1.Research advances in correlation between chronic periodontitis and prostatic diseases
STOMATOLOGY 2023;43(3):273-277
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the correlation between periodontitis and prostatic diseases. Aging, obesity, smoking and psychological factors are common risk factors of these two diseases, but the key correlation mechanism is not clear. This article reviews the research on and possible biological mechanism of chronic periodontitis and prostatic diseases, in order to provide basis for disease management and clinical research in the future.
2.Mechanism of Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction on improving slow-transmission constipation in rats by regulating AMPK/eNOS signaling pathway
Changying XIE ; Xuchao YU ; Wei GE ; Chengcheng WU ; Huirong XIAO ; Shenqi LIN ; Jinlian LIU
China Pharmacy 2022;33(13):1617-1623
OBJECTIVE To investigate the mechanism of Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction on improving slow-transmission constipation(STC)in rats by regulating AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK)/endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS)signaling pathway. METHODS The rats were randomly divided into blank group ,model group ,Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction low-dose,medium-dose and high-dose groups (6,12,18 mg/kg),with 10 rats in each group. Except for blank group ,other groups were given Compound diphenoxylate suspension to induce STC model. After modeling ,blank group and model group were given normal saline intragastrically ,and Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction groups were given relevant medicine intragastrically , once a day ,for consecutive 2 weeks. The number of feces and water content of feces in each group were observed before and after treatment;the carbon powder propulsion rate of rats in each group was calculated ;the pathological structure of colon in each group was observed ;the levels of nitric oxide (NO)and nitric oxide synthase (NOS)in colon tissues of rats in each group were detected;the expressions of AMPK ,eNOS,mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR),tuberous sclerosis complex 1(Tsc-1), Tsc-2 and eukaryotic promoter 4E binding protein (4ebp)were also detected. The active ingredients of Cannabis sativa ,Citrus aurantium and Rehmannia glutinosa were screened from Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction. The active ingredients with high Degree value were docked with AMPK and eNOS ,to verify the interaction. RESULTS Compared with before treatment ,the number and water content of feces were increased significantly in Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction groups (P<0.05). Compared with blank group ,carbon powder propulsion rate of model group was decreased significantly (P<0.05); colonic structure was disordered ,and a large number of inflammatory cells were seen in submucosa ;the levels of NO and NOS in colon tissue as well as the protein expressions of AMPK ,eNOS,mTOR,Tsc-1,Tsc-2 and 4ebp were increased significantly (P<0.05). Compared with model group ,above indexes of Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction groups (except for NOS in low-dose group )were reserved significantly (P<0.05). In the molecular docking experiment ,the active components with the highest Degree values in C. sativa ,C. aurantium and R. glutinosa were(Z)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-phenyl)-N-[2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl] acrylamide,nobiletin and stigmasterol. The binding energies of AMPK with these three components were -5.15,-4.61 and -4.83 kJ/mol,the binding energies of eNOS with these three components were -6.11,-5.40 and -5.91 kJ/mol. The conformations of these three compounds with AMPK and eNOS were stable and their binding activities were high. CONCLUSIONS Mayuan tongbian zhitong decoction can improve the constipation symptoms and intestinal function in STC model rats ,and its specific mechanism may be related to the inhibition of AMPK/eNOS signaling pathway.
3.Magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging of moyamoya disease and atherosclerotic moyamoya syndrome
Tengda HUANG ; Jianxun SONG ; Guohui LIN ; Huirong SU
International Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases 2022;30(10):787-791
Compared with routine imaging examination, magnetic resonance vascular wall imaging (MR-VWI) has the advantages of non-invasive and accurate in the diagnosis and differentiation of moyamoya disease and atherosclerotic moyamoya syndrome, and is of great significance in guiding clinical treatment and predicting outcomes. This article reviews the features of MR-VWI in moyamoya disease and atherosclerotic moyamoya syndrome.
4.Analysis of employment psychology and related factors of medical students
Qiaoli SUN ; Qianlei WANG ; Lei LIN ; Li XU ; Meihua MENG ; Huirong ZHU
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2021;20(2):245-248
Objective:To understand the employment psychology of college students in traditional Chinese medicine universities through analyzing relevant influencing factors, and to provide solutions to improve employment quality of the medical students.Methods:An online questionnaire survey on employment psychology and employment situation was conducted from August to September in 2017 among 384 students who had graduated from Longhua Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 2013 to 2017. SPSS 19.0 was used for chi-square test and linear trend test on the survey results.Results:A total of 374 valid questionnaires were recovered, with the effective recovery rate of 97.4%. The results showed that the most important factors to be considered were professional counterparts (77.01%, 288 students), salary (75.67%, 283 students) and development prospect (69.52%, 260 students) and the most important psychological characteristics were hesitation and contradiction (50.8%, 190 students) and anxiety (25.13%, 94 students). The study found that employment psychology was related to students' family situation, category, temperament and performance during their education period.Conclusion:Students have different employment psychology, which can be improved by consummating career planning, broadening employment channels, combing employment policies, supplementing professional shortcomings, and improving comprehensive skills. Meanwhile, colleges and universities can expand their practice bases, provide employment counseling, and improve education resources, speed up the construction of the second classroom, pay attention to special groups to conduct employment guidance and improve the quality of employment.
