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Objective To develop a feasible method to reduce the rat intestinal autofluorescence (AF). Methods Five rats were sacrificed. After cryostat section, intestinal AF was investigated by immunofluorescence (IF) before and after Sudan black B (SBB) treatment. Results The AF within the different rat intestinal segments was easily detected in both FITC- and TRITC- channel spectrum, which was not affected by serum blocking. After 0. 3% SBB treatment for 10 minutes, a significant reduction of AF was observed in the rat intestinal tissue. Moreover, the SBB treatment did not affect the expression of CD45 in the rat intestine detected by IF staining, but reduced the AF remarkedly. Conclusion The AF in rat intestinal frozen section can be effectively reduced with 0. 3% SBB treatment for 10 minutes.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe clinical therapeutic effect of moxibustion on abnormal blood lipids.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The patients who did not take the medicine for regulating blood lipids and had still abnormal blood lipids after diet therapy for 3 months, were divided into 4 groups according to different types of abnormal blood lipids. Forty cases selected in each group were again divided randomly into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group were treated with moxibustion at Shousanli (LI 10), Zusanli (ST 36) and Shenque (CV 3) on the basis of diet therapy, and the control group only with the diet therapy. Their therapeutic effects were observed and compared after treatment of 90 days.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There were significant differences between the treatment group and the control group in various groups of different types of abnormal blood lipids (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Moxibustion at Shousanli (LI 10), Zusanli (ST 36) and Shenque (CV 3) has a better therapeutic effect on abnormal blood lipids.</p>