1.Traditional Chinese Medicine in Regulating Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress for Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: A Review
Keqiu YAN ; Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Guangjun SUN ; Aizhen LIN
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(17):285-294
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory bowel disease that primarily affects the mucosal layer of the rectum and colon. Its pathogenesis is complex and remains incompletely understood. Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) plays a critical role in cellular responses to external stress and the maintenance of homeostasis, and its abnormal activation is closely associated with the development of various inflammatory diseases, particularly in the pathological process of UC. ERS maintains cellular homeostasis by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR). However, when ERS is prolonged or excessive, UPR fails to alleviate the stress, leading to epithelial cell death and aggravating the progression of UC. Modulating ERS may serve as a key target for the prevention and treatment of UC, and it is one of the current research hotspots. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has shown significant efficacy in regulating ERS, offering unique therapeutic advantages through multi-target and multi-pathway mechanisms. Recent studies have confirmed that TCM can alleviate ERS, inhibit apoptosis, regulate autophagy, reduce inflammatory responses, and maintain intestinal barrier function to prevent and treat UC. This review summarized the relationship between ERS and UC and discussed the intervention of TCM in regulating ERS for the treatment of UC, aiming to provide new insights and approaches for the treatment of UC with TCM.
2.Traditional Chinese Medicine in Regulating Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress for Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: A Review
Keqiu YAN ; Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Guangjun SUN ; Aizhen LIN
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(17):285-294
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory bowel disease that primarily affects the mucosal layer of the rectum and colon. Its pathogenesis is complex and remains incompletely understood. Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) plays a critical role in cellular responses to external stress and the maintenance of homeostasis, and its abnormal activation is closely associated with the development of various inflammatory diseases, particularly in the pathological process of UC. ERS maintains cellular homeostasis by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR). However, when ERS is prolonged or excessive, UPR fails to alleviate the stress, leading to epithelial cell death and aggravating the progression of UC. Modulating ERS may serve as a key target for the prevention and treatment of UC, and it is one of the current research hotspots. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has shown significant efficacy in regulating ERS, offering unique therapeutic advantages through multi-target and multi-pathway mechanisms. Recent studies have confirmed that TCM can alleviate ERS, inhibit apoptosis, regulate autophagy, reduce inflammatory responses, and maintain intestinal barrier function to prevent and treat UC. This review summarized the relationship between ERS and UC and discussed the intervention of TCM in regulating ERS for the treatment of UC, aiming to provide new insights and approaches for the treatment of UC with TCM.
3.Clinical Application and Pharmacological Mechanism of Sishenwan in Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: A Review
Keqiu YAN ; Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Sifeng JIA ; Yuyu DUAN ; Zixing QIAN ; Yifan CAI ; Junyi SHEN ; Wenjie XIAO ; Xinkun BAO ; Guangjun SUN ; Aizhen LIN
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(21):261-270
Ulcerative colitis (UC), a chronic, non-specific inflammatory bowel disease with typical symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stools, demonstrates a high relapse rate and difficulty in curing. Sishenwan, first recorded in Internal Medicine Abstract (Nei Ke Zhai Yao), are a classic prescription for treating diarrhea caused by deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. The core therapeutic principle of Sishenwan is warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney, and astringing the intestine and stopping diarrhea. In recent years, Sishenwan have demonstrated distinct advantages in the clinical treatment of UC. The pathogenesis of UC involves multiple factors, including immune dysregulation and gut microbiota imbalance. Although Western medicine is effective in the short term, its side effects, high relapse rate, and resistance associated with long-term use pose substantial challenges. Sishenwan have shown excellent clinical outcomes in the treatment of UC due to deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. Modern clinical studies indicate that Sishenwan, used alone or in combination with Western medicine or other Chinese medicine compound prescriptions, significantly improve the clinical efficacy in treating UC due to deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. Sishenwan effectively alleviate core symptoms such as mucus, pus, and blood in stools, and persistent abdominal pain, reduce Mayo scores and the relapse rate, and improve patients' quality of life. Research on the material basis reveals that Sishenwan contain multiple active ingredients such as psoralen, isopsoralen, and evodiamine. Mechanism studies indicate that Sishenwan inhibit the inflammatory cascade reactions by regulating the signal network through multiple targets. Sishenwan regulate cellular immunity and restore intestinal immune homeostasis. At the microecological level, Sishenwan promote the intestinal barrier repair through the "microbiota-metabolism-immunity" axis. The current research still needs to be deepened in aspects such as the mining of specific biomarkers for syndromes and the exploration of the collaborative mechanism of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In the future, a full-chain system covering syndrome differentiation, targeting, and monitoring needs to be constructed for promoting the paradigm transformation of Sishenwan into precision drugs. This review systematically explains the treatment mechanism of Sishenwan regarding the combination of disease and syndrome and its multi-target regulatory characteristics, providing a theoretical basis and transformation direction for the treatment of UC with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
