Licorice has long been regarded as one of the most popular herbs, with a very wide clinical application range. Whether being used alone or as an ingredient in prescription, it has an important role which cannot be ignored. However, the efficacy and chemical constituents of licorice will change after honey-processing. Therefore, it is necessary to find quality markers before and after honey-processing to lay the foundation for a comprehensive evaluation of the differences between raw and processed licorice pieces. HPLC-DAD was employed to establish fingerprints of raw and processed licorice. Multivariate statistical analysis methods including principal component analysis(PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discrimination analysis(OPLS-DA) were applied to screen out the differential components before and after processing of licorice. Based on network pharmacology, the targets and pathways corresponding to the differential components were analyzed with databases such as Swiss Target Prediction and Metascape, and the "component-target-pathway" diagram was constructed with Cytoscape 3.6.0 software to predict the potential quality markers. A total of 17 common peaks were successfully identified in the established fingerprint, and seven differential components were selected as potential quality markers(licoricesaponin G2, glycyrrhizic acid, liquiritigenin, liquiritin, isoliquiritin, liquiritin apioside and isoliquiritigenin). The HPLC fingerprint method proposed in this study was efficient and feasible. The above seven differential chemical components screened out as potential quality markers of licorice can help to improve and promote the overall quality. These researches offer more sufficient theoretical basis for scientific application of licorice and its corresponding products.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Glycyrrhiza ; Glycyrrhizic Acid/analysis* ; Honey/analysis*

Objective To analyze the status of quality indicators(QI) on specimen acceptability and establish preliminary qual ity specification.Methods Web based External Quality Assessment system was used to collect data of laboratories partici pated in "Medical quality control indicators in clinical laboratory" from 2015 to 2017,including once in 2015 and 2017 and twice in 2016.Rate and sigma scales were used to evaluate incorrect sample type,incorrect sample container,incorrect fill level and anticoagulant sample clotted.The 25th percentile (P25) and 75th percentile (P75) of the distribution of each QI were employed to establish the high,medium and low specification.Results 5 346,7 593,5 950 and 6 874 laboratories sub mitted the survey results respectively.The P50 of biochemistry (except incorrect fill level),immunology and microbiology reach to 6σ.The P50 of clinical laboratory is 4 to 6σ except for incorrect sample container.There is no significant change of the continuous survey results.Based on results in 2017 to establish the quality specification,the P25 and P75 of the four QIs is 0 and 0.084 4 ％,0 and 0.047 6 ％,0 and 0.114 2 ％,0 and 0.078 4 ％,respectively.Conclusion According to the results of the survey,most laboratories had a faire performance in biochemistry,immunology and microbiology,and clinical laboratory needs to be strengthened.Laboratories should strengthen the laboratory information system construction to ensure the actual and reliable data collection,and make a long time monitoring to achieve a better quality.

Objective To investigate the metabolic effects of glucose dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor antagomst pro3 (GIP) in induced diabetes mice about blood glucose,triglyceride,cholesterol,leptin and fatty issue.Methods 27 C57 mice were randomly divided into normal group and diabetes mice group,and the mice in diabetes group were fed with high fat food and intraperitoneal injected streptozocin.Then 1 mouse that random blood giucose lower than 16.9 mmol/L was deleted in diabetes group.The rest mice in diabetes group were divided into two groups,diabetes control group,pro3 (GIP) group.Pro3 (GIP) group was given drug pro3 (GIP).The bloodglucose and glucose tolerance were measured.After treatment for 6 weeks,all mice were sacrificed and fatty tissues were collected.Results After 6 weeks,the blood glucose of the pro3 (GIP) group was obviously lower than diabetes control group (t=8.43,P＜0.01),and insulin levers in 0,30,60 and 120 min were obviously lower than diabetes control group (t =3.90,2.60,6.88 and 3.33,P＜0.05).There was significant difference between pro3 (GIP) group and diabetes control group about inflammatory cells.Moreover,leptin in pro3 (GIP) group was obviously lower than in diabetes control group (t =5.04,P＜0.01),but triglyceride,cholesterol,and adiponectin had no significant difference between two groups.Conclusion Pro3 (GIP) can significantly reduce blood glucose,insulin level,leptin of diabetes mice,and attenuate the inflammatory cells infiltration in fatty issue.

