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Based on the neurovascular unit(NVU), neurovascular coupling functions as a barrier to maintain the homeostasis of the microenvironment by regulating the signaling and metabolic activity of nerve cells and capillaries. Widely dispersed across the retina, the NVU is essential to preserving its normal physiological function. A disturbance in retinal neurovascular homeostasis produced by a range of factors can result in a variety of retinal disorders, such as diabetic retinopathy(DR), glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa(RP)and age-related macular degeneration(ARMD). The retina also has a widespread distribution of brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF), which functions to promote neuron growth and repair damage by binding to its receptor TrkB. In recent years, BDNF was found to play a protective role against damage in the early stage of retinal neurovascular homeostasis imbalance, often known as the neurodegenerative stage. It also helps to reduce the production of pro-angiogenic substances of neurological origin and offers a fresh approach for the early detection and treatment of associated eye disorders.
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Abstract@#In the context of frequent public health events, effective school health education is an important measure to improve students health literacy and public health system of China. The study examined the National Health Education Standards in the U.S., based on a literature review and comparative analysis, to provide guidance for China. Using the method of liberature riview paper interprets the curriculum of National Health Education Standards in the U.S. and provides a mirror for China. Health Education standards in the U.S. are characterized by their academic quality, standardized framework, assessment program, equity principles, and other components. A mirror for China includes promoting the construction of the standards based health education curriculum, developing the skills based health education curriculum system, and constructing a performancebased comprehensive evaluation system.
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To further enhance the immune effect of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus-like particles (VLPs) vaccine, this study prepared FMDV VLPs-zeolitic imidazolate (framework-8, ZIF-8) complexes with different particle sizes. We used a biomimetic mineralization method with Zn2+ and 2-methylimidazole in different concentration ratios to investigate the effect of size on the immunization effect. The results showed that FMDV VLPs-ZIF-8 with three different sizes were successfully prepared, with an approximate size of 70 nm, 100 nm, and 1 000 nm, respectively. Cytotoxicity and animal toxicity tests showed that all three complexes exhibited excellent biological safety. Immunization tests in mice showed that all three complexes enhanced the titers of neutralizing and specific antibodies, and their immune effects improved as the size of the complexes decreased. This study showed that ZIF-8 encapsulation of FMDV VLPs significantly enhanced their immunogenic effect in a size-dependent manner.
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Animals , Mice , Foot-and-Mouth Disease/prevention & control , Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus , Antibodies, Neutralizing , Immunity, Humoral , Immunization , Vaccines, Virus-Like Particle , Antibodies, Viral , Viral VaccinesABSTRACT
Biofilms are closely associated with the tough healing and dysfunctional inflammation of chronic wounds. Photothermal therapy (PTT) emerged as a suitable alternative which could destroy the structure of biofilms with local physical heat. However, the efficacy of PTT is limited because the excessive hyperthermia could damage surrounding tissues. Besides, the difficult reserve and delivery of photothermal agents makes PTT hard to eradicate biofilms as expectation. Herein, we present a GelMA-EGF/Gelatin-MPDA-LZM bilayer hydrogel dressing to perform lysozyme-enhanced PTT for biofilms eradication and a further acceleration to the repair of chronic wounds. Gelatin was used as inner layer hydrogel to reserve lysozyme (LZM) loaded mesoporous polydopamine (MPDA) (MPDA-LZM) nanoparticles, which could rapidly liquefy while temperature rising so as to achieve a bulk release of nanoparticles. MPDA-LZM nanoparticles serve as photothermal agents with antibacterial capability, could deeply penetrate and destroy biofilms. In addition, the outer layer hydrogel consisted of gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) promoted wound healing and tissue regeneration. It displayed remarkable efficacy on alleviating infection and accelerating wound healing in vivo. Overall, the innovative therapeutic strategy we came up with has significant effect on biofilms eradication and shows promising application in promoting the repair of clinical chronic wounds.
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Mongolia is a parliamentary republic country in the north of our country. Healthcare system is mainly composed of three parts: state-owned medical institutions, private clinics and mixed-ownership medical institutions, characteris by the wide coverage but uneven resources. Due to the folk customs and climate, diseases of the digestive system are more common, and the main diseases that cause deaths of Mongolian residents are ischemic heart disease, stroke, and liver cancer. Mongolia is located by and culturally related to China, so the development and dissemination of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is likely acceptable to the public. Mongolia’s traditional medicine and TCM have long-term exchanges and influences, promoting each other’s development, which also are protected by Mongolian laws. The concerns such as the inheritance, study and protection of Mongolian traditional medicine, the promotion of non-medicinal therapies restrict the development Mongolian and Chinese traditional medicine. It is recommended that Mongolian and TCM jointly promote the development and dissemination of traditional medicine in the world by cultivating high-level medical talents, increasing research and protection of herbal medicines, and expanding the application of non-drug therapies.