4.Clinical Application and Pharmacological Mechanism of Sishenwan in Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: A Review
Keqiu YAN ; Xiaoyu ZHANG ; Sifeng JIA ; Yuyu DUAN ; Zixing QIAN ; Yifan CAI ; Junyi SHEN ; Wenjie XIAO ; Xinkun BAO ; Guangjun SUN ; Aizhen LIN
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(21):261-270
Ulcerative colitis (UC), a chronic, non-specific inflammatory bowel disease with typical symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stools, demonstrates a high relapse rate and difficulty in curing. Sishenwan, first recorded in Internal Medicine Abstract (Nei Ke Zhai Yao), are a classic prescription for treating diarrhea caused by deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. The core therapeutic principle of Sishenwan is warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney, and astringing the intestine and stopping diarrhea. In recent years, Sishenwan have demonstrated distinct advantages in the clinical treatment of UC. The pathogenesis of UC involves multiple factors, including immune dysregulation and gut microbiota imbalance. Although Western medicine is effective in the short term, its side effects, high relapse rate, and resistance associated with long-term use pose substantial challenges. Sishenwan have shown excellent clinical outcomes in the treatment of UC due to deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. Modern clinical studies indicate that Sishenwan, used alone or in combination with Western medicine or other Chinese medicine compound prescriptions, significantly improve the clinical efficacy in treating UC due to deficiency of the spleen and kidney Yang. Sishenwan effectively alleviate core symptoms such as mucus, pus, and blood in stools, and persistent abdominal pain, reduce Mayo scores and the relapse rate, and improve patients' quality of life. Research on the material basis reveals that Sishenwan contain multiple active ingredients such as psoralen, isopsoralen, and evodiamine. Mechanism studies indicate that Sishenwan inhibit the inflammatory cascade reactions by regulating the signal network through multiple targets. Sishenwan regulate cellular immunity and restore intestinal immune homeostasis. At the microecological level, Sishenwan promote the intestinal barrier repair through the "microbiota-metabolism-immunity" axis. The current research still needs to be deepened in aspects such as the mining of specific biomarkers for syndromes and the exploration of the collaborative mechanism of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In the future, a full-chain system covering syndrome differentiation, targeting, and monitoring needs to be constructed for promoting the paradigm transformation of Sishenwan into precision drugs. This review systematically explains the treatment mechanism of Sishenwan regarding the combination of disease and syndrome and its multi-target regulatory characteristics, providing a theoretical basis and transformation direction for the treatment of UC with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
5.Effect of body composition on dialysis quality(Kt/V): a single center study
Guocun HOU ; Hua GAN ; Xiuli SUN ; Jing LI ; Aizhen CHEN ; Qiang WEN ; Aiying LIU ; Guozhen FENG ; Haixia YAN ; Huixia LI
Chinese Journal of Nephrology 2018;34(6):418-423
Objective To investigate the relationship between body composition and adequacy of dialysis,and analyze the related risk factors for inadequate delivery of hemodialysis.Methods In a prospective clinical trial,two different methods determining dialysis dose were simultaneously applied:Kt/Vdau (conventional method with Daugirdas' formula) and Kt/Vbem [online clearance monitoring (OCM) measurement with Ⅴ measured by body composition monitor (BCM)].Using the value of 1.27 as the boundary,the patients were divided into two groups:Kt/Vbcm < 1.27 group and Kt/Vbcm≥ 1.27 group.Clinical indices were compared between the two groups.Multiple linear regression was applied to analyze the potential impact factors of the difference between Kt/V values calculated by the two methods.Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve was applied to analyze meaningful factors.Results A total of 138 maintenance hemodialysis patients with age of (54.9±12.7) years old were enrolled,and 55.1% of them were males.There was no significant difference between Kt/Vdau and Kt/Vbcm [1.432(1.235,1.718) vs 1.434 (1.244,1.642),P=0.823].Kt/Vdau was incidentally prone to falsely high values due to operative errors,whereas in these cases OCM-based measurement Kt/Vbcm delivered realistic values.An excellent correlation was observed between Kt/Vdau and Kt/Vbcm;the mean difference was 0.07,95%CI (-0.66-0.79);the correlation coefficient was 0.842(0.821-0.862).The patients in Kt/Vbcm≥ 1.27 group had older age,lower body mass index (BMI),lower height and weight,lower total body water (TBW),lower extracellular water,lower intracellular water,and lower lean tissue index (LTI) compared to those in Kt/Vbcm < 1.27 group.Excellent correlations were observed between Kt/Vbcm and TBW or LTI (r=-0.834,P < 0.001;r=-0.721,P < 0.001).ROC curve analysis showed that the sensitivity and specificity of predicting inadequate delivery of hemodialysis were 87.1% and 86.5%,with a threshold of 30 L for TBW.It also showed that the sensitivity and specificity of predicting inadequate delivery of hemodialysis were 60.4% and 94.6%,with a threshold of 11.05 kg/m2 for LTI.Conclusions BCM can give more accurate parameters of urea distribution volume,thus modifying the result of Kt/V.TBW and LTI are important risk influencing factors for inadequately dialysis,and special attention should be paid to patients with TBW > 30 L or LTI > 11.05 kg/m2.