5.Capsid destabilization and epitope alterations of human papillomavirus 18 in the presence of thimerosal
Huang XIAOFEN ; Li YIKE ; Nie MEIFENG ; Yue MINGXI ; Li YUFANG ; Lin ZHIJIE ; Pan HUIRONG ; Fang MUJIN ; Wu TING ; Li SHAOWEI ; Zhang JUN ; Xia NINGSHAO ; Zhao QINJIAN
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2021;11(5):617-627
Thimerosal has been widely used as a preservative in drug and vaccine products for decades.Due to the strong propensity to modify thiols in proteins,conformational changes could occur due to covalent bond formation between ethylmercury(a degradant of thimerosal)and thiols.Such a conformational change could lead to partial or even complete loss of desirable protein function.This study aims to investigate the effects of thimerosal on the capsid stability and antigenicity of recombinant human papillomavirus(HPV)18 virus-like particles(VLPs).Dramatic destabilization of the recombinant viral capsid upon thimerosal treatment was observed.Such a negative effect on the thermal stability of VLPs preserved with thimerosal was shown to be dependent on the thimerosal concentration.Two highly neutralizing antibodies,13H12 and 3C3,were found to be the most sensitive to thimerosal treatment.The kinetics of antigenicity loss,when monitored with 13H12 or 3C3 as probes,yielded two distinctly different sets of kinetic parameters,while the data from both monoclonal antibodies(mAbs)followed a biphasic expo-nential decay model.The potential effect of thimerosal on protein function,particularly for thiol-containing proteinaceous active components,needs to be comprehensively characterized during formulation development when a preservative is necessary.
6.Short from health survey-36 in evaluating quality of life in patients with cervicogenic headache treated by coblation
Chunzi LYU ; Liyu ZHU ; Zhuangrong CHEN ; Huirong CHEN ; Huijuan HUANG ; Xuan SONG ; Qin HU ; Lin ZHOU ; Chen ZHU
Chinese Journal of Neuromedicine 2019;18(8):824-827
Objective To explore the value of short from health survey-36 (SF-36) in evaluating quality of life and pain care in patients with cervicogenic headache treated by coblation.Methods Thirty patients with cervicogenic headache accepted coblation treatment in our hospital from February 2017 to August 2018 were chosen in this retrospective analysis. The changes of visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) scores and SF-36 scores (quality of life) before and after treatment were analyzed, and the correlations of these scale scores were determined by Pearson correlation analysis .Results After the 10 weeks of follow-up, the VAS scores of these 30 patients decreased from 7.70±0.88 to 3.30±1.12, SAS scores decreased from 62.47±4.59 to 49.20±6.48, and SF-36 scores increased from 38.50±4.15 to 78.64±6.39, with significant differences (P<0.05). VAS scores were positively correlated with SAS scores (r=0.720,P=0.012), but negatively correlated with SF-36 scores (r=-0.850,P=0.001); SAS scores were negatively correlated with SF-36 scores (r=-0.940,P=0.000). Conclusion SF-36 can be used as a reference for pain nursing intervention in patients with cervicogenic headache after coblation.
7.Study on Correlation between Color and HPLC Fingerprint of Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
Huirong CHEN ; Xianglong LIN ; Ruiqi YANG ; Guangzhao CAO ; Yonghong YAN ; Huiqin ZOU
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;20(6):935-940
Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma is one of the traditional herbal medicine used in China, study on the correlation between the cross-section color and HPLC fingerprints of them have important significance for promoting the development of traditional disciplines. Quantitative analysis of the color of sample cross section was carried out by color digital method, fingerprint analysis was carried out by HPLC, and the canonical correlation analysis was carried out between them. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the color of Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma cross section and the information of HPLC fingerprinting. Results indicated that, The digitized indexes of color of cross section could reflect the result of fingerprint analysis to some extent.
