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Background Natural product sanguinarine chloride (SC) can significantly alleviate liver fibrosis and acute liver injury in mice, but whether it has a protective effect on mouse liver injury caused by sodium arsenite (SA) has not been studied. Objective To verify if SC may present preventive and therapeutic effects on SA-induced liver injury in mice. Methods A total of 140 SPF male Kunming mice were randomly divided into two sub-studies, which included a prevention sub-study and a treatment sub-study. In each sub-study, a blank group (normal saline), a model group (5 mg·kg−1 SA), and a positive control group (11.375 mg·kg−1 bicyclol and 182 mg·kg−1 glutathione), as well as SC low, medium, and high dose groups (25, 50, and 100 mg·kg−1) were arranged with 10 mice in each group. In the prevention sub-study, the blank group was given normal saline, the model group was given SA, and the other groups (the SC low, medium, and high dose groups and the positive control group) were given the corresponding treatment 30 min before gavage of SA, once a day, for 28 d. In the treatment sub-study, except for the blank group which was given normal saline, the other groups were given SA for 28 d, then the model group was given normal saline, and the other groups were given the corresponding treatment every day for 28 d. After the experiment, the mice were sacrificed to evaluate selected physiological and biochemical indicators in serum and liver tissue and to observe histopathological changes after HE staining. Results In either sub-study of preventive effect or treatment effect: compared with the blank group, body weight, liver weight, liver coefficient, as well as serum alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), total bilirubin (TBIL), malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GSH), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) among all SC groups were not significantly different (P>0.05); but compared with the model group, the SC groups showed increased body weight (P<0.01), decreased liver weight and liver coefficient (P<0.01), reduced ALT, AST, TBIL, and MDA (P<0.05 or P<0.01), and increased GSH and SOD with (P<0.05 or P<0.01) or without significance; compared with the positive control group, no differences were found in the above indicators (P＞0.05). The result of histopathological evaluation showed that the SC groups had a clear liver lobule structure, neatly arranged hepatic cords, and less infiltration of inflammatory cells. Conclusion SC has both preventive and therapeutic effects on SA-induced liver injury in mice.
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Objective The study was to determine the relationship between acquired admission and/or pre-operative Rotterdam CT scores and TBI prognosis after standard decompressive craniectomy. Methods We chose 1 108 cases simple TBI patients with unilateral decompressive craniectomy(DC) from January 2011 to May 2016 in our hospital as the research object,and 212 patients which were reached standard were included in our retro-spective study. According to general data analysis,GOS 3 month after injury,the subject were divided into poor prognosis group and good prognosis group.Multiple factors logistic regression analysis was used to determine the re-lationship between acquired admission or preoperative Rotterdam CT scores and mortality or GOS in 3 month after injury. Results A total of 85 patients(40.1%) had a good prognosis and 127(59.9%) had a poor prognosis.A comparative analysis of different admission and preoperative Rotterdam CT scores groups showed the mortality and poor prognosis rates were statistically significant(P=0.00) in 4-6 groups of patients after injury 3 months.Multi-ple factors logistic regression analysis showed admission and preoperative Rotterdam CT scores were significantly as-sociated with mortality and poor prognosis(P<0.05).Conclusions Rotterdam CT scores provide important prog-nostic information of TBI patients with DC. Combined admission Rotterdam CT scores and preoperative Rotterdam CT scores may forecast the early mortality and long-term outcome for TBI patients.
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Objective To investigate the changes of thrombomodulin (TM) and von Willebrand factor (vWf) and their clinical significance in patients with severe brain injury. Methods The study involved 62 patients with severe brain injury who were divided into diffuse axonal injury group (28 patients) and focal brain injury group (34 patients). Then, the 62 patients were divided into young group (16-30 years old, 20 patients), middle-aged group (31-65 years old, 20 patients) and elderly group ( ＞65 years old, 22 patients). The serum levels of TM and vWf were determined at days 1 and 7 after injury respectively. ELISA method was employed to determine the serum levels of TM and vWf.Results The vWf in focal brain injury group was significantly higher than that of diffuse axonal injury group at days 1-7 after injury ( P ＜ 0.05 ). Compared with the young and middle-aged groups, the TM and vWf levels in the elderly group at day 1 after injury were significantly elevated ( P ＜ 0. 05 ). The TM levels in patients with delayed traumatic intracerebral hematoma (DTICH) were significantly higher than that in patients without DTICH (P ＜ 0. 05). Conclusions In the acute stage of severe brain injury,injury severity and activation of endothelial cells varies in patients with different types of injury and at different ages. TM is one of sensitive indicators to reflect the cerebal vascular endothelial cell injury. It is very meaningful to assess the prognosis of severe brain injury by measuring serum levels of TM and vWf and take TM as a predictive indicator for DTICH.