6.Phenotypic and genetic analysis of an inv dup(15) case with a BP3:BP3 rearrangement.
Fuchun ZHONG ; Fenghua LAN ; Xiao ZHANG ; Yuxiang LIN ; Yanhong LIN ; Aizhen YAN ; Xiangdong TU
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics 2017;34(3):402-405
OBJECTIVETo analyze a case of supernumerary marker chromosome (SMC) with combined genetic techniques and explore its correlation with the clinical phenotype.
METHODSThe SMC was analyzed with G-banded karyotyping, multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and single nucleotide polymorphism array (SNP-array).
RESULTSG-banding analysis indicated that the patient has a karyotype of 47,XX,+mar. MLPA showed that there were duplications of proximal 15q. FISH assay using D15Z4 probes indicated that the SMC was a pseudodicentric chromosome derived from chromosome 15. And SNP-array revealed that there were two extra copies of 15q11-13 region spanning from locus 20 161 372 to 29 071 810.
CONCLUSIONThe duplication of Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome critical region probably underlies the abnormal phenotype of the inv dup(15) case with a BP3:BP3 rearrangement.
Adult ; Chromosome Banding ; Chromosome Disorders ; genetics ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15 ; genetics ; Female ; Gene Rearrangement ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Karyotyping
7.Nursing of patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis
Aizhen YAN ; Xiaofang ZENG ; Zhanqin FENG ; Caihong WEI ; Pian YANG ; Mei GU
Modern Clinical Nursing 2017;16(5):34-38
Objective To summarize the main nursing points of toxic epidermal necrolysis. Methods On the foundation of conventional therapy, an overall assessment was carried out among 10 patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis. On loose skin with erythema, a combination of zinc oxide and talcum powder was externally applied to skin lesions where blisters were not broken in order to promote dry-style exfoliation of the skin lesion. After infrared irradiation, gauze containing MEBO was applied externally to skin lesions with eroded secretions to moisturize them, thus facilitating healing of the skin lesion. Meanwhile, mucosa of special part of patient's body was well nursed. Protective isolation was enhanced in order to reduce secondary infection. The patient's conditions were observed closely. Diet guidance was also done. Results All the patients were dry-style exfoliated with treatment ranges reaching up to 30%to 60%of the affected area. Dry-style exfoliation time was between 5 to 10 days, with an average of 7.20 ±1.69 days. The area of skin lesion erosion ranged from 10% to 60%. Following the external application of MEBO gauze to moisturize and heal, skin lesion healing time ranged from 7 to 18 days with an average of 13.70 ±3.40 days. Conclusion According to the specific situation of toxic epidermal necrolysis, targeted nursing and treatment can promote the dry-style exfoliation of skin lesions, reduce the area of skin erosions, alleviate the suffering of patients and promote healing of the skin lesion.