Objective To investigate the antibacterial resistance in nationwide's tietiary hospitals and understand the trend of antimicrobial resistance.Methods All the clinical isolates were collected from 18 hospitals and the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were tested using agar dilution method recommended by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) in central laboratory.The susceptibilities of isolates to antimicrobial agents were determined by using CLSI or European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) 2017 guideline.Results A total of 4333 pathogenic isolates from 18 tertiary hospitals in 18 cities nationwide over the period from July 2015 to June 2016 were studied.Based on the MIC results,Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae showed extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBLs) phenotype rates of 59.4％ and 27.5％,respectively;decreased by 7 to 10 percentage points comparing the last time.Carbapenems,amikacin,moxalactam,β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations,tigecycline,and fosfomycin displayed desirable antibacterial activity against Enterbacteriaceae,but a significant increasing of carbapenems resistance Klebsiella pneumoniae were noted.For non-fermenting Gram-negative isolates,resistance rate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannnii to imipennnem were 29.5％ and 69.8％ and multidrug-resistant (MDR) detection rate were 35.6％ and 78.3％,extensively drug-resistant (XDR) were 10.2％ and 72.5％,respectively.Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from children were more resistant to β-lactam than those from adults and the old people,so bacterial resistance in children is an important problem in China.Conclusion Though the decline of ESBLs detection rate,carbapenem non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae rates continued to increase,which should be paid more attention.

Objective To investigate the gram-positive coccus resistance in nationwide's tietiary hospitals and understand the trend of antimicrobial resistance.Methods All the clinical isolates were collected from 18 hospitals and the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were tested using agar/broth dilution method recommended by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) in central laboratory.The susceptibilities of isolates to antimicrobial agents were determined by using CLSI or European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) 2017 guideline.Results A total of 2301 Gram-positive cocci isolated from 18 hospitals in 18 cities nationwide were studied.Based on the MIC results,the prevalence of methicillin resistant Stapylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin resistant Stapylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) were 39.9％ and 86.6％ respectively.No vancomycin insensitive Staphylococcus was detected.Staphylococcus aureus were 100％ susceptibile to linezolid and teicoplanin,but resistant or insensitive for drugs other than vancomycin were observed among Coagulase Negative Staphylococci (CoNS).Antibiotic resistance rate of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcusfaecium to ampicillin were 4.5％ and 85.1％.The detectation rate of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus(VRE) was 2.1％.Nonsusceptibility rate of Enterococcus faecalis to linezolid was 7.8％,showing slight increase than last time.The prevalence of penicillin nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSSP) was 6.6％ based on non-meningitis and parenteral administration criterion;while for cases of oral penicillin,the rate was 70.0％,was as flat as last time.There were no significant differenees of resistance rates of Stapylococcus aureus,Stapylococcus epidermidis Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium among various groups such as different department,age,or specimen source.Conclusion Compared with past surveillance result,VRE detection ratio was steady,while MRSA detection ratio decreased.The emergence of resistance and non-susceptible strains to new antibiotics such as linezolid,tigecycline and daptomycin should be payed more attention.

