × COMT rs4680 interaction, manifesting as a U-shaped modulation, presumably by dopamine signaling. Significant main effects were also found. These findings suggest that ZNF804A affects the resting-state functional activation by interacting with COMT, and may improve our understanding of the neurobiological effects of ZNF804A and its association with schizophrenia.

Objective To analyze the differences of clinical manifestations and organ damage between patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome(SFTS)and patients with tsutsugamushi disease,and to investigate the prognostic factors of SFTS.Methods The research was performed on 49 patients with SFTS and 16 patients with tsutsugamushi disease who visited the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from October 2014 to June 2017.The general information of patients including region,age,gender and clinical manifestations were evaluated.Blood routine,liver and kidney function,myocardial enzyme levels,lipase,amylase,electrolytes,C-reactive protein,procalcitonin,prothrombin time(PT)and activated partial thromboplastin time(APTT)were continuously monitored during the course of disease.T test was used for continuous variables of normal distribution,and non-parametric test was used for variables of non-normal distribution.Chi-square test was used for categorical variables.Results The mean age of SFTS patients was 62.1±15.5(ranging from 17 to 87 years)and the mean age of tsutsugamushi patients was 56.1±9.2(ranging from 47 to 73 years).There was no significant difference between the two groups(t=1.47,P=0.147).There were 25 males(51%)in SFTS patients and 8 males(50%)in tsutsugamushi disease patients.There was no significant difference between the two groups(x2=0.005,P=0.943).The incidences of headache,vomiting,superficial lymphadenectasis,disturbance of consciousness,proteinuria,hematuria,pulmonary infection,multiple organ dysfunction and acute pancreatitis in SFTS patients were all significantly higher than those in tsutsugamushi disease patients(x2=8.82,4.38,8.71,11.17,7.88,5.56,4.35,9.43,and 8.13,respectively,P <0.05 or 0.01).The counts of leukocytes(Z=2.73),neutrophils(Z=2.46),lymphocytes(Z=3.15),platelets(Z=4.25),albumin(Z=2.65)and sodium ion(t=2.10)in SFTS patients were all significantly lower than those in patients with tsutsugamushi disease(P <0.05 or 0.01).The levels of aspartate aminotransferase(Z=2.94),lactate dehydrogenase(Z=3.42),creatine kinase(CK)(Z=2.88),amylase(Z=2.11),lipase(Z=2.82),creatinine(Z=2.07)and urea nitrogen(Z=2.50)in fatal SFTS patients were all significantly higher than those in patients with tsutsugamushi disease(P <0.05 or 0.01).Among 49 SFTS patients,16 patients died and 33 patients recovered finally.The age(t=3.33),platelet count(Z=2.55),alanine aminotransferase(ALT)(Z=2.10),aspartate aminotransferase(AST)(Z=2.22),lactate dehydrogenase(Z=2.26),CK(Z=3.50),CK-MB(Z=3.10),creatinine(Z=2.17),urea nitrogen(Z=2.36),and sodium(t=2.65)between the two subgroups had significant differences(P <0.05 or 0.01).Conclusions SFTS is more severe and has high mortality,while tsutsugamushi disease has a better prognosis.Early differential diagnosis and early rational treatment are important to reduce the mortality of patients with SFTS.