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In this paper, the spectrum-effect correlation analysis method was used to explore the main effective components of Tripterygium wilfordii for liver toxicity, and provide reference for promoting the quality control of T. wilfordii. Chinese medicine T.wilfordii was taken as the study object, and LC-Q-TOF-MS was used to characterize the chemical components in T. wilfordii samples from different areas, and their main components were initially identified after referring to the literature. With the normal human hepatocytes (LO2 cell line)as the carrier, acetaminophen as positive medicine, and cell inhibition rate as testing index, the simple correlation analysis and multivariate linear correlation analysis methods were used to screen the main components of T. wilfordii for liver toxicity. As a result, 10 kinds of main components were identified, and the spectrum-effect correlation analysis showed that triptolide may be the toxic component, which was consistent with previous results of traditional literature. Meanwhile it was found that tripterine and demethylzeylasteral may greatly contribute to liver toxicity in multivariate linear correlation analysis. T. wilfordii samples of different varieties or different origins showed large difference in quality, and the T. wilfordii from southwest China showed lower liver toxicity, while those from Hunan and Anhui province showed higher liver toxicity. This study will provide data support for further rational use of T. wilfordii and research on its liver toxicity ingredients.
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Objective: To establish a method suitable to the quality evaluation of the roots in Tripterygium wilfordii based on hepatotoxic potency. Methods: The inhibitory rates of T. wilfordii and its regional substitute-T. hypoglaucum, with normal human hepatocytes (L02 cell line) as carrier, were established by optimizing a series of factors, such as test samples prepared with conditions. Results: Taking p-acetaminophenol as positive control (toxic potency was 400 U/g), The 50% ethanol extract of T. wilfordii was dried under ultrasonic vacuum to obtaine the dry paste. The test solution with crude drug of 3 mg/mL was prepared by medium. The dilution ratio was 1:0.65. The hepatotoxic potencies of 18 batches of T. wilfordii and 5 batches of T. hypoglaucum were 17.78-4131.4 and 209.42-7422.2 U/g, respectively, detected by the reaction parallel line method, and the differences were over 200 and 30 times. There was the significant hepatotoxic potency of T. wilfordii and T. hypoglaucum from the various origins. In addition, the fresh collected samples had the larger hepatotoxic potency than that in the dried samples collected in the market. Conclusion: The preliminarily established hepatotoxic potency bioassay is useful to evaluate the quality of T. wilfordii which directs the correlation with the drug's hepatotoxic adverse effect in clinic. The method can provide the reference for the clinical safety use of T. wilfordii based on the quality control and be as the quantitative method used to screen the toxic components from T. wilfordii.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand the current status and relative factors of reproductive health (RH) on unmarried floating population.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Both quantitative and qualitative surveys were employed. Quantitative survey would include questionnaire admimistration, physic examination and laboratory test while qualitative study including focus/nominal group discussion, individual and resource persons interview. All of the investigative targets were selected under informed consent.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among 1333 investigated unmarried floating population, the mean score on knowledge of RH was 12.97 +/- 12.20 (the full score was 100). Among studied persons, 10.20% of them were in favor of unmarried sexual activity while 50.64% of them did not care about it and 26.90% of them had ever experienced sexual activity. Among females who experienced sexual activity, 25.45% of them had induced abortion. It was found, through multivariate logistic analysis, that sexual activity at younger age, less education, agreed on having sexual activity under partner's request, sexual activity in half of a year, and pregnancy were the major risk factors on RH of unmarried floating population.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The problem on the current status of RH among unmarried floating population needs to be addressed as they were lack of knowledge on RH and having more risk factors on RH.</p>
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Female , Humans , Male , Pregnancy , Abortion, Induced , China , Health Status , Health Surveys , Sexual Behavior , Single PersonABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>This article reports a population genetic study on six short tandem repeat(STR) loci, D7S820, D19S253, D12S391, D5S818, D16S539 and D8S1179, in a sample of unrelated Chinese Han individuals(n=122-173) living in Hebei province.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>DNA extraction from blood samples (200 in number) and multiplex amplification of the above six loci were carried out. Using denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver stain, the authors investigated the distribution of allele frequencies of the six loci in Han population in Hebei province.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The STR polymorphisms at all of the six loci were observed in Chinese Han population in Hebei province. The observed heterozygosities of D7S820, D19S253, D12S391, D5S818, D16S539 and D8S1179 were 0.828, 0.757, 0.769, 0.837, 0.785 and 0.852, respectively. The measured values of the power of discrimination (PD) were 0.914, 0.919, 0.940, 0.909, 0.917, 0.944; of the mean exclusion chance(MEC) 0.618, 0.740, 0.801, 0.557, 0.655, 0.696 and of the polymorphism information content (PIC) in Chinese 0.771, 0.760, 0.762, 0.708, 0.776 and 0.794, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The genotype distributions of the six STR were in accordance with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The numerical values of the PD and MEC are relatively high in Hebei province, and thus can be of significant application in population genetics and forensic medicine.</p>