Objective To investigate the effects of tetramethylprazine (TMP) on left ventricular hypertrophy and the regulation of nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide(NADPH) oxidases in renovascular hypertension of rat.Methods Hypertensive rats were obtained by using two-kidney-two-clip (2K2C) method.Rats were classified into sham-operated group,model group,low,high dose experimental groups (TMP,30,60 mg · kg-1 · d-1) and control group (candesartan,10 mg · kg-1 · d-1).The drugs were continuously administered for 2 weeks.Left ventricular (LV) hemodynamic parameters,serum superoxide ismutase (SOD),dmalondialdehyde (MDA) and hydrogen peroxide(H2O2)levels were measured.The ratio of LV weight to body weight (LVW/BW) was calculated.Hematoxylin-eosin(HE) staining was used for morphological analysis.RT-polymerase chain reaction and Western-blot were performed to investigate the protein expressions of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP),β-myosin heavy chain(β-MHC) and NADPH oxidases(Nox2,Nox4 and P47phox).Results Compared with model group,aortic systolic pressure (AoSP),aortic diastolic pressure (AoDP),LV end-systolic pressure (LVESP),LV end-diastolic pressure(LVEDP) significantly decreased in low,high dose experimental groups with siginificanly (all P ＜ 0.05) while (+ dp/dtmax) and (-dp/dtmax) increased in low,high dose experimental groups with siginificanly (P ＜ 0.05).Compared with model group on LVW/BW (2.8 ± 0.3) mg · g-1,LVW/BW of (1.9 ± 0.2),(1.7 ± 0.4) mg · g-1 in low,high dose experimental groups significantly decreased (P ＜ 0.05).Compared with model group SOD significantly increased while MDA and H2O2 decreased in low,high dose experimental groups with significandy (all P ＜ 0.05).The protein expressions of Nox2 in low,high experimental groups and model group were 0.82 ± 0.08,0.57 ± 0.05,0.30 ± 0.13;the protein expressions of Nox4 in above three groups were 1.00±0.10,0.79 ± 0.07,1.32 ± 0.15 and the protein expressions of P47phox in above three groups were 0.88 ± 0.08,0.65 ± 0.06,1.23 ± 0.15,compared with model group,the protein expression significantly decreased in low,high dose experimental groups with significantly (all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion TMP attenuated cardiac hypertrophy possibly through decreasing NADPH oxidases (Nox2,Nox4,P47phox) expressions and oxidative stress in renovascular hypertensive rats.

