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Objective:To evaluate the short-term economic effects of four kinds of premixed insulin in newly diagnosed type 2 dia-betes mellitus. Methods:A total of 120 newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were divided into four groups according to the kind of premixed insulin, group A was treated with insulin aspart 30 injection, group B was treated with insulin lispro 25 injec-tion, group C was treated with isophane protamine biosynthetic human insulin injection and group D was treated with protamine zinc re-combinant human insulin injection. The course of treatment was three months. The therapy efficacy was assessed by the remission rate in three months. The short-term economic effect was evaluated by the cost-minimization analysis method. Results:The remission rate of group A, B, C and D respectively was 48. 39%, 48. 28%, 51. 61% and 51. 72% without significant difference (P>0. 05). The average cost per person of the four groups was 1195. 52, 1202. 41, 1220. 69 and 1258. 84 yuan, and the average medicine cost per person was 750. 52, 689. 41, 754. 69 and 764. 34 yuan, respectively. There was no significant difference in cost among the four groups (P >0. 05). Conclusion:All the four kinds of premixed insulin can be used for the starting treatment with the similar total cost, and in relative terms, aspart 30 injection and insulin lispro 25 injection are better for the initial treatment of diabetes.
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Objective To explore the mechanism of cytokines for the scars,and to study the effect of platelet derived growth factor(PDGF)on the biological behavior of fibroblasts in scars.Methods Fibroblasts of scars and normal skins were cultured in vitro.The results were observed and analyzed by light inverted microscopy(LM),and 3-(4,5-dimethyl-thiazol-2-yl)-2,5 ciphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT)assay.The effects of PDGF on the biological behaviors of fibroblasts of scars were also determined. Results In vitro study,using LM,FCM and MTT assay,showed that proliferation of fibroblasts were inereased significantly when PDGF was added to the cultures,as compared to the control groups.Conclusions PDGF can increase fibroblast proliferation.These results demonstrate that PDGF is beneficial for wound healing at early stage.
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BACKGROUND: Nerve growth factor is secreted and synthetized by a variety of cells, such as inflammatory calls and repairing calls, its biological effects are diverse and closely related to the process of wound repair, but its mechanism is not yet clear.OBJECTIVE: To observe the influence of nerve growth factor on the biological characteristics of scar fibroblasts.METHODS: Eight clinical surgical resection specimens, including 5 face and neck hyperplastic scar or keloid specimens, did not receive any treatment; three were prepuce specimens following circumcision (normal tissue). By use of tissue block method, the scar and normal skin fibroblasts were cultured, followed by digestion passage. The scar tissue and normal tissue flbroblasts at 3-6passages in the logarithmic phase were seeded in 96-well plate and divided into the experimental group (scar flbroblest group) and the control group (normal skin fibroblasts group), with two parallel holes in each group were added with 3,33, 0.33 mg/L nerve growth factor, 50 μL. Inverted microscope was used to observe fibroblast morphology. At 24, 48, 72 hours after culture, the absorbanca value was measured using MTT. Fibroblast DNA content and cell apoptosis were determined by flow cytometry.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The fibroblasts were adherent cells, the scar and normal skin tissues were shown to cell free out of tissue block and gradual expansion at 4-6 days after incubation. Compared with normal skin fibroblasts, the pathological scar fibroblasts became larger, irregular shape and arrangement. MTT results showed that nerve growth factor could promote the normal and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts growth, which becomes more apparent. Flow cytometry results showed that by adding nerve growth factor, the percentage of scar fibroblasts at proliferating S-G_2-M phase was higher than that in the control;group; with a Iower level of apoptosis. It is indicated that nerve growth factor plays an obviously promoting role on normal and scar skin fibroblasts growth and proliferation, especially on the scar skin.