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@#Objective To explore the effect of traditional Chinese massage on upper limbs spasticity in stroke patients who accepted Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection. Methods 74 stroke patients with upper limbs spasticity were divided into treatment group (n=36)and control group (n=38). The control group received BTX-A injection, and the treatment group received massage after injection. Both groups received rehabilitation training after injection and were assessed with modified Ashworth scale, Fugl-Meyer assessment and modified Barthel index before and 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks after treatment. Results All the scores of assessments improved in both groups after treatment (P<0.001), and there was no significant difference between them (P>0.05). Conclusion Addition of traditional Chinese massage doesn't work more on spasticity of upper limbs after stroke when accepted BTX-A injection.
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Based on the retrieval of literatures in recent fifteen years, the time factors in the acupoint sticking therapy for the bronchial asthma are analyzed and compared in terms of the stage classification of patients, timing selection of acupoint sticking therapy and medication application, and times of application. The acupoint sticking therapy is mostly practiced during remittent stage of bronchial asthma; the timing selection is mostly during the hottest period of summer, the timing selection in certain cases is the coldest period of winter or any day; the duration of medication application is not consistent; therefore, the effectiveness of these cases is different. It may be that the ef fectiveness is proportional to the times and courses of acupoint sticking therapy for the bronchial asthma. In the future, the scientific designs which involve time factor are needed to elucidate the importance of time factor in acupoint sticking therapy for the bronchial asthma.
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Humans , Acupuncture Points , Anti-Asthmatic Agents , Therapeutic Uses , Asthma , Drug Therapy , Drugs, Chinese Herbal , Therapeutic Uses , Time FactorsABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the influence of time factors on acupoint sticking therapy for preventing and treating bronchial asthma.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Seventy-one cases were randomly divided into a dog days group (n= 30), a Sanjiu days group (n=21) and a daily days group (n=20). They were all treated with ginger moxibustion plus acupoint sticking of Chinese medicine at Dazhui (GV 14) and Feishu (BL 13) etc. This treatment was applied once at the beginning of the first dog days, the middle dog days and the last dog days respectively in the dog days group, and once at the beginning of the first nine days, the middle nine days and the last nine days in coldest days of winter respectively in the Sanjiu days group, and once every other 10 days during 30 days except the dog days or the Sanjiu days in the daily days group. Their therapeutic effects and quality of life and changes of serum level of interleukin 13 (IL-13) were observed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The total effective rate of the dog days group was 83.3% (25/30), the Sanjiu days group and the daily days group were 61.9% (13/21) and 65.0% (15/20) respectively, with no significant differences among three groups (all P>0.05). After treatment, there were no significant differences in quality of life and changes of serum level of IL-13 among three groups, but there were significant differences between before and after treatment (P<0.01, P<0.001).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupoint sticking is an effective therapy for bronchial asthma. It can be practiced in the whole year for the result of this study that medicines and acupoints are the leading factors of this therapy and the time factors have no influence on therapeutic effect.</p>
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Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Acupuncture Points , Acupuncture Therapy , Asthma , Therapeutics , Time FactorsABSTRACT
By RACE, 2 overlapping cDNA fragments (3'PCR and 5'PCR fragments) covering the full genome of swine vesicular disease virus strain HK'1/70 were amplified from total RNA extracted from experimentally infected suckling mice. These fragments were cloned into pGEM-T Easy vector, respectively. 5'PCR fragment was digested by enzymes of Aat II and BssH II, and the Aat II-BssH II-digested 5'PCR fragment was obtained and cloned into the recombinant pGEM-T Easy vector containing 3'PCR fragment,the recombinant plasmid encoding full-length cDNA of SVDV HK'I/70 strain was then obtained and sequenced. The results showed that the complete genome of HK'1/70 was 7401 nucleotides (nts) long (excluding the poly (A) tract) which encodes a single polyprotein of 2185 amino acids, a 5'u ntranslating region (UTR) of 743 nts, a 3'UTR of 102 nts and a poly (A) tail at least 74 adenines. T' promoter was added at the 5'e nd of the full-length cDNA and an additional Pspl406I restriction site was added at the 3'e nd of poly (A) tail. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences were compared and phylogenetic analysis was used to examine the evolutionary relationships. The results showed that HK'1 /70 belonged to the second antigenic group. SVD virus was antigenically closely related to Coxsackie B5 virus, and located on the branches of CB5 evolutionary tree. Successful construction of full-length cDNA clone of SVDV HK'1/70 strain lays foundation for rescuing SVDV effectively and enables further research of SVDV on molecular level.
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Animals , Cloning, Molecular , DNA, Complementary , Chemistry , Genetics , Enterovirus B, Human , Classification , Genetics , Molecular Sequence Data , Phylogeny , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Sequence Analysis, DNA , SwineABSTRACT
Entire 3ABC sequence of FMDV containing a 6 x his tag coding sequence at the N-terminal was obtained through PCR amplification using a pair of specific primers, subcloned into shuttle plasmid of pMelBac-B with a melittin secretion signal sequence and finally constructed recombinant plasmid of pMel-3ABC. After co-transfected the recombinant plasmid and linearized Bac-N-Blue DNA into Sf9 insect cell under intermediary agent of the Cellfectin, the result showed that we have already acquired recombinant baculovirus by screen of plaque assay and identification of PCR. Though the recombinant baculovirus infecting the Sf9 cells again, experiments indicated that 3ABC gene could express in insect cells and the expressed protein was secreted in the supernatant of Sf9 cell culture possessing favourable biological activities detected by adopting two methods of SDS-PAGE and Western blot. The result verified that the protein could respond with sera derived from FMDV infected animals, but have no responsibility with sera derived from health animals and vaccinated animals detected by indirect ELISA using antigen of expressed protein after purification with Ni-NTA his bind resin. Therefore, this study has established a solid foundation for establishing an effective diagnosis method to discriminating the FMDV infected animals from vaccinated animals.
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Animals , Cattle , Antigens, Viral , Genetics , Allergy and Immunology , Metabolism , Blotting, Western , Cell Line , Cloning, Molecular , Culture Media, Conditioned , Metabolism , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Foot-and-Mouth Disease , Allergy and Immunology , Virology , Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus , Genetics , Allergy and Immunology , Metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Viral , Immune Sera , Allergy and Immunology , Plasmids , Genetics , Recombinant Proteins , Allergy and Immunology , Bodily Secretions , Sheep , Spodoptera , Swine , Transfection , Methods , Viral Nonstructural Proteins , Genetics , Allergy and Immunology , Bodily SecretionsABSTRACT
Objective To study the relationship between TGF-?signaling pathway and pathogenesis of gastric carcinoma.Methods The expression of TGF-?RⅠ,TGF-?RⅡand Smad4 protein was deter- mined by immunohistochemistry in normal gastric mucosa(26 cases),intestinal metaplasia(22 cases),dysplasia (20 cases)and gastric carcinoma(43 cases).Results The positive expression rate of TGF-?RⅠ,TGF-?RⅡand Smad4 decreased following the malignant degree in gastric tissues(P