8.Effect of limitation in flow of people on medical care quality in emergency resuscitation room
Shihai XU ; Suili GUAN ; Manying XIE ; Huirong LIN ; Fei SHI ; Jin WANG ; Aijun SHAN
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018;27(7):815-820
Objective To investigate the effect of limitation in flow of people on medical care quality in emergency resuscitation room (ERR).Methods This study was retrospectively performed to compare emergency medical quality before and after (October to December,2015 vs.February to April,2016) limitation of flow of people in ERR.Variables included noise level,occupational exposure,adverse event,hospital-acquired infection,length of stay (LOS) in ERR,mortality rate,return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rate after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),the rate of unexpected return to ERR,door to drug and door to balloon time for patients with ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI),patients' and emergency personnels' satisfaction level.The data were analyzed with t-test,chi-square test or Poisson Z test where appropriate.Results There were 5 031 and 5 097 patients respectively admitted in ERR before and after limitation of flow of people.Patients' main diagnoses and severity of illness between the two periods had no significantly difference (P>0.05).After the limitation of flow of people,the noise level in ERR was lowered (P<0.01),the numbers of occupational exposure events (14 cases vs.4 cases,Z=2.357,P=0.018) and adverse events (18 cases vs.5 cases,Z=2.711,P=0.007) were decreased,the rate of hospital-acquired infection was reduced (1.1% vs.0.5%,x2=8.111,P=0.004),the LOS in ERR was shortened [(6.3±0.8) h vs.(4.6±0.6) h,t=121.083,P<0.01],the door to balloon time for STEMI patients was also decreased [(91.2±12.8) min vs.(89.3±8.0) min,t=2.486,P=0.013].Moreover,patients' and emergency personnels' satisfaction level were elevated.No significant difference was observed in mortality rate,ROSC rate,rate of unexpected return to ERR and door to drug time for STEMI patients.Conclusions The limitation of flow of people in ERR can lower the noise level,reduce emergency personnels' working pressure,improve their working efficiency,avoid medical errors,elevate patients' and emergency personnels' satisfaction level.
9.Effect of low dose clomiphene in treatment of idiopathic oligoasthenospermia and therapeutic effect on sperm epididymal protein 4 levels
Fei SHI ; Huirong YIN ; Di SONG ; Shasha LIN ; Yajun XU
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2017;37(5):54-57
Objective To investigate therapeutic effect of the low dose clomiphene treatment of idiopathic oligoasthenospermia and effect on sperm epididymal protein level 4.Methods183 cases of idiopathic oligoasthenospermia were divided into three groups, vitamin group of 61 patients were given vitamin E,clomiphene group(61 cases)treated with low dose clomiphene, combined group of 61 patients were given low dose clomiphene and vitamin E, lasted for 12 weeks.Semen volume, sperm density, sperm motility, sperm survival rate and sperm reactive oxygen species (ROS), malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), human epididymis protein 4 (HE4), follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone concentration were observed before and after treatment.After treatment, the patients were followed up for 1 year, the observation of the natural pregnancy rate after treatment.ResultsSperm density, sperm survival rate and sperm and a A+B grade sperm in the clomiphene group were significantly higher comparedwith the vitamin group (P< 0.05), sperm density, sperm survival rate and sperm and a A+B grade sperm in the combined group were significantly increasedcompared with clomiphene group and vitamin group (P< 0.05),levels of HE4 after treatment was significantly lower compared with before treatment (P< 0.05), And the difference between the three groups were statistically significant (P< 0.05).Follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone in clomiphene group and combined group after treatment, were significantly increased compared with before treatment (P< 0.05), and the combined group had no statistically difference compared with clomiphene group.The pregnancy rate in 1 year of vitamin group, clomiphene group and combined group were 24.59%, 42.62% and 62.29% (P< 0.05).ConclusionClomiphene treatment of idiopathic asthenospermia is better than vitamin E, the combination of the two has a synergistic effect.
10.Correlation Analysis on Cross Section Color of Licorice and Its Active Ingredients
Wenjuan MI ; Xianglong LIN ; Yang LI ; Huirong CHEN ; Yonghong YAN ; Huiqin ZOU
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2017;19(11):1829-1835
This study was aimed to establish an objective and convenient method to evaluate the quality of licorice through the study on correlation between the cross section color and contents of active ingredients of licorice.Therefore,colorimeter was introduced and applied to determinate cross section color of licorice.Meanwhile,contents of five active ingredients of licorice were also determined.HPLC was used to determine liquiritin and glycyrrhizic acid.Colorimetric method was used to determine total saponins.Ultraviolet spectrophotometry was used to determine total flavonoids.Sulphuric acid-phenol colorimetry was used to determine polysaccharides.Correlation between the cross section color and content determination result was analyzed.The results showed that the correlation coefficient of glycyrrhizic acid content and L* was-0.578,P < 0.001,the correlation coefficient with b* was 0.596,P < 0.001;the correlation coefficient of liquiritin content and L* was-0.503,P =0.002,the correlation coefficient with b* was 0.890,P < 0.001;the correlation coefficient of total flavonoids content and L* was-0.729,P < 0.001,the correlation coefficient with b* was 0.724,P < 0.001;the correlation coefficient of polysaccharides content and L* was 0.230,P =0.190,the correlation coefficient with b* was-0.390,P =0.023;the correlation coefficient of total saponins content and L* was-0.411,P =0.016,the correlation coefficient with b* was 0.738,P < 0.001.It was concluded that the cross section color index of licorice has significant correlation with contents of glycyrrhizic acid,liquiritin,total flavonoids and total saponins.There was no significant correlation with content of polysaccharides.It illustrated the close correlation between cross section color of licorice and its active ingredients.Through the digitalized determination on color,contents of chemical composition in licorice can be initially determined or predicted objectively.It provided a new idea and method for the quality evaluation of Chinese herbal medicine.

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