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0.900.Comparison of the HPLC profiles of the total flavonoids material and the effective parts of the total flavonoids was established and the similarity with the corresponding Citrus Aurantium L.var daidai Tanaka fruits indicated that they were closely related to each other.Conclusion:The HPLC fingerprints of the medicine material and the effective parts of the total flavonoids with high specificity and can be used to control its quality.
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BACKGROUND: Impaired glucose tolerance(IGT) is mainly related to genetic factors and environmental factors including excessive calorie intake and obesity. Insulin resistance(IR) plays a major role in the onset of IGT.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between erythrocyte insulinase activity(EIA) and IR in patients with IGT soas to provide theoretic basis for improving IR in patients with IGT by exercise.DESIGN: Observational and comparative study based on IGT patients as the subjects and adults with normal glucose tolerance as controls.SETTING: Department of endocrinology of a hospital affiliated to a military medical university.SUBJECTS: The study was conducted in the Department of Endocrinology of Nanfang Hospital, First Military Medical University of Chinese PLA, from January 2001 to April 2003. A total of 50 inpatients and outpatients with IGT, 26 males and 24 females aged(52 ± 7) years, were randomly selected. Inclusion criteria: those whose diagnosis met the WHO 1999 for criteria oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and whose heart, liver and kidney functions and blood test were within the normal range without taking any antidiabetics. Exclusion criteria: those who had liver and kidney diseases, infection, malignant tumor, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disorder and connective tissue disease. The patients with IGT were divided into 2 subgroups according to the presence of abnormal fasting plasma glucose (FPG).Subgroup A consisted of 20 patients (9 males and 11 females) with IGT accompanied with impaired FPG. Subgroup B was composed of 30 IGT patients (17 males and 13 females) with normal FPG. Twenty adults with normal glucose tolerance were set as control group(20 females and 10 males) with the age of(48 ± 12)years.METHODS: EIA was measured with the method of radioenzymatic assay in all subjects. Blood sugar, serum insulin and glycosylated hemoglobin were also measured, and homeostasis model analysis-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) index was calculated for estimation of insulin sensitivity.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The differences and correlation between EIA and HOMA-IR in IGT patients of each group.RESULTS: EIA, serum fasting insulin and HOMA-IR indexes of the patients with IGT were significantly higher than those of the controls ( P < 0.01 or P < 0.05) . EIA and HOMA-IR of the patients in subgroup A was significantly higher than those in subgroup B ( P < 0. 01 ). Linear regression analysis showed that EIA had significant positive correlation with serum fasting insulin, glycosylated hemoglobin and HOMA-IR indexes( r = 0.51, 0.44,0.49, P <0.01).CONCLUSION: The degradation rate of erythrocyte insulinase in patients with IGT tolerance is significantly higher than that of normal persons, and is closely related to the onset and development of insulin resistance.
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Objective To study plasma tumor necrosis factor ?(TNF ?) level and its relationship with insulin resistance in familial type 2 DM. Methods Plasma TNF ? were determined by RIA in 32 familial type 2 DM patients, their 37 non diabetic first degree relatives and 40 healthy control subjects. Results Plasma TNF ? was significantly higher in familial type 2 DM patients[(1.19?0.21)?g/L] than in healthy control subjects[(1.00?0.18)?g/L]( P 0.05). Regression analysis indicated that TNF ? was inversely related to ISI and was a significantly independent contributor to variations in ISI. 39% of the variance in ISI was explained by TC, body mass index(BMI)and TNF ?. Conclusion The finding of an association between high plasma levels of TNF ? and insulin resistance suggests that TNF ? may be involved in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance in familial type 2 DM patients.
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The activity of erythrocyte membrane Na-pumping K~+-activated pera-nitro-phenylphosphatase (K~+-pNPPase) and red cell deformability (RCD) were stndied in 50adult patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). RCD was expressedas red blood cell filtration index (RBC-IF). In comparison with the healthy subject, theactivity of erythrocyte membrane Na-pumping K~+-pNPPase was significantly decreased,and RBC-IF was significantly increased. The above-mentioned changes were more severein NIDDM with retinopathy than those without. There was a very close negative corre-lation between Na-pumping K~+-pNPPase and RBC-IF. These results indicated that thedecrease of erythrocyte membrane Na-pumping K~+-pNPPase activity might be an importantfactor fot the decrease of RCD.
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The relationship between plasma magnesium and plasma lipids was studied in 80 cases of Type II diabetes mellitus. It was found that plasma magnesium in diabetic patients was much lower than that in normal controls. Plasma magnesium was negatively correlated with plasma cholesterol, triglyceride, and LDL-C, and positively correlated with plasma HDL-C, HDL2, and HDL-C/LDL-C, suggesting that hypom-agnesemia was closely related with disturbance in lipid metabolism in diabetes mellitus. Hypomagnesemia seemed to worsen the disturbance of lipid metabolism, and might be one of the factors causing vascular complications in diabetes mellitus
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AIM: To explore the relationship between intercellular adhesion molecule-1(ICAM-1)expression in endothelial cells(EC) and advanced glycosylation end products(AGEs) stimulation. METHODS: Murine bone marrow derived ECs was stimulated by AGEs after pretreated with anti-AGEs, anti-IL-1? and N-acetylcysteine(NAC),then SOD activity and ICAM-1 concentration and adhesion rate(AR) were evaluated. RESULTS: ECs which expressed ICAM-1[(0.65?0.14) vs (0.11?0.02)] induced by AGEs showed lower SOD activity [(0.69?0.19)?10 3 U/L vs (1.71?0.42)?10 3 U/L]. The ICAM-1 expression as well as the increase of AR caused by AGEs stimulation could be suppressed by anti-AGEs(0.12?0.01) and NAC(0.11?0.05). Anti-IL-1? had no influence on these changes. CONCLUSION: AGEs could induce endothelial cells to express ICAM-1 in vitro, most probably due to the formation of free radicals. Besides, AGEs may stimulate other cells to secrete cytokines resulting in ICAM-1 expression in endothelial cells.