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. At present, the in vivo model and traditional cell culture are mainly used in breast cancer researches. However, as high as 90% clinical trials are failed for drugs explored by the above two methods, due to the inherent species differences between humans and animals, as well as the differences in the tissue structure between organs and cells. Therefore, organoid three-dimensional culture is emerging. As a new tumor research model, organoid, a three-dimensional cell complex with spatial structure, has broad application prospects, such as precision medicine, organ transplantation, establishment of refractory disease model, gene therapy and drug research and development. Therefore, organoid is considered as one of the ideal carriers for life science research in the future. Breast cancer, a heterogeneous disease with complex phenotypes, has a low survival rate. Breast cancer organoid can reproduce many key features of human breast cancer, thus, the construction of organoid biological library of breast cancer will provide a new platform for studying the occurrence, development, metastasis and drug resistance mechanism of breast cancer. In this review, we systematically introduce the culture conditions of organoids and their application in breast cancer related research, and the application prospect of organoids.
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Animals , Female , Humans , Breast Neoplasms , Cell Culture Techniques , Organoids , Precision Medicine , ResearchABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the epidemiological and etiological characteristics of gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infection (IAI). Methods The patients with abdominal infection were identified retrospectively during the period from 2011 to 2015. The clinical and microbiological data were analyzed by WHONET 5.6 and SPSS 20.0. Results A total of 478 cases of IAI [hospital-acquired (HA) 290 cases, community-acquired (CA) 188 cases] were included in this analysis. CA-IAI patients at low risk were associated with significantly better outcome, and lower acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) Ⅱ score and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score than the CA-IAI and HA-IAI patients at high risk. The most common gram-negative bacillus isolated from intra-abdominal infections was E. coli and K. pneumoniae. The prevalence of ESBLs-producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates was 75.8％ and 35.8％, respectively. The E. coli isolates remained highly susceptible to amikacin, piperacillin-tazobactam, and carbapenems during the 5-year period, while the K. pneumoniae isolates showed poorer susceptibility to ampicillin-sulbactam. Conclusions The prevalence of ESBLs-producing GNB is increasing in the patients with IAI. Such isolates were resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents, but generally susceptible to carbapenems. It is important to strengthen the monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in IAIs, and choose antimicrobial therapy rationally based on the results of antimicrobial susceptibility test.
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Objective To investigate the prevalence and clinical characteristics of heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Methods Clinical isolates of S. aureus were collected from the hospital during the period from 2012 to 2015 and were tested for susceptibility to vancomycin using agar dilution method. The results were interpreted according to CLSI 2016 breakpoints. VISA and hVISA strains were screened out by population analysis profile-area under the curve (PAP-AUC). E-test was carried out to determine the MIC of VISA. The clinical data of the patients infected with S. aureus were reviewed retrospectively. Results A total of 105 patients were included in this analysis. And 105 strains of S. aureus were isolated from these patients, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains (58.1％, 61/105). PAP-AUC identified 19 (18.1％) hVISA strains and 10 (9.5％) VISA strains. Overall, 52 of the 105 patients were nosocomial infections and 53 community infections. The prevalence of MRSA was 69.2％ (36/52) in nosocomial infections, higher than that in community infections (47.2％, 25/53) (P＜0.05). The prevalence of hVISA in community infections (20.8％, 11/53) did not show significant difference from that in nosocomial infections (15.4％, 8/52) (P＞0.05). The clinical outcome (P＞0.05) and length of hospital stay (P＞0.05) did not show significant difference between hVISA and non-hVISA infections, or between VISA and non-VISA infections. Conclusions The prevalence of hVISA is high in this hospital, which does not show difference between S. aureus nosocomial infection and community infection, or between MRSA and MSSA. The length of hospital stay of hVISA infection is not significantly longer than that of nonhVISA infection. The clinical outcome of hVISA infection does not show difference from that of non-hVISA infection. Larger sample size is required to better understand the prevalence and clinical features of hVISA.