Objective To evaluate the pharmacokinetics of multiple dose of antofloxacin hydroehloride tablet under fast and food state in Chinese healthy subjects.Methods A randomized,open and multiple dose study was conducted.Three dose groups with 16 subjects per group were given the dose of 200,400 and 600 mg antofloxacin hydrochloride tablet,once daily for 7 days respectively.8 subjects (4 male and 4 female) were administrated under fast state and 8 subjects (4 male and 4 female) under food state in each dose.The concentrations of antofloxacin in plasma and urine were determined by HPLC method.Results The main pharmacokinetics parameters of three dose (200,400 and 600 mg) under fast at first day were as follows:Cmax were (2.23 ±0.38),(4.59 ± 1.40),(5.03 ±0.77)mg · L-1,t1/2βwere(11.99 ±3.31),(10.97 ±5.33),(14.39 ± 1.63)h,tmax were (1.37 ±0.78),(2.04 ± 1.42),(2.90 ±2.02)h,AUC0-t were (27.61 ±6.14),(51.77 ±22.09),(73.62 ±10.14)mg · L-1 · h,AUC0-∞ were (38.28 ± 13.49),(72.28 ± 42.80),(108.91 ± 13.26) mg · L-1 · h,V/F were (92.84 ± 12.98),(91.90±14.55),(116.28±22.62)L,CL/F were (5.73 ±1.71),(7.67 ±4.65),(5.58 ±0.66)L· h-1,respectively;under food state at first day,Cmax were (2.36 ± 0.43),(4.11 ± 1.53),(5.60 ± 1.00) mg · L-1,t1/2β were (14.37 ±4.34),(11.25 ±5.39),(15.53 ±2.94) h,tmax were (2.69 ± 1.62),(2.40 ± 1.50),(2.65 ±1.29)h,AUC0-t were (33.69 ±4.00),(48.07 ±22.19),(78.01 ±17.18)mg · L-1 · h,AUC0-∞ were (50.71 ± 8.86),(67.37 ± 41.98),(121.31.66 ± 33.54) mg · L-1 · h,V/F were (81.04 ± 16.35),(106.32 ±34.33),(114.08±20.00)L,CL/Fwere (4.07 ±0.82),(8.28 ±5.29),(5.23 ±1.18)L · h-1,respectively.After 7 days,the main pharmacokinetics parameters of three dose (200,400 and 600 mg) under fast were as follows:Cmax were (3.69 ± 1.39),(7.54 ± 2.95),(8.50 ± 0.93) mg · L-1,t1/2β were (25.22 ± 3.34),(19.56 ±12.47),(15.95 ±2.85)h,tmax were (1.64±1.29),(1.31 ±0.79),(1.60±1.07)h;AUC0-twere (72.29 ± 24.00),(142.96 ± 67.20),(180.81 ± 35.33) mg · L-1 · h,AUC0-∞ were (75.90 ± 25.46),(148.26 ±69.86),(183.30±35.11)mg · L-1 · h,V/F were (184.77 ±52.51),(119.22 ±53.92),(118.91 ±30.13) L,CL/F were (5.06 ± 1.18),(4.75 ± 1.72),(5.15 ±0.72)L · h-1;under food state,Cmax were (3.53 ± 1.06),(6.54 ±1.43),(8.52 ±1.80)mg · L-1,t1/2βwere (24.08 ±6.12),(20.64 ±9.16),(18.69 ±6.49)h,tmax were (2.94 ± 1.02),(1.96 ± 1.05),(2.69 ±0.96)h,AUC0-t were (94.71 ±31.03),(142.17 ±52.46),(211.34.01 ±52.99)mg · L-1 · h,AUC0-∞were (99.32 ±33.93),(149.77 ±55.19),(213.76 ±53.00)mg· L-1 · h,V/F were (139.40±37.39),(140.24±71.11),(130.20 ±71.09)L;CL/F were (4.11 ±1.13),(4.81 ± 1.17),(4.69 ± 0.88)L · h-1.Urinary recovery rates after 7 days doses from zero to 120 h were (67.24±13.56)％,(68.62±14.45)％ and (74.31 ±12.99)％,respectively.Conclusion Food had no obvious influence on pharmacokinetics parameters after multiple oral dose of 200,400 and 600 mg antofloxacin hydrochloride tablet under fast and food state,except that tmax increased.There was no accumulation in human body.It can be considered that food had no effect in the clinical use of antofloxacin hydrochloride tablet.

Objective To observe the effect of different doses of pregabalin and self-control analgesia (PCA) in early postoperative pain in orthopedic lumbar spine surgery patitens.Methods A total of 54 patients with lumbar spinal canal stenosis lumbar vertebrae decompression surgery were randomly divided into high,middle and low dose groups,each group 18 cases.High,middle and low dose groups were orally given pregabalin 300,150,75 mg at 2 h before anesthesia.The patient controlled analgesia (PCA) was used after surgery.The visual analogue score (VAS) at 2,6,12,24 h after surgery,the analgesia drug dosage within 24 h of self-control,incidence of adverse drug reactions were observed in two groups.Results The VAS at 2 h after surgery in high,middle and low dose groups were 3.72 ± 1.27,3.67 ± 1.14,4.78 ± 1.31,with significant difference between high dose and low dose groups(P ＜0.05).The VAS at 6 h after surgery in high,middle and low dose groups were 3.06 ± 0.80,3.28 ± 1.49,4.00 ± 0.69,with significant difference between high dose and low dose groups (P ＜ 0.05).The VAS at 12 h after surgery in high,middle and low dose groups were 2.28 ± 0.67,3.11 ± 1.28,3.33 ± 0.84,with significant difference (P ＜ 0.05).The VAS at 24 h after surgery in high,middle and low dose groups were 2.17 ±0.62,2.83 ± 1.10,2.83 ±0.71,with no significant difference (P ＞0.05).There were 1 case of dizziness,nausea and vomiting,1 case of somnolence,1 case of nausea and vomiting,with the incidence of 16.67％ (3/18 cases).There was 1 case of nausea and vomiting respectively in middle dose and low dose group,with the incidence of 5.56％ (1/18 cases).There was no significant difference in the incidence among three groups (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Lyrica drugs prior to application in orthopedic surgery,early postoperative analgesic effect is good,with low incidence of adverse reactions,300 mg of drug delivery in advance can be a good solution.