8.Observation of medium and long term efficacy of hemodialysis combined with hemoperfusion on the endo-thelial function in patients with maintance hemodialysis
Xiaolei LI ; Yaozhong KONG ; Guanqing XIAO ; Wei SHEN ; Youyuan CHEN ; Dao LI ; Aizhen HOU ; Xuefang HUANG ; Yan LI
The Journal of Practical Medicine 2017;33(20):3437-3440
Objective To assess the medium and long term efficacy of hemodialysis combined with hemo-perfusion on the endothelial function in patients with maintance hemodialysis(MHD). Methods 60 stable MHD patients were enrolled in the research and randomly divided into 2 group. The observation group received hemodialy-is combined blood perfusion,and the control group received pure hemodialysis therapy. Blood was collected before and after treatment for 6 months for detection of serum C-reactive protein (CRP),hemoglobin (HB),albumin (ALB),advanced glycation end products(AGEs),homocysteine(Hcy)and intercellular cell adhesion molecule (ICAM). Results Plasma hs-CRP,AGEs,Hcy and ICAM decreased gradually after the treatment for 6 months. Compared with the indexes before treatment ,serum HGB and ALB increased significantly after the treatment for 6 months(P < 0.05). Conclusions Hemodialysis combined with hemoperfusion with an appropriate frequency and in a medium or long period is a safe ,convenient,and effective approach for MHD patients to pretect the endotheli-al function.
9.Cytogenetic and molecular genetic analysis of a case with mosaic marker chromosomes.
Xiangdong TU ; Jian ZENG ; Xuewen CONG ; Xiao ZHANG ; Aizhen YAN
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics 2016;33(1):76-80
OBJECTIVETo explore the source of small supernumerary marker chromosome in a case.
METHODSG-banded karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, multiple sequence tagged sites (STS) of the Y chromosome, and Illumima Human Cyto SNP-12 Beadchip analysis were carried out.
RESULTSThe karyotype was mos 46,X,+mar1[21]/46,X,+mar2[78]. Y chromosome STS analysis has displayed the presence of sy84, sY86, USP9Y and DDX3Y genes from the AZFa region, and sY1227 of the AZFb region, while sY1228, sY1015, sY127, sY134 from the AZFb region, and sY254 and sY255 from the AZFc region were missing. FISH analysis has verified both of the marker chromosomes to be Y chromosome fragments. Mar1 was ish.idic(Y)(q11.2)(SRY++,DXZ1+,DYZ3++,DYZ1-), while mar2 was ish.del(Y)(q11.2)(SRY+,DXZ1+,DYZ3+,DYZ1-). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray analysis showed that the Yq11.2-Yq12 has lost a 10.81 Mb fragment.
CONCLUSIONThe marker chromosomes were verified to be aberrant Y chromosomes, with the breakage and recombination occurring in Yq11.2. Mar 1 was an isodicentric Y chromosome (idic(Y)pter to q11.2::q11.2 to pter), and mar2 was del(Y)(q11.2). The karyotype was mos 46,X,ish idic(Y)(q11.2)(DYZ3++,SRY++,DXZ1+,DYZ1-)[21]/46,X,ish del(Y)(q11.2)(DYZ3+,SRY+,DXZ1+,DYZ1-)[78]. Combined FISH, Y chromosome STS analysis, SNP microarray analysis and other technologies can facilitate determination of the nature of marker chromosomes.
Adult ; Chromosomes, Human, Y ; genetics ; Cytogenetics ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Male ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Sex Chromosome Aberrations ; Sex Chromosome Disorders ; genetics
10.Role of Clinical Pharmacists in Therapy for Patient with Interstitial Lung Disease Induced by Erlotinib
Yixiu LI ; Yan LOU ; Xinjing ZHANG ; Aizhen XIONG
China Pharmacy 2016;27(17):2431-2432,2433
OBJECTIVE:To explore the role of clinical pharmacists in therapy for patient with interstitial lung disease (ILD) induced by erlotinib. METHODS:Clinical pharmacists participated in the therapy for ILD in a patient receiving erlotinib target treat-ment after thoracic vertebra and lumbar radiation,analyzed the cause of ILD and suggested to stop taking imipenem and cilastatin sodium,fluconazol and erlotinib according to lab indexes and patient’s symptom;took prednisone 30 mg,po,qd,for anti-inflam-mation instead of methylprednisolone;adjusted the dose of prednisone to 40 mg/d,and additionally took Carbocisteine oral solution 10 ml,tid,for improving respiratory symptom;panipenem betamipron 1 g,ivgtt,bid,instead of piperacillin sodium and sulbactam sodium. RESULTS:Physicians adopted the suggestions of clinical pharmacists,and the symptom of anhelation and double pneumo-nia recovered;discharged medication plan was erlotinib 150 mg,po,qd. CONCLUSIONS:The patient with radiation history easily suffers from ILD when using erlotinib,and should use erlotinib carefully in the clinic. Clinical pharmacists participated in drug ther-apy and promote safe and rational use of drugs in the clinic.

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