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Objective To analyze the homology, biofilm-forming ability, and risk factors of prevalent A, B, C clones(carrying blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-51 genes mostly) of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) relative to carbapenemsusceptible Acinetobacter baumannii (CSAB). Methods A total of 87 prevalent A, B, C clones of CRAB and CSAB strains were collected from the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was used for homologyanalysis of clone A, B, C strains. Biofilm-forming ability of CRAB and CSAB was measured quantitatively via crystal violet staining. Results Clone A was measured to be homologous type of ST238, while clones B and C were ST238 type. In general, CRAB prevalent clones showed weaker biofilm-forming ability than CSAB strains (0.470±0.301 versus 0.913±0.626, P＜0.05). CRAB clones A, B, and C varied in ability of biofilm formation. Clone A had comparative biofilm-forming ability to clone C (P=0.432). Both clone A and C were weaker than clone B in biofilm-forming ability (both P＜0.001). Biofilm-forming ability was not associated with blaOXA-23 or blaOXA-51 genes in CRAB strains (both P＞0.05). Conclusions Prevalent CRAB clone A, B, C are derived from the same origin. We are the first to report the prevalence of ST238 and the homologous types in a hospital. Biofilm-forming ability is negatively correlated with carbapenem resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii, which suggests that clone prevalence is mainly related to antibiotic resistance acquisition and antibiotic selective pressure. Biofilm-forming ability varies with the prevalent CRAB clone. The wide spread of clone B is of concern.
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Objective To investigate the seroepidemiology of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in adult men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chongqing area. Methods Nonprobability sampling method was used to test EB-CA-IgG, EB-NA-IgG and EB-VCA-IgM in the sera of 1082 MSMs from the clinical trials of HIV/AIDS treatments in Chongqing area from 2012 to 2015, and 1059 healthy individuals by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The results were analyzed by Chi-square test. The difference was considered statistically significant when P<0.05. Results The 1082 MSM included 130 HIV positive and 952 HIV negative subjects. The prevalence of prior EBV infection was 92.6% in total MSM population, 88.5% in HIV-positive MSM, and 93.2% in HIV-negative MSM. The prevalence in total MSM and HIV negative MSM was significantly higher than that in control group (89.9%). Prior EBV infection was not?found?in?0.5%?of?the?total?MSM,?0.8%?of?HIV?positive?MSM?and?0.4%?of?HIV?negative?MSM,?all?significantly?lower?than?that?of control group (5.0%) (P<0.05).?Finally,?the?rate?of?EBV?reactivation?in?HIV?positive?MSM?(10.0%)?was?significantly?higher?than?that in control group (3.8%) and in HIV negative MSM group(4.1%) (P<0.005). Conclusions EBV infection is highly prevalent in MSM, higher than that in the general population. The rate of EBV reactivation in HIV negative MSM is similar to that in general population. The rate of seroepidemiology-based EBV reactivation is significantly higher in HIV positive MSM, which may be associated with the immunocompromised status post HIV infection.
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Objective To derive reference limits of cardiac functional parameters (CFP) determined by gated myocardial SPECT imaging, and to analyze the influence of gender, age and weight on CFP. Methods One hundred and seventy-five consecutive outpatients (89 males with age of (48.3±10.7) years and 86 females with age of (49.8±10.4) years) were defined as patients with low-likelihood coronary heart disease (LCHD). All patients underwent adenosine or exercise stress 99Tcm-MIBI G-MPI from February 2008 to April 2011. The EF, EDV and ESV of the left ventricle were measured by quantitative gated SPECT (QGS) software. The reference limits were derived by means of Gaussian distribution or percentiles. The influence of gender, age and weight on CFP was analyzed by multiple regressions for linear models. Two-sample t test was used to analyze data of 2 groups. Parameters between different age groups were compared by one-way analysis of variance. Results The lower reference limit of EF for males was 50%, the upper limit of EDV and ESV was 112 ml and 49 ml respectively. For females, the corresponding reference limits were 54%, 77 ml and 30 ml. Men had higher EDV, ESV (EDV: (75.8±18.3) ml vs (53.3±11.7) ml, t=9.35, P0.05). For females, EDV was not different (F=2408, P>005), while ESV and EF were significantly different among 3 groups (F values: 5.010, 6.229, both P<0.05). Conclusions The CFP determined by G-MPI in LCHD patients are significantly affected by gender and age. The age-related changes of CFP in males are different from those in females.
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Objective To explore the effectively of N -acetylcysteine effervescent tablets combined tiotropium bromide powders for inhalation in treatment of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Methods 72 patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were randomly divided into control group(36 cases)and treatment group(36 cases)according to random number table method.In treatment group,patients were given N -acetylcysteine effervescent tablets(600mg,2 times/d,oral)and tiotropium bromide powders for inhalation(18 μg,one time /d)for a month,and in the control group,patients were given tiotropium bromide powders for inhalation (18 μg,one time /d).Pulmonary function and clinical changed symptoms were observed as evaluation index before and after treatment in patients of the two groups Results The total effective rate were 61.1%,83.3% in the treatment group and control group respectively,there was a statistically significant difference (χ2 =4.430,P =0.035).Before the treatment,there was no significant differences between the two groups of patients with pulmonary function(P >0.05).After a month,pulmonary function of patients′FEV1 ,FVC and FEV1 /FVC in the treatment group were (1.9 ±0.6)L,(3.1 ±0.3)L and (67.9 ±8.4)% respectively,which in the control group were (1.6 ±0.5)L,(2.7 ±0.2)L and (59.3 ±7.4)%,there were significant differences(t =2.304,6.564,4.609, P =0.021,0.000,0.000).Conclusion N -acetylcysteine effervescent tablets combined with tiotropium bromide powders for inhalation can improve the clinical curative effect for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,which can be used to improve the patients'clinical symptoms and pulmonary function.
