Effect and mechanism of Qishen Yiqi Pills on adriamycin- induced cardiomyopathy in mice / 中国天然药物

AIM@#To study the effect and probable mechanism of Qishen Yiqi Pills on adriamycin (ADR)-induced cardiomyopathy in mice.@*METHODS@#Sixty-four mice were randomly divided into (1) the ADR group: saline (1 mL/100 g) administered every day by intragavage, ADR (4 mg·kg(-1)) administered to each mouse by intraperitoneal injection twice a week for four weeks; (2) the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills I group: ADR (4 mg·kg(-1)) administered to each mouse by intraperitoneal injection twice a week for four weeks, and at the beginning of the third week Qishen Yiqi Pills (3.5 mg/100 g) administered by intragavage every day for four weeks; (3) the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills II group: ADR (4 mg·kg(-1)) administered to each mouse by intraperitoneal injection twice a week for four weeks, and at the same time Qishen Yiqi Pills (3.5 mg/100 g) administered by intragavage every day for four weeks; (4) the control group: saline (1 mL/100 g) administered every day by intragavage, saline (1 mL·kg(-1)) administered to each mouse by intraperitoneal injection twice a week for four weeks. Six weeks later, cardiac function, myocardial pathology, and expression of Bcl-2 and Bax were evaluated.@*RESULTS@#1. The left ventricular diastolic diameter and the left ventricular systolic diameter were significantly increased (P < 0.05) and the left ventricular ejection fraction was significantly decreased (P < 0.05) in the ADR group, and the cardiac function of both the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills I group and the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills II group improved. 2. Myocardial morphologic observation showed that the myocardial fibers were disordered, there was cell edema, and gap widening in the ADR group. The degree of myocardial cell injury was reduced in the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills I group and ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills II group compared with the ADR group. 3. The expression of Bax in the ADR group was significantly up-regulated, and the expression of Bcl-2 was significantly downregulated in the ADR group compared with the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills I group, the ADR + Qishen Yiqi Pills II group, and the control group (P < 0.05).@*CONCLUSIONS@#Qishen Yiqi Pills can effectively improve the cardiac function of ADR-induced cardiomyopathy, and the earlier it is used is better. The probable mechanism of action may be the inhibition of the apoptosis of myocardial cells.

Effects of tongfu decoction on rats' rapid gastric emptying / 中国中西医结合杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the effects of Tongfu Decoction (TFD) on the gastric emptying of normal rats, thus exploring whether it could promote gastric emptying rapidly.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Thirty Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 3 groups, i.e., the normal control group, the domperidone group, and the TFD group, 10 in each group. They were respectively administered with normal saline, the domperidone suspension, and TFD by gastrogavage. Thirty min later the gastric emptying of mice was detected by single photon emission computed tomography technology (SPECT) labeled with 99m Tc-DTPA, and the gastric half-emptying time and the gastric emptying rate were calculated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The gastric half-emptying time was (19.0 +/-1.7) min in the normal control group, (12.9 +/- 3.4) min in the domperidone group, and (12.7 +/- 4.1) min in the TFD group. Compared with the normal control group, the gastric half-emptying time was significantly shortened in the domperidone group and the TFD group (P <0.05). The gastric emptying rate at 15 min was 41.1% +/- 5. 8% in the normal control group, 52.9% +/- 10.9% in the domperidone group, and 56.0% +/- 10.3% in the TFD group, while at 30 min it was 65.6% +/- 2.8%, 72.9% +/- 2.6%, and 72.4% +/- 4.9%, respectively. Compared with the normal control group, the gastric emptying rate at 15 min and 30 min both significantly increased in the domperidone group and the TFD group (P <0.05). There was no statistical difference in the gastric half-emptying time or the gastric emptying rate between the two groups (P >0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>TFD showed similar effects as domperidone in rapidly promoting gastric emptying, and could shorten the gastric half-emptying time in normal rats.</p>

Factor analysis on trend of infant mortality and maternal health management in Henan province from 2000 to 2010 / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To understand the trends and influential factors on infant mortality in Henan province from 2000 to 2010.Methods Descriptive method,Cox-Stuart trend test and multiple linear regression were used to study the infant mortality trends and related influential factors in the regions with monitoring programs of Henan province,fiom 2000 to 2010.Results The total urban and rural infant mortality rates dropped significantly,from 30.91 per thousand,10.05 per thousand,33.99 por thousand in 2000 to 7.12 per thousand,5.51 per thousand,8.03 per thousand in 2010,respectively.The average annual rates of decrease were 13.65 percent,5.83 percent and 13.44 percent.The downward hrends were statistically significant (P＜0.05).The infant mortality rates dropped more significantly in rural areas (25.96％) than in the urban areas(4.54％).Difference between urban and rural areas reduced from 23.49％ to 2.52％.Rates on factors as setting up matemal record cards,carrying on postpartum visits,hospital delivery,or under help by new midwives and low birth weight rate etc.were remarkably influencing the rate on nfant mortality (F=229.738,P=0.004).In order,the inpact of strengths on those factors showed as:hospitalized delivery rate,low birth weight rate,the rate of ‘clean' delivery,setting up record cards on postpartum visits.Conclusion Total provincial,urban and rural infant mortality rates all showed downward trends.The infant mortality rates dropped more significantly in rural areas than in urban arcas.Difference between urban and rural areas was gradually getting small.Rates on setting up maternal record cards,carrying on postpartum visit,hospital delivery and tnder help by new midwives rate were important tactors that significantly impacting the infant mortality rate.Work on setting up record cards and hospital delivery should be further strengthened.

Study on AIDS incidence and death in previous paid blood-donated population, central China / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study incidence and death among previous paid blood-donated AIDS sufferers.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A retrospective cohort study was adopted to study incidence and death of 373 previous paid blood-donated HIV sufferers and its effect factors.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Previous paid blood-donated HIV infection was serious and the infection rate in blood-donated crowd was 35.87% (373/1040); the mean incubation period of AIDS was 8.87 years (95% CI: 8.76 - 8.99, Kaplan-Meier method); the cumulative incidence of AIDS (10 years) was 92.23% (344/373), and the incidence of total sufferers was 11.64/100 person-year; the cumulative probability of survival of one-year, three-year, five-year AIDS sufferers was separately 94.48% (325/344), 85.76% (295/344) and 83.14% (286/344), median survival time was over 5 years; the anti-virotic treatment days (960.29 +/- 486.38), infection age (33.39 +/- 9.08) disease age (41.98 +/- 8.88) had significant effects on AIDS sufferers' survival time/survival rate (chi(2) = 61.355, P = 0.000; chi(2) = 6.555, P = 0.010; chi(2) = 3.969, P = 0.046).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The survival time of previous paid blood-donated HIV cases was longer, and their survival rate was higher, remarkably higher than the UNAIDS' research findings.</p>