Objective To explore the effect of HeLa cells infected with Coxsackie virus B3 (CVB3) on the changes of mTOR signal pathway under different nutritional conditions.Methods The HeLa cells were cultured under conventional culture and serum starvation culture.(1) For the conventional method,the medium with 10 g/L fetal bovine serum was added for 24 h after the Hela cells were fused into 40％ to 50％,and the medium was changed on the next day,then the virus group was infected with CVB3 of 50％ tissue culture infective dose (TCID50).However,the control group was cultured by 2 g/L fetal bovine serum.(2) For the serum starvation method,HeLa cells were cultured with the medium without fetal bovine serum for 24 h.Then the virus group was infected with CVB3 of TCID50.The cells in control group were cultured by 2 g/L fetal bovine serum.Cell morphology changes were observed by inverted microscope,and the expressions of the mTOR,p70S6K mRNA were detected with Real-time PCR at 3 h,6 h,9 h,12 h,24 h respectively in both conventional culture and serum starvation groups.Results The expressions of mTOR and p70S6K mRNA were lower in the virus group than those in control group at 12 h and the 24 h (all P ＜0.05) in the conventional culture group.And the expressions of mTOR and p70S6K mRNA in the virus group were lower than those in the control group at every time points (all P ＜ 0.05) in serum starvation group.The expressions of mTOR and p70S6K mRNA in group with serum starvation virus and the control groups were higher than those in conventional culture group in all time points,but only the expressions of mTOR mRNA were significantly different between the 2 groups (all P ＜0.05),however,the expressions of p70S6K mRNA had no significant difference between the 2 groups (all P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion CVB3 may be able to down-regulate the expressions of mTOR and p70S6K mRNA.

Objective To investigate the expression changes of myeloid-related protein-8 (MRP-8) and myeloid-related protein-14 (MRP-14) in children with Kawasaki disease (KD) and to obtain laboratory diagnostic serum markers and new targets for its drug therapy.Methods A total of 46 patients with KD(KD group) were enrolled from Jul.2009 to Dec.2010 and divided into the coronary artery dilatation(CAD) group(n =15) and the normal coronary artery group(n =31) ;Meanwhile,25 febrile patients with acute respiratory tract infection but without disease in the circulatory,blood,immune systems formed the non-KD febrile group.Twenty healthy children from the out-patient department formed the healthy control group.Peripheral venous blood was collected in the acute and subacute stage of KD.Levels of MRP-8/MRP-14 were detected with enzyme-linked immunosorbnent assay (ELISA).Gene expressions of MRP-8,MRP-14 in leukocytes were analyzed by semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RTPCR).Results The serum levels of MRP-8/MRP-14 along with mRNA expressions of MRP-8 and MRP-14 in the leukocytes in the out-patient acute and subacute stage of KD were significantly higher than those in the non-KD febrile group and the healthy control group(all P ＜ 0.05) ;There was no significant difference between non-KD febrile group and healthy control group (P ＞ 0.05).The serum levels of MRP-8/MRP-14 along with mRNA expressions of MRP-8 and MRP-14 in leukocyte in actue stage of KD were significantly higher than those in subacute stage(all P ＜ 0.001).The serum levels of MRP-8/MRP-14 as well as mRNA expressions of MRP-8 and MRP-14 in the acute and the subacute stage of CAD group were significantly higher than those in the normal coronary artery group(P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions MRP-8/MRP-14 may probably play a role in the pathogenesis of KD and can be used as a diagnostic indicator for KD;MRP-8/MRP-14 may be involved in the formation of coronary artery lesion and can be used as an effective predictor for the coronary artery lesion.