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Objective To discuss Bushen Huoxue Prescription mechanism of action on follicular granulosa cell apoptosis of premature ovarian failure (POF) mice. Methods The mouse zona pellucida 3 as the antigen, multi-point injection of subcutaneous immunization BALB/c to female mice was used to establish autoimmune POF model. Forty clean female mice were randomly divided into blank group, model group, Estradiol Valerate group and Bushen Huoxue Prescription group. All medicine groups were given relevant medicine for gavage, while model and blank groups were given normal saline with the same amount for gavage for 15 days. After the treatment, ovary, uterus, and thymus were weighed, and the viscera index was calculated. An ovarian slice was taken and HE staining was used to observe granulosa cell apoptosis. The levels of E2, LH, and FSH were detected by using the radioimmunoassay method. RT-PCR was used to analyze Fas and Fas-L mRNA expressions in ovarian granulosa cells. Results Compared with blank group, the weight of ovary, thymus, and uterus decreased significantly (P<0.05, P<0.01);Serum E2 level dropped (P<0.01);levels of FSH and LH, and expressions of Fas and Fas-L mRNA increased significantly (P<0.01). Compared with model group, granulosa cell apoptosis significantly decreased, and ovary index, uterus index, and thymus index increased (P<0.05);serum E2 level increased (P<0.01);levels of FSH and LH, and expressions of Fas and Fas-L mRNA significantly decreased (P<0.05). Conclusion Bushen Huoxue Prescription can decrease expressions of Fas and Fas-L mRNA to inhibit cell apoptosis by adjusting the hormone level of hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarianaxis.
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the change in antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa(PAE) in our hospital,for the guidance of rational use of antibacterials. METHODS We reviewed the isolation rates of antimicrobial agents from 2004 to 2007,and its construction ratio among the commonly encountered Gram-negative bacilli,and the resistance rates of P.aeruginosa to 14 kinds. RESULTS We totally isolated 823 strains of PAE and the isolation rates of PAE was 13.3% in 2004 but 18.5% in 2007.In the four years,there was the highest isolation rate of 72.54% in sputum and throat mucus specimens.The lowest resistance rate was to amikacin(from 12.2% to 6.21%,the average was 8.75%),and the next was to cefoperazone/sulbactam(from 6.10% to 12.26%,the average was 8.99%);the total resistance rates to ticarcillin and piperacillin was more than 36.00% and there was a lower resistance rate to ticarcillin/clavulanic acid(32.93%)after adding the enzyme inhibitor,while to piperacillin/tazobactam was 20.16%.Drug-resistance rate to ceftazidime was from 19.51% to 43.17%(the average was 33.05%);to cefepime from 22.34% to 34.16%(the average was 29.40%);to imipenem from 19.51% to 23.29%(the average was 22.60%);to meropenem from 11.17% to 18.18%(the average was 15.43%);to the fluoroquinolones antibiotics ciprofloxacin from 32.61% to 44.59%(the average was 38.52%);and to levofloxacin was 26.40% in average. CONCLUSIONS There is commonly increasing resistance of PAE.Reviewing the resistance situation dynamically and selecting the antibiotics reasonably can produce great significance for clinical therapy and postpon its multidrug-resistance.
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OBJECTIVE To survey the distribution of the pathogenic microorganisms in biles collected from cholelithiasis patients and their susceptibility to antibiotics,to guide the selection of reasonable antibiotics.METHODS Totally 546 bile samples were cultured and tested for antibiotics susceptibility.RESULTS Bacteria were cultured from 332 samples with a positive rate of 60.81%,the first three were Escherichia coli(32.96%),Enterococcus faecalis(12.74%),and Klebsiella pneumoniae(9.97%).The pathogenic microorganisms were more sensitive to the third and fourth generation cephalosporins,antibiotic/?lactamase inhibitor combination,carbopenems and aminoglycosides antibiotics,while less sensitive to the first and second generation cephalosporins,penicillins,macrolide antibiotics and fluoroquinolones.CONCLUSIONS The pathogenic microorganisms in bile are very various,E.coli,E.faecalis and K.pneumoniae are usually cultured,fungous and anaerobic infections cannot be ignored.Doctors should pay more attention to analyze the bacterial resistance profile and use the antibiotics properly.